He is not dumb, he is deliberately lying.

Always possible that he is dumb and deliberately lying.

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"?

Sounds like a quote from someone who is engaged in malicious activity.

Sounds like a something said by someone that understands people, that being "misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent."

Isn't this guy whose AOL account (yep, AOL) was breached?

you don't become a CIA director while being that ignorant of SIGINT

Tell that to Petraeus.

Which one is worse?

I don't think we should reinvent the net, in its present day shape it wasn't supposed to be monetized or for statistics mining. I'm certainly frightened of the internet 2.0

More than half the buildings in Manhattan today violate the modern zoning laws and couldn't be built today. There was a NYtimes article about it recently.

> More than half the buildings in Manhattan today violate the modern zoning

Close. The number is 40% [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-p...

That is happening, when you change zoning to get more fitting buildings in the future. You can't change those rules for the past.

Most of SF buildings built on steep slopes are in the danger boat