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by zjaffee 9y ago
Is E-commerce tech? Amazon has built out a ton of technology to scale their fulfillment operations and wouldn't be the company they are without it. We are getting closer to the day where every company is a tech company. Marketing requi
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I'm not saying any of these things aren't fine. I'm just saying it's important that higher income people actually recognize that they are higher income, where for any economic issues they may be facing, others have it mu
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The concern I'm expressing is there are a large number of people saying the phrase "abolish all zoning". That last point you made is rather important, additionally things like mandated setbacks allow cities to require there t
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The number of times I've seen YIMBYs say things like "Abolish All Zoning" is rather high. Zoning is a far more complicated thing than just restricting density, it prevents industrial manufacturing from happening right next to
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Saying this isn't leftbook means that you won't be banned from the group for having opinions that aren't highly liberal.
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I agree, the YIMBY movement may have good intentions, but so many of the people pushing these policy positions are far less educated than the counterparts who recognize the benefits of certain types of zoning as a central aspect of modern l
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Except for the fact that the true middle class has already been displaced from city centers already, the current debate is between those who are/were working class and those who are upper middle class/upper class (but aren't
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By not calling yourself middle class like many single tech workers making 200k a year in the bay area do. The upper middle class (really the top 30% of earners) have continued to see gains in income growth where the rest of the economies wa
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This also said, it should be noted that this group has inherent biases against the tech industry due to many aspects of gentrification that tech new money represents, and the lack of recognition among said new money for their role in gentri
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by zjaffee 9y ago
This group is awesome and for so many has sparked an interest in urban planning, transit and local politics. In many cases actually leading people to attend local council meetings, run for office, the list goes on.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
I disagree that onsite housing at company HQs is always bad depending on how it's used. Tons of companies are already directly renting housing for interns, newly relocated employees, and then also for shorter terms for people interview
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I think was sidlls said is certainly true, but it's important to remember that media organizations like to focus on things that would be interesting to their readers. Yes, this cultish behavior is real, but I'm sure there are just
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by zjaffee 9y ago
well, to transfer money between banks requires the use of the ACH system (or a wire transfer), but looking at how ACH works https://www.nacha.org/ach-network it essentially requires that your money get processed by what is
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I think there are a lot of factors at play. For one, there is an increasing demographic trend of people moving into cities, for people who grew up in suburbs and are used to storing many things for the long term could be large consumers of
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I think it's important to understand the way that younger teenagers view this sort of thing. For older people, it's impressive that a teenager goes out there and makes a name for themselves on youtube and then older people will go
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The difficult comparison here is that we have never seen any company monopolize so much of media as we have facebook and google do world wide. The only comparable example I see is possibly disney, and I wouldn't be surprised to see fac
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Except for the fact that due to historical precedent, our society isn't built in a way that enables affordable urban life outside of areas that have been historically considered blighted. If we had more urban spaces, there would be mor
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I'd argue that there are some conditional factors here and they largely revolve around human capital. In fields with a very small number of people with prior experience, throwing money at the problem won't necessarily accelerate t
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That last point is super critical, the real finding from this is that zuckerberg could very easily leverage his power to massively shape global politics in a way no person has ever come close to doing before. People talk about the dangers o
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Sure, but companies do this sort of thing too, and in ways that are almost certainly illegal. Using Race/Sexual orientation to better target individuals, the biggest difference between now and before, is that when running pre internet
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What we really need to do is encourage self driving cars as being a form of shared transit, not something that people sleep in, with massive taxes on usage not involving high occupancy. Self driving vehicles allow ride-sharing to be far mor
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Flying cars will never see the light of day as a mass transportation option over land. The noise is far too great. Given the way in which cars already take away from the human experience of moving through the world, imagine how much worse t
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by zjaffee 9y ago
I've heard similar things about milling your own grains into flower before cooking with them. The flavor profile of anything you make with it will simply just be stronger.
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For what it's worth, Southern California is far less walkable than the bay area is. Much of Southern California (San Fernando Valley, Orange County, South LA, ect.) doesn't even have downtowns like you see in bay area communities,
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This is absolutely false, tech is a force multiplier in nearly every business even if it doesn't require onsite software engineers to get that productivity bump. Look at the Bloomberg terminal in finance, Salesforce/CRM in sales,
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Considering they don't release metrics such as average/median time spent, there is no way to know what degree those users are actually engaging vs simply clicking on some spammy push notification at some point in the last month (w
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But there are so many services out there, and instacart isn't a particularly good one. There are services like fresh direct/amazon fresh which are based on delivery as a primary concept, and there's the services spun up by th
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It's my understanding that Google Spanner is leveraging hardware (direct lines between machines), so the degree at which there is a network partition is different than compared to other systems.
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I don't really feel the same way, one of the primary things I use social media for is for the sake of news aggregation, things like NYTimes, WaPo, ect.
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Yes (at least with the new version), you should be able to long click on the story and say show less of this. (Source, I've done this and it's worked pretty well).

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