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Palo Alto resident here - I'm fairly new, lived here less than a year.

I think the biggest problem is traffic, and it doesn't matter if it's an Administrative office or a software development company - more businesses means more traffic.

The downtown area feels quaint, and I like it. A lot of small businesses with a few big ones scattered about. It's a good combination IMO - because without the big businesses, the small ones wouldn't have enough business to stay open.

The only other issue is competition for rent. As rent prices increase the only way for a small business or a startup to get going in the area is with external funding. Rezoning things or pushing out businesses might fix that, but at the cost of moving all the customers away.

City councils universally are short sighted and make dumb decisions. This shouldn't even be something they are thinking about IMO. They should be working on actually letting residents use the fiber the city installed. My only options are xfinity and DSL. Huge tech companies all over the place and no good broadband options. It makes no sense whatsoever.

This area is pretty awesome though. Great parks, great schools, and a town full of incredibly interesting people. So they did something right.
There's also an issue of tax distortion. In the tax code as written, it's a deductible expense to provide an onsite cafeteria, and employees don't have to count it as income.

But if an employee goes offsite to get lunch, they have to buy it with after-tax money.

So when the business buys them food, it's effectively at a 1/3 discount to what they'd have to pay after-tax out-of-pocket -- more when you consider sales taxes and bulk discounts!

So it's not exactly a level playing field there either.
The idea is great for many reasons (value, environment, etc) but god, that phone is ugly.
Those are private. The public school has to make special accommodations for a special needs student in district.
It uses "U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE", also known as "BYTE ORDER MARK" -- which means that an Anguish program that starts with that character might not survive translation to or from UTF-16.
It always surprises me that a country that supposedly is one of the most "free-market" economies in the world and has a political rhethoric based on ridiculing overzealous regulation has zoning regulation that covers minutiae (which I haven't discovered in that level of detail anywhere).

Sure, you don't want someone to open a chemical factory next to your backyard. You don't want heave transport moving through your side street. You don't want the nice house with a mountain view to suddenly have twenty story high rises obstructing that view, it makes sense that most places have restrictions on this. However, when did people think it is a good idea to make one office job different from another office job? In Germany(the ultimate bureaucrat heaven), there is as far as I'm aware no zoning issue preventing office work in residential buildings ( residential areas might have limits as to how big buildings might be, so the apple spaceship probably wouldn't be allowed in a historic residential area, but opening a doctors office, law firm or software consulting company in a residential building is fine as far as zoning goes -- and tech/engineering companies routinely trade buildings with insurance companies and the like).
Mostly life experience, I would say. Through experience one knows that managing opinions of other people is part of keeping one's position in society (e.g. being the big boss). One also experiences that these opinions others hold are based on the messages (or news) they receive. Therefore controlling the press is important to maintain power. Therefore nothing is more pain in the ass to a government than the reporters of differently typed governments. Especially reporterts from directly declared enemies and from governments that are much better at controlling the news than oneself. Think about the guy in the office who exploits people all the time but for some reason the majority always seems to like him. Now think about him badmouthing you in front of you and others. Wouldn't you feel forced to react somehow?
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What projects are they doing?
1. Customer success / support is fine in combination with other skill sets that are higher value such as SWE. But I would still say that the employer history is more important. For example, I'd rather be a customer support engineer at Google than an architect at a terrible, no-name software company or one of ill repute.

2. It can widen your perspective into how to better write more maintainable / usable software but it won't help you a lick for getting through first or second round interviews with reputable software companies that drill you on algorithms and code fluency.

3. I've only ever seen customer support engineers promote up to managers in my experience. In my case, I was hired on as a team lead for a combination of support and operations and after burning out I'm starting my own gig with some lessons and insight I may not have learned otherwise. I wasn't held back so much by technical ability as much as runway saved up and finding a set of ideas I could imagine committing up to a decade of my life on. However, the loss of fluency in coding over time ironically makes it take longer for me to get out an MVP than if I had just pumped out code for years.

Be extremely careful with not very well defined positions regardless of title - they can quickly become "do everything other people don't like to do" jobs that burn you out with few real skills of actual business or technical value. It is truly a sacrifice for anyone with potential to do speak up and just go do some of that work, and most companies have zero capability of recognizing when that's happening both large and small. Would you feel bad giving John Carmack a job telling customers how to fix their IPC/SPX networks to play Doom or resetting keys for people that misplaced them? Because that's what these jobs can devolve into if you don't have the right support behind you and a management team that knows when someone is actually overqualified versus being slightly underpaid / good value (overqualified is a terrible value long term because they will quit fast and the churn costs you valuable time / resources).

There are very few people IMO that match the balance of empathy, technical skill level, and tolerance for terrible things. Despite great reviews and high customer satisfaction, I consider myself terrible at it.
It's like Bitcoin but with a Turing-complete scripting language and other features that make smart contracts more practical.
> jury duty, a state-mandated intrusion into my most private information and thoughts

Which aspect of that statement do you find satirical?

Jury-duty forces someone to have an opinion on record about some contentious topic. By most accounts that is an intrusion into one's private information and thoughts.
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The free market also doesn't lead to more getting build in locations where no space is left. Why are waiting times worse than extreme prices?
As a longtime lisp developer I thought I'd love the REPL, but so far I really haven't had much use for it. I find myself using playgrounds quite a bit though.
slight correction, pyocr has three apis: Libtesseract, Tesseract, and Cuneiform. The first calls the c-api while the other two call an executable.
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I helped a landlord I was working with on other projects set up a basic Stripe form on the website for one of their properties. No subscriptions or automated payments, you can just go to their site and send them money via credit/debit card.

They eat the couple percent in transaction fees. In return, almost all of their tenants now pay online and instead of the property manager chasing people down for money, everyone generally pays on time (or, in a number of cases, early).

Depending on your priorities, "not having to chase people down for money every month" might be worth paying the $500/mo.
Also mildly ironic for Taleb to ignore black swans after writing a book about black swans ;)
I'm hearing what you're saying, and if you want to take the broadest possible definition of a computer, then sure, the human brain is a computer. So is a protractor. Shadows on the ground could be used to "compute" the integration of a curve. But its pretty clear that this isn't the issue at hand in the OP.
If we don't push and support free, high quality, public education, the inequality gap is can only widen.

That's not exactly a given.

If you want an ear full, ask any educator about the "high school-to-prison pipeline".

And how much of that is a result of the misguided "war on drugs"?

No doubt, we want everybody to have access to a quality education, but A. these are complex, iterrelated issues, and B. there's no particular reason to think that the "public school" model we have today is the objectively correct model.
I think this is a fairly legitimate position: those who support these controls are essentially saying that the city government should serve the people who currently live in the city, not some outsiders who want to live there to the detriment of those who do so right now.

Of course one ought to be consistent. For example, apply this on a national level and the implications re: immigration policy are obvious.
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(Author here) Thanks for the comment. I used Grafana and it's a great tool. One of the motivation behind this project is to be Battery included. A tool like Grafana require a timeseries DB (graphite or influx) then you need something to collect the metric like collectd and maybe an aggregator like statsd.

I want Pome to be simple to run as binary.

I did discuss the idea of allowing to disable the web and support pushing data to existing tools. I've been quite busy lately but the project is not dead.
yeah that's evidence for genetic factors. The other major part of what you said is assortative mating. You suggest that these two things positively interact to cause a long lived systemic economic outcome. Its the whole package that will make you famous if you could truly demonstrate it.

However, it suggests the 'elite' have ended up in their superior position via a eugenic advantage, so it would also cause massive controversy, and last time this was seriously brought up we had WWII and a genocide.
There is still a lot of things waiting to be invented/discovered in space travel, the humanity could use the help of robots in that regard.

And when ready I can travel to my own planet, terraform it and live out my artificially enhanced lifespan there.
Chromebooks do the best job I've seen of being user friendly and solving the primary use case for millions of people: getting online. They're basically internet appliances, which speaks to their success -- after all, who needs help figuring out a fridge or oven once you've learned it once?

I also keep one (with developer mode + Ubuntu chroot) around because of the insane battery life. :)
Do you happen to know anything about offshore wind?
I'd be very surprised if this were satire. Here's the original newspaper headline:

http://i.imgur.com/PcvRsrA.jpg
Even then, you can't make more transport. You hit a lot more limits quicker when you have absurd populations and sprawl instead of climb.
Instead of giving all kids free lunches, why not just have everyone scan/swipe their ID, those of means get charged, those who qualify either don't get charged or the tally gets cleaned at the end of the year?
That wouldn't solve what is essentially private schooling: small suburbs that maintain their own school boards and allow only local residents. Tuition for entry is owning a house in that city. See, for example, Piedmont CA, which has its own school district. The residents of Piedmont banding together to create their own school district is just as effective at segregating their children as private school would be.
1. It looks like public spending on K-12 education in Finland is already quite a bit less than in the United States (adjusted for PPP) [a]. Spending more doesn't necessarily get you better results.

2. Private school attendance in the US is: small, decreasing, and mostly Catholic [b].

3. The criterion for "low-income" is this article is access to free or reduced lunches, which for a family of 4 means an income of less than $45k / year [c]. That's pretty close to the median household income, so it makes sense that about half of kids would be "low-income".

a. http://www.ncee.org/programs-affiliates/center-on-internatio...

b. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cgc.asp

c. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-03-23/pdf/2016-06463.p...
A quick update to say that few things got added since version 0.1 and you can find more details on the github release page. https://github.com/rach/pome/releases
Well, it's a double edged sword.

Because when everyone stops using parking spots, driving in the city would become better due to better parking options.
Poor schools are not underfunded, they're mismanaged. Us k-12 spending has grown faster than inflation x population since 1980, and some school districts (with lots of low income students) spend more money per pupil than it would cost to send them to competitive private schools.
Yes the classic, "whippings will continue until morale improves." Looking from the outside in you can see it will never work. And even when results don't improve politicians and administrators double down.
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Wow. That's a too-good-to-be-true submission for reddit's /r/nottheonion forum, except there's no free online version.
We don't know of a magic solution, but we know couple of big reasons why this is happening. The big elephant in the room problem is that Sweden is subsidizing massive immigration from some of the most backwards parts of the world. To make matters worse, Swedish citizens are paying tax to accelerate this process and they are the ones left with massive housing problem.
'Building housing' doesn't specify whether it's vertical or horizontal. My preference runs towards dense and some height. Depends on the place, though.
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Don't use corticosteroids, folks. They are known to cause cataracts, but they can also destroy your eyes by causing central serous retinopathy.

This means don't use allergy sprays. It's not worth ruining your vision. Don't get steroid shots for orthopedic pain; they don't work in the long term, and can even cause more harm. There's a CSR Yahoo group, and every week there's another person joining and saying, "I got a Prednisone shot and now there's a giant brown circle in the middle of my vision."

The damage ranges from "minor" to people who are essentially blind; and older literature calls it ideopathic, but the role of corticosteroids is an accepted fact among retinal specialists. And yet there are NO WARNINGS on packages about it.

The FDA at work.
Overwhelmingly, modern Americans favor regulation and this is deeply reflected in our politics and culture. Only a tiny minority opposes the regulatory state and they are broadly denounced as haters of the poor/women/minorities/powerless/children/babies/education/environment/health/happiness/etc.

According to one conservative think tank, the US doesn't even make it into the top 10 of most economically free nations: http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
I prefer Netflix in Kodi, not in the browser.

It's a far superior experience.
> User happiness just happens to not be be necessary for Facebook to be a successful business.

Agreed. But the anti-thesis of that is that along with tech companies (like Facebook and Goolge), the average user is evolving too. In other words, sooner or later, the average user will start thinking exactly what you are thinking now. And thats when the user will start ditching Facebook for something open source and WhatsApp for something like Telegram.
The value of the points to me exceeds the transaction costs.

For example, I willingly pay a 1.8% fee to pay my taxes via a credit card. I end up getting back 5-10% in bonuses.
However, there was a pretty well developed culture of urban legends and rumors like that. Then there was no internet, official channels were not trusted and so on. So that made it a nice fertile ground for urban legends.

My uncle even made one up with his friends. They went fishing, got drunk and decided to tell everyone they saw aliens land. They had noticed an area by woods that was burnt by a lightning strike and some fire had started. So that became the landing site. And so on. He made us kids and a few women from the village believe him.

There were national ones of course. My favorite was about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole. The rumor was that the scientists had reached hell (temperature increased dramatically, which it did in reality, see! every legends needs a tiny bit of truth there), and there was, of course, a red monster which crawled out from the whole. I really loved that story as a kid.

There were countless others which I already forgot.
The headline is wrong. Half of public school students are not below the poverty line.

The article states that 51% of students are now eligible for the federal food program. However you become eligibile at an income of 185% of the US poverty line, not the actual proverty line itself.

Secondly, access to that program has been increasing for the last several years, making it even less of an accurate historical indicatior of increasing poverty.
Because the equipment / procedures cost more than just giving everyone lunches. Also, the people with means are probably the ones paying the majority of the school's taxes so they might as well give their kids lunch too.
Speaking very honestly, you strike as a person that doesn't care about work. Or as someone would put it:

"I work for a living, I don't live for working"

With this said, an employer will want to see achievements, real pro-activeness and things that stand out as energetic, talented or at least a capable leader.

Right now you're displaying none of these treats and the things you mention as 1), 2) and 3) are symptoms of what I've mentioned earlier.

Understanding the problem is your first step. Second step is start moving. You need to be more active. Hang around startups, build something with them. Better have a low pay than no pay (assuming you have no job) but choose something you see with chances of growing.

If you have too many bills and can't leave day time job, still hang around with startups. This means working on your free time. Yes, seems crazy but you need to work harder to move up higher in your career.

That is the best way for you to learn and meet people that will be in a position of offering you a good job. Ditch that recruiter, just go out there and meet the job you want to really do.
I do a lot of WordPress programming. You'd be surprised at the number of WordPress plugin developers who use inline styles. !important is pretty much the only way to override these inline styles, aside from duplicating a plugin (which presents it's own set of problems).
First, there is a solid argument to be made that if you need the performance of multi-threading, you shouldn't be doing it in Python anyway.

Second, parallelism in Python is not hindered beyond threading (e.g. multi-processing works just fine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVBLF0ohcrE).

Finally, removing the GIL is not trivial and the other changes to the language that mandated breaking backwards compatibility are pretty worth it (IMO).
Reminds me of this article from 2004 of one person making similar innovations as entire engineering teams with huge R&D budgets 12 years later.

http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2004-09/obsession-mr-sing...
Gloria Vanderbilt has an estimated $200 million, so I wouldn't say the Vanderbilts lost it all. Rather than 3 generations shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves, it's more like 5 generations from America's richest to merely very rich.

Alfred Vanderbilt was less fortunate. He decided not to take the Titanic at the last minute, but 3 years later was on the Lusitania when it was torpedoed. Despite not knowing how to swim, he gave his life jacket to a young mother and died. (This is an interesting counterpoint to yesterday's article "Does power really corrupt" about how the rich are less caring.)
Why can't you work in a library? I've been looking for a place to go outside of my home office, and I was going to check out the library next week. They have wifi, it's quiet -- not sure what else I need that I could get outside of my house.
What's even more interesting is that school districts are very quickly becoming more ghettoized; the percent of school districts with less than 10% of students on frpl is increasing, and the percent of districts with more than 90% on frpl is also increasing.
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It's all about memory devices.

IBM had been doing arithmetic electromechanically for decades, and mechanical digital calculators go back centuries. It was clear by the 1940s that you could do arithmetic with vacuum tubes; IBM produced the IBM 603 Electronic Multiplier[1] as a product in 1946, and they'd been working on that before WWII. It was clear that you could have programmed sequence control of arithmetic, if you could figure out how to store and access the program. But nobody had a cheap random-access storage device yet.

There were lots of ideas, most of them marginal. IBM had been using plugboards for decades. Atanasoff used capacitors, but had to use a mechanical drum type rotary switch to connect to them. The ENIAC used tubes, plugboards, and rotary switches. The Manchester Baby used a Williams tube, a CRT-derived storage device, but they only got 32 words of 32 bits out of it. Bigger Williams tube machines were built later, but the size was huge for the data stored. EDVAC used mercury tank delay lines, as did UNIVAC I. Metal delay lines, long metal rods with transducers at each end, were tried. Some low-end computers with drum main memory were built. Of these, only the Williams tube was random access.

In 1951, MIT built Whirlwind, the first computer with magnetic core memory. This was the first good memory component. Good speed, true random access, more compact than the alternatives. But not cheap. Core memory was very expensive to manufacture (a million dolars for a megabyte) until IBM figured out how to build a machine to weave it automatically.[2] Core memory powered most of the machines of the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, until semiconductor RAM finally worked.

Building early computers wasn't a conceptual problem. Lots of people had workable ideas about how to do it. It wasn't a problem with electronic arithmetic; that had been done. But there were no good memory technologies yet.

It's been mostly forgotten, but in the late 1950s and 1960s, there were a whole range of special purpose machines built which were not general purpose digital computers, but did some specific function with digital electronics. Reservisor did airline reservations. Teleregister had special purpose systems for stockbrokers, airlines, railroad companies, and inventory control.[3] These were all hard-wired and stored most of their data on magnetic drums or plugboards. All this was a workaround for expensive memory. Once memory got cheap, those special purpose machines disappeared.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_603
[2] http://ibm-1401.info/IBMCoreArraysIEEEMagnetics1969.pdf
[3] http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Teleregist...
>I blame rampant inflation in cost and deflation in wages over time

Inflation adjusted wages are near all time highs for all quintiles [1].

[1] http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Household-...