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California housing prices and homelessness - Econlib
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 […]
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A Middle East Monarchy Hired American Ex-Soldiers To Kill Its Political Enemies. This Could Be The Future Of War.
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…
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Exclusive: Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE
Reuters reveals how a UAE surveillance operation, staffed by former U.S. cyber-agents, spied on dissidents, rivals and Americans. Inside 'Project Raven.'
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When Everything is Important But Nothing is Getting Done
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.
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Russia May Have Used Autonomous Drones. Now What?
Examining the policy options for responding to Russia's possible use of autonomous drones in Ukraine.
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iPods put 1,000 songs in your pocket, Neptune CT by Lumafield shows you how.
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'
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The coming food catastrophe
War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business
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Tarun's blog
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
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What Congress learned in its first public hearing on UFOs since 1966
So far, there's been no evidence of aliens from the incidents.
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😵💫 Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
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.
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The Yankees fan who lost his autographed baseball cards
FOR AN HOUR , Elyjah Blankenberg carefully went through his baseball card collection. He wanted the perfect mix of Orioles and Yankees cards -- but mostly…
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A Subway Shooting That New York City Overlooked
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…
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The Turkish Drone That Changed the Nature of Warfare
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…
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The Other Kind of Staff Software Engineer
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...
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Next-door Liechtenstein: familiar yet different
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.…
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How to Raise a Champion—Chill Out
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…
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Agile is Dead, McKinsey Just Killed It
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”
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Small Talk Isn’t Nearly as Useless as We Think
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
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The Untold Story of the White House’s Weirdly Hip Record Collection
Jimmy Carter’s grandson, John Chuldenko, is unlocking White House mysteries. The record collection is an archive of the nation's music taste back in the 70's.
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David Dahan
Hi, I'm David, a CTO and a former startup founder, currently offering consulting services as a CTO as a service.
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How the Liver King Built an Empire by Eating Raw Organ Meat
The Liver King does own shirts, first of all. Several, he claims. I haven’t personally seen them, because when he greeted me in the cavernous entryway of his…
