Jeff Kessler

@neeratanden It was considered by many a bad call at the time.

Given the news today that Spirit Airlines is shuttering and thousands of people are losing their jobs, I think we should honestly assess whether the Garland DoJ stopping the JetBlue merger with Spirit Airlines was the right call. Perhaps it was but any analysis must consider as part of the equation the loss to so many families ro decide.

@SinaiLawFirm @JoeFernandez It’s the combination. Low property taxes make it easy to just hang onto, and inability to evict tenants make people not want to rent it out.

@JoeFernandez they are empty due to renter protection laws and long evictions, not prop 13

One thing I see in my neighborhood in LA with Prop 13 is that there are at least 8 houses in a 2 block radius that have been empty for 5+ years. People who owned them have passed and it's so cheap for their kids just to leave it sitting. Bad for the neighborhood and city

@kane The Waymo is over the stop line, and it has space to back up. I’m a big Waymo supporter but come on.

This bus is a New Flyer XDE40 Xcel with a wheelbase ~25’. SF travel lanes are ~11’. This bus needs ~1.5 lanes, rounding to 2, to make a 90* turn. It has 3 lanes. Like every SFMTA incident, this is human error.

@ContrarianCurse Privacy concerns?

There are people under the age of 40 that work in this industry that don't have Claude/OAI installed on their desktop. I know because half my shop doesn't Boggles my mind

@buccocapital Having the exact same experience. I liken it to lazy coworker.

Claude is so fucking bad right now Honestly I don't even look at the first response I just say "Hey man that fucking stunk can you try again but actually put some effort into it?" And then it does the actual work

@rohindhar Yeah, you’d much rather have 80s or 90s electrical vs. 40s and 50s.

In the San Francisco real estate market, one of the best deals is homes that were updated in the 1990s or 2000s and are now for sale and look dated On homes like this the infrastructure behind the walls is already updated, so as a buyer you typically don’t have to spend money on new electrical, foundation, plumbing, structural elements, etc. These items are terribly expensive and mostly behind walls so you never even see them. Instead, if you want to update it, can focus on cosmetic elements which are both fun and less expensive. But for the most part, buyers really don’t like homes that don’t show well so the 1990s remodel home gets dismissed quickly often for a less expensive “blank slate” fixer, that ends up being much more expensive when you “fix it” This dynamic is true at all price points, but particularly common at the higher end where buyers prefer a perfect home (which rarely comes to market) so end up opting for a fixer (which ends up taking 4 years to complete)

@tolstoybb AI is like a lazy coworker. “Can you confirm whether [x] is true?” “Sorry, my first response was wrong because I didn’t actually look into it.”

The new AI models are behaving like human employees during a tight labor market.

@mattyglesias I think a lot of people buy the car seats that work from infant to 7 years old, which are indeed huge.

@pitdesi Great argument for speed cameras.

Good post on study design Using Lyft data, they compared drivers traveling at same speeds, on the same roads, at the same times. Disappointing result: Minority drivers 24–33% more likely to be cited and paid 23–34% higher fines, not explained by differences in accident risk.

@TheEbonyMaw Please pardon my dear aunt Sally.

It’s so frustrating to me that “Order of Operations” used to be considered such a common concept understood by most middle schoolers. Now, it’s entirely unknown to many people, so bait accounts can endlessly post this slop & have people fight over 2 answers that are both wrong.

@BasileGSenesi @realEstateTrent Sleep schedule needs flexibility when traveling. Or don’t travel.

@realEstateTrent Lots of opinions in here of people who’ve clearly never had children and don’t understand what a sleep schedule is

Today on a flight, there was a baby crying for about an hour and a half straight. That happens. You expect it. But in this case it was crying because the mother refused to allow her to fall asleep. The dad tried to get the mom to let her sleep, with no success. “If she sleeps now, she won’t go to sleep tonight… and we’ll be up late.” She would rather have 150 people sit there listening to her baby cry for an hour and a half… …than deal with an extra hour and a half later tonight herself. Incredible.

@cremieuxrecueil Yup. I find this all the time. It’s like a lazy coworker that doesn’t bother to check their own work before handing it to you.

A major reason I don't trust Claude to do its own statistical analyses yet is because sometimes you can just ask it 'Is that right? Seems wrong.' and then everything it's written so far changes. It's not very thorough and will tell you and update to obviously erroneous things.

@christopherrufo Yup having any sort of enforcement of any rules has been deemed racist.

Gavin Newsom doubled spending on California food stamps. Romanian fraud rings immediately started stealing millions from the program. Instead of cracking down, however, State Democrats want to reduce the penalties—effectively legalizing welfare fraud.

@DarwinBondGraha The old fare gates were ridiculously easy to bypass. Every single time I took Bart I saw someone evading fares.

There have always been fare gates. Throughout its 50+ year history, BART has been one of the most successful and self-sustaining transit agencies in America. Its current problems are rooted mostly in economic changes affecting all metro areas.

@kane I think we should pay our politicians more to attract better people (as opposed to the independently wealthy, crazies, and grifters). But agree that the optics here are pretty bad.

Progressive politicians in Oakland, after increasing crime and the deficit, are going to give themselves 125% raises.

@Tyler_A_Harper This is what turned me off from going into management consulting over 20 years ago. “We add value!!” doesn’t really mean much.

The number of people I encounter who can’t explain their (generally “good”) jobs and/or what their spouses do is staggering. I’d love to see people try to describe what they actually do for a living in a single 280 character tweet in a way that the average person can understand.

@texasrunnerDFW I wish they’d push it back a couple weeks.

I would rather it be light out at 6:30 am than 7:30 pm Standard Time is better

@bubba371 @shipwreckedcrew I don’t follow. Aren’t you removing the cheap seats? The premium seats just move to the new sidelines. And everyone recalibrates from there?

@shipwreckedcrew Making the court wider won't happen in any professional league, because it would require removing premium seats. Even though both the NHL and the NBA have fields that are clearly too narrow

It should acknowledge the advance of time and development of the modern athlete. Soccer and baseball use smaller fields/goals for younger players. Basketball should make the court 30 feet longer and 12 feet wider, raise the hoop to 12 feet for college and pros, move the 3 pt line back 4 feet, make the free thrown 18 feet, and make the lane 4 feet wider. High school and NBA courts are basically the same size -- NBA is 10 feet longer but same width. Football needs to do the same thing -- 120 x 70 yard fields. Defensive players are so big and fast that the size of the field become an extra defender. Room in the middle of the field has simply evaporated.

@mattyglesias It’s the same union that refused to go back into the classroom even after getting to cut everyone in line to get the Covid vaccine first.

@Nowooski 100% will turn buses into rolling homeless shelters.

This is also why Zohran’s free bus scheme is bad. It’s not about the revenue, it’s that you want some friction to keep anti-social behavior out of the system.