tobiasdorge

Sure; can do!

I'm a member of Market Street Railway (https://www.streetcar.org/) which does a lot of advocacy to keep these street cars maintained. Many of these cars were either purchased long ago from other cities that would have otherwise scrapped them (most of the PCCs, the long sleek ones) and others are often either preserved Muni originals or donated / purchased by Market Street Railway. Car 162 just came back into service and was purchased by Market Street Railway and worked on by volunteers (and Muni) [1]

I obviously am I biased, and think this is very very cool. There are many intangibles here beyond the budget numbers; a bit of history, a bit of whimsy, a bit of color to what is often utilitarian (public transit). It certainly attracts tourists to the city (I was pretty surprised at the number of out of towners at Muni heritage weekend).

But I do think it's important, not just for tourism but also as a legitimate connector along the Embarcadero corridor that otherwise has no public transit along it. Agree that a breakout of the cost of maintaining these things would be appreciated, not sure if that exists in clear terms, but I don't think it's massive. For example Car 162 was damaged in a collision in 2014, and took 12 years to fix and return to service. For many gripmen / Muni restorationists working for the city, it's a side project.

And while I'm here, I'd be remiss if I didn't post an article about Maurice Klebolt, one of the biggest advocates for vintage transit in San Francisco. It describes how he acquired car 106 from the Soviet Union [2]

[1]: https://www.streetcar.org/streetcars/162-162-muni-1950s-live...

[2]: https://www.streetcar.org/remembering_a_trolley_titan/

was able to get these added to ublock origin lite, which works in chrome; just paste the content directly into the custom filter settings.

actively investing is 1) hard and 2) really just a waste of time considering the amounts most people are dealing with. I think it may have been from A Random Walk Down Wall Street but the general notion is something like this:

You have a 500k portfolio, and you spend the average amount week managing your portfolio (12 hours). If you were to achieve a 2% alpha (which is considered insanely high for any actively managed fund, and almost impossible to replicate year after year), you have made an excess $10k over what you would have made investing your portfolio in a benchmark.

On an hourly basis that's about $16 per hour spent... you could get more reliable income working at a gas station in California. And of course, most people are not investing $500k, the vast majority of day traders are probably pulling their hair out managing <$100k...

Surely there is a lot of software involved in the design / operation of these fabs, it's not just designing the chip directly. Another commenter mentioned EDA so maybe I'll look into that.

Does anyone know the general path to get involved in this? Perhaps its romantic, but this seems important, it seems hard, and it seems like something I can be proud of working on (as opposed to maximizing ad clicks). I'm just a SWE w/ a Comp sci degree, so what's the entry-point here?

> That the MENA nations who expelled their minority Jewish populations did so in a vacuum

How does something occurring in Palestine justify this? Tying the actions of Jewish militias to your local Jewish population is antisemitic… if they expelled them to protest the creation of Israel, then that isn’t anti-Zionist. That they mostly all ended up going to Israel is ironically supporting the Zionist cause

Based solely on the metrics of the site, walkability, bikeability, proximity to transit, based entire on map data… sure! The reality on the ground of course suggests walkability is… not great. Better than having a car there though.

I can’t imagine Seattle being more dense than San Francisco, though I can imagine it’s in the top 5

I seem to have dropped my /s ;)

Anti-capitalist societies famously did/do not have law enforcement or militaries