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by zjaffee 8y ago
Except cost of living in major tech cities is usually skewed higher because of housing in particular, things like groceries are generally only a small impact. Net land values are absolutely higher than they once were, farm/ranching fie
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Charlotte NC and Houston TX have had a similar if not higher population growth rate compared to major west cost and north east cities, where their housing prices have remained below the national average. The reason why cities where tech loc
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I'd argue that it goes beyond tech, but all post industrial industries and ventures benefit from concentrations of talent and other agglomeration effects far more than they do from cheap land and quick availability of raw resources tha
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This is exactly it. I grew up there as well and New York has always been a loud place, it's a fundamental part of the historic character of the city. People have always been complaining about the noise and scaffolding from construction
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I have to disagree here, rising wealth inequality can be better measured through the impact that things such as private equity have on our economy. It contributes to the rising cost of real estate, and it holds unnecessary leverage over the
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People also buy 12 dollar cold pressed juice everyday, that doesn't mean Juicero was going to be a successful business.
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From my perspective it looks like it doesn't account for traffic, is that generally the case or is it just because I'm using it at 11am PST on west coast locations?
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I could be wrong about this, but many of these companies are selling their trading ledgers to market makers, which in addition to making money on interest allows them to make quite a bit.
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The point I wanted to get at was that there isn't the same level of competition in electric cars than gas powered cars yet.
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Because battery technology isn't where it needs to be yet, where Tesla is absolutely winning when it comes to this. Honda released their plug in Honda Clarity, but it only has a range of 89 miles.
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This is certainly part of why their stock crashed, they explicitly mentioned in guidance that this would hurt their profitability in a major way.
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Absolutely, but I think with the case of political subversion, it has a much less clear practical impact on their every day users. I could easily see an older person who isn't as technically inclined seeing that this FBI location has a
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I have to say that this is essentially insignificant, they have only removed 32 pages where there are likely 100s of thousands of pages that are run by scammers. This is not something that can be solved without requiring every page that cou
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I think the problem in California is that investors can go in and buy housing at unsustainable prices, and just rent it out, since their long term goal isn't to house themselves, but to have an asset that has a fixed return value at a
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What you are saying isn't normally a problem, the problem is the fact that google is by far the largest digital advertiser, where their core product is information retrieval. If you are able to manipulate information retrieval in your
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The problem isn't that they can afford it, but the fact that they have essentially implemented a vendor lock in for the majority of their products, and have implemented vertical integration in a way that they can very easily expand thr
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There is a huge benefit to being the default, if that wasn't the case google wouldn't pay all the companies they do billions of dollars a year to be the default.
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Are travel search engines hurting? priceline's stock is higher than ever? This said, I agree with you on everything else you've said.
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The need to break up monopolies isn't about the consumers as much as it is about having a competitive marketplace, where other businesses didn't have to struggle against googles ability to self promote itself. Markets work best wh
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The problem isn't google search as much as it is the fact that google search and their ad products allows them to promote their own products at a cost far less than their competitors.
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Whats good for consumers isn't whats good for the broader market, we wouldn't see mega billionares with net worths close to that of previous captains of industry if we forced them to allow others to compete (where the only viable
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Outside of search, you should ask why are they winning? Better products don't necessarily have better user numbers due to how much network effects play into a lot of googles products. There's no doubt in my mind that google has be
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Why are their products that good? What is it that makes content creators publish on youtube rather than on other platforms. I'd argue that a huge part of this is the fact that youtube gives creators more visibility than other places, a
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We have to think deeper as to why their service is the one that's preferred though. Part of it is the fact that they had historically been able to subsidize the monetization potential of their other services in order to out compete tho
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Resource extraction under capitalist, fascist or otherwise non socially minded governments has been shown to hinder growth in regions where high amounts of valuable natural resources are available since elites can leverage the low cost of l
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It's not so much they are hurting anyone, since they have made it virtually impossible to compete with them. Say you do a search for a particular location, the first thing that pops up to the the top of the page is a box with some info
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This is how they would do it. When Microsoft ware being ruled against for anti trust, they would have forced them to split the operating systems business from the rest of their product businesses. My guess would be that google would get bro
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I think it's important to mention Sanjay Ghemawat is very likely just as important to google as Jeff Dean, just Jeff has been made the public figure for a variety of reasons.
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I believe the same is true for anyone in Los Angeles as well.
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When I was growing up in New York (worthy of note since they have far more resources for these things than small towns), the library I attended had partitioned areas for children and families separate from the rest of the library. While thi

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