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I’d imagine that the location was seen as useful during the Cold War years due to being far inland in a rural area away from likely targets of a nuclear attack.

As for flood mitigation, I’m sure it’s the same as it is anywhere: risk assessments probably considered the likelihood of ‘really bad’ flooding, and the potential impacts, too low to be worth the cost. (As to whether that was wise or not, I’ve got no idea.)

(Edit— from Wikipedia:

”Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington chose to locate the Air Force's crucial long-range atomic strike force at Offutt primarily because the base was centrally located on the North American continent, placing it well beyond the existing range of long-range, nuclear-armed bombers to (then) stay safely out of range of hostile missiles or bomber aircraft.”)
>People on the coast get flooded by violent weather systems such as hurricanes, while people inland tend to get flooded because they chose to live in a floodplain and there was a bit more snow melt this year than usual.

Hurricanes happen pretty much every year as well, and this year was not just "a little more" snow melt for the Midwest - a lot of areas had the most snowfall they've seen in 50+ years. The entire point of it being newsworthy is to ensure the most people capable and willing of providing aid to those in need are able to.

> Justly or not, the former tends to be seen as a "random natural disaster", and therefore newsworthy, while the later tends to be seen as "idiots reaping what they sowed", and therefore less newsworthy.

Oh, you're just a fucking asshole. Nevermind.
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You setup this great analogy about messages and cells and a bunch of other stuff, but then exceptions and pointers/references show up and everything falls apart.

If you have a system like ruby or java or c# then you can sort of pretend that you have different "organisms" all sending signals to each other. However, if your throw an exception at any one place, suddenly what order the functions you are simulating your message calls with WILL determine the semantics of your program. Have fun figuring things out when the order changes based on minor details that change wildly with different inputs.

In this scenario if methods are messages, then exceptions are like a false vacuum in quantum mechanics collapsing and destroying reality.

[Additionally, you'll need some sort of threading and message queue system setup or else you'll get a similar mess with your metaphor OR stack overflow. Really erlang is the only system that preserves the metaphor without the programmer either having to A) understand everything without the metaphor ... in which case why have it or B) not understand anything and only be able to program until they hit the threshold of their comprehension and then type random letters and hope it runs until they can find a new job.]

Pointers are also a problem. In real life we have ownership types build into reality. If I have something, then you don't. You also don't have to worry about cyclical references or infinite recursion in reality. Eventually all of the physical resources are utilized and you have to wait for something to free up before you can proceed. Once you have pointers, though, you have to worry about one "cell" possessing another "cell" that just happens to possess the first "cell". A system that works just fine in real life (because paradoxical systems just can't be physically built) gives way to a system that will hopelessly break UNLESS the programmers know that the metaphor is false and can see through it. We run into the same problem as before. Either they can work just fine without it (so why are we using it) OR they can't see through it at all (or only partially) and eventually they'll run into a problem that they can't solve.

Maybe there are scenarios where it makes sense to use an incomplete metaphor that pretty much has to break sometime. But it seems like it's going to be for unimportant work that we're comfortable with breaking with no good path forward for fixing it (besides to find people who can see through the metaphor completely).
First if you are a full stack developer with experience with (those) you would definitely be employable. So I wouldn't worry.

Since you use PHP and are mentioning frameworks, check out the Laravel framework. It's rails like and has a great community.

So I would recommend looking at learning Laravel, check out Vue js too.

Laracasts.com is a great place to start.
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As a child that received many presents, I also felt bad. My parents got me an oil paint set and easel once... that was the iconic example for me. Although I enjoy art, I, at most, make some shitty watercolors or drawings from time to time, or make photographs. I ended up regifting the paints to a more artistic member of the family.

It's been a constant battle to receive fewer presents just for myself.
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> it's this trend of elevating skepticism to denial simply for political reasons

Well, there's just as much of a trend of claiming your position is "science" when it isn't, simply for political reasons.

For example, by any reasonable standards, economics is not a science; yet people who question the current orthodoxy in economics, for example by questioning whether having the Federal Reserve print money is really a good idea, are routinely castigated. Ron Paul became a nonstarter as a Presidential candidate for precisely this reason.
Has anyone used tor regularly for a long time for news consumption and as a social interaction with like minded people ?
Tock's cofounder is Brian Fitzpatrick, who founded Google's Chicago office (and the data liberation front). Great guy.
https://www.red-bean.com/fitz/bio/

Fight is probably a strong word. They just think people are not really analyzing whether they are actually getting value for it :)
I hate Tock, and my wife and I will not eat at any restaurant that requires that we use them. Eating out is not just about acquiring food. It's a social ritual, and paying for the meal at the end is an essential part of that ritual, the culmination of mutual trust between a diner and a restaurateur. Tock's pay-up-front business model destroys that trust. The not-so-subtle message to the customer is, "We don't trust you to pay." But that knife cuts both ways: if you get my money up front, why should I trust you not to cut corners on the meal that you provide?

I get that restaurants have to protect themselves against no-shows, and I have no problem handing over a credit card number so that they can charge a no-show fee. But paying the entire cost of the meal up front is a line that I won't cross. There are too many excellent alternatives out there still doing business the old fashioned way, thank God.
You don't need a car in NYC, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, and Hong Kong, all cities with populations greater than 6 million (well Singapore is 5.6m).
> The 3rd generation iPad was heavy, slow, and had horrible battery life and was discontinued six months later as they transistionef to a better processor and lightning.

The 3rd generation iPad was also the first iPad with a high res screen. I used it happily for many years, because I loved that screen.
Funny because I know large financial companies that have been using Slack for years.
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I mean, that's not how the US budget works. But yes, his budget proposal included nixing an Obama-era project to redirect an asteroid to lunar space for a manned mission. I wouldn't call that a deflection program.
It's possible that in 1178 an asteroid hit the Moon with a 120,000 megaton blast - an Extinction Event if it had hit the Earth.

(By way of comparison, the Hiroshima Bomb was 15 kilotons).

Recorded by monks at Canterbury at the time, and only a possibility - but something to consider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno_(crater)
> I've never had to take a drug test for any of the sub $10/hour jobs I've worked, I've had to take one for every single software job I've worked.

Interesting. My experience has been the opposite. Haven't been drug tested since I got my last minimum wage job working in a grocery store.

> Having your work phone calls monitored is hardly something to get worked up about (you're using your phone for work...do you also get mad when your supervisors monitor your work in person?)

Uh.. yeah, if my boss starts watching me work directly and isn't actively collaborating with me - I'm going to be looking for a new job..

> Nobody low income works in my building and everyone's monitored with CCTV.

Very curious where you are located? That's certainly not the norm in any dev shop I've worked in. There's cameras on the server rooms - and building security.. but nobody is monitoring the employees. Are you US based?

> Psychometric tests are very uncommon and not at all specific to low income employees, I'd argue the opposite (I mean... college is basically treated as a psychometric test)

College is not a psychometric test. A psychometric test is one of those "You see your coworker report to work drunk out of his mind, do you: A. Contact management, B. Pull out a 5th to help him with the Hair of the Dog, or C. Not notice because you're too high to give a fuck."

I've filled out several of those over the years - ALL for low-wage retail positions. If you want to argue high-earners are tested - the long-form interview process is closer to the equivalent.
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Don't eat so many beans!
“I get valuable government benefits in my mortgage home deduction, childcare tax credits, my employer health benefits aren’t taxed,” says Gilman. “Those are income transfers just as much as food stamps or welfare but I am not put through intrusive questioning, verification requirements, home visits, or anything like that to get those benefits.” This is disingenuous if not flat out fallacious. They certainly are not the same and I continue seeing this type of rhetoric repeated more and more lately.
i've never heard of any place in tech that drug tested that didn't involve getting a security clearance.

no one's drug testing people making 100k+, but drug tests for low-level jobs are far, far more common than you think.
So India does have cheap mobile services, but the quality of it isn't great.

There are service outages, issues with coverage, and there are serve limits on the data.

I used JIO and had an average about 4mbps speed. Also, there has been concerns about censoring sites. (see r/india.. they blocked reddit in the last week)

I paid about 199inr (~$3) and got 2gbs per day for a month.
Is the bulk of cell tower cost going towards equipment? My understanding was that a significant chunk went towards labor/construction costs and land rent, both of which are probably much cheaper in India.
Certain languages (British English and Portuguese, to name the two I know) dictate that if you pronounce the acronym as if it were a word, you only capitalize the first letter.

Nasa and Nato, but NSA and WTO.
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Well, if you have been working in a place with security cameras, then that place has gotten worse recently, privacy-wise. 10 years ago they would dig out the surveillance tapes to try and identify a burglar. Now they might automatically detect employee behaviour: That's something that affecs poor warehouse workers.

A lot of that creepy stuff is moving upwards to white collar jobs, does that weaken the argument the article makes or does it just mean the problem is expanding 'upwards'?
I think we're of a similar mind -- I was imagining a system where a user could input certain premises they agree with or values that they hold, and then they could see what conclusions follow (or would follow, with the addition of further premises). You certainly could end up with dubious conclusions, given what premises you start from. At the very least, though, different ideologies would actually come with an explicit set of premises, and people who disagree with those ideologies would be able to see exactly what they disagree on.
In the novel Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, the government employs science fiction writers to help them understand the invading aliens and predict what they'll think and do.
Just remember, you only have 24 hours in a day. If you start a side project, who or what will you take that time from? It may or may not be worth it for you and/or your family.

I also do hiring, not a lot of volume, but a rather rigorous process. I hardly ever look at someone's GitHub projects or OSS contributions because a) I don't know how much time they put into that work and productivity is a key metric for us and b) having our own process means I get just the information I need without needing to sift through a lot of code that will take me time to become familiar with. Not arguing this method is best, just that it's a reality that you can't be sure how many prospective employers will care about side projects. It worked for the article's author but it may not work for you. So again, just emphasizing that you should weigh the cost/benefits.
Tock's business model is about people who make reservations and don't show up (or try to resell the reservations, etc), which is a huge issue for restaurants.

It's also about who the relationship is with. OpenTable, as you can see, believes the relationship is between you and OpenTable. Tock generally believes it is between you and the restaurant.

It's not at all about whether you can pay or not.
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So you don't think 100% from renewable energy is feasible? If not, then, shouldn't we be creating policies to preserve more fossil fuel to give us more time? It is finite, after all. What exactly is your plan?
My sister put a candle on the table and the rising heat was barely under the lip of my open laptop lid. It melted a bit of the plastic, but the damage was only cosmetic. Sorry; pretty anticlimactic I know haha.
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> what crosses the line about monitoring driving behavior?

I think the privacy line is already drawn too far, but aside from that, I think if monitoring 'driving behaviour' involves GPS tracking, it crosses the line because you can use it to infer the people and groups you associate with.
I assume it's mostly about making it easier and avoiding the pain that's often associated with homegrown and other systems. However, I suppose if it's a busy night and I just want to eat somewhere halfway decent in an hour or so, I could see using OpenTable to find an open slot. (Not sure I've ever done that though.)
You're correct, however without MCAS it could be easier for the pilot to accidentally pitch into a stall when flying manually. That is why the requirement for consistent feedback, as you say. So the people who say the MAX engine placement makes it "more prone to stall" are not entirely wrong.

The media has done a poor job of communicating exactly what MCAS does and why it was developed. With today's media motivated by virality, ad clicks and eyeballs, most seem more interested in reporting this as dramatically as possible.
"now it's making $350k/mo"=="we're doing about $350,000 in revenue monthly"
The article you are referring to might be about Varnish.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1554656
No, it shouldn't, because then you get the problem most cities in America have: too many commuters creating too much traffic, and not enough high-density housing. SanFran is the poster child for this.

A better method is what they have in Japan, where local government has almost no power at all to control how land is used.
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You sound like you're being sarcastic, but I can't be sure. It sounds like you think the premise is ridiculous, but your second sentence is totally reasonable - of course we should discuss all aspects of a topic. Again, I'm not sure if your first question was honest or not, but answering it is straightforward and I think you'll find only extreme minorities of opposing opinions: Leading forcibly by the arm may be objectionable in some contexts, but it is not physical violence in most cases where the person being lead doesn't have the strength to turn the struggle into violence, so for children it almost never is (if the parent isn't using unnecessary force).
I guess the racial theory is still incomplete because it doesn’t explain why the socially dominant group (whites) were the ones to move. If you take the perfectly reasonable assumption that whites had the most power in society, the obvious question is: why did they flee to the suburbs themselves rather than just forcing the black population to move out into the suburbs? The answer must be that the whites perceived the suburbs to be a more desirable place to live. From that perspective, the racial injustice wasn’t white flight, it was denying black people the freedom to move to the suburbs themselves—which is exactly what they ultimately did when given the opportunity.

I’m not trying to dismiss racism as a causative factor. I guess I’m just saying it’s like living in a sawmill, and racism is the sawdust. The sawdust causes lots of problems by itself, but it also gets all over everything else. Suburbanization was something mid-century Americans of all races desired; it just happened in a racist way.
Have you tried to buy mobile data in the US recently? Nothing is unlimited. And if they say it is unlimited, you will get severely speed capped (128 kbps or even less) after X gigabytes.
I'm not a psychologist, but I'd imagine treating people as if they will do no good (unless surveilled and controlled so that they have no option but to behave in the manner which the surveillors/controllers wish them to) will foster a mindset that society is not something people would choose to build themselves without oversight. Because if they would, then why do we need all the cameras and security?
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Thanks for the clarification.

Perception does become our reality. True enough.
If it's not substantiated, then it's not.
In the 1990s Morgan Stanley's full suite of fixed income portfolio management and trading applications were written in APlus which was another of Arthur Whitney's APL variants. When I joined, MS was moving away from it, but the developers who'd been using it were very much in the "you'll take APlus from my cold, dead fingers" camp.
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In some industries or retail sectors, a big part of being successful is preventing/reducing employee theft or employee fraud.

For example, modern POS stations often run several cameras: one pointed at the cash drawer, one pointed at the customer, one or more pointed at the employee, all synced to journals or screen streams.
They’ve already shown troubling signs. When Jio was launched, senior executives, when asked about how they’ll increase revenues, said, “There’s something called as Deep Packet Inspection and the potential is enormous”[1]

Second, Jio frequently blocks VPN connections. Proactively and sometimes without reason even if there’s no government order. Sometimes, I’ve had to use techniques from blog posts about bypassing the great firewall of China to be able to connect to VPN services. Its not as ridiculous as the actual GFW but the signs are there.

Reliance is also engaged in a plethora of businesses, especially consumer facing ones and have shown increased desire to link it all together.

[1] https://in.reuters.com/article/reliance-telecoms-jio/from-bi...
And labor cost are significant when building the towers. The actual cost for the equipment is much smaller than the tower installation cost.
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By definition, places with high population-density are the places where a lot of people live. It is not a "bubble".
Yes, this is the same Gumroad and same founder of "Reflections on my failure to build a billion-dollar company" (https://medium.com/s/story/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build...). Interesting how the different framing changes the narrative quite a bit.
You are missing the core point - the income for an average person in India is significantly lower than the US or UK. Therefore, you can not directly compare prices of products across countries regardless of the costs of the product itself.

Some metrics to look at

GNI(PPP) Per Capita in Int$ : India - 6,980 / UK - 42,560 / USA - 60,200 [0]

GDP (nominal) per capita in US$ (World Bank) : India - 1,940 / UK - 39.720 / USA - 59,532 [1]

One of those countries, is not like the other two.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_(PPP)...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
Yes, he quit a few months ago. This is an 8 month old article. He has a video on his YT channel on why he quit (censorship - quite a few left Patreon).
Not sure I follow. The first to options I provided fix it for everyone.
> more diners because they're able to compare multiple places for a single time slot?

I expect for some places, yes.

Putting yourself in the shoes of a corporate event-planner trying to find a rez for VIP's at the first available expensive steakhouse, yeah, you're going to go straight to OpenTable and not bother with the phone. The hip edgy steakhouse that doesn't play with OpenTable will miss out.
People arrive in their 20s looking for jobs,
then retreat in their 30s.

Terraced house in London: £675,216 [1]

Terraced house in Hertfordshire: £380,897 [2]

The only surprising thing here is people are having to save until their 30s before buying a house.

[1] https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices-in-London.html
[2] https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices-in-Hertfordshire.ht...
I think the whole idea of scientific authority is troubling. Of course (as another poster pointed out) we should all be convinced of the value of the scientific method in school. It doesn't require evidence. Believing the scientific establishment, however, is an epistemic challenge.

The way I think of it, for us to believe physicists to the extent it affects us is easy. We just buy gadgets, and they seem to work. We outsource the vetting of the science to companies, who outsource to engineers, who outsource to scientists. The engineers should be able to see pretty quickly if the science is somehow wrong.

Medicine affects us as well, and it's a bit harder. Cause and effect is a lot harder to determine, and as such there's a lot of controversy. Since there's ambiguity, there's an incentive to sell us bogus cures, and as such a (in my mind) reasonable skepticism of what we're being sold.

Climate science is even worse. There's only one climate, so cause and effect is really hard to determine, at least for the "consumer" (voter). There's not only business motives, but political motives.

I think science advocates should think in these epistemic terms, rather than throwing a tantrum because the ignorant masses don't believe them. Maybe there's a way we could set up credible institutions that could vet the scientific establishment for us. "Peer review" is not credible, especially given all the bad stories I hear about how that system is broken. Can a maverick get in there and publish something completely contrary to the "consensus" and be taken seriously? I have no idea. All I hear about is "quack scientists" who don't believe in climate change, and I get real suspicious.
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