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There are 257 open positions with titles that lead with "Senior" {Scientist|Engineer|Manager}. That seems extreme. Does no element of the organization develop from within?

  the ones that worked against construction of dense housing and public transit

I can't think of any public transit construction that has been denied, period, no matter how badly envisioned or constructed.

"We conclude that GBPs are an ineffective policy strategy to reduce gun violence, a finding consistent with descriptive evidence that (i) firearm sales prices are set too low by cities to appreciably reduce the local supply of firearms, (ii) most GBP participants are drawn from populations with low crime risk, and (iii) firearms sold in GBPs tend to be older and less well functioning than the average firearm.

  Please don't capitalise the term 'black' here

The San Jose Mercury has just changed their style guide to do exactly this (capitalize Black when used in a racial identity context)[0]. When using "white" in the same context, it remains uncapitalized.

[0] example: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/03/protesters-march-to-s...

This particular judge is an Obama nominee with an activist track record[0]. I expect this will be stopped by a higher court before it takes effect.

[0] https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/justice-still-denie...

  GrubHub... lost $33.4 million over the last 3 months. (In fairness: COVID-19.)

I don't understand the qualifier. Hasn't Covid-19 been a boon to delivery services? If they can't profit during these artificially beneficial market conditions (boosted demand and endless supply of minions to do delivery), how can they ever profit?

The Court didn't support it.

Check out the summary [0] elsewhere in these comments (not mine, but I found it helpful).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173858

  executive orders can decide what the law means

You should tell the SCOTUS that. They overturned 55% of Obama executive directives that reached them, and his administration had the most overturned unanimously (yes, even Ginsberg and Sotomayor) of any Presidency.

>>Also, the U.S. Constitution's requirement that State governments be (small-r) republican

  There is no such requirement

Dude. This is literally in Article IV:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, ..."

  extremely partisan Wisconsin court has now struck down that law in a blatant act of judicial activism

"Extreme partisanship" is more evident in your complaint about a "striking down" that didn't happen of a "law" that doesn't exist. The Court upheld existing law and struck down executive actions that violated it.

By the way, Supreme Court justices here in Wisconsin are elected on statewide ballots, not nominated for life like Federal judges. Your basis for calling them "extremely partisan" is, what, exactly?

The jsonline link moved to:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/13/wisc...

I emailed the mods address.

Another:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/wisconsin-supreme-co...

(2012)

But this ruling means it can't be done ever again (barring a Constitutional Amendment).

Full title: "Appeals court rules ACA’s individual mandate unconstitutional; lower court to decide whether rest of law can stand without it"

Title taken from that used in the print edition of the San Jose Mercury, 11/5, page A7.

What about non-Uranium isotopes?

Note that this is an Initiative Statute[0] (not a Referendum). This allows them to write a broader package of laws (rather than just "undo" any previous bill) to implement a broader wish list.

When reading the text of proposed law, note that "engaged" means with an active rider/fare, not all time available accepting rides on the app. 25 hours of actual engaged time in a week sounds improbably difficult to achieve in most areas.

Note that this is an Initiative Statute[0] (not a Referendum). This allows them to write a broader package of laws (rather than just "undo" any previous bill) to implement a broader wish list.

When reading it, note that "engaged" means with an active rider/fare, not all time available accepting rides on the app. 25 hours of actual engaged time in a week sounds improbably high.

[0] https://protectdriversandservices.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

Appears on the front page of the San Jose Mercury 7/15/14 as "Valley has a new whiz kid: Elizabeth Holmes may give Zuckerberg a run for his billions"

"The new police portal, which can be found on the SJPD website, offers a speedy way to report people they suspect of solicitation, through submitting physical descriptions, license plate numbers, and photos."

"A glitch will cause a shared scooter to rocket to 19 mph (30 kph). The impacted scooter is the Segway Ninebot ES4 that is found in the fleets of most shared scooter companies, Bird, VOI, Jump, Lyft, and many more. The top speed from Segway is ~19 mph and for safety reasons the shared scooter companies limit this speed between 10-15 mph (15-25 kph).

Following a series of simple steps (listed in article) will cause the Segway Ninebot ES4 scooter to rapidly accelerate to 19 mph (30 kph). If the throttle is released during this time it'll take a 1 to 2 seconds before the scooter begins to stop accelerating.

This glitch impacts all ES4 scooters used by the shared scooter companies. It's easy to unintentionally activate and dangerous to an unsuspecting or inexperienced scooter rider. Use caution if trying this for yourself."

(First published March 2018)

More on this from CalTech's Konstantin Batygin:

https://www.konstantinbatygin.com/formation-of-the-solar-sys...

Abstract of the Batygin/Laughlin paper with free link to full PDF:

https://www.pnas.org/content/112/14/4214

2017 Interview:

https://audioboom.com/posts/6069597-mystery-of-the-birth-of-...

  has the biggest army in the world

Actually, the seventh biggest. (IISS, quoted in Wikipedia)

Disney is acquiring Fox News effective within a month.

Moreso for the indigent patients who don't pay at all for ER use.

I'm not comfortable taking productivity advice from somebody who still uses a typewriter. (See the photo)

The original motto of the Pinkerton Detective Agency was "We Never Sleep".

If they were picking up trash from the ground, that would be one thing. Generally, they instead harvest redeemables from existing recycling and trash bins... often dumping the remainder on the street or ground in the process.

  All Bay Area cities have to follow mandatory orders for building quotas from a Bay Area organization called ABAG

No, ABAG has no authority that supersedes any city or planning commission.

  First hand accounts re older properties

... is a crock. Older properties tend to have even smaller building footprint/ total parcel area ratios.

How about one example of any parcel with a residence footprint taking 80% of the parcel area?

As or that Lennar development, you are totally ignoring common area (exclusive and nonexclusive use).

Property tax is a function of assessed value of the land plus improvements (generally buildings).