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> Private like ivy leagues didn’t make sense for me then because tuition assistance was so poor. Unless you’re super highly ranked and can get a ton of merit based scholarships that was a bad idea anyway.

Another option (depending on the school) is low to no tuition if coming from a lower income family. I want to say it’s Stanford but i may be wrong, that offers free tuition to eligible students whose family income was less than something like $50,000/yr. So there are ways for poor students to get a great ivy league education but like you said, you must also have extremely high rankings in your class to attempt that route.

> Downside is that transferring into competitive top ranked programs is very difficult.

What type of “top ranked” program are we talking about here? If parent is trying to get into MIT after a long educational hiatus, then, ok, maybe it’d be a bit difficult. But if they’re hoping to obtain an EE or CS degree (for example), these programs—in the states—are usually accredited and if their engineering program is not accredited, you shouldn’t even entertain the idea of entering that program.

There seems to be this constant myth that comes up when talking about higher education and that is a top ranking = better. Don’t get me wrong, a social science education from Yale or Brown will differ greatly then one at a state school but that is a given. Same goes for the select engineering programs or CS—think Cal, Georgia, MIT, etc.—but something like engineering is a program that has to follow strict course requirements so your end goal is practically the same no matter what your alma mater is.

Tesla has always had body alignment issues since their first attempt, the Model S. It’s honestly quite unfortunate because these models are suppose to be a shiny example of American manual labor pushing out the new luxury model that would set Tesla up to enter the mid level market with a Model 3. Sadly, technological advances, a backlog of orders, and minimal factory space, all contributed to a decline in quality. Don’t get me wrong, these are absolutely beautiful cars, but in terms of actual construction of the vehicles, GM and Ford has nailed this to perfection with their automatic + human labor assembly lines. They’re able to produce numbers right now that Tesla can only dream about with a much higher satisfaction rate, I would think.

If Musk wants to really compete with the Big 3, he has to focus on quality all the way around and not just the ability to slap bigger batteries in and more speed through firmware updates. If you want to make a car, focus on the basics of it—the actual body, making sure my door lines up with my front fenders. Such basic cosmetic issues that are overlooked constantly on the cars coming from the Tesla factory.

I understand your point but you’re also attempting to portray that low income folks have no chance at obtaining health insurance. Thankfully Medicare and Medicaid coverage gives health insurance to millions of people. 63 million to be exact were enrolled through some form of Medicaid in October 2019 (Center for Medicare, 2019)[1]. Another 10 million or so people are eligible for Medicare (prior to age 65) due to a disability.

[1] https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medica...

> At night they lock the place up so tight there is literally only one door in the emergency room that is open to the outside.

As another commenter below said, the ER is an entire business model on its own. The goal of an ER is to treat your acute illness or injury and then proceed to push you into a dedicated room to maintain stability. Most (unsourced) emergencies that come into the ER can very likely be stabilized by RN’s and consultation from a MD/DO. honestly, most orders in a setting like these tend to come from the bottom up (RN to MD for approval) if there is a trustworthy relationship between them. Depending on the severity of the patient, of course.

For an example, on 12/30 @ 2345hr, I got extreme abdomen pain and ended up in the ER. On 12/31 at 0200hr, the DO came in and palpated my stomach and concluded I had appendicitis. @ 0300 I was having a CT scan done. @ 0400 the DO was on the phone with the on-call general surgeon to consult with him about surgery for acute appendicitis which led to the eventual rupturing of my appendix. It was then at 1100 when I was in the operating room. Up until this point, every aspect of pain management (morphine every two hrs) and IV fluids were completed by a RN.

For my case, there was no need for a specialist to be on the clock. One was easily in reach but up until that next morning, I had no real need for them besides the one DO who came and put their hands on me as a formality prior to doing a CT scan. I’m mostly just thankful they have specialists to call to begin with.

> This is interesting, it sounds like your wife went to an underground/unlisted type of women's shelter?

If i’m not mistaken, I believe that most shelters attempt to keep a cloak over their actual identity and purpose. They’re often vaguely named and are placed in non-obscure locations. Nonetheless, whether it’s listed or not, I’m glad their partner was able to get the help they needed.

Growing up in poverty is much more than just going hungry every night. Poverty consumes each person that lives inside of it and strips them of their own individual identity. As the author said, if you look at the faces of people around you long enough, you will start to see pain, fear, uncertainty, and many more unspoken emotions that is tied to poverty.

Poverty makes a person begin questioning what it is they did in their life that brought them to this low of a point. Ignoring all of the economic reasons and social standings, poverty makes the person believe they are incapable of ever achieving anything more. It is when that same person begins to actually feel as if they can escape poverty that they also begin to have stronger fears of insecurity. For many, they feel as if they do not belong in a higher bracket. Trailer parks, frozen foods, and generic brands are all they ever knew and it’s all they should ever have.

Being around those with money who have never experienced this lack of worth is a terrible time for those who came from poverty. In their eyes, if they were given the opportunity to be so comfortable in life, they would do anything they could to spread joy to anyone who walked through their door. But for many families, a fridge full of groceries is common; an abundance of snack choices for your guests is nothing out of the ordinary. For those in poverty, this sense of wanting to give back to those who may need it more than you is something that is learned through hardship and life experiences.

Shared trauma, childhood upbringing, and many other factors have a much higher correlation to successful relationships than merely attraction.

Attachment Theory attempts to explain why certain relationships are better than others which is dependent on how secure or insecure each partner is with regard to attachment. For example, if both parties are classified as having “secure attachment”, they may feel distress when their partner leaves them for say a long work trip but they’re able to compose themselves and control those worries. That sort of relationship would be said to have a higher chance of survival than two partners who are both “anxious-ambivalent attached” because in this case, the parties would instead have strong fear or worry of rejection by their partner, higher dependency on each other, and less likely to be comfortable being alone. None of those elements rest solely on the basis of attraction. This type of behavior stems from being a witness to conflicting figures in their life (e.g. divorced parents, unsafe family habitat, etc.)

Muddying the water is not a bad thing here. They’re streamlining the Mustang brand — something they should do to stay afloat. As most people think, Mustang is a sport car but the population is aging rapidly and Ford has to accommodate. Now, instead of a Mustang enthusiast walking in and having to bypass the new model because they have a growing family, they’ll be able to purchase the family-friendly Mustang Mach-E.

The 459 hp/612 lb-ft GT Performance Edition is now the dream combo for the older, family diehard Mustang enthusiasts.

> The education system is not poorly funded.

Every SpecialEd teacher and student would politely disagree with you. Not every aspect of education is funded differently, even when factoring i’m better budget management.

> healthcare and education are both already spending way too much on.

Huh? Currently on mobile so I don’t have the CBO file to link but I will when I get to my PC.

Anyway, Healthcare spending is not actually “too much” and instead is too low. When we expanded Medicaid and implemented the ACA, estimated costs were below actual cost by hundreds of billions to one trillion dollars due to the unknown number of people accessing healthcare. Healthcare is the one area in which there is not enough money being spent on lower income brackets and Medicaid/Medicare users.

> If you aren't wielding the megaphone that is twitter/fb/youtube/whatever, then you are not going to be heard. That's just a fact at this point.

I disagree. This is only a blanket statement to be taken as fact.

Politicians have been doing town halls, focus groups, and public speeches for decades. Just because we suddenly have social media sites to project their voices to a mich larger audience doesn’t erase all of those. While spending on digital ads have gone up tremendously i’m sure, if we take them out of the equation, people will still be able to hear their candidates voices. Social media websites are not the be-all and end-all of political discourse.

>Honestly, I don't think they did nail it, specifically regarding customising the pizza visually. Sure, some sites let you do this but noone cares really.

I may be in the minority but I find this feature quite useful. As someone whose is a more visual learning person, having the ability to virtually see how my product will turn out makes it easier for me to make choices. Instead of thinking about if item X and Y go together, it gives me a better idea of how it may taste when I see them stacked on top of each other. I know X tastes like this, so seeing them next to each other, it may allow me to better think if tastes will work together.

We also can’t forget about people who may not be able to read properly. Instead of worrying what they’re ordering, they just make it look like what they want. (somewhat of an extreme case but possible)

So while I agree this small design is not a high priority for UX designers, I do think not having it would be somewhat of an accessibility barrier for some users.

Modern day jihadist groups are now utilizing Telegram, Whatsapp, and TikTok to preserve and spread material. It’s quite easy to gain access to them — i’ve heard — as many researchers are gaining access to these messages to preserve said materials. Plus these apps give them an ability to easily communicate transcontinentally.

Depending on your job, i think people confuse the true idea of what a college education is meant to be.

It is not a trade, nor is it career-prepping with the exception of a handful of programs (engineering, nursing, accounting).

So in your case, depending on your field, your education was designed to give you a basic understanding of the fundamentals that you will need and the critical thinking skills that will allow you to alter those fundamentals into something workable for the project you’re doing at Google or Facebook.

Edit: I once spoke to a MechE graduate from MIT. They held internships at one of the Big Three automakers. During our conversation, I asked explicitly: what do they teach you at school? engine design? safety harness mechanisms?

They said, “No. They teach us the foundations of engineering.”

You could ask the same to a law school student. Do they teach you the law?

No, they don’t. They explain the law to you and encourage you to apply the law under your own discretion. They do not give you simple A, B, C answers to a case. The example of “John murdered Steve, but Steve was a slave and John had a contract of borrowing Steve. Is John responsible for Steve’s death or is Steve considered property under federal statue — as he’s a slave — and therefore would not be protected by standard of care?”

As you can see, no true education gives you direct cause-and-effect answers, unless specifically those mentioned in my above paragraph.

In defense of Apple, if the account someone is using is not an administrator, they probably shouldn’t be downloading things in the first place.

> Its actually a regulation problem.

This response is a common issue we run into when discussing policy. When people do not understand that policy is the absolute bedrock foundation for any and all subsequent law or regulation, they tend to not be able to visualize how wide of a net “policy” is and what falls underneath it.

Example:

Policy simplified: No more than X number of multi-family homes allowed.

Regulations and zoning laws are second: We only have room for X, so we can have no more than X number of multi family homes in Y sq miles.

As you can see, a decision does not start as a law nor regulation, it is broad policy.

So with your claim that it’s a regulation issue, how would changing the inferior part of the policy ensure it promotes change from the bottom-up? It will not change the issues that are created as a result of the original base policy (i.e. X number of MFHs allowed).

All regulations and laws must have a basis which can help explain the what, how, and why of implementation to ensure it falls within the boundaries of the initial policy decision.

>When a hospital has an entire legal arm just for suing people in court, because they aren't making their payments, you know something is wrong.

A good example of this is the Ford Pinto and it’s exploding gas tanks after impact due to them being exposed. This resulted in multiple accidents and deaths. Ford later learned they could retrofit every Pinto sold for a total cost of $11 (in that years value) per Pinto. They decided not too because court costs per death would be less than the profit loss.

Without boring you with unnecessary details, it can be summed up as this: Does B < PL?

B = Burden of adequate precautions

P = probability that the defendants actions will result in an accident

L = Loss/Cost of accident if it occurred

When looking at hospitals, they understand the costs of hospitalizing someone for 3 days, 3 hours, or 3 years. They also know the costs of providing care to all of their patients without the thought of insurance companies reemburssing them. For them, the idea of shrinking profits in order to maximize care is not ideal. So, in this case, they will often charge insurance companies the maximum allowed, charged uninsuranced patients the maximum, etc. Why do they do this? Because for them, B<PL. The total cost of employing 10 lawyers to fight 100+ cases of defaulted medical bills or lobby for a new policy, that will still be less than the amount of profit they would lose if the hospital paid for all that care to begin with.

>A system which showed people to each other in a totally randomized way would still drastically increases the number of people you can superficially evaluate

Is this really the ultimate goal for online dating? To expose us to a plethora of options in order to choose which one is best fit. It reminds of how Hot or Not could be seen as an early type of online dating that exposed us to randomized people, although without the option of being able to communicate with them beyond.

>Could part of the reason be that online dating pairs people who are more suitable for each other?

I’d want a source on this because an algorithm matching people does not seem to be the most effective. yes there are special occasions where lifetime partners have met online but I don’t think online dating is the sole purpose behind the decline of marriage.

Currently waiting for class to start so I can’t search for a link right now but iirc, the economy health is one of the main driving force behind marriage numbers dropping. In a healthy economy, more people are willing to marry, start a family, purchase land, etc. When economy is bad, all of these extra costs become more of a risk than before.

>I guess this is a luxury with newer digital cameras than it is with the older ones that had a barely usable ISO 1600.

Ha, my Canon 1D Mark II strangles itself around 800. This is quite a difference from a modern Nikon D5 that can shoot at a maximum ISO of 3,280,000. Picture at an ISO of 3mm - https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/image-comparison/fullscreen...

Not necessarily. It first begins by depending on what your settings are (ISO, aperture, shutter speed). With all settings neutral, if I add an extra stop of light, i’m going to get more blown out exposure from letting more light in (f/4 -> f/2.8 — this will open the lens wider, therefore letting more light hit the sensor) but no additional grain since my ISO may be set at my bodies base of 100-200 ISO for shooting outdoors.

Now if i’m shooting indoors and my glass doesn’t have a decent f-stop that shoots in lowlight, i can leave my aperture down and raise my ISO to maybe 1200, but when you do this, that is when you’ll get grainy pictures because you’re moving away from the cameras sensor base ISO that it’s calibrated for.

But if you want to adjust everything in post processing, you’ll need to shoot RAW because JPEG do not hold enough data that’ll allow you to adjust it accurately.

I want to know what changed between 2016, when the FBI bought a tool to hack the San Bernardino shooters iPhone[1] for $900,000[2] and now — with presumably an up-to-date iPhone running 2019 iOS — that forced them to come to this conclusion.

1: https://www.engadget.com/2016/04/07/fbi-iphone-third-party-t...

2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/08/fbi-paid-900000-to-unloc...

It also looks to be no mention of streaming Premier League games.

Does anyone know if NBC owns those rights to stream stateside? IIRC, NBC Sports is the Premier League hub while Fox Sports tends to host more Bundesliga (German football club) matches.

>most people don't want to pay for shit

I’ve paid for news before and they still bloat their pages with ads to track me. It’s not a matter of people not wanting to pay. Customers are willing to pay for X and Y if and when it nets them a positive gain in their experience with a product. The problem is more about how these corporations are constantly making our experiences worse while also still tracking our every click.

This three stage weapon was actually a 100 megaton bomb design, but the uranium fusion stage tamper of the tertiary (and possibly the secondary) stage(s) was replaced by one(s) made of lead. This reduced the yield by 50% by eliminating the fast fissioning of the uranium tamper by the fusion neutrons, and eliminated 97% of the fallout (1.5 megatons of fission, instead of about 51.5 Mt), yet still proved the full yield design. The result was the "cleanest" weapon ever tested with 97% of the energy coming from fusion reactions. The effect of this bomb at full yield on global fallout would have been tremendous. It would have increased the world's total fission fallout since the invention of the atomic bomb by 25%. [1]

1: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html

I think, and someone correct me if i’m wrong, that the $25/yr sub is mostly to enable archiving, which gives you full-text search through all of your bookmarks.

You can search by tag or URL on a standard account.

First, you rid yourself of the Google Overlord that is tracking any and all input from its user — You! On a more serious note, Pinboard can be incorporated into so many different services, even his competitors. Do you use Instapaper? Pinboard will sync everything you saved so you don’t have to worry about losing it after reading it. Same with Pocket. Or it’ll automatically grab embedded links from Twitter posts you “liked.” He makes it easy for you in import all of your Google bookmarks if you export them to HTML.

His API is a modified version of Delicious.

You have a built in Notes path that can also store (x) amount of notes.

Your account is as public or private you want it to be. You can make all bookmarks and user page private by default, or you can alter which tags you want to be public, etc. Best of all, nobody is tracking you. You can be an invisible user with a backlog of bookmarks spanning years and you will always have access to them.

Quick disclaimer: I’ve been using Pinboard since 2013-2014, before the new subscription model, and am fortunate enough to have paid an onetime-fee.

for those wanting to learn more, here is a Q&A from NASA and they delve into some specs on the STS-111 main engines [1]

>Darrel from Ft. Payne >How much horsepower do the shuttle's main engines produce at the time of lift off?

>NASA: The three space shuttle main engines generate the maximum equivalent of about 37 million horsepower. The fuel pump alone delivers as much as 71,000 horsepower, the oxygen pump delivers about 23,000. Just as a basis of comparison, the fuel pump alone is probably the equivalent horsepower of 28 locomotives. And with the horsepower of the oxygen pump, that's probably the equivalent of 11 more locomotives.

[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/webcasts/shuttle/st...

How does 55,000HP compare to modern launches (e.g. SpaceX)? Have they become more efficient in harnessing less power to produce more thrust? I’m a lay person when it comes to engineering, but my assumption would be that we do not need close to 300,000HP to lift a modern shuttle up. If we do, though, it again is a magnificent task to complete.