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treesrule | 2 years ago | on: Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

So I think your observations can be broadly true and also that if you caught the people who are chronically homeless as they were falling out of being homed they would seem way less insane and their problems would be far more tractable

treesrule | 2 years ago | on: Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

There is some evidence that increasing minimum wage increases the prices of goods for minimum wage workers so that their rising wages don't actually give them more buying power, also we can just not make it illegal to build new housing in places where there is already housing but ymmv.

treesrule | 2 years ago | on: Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

Some states (montana Minnisota although the later is less likely to succeed imo) have started doing this at a state wide level, I think Cali has a particularly uphill battle since the housing situation is already bad and the headwind that we really will never be able to change: prop-13. (I think all the other things that are preventing new housing CEQA, SFZ poor public infrastructure can all be changed if we do it right but I don't see prop-13 ever changing even if we get these taken care of)

treesrule | 3 years ago | on: Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow

Other people have linked good articles, but a good way to think about it is in Japan and West Virginia they have almost no homelessness and in both those places its very easy to rent a studio for under 300$ a month. Even for someone addicted to drugs you can see how its possible to manage 300$ a month (or for say a charity or city organization to come up with the money) without solving the underlying issues.

treesrule | 3 years ago | on: Apple Rankings

You don't understand Nevermind wasn't actually all that good Bandwagonesque BY Teenage Fanclub was actually better and more instrumental into turning the early 90s into an audio experience.

treesrule | 3 years ago | on: Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community

I can track down the actualy post if you want I don't recall there being a specific announcment, but the logic goes something like this most people who use proxy are referring to fake magic cards printed to look like real ones and therefore talking about proxies how to make copies etc will lead to people cheating or stealing.

For what its worth i used the term proxy for a decade almost exclusively to mean a cheap paper copy of a magic card (or even just writing the word on a sheet of paper and sticking it in a sleeve over a land) and I find this restriction wrong-headed.

treesrule | 3 years ago | on: LaMDA is not sentient

This sentence translates to "lol u mad bro"

That is I think you are trying to defend someone indefensible position (a google engineer taking a kinda normal ai chatbot conversation and claiming that the AI is alive) by ignoring the core issue and focusing on instead an ansilary issue. I find the misdirection uncompelling. I obviously could be wrong here and you could genuinely be wondering why this person would be mad.

treesrule | 3 years ago | on: Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community

The magic the gathering subreddit has to moderate out the word "proxy" or risk getting banned. seems plausable like there are just a lot of speicfic rules you gotta follow to be a subreddit

treesrule | 4 years ago | on: Diving into BoardGameGeek

I don't know that I buy your narrative, but I'd sure like to see price vrs rating (while controlling for other thigns ofc)
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