Was joking with my wife a few weeks ago how in 15 years you're going to see tv shows called Crypto Heist instead of Money Heist. The implausibility of Money Heist today is that banks don't make or keep real paper money anymore. The implausibility of Crypto Heist will be how the thieves will violate the laws of physics and computer science, and somehow no one will notice the electricity bills being jacked up 2-3x for months.

I remember a few years ago when Musk visited Boston and it was clear he visited Starry. The idea at the time seemed like it should work out: Connect Starry devices to Starlink sats. Feel like that was forever ago but I probably waited around 6 months before I realized it wasn't going to happen. That was probably one of the few chances they had, but today CEO's seem to only want a $10B exit. Many such cases of missed opportunities.

I'm not surprised that many of the 2010s class of Boston based startups that haven't SPAC'd or M&A'd just aren't making it. I genuinely feel like that window is now closed since we have moved out of a ZIRP and you're probably going to end up in the dustbin. Datarobot, Bevi, Zipcar all come to mind. Some of them are genuinely great ideas but the iron was hot to at least SPAC by 2020, and if you missed it the train left.

The unwanted adjustments are these seawall and levie structures, and the fact that were going to have to do geoengineering at this point, or otherwise the cities will sink within our lifetimes.

Technolibertarian also. Classical libertarianism is wildly useless at this point. We cant simply go live in the mountains anymore in a globalized high tech society. You just wouldn't have things like MRNA vaccines, bone mesh, and sushi. I'm somewhere between corpo-libertarian and digital democracy. https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/political-ideologies-for-the-21st-century/

A good example of this is this exact situation where I think if the government doesn't step in here and remove this stupid law, the cities will sink and the government will continue to lose what little credibility they have. I'm giving them a chance here at least.

It's a loose statement. I know our ghettos are miles ahead of ghettos in every place in the world and even in this country. I also know if there's a hurricane event like Ira or Sandy that hits Boston, you're going to have a lot of Black and Brown people displaced or underwater with no ability or finances to move without waiting for FEMA for years, and a humanitarian crisis in the short term.

As one of those Libertarian types, I not only believe humans involvement in climate change is real, but I also believe we're past the point of no return and probably need to make some unwanted adjustments to save lower socio-economic classes from a social upheaval weather event that will only affect poor people. Many of the already low lying land is practically a ghetto (East Boston, Southie, Dorchester, Quincy). Remember what happened when the levies broke in Louisiana? I'm not even going to discuss how gas energy is extremely efficient and rug-pulling poor people who's next gallon of gas is getting them to the grocery store or picking up their kids from school. Imagine telling India their poor people can't have their first gas scooter and stunting their growth.

Look we're going to have to do a few dirty things to make things better for everyone.

If we really cared about the environment we would rapidly move to nuclear energy to stop carbon emissions, since that has the most effect. I kind of hate the issue with arguing over small change when the big issues are right there, and I'm willing to compromise to make that 80% cleanup while sacrificing 20%. Some crabs may have to be sacrificed here.

Just found it. So they wanted to do the whole bay, with gated sea walls. Look I know you believe it would be gross but this has been done before. The Dutch seriously do this all the time. We're kind of at the point where if we don't we'll be almost assured the yuppie folks in South Boston waterfront will be taking water taxis to work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/p7rg01/175mile_seawall_sea_gates_proposed_to_protect/

It's a Congress issue. The Dredging Act of 1906 means modern Dredging Ships can't even operate in the US. Its a weird catch 22 because you needed deeper channels to make the modern ships, but you need modern ships to make deeper channels. European ships have been dredging deep for 50 years and would easily just come over and do projects, but because of a weird law, the ships must be built and operated in the US. Right now, there are only 2 real dredging ships that are mostly designed for rivers, and they're already booked and overworked trying to deepen the Mississippi, which is currently so low ships are getting stuck every season. I definitely predict Biden and this congress has to repeal it within the next few years because its an obvious bottleneck in shipping capacity thats just dumb. On the East Coast, Manhattan also need locks yesterday. Word on the street is the Navy frequently works in knee deep water down south there. It would also open up more jobs modernizing Boston and Philadephia's shipping lanes and allowing modern ships to dock there. More shipping equals more work and less dependence on inefficient trucks shipping from Bayonne, NJ or Savanna, GA.

Thanks Teddy Roosevelt for ruining this for us.

Not exactly. The Nederlands is mostly locked and without it, Amsterdam would be underwater. Humans have done this before and it's not a huge issue. No one is swimming in Boston Bay anyways. Note this proposal was supposed to be for Long Island to Deer Island, then Deer to Moon if I'm not mistaken. It could've been all the way to Hull too. The body of water would be so large it would likely be fine.

Also, the alternative is we just let South Boston, Charlestown, and chunks of downtown sink over the next 30 years. As much as I totally think most of South Boston is a scam and just yuppie fast luxury homes for dumb transplants that dont know any better, I doubt we'll just let it become an intertidal zone. We're between a rock and a hard place here. Keep in mind this has been done before the Dredging Act. Back Bay was a Bay. We've rerouted and moved large bodies of water with no issues just making them artificial lakes.

Not sure what happened to it but we need to lock the bay. There was a proposal to lock the harbor islands using dredged sand from the bay and expand the main shopping channel to also allow modern cargo ships. The problem is the Dredging Act currently prevents this and requires congress or executive order to repeal it.

I wonder if there are rat hunting packs here in Boston. This seems to be a great workout for Rat Terriers and other hunting breeds and seems to be becoming a thing in other cities. The dogs also seem to have a good time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL0x5oBFC1w

No, I don't think I will.

My mom is dead but considering Bidens problem with inappropriately touching anything that moves, I wouldn't put it past him.

I hope they ride the T and it stalls for 8 hours.

True, but the LNG marketplace is dominated with a significant chunk globally by Russian supply. With that off the market, all users have to compete for remaining supply. Basic economics. Supply goes down, price must go up as especially desperate users compete to get the supply they need. Its not a direct dependence, but the market as a whole is dependent.

Has nothing to do with the local monopoly. Our electricity is generated from LNG and we have to bid for it just like everyone else when there isn't much available due to the war. The prices for LNG are up 50% spot aready.

People will learn the hard way that we need fo invest in nuclear yesterday. It's frankly embarrassing that we psyopsed ourselves to depend on Russia for energy due to the green ESG bullshit and its irresponsible focus on wind and solar, when it's not mathematically possible to depend on it for base load today.

And this is why we need nuclear

Build nuclear. Yesterday.

You should have left yesterday

Wanted a hotel room for date night.

$600

Hope those boats are worth it because your boy isn't getting this hull down the wet river this weekend.

On the computation side, all of the benefits of cloud computing has made it super easy. The resources of stuff like colab, weights and biases, etc definitely mean you should not buy your own hardware. It's just way too expensive to maintain professionals to do that when all of the large players essentially act as a way to pool resources and have on demand compute. Compute is also just getting cheaper now that cryptocurrency is moving to proof of stake, and there's a lot of hardware looking for stuff to do. Of course you could try to build out your own computers and lab data center, now that it's probably cheap to but again, why go through the headache.