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The geology of downtown Seattle is interesting, essentially it starts on a tidal zone and goes up to a bluff. In between is basically fill dirt and/or glacial deposits, and so you have to go down quite a ways before you hit bedrock for your foundation.

Any place east of 1st (about 3 blocks from the water) and north of Pioneer Square has plenty of space for parking garages below grade but above sea level. At 6th and Pike you've got space for at least 6 levels of parking, and there are a few areas higher than that.
I had the same initial thought about friend tiers. Could maybe be solved by electing to broaden the circle out as you hear back from closer friends?
It also seems that as those kids turn from teenagers to 20-somethings the value of Facebook increases markedly. Facebook is optimized for the "we don't see each other every day" type of interactions. Once you've left home and started to leave a geographically dispersed network behind, Facebook looks way more appealing.
The mode share for downtown proper is 45% transit (31% drive alone). https://www.theurbanist.org/2015/02/25/commute-seattle-study...
Providing this functionality by date would have been a major time-saver for us as we were planning our wedding. Tons of vendors we were interested in did not have availability for our wedding date, we would find out well after researching their portfolio and fees.
> The Education Department has assembled a “behavioral sciences unit” to study the psychology of borrowers and why they don’t repay.

Ha! There is a bit of a hypocrisy there -- if big banks / companies piss away money and choose to strategically default then (and some even get bail-outs), it is just business. If people do it for whatever reason, well clearly the are immoral, deficient somehow, their psychology needs to be studied by a special committee.

> Some borrowers aren’t repaying even when they can.

Yap, makes sense. They see banks get bailouts, why shouldn't they get bailouts. Now maybe they shouldn't have been allowed to borrow to start with. But maybe so shouldn't have banks and insurance companies been allowed to leverage to unsustainable levels.

> The singular goal of our student loan program is to help all students get a degree that sets them up for success

One a separate note, that needs to be reviewed and re-evaluated. There are deeper issues here. Simply handing out billions of dollars for degrees like Masters in Basket Weaving from Phoenix University cannot possibly be seen as solution to anything (except well, handing out tax payer money to Phoenix University...)
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> Person knowingly takes a minimum wage job in the most expensive city in the world

I want to work in Yelp's Monaco offices!
Most our tax dollars go to pay down the interest on our countries debt and you go to prison if you don't pay your taxes. Crazy Days
Two types of developers, or why algorithm tests don’t prove anything
Because perhaps there's a view that its worth something to society for people to study things that dont necessarily lead to a high salary?
What are the incentives at play here? Is it mandated that buildings need carparks, or is space genuinely so plentiful that this is economic? I can't imagine a carpark-sized area of office space goes for $10/day, even after the cost of carpet and coffee.
Agree, and the IPL itself costs a lot! Additionally, why would a barbershop buy a tool from you if they can get a barber for a few bucks an hour?
It takes less than 30 seconds to standup an API with Brightwork so it's pretty easy to get going. Our beta is open now if you're interested.

All of the API calls go through Brightwork's API and the benefit is that you can have all of the information you're looking for in one place rather than cobbling together a number of solutions to get the same information. In the Brightwork dashboard you can now see performance (jitter, packet loss, etc), usage data, and cost projections.

We also have "BrightStacks" which are pre-bundled APIs that allow you to stand up an entire full stack in minutes.
Exactly, it's such a chore to go East/West. Ballard-U District along 45th/50th seems like the most obvious addition to me, along with a line to the Eastside - I know that if I worked in Bellevue, the ability to take the light rail to work would be my top priority.
The poor person in West Virginia getting his electricity from dirty coal and driving a 10 year old F150 is getting the same rebate. He's buying stuff from Walmart that's shipped from China.

Are you rewarding people for using less carbon or is the rebate to help offset the cost past through from companies passing on the extra tax onto consumers? Two different claims are being made.
The American Dream is to become filthy rich and/or famous.

Among some demographics, that may be true. But, ask a classroom full of not-poor children, and answers are more likely to be along the lines of "I want to be an astronaut", not "I want to be Kim Kardashian".
I live in Oklahoma currently. I have done 5 of the startups in OK, one in CA (SF) and one in Texas.

You make choices in life and there are tradeoffs. I don't have kids nor do I anticipate having any. If they come, so be it. I partially left the Bay Area because I couldn't see even raising a hypothetical family there. That, the sticker shock never completely wore off and I never donned my rose colored glasses either :-)

I can afford to do it until the day I die. I've set myself up rather nicely in that regard. I'd be retired already if it weren't for my startups & first marriage. But being retired in your mid 30s sounds boring as well (I'm in my 40s now). However, I waffle on that position, so take it with a grain of salt.
Won't this greatly harm(financially) SpaceX and other rocket companies, and thus prevent further effort on settling mars ?
I think it's more complicated than that. It's a huge, broken system. 17-year-olds can't fully grasp the burden of their debt when they take it on, and they've been told all their lives that they need to go to college to be successful.

You've got a great potion for disaster here:
1) You can't be denied an education loan.
2) Education loans can't be wiped out in bankruptcy because
3) You can't repossess an education.
4) Because of the above factors, there's little incentive for colleges to keep cost of attendance low.

I have no idea what the solution should be, but this problem can't continue indefinitely. It's a more complicated issue than just, "Millennials are just looking for handouts and don't want to pay their debts."
Are you talking about the orange "Bus rapid transit" line? That's not a bus only road, I'm pretty sure that's I-405, where busses will soon run on the shoulder, or in traffic, wherever there's room. You can't put rail on an interstate shoulder.
Ideally, yes; practically, no.

The point of admissions has become to determine that admitting a given student will do one of three things: Benefit the school through future press from stand-outs, alumni donations, and better GPA, SAT, and ACT stats in the various rankings (all leading to more enrollment in the future), benefit the school by paying to attend and not really affecting rankings, or whether they can pay and not really hurt ranks that badly.

And the number of free admissions to most areas of undergraduate study is 0. Full-ride scholarships are usually athletic, not scholastic, but most partial scholarships are based on test scores and apply regardless of the course of study.
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For a really interesting take on student debt, read commentary by the financial historian, Russell Napier, such as this: http://moneyweek.com/russell-napier-give-everybody-in-china-...
He believes that deflation is coming (along with a recession) and the solution to deflation will not be monetary stimulus (negative interest rates or bond-buying), but rather political. First on his expected list of measures is a write-off of student debt in the US, to help reflate the economy :)
Giant parking garages for one, yes (which mostly go below ground). Also, many people who work in Seattle live in Seattle. Probably not a majority, but not a small minority either. The rate at which new housing is being constructed in the downtown area (including Capitol Hill, SLU, etc.) is staggering[0]. Much of the job growth the city is experiencing has corresponding housing growth within walking distance to work.

[0]: Which I view mostly as a good thing -- late last year they hit a saturation point that resulted in the first month-to-month decrease in rent for new leases; my hope is that this will alleviate some of the upward rent pressure on the lower end of the market and make the city livable for a broader range of incomes. Whether that will actually happen remains to be seen, but it's far more likely if rents for the new construction face downward pressure from inflated supply.
Why are the parking lots dangerous? Honest question
Man same situation exactly. We don't get $0 invoices though. What pissed me off is that there is no way the university spend $100K educating her. That money probably went to build some palace with some guys name on it.
The timeline sucks, and there's arguably too much at grade, but the particularly congested part (from Uptown to International District) would be in a new tunnel.
If a carbon tax will hurt the poor imagine what climate change is going to do to them.

Personally I think poor people tend to be in this sort of budgetary Malthusian squeeze. If you raise the price of one thing then something else will have to give. Tax their gasoline more the end result is they'll buy 'less car' and have less money left over for rent. Since rents are likely the only other fungible cost that's where the money will ultimately come from.
You mean post them as Apply HNs? No, but you could convince them to apply for themselves.
Punishing,really? It's not an unfair burden for those people and hardly be unsurprisingly for them.
Bernie Sanders' offer of State paid college education. One point is that I've never seen him offer an ex post facto payoff. It is a logical extension of his current platform of making education a right.
Don't teachers usually have loan forgiveness programs after X-years? I think a lot of government associated jobs offer a perk like this.

I'm not sure if this is state specific or not though.
$10 per hour not per day...
Default just means to not pay back what you promised when you promised. You are confusing this with the fact that, except in relatively rare circumstances, one cannot shed the debt in bankruptcy.
We have set students up to fail.

On the one hand, we tell them that everyone has to go to college and that more education is better. Regardless of whether more education has any financial return. Is that the only metric? Absolutely not, but there is a point at which education is a luxury.[1] My entire high school education was focused on how to get into the "best" college.

On the other hand, in order to get that education, they have to take out significant loans. At 17 or 18, they have little to no understanding of—let alone, ironically, education—about personal finance.

So financially uninformed take on large amounts of debt with no gauge of whether that is a positive investment. Sound familiar? We did the same thing to uninformed mortgage buyers until they started to default in 2007.

[1]: I say this having majored in Philosophy. It was a luxury that, coincidentally, is immensely valuable. At the time, however, I didn't know that, I was just interested.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11430596
It needn't be magic. As one example, the Welsh Government cancelled many student loans for students in (or from?) Wales.

http://www.studentloanrepayment.co.uk/portal/page?_pageid=93...
I can relate to much of this.

I grew up in the South (though not rural or Appalachia) and at age 10, I made the conscientious decision to get rid of my southern accent. It sounded "unintelligent" to me but more than that, it seemed to bely my moral values. As judgmental as this sounds (and it's true, it is judgmental), I looked around at the values that are often attached to the South -- bigotry and racism being the big two -- and said, "no."

So, at age 10, I lost my accent. I first stopped saying "y'all" -- but it quickly morphed into my entire accent changing. My parents/sister and most of my friends still had an accent, but I lost mine. With the exception of a few words or phrases, I don't even say southern colloquialisms. (I do still call every type of soda "Coke" -- but that's just Atlanta pride).

When I take those tests that determine dialect, I never get the South, I almost always get midwest or Southern California. (That was the goal, so go me?) Even drunk, I don't slip back to a southern accent, simply because it doesn't exist as part of me anymore.

The fact that I made that decision at age 10 -- and to be VERY clear, it was my own decision and not one pushed/encouraged by my parents (in fact, they probably rolled their eyes) -- I think says a lot about just how palpable those stereotypes that you mention are. Because at that age, when given the opportunity to lose an accent (I had speech impediment, was taking speech therapy a few times a week and had to basically re-train myself to talk. I decided to hack the system and get the accent I wanted in the process), I took it. I'll be totally honest, I don't regret it.

But still, I do often think about the code switching that I chose to take on at that age and what that means. For my career now, which often includes going on television -- it's realistically probably served me well to have no accent. Even in high school working in retail, it often served me well to "not sound like I was from the South" when selling someone a $1500 digital video camera or charging $50 an hour to repair a computer.

Still, I do think about it a lot. I think about why it was so important, even at that age, for me to reject something like my voice/accent.

My husband (a software engineer) is a lot like you in that he is able to switch his accent on and off depending on who he talks to. When speaking with his parents or grandmother, his Tennessee twang comes out. With colleagues or people in our neighborhood, there is a slight hint of an accent, but nothing major. And he does it for the same reasons.

No one wants to sound like a redneck in a professional setting, especially one stereotypically white-collar like software engineering. And yet, we don't talk about why that is the case -- or why where we are from matters.
Seems remiss not to include reddit in this analysis no?
By cheap I meant not having to dig a tunnel, by using lead, which I think is the cheapest dense metal?, you avoid having to have a very long tether, say compared to water/concrete.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11430596
I don't like the assertion that manager == leader, while developer == follower. Some people got into software development for the engineering aspect, not to deal with bureaucracy. I write software, that's what I enjoy doing. It's not fair to pretend that developers who don't want to be managers aren't leaders in their field.
If this what you wrote was true then you would see big adoption of webtorrent which is not the case. As i said before and i am saying for almost 2 years now. I love webtorrent but it NEEDS support from libtorrent and utorrent. Look at biggest bittorrent sites and on private trackers, i have seen private data on clients usage and i can tell you that adoption is almost non-existent comparing to big 5, which still means that webrtc dosen't matter in this case..
The biggest potential streams of revenue would be taking a cut of payments split through the app, charging local governments (parks and recs)/businesses for analyzed data, and helping indoor sports facilities gain leads, schedule bookings, and receive payments. Indoor sports facilities are a growing billion dollar business in America and they could definitely use help streamlining their processes.
Many reasons tje failed but I would say the main ones are:

* Lack of a clear project leader (the project had been mandated from up high so many people wanted the feather in their cap. I was an observer at a few meetings and they were a mess.) and nobody attached had software development experience.

* No dedicated resources and the two programmers that were putting any time towards it didn't know the 401(k) industry and couldn't translate the feature requests into technical specifications.

* Management mandated building it on Salesforce before any of this happened even though no department used it at all. They spent hundreds of thousands on licenses before even making a list of features.

* There was no verbalized vision for the project and never a conversation about why a user would want to use it.

* Banks are, in general, not the best and consumer facing technology.

I wasn't part of that project but watching that happen was painful. I hope that my experience will help me avoid those issues.
Great comment. Most people I know with this problem are just not able to get hired. Businesses reject them as underqualified or overqualified for every job unless offered minimal wage. Unfortunately, minimum wage doesnt pay cost of living plus minimum $1000-2000 loan payment.

So, I blame several parties in event loan was for kind of degree that should've paid off. The market for doing everything possible not utilize talent properly. Colleges and high schools that oversell the value of and overcharge for degrees. As Im for universal college, I'm less worried about credit checks so much as blaming government or lenders for allowing majors with low likelihood of repaying. The minimum payments are pretty ridiculous, too, with a progressive scheme making more sense.

So, many factors involved. Yet, there's no shortage of college-educated, enthusiastic, hard-working people aiming for all kinds of jobs. Just little willingness to hire them for a fair wage or at all.
And that's assuming you can get enough hours to work full time, and also have benefits to cover whatever mishaps may develop. And that you don't have any dependents.
Usually not well lit, and easy to hide/escape/etc
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LA has a proposal for $120B in transit investment over a similar timeframe.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-transit-pro...
Because NoVA drivers are all blind.
> True, it is much lower when compared to the 19th century, when the economy was much freer.

Not sure what you are basing this on, I'm guessing on nothing.

> Taking a different view than one you're accustomed to hearing, labeling it "greed" and calling it "pretty ridiculous" is not much of an argument.

No ignoring my actual argument, and quoting 3 words from my conclusion is not much of an argument.

> You want a better life? Earn it... Rather than envying those with more, make your own!... You'd be surprised how capable you are if you just try.

I mean... this is so childishly naive and simplistic, a statement supporting a very unfair state of things - 'You want to have a better life? Go compete with that billionaire who has access to the highest levels of government, media, lobbying, etc.' It's like you didn't think about the socio-economic situation of the world at all.

> What (besides rare case of a random and tragic accident) can stop people with that attitude?

What about not being able to afford education? What about malnutrition? Not being treated for a debilitating disease or condition? Not having enough social and financial stability? Having to compete with people that do have all of these advantages? I already listed all of these things and you blissfully ignored them.

> These days, it's high taxes, innovation-stifling regulations, and restrictions on and against immigrants.

No, that's absolutely false, high taxes, 'innovation stifling regulations' whatever that means, and restrictions against immigrants have nothing to do with class mobility of lower class Americans. Absolutely nothing.
And... one more:

* It's really fun to share project ownership with all the contributors.

From CONTRIBUTING.md:

> Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project. (https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/blob/master/CON...)

The first time I witnessed this in action was on the LevelUp project (https://github.com/Level/levelup). Since the days of the iojs fork, Node.js itself has adopted the same model.

Sharing commit access liberally is awesome for project health, because:

- The project can move forward even when the project owner is busy.

- It empowers contributors. It makes them feel like owners, because, well, they are. They end up contributing a lot more code.

- In the worst cast, it's Git, so bad commits can be backed out. But I've NEVER had to do this, or ever seen anyone else need to do it.
Hello again, another question, if you like. Are you trying / targeting industry-specific critical components already?
If you come up with a way to automagically translate things into easier English you could probably sell it to various UK government / NHS / etc organisations, who all have a duty to make much of their communication available in "Easy Read".

Here's the Equality Act Easy read version: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

And the Equality Act non-easy read: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents

Here's a Google search for some easy read documents: https://www.google.co.uk/search?site=&source=hp&q=easy+read+...

Here's Mencap's (a charity that works with people with learning disability) guide to Easy Read: https://www.mencap.org.uk/make_it_clear
The language of aspiration. I like to think that "re-architect" is non-U.
No, that would be gaming the votes, just as asking them to upvote for a blog post would be.
Interesting, when I go to facebook (which admittedly is not very often) I only see updates and photos posted by friends in my feed.
>> in particular things like paper cutting, laser cutting, milling, 3D printing, and circuit prototyping.

For most of those things,won't specialized companies could offer a lower price and a better product, more reliably than hobbyists ?

Also, do makers - i.e. hobbysts want to spend their off-work time doing that, when often they have pretty good jobs?
I agree, and I bet if a 500 dollar, dual socket, openpower motherboard appeared along with a retail CPU or two, IBM might be surprised by the number of orders...
Some of these income based payment plans have a forgiveness clause after 20-25 years, so it may still make sense.
I disagree. That's a reproduction, not a description.
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I don't know about dangerous, but walking through a sea of parking lots is generally pretty unpleasant as a pedestrian. Unlike a driver, where your immediate environment is the car, which you control, a pedestrian's immediate environment is the street and neighborhood.
Yeah, it's practically impossible to work at Microsoft and live in Ballard without driving every day, unless you want to spend (probably more than?) an hour on the bus each way. And even driving is going to be pretty slow.
Let's say that I am a building contractor who received won a contract a to develop some land (say, to build a shopping mall). Will I be able to hire a team of architects, engineers, and construction workers with no cost?!!
Or say I am a housewife. Will I be able to get my lawn mowed for free? The purpose of my questioning is to figure out the scope of your business.
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Which data warehouse should you use?
If graduates had the option to discharge their student loan debt in bankruptcy in exchange for revoking their degree, I wonder how many would end up taking that option.