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> In New York City, many of the businesses that move in are banks. There are more than 1,800 bank branches in New York — 60% more than there were a decade ago.

There was an article about this in the Wall Street Journal last year[1]. Excerpt:

> But why open a branch on every corner? The blame, it turns out, lies with us. We're asking for it.

> TD, which has more than 1,300 branches in cities up and down the East Coast, conducted a customer survey and discovered that, compared to the rest of the nation, New Yorkers are obsessed with branch convenience. While folks in other towns value frivolities like friendly service, New Yorkers more often rank convenient ATMs and branches a top priority. They want locations near their homes, their offices and the offices of their spouses, says Mr. Giamo. They want to see their bank everywhere they go.

When it comes to the subject of community, a lot of people don't want to accept that communities are dynamic. The ways in which they change are almost always driven by the needs and wants of the people in those communities, even though you will always find vocal people in those communities who swear that can't be the case.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/all-those-banks-in-new-york-city...
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Love the idea. But maybe he should expand his vocabulary a little bit beyond 1000 words. Saying "food holder" instead of "dish", obscures instead of clarifies, which defeats the purpose. Same for "up goer" instead of "rocket". And "funny voice air" instead of "helium". I'm intrigued enough to pick up the book, but I know stuff like that will just be annoying.
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Clustering is useful mainly when your app gets large or when you are handling redundancy. If you aren't doing that, your app is small enough not to need it. :)

If you want a fun exercise, try monkeypatching your global objects (map, players, etc.) to have getters/setters/etc. that transparently handle the syncing stuff.
Wow, I totally want to do my programming with this now... is there support for matching indents on 'let, as with align-cljlet?
That's a very good point! We actually try to focus on smaller, more local charities that don't have large marketing budgets (there are some exceptions) - for instance, Rocket Dog Rescue doesn't even pay a staff, they are entirely volunteer-run. Their entire marketing strategy is unpaid, and we LOVE that, since every dollar they get is spent on helping amazing animals find homes.

These are the kind of charities we want to make sure are getting funded - the ones that make the biggest impact/dollar in a local community.
I will say too, that as I got older I bit more and more into "Ignorance is bliss" being a true statement. Knowing both good and bad results in many emotional responses. The problem is that emotional responses, when they are negative, are often perceived as bad. However, the past couple of years I've begun to flip that assertion by maintaining the idea that any emotion perceived is beneficial, valuable, and makes you feel alive. Feeling alive, in my opinion, is one of those ultimate gifts that a human can have. My conclusion is that, while ignorance is bliss, I would much rather feel both the power and beauty of the spectrum of emotional responses. They are equally valuable and enlightening.
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The switch from 'left' to 'right' hand side driving:

http://efilms.ushmm.org/film_player?movieID=33&movieSig=EF-N...
Perforce client (P4V). Consider yourself lucky you don't recognize it.
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I don't really get it as one of the appeals of credit cards is you don't have to deal with change anyway. If you want to donate just donate.
We asked a lawyer if we could be classified as a 501c3, but it didn't seem possible given what we do :-/. Instead, we're looking to be classified as a B-Corp in the future.
Bitcoin is a consensus network, to call that anti-democratic is just absolutely absurd. It is the very definition of a simple democracy, whoever controls 51% of the network wins.

> Just code up your alternative and get 50% of the network to adopt it," which does not mesh with any definition of democratic engagement anywhere in history

Nonsense, winning in any democracy requires gaining the support of the majority. If your idea has merit, it'll be adopted when the majority of of the network agrees it has merit by adopting it.
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Normal tunnels also work around the GFW, so there's no reason to do ICMP tunneling.
If your money does not make you money, you are losing money. This article neglects inflation and monetary policy completely.

There are more banks then ever, because it's more profitable to be a bank than ever before. We have had almost an entire decade of 0% interests rates allowing banks to make incredible sums of money.
Obviously Peking University disagrees with you.

http://www.pku.edu.cn/

Yes, it is Peking (and Nanking).
I think "argued" is more correct than "explained." Not everything sama says is guaranteed to be correct.

What I found interesting about this article is that these are mutual funds - i.e. public markets. I had not realized that "unicorns" were being invested in by funds available to the small investor.
Watched the film in 2001, still waiting for USPS to start scanning my PO Box mail and email it to me.

Actually, they don't have to go that far. I'd take a simple email notifying me that I HAVE mail in my PO Box, and maybe who it's from. Would save me a trip a week probably.
Within the last year multiple bank branches has opened with in a 5-10 block radius of my apartment in Brooklyn. I never see people in them, literally I have never seen anyone besides the employees gazing out forlornly at people on the street. They take up huge amounts of space and and are extremely bright which makes them oddly depressing at night.

Gentrification arguments aside, I'm confused because they don't seem to have customers (and again there are multiple) and certainly that will only be more true as younger people have less and less connection to the physical bank branch.
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100% agree - I highly recommend donating even if it's not on Give A Dime.

Give A Dime is just a way to get people who are less comfortable with giving to do so in a way that doesn't break the bank and feels manageable.
Linux now uses fqcodel as default queue manager. It solves bufferbloat.
Look I can see that it worked out well for them in the end. What I'm specifically disputing is whether the vaporware-thing was a causal factor contributing positively. If they actually had the software already and didn't need to fool anyone, things might've worked out even better. In that case things worked out despite the vaporware, not because of.
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I'd claim the fear can be just irrational. Maybe learned behavior, you we afraid of doing homework once. The next time you remember that experience and it becomes grueling experience. After some time you have learned to fear, but there is not really anything you are afraid off.

Or there is, but you don't know it. Humans are really good at inventing explanations for their feelings and believing those explanations.

I think just acknowledging that it's fear is good first step.
Hi folks -- I've been working with Shaun on the tail end of this project.

Have an early prototype of Parinfer working with the Atom editor here: https://github.com/oakmac/atom-parinfer

It's pretty early software, but feedback appreciated :)
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Does this mean the facebook like button slathered all over the web is now illegal?
You get to choose from our charity list which one you'd like to donate to - Let me know if I need to make that more clear on the website :)
This can be read effectively in tandem with "The Efficiency Dilemma: If our machines use less energy, will we just use them more?" at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/20/the-efficiency-..., which is about the Jevons Paradox.
Either way you are going to have to potentially download a lot of stuff; I'd rather not have that bloat integrated into the repo. Also consider if you come onto a project and they've upgraded a library version multiple times, when you clone from the repo you are going to grab every revision they've ever used and checked in. This is going to be much bigger and slower than the equivalent npm install for that package.

If you are grabbing from an external repo, the spotty network is going to mess you up either way. If it's internal and your internet is that spotty, consider hosting a local npm cacheing server like this -- https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia.

My only issue with this technique is that 'npm start' and the rest aren't smart enough (please correct me if I'm wrong and there is a way to make it care!) to grab dependencies if you upgrade a dependency version and check that in.
I would recommend you read "Missoula", by Jon Krakauer. Many rapists, when confronted by authorities, do confess. What's sickening is that many of them, in turn, aren't heavily prosecuted by those same authorities.
To persevere is not a static unchanging quantity in itself. Its something you build over time. You start with the bare minimum, and it gets stronger with every failure.

If you look Usain Bolt and think I could never undergo such a brutal training regime, you must know Usain Bolt couldn't either. It takes a lot of tiny little failures to build that kind of mental stamina.
I can't say I'm surprised. If you haven't seen it, Startup.com was great. Tuzman came across as about as likeable as Billy Mitchell.
For emacs, there's the electric-indentation-mode and the fantastic aggressive-indent-mode.

https://github.com/Malabarba/aggressive-indent-mode
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On the bright side, if you found that annoying, I've heard rhinos as being unicorns that became hopelessly obese and are dying out, with the fairly obvious business analogies. They're not dead unicorns because they're not dead. They're on the way though! And until the seemingly inevitable bankruptcy or shutdown, they're living rhinos. They'll be dead unicorns unless something turns around, sure. Or I guess you could call them dead rhinos?

A quick internet search of rhino and bubble and stuff like that has found nothing, I've only heard this verbally a couple times.

"Do you have a contingency plan for rolling your your (whatever) off (whatever)? They're a rhino, you know about that, right?"
Seconded for Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
> that allows recursive virtual machines (virtual machines running on other virtual machines) to be implemented efficiently.

Does this mean one can dream of: compiling HotSpot's C++ source to WebAssembly, load the JVM in the browser, load a jar, and expect decent performance?

JigSaw allows some lightweight and modular JVMs, and wasm could be just another target architecture.
Your app should be clustered, and your db (where your state should live) can be clustered too. Ultimately you want as little state in your app servers as possible, since this makes it harder to scale them out, reboot them etc.

That's the ideal case anyway, its hard to avoid session state with websockets etc, but you can still push a lot down to the database layer
The sad thing about changes brought by money and for money is that we don't have a community anymore. We don't even know what it looks and feel like. I honestly want to find such a place to live and raise my kids haven't found an example of it anywhere (in US)
I may be overly critical here, but I don't think it is completely right to say in your FAQ that you don't store credentials "which means your sensitive information is safe and secure!" Sure, you don't store them. However you still ask for them and then have someone else store them on your behalf. That still leaves end users vulnerable to the exact same problems. The user could still experience issues specifically because they used your service. They wouldn't really care who is actually responsible if that were to happen, only that it was caused by using Give A Dime.

You are responsible for your partners. Saying you won't do something isn't completely honest if you turn around and outsource that exact same activity to a partner.
Short answer:

1. No schedule. I learn when I get a chance to work on my hobby project.

2. I end up learning the things that are needed for the project and its large scope

3. The above involves learning about genetics, snails, reproduction, inbreeding, consumable rot, and tons more.

Longer answer:

For me it used to be easy - I have a hobby project I've been wanting to make for 10 years. The scope is huge and all I ever do is learn new things while working on it. Last year my kitten got very sick and is now disabled. He needs a lot of attention, medication, etc. My schedule pretty much revolves around my work and this fricking stupidly loveable cat. Now there's not as much time for me to work on the hobby project, so not as much time to learn. However, I am constantly learning new things at work too so it's not so bad. I do the best I can but remind myself to slow down and relax sometimes. Having your life revolve around work and this living thing that depends on you can get really stressful, so if I don't work on my project for a day or two and just relax I don't beat myself up over it.
As long as you still own DroppedBox, no problem. But if you divest DroppedBox you'd better hope there isn't any dispute once that chapter 7 hits about the price you made for it and/or any ties of investors and or principals from 'DropBox' with those of 'DroppedBox'.

Really, bankruptcy fraud is nothing to joke about, it is a very common trick to try to remove assets from a company that is on the skids but it usually does not end well.

If you divest the whole then that's perfectly possible but you're going to be under a microscope if you declare bankruptcy a very short time later.

See also 'clawback'.
As a DC kid I love that Fugazi gets a mention. It's true too: Ian MacKaye and crew ran a completely different kind of band than most others. It's the first time I realize how that distinction is analogous with DHH and Basecamp.

Here's Ian MacKaye talking about his philosophy w/ a reporter:
https://youtu.be/7zc2-T6LbOo?t=25m
isn't this really a question of how do you become "actively motivated" vs what you sound like as "passively motivated". Example a lot of people will say they want to start a business or have tons of ideas, but do very little to act on it and this is what I would consider to be "passively motivated". Not trying to humblebrag, but when I want to learn something even with an incredibly busy schedule I find a way. The last thing I do is ask questions on the internet on how I should do whats best for me to learn.
Some people are trying to fix that:
https://modernpgp.org/memoryhole/
It's common because it's true, whether you choose it accept it or not really doesn't matter, legal documents cannot be understood merely by the words on the page. They exist in a field of precedence and lacking an understanding of the precedence the common person cannot properly understand the intended meaning which whether you see it or not is referencing that precedence.
Thanks!

Would you consider a standard monthly donation that doesn't link to your bank account?

Yes - we're definitely interested in connecting directly with banks - we'd just need to grow a bit before doing so since we only support 1 community right now.
This message is unlikely to reach the people it most needs to reach. It's hard enough to change anyone's religion; harder still when their religion is money.

It causes weird effects. In my area -- and in a number of other more rural communities I've visited over the last year -- there are still tons and tons of empty commercial spaces, staying empty for months (or years), all with "For Lease" signs in the window ... and all of them with absurdly inflated asking rates. For those whose god is "the market", there's a failure happening here that's directly affecting the ability of smaller businesses to start up or grow.
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A "generalist"? A very useful person to have especially in smaller firms - you don't need a specialist in nosql databases as a CIO but an IT generalist who knows when to hire a contractor, you don't need a specialist in Delaware tax dodges as a CFO but a financial accountant who's heard of all the tricks but might not know how to implement all of them...
This is one of the arguments in favor of inheritance/estate taxes - they should have a distributive effect that prevents the formation of a nobility or royal class. Of course, no-one with enough foresight actually ens up paying a significant amount these days.
Have you considered using a registered agent service, e.g., Virtual Post Mail and Earth Class Mail? They do this, along with other services like check deposit, and it's only marginally more expensive than a PO box.
There's a difference between a correction in the market (or more specifically a correction with regard to a few companies) and a bursting of a bubble.

Tech investment volume today is much, much smaller than it was in the 2000s, despite the fact that the number of people on the Internet has grown by two orders of magnitude. Actually the funding per person online has remained almost on a flat line from 2002 to today.

There's some frothiness in the late-stage market still, and but those are the companies that are being corrected. That's largely happening because none of them are IPOing, and with interest rates being practically 0 investors have to put their money somewhere. So they build some losses into a late-stage portfolio theory instead of distributing it in the S&P 500.

Some of those companies will end up with lower valuations, but that's always happened, and that's built into the IPO model. In other words, even if several late-stage "unicorns" completely failed (and some undoubtedly will), that doesn't mean that the entirety of tech will be viewed as worthless. The only way it is worthless is if the companies won't eventually generate profits. Last time that was largely the case because the unit economics were bad. This time we see real revenue coming through and the unit economics are there for most companies.

I remember all of HN being positive that Instagram selling for $1B to Facebook was the height of the bubble. But now Instagram is returning >$500m in revenue to Facebook per year. Turns out it was a very, very savvy purchase.

All of the current tech "unicorns" combined are worth 2/3 of Microsoft. You can make the argument that owning all of Twitter, Amazon, Square, Snapchat, Dropbox, Uber, Zenefits, etc. would be worse than owning 2/3 of Microsoft, but I could definitely see the other side of that argument, as well.
Also: Any economic system that can be modeled as a random walk of dollars between nodes representing human/corporations who come out unequal winners on transactions, will generate a distribution curve of inequality, and your rules one and two will automatically amplify this into feudalism. That's just what money does on its own (and this laughs in the face of "meritocracy").

Redistribution through tax can be seen as "baling the water back out of the boat" in this context: it pulls money away from the rich, but doesn't prevent it continuing to rush back to them. It's a thankless never-ending job and politically motivated interruptions in "baling" will immediately result in inequality growing again.

I'm with the Zeitgeist Movement on this: money as a Thing needs to go away. It's intrinsically harmful.
I'm not sure if I would call it a mobile "downturn" since mobile is here to stay and may already be more important than desktop. I only see mobile growing, especially with huge numbers of people still to get online via smartphones in India and China. So mobile for sure has a great future ahead. However, there definitely seems to be a maturation of mobile. It's no longer the great "gold rush" that it was back in 2008-2010. It's much more difficult to get traction on native apps if you're starting out, and even if you have a successful app there isn't as much growth in new users as there was prior.

I think one sign of mobile's maturation is that people now see mobile as part of a bigger integrated picture of distribution. For example, it's essential (more than ever) to have a strong strategy to be on mobile, on desktop, and in social channels. I think this makes it more challenging for small startups since they typically don't have the manpower to do everything well. So you've got to prioritize and go with what gives you the most bang for your buck. Sometimes it's mobile; sometimes it's desktop; sometimes it's social.
agreed. take tesla for example:

"“Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop."

i'm betting practice/hard work didn't give him that ability. could you imagine trying to compete with him in school? good luck.
At least they could implement a way to switch or at least configure the window manager, withe everything from behaviour to look and feel.
That trend started long before our society's current pillaging by the rich and their big businesses. The global elimination of poverty has more to do with grassroots technological and industrial development than it does with concentrating as much capital in as few hands as possible.
I don't know but given the way you phrase it, i.e.

> I would love to learn to code

you don't seem to have any concrete goals. No wonder that there is no motivation!

Imagine you want to buy a new laptop and you find this site where there are really low prices - sometimes.

Now would you find the motivation to (learn how to) write a price tracker if it would help you save a lot of cash?
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Thanks I'll look into this :)
There are some interesting social trends at work here. One of the most interesting to me is the concept of Assortive Mating. This is the idea that 30 years ago a physician, for example, would likely marry a nurse, or an executive would likely marry his secretary. Whereas today, the physician marries the executive and the nurse marries the secretary instead. Rather than pair one high and one low income/wealth/status individual together and reduce overall inequality, the gap (financially, socially, and culturally) is now widened even more. And of course this inequality is very likely to impact the next generation because the well educated, high income parents (now with more uniformly high income extended families) tend to give a higher level of attention, resources, and support to their children compared to the children of the poor, working, and middle classes.
Yes, it seems there should be diminishing returns on opening extra branches. And if the bank just wants to own the real estate, they should be able to find more profitable tenants.
I'd be happy to go an extra few blocks if a branch was open outside of regular business hours!
Inflation is driven by monetary policy and both are symptoms of the exact same systemic problem he is describing. Inflation is a side-effect of increasing the money supply in order to generate more trade. More trade does not equate to more wealth or more goods or a higher standard of living.
I'm so fascinated by Elm. What a great addition to the world of JS tooling. I wish had more time to spend on it, but the Haskell syntax, the strict typing, the Haskell compiler, and reactive JS model, the emphasis on graphic UI building as a native language feature, all just really great and relevant ideas.