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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
> The problem with housing is that the supply is very fixed.
This claim seems to be the root of every anti-AirBnB argument: AirBnB rentals eat into the resident housing supply.
But this is simply solved by zoning and regulation. In any given city there is some number of residents and some number of visitors, and some number of permanent and temporary beds for them to sleep in. Yes, AirBnB shifts some of the housing stock from resident to visitor - but, if that's what economic forces are commanding then the zoning & regulation should adapt, not fight it. It's not a capacity issue, just one of allocation.
Comment · 9 years ago
Reminds me of how the Congressional Black Caucus pushes for billionaires' repeal of the estate tax under the guise of racial equity. I think they try to make it into social issues, racial justice, just to divert the conversation from the indefensible root of their positions.
> “Full repeal of the estate tax would allow African Americans to pass the full fruits of their business success to the next generation and thereby laying the foundation for a permanent minority ownership class that can contribute to the economic growth and development of the United States economy,” Robert Johnson, whose worth has been estimated at more than half a billion dollars, wrote to the House Ways and Means Committee last week.
Comment · 10 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
> There will be an implosion of these SAAS businesses at some point.
Why?
Comment · 11 years ago
MySpace was a stepping stone from GeoCities to Facebook.
Comment · 11 years ago
I've been writing TypeScript exclusively for so long, I forget most devs are still using the old syntax.
Comment · 11 years ago
We have a 65GB repository with many binaries in Perforce, it's expensive but works well.
Comment · 11 years ago
I moved from Seattle to San Francisco a couple years ago, asked Yelp for the best coffee and was sent to Philz.
I experienced some culture shock learning that San Francisco's top coffee shop didn't serve espresso. The idea of a coffee shop without an espresso machine had never crossed my mind. I left confused, with a scalding hot pour over, and moved back to Seattle soon afterward.
Blue Bottle and Four Barrel Coffee were both excellent.
Comment · 12 years ago
What I find more interesting is that parking SHOULD cost more than it does, and if it did, Uber would win the cost-value comparison hands-down.
Americans subsidize parking by imposing fees on developers who don't include "enough" of it, and by reserving large portions of cities' streets for car storage. Multi-billion dollar highways enable sprawl and cheaper commercial parking lots. Driving & parking personal vehicles is incredibly wasteful from a broad economic perspective (but it was the correct path -- a necessary evil in the absence of density to enable effective mass transit).
Even with the government subsidies, Uber is an economically competitive alternative to driving & parking personal vehicles. That's the amazing part. Public policy favors the incumbent behavior, yet "ride-sharing" has still been able to expose market inefficiencies. Imagine if we killed all the parking subsidies, or better yet: used economic incentives to discourage driving & parking personal vehicles, and encourage the behavior that had a lower total cost.
I believe the future of personal transportation is computer-driven computer-dispatched vehicles, a game Uber and Google are leading. We can't get there soon enough.
http://examinedexistence.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cry...
This is a simplified view but communicates the idea.
Some might say crystallized intelligence is under-valued in tech. That might be true. But then we should discuss that, not through the lens of social justice against age discrimination.