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by shuckles 3y ago
At least try to bring some evidence when casually spouting random racist falsehoods, we’re an empirically driven discussion forum.
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by shuckles 3y ago
This is what I mean by strangely inconsistent demands for intellectual rigor. Not only does your summary of that article ignore that Central and South American countries with predominantly Latino populations dominate the top charts, but als
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by shuckles 3y ago
The poster wants to imply the population is black Americans even though similar ethnic groups in other countries don’t have nearly the same violent crime rates. Either there are structural factors at play or black Americans are somehow a sp
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by shuckles 3y ago
You don’t have to be a major voting block to be a consistently consequential swing vote. California is a major voting block but its interests are rarely persuasive in federal politics because it’s never a swing vote in elections.
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by shuckles 3y ago
This argument suffers from Simpson’s Paradox. While the US may have high rates of incarceration, a city like San Francisco with which I’m familiar has European rates of incarceration. In addition, you can drive down the incarceration rate b
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by shuckles 3y ago
Are you describing American compensation? If so, how do they retain engineers after the cliff?
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by shuckles 3y ago
The $1 also includes iCloud Private Relay. It’s among the best deals (non-open source) in big tech.
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by shuckles 4y ago
I would be really curious to read examples of such disputes. Even legal filings from both sides, evidence, outcomes, etc. Please share if you know of any!
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by shuckles 4y ago
So what happens to the corporate counsel who advised on the contract in such cases?
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by shuckles 4y ago
You could say it's management's fault they didn't know entire crews were on heroin. This is one of the challenges of being management: every failure is conceivably a management problem.
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by shuckles 4y ago
You are citing a common accounting sleight of hand where you look at federal gas excise revenue and compare it to only federal spending on highways. Some issues: * This includes an important subsidy from urban road users - who are federal f
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by shuckles 4y ago
This is a bit too optimistic. BART in its current two year budget is projecting consecutive years of $300m operating deficits. That is very far from sustainable and not an unusual worst case.
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by shuckles 4y ago
BART's budget is not funded by San Francisco. I think there are many sources of funding such as bridge and highway tolls which should be explored to shore up BART operating budgets. In addition, BART should abandon boondoggle capital p
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by shuckles 4y ago
> Many subway systems are profitable, like the Tokyo JR East. My comment was about America, but point taken. Road infrastructure in Japan has heavy use tolls. > Americans simply prefer sprawl and cars when it comes down to it. America
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by shuckles 4y ago
Transportation infrastructure isn’t meant to be financially viable. Interstates aren’t profit centers.
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by shuckles 4y ago
SF Standard has some of the city’s best journalists on staff, and you’d be hard pressed to identify how Moritz is influencing their coverage decisions.
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by shuckles 4y ago
> Prosecution is too late to intervene. The crime has already occurred. Wrong. A small number of people commit most crimes. They have plenty of crimes to commit in the future if able. > The people committing property crime in SF (note
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by shuckles 4y ago
There is an ascendence of belief that all matters of interpersonal conflict must be dealt with through non-police solutions. (This school used to have an on-site officer who was removed years ago.) It’s also probably bad for a school in ter
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by shuckles 4y ago
I’m not sure what you’re getting at, but pharmaceutical opioids haven’t been a big source of problem for at least a decade at this point.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Dealing with statistical discontinuities with reporting is kind of unrelated to whether the existing definitions properly represent the territory they claim to map. Changing definitions can make the new data seem unreliable, but bad definit
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by shuckles 4y ago
Yeah it sure is hard to believe that shoplifting is a non-issue when all the stores are reducing hours and putting merchandise behind an expensive to install and operate lock and key system.
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by shuckles 4y ago
In theory yes, but the specific politics of police abolition mean it’s hard to get votes to defund the police if the public thinks crime is a problem. This is why the same politicians claiming to defund the police in 2020 and asking for mor
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by shuckles 4y ago
More policing and consistent prosecution also work at the margins, not just the extremes.
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by shuckles 4y ago
I was referring to specific policies. Tough on crime is a political label that could mean anything.
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by shuckles 4y ago
I work on this topic professionally and have been a paid consultant to the San Francisco District Attorney office under George Gascon and Chesa Boudin. I’m happy to hear evidence that more foot patrols, increased clearance rates, and increa
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by shuckles 4y ago
Tough on crime policies can mean a lot of things, but more police officers on the streets definitely improve both crime rates and the perception of safety. So does higher rates of clearance and prosecution. This is not a controversial fact
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by shuckles 4y ago
The great bargain of America is that you live in a country with insanely high violent crime rates for the developed world but don't complain about it too much because it's usually well contained to gangs or other communities/
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by shuckles 4y ago
The SF police commission members definitely have an incentive to downplay crime: if they thought crime was a problem, they wouldn't have been nominated to the commission! (The Board of Supervisors, for example, recently pulled a politi
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by shuckles 4y ago
A single Target downtown accidentally started reporting all shoplifting incidents and _tripled_ the citywide rate: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/shoplifting-data-Targ... A teacher was beaten deaf by one o
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by shuckles 4y ago
Is it really alive and well or is it mostly booking profits for activities conducted elsewhere in the world? How much R&D, manufacturing, or distribution do the ABBs and Siemens of the world actually depend physically on the EU for?

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