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by rdouble 13y ago
There's also an demographic dynamic at play unmentioned in the article. Unfortunately, in Atlanta the racial makeup of the neighborhood has a lot to do with the value of the house.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The problem from an urban community building perspective is that the owners of the properties are so rich they don't care if the property is used. It's actually illegal to rent out a pied a terre in Paris.
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by rdouble 13y ago
My opinion is that he didn't really think it through that far, but that seems to be an unpopular thing to say on HN.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I actually know the difference between City of London and London because I watched that one clever Youtube video explaining it. However, I don't really have the details internalized as I've not been to London. To explain what I me
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by rdouble 13y ago
I think I combined the info in this article with another article about empty buildings elsewhere in London that someone else pointed out http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2013/04/mysterious-residen...
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by rdouble 13y ago
The 1% buy multiple properties in many different cities. There have been articles about how the City of London has neighborhoods of empty luxury apartment developments owned by various sheikhs and russian/central asian commodities olig
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by rdouble 13y ago
I interpreted the article to mean that the lobbyist Cook hired was the first one, but I guess it doesn't really say that. It does say that Apple maintained a very low profile in Washington until recently, and still spends about 1/
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by rdouble 13y ago
Paris is already the densest city in Europe, with the densest suburbs.
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by rdouble 13y ago
He did. China is on that list. Hong Kong is China.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Steve Jobs was never cozy with Washington. There's no evidence that he ever interacted with anyone in Washington. Apple didn't even have any lobbyists until Tim Cook became CEO. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2
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by rdouble 13y ago
Private equity firms are buying the foreclosed houses then turning them into rentals. This was a growing concern in Atlanta when I lived there. It seemed like entire neighborhoods were being bought up. http://www.bloomberg.com&#x
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by rdouble 13y ago
Is this the case with companies like Ableton or SoundCloud?
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by rdouble 13y ago
I was answering the question whether or not it is possible to manipulate a dog to take it's own life. I think it is possible. I do not think it's ethical, though. However, it might be, if the dog was Cujo.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's pretty easy to make a whippet run into heavy traffic merely by throwing a ball.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Ethically, what is the difference between controlling a cockroach through direct stimulation and controlling a dog through the usual combination of behavioral manipulation and physical restraints?
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by rdouble 13y ago
in the Keychain
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by rdouble 13y ago
Its boosters will suggest otherwise, but Oakland is pretty sketchy. Everyone I know there has been jacked at one point. It's just a matter of time. That said, the only place I've personally been held up at gunpoint in the Bay Area
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by rdouble 13y ago
Could be, because the 1% buy multiple properties in many different cities. There have been articles about how the City of London has neighborhoods of empty luxury apartment developments owned by various sheikhs and russian/central asia
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by rdouble 13y ago
Also, most other businesses are much more capital intensive. Starting a basic retail store or a bar or even franchising an existing restaurant requires a lot more money than starting a software startup.
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by rdouble 13y ago
As an alternative data point to some of the answers, everywhere I've worked looked at resumes and did not really consider cover letters. I believe this is also the case at Google and most Wall Street tech jobs.
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by rdouble 13y ago
LA still is where you want to be to make movies or TV shows.
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by rdouble 13y ago
If you have a specific position in mind, I would suggest trying to meet with the PhDs. They often have work that needs to be done, but are unable to do it themselves. I was interested in molecular biology about 10 years ago and was able to
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by rdouble 13y ago
I guess I lived next to an elementary school so it seemed like there were a lot of kids. I know statistically it's low but I chalked this up to the large numbers of transient workers and singles. Amongst groups who seemed more rooted i
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by rdouble 13y ago
Property rights ranking above human rights is neither implausible nor inconsistent in the America that I live in.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Right, MLK lived in a world where innocent men got strung up in trees.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Yeah, but the article I read suggested that rich Californians from other parts of the state were choosing SF as a place to retire. (Whereas people actually from SF were leaving due to costs) I'll try to dig up the article if I can.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I don't know what you mean. The microclimates there are just a fact of life. The sunset is going to be cooler and foggier than the Mission simply because of the topography. Berkeley and Oakland are actually 10 degrees warmer with only
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by rdouble 13y ago
There are actually a lot of kids, and people with average jobs in SF. They just aren't white so tech people don't notice them. Regarding old people, retired people are actually the fastest growing demographic in the city.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The abduction happened in Rockridge?
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's never very foggy east of Fillmore street, even in the summer. YMMV but SF weather is only miserable to people from LA.

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