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by davidw 2y ago
Once you started to see the "both sides" and sanewashing from some big media outlets, it became quite noticeable. There's some nuance to it: it's not like every article was some kind of ham-fisted propaganda worthy of Pr
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by davidw 2y ago
There are a number of really good reporters at places like the Washington Post and the New York Times. As much as those institutions do have problems, and are declining, they still have the money and resources to do good work. So, no, they
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I feel like the current political situation in the US is going to accelerate the demise of traditional media. They have not been able to adapt to a changing information landscape and were stuck on models that worked in the past, like "
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by davidw 2y ago
> insufficiently political (ie saying her programming wasn’t done by black females). If you're trying to create a persona, having someone that knows about the background said persona would likely have is not political, it's jus
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You can understand that and still think this was a terrible idea.
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by davidw 2y ago
"I know, let's release an AI bot that pretends to be something that's likely to be viewed through a charged political lense and have it hallucinate random answers to people"
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by davidw 2y ago
The thread is here and... it's pretty wild. This doesn't seem like it was a well-thought out idea to release this without some more consideration beforehand. https://bsky.app/profile/karenattiah.bsky.social&#x
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by davidw 2y ago
I could sit down and have a great conversation with, say, Mitt Romney or GWB, I bet. I'd learn something about the world and how they view it and their thoughts and ideas. The white supremacy stuff is just trash though. That's not
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by davidw 2y ago
"Buy more bicycles", duh. That, and find some ways to leave the world better than you found it.
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by davidw 2y ago
If Tesla's valuation reflected its value as a regular car company like, say, Toyota, it would be vastly lower. Shareholders would lose oodles of money.
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by davidw 2y ago
I like this discussion. Out of curiosity, I'm curious what the other guy's take on "live migrate process state". It's something I'm familiar with from an Erlang perspective, but I'm also aware that it&#x27
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by davidw 2y ago
I'm nearly 50. I'm used to the idea of businesses owners having different politics than my own, but mostly that was the sort of self-interested "I'm wealthy and I think wealthy people should pay fewer taxes and their bus
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by davidw 2y ago
For anyone curious about the connection with the Russian author with the same surname: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Tolstoy#Family I have also enjoyed the Aubrey-Maturin novels. They have a good mix of element
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In terms of the nostalgia factor, I could smell my brand new Commodore 64 when looking at this, so from that point of view it's a win.
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They are no longer "Republican party establishment types" though.
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"Both sides" doesn't really correspond with reality though. She made a concentrated effort to reach out to people on both sides, including the Cheneys, of all people.
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by davidw 2y ago
> If my life ends up being begging (actual begging), hunting for scraps, using alleys as toilets, I think I'd be using drugs in fairly short order to help numb the pain of that existence. A lot of what I've read indicates that
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by davidw 2y ago
So a big part of the problem is that we feel the need to give people a veto about apartments, but not single detached units. That's a decent portion of our housing crisis right there! "Would we ask any of the same questions of a n
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by davidw 2y ago
Cold and services are both covered in the article. Here's the section on 'policy' (shelters and such) https://www.noahpinion.blog/i/106265050/claim-homelessness-i...
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by davidw 2y ago
Lots of people would benefit if they had housing to live in. There's no need for it to be some extreme thing like your example. NIMBYism is to blame for the lack of hundreds of homes here in the small city I live in, in Oregon, since
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by davidw 2y ago
This is a great narrative, but it turns out that it's not true. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/california... > The overwhelming majority of homeless people surveyed were locals
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Until recently (not sure about the current status), NYC had a "right to shelter" so that people could have a place to stay for the night. This meant that they still had a lot of homelessness, but it wasn't nearly as visible a
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It's kind of helpful to think of the world in percentages, rather than "1 or 0, black or white". Some people with drug problems are able to hold down some minimum wage work or part time jobs or something that brings in money.
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The housing crisis is a bit more complicated than that particular situation you're describing though. Some very 'progressive' places are full of raging NIMBYism that prevents anything like enough housing from being built.
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by davidw 2y ago
Eh, this is just a cynical excuse to not try. Here in Oregon, we're making some progress on housing reform. The mayor of my city attended the YIMBYTown conference a few years back when she was a city councilor. Heck, the now-governor o
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by davidw 2y ago
Did you not read that part of the article where he discusses that very concept with actual data to back it up? New York has higher rates of homelessness than West Virginia. The part of Oregon where I live has a pretty extreme climate, and h
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by davidw 2y ago
This is a good point, but part of what the article is saying is that where housing is cheap, some of even those "at the margins of society" people with some drug problems can maybe stay housed. Which means fixing the drug part of
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by davidw 2y ago
Vienna has great public housing and is probably closer to the US culturally in some ways.
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It is a housing problem though. That is what the data show. That's why homelessness correlates so much with high housing costs. That's why places with serious drug problems like Ohio or West Virginia don't have such high rate
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Those people are an outsized factor in the production of needed housing as well - they don't just consume it, they help build it.

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