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What's a "cleaning lady" or a "gardner" in this context? Someone who runs a cleaning or landscaping business and maintains private homes may be quite well off, but someone who is a hotel maid or a janitor probably isn't.

There's a large camp that claims dedicated performance of simple tasks, like cleaning, is no longer sufficient to make a decent living in post-industrial America, so anecdotal counterpoints to that are of interest.
Maybe -- but the advantages to Amazon are the differences from UPS and FedEx. For example, there are few sources -- the warehouses. If done right, there's no need to sort, the warehouse releases ready-to-go containers. And so on.
It is my opinion that most of us are mediocre. It's how we apply ourselves that really matters.
Remember that people with always push back when you attempt to change the status quo. First drop the expectation that you'll be encouraged and supported when you finally grow up and make the change. Just do it, and stop explaining why you're doing it.
How is a centralized grid more likely to be functioning after a disaster than decentralized solar panels?
Your point is fair; you're entirely correct, but allow me to clarify mine. The existing CSP configuration on the 'unsuspecting' server will do one of two things:

[a] allow the cross-origin request to be made, in which case the malicious website could've just made the actual request instead and obtain the body of the actual response without any of this BEAST/CRIME trickery

[b] deny the cross-origin request, in which case there is no reflected data in the response, preventing the malicious website from performing the reflected data or data-comparison attack demonstrated in the paper

(If I'm wrong, what am I missing?)
> sell

I'm offering advice. You're free to ignore it.

> That's not really happening even in countries much poorer than the US.

Events like Occupy were important warning signs. As the video I linked to discusses, the rise of populism (Trump, etc.) and the rejection of traditional institutions (e.g. brexit) are further examples of people rejecting the status quo.

Do you actually have any direct experience in living at or below the poverty line in the US? Recent experience is important, as the situation has been changing. Or are you observations made from a position of privilege? If the latter, you might want better data.

The bigger problem, though, is that you seem to be looking for signs of the open revolt I was describing. By the time that happens, we are well past the time these problems might be fixed with social programs. I'm suggesting that our current ship of state is heading towards an economic minefield; "I haven't seen any explosions" is not a particularly useful observation.
1) That is either a lie, or you should close your borders because someone is 'stealing' from you (or at least try to prevent out flux of wealth). OR (unlikely) nobody is working. Having export of course helps, but that means someone outside your country is getting poorer.
I think his comment and attitude would be more helpful, motivating and inspiring to most people, poor or otherwise, than your self pitying snark. Honestly.
Morals are not set in stone. Everybody has different morals. One might argue that people who fall for this kind of crap are very, very stupid. Being weak means that the predators eat you for lunch. In this case they just mooch off you. Humans are the apex predators and people like to forget that just because we slaughter the prey in an industrial complex and stab it with a fork.

There are other considerations both specific to this case, and in general, and I don't say I condone 100% of his actions, but don't be so quick to think that he is just rotten and you are superior.
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I have to admit that I was brought to tears reading her story. I don't sympathize with her opinion on abortion, I strongly disagree with it. But I felt her hardship and her candor when offered space to admit her personal motivations. I felt them despite being unmoved from my own opinions.

I also have to admit that I haven't always been self aware enough to make healthy corrections for my own beliefs and attitudes. 100% of those times, I've grown more with the support of people who showed care and compassion despite the flaws in my reaction to the world I find myself in.

I have to constantly remind myself that we're all in a wilderness. Nothing of importance comes easy to everyone. Nearly every person can grow, given the right conditions. And working toward making those conditions available to more people is worthwhile.
Exactly! It is hypocritical for proponents of progressive taxes to complain simply because the fiscal conservative states are benefiting from progressive taxes. Certainly it is not hypocritical for the fiscal conservative States to want to change a system that is current benefiting them to make it flat for everyone.

The other thing I am not sure about is why OP highlights high tax Democratic States, no doubt that is what they are, but it is not applicable applied to Federal Income Taxes where everyone, regardless of State, is subject to the same progressive tax rates.
It's really not quite so complicated. The technique espoused by the OP is a humble one, intended to build empathy, which it seems to me are two traits with considerable intrinsic value.
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And I am telling you Denmark have poor people too. I.e. redistribution isn't helping against that.

I linked to the article to point to the fact that poor people also have a hard time getting out of their poornes in Denmark and it's actually worse because the high "minimum salaries" makes it almost impossible for them to get a job.
Well they were all startups at one point. I still think of amazon as one (get off my lawn).
I wish this was try, but for my country and I suspect most, hiring 2 employees is more expensive, even before mentioning any overhead. Maybe we should pay companies for each person they employ ?
Get a todo list, do tasks in order of importance; if someone comes in and asks you something, say "yes, but" and give it a place in your list. Don't leave tasks half-finished before starting the next, if you can finish them at least.
Of course communication is the responsibility of both involved, but you can only ever control one side of it, so you might as well do the best you can.
Owns two houses in the bay area? Sounds like a multi-millionaire to me.
This is not a new thing. It's called a head tax and it was quite a normal way to be taxed prior to the industrial revolution (which enabled the government to take the payment directly out of the paycheck before it ever reached the recipient).

Also, things like property tax have the same effect -- can't get away from taxes even if you have no other expenses. Property tax can be jettisoned by selling your property, but then where are you going to live? You'd need to generate taxable income to rent someone else's property.
> 1. call the merchant that charged the fraudulent charge, and attempt to get them to void it. This was literally as pointless as it sounds.

For any merchant who knows what they're doing, this is FAR from pointless. It's much cheaper for them to just go ahead and refund you than to get a chargeback. They should only refuse to refund you if they believe that the charge is legitimate and that they can successfully represent the chargeback.
Hows donation of X for tax savings is better than 0.6X income?
4 years in prison is approximately 5% of a typical lifespan. That seems like a lot to me.
Nerd sniping[1] done right is what that was.

I'm always astonished how "religous" some people are towards defending their pet brands and take life so seriously. Obviously, offending people is/was not my intent.

Call it a joke or w/e you want, but I laughed; I'm sorry you didn't. Let me know if you'd like me to process a refund.

[1] http://xkcd.com/356/
'Consumer confidence' and growth rates currently big news in UK. Basically, the economy, or at least the numbers used to measure it at present, depends on people borrowing money to buy stuff.

"Living within your means" is almost impossible (housing) and regarded as somewhat unpatriotic. Strange times.

Back to OA specifically: I take it that the emphasis on transport access implies long commutes to jobs? Any research on the impact of commute time on social factors?
There are more people in China. Whether 10 people ride, or 10,000 people ride - once your infrastructure for rail is in place, your costs do not increase much. In Atlanta we have urban sprawls, where people live far from the city and drive in. The city empties out at night. We need rail that take people from the suburbs to the city to reduce the cars on the highway.
I thought that's why they work, and why so many of them poke at religious topics. I need a way to offend someone I've only just met that's guaranteed to work.
Indeed. I'm saddened by the number of people I see who don't seem to understand that being right is not a substitute for being persuasive.
If I understand this change correctly it removes background zeroing of freed pages.

What effect will this have on security? Grsecurity adds a feature which allows the linux kernel to sanitize freed pages[1]. I realize that the idle time freeing isn't the same as the immediate sanitation that grsecurity offers but I'm curious if this change has any effect on security in this manner.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity/Appendix/Grsecurity...
They were just an installer but they acquired Silevo in 2014. They built a 1GW plant in Buffalo, NY, cut the ribbon last year and are supposedly ramping production right now:

http://www.pv-tech.org/editors-blog/solarcitys-1gw-buffalo-f...
Most of the people are mediocre. Just because they work in hyped companies (Uber,Google,Facebook whatever) does not mean they are the top 10%.

And even being in top 10% does not directly translate into being able to create an extraordinary product.

There are hundreds of thousands talented people that did not buy into hype or are not too ambitious to even attempt the amazingly tiring interviews at these companies.
Actually the polls show the citizens want the railway expanded, but the politicians are the absent minded bigots. They need to be voted out and find a job picking up trash.

http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/poll-gwin...
It's just a non-optimally worded sentence. He means people who came from Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, and -- in addition to those people -- also people who come from Seattle-area startups (such as https://www.rover.com/, to pick one at random).
Supposedly panel costs are not that significant compared to installation, and kW per unit area matters more in the rooftop economics. That was the rationale at the time of the Silevo acquisition anyway.
Sorry how does it follow that you can form the pattern row by row? When you write this down as a linear algebra problem you kinda forget about the structure of the board, and the rows of the resulting matrix you apply Gauss elimination to don't correspond to the rows of the game board. So you must have meant something else that I'm missing, but I'm confused how you would solve just the bottom row without touching any others.
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well he had to pad it somehow right? he couldn't just write hey I googled first written name and it's 'Kushim' first place or 'Gal-Sal, En-pap X and Sukkalgir' if the first turns out to be a job.
Is it as good as the Ideavim plugin for Jetbrains editors?

That is the benchmark that I use to judge other vim plugins.
This is my approach with things too. Instead of saying know I explain the complexities of what would happen by saying yes:

- Other projects will be pushed out of the way

- Your deadline is not feasible, I can do it by this date.

- The cost/time of me doing something would be high, due to my inexperience in doing that task.

- I personally think it is a bad idea and a waste of everyone's time, but it's your call.

Things may work differently for others, but turning a "no" to a "yes, on my terms" is what has worked well in any situation I've been in.
With a head tax, having no income and just crashing on a friend's couch (i.e. being a dependent) would put you "in the red", no? As would the more common cases of being a dependent because you're too young, or too old, or too stay-at-home-parenting to work.

Or is a head tax meant to apply to "households" (in the census sense) rather than to individuals? Or, alternately, is the breadwinner of a household meant to pay the head-tax for all their dependents?
Thats my point though. Its not only the communicators job to be understandable since even if they are the other side is biased against what they say.
Rent control in San Francisco only applies to property that was built before rent control laws was passed (1979). So any building that was built at that time (a majority of the city's housing stock) has had an owner lose a lot of money from rent control, either by receiving less rent or by selling their property for less that it would otherwise have been worth. The fact that someone else may have purchased the encumbered property at a discounted price that takes the reduced rent into account doesn't change that.
While HN is publicly searchable I don't imagine many people will swear. It's not only the users here that could read them; it's anyone who Googles your username.
The concept of what you are saying is true. The exact details and flags of what drives the proactive optimization is the secret sauce.

source: work in Supply Chain for Amazon
This strikes me as a uniquely Californian point of view.
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Downvotes don't change anything. Only pointing out problems improves discussion. I am sorry this offends you.
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> And do you have any concrete evidence that 'Kushim' is not a female name?

Most Indoeuropean languages have a vovel (most often "a") at the end of female names, and a consonant at the end of male names. It's just a consequence of the gender system and postfixes.

I'm not sure how old is this distinction, and I don't know if this writing system even preserved the vovels, if yes - it is indeed partial evidence that it was a male name.

More: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-female-names-end-in-vow...

In my (Slavic) language all female names end with "a" and all male names end with consonants.
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How does it handle other vim features like window splits, macros and programmability?
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Have you taken linear algebra? It gives a structure for solving systems of linear equations and the parent post is noting that the game state is a linear function of which squares you've pressed, when considering the states of a square as either one or zero and doing arithmetic mod 2. So the standard techniques of linear algebra can solve this system, such as Gaussian elimination. However, you still have to write down the large matrix that encodes what each square does (an n x n board will need an n^2 x n^2 matrix which shows how each square affects all the others once pressed). Then you solve that system.

For this particular game there is probably a more intuitive way to directly solve it.
I don't know what turned at MS exactly but something did, at least in the department where VS and VSC are developped. I've had major bad experiences with reporting bugs to MS in the past (almost as if they had a standard 'by design' or 'wontfix' message generator). The last couple of years however, not so much. Submit a report, get a reply like 'thanks for the detailed report, we're on it' and then the bug is fixed in the next service pack or version. And now they're also doing PRs for VSC and other things and the response times seem ok (well, a tleast yours was, but it's still sorta 'unseen' for MS). If it continues they might reach a point where the competition (including open source) starts to look very bad - there it's sometimes still the usual business as it was with MS: report a bug and/or PR, nothing happens, for months or even years.
> This is basically why D is not a good systems programming language

The ability to run without its runtime is certainly a feature of good system programming languages.
That's only 125% of a full-time $10/hour min-wage-ish job!
> First, the post I responded to did not claim that our militaries could reach parity. It claimed that China could conquer the US.

For China to some day have the ability to conquer the US, wouldn't they first have to reach parity? Seems to me the post was implicitly claiming that the China's military could reach parity with the United States. But I agree that the focus of the argument is on exceeding the US military power.

The generals of the First World War had training and experience, but technological change meant that training was useless and they had to re-learn how to fight on the battlefield. Future technology will have the same effect - for example, a swarm of drones might be more capable than a manned fighter aircraft. Air superiority might come down to who can write the better drone software, or perhaps simply who has the most drones. The old investment in manned fighter aircraft would count for nothing.

I agree that the US alliances with other countries is a benefit that China will not have. But China has its own unique benefit - its manufacturing industry. It already far exceeds the US in ability to mass produce smartphones. Couldn't it one day churn out military robots at a far greater rate than the US and Germany combined?

The Soviets never came close to achieving economic parity with the United States. A better analogy would be Britain in the 19th century - it lost its military dominance as the US grew its economy to be much larger than the British economy. In the 21st century China will do to the US what the US did to Britain the 19th century.

My logic is simple: (a) in 30 years China's economy will be bigger than the US economy; (b) in 60 years China's economy will be double the US economy; (c) A country will lose its military superiority to another country if that other country can afford to spend twice as much on its military.

None of these three statements seems particularly controversial to me.
It is meant to encourage donations to non-profits which is something pretty good that corporates could do.

So it effectively reduces to what you'd prefer: 0.6X for yourself, or 2X for a non-profit that you want to support.
The amazon bookstore, while nice, has like a non-existent tech section.
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I recently switched over from a combination of Sublime and Notepad++ to VSC. The only thing I found was Notepad++ opens up files almost instantly and there is still a bit of a noticeable lag with VSC, so when I need to be jumping in and out of different scripts Notepad++ is still my preferred choice, but for actually writing code, VSC is golden.

Hopefully I can uninstall Notepad++ in the near future!
What does a user mean in this case - a single person or a family ? And how does this work in prime time, when 50%+ of the people are watching netflix etc, at 4 Mbps average(1080p + 720p), with other video services even less compressed ?
The Tesla IP is just as important as the Panasonic IP though. It really is a joint venture. And Tesla, as the customer connection, has more leverage than Panasonic. They could cut Panasonic out of the next Gigafactory, but Panasonic can't start selling cars and home energy systems.
Cards like these exist[0], not sure if only as a concept.

The cost of the card wouldn't be much, perhaps enough to pass it to the customer, but not outrageous.

[0]http://newsroom.mastercard.com/press-releases/mastercard-int...
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The problem is that swearing is losing its strength, since everybody already uses interjects like "f* it" and "wtf" all the time.
GIL only applies to multi-threaded, not multi-process. Multi-process is a great way to overcome the GIL
Why would you ever say things that are untrue? You are simply a lier then. Saying "yes" even though you DONT actually know if you can make it is a lie. You are lying to your manager.
Tell him that it's probably gonna be close, and other work might suffer or even that work in particular. I mean why on earth WOULDNT you tell him that? It's not like this won't come up immediately anyway when you inevitably don't finish or don't finish properly.
> Ancient Egypt was more liberal than US in 1950.

Right. With all of the slavery. And the emperor/pharaoh totalitarianism. And the state-sponsored religion. Very liberal.

> And do you have any concrete evidence that 'Kushim' is not a female name?

I did not say whether Kushim specifically was a male or female name, did I? Show me where. I suggest you read more carefully before jumping to conclusions and certainly before making inflammatory and insulting accusations to someone.

> I think it is sexist to assume it could not be a women.

Since I made no such assumption nor such comment, I have no idea why you wrote this. I didn't even weigh in on whether "Kushim" is likely to be a name at all. (It could be a title or a number of other possible monikers.)
> This metal has consistently been placed in the top 200 health-jeopardizing toxins by the ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

So if we look at the list at https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/spl/ it says:

> It should be noted that this priority list is not a list of "most toxic" substances, but rather a prioritization of substances based on a combination of their frequency, toxicity, and potential for human exposure at NPL sites.

The list also contains other metals as copper or silver.

If you actually read their profile about aluminium it's mostly about inhalation of aluminium dust (who is surprised that inhaling metal dust destroys your lungs?), aluminium buildup in people with kidney diseases (also not too surprising that all kind of stuff builds up in your body if your kidneys don't work anymore), and chemical compounds that contain aluminium e.g. antacids and buffered aspirin.

The only really interesting thing in there is the link with alzheimer's disease.

> Another neurological effect that has been proposed to be associated with aluminum exposure is Alzheimer’s disease. Although a possible association was proposed over 40 years ago, this association is still highly controversial and there is little consensus regarding current evidence. A number of studies have found weak associations between living in areas with elevated aluminum levels in drinking water and an increased risk (or prevalence) of Alzheimer’s disease; other studies have not found significant associations. In contrast, no significant associations have been found between tea consumption or antacid use and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease; although the levels of aluminum in tea and antacids are very high compared to drinking water, aluminum from these sources is poorly absorbed. The available data do not suggest that aluminum is a causative agent of Alzheimer’s disease; however, it is possible that it may play a role in the disease development.

Oh and they also found neurotoxicity in animals if they were fed ridiculous amounts of aluminium.