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Encourage her to get out now. Every sign suggest those insurance rates are only going to increase. And while property values might be increasing at the moment, it's only a mater of time before the insurance rates become so onerous she can't afford the property. And at that point good luck finding anyone willing to buy it.

But can it compile to Javascript?

I don't think the default Xubuntu theme has ever changed. Which is kind of a shame, but also kind of good. It's very consistent and makes some users who don't care about eye candy and hate change happy, but it scares off some newer users who have a strong association with old-looking meaning poor-functioning.

Given how many awesome XFCE themes there are out there, I'm surprised Xubuntu hasn't moved to something nicer looking.

There is a linux Open Source QT based project that is quite similar [1].

Or, if you have xscreensaver installed you can just run the following:

  /usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -text -fast -bs -program bash

[1] https://github.com/Swordifish90/cool-old-term

54% of the US workers make less than $30,000 a year [1]. at a $14.50 minimum wage, the income floor for a full time employee becomes $30,000. You're telling me that a substantial income increase for >50% of the US working population would be bad for small businesses?

[1] http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032011/perinc/new01...

This argument isn't about people starting small businesses, but rather about millionaires patting themselves on the back for being wealthy. Many of whom think of themselves as job creators because they have a maid and a gardener while getting richer by being clever on the stock market.

First off, most of what follows is anecdotal.

I've worked at a couple of mom-and-pop businesses. Most of our customers at a couple of the places were people working at or just above minimum wage.

Were our customers to have their income doubled it would be great for the business. More customers with much more disposable income? That sounds fantastic. And in turn the cost of higher wages for the employees is smaller than the reward from a more prosperous customer base. On a $2 cup of coffee for instance, the wage cost is somewhere between $0.15 and $0.50.

A customer making $8/hour would balk at a $3 cup of coffee, but a customer making $16/hour would have no issue with it. Even accounting for a 15% to 25% increase in cost all the way down our supply chain, we would still come out the better for it. As would most businesses.

Even businesses were wages are the majority of the expenses wouldn't be hurt. If the cost of a service is 75% labor wages, and that cost doubles, you need to raise the price of that service by 35%, right? But your lowest income customers have a 100% increase in income. Probably a multi-times increase in disposable income. That's good for business.

The problem with competing with walmart has little to nothing to do with labor and wage costs. It has to do with Walmart's highly optimized supply chain and one-stop-shopping at very low prices. Doubling of wages would have very little impact on the dynamic between Walmart and smaller businesses.

Though smaller businesses may benefit from a consumer base with more disposable income having to be less price conscious and not having to shop at walmart out of economic necessity.

I had good luck resetting my sleep patterns with regular exercise and Melatonin supplements. Melatonin makes it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep in a way that promotes rest.

Provided it has temperature tolerances in excess of 1000° F.

Building alternative high-volume modes of transportation is more effective than building larger roads.

Adding more lanes is useless from a urban planing point of view because it doesn't alleviate congestion.

The original project[1] was a very simple 500 line implementation of Minecraft. There is a fork[2] of that project with 8000 lines of code and many more features.

[1]https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft

[2]https://github.com/boskee/Minecraft

One way to start is to have employees you can trust. And delegate tasks to them. If they are worth your time as employees, they will take initiative to do the things you can't or don't think of. If you find people who are willing to believe in your dream, you can let them do some of the heavy lifting.

You can't be a one-man shop that can stay abreast of every new and emerging trend in the industry. There just isn't the time in the day. There are like two dozen people on earth who can actually be up on all of the latest stuff all on their own. And not being one is not a bad thing.

I didn't mean that Apple doesn't make good products. They make pretty damn good products. But the products are only part of Apple's marketing strategy.

Much of what has made Apple successful is the idea of what a Mac, an iPod, or an iPhone is. For most of the iPod's lifespan it was not the best product on the market, it was just the best marketed. In the case of macbooks, the hardware has been roughly on par with equivalently priced competitors for several years. But they sell the idea of what it means to be a 'mac person'. They get you invested in the idea that macs are better regardless of the reality.

And that strategy is as much about reassuring people who already own Apple products (fighting buyers remorse, and grass-is-greener impulses) as it is about selling more.

Hey, if it keeps you from returning the product or avoiding a merchant, it has worked.

One of the flaws of many advertising strategies is that it assumes the main flaw of the market is imperfect information. However that requires a rational consumer. And Consumers are not rational. Selling ideas is as important as the good itself.

Take most car advertising for example. A significant portion of the ads are from dealers advertising sales. Those are classic attempts to correct for imperfect information on the part of the consumer. But the other portion of the ads are all about how you should feel in a given car.

When you see an add for a luxury sedan combined with platitudes about performance, speed, and engineering or a truck and cliches about America, the goal isn't to sell you on the merits of the vehicle, but to sell you on a concept of a brand. The ideal targets for these ads aren't actually consumers currently in the market for a new car, but the people who just bought a new car. The people for whom the shine is starting to come off the rose. If you sell someone the idea that yes their purchase makes them special, then they are more likely to be happy with their decision, more likely to repeat that decision later, more likely to be a unwitting brand ambassador.

For medium scale purchases with many interchangeable competitors, this may be true. But for cheap impulse purchase and for high-end commodities, brand still matters quite a bit.

Apple and Samsung are two great examples of higher end companies whose products aren't appreciably superior or inferior to most of their competitors, but through relentless advertising, they have made themselves seem distinct from their competitors.

A significant function of advertising is to reinforce decisions. Very few people buy a car because they saw an ad for it, or a iPhone, for that matter. But the ad serves to reinforce the decision of those who already bought the product, decreasing buyers remorse. It's the reason most higher end car ads are selling the idea of a car rather than the car itself. Ditto with the older iPhone and iPods ads.

And a similar thing is true for low end, cheap products. People buy Coca Cola over store brand cola because of the brand identity coca cola creates. They may be totally unaware of it, but it's just enough of an impetus to push someone to spend the extra $1.50 on a 12 pack of Coke vs another brand.

Or they are trying to do the thing BMW and Apple do where they are trying to make you feel good about a decision you already made.

>Food stamps exist not out of genuine compassion for the poor, but because those in power know very well what happens when starvation becomes too widespread.

someone needs to cc that memo to the right wing American Oligarchs.

You could get a gigantic bunch of film & television subtitles. Almost every movie ever made and every TV show in the past 30 years has pretty good subtitles available from a variety of online sources.

Using common Python NLP techniques you could very easily search for every instance of a phrase across a massive corpora of subtitles.

If you got a large enough collection of subtitles and videos in a single directory this tool would do what you are asking.

On other pages it does hamburger icon properly, so, presumably, it's an issue with that page.

She should move almost anywhere else. In one of the most expensive parts of North Carolina, a one bed room appartment rents for ~$600 a month, and $30K isn't a lot, but it's enough to live reasonably comfortably.

How is this an MMO?

Or no one wants to teach because of low pay compared to equivalent professions, huge classes, and deteriorating working conditions.

This smacks of a firm being raided by private equity funds. Leverage, debt use it to do a stock divident to the owners (Private Equity firms), launch an IPO, use the IPO funds to finance more debt, keep the company above water long enough to walk away.

Also the current CEO is a former Yahoo! exec, not exactly confidence inspiring.

I had assumed GoDaddy was already public. Seems like the sort of company that would have gone public ages ago when it was still growing aggressively.

A cool policy would be allowing European regions to gain independence from their larger state incumbent on devolution of some powers to the EU.

I have a hard time trusting a product when it's promo video shows someone mashing random keys pretending to type.

Well, Berlin is rare in that it's been a big city before, multiple times. It's got quite a bit of growing room before it has to answer hard questions. And there are a number of serious residents, not in the young, tech scene, who have pretty good ideas how to help it along and where Berlin should go.

It's a huge pain in the ass to hire an american (compared to an EU resident), so it's not worth it unless they bring something awesome to the table.

The vast, overwhelming, majority of these 'designs' are not technically possible.