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Prop 13 is really great and really bad.

My grandparents own a home in Livermore they've had from 1925. Livermore is now a very costly place to live in, and modern property taxes would make it impossible for them to live in a city they saw grow up around them.

I do think Prop 13's protection should be eliminated for businesses - most definitely.

If you're a landlord, perhaps it would make sense to allow up to 2 x Prop 13-protected [low-density] properties, and all those after would have unfixed property tax.

The problem here is landlords will simply pass this along to renters, so it seems 'sane' to just eliminate Prop 13 for commercial and not residential properties.

We lose billions of dollars in tax money from corporations because of Prop 13. :(
This is a real problem for me these days. I see a new syntax in someone else's codebase and it is very difficult to google it.
The top comment is literally someone trying to shit on something someone else says is beautiful.

Why the fuck? What? WHAAAT?

face palm
No, No, No, NO, No (to all the tips and shortcuts)

Your first job out of college has a high probability of being a bad fit and this is especially true if you're desperate to just get hired. So, it didn't work out... happens a lot. The important thing to do is to figure out what YOU want out of a job/workplace and to assess what that potential job can do for your career.

I think its a waste of time to try to figure out some minimal set of "red flags" to use for future interviews. Just look at the big picture, there's no single red-flag that will tell you definitively that a place is miserable (nor is there a single observation that signals an awesome place-- foozball and snacks won't make up for asshole-driven management).

Perhaps even more important than what you observe during an interview is to really examine your own needs and expectations. SOoooo many people are unhappy WHEREVER they go and always blame it on management, co-workers, the industry or whatever. This kind of serial discontent is a sign that the there's something wrong with the individual rather than their workplace(s).
I think you need to allow people to follow an idea until it kicks. and maybe at first their just experiments and projects that get funded that can be reused.
Do you have any good reads on how someone would go about starting a TrinityCore like project and the approach it takes to emulation?
In regards to if they already had the SAB - pretty sure before this there was no scientific and medical advisory board, otherwise, why would they be adding so many members to it at once; meaning if that's the case, seems really, really fishy.
"while tax laws have failed to keep pace with tax-avoidance strategies made possible by a complex mix of corporate offshore accounts and global capital flows"

It would be more accurate to say that tax laws have failed to keep pace with tax avoidance strategies made possible by tax laws. MNCs don't operate in a vacuum. Every decision they make is informed by laws that were written by Congress and can be rewritten by Congress just as easily.

I'm very sympathetic to arguments that tax rates should be higher, but this quote places the blame on corporations, like "tax-avoidance strategies" exist independent of tax law.
So, on the basis of once having taken an IQ test that you found not problematic and after which they hired you, you feel good about them. That's great. Sample size of 1, obviously it must be unquestionably a good thing.

If developers aren't evaluated as people, but as units who are expected to hit some threshold of "intelligence," then that says something about the company asking you to take the test.

If everybody who tested well included everybody who was intelligent, or able to code well, you might be able to use it as a proxy. If not, you're missing out as a company.

The students who achieve the highest grades in school aren't those at the peak of the IQ range - they're the ones who actually have to put in the study time to learn the material, rather than cruising on previous knowledge. Do you want the person whose IQ score is better, or do you want the one who will do the work? If you want the better IQ score, what will you do to get them to perform when asked to do what might be regarded as drudgery?

Or are you saying that they give IQ tests to screen out the really bright bulbs, so as to isolate those who are willing to slog through whatever they're given?
Eh. John Yoo advocated unlimited warrantless surveillance of even domestic communication and he said torture was A-OK. As much as I don't like what Obama is allowing here, I don't see how it's worse or even as bad as what Yoo pushed for.
Hypothetical situation.

Let's say you're an experienced developer. You have an impressive work record, open source contributions, and ace the technical interviews.

Then your potential employer asks you to take an IQ test.

Legality aside (and it may be framed as a "general aptitude test" or somesuch), this may be very insulting to some people, who feel their contributions and achievements should stand on their own without bullshit tests. It signals to them "we don't care what you've done, and you can prove you can do, or your years of experience or education, you getting the job depends on an arbitrary test we're going to throw at you". You're not going to be treated as an individual, but rather a set of points on a score sheet.

Now you may be right or wrong as to whether these tests are indicative of ability, but for a lot of applicants they would be a red flag.
He's probably right about the appreciation but wrong about the timeframe.
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No, no, that would be an RV or mobile home and we cannot have those people in our neighborhood[1].

On a serious note, I am intrigued by the concept of pluggable apartment buildings with varying amenities with varying "berthing" fees. I buy a standard sized apartment model that fits with the layout I like. I cannot see it for families, but it would be an interesting idea for single / couples.

1) considering my Parent's trailer was a lot better built than the HUD house I grew up in there is some sarcasm in that sentence.
^This. Still though, even in places like Charlotte and Raleigh, you see the same thing, just to a lesser degree and you see a great deal of gentrification of the smaller outside towns (Cary/Hillsborough/Mooresville) and nearby cities like Durham as a result. People pay more for less commute times or to compete for good schools.

I'd argue though good schools in NC is a relative term. (I'm a native, and a product of their schools which I often argue I'm successful in spite of, so I can make that criticism.)
But, but, but ActiveRecord doesn't do that by default so it can't be a good idea [sarcasm]
Did they even have any sort of filter? If they at least blacklisted these words [0], then that seems like a reasonable enough effort on its own. However, these developers would have had to be living in a bubble to not know about trolls from 4chan.

All in all, this is a lesson that some high-profile person/group eventually had to learn on our behalf. Now, when an unknowing manager asks why your chat bot needs to avoid certain offensive phrases because, "our clientele aren't a bunch of racists", you can just point him to this story. The actual racists are tame by comparison to what trolls will do to your software.

[0] = https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...
Haven't heard of this tool until now. Say I already use wget (or curl) for command line downloads. Besides the ability to download torrents, why should I switch?
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Sort of related, but possibly interesting... I've created a Chrome extension that completely removes all of the voting functionality and point tallies from my interface (except for being able to upvote threads on the main or new posts page). Including removing the lighter-grey of downvoted posts. I noticed long ago that I was allowing myself to be behavior-shaped through comment voting, and saw how it had impacted my own conversation and even thought processes. Had to do away with that as much as I could.
If you see a video game console, a table top game, or alcohol, run.
If the issue is in the kernel, containers won't solve it.
Induced demand is a good thing for subways!
Seems a native desktop app would be ideal... privacy-concious consumers might be hesitant to use Chrome.
Not for iOS sadly.

Edit: To clarify. It can't be paired with an iOS device yet.
Rift will also get the Touch controllers pretty soon, so that's not an issue.

As for kids, they will be using mobile VR. Think Samsung Gear.

Yes, it's big on your face but it has a big appeal for kids... you can't see your parents while you are wearing it and it allow you to "leave" you small room when you don't have a car yet / have a curfew.
>I'm not sure what they do for Internet beyond basic DSL

In many cases, not even that. I have coworkers who live in rural areas who only have satellite as an option.
Glad to hear emulator performance has improved so drastically. Did the Android team take the time to tackle the, what, 5 year old bug that prevents retina computers from seeing the screen clearly yet? Kinda of a huge pain in the ass and makes me groan whenever I have to start the emulator and test my Android apps.
I think you would need legal contracts and templates. Also, things could be handled possibly by royalty payouts.
You can remove the <mrow> inside the <msqrt> too.
My job for the past 2.5 years has been remote and one thing that I have a problem with is getting out of the house. I (kinda) followed "Invest in yourself" to the point where I have a desk I like with monitors I like and my cozy little spot.

It's hard to justify "Get out of the house" when you've built a nice work spot for yourself. Maybe it's because the audience for this is in an urban environment where it's a 5 minute walk to the coffee shop (as opposed to my suburban 10 minute drive) or maybe it's because I'm cheap and know the coffee at home is cheaper than paying "rent" buy buying coffee.

I'd really be curious to hear other remote workers' experiences with getting out of the house.
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So your argument is that the artist's slice of the pie is larger than it once was? That may be true, I don't have an informed perspective. However, for the industry, my original points stand.
I wonder if we will someday discover that everybody's bodies are dramatically unique and require their own diet to maintain health - i.e. some people can't handle much sugar, some people can't handle much cholesterol, some saturated fat, etc.
Legality aside, it just seems counter intuitive in the first place.

If you're putting content on a publicly facing server with web routes open to all (i.e. walking nude in public), you shouldn't be surprised when people look.
Came to say just that. Was very disappointed it was Chrome app only.
I think part of the reason you see so much AI/ML and crypto is that those methods are very useful in a wide range of CS disciplines. This is true for many of the things you list:

AI/ML is important to (or visa versa):

- Performance

- Graphics/Vision (my research is largely in this field)

- HCI

- Scientific/computational science

Crypto is important to:

- Architecture

- Networking

- Distributed Systems

- Databases

- HCI/UX

And I'm sure the above lists are not exhaustive. I think learning ML and optimization is important because you can apply it to literally almost any other field. One of my favorite things to see is when people apply ML/optimization in new ways to other disciplines. The field of Computational Fabrication is very interesting, IMO. All these things are not so different as they might seem.
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How is this giving Theranos a "unfettered voice" - seems like the opposite given that there's no one from the company to my knowledge in this thread of comments; yes, I realize the post is a direct link to an article on them.
My point was simply how absurd this is, not that it's a practical alternative.
What about DragonflyBSD?

I'm curious is if Cloudflare has investigated using DrafonflyBSD, given that it has a lockless network stack.
Extremely naive question (not asking rhetorically - I really want to know): what is the point of taxing corporations?

Some thoughts on why I ask:

* given that they must disburse their income eventually in the form of dividends, salaries, payments to vendors, etc. this adds pointless complexity to the tax code

* if one eliminated corporate taxation, one could also eliminate the special (lower) tax rate on dividends and a whole rat's nest of loopholes

* it might help deflate the (IMO) dangerous idea of corporate personhood
I think this is giving him too much credit. Obama's career is too short to think of him as anything other than a lucky ticket holder. He's Warren Harding, or even George W. Bush again - it matters less what he believes and has done and more what the prevailing wisdom is. The main story in American government is continuity: no matter who sits the throne, it's the needs of the same establishment class that get met.

This is not to excuse the behavior of the man who chose to push buttons and kill people from the sky, but Obama did not invent any of this stuff. The drone program had already been created and had a life of its own. Obama was merely willing to play along with the game (instead of, say, cleaning out the CIA of torturers). The same goes for the rest - certainly, Obama wants power, but I think he actually sold himself for precious little of it.
Ah, perhaps. Neither are allowed in the EU. Hormones not allowed at all, and milk disposed of until antibiotics no longer register in milk after treatment.

Fairly recently UK was prosecuted for not checking antibiotic levels adequately.
I'm a very green Erlang noob, but given what I have seen from it I find articles like this kind of strange. Sure concurrent programming is difficult and we need to think hard about how to make programs run quickly in a multiprocessor environment, but the fundamental architecture of Erlang seems to be in conflict with big data and high speed computing. It seems like a language that can scale much better, but has such enormous constant time penalties that the scaling can't overcome the hurdle until you're talking about thousands of processors.

Every single state change requires a function call, every function call involves a pattern matching algorithm that has to account for all of your program arguments (effectively almost the entire state of your thread!) and isn't even strongly typed. And then there is synchronization and data sharing between threads, which seems a bit handwavy and effectively requires a database running in your program that the threads can poll.

If your problem set is lots and lots of small independent tasks that don't have to finish overly quickly, then Erlang is fantastic. Stuff like switching voice circuits for example. But I'm trying to imagine manipulating a 1TB dataset with thousands of worker threads if you have to make a copy on the stack for every change every worker makes.

I know people do some big data stuff with Erlang, so these have to be solved problems somehow, but I can't help but to suspect that they have to compromise some of the ideals espoused in this article to make it work.
My office does radios for what amounts to a very specialized mesh network. While we aren't at the bleeding edge of anything, one of the main things that had to be understood by the designers of this was distributed systems. By us, the implementers, performance and concurrency are key to our work. Performance: We have a limited window within each time slot to process a message and respond with a message. Being late means waiting X slots to send the desired data, which may be too late by the time it arrives (as we can only transmit when we're permitted to by the network configuration, which could be every slot or every N slots, in order to avoid collision in broadcast). Concurrency because our particular software component is designed with several concurrent components, but also the whole radio has 5+ (depending on configuration) processors each with 1+ applications executing on them. Designing software that operates correctly in this environment is a challenge.
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The biggest feature is probably being able to download a file from multiple URLs (or with multiple connections, if the server imposes a per-connection speed limit) at the same time
This is a non-issue. Most db engines just append new data rows at the end of the data table and assign an internal row ID for it. The keys (UUID in this case) are stored in the separate index pages using B+ tree, which searches random key (UUID) or sequentially incremented key equally well.

UUID key is a problem only if your main query is a range query on the PK of a clustered indexed table. If your main query is a range query, you should pick something that can be sorted in the range anyway.
It would be more accurate to say that tax laws have NOT failed, because mostly designed by lobbyist, they had loopholes built in by design.

Easiest examples are lobbyist from TurboTax team making sure taxes are complicated so you actually pay for TT services.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
Your point is nitpickery. You know perfectly well what OP means when he refers to processed food as man made food. No one would misunderstand it. What you consider to be an arbitrary distinction (which in itself is an arbjtrary distinction), is in this case rather clearly defined.
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It actually says it right on the website ^1"Through partnerships with local entities, Kasita will rent units at about half the market rate of a studio apartment."

heres is also a nice counter agrument to Kasita.

[1] https://kasita.com/kasita/
[2] http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/12/micro-modular-apartme...
Past past California ave about 2 miles near el camino. It was a little over 2 miles to California Ave and maybe 2 miles to the san Antonio shopping center. They weren't pleasant walks the most direct way (along el camnino) and even longer if you decided to take the scenic route and everything is spread out.

Not an impossible feat to bike, but the energy is low and there are much better ways to spend rent money.
+1. Definitely worth reading, I have Vols 1 & 2 (Vol 3 came out later). I found it useful because the author explained the decisions about the models and traps to avoid.
Huh, it looks like they removed that. Back in like, 2013, that was their shtick, the ability to JIT ARM binaries in a primarily x86 environment.
I like very much the Maps.me and I have recomanded it to several people.
I would like to know if it's possible to search in London by the postcode or how could I add myself the postcode database (into to my phone).
I agree. Setting an element as inline-block is not much of a trick.

I read this blog post thinking I would see something amazing... but it was simply basic css. I may be biased because I actually learned CSS instead of randomly trying stuff until it work...
Hold on. Chicago demolished the Taylor houses, but not because they were tall; Chicago continues to build high-rise housing.

I went to high school across the street from the ABLA projects. Most of those were low-rise buildings. They got demolished, too.

Nobody is proposing to build high-rise housing projects.

I moved out of San Francisco at the end of 2001, and it was (for the time) nosebleed expensive. It's obviously gotten much worse since then, but even at the end of the first bubble it was notoriously expensive, and gentrification was a top-of-mind concern for the whole area.
The US is very much like 5 to 12 different countries pretending to be one.

Personally, I'd classify the culturally distinct areas as Pacific Coast, Big West, Mormonland, Deep South, Mid-Atlantic, North Mexico, Eastern Megalopolis (Washington DC to Boston), Middle Neutralia, Flori-duh (aka Murica's Glans), and Cajun Country.

Having visited most at least once, and lived in three for at least a year, each are impressive in different ways. It isn't always a positive impression.
I can be antisocial. :x Refer me?
I've been had. Ironic timing on their part, at least.
You've got the proportions backwards. A typical Tor exit node only provides a few hundred kib/s of bandwidth, maybe a couple of mib/s for the more generous one. Your traffic, or even the neighbor mooching your WiFi, will be the firehose stream in comparison to that.
You know, even if Erlang didn't have great SMP scaling, or wonderful distributed properties, I think its fault-tolerant, actor-model-ey nature would make it wonderful anyway.

The fact that you program expecting failures, and forced isolation of everything allows for incredibly "sturdy" code. The other features are fantastic, but they're just gravy as far as I'm concerned.
1) I would think things could be put up for bid? 2)I think everyone has voting rights(plus legal rights think facebook co-founder). Plus you could have some pretty "contributor" terms drawn up in documents.
> Given that they must disburse their income eventually in the form of dividends, salaries, payments to vendors, etc.

Apple is just sitting on $300 billion (with a b!) dollars currently, and they are just one company.

If anything we should be taxing those war chests higher because sequestering that much money is bad for the economy as a whole.

Also, eliminating the corporate income tax would open up a gigantic loophole in tax law. People could simply incorporate into a single person corporation, then make sure the corporation makes all of their money and just happens to provide services that help the person (like buying food and shelter).
When I walk into a company (for an interview), I try to get a good look at the faces of the developers there, and gauge whether or not they seem happy. I figure "In 6 months, my disposition is likely to be the average of the ones in this room right now". So if the average person is happy, I'll probably be happy too. If everyone is sleep-deprived, pissed off, and miserable, I'm probably gonna be that way too.

I always try to go out of my way to meet the team and shake their hands (even if the interviewer didn't plan for me to meet anyone). You can gauge a lot from just a brief interaction with people.
I for one prefer aria2c's ability to download a huge file via multiple parallel streams using the -x switch. AFAIK wget doesn't have this feature.