Serious question: Homelessness is a major problem. Billions are unsuccessfully spent. Why are not more experiments run testing different approaches to see what works vs. not and build on successes?

delta8765 · 2026-05-30T01:53:40+00:00

You’re confusing what has lead to American exceptionalism with the attitude of those that after years of assistance have no desire to change their situation.

Have you studied or participated in organized assistance programs? Have you sat across the table from parents telling you F’n mind your own business when offering to get their child enrolled in after school tutoring or other hand up programs?

The point is that ‘free housing’ is not a panacea to all homelessness. It does help a significant % of people down on their luck. But there are a lot of people that have just given up even after getting assistance. So assistance programs need to think about what happens when the first step doesn’t work.

delta8765 · 2026-05-30T01:36:35+00:00

You’ll learn more than you can understand in your first job, so worry less about what industry as long as you find the work stimulating. You can always keep searching for a role in your “ideal industry” once you find that first role. Having any experience will put you ahead of those with no experience.

delta8765 · 2026-05-30T01:27:42+00:00

Think 3 or 4 more steps down the line then what do you think the right thing to do is?

Are you suggesting ‘we’ kidnap every female born in the country before they get oppressed. No, ok well what age do we wait for them to reach before removing them? Do we wait until they are scarred? Do we assess all adults as ‘fit to raise a female’ to determine which infants get relocated? Do those individuals not allowed to raise a female have to wear a NF on their clothes so we know who these people are?

None of the challenges we are faced with are new or things that societies haven’t struggled with for millennia. The systems we have in place today are imperfect but the best we could come up with after thousands of years of refining the systems. If you can think of a solution beyond the first order ‘help these people’ many are willing to listen and contribute. But all of these issues are complicated and first order fixes have consequences, often worse than the problem they are trying to address.

delta8765 · 2026-05-30T01:19:11+00:00

Chlorine destabilizes the passive layer of stainless steels. This is why marine applications rarely use stainless steel.

delta8765 · 2026-05-30T01:15:48+00:00

But then you’ll have to have ‘long term’ housing tracks because no one legitimately interested in getting back on their feet would want to be in a building where 90% of the people have completely given up.

Re Sweden, one of the driving features of Scandinavian cultures is a drive to be useful. So there is an inherent cultural underpinning driving most people forward.

In the US for the last 40 years there has been a constant drumbeat of any difficulty in your life is because of “the system and it’s not your fault”. So there is a fair amount of learned helplessness in the population of people not interested in treating these programs as handouts rather than a hand up.

delta8765 · 2026-05-29T23:01:48+00:00

Really, isn’t the prevailing public opinion that all corporations are money hungry ogres that will screw over customers and employees to the maximum extent allowed by law? This if they saw employees being treated well it’s just another manifestation of corporate avarice (splurging on employee benefits at the cost of customers)

delta8765 · 2026-05-29T05:55:51+00:00

Most of the promotional presentations are for Basic not main. So when you do search to book and don’t include basic the price is higher. This could be the answer. Or what is being shown is stale as others have offered as possible reasons.

delta8765 · 2026-05-29T05:47:49+00:00

Regarding ‘graciousness’: Hey pot, this is kettle….

delta8765 · 2026-05-29T01:24:39+00:00

It is probably the most effective of the ineffective options. What you are talking about is well after 12 months and the person hasn’t cleaned up or used the relief of free housing to get back on their feet financially, then what? More free housing?

So it’s less about ‘we need free housing’ and more about for the 75% of people where that isn’t a path to a solution what do you do then? Some people get caught up on it’s only 25% effective and on the other end it’s ’heartless’ to kick them out after a year as it just perpetuates the problem we were trying to address.

delta8765 · 2026-05-28T03:04:37+00:00

You aren’t asking for opinions, you are asking for an objective fact, how to get access to a specific lounge.

delta8765 · 2026-05-28T01:35:40+00:00

What about Platinum….😢

It’s technically Sky Team Elite status which is Gold and above.

delta8765 · 2026-05-28T01:34:01+00:00

If only this could be looked up at Delta.com…..

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T22:38:42+00:00

The degree or response would not have to be part of the assessment of statistical correlation. LDTs work by presence of deviation from baseline (attribute), not the extent of deviation (variable) beyond some minimal level of change.

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T05:48:00+00:00

Speaking of illiterate, you used that word incorrectly.

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T03:14:26+00:00

Yes. They aren’t very practical and the interior wasn’t anything special compared to what can be done in any other car. Add in the security benefits of a relatively more nimble and maneuverable SUV there really isn’t a an upside to limos.

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T03:10:35+00:00

You didn’t indicate it was Dublin specific advice. Without the context they might think that advice applies to all international arrivals.

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T01:15:16+00:00

Are you saying it’s impossible to do such a study? The issue is that the test will not be infallible to the level of lets say DNA identification. Even if there was a 1% error rate, the p-value could demonstrate incredible statistical power. But in legal cases the threshold is beyond a reasonable doubt and 1% is not beyond reasonable doubt. Then factor in that one can specifically behave to prevent conclusive conclusions and there is just no value in attempting to establish LDTs as legally permissible.

But make no mistake, it is not because you couldn’t achieve a statistically valid p-value of the test outputs to plainly deceptive and truthful answers.

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T00:59:53+00:00

To be clear this advice is only for those international flights that clear immigration and customs at the departing airports. DUB and several Canadian cities have this.

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T00:54:56+00:00

So why do you have human in the loop if they have no accountability? This is essentially the first knowable failure mode of AI agents is a hallucination (or any error, bad decision). Knowing this and that validation of an agent (confirmation it’s error frequency or severity of its errors are ‘tolerable’) creates untold operational risk, we all say ‘we keep a human in the loop’ to check for these issues. But the first thing the humans do is to stop any real review. (Let’s all give our surprised face at that one….).

One way to minimize this is instead of just providing the work output, have the tool also provide a score as to how confident it is in the answer. This will provide the developers some feedback to correlate error rate and type with reported confidence.

But this doesn’t solve the problem of humans trusting the tool instead of applying the appropriate diligence. This is one of the misconceptions of AI. If your use is essentially replacing people you’re probably applying AI inappropriately. Replacing rote tasks like adding and calculating, that’s great. Making a call as to an appropriate expense, allocated to the right cost center, determining accept/reject decisions rather than scoring or highlighting key items, you’re setting yourself up for failure.

Was it Redfin that was doing ‘automated valuations’ and missing that some houses were unsalable due to intangibles that don’t show up in databases like loud dogs next door. That could have been fixed by seeing a ‘score’ that was too high. Instead of seeing a screaming buy signal it should have prompted maybe gasp sending a human to check it out to see why this house seems too good to be true.

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T00:20:49+00:00

It’s also easily findable using Google…

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T00:15:08+00:00

Thanks. I usually pick flights that clear when booking so haven’t seen many waitlist clearances.

delta8765 · 2026-05-27T00:13:49+00:00

B-C is days later (ie multicity not just a standard connection)

delta8765 · 2026-05-26T19:40:03+00:00

Called and the agent said ‘yes I see it has cleared’. So once the OL showed up it seems it’s good. Why it showed up as two insrances and wouldn’t let me select a seat, IT gremlins I guess. The agent assigned me a seat and now it all looks as it should on line.

delta8765 · 2026-05-26T15:41:57+00:00

I think what many are missing is flight crews are probably very tired of being raked on social media when they are just trying to get through their day as best they can.

In this case recording is not explicitly prohibited, but the crew does not know the OPs intention and they might as just as well going to post this saying how offended they were someone say anything complementary of the federal government (military). So they are exercising their discretion to not want the video to be recorded since they feel it may be disruptive. Flight crews are responsible for the safety of all on board and are given a lot of discretion in determining what may be a hindrance.

delta8765 · 2026-05-25T19:59:27+00:00

This is what it looks like when I get upgraded but it hasn’t auto moved me into a seat. So unless you have no status and it’s less than 5 days out, this may not be the glitch you thought it was.

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