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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 …

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 elsew…

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 eno…

"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 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 estim…

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…

6 figures would pay for a week for what he needs. Maybe less than a week

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 employ…

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 …

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 p…

"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…

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…

"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 u…

"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 i…

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 p…

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…

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 eve…

"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 …

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…

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.

"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 emplo…

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 (…

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 go…