Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected]

immigrant 🗽, engineer🧑‍💻, urbanite 🏙, 🚲+ 🚂 commuter, transit enthusiast 🚃🚌🚄, YIMBY 👷🏘🏗

[Jerome Sneed Democrat @avrilbradley23]

It's kind of weird seeing malls depicted as victims of neoliberal capitalism when less than 20 years ago malls were seen as the ultimate expressions of capitalism and commercialism that had driven Main Street out of business.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@jmhorp That's honestly pretty good returns for a commodity. I'm guessing most of it was early on + last few years? And tbf you couldn't buy an index fund in 1971 either. And I'm guessing the $8.5M doesn't account for taxes which would bite into stocks more than gold.

[constans @constans]

At a certain point I realize I'm on the 20% side of an 80-20 issue, and it's hard to grapple with, because the movement against data centers seems like a mass panic, akin to people suddenly worried about witchcraft.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@cremieuxrecueil @Alt_Azn Isn't this an argument against any STEM jobs?

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

The college wage premium has not fallen recently and the net cost of college has slightly fallen over the past decade+. "College is dying because it's less worth it" isn't really true. What is true is that the number of 18 year olds in the US will fall every year from now on.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@SeanTrende Why not do what Australia does and enforce that every candidate needs to be ranked? Seems to work really well there.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@RBPundit It shouldn’t make any difference from the outside but AI focused ones use massive GPUs/TPUs. The old ones were cpu focused.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@US_1st_Badass @SSage61293 @RationalBlonde I bet one of them was per ticket and the other was total lol.

[rustbeltjacobin 🌹 @rustbeltjacobin]

After this data center backlash, I think we can say there won’t be an AI unemployment crisis. If AI caused as much as ~10% unemployment there’d be an earthquake of political unrest at the companies. They’d be lucky if all that happened to them was expropriation

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@TanaJudson @jkenney The system has a really strong preference for younger people which for obvious reasons is negatively correlated with experience and achievement. If you’re over 30 it’s almost impossible to get PR unless you know French.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@molochofficial Downs–Thomson paradox

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@rogerfields120 @moseskagan How much is some used wire even worth? I'm shocked that it's worth anyones time to steal it.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@ianollis @RM_Transit 160 mph is plenty fast and more than 2x highway speeds. Top speed in Spain and Italy are only a bit faster (~185mph). TGV is 200~. Hokkaido Shinkansen is 160mph. The og Shinkansen was actually only 130 mph.

Bigger issue is the slow sections.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

George HW Bush lost the presidency and Bill Clinton lost Congress because they both made difficult decisions on raising taxes and reining in spending that ended deficits, so subsequent American political leaders collectively said "Let's never do that again!"

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

The people simply want an economy with no unemployment, a very high minimum wage and very low prices, affordable housing but high home equity, low taxes but excellent public services, and the stock market to give massive returns.

Politicians are very mean for denying them this.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@ECaliberSeven They have a backup Dan Sullivan? lol

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@hecubian_devil @SpecialPuppy1 What is the real grievance and why is it socially unacceptable?

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @Car_Free_USA]

Manhattan would mostly be illegal to build under current zoning laws.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@davidshor Doesn’t RCV usually benefit moderates more often? I don’t get why they are opposed to it.

[Ajmal 🧦🔰 @[email protected] @AjmalK]

@MattBruenig What’s wrong with a trade deficit? Structurally that just means a capital surplus right?