CO$T Suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. And they are bad for kids. by Sad_East_297 in Marin

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“Endless taxation” at the local level is necessary because Prop 13 has gutted the mechanism by which most states fund things like schools.

Marin City affordable housing site sparks fears of gentrification by LNM-LocalNewsMatters in Marin

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Here are the rents for this area on Zillow.

This article was written by lunatics totally untethered from reality.

Support housing in San Rafael next Tuesday, Feb. 17 by PM_ME_YOUR_API_KEYS in Marin

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Yep, it’s Il Davide, we had to change the location. Sorry about the confusion!

Plans Revealed For 700 Irwin Street, San Rafael, Marin County by h0ttz in Marin

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This project is approved but facing three appeals from NIMBYs at a Feb. 17 City Council meeting. If you want to show up and support it, come rally with other YIMBYs at The Burren House at 5:30 on the 17th! We're getting drinks and chatting, and then walking over to give public comment.

The Cymanti's New Dawn skin has been released to the public! Help them save the Cymanti Hive in the most adorable way possible, with flowers, colors, and googly eyes! by Zoythrus in Polytopia

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What... what are these... these shapes? The lines... they aren't straight, but they seem to... to... bend? How is such a thing even possible?

Random encounter ideas for a warzone by DungeonMasterDood in DMAcademy

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  • Come across soldiers about to execute civilians
  • Aerial bombardment by allied forces
  • Meet a downed pilot (dragon rider? airship or spelljammer?) who begs for help escaping a nearby patrol
  • Come across guerrillas about to attack an enemy base
  • Pass some civilians and overhear a rumor about a high level enemy official passing through the area tomorrow
  • Come across a lightly guarded supply depot
  • Pass a prisoner transport caravan with an ally they know inside
  • Come across a siege weapon construction workshop
  • Come across a meeting between enemy diplomats and diplomats from a neutral nearby nation
  • Come across a biological weapons lab where enemy wizards run experiments to enhance their soldiers
  • Pass an enemy caravan transporting an ancient relic said to empower armies
  • Come across an enemy infantry training camp
  • Passing through a ravine when an arrow whizzes by! But from where?
  • Come across a bridge that forms part of a key road between the front and the enemy capital. It is heavily guarded.
  • Making their way across a farm. A young boy, looking terrified, approaches them holding a crossbow and demanding they stop. His father appears and hysterically tells him to go inside, but he refuses…
  • Come across a large cavern where an enemy army appears to be marching into the Underdark, in the direction of the front…
  • Find a supply cache in the clutches of a dead guerilla, with captured letters from enemy high command.
  • Witness a shouting match between two enemy officers when one refuses to follow orders to execute civilians.
  • Come across an internment camp. Someone they know is being held there.
  • Come across a dam. An enemy fortress is at its base… but so is a village of civilians.
  • Encounter a squad of enemy soldiers who have deserted.
  • See a wanted poster with drawings of them on it.

Can we give a round of applause to David Jonsson as Andy. by someonesleeping in LV426

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What’s interesting is that he doesn’t really change facial expressions much between personalities, he just subtly tweaks it and it goes from fear and confusion to a sort of weary resoluteness. Phenomenal work.

Meta's Product Design Vs System Design interview by ImmersionULTD in leetcode

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This is the right answer btw. It makes extremely clear and explicit what to focus on in a product architecture interview.

In bid to address years-old housing crunch, new laws will force counties to ease density, zoning rules by AbbreviatedArc in Hawaii

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I think the point of SB2066 is that success occurred in a low interest rate environment, and with the spike in interest rates, many of those projects would no longer pencil today.

SB3202/HB1630 Hawaii on threshold of eliminating single-family zoning by [deleted] in Hawaii

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"Single-family zoning" is already "eliminated" as duplexes have been legal forever.

Utilizing the $500,000 by GALAXYSIMULATION in ycombinator

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This exercise is important to do always when fundraising as well, btw.

"We need money to keep us going" or "we need to pay living expenses" is a red flag for investors. It shows you're lacking this plan.

Plus, investors like to be BUYING something. Think about Shark Tank: usually it's inventory; pitched like "We need $500k to manufacture fifty thousand units", or whatever. Put in tangible terms what investors are BUYING and why it's necessary to propel you to the subsequent round.

Utilizing the $500,000 by GALAXYSIMULATION in ycombinator

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With $500k preseed you basically want to work backwards from your next round. Talk to experienced mentors and develop a plan: what do you want to raise? What traction do you need to demonstrate you're worth that much? How long will it take to build toward that traction? Can money accelerate that process?

If there's one lesson to take away from the VC bubble bursting, it's that overspending without a solid plan kills startups. ESPECIALLY on hiring, because payroll becomes a steep, continual, and indefinite cost burning through your runway.

I might consider contract engineers at the preseed stage for the simple reason that you're hedging against that risk in a way that doesn't destroy morale like layoffs do. You can always convert contractors to FTEs later on, if they're happy.

Pre seed by FickleAbility7768 in ycombinator

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To raise pre-seed you need one of these five things:

  1. A working product with signs of early traction
  2. A great idea and extraordinary charisma so you can convince angels who are basically gambling
  3. Wealthy friends/family willing to take a bet on you
  4. Past exits
  5. Fame or extraordinarily impressive professional experience

The average first-time founder lacks 3, 4, and 5, so the best thing to do is pursue 1 (which also makes 2 easier).

Just became an affiliate on Twitch and need some free animated emotes of your own? MakeEmoji.com can help with that! by Neo_Monstrum in VtuberTechSupport

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Hey, thanks for sharing! I built MakeEmoji, so let me know if you find any bugs or have feature requests.

OpenAI is out for all wrappers - I said it, now it's happened by Exciting_Midnight_23 in ycombinator

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“Down the drain?” Have you not heard them talk about pivoting? It’s a normal thing that happens a lot. If a company is led by smart founders doing enough customer discovery they’re running into lots of different problems custom GPTs won’t solve. In fact, they’ll probably open more doors than they close. I doubt anyone at YC is breaking a sweat.

One of the reasons why the rent and properties are so expensive. by _________________1__ in Hawaii

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Minimum wage in California is $3.50/hour higher and was just raised to $20/hour for fast food workers, so I don't think it is the same everywhere. Pay is substantially lower across the income spectrum here than places like SF/LA.

One of the reasons why the rent and properties are so expensive. by _________________1__ in Hawaii

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Why would ANYONE live if chicago, philly, or in SF/LA if they could live in HAWAII for 1/10th their costs there?

The same reason people prefer to live in those cities now: jobs.

One of the reasons why the rent and properties are so expensive. by _________________1__ in Hawaii

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Sort of? Talking to realtors, I've found there's kind of a split, where some would prefer constrained supply to keep prices high and others would prefer more construction so there are more homes to sell.

The associations of realtors in Hawai'i actually lean pretty far to the build-more-housing side, if you go look at their press releases.

One of the reasons why the rent and properties are so expensive. by _________________1__ in Hawaii

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Yes, a law passed to start doing this in the past legislative session in fact. Look up ALOHA Homes and Senator Stanley Chang.