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A key difference is that at least one isn’t competing for limited housing with offshoring. That is the number 1 driver of the affordability crisis atm.

I’m a fan of the YIMBY types but we aren’t building enough annd, until we are, it’s a problem to put more people where we already have little housing!

> To keep tax revenue equal, property taxes for those who purchased recently would go down, and property taxes for those who’d purchased in the past would go up.

That's what I'm saying _won't_ happen. The high property taxes as-is will stay high and previously protected properties will have their taxes shoot up. That is my prediction and nothing about the state of California, or the US broadly, suggests otherwise to me.

Do you think cities would make the taxes fairer (e.g. spread them out over more residents) or just raise taxes on the these previously protected properties?

My money is on the latter. Nobody is getting a tax cut if Prop 13 is repealed. Everybody's taxes will just continue to go up.

Do people really think that if we revoked Prop 13 that other taxes would go down with the new money from property taxes?

Or do we think that property taxes would go up while other taxes stay put?

This feels like the argument at play when people criticize Prop 13. Not saying it’s good but California hasn’t ever cut taxes meaningfully and I’m not convinced raising property taxes would solve anything. California would still be expensive to live in.

Many people in silicon valley truly Believe that AI will take over everything. Therefore, this is the last chance to get in so you better be working really really hard.

There's a palpable desperation that makes this wave different from mobile or cloud. It's not about making things better so much as its about not being left behind.

I'm not sure of the reason for this shift. It has a lot of overlap with the grindset culture you see on Twitter where people caution against taking breaks because your (mostly imaginary) competition may catch up with you.

I'm broadly in favor of RFCs but they need to be dictated from top-down. That's easier said than done.

Most RFC committee debates ime devolve into firing squads in which the presenter needs to answer every question with pin-point accuracy and perfect context from the asker. Otherwise, they look unprepared and the RFC is negated.

This is allowed to happen because everybody is a theoretical co-equal in the process. Thus, everybody wants to have their say. You'd hope people would read ahead of time but there's always somebody who doesn't yet feels entitled to ask pre-emptive questions. It makes for very combative discussions.

The exception is when a double-skip manager stops that from happening and lets the presenter "make their case" and walk through the whole RFC.

the phrase I've heard about LA is that its "a company town for creatives."

> This means that I have to try to guess the state of mind of the questioner rather than solve a logic problem

That is an excellent way to put it!

It explains why it appeals to non-math people. They are (usually) better at these more verbal-based games ime.

I agree.

It reminds me of the math "puzzles" on Twitter which go:

1 shoe + 1 shoe = 2

2 shoes + 2 shoes = 4

3 shoes + 2 shoes = ???

And the answer isn't 5 because a) we're not counting shoes and b) the shoe laces were different colors. There's nothing clever, it just teaches you to be hyper cynical and question every little detail which isn't relevant to either Math or the real world.

People really hate coding interviews but they now exist as a "stupid test."

Academia has a problem with possibly fraudulent papers and grade inflation. It is inevitable that companies won't trust the papers and grades/degrees like they did in the past.

this is an insane reply and proves why NATO never put nuclear weapons in russia-adjacent states like the Baltics

Nuclear war is not something to be lightly risked

So we all blow ourselves up and kill everybody? † To own Russia?

†: everybody == a lot of people, just to be clear

does nobody think this will risk nuclear war? Is this really a place we want to risk it? I'm amazed at the comments section here

Does anybody know the current status of this?

My understanding is that if you delete your Facebook they will, in fact, completely delete it. That's post Cambridge Analytica of course.

Couldn't you have bypassed them and used `yt-dlp` or something similar?

Why get Google/YouTube's permission at all about this?

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Anecdotal but I daydream a whole lot less now in my late 20s than I did in my teens. I wonder if part of that is because I could only _dream_ about doing certain things but now I have the money and ability to actually fulfill them.

Never try to catch a falling knife

I've never had success ordering on Aliexpress. The orders always get canceled. I made an account specifically to order RISCV boards and none have gone through.

Am I going crazy or is this just bad luck?

how did they try him in absentia? I'm pretty certain that's illegal in the united states.

This guy is a glorified gym teacher and runs an MLM. It's astounding he's become so popular. Many, many people try the "I state harsh opinions and do stereotypical manly things and stereotypical smart things" including leather jackets, hot chicks, smoking cigars, whisky out of snifter, boxing, chess, living in a foreign country, etc.

Just to state the obvious: I don't like this man or approve of anything he does. Only impressed he's this successful at it. Definitely struck a particular chord.

JSON is much easier to parse with your eyes and there isn't much of a performance difference anymore..

Not saying you're wrong, but its very defeating to participate in online conversations and hope somebody sees the URL on your profile.

I'm fairly certain this piece is meant to drum up support for gas stove bans in places like Los Angeles or NYC.

Too coincidental. Certainly inspired by it.

If you really believe that gas is awful for environment, that more solar and thus electricity should be used, you'd find the reasons to justify it even as brownouts threaten the AC for a good part of Summer.

Within that link under Stripe:

> Programming/debugging phone screen + on site with your own laptop/setup and full access to internet, systems design discussion and talk with hiring manager about team alignment.

That seems to me to be a technical interview. I'm not sure what makes this different from a Facebook or Google.

> I have quite high standards when I hire, which is why I don't use leetcode to assess. :)

How would you go about checking if somebody is qualified in an interview?

Using his past experience may help but too often it can be embellished or flat out lied about. That's why these algorithm interviews became popular in the first place, to my knowledge.

I think Brian Armstrong downsized his stake from ~300k shares to ~30k late last year. Has any company ever done well after such a sell-off from insiders?

This sentiment seems common on Hacker News but I'm not sure its wise.

Companies that have high standards are far more interesting places to work at and with more interesting colleagues. They all require whiteboards and leet code.

It's definitely true that not all companies that use these algorithm interviews are worth working for. But, at least in my experience, companies that don't require them at all are pretty awful places to work. It demonstrates that management doesn't care who they hire.

Jim Chanos, who famously shorted Enron and failed shorting Tesla, has been shorting Coinbase. He noted that Coinbase is making ~4% on AUM while Charles Schwab makes maybe ~0.5%. Surely this must come down.

Facebook dominated in part because people would endlessly scroll during class, at the bus stop, waiting on line, etc.

VR and the Metaverse require a much bigger commitment by comparison. You can't casually use them. Heck, you can't really even eat or drink while a VR headset is strapped to your face.