babesh

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by babesh 5y ago
Going out in the public naked is actually accepted in some parts of the world and it is a lot 'closer' than you think. For instance, go to one of the beaches right in Barcelona, topless. Another example, go to Baker Beach in SF, t
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by babesh 5y ago
Also, there/are were other tech centers that proved just as if not more attractive than Silicon Valley. Over 10 years ago, I had a coworker who remarked that all her classmates who stayed in China had become rich. She said that it was
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I am saying that the US was already playing the pick the cream of the crop game. It was playing it in two ways. First it identified obvious talent (math Olympiads, etc...). Second, the people who were the most driven got to Silicon Valley b
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by babesh 5y ago
Not all equities are the same in Apple’s eyes. - not George Orwell I hope people aren’t surprised. Apple has a very consumer friendly image but that is because the incentives are aligned. Behind the scenes, the knives come out: Apple labor
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by babesh 5y ago
I would estimate that well over half of Silicon Valley engineers are foreign born. If you add the non local US engineers, you are probably at over 90%. Those equally or more qualified overseas people working for little were in short supply.
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Juries can be stupid and/or biased. There is no double jeopardy. She needs to be acquitted only once.
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Actually it depends on the type of structure. Newer or retrofitted hospitals, airports, bridges, and other essential facilities are designed to remain functional and hence habitable. That is why many of the newer versions of those structur
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by babesh 5y ago
Title of link: Behold The Shit Map: Mapping San Francisco’s 132,562 Cases Of Human Feces http://www.abcbusinessnews.com/2019/04/behold-the-shit-map-m... I reported some shit for the city to clean up. They never cl
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by babesh 5y ago
The strength of the other regional centers will force SF to compete for companies and also for residents via quality of life.
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It doesn't make sense for the Bay to be one big city. There is this giant thing in the middle of it that greatly increases travel time. It is called the Bay. Even travel down the Peninsula is extended because of the linearity of the Pe
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There is planning. Each city is obligated to increase housing by a given amount. There are transit villages being developed. The proximal problem is that the SF government is too inefficient and slow. BART is actually more efficient than SF
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You mean like the ones they already have? Like the Bay Area Regional Transit authority also known as BART?
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Woodside and Atherton are closer to 30 miles to the south. I should know. I live 20 miles to the south.
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I never blamed the voters. Others did. Also, you can also put forth the hypothesis that voters in all those cities are to blame. That isn't my hypothesis by the way.
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That doesn't mean that SF isn't incompetent. That means they are all incompetent. You have those cities also complain about those costs.
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It definitely helps the quality of life of the Peninsula to not be embroiled in SF politics. Tons of SF natives moved to the Peninsula for those reasons. You don't need a large city to coordinate transportation. By that logic, the who
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by babesh 5y ago
Nope. There are plenty of local problems that the city has been completely inept at solving. Go look at how much it costs to build a mile of tunnel and how late it is. Roughly 1b and 10 years late and the clock is still running.
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No city on the Peninsula in their right mind would want to merge with SF. SF has close to 10x the crime, worse schools, etc... What is there to gain?
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The Peninsula is generally much better run than SF. It kind of helps that it isn't one big city. It forces the cities to compete and makes the democracy more direct and participatory. It also limits the blast radius of bad decisions. A
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Yes this is true but many things that tech does are generic tools. It is just that certain companies and people choose to weaponize them.
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My impression is that many of those are situated near DC?
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by babesh 5y ago
Even if you assume that the money will come, you would have lost the opportunity cost of the money. Also in the meantime, if you had a mortgage on the property, you would have to make up that income on your own which is a double opportunity
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by babesh 5y ago
Read the Constitution. It limits powers even when it is in the so called public interest.
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Teen who had heart attack after vaccine dose to receive $225,000(msn.com)
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by babesh 5y ago
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/despite-government-ban-... Here is more information. The family highlighted has a couple of disabled and someone who lost their job due to COVID-19. They have an income of 1000
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by babesh 5y ago
Is it because the owner/speculators don’t want to rent them out because the laws allow squatting? There are articles that say that rental prices have increased (I think I read somewhere between 7 and 15%) but given how much that person
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I agree that you can't directly compare but there are some aspects that you can: cost to travel, cost of common goods, etc... Another two aspects that can be compared are the absolute amount of investable income after cost of living an
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Project Maven to identify people from military drones using AI was taken over by Palantir when Google dropped out. Those military drones shoot missiles that kill people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intell
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Not exactly. It says lack of social housing. In other words, housing for the poor. In the meantime, there is an estimated 10,000 housing units sitting empty in Barcelona. The problem is that the working class has grown increasingly poorer b
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Stop spouting your biases. They are just plain wrong. Do some research first! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Spain It isn't primarily due to high rents. It is due to the Spanish economy being shitty an

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