Well, more like post-acquisition they were forced to close more or less legal but highly unethical/questionable subreddits because massive media companies like Conde Nast can't be bothered with accusations that they allow things like jailbait photos on their websites.

It's pretty similar to Fark, as well, since Fark had to make the site safe for work in order to keep advertisers and to get on shows like Jeopardy. Now, Reddit gets on Jeopardy despite having dedicated not safe for work content, but it's basically 10 years later.

It's much harder to find a good Linux admin than a good Windows admin. A good Linux admin also costs more than a good Windows admin. A good Linux admin is not nearly as uniform in how they implement their environments than a good Windows admin. Basically, Windows admins are cheaper, easier to replace without a complete reevaluation of the existing implementation, and Windows has better enterprise support to boot.

As someone who works in the public sector, I can tell you that the pay of the public sector does not attract good Linux admins. They'd rather go work for companies that will pay more handsomely for their services, like financial companies, biotechs, etc(where I live, at least).

err, fucked that one up good. All instances of forcing should be prefaced with "Not".

Time consuming = won't do it. I've got enough things to worry about with all the bullshit administrative tasks I have to do to accomplish my non-administrative job. Give me security that doesn't force me to do more work, like encrypting my drive, single badge identification(no separate key fobs for doors I should have access to anyways), automatically encrypting my attachments, forcing me to change my password every 30 days, forcing me to have different passwords for different resources because password requirements are different(some requiring special characters, some not allowing special characters), forcing me to change my passwords for different resources at different intervals, etc.

And statistically speaking no one gets into those schools either

[citation needed]

This is the same view the ACLU has, and it's why they don't dive into 2nd Amendment cases because it's basically a radical view in today's world.

Well first off, your scenario is wildly outlandish. My grandparents home in Los Angeles County took 35 years to grow 10x in value. Anyways, why the need to sell your house? Why not target the federal government for supporting the home loan interest deduction, which promotes massive financing that props up pricing? Why force people out of their homes because of unreasonable property tax hikes? Home values were growing and property tax values were spiking, which helped promote Prop 13 in the first place. It's not right to force people out of their homes by making them unaffordable through increased taxation via inflation. People have no control over that. No amount of good or bad decision making can influence that.

You buy a house and your yearly property tax is based off of a calculation typically in the 1-2% of purchase price value. It is limited to 2% increase per year if the market grows.

You obviously don't understand how property tax valuations are done in this state. Interior modifications do not qualify for a reevaluation of home value, only additions may be reevaluated and those are calculated separate from the existing square footage(so your whole property value does not increase, only the new square footage is evaluated at current value).

Hey Google X: Why don't you work on building the Google House: Affordable housing for middle class people? Update Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Automatic with modern building techniques and modern building codes (steel and concrete are still cheap, add some SIPS and maybe ICFs for modern versions), make the whole house "network aware", put a Tesla Charger in the carport, and subsidize the cost of building or buying and just collect the data. I'm sure people would love it. Build a whole subdivision of those in Mountain View with a Google Apartment Complex done the same way, open it up to more than just Google employees, and maybe you'll find it easier to get approval?

It's not the cost of the building that's the problem, it's the cost of land. The same houses that get built and sold in Mountain View are built by the same builder in Tracy and sold for less than half the price.

Prop 13 is a reaction to government interference in the local markets(see Serrano vs Priest and the fallout from it). All property owners pay based on their date of purchase, which is entirely fair. That said, Prop 13 isn't that big of a problem. Prices are just as bad in New York and they pay exorbitant property taxes.

Problem only affects people on comcast

No it doesn't. As noted in the article, this has been going on for over a year, and, if you weren't aware, this has been affecting all Cogent customers. Cogent also provides bandwidth for League of Legends NA servers. League of Legends is the most played video game in the world, so, obviously, people would have a problem if they had bad connections. Last year, Riot Games made agreements with Cogent and their datacenter to route their data around the same bottleneck that is affecting Netflix, because the game was unplayable for people on Comcast and FIOS. Maybe you need to do your homework.

Misprint, child. Third party provider. Quit being a douche. If your target does not have enough bandwidth to serve you at your desired speed, it doesn't matter if you have a terabyte's worth of bandwidth on your end. It's not your ISPs responsibility to ensure that your target web service has enough bandwidth for you.

Move. Get a T1 line. Use wireless. Use satellite. ISDN. There is no right to internet access or speed. People move to areas with Google Fiber, FIOS, municipal fiber, etc so they can have better internet access. Vote with your feet. That's how this country has always worked. It's why we have states to begin with.