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How does prop 13 cause a housing crisis? It certainly entices people to hold and rent properties they own rather than sell, but those units are still part of the housing stock. I t…

Buffett is a trustee of their foundation and pledged most of his money to it a decade ago. https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Informati...

I stopped reading here: “If San Francisco residents really believed that sea levels were rising, they’d have all sold their homes by now.” Apparently the author has never been to S…

Yes I understand that and the outdoors activities have no appeal to me. I’ve lived in Michigan, Texas, Washington, California. The weather in California is dramatically better than…

All I really mean is that on balance I think it’s worth the trade-off (due to the other pluses). I wouldn’t trade SF for say an inexpensive area with no culture and bad weather, bu…

After 8 years in SF I have been seriously considering moving to NYC, largely over my commute to South Bay, but also for the substantial increase in density which brings with it a m…

My chihuahua was rescued on the streets of San Francisco after an unknown period of time fending for himself. He was a little underweight but not dramatically so. No signs of previ…

YMMV, but only in the last two years of high school do I recall these five-paragraph essays being a substantial part of classes. We certainly did them from time-to-time before that…

In a sense, yes. What I'm getting at specifically is that: - Although we teach people to read, we don't necessarily put enough focus on comprehension and understanding. - Although …

Totally agree. It took me until several years out of school to realize that learning to think should have been a primary focus of university. 25 years on I am realizing that althou…

My cardiologist told me never to try a low-sodium diet without talking with him first. He is very up-to-date on research and said that an equal number of people see blood pressure …

A "graybeard"? I think he made the right choice there.

Addictive or not, I think this statement is a sign that the authors didn't do much of an investigation: >It is normal behavior that, while perhaps in many cases a waste of time, is…

One observation here from someone who has taken a mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) class but isn't currently meditating (but would like to get back to it!): Expect to get …

I too can make a rumbling sound at will since I was a child. What is responsible for this? I don't know how I discovered how to do this but it always seemed natural.

The author doesn't state her father's age or when he lived on Linnhurst. My father, now 82, lived on that block from birth until his late 20s or early 30s. He went back 20 years ag…

Thanks for pointing out the reference - the OCR apparently stopped part-way through the document. The harm comes from having a definition that is so loose as to be meaningless. You…

I don't buy this definition at all. First, the "semantics" had better not change, either by an optimizing or non-optimizing compiler, or you've got a miscompile. Second, I've seen …

Sorry but can you point to the particular use of "transpiler"? I've skimmed this several times and have now run it through a PDF OCR program, and am not finding it. Even if this pa…

So the number of people doing something is how you determine the definition of a word? That really makes no sense.

> IRs, ASTs and bytecodes are not programming languages. If you insist otherwise because "some might consider it that way", you have no business criticizing the use of words, to be…

By that definition every compiler that generates assembly language is a transpiler, rendering the term meaningless. Perhaps you don't think you could "just as well" program in asse…

I don't think it's a meaningful term because there is no reasonable definition, specifically of where you draw the line. cfront compiled C++ to C, so it's a transpiler, right? Or i…

I do wish people would stop using the term transpiler as if there is something novel or different about source-to-source translation. If you're taking a higher level language and c…

On this point, I wouldn't say that CS PhDs are necessarily having a hard time finding jobs but rather CS PhDs aren't by themselves particular valued in industry so you generally ar…