Kalium

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by Kalium 5y ago
In broad strokes, I agree with you. I think you're absolutely correct that most trained, educated, technologically sophisticated law enforcement bodies will do exactly as you suggest and decide that there's not enough to investiga
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by Kalium 5y ago
A police raid on a person's home, or even a gentler thorough search, can be enough to quite seriously disrupt a person's life. Certainly having the police walk away with all your electronics in evidence bags will complicate trying
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by Kalium 5y ago
How many people do you think it would take to meaningfully apply manual moderation at the scale of Blizzard, Facebook, or Instagram? How many more people in support staff? How much do you think this would cost? How well do you think that co
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by Kalium 5y ago
It may be worth taking very seriously that you might be overestimating both how quickly regular people become aware of such events and how emphatically people will react.
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by Kalium 5y ago
> About this time, someone usually mocks "it's always about the kids, think about the kids." To those critics: They have not seen the scope of this problem or the long term impact. The exploitation of children is a real an
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by Kalium 5y ago
As I understand it, your typical CSA is a fairly light organization that works with a handful of local farms. Some seem to be a single farm's retail arm. So, yes! A CSA could absolutely consider aquaponics, hydroponics, or vertical far
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by Kalium 5y ago
I would expect that marketing has the uncommitted resources to spare in ways that development does not. How many weeks of engineer-team-time in SF or London will $100k get you? One, maybe? I find a lot of questions, such as this one, boil d
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by Kalium 5y ago
At the risk of being confrontational, show me a language without built-in footguns and we can talk. I've seen people fail to check their inputs in every language I've ever touched. I've seen people cobble together their own h
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by Kalium 5y ago
If your goal is to avoid regulatory risk, you might consider taking seriously the possibility of avoiding cryptocurrencies entirely.
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by Kalium 5y ago
> The majority sentiment appears to be that homeless people deserve to suffer to some degree As far as I can tell, San Francisco doesn't seem to believe this. San Francisco does seem to collectively believe that adding housing is
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by Kalium 5y ago
> I'm being facetious, but why talk that way? You are an individual. If you have an opinion state it. This phrasing makes clear the policy preference of the polity of San Francisco while also implying that the author does not agre
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by Kalium 5y ago
> A simple question. Is there any reason not to put a Fed backed stablecoin on Ethereum and the other major blockchains? Even if you're crypto-skeptical, what is the downside? Without a substantial benefit that advances the Federal
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by Kalium 5y ago
> maybe upper management cares about the time spent, but i'd be happy to talk for 45-60 minutes to somebody who was an even remotely passable candidate who didn't actually want a job. Yup. If the job I've got for them is a
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by Kalium 5y ago
> Like open source software? Given how poorly people often treat maintainers, I think "entitlement" is precisely the correct word. Your point about charity is well-made. Though it may perhaps strain credulity to expect email se
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by Kalium 5y ago
There's The Scunthorpe Problem, which seems like a specific instance.
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by Kalium 5y ago
Bear in mind that we're not talking about a counter-factual. SF has rent control today for most of its rental stock. As you correctly say, people in rent controlled units have controlled housing cost increases year to year. They do not
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by Kalium 5y ago
I think it's fine, so long as people are willing to accept the sky-high cost of living that comes with their policy choices.
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by Kalium 5y ago
We're discussing San Francisco, where rent control policy works primarily by capping the yearly increases. It's always lower than inflation, too. Shrinking units is an great thought! That's such a plausible mechanism that SF
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by Kalium 5y ago
If the problem is that apartments are difficult to turn a profit on and condos are comparatively easy, is there a reason to think we'd get 40 and 40 instead of 20 and 20? Or worse, maybe just the 20 apartments that were already going t
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by Kalium 5y ago
What was the last thing you threw away that couldn't be used by someone else? Anyone at all?
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by Kalium 5y ago
In the Bay, I more than once saw developers spend months trying to get people to salvage old houses whole. Surely there was someone who would take them! How hard could it be? Each time they wound up bulldozing them after zero takers were
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by Kalium 5y ago
> I would happily pay a few hundred less because of a lack of window. Windows are emergency fire escapes, which is a big part of why they are required. How much are you willing to pay to live in a literal deathtrap? How many dear friend
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by Kalium 5y ago
> They accrete so many of these rules and restrictions that people can't do their work. I hear this from software engineers, from time to time. What do you mean they aren't allowed to SSH into prod anymore? How will they debug
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by Kalium 5y ago
> We have more empty houses than homeless in the US. We should be able to guarantee food, water, and shelter to every citizen, even if we don’t necessarily guarantee it’s in a place someone desires. How many people experiencing houseless
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by Kalium 5y ago
> If an adult with kids is making minimum wage, they need to be able to rent a two-bedroom. Handwavy nonsense. There are lots of places in the world where three or more people live in the space of a studio apartment. The point being not
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by Kalium 5y ago
This feels, to me, like the complaint of someone with a general technical grounding going into a narrow specialization and discovering they understand none of the terminology. This is exactly how I felt when I was learning Haskell and hea
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by Kalium 5y ago
You gotta think about conversion rates and expected value. If flirting with a guy for twenty minutes gives you an 80% conversion rate, it might work if they go for the higher tiers. If it gives you a 1% conversion rate, that's a lot of
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by Kalium 5y ago
When you believe in an omniscient and omnipotent lawgiver, that line of argument is a little weak.
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by Kalium 5y ago
Naively, that seems like something that could be a very useful configuration option to set! Though I can also see why you might default to having it off if you don't trust the host resolver very much in the country-administering-people
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by Kalium 5y ago
I've not advocated for or suggested any social policy in this discussion, so I fear that you may be addressing the wrong person. I wish you luck in finding the clarification you seek.

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