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I think it has more to do with how we build cities. If you think about it all cities just start off as a collection of single story buildings in the central business district (CBD). As the city grows the CBD slowly gets replaced with bigger and bigger buildings. Under normal market forces high rents should be reduced because builders will build more units in the area to meet demand. However, the major factor that prevents this is government planning that restricts market forces from occurring. The end result is there is not enough supply to meet demand which ends up in bidding wars. The rent rises to absurd rates until it meets demand.

Also cities are more likely to build high-density commercial since those companies are generally bigger taxpayers and consume less government resources compared to residential.
Yes, the demo works. But replacing the code in app.js with the code from the intro doesn't.

I'll file an issue tomorrow with exact details.
I agree. These kind of reports are the about as useless as they get. I have no idea why anyone would ever use indeed for anything. We get custom made reports with salary ranges in the bay area and LA and our numbers look nothing like these. Nothing in that report even resembles reality, but it's wayyyyy off on CTO and other jobs at that level.
In the UK the fintech (Financial Tech) scene is becoming more prevalent, for the better.

Recently I switched to a new online-only bank called Monzo. It's fully licensed and all accounts are insured up to a certain amount by the UK government. It's great. They're in the top charts for apps in the UK now on the iOS App Store. There's a few other alternatives like Starling Bank and Revolut too.

They're very good. They're open about their tech stack with developer blogs and it's a modern stack which lets them iterate in a quick and agile manner unlike the legacy banks.

You get push notifications on every payment (usually you get the notification before the payment has even processed on the vendor's end!). Tells you exactly how much you've been spending every day.

They've got RESTful JSON APIs you can integrate with if you want to and they also have the option in the app to easily export your data into CSV or Quickbooks format. They even have IFTTT integration.

Really makes you manage your money better.
How do that? If I have json/csv data in tabular forms how apply this idea in a simple way? Because the naive me think is not possible without parsing it.
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>> The alternative is for banks to give out easy money again like in the leadup to 2008 and that didn't work out well

It could have worked out well if the Obama administration had just allowed the financial system to collapse instead of bailing it out. The collapse of the financial system would have meant that many poorly run companies would have disappeared and they would have been replaced by newer, smaller and more efficient companies. Europe recovered from WW2 relatively quickly; surely the US could also recover from a partial market collapse.

Before 2008, there were a lot of talented, ambitious people desperately waiting for an opportunity to compete on the marketplace but the government bailouts took away that opportunity and allowed corporations to keep running their inefficient oligopolies uninterrupted. Today, most of these talented, ambitious people have become losers; they're poor and paralyzed by self-doubt. The reality is that they might actually have succeeded if the government had simply allowed capitalism to take its natural course. The carpet was pulled from under them.
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Earlier today, I made a little scatter plot comparing the tax burden (tax revenue to GDP ratio) of a bunch of countries against their UN World Happiness Index. This is the result:

https://snabeltann.no/system/media_attachments/files/000/429...
> So the most likely scenario was a comedy of errors. All the cops know is that the manager of the smoothie place ran up to them and said "that guy just robbed our tip jar!" They interpret this to mean he emptied out the entire tip jar, which would be a pretty brazen thing to do

Also, apparently what he actually did: his story of mistaking the contents for his change don't make any sense unless it was the entire contents.
Most companies are not publicly traded. Is the job/life of a CTO of a 15 person company different from one of a 15000 person company? Yes. But they are still a CTO, and it's not necessarily overuse to call them that.
For large, sprawling cities like Denver, Orlando, Nashville, Omaha, etc etc mean rent is almost useless.

In Denver $1800 will get you a studio in desirable places to live, and will only get you a 2 BR out in deep suburbia or developments that come with 45 minute commutes. You're also going to have widely varying incomes between those two areas... i'd be willing to bet the after rent take home in the fringes of Denver sprawl is much worse than downtown due to ridiculous prices pushing low income workers farther and farther away from the city center while rent decreases at a much slower rate.

Also did they get their salary data from BusinessStudent or from Indeed? And where did they get their real estate data from?
If a plane crashes 100 people die. If an elevator crashes 10 people die. If an election crashes an entire nation of people die.
The WifiManager.startScan() usage is limited to:
- Each foreground app is restricted to 4 scans every 2 minutes.
- All background apps combined are restricted to one scan every 30 minutes."

Mark startScan() as deprecated so that we can take away this API in future releases.
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Airplane safety is necessarily complicated. To make a giant 300 passenger airplane safe to fly requires an incredible amount of engineering, for a reason. You just can't build this in a way that laypeople can understand.

Voting is fundamentally simple. People have been doing this for thousands of years, and it's intuitive how it should work. People mark ballots (in private); people count ballots (and then other people count the same ballots); the ballots aren't destroyed until the vote is finished; everyone calls each other and figures out what the total is. The amazing thing is anyone can look at what goes on and say "yep, that looks right", or "hey, I don't think they're supposed to do that…".

The whole thing needs a pretty significant human effort, but, again, people have been doing this for a long time, and large numbers of those humans can easily be volunteers. Also, that human effort is how you build a democracy. It is not a problem that needs to be solved.

As soon as you add software, you've added hundreds of layers of complexity to what was a very simple problem. You've turned it from a democratic, easy to follow system, to something that very few people can have anything to do with. It's like replacing letter writing with Facebook. Sure, you've made the surface act of communicating easier, but to do that you've added an ocean of complexity that nobody understands.
Agreed. I just left my apartment in SF, 1BR/1BA for 1900$, now whomever is gonna take it will rent at 2200$. I think you can outperform buying house by renting for a longterm in the bay area.
"I do commend Mozilla for being transparent..."

I too commend Google for the same reasons set forth in plain-speak in the 1st two paragraphs of their EULAs. I also choose to forgo their services for those same reasons. Mozilla has forgotten their purpose & been over-taken by the data miners. Full stop.
It could also be that Florida has no personal income tax and the sales tax rates are reasonably low. I think property tax is about average.
Its by far the quality of the content that matters the most for ranking on Google search engine, much more than the speed of the page.

If the page speed is acceptable, its going to be ranked over an AMP page if the content is better.

Content is the key, build better content, that solves better a concrete problem that visitors have: that is how you win visitors trust and get higher rankings at the same time.
Actually the main performance gains is by google search preloading everything (basically putting it in an iFrame before you click on it). Which practically means that pages load instantly.

https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2018-03-19-how-fast-is-amp-r...
> What I am saying is that now some lenders — banks — are under rules so tough they can’t support equality-enhancing mortgages

What is an equality-enhancing mortgage?

My wife works at a community bank which has been cited as an important institution for social justice on the west coast. Equality enhancing mortgages could well be mortgages accessible to under-served populations who have the financial means to pay them back, but who face cultural barriers or ethnic discrimination.

Community banks have been railroaded out of the home mortgage business. There are now a lot of timing-dependent requirements and really stiff penalties in the banking regulations. It was sold to the public as a curb on the big banks, but what really it means, is that only banks large enough to write their own software or wealthy enough to license custom software can stay in the home mortgage business. Basically, we the public were sold flowery rhetoric by politicians on the wave of sentiment following the banking crisis, while big banks lobbied to write into law an even bigger advantage.
So how do you measure "the best possible estimate of ability to pay the loan back"? Because I think that broad assumption is a lot more complex and interesting than a simple FICO score.

For a crude example, pick health history. The leading cause of bankruptcy in the US is medical bills due to a health crisis. This of course spills over into mortgage foreclosure. But someone might have excellent credit, and a high cancer risk. They get cancer, byebye loan. Are you accounting for that?

Someone has excellent credit, but works in a dying industry and has no skills to move to an equal-paying job in another industry. Their job goes away in five years, byebye mortgage. I can go on with these. But my point is, I don't know if you realize just what a difficult point you're making with your simple answer.
Yeah, I kinda feel the same way about the content. It's like 'coding, not programming', 'what was your biggest achievement today? Mine was no conflicts ;)' and other silly wholesome comments.
But yeah, the performance of the site is phenomenal.
It's not so much "F the rich/hipsters" as "F the young/yuppies/techies". I saw guy getting on a Bird and the person walking to my left scoffed audibly at him. I would guess the average 55 year old banker in the FiDi gets more smiles from locals than a newly arrived 22 year old in SoMa. The scooters are _very much_ associated with young techies, who for the most part would be the main users.
I completely agree with you, but that guy could now point out that BTC did go beyond 14k and it may do in the future. Making him "right". That being said, I've encountered what you describe as well and it's mildly disturbing
Yeah, that's mentioned in my post.
Aren't deep hooks into the browser just making it worse? There are billions of websites and myriad search and sharing sites, and only a few browsers.
Not a great example....

https://qz.com/1214822/dropbox-is-filing-for-a-500-million-i...

The company’s prospectus warns it has “a history of net losses”; anticipates increasing expenses and slowing revenue growth; and notes that it “may not be able to achieve or maintain profitability.”
To be fair, the rate of economic change is increasing, so part of the problem is that workers over-invest in skills only to have those skills obsoleted by the changing landscape.

So of course the worker who over-invested in job A and was compensated based on that over-investment is going to be worse off in job B when he/she has under-invested in the skills needed for job B.

The fields that are best for workers today are those that have built in required continuing education, or fields in which rapid change is widely acknowledged and understood by the workforce (software engineering, etc.)
That's kind of what minio is: https://github.com/minio/minio
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It's really well organized and the menu is well-designed. One thing that would be nice, though, is if the menu were easier to scroll through. Without expanding anything, you can see the headers of all the sections ... but if you expand one thing, you have to drag and highlight in order to get to the bottom. IDK, maybe there's a scrolling tool that I'm missing, or maybe I'm all thumbs. I find this to be a problem with most of the internet, so.
> Sometimes the cover-up is more damaging than the crime.

I hate walled gardens. What troubles me more is that something that came from addressing a competitor's product (Fb's Instant Articles in this case) has grown to do more damage than what Instant Articles could have in the first place.

As for the Google Amp URL, they are working on fixing it.
https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/950549603975233536
> If you are a single person with a single income, you are not renting a 2BR. You might have a roommate, but in that case you are a two income household splitting the rent on a 2BR.

Hi, I'm a single person on a single income renting a 2BR townhouse.

I've lived in my current home for just over a decade (since November 2007), and during this time I've only had roommates for two very short periods. Both of those times were when I temporarily took in friends who were suffering from long-term unemployment and had nowhere else to go. One of them, in 2008, got a new job and moved out a few months after he moved in with me, and the other, in 2011, lived with me for two weeks before he mended fences with his parents and decided to move back to his hometown.

I think I might have had a roommate for a grand total of six months in the nearly 11 years I've lived here.

I like my space.

(edit: Oh, and my best friend just bought a huge house in an exurb. He's single and has no roommates.)
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Because voting softwares don't solve any real problem while creating a horde of its own. Voting is a solved problem. Paper ballot is a perfect technology once you introduce optical readers, and when in doubt, you can always re-count everything again. Sneaking in a false vote requires getting past multiple parties watching the ballot box (and each other) 24/7.

In the recent regional election of South Korea, there was a district where the winner won by a single vote. The runner-up appealed the decision, took the ballots to the overseeing committee, and the committee re-examined individual contested ballots and decided one of the ballots previously considered invalid should count for the second person, making it a tie and (according to some tie-breaking rules) changing the winner.[1]

You can't get that kind of transparency with voting software. It's worse in every way.

[1] Link (in Korean): http://news.jtbc.joins.com/html/712/NB11663712.html
As far as I'm aware, Brave is open source and this appears to be the time saved calculation on Android. https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs/blob/b4d565f07...
In many, probably most, companies a CTO is not necessarily someone coming from a software developer background but instead essentially an IT manager. And most companies are not headquartered in SF/Seattle/NYC, so $140k/year goes a lot farther there. That $140k figure also does not account for equity/bonuses
You can't really fork concrete assets? Are you suggesting that someone starts a new org and tries to hire up as much mozilla staff as possible? If so, how would starting a new organization with all the same people change anything?
We need to say it to remind our fellow EU citizens that are in favor.
I'd love:

- Universal, near-instantaneous per transaction alerts. It helps stop fraud right away rather than after-the-fact. It also helps solve problems while they are fresh rather than trying to resolve a month-old+ issue. Some countries overseas do this almost universally.

- On-restaurant-table credit card swipe rather than taking the card away and entering tip later. Many places overseas do this almost universally.

-- Side note on the txn alerts:
I suppose it is due to the way Visa/MasterCard are processed, but I sometimes get alerts a day or more after i've done a credit card transaction. Some cards dont even have the option for alerts.

AMEX has great alters, almost instantaneous, but I suppose they control the entire stack, so that makes sense.
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Because nothing will be faster than the Google-cached copy of your page, and that’s only served up if it meets the AMP spec.
What kind of lawyer would you want for this? Is it simply lawyers with contract experience or with startups is there a particular type of lawyer best suited for this conversation?
It's not free in the UK. The open university certainly isn't cheap.
I remember those giant piles of snow, fading to black over the course of months, while never seeming to melt until well into summer.

What a gross and weird sight.
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Everybody feels their tangents are crucially related to the stories they add them to. On tech threads where we're all just riffing on stuff, that's fine. But all you had to say was that Sarah Jeong is "a full blown racist". Your comment is a textbook example of why we have the guideline.

I'm sorry I don't keep up-to-the-minute with your comments.
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One problem is to have a successful suit against wrongful imprisonment, you have to prove intent.

That's not true at all. Who told you that? Wrongful imprisonment suits generally depend on the state's laws. Some states provide for damages, some (mostly in the East/South) do not. Intent of the prosecutor or police is irrelevant--what matters is that the person wrongfully accused has been shown not to have committed the crime.

Most defendants that win wrongful imprisonment settlements were generally tried by prosecutors utterly convinced that they defendants had actually committed the crime, with no malicious intent.
Or cities could actually implement reasonable legislation that directly addresses the problem.

For example, require standard, short, clearly identifiable serial codes to make it easy to issue tickets when scooters are parked inappropriately. Because the scooter companies track the users, they then have the capability to push the costs onto the irresponsible rider.[1]

Frankly, I just don't get how people manage to use a nuisance to justify vandalism. I mean, I do get it--it's thinly veiled class and anti-corporate anger. But it's cowardly. Once upon a time real civil disobedience came with consequences, and even then activists didn't shamelessly destroy private property. Indeed, the personal consequences are what made the activism both substantive and powerful. Perhaps if these people invited the police to come watch them dump the scooters into the river en masse then I'd respect them even if I disagreed with them.

[1] Yes, you can't prove a passerby didn't move the scooter. But the scooter company would have to pay regardless, and enough of the costs will be passed on to users that behaviors would change.
> And in this case they were correct in their presumption

If you accept his story, they were probably not correct, though only by his lacking the required mental state. OTOH, if there is probable cause (which there was) and the victim prefers charges (which initially it seemed they would, since they requested the intervention), that's an issue for prosecutors and the courts to figure out, from the perspective of the police.

> Everyone would have been saved a ton of grief if Aaronson had any respect for the people around him or any self awareness. But he has neither.

This, OTOH, is clearly true, even if you accept his narrative completely.
More pessimistically, it could make you disagree posts because they're made by someone you disagree with.
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This is a silly comment. What if you're a 5 person bootstrapped company and not making much revenue yet?
Exactly. I made an account to post useful links but apparently posting a link flags the account as spammer unless you want to give them your phone number (I don't).
Or this kind of nonsense happens:

https://www.recode.net/2017/11/16/16666662/williams-sonoma-o...
Why was "except Perl of course" needed here? Do you have any data to back up that you can not write well written code in Perl? Or are you just simply venting your prejudices?
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And yet The Verge presumes to censor comments and ban users who post comments that call junk junk.
Hello! Andy Sparks, co-founder of Holloway here. Thank you for the positive words on the organization and menu. I'm trying to get a better idea of the issue you're running into, as it doesn't sound like something we intended to have happen. Would you mind sending me a screenshot or more detail at andy@holloway.com?
I am not a tax lawyer, so I'm just doing my non-expert best to understand this. Correct me if I'm wrong.

According to [1], you have to pay the company for your shares in order to not be at substantial risk of forfeiture [2]. I understand that to mean that you need to both be granted and vested in the equity within the same 30 day period in order for it to qualify for 83b election. The timing doesn't work if your grant vests over a period years, hence the need to early exercise.

[1] http://www.seedsafefinancial.com/how-to-make-an-83b-election...

[2] http://www.henssler.com/blog/2015/3/27/substantial-risk-of-f...
Can you simply replace AMP with GDPR?
This image https://imgur.com/a/2Rzeac2 in section "Fundraising, growth, and dilution" really says a lot! Person #4 in the company likely is as important as first 3, and took as much risk (also quit previous job and did not take a high-paying one at G/M/A/F), but ends up with 1/10 the share of the first 3 at best (options pool is spread between him and others).
There are certainly segments of this population that can afford to pay back a loan. Or there is a loan that can be structured so that this segment of customer can pay it back. Its just not profitable or efficient for a bank to lend in this segment as a whole currently.
But how will you find a good enough doctor to begin with?
> - On-restaurant-table credit card swipe rather than taking the card away and entering tip later. Many places overseas do this almost universally.

This isn't a problem you can solve by changing the banking industry. This is a point-of-sale problem.
To be fair even if it literally is 100% reflective of reality that doesn't mean it lacks unjust feedback loops.

If you study immigrant minorities across history, around the world and going back 1000's of years, certain patterns emerge. Immigrant minority groups who can pool their resources and become participants in the economic life of the host country find a way to prosper, somehow. Before the 20th century, this pattern of prosperity could result in confiscation. With the widespread ideas of Human Rights, this has become less of a problem. (Though it can still be a problem.) Likewise, minority groups who remain in isolation tend to remain poor. Often, this is by the machinations of the elites of those groups, who use this isolation to remain in a position of relative power.
This seems odd, because it seems like if a business is willing to pay a bit more when interest rates are low, it would mean more profit for the bank willing to take the other side of the deal.
That isn't how Voat was created at all.