pj_mukh

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by pj_mukh 1y ago
"I guarantee you all your Oak Park neighbors are the type who were With Hillary in 2016" Its both. That's the problem. In my neighborhood, the construction of any market rate housing will be blocked by Hillary voting land-own
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
FWIW: Ezra Klein called for Biden to step down before most others and asked for a fast national convention (not Kamala). Broad brushstrokes are energy saving, but just incorrect.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
Not what I’m contesting.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
That privacy concerns are secondary to safety concerns.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
Even if this were true, I don't understand why this information is not placed behind a court warrant requirement? Seems like a simple fix.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
One solution: Some sort of checksum confirming that a bot belongs to a human (and which human)? I want to able to automate mundane tasks but I should still be confirming everything my bot does and be liable for its actions.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
Question: What is stopping from a new or old entrant from creating a $10-15K electric car? American mfg may be slightly better at automation than China.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
When I said "in the context of Silicon Valley", I meant the geographical region not "what are the bad things tech has done". Most SV politicos that drive living conditions in the valley don't take PAC money and aren
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
"destructive consequences." In the context of just Silicon Valley, what are they?
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I have the same issue as OP. Piecemeal sales aren't affected by the total amount though? If I'm a billionaire vs a 100 Billionaire, I'm still taking out the same amounts to live and buy yachts. Also, as far as I can tell, it&
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I presume this average includes 20-something’s that are far more mobile on all fronts except for housing costs at a higher opportunity destination. If they are not moving to seek better opportunities, it does signify a bit of a deep rot in
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I'm sorry but if I have to convince you that the last 15 years have been a serious continuous backsliding of physical connection and physical spaces towards online spaces and algorithmic feed, this is not a fruitful conversation. This
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
The chips we need for the machines that will defend Taiwan are being built in Taiwan is just a ridiculous game of chicken to be setup. I wish they’d take the next step with the defense treaty to move even more capacity (esp for the highest
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
You think UBI will reduce the attention economy? We already ran that natural experiment. COVID. Screen time exploded. You're gonna need a lot more social media managers, and nursing will be a lot less appealing, no matter what you pay
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
Cool! One suggestion, your language can be more specific, I had a hard time figuring out what was going on. You know this will be for drone formations, so: "Every simulation is modelled as a scenario. You can add multiple nodes to your
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I think you're hung up on fractions, while the business logic is obviously hung up on the value . The cost of wood has gone up, but wood is a critical element in construction. What is the "value" of paying $100,000's in
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
Nurses deserve more money than we can give them but their salaries are around $100K and Hospital Margins are 5%. So yea, UBI-style, the government pretty much just has to print the money to hand to the nurses to get them more money.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
"We might have less business dynamic analysts or scrum masters or social media coordinators." Do we have any guarantees of this? Couldn't we equally have way less Nurses, Doctors, ER Techs, Construction Workers building homes
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
There have been 3-4 different comprehensive reports linked in this thread laying out that actually holding costs (please search), legal fees are one of the main drivers of cost along with the 2 others you mentioned. But specifically, it&#
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
It all started in San Francisco and New York, but now the disease has spread everywhere. Frankly the disease was always there. Millennials trying to buy houses en-masse over COVID is what exposed it. Nobody notices it because it's nati
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
It's not just carrying cost, it could be the full A&D cost, so you're paying the loan on the mortgage without being able to build anything. That's huge and has sunk major projects around me. This happens, literally all th
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
This is a red-herring. No one is suggesting loosening laws on whether a building will stay standing. The red tape is literally on whether barn owls in Downtown Mountain View will be hurt by an apartment building. This is not a serious consi
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I don't think a construction companies bank account cares about whether money is going to the time component or the physical act of going to city hall to apply. Also remember there are frivolous lawsuits, CEQA type laws (which was re
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I think this is true, but even after a construction company works through all the approvals the sheer cost of construction is insurmountable. A big part of this is obviously (sometimes union) labor. This happened recently in NIMBY-HQ Berkel
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I've never fully understood this, shouldn't the brine be mixed in with wastewater? It's all a net-zero system, it's not like water is leaving the system. The rest is just infrastructure (which is mostly political will).
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
The constant drum of limited-pie headlines is getting really grating. Stock/Personal "paper-money" valuations coupled with Citizens United has really broken our brain into thinking that everything everywhere is just Billionai
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I think we'll have to wait and see here, because all the layoffs can be easily attributed to leadership making crappy over-hiring decisions over COVID and now not being able to admit to that and giving hand-wavy answers over "I&#x
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I wish your parent comment didn't get downvoted, because this is an important conversation point. "PRECISELY BECAUSE AI cannot be applied in an ethical way, since human beings en masse will inevitably have a sufficient number of b
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I pay $300 to fly from SF to LA when I could've just walked for free. Its true. How classist!
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
No, just that the questions are obvious to most of us except maybe the most cynical (like OP)

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