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Actual title: "The aftermath of ChatGPT’s launch leaves media industry battling profitability with layoffs"

Note that your link is your link as the position owner and requires an additional clickthrough to get to the posting.

This is an example of the downside of putting your postings in a walled garden like LinkedIn.

This is the third such Show HN in the past 20 hours

Press release:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-justice-disrupt...

>I’m shocked that what everyone said would happen is happening.

What did "everyone say"? Are you confusing Keystone with Keystone XL?

If they've been spending $3 million/year on Twitter ads, are they that bright in the first place? I've literally never made a single buying decision that had anything to do with a Twitter ad. Ever.

>In 1986, the city implemented a ban on cruising to address gang violence, crime, and traffic-related accidents. But San Jose’s primarily Mexican American lowriding community has suffered the consequences of the ordinance, which many say facilitated discrimination.

This is a crock. The ordinance affected only stretches of San Carlos Street and Santa Clara street and was implemented because the resulting gridlock rendered downtown businesses utterly inaccessible (even discounting rampant crime). The entire rest of the city (and county) was open to them, even Stevens Creek Blvd.

It's going to be very interesting to see this conflict revitalize if the so-called Google Village west of Market St. ever happens. Right now, downtown is mostly a ghost town at night anyway.

> hosts don’t like charging them

This is a crock. Since AirBnB has no search filter for "Show price with fees", it encourages hosts (literally every superhost in my searches on a recent trip) to show an artificial rate and then a "cleaning fee" upwards of 50% of the base rate.

The IBM 3800 was a highly reliable laser printer. It was first deployed 46 years ago.

... and China's more ruthless powers of Eminent Domain to acquire land

>The first Japanese Shinkansen train went over budget by 100%, but nobody remembers that anymore. Instead they talk about how wonderful the Shinkansen trains are.

HSR is at 300% of original budget without even a credible schedule for completion of that original plan -or- source of funding.

Long-distance "high speed" rail is going nowhere in CA without constraints on air travel, especially short-hop flights, that includes taxation for environmental consequences. Nobody flying the Bay Area or Sacramento - L.A. corridor is going to spend 4X as much to spend double the time in transit.

"But the intensifying drought and wildfires in Northern California and escalating hurricanes and storm surges along the Southeastern coastline drove the couple to sell both houses."

This is a crock. HMB is no more subject to drought or wildfires than anywhere else in the country. They fled to NC for the same reason my retired Apple executive neighbor did -- lower taxes and higher quality of life than CA now.

How many Republicans can you name who were on nationwide radio in the 1980s?

In other words, it was made up.

Downstream refers to liquids, or concepts. Perhaps "downwind" was meant?

>Presidents just appoint one of these individuals as director.

The President's nominee doesn't have to be from existing rank-and-file FBI employees, Special Agents or otherwise.

>3 is a pretty low number

3 complete shutdowns blocking traffic in one city on the same day.

>Since 1935 there have been 16 directors or acting directors.

Number of directors is irrelevant. Number of terms/years of party control is.

Since 1935, 13 of 23 Presidential terms were Democrats.

Your "quote" is meaningless without attribution.

California utilities are just pass-through delivery agents for natural gas -- they just charge cost + % to service. Gas prices can vary greatly depending on demand.

What the current push against consumer access to natural gas ignores is that there is a lot of natural gas produced as a byproduct of producing other oil drilling products, and if not consumed for useful purposes it just gets burned off into the atmosphere directly.

The Chronicle was bought by Hearst in 2000.

>Pollution which flows downstream from Northern CA into a basin where it stays (those lovely SF winds blow that somewhere)

The San Joaquin River flows south to north.

People can't "research" your imaginary numbers.

Good for you, because it's all affiliate links (tag=hnbooks04-20).

It's really tacky (and actionable) to co-opt the name of Hacker News in this way.

>Obamacare doesn't cover undocumented immigrants.

In California, yes it (Covered CA) does.

>“plastic bags” (which includes trash bags, grocery bags, retail bags and dry cleaning bags) make up a very small portion of litter, usually less than 1%

By mass (weight), not volume, area, visibility, or impact on wildlife.

That "legally defined limit" is defined by zoning. So one can't say that they support maintaining existing limits and yet want existing zoning unilaterally ended.

>Atherton is a billionaire enclave in Palo Alto

Atherton is a distinct town that is neither in nor even adjacent to Palo Alto. It's not even in the same county.

>lack of free and competent medical treatment

In CA, people with low/no income can get fully subsidized Obamacare plans for $1/month... even if here illegally.

>He very nearly signed a Basic Income law.

What such law ever passed Congress during his tenure?

(1995)