throwdour

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by throwdour 6y ago
"An economic boom should not be a bad thing" You're right, but the reality is it has been a bad thing for many people. As long as they're being outmaneuvered by homeowners and landlords, having the boom simply end would
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by throwdour 6y ago
Because if "tech elites" actually are leaving, then the increase in demand will have been proven to be transient Surely many developers would have made the bet anyway, at least in 2010-2019, but going forward it'll be worth c
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by throwdour 6y ago
That, I agree with. San Francisco should have built more housing to accommodate the growth. Though if people are leaving already, I can also see why developers might have been reluctant to bet too big on new construction.
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by throwdour 6y ago
Maybe it is a tough call, because the guy shitting on the sidewalk isn't living in your previous apartment at twice the price.
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by throwdour 6y ago
I think many people prefer petty crime to tech elites. With the upward pressure on rents over the last 10 years, even having your bike stolen every few weeks is cheaper than getting evicted and/or having to find a market rate dwelling
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by throwdour 6y ago
If you're working on the content and the looks at the same time, and you don't 100% know where the project is going, it's helpful to consider them as a combined unit, so you can alter and/or discard that unit without
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by throwdour 6y ago
Isn't the real question "what are the odds of the lottery being random if this suspicious sequence comes up so soon "? I.e. given a specific sequence, how many weeks should you expect to wait before you see it? In the extr
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by throwdour 6y ago
It's strange that getting promoted is such a universal goal. Many or most people who start on the promotion ladder get stuck in the miserable middle. There's surprisingly little reflection on whether or not the extra money is wo
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by throwdour 6y ago
The incompetent leadership, contagious disease, and false beliefs described in the first paragraph are par for the course in human history. The author opened with a list of things that seem impervious to the ramping complexity, instead of v
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by throwdour 6y ago
Many creative people got their first public attention on MySpace. Soundcloud never quite matched it. Facebook and Twitter are rat races. A re-run of MySpace, at scale, would be a benefit to the world. I hope this takes off like a rocket
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by throwdour 6y ago
I nearly got whiplash when the author moved the threshold from "giving a shit" to "deeply obsessed".
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by throwdour 6y ago
Does Pocket work for Medium and/or Twitter? I'm not too concerned about indexing my entire base of knowledge, but I do often locally save a bunch of articles to maybe read on the weekend when I have some time. Saving Medium blo