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You can't fill a city entirely with bankers, tech workers, and other professionals. What about teachers? Police? Those in the restaurant industry?
I don't think anyone is claiming that everyone should have a "human right" to live in SF. But when looking at the city as a systems problem, creating a sustainable system may require these kinds of measures to allow the right mix of people to live in the city.
26, Seattle/WA, ~$350K.
One critical difference: GoogleTV was a platform where distribution (updates, etc.) were owned by the TV manufacturer. Google owns the update channel on Google Home.
It's like comparing the Pixel now to early carrier-operated Android phones.
Haha, this was a friend of mine! According to his retellings, the day also included:
* Being asked if he was a communist
* Asking one police officer why he was being detained, and being answered "I don't know, what'd you do?"
It doesn't seem to be mentioned directly on the Google Ideas site, but it seems to be Jared Cohen's own project [1], which could explain the defense-themed sub-projects. Interestingly, their last public blog post was in late January [2], and there hasn't seemed to be much public press on what they're doing in a few years.
[1] http://www.cfr.org/experts/cybersecurity-iran-technology-and... [2] https://plus.google.com/+GoogleIdeas/posts
You'd think this would be enough protection, but it turns out that some browsers (looking at you, IE) actually try to infer the content type from the page content. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775147(v=vs.85).as... for more info.
I've run into this multiple times on Ubuntu---have you installed the "msttcorefonts" package?