Housing Bill Package Passes Legislature, Goes to Gov. Brown
Measures to fund affordable housing and ease local developments passed the Assembly in a late-night vote Thursday. The state Senate passed them Friday afternoon.
Hasnain says:
"The bills earmark billions of dollars for home construction, and enact rules making it harder for local governments to block new developments, with the overarching goal of increasing housing stock in the state."
YES
Posted on 2017-09-29T18:21:20+0000
Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
The Swedish home goods giant is looking for some digital help from the contract labor marketplace.
Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars
Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures
Hasnain says:
This makes me sad: college is so expensive in the US making students struggle to pay, and yet, the people teaching them are also struggling to keep a roof over their heads.
Posted on 2017-09-29T05:15:51+0000
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Hasnain says:
"Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee"
Posted on 2017-09-29T05:05:42+0000
Ford Made the Perfect Ad in Response to Saudi Arabia Lifting Its Ban on Women Drivers
‘Welcome to the driver’s seat’
Hasnain says:
This is an amazing ad, with an idea stolen from an indie artist :/
Posted on 2017-09-29T04:51:22+0000
Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet?
Now we have the "Russia-hacked-the-voting-systems-of-21-states" to add to this trash heap of debunked official claims. Is this a healthy climate?
Hasnain says:
"Regardless of your views on Russia, Trump and the rest, nobody can possibly regard this climate as healthy. Just look at how many major, incredibly inflammatory stories, from major media outlets, have collapsed. Is it not clear that there is something very wrong with how we are discussing and reporting on relations between these two nuclear-armed powers?"
Posted on 2017-09-29T04:19:54+0000
We’re sending our daughters into a workplace designed for our dads
In January 1949, Fortune magazine advertised a survey of its readership. The ad announced: “We have just completed a statistical portrait of men, like
Stream VByte: breaking new speed records for integer compression
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Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-09-28T06:59:01+0000
YC’s Essential Startup Advice
A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve collected here what we at YC consider the most important, most transformative advice for startups. Whether common sense or counter-intuitive, the gu
CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
Who placed the JavaScript code on two primetime dot-coms? So far, it's a mystery