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See also Scalzi's "Being Poor" (2005): https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

An essay to drive home some aspects of living in poverty.

Sample:
"Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house.

Being poor is knowing you can’t leave $5 on the coffee table when your friends are around.

Being poor is hoping your kids don’t have a growth spurt."
We three. I cannot stand the default Android UI.

I will take Samsung, Huawei or LG interface changes over the defaults.
Conservatives in the deep south I find have belief in this, they think that giving money to people that have none is fundamentally stealing from them through taxation and then giving it to someone that doesn't work as hard as them.
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There is SVG Tiny - https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/ - designed when phones were less powerful than today.
I'm not sure there's any obligation on the author of this article; if there's any, it's on the party that authorised the document to be released in the state it's in. You can be sure that the high-level "bad guys" (for anybody's definition of bad) did the same thing the author did.

That said, it seems remarkably heavy-handed to censor in this case, assuming that "four" is the missing text and if the 4 names match those given later - Papadoupolous, Flynn, Page and Manafort.

We obviously know about all of those already - although I suppose there could be some use in concealing when exactly investigations were opened into them.
That's a well researched problem, and is common in most JavaScript frameworks. In practice it makes it harder to protect applications using them against XSS.

Check https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/x00mario/jsmvcomfg-to-ster... or script gadgets research https://github.com/google/security-research-pocs/blob/master... for more complete overview of the issue.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors.
Having an S8, I'm actually considering moving away from Samsung and getting a phone that actually still has a bit of a bezel on the sides - assuming I can find another phone that has what I care about (SoC, RAM, storage, at least IP67, and wireless charging). I have a major problem with the S8 screwing up because the thumb/palm touching the side of the screen when I'm holding it.
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ER. In most areas hospitals are the only facilities providing emergency care. (And boy is it expensive)
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I've lived in the east coast my whole life. We definitely have our own scenes, especially with the ever growing Information Security groups, yet at the same time it feels quite isolating. It seems like "the next big thing" is always on the other side of the country. Silicon Valley reins king in tech, but how much better job prospects are remains unclear.

What really got the idea in my mind was when I by chance ran into a old friend of mine from highschool, and alumni from the college I'm currently attending. He dropped everything and moved to California, and is quite successful.

My current path is InfoSec. I've built up a good network and I believe I'll do well if I keep going as is. But I still have this strong desire to see what else is out there.

Let's say you're 19, in university, can program in a few languages (especially Python), have decent experience in InfoSec, and are taking your first steps in Machine Learning. What do you do? Is the West Coast scene worth it?
Every living being on this planet should have the basic right for a house. It's a primary need. Houses should not be part of the "free" economy and should not be allowed to be traded for profit. If this pyramid scheme continues the future will look very grim for billions of people.
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A green card application is tied to job responsibilities, role and job location. Switching to a new job location or accepting a new role (for example, switch from engineering to product management or for that matter other management positions) is hard. Such changes would usually require the whole green card to be restarted (LCA, hiring, cool-off period, PERM, I-140) and it easily takes more than a year and is stressful.
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they co-produced a really nice video with some of the graphs from the book inlaid on giant physical glass plates:

https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/967449421238579201
Everything has flaws. Exhibiting an institutional insecurity by making a take it or leave it response upon criticism, reducing the world to binaries, shuts down any attempt at improvements.
Reading this, I'm reminded of hobo life during the Great Depression. Hoovervilles. And in those days, you could at least get around on freight trains.

I'm also reminded of my own time living on the road. In my late teens through early 20s, as an illegal immigrant. And indeed, I spent some of that time in LA and SF. But mostly in the Pacific Northwest. Living in the forest, and squatting.

But it wasn't that bad, because I had many friends. And it was fun to drift aimlessly. But eventually, I went to college and grad school, so hey.
Intuitively, it makes sense. Life and growth are inextricably linked, as are death and destruction. Unrestricted cellular growth leads to cancer/tumors, unrestricted cellular destruction also leads to cancer, but of autoimmune origin.
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This doesn't make sense to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

A hotel can easily provide room and board (essentially the services of a hospital's basic in-patient care) for <$100 a night. The hospital also has a ton of equipment and staff that are additional, but how can it possibly be as much as $1900-$4900? I feel like in-patient care is similar to a hotel but with extra stuff that might increase the cost by a factor of (perhaps) 2-5. But not 10-25. That would suggest that there's some major inefficiency in hospitals causing the cost bloat. You said the price is before doctors, medications, tests, etc. so the service is essentially just accomodation. How can it be so expensive?
Cost of message passing. It's probably cause you don't care `enough` for performance.

See the difference in 1 box of `1 process per core` `scylladb`,`voltdb`,`redis` compared to all other dbs `1-process-for-all-cores`.
Unfortuntely I really need an SD card (30+GB of music cached). I really don't know what to get - I'm stuck with my S8+ for now.
> I'm not convinced you are.

We totally agree here -- these are two different jobs.

My point is that you can't tell that from the job title.

> And can we really classify a job where you literally spend most of your time learning how to do a job a "degree required" job?

Yes. There's a quantum leap between jobs where you're "learning on the job" trivial perturbations to things that hundreds of millions of other people already know and jobs where you're "learning on the job" stuff that no one / 10 other people know.

ALL jobs require learning on the job. Some jobs require you to learn stuff that's not possible to learn without already having a degree or two's worth of background knowledge. Some jobs require you to learn stuff any high schooler can learn. That is the difference between mid-tech and high-tech!

> There are always outliers. We have to be observing the typical or average case for this discussion to have any meaning.

Yes. And I'm pointing out that understanding that typical/average case is difficult for "Software Development" because the job title encompasses so many different types of jobs.
Many would argue that using these forms to denote subjunctive mood is archaic, like words like "thou". Certainly this is not a clear mistake.
I had such an holy fuck moment and turned part-time vegetarian when I learned livestock are fed the very same vegetable protein I could eat.

Couple this with the (probably false) rule of thumb that 90% of the energy is lost at each step in the food chain. The beef I eat could literally feed ten people if they ate the vegetable proteins instead[1], with nearly no loss of quality of life for me. It's very hard to rationalise eating large amounts of beef at that point.

That said, I still do enjoy it at times, but as the expensive luxury it is, not an everyday staple.

[1] If not directly, then in the long run by reduced emissions etc.
> Why not? If you define poverty as being below the Xth percentile of wealth, then it is tautological that we cannot reach 100% non-poverty.

This is indeed how it is defined in many wellfare states eg in Europe.

"People are considered at risk of monetary poverty when their equivalised disposable income (after social transfers) is below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. This is set at 60 % of the national median equivalised disposable income after social transfers."

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

There will always be poor people with this definition.
It is reality. Someone with large hands has huge advantage over someone with small ones in competitive swimming. Someone with a lot of red muscle fibre will grow stronger then someone with white one in weight lifting. Weight lifters are not small by random either. Pretending it is not so is just lying to yourself or worst if you make moral virtue out sport.
I want exactly the opposite - to be able to construct dictionaries where there are no words used in definitions that don't also have their own entries. To me this is a key feature of a dictionary - definition completeness.

And its one of the reasons I'd like to know about the toolset used to construct dictionaries - I'd give anything to be able to throw a word set at these tools, have a custom dictionary constructed from it, and repeat until unity...
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I write software for a living, and have on more than one occasion had the opportunity to live and work in California.

Seeing the poverty and, how the poor are treated in San Fransisco, Los Angeles, and every other large US I've been to, is so degrading and offensive that the idea of participating in the financial system that sustains it is unacceptable.

Surely I can't be the only one who feels this way.
> if times were at one point good or OK but you’ve fallen into hard times now, why did you not have savings?

The size of income is not the only difference between people. People can have different families, get different informal education at home, etc.

If you are poor but smart, and so is your family, and you love and help each other... there is a chance you will sooner or later get out of poverty somehow; as long as one succeeds, they can provide help and advice to others, etc.

It is a completely different situation if e.g. someone in your poor family is crazy. Crazy people can create all kinds of difficulties, whether interpersonal or financial, which can consume all your energy and savings.

I know people who have decent income, but can't save any of it, because they have relatives who regularly get themselves in all kinds of financial trouble, knowing that they can always ask Joe to save them. For example, they don't pay their bills, and then call Joe for help when a collector comes and wants the money back with some extra interest. And Joe doesn't know how to tell them "no" and just watch them lose the roofs above their heads. Therefore, no matter how many years of decent income will Joe have, he will never have savings.

I know people who spend a lot of their attention mitigating various problems that their crazy relatives with too much free time created. The amount of energy someone else spends on building a startup, they spend solving artificially created problems which wouldn't exist if their crazy relatives wouldn't make up things, or if the rest of the family wouldn't believe them.

I guess what I am trying to say is that people are connected; and some of them start connected to decent people, and others start connected to huge heaps of shit. Social capital is also a form of capital, and it can be negative.
I did exactly what he tried to do. It took me less than 1 hour and my node was in sync.
If you use a dedicated server with sufficient bandwidth and not your laptop at home for a fullnode this can easily been done.
IOT devices are connected to this fullnode and are not fullnodes themselves. I dont know what made him think otherwise.
Good example of how private charity doesn’t work. The US has gotten ever wealthier, or primarly the 1% the exact portion of the population who should have been most capable of funding charity. Yet this problem grows. Charity is able feed people but not turn around people’s lives. You need comperhensive government programs for that.
> I don't think FEMA has a reputation for having borderline paranoia.

If anything, FEMA tends to grossly underestimate the impact of the incidents they may respond to; the public tends to grossly overestimate FEMA's capacity and interests in doing what is ultimately, for every animal and man since the dawn of time, their own job and no one else's.
Wouldn't his be an excellent use case for IPFS as well?
The way the pie is shared is a huge problem. It means that we're collectively responsible, thus everybody will ask the others to do something, we'll need consensus.

It'd be easier if there were only one source of problems because all the others would look at him. Here we'd just need "finger pointing".
Weather isn’t climate - until it’s used as evidence for man made climate change I guess?
I don't know why this has been down voted. Would you buy a property with a 50 year lease?
IIRC Russia has entire fake building facades for the upcoming World Cup.

The drive to please higher-ups/Putin is quiet strong there. See their election turnout "encouragements".
Given that about a third are mentally ill, that would not be adequate - the other states would undoubtedly object - so some sort of interstate pact or national program would be required for that sort of plan.
Another counter-argument is you're still learning about frameworks in general which should help you pick up new ones quicker or provide a more comprehensive base of knowledge to draw upon when developing your own.
I was homeless for a year in my late teens. But I also felt it didn't hurt me because I was young enough to still feel that it was a choice of my own, and I did go to school.

As the article points out, only a third of homeless are addicted, so the problem is not really about the homelessness itself. It's about losing hope and being alienated by your own community. I always wondered why so many homeless people like to flock around where it's crowded.
I read the paper and I'm trying to figure out what "iPod-like" means, and what patents you think might be broken.

Could you elaborate?
Of course I use indexes. It's utterly silly not to do so.

My point was that the submitted post did not make a convincing argument pro MapD when query times are that much slower than a trivial SQLite database.
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Or your fate may hang in the balance of the time the decision is rendered. The person who has their case heard right before lunch generally is given the least amount of sympathy and understanding
Isn’t the problem that republican controlled midwestern states chase all their homeless people out to democrat controlled big cities? They are not willing to pay anything to help the homeless. They are not even willing to look at them. They want it to be somebody else’s problem. I think that is a problem with having open borders between states but not equal social programs. It leads to a race to the bottom.
You mean your undocumented, untested custom way of doing the most basic things ?

A table you can reorder ?

Separating data from presentation ?

Sharing widgets ?

Applying style conditionally ?

Then combine all that ?

Of course you can do it easily. In a team of 1.
> Scraping the web will become a lot harder in the future.

Meh, if you're lucky you can grab raw data from API requests. Otherwise just let the javascript execute in a headless browser and continue scraping.
LMFTFY:

"efficiently starting a MAJOR war"

The whole AUMF thing is probably not a good example to use.
The malthusian argument. People outgrow their capacity to feed themselves.

Good thing it is not true at all, and has been debunked and ridiculed by economists over a century ago.
This criticism boils down to a disappointment in humanity's progress. It's true that humanity could be Star Trek-level in 2018, if things had gone a bit better for us historically.

But we'll get there in 2118 or whatever. It's an inevitable result of technology building on itself. Even if it costs a dozen World Wars and rebuilding civilization from ashes. And it hopefully won't even cost us a WW3, though it may.

The journey will be a rough ride for humanity but on the other side is an end to most forms of human suffering and limitation.

We don't even know what's on the other side of this level of progress except that humanity will not remain humans as we think of ourselves today.
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This is the first time I have heard that SF housing market has been stagnant for years. I made 200k profit on my 600k house in East Bay in 2 years (sold in 2016). That house is up another 100k. So not sure what you are referring to here.
No. Menstruation occurs if there's no implanted and viable fetus by ~24 days after ovulation. A few days later, ovulation occurs, and the cycle repeats.
I'd really prefer something not web-based, but if you know of any tool like this, I'm all ears anyway. What I'd really want is to be able to construct lexicographic sets and save the in SQLite databases, for use in apps of course - but that may be a tall order. You know of tools like this?
Marxism.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" - Karl Marx.
>Those stuck are too depressed to help themselves. Depression is very difficult to work with.

And that is exactly why we need to help them, instead of just beating them with a bigger stick by making their situations even more hopeless.

>The workshy is an entirely different case. Those can't be helped as long as the safety net is in place.

"Helped", as if not enjoying having to work is some kind of illness or disability. It's perfectly natural, some people just don't enjoy work or being bossed around, they have other impulses instead.

Why should they not be entitled to a comfortable life, simply because they don't prioritize work?

Work is universally shit and a massive burden on one's private life and spare time. Those claiming to enjoy their work are simply deluding themselves (or they're basic simpletons). I know, because I've been there myself until I realized what time-wasting grind it is. Since then I have only given exactly what's needed, there is no incentive to go above and beyond , it simply isn't valued anymore. The scales have tipped way too far, and these days loyalty only goes one way, the wrong way. Everyone would be happier if we all worked a bit less.
What are you saying no to?
Virtually anything of couse just means 'not everything'. As a sideproject, I'm building a keyboard, try that in software. Besides, software is sometimes just too slow. There's a reason you have a GPU (yes, it can be programmed, but my point is that it's separate hardware). Certain algorithms are just much better suited for hardware implementations since everything runs in parallel at a very fine-grained scale(cryptocurrency mining for example - the main reason that people are mining with GPU's is that the ASICs are so popular that it's hard to get them).
There is no sun light for months in Arctic winter. Usually jet streams/polar vortex keep the cold air within the high latitudes. Due to Climate Change or more specific Arctic Amplification the pressure gradient from the Equator to the North Pole flattens and tends to fail to contain the cold air which in turn can 'escape' to lower latitudes in exchange for warmer air moving into the Arctic. The whole northern hemisphere trends towards a less structured more chaotic circulation regime.
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So, the thing that always bothers me about how Los Angeles is reported on is the lack of normalization for population. LA is really big with a lot of people. It will naturally have higher population of homelessness.

57k/10.2m is ~0.56% homelessness, which is about par with Seattle (11.6k/2.1m = ~0.55%), but significantly better than SF (7k/870k = ~0.80%) or NY (77k/8.5m = ~0.90%).

Given LA's unrelenting rapid gentrification, wealth, and income inequality, I think the situation can easily get much worse.

But at least we're trying, trying to make the situation better, or at least slow down its progression. I'd hate to see us give up and invest in anti-loitering securitybots instead. The wealthy here haven't become that out of touch and scornful yet, but keep writing articles like this and maybe they might.
In other words, it's just the kind of effect natural selection is renowned for: odd, hackish solutions that work to solve proximate problems

Funny, this is industry-accepted programming practice too. I'm going to call it "evolutionary programming" from now on :D.
All of this reminds me of the modern version of the Great Depression. Economists have gotten smarter this time around and have covered up the unemployment rate and CPI, but it’s mostly the same.

Studs Terkel, probably the most famous interviewer / oral historian who’s ever lived, wrote a book containing hundreds of oral histories about the Depression. It sounds just like today:

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression https://www.amazon.com/dp/1565846567/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Yh8K...
It pays far less even when accounting for the cost of living benefits in the Midwest. However, in my experience, there is less to spend money on, but those savings do not come close to the higher pay on the coasts. Another issue, at least in Detroit, is that a number are startups in name only. A significant number of them are spun out of Quicken Loans. There is far less chance that you get equity as part of a pay package as well with these startups
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That's funny, I have the exact same complaints about bezel and unwanted edge touch inputs after moving from HTC Incredible S to Nexus 5X a month or two ago. :) I guess it all goes continually downhill, and has been for a while.
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Funny that in the abstract it aims specifically at electrical engineers, since electrical engineers do machine learning for about six decades now, under different names. Since the invention of the Wiener filter, the Kalman filter, etc...
That was besides my point (there probably are universities like that). What I was trying to point out was that a class of algorithms might not be enough to prepare you for some hardcore algorithmic interviews out there that go into lot of detail you probably didn't learn in that one class or throw some more advanced variations or algorithms at you.

Some of the interviews out there will expect you to have much more knowledge than what was taught in that one class in the uni. And sometimes companies with these interviewing processes really don't even do anything else than CRUD apps which is hilarious given their interviewing routines.
That is too simple of an answer, as it ignores the added utility from getting a "good deal" on the tablet. People feel good/smart for finding good discounts and they can even brag about the great price to their friends.

Without that added utility, saving $50 alone might not be worth 30 minutes to them.
Mine too, from 2003. Stupid design, even then.
The written form of communication lacks nuance. I genuinely hope you have a better day tomorrow.
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