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deepakhj··on Lyft Takes over Ford GoBike
Here’s some numbers that contradict that.

“According to more than 1,600 participants who responded to the survey, 60% of San Diego Lime riders identify as Hispanic and 54% report an annual household income of $50,000 or less. Additionally, 1 in 4 Lime riders are 36 years old or older, with an average age of 31, and 16.5% of them have previously served or are currently serving in the US military.”

https://www.li.me/second-street/more-diversity-less-car-use-...

deepakhj··on Google to Acquire Looker
There’s plenty of apple and Netflix employees in Santa Cruz that commute over the hill. Also amazon has an office on pacific.
deepakhj··on Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Master’s Degrees
California already had free education. See the "California Master Plan for Higher Education." We had to stop because of prop 13.

"The State’s higher education and prison systems are a study in opposites. The prison system saw its state funding in dollars leap 436% between 1980 and 2011. Back then, spending on prisons was a mere 3% of California’s budget; it’s now 10%."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/california-publ...

https://time.com/4276222/free-college/

https://senate.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2017-02/Reclaimi...

deepakhj··on MDMA as a Probe and Treatment for Social Behaviors (2016)
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/ecstasy-study-botched-retracte...
deepakhj··on Ecuador has begun giving the US some of Julian Assange’s possessions
Have you read the special counsel’s GRU indictment?
deepakhj··on How the Apple Store Lost Its Luster
Citi Double Cash extends warranty by 2 years. Plus 2% cash back on everything. I haven't used it yet so I'm not sure how good service is.

Amex does 2 years too. Their customer service is unmatched when it comes to warranty claims. I've had them credit my account same day.

https://www.comparecards.com/blog/extended-warranty-credit-c...

deepakhj··on IPOs Bring Tax Jackpot for California; Can Lawmakers Resist?
Also we could defer taxes for elderly and charge the deferred taxes when they pass away. That way they don't lose their home.
deepakhj··on How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
"In the early 1960s, CA’s population was 15 million & we built 250K-300K homes/year.

Today, CA’s population is 40 million & we build 80K homes/year.

So our population nearly tripled while housing production dropped by over 2/3.

And people wonder why housing is so expensive."

deepakhj··on I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash
Craigslist?
deepakhj··on Slack Is Not Where 'Deep Work' Happens
I mute at here in all channels. It should be banned.
deepakhj··on Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
From Mueller's filing on the GRU, Organization 1 is WikiLeaks:

The Grand Jury for the District of Columbia Charges: Count 1 (Conspiracy to Commit an Offense Against the United States) In or around 2016, the Russian Federation ("Russia") operated a military intelligence agency called the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff ("GRU"). These units conducted large scale cyber operations to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Defendants ... were GRU officers who knowingly and intentionally conspired ... to gain unauthorized access (to "hack") into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election ... steal documents from those computers, and stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Starting in at least March 2016, the Conspirators used a variety of means to hack the email accounts of volunteers and employees of the U.S. presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton (the "Clinton Campaign"), including the email account of the Clinton Campaign's chairman. By in or around April 2016, the Conspirators also hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ("DCCC") and the Democratic National Committee ("DNC"). The Conspirators covertly monitored the computers of dozens of DCCC and DNC employees, implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code ("malware"), and stole emails and other documents from the DCCC and DNC. By in or around April 2016, the Conspirators began to plan the release of materials stolen from the Clinton Campaign, DCCC, and DNC. Beginning in or around June 2016, the Conspirators staged and released tens of thousands of the stolen emails and documents. They did so using fictitious online personas, including "DCLeaks" and "Guccifer 2.0." The Conspirators also used the Guccifer 2.0 persona to release additional stolen documents through a website maintained by an organization ("Organization 1"), that had previously posted documents stolen from U.S. persons, entities, and the U.S. government.

pg 17 Use of Organization 1: In order to expand their interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Conspirators transferred many of the documents they stole from the DNC and the chairman of the Clinton Campaign to Organization 1. The Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, discussed the release of the stolen documents and the timing of those releases with Organization 1 to heighten their impact on the 2016 U.S. presidential election. On or about June 22, 2016, Organization 1 sent a private message to Guccifer 2.0 to "[s]end any new material [stolen from the DNC] here for us to review and it will have a much higher impact than what you are doing." On or about July 6, 2016, Organization 1 added, "if you have anything hillary related we want it in the next tweo [sic] days preferable [sic] because the DNC [Democratic National Convention] is approaching and she will solidify bernie supporters behind her after." The Conspirators responded, "ok...i see." Organization 1 explained, "we think trump has only a 25% chance of winning against hillary...so conflict between bernie and hillary is interesting." On or about July 14, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, sent Organization 1 an email with an attachment titled "wk dnc link1.txt.gpg." The Conspirators explained to Organization 1 that the encrypted file container instructions on how to access an online archive of stolen DNC documents. On or about July 22, 29016, Organization 1 released over 20,000 emails and other documents stolen from the DNC network by the Conspirators. This release occurred approximately three days before the start of the Democratic National Convention. On or about October 7, 2016, Organization 1 released the first set of emails from the chairman of the Clinton Campaign that had been stolen by LUKASHEV and his co-conspirators. Between on or about October 7, 2016 and November 7, 2016, Organization 1 released approximately thirty-three tranches of documents that had been stolen from the chairman of the Clinton Campaign. In total, over 50,000 stolen documents were released.

Conversations reported from WikiLeaks to DJT JR. "Strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he mentions us," WikiLeaks went on, pointing Trump Jr. to the link wlsearch.tk, which it said would help Trump's followers dig through the trove of stolen documents and find stories. "There's many great stories the press are missing and we're sure some of your follows [sic] will find it," WikiLeaks went on. "Btw we just released Podesta Emails Part 4."

WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee's oldest son and campaign surrogate. "A PAC run anti-TRump site putintrump.org is about to launch," WikiLeaks wrote. "The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is 'putintrump.'"

Wikileaks urged Donald Trump Jr. to tell his father to not concede if he lost on Election Day, according to a bombshell report from The Atlantic that alleges the president's eldest child and the transparency organization secretly corresponded in private direct messages on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign.

deepakhj··on Julian Assange arrested in London
When did you get a copy of the report?
deepakhj··on Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan forgiveness program
Money for GM is ok but not for increasing the quality of public teachers.
deepakhj··on Apple Cancels AirPower Product
14 day return policy.
deepakhj··on Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
5 out of the 6 top reasons are housing related. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opinion/california-home-p...
deepakhj··on Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments
A lot of zoning regulations exist to keep black people out. See single family zoning, redlining, and apartment building bans.

Texas has barely any zoning and it’s doing fine.

deepakhj··on Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime
I had both experiences of a forest and urban area. I lived in western MA backed by woods up until 4th grade. Then I moved to the San Fernando valley. I think starting around age 6-7, I walked/biked everywhere, usually to a friends house, or a park/woods to play.

I also went to a magnet public school for middle/high school. It seems in as if everyone sends their kids to private school in San Francisco now which seems crazy to me. Did schools get that bad in the past 20 years?

deepakhj··on Apple's warning is a bad omen for Wall Street bulls
Airpods? Apple Watch?
deepakhj··on Apple's warning is a bad omen for Wall Street bulls
I'm the opposite. I love all of the new hardware.

1. I went from the 6S -> XS

2. 2015 MBP -> 2018 MBP. The only annoyance was the touch bar in Chrome.

3. Apple Watch Series 0 -> Apple Watch 4 LTE. I can track my surf sessions and take texts/calls in the water.

deepakhj··on How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG
Check out Witcher 3!
deepakhj··on Disinformation Report: An Investigation into Russian IRA Activities in 2016
The special counsel, NY Attorney General, SDNY and Eastern Virginia courts, etc are all following the rule of law. Hilary Clinton's foundation and Benghazi investigation went on for how long and turned up zilch.
deepakhj··on Robinhood launches 3% checking account
Charles schwab doesn’t charge arm or foreign transaction fees. I use Citibank for traditional checking, I rarely ever deposit cash anymore.

Stop using debit cards because they don’t have the same fraud protection as credit cards.

deepakhj··on Vinod Khosla is willing to litigate California’s coast for the rest of his life
East side Santa Cruz, near pleasure point, has weekend parking restrictions.
deepakhj··on Lyft Files for IPO
Sidecar beat both Lyft and Uber with people using their own cars. It launched in September 2011.

Uber launched UberX in June 2012. Lyft launched in June 2012.

Give Sidecar credit where it's due.

deepakhj··on Lyft Files for IPO
Zimride was founded in 2007.
deepakhj··on Lyft Files for IPO
Lyft’s founder created zimride which was the first ride share site. Sidecar invented the drive your own car model first.
deepakhj··on Detroit Has Had It with Cars
2019 rav4 hybrid does 41/37/39 mpg. (City/highway/combined)
deepakhj··on Rent Control: An Old, Bad Idea That Won't Go Away
https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/DMQ.pdf

"This reduction in rental supply likely increased rents in the long-run, leading to a transfer between future San Francisco renters and renters living in San Francisco in 1994. In addition, the conversion of existing rental properties to higher-end, owner-occupied condominium housing ultimately led to a housing stock increasingly directed towards higher income individuals. In this way, rent control contributed to the gentrification of San Francisco, contrary to the stated policy goal. Rent control appears to have increased income inequality in the city by simultaneously limiting displacement of minorities and attracting higher income residents.

These results highlight that forcing landlords to provided insurance against rent increases can ultimately be counterproductive. If society desires to provide social insurance against rent increases, it may be less distortionary to offer this subsidy in the form of a government subsidy or tax credit. This would remove landlords’ incentives to decrease the housing supply and could provide households with the insurance they desire. A point of future research would be to design an optimal social insurance program to insure renters against large rent increases."

deepakhj··on Rent Control: An Old, Bad Idea That Won't Go Away
How many new developments are there in the outer sunset?
deepakhj··on Rent Control: An Old, Bad Idea That Won't Go Away
When land is scarce, the only thing left to do is build up!
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