jordonwii

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by jordonwii 4y ago
Pulley | Real Estate & Construction | full-time | remote or in-person (SF) | withpulley.com Pulley helps real estate developers break ground sooner and build more housing by securing construction permits 10x faster. Today, permitting ta
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Pulley raises $4.4M seed to shorten the construction permitting process(techcrunch.com)
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by jordonwii 6y ago
> Lower income people live there because there are a lot of service jobs for unskilled workers > What you have is a situation where these workers have to be in SF or NYC because that’s where the service jobs are Well, yes, I intention
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by jordonwii 6y ago
> change its mission to mandate very very fast development While no one's going quite this far yet (alas), the mayor's approach actually isn't too far from this, e.g. for housing: > The new measure would require an appr
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by jordonwii 6y ago
You can't help the homeless if the workers who help them can't afford to live near the people they're trying to help. > This is one reason why people are interested in things like UBI Can you elaborate on how UBI would hel
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by jordonwii 6y ago
> I'm going to stand by my statement that the future is not in San Francisco I don't see why this follows. :) SF is a beautiful and diverse city and a hub for (at least one) of the biggest and most innovative industries in the
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by jordonwii 6y ago
Not only could we not build it today, we can barely modify it today: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Co... > But despite not a single resident registering a complaint about th
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by jordonwii 7y ago
Incidentally, these sorts of things (deed restrictions/covenants) are also what preceded zoning as we know it today. They're just more difficult to enforce because you can't control what happens on the edge of your covenant
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MUNI Metro Train Control Challenges(medium.com)
1 points by jordonwii 7y ago|0 comments
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by jordonwii 7y ago
> Isn’t this based on self-answered surveys and not hard verifiable information to establish residency? True, though collecting hard verifiable proof of prior residency from homeless folks seems beyond what can be expected from a one-day
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San Francisco Homeless Count and Survey Report (2017) [pdf](hsh.sfgov.org)
1 points by jordonwii 7y ago|0 comments
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by jordonwii 7y ago
Do you have source for calling it an "influx"? According to the city's annual survey (from 2017)[1], 70% of the current homeless population lived in SF county before becoming homeless, 21% lived in another CA county (which ma
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Skip is way more popular than Scoot in San Francisco(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jordonwii 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why is there an internal email in source of an NYT article?
6 points by jordonwii 7y ago|5 comments
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by jordonwii 8y ago
+1. Read the series earlier this year and really enjoyed it.
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by jordonwii 8y ago
> An interesting article, but I don't agree with the author's conclusion that rent control is worse than the California-style alternative. Is San Francisco currently better off than New York? No rent control there, and prices a
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by jordonwii 8y ago
Wow, that's a throwback. It's amazing how little things like that can get you started tinkering. I remember the excitement when my old distro of choice (Mandriva) added compiz support, and then it turned out to be so difficult to
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by jordonwii 8y ago
This is an interesting point. I wonder if there's enough public data to figure that out. I have heard that some forms of Chinese protectionism are a little more subtle: apparently, the government requires foreign companies manufacturin
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by jordonwii 8y ago
...What other social media network?
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by jordonwii 8y ago
> > One has a relatively fixed supply (real estate), the other has a virtually unlimited supply (cars). > The supply of space on the road in densely constructed cities is even more fixed than the housing supply. Indeed - the city o
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by jordonwii 8y ago
Well, one other phenomenon about Gethan is that they've never had a war, so it might be easier to get away with there. :)
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by jordonwii 8y ago
> we don't really need vehicles driving faster than 15 kph Tangent: if you've read Left Hand of Darkness, this reminds of the Gethenians - despite being a reasonably advanced people, they never invented a means of transport tha
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by jordonwii 8y ago
> Maybe it's uncool to like Feedly nowadays Argh, when did this happen? I've been a big Feedly fan since the death of G Reader.
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by jordonwii 8y ago
> > If you’re already a YouTube Red (soon to be YouTube Premium) member > I subscribe to google play music but if I look at my youtube red status is says member. So I assume, I will continue to enjoy it at no extra cost. I chatted
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by jordonwii 8y ago
They mentioned it off-hand once: > For Android phones, the information we use in addition to satellite signal strengths is usually just the standard GNSS position fix, but can also be Android Fused locations, which may include WiFi-based
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by jordonwii 9y ago
In general across the country, less and less public school funding actually comes from local taxes. The state has gotten involved in most states in order to correct discrepancies in school funding between rich and poor districts (with Calif
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by jordonwii 9y ago
Heads up to anyone else following the "just buy the shirt" link, it won't work unless you prefix with https:// . Working link is: https://teonite.cupsell.com/
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by jordonwii 9y ago
Huh, apparently there are about 125 million households in the US. I didn't realize it was that close.
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by jordonwii 9y ago
The linked article is not very good imo. It goes into almost no detail, despite including two directly contradictory statements: "Yet another cloud storage misconfiguration has exposed personally identifiable information (PII)" a
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by jordonwii 9y ago
Feedly is fantastic. I switched to it from GReader and have never had any complaints.

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