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by throwaway313313 5mo ago
SF spending on homelessness has actually created a homeless industrial complex that thrives off of the enhancement and continuation of the "community" they serve. The current solutions, while all well meaning or nice sounding, are
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by throwaway313313 8mo ago
It's more of a humorous situation to imagine, however with respect to the "oh it's normal comment". No industry with a very limited number of suppliers and with a huge lead time, capex, and tech expertise moat to build a
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by throwaway313313 1y ago
Haha, jokes on you: only the cultures of the world that think that or that have the values that cause that will eliminate themselves, to be survived by everybody else that didn't have which ever deadly thought viruses that cause their
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by throwaway313313 1y ago
Ah well, in reality the utilities try to raise the rates as much as they think they can get away with each year (they are limited only by what the respective state public utilities commissions allow), and this provides a convenient justific
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by throwaway313313 1y ago
RPKI plus ASPA does solve the hijack problem by securing both the origin of a prefix and the AS path of a route. Yes ASPA is new. Reference implementations in open source routing daemons and RPKI tools are being developed and rolled out.
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by throwaway313313 2y ago
Health care professionals consult with their patients to explore their needs and suggest options regularly. This is expected and normal. The professionals making suggestions naturally have biases. That behavior gets a bit interesting when
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by throwaway313313 2y ago
In a system of socialized medicine, is the goal of society to spend the money available to save the most people? Taking into account that people have the greatest medical costs near the end of their life, should the system save others by li
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by throwaway313313 2y ago
Normally one might consider the political spectrum to go from the liberal stance of "It's all society's fault that you are how you are" to the conservative stance "It's all your fault you are how you are",
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by throwaway313313 2y ago
More analysis here: https://x.com/bgptools
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by throwaway313313 3y ago
The parent's premise was "Why is it illegal to bribe an official to do their job?" The thought experiment is "What if it was legal to bribe city officials for matters involving their job, explore what would happen."
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by throwaway313313 3y ago
Ok, thought experiment. The people that inspect buildings can condemn them. How would you like a system to develop in the city that unless you bribe city officials they each year randomly choose some local owners with buildings to conde
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by throwaway313313 3y ago
Just a like the saying "Fish don't know they're in water", people within different groups have cultural assumptions, in this case: The idea of "Permissionless innovation" vs what I like to call the idea of &quo
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by throwaway313313 3y ago
Ok, then do they need to be truthful about anything? How about giving themselves credit for extra clicks based on the value of the word? (With the defense they are doing it for you!) What about if they switch to a click tracking system tha
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by throwaway313313 3y ago
I live in the suburbs in SF Bay Area, and at night when I walk my dog, I never see cats roaming around. I see coyotes, foxes, skunks, and raccoons. My guess is if you don't kill the coyotes and foxes they control the cat population.
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by throwaway313313 3y ago
They typically do not want to disclose the full vulnerability details prior to you paying them. For the few that we have engaged in back and forth conversation, they typically were just reporting warnings from various opensource website sca
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by throwaway313313 3y ago
Real estate investors make a bet that the rents they receive will cover the mortgage payments. Markets are cyclical. The full reason why any particular system oscillates or is chaotic is complicated, however in this case the fact that ther
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by throwaway313313 3y ago
Consider the AI Sec Ops future in the EU where in the run up to an election a political operative makes all widely used AIs "forget" about the competition by submitting a flurry of fraudulent right to be forgotten requests. This i
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by throwaway313313 3y ago
Please paste your prompt here if it isn't huge or paste a link to a pastebin. The link you've provided shows nothing other than an article post.
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
Because people beating other people in your store looks bad and other customers don't like it. Ruins the ambiance.
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
Because the goal of a marketing manager is to extract more money from you not less, by creating an accepted practice of disabling functionality to optimize the money you are willing to commit to actually pay over the lifetime of owning the
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
From the Wikipedia page: "The storm was not an unprecedented occurrence. Geologic evidence has been found that massive floods, of equal or greater magnitude to the 1861–1862 event, have occurred in California roughly every 100 to 200 y
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
Large crowds in some kinds of shapes of open spaces randomly result in stampedes and people dying. All shapes of spaces are not subject to this. There are general designs that don't have this problem and there are people that have vari
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
The term homeless in California is mostly a politically expedient mislabeling. Most of the homeless are drug addicts that are not able to maintain a job or pay for car insurance. They aren't going to be able to pay rent. Recognizing t
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
More people died in San Francisco during the COVID pandemic due to drug overdoses than COVID, and yet SF residents supported the COVID lockdown to deal with COVID. Nothing of the sort is done to prevent more drug addicts killing themselves
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
Use this as a key value store in memory if you are working in C for speed. I've used this to handle multiple 200+ million entry tables in memory, that were not able to be handled as effectively using SQL. Consider using this if you ne
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
Alooong time ago before this kind of same station exit fee existed, it was very widely know among teenagers that you could buy a ticket with the lowest amount required so that you could exit the station and so what would happen would a bunc
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
Get a TDAP shot. It's cheap, low risk, and might help: SLU Study Finds Lower Dementia Risk in Adult Patients with Tdap Vaccinations https://www.slu.edu/news/2021/may/dementia-risk-tdap-study.p...
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
If they are interested in computers, work with them to find an in-person (not online!) class at the local community college that they want to take and help them start taking classes they want to take. If they are interested in taking easy c
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by throwaway313313 4y ago
If your kids are high school age or ready to work on SAT math or AP Calculus then C2 is great. If your kids are younger then Sylvan Learning Center or Kumon seem to be good. It's good if the tutoring center is reasonable driving distan
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by throwaway313313 5y ago
This question is an awesome rorschach blot for the answerers ethics and morality. I've worked with people that had answers regarding this all over the place. My answer would be that it depends on context. You could qualify "doesn&

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