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Counterpoint: The war on drugs has been progressively ramped down since the late 90s. NYTimes wrote a long story about how during the feds quit using tactics such as convicted drug dealers to flip on their bosses, etc. We aren't putting as many drug dealers in jail and we aren't putting many drug users in jail. What you get is an epic rise in opioid deaths over the past 30 years and chaos on the streets of our cities.

Given what LA/SF/Portland streets look like with this eased-back war on drugs, it is possible the war was doing a lot.

According to the U.S. census the US is building houses at the fastest pace since 2006. About 1.74 million housing units per year.

https://eyeonhousing.org/2021/04/housing-starts-spring-forwa...

Did you happen to do a chargeback in the past month?

I'm aware of a situation where a user wanted to cancel an account with an app they had subscribed to via the app store. To do so they did a charge back on their credit card. Because he bought via the app store he ended up charging back Apple.

Apple then blocked his icloud.

BuildZoom is hiring sales, ops, PMs, and engineers: https://jobs.lever.co/buildzoom

Work remotely or out of our offices in San Francisco and Scottsdale.

We are making it easier to build and remodel houses by bringing the construction industry online. We also offer remote project management services.

I was wondering the same thing.

"survive the large downturn in users the platform will experience after their actions this week"

Haven't they been number one in the app store all week: https://www.appannie.com/en/apps/ios/top/

BuildZoom is hiring in Scottsdale for ops, sales, and construction engineers.

We are hiring in SF, Scottsdale, and remote for engineering positions. We will sponsor visas

https://jobs.lever.co/buildzoom

Building sky scrapers is way more expensive than building single family homes on empty grassland, where the land is also cheaper. Of course the city should build up, but building out is the real way every US city has kept housing affordable (look at the study I linked above)

Where do you live? Here in Scottsdale, Doordash delights me with their great service. Things are tougher for their drivers in San Francisco and other dense cities where they can't easily park, then have to deal with a confusing array of call boxes to enter the buildings.

I was extremely excited about ghost kitchens and have had been disappointed by similar experiences with them all providing low quality food. I'm still optimistic that the supply will shape itself over time and eventually a market for high quality food ghost kitchens will emerge.

This is not completely true, as the cost to build high rise condos is extremely high and the land is very expensive. Every place in the USA that has kept housing affordable has done so with sprawl, which California's government doesn't allow.

You can see a detailed study of it here: https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/cities-expansion-slowing

There's still the problem of what to do between 4pm and 8 am on a day without wind, which means we won't be able to shut down too many power plants until cheap energy storage exists.

Renewables don't provide constant power without city-scale energy storage, which doesn't exist (yet) at any reasonable price point. Solar for example won't provide power after sunset or on cloudy days.

Because you can't rely on renewables to provide power throughout every day/year, you need to have natural gas/coal/nuclear available. Those have very high fixed costs (other than natural gas), but very low marginal costs, so once you have built them it is cheaper to just use them than to build additional renewable power infrastructure.

Running any air filter (cheap, expensive, etc) lowers the PM2.5 count in my home (adjacent to a busy 4-lane road in San Francisco) from ~40 to near zero. This is the tool I use to measure PM count: https://www.iqair.com/us/air-quality-monitors/airvisual-pro

https://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/1116732197031956480?c...

BuildZoom is hiring engineers, growth/marketing, and sales in Scottsdale, San Francisco, and remotely.

We are a construction marketplace that helps people build and remodel. We are generally focused on large projects; those that require a building permit.

BuildZoom is a managed marketplace in that we have construction engineers with home building/commercial construction experience on staff who help property owners with finding contractors, identifying the scope of the project, material selection, bid negotiation, bid leveling (making sure each bid says the same thing and includes the entire scope of the project).

Our data business (we collect the complete building permit history of the largest 1500 municipalities in the country) helps us identify the best (and worst) general contractors and builders.

We've grown 75-100% each of the last three years..

150ms * 2 in many cases, as both parties use a bluetooth headset. Wifi adds another 5-50ms * 2 plus some packet drops.

What city?

GDP growth rate is reported after subtracting inflation, but the GDP number itself does not subtract inflation.

If you have a GDP of $1 trillion, 2% inflation and 3% GDP growth, you'll have a GDP of $1.05 trillion after 1 year.

To me, this indicates that obesity is a function of something other than self-control and determination.

Everyone can afford to fast, which is one of the best health levers we have access to.