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Well, there's a big difference between a hiring manager and a company. A company wants to hire the best developer they can get; the hiring manager wants to get praised for making a "good hire" and avoid getting blamed for making a "bad hire".

The glowing references doesn't do anything that skill and personality screening doesn't in terms of assessing actual candidate skill. They do, however, provide a ton of ass-covering for the hiring manager.
Then the jobs will move to where the people are.

A community near me is booming because telecommuting makes it practical to commute to NYC by train twice a week. Eventually that will lead to new business and economic activity. We shouldn’t be screwing up property rights everywhere because tech companies are too stupid and have too much dumb money to geographically diversify and prefer to pay too much for talent instead.
I feel like its a branding issue. "Rent Control" sounds good, I don't think people consider it beyond the initial feeling the words imbue. It is also weird that young people are generally in favor of rent control even though they move frequently and it is just another wealth transfer from the young to the old.
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Something like 80+% of urban Americans live in cities with an average house price below $300k.
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Agreed, but my primary bone to pick here is that people seem to be proposing further rent control as a viable solution to the housing problem, rather than fixing existing restrictive building codes.
It is time for green web design and green application design (eg. lite versions of applications which are otherwise bloated like Skype with large emoticon animations).
Next time you use some ad supported app, take notice on the share of the ads are are for some other ad supported company.

That is the share of the market that will vanish in a bubble pop. On my experience, it's something around 90%, but YMMV.
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It's not a terribly elaborate solution, just a simple and good one: let's have the federal reserve stop promoting monetary policy that encourages reckless spending, easy money, expensive houses, and tons of plastic shit.

Some people present it as a solution to all the world's ills, which it is far from. But it's a good foundation for many solutions for many ills.
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The problem isn't with rent control, it's wit rich folks opposing new construction because of various flimsy reasons.

Where do you think new housing has come up most in the Bay Area? Poor neighborhoods with lots of rent control, or rich neighbourhoods?

(Hint: you don't hear about gentrification issues in rich parts of the bay area because nobody can build new things there)
I have definitely noticed that YouTube is one of the few sites that causes my desktop to struggle when loading the page. Gmail is oddly heavy in this regard too. I worry that google might not be paying enough attention to load times or resource utilization.
Perhaps we need more freedom in this scenario. We have public airwaves which are presently owned by corporations (the highest bidder) where in fact we ought to give everyone the freedom to carve out a slot of that bandwidth in their spatial region. We ought to homestead the airwaves giving individuals the ability to both send/receive and route packets. These airwaves should be treated like byways where everyone can send/receive packets. We'd carry an envelope of bandwidth around us wherever we travel by reserving common airwave (e.g. 2.4ghz, 5.8ghz, etc...). In this way, you starve the companies of their revenue, making their existence more difficult.

I'd like to ask anyone within RF earshot to carry my packets. I'd even consider paying for faster bandwidth if others were offering below some threshold. Some common low bandwidth communication should always work, say some fraction (split between freeloading users) of 20% of the link speed. I'll carry your packets if you're in earshot, rebroadcasting as needed, following the same rules. We could rotate our source addresses every so often.

You'd be persona non-grata (illegal) if you're recording and sharing who you hear. At the heart of it, saving and recording in perpetuity who you're communicating with and where ought to be illegal. Certainly selling that data should be too, or you end up with what we have today.
Yes but not necessarily market-rate developments that accelerate gentrification and displacement. BMR housing, for sure.
It’s not arbitrage, it’s “let’s burn all our runway til the next round”.
> Cheap detached homes are the norm in the vast majority of the United States

Perhaps by land area. But not necessarily by population.

Something like 1/3rd of the population lives in the DC-NYC-Boston corridor. Throw in the West Coast, Chicago, etc. and you're looking at a much more national problem.
Because they don't have low income leaders in their organization and they've been dismissive of minority concerns. See: http://www.sfexaminer.com/sb-827-rallies-end-yimbys-shouting...

While I support the Yimby approach the truth is it is largely led by upper middle class white people. To get things done in politics, you don't to have the best argument, you need to have the best consensus of citizens and $$ supporting you. The yimby org doesn't realize this - they think they can steam roll over minority groups to get things done, but frankly they need to a better job building bridges with these groups. This is how politics work.
Have you gotten any help while you were not attending work? Are you taking medication or seeing a therapist? I think you can try to be honest with your manager and explain what you are going through ask them for an extension and that you will work to meet deadlines and also seek help. Worrying and being scared won't solve your problems so you need to take action and try so salvage your role. I suffer from depression and there are times where i would've love nothing more than to stay home and not deal with work, but at the end of the day I know i have to be responsible for my condition and seek help. I got medication and therapy and i am functional nothing is perfect but i still have a job and have to manage. You can do it , just talk to your boss or HR.
Or things involving general intelligence, like Data on Star Trek, which is what people tend to think of when the term AI is used.
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It's called "predatory pricing", and it's illegal in many places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
The South is the most populous region with 114 million but includes part of what you mentioned. If you combine Texas (28 mil) and Georgia (10 mil) you would almost get the population of California (38 mil). Florida also has 20 million people.
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Not sure if HN should allow articles that are behind a pay wall like WSJ. Thought?
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I believe it's possible to set that as a default regardless of account age. But it's a PITA.
You haven't really defined anything though. Your joke is kind of to my point.
The REAL cause of the housing crisis is more and more rich people/companies view real estate as a way to make money. Not just as a way to park wealth to defend against inflation, but to make $. With astounding return rate.

Frankly, I think the only way housing crisis can be resolved is

1. taxing severely anyone who owns multiple house/condos (not apartment units) with the plan of renting. Probably gradually higher tax rate based on number of units or monthly rent fee.

2. Heavy tax for profit made from flipping a house.

The goals of the tax would be to control excessive amount of $ from flowing into real estate.

Real estate investment is made out to be a really smart/great investment. But why?
We routinely oppose building for the majority because the homes built would not fit a minority.

Vancouver is proposing new parking norms that force at least half the parking spots in a residential parking garage to be extra tall, to accommodate tall vans for disabled people.

This is a great idea, but it again raises the cost of building new homes, for the benefit of the minority who need a full-height van because of their disability.
I don't think that's true though. If you put your billions into the long view, you're still putting it in someone's hands today, and they will spend it today. They just won't spend it as myopically.

>The short view is the one that affects those who are already alive so that seems like a better option to me.

My argument is that "to me" doesn't have to end at the inside of your skull. That's a matter of your own social conditioning and chosen philosophy. "To me" could very easily include people who are not alive yet, if you wanted it to. So your identity doesn't necessarily end at yourself -- people frequently incorporate their friends, family, peers, society, species, etc., into their identity. You very probably do this too, so it's more odd that you'd make an exception for money in this case.
I don't know why you are being downvoted - SFgate recently published an article talking about Yimby members yelling over minority groups and those minority groups basically called Yimby a bunch of "affluent white tech workers".

So it's definitely a problem of Yimby not managing it's image and forming alliances well.
According to this article:

> The urban design think tank SPUR estimated in 2014 that San Francisco had “roughly 172,000 units of rent controlled housing” at the time, about 45 percent of the city’s entire housing stock.

https://sf.curbed.com/2017/11/3/16603900/rent-control-san-fr...
Hahah. Well, if rent control's high level of support raises your blood pressure, wait till I tell you about San Francisco's popular BMR lottery... ;)
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The real risk there is that it would incentivize landlords to select the highest-income tenants possible (more so than they currently do).
Which model VIA mb? And what do you mean by "hardware Soundblaster/ADLIB support" - do you have to run a TSR to make it work?
The Intercept would probably be interested in publishing something like this
From some quick searching around, volume on the exchanges is around 500,000/day while volume on the blockchain is over a million. If that’s accurate (and it may not be, I’m not an expert on this and the sources I found might suck) then most volume is on the blockchain by a pretty good margin.

I don’t know how much gold is actually shifted around physically, but the trading volume in a year is several times the actual amount of gold that has been mined, so I suspect the proportion of that which involves physical movement is tiny.
This is called a means test. Strangely enough rent control schemes virtually never come with a means test.
>Marketing is not evil. It's how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.

I can request information about products that I might be interested in. The nice thing about this is that I can request it from a source that I consider to be objective, in the context of alternatives.

Moreover, I think you would probably consider it evil if a tech review service were receiving money under the table from say, Intel, to say that their products were better than their competition. Why should I be forced to allow Intel to make those claims directly through injected javascript or whatever?

Advertising from the source is intrinsically dishonest.
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> if machine learning is able to provide "good enough" alternatives to most human-created software, the software startup narrative — that a few talented and determined people can beat billions in resources — may not even be so relevant anymore.

Are there any examples where current ML has replaced human-created software, the demand for startups or software engineers?

Seems to me that ML so far has expanded our toolbox of what can be done with software, not replaced programmers, designers, engineers, or really much of anybody yet. All this worry about future automation is imagining that things are going to be different this time, because of recent success with ML in limited domains.
Reddit getting bigger is the whole reason started going bad.
Or the old, put an ad in the paper telling you to send me $20 to tell you how to make money. Then I just send you a note that says, "put an ad in the paper telling people to send you $20 and send them this note".
It's not reasonable to consider all rent-controlled housing off the market, however. Most don't have tenants pay a rent substantially diverging from market rent. People constantly move, even if they are in a rent controlled apartment.
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Is that true? Housing costs are skyrocketing in almost every major city with job growth.
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> You don't recycle plastics in your country?

I think it's become apparent that in pretty much every western country we were shipping them to China, as you described for the UK. That's now come to an end. Who DOES subsidise local industry enough to recycle in-country?
It's not inflated... just no buyers at the valuation they want. They can sell at a lower price.. Same as a developer building a house. The might list at $500k but they could still sell at $400k and not lose money.
This comes up every time someone posts to WSJ.

They have relevant and interesting articles so the real solution is buy a subscriptions or use one of the many workarounds.

Outline works well:

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That's a good point, but, despite what some may wish, we don't actually have a national politics that's decided by a straight-up popular vote. There are a lot of people in those cities, but they don't always wield proportional influence on national issues.
You should have a reason to do so. If you’re at a level where the CEO will influence your future in some way, ask something intelligent and positive.

Otherwise, don’t bother. It’s at best a waste of time and at worst and opportunity to look like a crazy person.
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The question is where do people in their 20-40s live and also how fast is housing prices growing in those areas. Yes you might live in an area that has houses below 300K but if incomes are low and the annualized growth of house prices is 2-3x the inflation rate you got a problem.

It's not just a SF or NYC problem. Look at what is happening in Denver, Austin, and Pittsburgh. All these cities are seeing dramatic housing price increases.
I suppose it depends on your definition of intrinsic. Marketing is certainly ubiquitously evil because the people that produce it are strongly incentivized to con you, and there are no penalties for doing so.
If you want to really address the zoning problem on a cultural level, you have to find a way to create an "expectation" of the quality of life in some category of multi-unit building which is acceptable to the modal American. It's pretty typical to expect apartments to be noisy, smelly, not-so-private places which are not so desirable to live in. I can't say my own experience living in an apartment has really contradicted this, either.

I'm speculating here, but I think that part of the reason people oppose housing types considered unpleasant is that people may be less likely to stay in them if they have the opportunity to move. If you move into a nice unit (house, townhouse, apartment, whatever) in a stiff market, and the market eases up and you can afford to move, you might not, because moving is a lot of work and the expected benefit is small. But if you move into an unpleasant space in a difficult market, you're likely out of there as soon as you have the chance. This might imply that unpleasant housing types are more likely to become vacant during a market downturn, and because of problems associated with vacant housing, people might want to avoid unpleasant housing being constructed near them. The key exception here are the small add-on units recently legalized in San Francisco; because the main unit will remain occupied, issues associated with vacancy and disrepair of the subsidiary unit are prevented.

However, there aren't clear standards that determine whether a multi-unit building will be a place people want to stay, whereas SFH are usually for whatever reason expected to retain their occupants. So when I say "to create an expectation", I mean an expectation among the neighbors that whoever moves in is going to like the place they live in enough that they won't move out in five years when the market cools off. And if you expect the market will never cool off, you're also assuming you never solve the housing crisis, which is not a good founding assumption for making plans to solve the housing crisis.

I could imagine standards like: external entrances, private outdoor space (balcony), in-unit laundry, sound insulation, and separate ventilation. But those are just my preferences; any actual standards ought to be based on reliable evidence of some kind. It may be possible to survey the kinds of units that people move out of during housing market downturns in order to identify some predictive characteristics which can both influence housing standards and allay the concerns of voters.
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the focus on housing is short sighted. there will always be a physical limit based on the geography of the area. most political agendas are focused on concentration of wealth to maximize public programs i.e. mass transportation. i think we've reached a point where redistributing high paying jobs across a larger geographic area is the only real solution for most large cities.
The tracking seems to be happening below that level. I had all location services turned off, it dropped a pin on the very room of the house I was in
Good point. Existing residents needing rent control, however, would get to maintain their protections. And I see the policy argument for maintaining their protections being much stronger than a generalized right to the same rent.
For a US election, it really is how many Congressional Districts (House) or States (Senate) is this an issue.

Although, if it is the party of the incumbent is in charge of the municipalities where this is a problem, it might get a bit uncomfortable for the incumbent to place it as a major part of their reelection strategy.
To wit, I'm "Rent Controlled" in SF, but since I moved apartments last year, my rent is controlled to something north of $3k/month. I've had several other friends move recently from and to other Rent Controlled units. Saying a large swath of the city is rent controlled isn't very informative without actual rent data.
Not quite yet. But getting there.
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I think you've pretty spectacularly missed the mark here, Torsten.
"This is why Netflix randomly execute some of their employees every month"

Would that be their King Kong application?
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So you decided not to hire a statistician based on their intuition to first get a handle on the problem "What is the performance of the program?".

...I'd say he came out ahead in that exchange.
Further rent control is a viable solution to the problem of existing residents being displaced. It isn’t a solution to the difficulty of moving to desirable areas, but rent control advocates don’t consider that a legitimate problem. Or at least are okay with dampening the upward mobility of already affluent creative-class types to protect marginalized communities.
A hilariously biased article... how anyone could dream of linking that as a reference astounds me
And this is why it's always good to do a quick order of magnitude "does this make sense?" check on computations. Off-hand, the total electricity generating capacity in the US is about 1,000 GW, so it'd be quite obvious that making one webpage less resource-intensive wouldn't result in a reduction of 6% of that total.
Haha, yeah. I was considering jumping in with my usual "learn the difference between power (W) and energy (Wh)!" lecture, but couldn't have improved on that response.

This is the same mistake typically made by the "electric vehicles will overload the grid and we'll need 500 new nuclear plants!!" folks.
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I don't like the idea of the current debt based economy that allows infinite amount of US debt to be printed in the first place, effectively meaning that other countries has to be poorer.
It also tells you how variable your performance is - for example, do you experience large fluctuations in runtime, and if so, why?
> It has side effects, but is also addressing a specific problem people want to handle that isn't necessarily fixed by "just build a bunch of new market-rate housing."

It is a sad fact of life that the best outcome for everybody is to let the economically productive take first pick of any available resources; because they will by definition take them and turn them into more resources.

This idea that someone has a right to live somewhere because they were there first is not unreasonable, but the path of least suffering is that people pay the market price for rent.

There needs to be pretty overwhelming evidence that the problem is with what consenting adults agree to rather than the government being unreasonable with the rules on constructing new building. I'd bet that the US hasn't reached that threshold yet.
This article seems to either miss the point or deplore the reality that the news media is an entertainment business, not an important information dissemination service. What gets "on the news" is what will get eyes on the commercials/clicks on the ads, in the judgment of the editors.
I'm curious, what makes you say that Uniregistry is "...okay"?
In this case, the action is repeal of net neutrality regulation. To establish net neutrality through legislation would require both house and senate.
Strictly speaking, euphemisms substitute a mild, indirect, or vague term for a harsher term.
It's a lottery in that if you are lucky enough to have a certain kind of lease already you deserve to get cheap rent for life but not if you don't already have a certain kind of lease. It's not something you qualify for by falling into a condition where you need it or it stops when/if you no longer need it. I know plenty of people that became quite wealthy and of course still get rent control.
Pardon my ignorance, but this is something I've always wondered.

You can setup fail over DNS servers, just list different DNS servers, possibly from different companies, with your registrar.

Is the registrar a unavoidable single-point of failure? Your multiple name servers are listed with your one-and-only-one registrar, no matter what?
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Also one if you were in a school when it happened and cause of death was a bullet.