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SF spending on homelessness has actually created a homeless industrial complex that thrives off of the enhancement and continuation of the "community" they serve. The current solut…

It's more of a humorous situation to imagine, however with respect to the "oh it's normal comment". No industry with a very limited number of suppliers and with a huge lead time, c…

Haha, jokes on you: only the cultures of the world that think that or that have the values that cause that will eliminate themselves, to be survived by everybody else that didn't h…

Ah well, in reality the utilities try to raise the rates as much as they think they can get away with each year (they are limited only by what the respective state public utilities…

RPKI plus ASPA does solve the hijack problem by securing both the origin of a prefix and the AS path of a route. Yes ASPA is new. Reference implementations in open source routing d…

Health care professionals consult with their patients to explore their needs and suggest options regularly. This is expected and normal. The professionals making suggestions natura…

In a system of socialized medicine, is the goal of society to spend the money available to save the most people? Taking into account that people have the greatest medical costs nea…

Normally one might consider the political spectrum to go from the liberal stance of "It's all society's fault that you are how you are" to the conservative stance "It's all your fa…

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The parent's premise was "Why is it illegal to bribe an official to do their job?" The thought experiment is "What if it was legal to bribe city officials for matters involving the…

Ok, thought experiment. The people that inspect buildings can condemn them. How would you like a system to develop in the city that unless you bribe city officials they each year r…

Just a like the saying "Fish don't know they're in water", people within different groups have cultural assumptions, in this case: The idea of "Permissionless innovation" vs what I…

Ok, then do they need to be truthful about anything? How about giving themselves credit for extra clicks based on the value of the word? (With the defense they are doing it for you…

I live in the suburbs in SF Bay Area, and at night when I walk my dog, I never see cats roaming around. I see coyotes, foxes, skunks, and raccoons. My guess is if you don't kill th…

They typically do not want to disclose the full vulnerability details prior to you paying them. For the few that we have engaged in back and forth conversation, they typically were…

Real estate investors make a bet that the rents they receive will cover the mortgage payments. Markets are cyclical. The full reason why any particular system oscillates or is chao…

Consider the AI Sec Ops future in the EU where in the run up to an election a political operative makes all widely used AIs "forget" about the competition by submitting a flurry of…

Please paste your prompt here if it isn't huge or paste a link to a pastebin. The link you've provided shows nothing other than an article post.

Because people beating other people in your store looks bad and other customers don't like it. Ruins the ambiance.

Because the goal of a marketing manager is to extract more money from you not less, by creating an accepted practice of disabling functionality to optimize the money you are willin…

From the Wikipedia page: "The storm was not an unprecedented occurrence. Geologic evidence has been found that massive floods, of equal or greater magnitude to the 1861–1862 event,…

Large crowds in some kinds of shapes of open spaces randomly result in stampedes and people dying. All shapes of spaces are not subject to this. There are general designs that don'…

The term homeless in California is mostly a politically expedient mislabeling. Most of the homeless are drug addicts that are not able to maintain a job or pay for car insurance. T…

More people died in San Francisco during the COVID pandemic due to drug overdoses than COVID, and yet SF residents supported the COVID lockdown to deal with COVID. Nothing of the s…