peterjlee

There are more extreme versions of these all over Seoul. Usually there's a 5-story mall with grocery store, clinics, super market, etc. Then on top of that there's a 30-story apartment building with some outdoor grass area. You basically don't have to leave the building if you live there.

I think VC-funded hypergrowth raise your company's chance of failure. However, it also raises the chance of a big exit. Hence, high risk, high return. VCs are in the business of investing in high risk, high return companies. So it's natural they want their portfolio companies to optimize for high return than survival. If any one of the VC's 50 portfolio company makes a big exit, the VC profits.

For founders and employees, you can't work for 50 different high risk, high return companies at the same time, so that might not be what they want.

Rent control is only available in units built before 1980. So renters who were not lucky enough to find a rent controlled housing has an incentive to vote against rent control. Though, any politician who leans one way or the other will piss off the other group and could be a political suicide.

What's the alternative though? It's not like Microsoft and Yahoo's email/calendar services are much better. Use a paper calendar and run your own private email server and hope you never have to run for president?

I think of cryptocurrency as a wild wild west of high risk investing (aka gambling). Companies like Coinbase is in the business of selling you wagons and oxen so you can participate if you wish. I think the real problem is that this became a gold rush, so too many people who don't know what they're doing are participating.

I got curious how it compares to Saturn V.

Low Earth Orbit Payload: Falcon Heavy: 140,000lb, Saturn V: 260,000lb

Launch cost: Falcon Heavy: ~$140M, Saturn V: $185M ($1B+ in 2016 dollars)

It blows my mind how crazy Saturn V was and it was 50 years ago.

Have you tried Samsung Gear VR with Galaxy S8? S8 has the latest and greatest mobile display with one of the highest pixel density in the market. However, when I use it in a VR headset, I can still see the pixels. It may be good enough for some gaming but it's not usable for working with spreadsheets in VR.

So are they gonna introduce Facebook Pro for $9.99/mo? I gave up and just pay for YouTube now. I rarely watch videos on Facebook though.

Software is relatively easy to scale. Manufacturing small electronic devices can also be scaled by outsourcing to factories in China (even Apple does it). Scaling automotive production seems a lot harder. There aren't a lot of car factories out there waiting for some car company to make an order. Building your own factory can take billions of dollars and years to complete. Even Tesla is struggling with scaling production.

The US male average life expectancy is around 77. That includes early deaths of low income people with poor access to health care, very obese people, teenage drivers. In fact an average US male who reaches the age of 65 is likely to live until 84.3 (1). 65 seems like an early age to die for someone with a social/financial status of a major city mayor.

(1) https://www.ssa.gov/planners/lifeexpectancy.html

I was looking for a way to see the lyrics of a song on Spotify. The official Spotify help page recommended using SoundHound instead for lyrics. SoundHound can listen to the music and show you the lyrics in real time line by line. That was pretty cool. I wonder how Shazam and SoundHound differ and how they make money.

Trying to build what I wanted with the limited Lego parts I had always forced me to be more creative.

With orders of magnitude less processing power. Government projects just cost more..

I can see a Gravity Gate happening when Andromeda Patriots tweak the Earth gravity simulator of their home stadium to gain an advantage.

As a human driver in California, I honestly don't know how to drive in the snow.

This is basically what's happening in S.Korea. Instead of investing more in security, banks are offloading the duty to the consumers. They issue a private key and ask for three different layers of password/pins nobody ever remembers. If you (or the bank) ever get hacked, well, you can't prove that it wasn't you "so too bad" is basically what happens.

Federal government buys Twitter and makes your twitter handle your national identifier. I'm sure Trump is fine with that.

The reason SSN became a form of ID in the first place was because it's the only way to track a person across all states. If I get a loan in California, then move to Arizona and apply for another loan from another bank, the new bank should still be able to know about my loan in California. SSN was just too convenient for that purpose and banks stuck with it even though it wasn't designed for it.

I use Sequelize. I write migrations in Javascript using Promise chains. It does take some trial and error to figure out how to add join columns or create the join table so Sequelize knows how to work with it.

I think to have good comments, you need to build a good community. I sometimes see the same article shared across HN, Reddit and Facebook. Some sites have better comments than others..

I think wizards call this a normal camera.

Hi Peter, what effects do you think Trump's new policies on immigration will have on OPT/H1B engineers in Silicon Valley tech companies? My friends freaked out when he was first elected but so far they're saying not bad as they thought.

Here's a good NPR Planet Money episode on how transferring money works.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo...

Apparently, back in the days before ACH, banks met up at a parking lot in NYC every night and literally exchanged bags of paper checks.

There was a proposal build something better than ACH, but it was denied because the cost to upgrade the infrastructure would cost too much for small banks and credit unions.

When Kitkat came out, they decided it was mutually beneficial and didn't pay each other.

Mostly existing homeowners. More houses mean decrease in their rent income. Also the influential people in city politics probably already own homes.

>Ms. James pays $1,000 a month in rent for her three-bedroom house, compared with $1,600 for the one-bedroom apartment she had in Alameda.

She was forced out of her original apartment but unless she had a new situation that required her to have more bedrooms with a lower budget, some part of this extremity was her choice. I think NYT should've chosen a better example if the point they were trying to get across is "tech boom forcing workers out".

I was using Spotify then jumped ship to Youtube Red and used Google Music for about a year. But their music curation wasn't good so I jumped back to Spotify. Then I got tired of watching Youtube ads so now I just pay for both...

So a Hooli Box?

My guess is that voters who actually care about city level politics or influential people in the city are already home owners. For home owners, building more housing means a decrease in their home value so they have no incentive to push more housing.

How can you tell if a jet is flying at full altitude? Is it actually visible?