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by racer-v 9y ago
It sounds like you're giving up until the city solves the problem. I've been homeless and taken in by others, and likewise my family has taken homeless folks into our own house. There is a lot we can do at a personal level, but in
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by racer-v 9y ago
I'm pointing out that the demand for housing in any city is elastic; if you house the current 6,000 homeless without addressing the systemic problems, more arrive to take their place and you're back where you started. Rich Europea
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by racer-v 9y ago
I got the number from 2009 data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta... I think the reason it hasn't been done is that it would change the character of the city in a way most people wouldn
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by racer-v 9y ago
All cities attract homeless people to a greater or lesser extent. It's easier to blend in and live off the system's detritus in a large city than in a rural area or small town, if you don't have any friends or family willing
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by racer-v 9y ago
Why are we (collectively) only responsible to the homeless in SF? I'm proposing that we all take responsibility for homelessness in America as a whole.
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by racer-v 9y ago
The claim is that homeless (and borderline homeless) people are already attracted to San Francisco, and that making it more attractive isn't going to solve the problem while there are near-unlimited reserves of more homeless people in
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by racer-v 9y ago
Why the "city's full services" and not America's full services? Shouldn't homeless people all over the nation be housed, not just the ones who come to San Francisco?
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by racer-v 9y ago
Actually, your link verifies my claim that most were not born in San Francisco: 29% already homeless when arriving here, plus 51% of the remaining 71% have lived here less than 10 years, means a minimum of 65% are transplanted from other
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by racer-v 9y ago
By the city's 2017 San Francisco Homeless Count & Survey, most either were already homeless when then arrived in the city (31%) or became homeless after being here less than 10 years (another 31%, see page 22). http://hs
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by racer-v 9y ago
Richest city in the richest state in the richest country in the world and we can't even provide a place for people to live. To think this through: very few homeless people were born in San Francisco. Everyone has freedom of movement
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by racer-v 9y ago
This is true, and not without good reasons. In places where long-term residents have enough financial and political clout to control their own neighborhoods, they almost universally want to keep density low for better (perceived) quality of
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by racer-v 9y ago
As an Emacs diehard, I'll be quite tempted to give this a spin once the plug-in model integrates nicely with some Lisp implementation (e.g. SBCL), and someone sets up a repository along the lines of Emacs Lisp Package Archive (ELPA). C
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by racer-v 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the state was oppressing minorities and driving income inequality just fine without software.
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by racer-v 9y ago
Goes to show that "worse is better", given that these two perhaps badly-designed systems are the software world's biggest successes.
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by racer-v 9y ago
Maybe Nvidia was his second job?
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by racer-v 9y ago
Shouldn't that patent expire this year? I see a filing date of Nov 15 1998; by (1) below the basic patent term should be 20 years or Nov 15 2018. http://www.bpmlegal.com/howtoterm.html
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by racer-v 9y ago
> doesn't it make more sense to invest in carbon-neutral power technology like nuclear and maybe help stave off a potential collapse Very big maybe . Given the extensive track record of human civilizations collapsing (Angkor Wat, M
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by racer-v 9y ago
This is probably correct. Scans of public domain works which are "slavish copies" containing "no spark of originality" were ruled public domain in Bridgeman Art Library vs Corel. http://www.likelihoodofconfusi
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by racer-v 9y ago
+1 for more Ted Nelson. I saw a great talk from Alan Kay where he gives an argument that studying historical systems is important for innovation: Imagine all the possible directions computing could move toward over the next 50-60 years. Som
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by racer-v 9y ago
"Depression is anger without enthusiasm" - Steven Wright and/or Charles Saatchi
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by racer-v 9y ago
Rule of thumb: if all the other words in your sentence are in French, then pronounce the word "France" the way French-speaking people say it. If the other words are English, pronounce it the way English-speaking people say it. Swi
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by racer-v 9y ago
> First, you have to deal with the security boondoggle. Add 30 minutes for that In all fairness, how many incidents will it take before boarding a train means 30 minutes of security theater?
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by racer-v 9y ago
I'd say 1923 Mickey Mouse is not only quite recognizable, but aesthetically more pleasing (at least to an adult).
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by racer-v 9y ago
> ban human drivers entirely Such a utopia: not only do the police have a monopoly on violence, but also private transportation.
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by racer-v 9y ago
You're asking: what's the advantage of being willing to look farther afield to find your perfect job? That's what people in this thread are talking about when they say "labor mobility". In case you want me to answer
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by racer-v 9y ago
There could be delayed steepness, but I think most people would use "steep" to refer to those moments of struggle and effort along the way, rather than the "aha" feeling of suddenly elevated knowledge after the jump. I d
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by racer-v 9y ago
Using the "hill" metaphor, the X-Axis would be "progress in carrying out the task" vs the Y-Axis "effort spent struggling to figure out what you need to do next". I.e. a steep curve means a high ratio of time s
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by racer-v 9y ago
I prefer "long learning curve" over "steep" for a task which takes a long time to master: > The term learning curve with meanings of easy and difficult can be described with adjectives like short and long ra
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by racer-v 9y ago
diverted into an isolated setting with much less stimulation/opportunity. Opportunity is relative. By giving it to one person, you're taking it away from another.
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by racer-v 9y ago
Not just suburbs but ex-urbs and Podunks. I'm more interested in a solution where we don't all have to live in cities to get access to jobs, services, and transport.

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