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by allana 7y ago
We do steam clean the streets in Downtown Seattle (and have been doing that for decades), its part of why Seattle is so much cleaner than other cities. Our new Park Ambassadors are here to help make the parks more inviting to be in: https:
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by allana 7y ago
Downvoting (from what I gather) is supposed to be used not as a disagree button, but rather as a tool when a comment doesn't add value to a conversation, hence why downvotes are so restricted on HN.
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by allana 7y ago
The timing is just so interesting though! Two of my comments saw 3 downvotes in the span of a minute, the latter of which was much further down than this comment.
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by allana 7y ago
The severe wealth stratification that has occurred over the last few decades has left the majority of Americans facing a grim future of low earnings and unstable employment. Its easy to see how that would make many people depressed and lead
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by allana 7y ago
Arizona's attempt at this worked poorly: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/aug/21/arizona-phoen...
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by allana 7y ago
We have real issues in Seattle, but having frank conversations about it has been quite troublesome, too many people want to talk about feels rather than facts, leading to local satire like this: http://theneedling.com/2019&#
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by allana 7y ago
Microsoft advocated for a tax on very large companies to fund social services to break the cycle of poverty leading to lack of opportunity for our youth: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2019/07/2
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by allana 7y ago
Taking a picture of a tent is not doxing. They could've even used the tent platform in the playground at gasworks with their own tent but they could not be bothered to lift a finger :c
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by allana 7y ago
Its significantly safer than San Diego & Irvine IMO, both of which still criminalize homelessness and have had Hepatitis outbreaks due to these ineffective policies. Google, Apple, Expedia and Facebook are each building and hiring thous
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by allana 7y ago
They produce some great articles :3
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by allana 7y ago
Please cite how Seattle's policy of not locking people up to rot in prison is extremist. You had a viable argument right up until that point! Edit: Thanks for the bot downvotes! Going from +2 to -1 in the span of a minute on two separa
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by allana 7y ago
They don't have statistics to back their position, this attitude of not working from the data we have is such an issue that it has become local satire in Seattle: http://theneedling.com/2019/02/05/magnoli
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by allana 7y ago
We don't have sufficent funding of social services to provide navigation teams and counselors to all of the visibly homeless (those you see on the street), never mind the thousands living in their cars in Seattle (the invisible homeles
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by allana 7y ago
Washington State is one of the heaviest users of legal marijuana: https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/sewage-t... I doubt we will ever reach Portugal's low levels of use, but people can lead h
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by allana 7y ago
As much as the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the local Sinclair affiliates might scream that Seattle is wrecked, people and businesses are still moving here, our economy is growing, and massive redevelopment is occuring. One other place t
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by allana 7y ago
Perhaps the addressable market on their own was too small (or so the team at SignalFx felt), thus now is a good time to sell. Splunk already has Enterprise and B2B sales down cold, adding a supporting product is an easy in-sell.
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by allana 7y ago
How does output compare to Mozilla TTS or Google's new customizable TTS: https://sample-efficient-adaptive-tts.github.io/demo/ The latter requires a few minutes of audio to tune it to clone a voice.
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by allana 7y ago
Better yet, an RFID tag or BTLE beacon can be embedded cheaply. Some pallets already have these types of chips embedded, and it has ensured these pallets are returned in most cases (and prevented pallet resale).
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by allana 7y ago
Sounds like the perfect place for a bribe transparency website to name and shame officals that take bribes.
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by allana 7y ago
This title is disingenuous, the part open sourced is a client for the Google Speech API, not the actual speech engine (eg: the interesting bits that Mozilla is trying to build with Mozilla Deepspeech).
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by allana 7y ago
Time and resources to make and support babies is a big constraint. Most parents want to provide a standard of living to their kids that is better than what they grew up in, which costs significantly more to provide. Kids didn't always
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by allana 7y ago
>I use Signal with one friend, and just about every time I launch the damn app on my phone or desktop, it complains that I need an update, or I need to re-link something If you regularly need to relink Signal Desktop, it is likely your d
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by allana 7y ago
They suspsended the rider's account, the very least they could do is suspend the driver's account till the matter is resolved (Seattle Police Dept lists cases online FYI). Without suspensions, your letting two people who have been
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by allana 7y ago
Yeah, OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace have taken many of the flaky people off Craigslist, improving CL's reliability.
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by allana 7y ago
Note: The south end of the bridge the Uber driver sped across is the most ticketed intersection in Seattle. I had a very similar experience on OfferUp, where a person threatened to kill me via OfferUp Messages after I wouldn't meet him
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by allana 7y ago
Who knows? The messenger has manufacured false documents in the past, which was OP's point.
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by allana 7y ago
Manual mode is available on many Android phones: https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-take-photo-manual-mo...
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by allana 7y ago
Google and other large tech companies feel they are omnipotent and beyond the reach of law. This is damaging our society as these companies act anti-competitively, or worse yet attempt to undermine our economy with alpha quality software li
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by allana 7y ago
CSS and jQuery could be usable for OOP, but I'd hardly call it common to do OOP CSS. Perhaps the HR dept is mashing things they want together...
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by allana 7y ago
Radio silence seems to be thr MO of most businesses here in Seattle when you apply. Getting anything back can be the equivalent of pulling teeth, it seems the current corporate culture at many businesses is to not tell the applicant the sta

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