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by nedwin 12y ago
It's definitely a factor in new construction in San Francisco. I wouldn't say it's a larger factor than the anti-development lobby but I think the anti-development lobby and the rent control lobby are closely aligned. Height
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by nedwin 12y ago
if only SF rent control was linked to the income of the renter! Plenty of well paid engineers and execs living in significantly below market apartments when they could easily afford market-priced housing. If the aim is to create affordable
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by nedwin 12y ago
Unfortunately tenant unions and some politicians have been threatening to expand the definition of rent control for quite some time. This increases the risk that buildings built after that period are going to get locked down into rent contr
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by nedwin 12y ago
Rent control increases the pressure on the housing market by increasing the price of rent for non-rent controlled properties and reducing incentives to create more supply. Brief overview from Krugman from 2000 but plenty more research out t
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Krugman on rent control (2000)(nytimes.com)
3 points by nedwin 12y ago|0 comments
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by nedwin 12y ago
Buddy isn't doing as well as he was in the past. In 2010 allegations arose that he couldn't afford to pay his mortgage and in 2011 one of his major sources of capital for his hedge fund requested that he return their funds. They&#
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by nedwin 12y ago
Good to get this news out there on a Friday afternoon.
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by nedwin 12y ago
Not quite that level but check out Adioso.com. They have a bunch of natural language search queries that work.
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by nedwin 12y ago
"You spend the highest percentage of your budget on the military." This is true. The US spends more on its military than any other country, and the greatest percentage of GDP on its military. I think your interpretation was that I
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by nedwin 12y ago
You spend the highest percentage of your budget on the military. That's where it goes.
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by nedwin 12y ago
I like that quote too. The supreme court actually decided that it's not unconstitutional but leaves it to the states to handle enforcement. Interesting to note that in Australia the percentage of fatal accidents involving alcohol are 1
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by nedwin 12y ago
Cool, thanks for clarifying. I'm a foreigner so take this for what it's worth but my view is that if it provides significant public benefit (in reducing drink driving / dope driving accidents) that stops for the specific purp
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by nedwin 12y ago
I've done a fair bit of driving (mostly in California) and never been through a roadblock. I've also never seen any booze busses or similar. I've seen those videos too - are you saying it's unconstitutional to stop drive
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by nedwin 12y ago
In Australia we have rolled out widespread "booze busses" which block off major roads and breathalize everyone who comes through. This + major advertising campaigns have had a significant impact on drunk driving. I am surprised at
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by nedwin 12y ago
From the article it sounds like they tried to enter arbitration to settle the matter but it was described as being "less than productive".
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by nedwin 12y ago
"Provided actual value" but unfortunately couldn't extract enough value from their users to survive independently. The choice was likely between shutting down and going on unemployment or finding a soft landing.
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by nedwin 12y ago
I totally misread the graphs. Sorry Danielle!
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Ethics and Morals(avc.com)
8 points by nedwin 12y ago|2 comments
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by nedwin 12y ago
This is aviation engineering where everything needs to be checked and verified multiple times by multiple people because otherwise planes fall out of the sky.
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by nedwin 12y ago
Also commuters with the capacity to pay for expensive tickets - this thing isn't going to be cheap, at least not initially.
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The One Month Sabbatical(feld.com)
1 points by nedwin 12y ago|0 comments
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by nedwin 12y ago
Legally not a whole lot they can do, and not sure about any other kind of obligation, but hopefully they're reaching out to the founder to make sure she's OK and help get this mess sorted out.
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by nedwin 12y ago
This was written by Ev Williams of Bloggers / Twitter / Medium fame. Not sure visionary is the right word but it's close enough. I don't think he has much reason to back date his posts but you would think he'd at le
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by nedwin 12y ago
He's not arguing against disclosing financials during the course of raising money. He's against giving minority shareholders continued access to financials. aka information rights. Asking up front is one thing, being obligated t
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Post-mortem: the one where we accidentally DDOS'd ourselves(keen.io)
15 points by nedwin 12y ago|1 comments
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by nedwin 12y ago
Bold move to take most of the round off the table for founder liquidity. Edit: I think this is great for the founders and I hope they gave a similar option to their employees who have been with them a long time. High fives for the massive t
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by nedwin 12y ago
I'm assuming it's some kind of tech job. Keep in mind there are thousands of people living in the city who make minimum wage. You're going to be doing substantially better than them. Find a share house with people with simila
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by nedwin 12y ago
Boom. Perfect example.
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by nedwin 12y ago
Posted this in another thread but what company would you trust to launch and maintain this kind of service? You need to know that when you kick the bucket in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years etc that the switch is actually going to work. You need a
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by nedwin 12y ago
I share your fears about its longevity. What company would you trust to launch and maintain this kind of service? I feel like WordPress.org or Wikipedia Foundation would be two companies with the right moral compass, funding and longevity w

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