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I just came across this walkthrough if you decide to give it a try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx2H3IV9SG4

Walkability in rich countries is expensive precisely because lots of people want walkability, and that want is underserved. It's signal that we should allow more of it to happen!

Thanks for telling us about the option to use the original aspect ratio! I'd basically given up and might never have found out.

We've also shot ourselves in the foot with land-use policy in SF/Silicon Valley. When engineers build products at a company that succeeds, the gains end up accruing to landlords. I…

I loved this essay when it came out, and I still think it's pretty great. But I'm forced to acknowledge that a big reason I was on board with it is that the identities I was given …

Mayor Burt's not pro-housing. He's just the least anti-housing of the anti-housing majority on the city council.

Subsidies would be mostly unnecessary. Merely allowing the housing to get built would be a gigantic improvement.

If you go to a city council meeting on the peninsula, 80% of the residents speaking say things like this. In my experience, even most tech workers speaking are the ones who bought …

Sure. Palantir, like other successful enterprise software companies, has a variety of large, enterprisey customers. But saying that Palantir collects health and financial data on p…

In this case, it's appropriate. Palantir doesn't "collect health and financial data on people", and I've never seen anything in the press that suggests they do.

I'm pretty sure employees at both Palantir and SpaceX wear company-branded clothes a lot. I know that's the case at Palantir for sure.

I liked the class notes better. Zero to One seems to target people who want the more important ideas in a denser format. Reading the book was a nice refresher two years after the n…

I appreciated the PSA.

Snowden had a far higher level of access than Manning.

I was on an American team at the ACM world finals in 2004 and 2005 (and the top American team in 2005, which was a bad year for the US). There was very little pushing us to partici…

The first step to doing that is to understand how drones are being used by local law enforcement. Right now, the FAA makes information about manned aircraft available to the public…