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by cft 6y ago
A better stat would be the % of arrests of other cities' officials. The majority of population does not have access to the FBI scale embezzlement, even if they wanted to do it.
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by cft 6y ago
I believe that behind the veneer of the official progressivism there's deep monetary corruption in San Francisco government. Here is my data (all within last 24 months): 1. SF Public works director arrested by the FBI: https:/&#x
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by cft 6y ago
If there was no rent control, prices would drop even more. Firstly landlords are afraid to permanently lock down at a lower price, offering free months of rent instead. Secondly rent controlled tenants are afraid to lose their apartments, t
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by cft 6y ago
When you thread a needle through a hole: when the needle becomes approximately equal to the hole diameter it becomes much harder, but before then it's easy.
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by cft 6y ago
This is a nice theory, but what is the proof? Were people just as smart 30,000 years ago? What about 300,000 or 3 million years ago? How do you set the time scale? When was the boundary when people became smart?
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by cft 6y ago
Did it come back? How soon?
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by cft 6y ago
See how toxic the politically active (in the workplace) employees are: i am getting downvoted simply for saying that I would choose an apolitical company if I was looking for a job...
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by cft 6y ago
Certainly. If I was looking for a job, I would rank it very high because of this.
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Beijing, the Seat of Science Capital(nature.com)
2 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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by cft 6y ago
Maybe they will ban forest fires too?
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by cft 6y ago
>Randomness When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
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Astronomers see possible hints of life in Venus's clouds(sfgate.com)
1 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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by cft 6y ago
First Guilded Age is what made America wealthy. I would not call what we have now a Guilded Age- look at the debt. We have been squandering that first Guilded Age's wealth since 1933, but these things have a lot of inertia.
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Show HN: My server has been up for 13 years
3 points by cft 6y ago|3 comments
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by cft 6y ago
Just quit FF because of this. Mobile add-ons were the only reason I used it vs Chrome.
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by cft 6y ago
For hate speech? I thought only for malware so far.
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by cft 6y ago
Wait till they start blocking those Reddit alternatives in Chrome.
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by cft 6y ago
This is a hint that the next step maybe blocking certain websites in Chrome.
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by cft 6y ago
This is a hint that the next step maybe blocking certain websites in Chrome.
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by cft 6y ago
Also it might take 20x less RAM compared to using Python objects like sets and dicts. In Rust there's no garbage collection, and you can lay out memory by hand exactly as you want.
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by cft 6y ago
”Earth's surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen, sometime earlier than 650 Mya (million years ago) during the Cryogenian period. " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth Note that animal (m
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by cft 6y ago
This corporate "moving forward" newspeak sounds ominous.
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Consumer Prices Surge, Core CPI Jumps Most Since 1991(thestreet.com)
1 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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by cft 6y ago
What is parasitic about it? That they are using public roads?
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by cft 6y ago
I applaud the CEO for this decision. It forces at least a glimpse of understanding on the local voters that one cannot combine ideological utopia and a functional economy.
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by cft 6y ago
I think this will be written up in the history books, like in the fall of Rome: "stock market decoupled from the fundamentals".
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by cft 6y ago
That's a massive blow. Rust next?
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by cft 6y ago
I feel that it's a future of compilers: it almost feels like in interactive session, where you can actually learn stuff. I suggest expanding this.
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by cft 6y ago
Not even FedEx, you literally hire a guy to deliver an envelope say from Guatemala City to Xela.
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by cft 6y ago
I was in Guatemala and learned to my surprise that its national post has been disbanded. There's no functioning postal service of any kind, only private couriers.

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