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Seneca Systems (YC S16) Raises $3.5M to Make Cities More Responsive, Efficient(techcrunch.com)
66 points by ktothemc 9y ago|13 comments
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by ktothemc 9y ago
Then you might be a great remote worker. The point is to trial them in the environment they're actually going to be working in.
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Building and Running a Geographically Distributed Engineering Team(medium.com)
54 points by ktothemc 9y ago|35 comments
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Taking care of your health while running a YC startup(medium.com)
15 points by ktothemc 9y ago|0 comments
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by ktothemc 9y ago
The author is a homeowner whose parents have also owned a house in Noe Valley kitty corner to one of Airbnb founders. He’s a massive beneficiary of the status quo system who also happens to think that it needs to change given that more and
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Instacart’s Lead Product Designer on Creating a Design System(medium.com)
35 points by ktothemc 9y ago|2 comments
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Benchmarking Tensorflow Performance and Cost Across Different GPU Options(medium.com)
4 points by ktothemc 9y ago|0 comments
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What I’ve learned from building a startup that files health insurance claims(medium.com)
13 points by ktothemc 9y ago|0 comments
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by ktothemc 10y ago
Wouldn't RSUs open employees to a different and more punitive tax regime (income tax) than options (which would fall under capital gains if you exercised early enough)?
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by ktothemc 10y ago
Tokyo has a couple things that the Bay Area does not. 1) Zoning happens at the national level in Japan, not the local level so there are no, or at least very weak political mechanisms for neighbors to block projects. 2) There is no Proposit
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by ktothemc 10y ago
San Francisco, and several other American cities, were places for freaks and weirdos in the mid-20th century because of a historical anomaly in which the US federal government deliberately subsidized white, middle-class families into leavin
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by ktothemc 10y ago
We're in the middle of rewriting our stack to look like this: - TypeScript web code - Using React - Connecting to a custom, to-be-opensourced reactive datastore written in Scala called LunaDb: https://blog.asana.com/20
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by ktothemc 11y ago
For the nth time, it's not really about that. It's politics. It was an effective symbol for tenants rights activists to latch onto to get attention for eviction protections, which weren't going to momentum otherwise without a
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Yes, that is a very cool future vision. :) Difficult to execute at this particular moment in time, so seeing if people will bite at location-independent leases is a first step.
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Despite having listed locations, the team is incredibly mobile. Half are dogfooding.
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Again, the price is intended to be across a network. There will be another U.S. location in the next few months, and then more to come after that. For Ubud, it's a two-dozen unit, newly-opened boutique hotel with contemporary design an
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by ktothemc 11y ago
The price is intended to be across a global network and there are more locations coming. The space in Bali is completely brand new with contemporary architecture, and an adjacent restaurant and open rooftop space where there are regular acr
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by ktothemc 11y ago
It really depends on how your country treats housing. Is it a consumable good or an investable asset? If your country conflates the role of housing as shelter with it being a primary store of wealth, then demand doesn't just reflect de
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Unclear. Jane Jacobs has a section in her seminal book on American cities about "gradual" and "cataclysmic" money, which can wipe out a delicate neighborhood ecosystem.
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Central planning of the US economy & powerful big government (1930s & beyond) was a Progressive Era initiated reaction to the era of robber barons & crony capitalism (1870s-1910s).
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Gaius, you could defer the payment of the tax until the sale so that the homeowner retains the right to stay there as long as they wish.
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Again, what's important to remember is that the Ravenswood School District and East Palo Alto were created by racialized housing practices that confined African Americans moving to Silicon Valley the 1940s through 1960s to a subpar, ex
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Hi stvswn: I think a really important thing to take into consideration is that California caps property taxes under 1978's Proposition 13. At the same time, Palo Alto has a particularly strong "residentialist" ideology that p
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Countries with strong social democratic movements like Germany, Austria and some of the Scandinavian countries are able to provide a very decent quality of life with high education levels. However, they also have other variables like smalle
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by ktothemc 11y ago
That's, uh, what we've been doing since the early 1980s, at least ideologically speaking.
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by ktothemc 11y ago
No, but seriously, cities at this point require a large base of low-wage service labor to function. Ever-rising land and housing costs keep accelerating beyond their marginal wages and compensation. We already went through this a century ag
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by ktothemc 11y ago
What birth lottery did you win?
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by ktothemc 11y ago
Price controls are generally considered to be inefficient purely from an economic perspective. However, the free market has generally been a terrible provider of low-income housing solutions. There's a long, long history to this from
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Much of SF's urban planning and restrictionist attitude toward change is Jane Jacobs' work taken to its illogical extreme. (That's the book you just cited in [0]). Jacobs led a reaction toward Modernist top-down planning prac
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by ktothemc 12y ago
They considered that financial disincentive for new construction when rent control was implemented in 1979. It does not apply to new housing units built after 1979.

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