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In principle, I think there aught to be a rule against perpetuities. Including conservation easements. The community should be able to decide where their parks will be, not some fo…

On the one hand, the wishes of a donor should be respected to some degree. On the other hand, the government should be allowed to make the best use of land in its jurisdiction for …

On the one hand, the wishes of a donor should be respected to some degree. On the other hand, the government should be allowed to make the best use of land in its jurisdiction for …

I think companies with valuable data to scrape (e.g. media companies) will eventually lock it behind APIs that verify Apple App Attest or Google Play Integrity. And deprecate websi…

I wonder if you could make a bare computer (user provides the OS image) + DVD player + DVD rental company without triggering the public performance clause of copyright law because …

Seems like a lot of people’s problems with AI come from talking to the dumber models and having it not provide sufficient proof that it fixed a bug. Maybe instead of banning AI, pr…

I don’t know how ReadableStream.tee() got specified to backpressure when the faster branch is not consumed, since this is the opposite of what nodejs does when multiple Writables a…

The blog post makes no mention of the cellular network congestion/dropped packets that affected people during the power outage. I had bars but was unable to load websites for most …

> Jackie Fielder, a progressive San Francisco supervisor who represents the Mission District, has been among the most vocal critics. She introduced a city resolution after Kit Kat’…

The difference is that you’re comparing labor income (making your own dinner) to rental income from land (imputed rent). Poor people tend to not own property, whereas poor people d…

A sad development. At least in the US, the fact that rent is taxable income to the landlord but imputed rent is untaxed is a regressive tax break for property owners (and was appar…

> a16z and certain Sequoia partners specifically supported this during the 2024 election. Support for DOGE before it was implemented is not a bad thing. Ro Khanna (Democrat from Si…

> is sharing a house illegal, or is it only illegal to separate leases for each room? Too many unrelated people living in a housing unit is illegal. Here’s San Francisco’s version …

I have the opposite takeaway. The city should be mutable. A subway line should be buildable within one political term. The property tax rate should rise or fall within a time frame…

What’s special about the airport is that the City of San Francisco owns and regulates it (as opposed to the streets that are regulated by the state CPUC), and the Board of Supervis…

I think there’s a kernel of truth in what he said, surrounded by some exaggeration. The rural parts of the country, where people get married under 25 years old and have a higher fe…

I have only seen Charlie Kirk on this interview with California Governor Gavin Newsom. Apparently he was someone who was promoting tolerance to more diverse political points of vie…

> Singapore, Dubai, Rwanda—they're all copying the Chinese model: authoritarian capitalism I don’t know much about China, but I’m not sure the Chinese model of economic modernizati…

> why is it that higher local wealth/economic productivity increases homelessness (especially if you control for public services to counteract the effect)? May I suggest the book P…

What a disappointment that this “Silicon Valley Pain Index”—where the pain consists of things like high rents and homelessness—is headlined with an irrelevant scapegoat of 9 billio…

Putting a few important metrics in the logs every 10s is something that the Aerospike datastore also does ( https://aerospike.com/docs/database/observe/latency ). This is useful be…

Why do AI agents need to scrape so often, vs. aggressively caching or using archive.org or their own crawls of the internet?

What would it take for an individual or small business to run a version of this locally? To file, you need an MeF account with IRS; does the IRS grant those freely? And to import W…

Proposition 13 was 1978 (99 years after the publication of Progress and Poverty ).

The vehicle code not only permits cars to enter the bike lane prior to a turn, it requires them to do so ( https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio... .). My br…