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How soon before our big consumer packaged goods companies are perceived like tobacco companies? Seems like it’ll happen soon. “In Town With Little Water, Coca-Cola Is Everywhere. So Is Diabetes.” @NYTimes nyti.ms/2JmnqKH?smid=nytcore…
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At the root of so many of our issues is our housing crisis. Our unending systems of laws seems designed as if to say NO to creating more homes, and we've seen the results. It’s time to say YES to more affordable housing, more middle income housing, and more market rate housing.
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Facebook Watch, part of the social media giant's effort to crack down on "fake news" and bring users "high quality content," is about 50% shows from Fox News
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While our incompetent & actively malicious govt drives away talented immigrants and engages in self-destructive trade wars, the Chinese govt is aggressively making long-term plans for global dominance in artificial intelligence for decades to come. abacusnews.com/china-interne… – at Hong Kong
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“a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust” nitter.cf/anna_mazz/status/10158…
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Pedestrian deaths are up 46% since 2009, but it's not texting or calling while driving that's causing the increase — it's SUVs.
axios.com/pedestrians-death-…
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Homeless folks sleeping in cars and RVs at the Berkeley marina whom I spoke to today:
-One is a public school teacher
-One is already twice-displaced: foreclosed in SF, evicted by rent hike in San Pablo
-One is just got her master's degree from UC Berkeley. In journalism.
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Where is multi-family (and therefore affordable) housing illegal in SF? The red zones.
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"anti-GMO campaign has deprived much of the world of a crucial, life-improving technology—and has shown the readiness of many environmentalists to ignore science when it contradicts their prejudices." 37% of public believe GMOs are safe v. 88% scientists.
wsj.com/articles/confession-…
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Street repurposing: Note that the two added bike lanes can move almost as many people as all the car lanes previously. They take up as much room as a single car lane.
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Not helpful:
Data is the new oil
AI is the new electricity
AI is end of humans
Neural Networks are all you need
Helpful:
Network effects derived from data make good moats
AI is eating Software
AI is improved automation
Differentiable programming is useful but needs improving
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Jeff Sessions Argues Family Separations Only Happening Because Current Law Doesn’t Allow Him To Strangle Immigrants With Bare Hands trib.al/peGheIu
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West Coast Americans have it backward. The nice weather doesn't attract homeless people here. The nice weather causes voters to absolve themselves of providing a right to shelter with adequate funding and resources for people without housing the way that East Coast cities do. nitter.cf/dillonliam/status/1007…
A @UCLA study also just found a strong link between high housing costs and homelessness. Also takes aim at myths I hear all the time, such as the majority of homeless residents are mentally ill or drug addicted. And that homeless move here for the weather latimes.com/business/la-fi-u…
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Why is Palo Alto OK with building parking to meet demand, but not housing? nitter.cf/adrianfine/status/1006…
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Other things I want to be super YIMBY about:
- safe injection sites
- public toilets
- public trash cans
- people who have served their time
- 24 hour diners
- dispensaries
- bars
- food trucks
- vendors of all kinds
- scooters
- dockless bikes
- methadone clinics – at San Francisco, CA
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Reminder that there’s basically nothing in Mark Leno’s housing policy about building more housing, except for an idea that would cost $1.5B/yr & SF voters have only ever approved $410M in affordable housing bond funding ever in all of the city’s history. markleno.com/issues#housing
