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by miguelazo 2y ago
Agree. And I think Vancouver BC's vacancy tax would have been even more successful if it had been sufficiently painful.
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A Sore Spot in L.A.'S Housing Crisis: Foreign-Owned Homes Sitting Empty(wsj.com)
6 points by miguelazo 2y ago|4 comments
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by miguelazo 2y ago
Major policy failure on the part of Dems (and the YIMBYS who advocated building all of the luxury condos that fed this market).
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by miguelazo 2y ago
There are plenty of experiments done secretly by Americans. You think everything is published in some nice little NIH budget explainer? Ever heard of Fort Detrick?
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by miguelazo 2y ago
Except for the part they left out which is that the lab was being funded by the US government and its GoF research directed by a US nonprofit entity with strong ties to the NIH.
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by miguelazo 2y ago
What’s most disturbing and highly irresponsible about comments like that and all of the reporting on this development is that there’s almost zero acknowledgement that the lab in question was being funded by the US government and much of the
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by miguelazo 2y ago
“Anecdotally,” middle class has fled/been pushed out of NYC because of the development you are praising. There was an entire Harper’s magazine cover story about how the city is “over.” Most of it taken over by rich, entitled, boring pe
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U.S. Has More Fancy Apartments Than It Is Able to Fill(wsj.com)
3 points by miguelazo 2y ago|7 comments
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by miguelazo 2y ago
Guess the YIMBYs who said any new housing development was good were wrong. Who would have thought?
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by miguelazo 2y ago
If they ask their customers to conserve, they can’t rant about California “running out of electricity because EVs” anymore.
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by miguelazo 2y ago
Which utility was this? That reeks of gross incompetence.
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by miguelazo 2y ago
Latest chapter in US sanctions backfiring.
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Huawei Readies New Chip to Challenge Nvidia, Surmounting U.S. Sanctions(wsj.com)
4 points by miguelazo 2y ago|1 comments
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by miguelazo 2y ago
What’s the default? And what did their technical account manager recommend? My guess, no canary ring.
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The U.S. Wanted to Knock Down Huawei. It's Only Getting Stronger(wsj.com)
2 points by miguelazo 2y ago|0 comments
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As Customers Struggled, Utility CEOs' Pay Spiked Last Year(energyandpolicy.org)
14 points by miguelazo 2y ago|2 comments
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by miguelazo 2y ago
Didn’t know we needed such expensive talent to run a “regulated” monopoly which in most cases have not innovated much at all over the last several decades.
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by miguelazo 2y ago
We are not talking about perfection here. Of course there is always a potential attack vector. But when you look at virtually all of the recent major breaches, they were a result of gross negligence.
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Why corporations won't spend enough to safeguard your private info(latimes.com)
9 points by miguelazo 2y ago|4 comments
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by miguelazo 2y ago
There’s often no shortage of dollars spent on tools, but efforts to remediate are pretty weak.
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by miguelazo 2y ago
>“This work is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services,” Google spokesperson Anna Kowalczyk said in an emailed statement. Seems like they’re misleading investors? P
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by miguelazo 2y ago
>they give weapons and money to their Sunni opponents. Understatement of the year. The Saudis ran a multi year bombing campaign that killed tens of thousands of civilians, with direct US support (including mid-air refueling and “targetin
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by miguelazo 2y ago
Wow, now there’s an amazing spin on what happened in Yemen. Do you work directly for MBS?
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by miguelazo 2y ago
Hilarious. Do you think that there was an obvious replacement when previous international reserve currencies fell out of favor? >the dollar will never disappear Wow, you think highly indebted empires just go on forever, eh? You must have
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by miguelazo 2y ago
Exactly. Have you seen US debt to GDP ratio lately?
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The economic impacts of short-term rentals in Los Angeles (2022) [pdf](upgo.lab.mcgill.ca)
1 points by miguelazo 2y ago|0 comments
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by miguelazo 2y ago
I think most people who follow these issues would not expect a ban like this to be effective. To think otherwise is extremely naive, not unlike the Biden administration folks who thought they could break the Russian economy with their sanct
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The Underground Network Sneaking Nvidia Chips into China(wsj.com)
19 points by miguelazo 2y ago|9 comments
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by miguelazo 2y ago
They needed to perform an investigation to figure out this was occurring? LMAO
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The Gods of Logic: Before and after artificial intelligence(harpers.org)
5 points by miguelazo 2y ago|0 comments

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