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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 25

    The Bay Area May be the best example I’ve ever seen of how sticky network effects can be. Everyone in SF/Silicon Valley realizes how absurd and broken many things are here. Yet if you look at how people vote with their feet and dollars the vast majority just stay.

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      1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 25

        Nearly everyone I talk to at least *thinks* about leaving. But so, so few actually do (especially after they have some success/money). It’s remarkable.

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      2. Ravi‏ @rravi Jul 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Strangely, the barrons and billionaires don't even do much about solving the persistent homeless people problem. I heard homeless in NYC are better cared for than those at SF. Lots of money, also lot of talk abt socialism etc yet so much hypocrisy.

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      3. Antoun Nabhan‏ @AntounNabhan Jul 25
        Replying to @rravi @AustenAllred

        Reality on the ground is that the city gov’t is hyper-resistant to working with business leaders on any policy or funding. Not their voting base. City supes exist in a parallel universe of ideas. So not much openness for coordinated approach to homelessness or anything else.

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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jul 26
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Relevantly to your interests I feel like universities are sort of like this, in that if you were asking me in a vacuum "Hey should society spend $150k per person to administer an IQ test and four years of, possibly, alcohol?" I'd say "Oh God no." but graduated so I don't defect.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jul 26
        Replying to @patio11 @AustenAllred

        I suppose you could say that criticizing the notion of higher education is a defection but that's a socially sanctioned defection and so no defection at all; the costly version would be something like e.g. publicly burning my degrees or notoriously refusing to fund kids' degrees.

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      1. Mike Maples‏ @m2jr Jul 25
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        I have great affection for the Bay Area, but I also know it could be so much more.

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      2. Omar Qazi‏ @omarqazi Jul 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        It’s like a party you’re getting tired of but it’s still really just getting started

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      3. Daniel Sigal‏ @DanielSigal Jul 25
        Replying to @omarqazi @AustenAllred

        That moment when you paid a stupid amount for the table and bottle service even though you can't stand the headlining DJ's music...

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      4. Omar Qazi‏ @omarqazi Jul 25
        Replying to @DanielSigal @AustenAllred

        some crazy guy who looks like he just took a hit of crystal meth takes a shit on the dance floor right in front of your table and then turns around and starts screaming at the wall

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      1. Leo Polovets‏ @lpolovets Jul 26
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        LinkedIn is another great example of this.

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      2. David Norman  🚀‏ @1DavidNorman Jul 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I left... but Seattle isn’t a lot better in the “absurd” and “broken” department

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      1. farbood‏ @farbood Jul 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        It’s inertia, not network effects.

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      1. The Dude‏ @dude313123123 Jul 25
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        It's not a bug, it's a feature

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      1. Seanie B.‏ @seanieb Jul 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        For now! I'm interested to see what happens in the next 2-3 years. Especially during an economic low point.

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      1. Andrew  🍂 Gourder‏ @covrter Jul 26
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        The weather. The landscape.

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      1. Techinsidr‏ @techinsidr Jul 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        What people say and what people do are two different things - if you haven’t picked up on that by now

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      1. Saul Lieberman‏ @Saul_Lieberman Jul 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Bay Area may yet be a good case study of how network effects blinds the incumbent to festering problems and enables disruption.

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      1. Joseph Hertzlinger‏ @jhertzli Jul 25
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        According to the alt-right there are only two possibilities: 1) San Franciscans are genetically superior. 2) San Francisco is made of Magic Dirt.

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