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by babesh 6y ago
Nope. It seems better in Belmont, San Carlos, Burlingame, San Mateo, and Millbrae. Don’t notice the homeless hanging around CalTrain stops anymore. There used to be a few tents pitched along the tracks upper Peninsula. I don’t see those an
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by babesh 6y ago
It’s because people get a dopamine hit from reacting emotionally to stories. On the other hand, reading before reacting requires resisting going after the dopamine hit and actually works the other way. You have to get sadder consuming time
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by babesh 6y ago
I was born in and grew up in SF. I still go once in awhile. SF got a lot worse. I didn’t grow up with tents surrounding City Hall nor tents lining the sidewalk in the Tenderloin. Go look at Polk Street in Nob Hill. Go look at Van Ness. Go l
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by babesh 6y ago
Incarceration rate is an invalid indicator. You need to look at the crime rate, the release rate, and the rehabilitation rate. There are cycles of poverty and culture causing this but the government’s actions turn SF into both a honeypot an
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by babesh 6y ago
Commodities (GSG).
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by babesh 6y ago
My town exempts people over 55 from some school parcel taxes. That is because there needs to e a supermajority to pass bonds and exempting people who don’t have school age children makes them much easier to pass. There is a balance that ne
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by babesh 6y ago
They are effectively going to resegregate the school system. The parents of high performing kids that can afford it will move to school systems with advanced learning classes whether public or private.
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by babesh 6y ago
I think that we should be able to test this in a simulation. I think the crux of the idea is that if a group of people stop fighting for a bit amongst themselves and instead wipe out another group, then the other group will no longer reprod
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by babesh 6y ago
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/stories.html I don’t know what sort of evidence or experiment you are looking for. It’s even possible that it isn’t stable and we are undergoing evolution now.
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by babesh 6y ago
You are looking at the wrong level. It is tribal reproduction that is being optimized. An individual is just a cell of that tribe and doesn’t even need to reproduce as long as the tribe reproduces. This is just like how your hair doesn’t ha
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by babesh 6y ago
The interview process is being gamed. Just read the article. I am not trying to single out her. It is an industry wide practice. You mostly get people who are good at passing the interview versus who know how to program. But that is ok, bec
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by babesh 6y ago
That is part of it. A lot of Chinese and Southeast Asian cooking is based on the wok (cut things into small pieces and stir fry at high heat). This lets them cook an entree fast. Others are partly cooked and finished when ordered. Lastly, t
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by babesh 6y ago
Elon Musk said that Tesla would never build these because they aren’t safe but I do think it would be an interesting exercise to design one that is even cheaper yet also safer.
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by babesh 6y ago
I think these are just the electric versions of tuktuks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_rickshaw The next innovation would be to bring down the cost of lithium ion batteries. Most of these are powered by lead acid
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by babesh 6y ago
San Francisco’s population more than doubled during the working day. Those people are no longer going into the City. Restaurants and other businesses downtown and in the SOMA are not going to be able to replace that business. You can’t real
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by babesh 6y ago
The water and sewage pipes work due to gravity and pumps and aren’t addressable. You pump a bunch of water to a water tank above everything else and then let it flow down. The water just blindly flows down. The water pipe leading to your ho
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by babesh 6y ago
First you presumed that I gentrified those neighborhoods when I did not. Now you fail to address the logic of my point about your contradictory views. Then you shift the goalpost from tech to all powers. Then you presume that I ignore syste
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by babesh 6y ago
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/stories.html
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by babesh 6y ago
Apple isn’t just cutting them off from tracking at the app level. Go look at Safari. It is tracking who is tracking you on websites. Without these, Google only gets revenue from search on iOS. That itself is diminished because they won’t be
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by babesh 6y ago
If you want to understand what makes Chinese culture tick (the good side of it), then go watch this video: https://youtu.be/16Wd5jiu5wA Then maybe you will get a better understanding why some of those kids excel in school
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by babesh 6y ago
Your two opinions contradict each other. On the one hand, you say you are for illegal immigration but on the other you are against the H1-B program. Those anti union, anti local workers as you call them are coming in via illegal immigration
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by babesh 6y ago
There are many white collar jobs besides tech. And there are many good paying blue collar professions. If you are against H1-B then so be it. There is definitely some abuse but there is some good too. I would say that it would be best to re
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by babesh 6y ago
There was discrimination against blacks and Latinos. There was lesser discrimination against Asians. One big difference is that some Asian cultures were big on pooling resources and helping family. I suspect that black culture was weakened
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by babesh 6y ago
It isn’t just Asian immigrants buying up real estate. It seems to be a widespread practice in tech irrespective of race.
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by babesh 6y ago
You have got your facts all wrong. I never bought into those gentrifying neighborhoods. I don’t even live in those neighborhoods. I grew up in a poor historically Chinese neighborhood. Many of the attacks are occurring historically Asian ne
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by babesh 6y ago
There is semi-hidden animosity between the black and some Asian communities. Chinese immigrants are often the ones first moving into and then buying out people in black neighborhoods. Asian kids do disproportionately well in urban schools.
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by babesh 6y ago
Such a classic attack. I am not accusing him of being the enemy but he sure acts like one.
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A classic strategy is to attack the messenger instead of the message. You are doing this. There isn’t one fact in your statement. Pure opinion and feeling. Greenwald peppers his article with disgust but he also backs it up with facts.
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by babesh 6y ago
Read the comment by Clewza313. The vaccine doesn’t seem to protect the people in the study (young people). Young people don’t tend to die from covid. They don’t know if it would work on older people but I would think it wouldn’t either. Thi
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by babesh 6y ago
We also need to provide more equal opportunities.

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