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The government is also involved in lots of other things without exploding costs. I’d say the common thread is the combination of these factors: 1) the service is considered essential by consumers and 2) payments are deferred (by insurance or student loans). So consumers never say no due to rising prices.

The housing crisis is that there is less housing than people who want housing. Whether the homes are rented or owner-occupied has nothing to do with it.

We’re all talking about an announcement that Google Assistant is supporting over 30 languages.

Even if you exclude China, I believe Chinese is still a top-30 language.

No, the fiduciary duty is not that prescriptive. The courts aren’t going to second-guess whether a corporation is taking the profit-maximizing action at all times.

I don’t understand, how would AirBnB segmenting their marketing cause it to cost twice as much?

Imagine AirBnB and the low cost company both exist as you imagine. Now suppose AirBnB buys the low cost company and doesn’t change their marketing at all. Of course marketing ROI for each of the two segments doesn’t change. Compare this to the case where AirBnB operates in the two segments without buying low cost company. How are these cases different?

There are lots of devs who live in the East Bay (I used to live there myself), but most don’t. The more successful devs (who you are looking to poach) generally live on the other side, and they live there because they don’t want to drive across the bay twice a day.

It’s more of a Moneyball move - go for the underappreciated talent you can get cheap. There are companies doing that, but it’s not for everyone. If you get specific with the location, you realize Oakland and Pleasanton, Walnut Creek and Hayward are pretty far apart, so you don’t even get great access to the whole East Bay. You might as well move to Austin, Denver, or Detroit at that point and pay the same price for a better location.

Although you might see major companies open offices if there is a critical mass eg. maybe it would make sense for Google or Facebook to open a satellite office in Newark if enough employees are commuting across the Dumbarton.

Uber was going to make a big office in Oakland, but apparently canceled those plans.

That’s sounds like a pretty serious issue for your quality of life. I would ask your workplace to fix it, pursue a legal remedy, or find a new job.

In the US, you might be protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act, which has some teeth. https://www.laborlawcenter.com/education-center/new-ada-guid...

The way you find out whether a change like this afffects revenue is by testing it, not speculating.

The launch of Yass not going as planned?

In the settings under Accessibility there is “Reduce Motion”, which takes away most of the animations.

>It doesn't make the situation worse, you're the only person suggesting that.

The comment I originally responded to seemed to think so.

Agreed, but this is true whether or not you’re using parent’s plan of not knowing the password.

The part I don’t get is how not knowing your password makes the situation worse. The password recovery mechanism exists whether or not you use it every time you log in.

The way I see it, not knowing your password removes some potential threats around managing that password incorrectly, at the cost of increasing the risk of losing access to your account if the recovery mechanism doesn’t work.

If you are making up random usernames on a banking site, attackers aren’t going to know your username. So it is two-step.

This is not a great idea if you have a public profile connecting your username to your email because someone can hack your email.

But you not knowing your password doesn’t hurt your security as far as I can tell.

You don’t have to be mean about it! The world is big enough to fit lots of people like you who have no idea who he is, and also people like me who think “wait, is that the same saurik from...”

Seems like a real anxiety, not just a humblebrag. I’ve felt the same way and my response is to just make up new names all the time.

s/Uber/Google

Do we know if Uber is getting preferred or common shares in the settlement?

So dessigners can make adjustments depending on what fonts are available.

The ADA doesn’t create any standard for documentation. Where’s the definition?

Babies are even more disruptive, from my experience. If people hate traveling with dogs or babies enough, they could pay for a more private form of transport. It’s not worth the price to me.

Edited to remove option of banning the dogs (although, according to the story it seems like the airlines are able to restrict which dogs are allowed?).

If you buy, you have expenses but any principal payments you make are wealth that you keep. So you can retire to Romania later if you feel like it. Getting paid Bay Area salaries and owning a home is a great way to build wealth even if you ignore the massive price appreciation.

US is getting rid of its unique foreign corporate income tax. Since the majority of Apple’s revenue is overseas, we can’t guess the overall rate they are paying from the US rate.

Recent Android to iPhone switcher here.

>System settings are more customizable

I don’t know exactly what you mean by system settings, but iOS has a decent settings system. Android’s settings page UI is better, but iOS has a really impressive range of settings especially if you go into the accessibility menu. It has all sorts of detailed changes you can make to the UI and control scheme for the phone.

>Keyboard can be replaced by 3rd party app.

iOS has this now.

There are some things I miss from Android - one is the notification LED. Accessibility sets will let you use the flash as a notification light, but it’s a little bit more than I need.

Face ID is fantastic. I love how it sensors my message notifications until I look directly at the screen (this is configurable).

The range of compensation is wide, ie. there is a lot of income inequality among Bay Area software developers. I’d estimate Google, Apple, Facebook alone have a five-digit number of employees or former employees who were there early enough to afford a multi-million dollar home, or who get paid enough now to afford such a house.

There are also some other factors which tend to push up Bay Area home prices. Due to building restrictions, the market for homes is undersupplied. Due to prop 13 and the nice weather, people are less likely to leave even if they don’t need to be here for work anymore. So the market for homes is not very liquid and prices are sort of a one-way ratchet (barring economic meltdown). Really, only the top 10-20% or so of earners are in competition to buy a single family home at all in the area, and that number is shrinking.

Consider a random engineer at Google who bought their home seven years ago for $1M and it’s now worth $2M, while they paid off the mortgage with their RSUs. This person is no bigwig, but they might get approved for a mortgage on a $5M house and afford the down payment no problem.

The difference with dieselgate is that the cheating was known by European regulators, who did not bother enforcing the law.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/20/european...

VW was surprised by the American response, since they simply did not expect the law to be enforced (they were apparently unaware of a similar diesel scandal that occurred with US truck manufacturers in the 90’s).

Source: Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal Book by Jack Ewing

Regardless of the occupancy certificate, a pretty large number of humans must have stepped foot there already.

Seems like exchanges should be fine as long as their books balance. Even in a “run” you would just have delays waiting for cash outs to process, they would go through eventually.

Interesting, either that shit is locked down tight, or Apple got them to scrub it. The parking lot isn’t empty, though.

You’d think they would make it easier to buy, the price would end up higher that way and they’d get more fees.

My only thought is maybe they slow down buys to get themselves a look-back period where they can decide to cancel transactions that don’t go their way before filling the order. That would maximize the average revenue per transaction a lot during periods of significant volatility. It would skew profitability upward, at the cost of user experience and goodwill.

Seems like more of a short-term strategy by a company that is trying the milk the crypto craze as much as possible and willing to burn market share in the long run as the fad dies down.

Then again, could just be unicorn growth pains.