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First off, it's simply not true in any practical sense that there are no areas of the US that are safe from environmental disasters. The entire northeast and mid-Atlantic down through Appalachia - at the very least - is reasonably safe from natural disaster.

So justifying a decision to live somewhere that is highly prone to one or more types of disasters with a glib assertion that "there really isn't anywhere good to set up camp" is not even wrong.

Second, I'm no historian, but I feel confident in asserting that for the entirety of history, a principal criteria for evaluating the suitability of an area for settlement is its proximity to fresh water. This criteria was intentionally, brazenly ignored in building Las Vegas - as well as much (most?) of the Sun Belt southwest.

Third, your geoengineering "solutions" are not realistic. Are you suggesting that we're going to move flood waters from (to use your own example) the east coast to the west coast? Or even from the Mississippi River to Las Vegas? In a world where our existing infrastructure is drastically, if not catastrophically, underfunded?

Where are these areas of surplus fresh water of which you speak? Lake Mead, Vegas's primary source of water, is 80 feet below historical levels. The rest of the Colorado River, serving seven states, is similarly depleted. Aquifers throughout California are near tapped out.

The bottom line is that vast areas of arid land were foolishly (over)developed for the banal reason that somebody was able to make a buck on it. People with money were able to buy government that allowed them to do what they wanted to make that buck.

I'm no doomsdayer, but the water wars have already begun, albeit at low intensity. One day, the demand is going to outstrip the supply and it's going to get very, very ugly, at least from a financial perspective, if not outright violence.
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Cryptography is useful for anonimity in that it doesn't have to be tied to a real identity and PGP keypairs can be generated by anyone.

This allows anonymous accounts that are also verifiable.

National ID databases or Government Overreach can be enacted using an insecure system like Social Security Number as a database key, already.

Certain private elements of ones file, such as credit card, or medical records, could be kept encrypted until the citizen grants a temporary access token.
And this is where economics conflicts with reality. The farther north you get, the more limited your crop options are, especially in the boggy farmland that hosts cranberries. If the world made sense we would have the southernmost growers transition to alternate crops more likely to prosper in their regions, but in practice go try telling PA farmers they need to change crops while the MA ones can keep continuing on as they always have.

And that is the problem with Ocean Spray - its a coop of too many farmers making too much of a crop, and it is hard for such an arrangement to just cut its own workforce when all are meant to be equal.
I think living in Santa Clara County and commuting (preferably on Caltrain) is infinitely better than actually living in SF. There's just as high as concentration of geeks, and its so much safer (three cheers for the suburbs).
A guide to increased creativity in research inspiration or perspiration?
It was a Chevy Tahoe... It was all in the rear cargo area. Tinted windows... but that's about it.
Do you put Sean Carroll in the same category as the other science popularizers?

Also, isn't quantum chemistry too applied for there to be significant arguments about specific interpretations? I only know QC as it concerns DFT or QMC (I do semiconductor modeling)
Well, that's why I called it a pseudo-monopoly and not a monopoly. There was an exclusive right involved, but it was exclusive more or less by coincidence; you have to pay millions of dollars to get a license to sell the product, and only one party had done that. Someone else could have.
I have a very pessimistic view of how shitty (literally) SF is run, but this strikes me as being just as wrong in the opposite direction. The NYPD strikes me as the law enforcement branch of a police state. Surely there are other big cities that have a decent quality of life that aren't SF or NYC.
Great. The "No Side Effects" thing is definitely something to look for in a framework.
Sublime much better
I'm not turning a blind eye, I'm acknowledging that different classes of people have different classes of problems and commit different classes of crime.

I am not conflating these different types of crimes; what I am saying is that "crime" is really just a tool to deal with behavior that is detrimental to a societal good. And maybe that it's possible to deal with these problems in more appropriate ways then just trying to enforce laws with higher pressure.

And while you're right, that tax evasion is different from mugging someone on the street, don't pretend that white-collar crime is a victimless crime. And again, increased pressure to enforce existing laws, might not be the best answer there either.

And again: If I am a druggie and need a fix, then it's more likely that this problem has a better solution that just throw me in jail. It makes a whole lot more sense to treat a serious drug addiction as an illness. But that needs a little bit more empathy than your approach of "You knew the risk when you went out skiing, don't complain to me that you're on the ground with a broken leg now" - sure there is some truth to it, but that doesn't help anyone.
It's not a signing code, votes are truly anonymous; it's the unique serial of the physical card and one of the various citizen IDs used in the country.

These numbers are typically abused in mass fraud for government monetary/physical goods assistance programs.
Radioactive decay is slow, slow, slow.

Here's a cheap way to generate 800 bits per second from radioactive decay. https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

Why aren't 800 honest-to-goodness random bits per second enough for all practical purposes? If you need more than that, you should be playing in the big leagues, where using a little USB fob is not the answer!
How do I leave a job that I like?
The company that I am looking for I think I could work at for the next 20 years.

Management is very supportive, flexible and understanding.

The biggest downside is that it is a great distance from my family and significant other.

Am I wrong for feeling guilty or that I won't be able to find another great place to work like this one?
If this article is interesting to you, also worth checking out Cuckoo Sandbox:

https://www.cuckoosandbox.org/
> But the way to stop people stealing to survive is to help them find some more productive way to survive.

I agree with this completely – ultimately, you have to find a better and more sustainable solution.

But right now, some people know they can commit crime in San Francisco, and see it through with relatively few consequences, causing a concentration of crime in the city. It provides an incentive to crime… and ultimately, ignoring it won't make it go away either.
16th St Mission is definitely one of the scariest places to wait for transit (in my case, for the 22), even during the normal work day.
Basically situations where you have a few data sources for the same thing, all with their own margins of error, update rate, etc. And you want to combine them to get one better data point. Eg in robotics, you can put together GPS, vision (e.g. from visual markers or perceived movement) and wheel encoder (how many times did the wheel spin, where do I think I am based on that) data to get one much more accurate location point.
But what if it wasn't a homeless addict whose been screwed over by life unfairly?
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You mean if you have a Stanford or CMU CS degree and wine and dine with VCs? Sure, its a great place for upward mobility. Now what about everyone who was actually born in SF and who isn't in tech?
Thx for explaining calmly! Was hesitant to post, but your case was too outlandish not to ask. So many SF friends have been bitten, some repeatedly, and I just can't fathom why someone wouldn't use their trunk, especially after having their laptop stolen twice in a month!
For some countries, voter info is as effective as SSN of US. I guess, Mexico is one of them.
This isn't true in NYC, Mumbai, Singapore or London.
I'll try with an example:

In Europe currently they're housing many refugees in very crowded shelters, where by the sheer concentration of people, arguments and violent conflict are more likely to break out.
This has has little to do with what kind of people you put in this housing, and a lot more with, among other things, the absence of any space for people to retreat back to.

The problem there isn't one of personal character, which you are trying to make it, but living conditions.

My argument is, that similar dynamics are at play at a larger scale. And you won't be able to fix those problems by trying to stay blind to that and just try to look at people individually.
> it's how the city is run

One issue is that the City is basically run by a single party. I'm proud that the City has ranked voting now, which should support third parties, but that hasn't translated into that yet...

The fact that we hold elections in off years, means that there is lower voter turnout and increases the chances that party faithful will elect the same people each year. The election rules encourage the current political situation in the City.
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These images are horrible.
I'm not pretending white-collar crime is victimless, but I'm also not at all comfortable with the bias of "remove the consequences of crime for people perceived to be disadvantaged."

The issue of treating drug addiction as a health issue instead of a crime is a tangential topic, but enforcing the law when a drug addict commits a crime is not (e.g. mugging, theft, assault).
> “We are not going to criminalize people for being poor,” he said. “That criminalization is only going to make it harder for them to get out of poverty.”

Underlying this sentiment is the idea that the poor are a monolith. That someone stealing from cars or someone with mental problems who can't maintain a job or relationships is a good representation of "the poor".

The guy in the article who had his BMW broken into can afford to be blasé about the incident - he's insured, whatever was stolen he can replace without blinking an eye. The poor person who is robbed can't just replace whatever was stolen. "Poor people" aren't just perpetrators, they are also disproportionately victims (unless SF is different, which it probably is because it's so weird) - and I think they yearn for safety and stability MORE than wealthy people, they just can't do much about it. We mistake the complacency - which is the natural and probably healthy reaction when you don't feel you can affect social change - for a comfort with all aspects of the urban environment.
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I have the opposite problem to most people, of having too many friends. And the number is ever-growing. Wherever I go - job, hobby, school - I pick up more friends. It's wonderful in that I am never lonely and I feel very loved. It is difficult though too because I sometimes feel overwhelmed and that I am not able to be a good friend myself. I have so many invitations, emails, texts etc that I can't keep up. I adore the majority of my friends - but it is quite difficult to extricate myself from a few friendships I have that are draining.

I've been thinking recently about why I am this way...and I believe it is down to 1) listening carefully to what people have to say, 2) being happy and calm, it is just my nature, I am quiet but I am always looking for something to laugh about. I like to crack little jokes and I appreciate humor in every situation, 3) being un-judgmental and kind.

Anyway i'm not sure what my point really is, except that you CAN make friends as you get older! It is not all doom and gloom :)
Sublime for most things, but Atom does have a few nice features: better markdown preview, drop down menu for things like autocompletion and snippets, nicer color syntax overall (same theme looks better on Atom, I think), a single file for all snippets (I personally think it makes it easier to manage). Main problem with Atom is speed, but there were also a few poor choices such as the package installation interface.

Actually, I gave up trying to find the perfect editor a long time ago, and now just use different ones for whatever they might do better: emacs for org-mode and ESS, vim for editing on servers, sublime 2 for a few plugins that won't work on 3, but sublime 3 is my home base. That being said, sublime looks like a ghost project, hone update/year is just not enough.
A more explicit phrasing of the argument may be that structural explanations better explain a phenomena than unique individual factors, and that the "unique" individual factors might not be that unique.

So what you end up punishing is (personal factors) x (structural factors), but we don't get to know how much each weigh. If we're using punishment or removal of a human from society as a way of getting rid of bad social phenomena rooted in bad personal factors, then it's in our interest to punish uniquely bad personal factors, or else common personal factors interacting with a bad situation will continue to output bad social phenomena.

Additionally, structural fixes seem to me like lower-hanging policy fruit than throwing a person in jail and subjecting them to severe financial disadvantage. Society's fixes for individual behavior are crude, and quality human resources are extremely finite and being spent elsewhere. But for our emotional sense of justice we look for the high-hanging fruits first.

And let's say among the bad personal factors population there are gradients of badness. Why do we seek to irritate that badness by exacerbating structural factors of crime, i.e., by throwing them into an awfully managed and abusive system where they don't get real sustained access to professionals, and why do we financially impair them?
This reminds me of the ancient greek political philosophy arguments for the city-state republic as the primary form that government should be, for example Aristotle.[1]

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/
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One of the metrics, as mentioned in the article, is the probability of a child being in the upper quintile of income, given that their parents were in the bottom quintile (hardly wining and dining with VCs).

In SF, that probability is 0.122, or 12.2%… extremely high relative to the rest of the country. Atlanta is 0.045, and even New York City is only 0.105.
That would have been considered disrespectful in my company, and to me personally. That said, I spent some time in Germany working with Germans, but we would only call someone "Peter"
if he (or heck, she) asked to be directly.

I suppose this boils down to identity for me, having had hours to reflect on this conversation now. My name is a huge part of my identity. How it can be changed in any way without my consent is bizarre to me (respect to the untold number of immigrants that had their names changed at Ellis Island and elsewhere on a whim).

In any case, yeah, unless he asked to be called Peter, WTF?
This reminds me of the Quebec maple syrup "mafia" the FPAQ you do what they say or else you don't get to sell your syrup.
You're coloring outside of the lines.

We're talking about policing crime in San Francisco, USA and not the living conditions and behaviors of economic migrants and refugees in Europe.
It is very sad that they won't open up, and very short-sighted as well. I'm sure Whitney and KX are perfectly happy with their millions, but they are sitting on one of the most impressive software achievements around and refusing to share it. It's not even like it would cost them. First Derivatives could grow a consulting empire. I mean, look at open-source MongoDB. It is a piece of shit, and it is valued at $1.4B. KDB is finest thing I have ever used, and First Derivatives purchased a controlling stake in KX for £36.0M. It makes no sense.

Maybe kOS will be open-source. Maybe it will be the big one, Arthur's chance to change the course of software development history.
You never forget the pain, so try to avoid it
Esports will earn a half billion in revenue this year
Police in California cities are extremely expensive once you factor in the low retirement age, generous pension plans and lifetime health benefits.

And SF's particular flavor of idealism is carried to a remarkable extreme in the public arena.

The homeless (and others who are considered "marginal") get the benefit of the doubt from the police and society in general, even when they're pissing in the street.

This is a special kind of thinking which is specific to SF (and perhaps Berkeley and a small number of other cities). I don't believe such thinking is part of progressivism in general.
$16 a barrel wholesale? Somebody needs to figure out a cranberry-based alternative to Soylent and find a VC who considers that a "tech startup".
SEP?
I know CEP. Riemann is great but I think you are right, there's a lot of people who aren't willing to pick up some clojure for whatever reason.
I'm sorry for the theft. I am a third generation San Franciscian. Don't current live there.

I had my vechicles broken into many times, when I go to San Francisco now, I clean out my vechicle of anything. It actually forces me to clean my vechicle.

I take all my expensive items(laptops, cameras, and especially those white Canon lenses) with me. I take everything out, and put it in a big duffel bag. I take my stuff everywhere. I've had a few funny looks from people, but the natives, I belive, know what I'm doing.

Keep an eye on that duffel bag. I use Packsafe products, and will literally lock the duffel to a chair, rail, anything what would slow down a grab and run.

As to vechicle, theft--I put kill switches in my vechicles. I learned that one from my dad. He grew up in the Richmnd district, and had a kill switch in his first car in the 50's.

I've had a lot of smashed windows, but never a stolen vechicle.

I even got to the point, a few years ago, where I would just leave the vechicle unlocked, and kept the glove box open, with a note that read, "There's just a portable radio under the driver's seat. I'm not a wealthy person. My life has not been going great."
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Right. This is something you can get quite easily using Riemann.
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>The good stuff that has happened to poor people since 1945 mostly comes about through private innovation.

Would really like a citation on that.
Are you referring to watcher? That's a paid product I believe no?
Italy seems a good example. Merchant cities that have stood alone for centuries, tolerating whatever ruling clan or invaders happen to be laying claim. Italy as a nation is basically a manufactured concept around these mini city states.
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I used Skeleton in the past and loved it for the same reasons. I'm trying out Imperavi Kube for a new project and it's clean, minimalist, and easy to use. I'm on mobile, otherwise I'd find you a link, but I'd recommend you check it out.
Quarry: dynamic DNS server with swappable back ends and CRUD api
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Thanks for your comments. One of my goals is to "falsify" the current approach to mental health. It shouldn't take much to embarrass the medical system into fixing itself.

Before this case, I had another who was a hopeless alcoholic. 15-16 years ago she took herself off methamphetamine, then the anxiety started. Her doctor gave a prescription for Xanax, then some other parents at her son's hockey game shared their Vodka/grape juice. Her thinking then was, "What do I need Xanax for, when I have Schmirnoff?" I met her about 3 years ago. She'd tried to stay sober after 2 years in prison for her 3rd DUI. But then life happened, she couldn't handle it, and started drinking again. She is doing quite well now.

I do have other things going that I haven't mentioned here. I manufacture a few niche-market items. One weekend I had a flood of orders - a radio show host had told his audience to search for a specific term that my site is on the 1st page of results for. The HN audience is not my target market, so I don't want to link there now. ("A startup should give its competitors as little information as possible." - http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html )

Years ago I tried manufacturing the supplement that's been helpful for my girlfriend, but I didn't know how to market it, and what I'd manufactured wasn't quite as good as the original version sold by someone else. I gave a bottle away to a woman who needed it. When I called a few days later, she said "THAT STUFF REALLY WORKS!" When I called back months later, her sister said that she was in the state's psychiatric hospital. Supplements don't fix everything, especially when poverty is a factor.

I want to file an New Drug Application (NDA) with the FDA, so I could manufacture that supplement as a gel-cap, and then get FDA approval for a little claim, such as "improves memory", or another claim that is very valuable to a certain target market. Then I'd branch out into other uses.

The $20,000 for this HN fellowship is not a lot of money. I'd buy a camera, a wireless microphone, and probably spend most of the funds on travel expenses. Access to the ycombinator platform would be much more valuable, and is not available at any price.

I would also leverage the fellowship to solicit some people I know as investors. I'd want the corporation set up before I go around asking for money.
Best breakdown from a conceptual as well as mathematically precise description I have ever read.
cvickery@kromtech.com, found at https://mackeeper.com/blog/post/197-the-danger-of-apps-that-....
Sublime.

I've been using a combination of Sublime and Emacs for the last 6 years but decided to give Atom a try. Talk about a resource hog. It was noticeably decreasing my battery life and I'm not sure they will ever escape that given it is based on Chromium.
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WRT the East Coast and environmental disasters, fracking and shale development along major water channels in upstate NY and along the Delaware River Basin (among others) have been very hot topics locally. There is great fear that fracking in NY could destroy major water access for millions of people from NY to DC. The states, governors, authority coalitions, corporations, and activist groups have been doing heavy battle. It looks like for now, fracking has been prevented, but potential environmental disaster on the East Coast isn't as far fetched as you think.

https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2014/12/18/what-new...

But hey, don't think it's over.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/07/8572876...
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Why not walk up to Valencia? Though, I guess there you might get puked on...

I have to say though, the Mission has never felt as dangerous as the 'Loin did 15 years ago, when I used to wait for the 21 at Jones.

Eventually I moved to just take the 5 which was safer. I have to say, either I'm lucky or something, but I've not had any issues with crime in S.F. in the 16 years that I've lived here. Philadelphia for example has always felt much more dangerous at night.
A nicer to look at J Vocab has been published recently:

http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc

It's a fun language to use to do /r/dailyprogrammer puzzles.