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gyc··on I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled
George Gascon,the DA at the time, was also a so-called "progressive DA".
gyc··on Mall department stores were struggling; the pandemic has pushed them to the edge
I believe the English term is mixed-use building. They do sound pretty darn convenient.
gyc··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
>The pay is usually very noncompetitive.

But the benefits are usually top notch (e.g. healthcare). If the position comes with a generous defined-benefits government pension, it can actually end up being more lucrative than working in the private sector.

gyc··on Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
> Which of Breyer's clerks drafted this? They clearly understand many tech issues and I hope they find their place on some Federal circuit to herald an era of logic in tech law.

Breyer also has a brother who was a District Court judge in the SF Bay Area who's undoubtedly had to deal with various tech cases. Not saying there's any kind of shared knowledge of tech within the Breyer family but just kind of interesting.

gyc··on Rush Limbaugh has died
Well I guess to make this somewhat tech relevant he was a pretty big Apple and Mac fanboy despite not liking the company's politics.
gyc··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
I mean it's only unfair in that anyone else who has continuously violated twitter's rules would've been banned long ago.
gyc··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
Sure. He's violated twitter's rules numerous times. This is as good of a time as any to actually enforce their rules.
gyc··on College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too
The university I attended had a single family home neighborhood only a few walkable away where many faculty members lived and raise their families.
gyc··on Silicon Valley exodus: Bay Area tech companies leaving for Texas
I don't know about unstable ecology, but I'm kind of tired of the yearly weeks of forest fires causing dangerous air quality here in the bay area.
gyc··on The HP-35
My dad bought one as a student at Stanford at the time and he passed it down to me for use in high school >20 years later. An amazing piece of technology.
gyc··on Apple Fitness+
Damn I'd buy an iBike.
gyc··on Facebook trying to position itself as friendlier to small businesses than Apple
Wonder if an ulterior motive is to hit back at Apple fo Apple increasingly limiting the ability of Facebook and other ad companies to track iOS users.
gyc··on Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
Or at the very least unconscious anti-Asian bias on the part of admissions officers.
gyc··on Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
Your description reminds me a lot of the restaurant in Midnight Diner.
gyc··on Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
And law firms big and small.
gyc··on Patent: Electronic flashcards (2013)
> Something about needing to explicitly refute each claim

Seems like a wholly reasonable rule, no? We don't want the government to arbitrary grant or deny something without applying the same rules to everyone?

gyc··on Chinese restaurants are closing – many owners are glad
There has been an explosion of Authentic regional Chinese restaurants in the U.S. in the last 10 years or so. Even if that can't replace the Americanized Chinese takeaways that are closing it is much easier to find high quality Chinese cooking these days than ever before. Heck, take a place like Minneapolis that's not a particular hot spot for Chinese-Americans and there are probably 4-5 pretty decent Sichuan restaurants.
gyc··on Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers
Yeah I read the book in middle or high school in 1993 or so and really turned me on to learning UNIX.
gyc··on Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe
DHH said his wife actually had a higher credit score than him.
gyc··on How California Became America’s Housing Market Nightmare
Also wanting the neighborhood to be preserved in amber from when they bought the place.
gyc··on We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
The crowdsourcing benefits not just cloudflare but any potential future targets of the patent troll.
gyc··on Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees
We can quibble about the exact political slant of Cato, but it definitely takes policy positions that are more libertarian than mainstream Republican positions. See, for example, the drug war.
gyc··on Stripe to move to South San Francisco
I assume they'll also run commuter shuttles like Genetech.
gyc··on Stripe to move to South San Francisco
I doubt the wages are going to be appreciably different in South San Francisco. Office rents is probably one reason, but the gross receipts tax is almost certainly the biggest reason for the move.
gyc··on Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
People from Taiwan are probably counted as Chinese in the demographics.
gyc··on WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources
Maybe Hello Fresh will expand their sponsorship from Youtube Sloggers...
gyc··on Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them
I don't know where most of these schools are listed, but I do know that Payton is in Chicago proper and out out in the suburbs.
gyc··on Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York
Yeah it's definitely that and not the President putting out absolutely deranged statements on a daily basis on twitter and elsewhere.
gyc··on O Oberlin, My Oberlin
The article also pointed out that the university was also prepared in a few days after the protests to announce they had not renewed the contract of a minority faculty member who had made some wildly anti-Semitic statements, and that the protests may have been amplified to distract from that.
gyc··on Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
This is what I'm thinking. Take a small (for Amazon) that will be dwarfed by people who sign up for or renew Prime memberships hoping to luck out on a similar deal in the future.
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