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Nelson: Hey, look how much Skinner makes. 25,000 dollars a year!
Bart: Lets see, he's 40 years old, times 25 grand.. woah! He's a millionaire!
- What about the software I wrote in the past year and a half for the schools I work for?

- What about the designs my co-worker painstakingly worked on over the same period?

- What about the reams of reports my wife wrote at her company, which makes heart valves? She gets up at 4:30 in the morning, comes home at around 5 at night, works after dinner. When there's an important deadline coming up (which is almost all the time), she works weekends.

All of these things are property. Each of us poured ourselves into these things. We could have done other things, but we chose to do these things. In a way, we're not special - we're just three people, out of billions.

None of us are thieves. You can casually toss around your equivocations and guilt-tripping for being born, but that doesn't change the fact that many people are honest and have earned what they have.
correction to myself on "buying", it appears the previous owner was "SHUKRY & VERA LAMA RVC LVG TR" and the new owner is "LAMA NADIA V", so it probably was an inheritance, not a purchase.
I think the people "that don't want you" are a small, although vocal, minority of San Francisco. Most San Franciscans prefer gentrification and tech workers to slums and everything that entails. The silent majority, is just that- silent. There is construction happening all over the city now, I think people are starting to "get it"- if you want lower rents, you have to build more hosing.

I've been in SF since I was 9 years old, so feel that I can comment as a near native.
Had a look. Meh. Moans about pinker not going on about the 1%'s economic violence against the 99%, ignores the facts that you're vastly less likely to die in war than was previously the case.
> in front of live audiences who have a high opinion of themselves

Well when the principle (you can only be invited) turns it into an elitist-hipster-network in the first place.
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I'm not an expert on California law, but the property changed hands on 12/30/2014

Grantor: SHUKRY & VERA LAMA RVC LVG TR
Grantee: LAMA NADIA V
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Words have meanings. In the context of a discussion of economic activity, you really have "no idea" why someone would assume you were using the economic meaning of "normal good?
So why not create a lifetime rent control that is tied to the occupancy of the current tenant? One they're gone, it's fair game for anyone at any price and you protect the "right to a home" for the existing resident.

That said, I don't think a rental can ever be a home in the way you describe it. The fact that the property is owned by another party means the resident will always be limited in their sense of place during their tenancy. This example is egregious but as an example, there's nothing to force a landlord to rebuild a property with after a disaster for the tenant with the insurance money.
Santa Cruz? Have you been there? It's definitely a love it or hate it kind of place. The food is better in SF. It's something like 78 miles down the coast, so the beer and wine are the same. The landscape is about the same. The big problem is going to be your commute over hwy 17. I did it for years and liked it, but it's not for the faint of heart or the skittish in car. Never been to Raleigh or Austin, but today was high 60's low 70's, and went for a walk on the beach. The weather will likely be the same in the dog days of summer. Can you say the same of the south/texas?

As for San Francisco not wanting people. It is over blown in my opinion. San Francisco did not want the gays, hippies, beats, Hispanics (even the one's who were originally living here), Chinese, Japanese or any other group who moved in to the city. Never stopped anyone and everyone gets over it eventually...
"morals" are arbitrary goalposts that people move around for their own convenience and gratification.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_disclosure there is a 1 year period before it becomes unpatentable.

However it does seem unlikely that there will be a patent. :-)
Indeed, just that it's ridiculous to say that supply and demand "don't work" for inelastic goods.

But I feel like people are focusing on the weaker argument, about gas and food, and ignoring the far stronger argument, that the vast majority of this country somehow gets by just fine without rent control.
Paris isn't too bad. The Louvre Pyramid, Centre Pompidou, much of Palais de Tokyo (e.g., National Museum of Modern Art in Paris), Parc de la Villette, Musée du quai Branly.

I think it's inevitable that any international city with loads of history will struggle to find opportunities for urban renewal that reaches the typical tourist.
> It's a pain in the ass, but you can do it in a weekend with a few hundred dollar moving truck.

Let me guess: no kids, haven't lived in your place very long, don't know your neighbors, don't have family nearby, don't live in a city with substantial pressure on housing, and you make over the median income.

> You might be able to raise rates a few percent, but you can't just move them significantly above market.

That you can't imagine something doesn't always mean it's not possible. It can mean the world is more complex than you expect.

I'm glad that you have such an easy and comfortable life that moving is no big deal, but that's just not true for everyone on the planet.
Thanks for the feedback. Do you have an early access/mailing list signup on your site where I can drop my email?

I also thought about doing the same thing in DOM with Famo.us but I found after some experimentation that the performance wasn't good when you had a lot of objects on the page. Canvas animation perf scales reasonably well.

Regarding widgets, I think maybe you are talking about something like http://themeforest.net/item/quasar-wordpress-theme-with-anim...

I think you can also do that sort of thing with Adobe Edge or Google Web Designer.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I'd like to see your project when it's completed. :-)
There is a 1 year grace period between disclosure and the deadline for patentability.

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2133.html
Rent control makes people become NIMBYs.
What you're talking about is the idea that economics shouldn't apply because there are a lot more emotions involved in house than in most other markets. Do I need to point out that that is silly, or is it sufficiently self-evident that economics applies anyway?

The real answer tends to be building enough housing for everyone. That also tends to be politically unpalatable, because the people with all the emotional attachments want their neighborhoods frozen in amber. So low-income people get pushed out by increasing rent and high-income people move in.

Pick your poison, really.
Slightly OT: Does anyone know whether there is there a housing equivalent of the Basic Income movement? Basic Shelter?
Yes, because that reading obviously conflicts with what I wrote. Words do have meanings, but they have multiple meanings. If one reading makes no sense, skilled readers will try another.
The 10x engineer is actually rather common place imho. If we can acknowledge that the work of some engineers create debt then we can simply find an engineer that doesn't and assume there's compound value in their work (which is probably the case).
>Should we place any value in ethical principles which are so immediately seen to be self-serving?

Are you also including those who own property in SF also included in this? They too would immediately change their tune if they had to sell the property and begin renting.

One party in this made the conscious choice to buy property with these restrictions on it, and receives the benefits of being a property owner (Equity, income from rent, etc) whereas the renter is only receiving benefits intended to protect them from price gouging.

I currently rent because I'm not sure if I want to keep living in my current city, and don't want to go through the troubles of having to sell property if I do decide to move. The last few years, my landlord has raised rent more than would be possible under a SF style rent control. I don't particularly care, because I can afford it and if it reaches a level where I do not think it is a fair price for what I receive, I will move elsewhere. I have no vested interest in this, as I have no desire to rent or buy property in SF.

But your comment seems just as biased as those you are singling out for wanting to protect their own interests.
Thunderbird with Enigmial also works quite well. I use it everyday.
> moving isn't "that" expensive. It's a pain in the ass, but you can do it in a weekend with a few hundred dollar moving truck

Care to show me a single company that would allow me to rent a truck for a cross country move for less than four hundred dollars?

Go ahead. Take your time.
Because you bought it? Clearly it has more value to you than the money.
Yes, but imagine if you owned a cab company in NYC or SF - how would you be feeling?
i actually read it that way too at first, and got briefly confused, because the phrase "normal good" screams jargon to me.
I think it would. Is there something special about SF in particular, or is it just the people? If you moved the people to Chicago or even Detroit, I have a feeling it would be exactly the same. If it's an issue of city size relative to the number of tech workers, look at smaller cities like Knoxville, Grand Rapids, or Madison. These conversations don't happen there because the people holding them don't live there. San Fran is almost a million people. The last two cities I've lived in clocked in around 200k. I think you're underestimating just how big San Francisco is.

I would gladly live in Silicon Valley if it weren't in San Fransisco. I don't think I would have the stomach to live in a city where the local people and politicians were that hostile to me.

And I still haven't heard anyone say that the local population doesn't totally hate everyone who works in tech. All I'm hearing is "yeah they hate us but look at how good it is for me". That's pretty awful.
Because that's what consumer surplus is. Look it up.

Without it you'd never bother to buy anything because you would gain no value from the transaction.
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... and another reason to hire remote. Helps reduce this kind of nonsense from happening.
Not quite useless. The statement could prevent Google from later enforcing a patent against anyone who'd relied on that statement, via the doctrine of estoppel.

And Google can't quite change their mind "at any moment" – more than one year after the first public offer/description of the technique, under US law, it won't be patentable. So by June 9, 2015, if they haven't patented it by then, they won't be able to.

(It's likely already too late to patent in other jurisdictions, that don't have such a long public-description grace-period.)
> A reasonable notice period plus lump-sum fee would be an interesting angle to overcome the transaction-cost issue. Wonder if that's been tried anywhere?

In California, this exists for certain kinds of evictions. The Ellis Act is much-loathed anyway.

The basic problem in SF is that many decades of very, very strong rent control and building restrictions are colliding with an economic boom.
> but that's mainly because he's repeating a well-rehearsed implementation.

I would like to watch videos of someone doing something similar, but not well-rehearsed reimplementation. Got any? Thank you..
You are correct that removing rent control would not completely solve the problem. The underlying reason for the increase in rent prices (and thus the need for rent control) is that there is a fixed supply of housing. The city has strict zoning laws that have limited the ability to build up[1]. Without a way to increase the supply of housing the only way for the market to reach equilibrium is for prices to rise.

So to make prices reasonable, both zoning laws and rent control will have to be reworked.

(1)http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/11/san_francisco...
Interesting that they've had a vulnerability reward program since June 2014. I wonder how that's getting on

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-...
> If you offer to pay at least as much for the building as the landlord would expect to make from renting it out then any rational landlord will sell you the building.

Which rational tenant would pay the same amount he'd pay as rent to buy the property, when that incurs additional costs (property tax, for example)?
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> Suppose you move in to a place and pay the then-market rent of $1000 a month. Let's further suppose that it cost you $2400 to move, plus a shitload of time and effort that you'd rather not repeat. If the next year the market price remains $1000/month, the landlord can still raise the rent on you because you'll be reluctant (and possibly unable) to pay moving costs again

many cities do not have rent control. the city i live in is one such city. the scenario you're describing does not happen here.

if an owner decides to raise rent above market, now that owner is faced with the possibility of not being able to rent out that space, because now they are renting above market price. even just 1 month of vacancy is already lost revenue that would often dwarf the potential gain of raising the rent.

owners also have costs too. when someone moves out, they have to pay to have the apartment repainted, listed, and brokered.

this is not the reason rent control exists. rent control exists because SF wants to keep prices low without building more housing, making life miserable for everyone.

> A bigger problem is that it might reduce the supply of new apartments. But that's also not a problem in SF

because the city continually refuses to allow new housing developments to be built.
You talk about TEDx like if it is a single entity, but it is actually thousands of individuals making independent decisions, with minimal oversight from TED. So of course there are going to be a few mistakes and if anything we should respect TED for opening up their brand and allowing experimentation.

The whole point is staying alert to see these mistakes, whether they come from TEDx organizers or from TED itself because nobody is right 100% of the time.
What's the not-asshole thing to do when you find out you could be making a profit literally ten times as big as your current profit? Especially when you know the supply being competed over won't be changing much.
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> What if the other unit needed to be knocked down for a reason other than to get rid of rent control?

Knock it down and don't jack the rent ~300%?
It's a bit foolish to assume that a landlord's sole expense is property tax.
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What about the recent story here where the Mountain View politicians were saying they wouldn't build houses for Google employees because they didn't want Google employees voting in their city? And Dianne Feinstein is still your senator...
I think most of our lives could be summed up with a similarly dismissive tl;dr. But perhaps something would be missing in the result.
How can we get rid of the homeless people in SF? I don't think anyone likes them and they contribute not only nothing to society but actually a negative amount. They are an eyesore and a burden to the community.
Insane prices or market prices?
I did. I actually sent everyone a note one morning that I was planning to avoid email, and they should hit me up directly if they needed anything. I was going to suggest that in the comments here, but I feel like I need to see how well that works if it becomes a regular thing.
Thanks everyone for taking a look and giving feedback. Thank you especially to the folks who gave me bug reports that I can take a look at and try to fix.

Most of the technical issues raised are fixable but a few are not.

SEO is fixable by following the Google ajax SEO spec.
Accessibility and other issues with selecting and highlighting text are not.

Many of the other criticisms could also be levied at other javascript heavy sites (e.g. Facebook).

It's clear that many people are philosophically opposed to rendering websites in Canvas because it reminds them of Flash and is incompatible with the semantic web.

I guess the proof will be in whether or not web consumers end up thinking it is cool or not. That remains to be seen. Personally I think this approach opens up a lot of interesting possibilities.

Anyway, thanks again for your interest and responses, even if they were largely negative. :-)
Property rights aren't "useful and important." Property rights are the fundamental basis for any other right. What right to life does anyone have if not because they "own" their own life? What right to free speech do they have if they do not "own" their own speech?

Thievery doesn't become acceptable because someone makes a compelling case or a pretty argument. Justice doesn't become "fundamentalism" because it won't compromise with injustice.
No, they won't. Please actually read and understand the law: http://www.sftu.org/omi.html
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nhaehnle's reply contains the fundamental error in your post, but there is another issue, which is that variance doesn't go away when you take the long run. Option 2 has more variance, and this doesn't get averaged out in the long run. Each year adds more variance to your wealth, which is a bad thing.

Sure, the variance on the yearly rate of return will shrink as the time horizon grows. But because the yearly rate is compounded, this doesn't prevent the total variance in returns from growing with time.

Long term investment doesn't cure the risk from volatile investments.
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Rent control is a shocking idea that makes a small claque of renters rich at the expense of everyone else. It's obscene.

Everyone blames the owners or some lawyer when a protected tenant becomes unprotected. The blame lies in the law that built up an artificial wall around the tenant and protected them from the market.

Rent control creates shortages, sub-standard properties and illegal tenancies. It should be abolished anywhere it exists.
What you're missing is that housing is not a normal good

This logic taken to its conclusion brings us to some pretty disquieting places. Maybe SF should just build a lot more housing.
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I loved the Makezine weekend projects with Bre Pettis (the guy in the video).

It's horrible to see what a fat greedy bastard he has become.

Taking from the OS community, giving nothing back and then even selling out to stratasys, a company that has actively fought DIY and OS 3D printers with its patents for decades.
Isn't this guy getting his $12,500 security deposit returned? I think that would set you up pretty well with a U-Haul and gas.
Ah, but the most harm to who? There are more people affected here than just the landlord and the tenant.
I call this "the moonwalking fallacy". It's the problem where you're asked a dumb question, and you give the sensible non-answer that demonstrates the underlying competence the interviewer is ostensibly looking for, but you lose to the next candidate who has the exact answer they're looking for on tap. And they can moonwalk.

Interviews suck and we should all stop doing them as much as we possibly can. There are much better ways to handle this problem.
Rent control seems monumentally stupid.

In Australia, the government owns houses and rents them out to people cheaply. The owners of the house are compensated when the house is bought.

It seems insane that owners of a property should be expected to keep rent artificially low to help poor people.

This is the government's job.

But then, in America, you guys don't trust the government to do anything like house, educate and heal people.

Go figure.
One of the key differences is public vs. private. These are requirements from the government (town, city, municipality, county) and should reflect the will of the people. People have more rights on a public level and fairly assume that people should be able to transact without much scrutiny. Drivers want to make extra money, riders what transparent, available cheap transportation. A small number of rent-collectors are worse off in this arrangement, but broadly both sides of the market reap reward.

In the above case, Twitter is a private company, and has a right to do whatever it wants with it's service. It can get away with as much as it's users will tolerate. As a public company it has shareholder requirements, sure, but in this case it was a technology/UX problem. Meerkat was doing something that most seem to think devalued peoples user experience, and abused the purposes of implemented features. Meerkat gained a lot of exposure, and I am sure some people did benefit by it, but by and large the beneficiary was Meerkat gaining exposure by broadcasting pre-made content (spamming).
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Is that so? RabbitMQ on a single node is easy, you can get up and running right after installation with just the defaults.

I do agree there's a few gotchas with clustering though, such as firewall rules and inet_dist_listen_min/max, setcookie, etc.
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The application I see for this is avatar or even character faces in games, reflecting their user's expression in real time.

Also probably cat memes.
But that's a problem with supply in the market, not a reason to keep rent control.

Fix the supply and the rent takes care of itself.
The major issue with SF is the lack of new housing being built at the first rung of the property ladder. Plenty of 1 million dollar plus units being built, but nothing for first time buyers. Worse the developers actively resist building affordable housing even when the city bends over backwards to accommodate them. Even worse is the amount of new office space being built. There simply isn't enough housing in the Bay Area to cope with the number of new jobs the cities want to add.

At some point the bubble will burst. Companies will be forced to relocate away. But sadly there is enough crazy in the market to keep it going on for a while yet.
Grace periods are shorter or non-existent outside the US. Publication date is June 9 of last year, so Google has less than 3 months to change their minds and turn-evil to pursue a patent on this technique.
my particular moral code says you must abide by my particular moral code

It's not merely an arbitrary moral code that I'm asserting. What other way is there to live than to use your mind as best you can to make the most of your limited time? What other way is there to live than to treat others neither as masters nor slaves, but as trading partners (in love, friendship, mentorship, business)?
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> So why not create a lifetime rent control that is tied to the occupancy of the current tenant

That's already how it's supposed to work.
Terribly high increase. Wow