tmh79

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by tmh79 7y ago
"We can't go on like this." There is a huge HUGE difference between "you must own 1/3 of an acre of land to live within an hour commute of your job" and "microscopic communal living spaces", if you ha
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by tmh79 7y ago
Agreed, its not believable at all. It feels like when FB told everyone that they would never data mine whatsapp, and then started mining like 18 months after acquisition.
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by tmh79 7y ago
I am for the "housing first" approach, but there is a clear moral hazard when you provide free housing to the lowest rung, and then say that the minimum cost of housing for the next group is like 1.5k/bedroom/month.
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by tmh79 7y ago
the issue is that in aggregate, this is true, but its a case of Simpsons paradox. Housing price growth in cities exceeds CPI by a large margin, and has pretty consistently since the early aughts. Housing price growth in exurban and rural ar
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by tmh79 7y ago
"But we want to democratize the internet and give people a voice" There is a huge difference between "freedom of speech" and "freedom to others attention". The core rot in facebook is not that it allows people
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by tmh79 7y ago
a more accurate measure of housing costs is not "home prices" but "rent prices", and rents have gone up compared with inflation, causing housing to be absolutely more expensive. The generational warfare double whammy her
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by tmh79 7y ago
As someone who works at one of the companies on the list, yes, these numbers are real. Big companies pay very well, consider working for one.
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by tmh79 7y ago
Interesting how the dominant narrative in NYC a year ago was "Uber is making taxi drivers commit suicide", and now we're seeing that revenues are down only 10%, and the real grift is from the finance guys extracting all the v
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by tmh79 7y ago
the disengagement reports are self reported and aren't comparing "apples to apples" between companies. This isn't a reliable metric.
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by tmh79 7y ago
the problem with this analogy is that digital cameras worked, self driving cars don't
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by tmh79 7y ago
I think a bigger concern with investing in housing WRT alternatives is this: Rents don't usually go down, but they often stagnate ESPECIALLY in units owned mom n pop landlords. If your rent doesn't change for 5 years, but inflatio
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by tmh79 7y ago
I work on a mapping team. We implemented our own R tree for spatial search as existing libraries had some unoptimized hot paths for our use case.
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by tmh79 7y ago
> The main cost of a nuclear plant is the initial construction the main cost is storing the waste for 10k+ years with zero defect rate
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by tmh79 8y ago
Only 25% of US adults have a bachelors degree. Of the 25% of those with bachelors degrees, the large majority come from regional public schools, think "Cal State Sacramento", or "Northern Illinois University". Graduates
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by tmh79 8y ago
maybe 1/2 of my friends from college live in SF. I have a huge social network here. Objectively the city is not awesome, but I can't imagine moving somewhere else and starting from scratch. Lots of tech workers are in this situati
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by tmh79 8y ago
this is a really good, and short-ish book on housing generally, and lots of good content about the bay area https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten... Long story short: Richmond grew during WWII be
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by tmh79 8y ago
"This is a transient town...people come here to work from all over and it's a completely separate issue" While true, this elides over a pretty large issue with minorities in tech. In general, the "transient after college
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by tmh79 8y ago
On the other hand, people of color are currently living in a world of extremely corrupt police (see https://www.baltimoresun.com/year-in-review/bs-md-yir-baltim... ) and general danger, and these cameras will help keep
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by tmh79 8y ago
Saudi Aramco is essentially part of the Saudi government, not an apples to apples comparison IMO. If they're going to discount the free mineral rights given to Aramco, then they should also account for the social services that the gove
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by tmh79 8y ago
are you kidding? Lyft is loosing 1B/year there is no "free money" to give out to anyone, engineers, drivers, marketers. its a tight market.
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by tmh79 8y ago
There was a ton of marxism/communism related violence in the US in the 20's, mostly centered around labor strikes. In general, that period saw much more violence and instability than the 70s. There was a literal battle win West Vi
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by tmh79 8y ago
I think lab grown meat will radically change how we as humans consume food and its going to taste way better than any animal grown meats we eat today. Animal breeding and husbandry right now is so crude, and there are so many inputs and out
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by tmh79 8y ago
the issue for me is that the main benefit of the tax breaks is capitalized by owners of AMZN stock, mainly Bezos, the wealthiest man in the world. AMZN is going to grow somewhere, they should pay taxes where they grow.
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by tmh79 8y ago
not the cities they want to move to though... Pretty widely speculated that they were going to go to NYC and VA regardless of what the other cities did & the HQ2 gambit was just meant to maximize their bargaining position with these gov
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by tmh79 8y ago
many of these "bus stops" are BRT (bus rapid transit), which uses dedicated infrastructure like grade separated bus only lanes. Its more like a subway that doesn't have rails and uses busses instead of train cars.
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by tmh79 8y ago
(1) What makes you think that the areas adjacent to the central valley rail stations will allow housing of a reasonable density (2) "You can't build a lot in the bay area without affecting people who have a large personal stake in
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by tmh79 8y ago
> some in our generation believe there is a right to be shielded from dissenting viewpoints I don't think that is the problem at all. Its not that people want to be shielded from dissenting viewpoints, its that the vast majority of
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by tmh79 8y ago
> But they aren't, they are also complaining about the CEO standing up for Kaplan's right to espouse his views, or in this case stand by a friend. Just standing by the principle of free speech, which is very clearly what's
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by tmh79 8y ago
they havent monopolized talent, they pay for talent. Facebook paying high salaries has increased all of our pay, equity etc, whether you work there or not. The only thing this may be bad for is founders who are in a zero sum competition wit
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by tmh79 8y ago
> But there's no point in building a three story apartment building in SF, you need to build a 6-10 story building Strong disagree. I would love the city to be covered in 6 - 10 story apartments at 10.0 FAR with no setbacks, but rig

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