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by zaidf 10y ago
Landlords making a killing and new tenants subsidizing aren't mutually exclusive.
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Yup. Rent control laws in SF don't allow that. That's the flip side of rent control: you have people paying a lot less than market price. Or another way to look at it, people moving into the city are subsidizing costs for existi
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by zaidf 10y ago
My landlord recently put up a rental for $9,500/mo. The backstory is interesting: he told me someone had been staying at the place paying $700/mo. He cut a deal with that tenant where the tenant moves to a much smaller unit and in
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by zaidf 10y ago
I am not in a position to generalize but my worst(and only poor) experience was with an older foreign couple, likely in their 70s. I am usually very hands off with my guests but in this case, I showed them how to use the mirowave to make te
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by zaidf 10y ago
There is a lot of hype about chat bots but let's not confuse that for usage. Tell me what chat bot you use on a regular basis? To me, chat bots seem like a step backward, at least for the use cases I've seen them applied for.
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by zaidf 10y ago
Ironically, day to day I see more people openly defecating on the streets of downtown San Francisco than I saw when I lived in Mumbai. That said, this says more about SF than India(where open defecation is indeed rampant.)
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by zaidf 10y ago
You're underestimating the value of being a company that always has a cab for you within minutes. With your approach, the default in the public's mind would be "there is no uber till 3am!" vs. "Uber is the on the
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by zaidf 10y ago
Sensational headline. Alternate: "Palo Alto zoning: large tech firms cause of concern" They actually state they would like to keep startups around(rebutting current sensational headline.)
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by zaidf 11y ago
Who writes these articles? This is their Scientific board. "The board" almost always implies the company's corporate board which among other things can fire the CEO. Advisory boards just offer advice.
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by zaidf 11y ago
I was a big Slack skeptic when my employer decided to roll it out. But just a few weeks in, it has cut my skype usage by 90% and has resulted in a lot more communication with colleagues than skype. I think Slack is on its way to really chal
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by zaidf 11y ago
Apply that retreospectively and Android or YouTube would have never been part of Google. It is reasonable to argue that had that happened, googe's core search business would be under significantly more risk today.
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Your analogy is flawed in that a garbage truck or tank isn't designed to provide a lift and providing a lift would incur signicant additional cost to make it suitable for rides. The same is not true for releasing papers. Government-fun
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by zaidf 11y ago
"As a CEO you are obliged to keep the company on the right side of the law." This advice is akin to "don't do drugs." The devil is in the details. And the details aren't always black and white. The hardest chal
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by zaidf 11y ago
Pretty sure if you called airbnb, they would have arranged alternate accommodation.
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by zaidf 11y ago
Let's entertain your idea for a second. If a person wrongfully executed for killing someone, why not continue that process by prosecuting the prosecutor or jury for the wrongful conviction?
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by zaidf 11y ago
I'd think that it matters how many innocent people are executed vs how many lives are saved by deterring potential murderers, and my trouble is I don't know how to get those numbers. I could not disagree with you more! It should
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by zaidf 11y ago
People who have no idea how to add certs are also unlikely to know how to login to their web server using SSH or how to install a package. For people who can SSH and install packages, I think they are better served being shown how to add
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by zaidf 11y ago
Dell. Michael Dell owned 15% of the stake. He partnered with a hedge fund to take it private(buy it back from all the many shareholders.) Also, Jos A Bank's takeover by Men's Warehouse, facilitated by minority owner Eminance Capit
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by zaidf 11y ago
Pretty sure the fb board wouldn't have a problem with Zuck getting any in into one of their top competitors. Zuck bleeds fb and a minority stake worth a fraction of his net worth isn't going to negatively impact his judgement. It&
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by zaidf 11y ago
I wonder why Zuckerberg didn't buy the $40M stake personally. I'm guessing he was turned down.
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by zaidf 11y ago
My understanding is that you can be flat and still have a project lead who is in charge of driving the project to the finish line. I'm skeptical of flat myself but I'm not sure if it is to blame in your situation. Rather, you seem
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by zaidf 11y ago
I assumed the context here was developers. For other kind of specialists, they can be INSANELY valuable from the get-go. In fact, one of the first hires I'd recommend anyone doing enterprise startup is hiring a domain specialist. These
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by zaidf 11y ago
Problem with that is most specialists suck or have very little interest in generalist work. People became specialists because they particularly enjoy that kind of work. When you put them in an environment where things are changing rapidly,
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by zaidf 11y ago
Another reason startups prefer generalists is that at the early stage, you don't know what specialists you may require. As a general rule, the later the stage of the company, the more specialists you will find. For example, you will fi
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by zaidf 11y ago
You nailed it. The thread is full of doctor-blaming, as if doctors really relish in calling for useless scans. In fact, most doctors hate it and only do it to protect themselves against lawsuits. The other blindspot many people in this thre
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by zaidf 11y ago
It's defensible; it's not all bad. You're one of the few exceptions to admit that it isn't all bad. Most arguments against internet.org refuse to acknowledge the pros of it and thereby in my view are not objective or h
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by zaidf 11y ago
No one doubts that the open web is a good thing. But no where in your entire post do you address the apparent upside of Internet.org: people who wouldn't be able to afford or access the Internet can access at least some parts of it. I
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by zaidf 11y ago
Minor counterargument: Banks, Walgreens, Duane Reed have done much to improve previously seedy neighborhoods by being able to invest in security and general upkeep of their storefront.
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by zaidf 11y ago
Sure, but I bet you there weren't any articles in 1993 about a bubble that ultimately burst in 2000. The insanity with the current argument for a bubble is that we have people who have been screaming "bubble!" since 2006, sta

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