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ChiCommTroll··on The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It
They finally demolished the cliff buildings a couple of weeks ago!
ChiCommTroll··on The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It
Of course Prop 13 is distorting prices. It affects all kinds of things. It limits the revenue stream of local governments, causing them to do things like encourage big box store development to get more sales tax. Prop 13 has tons of unintended consequences. Or maybe its framers knew exactly what they were doing.

I ALSO think rent control and airbnb distorts prices too. The Airbnb threat maybe overblown, who knows, but airbnb has maintained in the past they have no way of telling cities how many customers they. Databases are hard I guess.

ChiCommTroll··on How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution
Here's some newspaper coverage from when Gartenlaub was originally arrested.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/gartenlaub-633671-fbi-hom...

ChiCommTroll··on Apple at 40: The forgotten founder who gave it all away
only on this coast
ChiCommTroll··on Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging
For the "irc is just as good as Slack, you should just use irc" crowd, Slack's mobile clients are pretty good. Ever tried to get a non techie person to use irc on a mobile device? Ever used irc on a mobile device? The experience is terrible.

Slack's clients also have persistence, as in shows the most recent history of communication.

Not everyone uses screen/tmux with irc (though they should).

ChiCommTroll··on Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging
Take for instance Intel's addons to IPMI "Automatic Management Technology".

Let's say you have a server, reachable on a certain network address on a LAN.

I can turn on AMT, I can set up server management answerable at the SAME address. network traffic to and from the machine and network is undisturbed.

I can install bios updates, configure aspects of the machine, all kinds of things, just with AMT. I have read in some cases you can configure the machine this way even if its powered off.