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by sulam 8y ago
New grad salaries have doubled in the last 20 years. They've gone up about 20% in the last _three_ years, in SF.
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by sulam 8y ago
There is no such thing as a near zero crime rate for homeless people. Also, just being warm is not sufficient. Homeless people need so much more than that, it's daunting. A short starter list: * food & water * access to showe
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by sulam 8y ago
Very few people live in the Sahara. However, to your larger point, many people live in Europe and the Middle East, and being able to power their cities could in turn obviate the need to emit quite a large amount of CO2, potentially affectin
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by sulam 8y ago
That’s really odd. I can’t talk about accuracy, but getting steps while it’s literally sitting on a desk would be novel in my experience. Do you have mobile track enabled (the feature where we can use the phone’s accelerometer to try and re
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by sulam 8y ago
We are actively working very hard on this! Unfortunately it’s the typical tech story — the system that worked well over 10 years ago isn’t working as well today and it’s a big project to replace it. We have a whole team of very experienced
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by sulam 8y ago
By the way, Prop 13 was a response to what was happening as a result of property values dramatically rising. It was an effect, not the cause, so repealing it isn’t likely to reverse the increase in property values.
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by sulam 8y ago
Sure I vote. “Pesky” younger people are welcome to vote for repealing Prop 13 if that’s what they want. I won’t, at least not if it has the effects described here.
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by sulam 8y ago
What’s that going to do? People with market rate rents will see them go up x% and people in rent controlled apartments will simply get more pressure to move so the landlord can convert the unit to market rate.
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by sulam 8y ago
It seems like gp’s proposal is to eliminate Prop 13 literally so that people will be forced to move out or that the threat of being forced to move out will cause them to man the barricades and demand more housing to lower property values (g
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by sulam 8y ago
They have plenty of other reasons to support it. The people that don’t support it for the most part are the large scale landlords who are happy with the run up in rents.
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by sulam 8y ago
Until you have an alternative to people on fixed income being forced to move from the homes they own because they literally were priced out of the neighborhood, I will defend Prop 13 with words, money and actions. You will never convince me
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by sulam 8y ago
FWIW pg is clear here that YC had 4 founders: http://www.paulgraham.com/jessica.html
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by sulam 8y ago
He seems to be talking about Viaweb in the point you link to here?
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by sulam 8y ago
Crummy bosses are crummy. Can't really draw a lot of conclusions from bad.
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by sulam 8y ago
Let’s test this assertion. Does it hold in the extreme? For instance, why then does the person that VP of Engineering reports to not need to be a qualified engineer? If this is the CEO then it’s clearly impossible for them to be qualified a
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by sulam 8y ago
Your response here is at least an order of magnitude more caustic than what you're replying to. At the risk of generating more bile, you should consider that you not only are not going to be getting the change you describe with your st
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by sulam 8y ago
I predict this will have changed recently due to GDPR.
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by sulam 8y ago
This really depends on the role, the company and the culture. I am arguably the most senior engineer where I work (out of over 500 engineers) and I don’t have a college degree. We have many PhDs on staff. What matters at many companies and
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by sulam 8y ago
I read this entire article with some interest, but made the (naive) assumption that it would actually speak about the conditions under which Sakharov made his contributions to matter/anti-matter imbalance. Instead I learned something n
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by sulam 8y ago
We already have the concept of the eschaton, or the singularity. Is this a realistic concept? I don't know! But if you accept it, then the inability to see people at or beyond is is simple -- there is a large gap because progress past
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by sulam 8y ago
Planets are not normally radio sources. You can detect Earth as a planet from Pluto, and you can say that this planet is a strong radio source in various bands. As a radio source it has changed over time in interesting ways that are very un
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by sulam 8y ago
Hawaii has _too much_ sun, because of the isolated nature of its electric grid, meaning they have nowhere to shift power to or from. If we had a good storage option, or if one was deployed in Hawaii, the situation would change dramatically.
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by sulam 8y ago
Yes, this book is one I recommend to anyone who wants to really understand functional programming. Admittedly it's not Haskell, but it's the book I wished I'd had back when I first learn FP (and Scala).
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by sulam 8y ago
I think your understanding of the issue is pretty suspect.
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by sulam 8y ago
They were only managing $64M, that's not exactly significant.
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by sulam 8y ago
Man, I blew some karma to find out birds were berms? I’ve been robbed! ;-)
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by sulam 8y ago
The city spends a lot on homelessness, but the issue is not so easily solved.
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by sulam 8y ago
> For example all the farm owners' houses are on hills or birds They have their houses on birds? That’s ... amazing!
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by sulam 8y ago
Salesforce: recruiter Twitter: referral Current: referral I also had to do a typical interview at all of them.
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by sulam 8y ago
Companies talk about viral loops, positive reinforcement and variable rewards. These are literally weaponized psychology used to generate revenue. If you don't see how that's different from music and TV, I got nothing for you. As

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