For all you big city defenders
The Adam Singer guy profiled in the article no longer works for SF based NVTA. Heâs now working for an Austin based PE fund.
Does it mean remote doesnât work for him?
No blackouts in Austin. Weather so good, can have home cooked hot plates in the backyard 
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Lol, what kind of third world place canât maintain consistent electrical service?
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Also, I donât see any plans to make things better on this front.
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Tesla
Reminds me of Marc Andreessenâs essay about building America. We need to start building again.
As @erth likes to point out, you are taking a helicopter view! Too wide, too vague. Relevant details 
Sitting inside the patio doesnât feel the heat at all. Can enjoy hot plates and cocktails. Btw, my neighbors are having a BBQ party
for last couple of days, SFBAY area weather is feeling much like that of Texas. Hot and Humid.
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I had been in Colorado, Texas, Portland, New JerseyâŚetc, my friends went to Altanta, North Carolina, Viginia, FloridaâŚetc.
More than SJC, I like SFO climate. Overall, the climate here is excellent and we are forced to pay excess income tax and sales for this, that is the only issue with CA/BA.
Poor and misleading argument.
You do not pay taxes for something that comes from nature. Even if the state of California (the government) ceases to exist and people live as it was 10,0000 years ago, the weather will still be the same. The Mediterranean whether of California has existed for thousands of years and is not a creation of any government or an individual. If government or a group of people are so capable of creating weather, I am sure they will be able to create thousands of zones/cities mimicking BAY area micro-climate
People should pay taxes to government for the things that only government can provide (like national defense ). Government should not and must not tax people for the things that people can buy in open market or can do on their own. Nor should government use its heavy hand to tax people to create a market that cannot exist on its own.
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Austin is way ahead of the game than any bay area city.
The proposal doesnât sound that bad.
These immediate cuts would include eliminating funding from three planned police cadet classes and reallocating funds to areas like violence prevention, food access and abortion access programs.
More $$$ for violence prevention 
However, the council said it may allow one or two cadet classes to begin in fiscal year 2021 if a revised curriculum is completed and a âmore appropriate recruitment programâ is implemented.
Sound like upon review, too much money for cadet training.
All in all, streamlining in the right direction.
The councilâs proposal also includes eliminating 150 vacant officer positions, so that the police department will begin fiscal year 2021 without any unfilled sworn positions.
Wait a minute. Any real $ reduction?
Anyhoo, hardly visit city of Austin - full of ex-Californians. I think I will continue to roam within my Republican run county.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
You claim to be for lowering Gini coefficient as a goal. Why would you cheer for California which have produced one of the highest of any state?
You claim to be against big businesses having rent seeking behaviors. Yet, you support the party which heavy regulations make big businesses rent seeking and eliminate competition from small businesses. Just look at the decimation of small banks after the democrat banking legislation thatâs was supposed to protect us. The big banks are bigger than ever.
Are you saying providing free healthcare and other benefits makes inequality worse? That without those policies California will see their Gini coefficient decrease?
No. Without the welfare safety net CAâs inequality problem will be even worse. CAâs inequality problem comes about in spite of our safety net, not because of it.
A plumber makes more in SF than in Orlando. In fact over 60% more according to Indeed:
But unlike SF, Orlando doesnât have fresh CS grads making 200K a year. Thatâs one big reason driving CAâs inequality. Even the low end of the income spectrum makes a bit more than other locales, the delta at the high end can easily be 2 or 3x.
CAâs biggest policy failure lies in housing. But there itâs about giving too much property rights to property owners. We need to bulldoze over these landed interests to build more. The resistance is bipartisan though. NIMBYâs gotta be NIMBYâs, Democrats or Republicans.
$200K is not real salary. it is more Fed reserve throwing money at digital firms. and this have consquences that will become obviousâŚ
Software developer in Paris/Berlin/Moscow/London make 1/4 of this starting salary and these countries are far richer once you look a there water resources, education system.
Anybody notice a pattern in the two incidents? i.e. one recent vs the older one?
Or in other words, as someone had said so eloquently earlier - âSounds like OJ looking for his wifeâs killers.â
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-governor-investigation-high-gas-prices-66431868
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