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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Is your insurance company (I assume you carry liability of some type) going to go for that?
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's not quite apples to apples. Bankers get paid way more (so they sell off less of their stock) and they are also often paid in RSUs or other forms of stock comp that can't be sold for several years. Tech workers are generally paid with s
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Every gold rush attracts hucksters. Each time there's a tech boom, there's a wash of entrepreneurs, etc who have no real track record at anything and often aren't genuinely passionate about technology, just getting rich or famous. It comes
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
This a good point. Investment banks also generally have a very high percentage of employee ownership (50%+) because so much of their value is their employee base.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Converting externalities into profit isn't necessarily taking advantage of market failures. It may just be _creating_ market failure and taking advantage of them. Let's say all of the restaurants in your neighborhood have to charge extra be
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They're supposed to. How many do you think actually are?
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Disclosure only works when the customer has a real ability to assess the risk they're accepting. Most folks aren't even aware of the fire codes for hotels versus residences, or why they exist. (In particular, the extra danger in fleeing a f
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That's fine, but it's unproven that the AirBnB market works at all if renters have to pay 20%+ hotel taxes and apartment owners have to pay income tax. It would both raise the effective rates and greatly decrease the received benefit to the
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
The fire codes and taxes for a hotel are much more onerous than for a residential apartment building. Presumably landlords who are doing illegal conversions are flouting both, plus also violating zoning rules by converting a residential bui
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Why would a landlord (at least in a low-vacancy area like NY or SF) ever accept such an amendment to the lease?
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Even if you own a building, you are still subject to zoning laws and other regulations like the fire code.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
At some point, the cost of adjusting for the externalities will erase the savings of AirBnB. Which would indicate that the much of the "benefit" of AirBnB simply comes from not paying for the externalities. Beyond the neighbors, there would
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Me too (4,000 photos). I had recently let my Pro account expire in favor of just posting to G+, but now I'll probably start uploading again. (Of course, G+ also just changed their photo support last week.)
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Using "you" in that context doesn't mean I'm "speaking for you" . It's a didactic device used to convey a hypothetical situation.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Why would you assume it would be hostile? Ultimately either someone's going to buy Tesla, or Tesla's going to buy a legacy automaker that's in trouble. Setting aside dealership issues in the US, it doesn't make sense to rebuild an entire wo
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Or, how long until one of them buys Tesla and combines its expertise with their existing infrastructure for mass production?
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Why is this blog reposting, verbatim, a 2005 post that's still online in the original location: https://www.kennethnorton.com/essays/productmanager.html
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I could be wrong here, but I don't think you get inbound posts in your G+ stream (or email) from +1s, unlike FB "Likes" which give the owner the ability to post to your New Feed. On G+ you have to go and explicitly "Circle" a business / web
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Part of the issue, I suspect, is that we aren't as forgiving of computers (and in particular, ad servers) as we are of people, due to different expectations. If you went to a video rental store (back when those existed) and the guy recommen
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Folks in real life make judgements about you, and what you want, all the time in most cases it's entirely acceptable. Maybe it's disconcerting because online matches are often based on more tenuous information and less context. It can be ha
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Sorry if I misunderstood, but I made a statement about the large body of users and you replied with a personal anecdote. I realize there are exceptions, but my point (in response to the parent comment) was that clearly most users aren't bot
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Don't take a sample size of one and extrapolate to everyone.
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Facebook's stream hasn't been chronological (for most users) in a long time - I think years, and it doesn't seem to bother most users.
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This is the slippery slope fallacy. Don't fall into actually arguing for or against it. The NRA does the same thing when it claims all gun rules lead to a gun ban. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Not all videos stored on YouTube show up on YouTube search... it's a setting.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Ultimately, folks with money can use that money how they want. You can dock credits because he didn't donate it to providing clean water or some other cause that you deem more worthy, but ultimately it's his money and it seems like a reas
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
A vehicle with its tires blown will take longer to stop than one with its tires intact and brakes applied. This would just turn it into an 40-ton wrecking ball - what if there's stopped traffic in the tunnel?
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Garmin already offers a specific product line for truckers and bus drivers, that deals with these kinds of issues - beyond vertical clearance you have issues of turning radius and maximum load. I've seen them being sold at major truck stops
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Microsoft prepares rethink on Windows 8 flagship software(ft.com)
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Some studies found that even hands-free phone calls impair drivers significantly, as do traditional activities like changing the radio or just talking to another person in the car. Arguably anything that increases cognitive load (including

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