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Third street promenade is a disaster area from the perspective you describe. It's a classical tourist funnel designed to extract the most from them.

As noted in another comment, Main St. is a bit better with some ok food, bars and coffee shops, but the retail side doesn't offer much. Most likely out of sheer need for survival due to super expensive lease rates, most retail is oriented towards tourists, with a little bit reserved for ultra wealthy of the area.
Despite the poor sales of the spectacles, the hardware itself is actually really well designed and functional, If it wasn't bogged down by being bound to the snapchat app. I assume this is the source of the value tencent is investing in, a hardware design company.
So your solution was to shaft the hospitals $48k? Sounds like an applicable solution for the rest of America. This is why healthcare costs are so high.
There are many nations with a similar level of development and wealth as the United States. How prevalent is this problem in Canada? In Europe?

You propose "personal responsibility" as the solution to this, but does Canada or Europe depend more on "personal responsibility" or less than the US?
Yes, they've admitted as much. [1]

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z4444w/how-reddit...
If you have billions of popsicles and other people have none you could easily give out millions of popsicles to help the less fortunate and still have vastly more popsicles than you could ever need.
I agree, that graphic is splendid.

But what's going on with Washington State?
I think that’s part of it, there is also the issue the article goes into about leveraged buyouts leaving several retail stores with interest payments that are just too high on otherwise healthy buisinesses. It isn’t enough for them to be packed, they have to show growth to beat the interest.
Nah, they just want to do something with all that money they have. Leaving it in China might be an issue if the market in China changes.
> “I thought I could handle eating and shopping,” she said, “but lunch put me over the top.”

If lunch put her over the top as she says, why did she buy a $21 lunch? The Ice Tea probably cost at least $3.50.

Let's be real, there weren't two extra meals in those leftovers.
oh those poor poor Berkeley college students
No, that was not the original goal, which was to strand and demonetize the black money.

After that failed, they changed their stated goal (after the fact).
"I can only provide so much as I live in a high COL area as well"

Why are your parents living in a high cost-of-living area?

Wouldn't it make sense for them to move somewhere they could better afford?
I hope it's only the next 15-20 years. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
The outrage seems reasonable, not ironic or hypocritical. I want to pay higher taxes (and I do donate money to charities and NGOs), but I do not want my taxes to be used to cover for the tax breaks of the super rich. We are in this all together, and we should all work to make our world better.

You can argue that the government is bad at spending that money, but this is a completely separate complaint.
From my perspective, this and similar programs, like Amazon Key for example, shifts the responsibility of a company's liabilities to the consumer, and generally leaves a bad taste. I think these programs are poorly conceived with the wrong motivation and self-serving intentions. I think it would be a good thing if consumers recognized these for what they are and pushed back against them.
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So the issue is not about having a higher density of rods and cones in the eye but about the focal point (which I think should be related to the lens). The closer to the surface the eye focus the sharper the image and more details are seen.
Almost 14 years ago.

> Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004.
I'd say even driving at all is a mistake if one is trying to save money. Insurance is costly, gas is costly, and so are speeding tickets. I recommend to struggling friends to buy a used bicycle (some non-profits will give bicycles away for free) or to ride public transportation.
Move to California, stop buying prime rib dinners, and stop complaining.
> Think about gasoline prices back when crude oil prices suddenly fell off a cliff. Did gas prices at your local station drop?

Petrol prices in the UK definitely have dropped (30% over four years, not including inflation) http://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time
How much additional obligation do the rest of us have to people who had their entire child-free lives to save money and didn't, already receive a check from the government every month, and get free health care? Do individuals have no responsibility at all for their own situation?
Clearly, the government. And that’s fitting considering government already provides social security. Outlays for wholesale housing would actually decrease social security spending through cost economies of scale.
How much equity was lost due to inflated gains vs down payments/mortgage payments. I'd say much more the former than the latter, If I had to guess.
Please consider producing archives in WARC format, and either donating captures of public pages to the Internet Archive (and other interested archives), or supporting ways for users to download their own archives in that format for them to donate them themselves and use in systems like Webrecorder.

(Note that a download of just page content and assets isn't enough; WARC stores headers, etc., also.)
I'm not convinced that's still a relevant distinction. Looking at the OLED screen on an iPhone X, for example, it can be hard to visually tell the difference between screen and paper.
The thing is a lot of people run out of money for many different reasons and a lack of "personal responsibility" is only one of them.

All it takes is one big crash to wipe out years of long term financial planning. Illness of oneself, a spouse, child or parent can easily crater life savings. Sometimes people just live too damn long. And yes, sometimes people lack "personal responsibility."

To some extent, yes, you are expected to pay for the safety net of others. You never know when YOU might need it.
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anecdotally, people are regularly throwing away/throwing in the recycling perfectly good core 2 duo desktops from the 2008-2009 era with 4GB of RAM, video cards with DVI interface that will drive a 1920x1200 monitor, etc. Anything older than that from the P4 generation has likely gone to the recycler long ago.
I've had Arch Linux ARM on an N900 for the past 5 years.
There's a terribly toxic combination at work here - a demographic bubble, lifespans (but often not productive lifespans) extended by modern medicine, high cost of that modern medicine, declining market value of skills held by the older generation, flat middle-class earnings, near-total elimination of defined benefit programs, and a series of financial shocks eroding the value of stock-market alternatives. The result is akin to an epidemic - millions of older people physically able and likely to live a few more decades, but financially not even capable of making it another year without help. Scary.

The GOP/libertarian answer is likely to be that "too young to die" isn't true. No, they won't come out and say it, but the policies they promote come down to that. "Just die already, it'll be good for the economy (or at least the stock market)." Problem is, they won't die. They'll end up in hospitals more often, or prisons. If you think nobody has deliberately gone to jail just to ensure three squares and health care, think again. Some will end up in their children's homes, which can be great sometimes but is more often a drain on those children's own prospects. Many will end up on the streets. The rich families who send their kids to Washington or Wall Street won't be affected and thus mostly own't care, but it will be a literal disaster for everyone else.

Like it or not, the only real choice is for us as a society to do more to look after the elderly. Not only is it the humane choice, but when you add up all the costs of the alternative that's even worse. And no, we can't rely on private charity to do the job. There's nowhere near enough organized charity for that, and at the individual level very very few of the people affluent enough to offer help will go anywhere near somebody else's poor grandmother. I'm extremely fortunate that I can afford to pay for my mother to be in a nice assisted living facility, but everything below that is a hellhole and my personal solution doesn't scale to all of society.
Why is consumption lower after you retire? You've finally got time to spend all that money that you've been spending all your time earning.
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Colaboratory is just a collaborative version of Jupyter/iPython, which is just a notebook-based editing environment. It's not specific to ML. Presumably, you can run just about any Python code in Colaboratory, such as these examples: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes..., http://nb.bianp.net/sort/views/
How do you workaround the fact that SQLite only supports a single writer? For example, your app could be blocked when you run a long operation like creating an index.
I wonder if these kinds of stories will prompt real political will for things like single payer healthcare or a real social safety net.
> I think the America that will result from this die-off is a better place. Less suburban sprawl.

Why would this lead to less suburban sprawl? Unleashed from any interest in physical commerce, wouldn't suburban sprawl perhaps be even more attractive? There's a lot of assumptions here that these changes will have us reverting to older forms, but I don't see any reason why.
Please remind me, if I'm ever a loan officer at a bank, to not issue a huge loan to a traditional retailer that was just taken over in a leveraged buyout -- jeez!
Most of the taxes a company actually pays are factored in with their workers' salaries. For example, if your company's average salary is lower to that of Apple for a comparable employee profile, you are effectively paying less taxes than Apple.

Or, if you company does not have profits, you are paying less taxes than a company that reports profits.

I do not think a company has to wear any nation flag. Companies have to care for their customers, employees and shareholders (in that order), wherever these are based.

Lawmakers need to care for their citizens, and need to legislate in a way that optimizes their tax collection in a sustainable way (i.e. lawmakers do not want companies or people fleeing to other countries or regions).

The resulting scenario is an optimal equilibrium of forces.
It's more complicated than that though, the income that is going to be taxed here isn't money that gets handed to the students to do what they want with, it is money that the university pretends to pay them and then gives to itself.

The sensible way to eliminate the special tax treatment would be to first change how the university does the accounting, so that a bunch of stuff that the university does for university purposes doesn't get imputed to the student as income.
Nope given the scale of the problem and considering those elderly are voters, you can fully expect the burden to be shifted to the currently working via taxes etc.
The demographics of college students and graduate students are nothing alike, and the article is about graduate students.
Interesting.. I'll look up project implicit. The 2 situations which came to mind were the github conference that was cancelled for not being diverse enough after a blind review process and the study done by masking the gender of the applicant where men whose voice was modified to sound like a woman's did marginally better (Though not statistically significant IIRC) in coding interviews
This is true, however, it has been missing from this discussion because its not on topic.

The question wasn't "why is investing directly in real estate better than REITs?" it was not "why are eREITs better than a diversified REIT mutual fund or ETF?"
No, I search for "ruby gems".

What about that means I don't "know or remember anything"?
Durable goods would take that number way up from 200 for an average US family.
Which way would spoofing this message send the market?
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Sounds good. It forces all countries to unify VAT.

It begs the question why it does not happen already?
Now I get why a lot of Americans come to Mexico to retire, sure we have a lot of problems over here, but with that amount you will be able to live in a good and beautiful town, maybe next to a beach or in a traditional town like San Miguel de Allende [1] (a lot of old Americans go to retire there), maybe you won't live like a king, but you won't have housing or food problems at all.
[1] http://cdn-image.travelandleisure.com/sites/default/files/st...
Would it be possible to add auto-archiving to the extension?

On the $9/mo plan, I'd probably still not hit 100GB/mo of uploads.

My main reason for wanting this feature is that I could use the full text search (when it's available) to search every webpage I've visited. I find myself more and more frequently unable to find things I know existed at one point. I've been thinking of building my own solution where I just archive every page I visit on the fly then build a personal search for pages I've previously visited.
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They do, but their "shtick" is unit preservation: all their units have regenerating shields, and their units generally have high health/cost. Some of them have additional protective abilities, like the Sentry's damage-reducing aura, or the Immortal's Barrier. Finally, when raw shielding/toughness isn't enough, many of their units are quite mobile, allowing wounded/deshielded units to retreat.
That would be a horrendously regressive taxation system.

"Fine-grain taxes" are what let a government tax people equivalently to their ability to pay. Income tax being one of the easiest ways to do that...
>Hell, they couldn't even be bothered to play a pickup game with them.

That would've been the emotionally intelligent thing to do.
Wow, that's a really nasty comment. Debts expunge upon the deaths of the debtor. Why would you expect him to pay those debts?

This isn't "why healthcare costs are so high".
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Those debts clear with her estate.
Well, you can't beat dollar store prices for quality items directly shipped from China. Amazon has some real competition on their hands.
People are coming out with their own cases where they've implemented this pattern, and I'm sure there are a lot more that haven't bothered to note their cases. That's because it's actually the simplest (and possibly most obvious) solution whenever you have disjoint producers and consumers. I use it myself through the disk. I have a time based directory structure, and within that compressed blobs of data that are timestamped and have whatever other uniquely identifying information is required.[1] In fact, I have no less than seven distinct sets of data like this, some JSON, some HTML from scraped pages, etc

One set of processes retrieves and stores the data in the normalized structure, another set of processes reads and processes them. If there's ever a problem in the processing, the system can fail until someone looks into the error and adds an exception or fixes the processing. This is useful for when you can't be sure the remote side will continue to work as expected (I've found API's to be only slightly more stable than random web scraping. Sure, they may version their APIs, but that doesn't help when they don't communicate new versions or when they are deprecating the old ones and you're hit with a dead API endpoint it out of the blue).

Not only is the processing asynchronous, but the development is so asynchronous, I've added data sources that I knew I would eventually want to process (as adding a data source is fairly easy), only to get around to writing the processor six months later, and the nature of the system means that it's trivial to process the old data. In fact, the normal operation would likely note it is that far out of date and process the old data. The only consideration that needs to be made is whether you want to optimize the back-processing by aggressively caching, since that can greatly speed up the process.

I really think the pattern it is the natural conclusion most people would come to when presented with the right requirements. The real art comes from recognizing when your current problem can map to a pattern such as this when it doesn't appear to initially.

1: e.g. "/$base/$logname/%Y-%m-%d/%H/%Y%m%d%H%M%S_${unique}.json.gz"
I saw this the other day on Reddit - I feel it's worth the read, and very relevant to this style of "they're doing it wrong" discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/7ak7jm/its...

TL;DR: OP shows how a healthy 20-something could quickly overrun a $27,000 yearly income by just living.
So bitcoin went up because they were going to fork, and now it's going up again because they will not?

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Edit: Otoh, looks like it's seeing a bit of a drop now, but I doubt it will hit the pre-anticipation levels.
The impedance going to all your neighbors is pretty low too, but I don't think the system relies on signals going out that far and echoing back. High frequencies have more of a transmission line model, which is pretty directional. There's free impedance everywhere.

My understanding is that you mostly care about the minor reflections caused by wire junctions in a system like this, and that line headed outside is more or less a signal sink no matter what. It's possible a capacitor would need to be a bit further away than directly at the breaker box, but by the time you reach the pole I'm reasonably confident that absorbing the entire signal with $.50 of components and no inductor would be fine.
They could, absolutely. My mother has always dreamed of buying a house in Florida for instance but that would be impossible with their finances.

Both of my parents are immigrants from a small country, they immigrated to NYC because it's one of the few cities in America where other folks from our country settled. Moving would undoubtedly allow them to ease up on rent and cost of living, but it would also move them away from other family members, long time friends, church community, etc.

As mentioned, both are very sedentary due to injury despite the fact that my dad works a grueling job, if they moved away from the community that has supported them for ~30 years I could only see their quality of life worsening.
Strong choice! My dream is for AuthN to provide authentication and account functionality for folks who have not yet invested in an API gateway, and then seamlessly plug in when their architecture matures later. Extracting user accounts can be a difficult barrier for transitions like that.
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Has the company continued to make a healthy profit? I mean, I'd hope that customers would care but sometimes I wonder if it actually affects the bottom line?
> That rules out cheap but filling Big Macs

Big Macs are neither cheap nor filling. Fast food is extremely expensive. Anyone who’s ever been poor and collected enough to escape poverty understands this. Americans, as parroted by this journalist, don’t know what poverty is. How is it that you have 17,000 dollars per year and still struggle to survive? If you’re poor and eat fast food and keep your home stocked with disposable utensils: you’re hopeless, you're going to be poor forever.

If you’re poor you can’t eat fast food if you want to stop being poor. You can afford dried lentils. Dried beans. Meat when it’s on sale. Apples when they’re 79 cents/lb or when you can get them for free. Americans just don’t know how to live without getting owned by the man. “Poor” Americans are overwhelmingly people who don’t understand home economics and how not to give all their money to rich people. They make one bad decision after the next. It’s a cultural problem driven by the absense of local community, support structure and values.

What’s happened in the past hundred years is that capitalists have played divide and conquer with cultural systems to make people increasingly alone and isolated from one another, less economically viable and increasingly helpless. Cooking—a thing that every person on earth could do for nearly every meal they consumed–became a thing that's difficult. Cooking: Don't Try This at Home. It's simple: Capitalism doesn’t value consumer empowerment. It values consumer servitude. Instead of being raised by grandparents and community members, American children are raised in daycare. Instead of grandparents helping with cooking, working Americans are tasked with preparing food for the family, a task that is impossible. Things you could rely on from family and community are things today you have to get from corporations. We replaced family and community with government and corporations and this is what we got: A culture that says Big Macs are cheap and writes so as a matter of fact in the local newspaper of record.
After signing in, my initial reaction is that I wish I didn't have to use a browser extension to save a page.

It would be handy if I could just enter a URL and have it saved, a la Pinboard or Instapaper.

That said, this worked very well on my first try.
> Why do newspapers use as examples people who seem to have done everything wrong? Is it because formerly middle class people are somehow more relatable to the readers of the LA Times than people who never had much of a chance to begin with? What about the poor elderly who never went to business school or were born in an area with few opportunities?

It will come as little surprise to many readers that someone who was forerly poor has remained poor. It is more notable when someone who was formerly comfortable is now barely scraping by. The latter will garner more attention from the audience and potentially will have more impact.
VAT is also a regressive. It's comparable to sales tax.
It depends. Sometimes people can't, and that's about it.

But lately, I have more and more friends that don't want to have children.

The girls are in their 35s and guys in 40s, add or take five.

They share and attempt to behave as if they are in their twenties.

They enjoy the easy Toronto life, spend everything they earn, cluster together with others of similar lifestyle, and reinforce each own egos that they are doing it right.

In a way, we live in amazing times where that is possible. But sometimes, life changes, and at that point, not having family to take care of you, is just bad.

So, for the woman in the story, if bad luck put here there that's sad.

If it was her own choice, well, it is harsh, but not forming and helping a family, as your parents did with you, and helped out their parents, is a selfish act, and I guess the price is similarly horrible.

Edit: Clarity. English is such a weird and misinterpreted language.
Ayn Rand, arguably a strong proponent of "personal responsibility", required welfare at the end of her life. She made some justifications for how she could live off of welfare but still did it.

When times are personally good it's easy to make arguments about what people should do, but when you're in a situation with no support things feel a lot different.
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