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by resalisbury 8y ago
The headline is misleading on two accounts (though the content is fine). First, it's not that big cities don't deliver, they do. It's that the marginal improvments in wages do not make up for the cost of living increase. So a
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Company wants a verbal commitment to an offer before revealing salary. Thoughts?
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Jack Bogle and what today's entrepreneurs can learn from Vanguard(cambrianventures.co)
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Zoning is one of the big culprits for affordable housing. I'm curious if it would be productive for companies to target zoning laws or if it would create a counter productive backlash.
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Here's how the money is being used (somewhat vague). "Microsoft plans to lend $225 million at subsidized rates to preserve and build middle-income housing in six cities near its Redmond headquarters. It will put an additional $250
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by resalisbury 8y ago
Occupational licensing is another form of non-compete agreements. Only instead of the employer preventing employees from moving to a a new company, occupational licensing prevents professionals from (1) crossing state lines or moving into
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Direct Listings Are a Thing Now B/c Slack Is Doing One - Matt Levine(bloomberg.com)
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Plaid acquires Quovo for $200M(reuters.com)
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Fed Gives Banks $4bn subsidy by allow them exclusive access to IOER(johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)
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Machine learning is helping auto lenders make better decisions(bloomberg.com)
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by resalisbury 8y ago
Reframe "Carbon Taxes" as a "Carbon Dividends" and you might be able to change the psychology of the populace. The recently failed bi-partisan Carbon Tax bill attempted to do just that by establishing a revenue neutral c
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by resalisbury 8y ago
Electric car subsidies are generally regressive [0] and Norway is no exception. Even worse, Norway subsidizes electric cars, in part, by defunding public transit. This seems silly from an environmental perspective, but it's nice if yo
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by resalisbury 8y ago
"when all actors are behaving rationally, yet the outcome is not something that is good for society, we need to change the rules to change behavior." +1!
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"Delete Facebook. Delete Twitter. Throw away your cell phone. Unsubscribe from the newspaper. Tell your friends and relatives not to discuss politics or society. If they slip up, break off all contact. Then, buy canned food. Stockpile
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Using Deep Learning to Weaponize Controversy – Slate Star Codex [Fiction](slatestarcodex.com)
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"Affordable housing and rising home values are mutually incompatible."[1] [1] https://medium.com/yimby/why-a-healthy-housing-market-is-bad...
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Creating Consumer Surplus(avc.com)
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The Lonely Man with a Gun(medium.com)
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Robinhood ditches Apex – builds its own brokerage(medium.com)
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I could just say correlation != causation and move on. ...but I thought I would at least give it 5 minutes of googling. Here's the first randomized controlled trial I could find testing whether access to libraries had any impact on lit
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Growing up in homes advantaged enough to have large libraries could indicate you are, in fact, advantaged!
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I use an RSS aggregator, Feedly, for hackernews and many other sites. Works like a charm.
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"Taking out a competitor is good for Slack, There’s fewer choices for people.” - Stewart Butterfield in the above article. When are tech CEO's going to realize it's bad to sound like a monopolist b/c anti-trust? I tend t
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by resalisbury 8y ago
Even if you don't abolish these, you could at least cap the total contribution (and even lift the annual contribution limit). A cap of $1.0 million per individual would allow for a safe withdrawal rate of approx. $40k / year (soc
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by resalisbury 8y ago
author here :hi:, yes the policy section is a bit wishy washy and short on details. I think you would grandfather in existing accounts, but not allow additional contributions starting at some point in the future. edit: I've updated th
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Google exploits loophole to help employees evade taxes on $36,500 / year(medium.com)
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by resalisbury 8y ago
Checker | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite I’ve been here a year and a half and love it so far! Great leadership, lots of transparency. We’re a modern background checks, focused on building a fairer future for applicants. growing a
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by resalisbury 8y ago
What's another $30k in home costs. That's less thank 1% of my $3.2 million home in Palo Alto ;) Whatever you do just make sure the neighborhood is zoned single family. Multi family just doesn't have enough roof space.
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Checker | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite I’ve been here a year and a half and love it so far! We’re a modern background checks, focused on building a fairer future for applicants. growing and profitable, an unusual combination for
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by resalisbury 9y ago
San Francisco is a continual disappointment to me in it's regulatory approach of banning things. Allow docess bikes? Nope let's mostly ban them but grant Uber subsidiary, Jump, a monopoly on operating a very small number. Allow el

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