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Gouveia was streaming a live stream of the hearing in Maricopa. It sure did look like the whole board was going after the guy who is trying to make the elections safer and easier for people to vote. weird that Gouveia was backing the guy up when even the pubs on the board were dogging him hard. I don't know enough about that area to say but I get the feeling that issue will be public soon with the FBI showing up.
 



Palantir just chose Miami.

Cue the predictable take: “Florida doesn’t have the engineering talent.”

Cool. Let’s run the numbers.

Florida produces 89% as many engineers per capita as California.

Eighty. Nine. Percent.

That’s with:
• Zero Stanford
• Zero Caltech
• No 10-campus UC empire

What Florida does have:
• 7 R1 research universities
• $3.3B in annual research spend
• The largest aerospace engineering program in the country
• SpaceX.
Blue Origin.
Lockheed.
L3Harris.
Northrop.

All building here.

Now the part nobody on Tech X wants to discuss:

Florida tuition: ~$6,500/year

California tuition: $14,000+

Florida income tax: 0%

California income tax: up to 13.3%

So let’s compare:
Cost to produce an engineer → Florida wins.
Cost to retain an engineer → Florida wins.
Engineer purchasing power → Florida wins.
That’s arithmetic.
The ROI per engineering degree in Florida might be the highest in America.
The people mocking Florida are arguing with a 2015 version of the state.
The 2026 version is building rockets, defense systems, AI companies and so much more. You can keep the narrative.

We’ll keep the compounding.

LFG!!!
 

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