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by baron816 5y ago
Imagine if every homeless person in SF got over their drug habit or was cured of their mental illness or physical disability or what ever other issue they had that drove them to being homeless. Then they all got stable jobs that they were g
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Has anyone ever done a study on the costs/benefits of funding public defenders? Better funded public defenders, I imagine, would result in fewer and shorter prison sentences (saving money), but I guess also have some potential for an i
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This could be a startup idea. I’m sure there are lots of tech companies that would pay lots of money so that their employees could master English and improve their accents.
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Yeah, this is kind of a Frank Abagnale type story. He did some incredible yet dishonest and criminal things, but redeemed himself later in life. I’m sure this guy bullied a lot of people to get them to help him cheat. He spent 40 years pret
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by baron816 5y ago
One thing you have to remember about NASA is that it’s packed with professional space nerds. You know what space nerd love? SpaceX. You know what they don’t love? Blue Origin.
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I don’t, but if I did, I’d configure them to 1) go to definition and 2) find all references in VSCode.
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I had to look up this hand-written resume thing, and I found this: https://blog.gaijinpot.com/write-japanese-resume/ Some gems: > There are plenty of photo booths, not unlike the popular purikura, that specialize in
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60% of the time, it's full self driving every time.
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Unions have also historically been pretty racist--explicitly excluding anyone who wasn't a white male. That's probably less the case today, but they're still dominated by white, socially conservative men.
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The city is still giving out lots of housing. Except when the city tries to build housing, it takes many years and $800k per unit. The city has put up so many regulatory hurdles that make it almost impossible to build anything. Consider thi
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Correct. I have a 401(k) that I put my own money into and choose the funds I invest in. If I leave my job, I can take that money with me. Companies should auto enroll and fund employees 401(k)s, which most don't do now. But they should
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Why is your first instinct to assume unions are wholesome, benevolent actors? Unions have a long history of corruption, racism, and being associated with organized crime.
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> I stay here because in two years, I'll be 62 and I have a union pension acquired over 37 years. I've spent so much time here that I might as well take that pension and social security and call it quits. Had they not been lock
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SF Planning rejects apt building since it would increase shadow on park by .001%(twitter.com)
2 points by baron816 5y ago|0 comments
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You did the right thing. It’s totally possible that they come back to you and say “alright, we’ll drop the non-compete.” Especially if the feds appear to be heading towards voiding them all anyway.
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Model T wasn’t the first car. It was the first mass-market, “Everyman” car. What I’m talking about is a car that pretty much anyone who can afford a car can afford.
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We’re not even in the “Model T era” of EVs yet. The landscape is still evolving and will become more available and accessible to more people.
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This is why the media usually refers to well known criminals by their full (first middle last) names.
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If they’re seeing a lot of disaffected young men without wives who commit crime and otherwise cause trouble, it might have led them to say “men these days have lost their way, we need a war to help them mature.”
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I have read that recently and it did inspire the comment.
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I doubt it would be that challenging for the apps to rebalance things. All they have to do is say if a user has X number of likes per Y period, stop showing them so much. I guess they’re all working on the Yahoo! model though—don’t work too
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Whenever online dating comes up here, it inevitably leads to discussions of imbalances in favor of women and elite men. This predicament isn’t really unique to online dating though. Lots of society throughout history have had polygamy (elit
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It probably depends on where you live. SV doesn’t value that kind of stuff at all, but cultures are different in other places.
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> my local tax system strongly disincentivizes this by effectively having a 62% marginal tax rate So high tax rates can be an incentive to work less...
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> Open source contributors give away a lot of value, since if everyone had to re-create their work … there would be 1,000,000 times the demand for software engineers than there is today This is a misconception. Imagine everyone had to wr
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Policy is trying to do too much. Clearly, if you limit the suppliers you can buy from, you’re going to be overpaying. And if you’re overpaying, you limit how much you can buy. Investing in infrastructure helps other industries thrive—it sho
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Someone could definitely write a book on bubbles that never popped, or the bubbles that popped, but didn’t have too. Narratives drive what happen to bubbles, and I assume there have been bubbles that were captured by the wrong narrative at
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I wonder if you could’ve written a check for $350 (or any amount), marked as “paid in full,” and would have the same outcome. I bet either 1) no one actually looks at the checks or 2) $3,500 is not significant enough for them to fight for a
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That would be about $50-100K per homeless person in SF per year.
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SF Mayor: $1B extra to homeless(sfchronicle.com)
4 points by baron816 5y ago|3 comments

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