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Location: stuck in china

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: triple yes

Technologies: reactjs / redux / js / swift / ios / twilio / haskell / python / tarojs / opencv / arkit / firebase / meteor / express / koa / node / mongodb (and there are more but I shall stop here)

StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/2041954/

GitHub: https://github.com/archywillhe

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=He%2C+...

Email: a@0a.io

I started coding when I was 12. built my first web & iOS apps at 16. am 24 at the moment. grew up in singapore and now stuck in china. currently the co-founder & ceo at https://castella.art. mainly working on https://lo.fish, an online co-working space creation platform where one can organise interactive gatherings and conferences. going live in a week’s time.

i will run out of $ by feb 2021 (I cofounded Castella in 2018 & we had received equity-free funding from both the National University of Singapore and Singapore Enterprise. we’ve also been invited to a yc interview once. Anyhow in 2019 we burnt everything & my cofounder left. Castella has since been entirely self-funded. Being a Singapore Pte Ltd aside we also have a Chinese incorporation.) I’m looking for a full-time/part-time job or contract work in the beginning of 2021 so I can continue to work on https://lo.fish part-time.
Thank you - this is helpful to read. I didn’t think anything could hurt the mind and heart so much.
This is quite literally the worst case scenario for them. I've been morbidly curious what the knock-on effect of a meltdown in CMBS bonds and other securities would look like.

As an aside, since employees are now responsible for their work environment, how do we factor that into pay and/or possible tax write-offs?
There’s also no real-world analog for a For-loop, but it’s still not a credible complaint to avoid learning C.

Also, just because java objects are called “objects” and not some other word with less colloquial meaning doesn’t mean that they actually map well to real-world objects. Fully understanding the true semantics of Java objects is at least 100x as complicated as fully understanding the true semantics of monads. The only thing it’s easier to do with Java objects is to delude yourself into thinking you might understand them, because they have a familiar name.
I found this: https://ben.balter.com/2015/04/22/the-difference-between-18f...

From this description, it seems they're different approaches to the same problem of "fixing US govt IT projects", with USDS being more of a reactive group with power to act on behalf of the White House and therefore bypass agency structures.

I would be very interested in hearing from the fellow from USDS as well though.
I'm guessing that this puts PCs ahead of unreleased PS5 and the new Xbox. I'll wait for the budget model to be released here in two years. Good stuff.
California has more people than Canada yet Canada has more public Universities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Canada
VIX has been positively correlated with the market rise lately, even more so for Nasdaq eg tech, so it’s not true that it’s inversely related to market returns right now.
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Patreon strikes me as a fantastic lifestyle business, a small company that earns modest profits for the owners, not a viable unicorn.
> larger concepts, ethics, systems thinking, etc

These are what American universities are actually well equipped for.

It's common knowledge that if you graduate with a BS in some engineering topic, you won't have most of the practical skills necessary for your job --- or at least not from your curriculum. However, a good school will teach you how to analyze complicated problems from a number of different perspectives with both theoretical and practical tools. Moreover, all those liberal arts classes they make you take that people complain about will give you the social and cultural context necessary to understand ethical implications that might arise.

Sure, getting a BS from a top engineering school won't tell you the best way to design web pages in 2020, but it should make you a well rounded, capable engineer.
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Sweden: 8% GDP drop

countries that locked down early:

China: 3% GDP increase

Vietnam: 2% GDP increase

New Zealand: 2% GDP drop

Croatia: 15% GDP drop

Denmark: 7% GDP drop

Norway: 6% GDP drop

(obviously, the numbers cannot be easily compared since they might refer to slightly different periods, but all of these include Q2 2020)

From these numbers, it's not obvious at all that not locking down would actually be beneficial for the economy. In fact, except for a few outliers like Croatia (disproportionately impacted by the drop in tourism revenue, I presume) it seems that locking down prevented even steeper losses.
> People frequented strip clubs forever but I don't think everyone at a Vegas strip club is there because they are lonely.

Strip clubs are notorious for monetizing parasocial behavior, being places where men literally throw money to buy some attention and are scolded if they ever think of approaching the same person in other contexts that don't involve monetization of that interaction.
You don't kick the golden goose.

It's the same reason why the biggest Twitch stars can do pretty much anything on stream and not get banned, while normies get the banhammer immediately for lesser offences.
> To hit a few hundred million in revenue a year and earn their valuation, they're going to need to start competing with not just YouTube and Twitch, but major music labels and indie-friendly TV/film studios. They're going to need to recruit the new Taylor Swift, the new Lady Gaga. Hell, they may need to recruit the current Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.

No one that can be Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga needs Patreon because they can already monetize their content through mainstream channels. There is no to little value Patreon can add on top of that. Patreon exists to enable monetization for the long tail of creatives, which means they need to increase breadth, not depth, and not lose the current growth in demand for these channels to competition.
Abuse of spouses and kids is also up. That's typical anytime unemployment goes up.
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Well, for one costs are much higher, availability of labor and land are far more constrained. Also, while their states (Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina) might be slightly red, those cities, like all large American cities, lean blue.

The climate is fairly hospitable year round in the Bay Area. If I were homeless I doubt that I'd choose to live in Arizona or Texas in Summer or Winter. The concentration of disposable wealth and a generally liberal population in San Francisco probably makes panhandling easier, I would guess.
Would also like to note that creators pay the 2.9% + 30¢ as well. So in reality, it's 7.9/10.9/14.9%.
This is a current story, not from 2015. So please remove the 2015 or replace with 2020.

They're going to republish them.
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No, I am saying your interpretation means nothing without relevant precedent where it was decided in a case of law.

If it were that easy, why wasn’t Apple or any of the console makers convicted decades ago?

Would you say someone was an expert developer based on citation from w3schools?

If it is not “controversial” where is the case law?

Can you find one relevant case where an actual judge or jury interpreted the law as you said?

Where did you get your law degree from? Where did you argue your case in court?

If you can find where a lawyer actually won a case in court based on your interpretation, I have nothing left to say.
I meant it more as a time and event marker rather than a comparison or description of US politics.

The point is universities must have balance and promote tolerance. The extremes —either extreme— are undesirable and lead to nothing good for society.

I take the down-voting as evidence of sorts. I am saying we need balance and readers don’t like it. I don’t need to wonder why, I know.
Liberapay is missing subscription tiers. But the main disadvantage seems to be network effects/lack of adoption. Creators who have accounts on Liberapay and Patreon make far less on Liberapay, which means that people are willing to ignore the extra fees because Patreon is convenient.
There was a video on social media of a former student with 80 k$ in debt. After 10 years of payments, amounting to ... (forgot exact number, but way over 10 k$, vaguely recall it being over 50k), she still owed 76 k$. Probably so "low" due to her downpaying 6k last year - that is, she seriously believed it would have been higher otherwise.

I am absolutely convinced you could attend most universities in Northwestern Europe & live there for less than what this student has already paid + currently still owes. Including interest on a loan - as long as you don't get it from the US loan sharks involved in college loans.
Seems to me a fairer statement would be “she doxxed a vice editor in revenge for them doxxing her”.
I see where the commenter is coming from. We spend millions of dollars on technology that can see your manhood perfectly through your clothes, yet 300 yards away from every TSA checkpoint at any american airport is some rusty po dunk fence where you are pretty much in range of striking the engine of a jet plane with a well flung rock. It's an asymmetric warfare specialist's wet dream, and the whole purpose of creating the TSA was in response to asymmetric warfare. It's baffling why we even bother, unless you remember that people are making a good deal of money off of this graft selling manhood scanners to the taxpayer.
Thank you for your support. I am somewhere between denial and anger, I think. We will get through it.
Croatia is not an island, Vietnam is not an island.

I included multiple countries exactly to pre-empt straw man objections like those.
Anyone with a widely distributed analytics package or tracking beacon can track your hits on pages with that beacon. How many pages DON'T use Google Analytics or a Facebook 'like' button?
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That’s funny, I love visiting Bay Area Walmarts because I get to feel like I’m in a low budget consumerist Mad Max movie, wandering among heaps of clothes and appliances strewn across the aisles, not an employee in sight.
Just do one thing: let subcontinental indian english do this century to en-us what en-us did to en-gb last century. If the yanks yammer, we can simply ask them to kindly adjust :-)

(Over on this continent, we've also seen the emergence of en-eu as a contact language, much to the dismay of the ethnic english.)

Edit: (clarification here due to rate-limit)

Demographically, I expect en-in to become the english "standard" (just going by history: some english are still salty that most people who learn english these days learn what they'd consider "american").

pop(M)
IN 1'300
US 300
UK 70

(Once upon a time, a smiley indicated attached advocacy was not in earnest.)

Edit2: retox — one reason to "save" languages which applies even if no one intends to use them in dialogue is to have a wide variety of empirical examples of language formation, which can then quantitatively inform our attempts to reverse engineer current languages and dialects.

Edit3: as to the argument by economic power, maybe it's just chutzpah, but I'll point out that many dope additions to en-us have come from AAVE, which is not normally considered a dialect representing economic power. As I expect future english usage to be driven by phone chatters, that demographic should correlate with population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_En...
Hate when people earn enough to live in the city they work in.
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> Yeah I rarely watch Twitch but basically do so for two reasons.

I think you may even be in the minority. I would expect most fans of twitch streamers to be an actual fan, not there to merely enjoy the game (even tho the game is actually enjoyable to them as well).

On youtube, it is more likely the opposite - "fans" on youtube enjoy the content, more than the youtuber. This is typically why once a youtuber becomes well-known for one type of content, that they cannot switch away (see the countless minecraft content creators that are somewhat burnt out by minecraft, but continues to make it since it is the majority of their views). Content creators who _are_ personalities and can branch out, have already done so to twitch.
The only way out is through. It's all just delaying otherwise.
PTX is on the driver level, and it took NVidia several years effort to make their cards properly map into C++ memory module.

Intel and AMD despite their FOSS support, actually only do open what they feel like.
is database access only in service?
Good questions. I suspect diverse news may not actually result in diverse perspective anyway. I wouldn't be surprised significant fraction of people simply don't change their opinion, even while consuming news from diverse source. So it may be doubly moot in the end.
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Thomascloer put it nicely. Don't know why they would choose to disable a wordpress core function and then feign ignorance on the matter... They also marked it as resolved while clearly it is not.
That's one reason I advocate better accountability before shouting "raise taxes on rich." Want to see another example? Number of fires being reported is nearly 1/3rd of what was in 1970s. And yet the number of firefighters on payroll has only gone up [1]. Yes, firefighters do respond to medical emergencies but most of the times it's redundant.

"Some people — including Tabarrok and other libertarian economists — think that dispatching huge trucks loaded with firefighters to respond to every medical call made to 911 is not an ideal situation.

'Typically, they'll get there a minute or two before an ambulance does, and in some cases they start treatment,' Tabarrok says. 'In my view, it's mostly redundant. Other people will say that getting there earlier can save a life, but most of the time it has no bearing whatsoever.'"

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2014/10/30/7079547/fire-firefighter-decl...
Presumably if it were illegal there would be some security in place. Maybe a fine, but maybe even a security camera, or a larger fenced area, or whatever. Something beyond nothing at all. My home depot has more security around the garden center than the fringes of the airfield at LAX. Right now you can picnic under planes taking off right outside LAX. If you wanted to invoke some asymmetrical warfare, just open your picnic basket and fly your quad copter drone straight up into the flight path.
I’m sure there is plenty of waste but also maybe the city doesn’t want every single one of their employees to have a multi-hour commute each way?
There is rarely anything straightforward in a divorce. Children make things a lot harder but they are not the only thing. Both parties have made sacrifices and both parties often contribute to success.

I’m not that familiar with the standard of living laws but if my wife and I broke up I would feel horrible if she had to severely down grade her lifestyle. I hold the position of the primary earner. My salary is several factors bigger than what she makes. However, she takes care of so many things for me that I can focus on earning. We are partners. She has easily earned her way. If we got divorced, I would still get to benefit from the position I was able to rise to with her help. She deserves to be taken care of.
There's already an emacs-jupyter package that provides an emacs api for interacting with the jupyter kernel through either a repl or org-mode source blocks. It provides output from the jupyter kernel in latex, svg, and png among others. What your asking probably wouldn't be to difficult and will probably find its way into one of the ipython notebook specific packages if it isn't already in one of them already.
I hope you’re lawyered up and ready for a fight for your daughter. Good luck, god knows you’ll need it.
The original sin in California is Prop 13. Nearly all of our budget and housing issues can be traced back to that god awful ballot proposition. With high housing costs comes increased homelessness, higher wages for public employees, larger pension liabilities, and on and on.
Bryan Lunduke heavily pushed locals.com as an alternative. His arguement, rightfully so, is that Patreon is painfully slow to use. Sadly he now seems to be mostly focused on moving people to locals, and not producing the same quality content as previously.

The creators I want to support are all on Patreon, so that’s the platform where I have account, but beyond setting up the subscription I new use the site. It’s a sad experience, slower than the Reddit redesign, it’s pointless to try to do anything meaningful on Patreon.

They need to invest in their site, but the valuation seem high for what they provide.
Are you willing to consider the scope of the entire world?
They aren't entirely empty though, are they? Yet during the lockdowns it was illegal to go to restaurants. Some customers are better than no customers. Ask any restaurant owner if they would prefer lockdowns to the current state of affairs.

Again, it's not like the economy would not have been damaged either way, but it's obvious that the lockdowns made the economic damage worse.
You act like there's an alternative. The only way out is through, it's all just delaying otherwise.
I love your comment. I got distracted by what others have already mentioned about the title not matching the content and then failed to see the big picture. Very admirable (to me at least).
Maybe take every number in this article and divide it by 2.7 Cost of living in San Francisco is roughly 270% of the national average.
Maintaining the same standard of living is impossible under the same revenue. I live in a 2bd apartment; renting two 1bds would cost more than one 2bd. I’d have to go from one car to two, and a huge array of personal expenses would either get duplicated (power, Internet), or would become more expensive for the same amount (food, cell phone).
Apparently they are using some third party app to accept orders.
My understanding is that many states effectively void them (including California).

This is false. Courts generally uphold prenups. You only hear about the times they don't because that's news. See, for example, the McCourt divorce (upholding a postnup).
Ah yes. For astrophotography it isn't an issue though since each exposure is typically at least 15 or 30 if not more seconds.

It is admittedly hard to get the intervalometer to switch off though, often it keeps restarting itself after several restarts of the camera but eventually gives up.
I’d like to know too
I'm inclined to agree. Assuming they aren't advertising more or some other obvious factor, people are generally a) stuck at home on electronic devices, b) afraid to go out to many places, and c) loss of income. Of course an online DIY divorce template seller is going to see sales rise.
The Matrix feels more and more prophetic, I never thought I’d live long enough to see that.

It’s not that we are human batteries, but we are human Ad Batteries.
@Mods the actual title is "19,000 Highly Compensated City Employees Earned $150,000+ In Pay & Perks" and there is a later quote of "18,759 highly compensated employees from each bringing home pay packages worth $150,000 (or more) annually."

It seems to me that the current title editorialized the post to seem like its $150k+ in salary when in fact it seems to be factoring pension and other elements.
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Here is a much simpler detector: A bottle of Corona (or any other beer in a long-necked, clear bottle) makes a workable cloud chamber. Chill well in the freezer, and watch the neck closely as you open it. You may see the streak of a cosmic ray passing through just as the cloud of condensation forms. Of course, as a bonus, it may take more than one try…. It's not an ideal project to do with your teen-aged child—a soda doesn't get cold enough, it has to be a beer. And yes, it really does work.
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Regarding the example of a cop who made more in overtime than his base salary: This has gotten very common in the past few decades. Police doing huge amounts of overtime with almost no approval needed (or even basic oversight that this is useful/actual work) is a problem in a lot of jurisdictions. The original idea is that you shouldn't need to get special approval for a public-safety emergency. But in practice, it's become a norm in many places, with police resisting any attempt to decrease routine use of overtime and limit it to emergencies.
Moving out of CA made me realize that progressivism in America simply doesn’t work if your goals are vaguely along the lines of <high standard of living for the middle class>. The fact that SF caters so aggressively to the poor and the homeless, coupled with the massive population of chronically impoverished people in the US, all but guarantees that it’s going to be an unlivable shithole. And indeed, needles, druggies with open wounds, feces, homeless encampments, everywhere.
How so? (I would've summarised as "rhinoplasty" ... or, given the luxury of two words, "contrafacial rhinoplasty.")
Regarding table literals, some products support using

VALUES (1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), ...

as a table constructor in general, not just in INSERT, and looking at SQL:92, SQL:99, and SQL:2003 it looks to me like this should be standard SQL. Derived tables, aka subqueries, exist in SQL:92 at least as well, so whether or not that is considered recent depends on how you look at it, I think.

I am not trying to defend SQL with this, and all in all this does not take away from the points you raised, but the above were something that stood out.
I don't understand all the jargon but it sounds great with a New York accent.
Paying these people a high salary seems fine to me. Good on them for collective bargaining to not have to commute half their lives. Paying them an equally high pension just makes me feel sad. Here I am running the rat race to save enough to retire, but I'm not making much more than they are, and including retirement, making much less (the retiring fire chief will make more than $300k/year for the rest of her life?!?). Maybe I should have gone into public service.
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He must've been hoping the earth was flat enough that he could drive the train across water or something. Simultaneously amazing and terrifying that he could be put in charge of something so deadly despite what I'm sure is obvious mental instability.
Well, partially.

Divorce isn’t instant, legally or logistically. If divorce was going to spike, you’d expect leading indicators to rise in the weeks and months before hand, as couples begin to move from the “thinking about it” stage to the “printing paperwork” stage.
Vice shouldn't be exonerated but do we live in an "eye for an eye" rule of law?

(According to Wikipedia) she published Vice's editor-in-chief's home address. I assume she did that to "explain" how she felt threatened physically by ensuring that the editor in chief feels physically threatened as well?

She could have acted differently. She could have taken legal means; perhaps asking for help to her patrons. Supporters can support in many ways and not only with money.

Can somebody who knows more about the details explain why her behaviour should have been tolerated by Patreon?
I worked on this feature at Uber, it’s not as easy you think. Airports are notoriously hard and diverse across the world.
The biggest problem here is the overtime. Instead of employing full time people, they milk the system to generate more overtime hours.
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