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by tmh79 8y ago
There is no such thing as a "free market". What "capitalists" really want is "strong competition", not "free markets". The "free market" zealots think they are capitalists, but they really e
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*esperanto
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by tmh79 8y ago
You are examining the world as a "marketplace of ideas", which is a good first order approximation to how the world works, but people like Alex Jones are market failures in the Market of ideas. Supporters of his are not using info
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by tmh79 8y ago
sounds like less of a product and more of a risk arbitrage to me
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by tmh79 8y ago
call your supervisor and tell them to vote no, I did it, if you don't know who your supervisor is, look here to find your district: http://www.sfmoderates.org/district-maps/ then google search for "district N
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by tmh79 8y ago
how are the existing cafeterias in mountain view not part of the "local low skill labor market" they pay well, better than restaurants, and they have better hours and benefits
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by tmh79 8y ago
there is a big difference between paving over west marin, and allowing communities near transit, the 101 and aterials to densify. Also, realistically speaking, if density controls were lifted in marin, the vast majority of changes would be
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by tmh79 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at U Liane was beloved at Uber. I cannot speak to any issues of racial discrimination, but I definitely felt that Lianne was one of the "good" folks at the company, and I am very surprised and dissapointed by th
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by tmh79 8y ago
this is basically exactly what cars and on street parking is...
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by tmh79 8y ago
there is some react-vr code for occulus
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by tmh79 8y ago
california has plenty of water for the people here, we do not have plenty of water to grow almonds and alfalfa in millions of acres in the central valley. Agriculture is like 80% of all CA water usage. If you include golf courses and lawns
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by tmh79 8y ago
they probably have a lot of overhead for the following things: office rental, increasing cost of septic tank hardware itself increased environmental regulations increase cost of permitting (money and time) with local government impact fees
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by tmh79 8y ago
Gentrification is a really inartful term that has come to mean a lot of different things. To some, gentrification is the process of a place becoming nicer, there are more options to eat out, the city services in an area increase etc To othe
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by tmh79 8y ago
paris and manhattan are now less expensive than SF
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by tmh79 8y ago
commercial enterprise in SF didn't start in 2012, GAP global HQ, Levi Strauss global HQ, PG and E HQ, Wells Fargo global HQ, Charles Schwab global HQ, Pottery Barn/Williams Sonoma...
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by tmh79 8y ago
no yimby orgs are gonna have a goal of displacing people like you, who live in rent controlled or otherwise affordable housing, and they actively support policies that protect tenants. The controversy is that they also support policies that
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by tmh79 8y ago
so your position is that neighbors should have defacto veto rights over their direct neighbor's property? Also, do you count someone who is a tenant and not a land owner as "someone" in your diatribe above?
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they're both undergoing a housing crises right now
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by tmh79 8y ago
IMO, When you account for political clout, the wealthy residents of Marin and Santa Monica have much more influence in the process than the tenants in Boyle Heights or East Oakland. The former uses the rhetoric and coopts the message of the
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by tmh79 8y ago
we are at record low growth rates for "peaking" in the development cycle. The problem is (1) we haven't built that much since 2008 anywhere, so any change seems like its a flood (2) most growth pre 2008 was greenfield SFH dev
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by tmh79 8y ago
so what is the solution to expensive rents in your mind?
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by tmh79 8y ago
correct, when adjusting for location, SFHs are more expensive than multi family housing, like 99.9% of the time
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by tmh79 8y ago
I make ~175k/year cash, and I'm able to put away about 60k/year in savings. If you add in the equity I'm receiving (currently illiquid, but company is one of the mega-corns), I'm able to save an additional 60-100k&#
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by tmh79 8y ago
yes, we should shut down the entire graph if it is leaking like a sieve, I don't understand why that is a question.
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by tmh79 9y ago
thats 3.5 year old data (data started in FY Sept 2014) in a hugely changing and dynamic market, so basically not useful. I work at Uber. We have publicly released financial statements each quarter. For q4 last year, our rides business was
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by tmh79 9y ago
if uber fired their lawyers and compliance staff, I bet they'd be profitable lol
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by tmh79 9y ago
how was the drivers experience for that though? were they half way across the city? Were they around you? did you pay them?
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by tmh79 9y ago
gotta use that pool express now, I've been getting express pools to work for 2.50 pretty consistently
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by tmh79 9y ago
uber eats is more efficient and therefore cheaper than their competition. 5 dollar delivery fee through uber eats, seems to be 9 dollars through caviar or 7 dollars through grubhub. Also, IIRC uber drivers can do rides and eats, so they gen
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Uber Sales Reach $7.5B in 2017(bloomberg.com)
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