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Tim Draper is a smart fellow. I believe he sees this as his opportunity to use his fortune to have a positive impact on California politics for generations to come. I comment him on putting his fortune to public use. As far as how this benefits Californians, I'm not an economist so I'm not going to pretend to make graphs. The official web site (cal3.com) has more information, and now that this is on the ballot, I expect to see credible think tanks and news organizations publish much more research in the coming months. However, the whole question "how will this benefit Californians" is a red herring. There are two options on the ballot: one state or three states. The question should be, between the two choices, which option, 1 state or 3 states, is less bad. If Californians honestly believe that one giant state is better for them, then by all means they can vote no on the proposition. However, just as you want to see data saying that 3 states is better, before voting no on the proposition, I would want to see data saying that 1 state is better. Again, there are still 5 months until the election and I am looking forward to research coming out of investigative journals to influence my vote.

I don't know why people are saying this "adds" a level of bureaucracy. Quite the opposite: it reduces it for most people. Right now, my state government in Sacramento is ginormous because it has to deal with everyone in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and other parts of the state. With Cal 3, my state government is a third of the size and focuses on a much smaller area. I don't have to worry about what's going on as much in the other two state governments. Yes, there have been lots of previous failed attempts at splitting California. That fact is toxic, though: it makes Californians think this proposal is doomed for failure, so they haven't given it a chance yet. This is what's reflected in the poll numbers. This proposal has already made it much farther than most previous attempts: it qualified for a statewide ballot. As Californians start to realize that this proposal deserves to be taken seriously, I expect that we will see poll numbers begin to rise.

Exactly, but there is no level of government between the state government in Sacremento, which is so far removed that it may as well be in Washington, D.C., and the counties, which are too small and create dysfunctional public transit and education systems. As an example, the Caltrain commuter rail between San Jose and San Francisco runs through 3 different counties; none of the counties want to pay to maintain it, and the state is so far removed that it gets very little state funding, so as a result Caltrain is chronically underfunded. With Cal 3, the state government would no longer be distracted by the needs of everyone down in Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire, etc., and the more localized state government would have more of a stake in Caltrain's long-term success.

I'm quite dazzled by the movie trailer that Trump made for Kim. It's definitely not conventional diplomacy. It's too early to tell if it will work, but if it does, I think that will be the thing that goes down in the history books as a turning point for how to approach diplomacy.

Having spent the last couple of years largely in California, it is increasingly apparent that the government structure is simply not functional for the people who live here. There are too many different parts of the state with different needs, and as a result it's incredible difficult to get any kind of functioning state-wide programs. A few examples are our roads and infrastructure (49th in the nation), housing affordability (49th in the nation), and K-12 education (44th in the nation). So I am actually quite happy that Cal 3 qualified for the ballot this November: https://cal3.com/ https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Measure-to-split-California-into-three-states-12989261.php Smaller states means smaller governments, and I believe strongly that smaller governments will be able to serve the needs of their residents better than the current behemoth whose GDP is larger than most countries. On a national scale, the net effect is that you turn one giant blue state into 3 smaller states, 1 swing and 2 blue, so in effect, 1/3 of California's electoral votes are now up for grabs, which will benefit the GOP. On the other hand, it will likely swing the Senate a bit in the Democrat's favor, so it's pretty much a wash. I hope that national political divisions don't get in the way of an otherwise good proposal. Oh, and it might require adding 2 more stars to the flag; the last time that happened was in the 1960s. There is relatively little public debate about this topic, but now that it's on the ballot, I expect to start seeing a lot more. I hope that Californians will come to the realization that a capital city closer to home is going to be a good idea in the long run.

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There's no excuse for the woman's gun violence. I'm just saying that the incident sheds light on a trend in YouTube over the last couple of years. I do feel though that YouTube has been starting to improve content creator relations in recent months.

There are a lot of people who depend on YouTube for their living, and demonetizing videos has a big impact on them. YouTube started increasing video demonetization after advertisers started complaining that their ads were being shown on "objectionable" content, like porn and ISIS recruitment videos. But there's a big gray area where YouTube has to decide whether a video is objectionable or not, and it seems like YouTube errs on the side of the advertisers rather than the content creators.

I think the coolest thing about Cambridge Analytica is how they are able to use data so effectively to make real world impacts. The few people with access to CA's "cultural weapon" have such great influence over the world. One of the first things I did after reading the stories was go to their web site to browse job openings.

I have a friend (coworker) who was in the vicinity, but fortunately they weren't injured. They are in a bit of shock, though. Sundar sent an email saying that there were 4 injuries and to put the victims in our thoughts and prayers.

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