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It is and always was the reflect of a dysfunctional view of society. One fit for the military dictatorships of its time. One with no concern for mass transport, housing and entertainment (even as the 60s where when metro started in Rio and São Paulo).
It is where by design one would live the closest to the artificial lakes and best public infrastructure according to the position it has on the State administration.

With no place though for the supporting people, who ended living in rings of poverty around the designed opulence. Going on-and-of during hours everyday to serve the rich bureaucrats they support.

Having been there sometimes, it is disgusting.
Hater's gonna hate.
Nice! I would be interested in a more granular version of this to be able to compare different cities.
Unless you have open redirection on one of your routes you are right. CSP is the answer.

https://chloe.re/2016/07/25/bypassing-paths-with-open-redire...
Then it seems like a job to me, if it is, then they should pay a salary.
Thanks.

It seems I have been censored, however. My new posts no longer show up when I'm logged out. No reason given. I also can't create another account.

My guess is it's because I said IQ was hereditary? Hard to tell which of my posts violated which unwritten rule.

I'm very disappointed at the blatant exercise of power to silence me here. I said nothing against any individual, thought through my points, and have always been civil. And the under-handed shadowban methodology - ugh.

I was hoping for better from HN.
Quite. Owners of capital and land must stop their ongoing thievery from workers.
Likewise. The last time I properly tried to understand someone with whom I disagreed, it was a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses who knocked on my door. I was respectful, and gave them a solid chance to explain why they believed as they did, and the guy did open up a bit about the way that his existential fears during the Cuban missile crisis lead him back to the church for comfort, but it fairly rapidly came down to their dogma. They seemed very genuine, so maybe I just didn't ask the right questions at the right time.
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Notice how one of the largest expenses for the poor are energy and transportation. Then note the cost of renewables driving down the cost of energy, and electric cars on a steep cost curve decline.

Technology is deflating costs (to the chagrin of central banks trying to stoke inflation). We must continue to innovate.

Remember, there is no need for poverty if clean energy and automation can provide for everyone's basic needs. We are almost there.
It's not thievery, it's taxation. If you advantage from the system you should pay back into it.
Since when did the definition of altruism exclude acts just because they make a person feel good?

There seems to some serious latent Puritanism in this discussion.
>Logical conclusions - without a food surplus, there is no class system and other results

That would make humans the only mammal out of ~5,500 species to not have a social hierarchy and those other species didn't develop hierarchies because they had a surplus of food.
Complaining about a poke at Apple is irrelevant. That's what derailed the thing, not the original comment.

"Someone got offended" is the problem here. Not the alleged offender.
Unfortunately there isn't a clear name for it. There's a bunch of sibling comments that, I think, don't quite get it right. Autocomplete is a feature. For any given autocomplete implementation, there can be a number of different sources to actually populate the AC UI. Company mode in Emacs (COMPlete ANYthing) works this way - it's a general AC framework, and different modes can provide different AC sources to it. Hippie completion, in Emacs at least, refers to a combination of a variety of sources - text in the current buffer, in other buffers, on the kill ring (e.g. Recently copied text), etc.
If I understand your question correctly I think you're asking what network connectivity is 'upstream' from the wireless network, and how/if that compares to purchasing a connection from the telco?

In my experience the way this works is that we buy a leased fiber connection - say 1GBPS, usually terminated either in a regular datacenter or in a business park somewhere. Sometimes you're buying that line from the same entity that is also selling residential Internet access in nearby neighborhoods (IE CenturyLink) but the business group you're dealing with is almost entirely distinct from the residential Internet service group.

1GBPS will go further than you think - you can put 700-800 heavy usage customers (cord cutters, college students, etc) on a 1GBPS link and never (or very rarely) max it out. Selling higher speed plans doesn't really increase the max throughput on the network either, except in fairly predictable 'bands'. That seems unintuitive, but most people don't really increase their Internet usage depending on the speed of the connection (other than at a few thresholds, IE going from <1mbps to something that allows cable-cutting) so selling a faster connection just gets them their data faster and frees up your capacity for the next request.
Activation Lock is managed by Apple's servers. When the OS is erased or updated, it must contact Apple to "Activate" before it will complete startup.
It's not humor when it always falls to the same side.
The crazy thing isn't the real value of $100 spent on private goods and services. It's the value of $100 spent in taxes.

Federal tax receipts in California, Illinois and New York subsidize Florida, Texas and much of the south.[0] The hypocrisy of fiscal conservatism is that it is enabled by giant high-tax Democratic states.

[0] https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the...
Quite nice. Thanks for the heads up.
This is where shit goes off the rails before it's even begun. "Take" needs to be so much more well explained, because on its face, I agree with you!

But, when looked at on balance, simple things like fair working wages also help redistribute wealth down the ladder but aren't burdened with the hyperbole of the rich being mugged by the poor.

The argument is forever framed as three sets of hands - one with cash, one in the middle that pries the cash from the first set and hands it to the third. We don't need to talk about direct redistribution by force. Fair market practices and regulations that prevent one from taking unfair advantage of another do the trick just fine.
> the only category which is waiting for 12 years are indians, because consulting companies like ...

There is a small fixed number of GC's allocated to each country, irrespective of the population of that country or the number of people applying from that country. So Iceland gets the same allocation as India or China.

If you randomly pick six humans alive on this planet now, one of them is likely to be Indian and one of them is likely to be Chinese. And hence, the allocated GC numbers (~ 7K per year IIRC) don't suffice for these countries resulting in huge backlogs. I think this has very little to do with consulting companies etc.

> High skilled engineers from rest of the world are waiting for green cards for 2-3 years only.

High skilled Indian or Chinese engineers who applied 12 years ago are getting their GCs now. Those that apply now will likely get it in a few decades only. You seem to suggest that this is somehow OK because "well, it is after all just the Indians!". Why is that so?
Okay, but what does that have to do with the article? It brings nothing to the table.

Of course we should innovate and keep bringing costs of everything down; this will happen with or without city planning.
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You can't make a profit from your efforts without infrastructure, and you can't build and maintain infrastructure without a lot of people. Paying the people who support your infrastructure with the money you made off it isn't thievery, it's an investment in your society and culture.
I can understand it, if it's not too draconian. It's nice for some central power to have coherent walktnroughs on how to set up an editor to lint, etc. If another dev wants to use a different editor and can make it work, it's fine by me, but I can't see anyone "supporting" every editor out there.
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I feel like that's too simplistic a way to look at it. In this country we've passed many laws to weaken and even remove entirely a previously strong union system. Did all the workers who are today making less money and/or have less benefits as the result of union busting have their money "taken away?" Some estimates suggest that the lack of enforcement of immigration laws have lowered the income of people without a high school diploma by as much as 7%. The rest of us saved a ton of money. Did those poor people have their 7% "taken" by the wealthy business owners who hire those illegal immigrants?
But it does! If you're performing city planning, you should be requiring the installation of solar panels on low income housing. You should be ensuring electric vehicles can be supported (as simple as making a weather proof NEMA dryer plug available for each vehicle parking spot). You must ensure that low income citizens can directly benefit from these cost-reduction technologies.

EDIT:

The only three resources that have been inflating in cost are real estate (can be fixed with policy), education, and healthcare. Those last two can also have their costs driven down with technology.

It's first principles all the way down.
Here's the related Reddit thread: http://reddit.com/r/softwaregore/comments/4w3cn0/so_i_accide...

Sounds like the bot was broken prior to the user entering JS.
One other consequence of this is that a cleaning lady in San Francisco may make $70K per year and be near the poverty line, yet be in the same tax bracket as a professional living in Nebraska who is living well above the poverty line.

It would be interesting to see an illustration of how regressive Federal tax brackets are when you consider the state-by-state cost of living differences. Some of the most populous states have the highest cost of living.
RL can in principle recover necessary subsystems, but you can't tell if that has actually happened. A human designed system may not be as comprehensive asymptotically as a learned system, but the designer can ensure that critical portions of the state space are covered.
I work across many code bases and technology stacks so I use it to standardize tasks such as: build, test, continuous testing, running and linting. Without it I would have to remember the command for each code base.
The cool telemetry phone home features that cannot be turned off in a reliable way (think updates). It's the feel good vibe that runs through all new MS apps and Win10. We should thank the third CEO for his great vision and be happy to give him all insight he needs. He is clearly steering his thriving platform to the next level.
I think the point is that the cost of living is exceeding the income of working for most Americans.

The claim have always been that the market makes things cheaper which I would hold is still true. Yet more and more people become working poor because their income doesn't follow the increase in cost of basic necessities.

So something is out of sync and it's worth investigating what that might be.
You know I can't agree with you more.
That's why we need a 100% inheritance tax.
So someone's effort doesn't go to someone who doesn't deserve it.
Why does Squarespace insist that we code up our tables?
OT but I'd be more curious to know how you handle things when you've done it "right". Said yes to this, no to that. You're booked with an abundance of time.

Then you hit a snag in a project and what you thought was going to take a few days ends up taking weeks. Then more weeks because of more unforseen issues.

Sure you could've researched things to death from the start but there were hidden gremlins you couldn't have seen until you were knee-deep in either research or development.

What then? You're going to blow your deadline and that'll cascade to other work scheduled after your current workload.
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That setup doesn't make any sense to me.

Either its an open program or a closed program.

A closed program that allows submissions from others is an open program.

What reasons what they have to do it this way? My first guess is to tick some checkbox.
Of course totalitarian regimes want self driving cars. They take control away from the people and all kinds of ways to track the people.
Ah, yeah, fair point - that does move us away from the physical.
There was a time if you had issues with hardware, and email to Steve Jobs actually resulted in a customer escalation. I had one of the 15" MBPs that had the Nvidia chip issue, but never experienced that. But had 3 other problems -- all handled (first time for me with Mac hardware). A polite email on a friday night after I did hit my 4th hardware issue, next trip to the apple store was for a "in kind" based on purchase price replacement.

Apple Software has been suffering for awhile. And where software was involved, he certainly did call teams out for failures, but we also ended up with the path iTunes is on under his watch.

That said, I don't know now, but at a time, an email to Jobs did make things happen.
Give it time. Why are you flat? be specific. Did you lose money? What's the reason you are down?
A client who knew nothing about programming whatsoever, much less the intricacies of programming languages, wanted my brother and I to build the stupid app they wanted in Ruby on Rails. We explained to them we don't know Ruby on Rails and doing it in that language would take us 4x longer because we'd have to learn both a language and framework as we were building the app.

"Nope, it has to be Ruby on Rails. Oh, and some firm in San Jose will do it $10K cheaper than your quote."

Fired the client, told them to go to San Jose.
Don't Nordic countries have some national investment fund that has about $1 million / citizen right now? What's the US surplus per citizen right now?
Just for the sake of discussion: Are they opening up because they need to do this to survive? And they need to do this to survive because their products aren't as good as they used to be and they can't live in an enclosed environment?
I'm not sure if you're being farcical, but I actually strongly support a 100% inheritance tax. It might be challenging to enforce, but it seems like the most equitable solution by far.

There's nothing wrong with people earning lots of money from their own work, but they shouldn't be able to pass that on to heirs who have done literally nothing to earn it.
I sometimes have trouble telling the difference these days.
You can look at is as "theft", sure, but in many ways that's not 100% accurate. The idea that "the rich" have earned 100% of their wealth is a hypothesis, not a fact. It's a hypothesis that would only be true if the market were also 100% free and fair. It would only be true if no amount of government regulation or law ever unfairly advantaged those who already had wealth and power. It would only be true if there were absolutely no power imbalance between workers and employers, etc. None of those things are true, so we can fairly confidently say that some portion of the wealth of most of the rich has not been gained fairly.

So then the next question is, obviously, how do you fix that? How do you ensure that the market, regulations, employment, etc. are all perfectly fair and free? And the answer there is, you very much cannot. At best it's an enormously difficult problem beyond the scale of any problem that has been tackled by human civilization to date, at worst it's fundamentally intractable.

The next question then becomes, so how do we make it more fair in the easiest way we can in the near-term? And the answer there is wealth redistribution. Power and wealth perverts fairness of markets, including labor markets, and it perverts our systems of laws and governance. That's not to say that wealth is purely evil, there are many up sides to the accumulation of wealth, and personally I'm a big fan of "capitalism" (for lack of a better word). But we need to recognize that it is very much not only a flawed and imperfect system but a system that inherently contains many aspects that are poisonous to the operation of a peaceful and sane free society. The longer we ignore that, which we have for almost 4 decades, the worse those inherently problematic aspects become, and the more those who see the truth (that the system is very much rigged against the little guy) become increasingly intolerant of the continuation of the system that they perceive is systematically putting them at a disadvantage, and that leads to "very bad things".
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That's Norway. The other Nordic countries weren't lucky enough to have significant numbers of oil.
All I have to say is that it will probably work best to encourage and support rather than push him too hard. I see down thread he's going to high school next year; I wouldn't automatically shove him off to college after graduation. It can be really lonely at a big school when one is 6+ years younger than everyone else. He might be a candidate for unschooling.
> Most people don't realize that the flight attendants are mainly there for safety

Airlines like to say that safety is priority but then dress their attendants in high heels and tight poly-cotton skirts.

On the occasions that I flew with UK armed forces, the 'flight attendants' wore stout boots, flame-resistant olive drab coveralls and gloves. Depending upon aircraft, some wore helmets too. I had no doubt they were there for my safety, there was even a story at the time about a helicopter crew throwing an Admiral out the door of a helicopter in an emergency.
Denmark have poor people too and more importantly those have less of an opportunity to make it out of their poverty once they are there.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/the-amer...
As a manager (of managers), I keep reminding my team that if I'm delegating more than they can deal with then to let me know. Personally I admire someone that speaks up and says they're at capacity - it shows self awareness as well as the ability to ask for help.

All in all: asking for help is a good thing!
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I don't see the problem unless you think Apple gets bashed more than Microsoft or Google here.

Do you think Apple gets more than Microsoft on HN? Please read any thread with Microsoft or one of their products in the title and you'll see M$ get bashed every single time. Google gets it too, from plenty of people.

Anyway, they deserve everything they get. Each one of those companies have made large crowds of enemies for various reasons.

Complaining about company bashing in general is fine by me. If you don't like it and you don't want it on HN, then I'm with you. You're just defending Apple though and that comes off as tone deaf and severely biased to me.

In any case, I don't see the mods banning people over a little poke like this. So, if people like it and upvote it then you should probably just counter with a downvote and refrain from commenting and derailing the entire thread like this.

Sorry you got offended. I thought it was funny and relevant.
Numerical analysis is different that a description. People expect you to back up numbers
I guess having denser cities where cars aren't needed would help too.
You wouldn't need to ask questions in succession to the same user. If you have, say, 4 questions you can ask 1 of them to each of 4 users.
Agreed - this would be really interesting broken by county. Santa Barbara County versus Modoc County in California; Multnomah County versus Lake County in Oregon; etc.
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> they deserve all the bashing they are getting

How is this content? It's not even a jab, because they didn't say anything about Apple.
I think that your concern is valid, something that a lot of people aren't aware of, but it probably doesn't really apply in a lot of cases most people deal with. Unless your dealing with entities that take up a page or more, then chances are the rest of the page is being used by something else. If you write to anything in the page, then the entire page has to be committed, and if the page is reused by the allocator then it is also probably already committed. So the chances you can avoid commuting memory for small objects seems likely, and it probably not really worth worrying about.

Now, if you're instead allocating large objects, or allocating a large array at one time, then in theory the allocator would get some fresh memory for that large entity (Assuming no piece of memory exists that can fit it). It should be smart enough to know that the OS will give back zeroed memory and avoid zeroing it a second time, so those pages don't have to be committed right away.

All that said, if such a thing is actually a worry then you should probably skip the default allocator move to an interface like `mmap()` anyway, which can provide pages of memory that you can be sure are untouched and read as zeros.
I had a technical interview just last week wherein I was asked to write a program to determine whether a given lights out board could be solved or not! Hadn't ever seen the game before then.
Interesting that is is a problem for people.

If anything, myself and the rest of our dev team have a problem with saying NO too often - an opportunity for us is to say either NO in a more productive way (as in, propose a compromise) or learn to be more ambitious and say YES.
My first thought was "why doesn't the cleaning lady move?" And that lead to a thought experiment: what if everyone moved to Nebraska for a more comfortable life. Prices would go up. The people would experience a Nebraska winter and be willing to have less 'real' money and move back to California. And that's right where we are in the real world. You can't balance just part of life (taxes) when there are other imbalances (benefits of place) that can't be balanced. If costs/life style were comparable in cost between CA and NE, there would be a massive influx into CA. Economics is awesome - it explains so much!
I wonder what this would look like applied specifically to housing. I suspect that people in expensive areas are paying significantly more (both absolute and as a percentage) on housing. In some ways, this is just a side effect of that phenomenon---housing prices eventually trickle down to everything else.
This week is national homelessness week in Australia.
I attended a panel by a bunch of charities here in Melbourne earlier in the week, and one of the things that kept coming up was the need to do more about affordable housing.

In Australia at least the major population centres are very expensive to live in (and there isn't much in the way of regional centres to offer alternatives).

It's such a risk for lower socio-economic groups that a bad run of luck can put them into a position of losing their accommodation.

Interestingly, some of the stats being shared by the panel indicated that the amount of money expended on dealing with the problems surrounding a given homeless individual are actually more than it would theoretically take to remove them from homelessness more directly (don't know how accurate that is).
I agree with you, I'm just disappointed with the article I guess -- it seems to dress up completely banal information as research/news.

For instance it basically says that a largely fixed dollar amount that doesn't vary that much by house, electricity consumption, looks large if you make $10,000 a year but looks tiny if you make $100,000 a year.
There's nothing inherently hypocritical about fiscal conservatism as your comment tries to imply. Republican != fiscally conservative (barring some lip service). I suspect you'd find most people who are genuinely fiscally conservative are the most well off people around.