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I think in America, it is too late. The arms race between police and criminals has gone on for too long. If police stop carrying guns, criminals aren't going to magically stop carrying the guns they already have.
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In mostly places there's no difference between calling police or an ambulance.

At least in Germany, there historically is/was (even though this is not always the case anymore as far as I am aware). 110 for police and 112 for ambulance service and fire department.

There is a good reason for this: if you and a group of friends did some experiments with, let us call it, substances that did not go well, you want to call an ambulance to get them medical help. But under no circumstances you want that the police to be informed of this accident.
I guess you vote for SD
No enough to vote for a drastic change of the welfare system in any election.
After I cancelled last time they offered me a free month, with no obligation of staying beyond the free month. They make it easy to leave and easy to come back.
New Zealand, followed by Australia for the government contracting. The town I initially lived in in NZ had a very poorly paid range of jobs going, at least at the time. However, I was trapped there, predominantly due to lack of money.
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> Such events are relatively rare, but keep many students who are suffering from mental illness from taking the risk of using available resources.

Even more: Exactly these kinds of rules lead to a strong incentive to simply commit the suicide because talking about it, will lead to worse consequences.
Yeah, I didn't find my old source, it was a news article I remembered that compared spending per capita and typical time to treat a condition.

I did find this though that says 2x:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2674671
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What about desperate people going through desperate times?
Having Hutingtons, hoping for a cure for any kids you want to have?
The winters are still horrible, and Americans are somewhat less tolerant of that than they once were.

It would take a small miracle to make Detroit into what it used to be in 1914-1960.
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This got me searching, and it appears the US is the only country where there are more civilian-owned firearms than there are civilians.[1]

It seems reasonable then that this might weigh in as an occupation stressor for police officers.

Especially considering unregistered firearms outnumber registered firearms by 392:1.

In 2013 ... there were 33,636 deaths due to "injury by firearms" (10.6 deaths per 100,000 persons). These deaths consisted of 11,208 homicides, 21,175 suicides.[1]

Approximately 1.4 million people have died from firearms in the U.S. between 1968 and 2011.[2]

That’s approximately ten times the number of soldiers who died in the American War of Independence.[3]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
I don't know who downvoted you but you're correct. The point is that most devices embed an HEVC hardware decoder.
Straight forward use case example: any web based messenger. But browser UI for the notification enable request has to be good. The one I know (Firefox) is terrible.
I used to be a great fan, but now I find this format tedious and anything but fun, especially for a completist like me. I'm not going to work my way through all the menus in Bandersnatch to see 5 hours of content just like I'm not going to really read all of a CYOA book.

The format demands something of you, but it gives very little in return (except for accessing new content). But novelty hidden in the thing I bought, when it's locked not behind some clever puzzle but just a wall of time, well, I'm not interested.

Yes to interactive stories (aka "Games"), No to CYOA tedium. The only thing worth doing with these things is reading/watching them through and making a diagram of the branches. Otherwise it's the storytellers job to pick the branches, and to show me a good sequence.
Plenty of rural towns have fiber especially those near train lines.
Is 200K CNY correct? A garbage worker in Stockholm makes around 28K SEK/month (~ 258K CNY yearly).
A reasonable solution is to start living in villages that are clustered to form bigger villages. The key is self governance and that would ensure self contained units.

The Dunbar number(for households) is a good number for each self sufficient ‘village city’. That would be 150 households with a max of 4 per household. 4-6 ‘village cities’ will make a networked cluster. They can share some common facilities(schools/parks) And so on.

Currently, in the Bay Area, the problem is centralized claw of Sacramento. We are a ‘mega region’. Infrastructure, essential services, schools, traffic, housing...everything is failing. Bay Area is starting to rot. One has to live here to feel the despair of the working stiff.

As an example: our city council has meetings every Tuesday starting at 7.00 pm. Nobody can attend and voice their ‘concerns’. Everyone is stuck in traffic. The other day, in one of our neighbourhood boards, a neighbour bemoaned Prop 13 and the retired ‘olds’ who aren’t pulling their weight. He said that he has two kids and his household makes only $500k and by the time he pays taxes and childcare and mortagage, he is broke. I had to shut down my computer and step away from the keyboard for a bit.

And he is not the only one. He isn’t the exception, but the norm. He is a Silicon Valley high tech worker statistic. The 2kid/2car/2million dollar home living/resentful BROKE paycheck-to-paycheck ..waiting for the windfall IPO because he doesn’t have a lifetime pension like the low paid clerk at PG&E or police officer..and is bitter because he is stuck in traffic ..because he is anxious..because he has to keep running faster to stay in the same place...because he can’t quit his job.

Meanwhile the govt is the mafia and we keep paying higher and higher taxes. Cities are getting denser, resources are getting thinner, schools overcrowded, roads are clogged. Everyone feels guilty because the average Silicon Valley worker is the poster child for unchecked privilege and the epitome of evil for promoting inequality.

This is Silicon Valley. This is the Bay Area. Let us contain our curse..our little dirty secret..our infectious virus..I hope we don’t spread it to other places.
Yes and yes. My last two attempts to call 911 failed because nobody would pick up. My alarm company was on hold to get to the police department for like 15+ minutes.

Taxes are insane compared to what I would pay in a suburb that provided basic services and decent schools. I live in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Detroit but will likely leave it for the burbs in the next year. Detroit just isn’t affordable for a young family.
Is the Linux philosophy still relevant in 2019?
The language analysis does not show any % for Golang :D
"Americans have the best care in the world (for those with decent insurance)"

I don't think I have ever heard that claim before. I am American, had very good insurance through my employers when I was living in the US, and routinely experienced mediocre care. But I didn't have anything to compare it to at the time. After I moved overseas and experienced excellent healthcare I know better.
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About the only country that currently might be able to conduct such a program in secret is North Korea.

And if they haven't done so yet, the publicity around this incident could push them over the edge.
> Don't be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.

-- Jean-Paul Marat, 1743-1793
But in this case the intent is to cause harm which is a crime, not merely saying the words. Thats why the crime is "yelling fire in a crowded theater" not just "yelling fire". Notice the difference and how it becomes a completely different action altogether despite saying the same thing.

I don't think it's fair to say speech can be a crime on its own.
You can't (yet) buy intelligence.
The thing I've found works to calm me down when I'm trying to sleep is to take a series of deep breaths. Long and slow in and out, but not awkwardly so. Usually on about the 5th breath the nature of it changes quite a bit and I can feel the tension drain out of me. From there, falling asleep is usually not far off.
Can you please solve all these issues?
Yep.. buying the iPhone is the better economic decision if you need a smart phone.
It would be interesting to read an ethical analysis of a tool like this.
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> The default reaction for a Waymo car under any sort of ambiguity seems to be to just stop (literally) until the ambiguity resolves itself. Unfortunately this causes considerable confusion and traffic backups for human drivers.

Honestly, to me this just sounds like the waymo cars being better drivers than humans and not breaking traffic rules and endangering others. Just like complaining about new drivers or driving school drivers for being "too slow", while in reality they are just the only ones not going over the speed limit and not shoving into lanes hoping others will compensate.
That was a very useful article. Thank you for the link.
Seems to be an elegant approach to implement copy-on-write operations. Do you have further information?
Interesting read, I was a victim of identity fraud a while back after moving from my rented apartment.
I am very careful with my digital identity, however I was caught out by physical address fraud.

I didn't setup mail redirection and assumed updating my banking and important correspondence would be enough. However in the UK you get lots of spam mail to my old address, for things like credit cards etc. which someone managed to do.

In summary, I would setup mail redirection.
A rebound in not necessary for a real estate opportunity to exist. Even poor non-white people pay rent and there are mountains of money to be made in rental portfolios where you would not like to visit, much less live. But it’s by no means easy money - it’s a super competitive market.
That's a social/political problem and needs a political solution. I rather find myself in a situation where we have the means to improve everyone's lives but don't do it yet than in a situation where we don't have such means at all because we didn't pursue them because we were so afraid that it might only benefit a sub-population.

There will certainly be countries on the world where the benefits of the technology will affect only a tiny elite population, but I think in many other countries it might benefit a much larger chunk. Any country with a public healthcare system should consider doing germline edits if they decrease the risk of very expensive chronic diseases.
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They use migrations scripts.
Why had you better hold onto it? Why not sell it and purchase a less-expensive phone and use the profit to improve your situation?
I’m not sure if the author is actually keeping track of things but CYOA are still popular. I was literally one of the first wave of kids who got the books (I have a first printing, first edition of Cave of Time) and thought it would be fun for my kids to read.

But you can’t find it for less than $6-8 per used book, even on eBay. They are pretty expensive and very popular. Very disappointing from the point of someone who wants to buy them cheap but it’s nice to see that they are still appreciated.
More remote-first companies are the best way to bring jobs everywhere. Remote-first working is a separate and new skill that needs to be developed.
They're already having regular meetings among participants from each of the respective child projects to try and coordinate things like this and ensure that problems are not arising from people not doing the followup on pushing code upstream/pulling code from upstream to ensure platforms aren't missing major features/bugfixes for years.

[1] is the monthly meeting notes, and while I haven't had a need to visit one and confirm, they certainly appear to be open to interested parties, not just an invite-only group.

(I recently proposed something controversial [2] in an attempt to try and get predictable consistent behavior on a certain thing across all platforms, which is when I learned about this from someone telling me they discussed it there.)

ZoL also maintains their own list of upstream (e.g. openzfs) commits and what their status is of landing in ZoL. [3]

[1] - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w2jv2XVYFmBVvG1EGf-9A5HB...

[2] - https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T04955dd2e8aa4...

[3] - http://build.zfsonlinux.org/openzfs-tracking.html
I just get 'This purchase is not eligible for a refund.' This is why people don't purchase games on iOS. I bought Kingdom Rush: Vengenace for $4.99, it turned out to be full of pay2win microtransactions, and I quit playing after 20 minutes. No way to refund, money down the drain. Steam provides a much better service.
well, germany is quite spread out and has lots of tech in smaller towns. It's not always perfect and we are also struggeling with some things, but I think a few approaches can be emulated. First, I think it's important that the small town is not on it's own, but in a close neighborhood of other smaller towns with which it's cooperating a lot. For a serious tech economy, even small towns need a working ecosystem (and I think can't be too small). They have to specialize, cooperate and develop the needed ecosystem, so that they can reach "critical mass" in some area. Ideally, this includes a small university nearby, so that there's a cooperation between the task of education and employement and the specialized, needed workforce can be trained. Also, research-institutes, which help small businesses which can't fund a research division on their own, are important. In germany, they are often coupled with thematic industrial clusters, a smaller patch of land where the city tries to get all the industry together. The research-institutes in germany are the Frauenhofer-institutes, public-private partnerships of applied reasearch with a focus and goal of supporting the local economy.

For example, the small town of Hof in bavaria with a population of 45.000. It has a university of applied science (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hof_University_of_Applied_Scie...), which is focused on educating the workforce suitable to the local economy (often in close cooperation). There's some research going on in the university, but it's not a research intensive one. Since the textile-industry in Hof is quite strong, there's a Frauenhofer cooperating with the university of applied science nearby (https://www.htl.fraunhofer.de/en/manufacturing-processes/tex...).

TLDR: I think tech in smaller towns is possible, but it needs a specialized economy, not too-small towns and a close cooperation between the public and private. Tech won't come by itself, it needs to be lured.
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It isn’t that they are copying the rich, they are going from places where there are few opportunities to where their are many opportunities. The Great Migrations, for example, involved African Americans moving from poor southern areas to rich northern cities because they had nothing going on back home, just pointless sharecropping. And you know what: their descendants are probably much richer than of those who stayed back south. The same with the “okies” during the Great Depression going Friday Oklahoma to big cities in California.

They were not emulating the rich, this never had anything to do with “fashion”, they were (and still are) surviving and have hope that they or their children will have a better future. Rural areas can’t provide much of this unless their is a natural resource rush (eg fracking in the dakotas).
It seems like Netflix is thinking the same way. Their "Bandersnatch" Black Mirror special (released recently) has a choose-your-own adventure interactivity to it. I'd consider it a spiritual successor to the books.

https://mashable.com/article/black-mirror-bandersnatch-revie...
It focused on treatment and seeing a specialist.

"Oh, you need a specialist. You will get a letter for an appointment in about 4 months." 4 months later when you go see the specialist, he decides he needs an MRI to diagnose. Wait another 3 months for the scan.

Unless you are literally dying right now, this is the reality of many health care systems. This scenario is about 3x more common in national health plan systems than in insurance based ones.
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> Russian scientists have bred dog-like creatures from wolves in the last century.

Foxes, not wolves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox
Clearly not.

I'm a swede and I used to live in the US, specifically the bay area, SF. I moved back to sweden 5 years ago and while I make less than half of what I did (~150k/year) while working and living in the US, my living standard here in sweden is so much better in every possible way.

I make roughly the equivalent of $70k/year before taxes here in Sweden (it's above average) but I pay less half of what I used to pay for a 2 room apartment in the bay area but instead I get a 300 m2 architectural designed lake house less than 20 minutes from my office. Buying a house of this size and good location in the bay area would cost millions of dollars. I paid less than $400k.

I work remote 3 days a week, I get 8 weeks of paid vacation a year (currently on vacation and I haven't been at work since 14th of december), universal healthcare plus free private healthcare (well "free" because I do pay $15 in fees once every visit) as one of my employee benefits, free lunches plus so called Rikskortet (can be used to buy meals at restaurants or groceries that for me covers the whole month), wellness benefits (basically means I get a free gym membership at whatever gym or physical activity I want), a company car ('17 Audi A7) where I only have to pay for gas which I rarely need to do because I live close to work and I work remote more than half the time.

So basically I pay roughly the equivalent of $1500 a month in total (mortage, utility bills, insurance, food etc) for my current stress free life these days compared to when I used to live and work in the US where I paid $4000 a month just in rent alone for a small apartment.

I'd say that I have a quite comfortable life at this point.
I am working on one on top of foundationdb. See https://github.com/amirouche/asyncio-foundationdb. Chime in!
Match Epic Games:

12/88 split for all revenue going through the store.

Maintain annual fee to have a developer account.

Charge a $500 'listing fee' to list your app, with a $100 annual payment per app unless certain revenue tiers are met (app is de-listed if not paid).

Allow for easier refund procedures (like Steam) and reduce the minimum price down to $0.50.

Its a mature platform now, time to go for a higher quality level with fewer, more professional apps.
Makes sense. It's not typical though :)
I'm already familiar with Georgism. I think it's more relevant now than it ever was.
> but there are claims that for those of us without education, how much we make depends largely on how many educated people we are near.

There are a lot of dubious claims about education though. I would take the whole thing with a grain of salt. Some even claim that gaining an education will result in earning more money, all while incomes have remained stagnant for decades upon decades and educational attainment has ballooned. How does one earn more money while also earning the same amount of money...?

What they are probably referring to is the fact that the education system filters out people who are less capable. Someone with, say, down syndrome is unfortunately unlikely to withstand the academic rigour required to graduate from college, and is unlikely to possess the traits that employers want to see in order to pay the big bucks, leaving the data to show that this person who did not graduate from college is also paid poorly. But it is faulty logic to think that if you don't graduate from college that you will contract down syndrome.

> That's a big part of why I am so stuck on the bay area; I don't have a degree, and I do really well here. All the offers I get from other parts of the country are terrible.

Your strong ties to the Bay Area suggest that you are probably involved in tech. Which is no doubt centred around the Bay Area, and pays less outside of the Bay Area no matter who you are. But what if all you knew was farming? Do you think you'd see a huge pay bump by moving your farm to the Bay Area (or any other major metropolis)?
In all of these, nowhere does it state the biggest expense: taxes.
Correct. That's our choice to make.
If this piqued your interest in playing one, I wrote a modern audio-based CYOA and accompanying app to play it: https://playroadtripadventures.com

It’s great for playing with others while you travel!
This is unsustainable for older people. By the time someone in their 50s, who has lost their job, finishes their degree and repays their student loans they'll have reached retirement age and barely broke even. If in those 12 years anything unforeseen happens (lose your job, job doesnt pay as well as expected, etc) they'll have to retire with debt and be forced to work until they die just to pay off the student loan.
There was a big push to wire up rural areas in the early 2000s. It didn’t happen everywhere, but it happened in quite a few places that can serve as data points. Here in Maryland there is quite a bit of municipal fiber covering the areas Verizon FiOS doesn’t. Some of it has been in place since the early 2000s. Are those communities with fiber doing better than those without it, economically? They’re not doing any better than their neighbors without fiber. The limiting factor isn’t the availability of bandwidth, it’s the lack of desire to hire anyone from these places for remote work. This is not a “build it and they will come” situation. Many places built it. Nobody came.

People have these unfounded romantic notions about fiber and economic development. Here in Maryland, more than 60% of households have access to fiber. Has it revolutionized the economy? Not at all. Annapolis is a small city (pop. 40,000) that has had fiber more than a decade and almost all the tech jobs here are connected to the Navy (and we’re already here). What do people do with fiber here? Netflix. Fiber is not a catalyst for job creation and economic growth. It’s a means for content consumption. That makes it an awful investment of public dollars.
I think they have been revived by one of the original authors [1]. A friend who bought these for his son mentioned these a while back, but said the books are no longer violent. I only remember reading one CYOA, but I think I was burned to death on an electric fence or something. Anyway, something to look into if you care about that.

[1](https://www.cyoa.com/)