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Space was government only until very recently.

But where are the DIY fire fighting apps and devices? Where are the startups that promise 10,000 drones that can put out a 50,000 acre fire in under 2 hours?

Solution is not government as with the Space race. It will be won by private industry. I'm perplexed that more bay areas thought leaders haven't jumped on this problem given how close it is to their back yards.

Yes to better forest management. Of course we have to do that.

The state will burn down without intervention. That is painstakingly clear.

Sequoias on the Western Sierra slopes are the last in the world. And from the looks of it they don't have much time. Would you like us to clear the 3000 year old trees too?

Temps are rising. We are engineers who talk of terraforming mars.

Why can we not talk of doing the same thing in our own back yard?

But from the best and brightest in the world? People who put rovers on Mars but don't want to put a fire out that could destroy half of their state?

I don't understand. Do you mean to say they are ok with half of the state burning down as long as their offices are unaffected?

Air quality will affect the output of their workforce. They can probably measure it in dollars.

Better offense is needed. Yes it's good to understand fire dynamics but not very useful when nothing can be done about it.

I was hoping we'd figure out a better way by now than throwing more firefighting humans at the problem.

Not much money to be made by saving lives, health, and billions of dollars in infrastructure damage?

Are wildfires not an engineering problem?

California is YC's backyard. PG and friends all have their lives in Nor Cal where most of these recent fires have been taking place.

I am perplexed by the silence of YC and other bay area stars like Google, Apple and the bay area tech giants that seem oddly silent on the matter.

Would it take Google or Apple's campus burning down before they took the threat seriously?

State should be investing heavily in solar for everyone.

The future of firefighting should be heavily invested in.

Have there been YC proposals for novel firefighting tech?

If not then why not? Obviously a field ripe for disruption.

Where are Google, Facebook, Apple, SpaceX, California state gov?

And Musk is still focused on LA traffic jams. I guess the worst fires in California state history are not enough to sway the titans of industry into action.

Even though these fires are happening in their back yard.

You did the right thing by scraping the data. That is the more clever way. Scraping is not illegal. Google does it every second of every day.

So the story of Moses out of Egypt has definitively been disproven by the word 'think.'

I would encourage people to use critical thinking skills while reading this article.

Of course slave labor was used over the thousand year period these structures were built. Perhaps not all the workers were slaves but some percentage of them were.

This article merely points to the existence of some popular contractors at the time. Contractors who most likely used their own slave labor.

What's the definition of a slave in Egyptian times? What would prove or disprove their existence 4000 years ago? This is not a logical or reasonable article. It makes far too many assumptions. It should be rewritten and the findings described without the interpretation of the author.

We got by just fine in the 80s and 90s without App stores. So much innovation came out of that world which established the dominant players who are in control now.

And you don't even get security with App stores. As we already know with all the malware found in Google Play apps.

App stores are simply keeping the big guys big and small guys small with few exceptions here and there.

It's just another walled garden that keeps the little guy out and keeps players like Google and Apple entrenched.

And you're right, it's worse than that. They're not even getting the security they've trade their freedom for.

Why is that? Why does fear always win? Your argument is based on fear. Why do we favor fear over rationality?

You would choose a dictatorship over a democracy if it meant that you felt safe. This where that line of thinking leads.

You'd rather be safe than free.

You'd think stealing 30% of the profits and booting apps off the store for no good reason would be enough.

It's given me so much freedom and independence in life. Source: I'm what most people would consider an introvert and I've been working from home since 2006.

I currently reside in a sleepy mountain town in California and I couldn't be happier here.

A privileged mob on reddit armed with Macbook pros does not equal the people sticking it to the man.

Reddit itself is part of the oligarchy everyone is railing against.

The people are starving on the streets and unemployed. Too far gone to make bets on their iPhone 11s using something like Robin Hood.

This is Goliath vs a somewhat more organized and entrenched Goliath. This is not David vs Goliath.

And maybe not party lines but the stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming. This mob helps no one. It's just a lot of people making bets against each other and manipulating the market.

Just because one side is an angry mob on Reddit does not make it right or moral what happened. I would hardly call r/WallStreetBets 'the people.' It's nothing more than an angry mob.

Google and Facebook destroy competitors. And make sure new entrants cannot gain traction. They are about as anti-competitive as they can be.