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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by mahyarm on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:58PM (#13242458)
Calfornia is mismanged to hell. The bay area has some of the worst roads in the nation with very mild weather and a wealthy tax base. It cost $8billion to make 1 or 2 miles of central subway and only €11 billion to make the worlds longest tunnel under the alps. I have the same income tax rate as I did in canada yet there isnt universal healthcare and far more economic inequality. It goes on and on. If you trippled the money base I dont know how much better it would get.
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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by r00fus on Friday December 23, 2016 @01:47AM (#13243312)
You lost me on your rant about taxation without universal healthcare when the vast apportionment of that tax (and mis-spending like on the Iraq Occupation) is Federal not CA.

The problem is one of regulatory capture - corporate vested interests control the governance process and that means peons are getting less and less each day for their tax revenues.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by mahyarm on Friday December 23, 2016 @05:11AM (#13244011)
My rant did not stay at California alone. What makes California mismanaged is a combination of the state itself and the federal government.

And the problem you state is not unique to any government in the world. Germany is better run than Italy and there are many reasons behind it.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by fennecfoxen on Friday December 23, 2016 @04:39AM (#13243899)
> The problem is one of regulatory capture - corporate vested interests control the governance process

The problems with many things, but especially the price of SF Muni's new Central Subway and the like, are more about union interests controlling the governance process than corporate. Remember that they do prevailing-wage construction (which somehow means they pay the highest wage out there, not the average/median) to their construction workers.

The millions/billions spent on environmental-review studies and lawsuits are another matter as well.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by driverdan on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:16AM (#13245460)
> The bay area has some of the worst roads in the nation

You haven't traveled much if you believe this. Try going to the northeast sometime.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by mahyarm on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:45PM (#13246806)
SF/Oakland tops the list in worst roads in metros over 500k pop:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worst-roads-in-america-20...

That there are bad roads elsewhere? I believe that too :).

The thing is it shouldn't be topping any list like this, with the amount of money and lack of north eastern weather.

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