Reading the Suisun Expansion Specific Dan Lyke / comment 0
Reading the Suisun Expansion Specific Plan ("California Forever"), and mostly it's a look at how we could have beautiful things in our own cities if we could balance out the voices of the older NIMBY automobile violence advocates.
And maybe allow a little less emphasis on the voices of people who live in sprawl outside the city...
Took Charlene for some medical Dan Lyke / comment 0
Took Charlene for some medical tests, while she was in with the tech the people behind the desk were talking about "what's cool with the kids". One mentioned a Hacky Sack, another asked "What's a Hacky Sack?"
I just had to interject: "Some of you spent the '90s sober, and it shows."
The old world of tech is dying Dan Lyke / comment 0
Baldur Bjarnason: The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
If you have two economies of equal size and productivity, one has a massive financial sector and billionaires while the other does not, the financialised economy will have less left over to invest in research, education, infrastructure, and healthcare. Over time, it will inevitably fall behind the country with a smaller financial sector because it’s the other things that drive the economy and productivity, not stock market growth.
Went to Santa Rosa YIMBY this evening Dan Lyke / comment 0
Went to Santa Rosa YIMBY this evening, came home with a book. Two or three of you are going "oooh, cool", the rest are like "WTF, Dan? This is geekier than when you're on your computer stuff..."