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Affording kids is all about choices. My wife and I have 4 kids under 7, and she does not work. We lived in Seattle last year and moved to Dublin Ireland in August. We have zero debt, own a house in the states and rent in Ireland. We don’t own cars in Ireland as they don’t honor the US license and I don’t want to do drivers ed again. Since moving here in August we went from zero in checking to an average daily balance of 10k last month; based only on my income here in Ireland of about 90k a year taxed at 42%. In that time we’ve paid for flights and trips for 6 to London ( we all got sick and had to ball none refundable lame), Barcelona ( 4 nights), Berlin ( 4 nights), London again ( booked 4 nights in May money already out of the account) and the big one back to the states this month @ 3k in tickets.

We don’t eat out much, we don’t owe anyone / pay interest, we don’t spend money on things we don’t need that don’t a provide a good ROI. We’d rather walk around and explore a city then take a tour and pay to stand in line some where, we cut our own hair, shop at thrift stores or sales, Read we are frugal. Even in the states wife did not work. In the states our cars were paid for in cash, we had no credit card debit, and we built our own house with our own bare hands out of cash; it took 3+ years and we lived in a fifth wheel with 2-3 kids for part of it, but it was all paid for. We made the choices to have kids, and we worked out how to afford our choice and how to be happy.

Why four kids — We watched the intro to idiocracy a few too man times and decided we needed to have more vs fewer kids to combat Clevon. We’d have more kids but we hit 40 this year and that was our stop having kids cut off.

Spend 700$ a month on car payment, 500$ on month on eating out, 500$ a month on amazon, 2000$ on a house payment, buy alcohol and other vices for hundreds a month, ETC and shit adds up fast and you wonder how you can even afford yourself. Don’t have a car payment, or house payment, eat out less, don’t drink and smoke and the numbers are completely different. We have a huge rent payment in Ireland that was the biggest hit moving here. Going from paying property taxes to 2800 a month in rent hurt. But we rented a huge house and rent a room out for 600 a month; which helps off set costs. The house is walking distance to work, grocery, train, and kids school – the higher rent facilities the no care life style. We could live further out and pay half the rent but we would need 2 cars. We chose higher rent over cars.
Very cool feature which will help certain use cases which have no other way of improving the plan chosen without changing the way the data is stored.
they don't write code while they're driving right now either.

but if they suddenly started sitting in a truck doing nothing all day instead of driving, it's a lot more likely that some office duties would be shifted to the truckers rather than the truckers taking on totally unrelated projects.
I'd shop local more often, if only it weren't for the shopkeepers always intruding on my thoughts and thinking by asking if I need anything.

Not having to interact with other humans beings is the best thing about online shopping.
I think the problem is that Python 3 is a different enough language that it's hard to consider it an upgrade, adapting existing code to it really is a port (although six and __future__ help).

And if you're going to port, it's not a question 2 vs 3, it's a question of 3 versus many other languages, chiefly Go.
Let's be honest...what % would have an incentive to go out there if "food/water/shelter" were guaranteed?

And that money has to come from somewhere. The poor need a lot of helping hands (most people are a few paychecks away from living under a bridge) but a blank guarantee of food, shelter and utilities is not, IMO, the right way.

Give fish vs. teach them fishing.
For sure. Russia and China have their most keen global political leaders in a generation and the US is infighting.
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Not true for the original point. Otherwise we would have less meat eaters. Look into Panchatantra and percentage of meat eaters in India.
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I'm imagining AR as a potentially major help here. The ability to define a virtual screen in an ergonomically appropriate part of the space ought to work wonders for a lot of on-the-fly offices.

Of course by Murphy's law it will probably first cause a whole new class of ergonomy injuries due to extra, imbalanced weight on the neck, but one day...
> Coming into a store can be viewed as an intent to buy.

I'm very grateful this is not the slightest bit true.
If this is free, you are the product being sold :)
There is an argument to be made that unsustainable behavior is unethical; this is one possible derivation from Kant's categorical imperative, for example. Various forms of utilitarianism also tend to point towards unsustainable behavior being unethical.

Using a local business as a showroom for an online business is unsustainable. If enough people do it, then the local business will cease to exist.

It's perfectly legal, and I don't particularly think it should be made illegal, but that doesn't make it ethical.
In my opinion, the main issue with many financial services today is heavy regulation.

This may be good regulation and necessary, but it makes it very difficult for consumers to do simple things like transferring money and setup accounts. Especially for lower income people who tend to have difficulty getting together all the required identification and documentation.

And it seems that any "innovation" in this regard will be companies attempting to skirt these regulations, only to be eventually reined in when they get popular enough to be used for fraud or other nefarious purposes.
Indeed. I find https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... to be a good cautionary tale on how our intuition about people being close to average is misleading - nobody is. And nobody is particularly like anyone else, either.

On a thousand dimensional hill, my intuition is that it locally looks like a low dimensional hill, along axes that you can find through techniques like Principal Components Analysis. This has yet to mislead me. On the other hand, my pure math background was a long time ago, and I have not explored machine learning in any real depth...
The main issue has actually been prioritization. In Europe the rails are fast and well-maintained, which is great for passenger operation but expensive for very heavy freight operations. Passenger operations are also prioritized very heavily at the expense of freight operations on the rail network.

In comparison, the US rail network is slow and low quality, which makes freight operations extremely attractive but is absolute garbage for passenger operations. US rail freight competes well in its market niche, where it is faster than oceanic shipping but much cheaper than air freight.
I am fairly well off I'd say...

Then I was thinking "What happens if tomorrow I get injured and cannot work for 12 months".

- I lose my place of living because I can't afford the bills

- I move into my parent's house

- My family loses their health insurance entirely.

- I have to pay for COBRA... but I don't have a job...

- I may need to take out loans to just get by for some time till I can get my health back in order.

Yeah we have ZERO social safety nets.
> I don't hire 4.0 students because I like to have a good social atmosphere.

That seems both judgemental and poorly considered as a hiring heuristic.

I could flip this on you to make an equally invalid assessment of people: I don’t hire people who have a lot of GitHub projects because it means they have no social life.

That doesn’t seem very fair, does it?
"Healthcare" is #14, and it specifically mentions the areas of Diagnostics, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, and Preventative Healthcare. Does that not cover what you're thinking of?
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> if you eat a lot of beans dietary cholesterol is actually beneficial

Interesting, I have found some references to beans lowering cholesterol but not this stronger statement?

I've read that the link from dietary cholesterol to body cholesterol levels is genetically variable, but that there's no test at present for determining individual risk factors.
>trucks could drive themselves with a passenger trucker to intervene in tricky situations

this scenario has been mentioned a couple times in this thread, but if the automation isn't good enough to handle 100% of the journey 100% of the time, then it's really not good enough to allow the trucker to simply be a passenger. If the operator might have to take control in tricky situations, they can't be sleeping the rest of the time.
> I see rights as those things that most people would not give up in order to have their rights protected by society.

Do you see this as the same as the golden rule?
Smarter neighbors segregate their garbage. For burning during the day, and for burning during the night.
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> Could you stop doing that?

No, I'm fairly clumsy and get through phones, laptops, e-cigs etc at an alarming rate.

My phone costs me the equivalent of £25 a month plus an additional £10 for 4G from my provider. After 6 months, it's just the £10. This is far cheaper than the £50/month 2 year contracts on most premium phones.
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> The entire point of nuclear weapons is to deter attacks.

I thought the entire point was to kill as many birds as possible with a single stone.
Why would you tell them, until such a time that you need to tell them? They have strong deterrent value, but there is no need to let others know until such a time as the deterrent value is needed.
I live 10 miles from the town featured in this article and its publication has caused quite a few folks I know around here to renew their effort to buy local. To me though the frustrating thing is this line in the article:

> I twice stopped by Wilson’s, the department store, to try to meet the manager, and saw no shoppers inside the store the entire time I was there. (Wilson’s did not respond to multiple interview requests for this story.)

With a switch in marketing Wilson's could become a destination store as going in feels truly like going back in time. It's a real department store with separate registers in each department staffed by folks who know about what they are selling. Wilson's still puts huge full page ads in the local paper but I've never seen a single online or social marketing message from them. If/when they go out of business it is going to put a huge hole in the fabric of downtown Greenfield.
Having a card up your sleeve is still valuable, even if nobody knows it is there, because it means if you have to pull it out all of a sudden, it's there. Taiwan would be my A#1 pick for "country most likely to secretly have nuclear weapons" because while everyone around China has reason to be nervous at one level or another, Taiwan's clearly got the best one.

"The world" as a whole is also a bit jumpy about nuclear weapons, so pulling the card out early isn't free. If for the sake of argument Taiwan does have some prototypes lying around, they must have judged the risk of a reveal greater than the reward. But that can change swiftly.

One of the questions I find most interesting, from my civilian and total outsider position, is: How developed are the world's intelligence agencies? How good are countries at successfully keeping things secret from each other? Is it theoretically possible for Taiwan to have secretly developed a prototype bomb without China covertly knowing about it? (This is an especially interesting question in that for structural reasons, Taiwan and China have means to spy on each other relatively easily.) Is it in fact the case that everybody basically knows everything about everybody, or are there many, many successfully kept secrets? What are the probabilities of discovery? What's the appetite for risk of discovery within the relevant governments? I expect from my current position that it is simply impossible to get solid answers to these questions. It also seems to me that while the world does not care for countries overtly advertising they have a bomb, the game theory for covertly making it known to certain of your enemies that you have the bomb may be quite different.
A model which works without super-fans willing to pay significant amounts. Something that could work for journalism, and written content of the type that you don't "subscribe" to in any way. I know it's hard, and I know attempts have been made (flattr, brave) in that space. But I think there's still room for more.
I have the recent one (G5), and it has both. 2 Sim card slots, SD card slot, replacable battery. The first one also had a replacable battery. Didn't know the 3rd Generation didn't! In that case I'm glad they reverted their design in that regard.
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You can begin a transition without moving everything at once, or even ever. Start with a policy that all significant new efforts should strongly consider Python 3 (including porting any dependencies). Keep a "scoreboard" for un-ported dependencies and add a point every time it's decided to keep a new project in Python 2 because porting a certain dependency would be too much work to identify the bottleneck. Invest in porting those. You should see the proportion of Python 3 to 2 go up. Eventually, you're left with a relatively small set of legacy stuff in Python 2, and that's probably fine to keep like that.
This comment is just pure nostalgia. And also a lot of apples to oranges.

Yes, you need more RAM to load a paragraph of text than an entire OS used to need, but what of it? How's that a meaningful comparison? WinAmp probably ate more RAM than entire OSes 25 years prior to WinAmp.

Also, while you might not be playing videos most of the time, those few times when you need it it's there for you just a click away and it's more efficient than ever before.

Yes, software is very bloated compared to software 25 years ago, but in spite of the efforts of crappy web-infused "desktop apps" like Atom, software today actually consumes less resources proportionally to the amount of computing resources available while delivering more, and also requires less power.

If WinAmp were to play your today's music files and if that were possible (which it isn't, unless you use antiquated audio formats), how much % of CPU would it use and how soon would it drain your laptops battery? My guess is it wouldn't fare very well.
I cannot speak for the GP but there are some from my own cultural norms (which being stale, pale and male will not look wildly different from YC) and some that I can make informed guesses at based on listening to people not like me

- Managing relationships
This is a hard thing to do especially for us on the spectrum. one of the most "obvious" things that the personal surveillance of the iphone / echo provide is the ability to get feedback on ourselves. I call this MOOP (Massive Open Online Psychology). I joke that my iPhone needs to be like the MS Paperclip "Paul, you seem to be about to start a fight with your wife. Can I help with that?" But there are huge areas where simple data can improve my own decision making - from personal finance, to how often or quickly i respond to people in my life (am i responding to ones i care about - can you measure that across email, facebook, slack phone calls, text and me just sitting in the living room talking to my kids? Then rank which ones i need to work on this day?

- parenting
tightly related to the above is how i behave towards those most important to me. Simple data could be a good start - time spent, tone of voice, agreeing goals or sticking to them. Just make it easy for me to review the day and make more considered decisions.

- Workplace helper
so the most likely place to see the above technology is in the corporate workplace. the quality of the manager is a major component in quality of work output. So things that suggest ways to improve a managers relationship with their workers is likely to win a huge amount of value. and it's not just "corporate training". It could be a significant leveller - Weinstein was in a position of unaccountable power and an app won't help that, but most workplace abuse is more tractable.

- Home PA
So my house has bad insulation in places - we should fix that, and thermal camera startups will be there. but light bulbs and tvs are power hungry so let's buy efficient ones. and now my room is frankly cluttered - use object recognition to identify them all and then show me where they can go or which ones i have to get rid of, and now get me recipes, arrange a dog walk this weekend with my sister in law and remind me i should get off four stops early to go for a run.

(OK, look. According to Rory Sutherland There are two ways to increase value - either make the Eurostar train run faster between London and Paris or have supermodels serve Moët for free so no one cares that it is slow. My startups are in the category of make life seem better. We are all dead in the long run)

Ultimately I want anti-marketing startups - that give me more deliberate choices in my life - options to choose better.
I too have a Moto E4 and it works beautifully. I don't play games on it, but for everything else its very snappy and it takes pretty good photos. I got mine for $99 when it first came out. I have yet to run out of internal storage (16GB for those who don't know). 2GB RAM seems good enough atm. I can plug pretty much anything into the usb port and it will work with the device too.
I am an expat engineer in Budapest and the tech scene here has a lot of ups and downs, definitely meet a lot of engineers just by walking around, it isn't quite a tech hub yet.

The very low cost of living and high salaries for engineers make it quite attractive, even though rent prices keep going up it is still a very good place to live, decent quality of living, centrally located within Europe with lots of options to travel and all, I'd definitely recommend, and hope it becomes an even bigger tech hub in the future.
True, except that we don't built airplanes by ignoring the fundamentals of gravity or its sheer existence. Bureaucrats and politicians abound who can't grasp supply and demand, and have no accountability when reality causes their plans to crash.
No, let's instead not deplatform people by invoking the whataboutism critique.

When examining the causes and effects of issue that you'd rather not take place in your neighborhood it is essential to look at all the intersections of those issues and look at other situations where those issues are also present.

If you don't recognize the fact that a majority of those issues you listed are committed most frequently by traditionally housed people, in other neighborhood than your own, then you'll be blind to the larger systemic issues that need to be addressed to fix the problems. You'll also be much more likely to support a short-term solution that fixes your problems but not the larger problem.
Am I missing something? The calculator only shows how long my money will last given a spending rate and starting value.
Not your parent, but I come from a pretty rural area, which is what a lot of people would call the "real world." The people who live there certainly would.

Many startups are 100% irrelevant there. Take huge poster children like Uber, for example: everyone has a car already, as it's basically mandatory. Or smaller startups, like Slice, for example. I live in NYC. I have lots of pizza options. I love pizza. In my hometown, there are two pizza places. You don't really need reviews, you order from one, and if you don't like it, well, you have the other one.

Now, that's not to say that there are zero startups that do; not that Facebook or Twitter are exactly "startups" today, but when they were, they still had a big impact. But a lot of startups are focused on "upper middle class people who live in population centers". That's a lot of people, but it also leaves a lot of people out.
> We're quite lucky to be close enough for solar energy to be a viable source of energy.

If solar energy were not viable, this form would not exist.
Stuff that requires a SOx audit trail (or equivalent local, or even internal, equivalent) is definitely not OK to do if asked verbally but (probably) fine to do with the correct paper-trail in place.

And I've definitely used "please put that in a ticket" as a stalling mechanism so I can go away and check that what's being asked for is legit.
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A VPN has nothing to do with privacy. Changing the definition doesn't do anyone any favors. It just blurs the line even further. Private!== privacy. It isn't some magical protocol that all of a sudden makes you untrackable.
It's not "but blockchain" so much as avoiding either logistical or trust dependency on a single entity. Blockchain has all sorts of problems and limitations, the idea of a working currency based on it is absolutely insane IMO, but it has these particular properties. So do more complex systems such as IPFS or Tahoe-LAFS or LOCKSS, but ... well, they're more complex. Other solutions such as simple mirroring don't necessarily solve the trust problem. Of the technologies currently available, blockchain seems like a pretty decent choice.
More white men die being shot by police, per violent crime rate, than black men. Please stop spreading convenient lies. This isn't about poor black people being shot for racist sport. This is about a disproportionate number of violent criminals being confronted by police.

I'm not even sure why you felt compelled to bring it up.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-kn...

By the way, the first 3 pages on google for searching "white police deaths" yielded exclusively results discussing disproportionate black deaths per capita, ignoring crime rate. I had to go to duckduckgo to find a single source which discussed the truth. Before you accuse me of confirmation bias, take a look at the actual statistics, please.
The economist is completely and openly biased with all their reporting; that's why their pieces are both valuable and only part of the picture. To just scratch the surface:

> Our public agenda is liberal in the classical sense. We have supported free trade ever since our foundation in 1843 when we opposed Britain’s corn laws, which sought to keep the price of grain high by limiting imports. We have continued to advocate bold policies in favour of individual freedoms, such as same-sex marriage and legalisation of drugs, regardless of whether they are politically popular, in the belief that the force of argument will eventually prevail.

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There are existing laws against cooking meth. There are existing laws against selling it. On the other hand, the homeless are citizens and municipal services like sewage and trash pickup are obligations of municipal government.

To put it another way, the people living in RV's are also residents of the neighborhoods and they are not homeless, just houseless.
Whoa dude are you serious? You still use CDs?

I think for most people this is a non-starter, maybe you convert them to MP3s and sync them to all your devices?

Right now I use Spotify and can listen to my music at work, home, or on the go using my phone. And that's fine with me. I don't pay for Spotify though which means I have to listen to ads and their mobile experience isn't as good.
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Just saw your comment now ...

Thanks for the info. Interesting generally, and also that they plan to fix the USB connector. Will check out Neo900.