Ironically, Palo Alto is the birthplace of Silicon Valley.https://twitter.com/newsycombinator/status/733780054866599936 …
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To be fair, he said he's okay with true startups in DTPA. I agree with him that the Palantirization of PA is an issue.
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I'm unapologetic urbanist, but if I were PA planner, I would be nervous about dominance of any single firm. Creates fragility.
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(What happens when Palantir leaves?)
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what happened when Sun Microsystems left their Menlo Park campus?
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Can't believe I'm arguing anti-development side here :-). Point just that these are ecosystems; homogeneity usually bad.
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(And city's goals are not Palantir's or even current residents'. City needs to be optimizing over a much longer time horizon.)
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themselves. Perhaps they need to get over the idea that they are separate, provincial suburbs.
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I certainly may have the wrong framing. And I'm highly in favor of better-unified governance given degree of intertwingling.
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One regional governance org for transit (MTC) decided to absorb another (ABAG) yesterday.
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