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When he was elected, I was happy, perhaps he could enact the changes that needed to be made to reign in some of the spying, ridiculous defense contracts, and other items. I based this on the "not red or blue country" speech at the DNC convention. That hope passed quickly when he made the "I won" comment to the Republicans instead of just assuaging or listening to their now valid concerns.

I would argue that the obstructionism during the first two years should not be considered a factor based on the make-up of the Congress. The Democrat congress and President would have been able to hold the majority if they had not stirred up the hornet's nest of populism from the right through the healthcare act fiasco. Had he just focused on creating jobs, winding the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to a manageable level of involvement, and proselytized about family being important, we would not be having Trump running for office today.

In your example, the building you describe is a condominium? If so, then what does it matter what your tax bill is and if they are absentee owners; if the owner maintains the property, pays their bills and taxes, then you should be happy to have them.

Tax reassessments during the boom of 2001 to 2007 were on track to price a lot of people out of their houses based on their current economic status. Proposition 13 and other bills passed across the country allowed individuals to avoid being "taxed out" of their house.

If you have a job that pays $100,000 and the taxes on your $250,000 house is $7,500 (3% property tax) and the tax quadruples to $30,000 in five years; why would you want the market fluctuations to be able to force an individual to leave their house?

The main item with this problem, as is with all affordability issues is that supply is not meeting demand. Look in Detroit and Flint where there is not enough demand and the supply is worth next to nothing.

Author's points of increased units would lead to a drop in prices until it becomes affordable to all. San Francisco will never allow it because the people who live there want to keep it San Francisco and NIMBY rules.

I wish more university rankings would have the results of their students held against them. An exit test of abilities, logic, and knowledge would be a great ranking system.

Additionally, when Presidents claim to be constitution law focused and fail in almost all of the concepts of following the constitution, the professors have failed and the department should be redacted down, similar to the division system in soccer.

He was not an opportunist, he was vindictive; when he did not get certain things or recognition, he sought out the Russian government's approval.

Watch the non-NSFW boards as a starter and just browse through threads. People will come up with theories or ideas and then it is expanded upon with insights from opposing viewpoints.

Then there is the crazy things that /b/ will do with a photo. There was a principal who was goading the group with a photo of two underage girls, the tenacious Anonymous was able to run down the school and principal.

It is scary and soothing at the same time.

Those are profits, if you are able to operate your company to the degree that one is able to accumulate the cash, then there is no reason to increase liabilities to accomplish a task.

If you want to spread the wealth around, then you need the government to perform this task.

What are the loopholes? Is it like Section 8?

They fell in the statement because it was listed on the Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_in_the_United_Sta...

Thank you for the heads up.

This was tried during the 1600's and 1700's, there were 99 year leases on land between the gentry and the yeomen. When costs increased, the gentry were unable to adjust the price on their leases and paved the way for social upheavals.

Know thy audience.

Those who own and rent to others are not looked upon favorably by those who rent. It's the Scrooge principle: A man who provides a service to those who would otherwise have no service are despised by all.

The sad thing about the opposition to the Ellis Act is how much it hinders the renting populace. By not allowing the landlord to pass along costs to the user, the user ends up losing more because the landlord is less likely to sink more monies into a facility.

Edit: If you are going to downvote me, please take the time to provide a reasoned response, I am open to hearing opposing points of view.

There is rent control in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Oakland, CA. People get priced out of the market through an increase in demand and a lack of corresponding supply opportunities.

1. The lessee stays in a rent controlled location during a period of price increases, absolving themselves of the real-world price increase that is occurring to the landlord. So, to move from the house would mean the costs the landlord absorbed will be now absorbed by the lessee, meaning there is a large expense in moving. So, you either make the lodging you are in work, or else you move out. If you move out, lacking a corresponding wage increase, you will be priced out.

2. For San Francisco, there are height and zoning restrictions galore in the city. Supply to meet the demand is just not going to be allowed by the locals who push for "Keeping San Francisco like San Francisco." Since, demand increases, supply is static and those who would like to come in at $X wage are simply priced out of the market.

Additionally, a number of these research programs take the source code and make a go of a small business product.

There is no Myth of Nuclear Safety, all energy production has known pro's and con's and approaches are made to mitigate these risk factors. Nuclear energy's risk factors are the easiest to swallow for the waste output.

The Fukushima reactor was built to withstand a huge amount of risk factors, they just all happened at the same time. The risk mitigation concept would be to say that you need to design a house to withstand a 10,000 year storm.

This was obvious back when Yahoo, WebSpider (Spidercrawler), AskJeeves, and AltaVista did it.

It was ridiculous that you would type in "Delta Airlines tickets" and the results would go: United Airlines, TWA, Fly By Night Corp, Rickety Rickshaw Airlines, We Barely Stay in the Air, and DuctTape & Flights.

The results were so bad that when Google came along and used the PageRank feature to deliver information, it was a godsend (Thanks God). Try searching for something on Google today and there is a high likelihood that you find or at least get close to it.

Just remembering how bad it was back in the day until the web search engines got their act together and became Bing and Google.

Thank you for posting this link.

If anyone from Pixite is reading this, do what the good ones do with their logos, through the company logo on the app logo.

For your ease, please compare these graphics before and after: http://i.imgur.com/lMwL3kh.png?1

Before shows no brand awareness, the after develops brand awareness.

When the roll out of ios 7 or 8 occurred, the games on the first week at the app store were ridiculous cheesy items. It made the case that the back end at Apple was not cared for.

Looking at this weeks AppStore front page offerings, a lot of them were from the previous week's AppStore offerings; no change essentially. I have slowly stopped going to the store as a source for anything.

What I need is a web page that tells me where to go for XYZ App, who has the newest option, and how much it costs. I bought Assembly the week it came out because it addressed a need of mine for basic graphic design, simply done. Then, I want to say the week after, it was free on the AppStore. I have been burned three times so far by jumping on something only to see it released for free a few weeks later. I AM LOOKING AT YOU ALTO's JOURNEY.

Ultimately, we should all learn from Rovio's trajectory:

1. One-hit wonder

2. Ramp up to find more customers

3. Sales from new customers goes down as saturation sets in

4. New product fails to deliver

5. Turn on existing customers to have them pay a monthly fee to deliver a stable income.

Look at the DayOne's App movement on the AppStore (I love this app, but unfortunately I know they will move to a revenue model after my three years of using their app).

The problem is scale and safety.

I can start a company tomorrow selling farm churned butter from the cows that operate at my farm. It is the best butter because every morning I go to the cows and tell them they are the best cows this side of the Mississippi. I churn the butter by hand and sell out a lot of product. However, when I max out the cows on my location, I need to buy more cows for my farm and increase the amount of land or I can ask Farmer Jed next door to talk to his cows in the morning and tell them that his cows are the best cows this side of the Mississippi. Farmer Jed churns the butter by hand, but he forgets to wash his hands after he goes to the bathroom, something I never did like about him, but he tells this great story about him and the milk maid over in Aberdeen.

Multiply my success more and more and finally I am needing thousands of gallons of milk, a centralized processing system to churn the butter and ensure quality control of my brand and then I have a knock on my door from a white glove butter churner. They have gone through the regulatory process with the FDA, have done butter churning for other companies successfully, and have a great track record. I will hand over that portion to them.

This is why the companies start out warm and fuzzy, but regulatory issues, meeting demand, and other fun things cause a drive to outsourced production.

Or the: Hey Reddit we are struggling post.

The SOF individuals are some of the smartest entrepreneurial individuals you will meet. They are able to work together as a team because they build from what the OP has said.

Taking a simplified example to make further arguments is not fair. There can always be further counter-arguments. SOF will be deployed and then they adapt to problems with a clear goal.

If you told the team, develop plans for the stabilization of a government, they can do it.

Absolutely, a recent recording of an iTunes U course had a professor commenting on the projection of homosexuality in ancient scripts where a Roman Emperor had an appreciation for a male individual. The professor noted that a number of professors wanted to label the relationship homosexual, but he disagreed and noted that other types of relationships exist.

That being said, Hans Hermann von Katte and Friedrich the 2nd were lovers.

1. Did not know this service existed. How long had this been going on and why did it not show up, even accidentally, in the Google matrix drop down to give me a shot.

2. Oh, does not work in my state... Okay, no need to worry about this service then. Google, you are Google, get everyone on board for the domestic region before launching a service like this.

A friend of mine did the same seminar, the thing that you get is positive belief in yourself to conquer anything. This may wane, but if you are down on yourself, Tony Robbins will turn you around.

Absolutely, imagine that you are applying for a government contract or position and that you are vehemently against (pick a topic) and have made a few comments on Hacker News about how bad this politician is. The politician pops up that you are minus on supporting them, maybe you do not get priority on the contract.

That's GM.

Where are the lessons learned from these integrations? We are currently 15 years into the dot com malaise and there does not seem to be good project managers or decision makers who recognize what they need requirements-wise and then what it will take to bring a person/team/company into the fold.

Hate him or love him, Zuckerberg has a team that integrates. Instagram was brought into the fold at Facebook and there has been little to no rumblings across the board from the users to the developers. WhatsApp has been left alone at Facebook and I still use it.

The integration teams exist, but the processes and/or politics are killing the integrations at a lot of companies.

How does Prop 13 work? The people who wrote that paper are saying that it is a subsidy; absolutely not. The tax rate is frozen, so as I understand it, the person simply pays a lower rate, it is not a system where a tax is paid and then has it refunded to them.

I am going to be highly critical of an economic research paper that looks at a tax as a subsidy, so here we go:

1. A tax rate lower because of a law than your neighbor is not a subsidy. A child deduction on an IRS form is not a subsidy.

2. The average length of stay for a home owner was increased by .11 years for Bakersfield, 2 years for Los Angeles, and 3 or more year for the Bay Area. Bakersfield, as far as I know, has no rent control, so there is an argument that this is essentially a rounding error. Los Angeles and the Bay Area are rent control cities, no where in the paper is this brought up as an externality forcing the longer periods of tenure ownership.

3. Table 1A shows that rental tenure increased from 4.30 to 5.25 years from 1970 to 2000, this is essentially the same increase as that of 10.76 years to 13.42 years for the home owners; 24.7% for the home owners and 22.1% for the renters. This should invalidate pointing to Prop 13 as the reason for longer owner stays.

4. Florida and Texas pass the same law and the paper simply says, forget them. The two states, Florida and Texas, go on to show that there is no impact from Prop 13, thus further invalidating their study.

5. Not one mention of rent control being a reason why people may not want to move out of their existing dwelling and purchase a home.

This may be a good paper to reference as a point, it is a horrible paper by ignoring externalities, comparable examples, and not examining differences between areas (Bakersfield vs. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco).

That is not a fair assessment of the situation. There are a number of factors that have been put in place by the populace and government agencies to force this situation in the bay area:

1. Rent Control: This forces an incentive not to move. If you are in the 4-bedroom house at $1,500 a month for the past 15 years, a comparable 4-bedroom house is now $6,000. There is no incentive to move and owner's have little incentive to bring up to standard something they are not going to get an ROI on. In this instance, Prop 13 actually makes the situation bearable for the landlords, think if the costs went up and your return stayed static.

2. Building Restrictions: Between the historical board, local populace anger to building, and zoning enforcement, the bay area's supply has been static while demand has increased. There are workarounds, but they border on illegal (i.e. the guy who turned a storage closet into a baby's room for additional space); essentially sub-dividing up existing property.

Within the Bay area, the ability to move a demand curve down has not existed, so the prices have risen to meet the existing supply. Prop 13 has no direct effect on these two items except a positive effect for the landowners in reducing the tax burden that would have forced early bankruptcy for them because of the rent control.

I am not one to say that the rich get richer, but this may be a specific case of an individual being supported by his parents circumventing the normal process of working the ropes to progress up to taking photos of the people discussed.

On the other hand, it is great that these photos are available as they allow bloggers to use these to make their site look more professional.

Journalists cannot help inserting their views of candidates, Zachary Crockett, describes anyone who works for Trump as "Cronies." Since, @zzcrockett will read this now, you need to keep your opinion out, your other articles were great, keep them that way.

Goat Simulator.

Listening to Marissa Myer this morning talk about the company she could not identify a core function within the company or a future.

She had a number of buzzwords laid out and did not give any idea of what they were going for. I need her to say things like:

1. We are working to create a cross-platform experience that outdoes Google and Apple within their app system. The best photo sharing program across app and web for me is Flickr and we are going to become the anti-facebook by guaranteeing your content privacy.

2. What is Yahoo? As it stands now, it is an amalgamation of multiple properties that bring in revenue streams. If this is the case, then if I were an investor, I would be trying to find a way to squeeze assets out.