mylons

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   by mylons 10y ago

   I have the opposite anecdotal experience. Most people I talk with in the midwest do not use airbnb, they use vrbo.
2. 572.▲
   by mylons 10y ago

   and also to fund their legal proceedings against the city of San Francisco. I really do not like that they're suing the city because a consequence of them winning seems to be more stifling of housing in the city available for those who
3. 573.▲
   by mylons 10y ago

   do you mind linking to what you read on Graham's number? The wikipedia is interesting, but it seems like you found something more so
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   by mylons 10y ago

   I did the same thing last night! I fired up the overwatch trailer for my girlfriend and started crying quite a bit. Then I put on the Soldier 76 clip, and cried even more. How much did you cry during the last episode of Game of Thrones? I w
5. 575.▲
   by mylons 11y ago

   and then post the email chain thinking it clears them of any wrong doing. keep on being a dick
6. 576.▲
   by mylons 11y ago

   so you're going to move to Europe due to it's liberal gun laws?
7. 577.▲
   by mylons 11y ago

   don't disagree at all. I admire what salt lake city is doing and think it should be a model for SF
8. 578.▲
   by mylons 11y ago

   3) SF has spent more than 30k per homeless person per year in the city to do 'something' about it. It's typically unaccounted for money and an area ripe/putrid for corruption.
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   by mylons 11y ago

   http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-spendi... SF is 'trying' and isn't succeeding. Stop spending my unaccounted for tax dollars on this if it isn't going to solve the iss
10. 580.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    and spawned dota -- which more or less propelled mobas into the forefront of gaming.
11. 581.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    >$100k over a few years at the initial date of the grant. You can roll the dice all you want on startup options or take RSUs with actual value
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    by mylons 11y ago

    haha, <insert can't tell if serious Fry meme here/>
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    by mylons 11y ago

    Google's stock is very attractive. employees are generally paid in actual stock, and not options. there's a huge difference between options, and stock. options in a startup, especially since ~95% of startups fail, are generally wo
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    by mylons 11y ago

    this too -- i wasn't sure i wanted to mention it because i didn't have any links to back it up
15. 585.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    you're not characterizing overdose correctly. it's often people coming from pharmaceuticals and not knowing what they're doing, or not knowing the potency or contents of their drugs.
16. 586.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    you forgot to mention humans.
17. 587.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    what's the pricing model they're copying, exactly? you mean the pricing model that airbnb copied from existing hotel chains (variable pricing?). very unique and innovative.
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    by mylons 11y ago

    I sure have. Take a look at Lake Tahoe's VRBO/homeaway listings. They're routinely cheaper on VRBO than airbnb for comparable properties, and it works fine. People in tech just assume airbnb is better.
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    by mylons 11y ago

    $150M a year in losses. Sounds great! My parents generation, which maybe also has something to do with living in the midwest, has been using VRBO and it's affiliates longer than airbnb has existed outside of silicon valley, and are rel
20. 590.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    airbnb has a real problem: VRBO. VRBO is routinely cheaper than airbnb, has been around longer, and doesn't have the legal issues, and has the support of the baby boomers. Good luck, airbnb.
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    by mylons 11y ago

    That's the joke.
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    by mylons 11y ago

    you are very correct. I've spent the last 7 years in bioinformatics doing algorithm development and it's almost entirely specialized versions of existing and established algos from decades ago.
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    by mylons 11y ago

    Location: Oakland, CA Remote: Open to it, and have worked with a few remote teams in the past Willing to relocate: Only for a dream job Technologies: Backend Python (Django/Flask for web) and Scala primarily, AWS, Docker
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    by mylons 11y ago

    sounds like you might be the compjour.org instructor? if that's the case, big fan! followed along on my own and it got me interested in journalism. how would someone who's been doing distributed systems and genetics for 8 years ma
25. 595.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    well, that sounds fun.
26. 596.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    this is overly simplistic
27. 597.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    and this is just our current understanding, which is certainly going to shift as measurement becomes cheaper and more accurate. iterative science!
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    by mylons 11y ago

    I thought unicorns were valuations >=$1B
29. 599.▲
    by mylons 11y ago

    @longform recommended this to me as well!
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    by mylons 11y ago

    I'm also VERY upset that I cannot downvote this into oblivion. Yet Another NIMBY.