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by shuckles 3y ago
While it's true that shelter placement has some advantages for high needs folks (e.g. older, women, or disabled), those themselves don't correlate with opioid overdose deaths. There was a randomized trial of permanent supportive h
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by shuckles 3y ago
The average you’re looking for can hide a lot of distributions. Texas gets both extremely hot and cold in a way California does not.
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by shuckles 3y ago
No the California budget is famously boom and bust (currently running large deficits) because it relies on income taxes instead of property taxes, the former of which vary a lot with economic conditions while the latter don’t.
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by shuckles 3y ago
In San Francisco, where I am most familiar, SROs which are used to house homeless junkies are the primary location of overdose deaths, even though they house fewer junkies than the streets surrounding them.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Your payment processor and the network has to trust you if you're reusing the Apple Pay cryptogram for a subscription payment. You _can_ do anything (e.g. you can represent yourself as an open loop transit network reader and get a card
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by shuckles 3y ago
Basically every claim in your comment is wrong: * iCloud Photo Library was not scanned for CSAM content at the time of the announcement, which Apple confirmed at the time. * iMessage E2E encryption is not opt-in. There isn't even an op
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by shuckles 3y ago
I’m going to be honest: I can’t find a single way the criticisms of PIT you’ve linked relate to the conversation at all. We are discussing why the $5k/mo SF spent on tent villages is incommensurable to studio rents. Even if it were the
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by shuckles 3y ago
You have provided no evidence either and your claims are vague and not derived from any named study. In any case, PIT as operated by SF HSH can be found here, which certainly you could have reached with a simple Google search of the terms I
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by shuckles 3y ago
Maybe you should read the methodology of the point in time count, which does try to find people living in marginal housing.
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by shuckles 3y ago
70% of San Francisco’s homeless population self reports as struggling with drug abuse or mental illness in the Point in Time count. It’s not a conflation; it’s reality. That’s also why the tent camps cost $5k a month to staff security, medi
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by shuckles 3y ago
That's a widely misunderstood statistic. The Point in Time survey asks homeless people about the location of their shelter when they last became homeless. For example, a homeless person from outside SF who spent a night in county jail
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by shuckles 3y ago
Hey, that's not fair to Humboldt!
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by shuckles 3y ago
It was a combination of abuses at psychiatric facilities and the belief that new drugs would "solve" mental health issues.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Most of the $5k/tent was in the services required for a high-needs population. As someone who has been impacted by a building set on fire by a meth addicted neighbor, simply placing high needs homeless people who often have serious men
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by shuckles 3y ago
Houston has gotten more people off the streets in the last decade than San Francisco or Los Angeles.
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by shuckles 3y ago
My primary assertion was that life expectancy does not inform you about the quality of the US medical system. I focused on guns and cars, but adding opioids (and even lifestyle issues like obesity) doesn’t change my argument or the conclusi
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by shuckles 3y ago
Someone dying a few years earlier than otherwise has a smaller impact on _life expectancy_ than someone dying young. Furthermore, the #1 cause is correlated with lifestyle factors which medical treatment has little control over. You can see
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by shuckles 3y ago
The drivers of poor US life expectancy is mostly guns and cars. Cars are the #1 killer of Americans between 5 and 45 (approximately). That doesn’t have much to do with the medical system.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Can you be more specific? What are the specific budgets or regulatory advantages you’re referring to?
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by shuckles 3y ago
Thinking about this more: the reason you might have this impression is that police funding cuts are actually discussed a lot more than school cuts. The Seattle city council actually voted 7-2 during peak BLM to cut the police budget in half
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by shuckles 3y ago
SFPD’s staffing levels are also at historic lows (and much lower than UN averages) while the work required to investigate and prosecute crimes has increased due to the professionalization of policing (a lot more TPS reports but also valuabl
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by shuckles 3y ago
Police funding is far more suspect to politics than school funding, which is usually set by a state-level formula. Voter support for school bond measures and the like is probably higher at a baseline than police or public safety measures.
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by shuckles 3y ago
If a group supports a candidate, that does not make the candidate “vocally pro-group.” In addition, SFPD is a government department. It does not take positions in elections. Please be specific when alleging a conspiracy.
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by shuckles 3y ago
This is a really random set of evidence for a relatively strong claim. For example, “the DA and police should be able to work together” is not radical pro-cop propaganda. It’s a fact of how the criminal justice system works. Similarly, drop
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by shuckles 3y ago
1. What the hell does "vocally pro-police" even mean? How is DA Jenkins any more pro-police than DA Gascon (who used to be a cop himself)? 2. Most of the regulations which make the criminal justice system in California (and the Un
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by shuckles 3y ago
American automobile manufacturers lost to European and Japanese carmakers, both of whom have heavily unionized workforces.
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by shuckles 3y ago
How many tons of coal do we burn when we take advantage of an invention like language?
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by shuckles 3y ago
That’s fair. The logic still holds: Ohio’s interests are over-represented in Federal politics even though it’s not major because it’s important on the margins.
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by shuckles 3y ago
What’s uncharitable about defaulting to thinking someone implying black people’s culture makes them murderous around the world is being racist? The “given demographic” they were specifying was a race!
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by shuckles 3y ago
Is this a joke? West Virginia is extremely crime ridden. Its homicide rate is a touch above the national average at 6.6 per 100k whereas France, which has a similar GDP per capita is at 1 per 100k. France may even have more black people!

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