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To call other people?

Calls I make are split ~50/50 between personal, to people who know me and have my number, and business, when I either want to buy something or resolve some issue. Calls I receive are split 40/60 between personal and spam. And I'm in Europe. In the US, from what I hear, that would be closer to 10/90.

There's a huge asymmetry in phone use. Marketers and scammers make the phone network near-unusable to regular people, by ensuring most of the calls they receive are unwanted.
Hi Mr. "goes woof",

1. Yes, you can. His comparison works.

2. No, they usually don't have a choice.
Contrary to the belief of progressive billionaires, I think the reform of capitalism will come in form of local "soft socialism". Localism just makes sense and can be accepted by both left and right-wing people.
>Additionally, yes, the US society in the 50s-80s was pretty egalitarian and full of opportunities — as long as you were white, male and heterosexual.

It was full of opportunities for all kinds of people, not just "white, male, and heterosexual". That's when the civil rights movement and the feminist movement flourished too and ensured the rights for women and blacks.

People born after some age seem to remember some bizarro version of history, when it was all oppression with no redeeming qualities, and if you were a woman or black etc you were as good as dead. People think we made some huge strides in the 00s, probably because they have no experience of the 60s to 90s. That main strides have been done for gay/lesbian rights (and even those were increasingly more permissible after the 70s and the sexual revolution).

Though all of the above are beyond the point. As if to have those other things (affordable housing, college and healthcare) that the 50s-80s enjoyed, you need to also have racism and sexism... How does that compute?
> Who spends over $100 million on an airplane and then declines a $1 million safety option?

Someone being pitched 30 different $1 million safety options?
You can use Whatsapp without giving it access to your phonebook. It complains initially but it works fine.
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What is your skill set?

Try and get to a sustainable position as soon as possible (stable monthly money for a roof and food. No drugs). Maybe it involves going to another area or a nearby country. Maybe it involves getting a shitty job for a while.

As other said, it will be hard to get a visa for a while, so you will need to think if you should stay in Kenya or not. Work your ass for at least 5-8 years and maybe u can get a residency there + a paper that says that u have a clean record in that country. If things go well in Kenya, and you are stable for 7ish years u can apply for a citizenship. Once you are a citizen of Kenya (or any country you can have a stable life with no crime) you can try and change your name and get a clean criminal record certificate on that name. Then you can think of attempting to apply for visas.

Also once you have food and roof, I would suggest checking the online freelancer route. Making money online might be a good way to bump up your income while working locally, and with more money, more doors will open for you. Also online, people won't really care about your criminal record.

Good luck, and I hope you stay away from crime while attempting to get a job.
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I do t disagree with you that answerinf your phone can be necessary, but most of your examples are cases where you are expecting a call - except your doctor/dentist. Why are they calling you and not you calling them to make appointments?

Semo-related but it's infuriating how many companies refuse to contact you by email. I'm currently remortgaging a flat, and I've told the broker repeatedly to contact me by email, and they still phone, leave a voicemail asking to be called back, and send an email saying they called.
Lobbying groups working on behalf of the telcos and related business interests that oppose any measures to deal with this, and most other, issues that someone is making money as a result of.
Following the same logic, OP is on planet Earth then planet Earth is a hell-hole.
>You don't think what you get for your money is important in a discussion of economic advancement?

No, I think technical progress is not important in a discussion of economic advancement. The economy can go up and down, but technical progress only goes forward (spare some catastrophe).

Even in the Great Depression or WWII, technology advanced just fine.

>How can you possibly know that's true? Where are these example economies that have US-level innovation but also has the wealth distribution you crave.

US had US-level innovation AND that "wealth distribution I crave" in the 50s-70s.
It's possible this person is known to the HN community but would prefer to keep their identity private for this question however I agree with your sentiment, these posts should only be accepted in exceptional circumstances. There are other, perhaps even more beneficial places to ask for this kind of help.

I would genuinely like to know more about how this person is connected to this community or how they discovered it and what they thought this community in particular could assist with. Could you address that OP?
As someone who has borrowed money in order to invest in the stock market, I do feel that it was a prudent decision. Although, I'm not sure I'd pick it if forced to choose between it and college.
I got the hell out of corporate web design after getting bored shitless fighting against recreating magazine publishing circa 1992, but with links.
I love this. We’re on “Hacker” News, and people are in denial that cars are going software-first :D
Thanks for your kindly suggestion! I've changed the background.
Then again, if your users are using your software many hours a day, day in day out (e.g. in work context), they are power users due to circumstances. If you treat them as regular "common denominator" users, you're actually and directly hurting them.
There was another paper updated shortly afterwards (first published in Jan 2019) here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01540

It puts the value of H0 at 75.2+-(39.5;32.4) using standard sirens.

Researchers expect a 2% measurement using this technique in 5 years.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328344162_A_two_per...
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Why is this a ridiculous suggestion and would you propose something else?
Is there a LICENSE file or license header somewhere?
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I just implemented a small ReactJS application in that uses the API provided by my latest open source project called 'Feedi' https://github.com/davidesantangelo/feedi.

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> the only header is the originating number, which can be un-traceably spoofed at the originator

That's wrong, phone signalling systems always specify the originating number and it cannot be spoofed. The key thing is that only 911 responders and similar lines have the CLIRIGN flag set on their lines which means that the spoofed number transmitted via CLIP is ignored and the real one used instead.

In addition victims of e.g. threat calls can have the MCID flag set on their line which makes the provider systems log all call information for later retrieval by police.
Yes, you're right.
Thanks.
Here’s an article from 1995 that talks about how 737 pilots didn’t know they had to turn off auto throttle on takeoff abort - https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0821/21082.html

I wonder how software testing will change (if at all) in the industry post this revelation. There was an old joke during 777 development (Boeing’s first full fbw) about the difference between airbus and Boeing software testing architecture - airbus used formal techniques and Boeing put the software engineers on the first flight.
Who should make the decision whether an airplane is "safe enough"?

How about these guys? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Aviation_Safety_...
Stop crying. You got what you deserved. This is pathetic. Playing victim status while having committed robbery and sales of drugs is hypocritical. There are a lot of immigrants who went to the states and made a honest living without resorting to crimininal behaviour. Unfortunately, there are countries in Europe where immigrant criminals are handled with "care" and not deported https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5530867/Afghan-murd...
Perhaps, Europe should start reporting immigrants who display even the slightest criminal behaviour.
The US and the West in general. China is going in that direction but China is expanding everything quite hard. The are using the 'lets do everything' strategy.

But yes. By now, you can actually order pretty interesting reactors from China. Their Pebble Bed reactor is interesting.
In which case water treatment employees would be extremely well paid.
Well, if you have no money, you could try selling your story. If you contact the right people, you could make several hundreds of dollars. Publicity might eventually lead to help.
Learn from your mistakes, and become a trustworthy person. Then you will have friends and a future.
Update: I found a demo in their source code in testing/test_object.sc which you can apparently compile to a nice and tiny ~16 KiB executable via:

scopes test_object.sc && clang -O3 -s -o test.exe test.o
So much apathy in this thread.

This guy came to the US as a child (3 years old!), was educated in the US, became a criminal in the US, committed all his crimes in the US and the USA’s answer to this is to deport him?

Come on, the USA made the criminal and they should deal with him. Why should Somalia or Kenya have him on their streets? They didn’t turn a 3 year old into a criminal. You shouldn’t be able to send your criminals to another country.

@OP, I would talk to a journalist as there’s a story here. You may then be able to get pro bono legal advice to have your original deportation thrown out, or perhaps the ability to claim asylum as you should be able to.
Why you weren't naturalized during this period?
Are you being dense on purpose?

To quote OP directly:

> I made some mistakes in America that got me deported to this hell-hole.

OP couldn't be any more clearer by their current living situation and surroundings.
This did NOT work for me with the Windows version.

Had to install that .xpi from the previous HN thread on the subject.
Americans don't do well because they have good education and a good work ethic, they do well because the society around them have a good education and people with a good work ethic. You can't drop an individual in the middle of nowhere and expect them to thrive easily.

Tbh, I don't know what to suggest other than to try to find work and figure out a way to survive. What else can one do? Making a commune on the other hand sounds ridiculous when he probably can't even speak the local language.
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In-store POS ads and coupons?
Is this the cheapest and the most efficient marketing tool ($1 for 1000 receipts)? Online service allows you to communicate easily with customers, create customer experiences and boost sales. www.adforcent.com
>Chromium Version 74.0.3729.108 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit)

Safari?
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Where in Europe are you?

I'm in Germany and I'd say I get one call a month from somebody who wants to do a survey or something like that.

And I also might get one spam SMS per month which I report to the "Bundesnetzagentur", which will then take care of that as this is prohibited in Germany.
You may think I mean straight up pedopholia involving elementary school aged children. That can happen certainly.

But a 17 year old is legally still a child in many jurisdictions. A lot of men in their twenties see nothing wrong with getting involved with a 17 year old.

If you are talking a dating situation, my views on that get a lot more complicated. If you are talking prostitution, a 17 year old sex worker is highly unlikely to be there by choice.

At that point, it is, in fact, child rape, even if you aren't comfortable with the terminology and wish nicer language were used to describe it.

I don't feel compelled to try make it sound nicer given how damaging it can be to the child in question.

Statutory rape doesn't have to be violent. The minor may even have nominally agreed. But the law says they can't actually meaningfully consent as a minor.

If they are a minor and a sex worker, they are likely being trafficked. That's where this gets really nasty. The guy paying for the service may be blissfully oblivious to just how much she is being pressured, has no real choice, etc.

I covered that in my original comment. That's a large part of why this is an ugly thing.

You (the general "you", not you in specific) hand wave away that she's 17 instead of 18 because it's only a few months and he may not have actually known her age etc.

It's a slippery slope that basically says if you can fudge on enough "little" details, it's totes fine to rape children. Traveling to a foreign country for your cheap sex is a very handy way to gloss over those details and pretend it was all above board and nice when it probably wasn't.
It works for me quite well, but that’s because I’m almost always roaming. The experience of being able to have a pocket full of data SIMs at no code is great. Mostly I never see it, or think about it, it just works. Though honestly I’m sort of concerned for when it suddenly doesn’t.
Nope, we've never used Ali-express or 1688.com.

I'm talking about Taobao. We also often purchase from Tmall, but Tmall sellers are usually better organized or less shady.

Sales numbers and reviews aren't 100% trustworthy. If someone buys X but X is out of stock and the buyer asks the seller to send some Y of roughly equivalent value instead, Taobao won't show the next buyer any new sales of Y but will show the (nonexistent) sale of X.

And if you leave unfavorable reviews, sellers will wheedle you endlessly on WangWang, begging you to get rid of the negative feedback and offering partial refunds or free stuff in a future order.
He potentially never sought it out. I mean, there are people who never bother to finish high school or their GED.
Surely telco's must know that this will drive everyone out of regular calls to VoiP services which will not benefit them in the long run.
>Given a chance, brick and mortars will fuck everything up. Guaranteed.

Let's not pretend Amazon are innocent of fuck ups like this. I'm a semi regular shopper with Amazon (uk) and in the last 12 months I've had:
- used products sold as new
- products sent by Amazon's own courier service for "next day delivery" show up after 3 days
- flat out wrong items sent
- previews for books sent in place of actual books
- received knock off cables when ordering manufacturer cables.

That's not to consider the mess of trying to order goods from Amazon and figuring out when they'll arrive. Searching for "prime" or sold by Amazon doesn't actually guarantee next day delivery on rh item, nor does it guarantee the item will be correct.

Their only saving grace is that every time I have a problem, I can resolve it with live chat, they send a replacement and a courier picks up the old item from my office (if they even bother asking for it back)
It is still better than local taxis. I've been scammed by a taxi driver in Philippines and had problems with taxis at the airport in Indonesia. I switched to Grab/Uber and even if the quality was similar, at least I was relaxed and didn't worry about being scammed anymore.
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Interesting, thanks for the response!
I don't appreciate your calling Kenya a hell-hole, after it gave you refugee shelter from Somalia.

After your criminal activity in the United States, I doubt the UK or even Kenyan authorities would allow you such status.
Thanks for elaborating. I think the sentiment of the original post is good but your suggestions are more reasonable and practical.
This question reminds me of Kraftwerk's method of using a phone. I'd love a mobile phone that did this;

>When the German electronic band Kraftwerk were in the studio, they refused to be disturbed. Working for hours on end, patiently perfecting their sonic arrangements, required zero interruptions. So much so that they even took the ringer out of the only telephone in the studio. So what happened when someone wanted to call them? Simple. If someone wanted to speak to them when they were working in the studio, the band would instruct that person to call at a precise time - not 2 minutes before and not a couple of minutes after, but exactly at that time. Then, at that precise time, a member of the band would stop what they were doing, walk across the studio, pick up the none ringing phone and say ‘Hello’ and the call would begin. That’s the only way you could get to speak to them. You made an agreement. You said what you were going to do and then you did it.

http://www.youneedstandout.com/blog/2014/10/20/how-to-call-k...
Compulsary education in Germany goes back to the days of Prussia. It was mostly about nation-building and replacing regional identities with a common national identity.
I have bipolar disorder. When I was depressed at uni and didn't sit my exams, my mum said "oh, so you couldn't be bothered then?" That's stigma against mental illness.

When my doctor signed me off for 28 days off work and my boss said, "how about taking it day by day? Wouldn't it be better for you to have something to do?" That's stigma against mental illness.

When I have to wait two months to see a consultant psychiatrist, that's stigma against mental illness. I wouldn't have to wait so long to see an oncologist, despite bipolar disorder having a higher chance of killing me quicker than some cancers.
I don't think train drivers earns high pay because of risk, but rather it takes a long time to properly train train drivers (especially freight trains), there is scarcity of skill, and the potential damages of a train crash warrants paying more for better skilled drivers to minimize the chance. The risk the driver takes on doesn't really get factored in.

Edit spelling.
And forbid you purchase that on some sort of payment plan so you can get it. . . And then have them charge full value all of a sudden
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I think €2.23 is a little on the light side, but not unrealistic, considering that a Dutch lunch mostly consists of cheap sliced bread with some form of stuff spread out on it, mostly Gouda cheese, or any of the sweet stuff like the traditional chocolaty sprinkles: hagelslag. I talked to the guy that buys the lunch at our office, and his estimate is anywhere between €2.50 and €3.50 per person a day, but he did not have hard numbers. For Dutch standards, our lunch is considered quite luxurious.

Then again, I'm not exactly sure what part of that is just lower prices in supermarkets. As a student I routinely could cook dinner for under €2.50 per person, although nowadays I'm averaging more like €4 pp, with rising prices and me cooking for a smaller group.
A similar example is the shopska salad[0], known throughout the Balkans as a symbol of either Bulgaria’s Shopsko region in particular or Bulgaria as a whole, but in fact this dish under that name only goes back to the 1960s or so and was part of a national marketing campaign. (Incidentally, tomatoes, cucumbers and white cheese form the colours of the Bulgarian flag, which do make this an even more apt cultural export, but I’m not sure that was intended.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopska_salad
>I don't mind the certificate issue

For me, it's the other way around.

They should have forseen the certificate issues and never implemented the system as it is, i.e. disabling addons that have been installed with a valid cert. At most there should be a warning. Addons are losing their configuration because of this and we have yet to see how they fix old FF versions. All of this indicates a total lack of foresight.

However, I see the value in having studies enabled and being able to test features and fixes with certain hardware configurations. Almost every software does it, because it's very useful. Maybe Mozilla, being an advocate for privacy, should be more transparent about it though.
> the data tends to show that less volatile stocks actually have higher returns

Which data show this? Less volatile stocks can, in certain periods of time, be levered to return more than more volatile ones. But that is dependent on borrowing rates being favourable and very specific, and to my understanding rare, equity market dynamics.
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Hi,

I'm looking to learn about computational fluid dynamics for art projects.

I understand Python and graphics programming. However, I'm having trouble following the tutorials because I do not understand the symbols.
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I would like to pay someone to answer basic questions.

Does anyone know what to look for in a math tutor who would understand this?
Read, read, read and read! Explore more "inputs" from different topics. Exercise regularly, eat healthy and have virtually no stress. ...and read even more. :)
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> An asset isn't necessarily an investment. E.g. cars, merchandise, foodstuff etc.

Aren't those examples consumables, not assets? I always assumed assets are by definition things you invest in, not things you consume, but maybe I'm lost in translation here...
> I would genuinely like to know more about how this person is connected to this community or how they discovered it and what they thought this community in particular could assist with. Could you address that OP?

I was about to post exactly the same question. Very interested why he chose this community.
Yes, that's a problem, but I'm used to a stick, and that issue was quickly resolved after an hour or two of practicing. One hint - use your ankle muscles, not calf to apply pressure with a left leg. If you don't have a low traffic road to practice, you can use go-kart for that too.
"[study published] in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, women are no longer at a disadvantage when applying for tenure-track positions in university science departments. In fact, the bias has now flipped: Female candidates are now twice as likely to be chosen as equally qualified men."

And what do people usually reply? There is so few women in university science departments that the quality of women that manage to survive in such discriminate environment is higher than among men.

So lets copy paste the same for midwifery. The reason men get promoted faster is because the quality of men that manage to survive in such discriminate environment is higher than among women.

I will add that midwifery do stand out in gender segregation data. Using Swedish data it is the single worst segregated profession with around 99.7% and in higher education it was the only program last year where every single student (100%) was of the same gender. People who care about combating gender segregation do a great disservice in ignoring the worst offender.
Depends on the region.

Some areas, specially consultancy agencies, do have a better M/F distribution than coding silos.
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Actually some modern cars do not light brake lights if you press on a pedal lightly, I think engineers are two feet drivers themselves. Test yours!