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it sounds like, and as others have suggested, you need to practice your conversational english.

have you thought about joining a local hackspace to meet up and socialise (google hackspace redwood city)? That or volunteer on local community projects. Both provide great opportunities for talking and practicing to battle your shyness.

From somebody who is themselves incredibly shy and adverse to social situations, sometimes the best way to get past that is expose yourself to stuff which puts you out of your comfort zone.

In regards to meeting women, I wouldn't worry too much about that. It will happen by putting yourself in social situations as a result of spending time with others and meeting new people. and remember, for every awkward guy out there without a car there's an awkward girl out there who wont mind.

So, to summarise. Get some hobbies that allow you to be sociable, volunteer with charities, join hackerspaces, go to talks and sociable events. Tell people whom you meet that you want to practice your English, they'll be more accommodating then you'd first imagine. Don't sweat it on meeting someone either, that will happen.

One last thing, from your post, it seems you sometimes feel depressed? If so, then go and speak to someone about it. Feeling isolated and alone can make us feel pretty ill. We shouldn't have to be like that.

Lots of people go through this, whether the barrier is language, extreme shyness or something else, but it's important to know it's possible for things to be different. Just don't get too anxious, and look after yourself and stay conscious of your wellbeing.
You can’t just dispose the old water into the sewer because it has a lot of aluminum salts. You must store it and send it back for recycling. Probably this task should be done in a gas station or a car repair shop and not at your home, so they have the tanks for the old liquids.
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With your current attitude, especially including the fact that you're considering yourself an "Asian introvert" rather than simply an introvert, you're not going to make friends. I think you should give up. The entire post was one big self-loathe, and you need to stop feeling so sorry for yourself. Also, you cannot be serious about that whole bit about a girl not wanting you if you don't have a car. That's the mentality of a five year-old boy. Get some confidence; do some push-ups. Get it together, engineer.
After I quit my job as a scientist, I drove for lyft, and got lots of offers to hang out with passengers. So I said no a lot (needed the money, driving is donezo one you've started drinking). Now, I consider it and hang out with passengers every once in a while. I've got to be selective, as a 30-something it might not be all that fun hanging out with 20-somethings in a bar in certain parts of San Diego...

I would have suggested "drive for lyft" to the OP, but he doesn't have a car, so...
I think this is the best comment here.

Be open, generous and helpful. Care about other people and show genuine interest in their lives, don't dismiss them just because they might fulfill some of your stereotypes (hipster / jog / bimbo / ...).
Do not try to be someone you are not. Keep being yourself and have an open mind when other people try to engage with you. I had to move around a lot of times as a foreign student in the U.S. and always wondered what would be the best way to become friends with new people. I think it's more important to respond well than going around places looking for people you can talk to.
This still has the potential to be quite green, despite CO2 in the manufacturing process. When combined with a Li-ion pack for regular journeys, the average driver isn't going to be using the Al-O2 battery very much.

Our current solutions to range issues are packaging a shit-ton of li-ion capacity (model s), or including a separate engine (volt). These both add enormous weight and manufacturing costs to the car. The much higher energy density of this solution means that you carry a lot less weight with you during most of your journeys.

Let's say that these guys' estimates hold up, and the average driver does < 2000 miles in long distance journeys out of a total of, say, 12000 miles per year. How much difference in total energy consumption will shaving 200kg (lose 300kg for 2/3rds of the tesla's battery pack, gain 100kg for the new al-o2 pack) off the weight of the car make?

edit: I realise this is rather hand-wavy, considering the 1800 mile range for this system is based off a smaller car than the model s, but I still think it's worth considering the difference in overall energy consumption that the higher energy density of this pack provides.
hmm, taking a class is a really bad way to learn conversation-centric language skills.

for anyone here learning a language, check out:

http://www.fluentin3months.com/

The TLDR on that site (and his book) is basically conversational practise (anywhere you can get it) is much much more important than lessons, which are too different from how our brains are designed to learn languages (which is by usage, not grammar rules.) I would say that this is especially true for someone who can already write as the OP can, but just has trouble with confidence in talking to people in person.

The key lesson for OP from FI3M, is that people are very infrequently angry with you for speaking their language wrong. English speakers may have more of a sense of entitlement than speakers of other languages (dominant culture, etc) but in general people will do their best to communicate, however slowly (assuming you catch them in a situation where they have time.) A good way to do this is meeting someone for coffee explicitly to practise English. Either they can learn your language in return, or you buy them the coffee, obviously! :)

(edit: situations where you can do this! You could always "buy an English lesson" from someone, I suppose. You could also arrange to meet someone you met at an English class on a different evening, in order to practise together, especially if your only common language is English.)
Its a pity that one of Facebook's main revenue source is promoting brand's posts, because otherwise it would seem like the best decision they could make is to outright ban any posts along the lines of "Like and share and comment on this to win a prize", both to reduce the noise on people's timelines, and to improve the quality of the like data they're collecting on users.

There's a similar effect on Twitter with brands asking for retweets, but I see less of those, presumably because the kind of people I follow on Twitter are less likely to get sucked into that.
1. Get a sports car.
2. Pull up to a nice place (night club, resturant etc)
3. Problem solved.
Journalism is publishing the truth that your owners want :-) see the Barclay brothers and the Daily Telegraph. or the BBC bashing that both the Guardian and Murdochs papers do.

Funny how their lawyers jumped on Nadine Dories when she suggested that they published the expenses scandal to derail the cross party alliance on shutting down the tax havens in the channel islands.
I disagree. I have done years of volunteer work/helping other people and it does not help one bit with being social (it's not why I do it, so I don't care about that supposed dimension). Plus, there are plenty of terrible people who wouldn't consider doing anything except for their own self-interest who are just fine at being social.

Totally orthogonal considerations. Sorry, don't mean to be cynical - I strongly encourage doing good things for other people for their own sets of rewards - but advertising this as a way to help out the OP's issues being social will not help and may deepen a sense of entitlement and frustration.
There are two big questions here:

1) What's the cost per mile (over the car's lifetime, including battery replacement costs) compared to petrol and standard electric cars?

2) What's the CO2 per mile (over the car's lifetime, including battery re-smelting) compared to petrol and standard electric cars?

Without knowing either of these figures it's impossible to make a decent comparison.
Having conversations with people is a great way to learn, and also make friends. People love an accent and odd phrasing. Just keep talking to people.

Do some group sports. Yoga, dancing, skateboarding, table tennis, whatever. Go to clubs, or bars where people talk. Introduce yourself to people. Eventually, when you keep going back you'll make some friends.

Are you into music or art? Why not go and see some shows? Or take a life drawing class or some such. Maybe start collecting records, or join a photography group.

Don't talk about your job with people. There is nothing people find more boring.

Keep getting out there, and have fun :)
Since you said you have NO friends to spend time with on weekends, and language is one of the (or the biggest) barrier(s), why don't you start with making some friends who speak the same language as you do? I'm sure those friends would further have friends who'd speak different languages. It's awkward to go to some stranger and say you want to initiate friendship, but when people introduce you to others, it's a lot smoother and normal. Slowly, you might have people of multiple nationalities and languages in your group, and you'd be comfortable with all of them. Good luck!
What law specifically is being broken?
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> Corporations are legal fictions. They exist through the power and authority of the State, their contracts are enacted and enforced through agents of the Courts.

When I enter a shop there are a few things I can not do. I can't steal, threaten the staff or set the place in fire for instance. That does not mean that the concept of a shop does not exist. Corporations are nothing but an association of people working together and/or sharing the ownership of means of production. The fact that the Law puts a frame around this organisation does not stop it from existing. The concept preexists to what Law says it is.

If you deny it it's probably because that suits your political views so I don't have much hope in changing your mind about it.

PS. Someone who has a job also makes a contract that is enforced by the State, so do you think employment is a legal fiction as well?
I realise this is a bit trite, but start by being a friend, not looking to find a friend. Act as if you already were a friend with people - help them out, show an interest in them, etc etc.
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I would suggest time4popcorn (http://time4popcorn.eu/) instead, which is an open source (https://github.com/time4popcorn/popcorntime-desktop) continuation of PopcornTime itself.

In terms of features it is also superior since it includes a built-in VPN client.
Friendship is a two-way street. If you learn someone is terrible, you can choose not to be friends with them.
I'd highly recommend doing two things in parallel.

1. Read How to win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

2. Try to talk to someone new every day.

On item 1 - I promise that it's not as lame as the title makes it sound. If you internalize the core advice behind this book it will drastically improve your life and it will make you a better person.

On item 2 - don't go overboard with this. There's no need to go outside of your comfort zone. Instead just try stretching it a little. To get started don't walk up to people out of the blue and just start talking to them. Instead if you happen to be near someone, just make some observational remark to them and see how it plays out. Or alternatively if you're wondering about something, ask the person next to you. The goal shouldn't be to befriend every stranger you meet - but instead to have a very short chat and move on with your day. I recommend doing this while reading that book because it'll give you a chance to experience and observe some (most) of the things he talks about.

Finally, you mentioned wanting to meet some ladies. Assuming that you mean you're looking to "play the long game" and find someone to settled down with, I'd strongly advise actually playing the long game. Don't make meeting women the focus of your social life. Instead focus on making substantiative friendships first and the relationship thing will sort itself out without much effort. That said, don't be too selective as far as gender goes. Don't avoid hanging out with guys because you think you won't meet girls, and definitely don't be that guy who only befriends girls just because you want to date them. If you do befriend a girl who you'd rather be dating, be honest with yourself and her as to what your intentions are. Remember that friendships aren't leverage and you'll do fine.

Edit:

One last thing... I'm not sure that this will help any, but language is really tricky. I'm an American living in New Zealand. I'm sure my language issues pale in comparison, but I am constantly second-guessing myself. It's not that I'm worried that people won't understand me, it's that I'd rather communicate in a way that's natural to the people who are listening to me -- I'm sure you can relate. What I'd say is that while there are a whole host of issues due to you being a non-native English speaker, there are a lot more issues that come from you being in a different country. Personally I'd advise focusing on the latter type of differences (they're more fun to me, anyway), and the language differences will follow. In turn, discussing those kinds of things with people is a great way to make friends.
What I meant to say is that voters don't actually want affordable housing because then poor people could move in next door defeating the whole scheme. This is why limiting new developments is system working as intended, as its constituents want it to work.
The Sheffield study was inspired by Fisher's early experiment. I don't think a single study performed in 1935 with a single participant provides indisputable proof though, especially given that a later study with 94 participants and more rigorous statistical and experimental methods found no clear difference. It's hard to guess now what factors lead to the lady correctly guessing all 8 cups - perhaps the experiment was poorly designed, perhaps she had exceptional tasting skills, or perhaps it was truly chance (1 in 70 isn't actually exceptionally low odds).
Clothing should be for everyone but high fashion has its place.
That is actually a good point you're raising. Starbucks is known for some dodgy tax-evasion schemes, which really makes that whole education thing kind of hypocritical.
None of my friends are friends with me 'because I help feed people with AIDS every week'. Probably most of them don't know that I do this, and maybe this is pretentious but I don't make it public knowledge because in the past when I have it has intimidated people, possibly because they get worried that I would get judgey.

I would go so far as to say, even better than doing something good and 'caring' for someone (you should do that anyways) is to get in debt to someone. Maybe not financial debt, but ask other people for a favor, or help. Psychologically, the person is then invested in you to repay that debt in the future. After all Kennedy said "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country", thus putting the country in debt to its citizens, and his popularity soared.
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Thank you for taking the time to write this. You have no idea how much i appreciate it.
100% agree on How to Win Friends and Influence People. Classic book. The title makes the book sound dubious, but it really isn't.
Noticed it too. It's a fabulous palette :)
Sometimes it flirts with catch22 though. If you're very shy and insecure, it's hard to care about people with your mind clouded with self-absorbed anxiety.
I had the same problem. Its a bit late for you to do what I did but if anyone else reads this it might help them.

When picking college/university I went for one where nobody I already knew went. I also lived on campus. The idea was to force myself to interact with others and not live with my parents. I stayed on campus over the weekends and took part in all the dorm activities.

It totally worked. I went from being awkward to having confidence. So much so I managed to secure several scholarships the next year including an international exchange program.

The result of all this totally changed my life in a positive way. It doesn't take much to change but it will take time and a conscious effort on your part. The only thing I would keep in mind is people have to get something out of the relationship. This applies both ways. You have to give and take.
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No, they are trying to keep their good employees and gain some kudos from the public and select special interest groups.

While it is good for their employees having companies pay college costs long term could turn out bad as using our health care system as an example, when the costs of something are not fully realized by the users the costs tend to increase disproportionally to inflation

What the government can do and may need to do is establish an online standardized two year degree. Something that can be done online except perhaps for final testing which would then be held at a local facility. Basically expend the funds to develop the courses, online environment, and testing, and give it away to all US citizens for free. It certainly would not cost anywhere near what was paid just for all incarnations of the ACA websites.

After the two year students could transition to paid college services, it might help weed out all those who truly don't need a specialized degree or four years of education

TL;DR
Employer paid education could turn out like employer paid health care
Government should create for free a standardized two year degree program for online education
This situation has led me to James Altucher's blog a few times . This sounds a lot like his advice. I think it's great. I'm going to go ahead and take it and buy a notebook today.

Thank you.
That's just prejudice. Our renters (we own, not sublet) are and have been mostly college students and I wouldn't mind living with most of them. In fact, our biggest problem was with a working mother, who left our place half destroyed.
It can be very hard to see these positives. But it is true. They are there. The mind seems to love to play awful tricks when things go wrong.

Thank you very much.
> At some point you just run out of useful things to build companies around.

Given how many non-product are there, both physical and virtual, I think we've reached that point some time ago.
Have you tried online gaming?
No it doesn't solve the fact that you'll be sat alone still. But from past experience, personally online gaming being a huge hobby of mine I often like to meet people from other countries in-games such as counterstrike and World of Warcraft or DayZ. We speak a little through game chat (Mic, if they're enabled). If I enjoy playing with them I get them to hop on to Teamspeak or skype with my little community and go from there.

A lot of the time I meet people who don't speak English that well and explain it's not a huge problem. They often just speak about game related things and don't really go any deeper in to anything more personal. Until 2-3 months down the line and it's easy to notice how much they've come out of their shell. Throwing banter around and asking how works going or other personal things and they seem 10x more comfortable speaking in front of me and my English friends (and new people I get to join the teamspeak). It's not something you have to dedicate a lot of time to, can be very casual.

I don't usually post on here but I felt this could be very beneficial as I've seen it work countless times. I've got a lot of these people on my facebook, twitter and snapchat during the day. Even been to lans in Sweden ETC and met up with a couple.

*Edit: I'm 23, and speak to my 'online friends' 2-3 hours a night, and go out on a weekend with a different social group on the weekend. Played games since I was 11 and had 2 'serious' relationships lasting around 2 years each. - If you was interested.
Also introvert Asian engineer here, quite a bit older, and it sounds like we have different backgrounds. The good part is that you've identified what you don't want. The trickier part is finding solutions.

1. Do stuff alone? - simple as doing suggesting or asking to do things with others. Don't have a roommate? Move and get a roommate. Interview them before moving in. When I was 26, I was tired of being alone also, so I found a roommate. It didn't work perfectly, but it helped me learn how to live with someone else.

2. English - to work on pronunciation, record yourself and listen to it. Practice all the time, listen, and adjust. To work on phrases and vocabulary, don't be afraid to ask people to explain it to you. Tell them you never heard of the phrase growing up. It may spark a conversation and will help with talking to people in general.

Like startups, there will be rejection and the fear of rejection. Look at your successes and failures objectively and correct accordingly. Engineer your life =D
Does the free education thing apply to international students? I know some EU countries only have that for locals and some (like norway) extend that privilege for international students. So where does Poland classify?

Not criticizing, just curious.
very ironic, I am located in China. The Great Firewall obstructs all traffic to google properties. Hence, this message is basically inaccessible (even my VPN does not help).
I would argue a bunch of people who don't care about being "employable" create a social system of people who want to live a life of leisure and have someone else pay for it. Just as you don't get to decide what I study, you don't get to decide what society owes you for being born. Which is another way of saying: you don't get to decide what I do with my money.
Barely educated guess, Rust has closures and Floor routes looks like Flask. Flask uses python decorator (closure wrapping) to provide 'middlewares'.
You could try doing some couch surfing in your area or rent a room in a shared apartment. Living together with other people is a great way to make lasting relationships. There is the chance that you wont 'click', but then you can just move to another place.
> Making friends is incredibly difficult once one is an adult,

What a horrible society we must have if it enables this; insular, isolating, compartmentalizing.
Language isn't as important as you'd think. I've made friends with a Russian guy playing Counter-Strike, and neither of us speak each other's language. We've had a lot of fun insulting each other using Google Translate, and we just enjoy playing with each other.
That's probably a philosophical question. You are probably right in the case of young folks. But think of people who are older and just would like to study something [else].