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by awb 5y ago
Good points. I don’t know of anyone has done the kind of deep analysis they’re advocating for though. As a broad brush, I still think it’s fair to say in 2019 SF was around the middle of the pack for the top 100 cities in terms of reported
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by awb 5y ago
Here are some crime stats for the top 100 US cities from 2019: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities... SF had similar crime rates to Miami, Corpus Cristi, TX, Mesa, AZ, Austin, TX and Chesapeake
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by awb 5y ago
I’ve managed remote teams since 2008. Never read any books, but here are a few tips I learned along the way: * 1on1s are very important - There is no water cooler for remote teams, so you have to manufacture it. Take 30min with each team me
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No one needs luxury goods, yet jobs exist to make them. Jobs exist because there is demand, not necessarily a necessity.
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> I am assuming the kids who stopped having the issues would have dropped out at a higher rate. Interesting. I suppose that could happen. I guess the opposite might also be true if they dropped out because they didn’t want to wait on the
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by awb 5y ago
> If the study had continued to get details from all the kids we probably would not have seen an improvement compared to the control group. Why do you assume the control group kids that dropped out would have caused the data to trend in
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To be fair to OC, it’s a massive article and one should assume the most salients points would be presented first.
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> “[W]hen we adjusted our models for receipt of PB/GAH [that is, puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones] we saw that depression and suicidality significantly worsened among youth who had not (yet) started PB/GAH at 3 an
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by awb 5y ago
In Hawaii they’re called fish ponds: https://keolamagazine.com/sustainability/fishponds-in-hawaii... You can see many preserved examples made out of lava rock and even explore them on foot. Kalahuipua’a Historic Park n
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by awb 5y ago
Long-time remote-only recruiter here (and previous developer & startup CEO). In the worst case, they're lying. In the best case, there's a communication breakdown. Some possible communication breakdowns: 1) Identifying decisio
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Depends on your definition of undesirable. There are many remote, hilly towns if you enjoy nature and potentially living off-grid. But yeah, if you're looking for sun, water sports & nightlife in CA, it's going to be very expe
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by awb 5y ago
> almost all of the actual homes and activity is on the (more expensive COL) California side. Why is that? The NV side is pretty rugged and what buildable land there is is also shared with resorts / casinos. Otherwise, you pretty mu
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For those looking for a gradual change, the Eastern shore of Lake Tahoe is in Nevada (which is predominantly libertarian/ conservative outside of the major cities: Reno & LV), yet it’s minutes from California and shares the same cl
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California is huge with many inexpensive places to live. However the coast and some of the more desirable interior are very expensive.
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Or, just as bad, making an unsubstantiated claim that turns out to be true down the road. Like saying: “X could be bad for you”, but offering no evidence, theories or studies. Then it turns out X does have some downsides. I don’t think you
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Unfortunately, also in the “don't acknowledge” category are people who continue to trust out of momentum or loyalty, or who knows what else. Not acknowledging has some upside for the actor, while it remains harmful to the group.
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by awb 5y ago
As an aside, American Animals is a creative documentary about the theft and attempted sale of Darwin’s On The Origin of Species , as well as some other famous rare books. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6212478/
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by awb 5y ago
Maybe you still don’t? Whataboutism tries to argue two unrelated things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism > Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") is a variant of the tu quoque logic
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by awb 5y ago
Sorry, I missed the "not live" part. Wouldn't that handicap Twitter as a source of breaking news? I suppose you could have a "Make live" button to skip the edit window, but that's what the site effectively has
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Still some questions persist like: * Do you reset the likes / retweets after an edit? If not, what happens if folks start selling the ‘edit’ on viral tweets? * What happens if the original tweet violates the TOS but then the edited ver
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by awb 5y ago
They’re smaller problems with smaller edit windows, but still need answers, testing an implementation even if the edit persists 60 seconds. For someone like Kanye, I’m sure that’s enough time to get pretty good traction.
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Funny. Has anyone done this on a celebrity AMA?
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The web has archive.org for that. Or, ‘download webpage’ from a browser.
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Also: * How do you show that a like, Retweet or reply was in response to an earlier version of a tweet that might be vastly different from the tweet you’re seeing now. * Do you reset a tweet’s likes and retweets when it’s edited? If not, wh
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by awb 5y ago
> Face it: if you interfere between Sally who writes something she wants Bob to read, and Bob who wants to read what Sally wrote, that's censorship. What about national security, NDAs, illegal content, etc.? Two consenting parties d
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> If the rules were changed so that speech was regulated by the government, then the rules could also be changed to fight spam. Yes, but there are very valid reasons to curtail speech at a private level that don’t make sense at a nationa
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> Just check your local firefigting department or police. From local Governments to the President, they use twitter to inform their citizens sometimes exclusively. Meaning there is no other place to go for this information. I believe fed
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> Everyone has their own rules, some explicit, some secret, most entirely arbitrary, and there is never a proper appeals process. That’s by design. The government creates a framework within which you can then create your own private expe
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Sorry, I mean benign in the sense of them not being vulgar or violent. They are still certainly important words.
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In the US, this isn’t accurate at all. > It means nobody is allowed to police public discourse No, it means the government cannot restrict speech. > Freedom of speech, also called free speech, means the free and public expression of

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