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With the 60% majority required in the Senate, entrenched two party system, lifetime appointment of judges, President's power of veto, I could go on forever but all the different aspects of the Constitution discourage any change to happen. It as much if not more of an issue with the American political system as it is the people who are elected. Although they are not without reproach considering the current campaign finance laws are a joke.
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The quote is "more than one felony case every workday," and the number of felony cases was 1,787, yielding 1787/(5*261) ≈ 1.37 felony cases per workday.
It's interesting that beyond some number of circles the optimal solution likely always involves a regular equilateral grid in the center.

Also interesting that there are seemingly no solutions without loose circles beyond 91.
I've actually seen the opposite. Most people who get to the upper-middle class do so by smartly using debt.

Beyond the obvious examples of borrowing to get an in-demand education and buying real estate in an in-demand location -- there are other smart times to borrow as well, like to expand a business.

It's quite difficult to really get ahead without at least a little leverage.

The irony is that the poorer you are, the more likely you are afraid of any and all debt -- which can be a very bad thing. In philanthropy I've seen many stories of young people who refuse to go to college due to a cultural fear of debt -- which often gets them stuck with a lifetime of low earnings. Or folks avoid taking on a mortgage only to find that rent inflation makes it difficult for them to retire later in life.

(I realize that the article is much more focused on "bad" debt: car loans and running up credit cards to buy consumer goods.)
For a person like me , who knows that I'm interested in the same topics but dont know where to start, can you point me to the right resources and the Github links where you contribute ? Sorry if I'm deviating this thread's intent but just felt right to ask.
Perl + Java here.
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There is at least one bound: When the unused surface is smaller than 1 disc is an absolute bound. Also, when all discs are touching 3-by-3, we can’t extract more space.
Oh, I love a walk in the snow, ideally when it is falling, nobody around.

So soothing.

I am not autistic, but do have high aural senses. As a kid, I could hear well above 20khz. Today, that has rolled off due to age, but my discrimination is still great.

Sounds can sometimes move me to distraction. ASMR, for example. I trigger easily and it is fairly intense.

There is something about the crisp air, dampening on sound that snow presents to us, and what little is heard otherwise seems to just stand right out, like incongruent, but not in a bad way. Just there, present.
Compared to trillions of dollars of unnecessary war spending we've already borrowed for and spent? I don't see tradesmen protesting that. At least forgiving loan debt generates economic activity and growth, as those dollars are now discretionary income to circulate through the economy, not another tax payment to the US government. Who do you think needs those services and might be more able to pay for them?

Tradesmen can be forgiven for not understanding macroeconomic policy though, which is why it isn't their role to set it, just as I don't ask an economist to weld a pipeline together. I can still respect the roles of both practitioners regardless.
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Tom Moor (Sqwiggle founder) is awesome! We talked with him early on and got a lot of inspiration. We've found that showing the app status gives a lot of the same feeling of presence as Sqwiggle without the sense of being watched. The always-on-video (even lo-res) was always a bit controversial.

The "google alerts" for pages idea is interesting. We'll think on it.
Helium’s trial balloon: A new peer-to-peer wireless network goes live in Austin
Eric Schmidt isn't exactly squeaky clean. He was heavily involved with both Obama's and Clinton's campaigns; likely leveraging google for nefarious purposes. He founded some spinoff company whose sole goal was to "ensure the election of Hillary Clinton through data". Google results have a heavy liberal bias and I don't think it's a stretch that this kind of activity is linked to it.
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Did John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA?
All of this is true. I was writing to mainly illustrate that Bayesian analysis is still open to abuse—though as the sibling commenter says, it's hopefully clearer when it's being abused.
We have been using Tandem for some weeks and it delivers everything promised. It's really simple and quickly replaced all the other tools for internal calls in our company.

First time I heard about the pricing and seems a little bit high... but the extended trial in exchange for feedback calls is genius.
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There are simply no useful measures you could take in response to the Equifax breach.

If you choose to waste your time that is on you, not Equifax.
> "The French prisoners included former prime ministers, generals and a tennis star. It is the only known time during the war in which Americans and Germans fought side-by-side. Popular accounts of the battle have called it the strangest battle of World War II.[4]"

> "He was taken to Major Josef Gangl, commander of the remains of a unit of Wehrmacht soldiers who had defied an order to retreat and instead thrown in with the local resistance, being made its head.[23]"

> "Gangl died during the battle[35] from a rifle bullet while trying to move former French prime minister Reynaud out of harm's way[37] and was honored as an Austrian national hero,[38] and a street in Wörgl was named after him.[39][40] "

> "The battle was fought five days after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide[4] and only two days before the signing of Germany's unconditional surrender. It was also the only battle where Americans and Germans fought alongside one another during the war.[41]"
I’ve been using betas for a while now. Update check don’t seem to notice new releases so I was running old version for longest time before I noticed. Speaks to beta cycle’s stability.

iTerm is one app that is always on and in use. Especially thanks to its fast full screen switching and transparent tmux integration. I’ve been contributing through Patreon and consider that money well spent.
Curious if it will contain anything we don't already know or it will be just a personal, congested biography-style piece.
6 months ago [I posted about Apprise here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023196) and got a lot of amazing and encouraging feedback! I since took just about everyone's comments and ideas at the time and implemented most of them.

Apprise now supports over 40+ different notification services, including configuration files that can be read from disk and the cloud! The library remains incredible light weight and easy to use.

I just wanted to share an almost completed solution and hope to hit you all up for more of your thoughts and advice!
Can't we make the exact opposite argument?

In the unbalanced system which currently exists in the USA, rural voters are given huge, disproportionate advantage in electoral power, leading to national decisions being made that favor them (have some more farm subsidies!) and ignoring the voices of the millions of citizens who happen to live in large cities and populous states.

Why are rural people better than city people? Shouldn't it be.. equal?
TrueColor is pretty much the only terminal feature I feel the lack of with Terminal.app, and it's a pretty minor complaint.

As for pasting, what shell are you using that doesn't support paste bracketing?
lichess.org has some interactive puzzles and learning things. very fun to get the basics/intermediate stuff in.
Two definitions of middle class:

Marx: the section of society that makes their income from a combination of capital and labor.

WSJ: people that buy more expensive things than Doritos
I’m concerned because probability is not intuitive.

Suppose a store is robbed, and there’s a video.

The police identity some suspects - the guy who just got out of jail for robbing the same store, and another person the store owner had a dispute with. Neither of them look like the robber in the video. Then the police take a still from the video and knock on some doors around the block. Somebody recognizes the person in the video, and the police investigate that person. This scenario seems pretty fair to me.

Now suppose the police run it through the facial recognition system. It identifies one person as a 99% match, and the police go investigate this person. This scenario does not seem so fair to me.

Here’s how I see the math:

P(A) = P(robber has a doppelgänger living on the same block) = .01

P(B) = P(robber had a doppelgänger somewhere in the database) = .9

P(X) = P(police screw up investigation, and will convict the suspect whether or not they are guilty) = .2

P(AX) = .002

P(BX) = .18

The exact numbers are made up, but as long as P(A) << P(B), you can see you this tech will result in a huge increase in false convictions. Even if P(X) is low, the number of false convictions increases by P(B)/P(A).
Hard to tell what it's made of from the tiny image, but the cotton bags I know are 100% cotton (except for the print), like this: https://www.sinplastico.com/3742-large_default/organic-cotto... while canvas bags are usually made from cotton + PVC.
There's a very interesting book called "What is Life - How Chemistry becomes Biology" [1] by Addy Pross (homepage: [2]) in which he claims, among other things, that there is no clear boundary between chemistry and biology.

Here's a review if you don't want to go hunting for information on it [PDF]: https://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/eb/article/view...

[1] https://www.amazon.de/What-Life-Chemistry-Becomes-Landmark/d...
[2] http://www.bgu.ac.il/~pross/
> What I find revolting is that the government not only encourages this harmful behavior, they monopolize it.

They do so with many things that are far worse if not monopolized. Violence comes to mind.

What's better, a) the government taking the money, b) some private company building a pleasure trap and taking all the money, c) outlawing lotto and the mafia taking the money and a lot of lives? "Nobody taking the money, everybody living happily ever after" isn't on the menu for obvious reasons.

There's obviously a need for gambling in society. Keeping it under control, reducing it's harm is the right response.
Does that apply in general?

In the past, if a license plate was noted, you’d have to manually go through records. Now through automation and scale it’s instant. Should that be prohibited too?
Spelling mistake on my part. I meant "Roon Ready", its a standard that the company Roonlabs created for their streaming solution. I personally use Roon at home as I got tired of losing access to music I loved when Spotify changed contracts.

I still subscribe to Spotify but for anything I love I buy the vinyl/flac copy and store it on my Roon server at home.
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Because euphemisms are a weapon of evil - if we called them pain belts people would immediately realize they are the baddies.
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The Credit Card interest rates are at all time high, in spite of the fact the PRIME interest rates at historic lows. This is something no one is talking about.

The Corporate Debt is going to BITE so hard in the next recession -- I say, bring them the pitch forks and every person who had a C in their title be prepared for clawbacks!
In my experience, former DAs make the best defense counsel. They know how stuff works. And they have friends.
The focus on compactness (or other geometric properties) as a goal is misguided.

The districts don't exist to look pretty or have nice geometric properties. They exist to translate the will of the voters into a representative government.

538 compared maps gerrymandered for various goals [1]. Prioritizing compactness has the effect of a) skewing political power toward rural areas away from cities, and b) reducing the expected number of non-white House members (for similar reasons).

The problem with compactness is it doesn't take into account the political geography of where people live. Increasingly, Democratic majorities are concentrated in cities, while Republican majorities are outside of them. Drawing compact districts has the effect of packing Democrats in fewer (urban) districts, resulting in more wasted votes. This gave the Republican party about a 30 seat advantage in the 538 map, compared to a more proportional one.

The Senate and Electoral College already unfairly skew political power toward rural voters. Compact maps would do the same in the House.

The efficiency gap (your #3) is a much better measure of partisan fairness to focus on than compactness.

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-maps/#alg...
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"Earlier this year, Mr. Guzman put his credit cards in a Ziploc bag with water and placed it in the freezer."

Mr. Guzman literally froze his credit!
For "most", this is close to the truth.
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Sound waves are physical. You cannot change the empirical outcome by doing the math differently.

Sound waves are indeed cancelled out by their inverse.
This is demonstrably untrue, as 2010's SAFRA effectively nationalized 80% of student debt. Direct Loans by the government, not private lenders, comprise almost all of the student debt market, as of now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Aid_and_Fiscal_Respons...
this has been debunked. some speculate that most of the difference in employment is in how the us counts uber drivers as being employed.

considering that it is the tech companies most involved in hiring h1b. it is not surprising that they are the main entities pushing this lie.
Curious and sad about Behan.
That wasn't a clone. That was the original project.

Hill wanted to stop working on it, handed it off, and then it got bought by evil Germans. Then, he released and maintained an unfucked/original version: µblock origin
How far along do these books make it in the evolutionary process? I've been reading up on the mechanisms behind how cancer works (and how we try to fight it) recently, and it has unveiled a level of complexity and specificity that I had no idea existed. It almost doesn't compute how these systems have evolved through pure chance in the time-frames that we are talking about.
> Even with a 3rd world university name on my CV

Actually I think that works to your advantage. There’s a class of hiring managers who figure that if you went to college in America but didn’t go to Harvard, Yale or MIT, you’re not qualified to tie your own shoes. They don’t know anything about foreign universities, though, so they figure one is as good as any other.
Ah, the old "this is hard, let's give up" strategy. No thanks, that's not for me.
Scheme is possibly the best designed language I've ever seen. Which may be why no one uses it.

(Note: Macros, even Scheme's hygenic ones, can produce horrible monstrosities. Like loop. And the urge towards object systems gives Scheme a horde of them, mostly bad. This may be a lesson in getting what you ask for.)
Unpopular opinion: If you can't afford to buy the crappiest home within a somewhat unreasonable commute to your office, you are not colloquially middle class.

While you may fall in the middle of the distribution, when most people say 'middle class' they mean you have a reasonable amount of stability and security in your life.
Camera upgrades are another major reason for phone upgrades. Processor bumps are nice, but the camera improvements are dramatically bigger and probably also more noticeable to your average user. To some extent the processor goes hand-in-hand with that, since Apple's new computational photography features are driven by their new processors.

I'm still running an iPhone SE, but if I were to upgrade it would be for the camera.
Car payment, insurance, food, gas, tolls, oh and healthcare.
As mean as this sounds to read, it's the truth. I personally know families who had an autistic child, did their best to accommodate and integrate them, but the child grew up to be nonverbal, destructive, etc.

Of course it's not always true. The poster is right that autism isn't inherently bad, just different.
Anyone know why the "WRONG" example in this diagram is bad?

https://i1.wp.com/cdn.makezine.com/uploads/2009/07/cablelaci...
This is exactly what I've been hoping someone would build, thank you and congrats!
This article has me shouting at my screen. I'll try to condense to one point:

> Earlier this year, Mr. Guzman put his credit cards in a Ziploc bag with water and placed it in the freezer. In May, however, they went to two weddings, and needed a card to cover the cost of a gift and a rental car.

1. You're never required to attend a wedding
2. You can give gifts with minimal cost

When I got married, I had a friend who was unemployed at the time. Didn't expect a gift, but they still took the time to go out of their way and provide baked goods they homemade for the wedding party. Can't bake? Write a nice letter or compose a song.

You can't mismanage your money, go into debt, and point your finger at anyone but yourself. Can't afford a new car? Don't buy one - buy a used one instead. Can't afford to travel to a wedding? Don't go, send the appropriate cards and letters and niceties. Buried under credit card debt? Don't have a kid yet, don't go get a dog, stop buying on credit.

Yes there are some terrible woes around medical debt, and that's a serious problem we should evaluate and fix, but you can't blame "the economy" or "society" for what is just an inability to manage your money.
"Don't worry, this time we're just lighting your money on fire without pissing on it first" is not likely to resonate with voters. Last time the government bailed things out it didn't exactly turn out well for the average voter, especially the blue collar ones (that said, it probably did make the '08 recession a hell of a lot less bad)

Like it or not those tradesmen get to vote. You're gonna need to do a job selling your bailout than "the money will bounce around our economy" (which is a valid claim IMO).
I'm no expert by any means, but isn't this due to the idea that nearly all students would simply declare bankruptcy upon graduation?
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Not at all, but there is I understand some subsidy system that favours using corn syrup as a sweetener - and in mass production it can be added to almost any food to make it sweeter.

As USA founded/headquartered companies have taken over more of UK food production it \appears\ that this has been coincident with the increased usage of HFCS to sweeten traditional UK foods. That appearance is so strong that it is a stereotype in UK society "this tastes sickly sweet now, oh yeah, Kraft took over so they probably put corn-syrup in it".

It might just be that as USA capitalism has optimised squeezing more money out of lower quality food by adding cheaper ingredients other countries have optimised for financial profit in the same way?

I've never heard similar issues raised against the food industry of other countries; even so, perhaps it's an unwarranted stereotype?

I'm open if you want to try and change my view?

[Hmm, reading that back it's no longer clear to me what you are saying, I read your post as if the second sentence were a question; apologies if I erred.]