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by tomkarlo 13y ago
There's two important issues at work here: 1. "Pairing" is basically a barter market where every good is unique, information on them is noisy or downright deceptive, and you only get to trade once (hopefully). That's a r
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An individual man may earn more than an individual woman, but in broad strokes, with more women graduating college than men, you're going to see more of them in "professional" jobs, especially in younger cohorts. Credentials
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You're conflating "social class" with "economic class". The old marriage thing was more about social class than economic - a man could marry a girl with no money if she came from a "good" family but marryi
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Based on those numbers, 20% of units not rented out by a landlord or vacant are seasonal/occasional use in Manhattan . That seems like a pretty major chunk, considering this isn't a vacation town. (And don't forget "Man
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Except they do remain empty, which is why this is such an issue in NY and London right now. Which now looks pretty much like this: "In a large swath of the East Side bounded by Fifth and Park Avenues and East 49th and 70th Streets, abo
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The housing isn't vacant because it's not occupied. It's vacant because the owners have their primary residence elsewhere. Or have several homes. London has neighborhoods where full time residency runs around 30% as well, lea
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From an NYT article a few years back, the estimate for Manhattan was that 30% of new condo sales (admittedly a minority versus coops in NY) were foreign buyers. That would still be a material share of overall sales. In an already tight mark
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That's true of Manhattan but much less so for other boroughs. And rich people still tend to occupy only one unit. Foreign buyers remove units from the pool entirely while contributing less to the local service economy, mad there have b
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It's not necessarily true. It's just idle / uninformed speculation with almost no insight into Amazon's internal operations or supporting facts. That's why it's getting downvoted. Just because he doesn't
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Amazon very carefully tracks the profitability of each SKU they sell. If they're selling it to you, they've figured out how to do it profitably. Consider that you'd pay a similar price for it in a retail store, where it had t
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Maybe some kind of appeal to institutional buyers who want that form factor (and maybe the old port / shape) to keep their fleet of device consistent? Maybe just a lot of extra components / panels for that design?
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"If AOSP were more open he wouldn't have left." Can you substantiate that statement at all? AOSP's "openness" is determined by its licensing, which is a standard Apache 2.0 license. The issue was whether certai
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That statement is entirely incorrect. http://www.tech-thoughts.net/2012/12/smartphone-market-share...
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That's a mischaracterization of his own comments on why he left. It had to do with open sourcing GPU drivers, which is probably an issue with other vendors, not Google. See: https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744
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If you're on a decently setup wifi network, this isn't true for practical purposes. The connection from your house to your ISP is going to be effectively your bottleneck 99% of the time.
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Having handled one, it's a lot nicer than the netbooks are. The performance is pretty good, the form factor is much more comfortable in terms of screen size and keyboard size, and the build quality is pretty high. While I wouldn't
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The average price for a Windows 8 laptop last Q4 was ~$430... so at $280 they're about $150 under that. I suspect that if you start getting close to that $430 mark you lose some of the willingness of consumers to try something other th
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Because you can probably buy a USB ethernet adaptor, and hardly anyone uses wired ethernet with a laptop anymore - that's why lots of other laptops have dropped it. Ethernet is a relatively large connector and the port itself can be ha
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I agree 100% with you about the schools problem (and I'm facing it myself.) I've lived in a number of cities and SF has stunned me at the near total lack of school-age children. It's stunning - especially in my neighborhood (
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NYC traded finance for tourism? Something like 1/3 of the cit is still employed in jobs tied to the financial industry (and it pays over half the wages in Manhattan). I literally can't remember knowing a single person working in t
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Fair enough, but even then, he has nothing to support the idea that the current exodus is any different from the normal inflow-outflow of population that goes on every year in any major city. "People sometimes move out of SF so they ca
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
There's a lot that can be done. The most obvious thing to do is remove rent control and zoning restrictions and push for the construction of higher buildings with more units . Stop living in the past and pretending it's a quaint
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An agenda-driven article based on an unsupported anecdote (that lots of his friends are moving to Oakland) and topped with a click-bait headline. If there was really any net "exodus" going on, landlords wouldn't be raising re
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Having fewer places in town results in meeting people you know more often. Having fewer people doesn't - your probability of meeting someone is the number of people you know (which is arguably larger in a city) divided by the number
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I'm pretty sure it maps out the same if you filtered for, say, non-Hispanic white voters. The curve might shift towards GOP overall, but the correlation would still be there, because the cities also tend to skew more educated and that
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We tend to know the same number of people total, so when you're in a more densely populated area, you're dividing the same number (or even a larger number) by a much, much larger number of people around you. Maybe it's not th
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It's really, really not similar to AOL. AOL has an ongoing cash flow from subscription payments. Those payments keep coming from customers until they either quit the service or die off. Blackberry sells devices. They don't have si
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Or maybe because it's a huge, intensely competitive market where multiple top-tier companies are trying to draw users from each other: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo. You can't stand still and expect your user base to k
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That works if it's a factory. It doesn't work that well in a mobile device manufacturer. Anyone selling wireless devices is subject to ongoing changes in the regulatory environment, plus security threats. If they don't have a
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Blackberry has rapidly declining sales (-50% in 2 years)... you'd have to hope to not just cut costs, but cut them faster (and repeatedly) to stay ahead of the current decline in sales. And you'd have to expect that decline to acc

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