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Was the avocado toast bit above your head or are you just generally oblivious to sarcasm?
Both sides? Do you make the same argument for hearing from literal Nazis? You just need to weigh the arguments for and against the final solution? I'm not directly calling Libertarians Nazis but the analogy holds, I find very little of value from their point of view. Generally Ayn Rand type libertarians are cash worshiping dragons of the Smaug variety. Their only real contribution to discourse is about the power of markets and I think we can discard them because belief in markets is not unique to them.
You're right, the better solution is use taxpayer to bail out shitty companies that can't survive temporary economic slowdowns.
I don't understand. I agree. What is your point? We're talking about why people may not be interested in moving to the Bay Area...
So the capitalists that get massively rewarded for taking risks now get bailed out when those risks turned out bad? Sounds like BS to me.
They should have had an emergency fund of 6 Months of expenses for emergencies. Maybe they should stop eating so much avocado toast.
>SF and NYC are not the only tech hubs in the US.
Also confused. I agree with your point. My comment was responding to a person who couldn't imagine people who wouldn't move to SFBay for a FAANG level salary/job.
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...TLDR: Citizen opinions don't have an effect on policy.
I agree about education though. It's a tricky problem. Clearly people aren't informed enough to make coherent decisions on many policy issues but they have to trust that the slick looking lawyer they are voting for actually does understand and has their best interests at heart?
>I'm not really picturing THAT many brilliant developers that fall under the bucket of: a) really smart and able to pass FAANG interviews b) not willing to relocate if they did get a huge offer
What about anyone that wants to own a home before they are 40? Even on FAANG salaries its very difficult to buy when millionaires are snatching up fixer uppers for $1M+ all cash.
>As for individual citizens, it appears most still see the threat of asymmetric warfare as a more profound threat to their life and livelihood than passive, blanket government surveillance
I don't think this necessarily follows. I don't think most Americans support the Patriot Act but its basically known at this point that Public Opinion has no effect on Policy here. Also how much the public understanding of what the Patriot Act actually does is probably pretty low.
"Learn to program"
People are still repeating this meme?
But seriously while Uber and other companies are laying off thousands it's probably one of the worst times to try to enter the market as a new SWE.
Yeah and how'd the Heat do the year after Lebron went back to Cleveland? Spoiler: after just making a trip to the finals the previous season they had a losing record and didn't even make the playoffs
So to recap: Miami with Lebron = 4 Straight NBA Finals, Miami first year without Lebron = losing record and miss playoffs completel. They're basically a .500 dumpster team ever since.
This comment is laughable. They swept Cleveland in the first round and took NY to 7 Games and the Knicks then took the Rockets to 7 Games in the Finals.
We barely have the capability to put people in LEO reliably but you think we're landing on the moon in 4 years? Seems ludicrous.
Serioulsy I mean Jordan was winning scoring titles for years before he won a ring and when he took a year off to play baseball the Bulls were within an inch of the Finals and possibly winning it without him. Meanwhile Lebron has led teams to the finals and the year after he leaves they are basically lottery teams. He is far more crucial to his teams than Jordan was.
> Sure Lebron has not won as many championships as Jordan (Lebron's 3 to Jordan's 6)
He's won 3 and also been to 9 in a row, not a small feat.
A little confused by the rest of your arguments, over their careers MJ averaged 30.1 pts and 5.3 assists per game and Lebron so far has averaged 27.1 pts and 7.4 assists per game so doesn't that counter your argument since clearly Lebron has done much more passing?
> He has led his team in scoring for 16 years in a row, including his rookie season.
How is that relevant? Lebron is number 8 all time in assists as a SF.
The numbers don't lie, its pretty clear he could lower his assist output and increase his scoring pretty easily.
Yes. That's my point. Uber is not essential, it is a luxury.
Because the Grandfather comment was about classifying Uber as an essential service when it's clearly not as demonstrated by yours and other comments. Using Uber a few times a month for extenuating circumstances is really not Essential.
So a luxury that you can normally get by without? You seem to be strengthening my argument that it's not essential.
I think my point is being missed though and that is that using Uber as your daily commute is certainly not cheaper than owning a car. I think that's perfectly reasonable to say.
Also I don't mean to imply that Uber is a luxury in the same way Lois Vuitton is a luxury.
In my examples in other comments using Uber as a daily commute option almost certainly costs nearly 1000 or more per month.
Well in an argument about Nationwide social policies your opinions and anecdotes are perfectly irrelevant and useless.
>Once you've smothered the competition in investor money, you're free to raise prices to profitability and beyond.
That's the theory at least. How much can Uber realistically raise their prices before people realize that yellow cabs or driving themselves is just too much cheaper to ignore. So they'll have to massively increase prices and subsequently kill off their own userbase. It's a lose lose and I don't think any of these companies expecting to pull this off will survive.
> the various unicorns didn't detect and ride user behavior but used their massive piles of cash to distort it in non-sustainable ways
Seems likely given the ubiquity of "Pivots" where startups have already raised cash for some half baked idea and can pivot to selling something completely different to consumers by force feeding marketing down their throats.
I have seen Europeans spit on people in my country and treat them badly. I as an American have seen it and have become wary of trusting Europeans. I saw it with my own eyes so therefore all Europeans are bad. I might be wrong, but let's be honest I don't actually think I am, my anecdotes are better than your data.
That's you, that's how you think.
So you're saying Uber is a luxury. So it's not essential.
I should have specified, my point was that Uber is not the same as public transportation and is essentially a luxury good.
This is not some let them eat cake thing, frankly I think people with your pov are actually the ones saying that.
How much would it actually cost to commute 20-30 minutes to and from work in an Uber? $40 a day? More? Let's just say its 40 and you strictly commute during the week so that's $200 a week or 800 a month. Even with bad credit or no credit you would be able to save for a car rapidly. The $2000 car would only take 10 weeks to pay for fully in cash and the savings of 800$ per month could easily cover maintenance.
My point is if you can afford to use Uber as your sole means of transportation you can surely afford your own car and the people who can't are using subways or Buses. It's pretty simple, people who are struggling aren't using Uber very often.
Maybe not a bad idea but its ludicrous that WeWork was ever considered and valued like a Tech company, it's a real estate company with hipster interior designers nothing more.
>have a car mental model.
I suspect buying a reasonable used compact car is much more financially prudent than using Uber as you means of transportation. Maybe the calculus flips in a dense city like NYC but there's no way people who commute every day with Uber are doing so for cheaper than actually owning a car.
>The reason why software companies don't generally hire contract software developers
Have you ever been inside a FAANG? Sometimes it feels like red badges outnumber FTE 2:1 so I have no idea what you're talking about.
Remember when Dara predicted "profitability" by 2021? LOL, just another Softbank/VC funded money pit.