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I think they're more likely thinking two different thoughts. 1. How can I hire great people? 2. How can I create a culture where women aren't discriminated against?

Crickets.

Great point! Property owners are the ones wearing the pain, not the government. Doesn't help that landlords are in the minority when it comes time to vote.

It would also not be the first time that the US used torture for its own purposes...

Here's the thing - imagine what it's like if you're making median income in the city of $75k. Or if you're one of the thousands of service workers who are earning sub-$50k yet peop…

It's definitely a factor in new construction in San Francisco. I wouldn't say it's a larger factor than the anti-development lobby but I think the anti-development lobby and the rent co…

if only SF rent control was linked to the income of the renter! Plenty of well paid engineers and execs living in significantly below market apartments when they could easily afford market-priced hous…

Unfortunately tenant unions and some politicians have been threatening to expand the definition of rent control for quite some time. This increases the risk that buildings built after that period are …

Rent control increases the pressure on the housing market by increasing the price of rent for non-rent controlled properties and reducing incentives to create more supply. Brief overview from Krugman …

Buddy isn't doing as well as he was in the past. In 2010 allegations arose that he couldn't afford to pay his mortgage and in 2011 one of his major sources of capital for his hedge fund requ…

Good to get this news out there on a Friday afternoon.

Not quite that level but check out Adioso.com. They have a bunch of natural language search queries that work.

"You spend the highest percentage of your budget on the military." This is true. The US spends more on its military than any other country, and the greatest percentage of GDP on its military…

You spend the highest percentage of your budget on the military. That's where it goes.

I like that quote too. The supreme court actually decided that it's not unconstitutional but leaves it to the states to handle enforcement. Interesting to note that in Australia the percentage of…

Cool, thanks for clarifying. I'm a foreigner so take this for what it's worth but my view is that if it provides significant public benefit (in reducing drink driving / dope driving acc…

I've done a fair bit of driving (mostly in California) and never been through a roadblock. I've also never seen any booze busses or similar. I've seen those videos too - are you saying …

In Australia we have rolled out widespread "booze busses" which block off major roads and breathalize everyone who comes through. This + major advertising campaigns have had a significant im…

From the article it sounds like they tried to enter arbitration to settle the matter but it was described as being "less than productive".

"Provided actual value" but unfortunately couldn't extract enough value from their users to survive independently. The choice was likely between shutting down and going on unemployment …

I totally misread the graphs. Sorry Danielle!

This is aviation engineering where everything needs to be checked and verified multiple times by multiple people because otherwise planes fall out of the sky.

Also commuters with the capacity to pay for expensive tickets - this thing isn't going to be cheap, at least not initially.

Legally not a whole lot they can do, and not sure about any other kind of obligation, but hopefully they're reaching out to the founder to make sure she's OK and help get this mess sorted ou…

This was written by Ev Williams of Bloggers / Twitter / Medium fame. Not sure visionary is the right word but it's close enough. I don't think he has much reason to back date his p…

He's not arguing against disclosing financials during the course of raising money. He's against giving minority shareholders continued access to financials. aka information rights. Asking …