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by cheriot 5y ago
This is a debate that comes up and I'm only familiar with the specifics in San Francisco. I won't claim it's the same anywhere else. The shelters are full so the obvious problem is not people refusing to sleep in them. At the
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by cheriot 5y ago
> What do you do if someone wants to sleep on the street? When all of the available shelters are full this is not a relevant question. > Where do you build these dorms? Near transit so people that can't afford a car can get arou
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by cheriot 5y ago
Did you read the article? It's saying chronic unsheltered poopulations are increasing on the west coast, which also seems to be your observation.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Is there a reason for the richest country in history to have homelessness anywhere?
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by cheriot 5y ago
We're a country of 350,000,000 people. Leaving 500,000 outside simply because municipalities don't want them around is inexcusable. Solution in two parts 1. Make it legal to build homes where people live (looking at you California
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by cheriot 5y ago
Is Portugal that much more socialist than Denmark, Finland, Germany, etc?
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by cheriot 5y ago
One difference is that in the US income is always stated in pre-tax numbers.
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by cheriot 5y ago
I’ve yet to meet a start up that would disclose that much, but this is only my personal experiences
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by cheriot 5y ago
I’ve received offers from a bunch of startups over the years. None of them would disclose their cap table. Most of them even refused to tell me the total number of shares outstanding. Are people getting enough info for any kind of due dilig
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by cheriot 5y ago
Censorship in depth. local, network, and content host
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by cheriot 5y ago
I mean the extended unemployment and stimulus checks gave a some people room to try new things. A lot of people struggled, but there's a reason some are reluctant to return to their shitty old jobs.
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by cheriot 5y ago
> since the start of the covid-19 pandemic America Inc has been anything but stagnant. Applications to start new businesses have soared. In the first six months of 2021 around 2.8m new businesses were born, 60% more than in the same peri
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by cheriot 5y ago
Many of those crimes were committed against the people who now feel threatened. That's worth acknowledging.
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It’s acknowledging the current discourse around gentrification. Changing that is the whole point of the video
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by cheriot 5y ago
If you're interested in more on why housing is expensive and complicated, I can't recommend Jerusalem Damsas' work highly enough: https://www.vox.com/authors/jerusalem-demsas In particular, the video in
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by cheriot 5y ago
It's not interest rates. $100k house, 14% interest, 30yr fixed: monthly payment of $1,427 $235.3k house, 3% interest, 30yr fixed: monthly payment of $1,427 Now that house now costs $706k in NYC and $932k in SF... the problem is supply.
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by cheriot 5y ago
> In fact if we eliminated all government programs except social security, medicare and medicaid, by the middle of this century our federal budget still can't add up. :-( Citation Needed From what I've seen SS can be fixed by e
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by cheriot 5y ago
> So don't live in Southern California? People need to live where the jobs are. When cities permit offices, but not housing they're screwing people over. > "Avocado toast" is a metaphor for conspicuous consumption
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by cheriot 5y ago
> I can imagine that safety regulations are starting to be demanded by the public, and that is a good thing I remember seeing a sign at the Hong Kong border when going to the mainland warning that there was a maximum amount of infant for
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by cheriot 5y ago
The working/middle classes are getting screwed by housing, childcare, education, and healthcare costs that are a greater proportion of income than past generations. Avacado toast is not the problem.
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by cheriot 5y ago
At a high level: 1. Zoning prevents density, which precludes having enough foot traffic for neighborhood stores to exist (if zoning actually allow them). 2. Parking minimums force things farther apart because so much of each lot is asphalt.
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by cheriot 5y ago
> California is a NIMBY paradise, legally speaking. 100% However the state has and can overrule cities. First ADUs were legalized and next, if SB9 passes, duplexes. It's baby steps, but it's possible and probably the only way f
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by cheriot 5y ago
In America, slums and informal housing is destroyed by the city government. See LA's Echo Park for a recent example https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-protesters-clash-sweep-echo... We have 350m people, 0.5m homeles
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by cheriot 5y ago
Except for the immigrants that created the Pfizer vaccine, right? Those two worked out. Also, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109095162... There's more than enough research that we don
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by cheriot 5y ago
This. Most companies pay lip service to internal mobility, but I still see managers trying to talk people out of it (presumably so they don't have to hire and ramp up a replacement).
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by cheriot 5y ago
Every child born is a "bare illiterate human". Are you also making an argument against having children? If you want to be really draconian about it, immigration can select for people with skills where the home populate will always
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by cheriot 5y ago
My employer's open office is so loud. They literally just built a new one, bragged about how great the design is, and it has the same problems as the old one. How am I suppose to work when I can hear every sound made by 100 other peo
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by cheriot 5y ago
For all the projects Mozilla has done that seemed to stray from their core mission, I'm glad they have a paid VPN. For those times it's needed, I really like having one from an ethical organization.
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by cheriot 5y ago
> I'm not pretending, racism is racism, you don't get to redefine what words mean in order to fit your narrative. I’m done arguing with a throwaway account if you’re going to be intentionally naive. “It’s not racist because it
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by cheriot 5y ago
"They are de facto not barred from suburbs, meaning suburbs are de facto not racist" You're pretending that explicit racism is the only form of racism. Modern zoning was invented precisely because the Supreme Court outlawed e

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