eric gourlaouen

organic em dash user

[eric gourlaouen @grlneric]

@maiab Lyft bike prices are insane without the membership but with a membership it's very reasonable

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@john_dough @AdamNMayer Ha my bad, wasn't super accurate. Meant to say Slim's is also an example of a venue backed by a VC. The first owner teamed up with a VC to get it off the ground: https://t.co/vwFda3VBMD

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@john_dough @AdamNMayer slim's too although it eventually shuttered

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@ReubenR80027912 there's degrees to this depending on SEC but that's a general answer

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@ReubenR80027912 hostels for the young, filtering for cheapest airbnbs, appart-hotels to cook in, camping (more popular in urban-ish areas than it is in north america), and also just cheaper destinations. more hanging out at the 2nd home in the country than lavish holidays in expensive cities

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@SaladBarFan @buildhomez @markasaurus Yeah that + the fact that all those new rezoning laws come with strings attached (% of affordable housing/wage requirements for labor/union labor etc) + the general high construction costs in the Bay that are, among other things, a consequence of the lack of construction

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version américaine des passerelles en bac+2 ou des filières post-bac pour les bacs non-scientifiques →

[forward deployed ccp gf @FangYi11101]

Lots of people whining about getting rejected from elite schools despite their high ACT/SAT scores (lol), but live players with agency find a way in anyway. Some actual paths:

- 3-2 engineering: 3 years at a liberal arts college, 2 at an elite (Dartmouth, WUSTL, GT). Mira Murati did this.

- Backdoors like Columbia GS (arguably Barnard too) or Penn LPS.

- Transferring from feeder CCs like SMC, Foothill, or DVC into Berkeley or UCLA

- SUNY-contracted schools at Cornell (CALS, ILR) with higher admit rates but same Cornell degree

- Taking spring admission or first-year abroad offers at USC and NYU

… and many others. Chinese kids figured out the meta and have been exploiting these paths for years instead of crying on social media

[eric gourlaouen @grlneric]

excited to announce we're releasing a Python SDK to access Apple's Foundation Models on macOS! https://t.co/9QivcoyMT8

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@onetwoval mostly agree except the part about it being easy to move from one to the other, navigating us visas will make anyone neurotic and it's not a french party in the bay if it doesn't turn into visa talk at some point lol

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@sarthakgh the Paris municipal government that is actively trying to _decrease_ the amount of housing within Paris city limits. Many consider repulsive the idea of building more housing in Paris. It's looking like it's gonna take us a while to learn the lessons of anglo world YIMBYism

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@sarthakgh I'm not sure the zero net new land building is as big of a deal as it sounds, France has been demolishing more land than it's developed for the past few decades, fine as long as housing goes vertical. But yes some of those other policies are significant issues. Also an issue: …

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@supply_side_acc @elaifresh @kwakara91 this is literally something that De Tocqueville mentions (positively?) about America, as opposed to the prevailing first-son inheritances of the day in Europe. he mentions how most fortunes don't last more than a few generations in the new world

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@RishiRamaraju @mattyglesias @jdcmedlock @GavinNewsom I'm not sure those bills will have an immediate impact on prices, if anything they'll just at least stop the spiral. So much of the high cost is now baked into the housing market too (labor costs, market rate) that it'll take a while to feel the effects

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@sarthakgh (it's messy because technically someone on a student visa often doesn't request a new visa when they flip to H-1B, they request a "change of status". getting a new visa stamped on the passport is different. so have to see what the formal guidance by USCIS is)

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@sarthakgh the wording is unclear but right now, implies that it applies to every new petition starting from next year. if so it would also apply to those on student visas when converting their status to H-1B

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@NateSilver538 some amazing stuff

[eric gourlaouen @grlneric]

@NateSilver538 i recently had a customer support AI agent tell me, after I repeatedly asked for a human, something along the lines of "okay, i've saved all your info, and i've contacted a human who'll take care of the rest" when… they hadn't whatsoever

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

we are in for a few years of security nightmares

[eric gourlaouen @grlneric]

@indrjl @neerajadeshp @ChristinaPushaw @JobsNowPR @tszzl this is the right answer @neerajadeshp if you're trying to understand why those jobs aren't as well advertised. tl;dr is that the DOL forces companies to re-advertise a job if they want to sponsor the worker in that position for permanent residency. it's called the PERM process

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@wanyeburkett i mean the ACLU has gone off the rails sure, but putting FIRE in the same bag sounds like a reach