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Then you might be a great remote worker. The point is to trial them in the environment they're actually going to be working in.

The author is a homeowner whose parents have also owned a house in Noe Valley kitty corner to one of Airbnb founders. He’s a massive beneficiary of the status quo system who also h…

Wouldn't RSUs open employees to a different and more punitive tax regime (income tax) than options (which would fall under capital gains if you exercised early enough)?

Tokyo has a couple things that the Bay Area does not. 1) Zoning happens at the national level in Japan, not the local level so there are no, or at least very weak political mechani…

San Francisco, and several other American cities, were places for freaks and weirdos in the mid-20th century because of a historical anomaly in which the US federal government deli…

We're in the middle of rewriting our stack to look like this: - TypeScript web code - Using React - Connecting to a custom, to-be-opensourced reactive datastore written in Scala ca…

For the nth time, it's not really about that. It's politics. It was an effective symbol for tenants rights activists to latch onto to get attention for eviction protections, which …

Yes, that is a very cool future vision. :) Difficult to execute at this particular moment in time, so seeing if people will bite at location-independent leases is a first step.

Despite having listed locations, the team is incredibly mobile. Half are dogfooding.

Again, the price is intended to be across a network. There will be another U.S. location in the next few months, and then more to come after that. For Ubud, it's a two-dozen unit, …

The price is intended to be across a global network and there are more locations coming. The space in Bali is completely brand new with contemporary architecture, and an adjacent r…

It really depends on how your country treats housing. Is it a consumable good or an investable asset? If your country conflates the role of housing as shelter with it being a prima…

Unclear. Jane Jacobs has a section in her seminal book on American cities about "gradual" and "cataclysmic" money, which can wipe out a delicate neighborhood ecosystem.

Central planning of the US economy & powerful big government (1930s & beyond) was a Progressive Era initiated reaction to the era of robber barons & crony capitalism (1870s-1910s).…

Gaius, you could defer the payment of the tax until the sale so that the homeowner retains the right to stay there as long as they wish.

Again, what's important to remember is that the Ravenswood School District and East Palo Alto were created by racialized housing practices that confined African Americans moving to…

Hi stvswn: I think a really important thing to take into consideration is that California caps property taxes under 1978's Proposition 13. At the same time, Palo Alto has a particu…

Countries with strong social democratic movements like Germany, Austria and some of the Scandinavian countries are able to provide a very decent quality of life with high education…

That's, uh, what we've been doing since the early 1980s, at least ideologically speaking.