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Completely agree, every time this kind of articles make it to the front page I feel like there are many accounts spreading FUD here. A lot of issues in the US are blamed on mental illness
You complain about these articles providing little to no statistics, but then you jump to personal anecdotes with no statistics, and for good measure let’s add some anti immigration sentiment as well which is also not backed by any numbers
I am living this life. I work in "UX" (read: turn this PSD into a web interface), thankfully in the engineering side more than the design side. I'm being paid way too much. I'm trying to get out of here because I realize this is a job where people are desperately trying to find problems to solve. Nothing is fulfilling about making a prototype of a context menu and watching researchers ask laypersons what their reaction is to it (yes this is real).
I thought I recognized the name:

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/books/

I read his book Genome years ago and thought it was a moderately interesting primer on the revolution in genetic research starting to unfold in the wake of the Human Genome Project.

I'm sorry to discover Viscount Ridley turned out to be such a hack:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?mem...
“Sage advice”? Wow. Get off your pedestal.
This is not a housing crisis, there is enough houses built in California. This is an overpopulation crisis : Simply too many people searching for a house. Don't take the problem the reverse way.
I've gone through some criticize vaccines sides; they main serious claim is, that there is no proper placebo, randomized, with accurate statistical power study, which compare fully vaccinated children, according to, let's say, American calendar to unvaccinated (at all). Is that true, I think there, certainly, must be some records, even meta analysis perhaps?
It might have reclassified those thefts from felonies to misdemeanors.

https://www.courts.ca.gov/prop47.htm

Idk if it’s the news or what but California seems to be turning into a bureaucratic nightmare. I don’t think more housing (OP) solves much of the issues that California has either.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/12/31/dont-call-xi-bun-chine...

And interestly, WeChat claims they don't store user messages, but Chinese police apparently has it. Any app, website or forum on which users can post comments must verify ID-linked phone numbers first.
There is so much doublespeak here. If it is less stable than required for airworthiness then it is not airworthy. Can we agree on that?
Everything I've read about our tribal ancestors would lead me to believe that they probably had a much higher sense of solidarity that we have now.

Also you sound like a psychopath. If anyone doesn't belong in society it's people like you.
The last available vacancy rate in Sacramento was 2.9%, the lowest ever reported. They don’t have “lots of supply”.
> it's that long-trusted political institutions are falling apart

This isn't the first time that's happened, you know. And the institutions that replace them will also fall apart and be replaced. And those as well.

You should stop worrying about governing body A or B and start hoping that the next group who seizes power respects inalienable rights as much as the ones who created your current situation.
Oh yes we are. My uncle died there this summer, unemployed and homeless. He had been a firefighter while serving a stint in prison but of course when you get out you can't do that kind of work because California doesn't let criminals fight fires except when they're in prison. And pretty much nobody else wants to hire ex-cons either, so when you combine that with poor coping skills, survival of the fittest left him homeless and dead on the streets.
I suspect a lot of people here own housing in the bay and are trying to spread FUD and blame current issues on mental health.
homeless encampments are not shelter with an admission policy
China has to be on track for a revolution. Not today, not this year, probably not even this decade. But the human spirit cannot abide this level of oppression forever without recourse.
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I live in SF and there is def. a lack of housing.
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Your question is fundamentally in bad faith, and it’s like asking, “What can individuals do to stay safe on roads without forcing others to abide by driving laws?”

Individuals can’t, by and large, make the minds of changes necessary to avert the oncoming climate disaster.

A big part of the issue is that individual incentives are misaligned, which is exactly where government is supposed to step in: realign incentives such that the individually optimal choice is compatible with averting global catastrophe. Expecting billions of individuals to act against their own individual self-interest is lunacy.
It was Prop 47, not 57. Classifies theft of up to $950 as Petty Theft.

https://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-ff-pol-proposit...

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_P...
> And, we have imported tens of millions of unskilled, mostly unauthorized immigrants who are happy to take those jobs - another thing you won’t hear discussed in these articles.

I'm not sure that's relevant. Based on your anecdote, the people in question in tent camps wouldn't be taking the jobs regardless of the immigration situation.
My future plan was to cache responses on disk and just keep cached keys in memory:

https://github.com/dosyago/22120#future
Civil unrest. Protests that devolve into riots.

Ever seen the painting "Bastille Day"? There are always options when the powerful fail the powerless. Large amounts of modern society were put in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening, but if the leadership is intent on making those protections ineffective, well, there's always guillotines again.
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That sounds like it makes perfect sense. They're all interrelated.
What technologies do you recommend for getting a game going as quickly as possible?

There’s so much to do, art, sounds, music.
Depends. I've heard that Heroku's backend container networking stack was a total mess (not sure if it still is). However they seem to have done well despite that because they had good docs, good marketing, a good UX in the form of DevEx.
If there are enough houses how is it "overpopulation". It's clearly a failing of the housing market. It's not able to efficiently allocate houses to people that need them, it's designed to allocate houses only to people who can maximize profit for land owners.
The number of homeless is increasing, but so is the number of humans in general.
> Compare the lifestyle of a subsistence farmer with that of a wealthy city-dweller in a developed country. More land is required to grow the city dweller's food

Maybe I'm misreading this - but is the productivity of Subsistence farming so much better than that of more industrial farming methods, and if so why would we not just switch all farms to using same methods that Subsistence farmers do?
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What use is a guillotine against a hydra?
For versioning numeric data complications include:

- changing dimensions
- handling changing types e.g. A column of strings becoming a compound of floats
- efficiently handling appends
- efficiently handling corrections of previous data
- how to cleanup, remove old versions

The version store storage engine in Arctic provides fast and efficient versioning for numeric data. The code is quite readable so it might be worth having a look at its implementation too.

https://github.com/man-group/arctic/blob/master/README.md
> rather than because they understand what is coming and are fine with it.

Sorry if it wasn't clear, i do believe people know the consequences of surveillance and are OK with it. An Authoritarian state does not let its citizens know they are living in an authoritarian state. It oppresses or annihilates minorities to create a golden cage for the rest. Thankfully, liberal democracies are free enough so audiences in the west are informed of the consequences of surveilance (humiliating border controls, incarceration, police brutality), and they are largely OK with it. I don't see evidence to the contrary.

> How is that a response to authoritarianism not being compatible with democracy?

Authoritarianism has gradations and is not incompatible with democracy. Democracy may protect from extreme authoritarianism but it doesn't guarantee liberalism.
Vote.

Oh, that's right, that's "forcing anything into others." So, I guess...learn to swim?
My personal opinion is this is difficult to do correctly and ergonomically in SQL. One has to be clear on segregating the metamodel (the machinery that supports as-of timekeeping) from the model (the actual data). What one winds up wanting is a different sublanguage, an additional as-of syntax on a per table basis, which kind of suggests that is not really the right solution domain.

They are not SQL but Datomic[1] and Crux[2] are first class bitemporal databases, look there for design guidelines and commentary.

1. https://datomic.com/

2. https://opencrux.com/
Those titles are not damning at all. You can’t think of a single way that hunting and shooting wildlife helps wildlife? Of course he’s not referring to the actual animals shot and killed but the population of wildlife holistically.
Who gets to decide how many people is too many?
> without forcing anything into others

You are not an island. Neither am I. If we only act in our own individual best interests, we denigrate society as a whole. We are social animals. We do our best work and are at our most capable when we work together.

Individualism is fine enough for small communities. On the world stage, we need to get past our petty bullshit if we want to continue living the way we do on this planet. And the worst part is failure to do so will not affect those who failed, but their children, and their grandchildren.

I don't think humanity will die off. We're too clever for that. But our world will look quite different in many ways in a few hundred years, and good luck explaining to our children that, well, Amazon Prime was just too good to let go of.

A metaphor: You and your fellow fishermen live in a bog. The bog's water level is kept just so to allow for optimum fishing, and this is accomplished with a dam that was installed many years ago by your ancestors. However, one year the fishing isn't great, and you and your fellow fishermen are now working extra long days to make up for the bad fishing, and to keep your output strong and your family fed. One of the villagers explains that the dam is leaking; it's causing the water to rise, which is messing with the fishing and also threatening the village at large.

Your individual interest is to keep fishing, because you're already having trouble meeting your goals for fish to sell. Now more than ever. You might say something like "I can't help fix the dam, I'm barely making ends meet as it is! I don't have time!" And your fellow fishermen will say the same. But the fishermen are the only ones who know how to patch leaks in boats, so no one else in the village can do the work.

In this example, your individual needs are legitimate, and your objection to fixing the dam is correct; if you take time to fix the dam instead of fish, your family will go hungry. However, if no one fixes the damn, then everyone's home could be flooded, the fishing will continue to get worse, until the entire village is destroyed.

This would be where some kind of authority would come into play, either a tribal leader, or some elected official, who could step in and say "No fishermen. Today you will fix the dam, and in return, we will feed your families while you do so with the village food stocks." It's directly opposed to their individual interests, but is in alignment with the group's interests. And nobody goes hungry.

This incredibly simple stuff is what has made mankind the dominant species on the planet. The ability to not just group together, but to perceive and understand larger threats to that group and react accordingly with proactive solutions, and is the lack of that activity, because, as Greta Thunberg best put it I think, the leaders are too busy telling each other fairy tales of infinite economic growth, that we are now in trouble.
> Existential means existence, yet not a single scientist believes global warming threatens human existence.

If you're going to argue this pedantically, perhaps don't start by claiming you know the opinions of every scientist, because if we're being pedantic, that's obviously not true.

Less pedantically, I think we agree that probably humans will survive global warming. But I think that we can agree that there's a temperature that's not survivable, even if we don't know what temperature that is. There's no long-term upper bound on how hot earth can get, and we're modeling uncharted territory: earth has never been as hot as it's going to get, while life has been on earth. So we really don't know how bad it will get. There is some chance that global warming will literally wipe out humanity, and given the stakes, I think that's a significant risk we need to be addressing.
Best to use a database with native bi-temporal support, a query planner can get very confused about tables with bi-temporal columns and few constraints, to the extent that it always fails to push the temporal conditions up through the joins resulting in massive unnecessary materialization.

Also - start thinking about archiving now - n lg n is fast at the start - two years later, not so much.

Good luck
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_P...

>The initiative reduced the classification of most nonviolent property and drug crimes—including theft and fraud for amounts up to $950—from a felony to a misdemeanor.

Then read this to see the real world consequences:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/steal...

Now you can just walk around stealing packages with virtually no consequences. SFPD all but refuses to cite for theft now.
> I barely receive any out of the blue marketing calls or texts anymore

That's strange, as anti-spam legislation is completely separate from GDPR and has been in place for much longer. The only connection I see is that data brokers got a harder time selling your data to these third parties that would call or text you, but what those third parties were doing was already illegal and still is for the same reason (so not because of GDPR).

In the Netherlands it hasn't been legal to cold call someone that opted out of cold calls (using a national register of phone numbers that don't want to be called) since 2009. Any marketing call you do receive has to offer enrolling you on this list to prevent future calls.

For email, again speaking of Dutch laws, companies are not allowed to send you unsolicited, promotional messages. Not sure as of which year this is, but it has been the case for as long as I remember.

I assume most EU countries have similar constructions (I'm not sure if our laws are based on a EU directive).
IMO at least some of the problem is the historical laxness with which California has approached drugs. You have decades and decades of drug use being de facto legal to the point where now you will not be arrested for shooting heroin in front of a police officer. You could tax all the billionaires out of the state and they still not afford the rehab expense for all of the addicts in California. How many chances do you get at success? Why not just start taking heroin so you get a free stay indoors, with free food at a rehab resort?
Houses are not too expensive, there is just too many people searching for a house.
Who decides how much water can fit in a glass?
Thank you. This will help me a lot in gaining market share for my product.
I believe Hercules solved this one by cutting all the heads off at the same time. So, in theory, you just need one guillotine per head.
So what are you suggesting? We have the government create a lot of unproductive “make work” jobs for these people? Kick out those who want to work hard and escape poverty, but were unlucky to be born in a different country?
I’m tired of this argument frankly, stop blaming these issues on mental illness.
60 years after the manual was printed? Kodak's contributions to optics and many related fields were massive...
That is SUMO Ontology (http://ontologyportal.org)! It is open, in GitHub and people can contribute.
This is a very good proposition. It should be obvious that we don't have any high-level intuition on how to use computer interfaces - how could we have evolved one?

Besides it frees "intuitive" for some low level meanings that badly need a name. For example, the mapping between the 2D position of the mouse and the 2D position of the cursor is actually intuitive. If we moved the mouse left, but the cursor moved in circles, it would fail our natural expectations.

Too bad this already lost.
“All humans are going to die because the temperature gets too hot for our biology” is fallacious. Do you think we’ll gain 30C and Siberia will become unlivable? Does everyone die when the summer temperature is 30C higher than winter? We are literally planning Martian colonies, do you think we can’t figure out how to survive on Earth?

The issue is the effects of moderate temperature increases, rising sea levels, changing farming, etc. so it’s a mass disruption to our civilization (migration, resource wars, etc.) Not that we’ll literally be too hot and can’t somehow survive that as a species.

Humans live in Australian Outback and Alaska. We are adaptable, but the growing pains are not pleasant, hence the problem to civilization.
There are places that run their entire waste stream through a recovery plant:

http://waste-technology.co.uk/what-is-a-dirty-mrf-and-why-th...

A substantial portion of the waste stream is just organic material (which is worth very little).
Fête de Famille
I’ve not been to a single shelter (Midwest US) where drug use and mental illness weren’t rampant. This in spite of policies attempting to keep a safe and drug-free environment.
Your claim is so incorrect as to border on slander. MRAs are mostly men who have been victims of institutional sexism: victims of domestic violence or sexual assault ignored by every institution meant to help such victims, or presumed guilty after false allegations, or discriminated against in custody disputes, or forced to pay child support for children that aren't theirs or after being raped, or other events like those.

Watch The Red Pill if you're interested in learning something real. And if it helps you overcome your biases, you should know that it was made by a feminist woman who also regarded MRAs as the enemy, until she heard their stories.
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I am considering a subscription model. Also the software I want to sell is a database. Thanks for the reply.
Little Rock is doing this.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/little-rock-homeless-pic...
> this Spectator article somehow managed to avoid even alluding to carbon.

It was alluded to in this section (ctrl-f "emissions"):

>> A wind farm requires far more concrete and steel than an equivalent system based on gas. Environmental opposition to nuclear power has hindered the generating system that needs the least land, least fuel and least steel or concrete per megawatt. Burning wood instead of coal in power stations means the exploitation of more land, the eviction of more woodpeckers — and even higher emissions.
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I'm saying that because we have so much unskilled labor supply in the country, businesses can make those jobs horrible if it improves their bottom line - that's just the nature of supply and demand.
My friend, the stroke victim, has significant difficulty several months following his stroke; he is improving but progress is glacially slow. He has some control and movement on his left side--for example, he can move his arm. He has no movement (but recently some sensations) on his right side and right arm.

He can speak and converse but he's not as quick as he was before the stroke. He no longer needs to search for his words and he is able to talk about the issues of the day. In the beginning, he struggled to formulate sentences; not so much now. He does speak with a low volume and may slur some words because he still does not have full control of his facial muscles. He has some paralysis in his face (left side).

He has limited head and neck movement. He has control of movement in his lower legs and feet but not his body proper. I do not know the extent of is paralysis but he has no obvious mobility. When seated for a long period of time he complains of pain in his buttocks.

This all is from personal observation; I am not privy to his medical reports.
Based on past data, our current homelessness programs are working for people without mental or drug abuse issues. 80% of the homeless tend to recover within several months, while only about 20% are chronically homeless.

IMO the current homeless problem stems from the shutdown of old mental institutions by the Kennedy’s. There were good reasons for their crusade, such as problems with abuse and neglect. The issue is that no solution or alternative was given for shutting down the asylums which leads us to our current predicament
Create affordable housing. Universal healthcare. Basic income. Perhaps universal higher education. Actually collect taxes from the very very large companies (Apple Amazon, etc).
C has the `restrict` keyword now that allows automatic vectorization without dorking up your code too much.
Free article limit? Anyone can get around these limits. For example by blocking certain types of javascript--with something like the advanced mode of Ublock Origin.

As for my situation I live in a town of 300 people--with a bank branch but no ATMs anywhere.
Housing is so expensive that you'd have to pay ~$50k/year even for those jobs. That's the big problem: anything you do on the demand side, like paying people higher wages, or giving them housing vouchers, goes directly into the landlords' pockets.
Understandable for sure. I'm not a nimby but I don't see how blindly building housing in certain areas will ever lead to a stopping of public heroin injection and meth smoking.

The housing cost link seems flimsy on its best day. "these people smoke crack on the streets. Housing costs are high. They must need a low income condo, then they'll stop smoking crack outside my balcony."

Fund mental health and public health care if you want to stop the aggro homeless buildup. Don't build more studio apartments.
Strokes often result in difficulties with visual focus and tracking, which would make it difficult to read long documents. Visual therapy is a branch of optometry that seeks to address these types of challenges through what is essentially physical therapy for the eyes.

There is also software that can help with visual tracking when reading, including the tools developed by my startup. [1] We were actually unaware of the benefits our tools would have for stroke survivors until we heard from them.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com
> [...] let’s add some anti immigration sentiment [...]

They didn’t say that. They said “unauthorized immigrants”. Most people aren’t anti-immigration, but rather against unauthorized immigration.
"More land is required to grow the city dweller's food, more materials are used to build the city dweller's home and workplace, more energy is required for transport, heating and cooling."

Presumably, American city dwellers waste more food than subsistence farmers, but that factor is dwarfed by such measures as CO2 production. As the article describes.