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by fosk 2y ago
Without going into the merits of this war, NATO - which was supposedly a defensive alliance - did indeed attack Kosovo in an offensive. So NATO has demonstrated they can be whatever they want when the right time comes. NATO intervention in
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by fosk 2y ago
Whole Foods has superior quality pecorino, the one with the black crust. The last 10% quality improvement is the hardest to achieve without good ingredients, even if you can make it work otherwise.
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by fosk 2y ago
Furthermore, API is a product that needs its own lifecycle to be versioned, decommissioned, continuously improved. Often I see developers creating new APIs ad-hoc all the time instead of curating and enhancing the one they already have.
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by fosk 2y ago
Early computer networks appeared in the 1960s and the public internet as we know it in the 1990s. We are still early in AI.
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by fosk 2y ago
Different population (and business) density for most of America which is entirely suburban except for the dangerous downtown areas.
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by fosk 2y ago
I am sure that if at the end of 99 years the US or the UK still really really want to retain them, they will find a way (another lease, or by force). Mauritius is not China. Not that I am suggesting for this to happen, but what are they goi
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by fosk 2y ago
For sure it can’t be good to put our heads on a heated seat for hours a day, every day for decades.
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by fosk 2y ago
I am not a doctor, but.. ..let’s assume that a specific area of our inner body is “micro-cooked” constantly, the body will certainly try to repair that area with higher frequency and therefore there would be a higher risk of cancer, wouldn’
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by fosk 2y ago
> These anecdotes aren’t unique to a city like SF though. But they are, because this is city that has established a record $1B+/year budget to solve the problem, without setting up a rigorous process to be accountable on how that mo
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by fosk 2y ago
The so called "homeless industrial complex" [1]. 1 - https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/californias-...
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by fosk 2y ago
SF is a deeply challenging city, and you really appreciate this by traveling and visiting other cities. You are constantly on alert, in ways that simply you are not in other places despite the fact that there are “good and bad” parts of tow
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Magnetically levitated space elevator to low-earth orbit (2001) [pdf](publications.anl.gov)
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by fosk 2y ago
On a tangential note, Italian food on the Italian highways at the “Autogrill” chain (gas stations and food joints along the route) is better than 90% of “Italian” restaurants in the USA.
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Deep dive into Kong Gateway's new Rust-based router(konghq.com)
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by fosk 2y ago
Here is another source [1] that draws the conclusion that "approximately half of crimes are not reported to the police". Here is yet another source from the U.S. Department of Justice [2]: "During the period from 2006 to 2010
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by fosk 2y ago
In places like San Francisco it is an understood phenomenon that crime is underreported because nobody will investigate it anyways so why bother[1]. [1] https://nationalpolice.org/main/not-letting-cops-enforce-law...
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by fosk 2y ago
They are also dangerous and that’s also a big reason why nobody hangs out there after a certain time. European downtowns are family friendly and actually nice and safe, unlike the US.
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by fosk 3y ago
Right. They need help, whether it is mandated or not. For sure they don’t need more drugs.
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by fosk 3y ago
In a nutshell, San Francisco’s ultra-liberal policies fight for the right of doing drugs and potentially dying on the streets, because they believe that actually helping these people would be akin to penalizing them because they are poor or
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by fosk 3y ago
Look no further than the San Francisco homeless industrial complex for a modern version of this phenomenon.
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by fosk 3y ago
> Over the years Citroen have designed some of the most beautiful vehicles ever Like the Romans say, de gustibus non disputandum est.
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by fosk 3y ago
I just wonder how many discoveries were just shrugged off or destroyed by people who couldn’t care less or didn’t know. If I came across something like this in the wild, I wouldn’t think much of it, either.
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by fosk 3y ago
Maybe someone can clarify this to me: wasn’t US help essentially given as a loan that would carry interest and repayments? Or was it given for free with the agreement that they would follow a US-inspired democratic system and be allies (and
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by fosk 3y ago
> You don't get to dictate where we are in a conversation. > you can't just move them effortlessly to new locations. Turns out we are exactly where I said we would be in this conversation. We can allocate the homeless to num
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by fosk 3y ago
You must be new on the topic :) Let me accelerate this conversation for you: 1) Someone says we need housing. 2) I say: great, let's build it! 3) Someone says: but cities are not building enough housing, we need to invest more. 4) I sa
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by fosk 3y ago
The elephant is the room is that drug addicts are present in large number, they cannot hold onto housing and they cause incredible damage in the cities where they congregate, to themselves and to the community. For as long as we keep ignori
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by fosk 3y ago
I think nobody is entitled to live in any city. You and I are not entitled to live in Manhattan if we can't afford it, we are not entitled to live in Beverly Hills if we don't have the means for it, and likewise the homeless are n
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by fosk 3y ago
We can't fill up the supportive housing units fast enough! New York has empty supportive housing units [1]. This suggests that the total number of vacancies might be even higher, as more units are added to the system regularly. [1] -
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by fosk 3y ago
> In 2022, there are approximately 582,462 people affected by long-term homelessness in the United States. The US homeless population is increasing yearly, particularly in younger age ranges. Tragically, homelessness and substance abuse
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by fosk 3y ago
America doesn’t have an housing problem. America has a drug problem. It’s time we stop deceiving the public.

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