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by shuckles 4y ago
Most criminal justice reform is implemented at the state level so hopefully you are assured that punitive sentences for petty crimes is not actually possible anymore in California. In any case, even the most pro-incarceration DA electable i
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by shuckles 4y ago
Every elected legislator in San Francisco is rich (as is the populace - it’s one of the richest cities in the region and planet), so you’ve proposed a distinction without a difference.
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by shuckles 4y ago
I’ve replied to you elsewhere about the issue of using official statistics in the way you are. I’d recommend not making the same point in two places to minimize comment duplication. I was not making claims here about causal relationships be
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by shuckles 4y ago
Police department crime statistics in San Francisco are so unreliable that a single store electing to report all shoplifting incidents tripled the citywide rate: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/shoplifting-d
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by shuckles 4y ago
I’ve lived here for 25 years, but I could certainly be wrong. Likely not in the way you propose though.
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by shuckles 4y ago
I am unable to reply to a different comment, but this is a good reference to zoning law in Japan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hzbhGNMp-P7lnp2-VXRjJVjDOAm... .
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by shuckles 4y ago
Yes, even in that case. In a ranked choice election, you cannot simply look at the numbers in isolation. The opponents to Boudin ran something of a slate where they cross-promoted each other. So in a real sense, Boudin won despite being out
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by shuckles 4y ago
You can go your entire time in San Francisco without visiting Oakland, and all the cities on the Peninsula or North Bay you're likely to visit instead have much, much lower crime rates. I'm not sure why including Oakland is necess
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by shuckles 4y ago
The entire discussion has no focus and starts with a false claim about violent crime being down between 2020 and 2022. In any case, claims that money influenced outcomes are ill-substantiated since many San Francisco election results go aga
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by shuckles 4y ago
Yes because by that point Boudin had lost his electoral credibility. It's instructive to see who funded his original run for DA.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Marginal San Francisco voters are an uninformed bunch. Boudin won his election with the second choice votes of a candidate named Nancy Tung who was on the opposite end of the criminal justice reform spectrum, so much so that the coalition t
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by shuckles 4y ago
Boudin had plenty of donors from around the country (including from billionaires) and was getting free puff pieces placed about him in The New Yorker about his Los Angeles fundraisers. Money flows in all directions.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Portland is by far less safe than San Francisco. It had double the homicides in 2022 with 2/3rds the population.
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by shuckles 4y ago
No it did not. Homicides were up in 2020 and 2021 with 2022 flat at 2021's highs.
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by shuckles 4y ago
"After the concert, we started talking, and he complained that I played much slower than the original songs or pieces. He asked, “Why?” That made me think, “Why do I want to play much slower than before?” Because I wanted to hear the r
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by shuckles 4y ago
The educational system has been teaching an approach to reading that’s known to not work for 20+ years, and this is the consequence for populations that don’t have access to other means of instruction. https://www.theatlantic.com
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by shuckles 4y ago
It doesn’t matter where the urban population increase is coming from in this conversation.
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by shuckles 4y ago
The cost difference, if anything, has narrowed since the start of the pandemic.
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by shuckles 4y ago
The housing problem in Japan's big cities did not fix itself with a shrinking population (they're growing) but instead with nationalization of land use laws.
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by shuckles 4y ago
You can have no net new shares while still swapping common for preferred. I don’t know if that’s what’s happening here.
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by shuckles 4y ago
That doesn't account for the new shares being (presumably) preferred while the purchased stock are common stock.
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by shuckles 4y ago
I worked briefly for a financial crimes prevention organization, and the minimum dollar amount of loss we could get police to act on was over $100,000. We would do all the research and present them with a complete case.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Reasoning about the usefulness of crypto currencies based on their quoted price on various fraudulent exchanges should not be a signal of anything. We should normalize on quoting non-spoofable adoption metrics to indicate if they’re going a
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by shuckles 4y ago
I’ve always found Meta’s self deception about where they innovate really funny. I can’t think of any social technology they brought to market which helps me feel close to those around me, besides maybe Facebook Events and Groups.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Appending scandal to an event isn’t having the persuasive effect you’re looking for. Finance is also the industry which helps us collectively coordinate our resources, grow our wealth for retirement, and facilitate risk taking. Every indust
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by shuckles 4y ago
Not sure how you come to that conclusion with the happenings discussed in this thread.
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by shuckles 4y ago
There was a very uncommon event that began in 2020.
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by shuckles 4y ago
The major new information is that almost 25% of deposits were withdrawn in the last day. How many banks could survive that?
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Report from the California Department of Financial Protection on SVB [pdf](dfpi.ca.gov)
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by shuckles 4y ago
Board members and executives are special actors in a corporate structure.

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