jtmcmc

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by jtmcmc 7y ago
the obvious counter example to this is people who meetup and create subcultures - the array of which are vast.
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
wow you managed to work in a vaguely racist patronizing attack in your pro church post bemoaning the lack of upstanding morality in america. It's no wonder one of the richest organizations in the world is able to fund plenty of third p
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
addressing the root causes of homelessness would probably make sense. This is part of the fundamental mismanagement of america...
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
really? because police killing people is my much bigger concern...
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
of course then you have the ethical implications of chick-fil-a
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
That wouldn't get more customers it would just cause people to get high, sick, or dead. It's not like they would put a big calling card "like how you feel call this number"
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
nailed it. this is the most backwards thing ever.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
china is huge yet most people don't have cars. It's not the geographic size it's because its population is spread out thin due to post ww2 american dream urban planning where we built rings upon rings of suburbs surrounding u
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
The fact is most people in major urban centers do all of those things. In fact most people in many countries do all of those things sans cars. It is principally in america which has glutted itself on heavily subsidized oil priced without ex
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
yes it is one of the few things I look forward to when I return back to the south.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
you can not drive in many of those metro areas
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
then have an underground subway? a car only city is a bad thing.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
as someone who did support for years and now does engineering I think this is so correct. Support is listening to customers, not only that they are listening to a LOT. I think it's valuable for engineers to talk to customers but they a
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
a nods as good as a wink ;)
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
salaried software engineers (in california at least) are exempt employees and thus don't have to be paid overtime. I'm pretty sure if you are not an exempt salaried employee or you are hourly then you do in fact have to be paid fo
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
having on call responsibilities and being available 24/7 are significantly different. On call is a structured rotation that is usually explicitly part of a job description.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
I love San Francisco. It sounds like when you say SF what you mean is SOMA and FiDi (which even then SOMA has lots going on further down market). There is still so much going on in SF even though the crushing expense of its rent is horrible
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
ah that's a nice false equivalence.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
I think you mean millions in SF. Gov funded syringes are a useful thing to prevent the spread of diseases like HIV and hepc
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
Only renewing and building up economically depressed places is a huge issue of gentrification and inequity. Why should it be so that only the poor should be radically impacted by necessary city changes? A really prime example of this is NYC
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
If that's the case (not convinced it is) then the obvious answer is to remove sobriety requirements. bonus points for putting safe consumption sites onsite in shelters.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
mostly academics in the relevant fields, largely paid for by the institutions they work at
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
I can't believe you're actually arguing that prop 13 was for the seniors so they could afford their houses and that it wasn't a massive fucking cash grab by realtors in california. This makes me think you're entire line
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
It was also the tech industry putting money for it too with Benioff. That of course discounts how the actual tech workers voted. I'd be curious to see polls on that. Anecdotally most tech workers I know supported it.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
He was for it in 2012 and opposed it in 2018 because he thought that the 2018 prop was out of whack vs. the 2012 one. It had nothing to do with "because it was helping homelessness" in 2018.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
bariatric surgery has around a 68%~ success rate (as in hits goal weight) and around a 2% total failure rate (all weight gained back) it is by far the most effective weight loss intervention that exists by miles and miles. There are also a
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
sure they do and there is a lot of interchange (less so austin). But yes I am referring to regional specific demographics and subcultures which SF has a much higher per capita population of than almost any other city. Seattle and portland f
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
as someone who escaped the south 16 years ago a lot of these statements ring true although I would not put them so kindly. I think these are general problems with many southern urban centers.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
of course overwhelmingly we are beset by the tyranny of the increasingly small minority of "country people" telling us how to live due to how the senate and house are setup.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
there are lots of aspects of bay area culture that are not found in quantity in pretty much any other city in the country except NYC.

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