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by tmh79 9y ago
If you come to the meeting, we'd be happy to talk more about these things in detail! Politics in SF is very complicated and fraught with strange alliances.
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Yimby solutions are almost always based on less regulations, or just changing the parameters of the regulations we already have. Usually, there is a bullshit terribly regulated onerous way to build housing, where you can follow the rules, a
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by tmh79 9y ago
1) O(linear) > O(logarithmic), I'm going to assume you mean polynomial instead of logarithmic. Soooo I'm going to address that. Increasing density in markets with large amounts of single family zoning is not a linear solution.
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by tmh79 9y ago
I somewhat disagree with your take on the "lines already drawn in the sand". The world is bigger than google and apple, lyft and uber. The ridesharing space in particular is fraught with seemingly strange investment partners. Here
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employees with options can sell, employees with RSUs cannot
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in biotech its almost always an IP transaction
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Express Pool: An affordable shared ride that works better, together(uber.com)
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From the Article (and a few other sources): The access was used to allow uber to display maps on the apple watch, which was a blocker for the iOS watch app launch. Apple wanted uber as a launch partner so they have uber the permission to do
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by tmh79 9y ago
There are plenty of ally/partner organizations. "East Bay For Everyone" is the east bay one, and there are a few budding orgs in silicon valley ( http://www.sjyimby.org/ ). We all work on local issues, and part
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by tmh79 9y ago
there is a lot you're leaving out here or misunderstand. The reason that there is a housing crises int he SFBA is that all of the cities in the SFBA have produced an order of magnitude more office space than housing in the past 10 or s
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by tmh79 9y ago
I drive a volvo XC70 (the outdorsy station wagon) and its incredible for sleeping in. I've probably logged 8ish days in the past year or so. The best benefit is that most campgrounds in places like Yosemite are limited in capacity and
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by tmh79 9y ago
There are a lot of ways to slice the impact of uber and lyft on urban mobility. As the study shows, VMT have likely increased. But what does this really mean? Here are some of my postulations: 1) People who did not have physical/tempor
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by tmh79 9y ago
this is not true
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Its not about a 15% raise today, it's about a 15% raise every year indefinitely. Rents are increasing at 10-15% annually, no company can afford salary increases of that year after year after year.
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I want to bring the focus on inequality here to the absurd cost of living in Silicon Valley. There is a world in which contract workers at Facebook making 15 dollars per hour are able to live reasonably close to work and provide for their f
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by tmh79 9y ago
Not noted in the article, but I feel like a lot of the reasons that the rate of people starting their own business is declining is that the costs of essential services like housing, education, healthcare and childcare have been increasing a
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by tmh79 9y ago
So if you spend $1000 dollars on lyft, you're ~1/30th of the way to a free domestic flight. Seems like a better deal would be taking the cheaper of lyft or uber, not chasing the miles. I think a more useful partnership would be wi
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by tmh79 9y ago
I was depressed, mildly alcoholic, 100 lbs over weight (had been obese basically my entire life), and almost failing classes in college (had a professor call me out for not doing a bad job after he thought I was either cheating or being too
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by tmh79 9y ago
likely, my bet is that literally every company that does autonomy has a very similar platform that waymo does.
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The CTO fled Vietnam on a boat during the Vietnam war and arrived in the US with basically nothing as a refugee. Extraordinary circumstances can make extraordinary people.
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Does the US have a THAAD installation in South Korea? If so, is it possible that the THAAD missiles launched and missed these? If they weren't launched, why not?
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everything that "came out against uber" had little impact on the business metrics. The bad event for uber was a widespread campaign to delete the app that started in january when Tk was on trumps business council and uber caused s
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by tmh79 9y ago
#deleteUber happened weeks before Susan Fowler's blog post, was accelerated because TK was on the Trump business council at the time (assumed connection between the two) and had a much larger impact on the business metrics. A more &quo
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by tmh79 9y ago
500m at 30b sounds unrealistic. The low end of secondary market is ~45-50b. He will doubtless make a pretty penny.
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by tmh79 9y ago
fair, for the next 4 years, I believe "wokeness" is going to be a lot more valuable for public facing roles (leadership & comms) than it used to be. Companies without "wokeness" will experience more and more twitter&
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by tmh79 9y ago
Side note: This new guy is an outspoken trump critic. Meg is a republican, and ran as one for california governor #deleteUber was started and accelerated partially by assumed associations between Uber and Trump I wonder if the politics had
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CEOs often lead on partnerships and strategy. I wonder what connections in travel this new CEO is going to leverage and how that will affect the uber operations in the short term, and the ridesharing product itself in the long term. airline
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expedia stock up 5x since 2012, market cap 22b, their lunch has not been eaten.
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Its very expensive and very risky for civilian flights. Either of those factors alone would be a no-go zone for airlines, put them together and its worse.
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sort of, but lyft's market share costs 50% more than uber's market share

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