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by bps4484 5mo ago
It's not "almost 100% pork funneling" and I know this because....they're there! they are at the moon! I don't like pork either, but let's not blow this out of proportion. How much do we think that it should
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by bps4484 6mo ago
it's not that density per se drives down existing costs, but density almost always brings more housing stock to the market (unless they are simultanously tearing down housing elsewhere) and housing stock drives down the cost of housing
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by bps4484 8mo ago
I wonder if overall rainfall doesn't tell the whole story. From my experience in SF (and admittedly CA is big and people will have very different experiences) there has been an enormous amount of rainfall early in the season and then
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by bps4484 1y ago
"Reductio Ad Roy Feldium" is the internet addage[1] that as in a hacker news discussion about a rest api grows, the probabilty someone cites roy felding's dissertation approaches 1. I'm glad this post cut right to the c
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by bps4484 2y ago
I should first note that I'm a big fan of waymo and want autonomous to succeed generally. I take both waymo's and lyft/uber all the time in sf and waymo's are way slower. I'd estimate it at 10-15% slower. Once the
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by bps4484 2y ago
They stay with you if you choose. What's kind of sentimental and nice is that the area code stays with you as marker of where you're originally from no matter where you go. It says "this is where I was from as a teenager wh
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by bps4484 2y ago
6 figures would pay for a week for what he needs. Maybe less than a week
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by bps4484 2y ago
I'm sorry this isn't true. Your name wasn't on the line when you took the investment, and the OP pointed out with his "5 startups in 10 years" line, it's very easy for early employees to walk away. That isn&#
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by bps4484 3y ago
Is this true? That's a legitimate question I haven't done the research on this. It would seem though that usually it's a municipal employee, probably a union job, so probably paid pretty well (relative to say an uber driver)
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by bps4484 4y ago
I don't think they were saying they are mediators or settle feuds. I'm sure a bunch of people at the companies are pissed at the conclusions they come to. It's moreso though that precisely because they aren't tied to a
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by bps4484 4y ago
"Consultants are hired mercenaries in coporate warfare, they don't care about you, they don't care about your company or the rivalries or the squabbaling." "They are not brought in to solve problems" I've
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by bps4484 4y ago
oh it's certainly not free money (queue the seinfeld episode of kramer telling jerry to "write it off") but the discussion is about taxes or lacktherof. In no other investment that I know of are you allowed this double write
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by bps4484 4y ago
"An no one will now rent, since your building has an effective value of $0 since it has become crap." This isn't true. You will have put money into the property to keep its value up, also writing off all of those expenses ,
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by bps4484 4y ago
"Few rental properties will have under a 3.7% ROI" This is a leveraged investment (meaning you have a mortage). What that means is for your 20% down payment (the actual money you invest), that 3.7% writeoff on income can be an 18
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by bps4484 4y ago
Do you know why the rule was made? My guess would be that parents are constantly taking photos and getting in the way of kids playing, or their performance, and it's to encourage parents to just enjoy their kids. This sounds like a pr
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by bps4484 4y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. I don't mean about looking someone in the eye, but I do mean cutting through a multiple months long dance to get someone money when they are in a full sprint growing their business, or
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by bps4484 4y ago
Weirdest quote the TC article was "In the meantime, Tiger Global, which prides itself on its due diligence" They are notorious for outsourcing their due diligence and often not even paying attention to it. They pride themselves o
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by bps4484 4y ago
"Managers mandated themselves into making x times the amount of their top paid report, control decision making, and have hiring and firing powers all in one position." I'm curious where you work (not specifically, I'm ta
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by bps4484 4y ago
I completely disagree. They were 450 people with 150 engineers. If I had to guess I would bet the engineers clamored for leveling and it came from bottoms up requests and a need to be fair with compensation when hiring. Now to be clear th
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by bps4484 4y ago
they were a company of nearly 500 people. they had 150 engineers. At that stage people who don't have levels will feel like they have no direction.
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by bps4484 5y ago
"but a smaller Craigslist might have been able to pivot and innovate ahead of them." I feel like they had a small team that didn't innovate for 20 years. Whether they were 10 employees or 10,000 they were due to have someone
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by bps4484 5y ago
My response to "Oh, I can implement this in 5 minutes" is always "but will you support it?" I think this is the hardest thing about moving from a startup to a more mature company (either through growth and age or acquisi
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by bps4484 5y ago
I was going to come here to say this. The only nit I have (and I think this is actually what you meant) is we must build more housing. I say this because often people think it's good to tear down an old house and build a new one. T
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by bps4484 5y ago
"I just want to know what he needs done / and let's go make the thing." I think this is the problem. It's really really hard to do that at scale. Different people require different types of messages in order to ge
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by bps4484 5y ago
I'm not the original poster, but I agree with the sentiment and can explain how it's not easier: Take any number of "fundamentals" of management: having regular 1-1s, regular reviews, having planning meetings with the te
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by bps4484 5y ago
I have a theory that how good someone is at something (soccer, the piano, programming) is directly tied to what they can put into their subconscious brain. The more that you can do subconsciously the better you are. I realized this after th
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by bps4484 5y ago
To me this all depends on how it's implemented but you're right to be suspicious. If all they do is give you 1/4 of the equity they were going to give you previously, then yes it drastically reduces employee upside to the ben
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by bps4484 5y ago
A a great podcast that has started a personal hobby/interest in linguistics and etymology. I love that history is able break your notion of what is or isn't possible and this podcast is great at that; it repeatedly shows how no la
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by bps4484 5y ago
"I've always wondered what their ultimate collective bargaining power is if the single thing that grants them their leverage (to strike) is off the table from day 1." While they can't strike, they can do the absolute bar
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by bps4484 5y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing. Does everyone else remember The Great Coffee Shortage of 2016? Because I don't. This smells like a PR story funded by commodities traders that are long on coffee. Better stock up now!!!!!!!!!

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