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by zt 10y ago
I misinterpreted your first post as being a lot more snarky than this second comment suggests, sorry about that.
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by zt 10y ago
This is reductionist and offensive. (1) On a practical level, although I don't know Greg's personal financial situation, he was the CTO of Stripe for five years. He's rich enough not to work. He works exactly because he'
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by zt 10y ago
I'm sure that many others could write much better informed or detailed additions to Sama's post. All I will say is that I worked at Stripe very briefly -- for about three months -- when the company was about thirty people (before
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Starsky Robotics: Driverless Trucks That Don’t Leave Drivers in the Dust(medium.com)
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Tech and the Fake Market tactic(medium.com)
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Internet Archive finalist for $100M grant for free digital books to classrooms(macfound.org)
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What Scientific Term or Concept Should Be Better Known(edge.org)
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The Original Emoji Set Has Been Added to the Museum of Modern Art’s Collection(medium.com)
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The Clara Waitlist Is Over(blog.claralabs.com)
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Can [California's] Housing Mess Be Solved?(nytimes.com)
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No Vacancies in California? Housing Report Begs to Differ(nytimes.com)
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California Health and Human Services Agency Data Playbook
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The Cambridge Capital Controversy, or Why Microeconomics Is All Wet(nakedcapitalism.com)
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Meet Uber's Political Genius(vanityfair.com)
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The Layers of English – Anglo-Saxon, French, Latin(steamtrainsandghosts.wordpress.com)
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Fintech matures as government steps in(techcrunch.com)
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Financial technology matures as government steps in(techcrunch.com)
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As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Driverless Trucks”(buzzfeed.com)
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Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America(apps.npr.org)
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California suburbs growing fast as many are priced out of cities, data show(latimes.com)
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Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San Francisco(blog.zactownsend.com)
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Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San Francisco(blog.zactownsend.com)
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by zt 11y ago
I don't like big banks, but that doesn't mean finance has been bad for NYC.
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by zt 11y ago
There is nothing inherent about finance that makes New York and London any different than a lot of other cities, other than inertia. It could be otherwise than it is, that's sort of the truth of network effects, but it's difficult
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Building a Fair and Functioning San Francisco Together(blog.zactownsend.com)
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by zt 11y ago
Thanks! I know SPUR well, I'm actually on their housing policy board.
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by zt 11y ago
(I'm the author) Prop 13 is a problem, no doubt. It would deserve a very long essay -- some of them exist as sub-essays within Kim-Mai Cutler's writings. I tried to focus on policy ideas that, more-or-less, San Francisco could imp
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by zt 11y ago
(I'm the author) Even putting aside the ethical and moral arguments, which carry a lot of weight for me: (1) There are network effects in urban environments. (2) Globally, specific industries often concentrate in specific cities. A l
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by zt 11y ago
(I'm the author). You make excellent points, and I don't mean to minimize the regional issues. Sure, if I had a magic wand then I'd increase housing being built across the Bay Area. In fact, I'd like consolidate the juri
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by zt 11y ago
(I'm the author). Traffic is a big problem -- as is parking. Public transit investments do have to correspond with building housing, but too often the lack of one is used as an excuse not to expand the other. We have to start somewhere

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