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by zjaffee 8y ago
New Jersey property taxes are horrendous, but at least it keeps the schools good (also it's what allows NJ to have so many purely residential towns, where as in California, many suburbs need corporations located in them to support them
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Adding onto this, is that it's not only a massive subsidy to homeowners, but also the many private equity firms that have purchased a ton of property all throughout California (where this is relevant because the private equity firm has
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I have to disagree here, there is a huge strategic advantage to getting into the booking business in this particular manner. It pressures businesses to set up an account with google to manage reservations as it would be easy to up-sell busi
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Except it can also be solved consumer side as well, move over to materials that can easily be reused after being put through a dishwasher and charge a deposit on these items, also structure grocery stores to be in a way that is zero or low
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I wonder if this contributes to amazon's ability to have better capacity planning. I've had issues with available quota from google in the past, and haven't had the same experience with amazon.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I take propecia and I have experienced zero sexual side effects that are in anyway noticeable.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Companies that use github, both as teams on the main website and with the enterprise version, pay 9 dollars per month per user. If Microsoft can get it's enterprise customers to trust the product enough to pay that sort of a price this
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by zjaffee 8y ago
The broader point I'm getting at is that the middle class historically didn't struggle in the way they do now. They used to be able to afford homes, vacations, college, and now that is only available to the upper middle class.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
This is a big debate in the HN world too, where tech workers in that top 10% think they are working class. The real breakdown here is that in todays day and age, there's hardly a middle class, there's the working class who struggl
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I imagine this means taking equity but not voting power.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
It really depends where you live, I have lived in several cities/neighborhoods where whole foods was the largest grocery store nearby.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Have you ever met Marc Benioff or anyone whose ever worked closely with him? It's pretty commonly believed among those who have that he wants to take some sort of political office at some point in the near future, and that's more
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Support is something you pay extra for, usually some fixed percentage of the total cost of service.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I'd argue that this product isn't as much tone deaf as it is a brilliant way to force businesses to move to using online reservation systems. Phone calls always take longer, and rather than just selecting a time you have to presen
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by zjaffee 8y ago
That last point is absolutely what I'm trying to get at, and it's not that they are allowing anyone to spew anything, but people are using the word YIMBY to mean what is essentially a "pro gentrification belief system".
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Yes, the group California Yimby supports these things, but it absolutely hurts the Yimby movements credibility where they have allows people who spew the "Luxury housing will trickle prices down to the poor" shpiel are given a pla
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by zjaffee 8y ago
You say this, but as someone whose a part of many yimby groups that have been polled, the majority of people are in favor of focusing everything being economically created.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Sure, I'm also not saying that companies shouldn't keep what they have in the bay area, I'm just suggesting that they should target future growth in other regions instead.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
You're ignoring the consequences that come from building large amounts of new housing at once, I should preface this by saying I'm very much in favor of new housing just we need to be careful about it. First you grow talent the sa
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I'm not saying everyone would need to move, but if you polled your work force, and asked them if they wanted to start a new office in a new city, who would be interested in moving to which cities from a list. I'm sure you'd f
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by zjaffee 8y ago
While that will always exist, the majority of people moving to the bay area are moving to work for a company like Facebook or Google rather than to work on their own startup.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I have to disagree with this statement. Tech workers may feel the guilt, but many of the YIMBYs have no care in the world for the people they may be displacing, are in favor of removing rent control because it would then give poorer residen
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Yes Detroit has a high unemployment rate, but it is in the best interest of companies to go to detroit, and bring their work forces with them which they are refusing to do due to the belief that you can only find talent in the bay area. I b
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by zjaffee 8y ago
> a well educated/talented work force This one is the only part that's not really possible at this time. However, if a company is willing to invest directly in growing the housing supply in the bay area, they should be willing
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by zjaffee 8y ago
If you believe housing prices are a core problem to the growth of your business why continue to grow in the bay area rather than try and move to a less expensive region of the country? Massive growth in the SF housing supply is just politic
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by zjaffee 8y ago
It's important to look under the surface of what this is saying. This boils down to an extra 77 dollars per person per year, so basically this amounts to an extra 10 dollars per month for any given unit.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
I don't think that information can be clearly determined yet, we need to wait until Q2 earnings as the big push of people deleting facebook happened after Q1 ended.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
I imagine it's fear of inflation, which has been shown to happen when incomes rise for lower income people.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
GDPR doesn't actually require that you delete date about anyone, it requires that you be able to dereference a user from their data after a defined period of time when you specifically request that your data is deleted. This can includ
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Yes, they have far less users, but they also have a much longer history when it comes to user tracking and measurement in the name of ad targeting. Although I think the big difference is they can't do network analysis. This said, Comca

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