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Yea so the problem is you can't think of tech as one industry. Every company that's being created right now has to involve software one way or the other. That's why companies like Tesla (auto), Netlfix (entertainment), Solarcity (energy), Sofi (finance), airbnb (tourism), uber (logistics), tons of biomedical companies that I don't know the names of (medicine) all headquartered in the bay area.

A one bedroom condo in downtown Vancouver is very affordable compared to San Francisco.

If someone is living in the mission there are only 3 options; 1) They own their house 2) They are renting but their unit is rent controlled 3) They are rich or have high paying jobs (and building more actually helps them)

"Because the actual building they live in gets demolished to build another building"

This happens very rarely, people will literally revolt before a rent controlled unit gets demolished in the mission

So someone opposing more building in the mission falls into the first two categories and they are extremely selfish

turns out its easier/cheaper to do all these things, if people actually live in a dense city rather than spread out suburbs

Well September and October are warmer than July usually.. Yes its never swimming weather but its (almost) year around t-shirt during the day light jacket at night weather. No AC or heater needed year around (heater maybe 10 nights a year)..

I learned almost everything from chapter 1-9 including Fourier analysis at school. don't really know anything about chapter 10 (quantum mechanics). I work for amazon now so that the other buzzword cloud is taken care of.. Damn I was I chapter away from becoming a quantum cloud engineer.

"techies/hippies/yuppies/homeless people/Republicans"?

Let me guess you write poems for a living?

No foreign money is good! They are not sending their kids to local schools, or driving down on 101 every day to cause traffic. They also pay way way more property tax compared to someone bought a house 20 years ago..

Article doesn't mention that none of the developers are trying to raze down beautiful Victorian houses to build skyscrapers. Most of SF, West of Van Ness avenue, remains untouched, even the super ugly single family houses in Richmond and Sunset. All the development is happening in Eastern Neighborhoods; SOMA, Mission Bay and Central Waterfront.

A very small percentage of the construction overall that's happening in the Mission district and Potrero hill is creating all this anti development noise. Even in these neighborhoods developers just want to build housing in underutilized land..

like this laundromat: http://sf.curbed.com/2014/5/23/10095908/38-housing-units-pro...

or a graffiti lined warehouse: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/201...

Yep I agree about RH and Pacific Heights. I don't think its a small part of SF, that's the thing.. Central Waterfront and Mission Bay has so much potential.

http://www.pier70sf.com http://missionrock.org http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/201...

Central SOMA up north and hunters point in the south, eastern neighborhoods will add 50k+ residents to SF in the next 10 years

http://208.121.200.84/ftp/files/Citywide/Central_Corridor/Ce...

Developers are finally building in SF..

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/201... http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/04/san-franciscos-hu...

This is very good news, my prediction is that this wave of supply is going to reduce the prices for a while. There is actually still a lot of space in SOMA/Mission Bay/Central Waterfront to build. New construction is all going to be condos rather than single family homes, people who want to live in single family homes and drive to Costco on the weekends (nothing wrong with that) will continue to move to Seattle or Portland.

Money is flocking to SF from all over the world through VC companies and mutual funds, still. It used to be VCs with previous exits who already live in the region but in the last 2 years a lot of dumb money coming in. At some point in the next 5 years Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack, Palantir and Stripe are going to have exits, even if 3 out of 8 lives up to their potentials these exits are going to create a lot of potential home buyers. Facebook, Google, Apple and Netflix (yes, netflix) are going to continue growing their empires. If SF's city officials can pull it off, with the increased investments in public transportation eventually San Francisco is going to become a global A+ city. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city)

Only a 'black swan' event can stop SF's medium term growth. We already had a 'black swan' event in tech in the recent history, burst of 2000, everyone is expecting a similar story here. It's the nature of 'black swan' events that if people are already expecting things to fall apart, the magnitude is much less. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory)

Erdogan is loving this New York Times article right now.. This is exactly what he needs.. A so called non-muslim enemy to rally his supporters against her. Somehow he made his supporters believe USA Russia Iran and Israel are all supporters of PKK (Kurds) at the same time. Turks on average read 1 book every 10 years. I don't blame Erdogan, I blame the generation came before us not to educate themselves.

No one mentioned code sharing between server side and the client side! (There are other ways to achieve this other frameworks/libraries are catching up) If you have a node.js server you can use react for both server side rendering and client side rendering.. So that you get the SS rendering advantages like fast initial page load and SEO but also have a very dynamic web app after the initial render.

Please keep writing dan abramov! May I suggest turning some of your stackoverflow answers to longer essays/blog posts in an organized fashion like https://www.objc.io/issues/

lol super cool logo..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fez

But if the H1-B worker can actually do the same work, what stops Disney from moving all the development to a more immigrant friendly country? Other countries would even give Disney tax benefits to do so..

Transferring your H1-B is much easier than getting one..

Does it really matter how many H1-Bs you allow every year? Look at how many big companies are opening offices in other cities especially in Vancouver or London just because of visa issues. Limiting H1-Bs is just going to force Facebooks and Googles to open up overseas dev centers. At least a high paid H1-B worker helps the American Economy in some ways.. He/She pays a ton of taxes, buys real estate and hopefully employs other Americans..

Taxing income makes it harder for first generation hard working high income earners to purchase a house, whereas real estate gets passed down from generation to generation and increasing its value along the way.. Only making rich people richer..

well that house was sold again 1990 so the taxable value was reassessed.

But I am sure you paid more in income taxes in London. Which policy do you prefer? In my opinion taxing wealth is always a better idea than taxing income..

One of the main reasons of the housing crisis in the Bay Area is Prop 13 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...) Prop 13 basically keeps the property taxes constant (or 1% increase) as the value of your house increases (doubles or triples). Your tax gets re-calculated only if you sell your house and the new owner starts paying potentially multiples of what the previous owner has been paying in taxes. This works great for older people who own property they can basically stay at their home forever, but it creates an unfair situation for new comers in the area and the newer generations.

How are property taxes calculated in other places in the world? Vancouver? London? Tokyo?

This is such a hard problem to solve, no one wants to force elderly people to move because of a bull real estate market, but you also need young hard working people in your city for economic growth. My solution would be to jack up the real estate inheritance tax and allocate that money for public transportation and affordable housing.

so i need to learn IOS and Android development to learn what's going on behind the scenes as well? Ideally right? But that's definitely not a prerequisite of building RN apps. Abstractions are great if its done well..

This is great! Helps a ton for someone new to react native, lowers the already low barrier to entry. Integration with microsoft code push (https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-code-push) could be cool.

I think he has a more sophisticated view of what's happening in Europe right now.. Don't mix him up with your everyday red neck anti-immigrant American.

Marx's theory of History states that after workers gain consciousness against their capitalist bosses they are going to revolt (figuratively) against the system, capitalism will collapse and we'll end up with "the fifth stage of the history". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_history

Native Western European working class almost is at this stage right now, they have really powerful unions, high wages and big corporations pay high taxes.. There is a fair distribution of wealth. But an influx of cheap labor (refugees and immigrants) distorts this balance, and prolongs the transition to Marx's fifth stage of the history 'Socialism'.

I would love to read his book about his view on life, if he ever writes one..

You should be selling electronic content to be the everything store! That's the whole point. If apple and google tries to stop amazon from selling tv shows or movies, of course amazon is going to fight back

If you add the shipping costs, those offers are usually more than what prime offers

yes people live with roommates in separate rooms, and some convert a part of their living room to another room (this is actually really common) but I know very few people living 2+ (you seriously mean 3 or 4 here?)

I am not talking about migrating the whole app but how about for new features? I noticed that they redesigned their friends request page, why not build that with react native?