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I'm going to counter the "math" in this thread

Let's take the example of Nick eg:

"Nick Merz knows how tough it can be. He’s a 41-year-old product designer at Apple Inc. whose wife also works there, and says they couldn’t figure out if they could afford to own a place anywhere near the company’s offices in Cupertino, where the median value is $1.8 million."

Glassdoor check for sr product designer = base of $157,000 to a max of $200,000.

With 7 years figure he's at $180,000.

Figure his wife is in another $100,000 territory as a co-apple employee.

So maybe they're at $280,000.

With a 20% downpayment they can "afford" $1,931,000 of house (2)

Why?

Because interest rates are insanely low.

But problem for nick and others is that lenders want a 20% down payment because that gets skin in the game.

On that $1.931 house that's $386,200 which is damn near impossible to cobble together after dropping crazy SF rents for a decade (or two).

My guess is that the bankers are using significant stock options as a swap or partial collateral for that down payment.

That's a bet I would take eg:

- You've got a guy with a 7 year track record at the most valuable company in the world + his wife there too which is solid income criteria.

- You've got him with real skin in his game - his life savings which just happens to be in apple stock and probably will always be worth more than zero, and likely enough to continue working for even in a downturn.

- Even if the house drops in value when interest rates go up (which is the most common prediction from mortgage bankers I know) Nick needs a place to live by Apple, is invested in his house, and is as likely as anybody to continue paying a mortgage on an asset that technically is worth less than he paid, but because it's tied to a monthly payment he can "afford", will stay on for the long haul.

(1) https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Apple-Senior-Product-Design...

(2) https://www.zillow.com/mortgage-calculator/house-affordabili...
> On some of the models you're describing the motherboard is soldered to the chassis

Ew. What purpose does that serve?
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I use it strictly to connect with other software engineers. Outside of that, I agree with you. I'm extremely careful about what I tweet or like or re-tweet. I don't think most folks would find Twitter that useful. I didn't really get it until I joined, and the only thing I've found it helpful for is to network with other engineers.
It's not as simple - with current charging speeds, 120 mile charge is not enough even if you're doing 10 mile deliveries; you need to figure out some solution that can keep that truck running for e.g. a 12 hour shift with limited downtime.

A gas tank with barely enough gas for 120 miles would work, but a battery for 120 miles can work only if you can quickly, easily and safely swap the batteries in your depot.
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> I can't think of a single thing I am missing out on, by not having an active Twitter account, but can think of many reasons to not have one.

The same thing can be said for any social network. Some people see value, others see nothing but stress.
And once that person rebels, according to Presidential Decision Directive XXX, the government may consider that person an unlawful enemy combatant, apprehend them without a warrant, and incarcerate them at Secure Facility [REDACTED] for interrogation and/or neutralization by means of [REDACTED]. If they are ever heard about again, it will be because the government "found" ISIS materials, CP, or other bad stuff on their computer.
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I'm not familiar with the entire exchange, but I think the last straw was Milo posting fake screenshots of homophobic tweets from Leslie.
Maybe automated trucks won't need that beep, once they can be trusted to stop before crushing anyone behind them?
I hope the borrowers are being careful not to pledge their employer stock; that is against most insider trading policies, because it can result in a forced sale during a closed trading window.
NAFTA isn't what caused the changes in the labour market you lament. 2nd wave globalization, a shift to a knowledge economy and changes in social equality, especially with the rise of women in the workforce and the acceptance of child raising men all contributed to major changes in the labour force
It's easy to get the feeling that the "default support" setting may have helped that, from a casual following of the ethereum scene
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>Buying a new Air doesn't make sense since it's outdated a bit and doesn't fit most of what I want.

Um, this is what _you_ said -- "Currently, only Air fits the bill, but it's getting old."

Sorry, I still have no idea why are you're looking for a MB air replacement instead of upgrading to a newer model.
As to the importance of the term "anthropogenic"...

If we aren't causing it (or contributing significantly), then stopping what we're doing won't fix it. So yes, it's important to the conversation that we're actually causing the problem.
Those are only half of the numbers. Yes, poverty has been reduced, but the global wealthy have seen their ownership over the collective wealth of humanity increase much more drastically. Where are the numbers that demonstrate that the only way to raise people out of poverty was to sell their countries' resources to the highest bidder and turn them into markets for international capital?

This question investigates a counterfactual claim. Could poverty be eliminated in a world without neoliberal politics determining the structure of the global economy?
Same here. I have an account, but I've never found any use for it. I've tried a few times, but it offers nothing that I want.

I tend to be more "Social" on sites that focus on a specific topic like StackOverflow, Blogs that I follow, Facebook for friends and family, so Twitter offers nothing there.

Others seem to use twitter as a new aggregator where stories they care about get bubbled up by their followers. I use feedly though to track the hundreds of sites I care about and I've gotten very adept at filtering through the content I don't care about using it.

When I have used twitter, I've found the amount of content overwhelming and I hate that I feel this need to "Catch up" since last time I looked at it. It's endless monotony.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12149183

I did not see a way to look at other people's recipes like at AllRecipes.com.
I was about to downvote after reading your edit, but part of me likes that attitude. That you're so passionate about your objection actually helped me arrive at the same conclusion. That and my own thought: Why would a developer come on here to suggest a fix if they weren't aware of this potential security flaw?

There are appropriate channels to ask questions like that and appropriate times to downvote. But, hey, I'm not here to offend the hivemind. Please have mercy ;)
Most interviews I've ever gone through could easily be characterized as hazing. At least these guys told you right away NO rather than doing the typical passive aggressive "Silicon Valley Silence" routine. Another commenter here mentioned that he was actually provided feedback on his interview performance, which is a huge plus.
Well look I'm a big Tesla fan, too. When it comes for those _outside_ the vehicle the OP is right. Where I live I get engaged by Model Ss all the time in city traffic, either on bike or on foot. For me, there is no noticeable difference between a _modern_ car and a Tesla when it comes to the noise level. Perhaps it's bias as I might expect the Tesla to be more quiet than it is, but anyway that's my perception.
Likewise, it would be nice to see Samsung commit commercial suicide and have Google phones and other OEM's take their place.
I actually looked into it. You are required to put 4 months of payments in escrow. This is far less than a downpayment, but still shows your ability to pay.
Yeah he used the term "violence" as a drop in substitute for the term "troll". Not to dismiss that one can incite or promote violence via trolling, but they are not unanimously equivalent.
Also, someone like Mark Zuckerberg has almost 0 default risk. To the banks, this is free money.

Remember, when the bank issues a mortgage for 3.5%, the spread between that and their cost of capital covers the risk of default. But if the default risk is minimal, they can basically issue the loan at cost.
>The root problem with Twitter is that the product is carefully engineered to cultivate maximum violence.

Hard to make it past this part. Not sure what definition of violence you're using.
Thank to him and reinstall the server from scratch.
If you work for a company that preaches it's all about the bottom line and nothing else counts then I'd suggest you work for a shitty company. I would and have left companies with that attitude. For several reasons but a big one is that it's simply short sighted and ineffective. It leads to thinking like let's out source all our devs because it will save us short term money and the proves the fact that companies don't value employees as contributors but view them as cogs to output shitty products. If you are a talented engineer you don't have to put up with that.
There are two different things:

From your link: Taxpayers can deduct the interest paid on first and second mortgages up to $1,000,000 in mortgage debt (the limit is $500,000 if married and filing separately).

So mortgage interest for loans beyond $1M are not deductible at all.

Then there is the deduction phase-out

> You are subject to the limit on certain itemized deductions if your adjusted gross income (AGI) is more than $309,900 if married filing jointly or qualifying widow(er), $284,050 if head of household, $258,250 if single, or $154,950 if married filing separately. Your AGI is the amount on Form 1040, line 38.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch29.html
>It's impossible by design to ever speak to an actual human who works at Twitter

There absolutely is, if you have a friend of a friend work there in which case you can get special backchannel treatment and they'll ban whomever tweets something unpleasant at you.
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> Cool. Where's Word, Tinder, Instagram, Google Maps, Google Mail, Outlook and WhatsApp?

Where are any of these apps on Windows or OSX? Word is the only one with a native app, the rest are either mobile only, or browser based.
The only "safe" way to use Twitter now is as an echo chamber - only follow people you like, only talk to people who think the same way you do.

That is by no means safe, when brigaders are actively looking for opportunities for whipping up a mob.
Former Softie, worked in Windows for 9 years from Vista to Win8, mostly on the Shell and UI platform teams. For Vista and half of Win7 development, I was the PM owner for our UI platform (comctl32, DirectUI, Visual Styling, and High DPI). This is my opinion, I don't speak for the company -

During my time there, I did not see any anti-competitive practices the author is speaking of. Those days are long gone. I know first hand we were committed to compatibility and growth of the platform, new and old. That being said, it's clear that building on Win32 is painful and not cheap. Win32 is great if you want direct system access and complete control over everything, up and down the stack. This works well for large enterprise applications and games. The tradeoff here is that you must roll your own everything and work hard not to do stupid shit.

During the Vista days, we saw that the Windows app ecosystem was struggling because we didn't have a good platform story. You had to choose between Win32 and .NET. If you're a native developer, it was Win32. Win32 didn't provide a great app and UI framework (have you ever tried to owner draw a control or do fluid layout?). This is why many app developers during that time built their own app and UI framework, used MFC or leveraged a 3rd party framework. I was only familiar with the app platform so I can't speak to the options for building a game. I'm sure it was limited as well.

Microsoft introduced many platforms since Vista - WPF, Silverlight, XNA, Win8 Apps (Windows XAML and WinJS), and UWP. I'm sure there are more :) Even with all of those new platforms in the mix, Win32 is still alive and well.

I believe UWP is a huge win for developers. You don't need to roll your own everything. For the companies that want complete control, Win32 is still there. It is true that certain things are only available to UWP developers. There is no malicious intent, it's really only about priorities. The new thing comes first. The developer community needs to speak up if they want something. Microsoft will listen.
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In her speech to the Democratic National Convention last night, Academy-Award winner Meryl Streep gave a shout out to Deborah Sampson who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Earning the title of: "the first woman ever to take a bullet for our country."

From wikipedia:

Sampson fought in several skirmishes. During her first battle, on July 3, 1782, outside Tarrytown, New York, she took two musket balls in her thigh and a cut on her forehead. She begged her fellow soldiers to let her die and not take her to the hospital, but they refused to abandon her. A soldier put her on his horse and took her to a hospital. The doctors treated her head wound, but she left the hospital before they could attend to the musket balls. Fearful that her true identity would be discovered, she removed one of the balls herself with a penknife and sewing needle, but her leg never fully healed because the other musket ball was too deep for her to reach. On April 1, 1783, she was promoted and spent seven months serving as a waiter to General John Paterson.
Is that so? Why would tech workers be considered elite?
For awhile I ran a really large email system for an enterprise with lots of different lines of business -- right after the change in Federal rules of civil procedure that made email the best place to hunt for evidence in litigation. At the same time, we were working with archivists on some of the issues around preserving documents -- the ODF vs Microsoft format thing was a hot item at the time.

That really opened my eyes to the often ignored downsides of electronic media. In the US, we have constitutional protections around our "papers" in our homes, but third party doctrine dramatically weakens the protections around all sorts of things.
Except the fuel used to create the airplane ;)
I like how everyone now wants an echo chamber of their own ideas and are so uncomfortable with someone who challenges their opinions that they demand a service change the way it operates. I'm not saying the bashing/harassment is okay, it isn't.
Perhaps removing the 'lifetime caps' on most services changes this?

I'd have thought, for example, if there's a lifetime cap of $10m on services from my insurance company, and I have, say, $50m in an account just for my medical needs, I'm more than self-insured compared to what I'm protecting myself from with insurance. It seems 'lifetime caps' are largely gone for most services now.

EDIT - thanks for your reply.
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Yeah so this seems great, except that's not what should be setting the price of developers. Supply and demand (for the most part) sets the price (and should, IMO) of developers, and that's what I want, not some rubric.

Outside of transparency, this strikes me as no different from the "grade" systems at various big companies like HP, IBM, etc. If you want to pay me fairly, pay me what the market says I'm worth.

Things also get super messy when you get people to try and review/make objective assessments of their own skills and others'.

"Most of us are a 1 or a 2" -- aiming high is great and all, but I would be pissed if I was the most consistently good engineer in the company yet didn't get some multiple of my salary because the "best" at the company is a 2 because of the ridiculously high bar that is set. Also I can definitely see a system like this trampling all over developers who should be paid more but THINK they're not that valuable, or afraid to assert themselves.

This calculator just makes me think it serves as an effective way to pay people less than what they're worth, and convince those same people that they're getting treated fairly. You should not be counting on your company to pay you what you are worth, regardless of whatever rubrics or whatever they show you.
Another issue that contributes to anger on Twitter is that comments on tweets are displayed based on the time which they appeared. So angry and unhelpful comments often appear at the top, even if no one likes them, because they were posted first.
140 Characters; 100% agree, it should have been a minimum requirement of the message length instead maximum.
Stack Overflow employee here, here's some answers (or at least, my take).

Regarding point 1, remember that there are no salary negotiations at Stack Overflow. No one gets a raise because they ask. People get raises because they demonstrate skills, increase experience, etc... A candidate will have an initial skill evaluation they might not like, but they are pretty much guaranteed to have a much better one after one year, and if it is a big positive correction, then be it! There are no negative corrections btw - previous years salaries are at least maintained.

Secondly, I sincerely doubt we'd make an offer to a candidate that assumes their skills are all at the top of the range. "Fives" are extraordinarily rare, most employees have no fives, and the ones that do have one five.

Regarding point 2, as an employee I am not concerned with the salary of others per se. I know that they have the salary which corresponds to their perceived skills. It's likely that I would object to some evaluations of skills if I saw them, but that's an order of magnitude healthier than having salary envy. In fact, keeping evaluations fair and in check is a very good thing for the company.
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No, it'll be the refugees first.

The problems of the middle east aren't just religious, the region has seen huge population growth in the 20th century beyond the ability of its natural resources to sustain it. This is not hyperbole, Yemen is running out of water.

If it's 54C outside in Kuwait, how habitable is that really? What if it's three or four degrees hotter?
That's actually stupidly hard. Why do you need to do anything at all?
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There's also the issue of users being stuck on older versions of the addon.

Update: Looks like LastPass has made a blog regarding the exploit and have stated v3 of the addon is not affected [1]. Would be nice to have further clarification of the differences between v3 and v4 with regard to this.

[1] https://blog.lastpass.com/2016/07/lastpass-security-updates....
I think he has a fair idea:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/violenc...

2. Strength of emotion or of a destructive natural force
You can use their data and (fast?) order fulfilment to test your algo to the point where you know it performs well, and then go off and do whatever wherever you want with it. You wouldn't "hand it over".

From Quantopian's FAQ: [1]

Q: Who owns my algorithms?

A: You own your algorithms. Everything you write is yours. Quantopian does not own your algorithms; you do.

Q: Are my algorithms secret?

A: Your algorithms are kept secret. We are committed to protecting your intellectual property and keeping it safe. Ideas are some of the most valuable assets anyone has. We take this responsibility to our members extremely seriously

Caveat: In their detailed terms: "If in the course of providing technical support or other maintenance of the Services it becomes necessary for Quantopian to view your private Content, such viewing will be restricted to the very specific technical purpose." [2]

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People are tired from crybullies. We need a place where freedom of speech still matters.

Freedom of speech doesn't include invading someone's privacy (this is illegal; doxxing, stalking etc. should be banned and actively fought against). But if you can't handle insults, it is not anyone's job to prevent them. There's always "Block" button, and then, there's always "delete account" button.
it sounds a bit too idealistic. How about if someone is hired at a hire rate because "well we needed someone with his skill set ASAP, so we agreed to pay him a premium" (but we can't afford to pay everyone at that rate) or "We desperately needed someone quickly with skill set X and he was the only person available"

And sometimes comparing people and their skill sets is really apples to oranges. If one guy is an expert on some very specific top, and thats important for your business (and is therefore an expensive hire) - it doesn't mean you should create an incentive for other employees to learn his skill set (maybe you only need one statistician or expert in COBOL or whatever)

"There's no compensation system that makes everyone happy"

Sure, pay people way above market rate and don't allow them to compare wages. They will not feel ripped off and they don't develop a sense on inadequacy
> Tech workers are the American elites.

I don't have any congressmen on speeddial to get whatever I want passed through the next pork barrel bill in Congress, what am I doing wrong?
How much will the version of the Model 3 with 215 miles of range cost, though? I know that with the Model S, the headline price was for a heavily range-reduced version that Tesla didn't actually end up making - the handful that shipped were actually the next model up with a software restriction added.
I was right there with you for the longest time, until I realized it's all about very carefully curating your feed. Only follow thoughtful, interesting people who's opinions you respect, and purge the nonsense with extreme prejudice. It's probably the best way of staying on top of what's happening in any particular industry/field of study if you look at it that way.
What's Happening. https://blog.twitter.com/2016/see-whats-happening Twitter's best promotional explanation ever I'd say.
I made a version of this argument three years ago here: http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/

Twitter's core problem is that its product's design encourages users to behave badly. Mechanisms are baked deeply into it that make it very difficult for its users to come across as anything other than jerks. Even those with the best of intentions fall afoul of these mechanisms by accident periodically, sometimes with serious real-world consequences like loss of a job or important personal relationships. Users with bad intentions, meanwhile, are enabled and rewarded by other mechanisms.

Twitter is a Perfect Storm of bad discussion software design.
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Google was far more concerned about Apple than Microsoft.
Thanks! I'll definitely migrate to pass soon.
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Things get interesting when we cross the inflection point of having an abundance of lift.

Once you can achieve X+Y lbs of indefinite lift, where X is the necessary weight and Y is the excess, then maintaining Y*C aloft indefinitely becomes simply a matter of scaling the number of crafts to contribute the requisite excess lift (aerodynamics aside for the time being).

What affect will indefinitely floating object, barges, buildings (living, restaurants, business), etc... have on society where fuel isn't a factor? (e.g., Facebook's global internet, cheaper flying transports, cars and eventually domiciles)