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by rsj_hn 9y ago
Workhouses were for debtors who could not repay debts. That's a very different situation from say, Reagan kicking the mentally ill out of institutions and onto the streets of our cities.
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
It's only 2000 chronic homeless in San Francisco. It's crazy how such a small number of people can make a such a huge impact on the city. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-new-count-shows-h...
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
The issue is chronic homelessness, not people "in between jobs" or couch crashing. Those aren't the ones defecating on city streets and aggressively panhandling. We have data on this, so let's not conflate the issue with
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
It's nice that you've took an actual college class on homelessness. I've logged about 10 years in volunteering for programs to feed the homeless, and have shared my home with homeless people for almost 7 years (until I stoppe
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
Sure, they would love a place to stay, as long as someone else took care of it and paid all the bills. But the same difficulty with life that causes them to be where they are -- whether mental, physical, or abuse related, is going to preven
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
> In reality a minority of homeless people (~35%) have drug, alcohol, or metal problems. Citation needed. In reality , when people are complaining about homelessness, it's the chronic homeless, not temporarily homeless. 1/3 ha
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
I understand the desire to convert a discussion of homelessness to a discussion of high house prices, but homelessness is not caused by high house prices. 99% percent of the population cannot afford to buy a house in Manhattan. That doesn&#
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
I was in a multi-unit building as a customer of RCN (back when they were in SF) and a Comcast tech cut my wires one day. I was without service for a few days. I deduced it was a comcast tech because the day it was a new neighbor had their c
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
I agree, but investors don't want to break even. The fundamental tension here is high operating margins -- 60% not being uncommon operating margins for a software company -- are incompatible with a highly competitive industry. But it&#
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
> As for the JVM and Java, this seems like a guilty admission that the CLR and C# ate their lunch a decade ago The reason why this never happened was that Java was good enough. A quick look at TIOBE shows C# stuck at around 3% while ja
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
Sure, we have tests, we have a whole ecosystem -- written in python2 -- but that's not a justification to introduce breaking changes or a guarantee that the tests will catch all regressions. We also have dependencies. Moreover, unless
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
Yes. If you're not prepared for cruft, then you are going to be rewriting things all the time. Joel Spolsky talks about this desire for artistic purity over useful backwards compatible cruft in a couple of nice essays: https:/&#x
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
This. I don't think people realize that there are fixed costs that are born in making these kinds of migrations so that migrating to Java from python is not 100x more work than migrating from python 2 to python 3. There is no such thin
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by rsj_hn 9y ago
Most people who use a language are actually working on code that existed before yesterday. I work on a codebase that was written in python 2, and when we looked at the cost of upgrading it to python 3 versus adding new features, it was a no
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by rsj_hn 10y ago
"I really don't understand why." Because you are suffering from the exponential growth mindset, in which the next new thing is as important as the sum total of all things that came before it. In that mindset, the future is em
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by rsj_hn 10y ago
Actually, no. Charging existing tenants more than the market rate in order to evict them and so avoid your obligations under the OMI regulations is not something that you are allowed to do. If you want to do an OMI, then do the OMI. File th
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by rsj_hn 10y ago
The thing is, in other languages, frameworks and libraries can evolve without being replaced. It's called version 2. I can't help but think that in the JS world, you are more likely to ditch the old project because JS code is more
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by rsj_hn 10y ago
I don't know, but unfortunately the answer will be completely different in October 2018.