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But the people who want to change them can't afford to live there: https://shift.newco.co/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-alto-planni… Best bet is probably statewide initiatives such as those proposed by Scott Weiner. https://twitter.com/scott_wiener

In addition to this and the Wired doc, I'd recommend the keyboard.io blog post from October for those who haven't been to Shenzhen yet, but are in the 'deciding' stage: https://shift.newco.co/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-worlds-most…

That's just the business model of streaming—unlike labels, there is no cross-subsidization (e.g., a more popular artist "paying for" an obscure critically acclaimed artist who doesn't sell well). You're incentivized to get plays, which ultimately gets everyone to converge. It's going to be really tough for the "middle class" of independents—whether you're in content creation or apps. But if you use streaming platforms purely as a way to get discovered, and build direct relationships with your audience, you can price and sell your own stuff. No more $0.006 per stream or whatever. (https://qz.com/1507361/mariah-careys-record-breaking-day-shows-how-lit… That requires self-reliance, which is tough, but will be worth the payoff. I write more about it here: https://herbertlui.net/own-your-marketing-own-your-income/ Ryan Leslie is a good example of this—took his music of Spotify and went direct to audience, sold fewer albums but made more money. https://shift.newco.co/2017/03/10/ryan-leslie-shifts-the-connection-be… Increasing more relevant: Derek Sivers writes the way to be happy while being creative is to keep a good, steady, easy, full-time job and to create just for its own sake: https://sive.rs/balance

I spent a day at the Huaqiangbei market and honestly there's very little like it in the world. I didn't go in looking for anything in particular, but left with all sorts of tools and parts that I didn't even know I needed. A full USB power debugger with colour screen ($8), various LED module samples, a few Android tablets with a 9" screen, dual SIM and microSD ($30): my friend had his iPhone upgraded from 16GB to 128GB storage (a student literally desoldered the flash with a hot air gun, transferred it over in a BGA reader and soldered a new chip on, in under an hour)... as well as a whole number of little parts and cabling and components I didn't even know existed. Others have written more about it (https://shift.newco.co/2016/10/13/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-… is the classic article) but if you're even faintly interested in electronics I'd wholeheartedly recommend it.

There are a number of ergonomic mechanical keyboards. Some that might be worth looking at are the Keyboardio (coming soon), Kinesis Advantage2, Maltron and the Ergodox which is a DIY solution not very ergonomic by default but possible to build to be. I've backed the Keyboardio myself and if you decide to get that one you can currently get a discount code from here: https://shift.newco.co/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-worlds-most… For mechanical keyswitches I've read that the most stressful part of typing for your wrist is when you hit the bottom and your fingers come to an abrupt stop. To avoid that you need tactile switches and additionally I find that for me they have to be fairly stiff (Cherry MX Clear is my current favorite). On the other hand I've also seen some people who already experience constant pain while typing comment that they find the light linear switches to be the least painful to use. If you have constant pain those might be a better choice possibly combined with O-rings for a bit softer bottom hit. I use another QWERTY-alternative called COLEMAK. It's a newer one that is considered to be more of an improvement over QWERTY than Dvorak. This Geekhack post compares pretty much all of the different layout options in the running these days (of course it still just reflects the opinions of the author, the Carpalx & MTGAP layouts are the result of a similar analysis with emphasis on different aspects):…

Congratulations on clawing your way back. After reading about the "Zunger Shock Sieve" [0], I've started building up my emergency funds. In the US, health issues are unfortunately a common path to financial distress. [0] https://shift.newco.co/2017/12/04/your-financial-shock-wealth/

I find Yonatan Zunger's "financial shock wealth" far more useful: This number is probably the truest measure of a person’s real wealth: What is the largest unexpected financial shock you could sustain without the cost of that to you suddenly becoming ten times the original cost or more? https://shift.newco.co/your-financial-shock-wealth-4845e6dc1d2f

From what I see in the "First World" governments have been incrementally converted into plutocracies. Trans-national corporations and their executives dictate the actions and decisions of the government of the day. Elections for the most part are well orchestrated illusions perpetuated by the media, which of course is a key component of the corporate megalomania. I found https://shift.newco.co/your-financial-shock-wealth-4845e6dc1d2f a very interesting analysis of how the masses subtly and most effectively become enslaved without raising much protest. Unfortunately, those who fail to learn from history repeat its past errors. One example comes to mind: The Roman Empire with its edict of "Bread and Circuses" -- well that too fell ... hard.

That's the thing, raising salaries won't solve the issue. Why? Because it doesn't solve the issue of supply. Demand won't stagnate or go lower. Once salaries go up the only thing that changes is the price due to higher demand of limited housing units, leading to the same situation. The problem is with multiple city halls. They refuse to add more residential zones let alone high density residential zones. https://shift.newco.co/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-alto-planni… Palo Alto is just one example. People need to raise the issue with elected officials, that they want more zoning for higher density residential.

Reminds me of the argument made in https://shift.newco.co/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die-38b843bd4fe0 a few months ago: Gas powered vehicles require many more (and more complex) parts, which inevitably need to be replaced throughout the lifespan of the car. There's a big incentive for services like lyft, uber, and future autonomous driving companies to move to electric vehicles because they have much fewer moving parts, and therefore are cheaper to maintain on a per-mile basis.

Was this article basically a rip-off of: https://shift.newco.co/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die-38b843bd4fe0 I'm prepared to give the benefit of the doubt though.

Sure, but he was also blasting SV "elites" the entire time too. I mean, look at all the people that wrote this: https://shift.newco.co/an-open-letter-from-technology-sector-leaders-o…

> The Uber model has no barrier to entry and they've lost their first-to-market advantage. Doesn't paint a pretty picture. Agree. Steve Blank argues that the first-mover or second-mover strategy has never worked [1]. Uber is a second mover, Lyft was first. [1] https://shift.newco.co/why-startup-pioneers-have-arrows-in-their-backs…

I'm not talking about typical developers. Lots of top technology leaders have come out vehemently against Trump, [0] including Sam Altman, who I would definitely include in "the people who really run Silicon Valley." [1] To be clear, I'm not disputing Thiel's politics. I think he's right about a lot of things. They have near-zero overlap with Trump's policies. Trump is easily the least libertarian Republican presidential candidate in recent history. [0] https://shift.newco.co/an-open-letter-from-technology-sector-leaders-o… [1] http://blog.samaltman.com/trump

>It's ironic, because the left, not the right, has spent nearly the last 50 years promoting pedophilia. ... What? Your evidence is that Salon.com had one article about people who specifically avoid acting on their urges? >But what is kind of shocking is how anti-free-speech so many on this site are. I'm old enough to remember the idealistic - although rather fatuous in hindsight - early days of the "internet culture" which promoted John Perry Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" [0] and John Gilmore's sentiment that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." [1] The difference is that many of us have seen how bad groups have benefited from the current state of affairs since then. It was easy to be idealistic about free speech on the internet back when it was almost solely populated by academic types. But the world changed, and we don't have to be dogmatic about old ideals. https://shift.newco.co/2017/12/26/My-Internet-Mea-Culpa/ https://medium.com/@hondanhon/no-ones-coming-it-s-up-to-us-de8d9442d0d >>When Barlow said “the fact remains that there is not much one can do about bad behavior online except to take faith that the vast majority of what goes on there is not bad behavior,” his position was that we should accept the current state of affairs because there is literally no room for improvement. [...] In my opinion, Barlow’s opinions on online behavior, given his standing and influence were irresponsible. [...] Saying “we…

The response to that has always been that if they can stay afloat until autonomous vehicles arrive, they can cut costs to the point where they're profitable. Beyond that, with the driver costs out of the picture, the cost of an autonomous ride would actually be below the per-mile cost of driving your own vehicle to the point where Uber would ride a wave of decreased individual ownership and reliance on car-hailing services. The WayMo lawsuit, in which Google appears to have a pretty airtight case, has destroyed that hope. It's the Carpathia radioing that they're 4 hours away. There's no help coming and the Titanic is going down. Now all these shifts are likely still going to happen. A seemingly cogent analysis I came across recently [1] breaks down the costs and strongly argues for a future where individual vehicle ownership is the departure from the norm rather than the default that it is today. But it just won't be Uber that cashes in on it. Or, more accurately, it won't be the current Uber. If Uber goes down in flames, their carcass will be plucked and someone, perhaps Google in the lawsuit settlement, will come away with Uber's brand and logistics platform that can be paired with self-driving technology to achieve Uber's vision. [1] https://shift.newco.co/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die-38b843bd4fe0

The $150,000 number is the cost of the mortgage needed to buy a home the size of the one they rented in Palo Alto [1]. The breakdown was that they rented the home with another couple for $6200/mo. If they wanted to buy a similar home, it would cost ~ $2.7M, thus the $12.5k/mo mortgage. They were already renting a place in Palo Alto at ~ $3100/mo. Their problem was that they wanted to start a family and needed more space. Doing so in Palo Alto was prohibitively expensive. I don't think that she was whining about not being able to live in a neighborhood where multi-millionaire lived. It was about being able to establish roots anywhere in the Palo Alto area. It's all but impossible and it will become harder and harder to run a city where all of the labor force needs to be imported (police, teachers, city gov't, etc). I know this is already starting to become an issue with some departments at Stanford where it's very difficult to recruit/keep faculty and postdocs due to the cost of living in the immediate area. [1] https://shift.newco.co/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-alto-planni…

I am so glad someone on HN is here to enforce rigorous standards when it comes to this topic, in particular. Because there have been multiple accounts of bad behavior, both subtle and not-subtle, at tech conferences (https://shift.newco.co/what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-a-tech-conferenc… https://blog.juliaferraioli.com/2014/08/do-you-even.html), but those aren't studies, they're just isolated experiences, so we can ignore those. And there have been multiple accounts from women who won't use a feminine identity online due to harassment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3411627), and really talented women who have to endure sexist work environments (http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/12/04/meeting/), and, occasionally, even much more lively discussions from women on what it's like to work in tech (https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4ioxw9/as_i_sit_in_a_massiv… But, again, these aren't studies, so we can ignore them. Of course, there have been studies, including one that found feminine names in chats got 25 times more malicious messages (http://www.ece.umd.edu/News/news_story.php?id=1788), which would seem to support this woman's experience too ... but, surely, we can find some way to dismiss that, too, right? The important part is that, every time a submission like this comes along, we rush to the comments section to try to shout it down. There are surely some medium.com posts about experiences that other developers…