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> Lower income people live there because there are a lot of service jobs for unskilled workers > What you have is a situation where these workers have to be in SF or NYC because th…

> change its mission to mandate very very fast development While no one's going quite this far yet (alas), the mayor's approach actually isn't too far from this, e.g. for housing: …

You can't help the homeless if the workers who help them can't afford to live near the people they're trying to help. > This is one reason why people are interested in things like …

> I'm going to stand by my statement that the future is not in San Francisco I don't see why this follows. :) SF is a beautiful and diverse city and a hub for (at least one) of the…

Not only could we not build it today, we can barely modify it today: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Co... > But despite not a single resident registering…

Incidentally, these sorts of things (deed restrictions/covenants) are also what preceded zoning as we know it today. They're just more difficult to enforce because you can't contro…

> Isn’t this based on self-answered surveys and not hard verifiable information to establish residency? True, though collecting hard verifiable proof of prior residency from homele…

Do you have source for calling it an "influx"? According to the city's annual survey (from 2017)[1], 70% of the current homeless population lived in SF county before becoming homel…

After reading the recent article on emotion-based targeting for NYT ads, I went looking through the source of a few articles and found this in the source code of [1]. Anyone seen t…

+1. Read the series earlier this year and really enjoyed it.

> An interesting article, but I don't agree with the author's conclusion that rent control is worse than the California-style alternative. Is San Francisco currently better off tha…

Wow, that's a throwback. It's amazing how little things like that can get you started tinkering. I remember the excitement when my old distro of choice (Mandriva) added compiz supp…

This is an interesting point. I wonder if there's enough public data to figure that out. I have heard that some forms of Chinese protectionism are a little more subtle: apparently,…

...What other social media network?

> > One has a relatively fixed supply (real estate), the other has a virtually unlimited supply (cars). > The supply of space on the road in densely constructed cities is even more…

Well, one other phenomenon about Gethan is that they've never had a war, so it might be easier to get away with there. :)

> we don't really need vehicles driving faster than 15 kph Tangent: if you've read Left Hand of Darkness, this reminds of the Gethenians - despite being a reasonably advanced peopl…

> Maybe it's uncool to like Feedly nowadays Argh, when did this happen? I've been a big Feedly fan since the death of G Reader.

> > If you’re already a YouTube Red (soon to be YouTube Premium) member > I subscribe to google play music but if I look at my youtube red status is says member. So I assume, I wil…

They mentioned it off-hand once: > For Android phones, the information we use in addition to satellite signal strengths is usually just the standard GNSS position fix, but can also…