Joined 8 years ago
All started when Dean took office some years ago and a group of real estate investors had serious big plans. It has worked.
The really bad side on the ground is that there are AirBnbs in places with clueless people standing out waiting for an Uber in places they should not be, and worse; people thinking they should just walk from some places to others that they really shouldn't.
Many other groups of people would say the worse thing is loss of culture, venues, and entire groups of people forced out with no where to go. (one news article pointed people to a different city / state few years ago)
The reporting changes run deep, and most would never know it.
Homicides are the one thing that are hard to fudge the numbers with, although I am sure there are a number of deaths reported where there is not a homicide charge and there could of been, that is not the point.
I've seen the result of a city deciding to report less crime, it works. The stats go down, people from out of town find the place more attractive, real estate goes up. They argue nothing reduces crime like cranes gentrifying.
There is much more to the cycle of crimes not reported and/or not being prosecuted. It definitely works to bring down the numbers and exponentially.
Of course the long term thing of cranes coming in and pushing out the poor may be the lasting change. Although I believe the criminal element adapts as well and chooses things based upon repercussions, so the amount of petty crimes can go up while the cranes stamp out the larger noticeable ones.
This caused many days of customer support issues with their owned / not rented cable modem, and then very interesting discussions about the now separated cell phone bill and previously subsidized cell phones.
I think it took 2 months to sort those things out.
For at least 2 months they had to pay both the complex and comcast for cable in order to keep the cell phones from being disconnected.
Do not feel like it was a win for the tenants.
Specifically the ads hub or whatever they call the section that is supposed to help with ads reporting.
I've already built 2 replacements for it.
They were so sold on the hubspot promise they dedicated a significant amount of time and money to try to make the thing do what they expected, and then consulted with 3 software dev companies to build out what was needed to make it work.
Once they saw the $30,000 price, months of custom dev work, plus what is the enterprise level thing now? $7k or $8k per month - and this is shimming.. they paused finally.
Funny thing is the new canvas in google sheets did 99% of what was wanted, did it in 30 minutes, and it's $30.
Build a replacement for looker studio, exact same issues.
Although Cody might have done that with Graphed - I have not jumped in to test it yet.
Matt has been one of the most important leaders in WordPress and in making publishing on the web accessible to everyone.
I’ve disagreed with plenty of decisions made by WordPress, Automattic, and Matt over the years, but that doesn’t erase the enormous contribution he has made to the open web.
Surprised the TC article did not mention info from a different TC article recently:
'In the 33-hour window between Mullenweg being put on leave and his return, two key executives at the company signed off on generous exit packages for each other. Davies, who became interim CEO during that window, and Chief Legal Officer Andy Missan, each signed the other’s severance agreement,'
$8 million siphoned from the company in 30 hours when they ousted Matt, and doing so knowing that he had 80% voting power to replace anything, seems even more sus than the first time I read it.
Is there an open source alternative for when the censoring begins?
Stopping the movement of all things unless click / tap to play would be a huge adblock win in my book.
858TB gone forever: South Korea's data center fire shows the cost of no ... Oct 9, 2025 The National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in South Korea, however, recently lost 858TB of government data after a fire broke out in the building - and there were no backups.
Hormozi could charge $1,000 to get into his read box.
We could refund people, add them to a whitelist - and return a 405? payment required by default and things change in interesting ways when the amount is variable.
However we are seeing models come out like Gema and the distilation accused that are likely capable of building a browser based Descript, or Quickbooks (as most people would use them) and many other saas type things.. just running on a walmart PC for free at this point and going forward right?
So the future is now, the platform and url may change, but it looks like most software and art will be reproducible for 50 cents or a bit more one way or another. Maybe not as polished, maybe missing a few things that elitists point to.
That's not going to replace the software subscriptions for the fortune 500. Yet it's already replaced several saas monthly / yearly payments for me.
And last time I used it, when I went to export in high resolution (don't recall if it was 1080 or 4k) - it refused to export in the resolution that I uploaded unless I paid for an upgrade.
I can't stand monthly rent forever, yet a time many moons ago, descript's method was novel enough to give it a whirl.
It's no longer novel, just like many other projects.
(seeing the comment that it took 4 hours or so of AI time)
that's exactly what I see.
and cost benefit bot to determine and then move my 7 pallets from place A down the road to place B further down the road to save $50 per month after electric and delivery is calculated.
This could be part of that.
right-click make rule about this sender delete all the stuff in the email address (from left to right) up to the domain name (not just the name and @ symbol, but subdomain too ) click drop down to select the trash click save wait for popup. click run single rule.
