i_am_nomad

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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I agree with you, up to a point. Like you, I'm perplexed by the people who claim that the Bay Area homelessness crisis exists because "there's not enough housing." Yes there is, and it's somewhere else. Often it
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I recommend "On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane" by Emily Guendelsberger.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Proximally, they are. But all too many people point to that as the One True Cause of the homelessness surge, when it is not. The two factors I pointed out - illegal immigration and an increasingly brutal workplace - are topics that news o
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I'm saying that because we have so much unskilled labor supply in the country, businesses can make those jobs horrible if it improves their bottom line - that's just the nature of supply and demand.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
These articles keep claiming that high rents, mental illness and substance abuse are the causes of the homelessness surge. But rarely, if ever, are any statistics cited. The HUD report referenced by the article does not discuss causes eithe
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
He’s MI6, not that that should make much of a difference.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Perhaps I should force myself to read that, as someone who uses electronics. But I bailed out after the descriptions of injuries and accidents in the second paragraph.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
JetBrains products are excellent, I have both personal and work subscriptions. I wish MPS would catch on, though; it’s really exciting technology that way too few people are using, for some reason.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
This was much of Northern California last year, and indeed it was awful.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
You would expect at least Israel to stand up and say something. All this talk of “never again” and “there was no one left to speak out for me” is starting to ring hollow.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
It’s amazing to me, and deeply concerning, that you’re being downvoted for this. Those of us who work in tech are so firmly ensconced in that bubble that we actually think microchips defeated the USSR.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Plus, the author seems not to know the difference between “vulva” and “vagina.”
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Thanks, I never knew there was a name for this, though I've seen this kind of house all through the Peninsula - there are also a lot of them in the hills west of San Mateo. And, now that I think of it, Erlich Bachmann's house is
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
"To collect the $10,000, you’ll need to become a MainStreet Member and work out of one of our MainStreet offices for at least 12 months." This is raising red flags, somehow.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
It honestly seems like a Brooklynite's take on urban woes, without understanding that brunch isn't nearly as big a deal in the Bay Area as it is there.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I can tell you that University of California is like this. It’s infuriating.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
The problem is that the data obtained via a third party, without a warrant, is admissible in court. And IANALE, but HIPAA has exclusions and exemptions for law enforcement.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Not since Smith vs. Maryland, one of the SCOTUS’ truly awful rulings. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/what-...
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Most people using Wish are well aware of what they’re buying and how authentic it is.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Don’t buy supplements.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
My semi-educated opinion: there will never, ever be cost-effective fusion power. The unsolvable problem is neutron embrittlement. There just is no reactor wall material that can last long enough to make fusion worth it.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
The best way, perhaps the only way, to achieve that goal is with bacteria. Highly pathogenic ones.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
They fixed Star Wars the same way the vet fixed my dog. “The Last Jedi” was an atrocious film. “Solo” was excruciating fan service that ironically pleased none of the fans.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
We were told back in September that the liquidity injection then was a one-off response to a freak occurrence, nothing to worry about, won’t happen again.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
People are downvoting this comment because they are missing the clever jab at the hiring process.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I agree with you in the sense that refined sugar in processed foods should be highly regulated, as society pays an enormous cost for it.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Good question. If he also decides not to rent to black people, certainly, that’s his business, and I have no right to tell him who to rent to. Correct?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Deporting the 11m illegal immigrants here would result in higher wages for low-income citizens and reduce inequality. So you think paying poor people more money is a bad thing? Why? Why do you love income inequality so much?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I can’t answer for sergiotapia, but I will say that you cannot have unconstrained immigration and high-quality public goods at the same time. Also, rapid unconstrained immigration causes equally rapid changes in culture, and it’s not unreas
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Good question. I’ll be moving in to your house this evening, thanks.

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