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Make a free accelerated web development course for these folks and in a matter of months they'll be no more a concern and you'd have done something right

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Oh for god's sake HN, learning to code is not the ultimate and perfect solution to every problem. It's not just a matter of providing training and jobs, you also have to treat the substance addictions and mental illness that run rampant in the homeless population.

I think your sarcasmometer needs calibration; it's clearly not blinking lights when it should.

(I really didn't think of this, but when googling up, there actually seems to be an Android application called Sarcasm-O-Meter...)

Poe's Law strikes again. It seems fairly reasonable to me that someone in this community could actually think/say something that profoundly dumb.

Of course the part where you could almost believe it wasn't sarcastic...

That's exactly it. When we had that article recently about how so many Americans are on unemployment, we had people saying, "Why don't they just learn to code?"

can't say for sure, but it looks like the parent comment is just sarcastic, not serious

The relative terseness is a clue, I think ;)

This is a... very dry joke?

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