The campuses and tech culture would stay around if SF government was competent and the FED stopped implementing ridiculously rate hikes. "Hike it until it's gone" really is becoming "hike it until it's gone"

Regulate and unionized so when they fail there's something coming $ for the employees retirement and such

Sounds like every tech startup

What is? They actually did that and for good reason. Their biggest customer is Airbus and they didn’t want to pay all the import duties into the EU.

Lmao I got you, I didn't even notice. The Interceptor has long been my favorite starfighter. Back when I played Star Wars Galaxies, all I did was fly around in my Interceptor getting into dogfights.

There was a joke in here, maybe look up my username :)

Yep this is exactly what companies should do/are doing.

I go into the office once every 6 months for an entire week at a time, and so does my entire team

This is dope.

Yep it is. However, in an EV you still have to reinforce the battery so it does NOT crumple. And the battery has most of the mass.

So it is a matter of design to create crumpling for passengers while reinforcing the sled. Hence decoupling the two. Would be great to just have to purchase a new cabin instead of a whole new drive train.

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Most of these campuses in the original article do not have any skyscrapers so if the concern is based on that, it’s not really applicable.

Please god, no malls.

Residential conversion is a tough one - a vicious cycle is already well underway. The value of a business park condo is the proximity to work, but if work is trying to get out of the business park...

Coworking isn't completely unreasonable, but that's 1) a LOT of space; and 2) still in a business park - not sure it's worth an investment. There's companies that've dumped half that footage right in the middle of urban centers and the coworking companies won't touch it.

I figure it has to be REITs gobbling buildings up at steep discounts and doing a heck of a lot of work apportioning into smaller offices for leasing. Even though I think it's the most likely, it's still really tricky...

A company that would have killed for a 10K sqft. lease in 2018 (but were getting pushed out of the market in favour of the bigger guys willing to take 5-10x the footage) likely aren't interested at standard lease terms anymore.

A 10 year term isn't going to be attractive to 95% of companies, and with the amount of folks stuck with 5+ years left on a pre-COVID term trying to dump to a sublease it makes even less sense to be a primary lessee.

A valid alternative option might be hotels. Conversion costs aside, there's a good concentration of tech HQs in the area who (even with fewer on premise employees) will still have visitors. In my experience, the business park Omni's and Westin's seemed to do brisk business and I get it... There's not exactly a ton to do in Menlo Park or Redwood City, but sometimes you just want to get in and out of there.

You know what would be funny is if the Chinese came out with a simple and cheap plain old electric vehicle without all this digital bull shit and it wipes the market.

Yeah pretty sure having a non-crumpling frame is how you transfer a whole lot of energy to the driver and kill people when they crash.

Water freezes at 32° F.

over night temperature on the moon is around -300° F.

do you know what you're talking about?

Because people are Waffle House?

To be accurate Qualcomm will never dominate EV. It may be either NVIDIA or AMD.

They all live in Tahoe now. Probably planning on draining the lake to build more campuses.

I don't disagree that it requires some engineering. I believe it is possible though. The cabin would be the safe zone. The sled would have the battery, motor, and wheels. The battery would like be in a non-crumple zone to prevent it from taking damage. Whereas the cabin would have crumple zones and could detach more easily.

Instead of thinking of the car as a complete unibody. You would compartmentalize the passenger cabin from the drive train.

They include Apple but why? So many companies who make cars right now

yes I know the rumors

If they're going to put the billboards on the windshield I think I really will go for a horse and carriage. Do the Amish take lare-comers?

I'm no car engineer, but I don't think it's possible to build something like this and have it structurally safe without it weighing an awful lot.

Modern cars, the body is the chassis and the cabin is integral to the structural integrity of the car.

Dot com meltdown part 2?

Should have gone in r/facepalm?