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Barbara Erenreich's book "Nickled and Dimed" [1] is a good illustration of how lack of cash forces the working poor to make economically sub-optimal choices.

An example will suffice: without the savings needed to put down a security deposit for an apartment, you are forced to leave in cheap motels (absent options like living with others or in a shelter), even though the monthly rate is higher. There's no kitchen in those motels and you may be working multiple jobs, which limits your ability to cook nutritious food and eat cheaply. And the cycle continues.

Some of the stories in George Packer's "The Unwinding" [2] emphasize how narrow the margin of error is. Everyone makes poor choices from time to time; those with resources (financial & social) can weather them.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-Not-Getting-America/dp/03...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Unwinding-Inner-History-New-America/dp...
Or indeed that it hasn't always been true.

"Man will always have shit days." -- Greek proverb
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We need a solution that scales similarly or better than the problem.

Anyone want to write some Black ICE? :)
What is the alternative? These people aren't forced to live there. If there were a cheaper, better alternative available to them, they'd probably take it.

Nobody is 'profiting from poverty' here. These landlords would make much more money if these people were wealthier! I'm sure they'd love to make nicer places and charge higher rents with higher margins, but they can't, because that's all these people can pay.
That is macro vs microeconomics. A business today cannot function in the market behaving morally for the good of society when all its competition is maximizing exploitation even the end result is the destruction of the consumer base they rely on.

The point is to take as much of the cargo as you can and jump ship just before it catches fire and hope to make it out safe at this point, considering the predatory behavior of capitalists in almost every industry and market nowadays.
Well if going on Greece's relationship to the EU as a guiding framework, where Germany ended up pretty much funding what got deployed, I'm going to have to go with the United States. It sure ain't going to be Puerto Ricans living on the island. Oh, and it ain't going to be Illinois either. They're the next name on the 'bag-o-crap' pension outlook.
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There is an enormous range between working on a worthwhile project and end it all right now. The point was that very few people lay on their death bed and wish they spent more time working. Typically they wish for more time with their family, or in the general sense more experiences.

Personally, I love the experience of learning something new and hence enjoy a lot of programming. I will not be wishing on my death bed to have written yet another CRUD app. If I die before my wife, I will have wanted more time with her - traveling if possible.
Tobin Charney makes $400,000 a year out of his 131 trailers, some of which are little better than hovels.

That sounds about right to me... I doubt anyone would consider it worth the hassle leasing 131 trailers if the income was say 100k.
You could say all the same things about every piece of desktop software.
Falls apart right here: "Imagine David. David is an airline captain lincenced to fly B737, B747-400, B-747-800 and any B777" There may be pilots who have flown 737, 747, and 777 before, but there are none (or practically none) who are current in all three at once. To get your currency back in a particular airframe could be as simple as a single check ride with a qualified (and current) pilot if it's only been a few weeks since you've flown last, all the way up to a review test and multiple check rides if they haven't flown in that airframe in quite a while.

And how did David get qualified in each of said airframes? An airline wanted David to fly a different route that used a different plane so they PAID for him to get the training and get certified. That would not happen in a freelance system.

There would likely be a freelance community around each type of plane, especially the smaller commuter varieties, but each pilot would basically be restricted to a single airframe until he/she could afford to pay for certification in a bigger and more lucrative jet on their own.

Would the FAA allow such a system to arise? Probably not. The status quo of having airlines schedule crews on routes that they are familiar with (with the occasional change) seems safer than having every single flight be with a crew that is unfamiliar with their route.
Probably supposed to be this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6133349
Yes, that's called "opt in" and it's the same security model this standard is proposing.
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The prevalence of "Chibson" knock-off Gibson guitars that have arrived in the United States indicates that China is more than willing to manufacture and export other people's name brand products without more than superficial policing. It would appear the trademark and brand protection policing is an indication of the other workmanship that can be expected from the nation.
This is an excellent point. Another one in a similar vein is things like appliances or other big ticket purchases. The wealthy (or even middle class really, assuming any are left) is that they can buy a new washing machine for example when they're on sale. The poor essentially need to keep using the same washing machine until it dies, at which point either they need to go to the laundromat or buy a new one, and they have to get whatever one Home Depot has at the time at whatever price they're marked at.
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Currently, our cost to build one system is about $1200, so that comes to a price of $2k or higher.

We'd love to donate our products (in terms of 10% of profits, or something) to developing countries, but we first have to get to profitability :)
I'm not so sure the corner bodega belongs in the same category with the payday loan assholes.

Yes, the corner bodega is more expensive than the full grocery store, but they also probably have way lower sales per hour of labor, lower sales per square foot, lower sales per other overhead (rent, insurance, security, utilities, taxes), higher credit card interchange fees, higher shrinkage and spoilage, and pay more for their inbound groceries than the large chain down the street. If my guesses are true, all of these are perfectly legitimate business expenses and the corner store owner needs a return on their investment, just like the large chain does. (Grocers operate on razor-thin overall margins. Average net margin for the supermarket industry was 1.3%, 1.9%, and "1-2%" in the first three references I could find online.) Anything that increases costs basically HAS to go to the price as there's nothing else left to flex.

Payday jackholes can DiaF for all I care, but even the prevalence of those is driving in part by the banking regulations meant to "punish the banks" which have the effect of making poor communities "money losing to serve". When the predictable bank pullouts happen and payday lenders move in, it's not that hard to see the connection. Let the banks make a profit and they'll serve the community; prohibit them from making a profit and they won't, leaving only the even less savory financial businesses.
> a native application that proxies the related data to browsers seems like a much better approach

Why do you think that? It seems needlessly complex to me when you could just have a simple permission pop up in the web app. What's the benefit of downloading an executable?
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What shines through here is a lesson not only America has never learnt , but one we in the UK are fast forgetting - social policies work

The social safety net is pretty simple. Bob, A healthy worker is made unemployed, they can either take state assistance and find work 6 months later, leading to another 30 years of tax revenue, or let them default on mortgage, spiral into poverty and no tax. Now extend that so Bob needs six months rehab.

Housing built, owned and managed by the state (or so closely regulated it may as well be) has been a cornerstone of the social safety net. This article underlines that.
I don't think the system where airlines sponsor pilot's education/certification is the only viable one. Other institutions, such as banks, can offer student loans. Another point you made about the fact that pilots cannot fly multiple airplanes is simply false. The older the pilot is, the more chances there are he flew multiple types of aircraft working for different companies. I know at least one who flew b737 of various models, b757, b767 and then b777 and he's nothing out of the ordinary.
>they'd love to make nicer places and charge higher rents with higher margins, but they can't, because that's all these people can pay

Nicer places require larger capital outlays. The landlords chose their market, not the other way around.
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The reason I want to make the browser the OS is accessibility. Every other platform requires limiting your audience to a certain kind of person, usually drawn fairly close to class lines. I like software that's easily accessible anyone interested, with a minimum fuss from a usability perspective. The web is the only platform that matches that description.

Its big limitation is hardware access, so things like WebUSB, WebRTC, etc are great in my book.
A few heads roll, the world keeps churning. And that has nothing to do with religion.

I'm a lot more afraid of our current endless population growth and the extinction of many marine species.

When this happens, most mouths will starve instead of a few, and there's no one else to blame, it's everyone of us.
Presumably those companies that claim to have openings that they are desperately trying to fill in vain would pay for such training.

Why do you think they do not?
> Anything that can be accessed client-side can be easily uploaded via XmlHttpRequest or whatever people use for that now. This is not a new concept.

Correct but this standard is absolutely not "remote access to USB devices" as the parent suggested. If we're going to abstract the meaning of "remote" to anything that can be uploaded by something that can access it then it loses its meaning entirely.

The standard proposes nothing remote from the web to the browser; it's entirely between USB devices and the browser. Saying "allow remote access to USB devices" is entirely misleading hence my original comment.

> Hardly- user data is incredibly valuable and you can be sure that for many sites, if a page has access to USB info they will upload and track it. Presumably any foreign JS code imported (e.g. Google Analytics) can also access this data and include it in the information it tracks.

What's the "hardly" for? You and I don't seem to be disagreeing here.
Dance music is typically released in a stepped fashion - a handful of DJs will receive exclusive dubs, followed by a small release on white label, followed by a general release.

This is a mutually beneficial arrangement for DJs and producers. DJs can increase their audience by playing music that can't be heard elsewhere; This exclusivity provides promotion for a track before general release.

Radio DJs have a habit of speaking over the middle of an exclusive track, to prevent it from being ripped and used by other DJs. Exclusive dubs often mention the DJ by name in the lyrics, a tradition originating in the Jamaican sound system culture.

Vinyl releases are also much more profitable, which can be very significant for niche music with a relatively small market. A typical track download nets the record label 50-70p, but a 12" white label can net £3 to £4. If you only expect to sell a few thousand copies in total, a limited vinyl run can make a big difference to the bottom line.
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Well, it is true that you can't really dodge responsibility if you want career advancement. That being said, if you love to code and you want to limit the non-coding portion of your job, your best bet is to really hone your skills as a high performance systems-level engineer. That track probably offers the most advancement potential in terms of "just coding".
I thought AES-GCM was on its way out? Isn't poly1305-chacha20 what we should use now, given that it's quite a bit cheaper in terms of cost, and the keys are much smaller (32 bytes)?

Also, the code for chacha is easily available.
Horse trading, as reinterpreted by the streets "Can't con an honest john": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTB929OoqI4
Some USB devices can be firmware-flashed over USB. They expose secret commands or additional descriptors for doing this. A popular method is to expose an HID endpoint that is actually used for uploading firmware.

If the implementation allows access to these endpoints in a way that allows them to upload firmware, this is very bad for security.

If you accidentally plug your USB device into an unknown computer on a webpage, it's reasonable to expect that the device could have been reprogrammed. And a reprogrammed USB device may very well expose any descriptor(s) it wants to - HID keyboard, mass storage device, ethernet connection...
You are of course right with the part about user-friendliness but you do realize that most of the internet population did not understand what you tried to say with most of the sentences? ;)

So yes, it depends on the users just as well as your target group.

I'm not sure what your assumption that the difference is mostly artificial bases on since just the difference in the physical act is already overwhelming.
I would start by consulting an employment attorney.

Even in California, which normally requires consent of all parties for recording, these circumstances might fall under an exception. That's a question for the attorney. IANAL, but it seems possible to me because the statue exempts conversations that the participants might reasonably expect could be overheard.

Short of an audio recording, you should certainly start keeping a handwritten log of incidents; write down all of them in as much detail as you can.
People will always have something to say.
That's the nature of being thinking beings.
Of course it profitable, which is why we have things like minimum wage - if WalMart et. al. could, they would pay 3 cents an hour, or even better consume peoples living and eating and entire lives like factories in China.

At some point the governments in developed countries have stepped in to set some kind of limit on what's "reasonable".

IMHO, they're not doing enough in America right now, the enormous social divide is showing that to us clearly. Developed countries that have stronger laws have less people in severe poverty, because the government forces the wealthy to distribute their wealth.
> Another point you made about the fact that pilots cannot fly multiple airplanes is simply false.

He didn't say this anywhere.
Subsidized, cheaper or government housing through legislation.

> Have you started to raise funds to start and run that business?

No, because the incentives to continuously draw a greater profit from your customers goes against the need to provide housing to those who can't afford it.
I keep a journal since three years and I mostly write about current "projects" (be them work or my own things) and future ideas.

To answer, yes, a day in which I haven't done anything useful is not really worth as much as a day in which I have, and it will be forgotten (unless I happen to be traveling (rare) or have met someone interesting (rarer)).
There are currently huge methane leaks in multiple places in the US as we speak, that we've spent months trying to plug.

Why wouldn't increased methane use lead to increased methane mining and therefore more leaks? Are we honestly planning to trust the regulatory bodies to handle this when they've never shown any serious oversight ability in the past?
Combo of all of those, really. Particularly the exclusivity bit, songs that get pressed like that generally aren't things people are trying to share. For instance, dubplates use acetate and not vinyl, and are really only good for about 50 plays. Lots of exclusives becomes the reason to check out your party vs the one the people a few blocks down are throwing.
Unless you really like it there, just leave. You have skills. And it sounds like you're not surrounded by other people with skills; that must be a little disheartening.

If you want to stay, maybe talk to the people involved, or not, and possibly your manager or his manager. But definitely go to HR, and take notes or make them later, in a notebook not owned by the company. And be prepared to be officially harrassed or fired. The notes may help the employment suit, or the application for unemployment.

Either way, start testing the waters, even to the point of an interview.

Caveat: I have no direct experience with this problem.
Apologies, you're right. But I don't think he's right about the fact that a pilot cannot fly three types of aircraft either.
> he remembers to check his Bitcoin wallet and finds out that the pay for yesterday's flight has already arrived

Definitely parody.
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A system far more like Debian's in terms of app development/provisioning, and user-centric protections.

A dev-compensation system not dependent on advertising.

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The profitability of poverty is foundational to how capitalism works. Workers work, heirs do not. How do heirs manage to expropriate wealth workers create during their surplus labor time? The answer is the reserve army of labor - keep people unemployed or underemployed as a level to use against those who do work.

One sign of this is that unemployment did not even exist several centuries ago in any kind of manner - all those who were capable (except again, those on top expropriating wealth created during worker's surplus labor time) worked.

This is openly discussed in the business press, like this (http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_44/b3653163.htm ) BusinessWeek article "When is the jobless rate too low?" It's not a secret that those who control production are working to create unemployment, poverty etc. It's a foundation of the current economic system.
That's actually a thoughtful comment, irrespective of whether one "agrees with communism". Not sure why it's being downvoted.
For the people saying "go to HR", if I remember well from my friends who work there, Oracle's HR is something like 4 people for the entire company (everything is automated).

So it's more like "send an email to HR people you've never seen or heard of", and with how impersonal that is, it's easier said than done.

Still, in this current political context, big tech companies don't want to be seen as unsupportive of these issues, so it's still probably the best bet. Contact HR :)
>This is econ 101; supply and demand. You know it too. You're (presumably) not impoverished, but you'd work in diamond extraction or a clothing sweatshop, if you were paid enough.

When I say "nobody would do it" I don't mean "regardless of any condition whatsoever". Even if there wasn't poverty involved, slaves would obviously do it too (and they were ones doing such things, historically, right until the end of the colonies -- and in fact still in several places, using various conscription schemes).

Nor did I mean "regardless of working conditions". E.g. if they make it as easy as pressing a few buttons, many would have no issue doing it, even for a low wage.

The idea is that people wouldn't do the job under the current working conditions AND wages -- if it wasn't for dire poverty. "Supply and demand" is not some contradiction to that, rather it is the very mechanism required to take advantage of dire poverty to give those wages.

And of course "supply and demand" is rarely a "natural" and "neutral" thing -- you can skew it in a thousand ways. From passing special laws to keep people down and prevent development, to killing people's farmlands to make them come to the big industrial city to find some low paying factory job to survive.
This sounds like the libertarian fantasy blog post awhile back where a freelance cop is shooting heroin in his patrol car, and deciding whether to take the next radio call.
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> if you were paid enough

I've always liked the idea that you should never turn down an offer or request. Instead, you should name your price. Sometimes that price might be functionally equivalent to turning down the offer, but there's always a tiny chance that someone might agree to your (probably laughably unreasonable) terms.

(I should really watch The Magic Christian again)
OP is right. You can get qualified on multiple aircraft types, but to maintain currency is a different topic altogether. In the US for example, at least for private pilots, you need at least 3 take offs and landings in the last 90 days in the aircraft (category/class/type-rating) to be able to carry passengers. Then there's extra requirements for night currency and instrument rating currency.

I would imagine the airlines have even tougher currency requirements. That said, it's probably possible to maintain currency in several aircraft types depending on the frequency and how the jobs are scheduled.
> had not the unions had so much power, you'd see this happening already.

It is funny that you only mention airlines (lufthansa, Air France) where pilots are organized within strong unions. And most pilots would love to work for just those airlines, because they are the last ones which pay good wages.
Corner stores make their profit on tobacco, alcohol and scratch tickets, though. The rest of it is just to give a patina of respectability.
That is really horrible and I am sorry you are going through something like that. You shouldn't have to. The fact that they feel comfortable speaking about your sexuality in ANY way means that the culture has allowed this to happen.

I would consult an employment lawyer. Here is the sad truth of the matter: you are probably going to be on the losing end of this. You will likely be passed over for promotions and will likely face increased harassment. HR tends to be a leaky sieve so do not trust that they will do their job.

So, stand for your principles and take no prisoners or nurture your career and grow a much thicker skin than anyone would have to. Or leave.
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An e-mail I received right before reading this post:

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Thank you for sharing your talents with the world."

It is so hard to imagine that reflecting on this e-mail might bring me some satisfaction on my death bed ?
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