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I apologize for not directly addressing the issue of affordable housing. The reason I did not directly address it is that I see it as one piece of the puzzle, though certainly an important one.

Housing prices in California are high primarily for two reasons: a) California's population has quadrupled since 1950, and b) the US household debt to GDP ratio is ~twice what it was in 1950 [1], and higher household debt means higher housing prices [2].

By reducing the lower and middle classes' dependence on debt, basic income could actually reduce housing prices, or at least slow the rate of increase. Of course it's certainly feasible that basic income could take the form of housing subsidies. However, such an approach would add complexity to an otherwise very simple system, and the simplicity of the basic income system is one of it's biggest selling points.

All that being said, basic income does not address the issues of population growth, resource scarcity, and climate change. So, while I do think it would raise the average quality of life, I don't think it's sufficient to ensure our species success.

[1] http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/lance-roberts/con...
[2] http://www.debunkingeconomics.com/us-flow-of-funds-update/
It may be a matter of degree. My experience is that warm intros do help for early stage investors, but they aren't a requirement. Maybe a simpler way to look at it is that a warm intro often helps any introduction no matter who it is, but if you're polite, direct, and charming, you'll be fine either way. Since it was qualified as "a lot of time", I'd suggest spending "a little time" trying to get a warm intro, if that doesn't work quickly, just email cold while keeping the posted advice in mind.
I think I'd ask:

Is there any way you could either develop 'critical thinking' skills for less than X thousands of dollars, or, for the same money, also obtain some more immediately marketable skills?
This is unbelievable. The last months I've been enjoying his crazy good lasagne and ragu recipes. Like the best I've ever had, made by me. Yesterday I bought this book and now it's in hn...

If you love food and try to be a better cook, here's some good material. Too bad some ingredients, like chilies are a bit tough to find in Germany...
Cloudcuckoolanders seems to be a fitting description of many of the people involved with Gnome/Freedesktop these days...
That would be true if we knew who the offenders were. Part of the reason predators target children is because children do not tend to report and the details get fuzzy with time. I've talked to a lot of people doing counseling who said things like "a neighbor touched me" etc. but they don't remember names.
I think the real question is why are you making an accordion? They are ghastly UI components to navigate for the end user. I could see a few limited cases for them, but if someone says 'we will implement an accordion layout' at work, im jumping all over that screaming NOOOOOO.
I don't think my Philosophy degree was hard left indoctrination.... and not all of my philosophy classes were logic class.
"extremely careless" was the description. I don't think it was explained how that is different from "grossly negligent", other than the characters used.
Freedom of speech entails the freedom to speak only your mind. No one has a valid claim to compel your speech.

What sufficiently dire circumstance can there be where a government would have the right to compel speech?

I think the 13th amendment would come into play here as well.
It doesn't slot in to economic reality. It is simply an unrealistic proposal, for several reasons:

1. A guaranteed basic income to every citizen, which would be enough for a person to live on without a job, would cost more than the entire annual income of the Federal government. Even if it didn't, people would simply vote to increase their incomes until it did.

2. It would be regressive: under most of the basic income plans that have been proposed, people who are currently on welfare would get less money from the government than they do now. On the other hand, middle class people who don't need extra money will get it. Basic income would represent a transfer of income from the poorest to everyone else.

3. It would not replace existing welfare systems. People like to think that it would, but political realities would prevent that from happening. When has the Congress ever passed a simple, elegant piece of legislation that undid layers of bureaucracy, and then prevented it from being changed? It's simply unrealistic to assume that could happen in our political system.

4. Political, ideological, and moral forces in our culture and society have caused us to have our current welfare systems, and those same forces would cause us to revert to those systems even if basic income were implemented. Some examples of these forces are the social constructions of race and class, views about who deserves money and who does not, and the moral value of work. Basic income is a blank-slate social engineering fantasy that ignores all of these things.

5. Basic income is likely to be a race to the bottom. You cannot redistribute wealth that does not exist. By decreasing incentives for work, basic income will reduce the amount of wealth created, which will reduce the amount of money that can be distributed to people as their basic income.

6. If steps are taken to incentivize work to avoid the problem in #5, e.g. increasing the basic income payments to people who have jobs to incentivize other people to get jobs, basic income won't be "basic" anymore. Such incentives would open the door to many other proposals that would result in some people getting more basic income money than others. Many of these proposals will be popular, such as extra money for single mothers, less money for convicted felons and drug users, etc. The forces I mentioned in point 4 would thereby reconstruct our current welfare systems within the framework of the basic income policy.
This is aimed at some of the other comments but: Any non-technical degree comes with some ideological perspective.

Consider Shakespeare.

If you just consider him "great", and read him to appreciate him, then that is an ideological perspective.

You could say the way he treats xyz is a product of his times, that is a perspective.

If you say, he is over-rated and people have held him up to a high standard, that is also a particular ideological perspective.

Having a particular ideological perspective, and arguing against others does foster critical thinking, as long as you are arguing against another ideological perspective.

So if someone says, hey side X was the righteous side in this particular war, and someone else says no it was side Y, and a third person says they were all dirty, that's probably a good thing. It doesn't mean you can find a non-technical discipline free of ideology.
I can definitely see the value in those things but I think there's also a place for "dumb" storage. Some people want that great support, some people don't need it.

I'm in the latter category and I'd rather have the choice to pay for it than be forced into it, which is why despite loving the trial I had with you guys, I couldn't justify continuing.
Here is the thing though. Although critical thinking is important it's definitely not what academia lacks. What it does lack is constructive thinking. I.e. the ability to propose new testable/semi-testable theories.

Entrepreneurs are always going to be more constructive thinkers than critical thinkers and thats why the are valuable.
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Which is why I find the desire to make such a definitive connection between 'what you studied' and 'what you do for a living' so strange. Unless you are going into a very specific field that has very strong ties to academic work, I don't think your major is nearly as important as people make it out to be.

I have built a wonderful software development career after completing my philosophy degree.
I had a name conflict in an ios project... found out the header it conflicted with was from apple lisa era, meant to allow gui draw calls to work with quickdraw
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Before The Last Starfighter was made, I once read a legend about the Defense Department using arcade games to recruit pilots for interplanetary combat. Omni magazine had asked readers to send in the best urban legends. I don't know what issue it was or the exact text of the legend.
Wow! This is extremely flattering! Thank you! Tell your intern that that was an intern project by a master's student, maybe that'll get them even more excited.

All his code is here: https://github.com/cid-harvard/globe
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> Is it the locations services workaround thing?

That's correct.
People who do it for fun?

Writing an OS [0] was one of my first programming projects, 17 years ago, and things were kind of revolving around it like planets around the sun ever since.

Naturally, it's not something you can earn any money out of, or something that can ever be practical. But it does allow you to learn a lot and shape your coding approaches.

As a result i tend to have a continuous idea of the whole stack of tech, from the app on the top, more or less down to the transistors below.

[0] http://orbides.org/aprom.php
Well, all I can say is that I paged through quite a few of your storefront's pages and every single item I knew the rough market price of was way too high. There are too many examples, in two categories, for that to be a sign of anything good about your company.

But let's check several items at semi-random (I avoided things in the same Dewalt tools category area, and every single one was significantly more expensive; first is your listing, second is the general one:

https://www.amazon.com/Woods-2001-Photocell-Weatherproof-Mec...

https://www.amazon.com/Woods-2001-Photocell-Weatherproof-Mec...

https://www.amazon.com/Lasko-2264QM-20-Inch-Performance-Velo...

https://www.amazon.com/Lasko-2264QM-20-Inch-Performance-Velo...

https://www.amazon.com/GE12722-Z-Wave-Wireless-Lighting-Cont...

https://www.amazon.com/GE12722-Z-Wave-Wireless-Lighting-Cont...

https://www.amazon.com/Moen-DN8408CH-Preston-Inspirations-Ho...

https://www.amazon.com/Moen-DN8408CH-Preston-Inspirations-Ho...

https://www.amazon.com/Akro-Mils-10164-Plastic-Storage-Hardw...

https://www.amazon.com/Akro-Mils-10164-Plastic-Storage-Hardw...

Sorry, but this is just too many coincidences for me to swallow. How are you even still in business??? Any idea how can you convince me, bald assertions just aren't making it against hard data.

However, your explanation for why only the listing on your store are limited to you is correct, I should have checked another storefront, I withdraw that objection and apologize for not doing my homework.
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They have a strike price which isn't much
lower than the price investors last bought stock at.

Why is this so? I recently became aware of a case where the Fair Market Value of the common stock was only about 7% lower than what the last round of investors paid - preferred stock which, it was rumored in the press, came with a ratchet.

My impression was that the original thesis of the employee options were that common stock is marked down to a significantly lower price than the preferred stock.
I'd like to take a moment to mention that the GNOME developers (who run the Gtk project) are literally insane. They're pushing this new batshit crazy Gtk versioning scheme, for one, but there's more. They're pushing around the Wayland scene with crazy design choices for Wayland compositors that affects the entire Wayland ecosystem and disrupts other projects hoping for cross compatability. The GNOME developers honestly and sincerely do not see a point to having any non-Gtk3 software work on the GNOME desktop. I'm not kidding, ask one of them and they will concur. They also broke everything with GNOME 3, and though they've managed to produce a pretty nice DE by 2014 or so they've spent the last couple of years removing features that people actually use once they deem them "obsolete". They also don't see any point in having any Gtk3 software work on systems without systemd or dbus, which I think is nuts even though I use systemd. GNOME is legitimately insane.
Maybe the point is, IF you have to spend a lot of time trying to find a warm intro, then you might be as well or better off just going ahead and cold emailing.

But realistically, there are very few situations where a cold email is better or even as good as a warm email.

A corollary is: if you're not resourceful enough to get a few warm intros, you are going to struggle mightily to found a company.
Interesting, but I'm not sure how you can summarize the cutting edge of ideas about consciousness without mentioning Daniel Dennett
I have. The basic issues with most options is will the %90 best case scenario of this risky reward mechanism beat working at FaceGooSoft by a significant margin? My %90 best case would be something like IPOing at $1 billion.

If the startup stock doesn't, then it's extra stupid to work at that place unless they provide you with a special non-standard working arrangement.

Usually they don't, it's open offices in the bay area with a pretty similar organizational structure and work type. Not a flexible remote working situation at bay area salaries or similar.
It didn't, but the copays are now so much lower due to subsidies the ACA provides (compared to Indiana Medicaid), it makes no sense to import said drugs.

If you live in a state which refused ACA subsidies, this plan of action would still make sense. Or moving to another country with cheaper/universal healthcare depending on your income arrangement (disability/social security).
Probably a few feet to the left wether they like it or not.
:)

This was exactly my research in gradschool. Sorry to self promote, but it's not often I get a chance to discuss my incredibly esoteric dissertation topic. I was part of a team working to get a UAV to perform a dynamic soaring maneuver, which allows an aircraft (or bird) to extract energy from wind gradients to support flight [1].

DS was first recognized in the albatross by Lord Rayleigh. Like the frigate bird in this artcle, the albatross is able to expend very little enegery while traveling great distances, thanks to its oceanic environment. Close to the ocean surface, friction between the wind and the water causes windspeed to slow. As you move up in altitude, windspeed increases. So you have this nice gradient that is always there for the albatross to take advantage of. The albatross locks its wings into place (using a big tendon sheath), and it performs successive climbing/diving maneuvers through this gradient, netting it kinetic energy at the end of each cycle.

So my role in the project was the brains behind a soaring aircraft, which was being developed in tandem. I'm a little fuzzier on the specifics of how the aicraft was made, but it was a novel manufacturing process that allowed us to build very large, seamless carbon fiber wings [2].

As part of my work, I had to figure out how to find trajectories that would support flight, given an aircraft. I also had a formulation that would find an optimal aircraft as part of the solution. The key takeaways for the aircraft are very large wingspan, and also some heft to the airframe; you don't want the aircraft being too light, because most of the energy gain comes during the transfer between potential -> kinetic energy during the dive phase of the maneuver.

Anyway, anyone really interested in the topic can take a look at our publications [3]. We looked at soaring in the jetstream, soaring in hurricanes, even reinforcement learning for a UAV to figure out how to soar better.

[1] http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/future-flig...
[2] http://vader.cse.lehigh.edu/dynamicsoaring/wp-content/upload...
[3] http://www.dynamicsoaring.lehigh.edu/
I created an account and tried searching suites in Vegas next month and got only a spinner.

Console shows a console.log'd error: [Log] There was an error: 503 HTTP/2.0 503 (suiteness-564112e565.js, line 1818)

Prior to that, the actual network request error entry: [Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 503 (HTTP/2.0 503) (results, line 0)

The response from that network request:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<style type="text/css">html,body,iframe{margin:0;padding:0;height:100%;}iframe{display:block;width:100%;border:none;}</style>
<title>Application Error</title>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="//suiteness.github.io/suiteness.com/error">
<p>Application Error</p>
</iframe>
</body>
</html>
I took a half-way approach to this, and now work for a small consulting firm. It's much like self-employment in that I'm still working for a variety of clients and only getting paid when I work, but we have business development staff that finds the clients, and a benefits plan that I buy into at cost (this was more useful before the ACA exchanges were available). The firm handles billing and negotiating rates with the client, and pockets the difference between what the clients pay and what I get paid. In the end I net pretty close to what I'd get paid working full-time for any large employer. I found this firm from the other side, we used them to locate consultants while I was working at a previous employer, but I imagine with 15 years experience you can probably find similar organizations within your existing network.
Speaking about critical thinking: has this assertion been tested? What was the definition of critical thinking in the article? I couldn't see one that the author gave.

So called "Critical thinking" is a collection of skills and history only maps to some of them. The skills that I believe history fosters at the margin, i.e. independently of any other subject, are the following:

- For intellectual history: understanding not only that an idea might have "prior art" that can be worth learning from (to evade errors, to find interpretations you didn't consider), but also understanding the lineage of how the idea was constructed and passed on, calibrates you as to both the originality and the level of independent confirmation you can give to it. If many people come to the same conclusion from different angles, great! But in all likelihood the idea has a few core progenitors that everyone is drawing from. If this is the case, then you know to discount the fact that "everyone is doing it" away from your evaluation of the idea, and focus on the original source itself and maybe a few key proponents.

- For societal history: too often I think we underestimate what is possible for human beings to do or achieve, both the height of our accomplishments and the depth of our horrors. Societal history also lets us understand what we have precedents for, which is critical in law. I don't believe it is much use to use history for "trend-seeking", not without some conceptual augmentation (see below cf. economics), but it can definitely help to lower your surprise.

- For historiography: taking the notion "primary", "secondary", "tertiary" etc hierarchy of sources to heart, and the level of prior validity you can expect from each one, lets you understand how difficult it is to separate bias from an account of an experience, as well as encourage coming to your own interpretations by seeking the original data.

However, despite these advantages, I don't think that history is the best field for critical thinking. I believe that trophy should go to economics. Why? The reason being that economics is a field of endeavor that is a source of non-narrative (read: not bullshit prone) explanations of historical phenomena, but also extends these models to the present day and even could allow predictions of the future. Other than citing precedent and giving you evidence to feed into your thinking, history alone doesn't directly let you do this in a fashion I would consider acceptable.
I don't really see why a single standard is necessary (and this thing about self-contained packages makes me cringe a little).

Package managers have always cross pollinated and flourished thanks to that - as an example RPM does not support automatic dependency resolution, remember. That came later - and yum was pretty horrible in its initial incarnations...

It's not like you will have multiple distributions in your fleet (pretty please?), right? So you should still have to build only for a single target - and I'm pretty sure your resident ops guy is more than happy to help you do that instead of some of the other horrible things I see people deploy with.
That's an interesting perspective -- to clarify, do you just consider that any subjective judgment is derived from a set ideology?
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> So what? Those trade agreements were made under the assumption that they'd be good for America. Now that we know they're bad for America, the assumptions under which they were made are invalid.

How do you know that? They have certainly hurt some Americans, but have resulted in lower consumer prices and a higher standard of living for almost everyone. This is covered in the article as a tradeoff of trade policy.
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Where in the world are you?
I agree, steam has some massively stupid region locks. For example, a friend wanted me to play the secret world recently. I could not download it from Japan, on steam, but could from the companies site.

I ended up logging into his steam to download the client, then launched from the directory to log into my account(due to their slow servers, steams being faster and more updated - go figure).
So does pure math.
I do all of those things. My gaming PC is solely for games and netflix and it's connected to our television. I think it more as a gaming console than a computer. It has Windows 10 in it just for Witcher 3 and to remind me of never installing it to my laptop or workstations...

With my arch/xmonad laptop I can handle everything else, except that damn Witcher 3 :)
...Really? Because I was thinking MGS2.
You say you're hiring for Product Designers, but there are no open positions on https://www.cloudflare.com/join-our-team. How can I find out more about this?
Although I will note that non-narrative explanations can have their own sort of bullshit, the kind that comes from abstracting too much.
Technical fields -- especially those closer to technology than to natural science -- can also be extraordinarily ideological. Both in curriculum and (especially!) in culture.

For a perfect example of true ideology in action, look no further than these comments -- from members of a field renowned for epic religiousity over such comparatively inconsequential topics as programming languages, text editors, and software license preferences -- decrying the proneness of other fiends to ideological attachments!
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This very phenomenon is why doing GIS work is infuriatingly difficult. A GPS gives coordinates relative to a constellation of satellites, but given how a large chunk of California is drifting a measurable distance, using absolute coordinates would mean all your data on the location of buildings, property lines, and underground infrastructure is increasingly inaccurate.

The real world is a complicated, ugly place.
OK. But I am curious how it maps a phone number to a carrier. My understanding is that carriers do not publish the list of their customer phone numbers.

It seems like textbelt does not know this information (or at least when you sign up or send a text message). Does it try in sequence to send the text to all carriers one by one until one succeeds? If so, I'd imagine textbelt would get blacklisted pretty quickly.

It would be interesting to see how the mapping is done.