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Stock-rich eBay was tempting, but Winamp had buzz. Plus, the company’s offices were in a hip neighborhood of San Francisco, thus avoiding a grinding commute to eBay’s bland precincts forty miles down the freeway in San Jose.

Information may be the unofficial currency in Paris, but space is priceless. Every square inch or centimeter is so precious that apartments aren’t sold by number of rooms, but by square meter, or mètre carré. The measurement is called the loi Carrez, the precise dimensions, which are scrutinized down to the centimeter. According to law number

“Table girls” and the models at Toni’s table are engaging in very similar practices—looking good and drinking free champagne at tables—but they occupy very different positions. The positions are maintained as distinct through the boundary work performed; in this case, through particular exchange media and discourses: the table girl is paid in cash

in the late 2010s, when she was working there at an urbanism nonprofit. Gonzalez saw it as a form of gentrification, or even an echo of colonialism in a postcolonial country. Generically minimalist coffee shops were popping up on Kloof Street, in Cape Town Central. Gonzalez identified them by their “long wooden tables, wrought-iron finishings,…

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