11 thoughts on “The End Of The Silicon Valley Dream”
“Because many Kia & Hyundai vehicles lack standard anti-theft technology, a few tools and a few minutes are all a thief needs to steal a car. It’s obvious we need action to protect customers. AGs across the nation are calling on the federal govt to institute a nationwide recall.”
California anarcho-tyrrany is not the worst type of tyrrany, but it may be the most annoying.
*tyranny
“To be clear, the Valley is not done as a major tech center. It still boasts a venture capital community, a remarkable concentration of engineering and other management talent, powerful universities and the headquarters of some of the biggest companies in the world. ”
The same could have been said for Detroit, or the Los Angeles Aerospace industry
“If you ain’t makin’ it, you ain’t fakin’ it…” – D. Spain
or the Los Angeles Aerospace industry
This is not California’s first rodeo of failure. I figure once they won’t have much left once they wreck Silicon Valley and agriculture. Maybe they can do tourism, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
That whole tourism thing is diminishing, because nobody really wants to see homeless encampments on the streets and parking lots, or get robbed.
As to tourism, my siblings recently suggested that our next large family trip should be to California and Disneyland.
Our household has already started planning our polite decline if for no other reason than the small fact that it will cost just as much to get IN to “The Happiest Place on Earth” as it will to FLY there in the first place. And our kids in their strollers won’t get bupkus from the experience, either, owing to their lack of televisions and screen time.
The article doesn’t even touch on some really important points. Infrastructure around here is an absolute omnishambles. ASCE report card gave California overall a C- infrastructure rating, but in reality here in Bay Area its way worse.
I get friends visiting from places like Shanghai and they can’t believe there’s no decent, fast convenient and clean public transportation everywhere, that there are constant power outages, most people don’t have fiber connections etc.
Building anything new anywhere takes forever and is all mired in NIMBY crap.
Then there’s culture at Big Tech – it’s absolutely mired in red tape and inefficiency, nothing gets done at any reasonable speed. There’s little knowledge of how to build standards and interfaces around anymore. And a lot of the stuff is built on byzantian layers of technical debt upon technical debt that never gets addressed. Very small percentage of folks around here have any clue about building hardware, and when they try it ends up a joke
It’s definitely past it’s glory days
Back in the 1990’s (?) the streets of Los Angeles were being destroyed by PacBell installing fiber. Pico Blvd (a major east/west artery) was torn up and reduced to 1 or 2 lanes for years, in WLA… Same with the SF Valley. This had bang-on effects to other utilities, as well – water, natural gas…
And as soon as they got close to completion, PacBell cancelled the project. All the inconvenience to the citizens of LA, all the money lost, for nothing.
Good they can’t do for themselves what they wish they could do to the rest of us.
Oregon used to be a respected place until these womb regurgitants moved in.
Isn’t it funny how tyranny is just tranny with a Y?
“Because many Kia & Hyundai vehicles lack standard anti-theft technology, a few tools and a few minutes are all a thief needs to steal a car. It’s obvious we need action to protect customers. AGs across the nation are calling on the federal govt to institute a nationwide recall.”
https://twitter.com/AGRobBonta/status/1649151772491935744
California anarcho-tyrrany is not the worst type of tyrrany, but it may be the most annoying.
*tyranny
“To be clear, the Valley is not done as a major tech center. It still boasts a venture capital community, a remarkable concentration of engineering and other management talent, powerful universities and the headquarters of some of the biggest companies in the world. ”
The same could have been said for Detroit, or the Los Angeles Aerospace industry
“If you ain’t makin’ it, you ain’t fakin’ it…” – D. Spain
or the Los Angeles Aerospace industry
This is not California’s first rodeo of failure. I figure once they won’t have much left once they wreck Silicon Valley and agriculture. Maybe they can do tourism, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
That whole tourism thing is diminishing, because nobody really wants to see homeless encampments on the streets and parking lots, or get robbed.
As to tourism, my siblings recently suggested that our next large family trip should be to California and Disneyland.
Our household has already started planning our polite decline if for no other reason than the small fact that it will cost just as much to get IN to “The Happiest Place on Earth” as it will to FLY there in the first place. And our kids in their strollers won’t get bupkus from the experience, either, owing to their lack of televisions and screen time.
The article doesn’t even touch on some really important points. Infrastructure around here is an absolute omnishambles. ASCE report card gave California overall a C- infrastructure rating, but in reality here in Bay Area its way worse.
I get friends visiting from places like Shanghai and they can’t believe there’s no decent, fast convenient and clean public transportation everywhere, that there are constant power outages, most people don’t have fiber connections etc.
Building anything new anywhere takes forever and is all mired in NIMBY crap.
Then there’s culture at Big Tech – it’s absolutely mired in red tape and inefficiency, nothing gets done at any reasonable speed. There’s little knowledge of how to build standards and interfaces around anymore. And a lot of the stuff is built on byzantian layers of technical debt upon technical debt that never gets addressed. Very small percentage of folks around here have any clue about building hardware, and when they try it ends up a joke
It’s definitely past it’s glory days
Back in the 1990’s (?) the streets of Los Angeles were being destroyed by PacBell installing fiber. Pico Blvd (a major east/west artery) was torn up and reduced to 1 or 2 lanes for years, in WLA… Same with the SF Valley. This had bang-on effects to other utilities, as well – water, natural gas…
And as soon as they got close to completion, PacBell cancelled the project. All the inconvenience to the citizens of LA, all the money lost, for nothing.
Good they can’t do for themselves what they wish they could do to the rest of us.
Oregon used to be a respected place until these womb regurgitants moved in.
Isn’t it funny how tyranny is just tranny with a Y?