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by wdewind 8y ago
That feels like a way more reasonable effort to signal-value ratio to me. Thanks for sharing.
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by wdewind 8y ago
My experience has been that no one needs a burndown chart to know how a project is going, and, to the extent that you do, it usually points to some mismanagement and an attempt to fix it through intensifying project management rigor. Espec
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by wdewind 8y ago
I'm sorry but these arguments are philosophical and completely ignore the facts of the deal: > So the difference between the state and private citizens is one of choice. You have no choice but to deal with the state Amazon is an int
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by wdewind 8y ago
What are the other externalities that are not already addressed by taxes? Would they be more adequately addressed by other companies paying the same taxes? I'm not sure which raw data you'd like, but if you can be more specific I
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by wdewind 8y ago
> 1. The $27 billion number assumes no other development in the land under consideration, which just makes no sense. Nobody to my knowledge has calculated the opportunity cost, and therefore the net benefit, of this deal. There is no oth
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by wdewind 8y ago
There is no other comparable plan of this scale, so there is no meaningful way to do this analysis. "In my 23 years in the State Capitol, three as Budget Director, Amazon was the single greatest economic development opportunity we have
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by wdewind 8y ago
"If we were willing to give away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves if we wanted to. We could hire out more teachers. We can fix our subways. We can put a lot of people to work for that
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by wdewind 8y ago
"Incredibly, I have heard city and state elected officials who were opponents of the project claim that Amazon was getting $3 billion in government subsidies that could have been better spent on housing or transportation. This is eithe
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by wdewind 8y ago
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/open-letter-new-york-state-...
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by wdewind 8y ago
> 1 - Medium risk medium reward opportunities exist (a currently unprofitable but otherwise promising startup addressing a 25m niche can't get bank debt or venture funding) I think one of the main arguments in favor of a bimodal dis
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by wdewind 8y ago
Find a study that actually disambiguates between the effects of sugar and of caloric surplus. Hint: you wont. It doesn't exist. What we get is study after study that shows that if you put people (or rats) in front of a buffet of chi
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by wdewind 8y ago
> If I search my address, it puts a pin on the map exactly where my address is. I can then look for addresses that are very close to the pin. As far as I know, those locations are pretty accurate. In my experience they are often off by m
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by wdewind 8y ago
Yep, I agree with a lot of your criticisms, but there are a lot of legitimate reasons to not want to live next to a hotel (or farm animals) that aren't about keeping poor people down.
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by wdewind 8y ago
I agree with you that I think we need to be careful about asking corporations to be legislative authorities. I'd say this is very similar to the Backpage scandal in which employees were beyond reasonably turning a blind eye to very il
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by wdewind 8y ago
No. You can't search for exact addresses, it will just show you available listings in the area. In my area, New York City, when I search my address I get hundreds of results. Beyond this there is the additional complicating factor o
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by wdewind 8y ago
Well, real estate is a very close proxy for "this place is worth living" which is a very close proxy for absolute population which isn't a direct proxy but is certainly a deeply contributing factor to all around economic grow
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by wdewind 8y ago
Maybe, but AirBnB has also been held up as a positive story of tenacity and disruption in this community as well. It's probably gone on so long it's become a parody of itself, but people keep writing these articles because people
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by wdewind 8y ago
For the same reason we drag YouTube into copyright complaints. You're correct in identifying that there needs to be some kind of fair balance here, but AirBnB makes a lot of business facilitating illegal transactions. I don't re
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by wdewind 8y ago
I'm pretty sick of celebrating AirBnB. They create so many classic externalities problems and are doing basically nothing to address them despite simple solutions being available, like allowing people to look up addresses and file com
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by wdewind 8y ago
TLDR: Different kinds of wheat in the flour (softer, with less gluten). The soft wheat flour is sort of hard to get if you aren't a commercial baker, but you can get it on Amazon, although it's $10 instead of $2.50 like regular f
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by wdewind 8y ago
Brain Drain.
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by wdewind 8y ago
The problem with mob grazing (and really any kind of similar system) is that you cannot support nearly as many animals per sq ft. in comparison to more industrialized farming. Salatin's solution is to shift a major portion of the work
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by wdewind 8y ago
This is HN, the one place you don't need to apologize for pedantry. Right: I meant carbon dioxide. Made the edit :)
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by wdewind 8y ago
> So the irony is that we could grow more beef and pull carbon out of the air at the same time, only if we cared. I want this desperately to be true as someone who loves meat but everything I've read tells me it's not. There i
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by wdewind 8y ago
> The key part is you have to have a massive dataset of historical information. Why is this historical information not susceptible to the exact same issues today's news is?
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by wdewind 8y ago
Yikes, slow down dude. I was posting it to point out that this is blatantly an advertisement for RtR, and that I don't want to read that kind of stuff on HN, not because I'm trying to blow your mind with this massively insightful
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by wdewind 8y ago
The suit is back! http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html This time it's rentable.
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by wdewind 8y ago
> That is anathema to what FDR did. What happens if you reconsider the New Deal from the perspective that the Roosevelt family benefited hugely from increased government power?
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by wdewind 8y ago
> Unlike most of his class, he was cognizant of the fact that if the government could not organize an effective solution to such a deep crisis, the people would eventually rise up and replace it with one that could. Would this have been
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by wdewind 8y ago
Ah, I owe you an apology then. I was super confused when I saw it on the list, and found a bunch of stuff related to Slim Fast and sibutramine but I guess I didn't read it close enough. Thanks for the clarification.

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