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by wjossey 8y ago
Reading more on what you shared, and a more contemporary study [1], I think the issue is that when I say "homeless", I'm talking about the chronic homeless in unsheltered situations in Los Angeles. Many of those who are also
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I don't think our two statements are at odds with one another. There is absolutely a resource shortage to deal with these issues. In addition, there's the pernicious side effect of the disease in that it keeps you from wanting to
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This is really great to learn about, thank you. It's nothing like that here, primarily because we have such a fragmented system. If one is poor, you will qualify for medicaid, which will vary wildly in terms of quality and access depen
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Thank you, David! I know for many, there's a stigma and shame around substance abuse, particularly involving family members. My hope is that by sharing my story, others will feel more comfortable seeking help for themselves, or their f
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>The reality is that people want to receive treatment--if they don't, it is because they encounter a barrier to treatment. While I agree that there are huge barriers to treatment, I'll respectfully disagree that people with sub
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Thanks for taking the time to provide background data. This is all really great. I'm skeptical of the percentages you shared, not because I think people are liars, but that rooting out causative effects is complex, especially in self-r
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Your comment and mine are currently next to one another in this thread. Having just come from SaMo I can attest to your experience. Your insight that homelessness in LA almost has its own definition is spot on. It might be part of why the c
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I live in Central LA (near LACMA / La Brea Tar Pits), and share my neighborhood with dozens of homeless. Most of the homeless in my area are what I would deem "regulars", as they tend to sleep / hang out in the same spot
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Simulating How Many People Can Vote on Election Day Before the Lines Get Long(medium.com)
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Definitely. Maybe need to get Google to buy my startup and I’ll go spend a couple years in service :) If I’m ever in DC I’ll reach out. Would love to take a tour and learn more. Best of luck to you and the team, Matt. Email is in my profile
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I’ve said it to you before, and I’ll say it again, thank you for your service Matt. Listened to you on the TWiT network and have followed your career ever since. I’m on vacation this week, and while my wife reads, I spelunk data in the US C
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What I showed you is just a callback chain. Vue recommends all changes flow UP. So, you can imagine a button is a leaf node that when pressed calls a function passed to it. That function belongs to the parent component in this case. If you
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Having looked into compensation law in the US, my understanding (I’m not a lawyer but play one on HN) is that housing accommodations are generally considered taxable income. However, the way you’re describing it means it could work. They wo
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I put all the code in a single gist to make it easier to reason. This example (b/c it's basic) looks like more-code that's just generally unnecessary. In practice though, I've found those-sub components, even when it&#x2
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Hard to represent certain ideas in a cheat sheet. One thing I saw was showing how on a button click you can pass an object as an argument. I’ve personally trended away from that pattern and towards always avoiding method calls with argument
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Having run a platform on RoR that did billions of requests per day, it scales just fine. It’s not as cost effective as Go, Java, Rust, etc., but it’s perfectly scaleable. Scaling web apps horizontally invariably becomes more about where you
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Two years ago I went on vacation after having downloaded a bunch of the US Census and ACS datasets. I spent my days by the pool drinking Bahama Mamas and poking at the data, which was in a local Postgres instance. Some people like reading a
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I'm not actively a manager at this point in time, given I'm only 1 of 3 in a still young startup. However, I managed teams for years prior, with upwards of 25 direct & indirect reports when I was a director. Frequency was 45 m
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by wjossey 8y ago
I applaud you for finding a way to manage your anxiety, which allows you to live a sustainable and full life. You only get so many years on this earth, so live it however you want! Best of luck to you.
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I had written a similar post earlier but decided not to submit as I felt I must have been missing something. You articulated what I was attempting to say very well. Thank you!
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I went down a rabbit whole and eventually stumbled upon this small webpage documenting changes from 1900 to 2000. https://demography.cpc.unc.edu/2014/06/16/mortality-and-caus... I also pulled up car accident
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Nate Silver shared that a vast majority of the latest five thirty eight model for 2018 is constructed in Stata. Just an anecdote, but fairly practical example of something recently written that’s using that technology.
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Best of luck to you as you make these changes. Your journey is yours alone to make, so don’t take this advice but rather an anecdote. When I was able to better understand what I valued in life (which is also constantly changing) I was able
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As someone who runs a business with a co-founder, we both are constantly making trade offs. How do we move quickly while remaining stable? How do increase our featureset without getting over our skis? How do we grow our business quickly, bu
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First for scooters in L.A.: a conviction for scooting under the influence(latimes.com)
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Quick note to the author if they see this. The lodash Babel plug-in automatically takes care of only importing the used functions to keep your lodash imports under control. I’d recommend adding that note to your lodash section. Thanks for t
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Does $60,000 a year make you middle-class or wealthy on Planet Earth?(washingtonpost.com)
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Why is San Francisco covered in human feces?(theguardian.com)
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It’s interesting the categories the author chose, as I had a similar tone with my mother when I finally started making good money. I grew up in a divorced household. On one side I had a father and step mother who made large amounts of cash
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There are some really great programmes in the UK that follow police and their interactions with the public. For someone who lives in the US, this can be eye opening compared to our process. A few shows I’d recommend are: 999 What’s Your Eme

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