Rex-Goliath posted:

it's finally happening

we've been waiting so long for this moment

we're here

ate all the Oreos posted:

also bitcoin is crashing hard at the same time

did bitcoin crash the global economy, jfc

Stymie posted:

all this discussion of tap water is heartening since hopefully it means yosposters are starting to drink water instead of fizzy drinks all day long to satisfy their babypalates, so good on ya yospos

ate all the Oreos posted:

one is pumped directly out of the springs, decreasing their available flowrates and affecting wildlife downstream, the other is coming from a well sunk into a completely different far away part of the aquifer that has much less of an impact

lancemantis posted:

or even outside the context of uber, think about lots of places people gather and how many of the groups of people there all drove individually, even when some of them live in the same neighborhoods, because thats just how toxic our car culture is

ArmZ posted:

qfb for account sharing with that guy whose name i can't remember but he got banned for posting about apple stock all the time

fishmech posted:

uh, thats not how that works. drawing from one part of the aquifer affects it all bro.

thinking like you do is why idiot great plains farmers swear its not THEIR farm that's a problem

ate all the Oreos posted:

okay fishmech, whatever

Schadenboner posted:

This burn is somewhat diminished by the fact you've actually quoted fishmech, though? Hth.

Schadenboner posted:

This burn is somewhat diminished by the fact you've actually quoted fishmech, though? Hth.

FrozenVent posted:

judge in uber v Waymo is dropping sick burns at the lawyers lol

ate all the Oreos posted:

it's not meant to be a burn or anything i just really don't feel like doing the whole "fishmech arguing against something you didn't actually say while calling you an idiot" thing right now

Rex-Goliath posted:

post them

President Beep posted:

im in florida rn. it’s a bad place.

FrozenVent posted:

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/960620947349778432

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

https://twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/960648430459617281

While neighboring Mountain View plans for 10,000 new homes and politicians throughout the state prioritize what they call a full-fledged housing crisis, Cupertino Mayor Darcy Paul sees things a little differently: He says the housing shortage in his city isn’t dire and doesn’t require drastic action.

His comments are drawing fire from activists who argue Cupertino is on the front lines of a massive housing shortage that’s forcing people to flee the Bay Area for more affordable places.

“It’s not at a point where anyone can justifiably say that we’re at a critical level where drastic measures must be taken,” Paul said during his recent “state of the city” speech, “but the data is telling us that we should pay more attention to ensuring that our housing stock keeps in balance with our job growth.”

“The circumstances are not dire. We have good options,” he continued.


hahahahahahaha



The median price of a Cupertino home is $2.2 million — a 21 percent increase from just a year ago, according to Zillow. That means even well-paid techies are struggling to live here. In 2015, Zillow says, a typical entry-level software engineer would have had to spend 55 percent of his or her monthly income to rent a home in Cupertino, or 69 percent to buy one.


nice

quote:

Budget cuts of up to $5 million next school year due to declining enrollment and increased costs are set to be discussed at the Cupertino Union School Board meeting this evening at 6 p.m.

In the next five years, enrollment at the Cupertino Unified School District is expected to fall by more than 1,200 students, according to enrollment projection consultants hired by the School Board.

“The projected difference from just October 2017 to October 2018 is by 478 students,” according to their report. “A decline by another 378 is forecast in the following year.”

By 2022, fewer than 16,800 students are expected to attend the school district’s schools compared with the current figure of 18,001.

“Soaring housing prices, including rents, since 2012 are believed to be the main cause of these declining numbers of younger students and births, with many young families no longer being able to afford living in the area,” according to a summary of the report’s findings.

my bitter bi rival posted:

probably just a coincidence:

http://cupertinotoday.com/2018/01/09/cupertino-school-board-to-mull-potential-5m-in-cuts/

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

https://twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/960648430459617281

quote:

But Paul, a lawyer who was sworn in as Cupertino’s mayor in December, is taking a more cautious approach. He says his residents worry that a massive influx of housing would increase traffic, make the city more congested, change the feel of local neighborhoods and lead to the overcrowding of Cupertino’s desirable schools.

lancemantis posted:

my bitter bi rival posted:

https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/959559455774973953

caberham posted:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16973432/biohacking-aaron-traywick-ascendance-biomedical-health-diy-gene-therapy

Someone injected a live strain virus in front of an audience to "test" the herpes vaccine. It's like traveling back 200 years ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner

LanceHunter posted:

I know some of the people who put on that conference. Apparently virus-injection guy was enough of an rear end that a lot of people there got frustrated with him. Like, he insisted that he will only take intramuscular shots in his thigh, and therefor he just had to take his pants off in front of the whole crowd.

quote:

As Uber has taken care to point out, Waymo doesn’t seem that interested in talking about the technology. (Waymo reserved fifteen minutes to discuss the trade secrets in opening statements this morning, Uber reserved over twice as much time). Instead, Waymo is pressing hard on extremely suspicious emails.

And why wouldn’t they? They have what seems to be a bottomless well of embarrassing quotes, the majority of which appear to be Travis Kalanick doing poor impressions of Tyler Durden from Fight Club.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16975878/waymo-v-uber-trial-opening-statements-travis-kalanick-emails

quote:

The report suggests that Levandowski and others really did think they were doing something wrong — they destroyed hard disks, they lied about destroying hard disks, they deleted texts about destroying hard disks, they deleted texts about deleting texts about destroying hard disks.

ate all the Oreos posted:

also bitcoin is crashing hard at the same time

did bitcoin crash the global economy, jfc

FMguru posted:

lol

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

but but but building more housing will just increase traffic

*totally blocks all housing infill, forcing increasingly larger numbers of workers to commute to the area in their cars*

Amethyst posted:

no. all this growth was driven by cheap credit and peopple are realizing that the central bank is about to increase interest rates

meatpotato posted:

lol at worrying that adding housing will change the feel of the neighborhood as if the massive number of people that were pushed out by rising prices didn’t already completely alter the neighborhood feel.

the mayor is working for the interests of the wealthy whose houses-cum-investments would lose value if housing wasn’t so scare. prioritizing wealth and property over people, nice.