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Some of what 1password provides is a synergy of security and convenience. 1password's browser integration can save you from phishing, because it can tell g00gle.com from google.com…

If you read the caption, the real issue here is a horrible abuse of the rent control law. When the renter signed their lease, the unit was covered by rent control, putting very tig…

Definitely worth looking into http://esofund.com/

That's another advantage of Bus Rapid Transit over trains. It's much cheaper to run one bus than one train, and the vehicles are generally smaller, so they run more of them for the…

The point is that the incentives are such that it's not necessarily rational for a young startup to ensure their product stays perfectly secure. Startups are so precarious and need…

Looks like total units: http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty.... Though I was actually surprised it was so high. That's units, not bedrooms, and it's only a …

Per hour rate seems somewhat misleading given the split shift. There's 15 hours between the start of their work and the end of their work, and the gap in their day is short enough …

For most changes of habits where it's possible, taking a hard line is much easier. When I went vegetarian, I went cold turkey. The first two weeks, I wanted meat all the time, and …

Exactly. Think of them like a television network. A major television network (eg. CBS) airs both in-depth news coverage, trashy reality shows, fictional comedies/dramas, and sports…

This could have so easily been phrased much more nicely and more substantively. What is Tanenbaum's legacy? What microkernels are in use?

He doesn't put his name on everything. Apparently he's contributed to over a hundred buildings and could have had his name on many of the if he wanted to. I heard that he didn't ev…

If it was developed for the CIA, why aren't the resulting patents owned by the government?

I hope they're keeping statistics on how long people are on the line before hanging up.

They're actually dealing with recruiter spam on the other side. "I see you need people, I have 'great candidates' for the roles that I would love to setup for interviews." And they…

The reason is that the Bay Area is far more of a unit than originally, so things grew up independently basically in each county. San Francisco, the city, has one main municipal sys…

Let's save the word rape for literal rape.

But it also makes sense to hedge against the market to some extent, right? Have some amount in safer things (bonds, even money market and/or some t-bill equivalent), things that so…

It's worth pointing out that the chocolate pictured is $8+ for a 2oz bar. It's small-batch, handmade in the nice part of the Mission with carefully-sourced beans. Basically as San …

One issue with that is that it gives government incentives to keep people in their vices. As an imperfect example, police departments that plan on funding a significant part of the…

I'm not sure how important of a mindshare property it is. I would guess most users don't even realize that Microsoft owns Skype.

They already do tax laundry. At Facebook and Palantir, last I heard the laundry is paid for by the company, but it's considered a fringe benefit, and employees who use the service …

Avast is pretty bad given that they make virus protection