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If homelessness is a problem, why should the alternative be to put them in jail or prison? For something as simple as car camping, it seems like an unjustifiable punishment for a simple offense. Without getting into much of a semantics argument, this post itself puts off a sense of “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” attitude when it comes to homelessness. In a city that has a GDP of $231 billion in 2010[1], it seems ineffective to punish the homeless instead of trying to rid the city of the problem in a more productive manner than hauling offenders away. While public consumption of drugs should still be a citational offense, the simple possession of a drug should not be a jail sentence. There are many users that have deeper issues that need to be worked out to rid them of their addiction and putting them into confinement is not always the most effective way. Seattle needs to invest in safe injection sites, public health programs, and they need to build more shelters for their homeless. In today’s society, homeless are looked at as the bottom of the feeder chain, but when we do that, we begin to strip people of their humanity and instead we look at them as simply statistics or an nuance.

1: http://www.greyhilladvisors.com/gross-metropolitan-product/

The author doesn’t mention gaming in the article at all and I don’t think any person with decent knowledge of Mac products would assume the new Mac Pro would be a gaming machine.

What the author and many others are trying to convey is that Apple again has pushed out a premium product with mid to semi-high level components for a luxurious price — often out of reach for the lay consumer. If we take the common criticism of Apple and their products, especially the Mac Pro, it again comes down to them catering to a base but doing so by itemizing their product list. They know people in studios will use these products and pay what they must, so it’s simple: Studio A has old Mac Pro’s and just needs a new monitor, so they’ll buy the new 32-inch and put out some more pocket change for the stand that’s sold separately. But studio B has monitors and needs a new desktop, hence they’ll purchase a new Mac Pro w/o a screen.

In the end, these products will sell, not because of their future proof parts, but more so because it’s a new machine for that niche base who most likely are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to use a PC equivalent.

if not pictures, i would say license plate numbers are at least recorded digitally inside of their report.

Cars killing people also usually do not have a wide reaching effect beyond the community it happened in.

>It's the fact that the 23 people killed in school shootings in 2018 - tragic as these deaths are - have managed to take away all the attention from the over 3,000 children killed by motor vehicles that year.

Should we really be comparing the two? I mean, even as a teenage driver, you are warned about the dangers of distracted driving, DD, etc. Automobile accidents are a common occurrence and a risk that people willingly take and accept whenever they enter their car.

I’ve seen multiple stories in a night about automobile crashes on my local news and not national, which is how it should be. Auto accidents usually only affect the community it happened in, not the US as a whole. When we understand the damage—physical and mental—gun violence causes to society as a whole compared to auto accidents, it is no surprise that gun violence is a much more out-of-left-field event than an auto accident.

To combat this, though, would you suggest we ban all motor vehicles? You see how silly that is to read? Even if it is silly to you, attempting to regulate the automotible industry would be a lot harder than putting limitations on available guns. Hell, we don’t even have a solid public transportation system that would be able to handle all of the commuters who gave up their cars to combat the auto accident statistics.

While it is true about contract law and international arbitration, it would be inadequate to compare courts of early Soviet Union and today. As stated in the article, these agreements were meant to be privately handled between Adolf and Stalin, meaning there would be no overseeing court body to interpret the legality of their proposal. If anything, this agreement was their blueprint to lay a foundation for their own court system with them being their own judge and executioner.

Criterion’s streaming service covers this pretty well. Kanopy — if you have access via your local library — also has a large selection of lesser-known and older films.

24 hours seems a little fast. I’ve encountered bodies that have sat for 2-3 days unnoticed (estimated) inside of their house, in the summer, and it’s not too terrible of a smell. If anything, you’d start to see bloating and discoloration, but not enough decay will happen within 24hours that would result in a closed casket viewing. Also, once they stick ‘em in the freezer at the morgue, you’re stalling that decay tremendously — at least long enough to make it to the funeral, which is sometimes up to a week later.

Also, to talk about the parents point on prime real estate, i’m not sure what current rates in other states for a plot but where i’m at, you’re looking at >$1,500/plot for one casket.

>Although Rivest initially released the puzzle’s code in Java, Fabrot realized it could be solved faster if he used the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library, free software written in C for doing “precise arithmetic.” So Fabrot dedicated one of the CPU cores on his home desktop computer to running squaring operations in an attempt to solve the puzzle. He says his computer was running the operation 24/7, except when he would have to leave on vacation or there was a power outage.

It seems as if your 2014 comment hinted at this project. Applause for keeping this tight lipped for those years.

2014 comment: >Java is quite fast compared to most languages but for some things it is still terribly slow compared to C / C++. I had to do some big integers crunching lately and tried: Java, Go, Go with GMP, C (GMP) and Haskell (using GMP under the hood). Eventually I went for good old C with the latest GMP version for it was the fastest for my use case (with Haskell and Go with GMP coming close but still not as fast as C). Java was, for the computation I needed to do... Eight times slower than C! I know I was hitting a edge case for a very specific kind of computation but still. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7979006

I agree with you on this more than the original response. From my time renting — houses and apartments — the former has always been more of an “as-is” type rental. In a house rental, the landlords tend to usually only be responsible for the big ticket items (hot water tank, septic tank, foundation/exterior issues, etc.) while you were left to deal with moderate homeowner fixes. Apartments on the other hand, especially a complex, we’re held responsible for every repair. Pilot light out? Maintenance. Broken window? call the office. Your water pressure suddenly got cut off at 3:30am? Hello, 24/7 maintenance line.

Manufacturing jobs may have become less in numbers but they are no way near gone. So i’m not sure that really counts as a valid answer.

Same with mechanics. These jobs are not gone but possibly shrunk in total # of jobs. Quality may have gone up but so has complexity of repairs.

Now, farmers. Again, these jobs may have shrunk but the jobs are still there. I could count on both hands of families I know living in proximity to me that run family farms for business. You can drive 30 miles from me and go through three towns that are maintained because of farm land.

edit: on mobile so didn’t see your decline != elimination note at first

Also as a vegetarian, there is a clear difference in the earlier veggie patties that Burger King served—Morning Star possibly, not these—and that of a regular whopper meat patty.

Let us settle this: they were intelligent enough to know how to create programs that were not so good for the public and dragged FB’s reputation down.

That’s another issue itself buried inside of this report. Here’s the meat of what the report is bringing awareness to.

>Among children who had gastrointestinal illness, 84.6% (family income <$35,000), 86.1% ($35,000–$49,999), 90.3% ($50,000–$74,999), 89.6% ($75,000–$99,999), and 87.4% (≥$100,000) missed school in the past year. Similarly, 83.7% of children living below the poverty level with gastrointestinal illness missed school, compared with 88.3% of those living at or above the poverty level.

Not sure on his source or argument but my guess would be accounts advocating for Maduro to be displaced by Guaido. If you look at it from that POV, you will clearly see how Twitter is playing a vital part in an US-backed coup against the Venezuelan people because currently, Maduro still has support from some of his allies and from his own military. [1] These are mucky waters to wonder through.

1: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-aid-id...

in the clause you signed to delete or deactivate your account, you give that username & account up after the 30 day window.

Bare with me while we go down a small rabbit hole of Civil War rosters.

Taking the only available information from the article--that being the two doll's names--I did the first thing I could think: Search the roster of soldiers during the Civil War to see if there the names 'Nina' and 'Lucy Ann' have any significance. Turns out there are only two matches for those names, both of which who are (possibly) females.

A. First we'll look at 'Nina.'

1) Only name who came up with this search was Nina Casting.

1a) Nina was a Confederate

1b) Nina was enlisted as a Private in the company E, 42nd Infantry based out of Alabama (1862-1865).

1c) 42nd Infantry only known battle which involved casualties was a 7 day battle in Resaca, Georgia of May 1864.

1d) 42nd Infantry mustered out almost exactly one year after the GA battle in April 1865.

1e) Final location of Nina Casting is unknown.

B. Next we have Lucy Ann.

1) She is matched to the only known name of Lucy Ann Cox.

1a) It is noted that Lucy Ann was following her husband James Cox.

1b) Lucy Ann's enlistment is listed as "Laundress." This is due to her responsibilities being "doing laundry for the regiment and sharing the toils, dangers and privations."

1c) Lucy Ann was enlisted in the A company, 30th Infantry of Virginia with her husband enlisting in April 1861.

1d) After 3 years in his enlistment, James was wounded and had his thumb amputated in June 1864.

1e) James Cox deserted his company on Feb 14 1865.

1f) Lucy Ann Cox died on Dec 17 1891.

[0] All information is sourced from the The American Civil War Research Database

I wouldn’t necessarily say Meng being indicted is “nothing at all.” Nonetheless, the story does a great job of illustrating what type of activities LE must do during a type of operation and investigation of this magnitude.

There was recently a segment on NPR with a researcher for future automation. I’ll try to dig up a link but he made the opposite point of you. He claimed self-driving cars will give us more traffic but it will be much more efficient thanks to software. The lanes would be able to get shrunk from 12ft to 6ft due to better control and by doing that, you’re now able to possibly double your available lanes on a single road for the increase in cars.

While the account does seem a bit odd — especially in our current state — it stills boils down to the fact someone discovered a bug and they seem to have receipts.

Linked tweet shows an email signature on reply from “Deven” of “Apple Product Security” and the senders original message. >> https://twitter.com/mgt7500/status/1090079031666438144?s=21

Rumor mill: FaceTime bug was submitted to Apple on 20 January 2019 by a concerned mother after .. her 14-year-old son discovered it.

>My teen found a major security flaw in Apple’s new iOS. He can listen in to your iPhone/iPad without your approval. I have video. Submitted bug report to @AppleSupport...waiting to hear back to provide details. Scary stuff! #apple #bugreport @foxnews

[0] https://twitter.com/mgt7500/status/1087171594756083713?s=21

Better yet, bring the US a 4 day work week and pay for 5.

It works well for New Zealand - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/new-zealand-experiment-finds... && https://www.4dayweek.co.nz/

Your entire idea is basically a community college.

Professors are there to teach. You get two years done and most, if not all, of your gen eds.

>Teaching-focused people, even if you make them full professors, are still comparatively cheap

This is where liberal art universities strive. While their endowments and grants may be lower, their retention and graduation rates may be higher (unsourced opinion). But Unfortunately we’re living in a time where we need both type of institutions and having that choice is good. While i still don’t agree with the rising costs of education, research driven programs are good for future researchers and STEM. Liberal art programs are great for the humanities.

>it's an interesting question why it always does.

Not really. It’s a good question to ask but the answer is rather simple: R1 institutions stay afloat because of research grants; they need researchers to secure that grant $$.

>Non-tenure track academic teaching positions that pay "horribly"... I can already imagine the kind of talent they attract.

Honestly, as a former CC student, non-TT professors/lectures at the junior level were some amazing teachers. While they may only have a masters in their field, most of them are taking these jobs out of enjoyment as secondary income or after retirement.

Examples: One psych prof is a clinical child psychologist, teaches PT, highest evals in the dept.

Other psych prof, retired psychologist, head of CHARGE research, drove 45 minutes to teach PT

Social work prof, 20+ year professional, teaches PT, was a complete savior to her students.

Eng prof, trans, former Navy, journalist, taught PT.

Chem prof, retired, works at a local grocery store stocking fruit PT, lectures PT

>School was a complete waste of time for myself. The only benefit was for social connections.

With all respect, I’m calling bullshit on this. Social connections were thee only thing you learned? Where did you learn how to read so you could understand the C++ texts you were reading? Who gave you lessons to help with critical thinking so you could understand programming is not a linear process? Hell, who taught you how to count? If you had done none of this, you’d be claiming you self taught since an infant.

Simply casting your entire education to the side is extreme. There may be parts of the system that you disagreed with, perhaps the structure of the school day, but saying it had no benefit makes it sound like a pendejo argument.

NPR has an article on the Central African Republic's scouts who promote vaccination, relay messages about the Ebola outbreak, and domestic chores — https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/01/19/6808273...

Twitter thread from a MSW/JD with some more info regarding the Ebola outbreak and interactions between DRC, CAR, and South Sudan — https://twitter.com/geopoliticaljd/status/108699357731649945...

> - university professors are more selfish and self-serving

With respect to academia, this point seems to come up a lot, which is highly dependent on school, subject, etc. But in my opinion, a lot of times it boils down to a couple things.

1. Research is your main job. 2. becoming tenured is basically your get out of jail free card. without doing something /legally/ wrong or ethically wrong, your salary is basically guaranteed until retirement. at R1 institutions, your main focus is publishing work to gain tenure.

by mixing the above two points, you produce professors who “treats you like a child.”

One area in which I think this could be big: deaf culture.

Instead of a device being triggered by voice, you can trigger commands by spelling them out via ASL and hoping NL can predict wisely or give choices -> wait for users response signal.