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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.

hanging | 7 years ago | on: Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods

  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).

hanging | 7 years ago | on: Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods

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

hanging | 7 years ago | on: Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods

  new developments are in 3000 sq ft lots and have 2400-2600 sq ft built area

I'd like to see your source for these figures. 400 sqft doesn't even meet setback requirements for a 3000 sqft lot in any Bay Area city I'm aware of.

Likewise, that initial 20% by area (2000 of 10,000sqft) structure dimension ratio sounds made up.

hanging | 7 years ago | on: Monty Python's Cheese shop sketch transcript

Video of the original TV performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPqGt0ZI_1k

hanging | 7 years ago | on: New Research Suggests Solar System May Have Once Harbored Super-Earths (2015)

Paper: "Jupiter's decisive role in the inner Solar System's early evolution"

https://authors.library.caltech.edu/55970/

hanging | 7 years ago | on: ICE makes more arrests at decoy university; some detainees being deported

hanging | 7 years ago | on: H-1B: Outsourcer HCL games visa system to discriminate against non-South Asians

  What I found was that 12k USD inflated adjusted was same as 5k USD in 2007

No, $5.000 in 2007 dollars would be $5.060 in 2012 dollars[0]. You are off by over 2 orders of magnitude when speaking in "USD inflated adjusted" terms.

[0] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5000&year1=200...

hanging | 7 years ago | on: Democrats Unveil New Bill to Fully Restore Net Neutrality

The bill in the tweet in this article is a Senate bill.

hanging | 7 years ago | on: Democrats Unveil New Bill to Fully Restore Net Neutrality

  just how reprehensible they are

Are you unaware that we had NN under Bush and then lost it by actions of the Obama administration? And that Pai was originally nominated by Obama?

hanging | 7 years ago | on: The least you need to know to experience the joy of better brewed coffee

A striking omission is the importance of grinder type (Burr vs. blade).

hanging | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do any of you who live in the Bay Area live on a boat in the Bay?

You'd still need a slip somewhere, with its associated costs.

Years ago, a friend lived on a boat at Pete's Harbor (Redwood City). He wasn't a fan.

hanging | 7 years ago | on: Starbucks' music is driving employees nuts

For those unfamiliar with the reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place