Links April 8-10 2018
Tuesday April 10, 2018
Debris flow prevention will be tough this year in Mendocino. newsmakerswithjr.com
A programmer does a podcast to describe no-code servlerss software, faas functions as a service. packetpushers.net
A mortgage program in Atlanta misleads mortgate payers into thinking they'll own the home. theatlantic.com
A writer asserts case there was a housing shortage during the 2008 crash. mercatus.org
Monday April 9, 2018
New York city started composting last year with special chew-resistant waste cans and raccoon-proof lids. nytimes.com
Ongoing story we never post links to: war in Syria. Devastating chemical attack last weekend.
A rag-picker's life on 1881-era Mulberry Street. ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com
Sunday April 8, 2018
A Twitter user in Pakistan declared April 1 "April Cool's Day" encouraging friends to plant trees, which absorb CO2, to "make April cool!" (Can we move it to April 2?) twitter.com
"Between 2007 and 2011, more than 10,000 Oakland homes were foreclosed; 42 percent of those homes were purchased by investors." marketplace.org
Even if you tightened your Facebook privacy settings years ago, Columbia Business School law professor and former senior adviser to FTC Timothy Wu said in March authorities found "those settings didn't do anything" and privacy-tightened data was still released to third-party apps developed by Cambridge Analytica. npr.org
Wu in a video interview Friday. cnbc.com
Debris flow prevention will be tough this year in Mendocino. newsmakerswithjr.com
A programmer does a podcast to describe no-code servlerss software, faas functions as a service. packetpushers.net
A mortgage program in Atlanta misleads mortgate payers into thinking they'll own the home. theatlantic.com
A writer asserts case there was a housing shortage during the 2008 crash. mercatus.org
Monday April 9, 2018
New York city started composting last year with special chew-resistant waste cans and raccoon-proof lids. nytimes.com
Ongoing story we never post links to: war in Syria. Devastating chemical attack last weekend.
A rag-picker's life on 1881-era Mulberry Street. ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com
Sunday April 8, 2018
A Twitter user in Pakistan declared April 1 "April Cool's Day" encouraging friends to plant trees, which absorb CO2, to "make April cool!" (Can we move it to April 2?) twitter.com
"Between 2007 and 2011, more than 10,000 Oakland homes were foreclosed; 42 percent of those homes were purchased by investors." marketplace.org
Even if you tightened your Facebook privacy settings years ago, Columbia Business School law professor and former senior adviser to FTC Timothy Wu said in March authorities found "those settings didn't do anything" and privacy-tightened data was still released to third-party apps developed by Cambridge Analytica. npr.org
Wu in a video interview Friday. cnbc.com
