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It is wonderful to live in the Bay Area, where the future is being invented.
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Sorry for showing off, but it is just too cool not to: [http://simia.net/download/academic_lineage.png here] is a visualization of my academic lineage according to Wikidata.
  
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Sure, we might not have a reliable power supply, but hey, we have an app that connects people with dogs who don't want to pick up their poop with people who are desperate enough to do this shit.
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Another example how the capitalism that we currently live failed massively: last year, PG&E was found responsible for killing people and destroying a whole city. Now they really want to play it safe, and switch off the power for millions of people. And they say this will go on for a decade. So in 2029 when we're supposed to have AIs, self-driving cars, and self-tieing Nikes, there will be cities in California that will get their power shut off for days when there is a hot wind for an afternoon.
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Why? Because the money that should have gone into, that was already earmarked for, making the power infrastructure more resilient and safe went into bonus payments for executives (that sounds so cliché!). They tried to externalize the cost of an aging power infrastructure - the cost being literally the life and homes of people. And when told not to, they put millions of people in the dark.
 
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This is so awfully on the nose that there is no need for metaphors.
 
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San Francisco offered to buy the local power grid, to put it into public hands. But PG&E refused that offer of several billion dollars.
 
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So if you live in an area that has a well working power infrastructure, appreciate it.
 
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* [https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771486828/california-can-expect-blackouts-for-a-decade-says-pg-e-ceo NPR on the blackouts]
 
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16 October 2019

Sorry for showing off, but it is just too cool not to: here is a visualization of my academic lineage according to Wikidata.

Query: w.wiki/AE8

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