> Everything is faster. Zero drag is optimal. For a while, new applicants would jokingly be asked about their ''drag coefficient.'' Since the office is a full h

> Everything is faster. Zero drag is optimal. For a while, new applicants would jokingly be asked about their ''drag coefficient.'' Since the office is a full hour's commute from San Francisco, an apartment in the city was a full unit of drag. A spouse? Drag coefficient of one. Kids? A half point per. Then they recognized that such talk, even in jest, could be taken as discriminatory in a hiring situation. "Could be taken as"? It is discriminatory. And Epinions failed; the Reddit team built a more valuable property with a tiny fraction of the time and effort.