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Shark used to make an (otherwise excellent) upright consumer vacuum cleaner with a metal strip in the handle. The vacuum's power cable did not have a ground.

This vacuum had the most five-star reviews on Amazon, but then a minority of people started complaining and leaving one-star reviews, saying they were getting shocked.

The reactions from the fanboy crowd were non-sympathetic ("you're imagining it," "it's just static," etc.), and they mass downvoted every one-star review. Some of the people claimed they were getting shocked PRETTY HARD, too, as in it knocked them over. IIRC, even Shark responded saying that it was impossible for the vacuum to shock you.

I remember seeing this while looking at vacuums for my elderly mother who has a heart condition. To the electrical engineer in me, everything made sense!

I started defending every single one-star reviewer person, and I wrote my own very detailed review with photos of the handle. Soon, the tide turned, and more people started upvoting my review than downvoting it; and I even received personal "thank you" messages from the people who got shocked ("finally someone believes me").

It eventually got to the point where a year later in 2014, Shark released an updated model with no more metal strip. Seeing this, I bought the new model for my mother. I'd like to think I can give myself SOME credit for causing them to do that.

Not only that, the upvotes from that alone were a good part of the reason I became an Amazon Top Reviewer.
"Anti-rich agenda" sounds like a phrase we'll soon be hearing a lot from the new Congress, President, and millions of temporarily embarrassed millionaires to avoid ever seriously discussing poverty and wealth inequality.

The true victims in America? The most powerful and influential, of course.
Came across Liberland about a year ago and filled a citizenship form on their site (https://liberland.org/) out of curiosity. I occasionally get their newsletter. Altogether i find this a an occasional and nice distraction from my work. Maybe this is how all countries came into existence.
I think it would be helpful if people who are giving their thoughts on a diamond can state if they've been married/engaged before.
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You're underestimating all of the ways self-driving cars will increase efficiency relative to parking, which are multiplicative.

1. Much higher occupancy per car. Based on my personal observations, at rush hour the average occupancy of a car is something like 1.3. I don't see any reason that can't increase to 2.6 or more without significantly slowing anyone down -- 2x

2. Yes, a lot of people need to get to work at 8, but normal working hours start at different times for different people, anywhere from 6:30-9:30 is fairly typical in a U.S. city. If the average person has a 30-40 minute commute, and there is a reasonable amount of reverse commute demand, a car should be able to make 2-3 round trips per day at least -- 2.5x

3. Cars driving more efficiently with quicker reaction time and less mistakes will speed up commutes a lot. Hard to say how much but I'd say at least 30%. This directly increases capacity, since shorter commutes mean each car moves more people in the 6:30-9:30 window -- 1.3x

4. If self driving cars can communicate with each other to park, they can pack themselves very closely, and make room for a car to get in and out, removing the need for oversized parking spots, space between cars for doors to open, and aisles between cars. This should improve parking density by at least 3x.

5. Cars that are on-demand and self-driving can be smaller than typical cars we drive today. Since you can order any sized vehicle based on what's needed for an individual trip, there will be many fewer empty seats. Without the need for a steering wheel and controls, interiors can make much greater use of available interior space. This should reduce the exterior size of the average car at least 1.5x.

6. Cars can find parking in more remote areas. If parking is not available within a block of the office, the car can drop you off and park a few blocks away. This increases utilitzation, say 1.2x.

So, multiply it all together, and you get 35x better parking efficiency. It's going to be a huge win for dense cities.
I was not arguing for making the never-to-be-released prisons hellhole, just that they are the only prisons you can inflict punishment. Punishing those people that you are going to release is stupid beyond imagination.
They stopped as of the new MacBooks this month :/
Right, so there's no relative phase change between negative and positive terminals but there is a phase change between the terminals and ground (which can be interpreted as a frequency relative to ground)? And since I'm grounded I experience that frequency? Interesting. Is there a relation between the "float frequency" and the AC freqency? Is it the same because of how commutators work?
Ok, at this point I have to comment.

For one thing, I never said he would get divorced. I said "if you get divorced".

For another thing, if you are going to divulge details of your personal relationship online, you should not be surprised or get upset if someone comments about it. If it's a sensitive issue for you - keep it to yourself. This isn't your journal.

I take my apology back. I did absolutely nothing wrong, and people seriously need to develop thicker skin.
Most of the commenters on this thread don't appear to have lived in a country with the opposite problem. Consider what happens when development and car ownership expands in a country without adequate government parking mandates.

You routinely find at least two road lanes blocked by parked traffic because buildings don't have adequate parking. This leads to very slow bumper to bumper traffic (try Bangalore, Mumbai, Cairo, Manila), higher air pollution leading to a public health crisis, waste of time, higher green house emissions etc. When calculating "rental increases", articles like these conveniently forget externalities that would result from jot providing for parking.
It's BBC. Can't expect anything from positive from them when it comes to India.
What's actual marriage in Cryptocurrency terms? Multi-signature?
Now that looks awesome.
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Here in Canada that's generally not the case:

http://globalnews.ca/news/907665/ontario-motorist-fees-taxes...

"The report released Thursday found Ontario road users driving cars, minivans, SUVs and light pickup trucks are paying 70 to 90 per cent of the costs of the road through fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees and tolls, to the tune of $7.5 billion a year."

But the OP is a US article, so point taken!
I use qtips in my ear canal (even though i shouldnt) because it feels awesome.

Maybe the chimps get a similar feeling?
Could be educational. "Oh, so that's it's called..."
The only other place, that is actually colonizable is Bir Tawil, but the land there is so terrible, but so terrible, that noone actually made a serious attempt (a bunch of people made bogus claims, for example one guy proclaimed himself king, just so his daughter could be a princess).

Even for desert standards, Bir Tawil is desolate, and it has no decent natural resources, so literally noone wants it.
Remember one HUGE disadvantage of Google Voice: for many of us it was never available.
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This is not a great margin given the capital requirements and political risks. It would be hard for a new non-profit to get to their efficiency without scale and even if you did it would not free up anywhere near the resources required to make major changes in prisoner treatment.

The basic problem is still the tiny amount spent per prisoner on anything other than keeping them locked up. We need to spend more if we want them to not just be heading straight back to jail.
The timing is suspicious though, ahead of state elections in the key states of UP, Punjab, Gujarat and Goa. For campaigns that are largely fought on cash, depriving other parties of cash is the biggest advantage.

Better timing would have been to wait until adoption of the Government's own pan-Indian electronic payment scheme ('Unified Payment Interface'), including giving small vendors card reading devices.
I use the bash subsystem now, but yeah I used ssh.exe for some time w/out issue as well.
"Poorly" seems a bit harsh. From a conceptual standpoint, hospitals are, in some sense, a terrible idea: why would you want to concentrate contagious individuals (let along concentrate them in proximity to people with unrelated sicknesses). The only reason we have hospitals is the only way we can afford to provide medical care to the population.

According to the CDC, "On any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection. "

http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/surveillance/index.html
Sorry, but no.

Although the sequence of words "You may pay for the cost of parking...." does appear in the article, it is at best a trite gloss of the article's thesis.

And as for the 'poor people' angle, the article runs 426 words according to the word count facility in OpenOffice Writer, of which ~100 are devoted to the effects on the poor. The article's title is neither misleading nor clickbait.
> and scary to think that two-prong outlets and appliances are legal anywhere

In Japan, two prong outlets make up the vast majority of sockets, it kinda sucks.
The internet is global you realise that right? People who are on here are experiencing and have experienced these events, don't assume that everyone is based in the US. They may even have had loved ones missing at the point that this conversation was happening.

And it was a conversation about a disaster as it was happening in complete real time, one which resulted in a loss of life, displaced families, and hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars worth of damage. It wasn't a past event which can be trivialised, it was being trivialised as people were being pulled from the rubble of their homes and workplaces.

This particular conversation was occurring between people, some of whom were far away from the events and some of whom were being shaken as they typed.
All of your hypotheticals seem to still assume individually-used cars. This is much nearer term thinking than the real interesting stuff. Cars wouldn't need to circle or park themselves. They would just go pick somebody else up. When you're done, some other car would come pick you up.
I find it best for set-and-forget integrations. Eg. back up all my instagram photos to google drive
> I am so dense.

Maybe just busy with real work?
I did not, good idea!
A middle class Indian here. Average Indian is facing some problem. Here is a list.

1. If someone has cash in hand for emergencies then he/she has to stand in a bank queue for 2-3 hours to deposit it into a bank account.
2. One has to stand in a bank queue for 2-3 hours to exchange old currency for new or to withdraw Rs 10,000 from one's account. Rs 10,000 is sufficient money to take care of basic needs for about 15 days.

3. There is a shortage of lower denomination notes. RBI received 5 million Rs 500 denomination notes yesterday. It will heal ease the problem.

I live in the National Capital Region. I have faced no problem at all. I am doing my grocery purchase online. Urban India pays it's utility bills online. There are a number of e-wallet solutions which have made online transactions easy.

I am not aware about the inconveniences faced by Indians living in rural areas. Economy in rural India is cash based. But since I have my roots in rural India I have seen many transactions happening through informal credit channel. It is not uncommon for a worker to get paid once every 3-4 months. Migrant workers often get payed by contractors at the end of their contract. The actual impact is not earth shattering.

There is a high decibel political noise around the whole thing. But as someone who has paid his taxes honestly his entire life, I welcome and support this move.
> because it feels awesome

OK. Is this a studied phenomenon? It just feels normal to me, but my girlfriend is having much stronger reactions to it, like she's pleasuring herself. It's weird. (She has playfully used the term "ear orgasm"). Maybe there's a bundle of nerve ending beneath there.

On my side if I touch a specific spot in the left ear it makes me cough for some reason.
Citation needed for the claim that mandated parking spaces are done to keep poor people away.

Isn't the more likely reason that urban areas lack parking is that it is ... an urban area with less available land?

Maybe this is true somewhere in the country but I haven't seen it.
I think you're painting your own preferences onto everyone else. Why does land cost more in the cities?
Your view went out of fashion with the Articles of Confederation; the ultra-limited "only for a handful of external-facing issues" federal government was an abject failure.
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Go for a hike in the woods with them
Such beautiful memories those people must have had. I wasn't alive then but it sounded like jolly good fun.
There are many jurisdictions which try to 'right-size', most notable among them is Portland. Many other cities have an implicit policy of preventing sharp increases in density through slow, restricted, and expensive zoning.
> Handling cash ain't free.

But it's so much cheaper than handling credit cards that many small stores in Germany won't accept any cards at all.
Restaurants aren't reselling packaged goods, they are also assembling from raw, so there is both amortized cost of production equipment and labor costs associated with production that retail lacks.
They should stop protesting. It was a democratic vote.
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Which is usually not allowed after acquisition, exactly for reasons like this.
Actually, we are seeing a return towards urbanisation globally, which is a positive trends, since it's a vital component for curbing global warming. Residents of NYC use 1/3 as much electricity as their suburban counterparts, use a tiny fraction of the carbon emissions on transportation, and produce less garbage. All without convincing New Yorkers to recycle or drive electric cars. Environmental responsibility is baked into the city's design.
We already have an example in this administration.
I think more than anything it was just to voice ppl's emotions.
Wouldn't the idea that it's normal to have those "disorders" make it contrary to the definition of "disorder" in the first place?
For 1 parking spot

There was a spot that went for 620k earlier: http://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/2040679...

It should be noted that car ownership is much lower here though.
Average Indian is facing some problem.

Some? I've heard of some cases wherein a funeral was deferred for lack of cash.

It affects the dead too: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/demonetis...

Baby dies as parents had no cash to buy medicines in Vizag: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/Baby-d...

Currency ban: Kids couldn't attend dad's funeral: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Currency-b...

Marriages to moksha, all adjourned: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Marriages-...
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I've had this on two MacBook Pros here in Australia. On the first one I took it in to a Genius Bar appointment and, while they acknowledged it happens to a "rare number of people", they basically said tough luck and to use the earthed power cable which is about 1.5m longer. By the second time I just accepted it as part of owning a MBP.

As an aside, I should buy a lottery ticket given the number of rare issues that happen to my Apple products.
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Wow. More expensive and includes less... I don't know what they are thinking... I never even though of Mac's shocking people under normal use. wow.
I will eat whatever is delicious. For example I find "The Loving Hut" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_Hut) pretty yummy and even though I'm a meat eater if I'm near a Loving Hut I'm happy to choose it because of taste.

If fake meat is yummy and doesn't have any bad side effects (gas) I'll be happy to eat it. If I can't tell the difference between it and a real burger I'll be happy to switch. If I can tell the difference, if it's yummy I'll still eat it, just as a separate type of food.

As an example fishballs, meatballs, and various kinds of things made from ground meat of all kinds are common.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fishballs&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%81%8A%E3%81%A7%E3%82%93&...

Heck, other processed meats are very common throughout western cuisine as well. Just walk into any deli section and look 100s of them.

My point being even if they never get the burger a 100% the same as real if it's delicious they can sell it to me as yet another processed product and like sausage/pâté/terrine/galantine/ham I'll eat it.
I'm a bit fascinated by the possibilities exposed in the simple demo.

Having right click system menu options that you could extend in what for me is a simple syntax is awesome :-)
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To me, this was the key takeaway:

> Though I hope he will not succeed in many parts of his stated agenda, I do not wish failure on his Presidency, and I do not think that defeating him in the next election should be his opposition's top priority. Our top priority should be opposing bad programs and policies he proposes, making the case for the rightness of our positions, and trying to use what consensus we can find to better govern America.
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I don't think I've ever seen a three-prong outlet in Japan (maybe only new installations?), but "earth screws" are quite common (any room prepared for an air conditioner will have one at least) http://www.hakusui-trading.co.jp/safety/img/img02.jpg
It's crazy, but that's actually the typical price of a single space in Hong Kong. A single space here sold for 620k last month.
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Yes, that's bad. We've changed the URL from http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/answering-how-a-sausage-gets-ma..., which points to the BBC piece.
I've got the same ear cough phenomenon. It's like my brain lost track of where it left all it's nerves, and when it gets a signal from one it lost track of it just does it's best. For some reason it's decided ear ~= throat.
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It's been a while now, but I really liked Eloquent Ruby.

If you're looking for Rails-specific knowledge, the Hartl tutorial (I think it's just called Rails Tutorial) is fantastic. There's a print version, but the web one is free (at least when I read it) and stays updated.
I can dip my credit card in the pump faster than I can walk into the station and hand over cash. Never mind what happens when I'm topping off before a trip and don't need $20 in gas, requiring change. That's not the best example of how cash is supposed to be fast.
Germany becoming the anti Sweden?
I got 5 kids Andi need to find. Real p.p.money.adder I got a small prob 28th rent and lifht bill so if you know of anything I love too know.
There are a bunch of bootstrap components ported to React in the Reactstrap project.
I'm afraid that you are comparing pears and oranges.

If you want to be fair, compare American cities with European cities. In Barcelona or the center of Copenhagen, there are not free parking spaces. And I can assure you that there are not the traffic issues that you are mentioning in your comment... It's quite on the contrary, actually.
It sounds bad, and it can be bad, but it's often not.
It's all about perspective. Everything above is true. But more often than not it's worth it.

Why? I didn't know until I started responding. But I believe it's worth it. Let me throw some words out there. They may or may not resonate with you.

- Maybe it's because they are full and complete human beings, eventually capable of everything you are capable of and possibly much more.

- You will know everything about them and be responsible for molding them and teaching them and keeping them safe. Taking them from incapable blobs to a person who can think and make decisions and love and hurt.

- You will develop deep relationships and strong feelings for them, more than even for your spouse (which you never thought was possible), and deeper than any other project you'll ever take on.

- This thread is about deep friendships. This is deep. You will laugh with them and cry with them and argue with them. You will create and build things with them. You will discuss and debate things with them. You will challenge each other and make each other better.

- They will trust you like no one has ever trusted you. They will look up to you like no one has ever looked up to you. They will need you like no one has ever needed you. I mean it. No one. Your spouse has lived life before you. Your kids have not. Life without you isn't even conceivable.

- You will be imbued with purpose whether or not you already had purpose.

I state the above as if it were a certainty. It's not. Maybe I'm lucky. Some of the things above are choices you can make.

Some advice:

- Start with zero expectations of time. I took the first years of life with kids very badly because I felt like I lost my life and my time. Eventually I realized that this is my life now. Once I accepted that and stopped looking back and stopped looking forward everything got better. You will start to get more time back and that became a pleasant surprise rather than something I unhappily yearned for. There will be regressions (where you lose time you previously gained back). Expect them and learn how to drop things you were doing until the regression is over.

- Be present. Your kids don't have to have the best anything in order to turn out great. They just need you. When you are with them drop everything else even your thoughts. Be there for them. Play with them.

- Take care of yourself and your needs. Make sure you get enough sleep. Your baby is crying and you are desperate for sleep? Check if they are safe, if they have poop, if they've eaten and if they are warm. Done? Get some earplugs and go to bed. Seriously. Take care of yourself!

- Any time you are feeling at your wits end reset your assumptions and take care of yourself. Start with what's absolutely necessary and work from there. Feeling stretched financially? Kids don't have to be expensive. You need to feed them. You don't really need anything else, not even diapers. A nearby park maybe.
The book Seveneves may give you some hints, but take them with a few grains of salt.
Similar to MRE, I guess. I honestly haven't eaten one. I got them via the advice of a sorta crazy friend of mine who has a bunker full of similar things (and guns) on his farmland.
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