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by jljljl 4y ago
What's the "radical" concern with [0]? Why wouldn't we want students to think critically about uses of technology and how they impact society, or make access to computer science more inclusive?
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by jljljl 4y ago
I think this Kelsey Hightower quote has summarized my experience working with Kubernetes: > Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms. It's a better place to start; not the endgame. https://twitter.com/kelseyhi
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Most companies I've seen end up building some kind of framework around Kubernetes to make the developer experience tolerable. The threshold for getting started and getting a basic deployment up and running is way too high. Of course, t
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by jljljl 4y ago
Definitely a pain point I've seen in my past work as well. Even though spinning up a basic cluster has gotten easier with canned services like EKS, deploying and developing on the cluster is a major challenging for most developers with
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by jljljl 4y ago
Housing First on the West Coast (in addition to Harm Reduction and Support Services) needs to be coupled with a massive expansion of housing and construction so that prices can be brought down to a manageable level.
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I guess this is the answer
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I'm curious about this -- is there data comparing the outcomes of Housing First vs. Shelter First solutions? My understanding is that Shelters are also major sites of violence, abuse, and overdose/drug use.
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This would require Alabama to offer those services or housing though, it's not so simple to just relocate people to other states. SF does have a program that will help you travel back to Family in other states/cities, but I don&#x
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by jljljl 4y ago
What is the alternative to spending the money needed to house and treat people?
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> - looks like they are reporting a loss(1.2B) this quarter, which is a big swing YoY where they made a profit of 4.9B You are looking at Other Expenses/Gains. The bottom line net income was 16,436 vs 17,930 LY -- so still a Net Pro
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by jljljl 4y ago
I _think_ this maybe gets the relationship backwards. Under the previous austerity, low gov't spending regime following the financial crisis, wages and employment stagnated. Large numbers of low income workers took on part-time or cont
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by jljljl 5y ago
Using the actuarial value of a human life, those 11 deaths would add $83M-100M to the costs (assuming the costs aren’t already fully baked in to the cost added above), which would put the Golden Gate Bridge over its budget.
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> What exactly do you think licenses/permits guarantee? Licenses confirm that the person doing the work is trained in the best practices + safety for the work that they are doing. Permits ensure that they have filed a plan with the
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I think the point is that if they are _not_ using the same mitigation techniques, you have a right to prevent their DIY actions from poisoning you and your family. And if they don’t have a license or permit, how can you verify they are foll
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by jljljl 5y ago
> Most thefts (robbery, etc) are not reported now because people know police don't care Underreporting has always been an issue with crime data [1], but the change in the Larceny rate doesn't seem like it's caused by an in
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by jljljl 5y ago
That argument might justify lowering the minimum wage when there is deflation, but not when inflation is low. At most it could justify lower COL adjustments
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by jljljl 5y ago
True, but I don’t see why that matters? They will still be paying higher rates, with likely lower incomes, and a principle whose real value does not diminish over time (since debts are held in nominal terms). If their debts were issued with
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by jljljl 5y ago
This is partly true, but lower income individuals also tend to have a higher % of their net worth eaten up by debt (via credit cards, loans, mortgages, medical debt, etc). The burden of this debt decreases with inflation, since wages can gr
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by jljljl 5y ago
Homicide and violent crime _has_ increased nationwide, and not just in California or in cities with progressive DAs. Florida and Texas, two states that frequently compare themselves against California, saw a similar pattern where property c
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by jljljl 5y ago
The article you are citing shows that some crimes have increased (Homicide, Burglaries, Vehicle Thefts) but several other categories have decreased. If you go to the SFPD Dashboard linked[1], overall crime in 2020 was down 23% vs 2019. For
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by jljljl 5y ago
It's not clear that the $120M in defunding ever actually happened: https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th... Based on this article, it looks like Y/Y spending on law enforcement was flat
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I think the frustration that led to "defund" is that a lot of sensible reforms have been resisted or watered down, and protections like qualified immunity have sheltered abusive cops from accountability. For example: There was an
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by jljljl 5y ago
With any vaccine, there are people who 1. Can't access the vaccine, 2. Can't take it for medical reasons 3. Who are scared/skeptical of getting it due to misinformation (often spread by those in power). Florida could have p
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by jljljl 5y ago
I don’t understand the recent celebrating of Florida’s COVID performance — in September, after vaccinations and treatment options were widely available, Florida was losing more than 300 people per day to COVID. They went from ~25th in the n
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by jljljl 5y ago
> It is relevant when we are talking about building more housing. Why build something if people won't use it? If the shelters are full, it's clear people are using them. If we start seeing vacancies in shelters, then we can wor
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by jljljl 5y ago
Fine, here are the same stats, sourced from the DOJ and SFPD is in a newspaper. You can also check the CJCJ sources and data as well: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Is-shoplifting-ris... Here's one
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> the article makes it clear that theft was a key reason these CVSs closed in SF. The article does not make this clear, it cites some Yelp reviews, but doesn’t mention that it was part of a nationwide plan to close 46 underperforming sto
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The article you sent is from 2019, for 2 CVS stores. This doesn’t match your claim about CVS and other retailers disproportionately closing stores in SF. A large number of stores were permanently closed in NYC and other urban areas as well,
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by jljljl 5y ago
I haven’t seen reports of CVS closing a store in SF from 2020-2021. Where are you seeing a disproportionate share in SF? Walgreens also closed ~70 stores in NYC, a similar % as the SF closures. I don’t think anyone is defending shoplifting,
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by jljljl 5y ago
10 years is the average or target lifespan of a truck, not necessarily the average age. I’m not sure what the average age or distribution for trucks serving California ports are Similarly, human life expectancy is 80 years in the US, but th

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