At first glance, it seems obvious why California has such a disproportionate number of America’s homeless. Housing is very expensive in California. But why should expensive housing cause homelessness? If houses in Nome, Alaska were as expensive as in Los Angeles, would Nome have as much homelessness as LA? Commenter CaliNice had an interesting comment […]
Why do tenants have to bring their own refrigerators to rent apartments in Los Angeles?
Reuters reveals how a UAE surveillance operation, staffed by former U.S. cyber-agents, spied on dissidents, rivals and Americans. Inside 'Project Raven.'
A step by step guide for solving a difficult organizational problem, including notes on single stack ranks, team interdependencies, building consensus, reducing work in progress, and how to move your company towards better priority management.
Examining the policy options for responding to Russia's possible use of autonomous drones in Ukraine.
Eight hours a day is a myth. Embracing our individual sleeping patterns could be the key to a better night’s rest
Tony Fadell sat down with Lumafield to look inside his iPod using our Neptune CT scanner. 'I wish we'd had CT scanning like this back when I was at Apple'
Cradling an AK-47 and sucking a lollipop, the former American Green Beret bumped along in the back of an armored SUV as it wound through the darkened streets of…
War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business
I like watching videos. A lot in fact. Today, I've spent over 6 hours watching youtube videos, an hour of reading through comments1 on hacker news, 3 hours of s
So far, there's been no evidence of aliens from the incidents.
With billing, the devil is in the details. In this article, Raffi provides a high-level view of the technical challenges we faced while implementing a hybrid pricing (based on both 'subscription' and 'usage') at 5x unicorn Qonto.com, and what we learned the hard way in this journey.
FOR AN HOUR , Elyjah Blankenberg carefully went through his baseball card collection. He wanted the perfect mix of Orioles and Yankees cards -- but mostly…
Crime has surged lately in the New York City subway system, though shootings remain rare. In April, there were two. The first took place during the morning…
A video posted toward the end of February on the Facebook page of Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, showed grainy aerial…
Let’s talk about a career in tech, but not the usual boring stuff about salary or how to pass the interview process at the place with the most over...
Passing over a bridge, the Rhine river flowing below, it’s hard to tell that we have left Switzerland and are entering the tiny principality of Liechtenstein.…
When it comes to their child’s athletic pursuits, parents can go a bit crazy. They lose it on the sideline, yelling at the referee at their 8-year-old’s soccer match. They stress over whether their kid is making progress and if he or she is good enough for the travel team or to make varsity. Even…
The agile movement revolutionised the way technology companies operated and was a key driving force behind successes like Google, Facebook and Airbnb. But, two decades after it started, the movement is now dead with the final blow dealt by McKinsey recently promoting an “agile transformation office”
We tend to overestimate how awkward small talk with strangers might be, but new research has found that when forced to endure long bouts of conversation with people we don’t know, we’re actually better off for it
It’s the prevailing American child-rearing model across class lines. But there’s a better way.
