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by sologoub 7y ago
A better example would be where high earners can shift their incomes into corporate structures and thus treat themselves as a “business”, realizing many tax savings and write offs. A professional Corp making $500k will likely allow for a gr
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If that’s not making enough of a dent, it’s not evidence that it’s not helping at all. Compared to CA, NYC is building like crazy from my anecdotal observation.
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Your example is deplorable and should not happen. The other points are not baseless: Skirball fire in LA is currently attributed to a cooking fire as the source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirball_Fire My view is
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> If I see this $10,000 watch and then look at my watch, which I probably paid about $150 for, I might think, “Maybe there’s something wrong with me.” That entire paragraph made me really sad and the quote is probably the saddest part. P
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by sologoub 7y ago
There’s a much more practical problem with landlines going away - VoIP needs external power to work. With PG&E power outages, cell and VoIP service was largely gone. Having a copper line is a safety concern in such situations.
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Doesn’t that depend on OPs priorities? Maybe they are more into FI than career advancement and want to move to a low cost area?
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I this sums up my first math experience in the US high school. Learning before moving to the US, we were not allowed any calculators. My first class the teach wrote something basic like quadratic equation to solve. To my shock, out went the
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by sologoub 7y ago
FTC Vizio settlement: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/02/vizio...
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NYC seems to be just fine at redeveloping. So the problem is regional (though very widespread).
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In California (can’t speak for other states), much of that “stuck in <x time period>” is largely driven by NIMBYs and at what point the place became more or less affluent. SV seems to have figured out that some land can be redeveloped
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You are missing a lot of other shifts. For example, in a retail business, location is a form of marketing spend - if you rent in a high traffic area, you’ll pay more for the location, but will need less marketing dollars to attract the same
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Sounds like what contemporaries have said of another urban project: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_...
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That could be solvable with something like cross-over: https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-chromeos Of course, in the context of low income, ideally the district would provide standardized choices or offer c
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by sologoub 7y ago
A lot of the comments are focusing on the burden for the parents, but there is also negative impact on the kids from less wealthy backgrounds. My last 2 years of high school, I went to 7am first period to be able to get out early enough to
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That’s why Chromebooks are a lot better choice - $150 buys you a reasonable example and you also don’t have to worry about kid breaking it and loosing weeks of work. Example: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-11-6-chrom
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Welcome to SV - I was literally able to find similar homes in similar neighborhoods (crime rate, education, etc), but one being in SV and the other in Los Angeles. SV home cost 3x more. That’s for 3BR + 1.5BA ~1400 sq ft from 1960s in Mount
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by sologoub 7y ago
As others mentioned, this reads more like a PR piece than a research claim. More importantly, the health benefits claim has been debunked before: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/impossible-burger-or-b... &gt
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by sologoub 7y ago
That’s not accurate at all. To get the 0%, you have to exercise at strike price (only way to do that is to forward exercise your vesting schedule which is in theory great, but I have yet to see this allowed by a company for normal employees
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by sologoub 7y ago
From the launch page: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/ “Seriously, April 1? The only question that remained was when to launch the new service? This is the first consumer product Cloudflare has ever launche
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Tried searching, but couldn’t find a report by KPMG. Has one been produced already or is this a future thing? Regardless, impressive step to take.
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There are severe restrictions on density and heavy parking requirements just to start. It’s much much more complex than that, but to simplify - people who lived in a given area want it to remain the same. SF Bay Area is creating 3+ jobs per
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Meanwhile in the booming Seattle: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/amid-build... > “I’ve been renting in Seattle since 2014, and this is the first time where I felt like I have negotiating powe
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That’s how large corporations behave, but what the OP is voicing is a common sentiment for smaller investors or people doing landlording as a side gig or housing hack to financial independence. If the market can support it, these laws guara
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by sologoub 7y ago
That’s pretty incredible - #100 of the top 100 best paid still makes $652,640. However, CS seems to be more in the sub-$200k range with only a few over $200k. That’s pretty easy to exceed in the industry and why people are likely choosing t
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Most pollution doesn’t come from “motors to move people”. Transportation is 14% globally and 28% for US, however that includes every kind of transportation - trucks, large ships, cars, trains, etc. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemi
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Thank you! That paints a very clear (and clearly stressful) picture. Hope it all works out for you and yours in the end!
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Sorry to hear about your situation and impacts! Definitely sounds like a lot of stress! Is the uncertainty because of eminent domain that the city is planning to use to force the relocation? If that’s the case, I don’t know that all that ma
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by sologoub 7y ago
Reminded me of the Jobs/iPhone plastic screen story: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/9/20687299/plastic-iphone-go... Of course, in this case it shipped with the “plastic screen”...
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Apple warns against storing the Apple Card in leather and denim(techcrunch.com)
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It seems to succeed at being understandable, but I’m guessing it will be on par in difficulty to learning another Slavic language if you already speak one. Also, the written part is not hard - if you pause enough most Slavic language menus

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