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21 December 2016 / SF News / Jay Barmann

Day Around The Bay: Uber Sits Down With The AG, DMV Over Self-Driving Fracas

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  • We already knew that Peter Thiel stood to possibly profit from a Trump crackdown on illegal immigrants, and now documents suggest Palantir, the firm he co-founded, has already secretly helped the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) operate a system that draws on multiple databases in law enforcement to assess immigrants and other travelers. [The Verge]
  • The California Supreme Court has pressed pause on a voter-approved proposition to speed up death penalty punishments. [Chronicle]
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  • A developer is planning a Bayview residential project for “blue collar” San Franciscans. [Chronicle]
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  • An 'unprecedented’ number of Muni operators called in sick on Monday. [Examiner]
  • Lawyers from Uber, the California Attorney General's office, and the Department of Motor Vehicles all met this afternoon to hash out their differences. [Business Times]
  • Silicon Valley real estate developer John Sobrato takes on the idea of shipping-container housing for the homeless (something an SF developer has already proposed), even if it may not be that great an idea in practice compared to other kinds of modular housing. [Bloomberg]
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A week after boldly defying California officials and arguing that they had every right to test their self-driving vehicles with paying customers inside, Uber has relented and pulled its self-driving cars off the

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Muggles Unite For Harry Potter Trivia, Returning (With Butterbeer) To SF

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Jay Barmann

Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 20+ years.

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