Frankly -- about time that a lot of so-called "tech" that's really based on making users the product and advertising to them crashes and burns. Tech Bubble 2.0 will end, and only the productive companies will emerge.
Why are outside "app" vendors being essentially handed lists of emails? Unfortunate that this will continue, even after the changes -- this is bad practice and promotes spam if nothing else.
Yep, the US needs working hour/vacation time laws, even if that makes us only slightly more productive than other developed countries. Happiness > productivity.
It would be funny when Facebook comes up against California's (fairly strict) eviction laws. It might be an incentive to keep even opinionated employees on, otherwise their cute little company town might end up filled with disgruntled ex-employees who have lawyered up.
I feel more sorry for the residents of the surrounding neighborhoods...
(1) Will their reasonably-prices stores and gathering places be replaced with those that cater to chichi tech-hipsters? (2) Will any of their communities be bulldozed under eminent domain/"blight" laws to make way for a measly 225 housing units?
Not being as rich as your neighbors doesn't make you "ghetto", and poorer people need to live somewhere too.
Read: most affordable. Last I checked, the poor need to live somewhere as well.
How many existing residents will be displaced if eminent domain (aka land theft) is used to build the thing. I bet the 15% of below-market-rate homes will still hold fewer people than the homes bulldozed to build this utopia.
San Diego has plenty of tech/engineering/biomedical jobs, and their industry is not as obnoxiously cloying as the Bay Areas. Live in a cheaper neighborhood (read 105/113/114/119/120 ZIP codes), enjoy the weather, cycle year around.
Everything old is new again. It's called a company town.
Will they pay their employees who live there in Farmville points, only redeemable at the local company store?
My uncle in a small East European town had an operator phone till the early 2000s. No hand crank, but you picked up the phone and waited for "what number, please?" to make a call.
Assuming no manual controls and a failed computer, what should the steering default to? Straight ahead? Remember that few roads are straight and level.
At least an aircraft at cruising altitude has a few miles of room to sort out any malfunction.
(1) Were. The NHTSA recently tabled a car communication mandate that would make self-driving cars easier to implement. (2) Hopefully the next recession will delay this by a good decade and slam the brakes on some of the more obnoxious, privacy-destroying, soul-sucking aspects of the technology business in the US.
Downtown Phoenix with the old early 20th century Craftsman homes is a happy medium between our two extremes... They were also designed to keep cool (or at least not to kill people) without A/C.
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Facebook wasn't all that popular in 2008. MySpace was too much of a hot mess to get anything of value from it.
Frankly -- about time that a lot of so-called "tech" that's really based on making users the product and advertising to them crashes and burns. Tech Bubble 2.0 will end, and only the productive companies will emerge.
Why are outside "app" vendors being essentially handed lists of emails? Unfortunate that this will continue, even after the changes -- this is bad practice and promotes spam if nothing else.
Those systems will likely be used to snoop into Google employees' lives, first and foremost. Who is kidding whom?
Living under the microscope of your employer would be terrible.
Yep, the US needs working hour/vacation time laws, even if that makes us only slightly more productive than other developed countries. Happiness > productivity.
Indoors? Likely illegal, or at least the company can't retaliate if they're disabled or covered by tenants.
Rent increases are limited to a certain % per year by CA law. Also, there's a concept of constructive eviction.
It would be funny when Facebook comes up against California's (fairly strict) eviction laws. It might be an incentive to keep even opinionated employees on, otherwise their cute little company town might end up filled with disgruntled ex-employees who have lawyered up.
I feel more sorry for the residents of the surrounding neighborhoods...
(1) Will their reasonably-prices stores and gathering places be replaced with those that cater to chichi tech-hipsters?
(2) Will any of their communities be bulldozed under eminent domain/"blight" laws to make way for a measly 225 housing units?
Not being as rich as your neighbors doesn't make you "ghetto", and poorer people need to live somewhere too.
Farmville points ... only redeemable for organic, locally-grown food sold at 10x markup at the company store. I mean, company delivery service.
"The Bay Area's poorest..."
Read: most affordable. Last I checked, the poor need to live somewhere as well.
How many existing residents will be displaced if eminent domain (aka land theft) is used to build the thing. I bet the 15% of below-market-rate homes will still hold fewer people than the homes bulldozed to build this utopia.
That was more of a planned suburb to create business for the railroad's suburban trains (or tram lines?). It wasn't 85% populated by railroad workers.
San Diego has plenty of tech/engineering/biomedical jobs, and their industry is not as obnoxiously cloying as the Bay Areas. Live in a cheaper neighborhood (read 105/113/114/119/120 ZIP codes), enjoy the weather, cycle year around.
Everything old is new again. It's called a company town. Will they pay their employees who live there in Farmville points, only redeemable at the local company store?
(1) "mute" button
(2) rip the music off the video for future use, saved locally.
Problem solved without paying Gootube a dime.
Civil forfeiture isn't "grabbing the property of people who commit crimes." It's grabbing property WITHOUT proof of a crime. Much worse.
My uncle in a small East European town had an operator phone till the early 2000s. No hand crank, but you picked up the phone and waited for "what number, please?" to make a call.
LaGuardia definitely has payphones. So do Penn and Grand Central stations. Can't recall if JFK or Newark have them right now.
Assuming no manual controls and a failed computer, what should the steering default to? Straight ahead? Remember that few roads are straight and level.
At least an aircraft at cruising altitude has a few miles of room to sort out any malfunction.
(1) Were. The NHTSA recently tabled a car communication mandate that would make self-driving cars easier to implement.
(2) Hopefully the next recession will delay this by a good decade and slam the brakes on some of the more obnoxious, privacy-destroying, soul-sucking aspects of the technology business in the US.
As far as the deer example, wouldn't the deer show up as a big blob of heat on an IR camera?
Discouraging people who have violent mental health issues from seeking treatment -- good idea.
And yet, NYC has relatively few traffic deaths per mile traveled compared to Phoenix.
Doesn't look like there's any streetside parking to hide a pedestrian either. If it happened there, doesn't look good for Uber.
Downtown Phoenix with the old early 20th century Craftsman homes is a happy medium between our two extremes... They were also designed to keep cool (or at least not to kill people) without A/C.