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> 2/3 of households own their own homes 1. "Household" is not the right unit of analysis, since a household is defined as the set of people in an existing home. Some of these inclu…

FWIW I've seen noticeably better results on (1) and (4) extracting JSON from images via Claude, although (2) and (3) still take effort.

I'm building wooden benches for bus and light rail stops in my neighborhood. Lots of riders are elderly and find themselves sitting on the curb, feet in the gutter, as they wait fo…

Silly to say without evidence that preventing some people from doing their jobs somehow creates more jobs for other people. H1-B visa holders aren't competing with workers in the r…

All transit projects in San Francisco are actually combined sewer, power, and water projects with transit branding. Better Market Street's budget incorporates all these components:…

I love using Gitlab SCM, but I'm surprised that Gitlab CI is described as "Lovable" while major bug fixes are gated for months on an uncertain future feature release: "Job marked a…

Rent controlled duplexes are already protected by the regulations that were violated here. You can't remove rent-controlled units without a permit! Obviously some onlookers don't u…

Like notacoward's post below, this one misses the point. The shaming is not about how good or bad or complex you are. Some people have determined that Facebook is an organization t…

This misses the point of completely. This shaming is not about how good or bad you are. Some people have determined that Facebook is an organization that's producing bad results. S…

This key graf at the end describes why it's a bad demo that may cost taxpayers a lot of money: "The result is that the tunnel would have negative value to the region. As a transpor…

Upzoning might seem like an obvious preference for tech companies and sometimes they act on this preference. It's useful to remember, though, that they have countervailing short-te…

Why does policy need to be "fair" to investors? New government policies move asset values (including real estate values!) in both directions all the time. Investors -- including ho…

> I bought my first house in Berkeley > rented out 2 remaining rooms > buy a house in south SF > my mom and I bought a 3 unit run-down place in Oakland and fixed it up > rental inc…

What's the evidence that speculation is driving price increases in California?

Hey, no need to make this about "self-actualization" or "a matrix" (?). The point here (and the moral imperative IMO) is to exert any influence you have over bad actors. Open sourc…

"People in Bakersfield aren't going to take the HSR to LA, at least not in enough numbers to justify connecting Bakersfield" This is a pretty vague and evidence-free claim! Note th…

HSR and "more airports" are not substitutes. Airports don't address the need for capacity on trips shorter than the SF-LA route (e.g. Fresno-SJ or Bakersfield-LA). Rail lines do ad…

"Iran - then and now" series are often misleading. They cherry-pick extreme examples from non-representative slices of the population. We've all seen photos of the stylish, 1970s I…

> Optimal readability is attained with 60-70 characters. This is due to human psychology Actually this claim is disputed: http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLe…

Nope. Any really large government data is not text -- it's mostly in older open binary formats (e.g. weather data in GRIB from NOAA) or expensive proprietary binary formats (e.g. h…