What I don't understand about the bay area is why they don't just dedicate an area away from these NIMBY neighborhoods- say north of 101, between San Carlos and Santa Clara and let them build lots of skyscrapers with lots of housing and roads to help 101 divert some traffic. I see tall office buildings there so its def not earthquake or environmental. Affordable housing and urban lifestyle for the young and SFH and space for the family folks in Atherton.

Its silly that they wont just let you delete the whole bucket but this actually pretty cheap tho.

Based on some quick maths, deleting a million files would only cost you like $5.

P.S. Again its silly they do this and I'm probably greatly underestimating how these costs can add up for mid to large orgs.

i worked at a CM-5 facility that had a minor pest problem. i'm pretty sure that like many supercomputers it was cooled by bringing air from underneath the floor and blowing it up through the stack.

the _extremely_ well qualified support personnel had to finally say they weren't going to spend any more days washing rat bits off module boards.

There is similar thinking in "classical" American capatalism from Henry Ford's idea that his factory workers needed to make enough money to buy the cars they produced to all sort of concrete projects for the broader society.

This is a story about housing built by the Ford motor company:

https://askus.thehenryford.org/faq/169797

I am sure there are many other examples.

Before WWII, companies in NL did this kind of stuff to make the lives of their employees better.

Philips built housing and sportsclubs in Eindhoven, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSV_Eindhoven.

Bata ( shoes ) built housing for their employees in Batadorp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batadorp.

The Dutch railroad built a 'Tuindorp', including school, in Haren, which I grew up in, https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuindorp_(wijk)

There are more.