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Why are products more expensive in poor neighborhoods? If there were real profits to be reaped, certainly stores would be moving in and enjoying high profit margins rather than leaving.

The answer should lie elsewhere and it does. Cost of doing business in those neighborhoods is very high. Vandalism and robbery jack up insurance rates. Companies don't want to deliver there because they don't want the risk, so they charge more. Shoplifting expenses must be spread across all product actually sold. If the place offers loans, they must deal with very high rates of defaults. You can't squeeze blood from a turnip. If someone doesn't pay for that car, you have to repo it, but there's a decent chance it can't be found or that you now own an unsellable car or that it was messed up, but there's no way of actually getting any money out of the responsible parties.

Finally, let's say I put a store in a nicer part of town only 15 minutes away. I get less vandalism and basically zero robbery. I get less shoplifting and lower insurance rates. I can keep the same profit margins as the guy in the poor neighborhood and still offer significantly lower prices. Because it's reasonably close to the poor neighborhood, I even get their business without all the extra risk. In the loan market, less risky clients means I can charge less interest and still make the same amount of money and have far less overhead tracking down people and things.

The real tragedy here is police. Poor neighborhoods and police don't get along. Police view everyone suspiciously (why wouldn't they when most dead and injured police show up in those same neighborhoods?). Likewise, the people living there don't trust the police because the police treat them as criminals (and like it or not, someone somewhere is always going to make a mistake that starts this downward spiral). This isn't even a race issue. Police and the poor have had this relationship going back as far as you can search no matter the race (or races) involved.

This problem could be fixed with education, but the average criminal and average police officer both have below average IQs (with it being ruled in the US that it is perfectly legal to reject police officers who have an IQ that is "too high"). If everyone in a poor neighborhood were properly educated, it would cease to be a poor neighborhood in a very short amount of time, but our education system is only interested in lip service (another problem in itself).
> nicotine being marketed to children

I've yet to see anything that I'd actually consider "marketing nicotine to children," besides the ads they show on tv complaining that "the industry" is marketing to children, that is. Those "warning" ads are way more appealing to kids and raise their curiosity in my mind than any actual vape ads I see. Talking about the flavors and showing the kids picking up the pretty packages and oohing and aahing over them...sheesh.

Adults like flavored e-juice to vape, way more than flavorless. I don't think flavoring something can be directly equated to marketing to children. Where are these ads marketing to children that everybody keeps mentioning?
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Well, in order:

- I haven't had any trouble using the RN css-like styles along with React-Navigation yet, what I've been writing looks consistent between devices, but I know I'll hit that issue eventually

- My approach has been to just start making apps targeting real users, either from your own business or a client's, there are several pretty good tutorials to get started, and the people who use what you create will let you know what's important to focus on (and also motivate you to keep working!).

- The react native + navigation documentation is a great starting point, but you'll still spend a while learning so your best bet is to partner up with a tutor and work alongside them to begin with, real experience is always where you get the most value at first.

- Kotlin is in an incredibly good place right now for Android development so I believe you can skip Java at first, and when the time comes when you need to check it out, you'll find that it's quite clear to make out and write with a Kotlin background. An IDE to hold your hand is always a plus as well.

Most of all, be sure to brush up on your basic algorithms and data structures, OOP design patterns, a dash of functional paradigm tools, mainstream architecture styles, and general good practices as you tackle on new technologies and you'll find out that there's a lot of overlap of all over the modern languages that translates directly. Good luck on your journey!
DNA damage is close enough to cancer for that to be a relevant response. For example, it's completely accepted that radiation causes cancer at the organism level. The mechanism by which it does so is that, at the raw physical level, radiation causes random DNA damage.
This makes me wonder why there are no alternative implementations of it (i.e. I felt like I would appreciate a .Net-native implementation many times).
I can't remember who said it, but I'll never forget that book being described as "from his later, post talented phase"...
a highly professionalized industry in which individuals have massive bargaining power and draw gigantic salaries, where furthermore we culturally are able to open source parts of the means of production (engineers have unprecedented levels of ownership over the fate of their labor) is literally the last place I would think to unionize. color me naive, though.
Could be that the author is a well known crank?
This article has now been flagged, killed, resurrected and is now flagged again. It seems there's a core group who really hate it and don't want it discussed.
Nope, still the best way to keep in contact with casual friends, e.g. for school reunions
Good point, reliability is key. Selection is narrow, limited by space, but they have a little of everything.

Healthy food is easy to find at these stores. I can put together a perfectly good home cooked meal from Dollar General no problem. Baking goods, dry goods, dairy, produce... again the selection is smaller than a larger grocer, but it's all there.
> And, if you work in a federally-funded research lab that pays for your graduate education, and that allows you to publish papers, attend conferences, and perform original research on working time, then you probably don’t need a union.

These research labs are mostly unionized. That's why they have good benefits, working conditions, etc.
lol, no, defintely did not delete it.
Perhaps, but that also sounds remarkably like “I’m not addicted to caffeine because I could quit any time I wanted.”
That's even sillier. Of course only the top few people in the field enjoy the top few salaries in the field. A statistical tautology is not a political cause of action. If you define "highly compensated" as relative to the field, then we can never all be highly compensated.
Or use bandages to resurrect the person so you can kill them again with lightening.
You are wrong. The poster entertained me with their story of subversion, and I also quite enjoyed the "jiggling his willy" metaphor.
Indeed it would be interesting to also see comparison by the volume of data stored and the number of requests processed.
A truly successful MMO would provide a way for the MMO owner to tax the activity of the players in a way that generated actual cash for them to pay for servers and developers. Then the game becomes self sustaining.

Which is what Second Life does. Land payments support Linden Labs.

There is a new generation of virtual worlds - VRchat, Sansar, Sinespace, and High Fidelity. The last three have numbers of concurrent users well below 100. VRchat had around 10,000 at peak, and is now down to around 5,000. There's also Facebook Spaces, which is a VR interface to Facebook that didn't catch on, and Decentraland, which was an excuse for an initial coin offering and whose blog is down. Those are all holdovers from the VR boom that didn't happen.

The next new technology is Spatial OS, a back-end game engine for really big MMOs and virtual worlds. A few games are just starting to use this. The company behind it is valued at $500M, which means they have to charge so much to use it that big game developers are staying away. You have to run it on Google servers, and they don't publicly disclose the price schedule. It's generally said to be high, though.
My apologies, but I disagree. A union would be able to provide a higher compensation floor (as other unions have done and do today).
Cathay Pacific’s November cargo traffic figures show slight decline
I’m not sure how practical this kind of generalized approach is, but notice how incremental computation is already all around you: in your build system, in the way React recomputes its tree and your browser recomputes layout, in any pull-based protocol where the server keeps state.
Why? Isn't ecology indivisible from economy in almost any system that includes humans?
Those corporations have owners, stockholders and customers.

The problem is that climate change requires substantial sacrifice from everone. And everyone tries to twist things in such way that the others will do the sacrificing.
Windows Core OS doesn't support MSI by default. :)
No, even if you count that as a database, it isn't the most deployed. Look at the list in the article. SQLite is on every Android device and Windows 10 device, and many/most personal computers with other operating systems (including earlier Windows versions). There are more Android devices in use than Windows ones: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2919104/windows-pcs/wh...
It's unfortunate most IT/engineering people buy into anti-union propaganda blindly. The fact is that organized labor, for better or worse, equals fairer pay than anarcho-capitalist gratituity. See also: Robert Reich, Richard Wolff.
The Iowans probably drive everywhere at 80mph.
As Americans, what can we really do? China's emissions dwarf our own[0] and the same is generally true for other kinds of pollution (plastic in the ocean comes largely from China, etc).

The entire country of America could disappear tomorrow and it would not be of huge consequence to climate change.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/07/01/china-emits-...
A good addition to the Hacker News platform would be a requirement to provide justifications for flagging an article and make them visible to all users. That way we wouldn't have to speculate (though I'm sure there'd still be speculation on if the stated reasons are the "true" reasons).
One wrinkle in the comparison is that software engineers outside the bay area get half the salary but live twice as well in terms of acreage, sqftage, and disposable purchasing power despite having infinitely more children. Austin and SLC for example.
Sure, a union could push the already-extremely-high compensation floor even higher.
If he didn't message you or at least mention you, he has no right to be upset at you.
You're overestimating the quality of software developers (which are not really engineers) or only seeing this through a limited perspective.

Many devs are low-end technical talent that can probably pound out some application under strict requirements but aren't building anything significant and definitely aren't creating new innovative products. The lack of professional degree or schooling requirements has only further decreased the overall quality in the field.

The reason for the high demand is because of the high-turnover and lack of productivity of this average talent which just creates more work from bad architecture, poor planning and all kinds of technical debt. There's also a race to find really good devs before they realize they're good and get a better job on their own terms.

The high-end environments at Google or SV startups only reflects a tiny isolated portion of the vast software industry. Even a cursory look at the IT/developer departments at Fortune 1000 companies paints a very different picture.
The Californians are more likely to be driving 75. That doesn't make much difference over a 20-minute trip.
You're probably right. It's janitors and other low-skill/low-pay workers who need and benefit from unionization most because I've seen the results of union-busting environments: janitors working 16 hours a day without benefits and living in their cars.
It turns out that if you spend all of your time at work posting on mailing lists about your T7-9 vision instead of actually doing your work, your performance reviews suffer. Who would have thought?
That alone is irrelevant to the content and sets a bad precedent for this site.
Wait...what?

You're homeless and chose to leave a nice place because it had a downtown without baguettes? I mean we've all got our priorities but that sounds like perhaps you should examine your "needs" column more strongly.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild_(Deutsch...

You don't have to worry about that legally.
You could try making the dirty tech economically inferior on its own terms. Then the clean will be adopted with blazing speed. Nobody burns oil and coal because they like the smell.
Yes.

1. It was taking too much time than supposed to take.
2. There are lots of information on a page which actually I don't want to see or read.

Yeah, sometimes I fill like I'm missing something when my friends taking each other like, "Oh, you did this and that. I saw your photos on fb". But, hey it is okay to not present everyplace, right!
You already don't have to speculate and on top of that, the site guidelines ask everyone not to because it's repetitive and boring - same reason why it would be a terrible (and contradictory) addition to the site.
Only removed from phone. Perhaps pointless because I still have Instagram and whatsapp installed.
I mean, that statement is often true. Again, what would be the motivation for quitting?
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Yeah, I noticed how everyone who can play chess keeps saying that it's perfectly easy, you just move things around and immediately see though space and time, the garden of forking paths is laid out before you in its entirety, and every choice ever becomes clear as air on a winter morning in childhood.

Notably, those who can't really play tend to not feel that way.
Seriously. If folks generally understand the idea that you shouldn't use the downvote button to mean "disagree" I think this should go double for using flagging. I'm far from convinced by the article but don't see how it falls in the category of something that should be flagged - it's not trolling or offensive.
It's rapidly approaching that point already. The problem is politicians and it seems as though we are powerless to change that.
My bad, since he joined NASA in 1963; I assumed he wrote it while trainin.
No, it isn’t. That’s why things are tested for carcinogenicity rather than DNA damage before being called carcinogens.
I'm not sure how to break this to you, but walkers can also walk on the right when nobody is standing in front of them. I've been doing it my entire life and not once has anyone stopped me.
I put peanut butter, raisins, and walnuts in it. But before that, it was one of the few foods so bland I couldn't eat it, and I like unsalted vegetables and beets.
Why OpenCart is best selection among Ecommerce Software?
I know OpenCart is easy yet powerfull and complete Ecommerce software. which do not required technical knowledge, An average person can run their e-commerce website using OpenCart.
But What else reason are there That OpenCart is overtaking other Ecommerce software present in Market long before OpenCart came?
“Make the Best Quality of Goods at the Lowest Cost, Paying the Highest Wages”
I expect my experience is much the same as Steve’s on this point.

Mostly I would say fewer bugs; the bugs that are avoided vary in severity. Many, probably most, are the severe but obvious bugs where you would have hit the first time you tried running the code in another language, but which are instead now caught by the compiler—that’s why “time to first run” is not a reasonable metric for comparing writing code in such languages, but “time to first meaningfully successful run”! But it’s also common for Rust to catch and prevent far more insidious bugs; especially, in my experience, in two areas: firstly, with respect to ownership—things like passing data structures around and improperly mutating them where you should have cloned it instead, which is structurally impossible in Rust (disregarding things like Rc<RwLock<T>>, which make it possible, but make the intent very much clearer); and secondly, where enums (tagged unions) can be used, due to the greater and more precise expressivity.

I have much greater confidence that my first pass at a piece of code will work correctly in Rust, once it compiles, than I do in JavaScript—and I’ve been working in JavaScript a lot more than Rust in the last couple of years, yet it’s still true.
I quit caffeine mostly because I was drinking a lot of soda and was concerned about the sugar, but I would think that, all else being equal, people would rather not be dependent on caffeine for maintaining their sleep/wake schedule. When people say “I’m a zombie until I have my first cup of coffee,” do you think they mean that in a good way?
No. But I deleted their native app.

Switching to browser mode reduced the time I spend.
Aldis is my favorite store. All other grocery stores are obsolete.
“What if we went to these neighborhoods and didn't assume that poor people or communities of color do not want to eat healthy?”

You can lead a horse to water. You cannot make it drink.

I don't know how to fix this. I grew up in a home where food was very important. There was a garden out back and my mother cooked from scratch, etc. In recent years, I've been quite poor, including spending some of that time homeless.

My firsthand observation of other poor people is that most of them seem to cut the food budget first. Anecdotally, when I finally got off the street by moving into a cheap rental, many other residents clearly smoked cigarettes and/or marijuana. They tended to stay up all night. I wasn't disturbed by their behavior because I couldn't hear them in my room, but I could hear them anytime I went down the hall to the bathroom.

The character of the residents has changed in the time I have been here. I think the presence of my family is a factor in that. People behave better. Most people seem to sleep at night. We smell less cigarette smoke and less marijuana smoke.

We smell more food cooking in the building. I think people are smoking less because they are eating better and they probably somehow learned that from us (at least to some degree).

Do note that one reason a lot of homeless people smoke is because it is an appetite suppressant. I think people were smoking so much because they weren't eating enough. Now, people are eating better and smoking less and their sleep schedules, behavior, etc all appear to be improved in the aggregate.

I know from talking with people and reading articles, etc, that a lot of poor Americans have this idea that eating well is some luxury they cannot afford rather than a basic necessity upon which everything else is based. They try to get cheap, convenient food. They often lack good cooking skills.

To my mind, poverty and health problems grow out of this broken mental model. I don't know how we fix it, but I don't think just making sure there are stores selling fresh produce fixes it. When I was homeless, bananas and oranges were frequently given for free to homeless people and I sometimes saw other homeless folks just leave it on a sidewalk somewhere.

I really think we need to figure out how to promote healthier eating in the US. I don't think that actually starts with stores per se. I don't know where it starts. But we have this bizarre idea that "health care" happens at a doctor's office instead of seeing diet and lifestyle as the foundations of health that they actually are. Americans tend to have lousy diets and then high medical bills.
I think a more extreme example of this phenomenon is pinball (physical machines). It's great fun as a beginner, because you're mostly reacting to the chaotic movement of the ball, but as you get better you realize playing slowly gets you higher scores. It's usually a good idea to bring the ball to a halt whenever you can. The multiballs that were so fun before turn into ordinary play with backup balls held in reserve. Reaction time becomes less important, and patience and precise ball control become more important. It's rarely a good idea to attempt difficult shots.

I stopped playing once I understood what I'd have to do to get good.
Not to mention the seal means you know it hasn't been handled by other customers. Who knows how dirty the unpackaged "fresh" food has gotten.
Maybe there should be a third line added to the graph showing alcohol consumption or some other "vices". Perhaps something else more damning to children has declined. I'm not one to applaud getting "hooked" on anything but kids will be kids and if their not using nicotine it will probably be something else. It is up to the parents to educate them not blame a corporation for making money.
Live a non-car-oriented lifestyle in a city, show up to zoning/land-use hearings to support buildings that will enable as many others as possible to do the same.

The auto and energy industries don't pollute because it's fun. They do it in the course of fulfilling our demand for suburban lifestyles.
There are other ways of being carcinogenic, which testing for carcinogenicity will automatically check. But DNA damage will do the trick.

There should be an obvious logical difference in your mind between "DNA damage causes cancer" and "all cancer is caused by DNA damage". If you want to know whether something is a carcinogen, checking whether it causes DNA damage is not enough for you to conclude "no". But it may be enough for you to conclude "yes".
Related: I can tell you that the publishing industry is very active on Twitter. Search for the usual hashtags and you'll find editors who may be able to help field questions!
When this topic comes up, I always come back to this: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ If you haven't - give it a glance!
How to start leaning Elixir and Phoenix during the holidays
An operating system should be more like this
This is a funny, I totally agree that getting just out of Santa Cruz's densest part you'll run into people as redneck as anywhere in Iowa. I'm not so sure about anywhere in Santa Cruz County being like a food desert though...

But inside of Santa Cruz, there's an abundance of corner and grocery stores. Anywhere you live you'll have 1-3 amazing grocery stores within 1-2 miles. My favorite being Shopper's Corner, which has selection on par with stores being 5-10 it's size in physical area, but being quick to walk through and grab exactly what you need. And a butcher that will but 95% of the US's supermarkets to shame. So good and fast...
Let me tell you this, but.. WoW was the clone, it tried to copy already existings MMOs, the only reason WoW was sucessfull was because all the advertising it got

Asia (KR/JP) had already huge mmo games before WoW
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USSR showed that when politicians and economy colide heads on politicians lose. Reality always wins at the end.

Supressing superior technology is extremely hard. If you succeed it is just not superior enough.