miguelazo

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House Prices Are Falling and We Haven't Solved the Problem of Restrictive Zoning(cepr.net)
4 points by miguelazo 2mo ago|3 comments
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by miguelazo 2mo ago
No, I don’t trust USAID, and it’s telling that that was your takeaway from my comment. I was pointing out the obvious differences between an institutional development project approach and that of a parachute-in “charity” looking to create a
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by miguelazo 2mo ago
Mr. Beast? LMAO. A ridiculous comparison in terms of development project implementation. (And I am no fan of USAID, whose real chief mission was creating dependency on the US and overthrowing independent governments.)
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Germany charges Nord Stream suspect with attacking pipeline on behalf of Ukraine(reuters.com)
3 points by miguelazo 3mo ago|0 comments
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by miguelazo 6mo ago
Lots of overlap in that venn diagram of fanboys
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by miguelazo 6mo ago
Big surprise. Care to take a guess why? Looks like another user already alluded to it. ;-)
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by miguelazo 8mo ago
Along with most of the people who voted for him.
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by miguelazo 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/Q81Go
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SDPD captain helped secure a surveillance deal. Now he works for flock(sandiegouniontribune.com)
10 points by miguelazo 9mo ago|2 comments
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by miguelazo 9mo ago
Based on a survey by some outfit called "Kickresume." Couldn't find many details on the methodoloy.
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Climate activists question hype around small modular reactors(euractiv.com)
2 points by miguelazo 9mo ago|0 comments
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort(404media.co)
18 points by miguelazo 10mo ago|0 comments
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by miguelazo 11mo ago
Excellent point— contractor and consultant headcount’s have ballooned at many firms. Lots of technical debt being taken on to make short term profits.
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by miguelazo 11mo ago
I suspect this has much less to do with AI than the consolidation of industries, especially tech. There’s almost zero antitrust enforcement left in this country, and it shows in these numbers and in the lack of meaningful technological adva
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by miguelazo 1y ago
Guess Zuck's inauguration investment worked out well! https://archive.ph/sSmcl
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Zuckerberg Pressed Trump on Digital Taxes Before Tariff Vow(bloomberg.com)
3 points by miguelazo 1y ago|1 comments
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by miguelazo 1y ago
That’s one issue, but is it even the most important thing? A lot of it is just regulatory capture, legalized political corruption (“lobbying”) and the total disfigurement of antitrust law by Bork decades ago.
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by miguelazo 1y ago
Most voters don’t understand this issue and thus don’t care about it, so the IOUs don’t have to spend that much to sway things. There’s also a lot of corruption and incompetence at the CPUC, including a revolving door to/from industry.
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by miguelazo 1y ago
“solar is so bad for prices which affect poor people” One of the main points of the article is that this premise is completely false, and that the opposite is in fact the case.
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The fliers say 'Save Our Services.' Airbnb is pulling the strings(latimes.com)
2 points by miguelazo 1y ago|1 comments
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by miguelazo 1y ago
More astroturfing
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Why Is Gov. Gavin Newsom Blocking Rooftop Solar in California?(motherjones.com)
14 points by miguelazo 1y ago|7 comments
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by miguelazo 1y ago
Just because VR fitness was a flop hardly proves your point. Most people expected that to happen.
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by miguelazo 1y ago
This is an extremely naive statement. You might want to do some more research before blaming the victims of a multi-decade multibillion dollar assault any further.
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Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges(latimes.com)
82 points by miguelazo 1y ago|101 comments
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by miguelazo 1y ago
Classic sanctions backfire. The US is just accelerating its own decline.
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Five Things the Nuclear Bros Don't Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors(blog.ucs.org)
10 points by miguelazo 1y ago|1 comments
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Former Edison executive, now a lawmaker, seeks to cut rooftop solar credits(latimes.com)
21 points by miguelazo 1y ago|2 comments
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Tariffs and Labor Shortages Will Thwart Housing Production(multihousingnews.com)
1 points by miguelazo 1y ago|0 comments
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by miguelazo 2y ago
There is some truth to what you’re saying, but that’s just another example of (particularly American) capitalism’s masterful misallocation of resources when it comes to compensation.

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