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by shuckles 3y ago
As I mentioned in my first message: the startup bros weren’t particularly politically active until the last couple years. And they’ve been relatively successful since.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Those aren’t the only options. “Death threats bad, but this one overblown for political reasons” is perfectly within the realm of reasonable opinion. Across the bay, an actual supervisor resigned last week due to real and persistent death t
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by shuckles 3y ago
This is like saying Boeing is smarter about politics because they can afford to buy off every ex-staffer in DC.
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by shuckles 3y ago
I’ve received death threats from representatives of local non profits for advocating to build more houses in San Francisco. It’s not that surprising when people observe that the outrage over this incident is arguably insincere, even if the
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by shuckles 3y ago
I can’t help but think you don’t understand how politics in this town works and probably didn’t follow this story as it has unfolded over the last few days. This isn’t the first article about the incident, which is exactly the point.
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by shuckles 3y ago
If you are gasping at this abhorrently poor taste incident, I recommend you stay far, far away from city machine politics. And again, I am not convinced either way about the sender of the postcard.
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by shuckles 3y ago
It’s fair use if you cite them to threaten someone new, right?
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by shuckles 3y ago
No I was referring to the postcard follow-ups as a false flag.
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by shuckles 3y ago
The threatening postcards sent to supervisors with a copy of the tweet and Garry Tan’s face printed on it, which has revived the pointless news cycle.
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by shuckles 3y ago
You can’t imagine the advantage to having your base read Local Shady Billionaire Cabal Wants To Kill Your Favorite Politicians headlines a month before an important election that will set Democratic Party endorsements for the next few cycle
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by shuckles 3y ago
It’s implied the letter sender is a Garry Tan supporter when it very well may be a prog supporter trying to extend a pointless news cycle. Remember this is the town where Die Techie Scum was graffitied on sidewalks by a city grantee feature
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by shuckles 3y ago
Nobody is claiming he didn’t tweet some rap lyrics in poor taste, and he’s apologized for it. At the same time, lyrics aren’t really serious threats — they were even deemed inadmissible as evidence in criminal cases by AB59.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Startup bros tried doing that the last decade and got fleeced by Benioff and every nonprofit outfit in town.
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by shuckles 3y ago
How is it a competitive disadvantage when even regular App Store free apps also have to pay the fee? Oh I see: it seems like you only pay the fee if you choose to distribute outside the App Store.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Having a $100k bond to get a license to provide professional services is pretty common in other industries.
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by shuckles 3y ago
What does that have to do with my comment which was about whether those thieves are willing to locate the owner’s frequently visited addresses, visit them, and then repeat this process at scale.
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by shuckles 3y ago
I don’t think iPhone thieves are smart enough to connect a snatched phone’s owner’s identity to a location nor are they stupid enough to regularly go to a frequent location to unlock a stolen device. In practice, a change like this will hel
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by shuckles 3y ago
The police won their recall election? I wasn't aware that SFPD was sponsoring recalls. And if you're trying to imply the mayor's choice of DA impacted policy, it seems like you should take it up with the person who claims t
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by shuckles 3y ago
Prosecution rate is conditioned on the cases presented, so it’s not an independent variable. You can’t infer much from it being constant over time.
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by shuckles 3y ago
If you’re accusing me of being an ideologue, you could not be more wrong. Especially on this matter, where I am a relative expert (I have worked as a paid consultant on criminal justice reform projects) and my interlocutor appears to have a
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by shuckles 3y ago
SFPD’s clearance rate for violent crime has been basically flat from 2010-2020. This is despite having a flat budget in real terms paired with increasing demands for professionalization in policing from county and state oversight authoritie
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by shuckles 3y ago
The data does not support the conclusion. Cops bring cases based on what’s chargeable. The conviction rate staying the same may be an indictment of the DA, since the composition of cases brought has changed. For example, if you used “overdo
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by shuckles 3y ago
Financially motivated types can figure out how to use git if that lets them gain a lucrative job. There as entire undergrad CS major to Associate Product Manager pipeline which proves this.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Database queries are a lot more complex than a pattern match search. In addition, grep et al aren’t part of the file system in both the simple sense (they ship separately) and the meaningful sense (filesystems are rarely designed to facilit
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by shuckles 3y ago
My guess is users would only notice if a few dozen developers were gone, and the rest of them make apps that are only a little bit better than web apps if that. Watch and Mac are more or less failed developer platforms (how many native 3rd
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by shuckles 3y ago
“Not that much” as in a billion dollars? Ten billion dollars? 100 billion dollars? Nobody has been able to build a new browser engine in 25 years. So what would be the dollar estimate of a similarly complex UI framework along with high qual
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by shuckles 3y ago
I disagree because querying is an important feature of most databases as usually conceived, so I think filesystems are only a subset of a database.
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by shuckles 3y ago
The best researched interviewer is likely Nardwuar, though he also has the ADD style. I wonder if the reason is to show off how much the interviewer knows.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Nobody is trying to start a social media flash mob over nuances in wire transfer fraud. It’s his personal style, not a defense mechanism.
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by shuckles 3y ago
This was about the interface not the implementation. What’s the cost of rewriting the entire iOS framework stack?

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