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Do you have any idea how much a marriage costs?

That's a valid point, but they are trying to incentivize behavior to fix the issue OP asks about, so it's probably a good thing overall (it's not a hoodie for 5-star reviews only).

"The cuts amount to about 13 percent of SurveyMonkey’s workforce of about 750. The cuts were made primarily among the sales team devoted to SurveyMonkey for Business."

"Armed to the teeth" with rocks

Every relationship is engineered, one way or another.

If twitter goes full algo I will stop using it just like I did Facebook as soon as they stopped showing me everything in chronological order.

Yahoo is profitable, right? Am I missing something?

I should have said "alternative antibiotics"

Unfortunately many of the effects of humans are long-lasting. The elimination of buffalo, for instance, or the loss of most wolf populations in North America which lead to the explosion of deer, IIRC. I am quite interested in the possibilities of selective breeding to replace extinct species, and the major die-off currently happening could have negative effects we have not yet even begun to see.

- Antibiotic alternatives (we're going to need them fast)

- As another poster mentioned, how do we suck the carbon from 150 years of burning fossil fuels out of our atmosphere?

- Cognitive enhancement

- Re-wilding - rebuilding devastated ecosystems in the Anthropocene with engineered biodiversity

Did you completely miss the study he was talking about?

The bay area is an interesting example. Prices are skyrocketing from demand, but part of the reason why supply has been so slow is that demand has been so sudden. San Francisco has always had a high quality of life, but it did just fine until the tech booms. The majority of people now moving to SF are coming for economic reasons. Would UBI reduce these motivations, easing pressure on the local rental market? I don't know.

SF definitely demonstrates that the price of food will go up if there's enough money floating around. But you can still get a burrito for $6 if you know where to look.

But the more interesting possibility is actually that we don't increase demand. You have the unemployed, who will go from having no income to having income, and demand from them will certainly rise for the necessities. But for the large middle swath, perhaps this will not add to their spending, but instead provide a means for people to take longer vacations, stay home with children, or create artwork more adventurously. Perhaps this will, rather than increasing demand generally, provide flexibility sufficient for the middle class to feel safer in spending more time in ways that build social ties, benefit the community, and create cultural value that is insufficiently valued in the current economic regime.

Look at the most basic need: food. Demand is relatively constant - you need enough to eat, and shouldn't eat too much (obviously in practice there is a certain amount of elasticity and differences in demand for different types of food). Supply of food already exceeds demand (look at food waste, supermarkets tossing out ugly produce or burning unsold items to maintain their profit margin). So - demand for food barely goes up, supply continues to exceed demand.

It is always ironic when the leisure class who have enough money to do as they wish from birth become very concerned that the poor simply aren't EARNING the right to eat, sleep, and rest.

Thank you for doing this. This is truly the kind of thing the tech industry needs to be doing in order to make a net positive impact on society and promote a more agile, results-based social super-structure.

EDIT: So many of the comments here are obviously ideology driven. I am ideologically in favor of full automation and UBI but doing this kind of research will help us move forward in an informed and scientific way.

But that's really the whole point of privilege - belonging to the group is enough to grant you the advantages of it. Period. It doesn't mean your life is great, it doesn't mean you don't have problems, but the members of a privileged class absolutely possess those privileges - that's how it works.

It's relatively easy to quantify pay discrimination against various groups. Emotional pain and civil rights deprivation are harder to quantify, though.

People who want to move here (for opportunities or work) by definition do not have an established life here, are not part of our community, do not have family and friends they have known for years based here, and have not worked to contribute to making San Francisco what it is. I am not overly concerned about how hard it may be for them to arrive.

Hasn't 'twenty-something', in the popular vernacular usage, already taken on the meaning of a distinct life phase (not quite adult, not still adolescent)?

This is great news for all of us in San Francisco

I assume you have the same problem with Tesla?

Of course it's not genetic, it's environmental.

yeah guys, Nestle just acquihired the U.S. Forest Service, what's the big deal?

It's insulting because it addresses its target audience as though they are children, as if they don't know how money works.

Couldn't agree more. That random sentence thrown in: "Capitalism is the best system in the world," left my mouth hanging open with it's total lack of justification.

Rent never dropped in the Bay in 2008, it just stabilized for a few years. Anyone know how rents reacted in 2000?

So, assuming that certain details might have been changed "to protect the identities of those involved," it may in fact have been Gaikai, a video-game streaming startup acquired by Sony for 380 million in 2012.

Check out this article, http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-to-buy-cloud-gaming-firm-gaika... , in which the CEO denies two weeks before that there is any deal with Sony, and reportedly "expected well in excess of 500 million" for the company. Incidentally, Gaikai has an office in Berlin, according to https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gaikai and their main office is in Orange County, just outside of LA.

EDIT: Gaikai's CTO, Andrew Gault departed some time in the same year as Sony takeover.

EDIT 2: The CEO of Gaikai said in an interview,“To give you my real take on it, I honestly can’t think of a future for the console companies that don’t include cloud gaming at some point. They can hold out as long as they want to, but at some point, you don’t want to be the console that can’t do this. To some extent, I expect all three of them will have this. But we have to stay Switzerland – we can’t end up competing with anyone. I would like to see all of them use Gaikai, that’s my fantasy, right? It would be cool.” Source: http://www.vg247.com/2012/06/07/dave-perry-shoots-down-gaika...

"Broken down to prison type, 19.1% of the federal prison population in the United States is housed in private prisons and 6.8% of the U.S. state prison population is housed in private prisons." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#In_the_United_St...

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Work for a successful French web company in a startup environment at our SF office.

Viadeo is looking for a Backend Software Engineer.

------About us----------------

We are a professional social network with more than sixty million users worldwide, leading the market in France and China, and continuing to grow, with a public introduction on the Paris stock exchange in the summer of 2014.

The SF office is located near Union Square and consists of a small, autonomous team that is equipped with the skills needed to conceive, develop and roll-out its own projects. We value a fail-fast approach by facing the customer early in the development process, making small iterations and by continuously improving our processes.

-----Our Development Process-------

-Our stack: Java, MySQL, ElasticSearch, HBase, Node, Ember, Backbone

-We practice agile development: two week sprints, quick daily stand ups, actionable retrospectives, and iterate.

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-Daily post-lunch Mario Kart session

-We take our table-tennis seriously

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