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by peter422 3y ago
So currently 9% of the city budget is spent on police and you are suggesting we increase that to 40%? That is a better solution than building more housing? A community is a social construct, you have to keep a lot of things in balance for i
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by peter422 3y ago
The starting salary for an SF police officer is over 100k. At some point money isn't the only issue. Also like any other job, the best way to get good police officers is to have lots of competition. If you are desperate for staffing, y
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by peter422 3y ago
Who is going to strictly enforce all the laws? The excess police officers that can't be hired because they can't afford to live in the city and don't want to commute into a city they don't care about to make less money t
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by peter422 3y ago
SF's biggest problem is lack of housing, and SF's housing policies are among the most "conservative" (ie all about keeping the status quo) in the nation. A lot of "progressive" policies that people are worried
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by peter422 3y ago
The comment is saying these cars will improve pedestrian/cyclist safety. I can also attest to it. I've interacted as a pedestrian and cyclist to many cruise and waymo cars and they've been very, very cautious and careful.
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by peter422 3y ago
Just for reference, this was all publicly known at the time because the information was all disclosured on her forms. The daily wire didn't think it was a big deal back then because they didn't bring it up. The issues that people
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by peter422 3y ago
I'm a big big fan of the lunya eye mask: https://lunya.co/products/womens-washable-silk-sleep-mask-me... I used a little bit of sewing to tighten up the fit exactly to my head and it never falls off and is incredi
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by peter422 3y ago
It is also amazing that is you look at the deposit numbers, almost none of the FDIC protected money moved, whereas almost all of the non-FDIC money went elsewhere. Maybe they erred in allowing all that FDIC uninsured money, but somebody wou
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by peter422 3y ago
Every loan banks give out now helps their balance sheet since interest rates are higher. Don't think they'll stop.
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by peter422 3y ago
No bank in existence could handle losing 40% of their deposits in a few days. You can't possibly protect against that while also operating the business of being a bank as we think of it.
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by peter422 3y ago
Californians actually pay lower overall taxes compared to other states due to low property taxes. Also, my power in San Francisco has probably been out for no more than 6 hours over the last 10 years. I don't know how many 9s that is,
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by peter422 3y ago
And you can sell otherwise non-revenue generating assets if you need to. If you want to say it's difficult to tax illiquid assets, that's fine. But it's not impossible and while it would just change people's relationship
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by peter422 3y ago
I was about to respond that there is no way the class B stock could be passed down to an heir with 10x voting rights attached, but after reading the documentation it does. So his family could run it into the ground at their leisure! Though
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by peter422 3y ago
This seems very unintuitive to me, what is the reasoning behind this?
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by peter422 3y ago
It’s an upscale building but I wouldn’t call it an upscale neighborhood, especially at night. It’s only a couple blocks from the bay bridge overpass and the overpass attracted some non-upscale activity. At the same time though I’ve spent ma
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by peter422 4y ago
So you are saying that in the majority of these cases the fraud is intentional and not accidental? The point being the IRS can completely solve accidental mistakes but just telling everybody what they owe instead of forcing them to calculat
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by peter422 4y ago
I'm guessing you are not familiar with the case and only read the CNN coverage. Employers have responsibilities to maintain certain standards at a workplace. Tesla absolutely flaunted those standards to a ridiculous degree. The first j
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by peter422 4y ago
You can't even type the word and yet you think it's fine for somebody to be called that at a workplace?
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by peter422 4y ago
A number of existing EVs or plug-in hybrids would easily meet your needs. Toyota RAV4 prime for instance. Tesla is far and away more of a smartphone on wheels than any other car.
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by peter422 4y ago
One is optimizing for ad revenue and the other is not.
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by peter422 4y ago
... that's what banks do, they just do it at scale. So you want every person to be their own bank? Why not just let the FDIC do their job, trust in the banking system and save yourself the trouble of worrying about a bank run.
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by peter422 4y ago
Great now every startup and every business needs to hire a CFO because a bank can't be trusted to store any number higher than $250k? So if my nascent 5-person startup raises 1.2M your suggestion is I need to hire a CFO? That's go
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by peter422 4y ago
What bank do you use? When was the last time you went over their deposit base and asset allocation?
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by peter422 4y ago
Yes they don't have a shortfall as long as there wasn't a bank run and they'd have time to unwind their long term bonds. But they don't have time and did have a bank run, and therefore they do have a shortfall. I think y
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by peter422 4y ago
The cap goes down as the company gets bigger and bigger, I doubt Microsoft is at the 100x number. But regardless of what exactly the cap is, it creates an incentive for the company to operate as close to 0 profit as possible because there i
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by peter422 4y ago
One aspect of a profit capped company is that as they start to make more and more revenue (and profit) they’ll be heavily incentivized to just invest it all back into employees or datacenters or 8 figure domain names since the for company c
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by peter422 4y ago
“Look alive, see these bones What you are now, we were once But just like we are, you'll be dust And just like we are, permanent” -Nada Surf “See These Bones”
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by peter422 4y ago
For all the hate Google gets, it's crawlers are like 10x smarter than any other search engine. Wouldn't surprise me at all if there was some type of crawling issue that Google figured out and Bing didn't. This is a case where
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by peter422 4y ago
Stock market is not guaranteed to gain 7% over the next 20 years, but you can effectively guarantee your electricity usage is probably going to stay the same or go up and can somewhat guarantee the performance of the panels (given the warra
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by peter422 4y ago
Imagine if another CEO took all the proceeds from the Alibaba stock and blew it trying to make a dying company relevant again. That would have been much, much worse. Also the value of the company is the stock. She didn't tank it, it we

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