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by tmh79 9y ago
> If you don't like them, you should organize to defeat them democratically. I spend my free time doing some advocacy in this space. Heres a few things you might not know. 1) Nimby's dont derive power from the ballot box, they
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by tmh79 9y ago
it is a crisis that cities like Cupertino are building office space for 12k workers, but not building housing for them. It is a crisis that the bay area has created office space for 8 new jobs for every 1 new unit of housing built.
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by tmh79 9y ago
have you heard of the housing accountability act? The law was strengthened last year to protect you from having your project denied for arbitrary reasons. I'd reach out to CaRLA (california renters legal advocacy fund, http:/&#x2
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by tmh79 9y ago
They didn't get any IP from waymo, that is why waymo settled. There is no additional clamping down, they just need to continue to show alphabet that they're not doing anything fishy.
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by tmh79 9y ago
> The settlement is an indication that it did not do that, which means they'll likely have to scrap a large piece of it's incremental work. That isn't true. Uber didn't use any trade secrets from waymo, thats why waym
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by tmh79 9y ago
there is a wegmans in austin? So jealous. Also there is a wegmans musical: http://www.telegram.com/article/20120502/TOWNNEWS/120509938/...
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by tmh79 9y ago
it depends on the company. From what I've heard, waymo's controller system has a long set of heuristics, many other competitors use learned algos.
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by tmh79 9y ago
Residency programs are more restricted by funding for residency spots, not by the AAMC. Funding is, very weirdly, provided by Medicare. It's all a tangled mess with lots of weird stakeholders, but saying "doctors are using rent se
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by tmh79 9y ago
> A lot of homeowners on the beach think they own the land up to the water but that's not always the case despite them trying to block access. In California, it is literally never the case, by state law.
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salaries aren't paid on a "cost plus" model of "housing" + "schooling" + "discretionary for workers", it is paid based on the negotiating power of the employee. The way salaries might be impacted
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by tmh79 9y ago
There is a huge difference between "all great artists did X" and "there is nothing particularly in common between all great artists". My intuition is telling me that the truth is definitely in the middle, and if there wa
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by tmh79 9y ago
I agree with your idea that, in an ideal world, we should promote more land use and transit decision making to metro level governments. The problem is that politics is the art of the possible, and this is the set of stakeholders we can curr
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by tmh79 9y ago
You need to widen the universe of competition when you price parking. The universe of competition for an empty parking space is not just "everyone who would want to park here for a day" it is also "all alternative land uses t
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by tmh79 9y ago
> I cracked up at your Brisbane example...people choose not to live in Brisbane because it's inconvenient to everywhere, not because Brisbane has zoning restrictions. That's not true at all. Brisbane is sitting on a huge plot o
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by tmh79 9y ago
> "Do we really want to set a precedent where the state government comes in and overrides local regulations about things like zoning which are usually purely the responsibility of the local governments?" Yes, yes we do. Local c
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by tmh79 9y ago
do it! the good people need money to keep up! I just started political donations this year! Any amount, however small, helps.
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New York State law also mandates that cities must provide shelter beds for their homeless population, so there is enough shelter space for their homeless population, there is no such law in SF/CA.
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from what I understand, it is currently a chemical test that requires a biopsy or tissue sample, which is difficult to get from the brain because well, you remove part of the brain, which is bad.
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by tmh79 9y ago
the problem is (1) all these old folks want to drive everywhere and fear the increase in traffic and change in their lifestyle and (2) fear the loss of exclusivity of their neighborhood when one can buy a condo for less than a SFH. IMO thes
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by tmh79 9y ago
state law overrides local law. These battles are not going to be won by exclusionary wealthy communities willingly opening the gates, its going to be done by the state blowing the gates open. See the past year, bills like SB167 (Ability to
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by tmh79 9y ago
Zoning is not a property right in California Law, and community governance is not purchased through home ownership. Tenants and "live in owners" have the same amounts of votes in the system, 1. What you are describing, the enfranc
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by tmh79 9y ago
The problem is that if facebook decides that I am black, I will never be able to see facebook ads targeted towards white people, I will never know they exist, and even if I want to see them, I will be unable to, thus I am excluded from them
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If the newspaper was somehow able to be physically manifested by or perceived only by white people, or people under 30, or in some way that excluded people of a protected class from ever seeing it if they knew about it and wanted to, then t
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by tmh79 9y ago
Facebook is selling advertising. In this specific case, the product they are selling is illegal. Facebook should be held liable for selling illegal advertising. Do people find this challenging? Is there something wrong with this?
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I'm astonished that facebook is successfully able to pull the "we're a platform, its not our fault people are using it illegally" excuse here. There is a huge difference between allowing people to freely post content on
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by tmh79 9y ago
It is a violation of very important civil rights laws in the US. Imagine a company using Facebook to advertise job openings to white candidates only.
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Additionally, Toronto arguably has a worse housing situation than SF. While dollar for dollar, prices in SFBA are higher, your housing cost will likely be a higher percentage of your monthly take home in Canada as the pay is less than SFBA
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3) its much worse if they use their newfound free time and available resources to do things that actively harm society
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uber engineer here, we have 2fa set up for everything. Starting my day takes about 5 different 2fa checks (ssh access, aws, phabricator, team chat, etc)
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by tmh79 9y ago
I'm also an uber employee, have been for a while. I totally understand the bad will against uber, but things inside the company have changed an insane amount since the january '17 stuff (deleteUber and fowler blog post), and with

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