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by usaar333 8y ago
True, alongside downtown Berkeley, Oakland, and Palo Alto (maybe a few others) Nonetheless, mass transit in SF is still pretty crappy. Muni is notoriously unreliable and slow (it's often faster to jog than take Muni -- to say nothing
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by usaar333 8y ago
> MTV just kind of blends in with every other white middle-upper class neighborhood in America, Mountain view isn't as exciting as living in a cultural center (SF and Oakland being them), but it's a lot better than most of the
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by usaar333 8y ago
There's no critical mass of tech workers in the East Bay (unlike SF, peninsula and South Bay) which limits the appeal of setting up shop there.
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by usaar333 8y ago
> why big tech are so far outside SF / San Jose and have such long commutes for their employees. They don't particularly have long commute times for an area the size of the Bay area: http://www.governing.com/gov
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by usaar333 8y ago
I can't think of any light rail systems that beat a reasonably fit cyclist. This is true even when you compare biking to SF's Muni Subway systems. People just take light rail since few want to bike places, let alone at "work
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by usaar333 8y ago
> Given that the Chinese government actively promotes tourism, the number of hoops a foreigner has to jump through to pay for things where cash isn't accepted is quite ridiculous. Setting up WeChat pay is a pretty minor problem as f
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by usaar333 8y ago
> But who buys a 100,000 dollar car with the idea of saving some hundreds of dollars per year in maintenance costs anyway? Reliability saves on time cost and uncertainty, as well as monetary costs.
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by usaar333 8y ago
Lock in is a massive problem with FAAS, but it certainly isn't about lock-in [1]. It's all about reduction of developer ops - not having to provision (or even scale) servers is quite nice. [1] In fact, for FAAS start-ups (such
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by usaar333 8y ago
> which tells me there is something about the Saudi case. It being done on foreign soil is part of what made the Saudi case so egregious.
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by usaar333 8y ago
If you are talking about taking a car solo, that's pretty expensive. It's hard to imagine a marginal cost under $0.23/mile for driving [1], so you are looking at a round-trip solo cost of $132 minimum - that's higher th
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by usaar333 8y ago
The sun was dimmer in the past, so similar co2 levels as then mean more warning. https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-higher-in-past.htm
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by usaar333 8y ago
And Sweden has a density of 23 while having lower carbon emissions than the EU average. The US's problems include relatively heavy coal (30% still) and a heavy automobile culture (due to low density of cities, not the country)
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by usaar333 8y ago
Does that have to be the case? Crypto mining can be done in areas with surplus hydroelectric power that can't be efficiently distributed elsewhere.
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by usaar333 8y ago
> Major changes are needed yesterday, and so far neither party in the US has ever proposed anything resembling the scale of change needed. No, but at least Democrats proposed and passed something. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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by usaar333 8y ago
I hear this claim thrown around a lot, but I've never seen the legal code pointing to a difference in minimum standards for apartments vs condo. Section 25 ( http://mlacoustics.com/projects/multifamily/CA.nois
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by usaar333 8y ago
101 South of 85 has little traffic reverse direction (commute direction is into mountain view in mornings; out in evenings).
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by usaar333 8y ago
Ya, I'm dubious there. accuracy rate "up to" 99.8%? What does "up to" mean? This article paints a much more realistic view of what face rec can do, which jives with my 10 year dated experience in this field: https:
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by usaar333 8y ago
I'm seriously confused by what went down. First off, why are the police even reporting this? Secondly, what can the system even do? I'd believe a system could detect a person jaywalking. Identifying them is a huge problem though.
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by usaar333 8y ago
> If lenders are willing to finance an investment with 3% yield, then house prices will jump to 33x their annual rent value - it goes without saying that's only possible in low interest markets. There's truth to this, but I do
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by usaar333 8y ago
Because the US is so high absolutely. Should it get an award just because natural gas got cheaper than coal?
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by usaar333 8y ago
There's lots of studies suggesting you can do this at low cost. There are issues, from not solving some problems at all (ocean acidification) to creating others (localized rainfall reduction). My own thoughts are that we should be e
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by usaar333 8y ago
> I was talking to my dad last night and he was saying how important it is to maximize your 401k, etc. and all I could think was "but even I have money it won't effing mean anything when billions of people are starving and you
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by usaar333 8y ago
The question is would your highly paid workers (needed to lead the ship) move. I've seen in practice very few who would.. most that have moved because of desires to be near family, but that reason won't create a singular new hot
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by usaar333 8y ago
> That opportunity just isn't on the table. At my previous company, it was very easy to move from SF to Seattle, which would save a high income tech employee a lot (no state tax, lower housing costs). Maybe a dozen have moved; the
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by usaar333 8y ago
I don't understand this. If you are not receiving rent, that's a huge opportunity cost regardless of what you are paying in property taxes.
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by usaar333 8y ago
> and don't mind that there's not enough housing built to match. Of course they mind. Google even works with developers to build housing: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/12/googles-massive-ho
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by usaar333 8y ago
> How do we get Google to move, say, 10% of those high-paying jobs to places whose economy really needs them? You'd need to incentivize a critical mass of high-paid workers to be willing to move there. As you note, money won't
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by usaar333 8y ago
Culture - shows, restaurants, museums, etc.
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by usaar333 8y ago
Proximity to San Francisco.
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by usaar333 8y ago
> They were able to find another place near paying similar rent. I'm a bit confused here. I assume the new place was inferior in some way? Otherwise, I don't see why the landlord would try to force them out if they are paying m

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