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Comment Re: VRBO (Score 1) 131

I agree with you but there are different types of travelers. I'm still trying to figure out where I want to retire, so local stays make sense. But not everyone wants to experience a location as a local does, some people just want everything taken care of with 0 effort on their part.

Comment Re: Watch the P/E (Score 3, Insightful) 136

The Howard Hughes Corp is still around. Eccentric billionaire, hands into several different sectors, unachievable promises, suspicious government contracts, all the similarities. Howard Hughes Corp does different things now compared to back in the day, but large corporations with physical presence rarely disappear completely.

Comment Re: good (Score 1) 115

We went through the immigration process under K-1, then adjusted status to a permanent resident. No lawyer. Many people have done this and there is information out there how to do it, but it can be outdated, especially in the current era. There wasn't a great "here's the overall workflow" back when we did it, and their probably isn't now either.

The forms have instructions, and if you read carefully (together with all reference documents) it isn't too difficult. But I'm a contract guy, most people likely will have difficulty. It would be nice for them to have an official place to ask questions and have all the relevant forms and instructions considered together.

For a more "routine" example, the forms to apply for or renew a passport for a minor are a huge pain. Not all the required documents needed to be brought to an appointment (minor passports must be applied for in person) are listed in one list as of late last year. You have to go deeper into the state department website than you probably should have to. They should just fix all forms which are confusing or have incomplete instructions, but having generative AI assist the user is probably a lot faster to implement.

Comment Re:4C (Score 1) 101

Sigh. I'll bite.

The question seemed to assume it was a good question, and its premises were correct. They aren't. In fact, the CO2 DOES absorb incoming IR, and with the same cross-section, as it does outgoing IR. It doesn't "know which way the radiation is going."

Now, any honest thinker would realize that the question was silly, because it doesn't admit other mechanisms other than "blocking" [sic] of IR.

Comment Re:4C (Score 1) 101

what is changing is how much we trap.

Why does this magic CO2 block outgoing IR, thus heating the Earth but not incoming IR, cooling the Earth? How does it know which way the radiation is going?

Think just a half-thought further, and question one of your assumptions. THEN you might have a point.

Comment Re:Not public utilities (Score 1) 82

See, that's the thing. Cities often have easement and right-of-way authority, if not ownership.A city can build-out whatever they want, and rent it to whomever.

But that interferes with the cable and telco's revenue streams. Loma Linda California tried it and was fought hard.

The vendors also objected. If you make zillions of dollars selling fiber to telcos, and telcos don't want pesky municipalities getting in their way, the fiber companies will ally with the telcos. Telcos don't want to fight with two thousand municipalities, they want to do one big bribe/campaign contribution to just a handful of people that they can write the legislation for. Makes it easier.

Monopoly isn't the right word; the right word is: Cabal.

Comment Re:why should I read it (Score 4, Insightful) 58

and probably copyrighted it. Composed it. Maybe edited it. Laid it out on page. Perhaps illustrated it. Did the work.

Needs to get paid.

It's like Harlan Ellison said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

NOT sucked up into an engine.

NOT guided by an "editor" with dubious values.

NOT enhanced by some well-intentioned silicon spew.

Real people. Real work. Getting paid.

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