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841.
by tropo 10y ago
If you are willing to suffer like that (have roommates, not have all the kids you might want, not have a stay-at-home parent...) to deal with the cost of rent in San Francisco, then you can also do it elsewhere and live even cheaper. Detroi
842.
by tropo 10y ago
Sure, same as any union: I'll put in a word for you, though mostly I'll just pay myself and make campaign contributions to politicians that you might hate.
843.
by tropo 10y ago
Perhaps the union can continue to exist, perhaps not, but the workers certainly shouldn't suffer a private tax. It must be nice being able to tax a group of workers like that, needing only to hand over a cut to the politicians to ensur
844.
by tropo 10y ago
People are nothing special. They operate objects that you must avoid. Sometimes they jump in front, and you make an effort to not squish them, but there is a limit to how crazy the person can be before you aren't liable. Snow is tough.
845.
by tropo 10y ago
Let's do a small road trip around CA starting and ending in SF, avoiding the tolls and seeing some nice scenery. Head north over the Golden Gate Bridge, immediately losing cell service. Decide at that time (no cell service) to make a s
846.
by tropo 10y ago
There are more than enough other ways for the market to punish you. :-/ Your approach helps with reliability (fewer 3rd-party and browser needs) and accessibility (workable with lynx and screen readers) too. Latency makes people want t
847.
by tropo 10y ago
Nope, it wouldn't happen in a Boeing aircraft. This is a well-known Airbus defect that was a contributing factor to the crash of Air France Flight 447. Boeing uses traditional controls. It's like a race car steering wheel on a big
848.
by tropo 10y ago
Income tax varies quite a bit, and you have lots of control over it. You can completely avoid state income tax: Texas, Florida, New Hampshire, Alaska... You can chop down the federal income tax quite a bit. For example, you could have a doz
849.
by tropo 10y ago
Tom Wheeler had been a telecom CEO and lobbyist prior to running the FCC. He turned out OK, solidly reining in the industry he had worked for. He knew what to watch out for, and didn't need to rely on lobbyists to explain things to him
850.
by tropo 10y ago
On the first day of black history month, a gay Jewish immigrant with a black boyfriend tries to exercise his first amendment right to free speech, oddly attempting to give a speech about free speech. Naturally, at Berkeley the response is t
851.
by tropo 10y ago
Where, and what does he know that is less trendy than Java and PHP? There are plenty of giant defense contractors that wouldn't blink an eye at his age, but they will be looking for things like real-time programming on a DSP. Assembly
852.
by tropo 10y ago
Not a CEO, but I knew one who did this... The main benefit is that you can get many more contracts with the government. SBIR contracts are great for getting a startup going, and some of them will require a clearance. The main cost is probab
853.
by tropo 10y ago
In that time period, the biggest change has been CNN making a dramatic move to the left. They went from near the center to being out with MSNBC, which was already well to the left and moving left. With that, we lost the closest thing we had
854.
by tropo 10y ago
It's not the existence of "farther right wing" media that puts fox near the center, though that is suggestive. It's the fact that fox more closely aligns with mainstream opinion. Ah, here, this looks like a story on the
855.
by tropo 10y ago
The news is infinite though. Inconvenient news could be left out, and that would still meet your standard. There is also the matter of the English language having numerous ways to express the same thing. Choice of words matters, even if the
856.
by tropo 10y ago
The example puts Fox at one extreme. Uh, might this be your own filter bubble? Not too long ago, there was a study posted here with statistics-derived positioning that showed Fox being barely right of center. (BTW, can anybody dig that stud
857.
by tropo 10y ago
The argument ("not like conservatives are forced to get abortions") is denying that there is a difference of opinion here. Note that you quickly went from "fetus" to "fertilized egg". After a certain point ther
858.
by tropo 10y ago
We should just deprecate setenv(). There is no need for it because we have execve(). I suppose there is system() on non-POSIX, but then you don't have a portable shell anyway nor do you have portable environment variables. You're
859.
by tropo 10y ago
I really don't think so. In fact, if such a ban would mean that vouchers couldn't be used for Islamic and Jewish schools, I suspect the typical voucher supporter would be relieved. The normal expectation is traditional private sch
860.
by tropo 10y ago
It's still outrageous. Why the nurse? Were these people out on parole/probation/bail for child abuse? No, they were not. They are adults. They can hold their own baby without supervision, and obviously do as soon as they go h
861.
by tropo 10y ago
I see this "support republicans against their own interests" line so often around here. This ignores feelings of integrity, pride, shame, sin, ethics, morality, and self-worth. One's self interests include feeling that one is
862.
by tropo 10y ago
Having tried one, I wouldn't trust a detector. That was money not well spent. I could generate lots of CO, and nothing would register. Maybe flawed units are super-rare, but I'm more than tempted to assume the industry is a fraud.
863.
by tropo 10y ago
They were not allowed to support the A-10 or oppose the F-35.
864.
by tropo 10y ago
Not that it is normally allowed to have underlings spilling data and opinions everywhere, but scientists are special. Conservatives with equal skill go into engineering because that is a more reliable path to a comfortable income. That leav
865.
by tropo 10y ago
What will help gifted students and not regular students: faster curriculum, with less practice and review So you put a regular student there. Pretty soon, they miss some key bit of understanding. Class doesn't pause and replay. Class m
866.
by tropo 10y ago
He's not operating under FCC part 15. He's using FCC part 97 instead, with the appropriate license. His rules: 1500 watts PEP, unlimited EIRP, channels 1 to 6 only, no encryption That's better than a normal microwave oven.
867.
by tropo 10y ago
Speaking of audio tabs, the mute setting should be inherited. If I have a muted tab and then open a link in a new tab, I should get a muted tab.
868.
by tropo 10y ago
This means also trusting their home (cheap door, no alarm, landlord, kids, wife...) and malware-infested computer with business data. It kind of implies that company data is on computers with internet connections, which is a no-no if you ca
869.
by tropo 10y ago
Fix: You need an already-open IRC session, and you need to learn faster typing.
870.
by tropo 10y ago
I'd pay more for food that has never been exposed to animals. This includes humans, birds, rodents, bugs... and their manure too of course. The store counts too. Seal it before it leaves the greenhouse.

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