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qhat posted:Basically I'm not sure where people got this idea that London is like the bay area because it's definitely not. London actually has space to build but is limited by a lack of govt willingness to spend.
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Oct 4, 2017 03:28
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meatpotato posted:The current job makes a frivolous product (iot toys for rich people), the new job's product is potentially more useful (agricultural tech, but it's a startup)
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Oct 4, 2017 03:29
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ShadowHawk posted:The bay area has space to build but is limited by a lack of govt willingness to let people build. The people who are stopping development are also people. "Government" is people.
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Oct 4, 2017 03:36
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Doc Hawkins posted:The people who are stopping development are also people. "Government" is people.
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Oct 4, 2017 03:40
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The Management posted:Mountain View has these but they are beat-up old RVs. apparently some people figured out that instead of buying a $2 million house you can buy a piece of poo poo RV to sleep in and take showers and eat at work. and they are multiplying rapidly. these are homeless people not tech bros unless tech bros are driving up the prices on street-parked RVs now too
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Oct 4, 2017 03:52
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ShadowHawk posted:The bay area has space to build but is limited by a lack of govt willingness to let people build. Spending generally isn't even required, as the developers cover the costs. my immediate neighborhood has a 1-10 acre minimum for new lots, depending on average slope a bit further away and its 100 acres its easier to build a nuclear power plant than a place for people to live
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Oct 4, 2017 03:57
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[quote="“eschaton”" post="“477035453”"] these are homeless people not tech bros unless tech bros are driving up the prices on street-parked RVs now too [/quote] nah. homeless people don't buy beat up old RVs and drive them to Mountain View and park them a mile from google headquarters.
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Oct 4, 2017 05:18
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eschaton posted:these are homeless people not tech bros reminder that google had (has?) an employee living in a box truck in the parking lot
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Oct 4, 2017 05:21
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The_Franz posted:reminder that google had (has?) an employee living in a box truck in the parking lot having looked at the traffic and rent around the google campus it seems like a really good idea i assume google has threatened Mountain View with just putting RV hookups in their parking lots?
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Oct 4, 2017 05:36
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The_Franz posted:reminder that google had (has?) an employee living in a box truck in the parking lot That guy started moving around, but I've been told there are more like him, without blogs.
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Oct 4, 2017 06:21
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digital nomads man
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Oct 4, 2017 06:22
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have you ever committed from the countryside
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Oct 4, 2017 06:23
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:i had a mate from woodford/chingford and he called it hoodford and had stories of getting chased around estates Lol. Honestly there are some dodgy areas there, more so chingford though. Woodford is far from a shithole though if you live closer to the Essex end of it. The key thing is it's super well connected.
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Oct 4, 2017 06:27
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AWWNAW posted:digital nomads man more like internet hobos
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Oct 4, 2017 06:28
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I also met IDS when I was like 13 or something and thought he was a massive Tory oval office back then.
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Oct 4, 2017 06:29
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:and if you're paying £4 for a pint in London you're doing alright gf did the study abroad thing in london and her favorite pub in someplace called king's cross had a £5 pint and pie deal. issat near enough to London to count? for some reason she knows it got taken over by an irish pub chain so that's prolly gone but the pound was worth a lot more back then heh
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Oct 4, 2017 06:44
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hobbesmaster posted:having looked at the traffic and rent around the google campus it seems like a really good idea I'd put money on it being against local code to have RV hookups period not that goog couldn't just ride out the fines but I'm sure they don't want to
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Oct 4, 2017 06:46
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why don't goo.gl just build apartments for their peons?
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Oct 4, 2017 07:27
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Boiled Water posted:why don't goo.gl just build apartments for their peons? in places like korea where they do this companies still have some understanding that they are part of a social structure, and that perhaps that structure puts obligations on them to provide things to people further down the structure which will ultimately benefit the company (as well as reinforcing the hierarchical nature of the social structure). i don' think you'd find a single person at google who thought they had that sort of obligation.
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Oct 4, 2017 07:41
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:in places like korea where they do this companies still have some understanding that they are part of a social structure, and that perhaps that structure puts obligations on them to provide things to people further down the structure which will ultimately benefit the company (as well as reinforcing the hierarchical nature of the social structure). i don' think you'd find a single person at google who thought they had that sort of obligation. yeah but with all the other stuff i've heard over the years about how goog tries to provide college campus-like amenities, i'm surprised they haven't just tilted straight over into building actual dormitories and promoting it as "now you can ~~*~collaborate~*~~ w/ your coworkers in the evenings when you have a cool idea about work! also hey just come downstairs to the cafeteria for food, no need to have to deal w/ kitchens or spend so much money on takeout! ;)" seriously it wouldn't be about "being part of the social structure" it'd just be a naked grab for extracting more labor via "why would you ever leave work? work is cool. work is life. it's just like you never left college!"
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Oct 4, 2017 07:45
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yeah i think that might just stretch the self delusion bubble a bit far. you can pitch onsite food and laundry etc as Work Life Balance! onsite living kind of takes away that figleaf
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Oct 4, 2017 07:48
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free breakfast at work! served until 9.
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Oct 4, 2017 08:10
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qhat posted:I also met IDS when I was like 13 or something and thought he was a massive Tory oval office back then. ids has been a massive sponge his whole life - cushy posh man military job, married someone rich, appointed benefits minister and tells poors to get a job
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Oct 4, 2017 08:34
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Munkeymon posted:gf did the study abroad thing in london and her favorite pub in someplace called king's cross had a £5 pint and pie deal. issat near enough to London to count? kings cross is very central, this counts. thats quite a good deal tbh
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Oct 4, 2017 08:49
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Boiled Water posted:why don't goo.gl just build apartments for their peons? because the city of mountain view won't let them
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Oct 4, 2017 16:34
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i'm interviewing for an internal transfer to a highly visible role with the chief product officer next week and am literally making GBS threads a brick
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Oct 4, 2017 17:50
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qirex posted:because the city of mountain view won't let them it's this. they proposed multiple times but the city always tells them to get hosed
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Oct 4, 2017 17:55
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one of the generational sf locals who used to post here used be very anti-tech gentrifcation was also anti-googdorm like, give them mv as a containment area and you wont have five thousand of them of them buying group houses in oakland every day in my (liberal, non-california town) there was a recent property tax increase which prompted calls to take the franchise away from students and non-landowners
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Oct 4, 2017 18:01
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didn't MV relent only to have goog threaten to yank the proposal unless they get more offices? like within the past week?
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Oct 4, 2017 18:02
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JawnV6 posted:didn't MV relent only to have goog threaten to yank the proposal unless they get more offices? like within the past week? yeah but this has been like a decade-long fight, I think they were only close to a deal because google promised them all sorts of stuff
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Oct 4, 2017 18:07
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qirex posted:because the city of mountain view won't let them CrazyLittle posted:it's this. they proposed multiple times but the city always tells them to get hosed They're god drat google why don't they just push their leverage around? Take out the massive cock, swing it about and into the face of mountain view.
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Oct 4, 2017 19:00
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Boiled Water posted:They're god drat google why don't they just push their leverage around? Take out the massive cock, swing it about and into the face of mountain view. mv still has a lot of incumbent landowners who really dont want to become a company town and who push back as hard as possible its funny because in 99% of america the local town council would be crawling over broken glass for the chance to land a bunch of well paid software jobs from a fortune 50 company (see: all those desperate cities trying to outbid each other for the right to host amazons second hq) but mountain view is just "take your 6.5 figgie jobs and shove it" silicon valley is weird
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Oct 4, 2017 19:10
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first half of my apple interview went well, I think next half should start shortly 
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Oct 4, 2017 19:11
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:first half of my apple interview went well, I think What did you prepare for the talent portion of the interview?
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Oct 4, 2017 19:13
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it's probably because it would be a giant pain in the rear end for them to move hqs, so mountainview can just tell them to gently caress off and they can't really do much about it other than offer increasingly large bribes
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Oct 4, 2017 19:14
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Schadenboner posted:What did you prepare for the talent portion of the interview? now its the swimsuit competition
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Oct 4, 2017 19:18
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Schadenboner posted:What did you prepare for the talent portion of the interview? i'm hoping song and dance routine
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Oct 4, 2017 19:19
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Boiled Water posted:i'm hoping song and dance routine I was holding out for ball-cupping.
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Boiled Water posted:They're god drat google why don't they just push their leverage around? Take out the massive cock, swing it about and into the face of mountain view. silicon valley nimbys have infinite lawyer money
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