California Leads U.S. Economy, Away From Trump
Whatever the president says, this state does the opposite. It's working.
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Posted on 2017-05-10T23:38:49+0000
To Combat its Housing Crisis, California Just Launched a Legal War on NIMBYs
A number of bills aim to crack down on developers and communities are getting in the way of the effort to build new housing.
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Posted on 2017-05-10T15:19:31+0000
I Made a Game in Rust
, and to the best of my knowledge, it is the first commercial game made in Rust to be released. It’s not the largest or most technically demanding of games, but I’m proud to have an existence proof for the viability of gamedev in Rust.
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Posted on 2017-05-10T04:48:14+0000
CPU Utilization is Wrong
CPU Utilization is Wrong
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Posted on 2017-05-10T04:35:42+0000
How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality
An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices — and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class.
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Amazing and extremely sad read.
Also selfishly makes me wonder whether I should get in on this whole mortgage interest deduction thing.
"Racial exclusion was Roosevelt’s first concession to pass the New Deal; his second, to avoid a tax revolt, was to rely on regressive and largely hidden payroll taxes to fund generous social-welfare programs. A result, the historian Michelmore observes, is that we “never asked ordinary taxpayers to pay for the economic security many soon came to expect as a matter of right.” In providing millions of middle-class families stealth benefits, the American government rendered itself invisible to those families, who soon came to see their success as wholly self-made. We forgot because we were not meant to remember."
Posted on 2017-05-10T00:29:36+0000
'Civilization' Creator Sid Meier: "I Didn't Expect to be a Game Designer"
With 35 years of game development behind him, Meier opens up about his inspirations, burnout and why his name is on the box
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Posted on 2017-05-09T02:32:45+0000
How to Trick People Into Saving Money
Inside Walmart’s curious, possibly ingenious effort to get customers to build up their savings accounts
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"Young people didn’t buy them. Low-income adults did. The company started asking the people who called its service center why they were using the product, and the answer was usually that they didn’t have bank accounts. “That’s when I realized,” Streit says, “Wow, we’ve got the right product, but the wrong demographic.” The packaging was redesigned, and the renamed Green Dot started making new deals—including one with Walmart to create the MoneyCard, which debuted in 2007."
Posted on 2017-05-09T00:24:27+0000
U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county
The District of Columbia and Loudoun County have gains in longevity; eight Kentucky counties have the worst decreases.
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Posted on 2017-05-09T00:18:28+0000
For Chinese Home Buyers, Seattle Is the New Vancouver
Canadian city’s tax-policy changes appear to be driving overseas investors south
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Good news for those who already have a house, bad for those who don't?
"Stella Guo, a third-year university student from China, and her family recently purchased two waterfront properties in Seattle for more than $5 million each. The family owns a Chinese development company and is also looking at building projects in the northwestern U.S.
Ms. Guo, who attends college in Arizona, said she doesn’t plan to live in Seattle full-time but wanted a place for her and her family to relax on vacation and was drawn to Seattle’s temperate climate,"
Posted on 2017-05-08T03:15:24+0000
This guy took a Facebook project people hated, made them love it ... and catapulted into an incredible career
How Smyte founder Pete Hunt chased down the haters and helped turn React into a wildly popular Facebook technology.
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Posted on 2017-05-08T02:31:58+0000