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by kqr2 11y ago
The San Francisco Bay Area is a huge economic engine, however, there is a severe housing shortage which could potentially disrupt this. What would Jane Jacobs recommend in this situation?
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For a good overview of Japanese zoning check out: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html versus US style "euclidian" zoining: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.ca/2014&#x2
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You can use the web link under the URL.
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For those without a car or van, life can be even worse on Hotel 22 -- the only bus in Santa Clara county which runs 24 hours a day. People will ride it back and forth all night. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28&#x
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It's probably a defensive patent so someone can't sue NASA for using their own intellectual property.
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This legal battle has been going on for years. In that amount of time they could have built more affordable housing as a backup plan however Palo Alto has been stubborn about that. They portray this as a fight between a greedy landlord and
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London Taxicab drivers who passed The Knowledge were forced to develop very detailed mental maps of London. According to wikipedia, it is the world's most demanding training course for taxicab drivers. https://en.wikipedia
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Unfortunate reality of housing shortage in SF. Most of these things people turn a blind eye towards such as an 89 year old lady paying $700 to sleep in a closet. http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/03/prop-f/
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Scaling Theranos with Elizabeth Holmes: Stanford CS183 Class 14 Notes(linkedin.com)
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The details of the landmark trade agreement: Trans-Pacific Partnership(businessinsider.com)
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I have a similar egg maker. I like the fact that it is very water and energy efficient. It's also interesting that as you boil more eggs, it requires less water.
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Any software tool recommendations (preferably open source) for creating statecharts?
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The BBC did a TV adaptation of this story in 1966 as part of its Out of the Unknown series. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060643/ The series was recently released on DVD: http://www.amazon.co.uk/O
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Just click on hn's web link and then read the article through google.
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Instead of posting the opt-out link on hn, shouldn't you send that out to all the former Homejoy users which were just emailed?
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Unfortunately, it doesn't look like you can read it cover to cover or download it. By agreement with the publisher, this book is accessible by the search feature, but cannot be browsed.
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Fixing the Laws That Let Theranos Hide Data Won’t Be Easy(wired.com)
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Actually he mentions that he ran Apple's Engineering directly in his email: I’m also a techie and, among other things in 47 years in the tech industry, I once ran Apple’s Engineering in Cupertino.
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Jean-Louis Gassée is also the founder of Be Inc, the company which created BeOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e Although BeOS no longer exists, there is the open source compatible OS Haiku: https
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Nice! Can you give more details on how you made the simulation?
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Although more complicated and expensive, another interesting amplifier project is the open source O2 amp: http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/o2-headphone-amp.html
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For more context on this excerpt, see: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141018100736-1088431-richar...
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Another interesting data point was the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. It no longer exists, however, at one point it was considered the most densely populated place on earth with an estimated population density of 3,250,000/sq mi. [
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Also see this documentary A Murder of Crows : http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/a-murder-of-crows-full-episod...
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Amazon has flexed its muscle in a similar way with its selling of books -- it temporarily made it difficult or impossible to purchase books from Hachette on its website. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23&#x2
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I wonder if a form of Gresham's Law (bad money drives out good) [1] may come into play. Basically if all university diplomas are effectively considered equal, then candidates from top tier schools will instead apply to places where th
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One of the reasons that annuities are unpopular is that there are many types and potential pitfalls: http://apps.suzeorman.com/igsbase/igstemplate.cfm?SRC=MD012&...
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For a good podcast / ted talk on the elements of a good flag design, check out: http://99percentinvisible.org/news/99-invisible-at-ted/
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Instead of controlling rents, wouldn't it be better to adopt a housing policy which increases supply for everyone? For example, the office space is projected to house 3000 employees in 2 years. Why not plan on building about 3000 hou
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It seems like the market has become addicted to low interest rates. Every time there is a hint that interest rates will go up, the market goes down, and then the federal reserve gets spooked and doesn't go through with the hike. At on

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