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by zach 10y ago
The "Creative Class" is sort of (urban pundit and the article's co-author) Richard Florida's thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class It tries to make events like gentrification a little
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by zach 10y ago
Alcatraz is lumped into the same census tract as the Presidio.
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by zach 10y ago
And a perfect illustration of why "I'll just leave this here" is so much worse than a simple description of the link target.
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by zach 10y ago
The day I met Rob was one of the best days of my career. It was my first day working at Blizzard, and I was totally in the dark about what the game I was going to be working on, other than it was the "Next-Gen MMO" project. So ima
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by zach 10y ago
High-engagement obsessives are another key to this. In a community where it's nobody's actual job to spread knowledge and values of the community, the highest-volume interactors – the most engaged – become standard-bearers of the
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by zach 10y ago
Newark is completely surrounded by Fremont (California) and has over 40,000 residents and is over 13 square miles in area, so if it's not the largest, it's at least near the top. If we discount natural borders like the Pacific Oce
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by zach 10y ago
Unlike regular loans, there are no qualifications for the United States of America's student aid programs and loan guarantees — they are available to any admitted college student, even if you are going to circus college. Whereas in Ger
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by zach 10y ago
Before that point, laundry service is a great candidate for automobile trunk pickup and delivery. Just put your stinkables in a trunk box, have them removed at some point in the day, then your clean, folded clothes are delivered to your tru
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by zach 10y ago
Extremely interesting to compare with Jack Gallant's reconstruction of video from the brain MRI of a viewer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo
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by zach 10y ago
The systematizer who takes up leadership from the visionary is an ancient pattern. The systematizer may lack inspirational genius but makes up for it with analytical and organizational genius. They can turn a phenomenon into a movement, or
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by zach 10y ago
This is the culmination of some very old news, when Netflix outbid Starz in 2012 for Disney's "pay TV" rights: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/12/04/netflix-outbid... Why Sept
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by zach 10y ago
I must confess that I am old enough to remember that this was based on an actual brand, "Plain Wrap", which was the store brand of the long-defunct Alpha Beta supermarket chain: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CU2
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by zach 10y ago
Furthermore, very-high-income areas (North NJ must have the highest furriers-per-capita in the US) tend to have a far higher median maternal age, which raises the likelihood of c-section.
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by zach 10y ago
I totally read it as "oh, no wonder it 'was never fully published' before now, since the lead investigators were the infamous Ancel Keys and a now-deceased collaborator."
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by zach 11y ago
People are surprised that Prop. 13 applies to investment and commercial real estate. I was too until I discovered that Howard Jarvis and the backers of the proposition were all apartment owners. If it only applied to owner-occupied residenc
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by zach 11y ago
Don't worry, families have little opportunity to own a house anymore, much less suffer the tragedy of unrealized capital gains. The most accessible housing market for urban or suburban California families is renting from the Prop. 13 a
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by zach 11y ago
Twelfth-highest, as it happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United...
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Stop Encouraging Homeownership(alt-m.org)
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by zach 11y ago
For those unfamiliar, you can think of Prop. 13 as an effective cartel to discourage people from selling their property. Basically, it subsidizes keeping property and never selling it. This is because every year the owner's property ta
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by zach 11y ago
This is specifically related to the SF Bay Area and there is a link to the source which has a easy-to-use Excel sheet of the data, so feel free to make an awesome geo-mashup: http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report&#x
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by zach 11y ago
When I got my business license in a suburban city, I was chagrined to see that home-based businesses are allowed only in the single-family residential zone — sorry, apartment-dwellers. I'm sure many cities are the same, because why not
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by zach 11y ago
And here I thought this only happened in Gargoyles . Cultural appropriation has never since been this visceral. I was fascinated by the description of 10,000+ pieces of a monastery in a warehouse. It seems like such a perfect problem for m
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by zach 11y ago
This is highly relevant for the recently-bankrupt American Apparel, which has a fundamental proposition (even in its name) of producing clothing in the USA: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-american-apparel-manuf..
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by zach 11y ago
They have "My First Errand", we have Dateline NBC and America's Most Wanted. What else should we expect? I think Americans have an almost pathological reflex to gaze at sentimental stories that are sensational because they ar
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by zach 11y ago
Oculus: "Hey Netflix, how about we work together on getting your service on our platform?" Netflix: "Gee, we're pretty busy, maybe next year..." Oculus: "We would have John Carmack work on it..." Netflix:
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by zach 11y ago
Fine advice for experts, surely. Those who recognize they are blind should copy. Copying Tufte seems like a reasonable way to open their eyes and save everyone else's.
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by zach 11y ago
Sigh, yes. "Bait and switch" is the "begging the question" of product forums. It has an actual meaning that nobody cares about and by now just means "I feel disappointed". This is one of the least unfair outcom
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by zach 11y ago
512 apps should be enough for anyone.
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by zach 11y ago
A lesson to take away here is that a startup which faces legal/regulatory threats to their existence has to be small enough to be ignored or huge enough to change the rules. Uber is probably the first company you think of, with their a
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by zach 12y ago
It's fascinating to see the many reservoirs we were supposed to have built by now. The engineers of the 1950s and 1960s had a lot of big plans that were all supposed to be in place decades ago (look at the gray squares on the map): h

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