They do already. British Columbia is a really good place to open up shop because it's on the same time zone as Silicon Valley. Many companies have done so. I'm surprised there haven't been more tbh, but maybe now with this change we'll see an acceleration.

self driving cars will increase traffic as they remove barriers that prevent people that cannot drive from using cars, thus increasing the amount of cars on the road.

North America is a car captured hellscape where so many people have zero options but to sit in a car to get everywhere they want to go.

Meanwhile in Japan and so many other regions in Europe that are pointed to as healthier people have the option to simply walk to do so many of their daily tasks.

No real surprise that the regions where people have to actively work harder to be active are in poorer health than others where being active is the default easiest choice.

The built environment is a critical thing here we can fix to make a healthier society.

> North America is a car captured hellscape

Have you been to North America? Or have you been outside North America?

Of course I've done both.

> Major collectors have stopped buying art or significantly reduced their spending. The next generation isn’t there to take over from the old guard.

Just one example, one of the biggest Canadian collectors of contemporary art is condo marketer Bob Rennie, who during the foreign wealth lead boom in Canadian real estate, was making so much money that he opened up an entire personal downtown museum to show off his art works.

After layers of regulation against foreign buying amongst many other shifts in the economy (hi interest rates), condo sales are now in retreat with developers on the ropes and Rennie Marketing laying off staff.

Things change.

(I have no idea if Rennie has stopped buying, but given the sorts of big shifts in his industry, I wouldn't be surprised if he'd eased off!)

Police quiet quitting and arbitrarily choosing what laws they feel like enforcing is a huge problem.

The most effective fix vis a vis traffic is simply automating so much of it with speed averaging cameras and intersection cameras and taking police out of the equation and retasking them to more important things that only they can do.

Don't police have quotas any more? 40 years ago everybody knew not to speed at the end of the month because a cop that would normally give you a warning for a small speed infraction would give you a ticket instead so they could make this month's quota.

Yea it'll learn real quick what falling in a ravine is like

For some people the pandemic was very traumatic and resulted in a severe loss of income (eg. worst case scenario, a theatrical performer) but for other people, (eg. tech workers) they experienced the opposite, an increased demand for their services alongside a reduction in their costs (nil commute). The latter was the greater amount of people and so you had a lot of people with increased disposable income, alongside ultra low interest rates, and that caused the economy to surge as people spent money, took on debt and acquired assets.

Covid cheques which in some countries only went to persons in the former niche category I think had less remarkable impact than the broader factors.

From my experience the further you get from the sort of stuff that easily accessible on Stack Overflow the worse it gets. I've had few problems having an AI write out some minor python scripts, but yield severely poorer results with Unreal C++ code and badly hallucinate nonsense if asked in general anything about Unreal architecture and API.

Does the Unreal API change a bit over versions? I've noticed when asking to do a simple telnet server in Rust it was hallucinating like crazy but when I went to the documentation it was clear the api was changing a lot from version to version. I don't think they do well with API churn. That's my hypothesis anyway.

I think the big thing with Unreal is the vast majority of games are closed source. It's already only used for games, as opposed to asking questions about general-purpose programming, but there is also less training data.

You see this dynamic even with swift which has a corpus of OSS source code out there, but not nearly as much as js or python and so has always been behind those languages.

There would be significant changes from 4 to 5, but sadly I haven’t had any improvement if clarifying version.

Clarifying can help but ultimately it was trained on older versions. When you are working with a changing api, it's really important that the llm can see examples of the new api and new api docs. Adding context7 as a tool is hugely helpful here. Include in your rules or prompt to consult context7 for docs. https://github.com/upstash/context7

> But in the 1970s, city planners and neighbors aggressively sought to restrict overall housing growth...

We pass by this point rather quickly, but this is like the most interesting part of the story to me which is WHY all this stuff changed in the 1970s. I see increasingly this is just sort of hand waved in passing as if "and then nimbys appeared in the 1970s.." but of course the human desires that drive nimbyism always existed, so it's more a question of why in the 1970s this manifested in a way such that housing was now more remarkably halted as a result.

A possible answer is that in the past growth continued because nimbyism pushed it to the suburb margins, or rammed development into marginalized neighbourhoods that couldn't protest, but these things changed as endless sprawl became less possible and marginalized groups had found their voice.

It's also worth noting that the 1970s was a time of economic upheaval when governments started backing away and started on the path to cuts and austerity.

As the 1970s get further and further away, it seems like more of this is becoming myth and legend and the concrete details and the situation on the ground is becoming lost.

I'd read a whole book on this topic.

My guess it would be around the time the first boomers are getting out into markets, and their parents are settling into their forever home - never selling until death or forced retirement home.

Tie that with what people of that generation would consider a tolerable commute and the cultural idyllic home size/lot size. I think you start to form the basis of the answer, and like all answers it is simple in it's complexity

Don't let anyone tell you that better things aren't possible

Are you suggesting that facts are useful in public debate? Everyone has an agenda and they will follow it regardless of what you show them.

That's why nothing has ever changed in the history of humanity, because we're born with an agenda and never change it.