cbron
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2 years ago
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on: Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions"
Interesting video, but it's all from the pov of the city's tax revenue and nothing else. Taking the first example, if they don't build the new food complex and keep the old one, less people will want to live in that city, and eventually the tax revenue will go down. Plenty of ghost towns around me that prove that point, you have to stay modern or you go under.
As far as the suburb part, if those high income areas spend all their money downtown, then tax revenue downtown goes up but the source of money is still the suburbs. You have two sources of tax revenue in downtown (business + residents), but only one in the suburbs. So naturally tax revenue is lower in suburbs, but without them the downtown businesses wouldn't survive at all. It's a relationship, and it's odd they don't address this point. Also in the southwest there are plenty of suburb-only cities that grow rapidly without a downtown district playing major part.
cbron
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2 years ago
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on: WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week
cbron
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2 years ago
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on: 17.1 Salesforce Towers worth of empty office space spread across SF
"Cities" is the wrong word here, it's really "downtown" or "city center" areas. The center of activities will move outwards toward the suburbs, but stay in the wider metro area. This has been slowly happening for a while in many (most ?) metro areas, but the pandemic will certainly expedite things.
cbron
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3 years ago
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on: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability
Yes, but very limited. They are only allowed to ask "are you a US citizen", and walk a dog around the car. I've never had one take more than 60 seconds in either AZ or CA.
cbron
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3 years ago
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on: Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit that you’ll pay for later
Rest would give you energy regardless, both physically and mentally. Nearly every sport has built in sitting breaks.
cbron
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3 years ago
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on: The Problem with Go
It's not about ignoring editors, it's about taking constructive feedback, and the ratio of constructive feedback to noise is very low in complex projects. In those projects, people that aren't heavily invested typically don't know enough about the wider project to make valuable contributions.
cbron
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3 years ago
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on: Alaska Ranked Choice Voting Cast Vote Record [JSON at the Bottom]
> I've never understood why it's somehow considered more 'consensus'-oriented than say FPTP. Biden won his election with 51% of the vote...
Odd example here. That election wasn't FPTP, it just happened to work out that way.
Overall people don't think FPTP is consensus because you have to vote pragmatically for people you don't necessarily like. Therefore the winner is not the consensus "favorite" choice of everyone who voted.
cbron
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3 years ago
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on: I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message
Has anyone tried this with real estate solicitors ? I get a message per day about selling my house.
cbron
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5 years ago
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on: Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate
> Importantly, Facebook helped people to get accurate, authoritative health information.
Surely the author experienced some form of cognitive dissonance while typing this out.
cbron
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5 years ago
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on: Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021
Yes. I worked for a major newspaper and would guess that all the people in editorial make up less than 50% of the staff. You have business, accounting, tech, delivery, support, sales, security etc...
cbron
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6 years ago
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on: Rat had 'no brain' and somehow lived a normal life
ditto
cbron
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6 years ago
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on: A harassment campaign on Goodreads
No improvements on old features or adding new features, basically no updates at all for the past few years. Recommendations and rating system are crap. Usability around core features like bookshelves are terrible. The awards are just a popularity contest.
cbron
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6 years ago
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on: White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit
+1, that was a great episode. The iOS hack story is especially crazy.
cbron
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6 years ago
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on: Alan Moore on superhero culture
religion != entertainment
cbron
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6 years ago
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on: Alan Moore on superhero culture
Mythology has served various purposes over the course of human history. This is referring specifically to modern superhero culture which may be derived from mythology but isn't comparable to it.
cbron
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6 years ago
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on: 700k Choice Hotels records leaked in data breach, ransom demanded
> The message claimed that 700,000 records had been stolen and backed up elsewhere and demanded 0.4 Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $4,000 at the time of writing, from the owners.
Not even a full bitcoin.
cbron
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6 years ago
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on: Death of the Country Club
Well, then go get a job with work/life balance that pays less.
cbron
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6 years ago
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on: Wave to be acquired by H&R Block for $537M
Wave is for small businesses or consultants. The government doesn’t know about most of the things that happen at low levels until the business reports it. End of the year bookkeeping can be a nightmare.
cbron
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6 years ago
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on: Wave to be acquired by H&R Block for $537M
If wave could pipeline directly to H&R block for automated tax filings it could be a really nice experience. Can't expect too much though, I just hope they don't kill it.
cbron
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7 years ago
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on: I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
Of that difficulty no, but I've been asked plenty of whiteboard questions from small and mid-size companies outside of the west coast.
