| ▲ | encoderer 14 hours ago |
| This is a self fulfilling profecy. For a long time, it was jobs and the promise of a better future for your family. By killing that all we have is weather. |
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| ▲ | WD-42 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| All we have is the weather? California is the largest agricultural producer of any state, and it's not even close. Plants like growing here for the same reason people do. |
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| ▲ | CamperBob2 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Because they get all the water that can possibly be piped in from somewhere else. | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Good? If it's the best place for producing a product, but requires an input from somewhere else, that's how businesses work. |
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| ▲ | mh- 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And if the last several years are indicative of the trend, wildfire season is now a substantial part of the year. |
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| ▲ | thephyber 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You act as though California is no longer one of the largest populations or one of the largest economies. The “snowball fallacy” is a fallacy because there is no reason California s can’t swing the regulatory pendulum back the other direction if there is too much economy / freedom impacted. |
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| ▲ | jjmarr 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | When I took a machining course, the instructor sat in the corner and showed us YouTube videos in Mandarin with English subtitles to teach us the equipment. We are never going to catch up. | | |
| ▲ | themaninthedark 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | What a myopic attitude. 3 to 4 decades ago anything from China was poor quality and US manufacturing was tight tolerance. When we outsourced, we did the training to get them where they are today and stopped investing in our skills at home. There are still skilled people here who can train and the knowledge is not some sort of eldritch incantation. The main issues with learning is lack of jobs and lack of opportunity to apply skills if you have them. | | |
| ▲ | jjmarr 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | I had to pay an instructor to show me YouTube videos because the college wouldn't admit to being unable to find domestic talent. > There are still skilled people here who can train If you don't acknowledge you're losing the race, you will never catch up. |
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| ▲ | ozlikethewizard 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Most of the comp sci videos on youtube are indian, but is India the cutting edge producing of comp sci innovations? | | |
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