njepa

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by njepa 7y ago
Because of volatility. You don't need a "shot at getting rich" when you already are. You much rather avoid getting poor(er).
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by njepa 7y ago
The problem is very few of them are better enough to be an advantage. Almost all of them have similar problem just at lesser scales, which means they can't handle much of a change. The things with place like SFBA and NYC is that as bad
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by njepa 7y ago
Only if it changes. I think the point is that if people are buying under current zoning, the market has already spoken. As such it becomes weird when people want the market to handle things, but not if they don't like what the market i
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by njepa 7y ago
Only if you sell. Otherwise, if you are truly successful with up zoning for affordable housing, not only will the market rate of houses fall but land to build on won't be scarce anymore either. It is difficult, if not impossible, to on
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by njepa 7y ago
It seems extremely unlikely that affordable housing will ever happen in the Bay Area, since that would essentially mean a crash of the housing market (maybe even by government intervention). This would of course be extremely unwelcome. As s
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by njepa 7y ago
> A person is within their rights to try and change the company from within before leaving. But, that will likely come with personal costs (right or wrong). It is generally the opposite. You usually don't have any right to influence
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by njepa 7y ago
I have lived in smaller as well. But the point is that somewhere around 25 square meters you start taking away functional space. There is a big difference between a 120 cm wide bed and a 70 cm wide bed, or a 90 cm cook top and a 45 cm cook
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by njepa 7y ago
In my experience scientific and enterprise organization don't use Linux for any given feature, but because it is available. In many ways they use Linux despite it being Linux. So whatever is the least obscure would be ideal.
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by njepa 7y ago
Seems unlikely that they would, or even would think they would be able to, go on strike as that requires resources beyond what most tech workers have access to.
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by njepa 7y ago
Their success is reliant on housing staying unaffordable. That is the only way to make "microhousing" profitable. They don't create anything unique. If anything this will make sure housing remains unaffordable and no one will
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by njepa 7y ago
I would assume they meant Alibaba Group which is Taobao, Tmall, Alibaba.com, AliExpress, Alipay, Aliyun. Ele.me, Youku etc. Taobao is pretty amazing. But slightly hard to explain. It is like Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Wish and more in one.
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by njepa 7y ago
> I'd be interested to hear opinions from anyone who prefers the studio apartment with windows at the narrow end (and why). I am not sure about "prefers", but both glare and heat can be a problem. To a large extent it is t
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by njepa 7y ago
The sensible limit is around 25 square meters / 250 square feet. Any smaller and you start losing function exponentially. The amount of organizations, businesses and cultural things started from couches, kitchen tables or hobby rooms a
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by njepa 7y ago
It is less "real-world markets" and just markets. Markets are one dollar one vote.
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by njepa 7y ago
I see what you are saying, but I largely disagree with the premise. We have had, and continue to have, enormous growth through technical and organizational achievements. Growth is relative, but life mostly remain constant. The requirements
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by njepa 7y ago
> And I still can't wrap my mind around this - if company Y or X is so desperately seeking for employees and pays them bazillions of dollars - why they even consider burning so much time on the process of hiring? It's a leverag
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by njepa 7y ago
Unfortunately that doesn’t change the equation much. The lasting impression of China in comparison with the west isn’t so much their development as the lack of our. Shenzhen might be the exception, but we don’t even have that.
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by njepa 8y ago
> We can't produce them at that price. $100 per month isn't realistic, $500 might be. While construction costs do rise, you are mostly paying for the exclusivity. "High-rise apartment buildings cost an average $302 per squ
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by njepa 8y ago
If we conclude that people should have affordable and predictable rent it is hard to make rent control the problem. While not adjusting rent for inflation and upkeep seems counterproductive, someone occupying an apartment at a low margin is
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by njepa 8y ago
You still want to even out the swings. Supply won't necessarily keep up in any given time or area. You aren't necessarily going to be able to supply enough housing in the most popular spot were construction is hard and land expens
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by njepa 8y ago
Yes, for airlines since they are space limited. But the additional space on a train would presumably be cheaper, so the relative costs of luxuries would be more. The point is just that you want "office class" on a train to be its
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by njepa 8y ago
Seems to be pretty much disinformation though. There is a section about Sweden at the end, but it is ignoring everything that has happened in the last 20 years. Of course rent control 'doesn't work' when you are converting go
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by njepa 8y ago
You want the comfort. The seats, privacy and trouble free ‘logistics’. You don’t need the luxuries. The three course meal, the champagne and maybe not even the personal service. Business class on airplanes are to some extent eat, sleep and
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by njepa 8y ago
Agreed. I don't think trains are really good at speed yet relative to costs. They are however good at comfort if given the chance. There is less of a space and weight premium. Noise and vibration can be much lower. And a medium speed t
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by njepa 8y ago
The underlying resource is space. If you are in an open field that you own with no neighbors and no zoning then the first unit of space is you pitching a tent. The second unit is another tent slightly to the left. If you are in a city were
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by njepa 8y ago
I am not making a moral argument. When you build more housing you use the underlying resource, which is "space". That resource becomes more scares, so everything else being equal the next unit of housing is more expensive. That is
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by njepa 8y ago
It isn't just supply though, but essentially inequality. Chinese cities have completely different demographics than western cities. If you want to live somewhere popular in China rents, and real estate values, are rapidly increasing. H
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by njepa 8y ago
The whole idea behind the western world at the moment is to have as little in common as possible. No government, no taxes and especially no regulation is the dream. So why would the average citizen care?
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by njepa 8y ago
While I would think it would be annoying, I think the multiparter (like one sentence per message) works pretty well for work stuff. The people I work with type pretty fast however. Maybe someone should bring back ytalk ;)
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by njepa 8y ago
Tech workers face the same issues as most white collar workers. It's common to be unfairly treated in regards to promotions, workload, overtime etc. But the biggest issue is probably equity. It would probably be worth unionizing just o

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