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I let my kids try out YouTube kids and I thought all the content was total garbage. Mostly toy unboxing videos, video game walkthroughs, and creepy knockoffs of cartoons they liked. Deleted it very quickly. We stick to DVDs and Netflix now.

they would love to. zoning.

That is one of the ideas being explored:

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...

Doesn't that normally start with a pilot to determine what rules are good?

It seems like if you want to come up with a permit process and rules, rather than just making them all up at once you'd grant permission to a small group for a limited period to figure out what rules make sense, then write the rules, then open up the permitting process.

When selecting the pilot group it also makes sense to try to find partners that are likely to co-operate and be responsive to your requirements rather than companies with long histories of completely ignoring local laws.

You're right that SF has a history of abusing permits in the interest of Nimby-ism -- see the 'war on fun' for one example -- so I do agree it could all turn out terribly in the end, but that doesn't make this an unreasonable start.

He's not referring investment in the sense of individuals coming in, buying houses, improving them and flipping them.

> We're talking about things like putting in street trees, painting crosswalks, patching sidewalks, and making changes to zoning regulations to provide more flexibility for neighborhood businesses, accessory apartments and parking.

His argument is that small civic investments in infrastructure in poor neighborhoods have a good chance of increasing the average property value of the whole neighborhood and thus increasing the tax base. Not all 'investments' will work, but they are relatively inexpensive so you can experiment and replicate the ones that do work across the whole city.

At one time I was a hiring manager at a largish global tech company. Not having a degree myself, and noticing that a large number of the top devs in the company also either had no degree or had degrees that were not in any way related to CS I pushed back on HR to pull the 'relevant degree' requirement from our job postings. I was told that I was welcome to recruit, interview and hire people without a college degree, but if we posted the job publicly without the requirement, we would not be able to hire any non-American programmers. The government would see the lack of a degree requirement, even for a sr dev or specialized tech position, to mean it was an entry-level position that any American could do and would deny our visa request if the person we liked best happened to be a foreigner.

I don't know how real the risk is, but it is a perception in HR at big companies.