TL;DR: the endorsements
- Mayor: London Breed
- District 5 Supervisor: Vallie Brown
- District Attorney: Leif Dautch (#1), Nancy Tung, Suzy Loftus, Chesa Boudin (#4)
- Board of Education: Jenny Lam
- Yes on A, C, D, E; No on B, F
#1 most important thing: actually vote
Submitting even an empty ballot is better than none at all, so that you count your demographic among overall voter turnout. You can register to vote here until October 21, and you can easily sign up for a mail-in ballot at that time. After Oct 21, you still can vote at City Hall (details).
Young people don’t vote. That’s barely an exaggeration; look at this data from 2014: in California, those 24 and under voted at less than one-fifth the rate of those 65 and over. Adjusted for remaining life-years, that’s at least a 20x disparity! 2014 was a midterm, off-year election. 2019 is an off-off-year election, so the disparity will be even greater. …
The 2402-unit Bay Area mixed-use project is held up on demolition and construction permits, while a lawsuit seeks to overturn its approval
“Save the suburbs from an onslaught of anarchists and YIMBY Neoliberal fascists.” That’s how Ray Wang, chair of the planning commission of Cupertino, CA, recently described supporters of the Vallco Town Center project to anti-development residents on Nextdoor,¹ and his planning commission and the city government are attempting to block the Vallco Town Center project with the same extremist attitude.
The city had approved the project in September 2018 and issued its first set of permits promptly.² …
After graduating from UC Berkeley a year and a half ago, I decided to join Affirm to start my career in software engineering. Since then, I’ve felt empowered to take on additional responsibilities wherever I’ve seen an opportunity. In this post, I’ll touch on a few areas I’m particularly proud of: a recent technical project involving our virtual card integration, my role as a lead in our diversity and inclusion programs, and the take-home question I wrote to improve our engineering interview process.
Building a new virtual card integration
Virtual cards have the same card number format as physical credit and debit cards, and can be used on the card network to make purchases. They’re issued by a third-party partner, and are involved in some of Affirm’s products. Our virtual card platform handles several aspects of the use of these cards and merchant authorizations on them. …
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