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Your answer MUST be expressed a NUMBER, not some vapid BS platitude.

But if a college graduate has to spend 95% or 105% of their after-tax income just on rent there is ZERO left for student loans and insurance, the conclusion is that both cities are completely unfeasible except for graduates with very wealthy and generous parents.

Your sole point is that "SF is more unaffordable than Boston". So what: living on a moon base would cost even more than SF.

> one would not expect that just starting out that you would have an average single bedroom

I have had a lot of roommates a lot, but I don't even see how that's workable in SF for the vast majority of graduates. And we are talking about college graduates: these are people whose employers expect them to arrive clean and rested, which is difficult to do when sleeping under a bridge, and who didn't grow up expecting to have to wait until they have 10 years of experience and 3 children to finally afford a 1-bedroom apartment.

EDIT: and your percentages are wrong: try 48% of gross for BOS and 60% of gross for SF. Figure 40% for taxes and you have either very little for food, insurance, medical care, transportation, clothing, entertainment or you're already negative. Oh, and I forgot: STUDENT LOANS.

The family resemblance is to be expected since the two brands are the result of feuding brothers splitting their family business: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/12/02/aldi_grocery_...

If you are shorter, half-height blocks are available to get to 12" of lift, or if your are even shorter, just use one layer and get 8".

I also bought a 29" wooden bar stool at Wal-Mart for $20 to take brief breaks for standing.

In broadcasting, amateur radio operators ("hams") are allowed to use the airwaves much more easily than commercial broadcasters.

Perhaps this principle does not translate perfectly to drone operations, but the general goal seems to be to protect both individual liberty and consumers of for-profit service providers.

(Note that contrary to political rhetoric "government regulation hurts business", the viability of the airline industry depends on safety standards: the market has to be larger than "hardcore daredevils" to justify a fleet of 737's.)

$25/hour: seriously?

The International Dark Sky Association exists, but I don't know how successful they have been. http://www.darksky.org/lighting-codes/simple-guidelines-to-l...

Technical work often has a more rigid "minimum viable solution": a civil engineer can't just give up on a bridge halfway over a river, nor can he say "I just skipped the wind loading calculations and hope the school buses don't run on windy days." Some types of software (especially embedded e.g., aerospace and automotive) have similar concerns about safety and warranty.

And the effects of technical debt and bad code will eventually result in slow iteration and poor product quality which will eventually become visible to customers.

Barbara Liskov used "call by sharing", aka "call by object-sharing" or "call by object". http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40480/is-java-pass-by-ref...

"had drugs shipped" is a little ambiguous: someone shipped drugs using the mayor's house as the destination; Mayor Calvo had no knowledge or involvement in this. Despite his lack of involvement, the SWAT teams shot both of his Labrador retrievers, including one that was fleeing.

Photo of the mayor and the deceased: http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/09...

Therefore, using this research to plan a relocation may be counterproductive.

And since clock speeds stagnated a decade and a half ago, but Moore's Law still allows more transistors to be packed onto a chip, adding dedicated hardware for specialized operations is about all designers can do.

Steve Yegge wrote: "Go look over Paul Nordstrom's shoulder while he works sometime, if you don't believe me. It's a real eye-opener for someone who's used Visual Blub .NET-like IDEs their whole career."

Does anyone know of any public video of Mr. Nordstrom using emacs, or can someone who knows him request one? [edit: properly attribute the quote]

And yet media reports consistently imply that restricting immigration is both impossible and unethical.

For instance, you could call your computing product Hammer, or call a rocket Hammer, or call a person Hammer (Mr. Martel or Mr. Burrell), or you can make a carpentry tool called the "Martel Hammer" or the "Burrell Hammer" or the "Rocket Hammer" or the "Lambda Calculus Hammer". But if you invent a new carpentry tool that is not a hammer, you don't get to call it "Hammer".

Also, the 3 letter convention is a somewhat helpful limitation in the same way that countries defining which side of the road to use is actually helpful. For instance, it is nice to have all of my JPEGs ending in .jpg rather than a mix of .jpg, .jpeg, .JPG .JPEG.