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Thing about Doctorow is, his primary driver is rage-based attention on himself. He seems to have very little regard for evidence or facts if that gets in the way of a rage-inducing…

Presuming that conventions, standards, best-practices will continue to evolve as people do this work - whether with or without AI - I can't see any reason why the resulting advance…

Why not just buy Apple if you’re looking for a company focused on extracting profits from a cash cow rather than risky innovation with big potential upside and downside?

I kinda wondered about this forever as well. Then one day I was chilling in my local worker-owned cooperative bakery when the Brinks truck came by to do the bakery's cash pickup. A…

> Fulfilling a contract they've executed several times before? slow clap More than you can say for the Boeing launch that took the astronauts up last summer.

There's active research suggesting that taking MDMA re-opens "critical period" learning where you lay down reward circuitry relating to the value of social interaction. It's potent…

Sprawl patterns are not caused by natural market forces. They are caused and enabled by land-use zoning that uses state force to limit the use of private property, along with massi…

Thanks for the link, very interesting. The maps that I see are presented as possible candidates for how to meet the housing goals, not a fait-accompli - and they're overwhelmingly …

Can you describe a bit more clearly what the state is requiring of towns around Point Reyes? Looking at the top line numbers of the Regional Housing Needs Allocation plan - the Bay…

Hmmm. I grew up in rural Northern California and we had propane that would be trucked in. Is that what you mean by having a tank? I don't live there any more, but my old neighbors …

I feel like we live in the same building with an ancient boiler and HOA neighbors who are extremely cost sensitive! I do wonder if there's a reasonable heat pump retrofit for old b…

The thing is "I absolutely must have gas installed in my house for cooking" turns into "well let's buy the gas water heater, and the gas central heating, and the gas dryer" and all…

You can just make your own! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWNKMy2yKA&t=239

I'd venture that you're looking at hundreds of people at harvest time for 720 acres of lettuce. I suppose the spikey nature of the labor demand is another reason why automation cou…

In other news, water is wet. Is it surprising to people who are working from home, that the office they used to work in and cannot yet return to is now vacant? People have been cal…

Cities only operate under authority delegated to them by their state anyway. So seems pretty reasonable to think of it as state owned/controlled, even if the municipality is the le…

The Bay Area could host the entire population of the United States with ~850 sq ft of land area per person. As it is, we currently allocate ~29,500 sq ft of land area per person. S…

There actually is a company that has a microorganism-produced casein that's on the market and can be bought as vegan ice cream at Smitten in the Bay Area: https://www.perfectdayfoo…

My sleep study with Kaiser just involved wearing a wristband computer thing on my wrist that recorded data from an optical sensor on my finger while I slept at home. Nobody was wat…

Among other things, I'd expect this is because YC is trying to break free of the idea that the only way to be a successful startup founder is to be a young, single, attachment-free…

I loved seeing 10 year old kids riding their bikes around the parks of Stockholm after dark in the summertime. Hell, I see the same thing in the recently-fixed Snow Park in Oakland…

It would be great if people writing articles like this (I hesitate to call them journalists these days) could take the time to provide more context. According to the county dashboa…