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I get this comment a lot. I agree that it makes sense to compare also local salaries to see which city is the cheapest one to live in as an employee.

However, Expatistan is not about finding cheap cities to work in. It's about comparing cost-of-living, independently of your income. Expats are usually not linked to average local salaries in any meaningful way, anyway.

I explain it much better in the website: http://www.expatistan.com/faq#average-salary
so use hoi polloi 'correctly' as a noun in a sentence, without 'the' for me.

This pedantic objection is just another reason not to ever use the phrase. You just can't. :)
I'm still surprised to discover how many of my friends and acquaintances have a negative view of facebook. Many of them are not very critical of things (and care little about their privacy, for example).

The sentiment is generally something like 'I use facebook because it is too inconvenient not to, but I don't like it', which is a far cry from the initial 'facebook is this cool new thing that I wish more of my friends would use instead of <insert usually shitty local social network>'.

In that light it makes sense for facebook to acquire up-and-coming business that compete with them, directly or indirectly, and I imagine there are quite a few people at the company who worry about this situation.

And in that light it is especially strange for facebook to release a study like this. What did they think would happen?

There have been quite a few instances over the past months (or years) that really made me wonder whether facebook's biggest problem, as a company, is that they're stuck in a bubble. A newsfeed that seems to be made for specific types of users, privacy kerfuffles, apps that don't seem to take off, and so on.

'Dogfooding' is generally a smart approach, but it doesn't seem like the optimal approach when your product relies on the whole world for its success...
Facebook interations related to the World Cup have already topped 1 billion
It seems that there's a problem with USA internet providers and their data caps, not with the device.

Why shouldn't my video device use, say, 10% of my available bandwidth if it improves user experience ? Americans already pay unreasonably high monopoly prices for their bandwith, and they aren't even allowed to use it?
IEX is trying something slightly different to get around allowing/paying market makers into their dark pool. They are using publicity and Michael Lewis to try to convince retail investors to provide free liquidity for their backers.

It remains to be seen if this tactic will work.
That's still just a problem of deciding when to call free.
This is correct. The 'unethical' connotations bears a close resemblance to the same in the word 'hacker'. So it makes for an apt synonym.

(Another person in this thread ties it more closely to 'kludge' -- this would be correct too. More correct would be innovative or tricky kludge.)
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Money alone wont get you far in this area. It's talented engineers and the right strategy that is important.

Otherwise you couldn't explain why the Soviets/Russians had such a remarkably reliable space program, even though they always had less resources than the US.

From what I understand, NASA tends to overload projects with thousands of requirements and features, which introduce additional points of failure, whereas the Russians focus more on the basics.

It seems like the Indians will also use the same strategy, and focus on the basics and reuse what they already have, which makes sense, considering their limited resources.
People are investing money in housing for the same reason they invest in gold: they aren't making more of it.

There is a simple solution to this. NY could allow as much new housing to be built as the market would bear. They could allow existing stock to be properly utilized, rather than giving long term tenants quasi-property rights (which also hinders new construction of anything other than luxury condos).

The more money those evil foreign devils pour into the market, the more money local construction workers will happily take from them.
This will burst as it is based simply and obviously on the greater fool theory and is devoid of any fundamental cash flow generation (i.e. rents).
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Once again asking about "expats", which just means "rich immigrant". You could get totally different answers if you were asking for "main immigrant part of $CITY". The survey to collect data even says "Do not enter prices that can only be found .. in [e]specially cheap neighborhoods", which usually means "immigrant".
Indian space program is one of the most reliable (less number of accidents) space programs in the world.

Just yesterday Indian successfully launched PSLV to put 5 foreign satellites in orbit. It's 26th consecutive successful flight.

It is the most reliable and cost effective rocket in the world right now.

Salaries do play a part in bringing the cost down but that is not the only reason. ISRO functions like a very agile organisation with small teams focusing on specific targets with autonomy. Also, a lot of cost is saved in the testing phase as well.
Sexuality is a choice, but isn't always, I can choose different forms of it, are you denying that choice? Are you saying because some people can't choose others are not allowed to?

By your definition of "Normal" Black people aren't normal... Nor are white people... erm.. Nor are Indian... or asian... Or christians, or especially not athiests... As there aren't 50.1% of any of them (Compared with the entire species/race). You've reduced "Normal" to "Human"

Or perhaps we could admit, that "Normal" is itself a value judgement, and based on social stigma and culture?

> I am a human being, that is alive and capable of reason.

No, you are clearly a Judeo-christian pushing his "beliefs" on other people pretending it is reason. Suicide is accepted in some cultures (modern and historic). But clearly not yours. And admittedly not Aaron's either, but calling him abnormal for being distressed (and ultimately committing suicide) for being persecuted for something he thought was harmless/for the good, is a strange viewpoint in my mind (just as mine seems strange to you I suspect).

> That statement alone shows you are not equipped to discuss the issue with any thing resembling common sense or informed opinion.

Well clearly, given I'm arguing that your nebulous concept of 'normal' and 'common sense' are in fact flawed by your own definition.

But hey, it is much easier to dismiss an alternative point of view, than to internalise and understand it.

BTW: You don't have to be such a dick in your responses, just because what someone (myself in this instance) says something you don't agree with, doesn't mean you should attack and belittle them. While I am reaching for some intellectual high ground in this comment, your words were still hurtful.
I think he pretty clearly comes down against false advertising and giving up your fiduciary duty to your clients. Those are the real issues in the court case.

His main point, and one that seems to be missing in most articles about dark pools, hft, etc. is that buy side investors are as sophisticated (or should be if they are to get away with charging their crazy management fees) as sell side participants. The whole reason they have high paying finance jobs is to provide to their clients the service of making sure they are getting the best execution they can.
Let me offer a concurring opinion - Uber seems incredible expensive for two or three trips a week, from my experience. It works best when you're with a group of friends/family members and you are all drinking or don't feel like dealing with driving and parking. I would never consider it as an option like a normal cab for when I just need to do the week's grocery shopping or run out to get something at midnight, when the light rail might have shut down for the day. The only city where I ever used it was Denver, actually. Is this different from others' experiences?

As a side note - can't you drive two hours to a mountain from most East Coast cities? The Catskills are only 2.5 hours from NYC. I thought mountains were much more accessible in Denver than a two-hour car ride.
I think there should be a middle ground there. You can know a lot about code optimization but if you don't have an OK understanding of the lower parts, you will spend lots of hours discussing with sysadmins or netadmins about how it is their or your fault that you application is not behaving harmoniously with the OS, for example.

Being a jack of all trades is not a bad thing most of the times. It helps give you a better understanding in the end.
You ask that like tooling and build tools are a big problem. I know there is a lot of vocal opposition to the state of the scala toolchain, but for those who use it as a daily driver it works great. Both the ScalaIDE eclipse plugin and the Intelliej Scala plugin are great and quite capable and as for the build tools, the problem has never been with the tools its been with the compile times which are slow across large code bases. That's not getting addressed, but there are ways around mitigating the effect of the compile times such as splitting the code base into smaller components and using the incremental compiler. I can't speak for large corporations, but I do see Scala adoption continuing to go up in the consulting space.
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It is un-verifiable. Back your statements with facts or reports which mention as such.

Dont go loose in the la la land.
Breath and depth everytime. Being am expert can open the door and give your words weight, but you need to be able to talk to, relate to, and understand people in other fields. You also need to be able to adapt to change and to borrow concepts from other fields.
If so, they're getting outweighed by the upvotes on the post itself, so I'm not bothered... :-)
You are ascribing your own situation to the problem and pretending it is the same.

Everyone thinks they are completely reasonable, but the fact is our brain convinces us we are even when we are not.

Unless you've actually been someone else, how can you know what it is like?
We use "dub dub dub" at work, though typically not when speaking the full name of the url. That may sound weird, so here's an example exchange:

"Go to foobar.com"

"It's not working"

"Try with dub dub dub"

As an aside, it's so painful to listen to radio commercials from advertising agencies that thought it was a good idea to include "www" in the script. "Just go to double-yew double-yew double-yew..."
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Didn't downvote, but disagree with your assumption about 'lack of sterilization'. The official word from ISRO is that they comply with 'planetary protection' requirements.

"ISRO said the spacecraft was built according to the planetary protection implementation requirements specified for ‘orbiter’ category of missions."

SOURCE : http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/mom...

Some articles speculate about the rigorousness but can't confirm. Implying it doesn't exceed them doesn't equate to skipping the sterilization. Besides, it's carrying satellites from developed countries (France, Germany, Canada & Singapore), which I doubt would be complicit in creating an international controversy.
Are you aware that less than 15% of English words have irregular pronunciation (which is not to say the "regular" rules aren't baroque). And the pronunciation of "bay" is certainly regular: it's not that "y" is silent, but rather "ay" is a digraph that is pronounced in a regular way.
As someone finally watching DS9 for the first time, how does it work when Quark thumb-scans/charges Odo for 8 slips of latinum (in exchange for the baby changeling) in 'The Begotten' episode?

A few questions arise: Who does Odo work for? Who pays him? Does he use money (he doesn't seem to in any other episode)? How does Quark get the latinum?
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I first read the title as (crowd sourced cost) of (living database) and wondered what the latter was - a database you have to feed? Turns out to be not so far from what the site does...
Money is not merely a means of trading goods.

Capitalist culture is essentially a Darwinian zero-sum game. Winners win big, losers lose freedom, basic necessities, and ultimately their lives - directly through a life of quasi-slavery working for someone else's benefit, and also through drastically shortened lifespan.

Money is the game counter. Decisions about how much money is available, who has access to it under what circumstances, and how much freedom they get in return for that access, define the game. But they're not set democratically - they're declared by a fiat, by a priestly caste of economists and bankers who administer the game.

The big difference between a Star Trek economy and this one is that in Star Trek, the game doesn't exist. Nor does the priestly caste.

What happens instead is that individuals trust the culture to do everything it can to look after them, and in return the culture trusts individuals to contribute voluntarily without freeloading, or without having some kind of semi-psychotic 'use all the things' fit of pointless public consumption.

It's effectively a trust economy, instead of a top-down planned economy like the capitalist system.

Wait - capitalism is a planned economy? Uh huh. Didn't you notice? It's as planned as the Soviet economy was, but instead of the Politburo, the planning is coordinated by the priestly caste which sets the rules of commerce (e.g. 'corporations must maximise profits and growth at all costs, even at the expense of long-term social stability'.)

In Star Trek, the economists have been replaced by planners who treat individuals like adults. The individuals act like adults, because they understand that the social benefits of volunteering time and talent vastly outweigh the personal costs, even if it costs them their lives.

In capitalism individuals are forced to compete for essentials. This makes volunteering impossible for most of the population. It also turns the culture into a bear pit, and wastes a lot of energy on pointlessly damaging individual competition.
I'd really like to know if the core problem, the broken android security model (which allows escaping from firewall/vpn settings by activating another app) will be fixed. Will be interesting to see what the blackphone does.
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"The latest [Knight Frank report] produces the curiously precise estimate that there are 167,669 individuals in the world who are “ultrahigh net worth,” with assets exceeding $30 million."

I'm amazed at how few people sit in that strata - $30 million gets you into the Top 0.0024% of the world's population. While it's twice my (inflation-adjusted) financial goal, I still would have thought a larger number of people would be there.

Perhaps this fails to account for assets spread across a number of corporate entities?
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As others are going to say, I wish they spent some of the time optimizing the compile times, yes you can fix it with multi-projects and the incremental compiler but sometimes that doesn't work to well especially when you start to throw in advance scala features like macros. But maybe they are hoping the new backend helps, from the docs it looks like it may in some cases.
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I highly recommend you switch to Postgres which does not have this issue with psycopg2. I know it's not always possible, but seeing as you work with Django it's a generally good idea to spend the effort.
I'm talking about the Portuguese term, not the Hindi.
I am amazed to see that this submission has gathered 65+ points without a single comment before this one.
Entrenched interests are owed NOTHING. They are enjoying a government-granted monopoly that is entirely unfair and demonstrably harming innovation.

The only way to have true patent reform is to abolish patents.
(Scala tech lead here). We're doing everything within our means to improve tooling -- we agree it's crucial. Which changes would you like to see that aren't happening?

One engineer on the Scala team (Grzegorz Kossakowski) spent all of last year on a much better algorithm for incremental compilation (name hashing), sbt 0.13 was a giant leap in usability IMO, and both IDE plugins have made enormous progress over the last years (again, IMO).
I don't know, except that he's wearing a Bajoran uniform. I don't know if you noticed, but it's the same as the one Major Kira wears except in colour, like different-coloured Starfleet uniforms. Rom wears a Bajoran uniform too when at work.
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Risk assessment is an important part of security. I'm not sure the black phone really does this very well.

Being very clear about what they can do, as well as what they can't do, would be a very good thing.

Mobile telephones are a difficult item to make secure. Getting telcos to cooperate with law enforcement doesn't seem to have posed many problems so far.
People seem to forget there are lots of millionaires, multi millionaires, and billionaires around. For the most part in America, Europe, Japan, etc they are safe.

But I guess at least being downvoted means someone is reading it.
I agree that people shouldn't exaggerate their skills but you need to be cautious about how you go about proving that they do not. It's easy to prove that someone is clueless by quizzing them about specific technical details or syntax. You will of course find something they do not know, but are you really trying to prove your own cleverness by catching them out? "You say you're an expert eh? We'll let me prove you're wrong and I'm smarter cause I'll ask arcane technical facts till I find something that shows you're not an expert!"
If a society was sufficiently advanced that they could just press a button and make a star ship at will, then they would probably be equally advanced in other areas and would not have any need for star ships.
> See my other comment, Australia already has it.

No, your other comment just mentioned the dole, which is NOT the same thing at all. Other countries have the dole, in fact, every country listed above in the comment that states they don't have guaranteed basic income, all have wide spread social protections including welfare (and often, quite a bit more wide spread than Australia, whether you see that as a good or a bad thing is up to you).

Sometimes definitions vary from place to place, for instance in Australia you have to vote, it isn't a right you choose to exorcize like the world right is used elsewhere, it is a government mandated obligation, well similarly, in other places, welfare is not considered unconditional income, because well, it isn't. There are barriers to qualification and there are certainly strings attached (some places like the UK, the ASBO system coupled with the welfare system is used like a carrot on a stick with a donkey).

TLDR: This is not about welfare, that exists even in 3rd world countries (although not always to the same degree) it is about unconditional basic income.
I'm writing a language in Go. It is fun. Sum types (and ASTs) are implemented with interfaces which provide a pretty clean and type safe way of doing this.
Here's an ad for a gun-based community as imagined by Negativeland: Sycamore.

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If you frame your question in that way, it's hard to provide a good answer. IDE support and SBT are great for many people as was pointed out already, and they are improving. These complaints are, in my perception, quickly becoming a thing of the past.

You also don't mention why you find Java 8 such a nice comeback. If it's mainly about lambdas, I don't think you properly understand why people use Scala. In addition, of the companies you mention, only Twitter uses Scala significantly.
I'm sorry to hear that, but it's not really relevant - we don't just ignore all emotions because somewhere someone is worse/better off.
A similar Chinese term might be "shanzhai": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai
Why not open it in a open data spirit to anyone so incentivise curious people can create nice analysis whenever they feel like it?
Apologies for the delay in replying.

It's worth noting that I am in Edinburgh in the UK, which has an unusually high level of kids attending private education - roughly 25%. I don't know about where you are, but because there are so many private schools here they effectively each target a different "market" - a lot of this is due to the level of fees which can vary from £10K to £30K a year. Certainly at the school our son attends (which is one of least expensive) most of the parents are either professionals or business people - although there are kids who have extremely wealthy parents they tend to be people who have made money in business rather than inheriting it.

The pros are pretty much what you would expect - first rate teachers, lack of "problem" kids (I went to one of the worst high schools in the UK, so I know what this can be like), first rate facilities, huge amount of support for activities outside class (sport, drama, cadets, music....). The focus on kids being physically healthy is noticeable as well - although whether you regard this as a good or bad thing depends on what your kid wants.

Cons - it is expensive, and the fees are only the start, I would say it is easily 25% to 50% on top of the fees for all of the "extras". To be honest, we haven't seen that many cons but I've known people who have had problems with kids at the same school if they didn't find their niche to excel at - the culture seems to be that if you excel at something either academically and/or sporting (they are not viewed as mutually exclusive, which is a good thing) then you get respect from peers and teachers - the question is making sure you have something you excel at.

I'm not sure how they do it, but private schools, at least here in the UK, do seem to instill a huge amount of self confidence in kids, which is probably the most valuable character trait you can have.
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Gold is actually mined at around 2,500 tons per year,thus devaluing it by around 2% (depending on the estimates of the total gold hoarded, which is fuzzy).

The amount of gold on our planet is quite staggering, including oceans and deep water sediments.
First off, macros are not just an advanced feature. They are experimental. Investments in tooling will always focus on official features first (not to say we ignore macros, but we have to prioritize).

We spend a lot of time optimizing the compiler. Several big users have reported nice speed ups on 2.11. I won't quote numbers (too hard to benchmark accurately), but encourage you to give it a go. The upgrade is easy.

Also, it's just generally a good idea to design your software so that it can be compiled incrementally in smaller modules.
Gem of an article! Echoes several thoughts and notions I have acquired over the years, the hard way. Here's hoping it reaches grad students, young researchers and the like.
I looked for it but I don't see any way to get the raw data from it. Can you point it?
Uneducated?
I thought minimum wage was around £12k per year. Are you studying and/or only working part time?
Perhaps you are referring to Ilya Somin's How Federal is Star Trek's Federation? post at the Volokh Conspiracy blog?

http://www.volokh.com/posts/1190182117.shtml