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> Studies have shown this to be true.

Please cite them.

Literally no one has become schizophrenic because they lost their apartment.

People become homeless because of their schizophrenia. Many such cases.

Use the tragic story of HN's very own Terry Davis as an example. Terry lost his home, and ultimately his life, because of untreated mental illness.

Turning this into a discussion about "affordable housing" is missing the point altogether.

Most of these people have debilitating mental illnesses and/or drug addictions.

To assume all they need is a shiny subsidized apartment over a Starbucks and they'll put on a suit and go to work tomorrow is preposterous. In the HN utopia, they'll work remotely.

These people are chronically unemployable for a reason. Until you fix the reason, you won't solve this problem.

Instead of focusing on getting them the help they need, cities focus on things like how many tents can we allow in the public tennis courts or how many sheds can we build in the car park before we declare success.

Halifax?

This isn't Phoenix or SF for that matter. The temperature drops to -7C in the winter.

Will the city take the blame when these people all freeze to death because the city officially allowed them to play camp as part of some sociological experiment?

Unfortunately, the responsible thing - building a shelter - is overlooked by cities because shelters have rules. Like no drug use - which in some confusing twist of logic is perceived as cruel.

It's also bothersome that these articles find the one or two people genuinely down on their luck - unable to find work and the like. It makes for biased reporting. The 80/20 rule applies here. I guess the ones pooping on the BART and babbling gibberish are hard to interview.

My experience with LUKS robustness is less so, but I've uncleanly powered off many a laptop with BitLocker, FileVault, and commercial encryption with no ill effects.

> If you have SSD->LUKS->GPT->LVM->Ext4, then a bug on any of the (newer, buggier) components before your journaled FS means you lost data

And yet it's never happened to me. Dozens upon dozens of systems. Linux or Windows or Mac for that matter.

I've toted around a laptop with whole disk encryption for > 15 years and never lost data. Not once. Even after a forced power off.

I have, however, lost data to major FS corruption on an OpenBSD system with no encryption whatsoever. More than once. Still using ancient MBR and legacy boot because, well, OpenBSD.

I've had OBSD VMs trash themselves to the point they needed a reinstall, all from an improper shutdown.

Is it entitled to say that is not "good enough"?

What's worse, the OBSD team is not very supportive of VMs to being with, so that would catch the blame.

Security aside, the Dream of the 90s Is Alive with OpenBSD.

This trick doesn't always work. Roku for example hard codes 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as its DNS resolvers. So you may need some firewall redirection rules.

Are you saying TV prices dropped sharply once they started including the adware? It sounds more like the adware is selling at the same price point normal TVs were in years past, and the ad-free were relegated to a higher priced tier that didn't previously exist.

You haven't installed a urinal in your garage yet?

Our idiocracy would decry that as some sort of antiquated Luddite device and it wouldn't sell in enough volume to make a profit.

What a coincidence, an ad giant (Google) controls my current TV's OS and I had to accept a EULA to use it.

Steve's assholarity over the years was well documented (he was known for parking in handicapped spaces in a car with no number plates, exploiting a loophole in CA law). They both contributed greatly to the advancement of technology - by telling other people what to invent - yet I never saw the same deranged, visceral hate for that man.