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by scelerat 10y ago
This article addresses a lot of the myths of homelessness which get repeated in any discussion about SF homeless (with supporting citation). http://48hills.org/2016/02/16/five-myths-about-the-homeless-... Key
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by scelerat 10y ago
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded"
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by scelerat 10y ago
Can we just jump to "ES15" and get the advantages of both semantic correctness AND brevity?
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by scelerat 10y ago
There's a Wikipedia article on James Brown if you just want distilled facts with minimal interpretation.
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by scelerat 10y ago
Doesn't this ruling pretty much nullify any hacking crime? "You put your computer on the network, BigCorp, you should have no expectation of privacy. The case against Mr. LeetHaxx0r is dismissed."
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by scelerat 10y ago
Care to address the parent's postulates, rather than calling names?
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by scelerat 10y ago
Another piece of the problem, at least in the US, is the that a high school diploma, the highest degree attainable by purely public funding, is a certification of only the barest level of competency in communication and arithmetic. The requ
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by scelerat 10y ago
Right. paying obligations. Hard to get people to work for you if you have a history of shirking your obligations. I want good people in government and city administration. Likewise... homeless assistance: More a matter of how money is spe
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by scelerat 10y ago
Why do I need to make a website? I've got a Twitter feed and a Facebook page.
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by scelerat 10y ago
When I was in college I got the impression that professional (i.e. US academic) philosophy had standards of rigor, such that areas more generally considered philosophy -- existentialism, for example -- weren't so in their domain. I&#x2
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by scelerat 10y ago
When I was in college I got the impression that professional (i.e. US academic) philosophy had standards of rigor, such that areas more generally considered philosophy -- French existentialism, for example -- weren't so in their domain
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by scelerat 10y ago
Those people are the next generation of property flippers.
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by scelerat 10y ago
> “Of course not,” says the first, “but you don’t buy to live there.” This quip about investing in property in Oakland hits home. I had some reservations about crossing the Bay a few years ago to buy a home, but one I did not have was
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by scelerat 11y ago
This story reminded me I had allowed my EFF membership to lapse. Fixed.
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by scelerat 11y ago
Demo video here: http://www.zvex.com/zvex-candela-vibrophase
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Guitar effects box powered by candlelight(zvex.com)
2 points by scelerat 11y ago|1 comments
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by scelerat 11y ago
I was all ready to help out because I have a stash of most of their missing 1st edition adventures (e.g. S1 Tomb of Horrors, etc.), well-preserved and in plastic... until I saw this: > You will get best results by cutting the spine off t
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by scelerat 11y ago
iTerm 2 is great software. Can't wait to try version 3.
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by scelerat 11y ago
Most of San Francisco's homeless, around 70%, were living in San Francisco at the time they became homeless. Nearly half lived in San Francisco longer than ten years [1]. The homeless don't have a whole lot of say in the policies
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by scelerat 11y ago
::snort:: All these gol-darn modern frameworks just to do something simple! Just use jquery! Jquery is a framework. When jquery was all there was, people weren't building the kinds of things they're building now.
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by scelerat 11y ago
> people with degrees from devry were joining companies and making big salaries one of the best engineers I've ever worked with has a degree from DeVry. I know many great engineers who don't have CS or engineering degrees. And
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by scelerat 11y ago
Isn't Comcast violating StackExchange's copyright here by modifying and redistributing their content without their permission?
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by scelerat 11y ago
What's wrong with good old registered mail?
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by scelerat 11y ago
I honestly couldn't tell. I'm guessing if I tried again I'd get anything between 4/10 and 7/10.
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by scelerat 11y ago
I tested myself using my MacBook Pro's speakers. 7/10 correct. I'm a musician and have a large CD, vinyl record, and digital audio collection. Honestly the knots some people twist themselves into over formats amuse me. I tend
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by scelerat 11y ago
The recommendation to go to Lake Hollywood for a view of the sign instead is an odd one. The access road to the reservoir is even more twisty and narrow than Beachwood Canyon.
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by scelerat 11y ago
What does that even mean, "escape the influence of Earth's gravity"? Even the sun is under the influence of Earth's gravity.
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by scelerat 11y ago
What would the charges be against Keys if he had knowingly given a set of keys to some vandals who came in and did several thousand dollars of damage? Whatever it is, it shouldn't be 25 years in prison, either.
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by scelerat 11y ago
I suffer from procrastination. This article hit a lot of notes for me. The "moral compensation" of doing other things -- watering plants, cleaning the house, doing chores when deadlines loom -- hits close to home. Sometimes those
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by scelerat 11y ago
At family pool parties I had a cousin who thought it was a fun game to try to trap me underneath a raft to prevent me from surfacing for air. He was 12, I was 8. Fun times. Learned how to hold my breath, that's for sure.

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