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by Decade 11y ago
Start by voting. Read those tedious propositions and those small offices, and vote on every one of them. Supervisor Julie Christensen was pushed out by anti-housing Aaron Peskin with the approval of 12% of District 3’s residents. And don’t
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Wouldn’t work here. I’ve been to the housing meetings. Basically, if San Francisco tried that, then the entire affordable housing budget would be taken up just buying enough land. As it is, the mayor’s office of housing and community develo
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It’s not a lifestyle thing. We need to separate our house from our net worth. As long as house prices rise faster than inflation, then that’s nice for the people who manage to buy a house, but it’s common-sense unsustainable. A soldier retu
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No. Just no.
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Doesn't work when you are in a poorly designed space with several adjacent 3-way switches that control interleaved lights. Oh, how many times I've wished those switches had some indicator.
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I got an Archer C7 during the Winter Shopping Season, that was affected by this. In the current revision, I got around the lock by booting into recovery mode and uploading OpenWRT via TFTP. I expect that future models will close this hole,
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"I wrote the original software on Apple 2." How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-ori... In case you were wondering why people i
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The host platform has no reason to exist except to run programs. And then functionality that turns out to be widely useful goes into the standards. So, it turns out that unexec has not made it into the standards, and now is causing more p
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>>It is not straightforward at all. Most homeless people suffer from a mental illness. >Unsurprisingly unemployment and homelessness and being told that it's all your fault causes mental illness, especially when combined with
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Still not a hot idea. The IP packet size is ultimately limited by the Ethernet frame size, which is 1500 bytes practically everywhere. The article says, “A ton of favicon were bigger than 50k,” so it would take over 30 flawlessly delivered
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The false dichotomy is that the opposite of Democrat is Republican.
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False dichotomy. I have never voted for a major party candidate for president.
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If there’s one useful outcome of the research of Pavlov and Freud and their peers, it’s the scientific discovery that humans are distressingly easy to manipulate into wanting things they did not want before. Ten years ago, the modern smartp
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Any router guide that does not cover IPv6 is sadly obsolete.
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QubesOS uses a Linux system with 300MB of RAM for the firewall? I just installed OpenWRT 15.05 Chaos Calmer on my router, with 32MB of RAM and 4MB of flash, and almost 1MB to spare. There are some differences between QubesOS and OpenWRT, bu
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The problem with that theory is voter turnout. In San Francisco, the latest new regulation against housing was passed by a simple majority of the vote, with 8.5% of San Francisco residents voting in favor. In the latest election, the modera
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I think we just have to build much more housing. The housing prices are too high and simply must go down. It will suck a lot for all those people who bought houses in the past 20 years, but it’s the only option that is good for society. T
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Those old OSes also had severe reliability and usability issues. They did not have memory protection, so a web browser crash can take out your word processor and everything else. Each of them had a key combination you had to be familiar wit
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I take it you didn’t read Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash (2010)[0], then. In short: Not a vendor-neutral standard nor an especially good standard, bad for security, bad for performance, bad for battery life, bad for touch, and promoting a lo
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As a lawyer, I don't think Granick appreciates just how the Internet has become a realm of haves and have-nots. She talks about right to tinker and end-to-end communications. Back in the 90s, I played with HTTP and SMTP services on my
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But it is bad for Westerners. The construction boom drives up the cost of steel and concrete for everyone, for example in San Francisco increasing the cost of material for the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge by 18% in a single year.[0] C
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No, no, emphatically no. It’s not just about being familiar with computers. These fashionable user interfaces are just objectively, measurably worse. They did scientific studies, with video recordings and stopwatches and stuff. I don’t know
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Backwards compatibility is the killer. The whole design of PGP is to be the envelope to make email private, versus the plaintext postcard that everybody can read. It works with existing servers and existing mail clients. The biggest Snowden
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OMG. Bush has been out of office for 6 years already. “It’s Bush’s fault” is not a legitimate response, and almost never was. I’m not saying he was good for the country, oh no not at all, but you can’t blame this on him. This partisanship
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Economic illiteracy, Exhibit A. The definition of elastic demand is that there is change in demand given a change in price. College students and tech workers, who will pay anything for their place, are examples of demand in elasticity. The
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So, we need to vote. San Francisco’s stupid direct democracy system means 14% of registered voters voting in an off-year primary election (June 2014) are now forcing everybody else to have to come out to vote yes on Proposition D this Novem
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It's simply a matter of supply-and-demand economics. Supply is going up, but demand is going up even faster, like one or two orders of magnitude faster. San Francisco's population has been growing at about 900 people per month for
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The hippies are starting to die of old age, anyway. San Francisco is a city defined by successive invasions.
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It would be a horrible reality TV show. Primitive construction techniques are very slow, especially if you also need to worry about acquiring food through primitive means, and each technique takes a lifetime to master. We and our children w
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That issue has been in the Thunderbird/Enigmail Rube Goldberg setup forever, and publicly discussed since at least 2006. Always, the response is, Don’t use Enigmail with HTML email. At this point, it would be bigger news if they manage

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