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by fjabre 5y ago
No money to be made by saving lives, infrastructure, and air quality?
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by fjabre 5y ago
Was the Space industry 90% a political problem before SpaceX and friends disrupted it?
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by fjabre 5y ago
So private tech industry can solve the Space race but not wildfire?
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by fjabre 5y ago
If the space race can be disrupted then so too can this one. Space was government only until very recently.
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by fjabre 5y ago
Well for sentimental reasons I guess then ;) They love to solve problems and use California as a testing ground for the latest photo sharing app. But where are the DIY fire fighting apps and devices? Where are the startups that promise 10,0
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by fjabre 5y ago
Agree with you. I'm doing my part. Also raising awareness is part of that. Thank you.
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by fjabre 5y ago
Yes I agree with you here. Solution is not government as with the Space race. It will be won by private industry. I'm perplexed that more bay areas thought leaders haven't jumped on this problem given how close it is to their back
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by fjabre 5y ago
The two approaches are not mutually exclusive. Yes to better forest management. Of course we have to do that. The state will burn down without intervention. That is painstakingly clear.
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by fjabre 5y ago
The forests will die without intervention. Unless you want California to become 100% desert lands. Sequoias on the Western Sierra slopes are the last in the world. And from the looks of it they don't have much time. Would you like us t
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by fjabre 5y ago
It's a start at least. But from the best and brightest in the world? People who put rovers on Mars but don't want to put a fire out that could destroy half of their state?
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by fjabre 5y ago
Are their vacation homes and the places they like to spend time with their families away from the office close to the wildfires? I don't understand. Do you mean to say they are ok with half of the state burning down as long as their of
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by fjabre 5y ago
So they are ok with their vacation homes and the other half of the state burning down as long as their campuses are ok? Not much money to be made by saving lives, health, and billions of dollars in infrastructure damage?
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by fjabre 5y ago
Why are there no request proposals from YC for new or novel firefighting tech? Are wildfires not an engineering problem? California is YC's backyard. PG and friends all have their lives in Nor Cal where most of these recent fires have
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by fjabre 5y ago
Agree with this. State should be investing heavily in solar for everyone. The future of firefighting should be heavily invested in. Have there been YC proposals for novel firefighting tech? If not then why not? Obviously a field ripe for di
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by fjabre 5y ago
Home to some of the best and brightest engineers in the world and California is still figuring how many firemen, goats and firetrucks to send. Where are Google, Facebook, Apple, SpaceX, California state gov? And Musk is still focused on LA
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by fjabre 6y ago
Have you looked at the Interfaces files? You did the right thing by scraping the data. That is the more clever way. Scraping is not illegal. Google does it every second of every day.
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by fjabre 6y ago
Is this a surprise to anyone?
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by fjabre 6y ago
"That’s hundreds of years before historians think the Israeli people first appeared. It’s also centuries before the oldest known Egyptian reference to the Jews on the Victory Stele of Merneptah." So the story of Moses out of Egy
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by fjabre 6y ago
Seatbelt laws are not the analogy I would use. It's direct physical bodily harm vs some unknown and unquantifiable risk when installing a 3rd party app. We got by just fine in the 80s and 90s without App stores. So much innovation came
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by fjabre 6y ago
The fields of archaeology and anthropology would benefit greatly from this.
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by fjabre 6y ago
Anyone in favor of an app store like Apple's or Google's would trade freedom in the name of fear and security. And you're right, it's worse than that. They're not even getting the security they've trade their f
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by fjabre 6y ago
We always give up freedom in the name of security so so easily. Why is that? Why does fear always win? Your argument is based on fear. Why do we favor fear over rationality? You would choose a dictatorship over a democracy if it meant that
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by fjabre 6y ago
I couldn't agree with this more. Less App stores not more. Have people not learned their lesson? You'd think stealing 30% of the profits and booting apps off the store for no good reason would be enough.
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by fjabre 6y ago
I wouldn't trade my remote work for anything in the world. It's incredibly rewarding. The flexibility this allows for is unparalleled by any other single benefit a job can offer other than salary perhaps. It's given me so muc
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by fjabre 6y ago
This is not David vs Goliath. This is Goliath vs Goliath. A reddit mob armed with Macbook Pros and iPhone 11s does not equal 'the little guy.'
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by fjabre 6y ago
I think both sides are doing the same thing and pointing fingers at each other. That's my point. Market manipulation is just that, whether it's done by a privileged class on their iPhone 11s (i.e. the Reddit mob) or Hedge fund man
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by fjabre 6y ago
It's not different. That's my point. The mob did the same thing the hedge funds did and do. This is clearly market manipulation. To say that one side is justified vs the other is what I'm pointing out. Neither side was justif
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by fjabre 6y ago
I would hesitate from calling WallStreetBets or Reddit the 'little guy'. That's the part that gets me about this story. Both sides are immoral and wrong in manipulating the market and both sides have committed the crime of m
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by fjabre 6y ago
I'm glad we can finally admit that Reddit is a mob and encourages mob mentality. There is no wisdom in that crowd anymore. And maybe not party lines but the stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming. This mob helps no one. It's just a l
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by fjabre 6y ago
The current players are comfortably entrenched. Thankfully China does not allow them to operate there. It gives us some hope that new players will form and become competitive like TikTok. Google and friends are only beholden to their stock

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