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Thank you. I appreciate your points.

I have seen it go over badly. I've also seen it go over very well. The running total so far seems to favor the latter.

I'm working mainly from Dale Carnegie. The core thesis is this: never tell someone that they're wrong. Instead, start by finding a way to tell them how right they are on a point you genuinely agree with. Once you've satisfied someone's ego, it becomes possible to engage with their intellect. This can be tricky, especially when someone's main point is something you disagree with.

I sincerely doubt that "What if all your stated assumptions are wrong?" would have been well-received. That's exactly the kind of comment that tends to get a defensive response rather a thoughtful one.

My apology was genuine. I had no reason to be nasty, mocking, or sarcastic to this person. I was hoping that they might be willing to re-examine their stated assumptions. I failed to sufficiently hedge against a sarcastic reading. Which is admittedly a difficult task in a text-based medium centered mainly around a language and culture that uses sarcasm heavily. I've yet to find a way to reliably do this.

I do appreciate your feedback. It's a work in progress.
NYC offers a great deal -- it squeezes 5x the Bay Area housing stock into a tiny land area by building upwards. If anything, NYC doesnt do enough. Parts where the zoning allows 12stories (e.g., Brooklyn 4th Ave) should ideally be 24 stories or more. It is a heck of a lot more efficient to stack upwards rather than stack outwards. For those who want more space, you can go outwards, but for those who value shorter commutes, you can achieve that.
It's definitely a thing. Here's one theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence
I’ve owned property in Virginia and California and both the counties I lived in break out the assessed value of you land and your property as separate line items on your bill. They do NOT break your payment into multiple lines.

For example, my current home is assessed as $150k land value and $350k house value for a total of $500k.
What's your preference for tools to go about this? I've found some dex decompilation to be very hit and miss. Just wondering what is your go to/process for android and iOS if you don't mind sharing ? Cheers
> You cannot control peoples thoughts by reducing their exposure to the bad thoughts.

Actually, yes, you can, quite literally. Falsehoods repeated ad nauseam are convincing in the long run (do you remember the second Irak war and the WMD hoax propagated by the government? Half the US still believes that one).

In a meeting, a single person making the same argument three times is almost as convincing as three people making it once.

Etc...

We're not as free as you imagine.
The average Uber driver makes about $35,000 per year: https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/education/how-muc....

That’s about 300% of the federal poverty line. Under the ACA, they can purchase health insurance on the exchanges for a premium that is capped at 8-10% of their income.[1] In Germany, a self-employed person would pay 15% for mandatory state health insurance premiums. (People who work for a company pay half of that, with their employer paying the other half.)

Here in Maryland, a quick search of the ACA exchange shows a Silver Kaiser Permanente plan for $266 per month (subsidized) for a 35-year old single person making $35,000.
Nuclear have a much lower fooprint than renewables, requires much less space, last longer, is more robust, doesn't require rare earth materials or support from ex coal (like wind and solar often end up doing) as a base component.

Solar and wind is not even close to being in competition with nuclear when it comes to what is cleanest.
So let the free market sort it out in a race to the bottom?

Should workers be able to unionize to demand better from their employers?
Which is bad. It's possible it may end up benefiting me since my parents own a home in the bay area, but I still think it's bad.

The entire prop 13 + zoning + property value situation is terrible, it's a total pyramid scheme: older generations get wealthy through wealth transfers from the younger generation from inflating property values. But it can only work once or twice before the property values are so comically high that even high income DINK couples can't afford to buy in.
There are orders of magnitude more uber drivers now than there were taxi drivers ten or twenty years ago. The point isn’t that these jobs didn’t exist or were replaced 1:1, the point is that there is a super steep demand curve in these services so a drop in price by 10% means 10x demand at that reduced price, which means the number of drivers now is much much more tha. It used to be to satisfy those orders
From the perspective of a consumer, this might be penny wise, pound foolish.

When I buy a product from a company I am not familiar with, I look for the PayPal button. This is especially true if the product is some type of subscription. There is no way I am buying a subscription to something other than through PayPal.

As a buyer, I know PayPal has my back, and that I can see and easily cancel any subscription.

So, if you go with the alternatives, be aware there are likely millions of consumers like me who you are missing out on from the start.
Where has the middle gone? Is it either extreme luxury or low income assistance?
Coincidentally, just a couple of hours ago, I heard an interview of 'Ink' playwright James Graham talking about audiences expecting Rupert Murdoch to be presented as a straightforward villain.
We are all a slave to the needs of our own body. When I'm hungry for instance (or anticipate being hungry), I act to serve that slave master.

If you offer to pay me to drive you from point A to B and I freely accept, you do not become my slave master just because you exploit my need to serve my true master. I would be worse off if you failed to exploit that need.

The final slave master is mother nature, and she's a heartless bitch. It's frequently easier to blame our fellow slaves. The true slave masters are the ones that offer pain instead of cash for your labor.

If you want to blame an actual person for your pain and identify them as your slave master, the one with the most choice in the matter was probably your mother. Blame her. And also give her a call and tell her you love her, because it's almost Mother's Day, and there are good parts to being alive too.
I really recommend Murphy’s “Machine Learning: a probabilistic perspective”. Murphy’s lays the groundwork for understanding how the algorithms work, why and how they could be adapted to the problem you’re dealing with. It takes you from complete beginner (with a reasonable math level) to one step above `import sklearn as sk`.

The other books I read make the field look like a bunch of heuristics that just happen to work.
I understood prime as the minimal set of numbers with which you can generate all natural numbers by multiplying them.

There are infinite natural numbers and infinite prime numbers, but you need each and every prime number to generate any other natural number.

So I'm puzzled to learn that 1 is not a prime number because I do not know how to generate 1 if we exclude 1 from the prime set.
> workers must work ever increasing hours to make a living wage.

That sounds like trying to use the gig economy to make a living. I'm sure some people could do it, but it's hard like you mention.

The gig economy is designed for short, flexible gigs to supplement your income not replace it entirely. The people that are trying to make a full income entirely from piecing together tons of small gigs I'm sure are struggling because that's not what it's claiming to do. It's primary function is flexibility, not keeping up with the Joneses.

FTE is for building wealth, the gig economy is for flexibility. The gig economy filled a much needed gap for people that only want to work a few hours a week or like variety in their work. It's not supposed to be the cure to fill time employment, just an alternative.

It's like complaining that a "tiny house" isn't big enough. It's not what it was designed to do.
Another problem with Uber/Lyft is that a significant portion of their earnings comes from "quests" like "N rides today" or "N rides this week". Given the very low base pay, this incentivizes drivers to work long hours, with no breaks.
> End the influence of the Police and Sheriff public employee unions over politicians. People carp constantly about corporate influence don't understand the level the public sector employee unions have

¿Por que no los dos?

There's no conflict between wanting to see corporate influence diminished and disgust for the Fraternal Order of Police and their appalling role in keeping officers from being held accountable.

> go look at California's prison and even education problems for a refresher.

The abuses of for-profit prisons in California and elsewhere are a perfect example of the consequences of excessive corporate influence in our political system.
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Is that actually true? I don't follow cryptocurrency that closely but I seem to remember headlines of a site shutting down and something like a million BTC disappearing forever and people never got it back.
The devil is in the details: what happens when a company is approaching the $25B mark?
- would it slow/stop its growth?
- will it fight the law with endless court battles?
- will it break up and see revenues slow down, then re-merge?
Indonesia election: More than 270 election staff die counting votes
I think you're misusing the term "Rent Seeking". The important part of its definition is the manipulation of the social or political environment to gain financial advantage. It has nothing to do with collecting rent from a tenant.

An example of rent-seeking would be if I were a steel producer and I ask the government to impose a tariff on imported steel.
I’m not sure unwinding Zappos really matters.

Just applying antitrust to future mergers would likely have more impact.

I would like her plan for mergers like Disney/Fox or Comcast/TW.

This seems like piecemeal trying to retcon some items instead of setting up a principle-based approach that would prevent future issues.
the most common way is to own a condominium. You own your apartment and a share of the common spaces / common infrastructure. The common stuff is administered by a homeowners association (HOA) that you as an owner are a part of. you typically then have a mortgage for the loan against the apartment and HOA dues to cover things like maintenance and insurance.
Cheap is a relative term. What does the affordability ratio (price vs local available incomes) look like compared to historical norms? Are these places cheap on that basis, or only when compared to the insane prices in desirable places?
Meanwhile, tech companies in China will steamroll and take over global markets because they don't have to deal with their own politicians trying to dismantle and destroy them.
Electric vehicles emit more CO2 than diesel ones, German study shows
I understand the 'broken windows' theory to be more applicable to leaving things that need to be fixed unfixed which slowly normalizes the state of things being 'messy', the concepts are peripherally related but do not at all address the same thing.
This is the biggest counterpoint to the article. I think a bad developer promoted to a position of management wreaks much more havoc than an unhappy good one.
that's the literal definition of rent seeking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
It looks more to me like this just happens to be the technique that the OP prefers to use to take notes. I imagine most students use paper or a tablet.
Prop 13 was amended twice - Propositions 58 and 193. Those allowed Prop 13 tax assessments to be inherited with property to children and grandchildren.

There's some broader legal commentary, which I'm not properly equipped to evaluate, here: https://krasalaw.com/lawyer/2010/08/24/Estate-Planning/Maint...
I find watching all of the machine learning courses that are posted to YouTube to be a good way to keep up and to get insight into the thinking of the authors of recent papers. It has more or less become my morning ritual to watch one lecture a day.

That said, the past few weeks have been an absolute tsunami of potentially groundbreaking papers. And it is hard to keep up with The cutting edge.
Maybe just a matter of semantics, but high-density housing in the U.S. is mostly comprised of "condos" and "apartments".

Condos are owned but must comply with homeowners association (HOA) rules on upkeep and maintenance.

Apartments are rented and maintained by Landlord.
most advanced countries in the world DO have property taxes. Why do you think that's not the case?
The Root of the Internet's Disrepute- Online Advertising
Adyen not even getting mentioned, very surprising as it handles most payments for Netflix and Spotify.
True.. But engineers often have more knowledge than judgement. Engineers are often too cautious to run businesses successfully. This isn't a blanket statement, but engineering school does not make an entrepreneur or even create much business savvy.

Engineers are the most cautious lot I've ever worked with. Among the most intelligent, but I can't imagine them making ballsy market moves.
It's like they want a new aristocracy. Which I suppose is the truth; people with the wealth and power would be happy with that.
"Sometimes called an 'artificial sun' for the sheer heat and power it produces"
No, it's because the sun is also a fusion reactor.
OK, something is wrong with your anecdote.

Bans from a specific subreddit are instituted by the mods of the subreddit. I can easily picture the mods wanting a sub to be run in a certain way, and if you run afoul of them, you are out.

Account suspensions from reddit and shadowbans can only be done by reddit admins. Why would they even care about whatever politics are happening in some tiny sub?
For that matter, even with 1, how do you generate 0?
Sadly this article - seemingly an objective mathematical treatment of tuning - is simplistic to the point of worthlessness. No mention is made of stretched tuning, inharmonicity, or psycho-acoustic treatments of tuning. I expected more from Scientific American.
It will have a renewables-like cost structure in that it will be really expensive to build, with a finite lifetime, and modest operational costs.

No doubt some time in the first few years there will be some unforseen new kinds of maintenance requirements and failure modes to discover.
Right, and as someone who's used it extensively, I'm here to tell you that its value is not in being "a chat application". Its value is in being a _community_ platform, where everyone can see and hear everyone else. While private message has always been in the spec, the value of IRC has always been in offering people a place to establish common knowledge and culture _passively_ to whatever degree necessary for the channel or even server that happened in/on.

Simply by being in an IRC channel you become part of that, which is radically different from any of the other media you mention, where one has to actively go through the records (as it were) to get an idea of what's going on, and what the shared culture and body of knowledge is.

They really are very different media with a very different experience, and today the only experience that has managed to recreate the value that set IRC apart from other communication tools is Slack/Discord.
PayPal gets a lot of negative publicity from a handful of high profile temporary freezes.
You can replace 'gig economy' with 'contractor'. The idea of contracting has been around for many years before Uber and Lyft and is different than the worker rights you get when you are a full-time employee.

I also don't see it replacing anything. Every company isn't going the gig route. It's just not practical.

"They were not employees and so had no health insurance, workers’ compensation protections, employer contributions to Social Security and payroll taxes, paid time off, family leave protections, discrimination protections, or unemployment insurance benefits"

This was never part of the deal. I don't get any of this selling my items on Ebay either.

"Sometimes, this gig work also requires an initial outlay of capital. (My own neighbor just traded in her old vehicle for a new car, taking on thousands of dollars in debt so that she can make extra money driving for Lyft."

So no actual research before diving in and buying a new car? Not a smart move and not Lyft's problem.

"Platform algorithms are designed to downgrade those who aren’t always available, making it ever-harder to pick up gigs"

As a Lyft customer, would it make sense to have someone pick me up that may not even be there? That would be a horrible customer experience.

"Uber, for example, offers email communications to drivers, a service that is not nearly as responsive as the taxi cab dispatcher, say"

Was this article written by the Taxicab unions? You can regulate and force companies like Lyft to make all of the drivers employees, pay them a good wage, and give them benefits. But, this will cut the workforce significantly because the bar will be much higher to become a driver. Many of the people driving now will be out of work.

“The disruption offered by the sharing economy is simply a hustle.”

It really depends on your goals. The gig economy allows more people to make less money. Just like any market, there will be a small percentage making the most money, some in the middle, and some making a small amount.

Do you think the workers now would rather make a little bit of money or none? Assuming every current worker will just be converted to a full time employee with benefits is not realistic.
Burning a book is physical violence. Banning a sub is physical violence. In censorship you are forcibly destroying a communication between two nonviolent third parties.
I can second the recommendation for Geron's book, it's absolutely stellar.
It sounds like you need to work on your people skills
Regulatory changes may be needed but some of this piece indicates a clear lack of understanding of the tech sector and basic finance.

“Venture capitalists are now hesitant to fund new startups to compete with these big tech companies because it’s so easy for the big companies to either snap up growing competitors”

VCs have stopped funding startups because... they might exit? Of course there’s no mention of increasing interest rates leading to reduced equity funding as is perfectly logical.

I also wonder how we can even think about Google Search under this platform utility model. By definition they are the only seller in the market. Is that wrong? They are simply selling access to inventory (impressions) like any traditional business.

Regarding mergers. Who is going to write this new regulation over which mergers are acceptable and which are not? The same people who don’t understand the inverse relationship between rates and equity valuation that you learn in any finance 101 course?
Interesting. For me, it's the opposite. I think of PayPal as evil, deceptive (think of the currecy conversion opt-out mechanism) and how many content creators got hurt by PayPal freezig their accounts.

I'm relieved when I see a company found another way and doesn't make me use PayPal when paying.
Inasmuch as different parts of society disagree on how to "improve" it, one part does not have the right to censor the other.
Although Wikipedia has "but is not considered a private currency" for that. But you are backing up the point that there isn't much that's existed a while that isn't backed by something. The other thing I thought of as a well known non backed currency was literally monopoly money. Though that "can also be used as a derisive term to refer to money not really worth anything"

It'll be interesting to see how the cryptos work out. I'm optimistic that bitcoin will still be valuable in decades to come due to scarcity and fame. Bit like Van Goghs and that kind of stuff.
The problem is much bigger than the existence of these gig economy services. The deeper issue is that demand for unskilled labor has become weak enough that, for many people, this is their best option relative to their skill set. Working conditions are terrible, but I don't think it would be a good thing for the world if Uber and the rest of the gig economy services magically disappeared one day: it would simply put the drivers into a financial tailspin with no real chance of escape. Moreover, Uber and Lyft are in a race to the bottom in terms of prices, and neither can unilaterally raise driver wages without pushing riders to the other app. The global economic rat race to drive down prices is unrelenting.

I suspect that universal basic income will become extremely popular in the public view, bordering on necessity, to offset the rise in inequality in the United States.
How about anybody who belongs to a marginalized minority group in their own (physical) community? For example, there are plenty of parts of the US where LGBTQ folks have to reach out beyond their physical location to find a community that will truly accept them (not to mention countries where their existence is criminalized).

Facebook is a highly imperfect solution for them — but it exists, and there aren’t always better options.

Just like how some parts of the country are food deserts where people actually don’t have access to anything much more nutritious than White Castle.
Aside from the issues presented by the other comments, the core block doing work here is gr_gsm which is a GSM demodulator (FSK). 4G/LTE is not FSK so you are going to have to find a different solution for 4G.
I'm probably the only one who thinks it's really stupid to connect things like refrigerators and washing machines to the internet, but I'm going to say it anyway.
If it's not a "Hell yes!", it's a "No".
A service that allows one to create single use credit card numbers would have helped. The only one I know of is US only.

Payoneer the strongest paypal alternative is currently behaving like PayPal. It closes accounts on a whim without recourse and support is Google-like.
One might ask the question, why do these worker protections exist in the first place? There are good reasons. We've been undermining many things like this lately: vaccines, the EPA, anti-trust laws, voting rights. It will be our undoing.
Zero being a member of the natural numbers or not depends on convention.
The number 1 is what you get if you multiply no numbers together. Just like if you add no numbers together you get 0.
Any "quiet" on this front is due to the advertising power to suppress articles examining the extreme worker inequality present in the gig economy.
Indeed - and more recent incarnations of the genre, if well done, are more likely to supplant the original as influences, simply because they address more contemporary, less settled issues.
I usually implement lexers on my own to solve specific needs because some apps move so rapidly the existing solutions couldn't keep up
But that's literally the situation we have right now: commercial entities are discriminated against by having to pay more for their .com than nonprofits and individuals interested in obtaining a .org

Make not mistake: I hate ICANN so much right now for their idiotic "we need to let the marker regulate the prices" for a product in which there IS no marketplace (you can't buy the same thing from someone else for less, domains are unique) but if the grounds are to be discrimination, that's the situation we currently have, and this decision by ICANN would be the result of a lawsuit brought against them on those grounds.
Alcohol is a physically addictive product that was already engrained in acceptable culture. This isn't really a fair comparison.

Even so, cigarette smoking was similarly marginalized (though not outlawed, making it a better analog) to great effect.