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This is mostly a function of policies that explicitly allow and tolerate this sort of behavior as a sort of “pay back” and “release valve” for the poor, addicts or generally speaking under represented social classes.

As the wage gap and opportunity gap widens in the US, allowing shoplifting is actually an intentional release valve that is being tolerated and even outright legally permitted (California Prop 47), because - without it - we would see more home break-ins, kidnappings of wealthy people and more severe offenses. Instead, shoplifting is relatively harmless and prevents this type of escalation of crime.

“Panem et circenses” said the Romans, shoplifting is a form of “panem”. I think many don’t understand the incredible pressure pot that is the US at the moment with vast negative social pressures and inequality. If it explodes, all bets are off: the US could look a lot like South Africa and Brazil than what it is now.

This plus some political survivorship too: votes are all equal, and when most people are disadvantaged or about to become disadvantaged, politicians cater more and more to them (populism) in order to survive and dominate in the political arena.

And even there you can get access to options trading for quicker - and riskier - ways to make money using the traditional stock market. At least if you lose the money is not because somebody in the Bahamas decided it was time to retire earlier with your assets.

> because they're going to do a mock-landing over the ocean before attempting a real landing, so even if it goes perfectly all those are going into the salt water)

Are they going to pick them up or let them sink?

That payments are increasing is not good, but the US owns its debt in dollars, which gives a lot of flexibility in the long term to do all sorts of shenanigans since the US controls the dollar supply.

I used to be younger and I used to love being in the middle of the “local mess”. As I got older, I just need a relaxing place with a place that meets my expectations. I traveled across 40+ countries around the world and on every continent before I was 30. I have seen it all.

“Assimilating local culture” is always the same stuff: you meet happy people with nothing, happy people with something, and unhappy people with nothing, and unhappy people with something. Turns out that - besides food and the nuances of local politics - the whole world is the same mesh. There is not much else to see. I had better conversations in Michigan with immigrant Uber drivers in a 15 minutes ride than spending one week in their country.

For a while it was fun to “go with the flow”, ultimately after so many experiences I realized that it is not the place that made the experiences fun, but the mindset. By changing my mindset I had an equal amount of fun experiences in my hometown without having to travel hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Sure..I can say this now after traveling quite a bit, perhaps we can call it experience and wiseness.

The only thing that is truly memorable are the landscapes, and the things you see: temples, pyramids, you name it. But even then, I would say that sightseeing doesn’t really mean that there is any expansive mixing with the local population. It’s a sterile experience, so to speak.

Okay great, let’s build housing for addicts. What do you think happens next?

We are talking about people that get kicked out of shelters because they are dangerous and can’t act coherently.

Why is the solution everything else but the obvious: arrest drug dealers, outlaw drug use in open air drug scenes, offer real recovery and/or jail time for those that refuse.

These people are here for drugs: outlaw drugs (for real) and they will leave, and just like that, no more housing crisis.

Does this look like a housing problem to you? https://twitter.com/ericajsandberg/status/157377720286841651...

Zynga did this a few years ago.

> but the tenderloin wasn't some beautiful panacea 25 years ago either, nor the mission, nor the dog patch

The dogpatch was a waste land 10 years ago, it got redeveloped thanks to new money and the new tenants that were willing to pay $$ to live there.

The problem of San Francisco is not tech (which gives resources to the city, and which every other city would do anything to have) or the lack of artists.

The problem is San Francisco is the utterly incompetent leadership that fails their citizens at every level (supervisors, mayor, school board, DA, police, etc). Technology was an incredible opportunity for this town to become world class, and now they got nothing to show for it.

How about we refocus on the real problems that are affecting this town? The tenderloin doesn’t have to be this way, the Fidi was thriving up to 2018/2019. The alleged lack of artists is at the bottom of the pile.

A world class city like San Francisco can and should do more to guarantee that no kid steps on poop or needles. Take a step back please: this is a very low bar, and these are problems that every city in the world doesn’t have. So what’s wrong with this place? Why is San Francisco a poster child for disgraceful and incompetent leadership? Why can’t it remove poops from the street with a budget of billions of dollars. What is wrong with this town?

These are the problems that we should be focusing on.

I am frankly tired of hearing this non-sense. NYC is more expensive than SF and it is very much a vibrant place.

For a decade SF complained about tech and actively drove companies away, because they wanted “their culture” back.

Fine, then tech organizations left after covid (and their money left too), and now SF complains that tech organizations are not supporting the city anymore with their money and their employees, and you get entire areas of town (ie: Fidi) which are empty and small business are struggling. Who exactly do you think was supporting the outrageous spending and programs of San Francisco? Artists playing the piano in a bar, or hundreds of millions of dollar in taxes paid by tech and its employees?

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Now - finally - we get to see “SF culture” in full force without technology organizations and their employees: meth-addicted zombies with violent outbursts, tents everywhere, human poop and needles, salmonella outbreaks, go ahead and complete the list.

Nobody wants to live in a place like this: not the artists, not the families, and now not even tech workers. There are plenty of great cities to go to, why would anybody move to San Francisco and deal with these quality of life problems?

It’s inevitable that the advance of technology will both improve the world and potentially be a vector of potential misuse.

Ultimately, it has always been like that, since the dawn of civilization. The answer is not fighting technological advances, but regulating the use of technology from law enforcement (and the government, and bad actors) instead.

You are also running with an assumption that whatever investment they may have used the same funds for, would have netted a gain (or a lower loss). The opportunity cost argument is only valid if in the alternative investment you actually end up in a better spot, that's not a given.

This is a great lie, since homelessness is - often and especially in San Francisco - not the result of lack of a home, rather the result of mental illness and drug addiction. This is also reinforced by the great amount of non-native homeless people that travel cross-state to cities like San Francisco.

Give your typical SF homeless a home, and they will rip the sink out the next day to raise enough money for more drugs.

It is not always lack of housing. Sometimes it is, very often it is not.

I wish they did a 15” air.

Does anybody know if Russia produces any more chips in any meaningful capacity?

Are there any Russian investments in this space?

Humans used to exhaust their prey. Once the prey is exhausted - in the absence of better tools - pick a rock and hit the head of the animal until it dies.

There are videos of animals (like deers) so exhausted they just sit there while a lion eats them alive: they are not moving, they are not standing up, they are just sitting there watching another animal eating their guts alive. Just like that.

You can eat meat raw as long as it’s fresh (just killed), likewise we eat raw fish as long as it’s fresh. Carpaccio is raw meat, for example, and very popular too.

We were eating less meat - for sure - since cutting and digesting raw meat takes longer. But I guess we were also eating less of everything to begin with.

Ah, it seems like the crypto industry has borrowed the “too big to fail” book that also decentralized the losses to the taxpayer. Some things never change.

Sports cars like Ferrari 488 don’t have one. You press a button to go in reverse, and use the F1 paddle shift behind the steering wheel to go in drive mode (one push of the up gear lever) or neutral (simultaneous push of both levers).

Let me get this straight: the FDA is banning e-cigarettes but not actual cigarettes? What a bunch of clowns.

Probably a country with cold weather (free air conditioning) and cheap access to natural oil and gas reserves.

Buy a Ferrari if you want to race, buy a Lamborghini if you want to shop on Rodeo drive.

There is value in a global blockchain with the level of participation of crypto. And sure there are scams, there are scams in the real economy too.

Ponzi is not an acronym for “I don’t understand its value therefore it’s a Ponzi scheme”.

But it did, Instagram Stories immensely limited Snapchat’s growth with now limited upside. Imagine the scale of IG stories today, without it all these people would have used Snapchat instead.

Sometimes copying a feature doesn’t have to kill, it’s enough if it cripples another organization.

Brake checking is an exclusively American thing. I can’t recall anybody in Europe brake checking anybody in the 20 years I drove there, across all countries (Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, etc), people just get out of the left lane naturally, and who cares if somebody goes faster?

I will never understand this hostile tension in US roads.

> Fed Governor Christopher Waller says he's prepared to take rates past 'neutral' to fight inflation

Good cop, bad cop: "Bullard says U.S. Fed could cut rates in 2023, 2024 once inflation under control"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-busin...

This is one of those instances where everybody screams for a market crash and we may just not get it. Too many people are positioned to benefit from a crash right now, which is exactly why it's not going to happen.

> Luckily I've only witnessed 1 murder

Stockholm syndrome is real here.

It depends, an individual may be affected financially or emotionally.

I used to say what you just said, and then somebody replied to me that there is value in our time and life too, and sure they could be financially fine in 5-10-15 years but what if they had other plans in the short term? Now those life plans are disrupted. Eventually, will they be fine financially? Probably. Have they lost the one shot they had in their life to do something they really wanted? Without a doubt.

This comment right here is literally the truest.

Apple has a program that allows you to buy a new iPhone model and get some money back if you actually give them the old phone that you are replacing.

I was always under the assumption that apple actually recycles them because they want them in good condition, but maybe not? I also wonder if this is a program whose cost is factored in the final price of every iPhone (and therefore a cost that is distributed across the entire customer base), regardless if they are returning their old phones or not.

Fun speculation.

What if our reality (and universe) is on the same journey as the one you just described? What if the North Pole is our starting point (Big Bang), we walk southward and as soon as we cross the South Pole, everything reverts back into the Big Ben (you would eventually reach the North Pole again) just to start all over again. Like a piston, or a ballon that is being inflated, then deflated and re-inflated again; our reality is just "one stroke" (or "walk", in your metaphor) of a bigger "engine".

Somebody else commented about this: https://physicsworld.com/a/new-evidence-for-cyclic-universe-...