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by surfmike 10y ago
Yes, I'd say having more social workers on the streets and shelters following up and offering care options for those who are mentally ill and dysfunctional would help the problem. But there's not really funding for that.
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by surfmike 10y ago
That is especially interesting since they also did massive QE like the US. So it seems other factors are at play.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Another problem is the cost of housing. Even if you want to join a startup in the Bay Area, it's hard enough to pay the rent/mortgage on a big tech salary, let alone a startup salary.
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by surfmike 10y ago
In CA if someone is an immediate harm to themselves they can still be involuntarily held. Not sure the exact standard that must be met but Wikipedia says they must be "a danger to themselves, a danger to others, and/or gravely dis
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by surfmike 10y ago
Only #2 is affected by the Fed/QE, points 1 and 3 would still be true. And look at Europe for an example for what would have happened without our Fed's intervention. The ECB did too little too late and this led to massive youth un
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by surfmike 10y ago
I don't know, you'd have to look to studies. Anecdotally, my first generation friends had parents who didn't come on study or skilled worker visas. They are all net contributors to society and many sacrificed a lot to get the
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by surfmike 10y ago
Excellent point. If you include first generation immigrants I'm sure the impact of immigrants is even greater.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Don't comment about history you know nothing about. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2011/11/11/a-vet... Edit: I apologize for the snark. As long as Hungary, Russia, Poland are count
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by surfmike 10y ago
Um, not much? Immigrants as a whole pay their way in the United States, have lower crime rates. The revenue generated by Google, Chobani, and other companies is not "Mickey mouse" money. Not to mention that Microsoft and Google bo
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by surfmike 10y ago
Not sure what is optimal, but I find melatonin 30min before the normal bedtime in a new country helps a lot (3mg day one, 1-2mg days two and three; 3 days total).
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by surfmike 10y ago
The article is referring mainly to people who have no choice but to have their own home/apartment demolished. I doubt most people, even YIMBYs, would argue for that. The real issue with NIMBYs is that they want to abridge the property
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by surfmike 10y ago
The embedded street view of a five-story "Khrushchyovka" actually looks pretty nice. Very green, narrow streets, and car-free passages between buildings. My mom lived in a similar style building in Poland. The quality wasn't
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by surfmike 10y ago
Hmm, interesting. I know medicare reimbursement rates are still quite low compared to private insurance, so I wonder how that squares with a 'no negotiation' policy. Edit: One study from Texas found that Medicare reimbursement rat
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by surfmike 10y ago
It sounds fanciful to say that we'll just use our existing Medi-cal budget but now it will cover everyone. If the government had so much bargaining power, then Medicare and Medi-cal would already have far smaller costs. We don't r
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by surfmike 10y ago
Fast internet has nothing to do with it. You can easily get faster internet in many European cities than in SV. Culture and capital are the two differentiators, and they're hard to recreate. Investors are willing to bet money on so man
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by surfmike 10y ago
As a society, fund jobs where humans are still best. Caretaking of elderly, daycare, more teachers for more hands-on learning. Unless robots are full on conscious beings, people will always need that human connection for their own proper de
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by surfmike 10y ago
This jist of this article is that companies need robots for manufacturing _because_ the Swiss have it so great in their non-manufacturing jobs. Having low unemployment, high wages, and a strong currency is an enviable situation for a countr
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by surfmike 10y ago
Usually that refers to SJ metro which includes Cupertino, Los Gatos, Mountain View, probably even Palo Alto.
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by surfmike 10y ago
What happened in Alabama since? Would love to read a followup.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Ok thanks. The way it's worded it still sounds like the group was a butter/margarine mix, so not a clean comparison.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Perhaps not. Anders Brevik in Norway definitely checked a lot of the boxes in this questionnaire though.
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by surfmike 10y ago
"The subjects were broken into two groups. One was given a diet in which liquid corn oil was used in place of usual hospital cooking fats (including butter and hydrogenated oils) during meal preparation. The other group received meals
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by surfmike 10y ago
Maybe butter's good but their accompanying picture is pancakes with syrup, as if that's ok to eat now as long as it has butter.
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by surfmike 10y ago
How much are your housing costs? Except for people who got in with rent control, I see very few apartments that cost less than $2500, and that's for a single bedroom.
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by surfmike 10y ago
NVIDIA and Intel both ship Vulkan drivers for Windows.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Indeed, there are not enough incentives for pharma companies to target third world or not-so-common disease, but instead to push things like Viagra. That's one of the things Gates Foundation is helping address but ideally we do it at t
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by surfmike 10y ago
How is this on security? Vulkan API is built on being able to modify command buffers and pass parameters by directly writing to memory, rather than the client/server model of OpenGL. I could see that being an issue with the sandboxed m
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by surfmike 10y ago
More expensive cars. Also, competition in other markets have made cars safer and more efficient. A monopoly doesn't have those incentives.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Probably not a house or townhouse, but there are many cities in the world where hardly anyone can afford that anyway. We should aspire to create affordable, nice apartments. You can raise a family of four comfortably (not by American standa
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by surfmike 10y ago
That's a decent argument to say immigration wasn't a real concern (that was the second counter point I mentioned). Although it does seem like a fair bit of Leavers voted because of migration (at least according to polls).

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