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New comment by bblpeter in "Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy"

bblpeter — Tue, 09 May 2023 17:47:15 +0000

You mean like SF where there’s no looting?

New comment by bblpeter in "A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting"

bblpeter — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:47:20 +0000

The whole story is fake

New comment by bblpeter in "A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting"

bblpeter — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:16:06 +0000

Apparently this was an urban legend. Good movie idea but not accurate

New comment by bblpeter in "How close are we to the holy grail of room-temperature superconductors?"

bblpeter — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 09:03:26 +0000

If you see a headline like this you know we’re not close at all

New comment by bblpeter in "Cash App founder stabbed after allegedly drinking with suspect's sister"

bblpeter — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 07:18:06 +0000

The broader trend is SF

New comment by bblpeter in "Cash App founder Bob Lee stabbed to death after argument about suspect's sister"

bblpeter — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 21:10:49 +0000

No, just that SF is full of crime.

New comment by bblpeter in "Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla"

bblpeter — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:08:31 +0000

> lithium can be recycled

It can’t. This is an extremely energy intensive process that produces toxic waste products.

It’s a fantasy.

New comment by bblpeter in "Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla"

bblpeter — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:07:38 +0000

I assume you don’t live near a lithium mine

New comment by bblpeter in "Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla"

bblpeter — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:07:20 +0000

Do you know that after your lithium battery degrades, it’s toxic waste?

New comment by bblpeter in "Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla"

bblpeter — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 06:16:21 +0000

Quitting coal mining in exchange for lithium mining? That’s like saying an addict is healthy because he quit heroin in exchange for being hooked on fentanyl.

New comment by bblpeter in "New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem"

bblpeter — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:57:51 +0000

Sorry but that’s not new

New comment by bblpeter in "Ex-S.F. fire commissioner with fractured skull after metal pipe attack"

bblpeter — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:06:22 +0000

> but unless you're doing something about it

Explaining that SF is not safe is actually doing something. Because believe it or not, many people still think this violence and crime is no big deal.

New comment by bblpeter in "Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV"

bblpeter — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:24:56 +0000

Would have to agree

New comment by bblpeter in "Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly"

bblpeter — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 21:44:18 +0000

I want it tied to a good business. I’d tie my wealth to Google (when they were the same age as Uber), whether I’m the CEO there or not. It doesn’t matter because it’s a great business. If Travis is selling then he agrees it’s a bad business.

New comment by bblpeter in "Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack"

bblpeter — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 21:34:38 +0000

That’s the problem with Slack — too easy to switch to equivalent or superior alternatives. I suspect this issue will continue to weigh on their stock price.

New comment by bblpeter in "The unending quest to explain consciousness"

bblpeter — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:35:28 +0000

Simulate yes. But not understand.

New comment by bblpeter in "The unending quest to explain consciousness"

bblpeter — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:34:53 +0000

Sure but then a computer doesn’t understand its own simulation so it’s apples and oranges

New comment by bblpeter in "Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly"

bblpeter — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:32:23 +0000

So it can only succeed if he’s steering it? Doesn’t sound like a good business

New comment by bblpeter in "Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly"

bblpeter — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:30:13 +0000

If Uber can only succeed with him in charge, and nobody else, then it’s not a very good let alone realistic business is it?

New comment by bblpeter in "Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly"

bblpeter — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:58:45 +0000

Not really. He already has enough money to live for a million lifetimes in luxury. There would be no reason to diversify at this point, unless of course he thinks Uber is doomed.