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by ktothemc 12y ago
Bingo. Please register here: http://registertovote.ca.gov/ It's very easy!
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Yes, that was my mistake about the airport and I corrected it.
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Happy to answer this. At the very top of the story, I linked to my own family history, which I wrote a year ago. I am both white and Asian and it's true that my parents and grandparents worked incredibly hard to get to where they are i
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Agreed on Prop. 13. Nightmare. Totally messed up municipal and public school finance for decades. Sucks that even though the SF city budget is nearly $2 billion larger annually than it was in 2011, we can't seem to divert more funds to
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Yeah, but those zoning rules like the one affecting Pier 70 are their own products of bizarre, political, anti-development NIMBY-ist quirks. I believe some of the buildings on the pier are actually 92 feet high from the pre-war period, but
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Can't do that. Proposition M, passed in the mid-1980s, caps the amount of office space that can be built in a given time period. We're right up against the cap at the moment.
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by ktothemc 12y ago
I'm aware of that, but unfortunately, a lot of real estate interests use TICs and the state Ellis Act to kick out long-term rent-controlled tenants.
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Still possible, but you have to run an entire political marketing campaign, complete with mailers, etc. Furthermore, with a ballot-box planning process, developers are going to bypass the typical considerations that the city's professi
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Right now, the way that tech companies get around this is by paying their employees progressively more and not really engaging with the political system. But this particular strategy also has its downsides from a community perspective, beca
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Why blanket punish and make every single development on the waterfront more expensive because of a single Warriors arena project that was eventually moved to Mission Bay? All of these little costs, process hurdles add up and make housing mo
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by ktothemc 12y ago
I wrote the article, and I'm personally concerned that housing prices affect the mix and balance of companies in the local tech ecosystem in favor of the big corporations like FB, Google, Apple and heavily venture-backed startups. It&#
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Our property taxes stay relatively constant via Prop. 13, while price appreciation is great given all the growth control. We do not make it easy for absentee owners to "casually lease" out their holdings. Our tenant laws are some
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by ktothemc 12y ago
I'm sure voters would vote for that. Any additional property tax in any city in the state of California has to go before a vote of the affected property owners per Prop. 218, passed in 1996. God bless our direct democracy system. http
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by ktothemc 12y ago
One founder told me that a decent personal investment strategy of his was to be a forever-renter and invest in REITs instead. That way you get the financial upside of homeownership but more diversification instead of having all your equity
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by ktothemc 12y ago
That's not the right chart. The rest of the country probably looks somewhat similar. If you were to take historical data, California home prices were 27 percent higher than the U.S. median in 1960, then 35 percent higher in 1970. But b
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Right, but how do you prove that? That is the dilemma all these prospective piece of legislation in Vancouver, NYC are running up against? What would you do? How would you enforce it? Water bills? Electricity? Which you could fake. Phone
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Seattle has 3X the land mass of San Francisco, but yeah, they also do build a lot more housing.
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by ktothemc 12y ago
It would have to be a statewide ballot proposition, and you'd be up against the entire real estate industry, which has large parts of the California State Legislature in its hands. They would spend enormous amounts of money to mis-mark
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by ktothemc 12y ago
I was the person who wrote that super-long take on the San Francisco housing crisis in spring on TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/ I'll just say this. It's four issue
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by ktothemc 12y ago
I think I've written about this a lot. Prop M from 1986 capped the amount of office space that could be added per year. The city has only run into the hard cap a couple of times in its history. http://techcrunch.com/201
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by ktothemc 12y ago
They do. http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/10/silicon-valleys-real-estate... From a broad climate change perspective, is it really so good that SF and New York are contributing to faster population growth in the
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by ktothemc 12y ago
Yeah, but what happens when all of the police officers and fire fighters have been priced out of San Francisco and can't get into the city from the East Bay during the event of a major earthquake?
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by ktothemc 13y ago
They're so full of shit.
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by ktothemc 14y ago
That's for basic testing. The post also says they still keep a long tail set of devices for more comprehensive testing. "We figured out the optimal combination of devices to give us maximum coverage. We are able to reduce our daily smoke au
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by ktothemc 14y ago
This is "process" journalism where we figure it out as we go. I do several stories a day and frankly, the economic model that supports tech blogging today does not sustain a content model where I can write one story per day and interview do
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by ktothemc 14y ago
Actually the developer of two of the top-grossing iOS apps of all of 2011 just sent me photos of their QA testing racks too. They have an overflowing safe that is no longer able to contain all of the Android devices they QA test with...
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by ktothemc 14y ago
Tks, it's a simple headline that gets a point across. I talk on a weekly basis with many of the top-grossing devs on both platforms so I try to listen to their issues. This was not meant to be a warning for devs to stay away of Android, but
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by ktothemc 14y ago
In all honesty, there is an interesting debate here. A lot of developers are saying 5-6 devices is sufficient for compatibility testing. But Animoca argues that doing 400 is actually a competitive advantage for them.
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by ktothemc 14y ago
You are not a blogger and that is not a viral headline. :) Joke. No but seriously, I talk to a lot of the top free and top grossing developers and taking QA seriously is a big deal. It matters. Not everyone takes it seriously and it affects
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by ktothemc 14y ago
Hey, I'm the author of the article and I don't really have an agenda in the Android/iOS platform debate. Both are necessary platforms to build on at this point. Yat also wasn't really complaining about the state of affairs on Android at all

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