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alephnerd
14,106karma·7,430submissions·January 8, 2019
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Recovering Policy Wonk. Former SWE, SE, PM. Now VC.
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If you're extremely visible, someone who is terminally online can easily dig into your background. Most people on the 30 under 30 list are also younger (and thus have at most a 20 year social med…
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Oh dang! Which country? And yea, it seems to be common occurance in all small formerly agrarian towns. I've heard similar stories occur in towns with a heavy migrant presence in Ningxia, Southern…
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Don't wanna be that guy, but that block (not street) is like that in the day and afternoon as well. A lot of that is jurisdiction related - 7th and Market falls under the Tenderloin precinct wh…
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This trend of building opulent Havelis as a status symbol by the diaspora still exists across South Asia to this day. Documentary about it among the Pakistani Norwegian community - https://…
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Their operating expenses in 2020 hit almost $20mil [0] and they only raise around $21mil in donations. In addition they only have $9mil in assets. That means they could potentially shut down if a hard…
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They'll push it on Github shortly. They have a fairly active and open Github - https://github.com/orgs/TheEconomist/repositories …
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Yep. In some categories like Music, Entertainment, and Nonprofits the competition is insane, but anything tech related has a magnitude less competition.
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It's not that hard to get on the "30 under 30" list assuming you have the right comms advisor. If you've created a startup with decent revenue and raised a decent Series A, it'…
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Ro was Sander's National Campaign Co-Chair, and is being positioned by the Sanders campaign for a presidential run either in 2024 or 2028 [0][1]. A lot of the messaging is being lifted out of the…
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> I hear about Seattle politics (particularly policing) all the time, and its not something I live near or actively seek out. It might be a regional bias. For example, I've had friends living …
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It's a LOT of work. There are 11 Board of Supervisor members, 7 SFUSD Board Members, and numerous additional local elected supervisory positions. On top of that, elections being elections, you ne…
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> OK. So let me see if I understand what you're saying here. Tech was always a force in SF politics, but it hasn't been powerful enough on its own because it was in conflict with middle c…
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Your right. I always forget Orinda in that acronym. So much for growing up in the Tri-Valley
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It's been similar in the Bay Area since the 70s-80s. A common joke here in SF is "What's present are you getting your 4 year old? A house in Marin/Walnut Creek". Also if we&#x…
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Easily. Whenever I feel a hanking for good Yemeni (Yemen Kitchen) or Mizrahi (Limonana) food, I just order via Doordash because there's no way I'm walking on 6th or lower Jones.
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SF has definetly seen QoL drop like a stone, but how much of that is because techies now live in neighborhoods that used to be the ghettos until the early 2010s. Like Hayes Valley used to be crack den…
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East Bay (by which I assume the Tri-Valley and LaMoraga+Walnut Creek) always had a massive tech presence - going from Livermore+Sandia+Berkeley Labs to PacBell to PeopleSoft to HPC@Cheveron+PGE to Wor…
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The tech hostility issue was surrounding tech workers moving to the Mission District (a formerly working class Latino neighborhood that had a bunch of white bohemian alternative types). In city politi…
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I think I know the hotel you're talking about. It's still like that in 2023 on Geary St west of Taylor St.
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SF City Supervisors banned Video Surveillance by SFPD. This was Supported and pushed by our local ACLU chapter. Fuck em.
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My condolences to Bob's family. I hope this finally gets SF city government to get it's shit together. Ik the VC commmunity is pretty closely knit here but always seemed to concentrate on na…
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Ah you're Bohra/Vohra. That makes sense! I think a significant subset of the community traces their origin to Arab communities in Oman and Hadhramaut. Also I do think a fair amount of Arabs …
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The economic and diplomatic arenas are both canaries in the coal mine from a policy standpoint. When you see publicity around wargames, they are very much used as messaging to our own rivals. I'v…
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Ehn, BRICS as a block is overstated as well. It started off as a one off marketing term for GS's Asia practice which was going through a wild west phase in the early 2000s (1MBD scandal is the mo…
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The topic of decoupling has only become mainstream/noticed by normies in the last 1-2 years. In reality, there has been an active economic decoupling going on since 2012-13. The primary manufactu…
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Not surprising. It's part of the general economic decoupling that is occuring between the US and PRC. This specific case is because of the (justified) increased oversight into Chinese IPOs in the…
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You hire the bare minimum. Also, the French market is within the EU/EEA, so there's always Switzerland right next door (plus CH also supports German and Italian markets so you can merge your…
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>From the DNA results I've seen, I believe most of the Iranic like ancestry in these regions is older and from the BMAC / Oxus civilization The BMAC/Oxus region is modern day Khorasa…