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I often hear treatment promoted, but it's interesting that I rarely hear a topic right next to this come up in such discussions: a for-profit healthcare system that not-only leaves these people behind, but helps to put many of them there in the first place. I can't find anything in this thread about health insurance, universal access to healthcare, etc.

I have excellent health insurance by US standards (the most expensive plan offered by a big tech company in SF). I've been battling mental illness for the last two years (more like two decades, but getting treatment for two years after it became untenable), resulting in months of medical leave from work on the advice of multiple doctors. Even with "excellent" insurance, I'm approaching $50K out of pocket over the last two years. It was more than that before my insurance company decided to cover my illness and reimbursed some of what I had previously paid (after 18 months of me, my doctor, and HR fighting them). What if I wasn't lucky enough to have "excellent" health insurance and sufficient savings from years of high paying jobs? If I wasn't so lucky and ended up homeless, what chance would I have of recovering from my condition? I've avoided alcohol and drugs my entire life because I know I'm prone to addictive behavior - I'm guessing one cold night on the street would be all it would take for the first drink. It's scary to think about where it would go from there.

Healthcare for homeless people tends to be emergency rooms and under-resourced free clinics. Given my experience being treated for mental illness, I can't conceive of making any progress in free clinics or ERs. So why wouldn't I be a permanent resident of the streets?

I see talk here of homelessness being less of an issue in Europe and China... in my opinion, access to healthcare is a key difference. Treatment for homeless people is great, but how sane is a system that pushes people off a health/financial cliff before they can get such treatment? Financially feasible access to treatment long before we get there is crucial.
This is completely anecdotal, but contemporary accounts of the Haight Ashbury following the Summer of Love tell the story of a movement that started out on acid, moved on to speed, and became far more violent and filled with squalor because of it. Much like what is happening today.

“[1] Even among drug-using Haight-Ashbury subcultures, the high-dose methamphetamine abuser was marginalized, but became increasingly visible and unavoidable because of violence associated with dealing methamphetamine and because of the users' hyperactivity and paranoia.”

1.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.2011.58...
A friend of mine tried together with me to start something similar to what you're describing but for people. We started in the city Bern in Switzerland but added the idea to a wiki hoping someday other people will copy it in other places around the world! Unfortunately it is in German but maybe auto translate is enough?

Here's the wiki:
http://youcantalktome.net

And here's some pictures of stickers we printed out and handed out:
http://youcantalktome.net/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Vorlagen
Young people have something to prove, or differentiate themselves. See: hipsters.

White kids would also talk about how bad say, Chiles or Applebee's is, for the same reason.
There is no single ‘authentic’ version of a given dish, just infinite variety and shades of authenticity depending on what
you mean by that and your particular experiences.
Became friends with a number of homeless, bought them meals, gave them money, gave them clothing, heard their life stories in their own words, etc. There used to be a lot near where I used to live.
1. This is from 2009

2. I had to explicitly allow pop-ups when I clicked on this
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Yeah I’m not at all convinced this is the explanation. I just started at a company in Australia where their office isn’t even legally allowed to open yet and they have still seen a bunch of people leave.

My hot take is that it’s a few factors.

* pent up demand from last year with people not moving out of fear but now feeling certain of the future

* remote work opening up a larger selection of companies to work at.

* tech companies having record profits and all wanting to expand at the same time.

And I feel like #3 is the most important one. They all want mid-senior developers but every other company wants them too so they go in to a bidding war and their wallets are stuffed right now so the bids are huge.

This will probably continue until a new wave of developers reaches senior level but by then the market may have failed to predict tech companies growing at an even faster rate than they are now.
>>> One of Clojure's biggest weaknesses in practice is that breaking in to those functional structures to figure out where the time is being spent or to debug them is harder than in other languages. This is a natural trade-off of developing a terse and powerful language.

Not that hard if you use something like YourKit. There's also a quite good Clojure library https://github.com/hugoduncan/criterium .
Where Did 7M Workers Go?
I don't think this is our last pandemic. Really the modern globalized era is a vanishingly small slice of human history. Ancient societies were often wiped out by unexpected events. I would not bet that nothing unexpected will ever happen again. On the contrary, the relatively consistent climate that has sustained literally all of human civilization is changing at an unprecedented rate. I expect frequent major challenges to existing systems. I think COVID is actually a minor challenge in this space; the economic effect is only so large because of how poorly we were prepared.

I reject your constraints. Optimizing for minimum resource wastage and price is also optimizing for minimim reslience to the unexpected. If you want to experience this first hand try living paycheck-to-paycheck. I'd rather pay more and consume less while relying on more resilient systems; I think we need it now more than ever.
Why not PeerTube? It is gaining a lot more of momentum by interoperating with the rest of the fediverse.
oh, cool! I didn't realize that. Then yea, I am very impressed by esbuild's performance.
> Removing cars from roads does wonders and makes neighborhoods look much nicer.

Certainly not when you bury them under pillars for cars. Or is there any example where the area beneath the raised highway isn't the worst part of town? What you'd need to do is bury the cars. Side effect: less car traffic, because people tend to not really enjoy driving in tunnels. Unfortunately, it's very expensive and much of the underground space in cities is already spoken for.
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There is more than just "homeless shelters" when it comes to working with the homeless. Also, it is usually the job of counties (due to having the office of County Health) to spearhead handling the issues around homelessness. However, there are cities like Santa Cruz (the county seat, but the city government) that take it upon themselves to try and handle things without coordination at the county level.
> The problem would be if you hand a kid a gun, saying it's
> a toy gun and they aim and fire it towards their friends.

Why do toy guns exist at all? What do children learn other than to point weapons at each other and carelessly pull a trigger without consequence? I would understand a toy hunting rifle, but all that I've ever seen are toy assault rifles and pistols. My three children have never had a toy gun.

For context, I've served in infantry and have multiple firearms in the house.
Because i know how addicts think, i know that will never work. I used to get all ragey about the way they think and they constantly trying to get stuff through social tricks from whoever is around (usually are very bad at it), but i've gotten over it. The contingency is not a good plan. They crave what they want and it is the most important thing in the world, it gets like hardwired into the brain, but they are still people and they can still get over it or get somewhat normal. Cages don't help the psyche. Street doesn't help the psyche. It's like punishment and the negative reinforcement is not helpful. Housing gives a base and yes, there is gonna be plenty of abuse of the system by them. They will continue to try to get drugs and do them, etc. I am imagining there's tons of corruption and wasted money that goes on in the organizations that handle things right now, and that needs to be handled. But the bills being proposed by the Republicans in the state governments across the country have teeth on them that go too far, because it's all really centered around using policing and punishment to enforce something that can be helped with assistance.

The 'left' solution is gonna continue to annoy republicans, who don't want their country to be seen as having a huge poverty problem next to China who is researching it and actively alleviating it. But their fixes are gonna cause a lot of human suffering that is out of sight, out of mind. When Joe Biden was talking about the border patrol's mistreatment of Haitians, everything he said was really just about perception. He wants the effect of the enforcement, he just doesn't want it to be seen in the light of what it truly is. The homeless thing and the release of this propaganda book we are discussing is a coordinated effort to "solve" the problem. The people passing these bills don't research poverty and they don't have a real plan besides violence.
Google should be broken up into 5 parts: Search/Adwords/Mail/Drive, Android, Chrome, Maps & GCP.
Few pictures = no go for me. I want to see what the dish is supposed to look like before I start

https://cookpad.com is a pretty good site for recipes. Unfortunately it's mostly only popular in Japan. IIRC, they want you to pay if you want to be able to sort results by rating
True. But let's also note that being CEO of a company in the industry doesn't automatically make you right, nor does it mean that when you speak to a reporter or send out a tweet thread like this you don't have some sort of agenda. There's almost always an agenda. Maybe that agenda is honest and in line with public interest, maybe it isn't. And twitter is less reliable than a news story, because usually reporters seek more than one source and try to verify what they can, how they can. They're by no means perfect, but this dude can write whatever he wants.

I suspect that this measure just delays the inevitable. I'm also wondering why the limit of 2-high stacks exists (I'm guessing safety related in event of an earthquake?)

He has a lot of ideas in his other tweet thread, but I noticed that in his long list of ideas nowhere to be found was "offer better pay and working conditions for truckers."

The core issue is not too many containers. It's not enough truckers picking up the new containers, so there's no room for the old ones. And because the ships can't be unloaded, nobody can take the containers back to other ports.

It doesn't help that the full-in-union longshoremen (not the part-timer union guys) get way, way over $100k a year, some of them making $300k...and with zero requirements to meet any sort of metrics. They shouldn't be incentivized to where safety is compromised, but surely there is a balance. Right now they have zero incentive to do anything about the problem. The port sits doing nothing...and they sit too, getting paid.
The worst part is that some workers are being completely left behind and the divide grows greater. Tech jobs have kept up and exploded over inflation rates while retail and gig economy jobs are now paying unliveable rates.

IMO there _needs_ to be a complete recalculation of costs of living for the current year and an adjustment of minimum wages to reflect this.
No ads should be separate from everything imo. Drive and mail can each make money on their own.

Search and AdWords are too tied however.
I’ve seen businesses use them for stationary storage. I’ve assumed they use discarded containers that can no longer take the stress of freight.
But yeah in general you’re right.
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The human readability has to do with developer tooling and ability to work that format. Abstractions are all optimized towards developer productivity the costliest part not compute cycles.
> If we can ever hold police to the same standards as every other citizen then we won't need to try to evade police detection. Pretty sad that police are so dishonest on a regular basis.

Police should be held to a higher standard than citizens, and punished more harshly for transgressions.
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I've become more convinced that VSCode doesn't implement certain features to not compete with VS. For example, support for File Nesting.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/6328

For a while there wasn't really another way to run SQL projects outside of VS. Data Studio recently got support for that though.
If they know how that btn click solves the problem, then that's fine. But if they are an engineer and they don't know what the btn does, then they aren't really an engineer in that sense. While that btn click may help them solve that problem, knowing how that works is important to motivate solutions for other problems that are analogous to it which is the job of an engineer.

If they're an enduser, btn click is exactly what they should use. If they are an engineer, and clicking btns is all they know, then they are going to be a very limited engineer. This too is fine and there is a place for that. But, if such an engineer starts to think that they are a great engineer because they solve all the problems quickly whenever there are btns, they are going to be a liability for teams when there aren't any btns to click. Because they are going to be too arrogant to listen to those who might know how to solve them which aren't necessarily btn clicks (because to them all solutions must be btn clicks). You see, it's more than a matter of principle. It's about the calibre of the engineer you want to produce.
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Though it gets much longer to implement all of the special forms present in CL, some of which are going to be tougher than others (e.g. TAGBODY).
Okay, but fancy collapsible containers does nothing to solve the problem with all the containers piling up right now. That's a longer term solution at best.
Not working in tech but this seems to make a lot of sense. If you had a socially fulfilling job pre-covid then maybe you're wage didn't matter so much because being in tech it's probably pretty good. But being stuck at home it's hard to optimize for anything else than your salary when you're considering your employment. So if you're gonna sit and stare at a screen you might as well get as much money as possible.
Windows would indicate otherwise.
VS is my daily driver and I absolutely agree that VS Code doesn’t come anywhere close to a fully fledged IDE like VS.

But VS Code is far more just a text editor and that you can run and debug many languages in it in my opinion means it meets the criteria of an IDE.

If I was forced to switch from VS to VS Code I would be miserable and feel handicapped, but infinitely more productive than just having a text editor and the dotnet CLI.

So VS Code is absolutely a “replacement” for VS, but only for a poor man with a very limited set of required features.

All the above being said, I don’t ever see VS Code truly replacing VS, but it’s a competent IDE considering its both cross platform and free as in beer.
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All I got to say is go to hell everyone!

Anything involving multiple humans is trash, humans are garbage.
From my experience mentoring at FAANG is hit and miss. You may get a mentor assigned, yes. The thing is that this person is probably just an engineer who also needs to do their daily job. While mentoring you is a part of their daily job, it competes with tasks that are well defined and affect their evaluation. Fixing bugs is measurable and visible. Mentoring isn't, beyond showing up and sharing some information.

So yes, being proactive about finding a mentor is a spot on advice.
There's a huge difference between styrofoam litter and used needles in terms of health hazard.
The Aussies want the same agreement as the US has. Soldiers can get away with murder and rape under this agreement.

Aussie soldiers have a history of war crimes as well. There is even video of them executing an unarmed Afghani boy that was tweeted by the Chinese government.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54996581
I still remember the days when people were posting on Slashdot that software engineering has no future in the US because it's all moving to India. As we know, that turned out not to be the case. Tech companies have been willing to pay literally 10x for engineers to work from their US headquarters. Now folks are again claiming that the era of remote work is upon us. Maybe that's true. But be careful what you wish for.
That's a choice dense cities have to make. Is the city primarily a place where outsiders come to do business, or is it a place where its residents live? If the latter, then you don't want to make coming by car too easy, or you get too much traffic that makes the quality of life worse.

Park & Ride is something that rarely makes economic sense. If you have a location with good public transport connections to the city, you probably want to build housing there. Alternate uses of the land – and parking in particular – are less valuable. Because people don't want to pay the market price for the land for parking, Park & Ride only works with heavy subsidies. The subsidies are usually implicit and implemented via zoning regulations, because taxpayers would revolt instantly against explicit subsidies.
The good old times when you could execute an antivirus from a website and it would scan all files of your local disk. Thanks to ActiveX.

Windows Update itself was a browser app. You could upgrade from the browser.

If we had known better, we would have made people upgrade from Windows to Linux this way, and Microsoft would have closed the giant hole faster.
There are other 'monopolistic entities' who don't give their employees a cushy life.
>"Thirty years ago, there was no sushi in the U.K. or the U.S. Then someone introduced it: It was strange, it was wild—oh my God, it's raw fish with vinegary rice and horseradish—give me a break, why would I want to eat that? But people persevered and now there is sushi in every major city in the world. And it's popular too. What if I said sushi was a fraud, that it was never a traditional cuisine in Japan, and this guy called Mr. Sushi invented it? So instead of it being an authentic regional cuisine, no we lied to you, it is an invention. Would that make a difference or not? If it is really delicious, does it matter and should I care if it comes from Japan or California or even if it has no regional origin?"

I think Nathan Myhrvold’s takes on the “authenticity” of food are nice.
Those dramas are a lot better than this. If I am being locked-in to a system, I'd much rather it was one of those than this Oracle wannabe.
Interesting, I've never seen any behavior like that on imgur. They're usually my go-to host for temporary images. Sorry for the inadvertent gaslighting, but now you really get my point...
You mean Google Ads - and no they don't have to be too tied together. What is so special about Google Search that Google Ads has to be owned by the same entity? I have websites with ads on them and I don't own the ad network either like 99.99999% of every other publisher out there
You mean printing money is bad? But that is not in general what causes inflation. Inflation in itself can not be considered a tax.
> Hoover … committed to passivity

That’s a legend that is in fact not true. He actually laid the ground for most of Roosevelt‘s „New Deal“ policies. These policies were likely ill-conceived and turned a bad recession into decade long depression.

https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-herbert-hoover...

https://mises.org/library/great-depression
Why is there a GitHub iframe fully embedded in this page?
I was an early customer of Flexport and got to talk to him on a number of occasions. I felt the same way about him. Total beast.
You characterize it as a publicity stunt which is a dismissive way to put it, and then go on to say since in your opinion it was a publicity stunt none of what he says really matters. Not sure I agree with that.
>that was claimed. It's been thoroughly disputed.

And you will always find news articles telling you not to believe your lying eyes. Sadly most Americans have grown a default assumption that the media is lying to you, which at least in this case is true. Reading the first hand emails gives a very different impression.

"The scope of work should also include organization of a visit of widely recognized and influential current and/or former US policy-makers to Ukraine in November aiming to conduct meetings with and bring positive signal/message and support on Nikolay’s issue to the Ukrainian top officials above with the ultimate purpose to close down for any cases/pursuits against Nikolay [Burisma founder] in Ukraine."

https://thenewamerican.com/assets/sites/2/251024_1.jpg

It's very difficult to read that email and not come to the conclusion that Hunter was being paid to ask his dad to shut down the investigation into Burisma. Especially since later emails indicate that Joe Biden ultimately did meet with Burisma execs.

>but if your concern does not cross party lines then it's no concern of mine.

Make no mistakes I would love to see any elected official that engages in corruption -- Republican or Democrat -- dragged to prison.

While there are a large number of who are just using this to play political gotcha, it is going too far to accuse anyone concerned about this scandal.
To play devil's advocate, I'm staying where I am. I think long term I'm better off here. Why?

- I just got a promotion from associate systems engineer to systems engineer. There was an associated raise :)
- My boss is great. Can't remember names to save his life, but he's great at managing people.
- My work life balance is exactly where I want it. We could be going back into offices, but there's no pressure here. I can skip the commute whenever I want to and put that time into going to see friends.
- My employer's good about lateral movement within the company, and I want to be a full on software engineer. I got here from my once a week bike repair job with them and a tech support gig elsewhere. This is so doable.

I definitely make less money than I could elsewhere. But I've got good benefits. I've got good people around me. I have the flexibility to have the social life I want. I like what my company does. I like what they're trying to do. If it's up to me, I'll be around a decent while longer in two or three more positions :)

The only things that've changed from covid are:
- I work from home most of the time
- I have more work in my backlog to automate away the jobs that were cut at the start of covid (I work for a retailer. There were some spectacularly enormous losses for a few months there)
I've seen lots of comments recently in response to the Google & Facebook advertising issues suggesting that Google should be split into X, Y, and Z.

Most of the proposed splits seem like they would do absolutely nothing to address the issue at hand, though. The problem in digital advertising seems to be that Google controls the marketplace, as well as both the buy & sell sides. Even a "breaking apart" that proposes splitting "search" from "advertising" would do nothing to address the issues that are getting raised at present.

I'm not an advertising expert, but these issues seem pertain to the buy-side, sell-side, and marketplace associated with digital advertising. Any company that still controls all 3 of those will retain the existing problem.