>On the last round, I did well enough to score a 3/4.
Is this your own assessment, or did the interviewer tell you your score?
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Is this your own assessment, or did the interviewer tell you your score?
Printed matter, flyers, circulars, advertising.
Newsletters, bulletins, and catalogs.
Small parcels."
(via http://pe.usps.com/businessmail101/classes/standard.htm)
USPS Q2 FY2014 Revenue from Standard Mail: 4,228,705
USPS Q2 FY2014 Total Revenue: 16,732,651
(via http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/revenue-pieces-w...)
Junk mail accounts for a quarter of USPS revenue. I don't suppose the USPS wants to encourage harassment of junk mailers.
The WSJ article was penned by former governor of Oklahoma and current American Bankers Association (ABA) President, Frank Keating. The ABA is a national trade association that represents all banks (source: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/09/capital-eye-opener-s...), essentially a lobbying firm for the banking industry. One wonders why the banking industry would care enough to have the President of their lobbying firm publish a piece about this in the WSJ. Surely a Republican from Oklahoma cares little and less about the financial well being of porn stars.
On the same exact day the WSJ article was published (April 24, 2014), an article written by Jason Oxman, CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association (another lobbying group) was published, also lambasting OCP: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/204174...
These two articles, if you can call them that, given the authorship, are the only source pieces at the root of the current media interest in OCP.
It's clear (to me anyhow) that the porn stars aren't the story here, they're just the fodder to get the people in a tizzy about OCP. I'm wondering what else is in involved in Operation Choke Point that's making the banking industry and the payment processors call out the big guns. Whatever it is, I imagine large sums of money are involved.
Can you share more about what Hacker School is doing to get girls and women interested in programming? "Hacker School is currently only for people who already know how to code," according to their FAQ, which seems counterintuitive to getting people (women or otherwise) interested in programming.
I thought the article proved that people don't live in the city because there isn't enough housing and/or it's too expensive, not because it's easy to live outside the city.
Things are a bit different in SF. While you have 468 stations, we have 44. Expansion of our public transportation system has been hampered by NIMBY homeowners who have done all they can to prevent it. Rents in areas that surround BART stations (http://www.bart.gov/stations/)are still quite high, except around some of the further out stops (http://rentheatmap.com/sanfrancisco.html). Unfortunately, the further you live from the city, the more it costs to commute to the city (http://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator/).
So while everyone moving away from the city like folks in Manhattan do would be nice, it's not that easy here.
(Aside: I miss New York public transportation.)
Being able to track progress at a glance was a game changer for me.