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While reducing one's media consumption is a healthy goal, the author has a very odd conception of "making a meaningful difference." Does donating $50 to Red Cross not make a difference? Sure it does- that's $50 that, minus overhead or whatever, can be spent on something like medical care for those who wouldn't otherwise receive it. Its just the same as $50 to your local medical charity, in that respect; for that matter, with Red Cross, the overheads are likely lower (economy of scale and all) so it makes more of a difference. Only you don't get a thank-you card from the kid the next town over whose antibiotics you paid for; if that card is the "meaningful difference" you crave, okay, but otherwise...?

Same in other respects, of course. You can make a meaningful difference to things like the Syrian conflict or what-have-you, the issue is that these issues are just so huge that a meaningful difference isn't likely going to be visible. The question is, do you want to make a difference in the world to see yourself being powerful and nice, or for an objective desire to have good effects in the world?
35k after tax is about 28k [1]. What's wrong with rice and beans and occasional meat? An average 22 year old doesn't need medical insurance. Given that many people don't save at all this would be pretty good.

Also the plan I described already had leeway for unexpected expenses.

12k housing and food
3k entertainment
10k house
5k saving

I agree that it would be a boring life. That being said, this is using 35k and not the 50k minimum being defined as middle class, per the article.

1.
http://taxformcalculator.com/state_tax/massachusetts/35000.h...
You're throwing all the rail into one number? Freight and passenger? Amtrak has 21,300 miles of track.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak

I think the US officially has 26 miles of HSR. China transports 1.1 billion people a year on HSR. Amtrak carries about 30 million people a year. Why don't more people take Amtrak? It's faster to drive.
Flying cars won't be used in the same role as land cars. Unless you live some kind of extreme rural life in Montana or something and have money, it's not something an individual would own.

I've always imagined micro airports. They'd be like train stations. Need to get from Irvine, CA to Pasadena, CA in 20 minutes?

With this approach the flight paths could be deterministic and the cars could be reused all the time.
Propaganda doesn't work on the good stuff.
The missing puzzle piece here is that languages also imply APIs and Frameworks - which are beast in themselves. Rails is mentioned in the article. Understanding Rails, in context of a serious application, is a huge piece of work... And in many ways very different from knowing Ruby as a language.

If you're going to learn a language you probably want to learn a canonical framework for that language... which can be a much bigger (and maybe rewarding) process.
Any idea that could be a solution for roadkills deserve to be explored at least. Think in the millions of terrestrial animals, some endangered, that we could save each year.

Would be a real blessing for vanishing amphibians, hedgehogs, snakes, endemic terrestrial crabs, big cats... On the other part could be a problem for birds, bats and flying insects also, of course. And will boost the feral cat problem.

For good or worse, from a environmental point of view would be a real game changer.
Are you talking about the US or China?
> Really isn't that much insightful difference between these languages as you'd think. Not taking away from their history, but you gain nothing from learning them.

you're missing out
That's perfectly fair, and I don't think it's pedandic at all. Maybe we just need to re-think the traditional notion of the US as a "middle class society," and what that means. It conjures up expectations in my mind (house, car, kids, etc.) that might not be realistic any more.
I totally agree with you on the complexity of the issues. The news won't help much with that. News are mostly about sentiment.

I don't want to hear all those people trumpeting their simple "truths" on all news channels ever more aggressively.

But I fear if I stop listening to those sentiments I could miss the moment when it's time for me to leave or warn others.

I have often wondered how my ancestors could have missed what was going on and end up in a nazi death camp.

Did they not get the news? Did they not believe it? Did it all sound too similar to what had come before until it was too late? Was it too complex to predict?

I don't know, but I can't take my eyes off the ball now even though my eyes hurt.
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Living in the nice part of big cities is a positional good. It's going to get more expensive as society gets more expensive, because you are trying to buy your way on top of a ladder.

If you take a look at the top 40 or so entries here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistic... you will be able to pick out places with nice economies and reasonable housing costs.
Those laws try to avoid a race to the bottom for employees who, being the biggest part of the population, should be who benefice most of the economy.

Of course, there is going to be downsides, but it's too easy speak about paternalistic government and not to mention the obvious conflict of interest between labour and business.
It's less about specific skills (e.g. writing or accounting) being in demand in those places and nowhere else, and more about what kinds of companies are demanding those skills and how much they're willing to pay. Like legodt mentioned in a sibling comment, the most influential and prestigious companies in a lot of industries are pretty concentrated in a handful of big cities.

It's not just that different industries have their hubs - media, design, finance in NYC, entertainment in LA, tech in SF. A whole ecosystem of supporting firms grows around these companies. So the most influential and prestigious law, accounting, and consulting firms tend to cluster in these cities too.

There also are a lot of people who don't necessarily want to spend their entire lives in, say, NYC but think it will be a good career move to get a prestigious name on their resume before going somewhere else.

At this point I think there's kind of a chicken and egg situation where a lot of ambitious, talented people flock to major cities because firms are there, and firms stay planted in these cities because so many talented, ambitious people are flocking there.
What's the point of being informed if you don't have influence? It's like watching a train wreck while you're tied to the tracks. Knowing the play by play really doesn't matter.

It's so progressive to want the government involved in every facet of our lives under the guise of "effective regulation". That is, until, you disagree with the tyrant in charge. Whatever happened to life liberty and the pursuits of happiness? Seems to be pushed aside as libertarian mumbo jumbo.

> His prior two attempts at the law also were written in a way where local and state laws could not override

Careful now. Supporting states rights will firmly label you as a racist.
LA is a MUCH bigger city than San Francisco, especially in terms of geography. I'm not sure an meaningful comparison can be made as a result.

There are certainly areas of LA at least as big as the total area of SF where middle class families can not afford to live. There are also areas at least as big as the total area of SF where lower-middle class families are the vast majority of residents.

The cities are just too different to make a meaningful comparison in my opinion.
Do you actually believe these points or are you simply showing the flawed logic people use to justify climate change denial?
1. Maybe the sensationalist news was claiming an ice age was coming, but it was never really claimed by scientists. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1
4. Is there any evidence of these claims?
How do current temperatures cast doubt on the accuracy of climate change? Each of the first 6 months of 2016 were the hottest months ever recorded.
Whales are not endangered. Some types of whales are endangered. In fact, most Humpback species were removed from the endangered list.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/07/492976575/...

Good for you that you're disgusted by someone else's culture, I'm sure they feel the same way about you. I am just sick of the hypocrisy that so many people show. Ever kill a mouse in a mouse trap? That's a life gone for no reason, you should be ashamed.

Seems like everyone has an opinion on just which animals are okay to kill and which aren't. That's cool if you want to think that, but you are basically saying "I think its okay to kill these animals but not these." and everyone has a different line.
That's like saying painting isn't hard it's easy. Children do it all the time with just their fingers. Painting a Mona Lisa is hard but only because we don't have good tooling.

It's a vast oversimplification of the real issues while ignoring the reasons programming or are hard.
You need compare the whole system: internal combustion engine plus the gas tanks to feed it, versus an electric motor plus batteries.

The energy density of batteries is far worse than gasoline. Also, after you burn gasoline, you don't have to carry it anymore, which isn't true for batteries.

Also consider that for a plane, running out of gas can be fatal, so you can't actually use all the range. There needs to be a safety margin.

And then, consider that a practical flying car can't actually take off or land like a plane, and probably can't have the wingspan of a plane, so you might want to compare to a helicopter instead.
Yes. There _is_ a duty to be informed, but it's not important how. You don't need twitter or cable news--you may be better informed without both, honestly.

And there's definitely a value is slowing down and avoiding the bottomless pit.
Facebook, google, twitter and Soros funded media organisations are pushing lies after lies. I have never before thinking that actually Russian news are much more accurate than "main"stream garbage news.

Facebook, Google and Twitter are like Obama to world peace.. (Nobel price of peace??) Big threat to world peace.

I stop watching garbage media news fev years ago. Big thanks to all "conspiracy" theorists who actually was right about many things.

People, please stop believing tv or media sources without doing any your own research.

Facebook, Gooogle & Twitter ?
- No thanks
In terms of GDP, US is about 20-25% of the globe. It is pretty significant, but I won't go too far to say it has domination.
The economist had an interesting write up of this past election. The found the single biggest determinant for how a county would vote was how sick that county was.

I can't even see how that would be correlated with the news.
> I do not think that big city life should be a luxury, any more than the internet or computing should be a luxuries.

The difference is scarcity.

Computers and internet are can be produced at very cheap costs. Whereas, almost by definition, urban real estate is scare and in high demand. If it weren't, it wouldn't be crowded.
> absolutely against anything involving steel tracks

Steel tracks are doing just fine in the US, thank you very much, with minimal governmental involvement. Our rail system is the envy of the world, and has been getting new investment to the tune of $25 billion a year of late. This is why Berkshire Hathaway bought BNSF, so they could have a place to reinvest billions of dollars of profit and earn a return.

All freight rail, of course.

Mind you, regulatory creep threatens this. The FRA has been pushing for "safety" rules which are basically handouts to labor unions (requiring extra headcount per train), and Positive Train Control's top-down bureaucracy-driven technology-solutioning has been a comedy of errors, but the real threat they're facing is the potential of a mandate to make all freight trains make way for passenger trains. which no one will use.

If anything, the Trump administration will be much better for steel rails than the past eight years. Still freight rails, of course. But unlike theoretical passenger rail proposals, these ones are already popular and profitable and reducing carbon emissions.
The NHS is actually organised as a large number of locally managed nodes. Doctor's practices (GPs) are self-governing to some extent, and hospitals are managed by trusts. There has been a lot of reorganisation recently (the Tories always reorganise the NHS, it is a thing they do).

My knowledge of the US is limited but I imagine that a US version of the NHS would be organised by state and then by district hospitals. Plenty of moving parts at the back end but at least the patient just sees the single payer front end.
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Ah, the old race to the bottom argument. Your comment applies to every single rule that applies to a corporation that any country creates anywhere. I'm unsure how this adds anything specific or new to this particular discussion.
We banned the hunt for dodos, T-rex and mammoths in Germany last year. Wasn't easy, but government heroics, they are possible.

Esoterics kills.
Only if all players are from close regions. Will still take 100-200ms for cross continent.
That code is very clear. Nice. Did you ever go back and write for the GB?
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/ci...
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Typically these are measured in absolute numbers. I'm not sure why you'd want to measure as relative ratios.
Yeah that's literally the one that comes to my mind. Germany seems to have a strong robotics market (not only industrial, but also self-driving cars kind of stuff etc.) but most job posts I see are either straight in German or require a good command of it.
Absolutely true. But with other posts throwing out $200k as a normal middle-class income, we probably need to define what we're actually talking about. The income range, or the lifestyle expectations. The whole point of the article (and others like it) is that the two things are moving in opposite directions.
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thus there is no reason for me to duplicate the work he has already put in.

You're vouching for him, but so far there's no reason to take your word for it. I'm sorry, but I don't know you from a social media marketer, so "feed the guy some clicks and figure it out for yourself" is not a compelling argument.
He also said things that were plain interesting and outrageous to hear and see. Similar to slowing down for a train crash. No secret about that and really anyone could have quite easily reverse engineered and done the same. His big skill is more having, for lack of a better way to put it, 'balls' as well as no problem with the blowback or downside of his actions. That is the secret sauce with Trump. In a nutshell the other candidates, by comparison, were boring.
This is all fine so long as you don't penalize people for getting things done quickly. Does it ever bother you that some people just show up to be seen?
Ending Foo in 2017
I stopped years ago. Best decision ever. I also dont really use social media outside of work. My life is muuch much much better.
I have used both.
My year of butchered resolutions. And how to save yours
I'm from Amsterdam, lived in the US recently for 2 years (Atlanta). Salaries are lower in the EU, taxes are higher, rents are lower. On the other hand I found many things to be more expensive in the US : health care, car insurance, education, groceries.

I found that in the end it turned out to be more or less the same.

What's left is culture shock, which is actually very good for you, broadening your horizon.

In Europe everything seems smaller though, that's a real difference. Also architecture has more history.

One important advice though, which is true for every country: learn the language!!
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Sure.

http://www.africanwildlifeconservationfund.org/wp-content/up...

Trophy hunting alone brings in over $200 million USD a year to Africa's economy.
THe problem is we still believe america has a middle class. It really doesn't. Even the people I know with household incomes in the bay exceeding 250k a year aren't really saving any money. Easy access to debt has confused access to capital with savings in america. I'm just glad I'm rich
Sidenote, if you or your mom, happen to be jewish.. You can get a free ticket to Israel, give you citizenship, the government will help you with housing and actually give you money, and hebrew lessons.. They also have a booming tech industry.. I lived there for a couple of years and while not exactly in mainland Europe, it is very European. I currently live in Mexico City and thats also a great non-Euro option !
Because i need to be able to cover the costs (i.e. what is the savings in terms of purchasing power rather than absolute savings).
If i lose my job tomorrow and my rent is 2800, I don't really care that i save 1k compared to 700 per month (under the assumption i can't increase the purchasing power of my savings somehow).
I often submit equivalent queries when searching using Google. I tend to use OR a lot to specify alternatives to specific keywords (e.g. osx OR "os x" OR macos), though it's a years-old habit often not that important with today's search engines; I sometimes also use it to search sets of domains (e.g. site:w3.org OR site:whatwg.org). In general I feel that when the first few pages of results using a simple query don't get me to what I am looking for, using a more complex expression can unearth hits which I would have otherwise skipped or not reached.

Regarding Duck Duck Go's advanced search syntax, I've use it in a similar fashion, though not as much. Keep in mind that the provided link doesn't seem to reflect the current implementation. For instance, the syntax for grouping using parentheses doesn't seem to be as strict (which is a relief), excluded words are seemingly not limited to being at the end of the search string, and AND has a higher precedence than OR (which is currently a pet peeve of mine because I am used to Google doing it otherwise and I like not having to use parentheses in my usual queries).
> There will always be employees who want to do a bit of extra, stay a bit longer, answer emails at 10pm, to help make progress in their career and get promotions.

Additional work should not help getting promotions/a raise, but only a one-time bonus (proportional to the overtime/achievement):
- if the person stops overtime after that, (s)he will continue to enjoy the rise forever.
- working more does not help by itself to go to the next level (being more productive, getting new skills allowing to transition to another role)
- (it's even more toxic when stacked ranking is put it place: those who work "normal" hours will almost never get a raise/promotion).
It's impossible to prove a contra positive so we'll never know if it was Comey, or the Russians or what that put him over the top. But, Trump did get himself within striking distance. So, I give him credit(?) for the birther movement, and Mexican rapists, and no puppet. Because those are the things that energized his base to the point where he could win with a little help from his friends.
Of the various promises society has made to various people, when did "you always get to live in the city you were born in" end up on the list?

There are trade-offs everywhere. The reason these crazy cycles continue is because people refuse to accept alternatives. If more people said "screw you guys, I'm leaving" to expensive cities, the cities would start to become cheaper.

There are also cities that die off because the industry in them goes away. Are we going to force them to stay where they are so that they don't end up bidding up prices, driving kids born in Oakland out of Oakland?
1. Learn something that can help you to do stuff that people are willing to pay for. You already know some webdev, so maybe go ahead and spend a couple of months trying out some frontend frameworks. There are ample amounts of frontend jobs everywhere in US, EU and Asia.

2. Find a remote job in US. Even a junior position with a low salary would allow you to live decently in most European places (maybe except downtown London, etc.).

3. Pick a random European city you might like, get an airbnb and just go there for a while.

4. If you like it, stay. If you don't, pick another city. If you can't make the decision in 3 months, move to a cheap place in Asia and go back when you can. Flights are cheap. Places to stay are cheap. Just lower the bar. You don't have to live in the middle of Paris or London this whole time.

5. Travel a lot and profit. Unless of course your prefer to go through a routine of choosing a single place, finding a job in there, networking, making lots of new friends, etc. There's your tradeoff, but hey, you are 26.

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> and I find that ruminating over news or politics drains my energy.

To many people it's entertainment. Just like watching football or any sport. Political drama is interesting and lends itself to speculation and monday morning quarterbacking and plenty of drama and personalities.
> The wise guys in the Bush administration and the military said he was yapping out of the back of his neck. They put the final cost at a few hundred billion.

They actually put the cost at $50-60 billion.[1]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/washington/19cost.html
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Bullshit. There is no place in the United States where $250K means you're living paycheck to paycheck. You know people who don't know how to manage their money.
I think the brilliance of Instagram is how they solved the problem of image ratio and rendering to different devices -- make everything a square. About the time of the purchase Facebook engineers and designers had been making talks about image layout. (I'll edit this if I find the bookmark to the link.) I wonder if the purchase was an extension of finding a working solution to working with images of different sizes, orientations, and aspect ratios.
The big advantage comes from its packaging and everything built into the chip. It comes in a 144 pin lqfp package, which means that routing pins can be done by a couple people with real minimal amounts of training, and it can be laid out onto a two-layer board, which tends to be a lot cheaper than a four layer board which a bga package pretty much requires. It's also got a dac and adc built in which has the circuitry to directly drive headphones, so you don't need amplification circuitry to do that. Similarly, it's got integrated power regulation, so you don't need those chips either. Finally, all the info on it is available in a datasheet you don't need to jump through hoops to read [1]. It's not as fast as a chip, but because of everything it has, it's much more flexible for when you are designing something.

[1] http://www.nxp.com/assets/documents/data/en/reference-manual...
> The state of American rail is tragic.

https://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0362

The US has one of the best freight rail systems in the world. As a country we ship freight not people. Its not tragic, its damn amazing. I'm sorry they didn't specialize it for the use case you want.
Fort Hill, the neighborhood the article starts with and returns to repeatedly, is a lot more like Queens than like Chelsea -- and that's where people are getting priced out of now in Boston.