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I've always thought this too. The city has made attempts to make up / down town bike routes on most avenues but it's still a dicey proposition to ride through midtown. At least close 2 of them allocating half of each for uptown and downtown bike traffic. The other half could be pedestrian / public park space.
I think you aren't quite aware of what American poverty is, nor the message this article is trying to propagate.
It's not someone making 50k that is suffering, its someone making 12k and trying to support more than just themselves. They are making this income working multiple, minimum wage jobs and they have no recourse. It's a single mother with 3 kids who can't parent them because she works 14 hours a day. The kids grow up fatherless. Their role models are selling them sex, drugs and murder. Video games are their passion, not learning or educational development. This cycle repeats itself over generations.
The poor have some semblance of a roof, cheap fast food and entertainment and that is enough to make them complacent. To them, demanding better education, other options than minimum wage jobs, health care, or other social safety-net benefits aren't even arguments they can fathom to make.
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Can you explain?
It also removed the 'search' (command + F) in the song list.
I could see them not wanting to support poorly created apps, but removing the last one boggles my mind.
In order for an intercity rail network to work, it needs to link dense urban cores that also have useful transit systems. A train between Omaha and Kansas City does no good if you get off the train then face a 14 mile journey through the suburbs to your destination.
2 things need to happen before a rail network makes sense:
1. Urban infill. I know Denver has a policy for this in place, I'm sure others do too. But sooo many city cores have huge tracts of land that are derelict, or unused. New development should be incentivized to make use of this land.
2. Growth boundary regulation. Portland is the best example of this. With out this you get the exurbs and sprawl (sorry to point out Kansas City again, but it is one of the worst offenders here) which demand a car to traverse.
He is describing the culture of creating business's whose real purpose is to attract VC funding with the goal of finding an 'exit'.
I think people are curious to see what they are all about, but I suspect this kind of food shopping experience will not change peoples behavior longterm.
I tried Blue Apron and was generally happy with the service, but canceled it because it put too many constraints on my week - I had to stay home and cook Monday - Wednesday or else the ingredients would perish.
The bigger issue for me though was packaging waste. I hate all the plastic crap that was generated out of a meal.
- China hasn't even begun to tap the market for refrigerating its food supply chain.
- Refrigeration is the major component of energy usage.
- We (Americans) are the boilerplate for Chinas refrigeration boom.
notable quotes:
...statistics translate into scenes that would concern most American food-safety inspectors. In Shanghai, for example, one large pork processor has no refrigeration system; instead, it does all its slaughtering at night, when the temperature is slightly cooler, in a massive shed with open sides to allow for a cross breeze. The freshly disemboweled pigs hang for hours in the smoggy air.
...on average, a Chinese person experiences some kind of digestive upset twice a week — a kind of low-level recurring food poisoning, much of which is probably caused by the kind of bacterial growth that could have been prevented by keeping food cold
Nearly half of everything that is grown in China rots before it even reaches the retail market.
...generating the power (whether it be electricity for warehouses or diesel fuel for trucks) that fuels the heat-exchange process, which is at the heart of any cooling system, accounts for about 80 percent of refrigeration’s global-warming impact (measured in tons of CO2) and currently consumes nearly a sixth of global electricity usage
...refrigeration in the United States has tended to merely change when the waste occurs. Americans, too, throw away 40 percent of their food, but nearly half of that waste occurs at the consumer level, meaning in retail locations and at home. “Food waste is a justification for refrigeration,”
...as for most Americans, Bloom says, home refrigerators simply “serve as cleaner, colder trash bins.”
“When I first lived in China, in 1994,” she said, “everything was dried, pickled or salted.
...optimizing the varieties of popular Chinese greens that stand up best to cold storage. If they are successful, the incredible regional variety and specificity of Chinese fruits and vegetables may soon resemble the homogeneous American produce aisle, which is often limited to three tomato varieties and five types of apple for sale, all hardy (and flavorless) enough to endure lengthy journeys and storage under refrigeration.
And the hero of the mattter:
"Still, not all Chinese people are ready to embrace the refrigeration revolution. Dai Jianjun is the 45-year-old chain-smoking chef of Longjin Caotan, a restaurant on the outskirts of Hangzhou, the scenic capital of Zhejiang province, which serves an entirely locally sourced, anti-industrial cuisine. When I asked him how he liked frozen dumplings, he took off his corduroy cap, rubbed his shaved head with both hands and finally, in a calm voice that carried a distinct undercurrent of anger, said, “If I may speak without reserve, they’re not food.”"
Its entirely possible to write a poorly organized bowl of spaghetti using Ruby if you leave Rails out of the picture. I would venture to say the same is true for any programming language.
PHP was born before the idea of an open source framework had been propagated, it spread around the web before many of the paradigms and patterns had evolved to what they are today, and unfortunately it failed to gain acceptance by the elite programmers that have carved a community out using those other languages.
The other languages' respective frameworks have large, organized communities which have attracted very smart people that have put large swaths of functionality in place, before you ever have to write a line of code.
Its playing catch-up now, but there are good examples of PHP out there and it most certainly can be used in an elegant, high-quality manner.
It seems the negative publicity you are getting is going to cost you more..
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The fact that there is no product left to monetize the music means that there will be fewer musicians being funded. Only a few musicians will be chosen to promote and this will selectively be done such that they have a huge reach.
The mass marketed products like JT, Kanye (barf), Miley, etc will continue to be a part of the music business, as they always have, But the Luna's, Feelies, Grizzly Bear's (http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/grizzly-bear-2012-10...), and myriad of other, small appeal bands are going to have a hard time sustaining themselves for the longterm with out a product to keep them afloat.
The live performance is the product now, but the problem is, is that this is actually hard work. This is why you see EDM musicians having a good time in the new music economy (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/30/130930fa_fact_... - paywal) - they are able to put on a show with minimal effort, to large crowds (i.e. big $$$).
I've seen so many awesome musician friends throw in the towel after a few years because they can't keep justifying theier profession. It's sad, but unfortunately the way its going to be.
Edit - this was the Grizzly Bear link I meant to use: http://www.vulture.com/2012/09/grizzly-bear-shields.html
Does it have anything to do with paint samples?
Bad marketing page.
This is a no brainer.