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The 'bad housing policies' are exactly what the liberal wants. Behind close doors they admit this but publicly these policies have to be wrapped in environmentalism and overregulation to make it near impossible to build.

I was just speaking to a man who is fighting over a 20 unit apartment that is going to 'destroy the character of my neighborhood' ... but is of course happy to condemn people in Springfield, Ohio for not wanting 20k refugees in their city.

I think the author really misunderstands the cultural values of the upper class in CA.

Good article but not sure if a 'subprime crisis' is the right description - Openai is suppose to be risky and extremely high reward. This is exactly what VCs want to invest in.

Maybe OpenAI doesn't make it and maybe it turns out way too early for AGI ... but there is way too much stuff is working right now in multiple domains to say the industry will flop.

In SF Eatsa opened up around 2016 as an Automat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWeocXaIPMo

Since the CCP has gained control of mainland China they have went to war with: Tibet, Vietnam, India, Burma, Korea.

CCP has also have also declared they own land in 17 other countries - not to mention owning the South China Sea.

Musk is the soul of Tesla for better or worse. Tesla currently has a market cap 10x greater than Ford ... if Musk leaves, sanity returns and Tesla would drop dramatically.

Excluding Nuclear/Hydro, 35% of California's energy is from intermittent energy. Germany is around 45% so there is room to grow. I suspect it will get more and more expensive to scale past 50% -- the state will be required to keep all of the non-intermittent energy infrastructure for cloudy days.

Article doesn't really really explain the proof of god - but a version of the proof is here https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.4526.pdf

Seems very much against wikipedia's principles. Taking a neutral point of view is considered non-negotiable and is a fundamental principle of wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...

It's unfair that these colleges that have legacy admissions can take any federal loans/grants at all. I think the colleges' enthusiasm for race based admissions was to ensure that social class never becomes an issue - thus protecting their true clients, the children of rich alumni.

I think it's relevant information in this case. If you saw a blog post on exxon.com saying Teslas are dangerous it would never be considered newsworthy and never make to YC.

ARC is paid by oil companies to write articles that make their position appear to be newsworthy. They are very upfront about article generation: http//www.arcweb.com/consulting-services/marketing-communications

In the documentary Triumph of the Nerds they show how to write a program with the Altair. No keyboard, no monitor - a truly humble machine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toSRmKKiosQ&t=1224

The author is not a reporter but the VP at the ARC Advisory Group. Here are their clients : https://www.arcweb.com/about/clients. (Exxon, BP, Mobile, Shell, etc. )

Note they have no cultural problems with a $150k gas guzzling SUV: https://www.roadandtrack.com/reviews/a44600208/2023-cadillac...

Follow the money here folks.

Currently we have corporations with total power to control content. Having a (somewhat) representative system making the decisions may not be great but it is better than what we have now.

Upper class is fighting for a perk that the working class will never have. Maybe not morally wrong but working class is treated pretty badly in a place like SF.

If 'knowing the risks' means banks cannot be trusted then the economy as a whole will be devastated. Banking is a pillar - alternatively we can go back to the 1930s and store money under mattresses.

Russia and China recently amended their constitution to ensure their respective leaders can stay in power permanently. Having some unchangeable bedrock in a country seems very valuable as we are all vulnerable to tyrants at some point in history.

Great idea. The only the thing I enjoy about FB is seeing updates from friends and family. Will give it a try