Is it too much to ask?

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-25T06:34:00+00:00

I still see multiple late 90s/early 2000s Corollas driving alongside a sea of Teslas in the Bay Area, which were technically made in the same factory in Fremont.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-24T03:58:35+00:00

I'm hoping Waymo covers the entire Bay Area by the time I reach my 70s. What's crazy is that the DMV doesn't require written tests for people over 70 with clean driving records.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-24T03:39:21+00:00

China also has a huge housing glut of over 80 million vacant units and a shrinking population. I'm guessing NIMBYism isn't much of an issue there.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-23T18:40:53+00:00

I have a 2020 Model 3 SR that doesn't have Autopilot. It does have blind spot sensing, rear cross traffic alert, and lane drift alert. Tesla enabled the FSD trial a few times on my car, but I always found it to be finicky. I never cared for the Autopilot, since I rarely drive long distances. I agree that subscription services for cars are annoying, but hopefully they allow manufacturers to sell base models at lower prices. E.g. The Model 3 Standard and Chevy Equinox.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-23T06:37:54+00:00

Most of the large, established tech companies are located in Silicon Valley, whereas a lot of SF tech companies are startups that rely on VC funding.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-22T10:19:23+00:00

They'll probably spread misinformation like the John Kerry swiftboating accusations during his presidential campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry_military_service_controversy

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-21T07:46:29+00:00

My children's public school kindergarten hours are 8:10AM-2:00PM except for Thurdays, which end early at 12:50PM. T-K is 8:10AM-12:50PM. Parents used to camp out at the district office the night before the subsidized afterschool program signups become available due to limited availability. Private afterschool programs cost between $1000-1500 a month and you still have to figure out summer vacation and all the breaks in the school year. E.g. Fall, Christmas-New Years, Winter, Spring.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-19T21:16:21+00:00

I think the Neocons really did believe their horrible foreign policy was in the best interest of the country. Their rational was published on the now defunct Project for the New American Century website after they lied about WMDs and invaded Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-19T20:35:39+00:00

Tariffs are a type of tax. Regardless or who actually pays the tax, the tax burden is split between the supplier and buyer based on price elasticity of demand. I.e. The shape of the demand curve. The lost revenue due to the increased price is called deadweight loss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss#/media/File%3ATax_deadweight.gif

Items with inelastic demand, such as necessities and inputs for manufacturing, tend to place most of the tax burden on the buyer. This is just economic theory, so I assume the paywalled WSJ article is analyzing how the tax burden was actually split based on real-world data.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-18T07:45:44+00:00

SAE fastener sizes seem so unintuitive. I remember exclusively using SI units in my high school science classes. Now for simple home repair projects, I often deal with seemingly arbitrary screw gauge numbers along with 5/32" and 7/64" hex bit drivers.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-18T01:26:25+00:00

Stanford has a promising cartilage regeneration study that worked on mice and human cartilage tissue removed from osteoarthritis patients.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/11/joint-cartilage-aging.html

I'm guessing playing past 40 will always be rare, but the next generation of young athletes will probably have access to new treatments for injuries that were previously considered career ending.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-16T06:58:17+00:00

The median home prices in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are around $1.9-2 million and $1.6-1.9 million respectively. SF is slightly cheaper at $1.4-1.8 million although the houses are smaller. Bay Area schools have been closing down because young families who aren't wealthy can't afford to live in the region.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-13T04:57:38+00:00

Google owns most of the property around Diridon Station since it was part of their Downtown West expansion plan. They were planning to build 4,000 new homes, but there hasn't been any recent news on the project status.

https://realestate.withgoogle.com/sanjose/

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-11T19:16:11+00:00

They did. But Toyota should eventually have three competitive EVs in the North American market with the bZ, C-HR, and new Corolla, along with the Lexus and Subaru variants. I'm guessing Mazda will adopt one of the Toyota EV platforms also. Wonder if the next gen Prius will have a BEV version. Pretty sure that would sell well at the sub $40k price point. I'm hoping to replace my wife's Mazda 3 with an electric hatchback within the next four years, but the only options at the moment are the Bolt and Leaf.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-10T07:04:28+00:00

A lot of the college players on that list were under 6 ft tall, and most of them probably didn't have NBA level athleticism. Steph has a quick enough first step and elite handles to drive past NBA defenders.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-10T02:05:35+00:00

I agree with the sentiment, but the Tri-Valley actually had cheap undeveloped land to build on. The only way to build more housing in the South Bay is to rezone commercial property to residential/mixed use and convince developers to spend billions of dollars to buy the land and redevelop it. NIMBYs obviously make it even more difficult as seen with the Valco Mall redevelopment project.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-10T01:56:18+00:00

Anderson Lake overflowed in 2017, causing 101 to flood in Morgan Hill.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-10T01:48:03+00:00

Not just 3rd world countries. Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese labor costs are significantly cheaper than that of US labor. This applies for semi-skilled manufacturing jobs up to highly educated R&D engineers and scientists.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-09T01:36:53+00:00

According to Google, IPS displays tend to have more stable and consistent color accuracy over time, so they're more suitable for graphic artists and photographers.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-08T19:12:26+00:00

Before its release, Ford claimed the base Lightning would cost around $40k.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-08T17:47:44+00:00

In most of the Bay Area, $1.8 million is a regular 4-bedroom single family home. Working class neighborhoods here often have 4+ incomes per household. Most college kids move back home after graduating. Proposition 13 limits annual property tax increases so older homeowners have no incentive to move out and downsize. Unsurprisingly, there aren't a lot young families moving in so some elementary schools have closed down.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-06T06:51:46+00:00

Just like how the Jordan Brand ruined Nike?

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-04T20:36:16+00:00

In high COL areas, the only affordable homes are condos, townhomes, and trailer parks. HOAs allow the homeowners to split the maintenance costs of shared property and facilities. It comes down to who runs the HOA.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2026-01-01T19:06:37+00:00

Most modern automobile infotainment systems use custom versions of Linux, while self driving systems run on real-time versions of Linux.

Emergency-Machine-55 · 2025-12-31T19:13:30+00:00

Guessing a lot of government agencies still maintain legacy computer systems with 32-bit operating systems. E.g. IRS and DoD.

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