Every 5 years or so, there is a rally to make millimeter-wave communications a thing. Every time it fails. Maybe there's enough money and effort his time around to make it happen, but I wouldn't bet on it myself.
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I've lived in few (San Diego, Boston, Phoenix, Los Angeles), visited many more in the US and abroad for work, I'd rank San Francisco near the bottom of the pack.
This might not be the case for you, but many people I've met who really love SF moved here in their 20s. Any city is going to be amazing at that age -- you're young and independent and thriving on the new experiences a city provides. Naturally, you're going to form an attachment.
Most people who move to SF later in their life seem less tolerant of its many problems.
Plenty of SF is bikeable, but to say hills are a non-issue citywide is ridiculous.
If you're counting stock separately, $180k salary isn't well, well below Amazon. That's the max they pay, and only in Seattle and the Bay Area.
https://www.amazon.com/d/Office-Desk-Chairs/Steelcase-Fabric...
Spoiler: buried in the fine print, and listed as a "feature," it says "open box refurb".
Customers are unwittingly paying full price for refurbished chairs, which typically sell for under $400. Many reviews claim that the chairs do not seem up to standard quality. You might think this is from some shady third-party seller, but it's in fact, "Ship from and sold by Amazon.com." And if you list all New/Used/Refurbished sellers, Amazon.com shows up in the New category, despite being described as a refurb in the product description. What a mess.
It's not an either-or proposition. What "urge for a family of a particular size" could not be satisfied between ages 20 and 47? Hopefully, you're not pushing your child to have "several children by age 20."
* As the number of product data grows, the benefits were negligible
* More observations per product was important
* The results were consistent with asymptotic theory (central limit theorem) that predicts that more data has diminishing returns.
In any case, this seems to be a case of "diminishing returns."
She's comparing apples and oranges, and doesn't even realize it.
$3,447 is the asking price for apartments now on the market. $1,600 is the median rent price people are actually paying, including people with rent control and affordable housing. People who have been living in rent-controlled apartments for many years pay a fraction of the current market rate.
As a result, her second and third conclusions don't follow. If this is the kind of critical reasoning that comes with "an MBA from a top school, the rigor of an engineering education and a decade and a half launching and managing some of the most successful businesses for Google and other tech companies," it's worrying.
In fact, it's easy to find actual market rate rent prices from 2016. According to the sites below, it was around $3,500, so rental prices have remained very flat over the last few years.
[1] https://www.zumper.com/blog/2016/05/zumper-national-rent-rep... [2] https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-ren...
No, becoming a drug addict will keep you in poorest neighborhoods. This is simple cause and effect. And why should drug addicts not live in poor neighborhoods? Why would you move the drug addicts out of poor neighborhoods, but not the non-addicts? You are suggesting policy that incentivizes addiction.
> This has not been attempted anywhere. What are you referring to?
If you don't live in San Francisco, I'd recommend checking out this recent video:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/12/14/san-francisco-opioi...
There are certain blocks of the city in the Tenderloin and SoMa where people are free to shoot up heroin in broad daylight. The city hands out 400,000 free needles to junkies every month. We spend $300 million a year on homeless programs with little oversight or accountability, and recently voted to double that to $600M+. And now they're proposing official safe injection sites in the middle of the city. Is this putting a dent in the addiction problem? No, the city is becoming a dystopian hellscape.
This is the current trend in many progressive cities, and so far it's a massive failure. Perhaps it's not surprising that when you work to make addicts happier, you attract more addicts. You also wind up with an entire industry that spends hundreds of millions of tax dollars catering to the addicts, and which perversely needs addicts to remain addicted in order for the industry to survive. The situation only gets worse.
These policies put the addict's needs above those of the non-addicts, since most non-addicts do not want a neighborhood filled with junkies who moved in to get free services, free needles, and legal injection sites.
Common knowledge used to be that an addict needs to hit "rock bottom" before they will turn their life around. If this is true, by making addicts happier and more comfortable, you're not helping anybody.
But that's true almost everywhere. In the U.S. it's true everywhere outside of the Bay Area, and perhaps Seattle.
I love Boston, for example, but the city is chock full of bankers, lawyers, management consultants, and doctors whose incomes often dwarf those of engineers. And they're much higher on the social ladder. You're priced out of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city, and if you're single, dating is tougher.
Obviously, it's not the end of the world. 99% of people don't make as much as investment bankers or white-shoe lawyers, and life goes on. But I think it explains in part why engineers are drawn to the Bay Area. The sky-high cost-of-living may make it a break-even proposition, but the bit of prestige engineers get there is a selling point.
Rust is like something else entirely.
That said, I’ve been interviewing developers over the last few months, and it’s hard to find good older developers on the SV job market (especially at a non-FAANG R&D lab that pays peanuts). We mostly get new college grads who are completely inept. I’d like to think the good older devs are gainfully employed somewhere.
Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
What a joke.
It's 63% nationwide. But in San Jose, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties, which is what we're talking about, it's closer to 69%. That's quite high.
This proves nothing. For example, if a >$50 hourly wage is well above market rate, it may lead currently-employed people to apply. If they leave their current job to take your offer, then you've just shifted the job vacancy from one employer to another. This is clearly not evidence that a labor shortage does or does not exist.
The article claims that employment offices do not have enough job seekers to fill the roles. If true, this would suggest a shortage, and an Econ 101 notion of supply-and-demand that disregards time isn't evidence to the contrary.
> If employers want more workers then they can just pay more, or offer better working conditions.
This is irrelevant. For example, if low-wage or middle-wage workers have left the area, and the remaining workers have full employment, this would cause a shortage at the present time. Raising wages may attract new workers to move to the area over time, but until that happens, there will be a shortage.
In any case, he comes off as childish and bitter. It’s all filtered through the idea that success means being a multimillionaire, and everyone else is a failure. His perspective seems limited to finance and academics in that sphere.
Allegro argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient "sex-and-mushroom" cult. Critical reaction was swift and harsh: fourteen British scholars (including Allegro's mentor at Oxford, Godfrey Driver) denounced it. Sidnie White Crawford wrote of the publication of Sacred Mushroom, "Rightly or wrongly, Allegro would never be taken seriously as a scholar again."
It's not dead, but as of now, it's mostly relegated to legacy code and a dwindling number of holdout programmers who refuse to adapt based on some misguided principle. It was a long and painful process, but existing libraries are dropping support for Python 2, and new libraries are created daily that will never support Python 2.
That said, I still regularly interact with people who are new to Python but have been indoctrinated somewhere with the belief that they must use Python 2.7. They've heard it's more stable, faster, or Google uses it. We discuss some of the actual tradeoffs, and they're quickly disabused of the notion that Python 2.7 is a good option for new Python projects today.
But I totally agree, some Python 3 additions (I'm looking at you, asyncio) have been handled in an unfortunate way.