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> I have long supported offering free (tax-payer-funded) housing for the poor - studios or small apartments built in cheaper areas but with free internet.

It likely was subsidized housing for the poor in a cheaper area, but now its no longer cheap.

What isn't covered in your proposal is how to handle picking up and moving those poor people every 10 years when somewhere cheap becomes popular.
Seems unlikely that you're under any real legal obligation to pay. But as others have said, it might be worthwhile to pay, or pay partially, just to avoid burning bridges and leave on cordial terms. It would depend on the amount they expect and other factors, of course.
It is a statement that doesn't indicate how much Google is trying, and the perception of whether someone is trying to do something can be an opinion sometimes. For example, if I am trying to get healthy by only eating carbs, some people might have the opinion that I'm not even trying.
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I love how their cover photo is of somebody in front of a horribly run down building with rust & peeling paint. That really makes me want to live there!
Yeah, and that's frustrating because it also eliminates the performance gains that come when you can determine what exact function will be called, rather than having to determine it at runtime. I guess that's the consequence of TS being a superset of JS.
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Scotland has different laws around legal tender, and no notes are legal tender here.

And while you might expect shops and banks to accept any coins and notes in general circulation, they aren't obliged to at all (except the issuing bank for any notes you might have, which must exchange notes they have issued -- although since we moved off the gold standard, they'll just give you another note of the same denomination).
If it's self correcting then why does it not correct?

If lack of supply is a problem, then restricting that supply by 10-15% is part of the problem.
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This is a very dangerous game to play. I'd bet that there is more to this story than meets the eye, as there almost always is. There's always another side to the story. And in the case that this does end up as a lawsuit, name-and-shame could open the door to a much bigger case.
It might be worth learning an ML-family language
What if not being depressed is the beneficial adaptation? It would not surprise me if many depressed people have a more accurate view of the world and their place in it. When someone's expectations do not match reality it's not normally considered intelligent, but positivity seems unrealistic, common and beneficial to survival.
Well. I can imagine that there must be some kids (let's say some 4-5 year olds) who already use tablets but they have never had a picture taken with anything else but a phone. I grant you that camera is not the best example since the phones have hardly caught up to good cameras and we will see them at least in some form for a long time.
With a few exceptions he has a serious case of "I like it the way it used to be!"
Well she didn't have to stand in line for the year ;) No seriously, at some of the bigger and more central places in Nairobi you can now pick a number (and take a guess how long that might take, maybe risk going about some business in the meantime).

But yes, new tech might help with the actual issuing/processing time. In the past, getting a new passport was a matter of a few weeks[1], but they installed various processes to supposedly enhance security. This is not unfounded, as there has been a lot of counterfeiting going on with IDs and passports, e.g. for elections, immigration (mostly from Somalia), or foreign workers. But as long as better/more efficient systems are in place, I doubt their effectiveness.

[1] Even though corruption is rampant in Kenya, it isn't too bad if you're steadfastly refusing to pay bribes.
Yes, I've visited their website frequently.

No, I don't think their stereotype is changed when they push out some documents and software.

It's cultural. Gongkai vs. Open Source.
What are his antics in politics? Can you point out specifically where he is off base?
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If she has favourite or familiar Android apps, the list of Chromebooks that can run them may be valuable: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo...

(disclaimer: I used to work on chromebook software)
> The human aspect where 20/30 somethings can barely afford rent and school loans at the same time?

You could eliminate Section 8 today and this would not be solved in the bay area.
Wow, this shows that you don't think very highly of low-income people. I think a community of retired russian immigrants would be very pleasant.
The reason why governments force construction companies to do this is because if they don't, it causes ghettoisation, through precisely the mechanism you describe.

As a society, we have experimented sufficiently with ghettos as a city design strategy, and determined that they are terrible in all ways. We do not need to repeat that experiment.

You don't solve the problem of high housing costs by getting rid of the poor people (if you are in the US, you may read that as "black people": that's what this policy has always turned out to mean in that country).

If you want to reduce the cost of living, build more houses.
Would love to know who the investor and their law firm are. Unfortunately I don't think it's wise to base the decision on feedback from HN. Should ask your own lawyer b/c there may be facts that are not in your medium article. In general if there's nothing signed with the other party that explicitly says you agree to pay legal fees, at least in NY, you do not owe legal fees due to broken deal talks as a matter of law.
More details:

A service for hiring a drone pilot and getting custom aerial video/photo on demand. Book within seconds/minutes and get the flight carried out the same day. http://www.airstocinstant.com

It’s designed for any promotional video producers, enabling you to get footage from many different places in a short time. It can serve a need for real estate agents working within a large area, or advertising agencies needing multiple shots around the world.

Initial roll-out will be based on demand. Our existing business http://www.airstoc.com has over 8,000 pilots world-wide, so coverage is pretty good.
+1 this answer.

You'll most likely end up in the same spot as other suggestions: NOT paying the bill. But the WAY you approach things (very good advice here) makes all the difference.
If white people as a demographic group had the same characteristics, sure. Women in Senegal are actually oppressed.

You want to rant against feminism in e.g. the US, not feminism in Senegal. Otherwise you're just coming off as the kind of person who tried to keep women in the kitchen in the 1950s.
Your assuming pricing will be based on the rich-country market. I think that will be true at first, but people in poorer countries now have the option to pay if they value the content/platform. They can also continue to pirate until companies pull their head out of their asses.

I personally think it's a good thing, because it simplifies and moves it to a global-economy model. You are probably right that poorer countries will suffer in the short term.
Your conversation partner reads out a passage from a book... without looking at it. Instead, his unwavering, slightly deformed eyes stay fixed upon you. Always.

Of course this would be avoidable through careful implementation: only redirect the gaze if it's already directed at the screen, or even specifically at the correct part of the screen. This might require a calibration step, or at the very least, it would require the software to be aware of the relative configuration between the camera and the screen.

Still, personally I'm not really comfortable with any software systematically editing the direction of my gaze.
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Do you have something beyond a personal attack to offer?
It's kinda unsettling that the lower eyelids never seem to move. It makes it feel more obvious that it's a graphical trick, rather than natural face movement.
Don't ask us what to do. Don't ask Medium what to do. You have a VC... ask them what to do. Your current VC has probably seen stuff like this before. They will have legal expertise available to you, as well as their experience and their judgment. Ideally, you pick a VC based on their value besides mere money anyway. They should be good advisors.

If your VC says just don't engage, then don't engage. If your VC says pay them, get a second opinion coz that's BS. But odds are good that your VC will happily call them up for you and give them a good stern talking-to.

For all the calls of "sunshine" here, your own VC is in a much better position to badmouth them than we are. Toxic behavior like this can get them cut out of ride-along deals, and they don't want to lose the opportunity to be co-investors on the best deal flows.
I have a hard time taking design advice from a web site whose design consists of a narrow band of text and 2/3-3/4 empty space.
This is all terrible legal advice. If you think there may be a legal dispute, you should absolutely not communicate with the other party. You should involve your own lawyer, and decide whether and how to communicate after considering the ramifications.
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We don't know the other side of the story and the OP is just asking for advice. I don't think advising them to escalate the situation is in their own best interest.
One thing I see more and more in business in the USA is the lack of class, the lack of diplomacy and tact. It reminds me of my time in India where business transactions start off with a winner-takes-all mentality. More and more I see vendors signing an agreement that says X - and then afterwards asking us to waive rights or pay more or forgive transgressions; typically they'll say "We're not going to do what we said, please give us permission to not do what we said we'd do." Of course, they do it slightly crafty, saying "We need you to do this, OK?" And invariably, me and my team politely says "No, we will not deviate from the agreement without value, you will stick to the agreement." And invariably they do.

Tell these money lenders that you don't owe them a penny, and you decline to pay their legal bills, and not to contact you again.

You may even consider this a fair credit issue:

http://debt-collection-defense.whocanisue.com/fighting-false...

Demand proof of debt and demand they do not contact you. If they continue, take valid legal action.
Eventually there will be and the icon will have to change then, but I do grant you that now is not the time.

Now the question is: should the icons represent something "iconic" or something that most people use?
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Evolution can't force anything, and just because it's possible for a woman to not have any children, 40,000 years ago most women who could did.
No, I'm asking what your reasons for thinking corporate income and GDP aren't equivalent concepts, because I'd like to see and understand your thinking.

As I'd hoped my comment above made somewhat evident, my thinking can go either way on the concept. Your insights might give me a nudge one way or the other.

My quoting the accepted answer doesn't mean I agree with it.

The interrnal production vs. passthrough disttinction has merits. Though what of a mabufacturing company, say, of automobiles of computers?
You have a point about raising housing costs for everyone else, but I can appreciate the intent to preserve some degree of income diversity even in expensive neighborhoods.

People who write about cities have often said that a city is most healthy when people of all walks of life are able to live in proximity with each other, and it's possible that without these assistance programs (as short-sighted as they may be), we'd see more cities turn into strictly playgrounds for the rich.
I am never going outside again.
I used to work for a company which did this, though it was 4 weeks each 4 years. It was actually mandatory: to check that that the company could function without you.
> Previously: hhtpttpp://faceblablah.com/techmumbo/jumbo?not=h4ck3r. Now: <lock icon>facebooook.com.ru => "wow this really is not Facebook!". I basically witnessed such behaviour change first hand.

Anyone who does that is uneducated and ignorant; the proper response to that is to educate, not to remove the ability of those who are educated to do other things.
The main things to look for are a sufficient number of PCI express lanes, a high "turbo" clock speed, and sufficient memory capacity and bandwidth. The E5-2698 v4s used in the DGX-1 have 40 PCI express lanes, a 3.6 GHz turbo clock, and 76.8 GB/s memory bandwidth. So does the Core i7-6900K. (The Core i7-6900K has a max turbo clock of 4 GHz, but fewer cores, and smaller total DRAM capacity than the E5-2698v4 (128GB vs 1536GB).)
Instead of fixing bus that's too slow for SSD (really too slow?) they're made that hack with duct tape. And it surely has proprietary API and direct addressing (no filesystem) like in 50s.

Then they'll integrate ethernet into video card for high speed traders (also can be marketed as lower latency for gaming). But why not to integrate whole PC into it? With gaming console-style OS on it.
Just because I'm procrastinating doesn't mean I'm being unproductive. Quite often, my brain needs to shove problems back into asynchronous batch processing in the back end.

Or, as someone once told me, "That's not programming. That's just typing!"
Leg work:

- Getting the data into a shape that you can use. Normally a total PITA. For futures, you have to either stitch the contracts yourself, or get a pre-stitched series, which you have to take time to understand. Filtering it for weird data points.

- Writing the strategy / backtesting code. The fun part.

- Connecting to a broker. Gotta read API docs, test the functions, connect it to your code in a way that makes sense, and probably in a way that makes it easy to switch brokers. Test the price feed, write error handling code.

- Daily operations code. You'll need a daily process where you can see what's going on. Automated testing of the trade report for correctness. Notifications from brokers need responses, you need to post margin as well. Some kind of SMS or Whatsapp for when something is wrong. Holiday calendar.

250k is not enough. Some of the futures contracts are quite large, and you won't be able to get the full benefit of diversification if you don't have a bunch of instruments to trade (look for a blog called Investment Idiocy, he recently talked about this). Above ~$3-5M, it isn't a problem and you can ignore it.
Professional GIS user here. Most of my high resolution terrain models are well within the capacity of even a modest GPU to load into WebGL and run on a browser without breaking a sweat. Terrain models are static by nature and don't require a lot of horsepower once they are loaded.

The struggle comes in reading the data from storage, where several minutes can be spent loading in a single high resolution raster for analysis/display. When I built my own PC this year, I splurged on an M.2 SSD for the OS and my main data store. Best decision I ever made for my workflow - huge 3D scenes that formerly took minutes to load on a spinning platter now pop up in seconds.

This thing would probably be the bees knees for what I do. Shame it starts at $10k (and that it's AMD so no CUDA, so no way to justify it at work for "data science" :-/).
If you waited a year to file your taxes in Canada before buying you'd avoid the tax.

If you read the article above about taxing based on where you file, the economists who proposed the tax propose it as an annual tax. So if you bought before you filed in Canada, you'd only pay in the first year. Subsequent years you'd file in Canada and be exempt from the tax.
I'm sure future investors will be comforted by your open ended internet inquiry on legal matters /s.
Does it make sense to force a low income worker to commute from antioch to menlo park every day, while providing a subsidized menlo park apartment to an elderly person who doesn't participate in the work force?

If we're going to set aside subsidized apartments in newly constructed buildings close to job centers for low or moderate income people, I don't think it's especially callous or outrageous to insist that they be provided to people who need to be close to job centers for employment reasons.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like either outcome, really, I'd prefer to see an elderly person get to stay close to where he or she lived for many years. But I also see the effect that these brutal commutes have on low income workers who can'r afford to live near the job centers, how little they see their families or kids, how much it takes out of them. Seems like there's a lot of harm there you aren't really considering.
> France here, and the new one feels so much better. I definitely viewed the old one as a U.S. centric thing (similar to units).

That's a bit funny, since it's France's revolutionary units which have been imposed on almost the entire world.
Personally I liked the old way when there was a crappy low resolution icon, with text underneath telling you what it was. In most interfaces since the text disappeared it takes me a while to work out what at least some of the icons are.
Laundering is usually "the concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money." That could apply to swapping for euros or whatever. It's whether you are doing it to conceal the origins that is important.
I don't have a source, but someone said that we don't crash cars for crashworthiness, we crash cars to validate the computer models we have for crashworthiness.

I don't completely agree with that statement, but I do think it's interesting.
I had the pleasure of dealing with C++ classes with a dozen or more gratuitously overloaded operators, including overloaded cast operators. You'd cast an object to a certain type in order to access a member of that type, instead of accessing that member in a normal way. I never doubted for a second that it was all done for job security, this stuff is real.
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I have a friend who doesn't only preserve media, but also makes it more accessible. Specifically DVDs of the non-english sort are digitized, translated, and subtitles added, without removing any of the existing content. If there are space limitations, existing content is slightly compressed (for example audio commentary tracks). Additionally great care is taken to strictly adhere to (or even make adherent to) industry standards, so the resulting files, when burned to any dvd, will work with any player regardless of age or compatibility.

Some would call it piracy.

But effectively media from the 80s and earlier, that would otherwise become completely unavailable, or rot, becomes preserved and available for many generations to come.
How does that explain INFORMS for Operations Research?

WWII was the catalyst for a lot of technical research. It spawned the birth of the modern computer with Turing and it also saw the birth or what is now considered modern Operations Research. For example, during WWII George Dantzig (the person that developed the Simplex Algorithm) served in the U.S. Air Force Office of Statistical Control. He only returned to finish his PhD at Berkeley after the was was over. Also a lot of work with Bayesian search started developing around this time to do things like help search for enemy subs.

However INFORMS is very involved in the OR/MS community and multiple times per year they host meetings where one of the goals is to connect grad students with companies.
I find this to be generally true. I used to think i was just working too hard in the early part of the day, burning myself, and simply needed to take breaks. Its true to an extent, but generally speaking I find I have a "window" where I can get meaningful work done, usually between 9-3. Some days its really long, some days it doesn't exist at all, but most days its about 4-6 hours. I either pad the extra time (and feel like I'm doing something wrong) or stress out trying to be more productive. But in reality, I think the window is simply how creative effort works. Though my current office is pretty good about this in general, I wonder if more companies could embrace it would we develop patterns to maximize and plan around these effectivity windows.
Everyone should be using the command line if that argument were true. Its much more efficient for most purposes once you know it well.
They figured since you got some funding, you might be foolish enough to pay to make them go away. Please talk to your VC, get legal advice and if possible do name those idiots so folks who know to steer clear from them. Ask that VC, if they pay the legal fees for all the companies they decline.
Height has definitely transcended other physical traits like physical strength in terms of hunter-gatherer advantageous traits.

Women still prefer many of these physical traits, but probably not as much as wealth, which is linked to intelligence, which comes by default with age.

So you have to factor in what traits are conducive to wealth accumulation, and the easiest and biggest one is probably longevity. If you can be an older, wealthier male with his shit together, that's probably one of the bigger factors over height.
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I'm currently exploring the option for the other engineers on my team to implement a simple system of checklists to enforce best practices in code review and design (code design or "code architecture").

The goal with these checklists is to create a system in which everyone can check their code design against a checklist of best practices, considerations, and common pitfalls.

This would also help our small team with having a history of each person's checklist, and the discussion we started when reviewing their code & checklist.

Curious if anyone has implemented a checklist system in their engineering team, and if so, what some good items to put on the checklist are.
How did you acquire that number? I'd love to own a 867-5309.
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On the mac/iOS platforms, SMS is not really 2FA since text messages land straight in Messages.app, as Apple forwards the SMS onto iMessage. Granted, the phone needs to be nearby but it doesn't need to be unlocked.

Should we call that 1.5 Factor Authentication? :)
Why would you hope that? What do you gain by polarizing an entire group of people based on something as inconsequential as fluoride? Are you unable to brush your own teeth and would suffer great harm if they stopped profiting from companies who pay to dump their fluoride waste into our water supply?

Crazy ideas only get crazier when you don't calmly address them with education and instead find some weird necessity to ostracize those with differing viewpoints.
This is really just a pro-skeumorphism rant. I'm personally not a fan of skeumorphism, especially when taken to extremes like the silly leather calendar in previous OS X versions.

The real problem I have with Apple is the abysmal developer service their app stores offer and the technical stagnation of some of their products. They've got plenty of money and should be really really pushing the envelope. Where's my octacore laptop? Where's my really good issue tracker in the app store with 60 minute turnaround?
Your colleague doesn't use completion?

To me, using CLI is like having a conversation, with much richer vocabulary, than GUI. That's just pointing at things.
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