Uber Builds New AI Team North of the Border as It Battles Lawsuit in the U.S.

@shoshone As opposed to most of what passes for "the economy" these days, techies are actually in the value add business. As in, produce something more valuable than the inputs consumed. They are not in any way, shape or form locust like. The entire idiot superstructure created of lawyers, banksters and other expendable riffraff that are, with the help of their captive junta, feeding off of what value techies are creating, are the ones causing problems. The techies did their thing much better, long before the parasites came dragging with Fed freshprint enabled stupid valuations of anything involving acts as advanced as spelling "coputer." None of them need the so called "capital" the free freshprint army get handed to them by The Fed in ever greater amounts; as all it does it drive up the cost of the inputs needed for innovation. Hence transfer control over innovation away from competent people, and towards merely connected ones. What is "destroying" the "housing market" (racket is infinitely more accurate than market), is the same old money printing. And in addition, the idiotic theft racket called zoning. In a market, prices clear by supply rising to meet demand. If you can find a way to produce a cell phone cheaper than the prevailing price, you produce it. Increasing supply, until prices drop to where you can no longer produce a cell phone cheaper than the prevailing price. You make out by the differential opened up by the efficiency improvement you made, the rest of the world by the lower prices it eventually enables. The way the housing racket works, would be analogous to if those who happened to own a cell phone in 1990, could forever ban anyone else from building one. To ensure the price of their own cell phone were kept artificially high. That'why houses are expensive in the Bay Area. If it was up to techies, rather than reams of lawyers, banksters, self righteous mediocrities of all stripes and corruptocrats, the "problem" of housing would be attacked the same way techies attack all problems: By building better, cheaper, faster, more advanced.... And continuously doing so. Destroying the value of old junk, ensuring it gets replaced by newer, better, as quickly as possible. Since techies are, as stated at the opening, actually competent, productive people. Who hence do not need, nor want, laws, bans, harassments and all the other pathologies brought about, by the totalitarian junta state propped up by the bankster/lawyer/sales hack/bureaucrat/other assorted backmarker scum that has, and continue to, run a once decent country ever more thoroughly into the ground.