Bay area is crazy. Austin is nice, but getting crazy - er. My next move is to San Antonio. Low cost of living, beautiful suburbs, and more tech then anyone knows about.

dude, I walked by this particular SPCA on the way to the BART in SF. If you have never been to SF you would be surprised by the 1000's of homeless every where. SF is like a zombie town with homeless people on every corner. Its not cruel, trust me, its a much bigger problem then most Americans think.

manufacturing in orbit, science and communication on the moon, and garbage on mars

Might be a VR purchase. Just sayin. Google invested heavily into Magic Leap and it has been vapor. The google dream headset thing has registered a big fat zero. In all honesty Google needs to exit the hardware business, they suck at it. Google voice thing looks like an air freshener and no one wants it.

I remember contracting at a start-up. The place was too busy to get a few hours of straight work done. Then a manager dude said "go work in the quiet space" or whatever it was called. It was a little phone booth with glass on all three sides. I think I left because the place was crazy and the founders didn't respect the fact that engineers need hours or days of quiet time.

1. If cigarettes are so bad make them illegal 2. 18 is the legal age of adulthood. 3. If you ban cigarettes a black market will open up. 4. Damn the statistics, get the government out of our lives. No surprise the poorest state is wasting time on this garbage. How many homeless in the west? Portland and SF are full of homeless people and the politicians waste everyone's time with soda taxes and cigarettes.

Moore's law might not directly hold true with multi-core x86's, but we now live in a world of differentiated processor power. ARM's specialized for hd streaming, or gaming, or AI, or Autonomous cars, or sensors for a wearable. You can buy an $80 tablet that will stream HD better then a nice 4 year old laptop. The reason is engineers are now focused on low cost processors for specific purposes. See Intel's purchase of Nervana for how Moore's law has forked.

We have all worked with people who shout at you for not using Linux. No one every address the fact that it is cumbersome to use. When there is a linux distro that is user friendly then it will be used more. Geeks are enamoured with all the reasons everyone "should" use open source os's but never address the consumers using the product.

Version 1511 (build 10.0.10586) works great. Turn off all the updates and Windows Defender and Windows 10 flys! https://www.howtogeek.com/howt... https://www.howtogeek.com/2244...

All phones sold in the EU must be usb. "All mobile phones in EU to have the same charger: European Parliament votes on law in attempt to cut down electronic clutter. A single charger will have to be compatible with all mobile phones after a vote in the European Parliament".Mar 13, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

huh? Millions of Bay Area residents are mismanaging their money?

Lots of foreign investment in silicon valley. Chinese only sell to chinese.

Not applicable. Were not talking about cutting coupons. Were talking about a massive gap between incomes.

Good point. Bay Area is expensive AND full of a-holes. It is very concentrated. Coming from the midwest I just laughed it off at first.

Only low cost mass produced ARM chips. Theory isn't new. All we should expect is the next generation of Automated phone banking.