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Re:SF to Establish Office of Emerging Technology by rolltiide on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:52PM (#21234512)
> and there is $250,000 in the current fiscal year’s budget to fund the effort.

Uhm

SF spends 2 orders of magnitude more on homeless and housing annually

Feel free to check I dont mind being wrong, the actual point is that this whole article and thread is about a new office on a $250,000 budget and people think this materially effects the city’s resources at all

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Re:SF to Establish Office of Emerging Technology by undefined3840 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @02:14PM (#21235045)
This actually makes this announcement even worse. A $250k budget is an utter joke, so it begs the question if this was all done as a troll move toward the entire startup ecosystem in SF to get everyone riled up.
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Re:SF to Establish Office of Emerging Technology by nerfhammer on Saturday October 12, 2019 @03:51PM (#21235741)
One form of obstructionism that has been used by Peskin is to require a new or expanded type of permit and then decline to fund the permitting agency, so it doesn't have the resources to issue any permits.
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