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by smeyer 10y ago
>More, yet expensive housing won't help Yes it will. It might not help as much as cheaper housing, but it will help. Any increase to housing stock should lower prices overall. For example, building a luxury apartment building that a
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by smeyer 10y ago
>And 25% was in any case a very poor prediction considering these markets are supposed to be more accurate than polls If the markets predicted 75% A vs 25% B and A always turned up, that would make them a poor prediction. Predicting 25%
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by smeyer 10y ago
>The word "employ" is yours, not the OPs As of writing, "pay people I'm employing" is a direct quote from the OP. I'm not weighing in on whether or not this should count as personal use, but I think you miss
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by smeyer 10y ago
I'm curious too! But I figured I'd post the email so that andreygrehov could get their answer even if dang didn't pop into the thread.
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by smeyer 10y ago
From the guidelines: >Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.co
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by smeyer 10y ago
Have you resolved the trademark dispute[1]? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11570516
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by smeyer 10y ago
I wonder what the percentage is in other areas around the country. It would be nice to know to have a better sense of how much is a reasonable baseline and how much is Bay Area specific.
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by smeyer 10y ago
I don't think that's the case with Stallman. That makes sense when you put in one thing as a quality control check, but he seems to genuinely just be very, very particular about lots of things.
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by smeyer 10y ago
Yeah, sorry if I came across as implying it to be an equivalent data set. I just meant that if someone is wondering how the distribution of salaries compares to everyone with a specific title at a specific company, they might want to compar
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by smeyer 10y ago
There's obviously going to be a bias of some sort, but it would probably be worth looking at the distribution of the reported salaries to get a better sense of that. (The author may have already looked at the spread of salaries, I have
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by smeyer 11y ago
>I think that busses are only included in the system due to the convenience of not having to have a line to the depo Busses are just a lot more flexible in general. The costs with starting and stopping bus lines are much less than other
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by smeyer 11y ago
This post belongs in the who is hiring post (if anywhere), not here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405239
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by smeyer 11y ago
While it doesn't help for all of that, looking at H1B data on a site like http://visadoor.com/ helps fill out some of the picture. You can see specific numbers instead of just ranges while also adding some context abou
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by smeyer 11y ago
Was SpoonRocket still having issues with the National Labor Relations Board or were those resolved?
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by smeyer 11y ago
>Seriously?! No. Here's a timeline of the plane so far [0] and a page that includes some details from 2014 including a master schedule and a production status [1]. The 2050 comment was presumably an exaggeration referencing the freq
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by smeyer 11y ago
To add on to what celticninja said, it's not just that it can be done, but is in fact quite common. Experience from running a startup can be a positive even if the company failed. Do you have a more specific question or any other infor
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by smeyer 11y ago
How much time do you anticipate going into sorting through applications versus the actual sessions?
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by smeyer 11y ago
Looks like you missed part of the article: >Atlassian was founded in 2002, but it hasn't taken any outside investment. The last two funding rounds from Accel and T. Rowe Price were done to let employees sell some of their shares, an
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by smeyer 11y ago
If they're fully spinning it out, it isn't just "under the same parent company". They can make two companies each with their own stock, initially distributed to shareholders of the initial company. After that, some stock
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by smeyer 11y ago
The general claim is that your argument is flawed in "this accomplishes all of your objectives". I don't claim to be an expert in the field, but I've heard people who do care about and practice planetary and martian scie
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by smeyer 11y ago
>Granted it's not as small, but who really cares? Isn't one of the primary points of this product the extreme size? It seems like an unreasonable comparison if you dismiss that.
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by smeyer 11y ago
Joe Blitzstein is usually pretty communicative (I see him answering a lot of questions on Quora and he had a reputation for being pretty approachable at Harvard.) If you like their book, maybe you should reach out and see if either of them
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by smeyer 11y ago
It's not just bay area. I'm in Boston, and around here everyone under 30 seems to know of (and mostly use) Venmo, and many technically inclined older folk.
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by smeyer 11y ago
>This isn't exact of course This is very far from exact. You're comparing a city with particularly high real estate costs to one with relatively low real estate costs (for the size of the city). Spending 20% of gross on rent is
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by smeyer 11y ago
I'm the farthest thing from an expert here, but why do you need your own pop-up store? Could you also try getting an existing brick and mortar store to carry part of your product line? That might result in a few sales and give you some
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by smeyer 11y ago
By virtue of the way indices work, a lot of public companies in general would have been better off throwing their cash in index-driven mutual funds. That being said, if it were easy to tell ahead of time which these companies are, it would
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by smeyer 11y ago
I was particularly interested by the lack of condemnation from the government. I would have expected a stronger stance. >But he's not entirely negative about the vigilante movement. In fact, rather than condemning the "Catch yo
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by smeyer 11y ago
Yep, that's what I figured. Thanks for the input from someone with some real knowledge on the subjects.
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by smeyer 11y ago
Yes, it may matter which capability exists. If the capability exists from space, it means that they can easily switch between targets across a large swath of areas, as compared to deploying a drone near you. Have you seen laser acoustics de
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by smeyer 11y ago
The spooks do use similar technology to process downwards-looking images, but I still don't think they're at the point of reading your conversation off your windows from space, though, based off of the maturity of the various syst

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