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The governor is not a proconsul. To be effective, they have to work with the state legislature.
In California you could probably have a popular governor who appealed directly to the people (abusing the initiative system), even with a mostly-dysfunctional legislature.
I am indifferent to this except for the possible negative effects it might have on HN. I hope it does not cause any significant changes to the community here, either from signs of censoring criticism or the topic consistently derailing threads. Every single online community I am apart of is getting wrapped up more and more into American politics it seems.
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It is typical in these situations to cast the establishment as a stuffy force for evil, a damp quilt blanket that muffles exciting possibilities. And sometimes it is. Sometimes seniority beats sanity, sometimes self-interest beats public interest. But, taking the view from the other side, the establishment sees an endless parade of bold, brilliant, I'm-the-exception types running up to knock it down. In such a positi…
Yes, but we've also seen more than our share of entertain-opians. Other than being able to open at the box office they brought no ability to a hard problem.
I am indifferent to this except for the possible negative effects it might have on HN. I hope it does not cause any significant changes to the community here, either from signs of censoring criticism or the topic consistently derailing threads. Every single online community I am apart of is getting wrapped up more and more into American politics it seems.
As I understand it, Sam Altman is not involved in moderating HN. That is Dan Gackle's responsibility. So, I don't have any reason to believe that it would in any way impact moderation of HN.
If this is a play to get younger people to pay attention to government, also an OK idea.
Seems like an OK idea.
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In California you could probably have a popular governor who appealed directly to the people (abusing the initiative system), even with a mostly-dysfunctional legislature.
Schwarzenegger tried that.
He then fired his chief of staff and replaced her with a Democrat and governed from the center, even from the center left. I preferred him to Gray Davis since Davis was so in bed with the prison guards union that he never used his clemency powers for fear it would cost a prison guard job.
A few years later, in 2010 Schwarzenegger dusted off the redistricting initiative and it passed.
Skills that would be useful as governor:
* Learning new things quickly
* Running and improving existing organizations
* Hiring great people and building teams
* Identifying the most important and undervalued things to work on or invest in
Sam:
* Learning new things - e.g. with nuclear power, see comments by nuclear power founder https://blog.ycombinator.com/jacob-dewitte-oklo-interview/
* Running and improving existing organizations - see YC since 2014
* Hiring great people and building teams - YC since 2014, https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire, YC Research organizations like OpenAI
* Identifying the most important and undervalued things to work on or invest in - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman#Angel_Investing
I'd certainly like these attributes in my governor!
I'd be sad to lose him from YC, although he would probably do enough good for the state overall to make up for it. If he were at all effective, I'd consider ending my California boycott. I'm concerned that unless the rest of state government is fixed, including Prop 13 and the voter initiative system in general, California is just too fucked to be fixed even by a great Governor, though.
I guess a younger generation will need to experience true political mismanagement of money first hand? I don't know how prop 13 became the target for the anger?
There's no easy fix fir housing. And please, we don't need more revenue collectors, or firehouses, and teachers are being paid well on mist schools. The tuition hikes were just a an area that administrators realized they could hike, because everyone needs the college experience, and a dubious degree.
Eliminating prop thirteen might force out a few widows out, but the end result will be a rich person just raising the rent again.
I don't want to debate, but it's getting old. People need to look into why prop 13 was enacted. I was a kid, but I remember why my dad was as Mad as Hell.
Oh yea, just to prove a point. In desirable Marin County. A 70's supervisor (Giacammoni) said west Marin would have thousands, and thousands of housing units/apartments if he didn't have a huge piggy bank to essentially rob from to further his pet project. He didn't like developement. West Marin is now zoned for 1 home/per hundred acres, or something crazy. (I almost spent $200000 on a run down cabin. Due to zoning, I wouldn't even be able to replace the foundation, which was perched on a redwood stump.) And thank god. It's a beautiful area. My point is giving money to any politician is risky. They used it for the craziest things. You people have no idea.
(I might be in favor of tying a repeal of prop 13 into funding a mandatory state UBI, but that will never fly. And even then--I'm just speculating. That money would go right back into pet projects.)