Links - March 9, 2016
- In San Francisco and Rooting for a Tech Comeuppance David Streitfeld - The New York Times
In a way, it is surreal to be living this first hand, knowing that I am part of the problem. How long can SF keep going without a policy change?
- Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Ambition Lizette Chapman - Bloomberg Business
As Ben and James have discussed in the last few episodes of Exponent, this is not a bubble. It is a bifurcation.
- Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here's why. Thomas Frank - The Guardian
Very related to yesterday’s Noah Smith article on Bernie, and last week’s Stratechery on “The Voters Decide”. Both Trump and Sanders appeal to a population that is not addressed by mainstream media.
- Why the poor pay more for toilet paper, and just about everything else Emily Badger - The Washington Post
- The Data Sleuths of San José Christian Caryl - Foreign Policy
I remember these events from when I was a kid, and it really interesting to see them exposed here again, a decade later, when I can actually understand them and their implications. I wonder what kind of data is available today, in Costa Rica and elsewhere, just waiting to be analyzed to uncover other schemes like these.
- Data structures in JavaScript Benoît Vallon
Javascript is a weird language. Period.