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tamana
11y ago
How do you know if you'd like the author if you read the words carefully? Hemingway doesn't write for plot.
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tamana
11y ago
Until someone who doesn't care changes some code and that pattern is no longer durable.
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tamana
11y ago
Because there's demand for labor in SF.
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tamana
11y ago
How? They must be illegal since those aren't longtime residents.
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tamana
11y ago
The construction bit seems silly. Everyone lives somewhere, so construction industry is just more active in exurbs and building more roads. Skyscrapers are very expensive per unit, they are only a bargain where land is expensive
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tamana
11y ago
The billionaires who run the company have many huge beautiful homes. Their employees beg them to open offices in resident friendly cities, and the managers ignore them.
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tamana
11y ago
There are plenty of places where land is cheap but units are still too expensive for low wage workers and their nonworking children.
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tamana
11y ago
NYC is one of the safest places in the world _per capita_
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tamana
11y ago
Zoning isn't a federal issue and won't be one in the next 8 years.
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tamana
11y ago
Increase crime, or expose more rich people to crime?
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tamana
11y ago
If you have somewhere to put it.
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tamana
11y ago
Doesn't matter. The point is to push the inventory mix toward smaller dwellings. Someone who want a big house won't buy 5 little ones.
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tamana
11y ago
A straw house, even
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tamana
11y ago
They aren't buying houses becuase they might need to live in them. They could rent anywhere easily. They are buying them as investments.
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tamana
11y ago
We could test your idea if there were any French or Irish investors. Or even American investors.
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tamana
11y ago
Not math, but physics: Of course, just like Intel and AMD constantly create more efficient computers by building better models of our universe's physics. We could make faster computers if we had different physics. If you invent better
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tamana
11y ago
That makes no sense. The geographic source of the cheese is trivila compared to the way it is made. You can get cheap American process ccheese food or you can get expensive classic varieties of cheese from anywhere.
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tamana
11y ago
"Charitable" foundation. Aka IKEA R&D department and funds bunker.
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tamana
11y ago
Whiskey is usually the fifth.
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tamana
11y ago
Of course. How else could someone understand anything except within the context of their worldview? Adopting a fully alien perspective requires deep immersion, which only few people have time for, and even they can't do t for all persp
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tamana
11y ago
Who are "these people"?
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tamana
11y ago
More like "Prescriboflex 101" , "Xyloprescribex 101", enjoy the buffet at the baseball game etc
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tamana
11y ago
Law is only 7 years training and the first 4 are in any field you choose. And there are opportunities for paid semipro internships every summer.
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tamana
11y ago
None of those people are MDs!
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tamana
11y ago
That's not true at all. Engineers with basic hygiene and fitness are snapped up like doctors. Don't compare 23 yr old engineers with doctors who, after school and training, are already 30 and in their high innome jobs.
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tamana
11y ago
Not having a kid is a pretty harsh requirement.
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tamana
11y ago
It's essentially impossible for a lawyer to lose their license.
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tamana
11y ago
Yes. What you get is a lot of "grunge work" that never gets done because everyone is busy inventing the next gen cure-all.
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tamana
11y ago
What is the bottom line cost of losing 0.05% of your customers?
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tamana
11y ago
All of women's fashion magazine industry. Computer Shopper. Lucky.
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