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https://archive.is/wLflD -> "How Investors Are Preparing for a New Fed" (WSJ)

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Without weighing in on the article or your analysis, I would say that any viewpoint on monetary matters that doesn't gravitate in on May 2026 as a possible huge discontinuity is sort of prima facie counterproductive.

There's very little bandwidth and audience on monetary matters to start with. If we're talking about anything else, we're detracting from that.

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To zoom in on how toxic the brand has become, look at the European market. Sales were down 71% in Sweden and 66% in France for 2025[1], despite ~35% growth in European EV sales. The only "bright spot" was Norway, but that's partly because EVs increased to 96% of sales there (vs ~25% in Europe.)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2026/01/02/...

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No word on which country might be responsible. I'm going to take an educated guess by covering my eyes with one hand and landing a finger randomly on a spinning globe with the other.

Bingo, it worked.

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> I do not live in CA, I live in AZ

I've never lived in AZ, but it sounds like this may have a lot to do with it. ;-)

Personal injury is an area where plaintiffs start out with a huge advantage. Judgments are large and cases are often settled out of court by landlords' insurance companies. Not only would you have no trouble finding a lawyer, they might actively seek you out.

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If you're wondering how a "specialized rent-a-cop" like this guy gets away with using physical force in the context of a civil law dispute, here's the relevant quote:

> When Jacobs takes on a job, he and his contractors sign temporary leases with the property owner. This move is his secret weapon.

> Jacobs is a big fan of California’s “castle doctrine.” The state law says someone has no duty to retreat in defending themselves against an intruder in their home. They can legally use force, even deadly force, to protect themselves — so long as the force used is proportionate to the threat.

The signing of a lease makes the aggressor look like the aggressee. This strategy seems really shaky to me. I can't help but wonder how well it's been tested in court.

Once someone gets seriously hurt, some of these landlords might end up wishing they had just waited out the regular eviction instead.

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The article might be a modest proposal [1], but sooner or later we're going to have to answer questions like these.

An even more interesting one is: What will we reward?

We've been rewarding labor quantity, as well as quality via higher wages - as motivation and as incentives for more education. This reflected the productivity primacy of knowledge work in modern economies, but that might not be the case down the road.

We've also been rewarding capital. Originally this was a way for the elites to keep themselves in place (a.k.a. economic rents), but in modern times it's been more of an entrepreneurial incentive (a.k.a. economic profits.)

Without the economic profit rationale, there's no reason to reward capital accumulation. Only pro-profit decisions are good for society, pro-rent decisions are awful. If there's no profit to incentivize, capitalism is just bad all around.

If AI becomes a better profit decision-maker than an entrepreneur, any humans left in the loop are nothing but high-rollers gambling with everyone else's money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

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Meh, I was going to use the preprocessor for __LINE__ anyways (to avoid requiring a variable name) so I just made it an "old school lambda." Besides, scope_exit is in C++23 which is still opt-in in most cases.

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    #include <iostream>
    #define RemParens_(VA) RemParens__(VA)
    #define RemParens__(VA) RemParens___ VA
    #define RemParens___(...) __VA_ARGS__
    #define DoConcat_(A,B) DoConcat__(A,B)
    #define DoConcat__(A,B) A##B
    #define defer(BODY) struct DoConcat_(Defer,__LINE__) { ~DoConcat_(Defer,__LINE__)() { RemParens_(BODY) } } DoConcat_(_deferrer,__LINE__)

    int main() {
        {
            defer(( std::cout << "Hello World" << std::endl; ));
            std::cout << "This goes first" << std::endl;
        }
    }

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I think I would be more interested in Rust the language if Rust the PR sphere was not suggestive of certain all-powerful online influences that I've developed antibodies against. I'm not claiming that they're the same people that dig tunnels and launch satellites, just that my immune system is getting activated as if they were.

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A cryptominer is a "datacenter" in the same way that a chop shop is an automotive parts supplier.

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Even if SF lost the hydro plant outright (which seems unlikely) there's still plenty of margin for SF residents to come out on top. SVP in Santa Clara doesn't own much generation, yet its rates are 60% lower.[0]

Then there's the state-wide need to increase transmission capacity because of the switch to renewables, the future politics of which are kinda unpredictable. It's hard to imagine SF getting singled out and left out in the cold, considering the state already has many large municipal utilities getting better deals for their residents.

[0] https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/residents/rates-and-fees

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The difference between being taxpayer-financed and user-financed is that Ellison is on the hook for 10000x as much as granny instead of 20x. If it's a public good it should be paid by the public. A six-year-old keeping the light on at night should not incur a 120% surcharge for burying the transmission lines to a mansion in St. Helena.

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If - if - people who live in the boonies deserve to have the burying of their tens of thousands of line-miles subsidized by others, it's by taxpayers, not by electric users in efficiently-served areas.

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Hoping this mega-mess pushes the city's effort to buy its own grid past the finish line. PG&E has been fighting it tooth and nail.

Not that it will necessarily make for fewer blackouts, but a ~50% rate discount would be nice. That's what users in Santa Clara pay IIRC, and SF even owns the hydro generator at O'Shaughnessy Dam.

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I'll confess I'm a bit less than well-read on this, but I can't help but wonder. How can increasing the number of languages in use within one enormous project possibly reduce critical vulnerabilities over the next decade?

If we're looking beyond one decade, then:

- As with all other utility, the future must be discounted compared to the present.

- A language that might look sterling today might fall behind tomorrow.

- Something something AI by 2035.

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Long term, the problem is not ads but Chatbot Optimization. Any answer can be biased in favor of a brand or solution type if you can plant a strong-enough signal into the training corpus. There's so many brands and solutions and so many shades of signal-gray that trainers are gonna have a tough time weeding out CO - if they even decide to put up a fight.

SRO is much easier to deal with.

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Rich-kid hippies houseshare, hang out indoors after dark, and don't panhandle or shoplift groceries. They do smoke weed and maybe more, but their safety net is functioning. In their case, this life stage can reasonably be described as a cultural experience. Other than aesthetics, there's not much crossover with poor-kid hippies, because mooching tension is a major bummer.

Before the citywide affordability crisis, I think you were more likely to end up outdoors because you hit bottom than the other way around. The outdoor segment and the weed-dealing segment have always been more visible, though.

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When was this? It's changed a lot (in both directions) over the years. For example, after Prop 64 legalized weed, the field in GGP by Haight and Stanyan that was previously staffed 24/7 by a morass of weed salespeople and their groupies (maybe 50-300 at any given time) emptied out overnight.

Then there's the fact that even the 18-20yo "Hippie Pilgrim" demo, which has held up pretty well for generations, is secretly stratified by the socioeconomic status of the parents. One's take on it depends on the specific cliques they're exposed to.

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