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I worked on this for a couple years (have been much less active lately), surprised to see it on the front page of HN but happy to answer questions about it.

The shah has said publicly he wants to serve as a one year transitional leader followed by elections. Not sure what more one could ask for.

You're wrong I'm so many ways it's hard to know where to start, but one obvious one is that the teenager who was run over was not an anti-war protestor, he was protesting a potential change to exemption from military conscription for the ultra-Orthodox. Not a peacenik. Haredi conscription is a contentious issue but framing it as anti-war is disingenuous.

The shah wants to ally with Israel - Google "Cyrus Accords". So there's no reason for Israel to do anything but support his return quietly.

They're actually not doing that, they're doing the opposite of that, calling to bring back the secular shah to replace their current Islamic theocracy.

This is designed to save people.

If they could "see" the future and exploit that they'd probably have much higher returns.

Maybe look up what the ACLU did in Skokie in 1978...

The subtitle of the article mentions it:

> While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible

Also from the article:

> No new reservoir has been built in 30 years despite significant population growth

> 37e9 bytes/token

This doesn't quite sound right...isn't a token just a few characters?

I wish Google weren't like this, but I don't agree it should be illegal.

I worked at Google for ten years (as an IC). Here's my personal perspective.

Yes, of course, the individual employees know. But the decision making for these kinds of things is usually a full-time middle manager, who isn't deciding on behalf of Google as a whole, but on behalf of their organization within Google (could be 50 people, could be 2000). It's not just _not_ that manager's job to make the globally optimal decision for Google, it's actually likely often in direct conflict with their job, which is basically "set the priorities of your org such that they launch things that make your boss look good to his boss". Spending headcount on maintaining niche stuff is usually not that (and takes resources away from whatever is).