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I just did a quick check and on average cleaners in the US are paid less than warehouse workers (and for that matter dishwashers).

I also used to buy into the theory of male blue collar jobs disappearing until I saw all the well paid blue collar jobs that men won't take. (After all, I supported Yang.) I think even Yang now disbelieves his own theory and is looking at other reasons why men are dropping out of the work force.

In the US, male nurses are highly valued. I am not sure why this is not so in Sweden. On the other hand, people are wary of male preschool teachers. These two fields seem to be equivalent in Sweden.

In the US - Cleaners are not well paid. I am not sure why men want to join this field. The best cleaner I ever had left as soon as she landed a better paying job. I see plenty of husband and wife teams where the wife does the cleaning and the husband does the gardening. The husband is typically paid at least 30% more than the wife. Maybe this is a higher status job in Sweden?

Your point is well taken. Apple got a few good blows back at Microsoft.

When I first saw the title "Killed by Microsoft" I thought it was a list of products from other companies that Microsoft killed - not products from Microsoft that Microsoft ended.

"Microsoft Graveyard" is a better name given Microsoft's history of killing other companies and their products. Or make the list really products that Microsoft killed. That would be a much longer list.

You should check out the Not Just Bikes Youtube channel.

The channel is mostly on city planning that supports walking and biking (rather than motorcycles) but the Dutch bicycle in the snow because they have an infrastructure that supports it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU&list=RDCMUC0intL...

Of course they don't have mountains which is the issue where I live.

> having the government stop subsidizing the mortgages of investment properties (e.g. only one mortgage subsidy is available for each family).

I think you are confusing home loans (which are subsidized) and business loans which are not subsidized).

Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac loans are only on 1 primary home and 1 secondary home for individuals. These loans are limited and really don't work in high property value states. You should google the difference between "conforming" and "non conforming" loans.

You might be thinking of the mortgage deduction on the income tax. Trump already did this. This only hurt young people in high property value states.

Business real estate loans are more expensive because they are not subsidized. However, businesses do pay taxes only on earnings (income-expenses). Loan payments are expenses that reduce the earnings. Good luck on getting rid of business expenses. Yang proposed changing the tax law because of this.

All this means your proposal would have a very limited impact. It would only hurt individuals who live in an expensive property where the homeowner has mostly paid off their mortgage (old people) and used the principal to buy a rental (up to 750k).

I hope your link is not correct!

The Aug 2020 article is about real estate transactions at the close of escrow. Does that mean people are accidentally using Ethereum? Yikes!

If you remove the epistles, the old testament, and the apocrypha (meaning of questionable origin) you are left with 4 gospels of which 3 are nearly identical. This is what we have left of the teachings of Jesus. Many known gospels were removed during the Council of Nicaea. For instance, the Gospel of Thomas was removed because it was in conflict with the Gospel of John.

The other controversial issue from the council of Nicaea was the nature of the trinity. Many a holy war was fought over this exact issue for hundreds of years.

I understand what you are saying about Paul - but his assignment was to define a jewish sect for gentiles. That is what the epistles were. Paul redefined our modern understanding of Christianity by aligning the gospels with the intellectual class of the Roman empire.

You have to remember that christianity back then was a state religion which was intended to support state order. Nobody was intended to understand christianity.

When Constantine made christianity the religion of Rome he discovered that christianity was not well defined. Constantine created the Council of Nicaea to clean up the religion. It was a capitol offense to even believe some of the previous christian beliefs if the Nicaean council deleted your belief. Many many christians were executed.

Constantine then decided to make many Roman regions christian in name only. This included incorporating pagan gods as christian saints and adopting pagan festivals and other practices. Only a tiny educated class was expected to understand christianity at all. The uneducated class was not well regarded so that was OK.

The inquisition came much later. The intent of the Inquisition was to expunge the pagan adoption that started under Constantine. Most of the people executed during the inquisition were affiliated with pagan practices. Many of the women were pagan priestesses. At that time you had to read Latin to even understand the bible so I am sure the inquisition was confusing for most people.

I just realized what bothered me about the article. It assumes the entire relationship between men and women is purely transactional. It is not. I just reread the article and the woman is a stripper. It figures.

From highly biased personal experience 17-22. I won't get into the details but you are only young once ;-).

I agree that the whole article seems slimy.

Having said that - for a short time in a young woman's life she is highly desired by men of all age groups. How can you take 50 year age range of of men who think they can (and should) get 5 year age range of women?

But if a woman survives this 5 year period then relationships with men can be balanced and satisfying. Men still want women and women still want men, but it seems to be balanced.

> Geometry proofs are a terrible way of introducing rigorous mathematical proofs to students

You might be right, but they are the only high school math class that teaches proofs. If you take away geometry you are left with nothing.

Having said that - any math concept can be memorized and regurgitated. My kids are in CA elementary math right now and it seems to be better than when I was a kid. The emphasis is on derivation rather than memorization. It might just be that geometry is better now than when you were a kid.

I think the OP would agree that it was "early Asimov" but you can't blame the writing on that. The OP was making the point that his writing never improved.

Having said that there were cringeworthy aspects of the first Foundation book that improved over the subsequent books. I recently reread the series and came to the shocking conclusion that he must have been a virgin (or at least not exposed to women) in the first book.

> They made Jessica into a physical fighter

Reread chapter 31. Jessica bested Stilgar in a physical fight the same as the movie.

Jessica was demoted in the movie. She was far stronger in the book. I didn't understand why until I read this review. https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/10/dune

I have to disagree with this. Many women want to have a family and will avoid careers that are not family friendly. This is still true today. But fixing those careers to be family friendly will benefit men as well as women.

I went to an all girl college prep high school in the early 1970s. All the girls on college track took an aptitude test. We were told to take both the boys and girls test. There were two tests back then. I scored very high in engineering and math on the boys test, but those options did not even exist on the girls test. I found the girls test ridiculous.

This will sound silly but I didn't even consider engineering until after I read The Menace from Earth by Heinlein. I thought engineering meant I wouldn't have a husband and family. I didn't even consider math until after I took this test. I ended up double majoring in Math and Computer Science.

This was in the early days before Comp Sci was gendered. 30% of my Comp Sci class was female. Compare that to my daughter's experience. Her Comp Sci classes were about 15% female until she took a Human Factors class which was 50% female. Sometime in the 1980s women enrolling in Comp Sci dramatically declined.

I have always found gender in German confusing. This gives a little more context.

Of course in English we have a tiny bit of gendered nouns where we append "man" or "woman" to some job titles based on the gender of the person holding the title (policeman, congressman, etc). This has become problematic when we use the plural.

Also in English we have gendered pronouns which has become a hot topic in the last couple of years. I wonder what people who speak languages without gendered pronouns think of the current kerfuffle.

They were diverting water from regular farms in the Sacramento delta to almond farms. The delta farmers were naturally upset.

The diversion was actually being pushed at the federal level, but Sacramento successfully fought back.

Almonds also do not respond well to periods of drought since the trees need to be watered each and every year. Annual crops can be rotated based on water availability.

If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, marry your best friend. Don't read these self-help articles.

When I was young the pundits kept saying that love only lasts 2 years. I think this is because they had a shallow definition of love.

If you marry your best friend you will always be your true self and they will always be their true self.

This was my reaction.

Feel grateful for the time someone gives you. You might not be able to replace them when they move on - but that should make you appreciate what they have given you even more.

Are you better off muddling through when they are gone, or never having them at all?

Check out "Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale" by Adam Minter.

It turns out that what happens to your clothes depends on the condition when you donate and if they have synthetic fibers. There is still a large second hand market for natural fibers.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/04/784702588/the-best-thing-you-...

I also found this video helpful.

A key point in the video is that when you are a student the reader is paid to read your paper.

When you are not a student - the reader pays to read your paper (or book). Is it worth their time or money?

Here is a discussion of the price. It turns out they raised the price by 500%!

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/railbike...

They are not outlawed - but pretty expensive. I imagine you are paying for use of the rail.

Check out the Skunk Train rail bikes in Fort Bragg California. https://www.skunktrain.com/railbikes/

I looked through the information and it looks a lot like what we used to call "Voluntary Reduction in Force (VRIF)" AKA a "voluntary" layoff. It includes 6 months pay which seems sweet. Am I missing something?

We used to have these when I worked at Xerox. The only question I have is did everyone get the VRIF or just some people?

I asked my kids (all software engineers) this same question about a year ago. My daughter said it was because class diagrams became too complicated for uml.

I used to use uml class diagrams when coming up to speed on a new framework. I tried to do this recently and it was a nightmare.

I used to use sequence diagrams for my own code - but that is difficult to derive from someone else's code.

The reason why it always comes up is because programmers are relatively well paid yet nobody really understands what we do.

Therefore you get these really silly memes such as if a factory worker's job is outsourced, you can just retrain them to be a programmer. Or the only reason why some downtrodden group is not a programmer is because they were prevented by someone from being a programmer.

The thing that is ridiculous about the memes is that programming is the only field that is completely clear of gatekeepers. You don't have to go to college to be a programmer - the top programming coursework is available online for free (or nearly free). If you want to be credible as a programmer, there are plenty of open source projects that would welcome you. Compare that to doctors or lawyers which really do need college degrees and certification.

We are talking about a company based in San Francisco.

I am pretty sure they changed the phrase to "freedom of expression" and removed the passage that said this was the original definition of free speech so in my mind they corrected the article enough to get their point across without getting bogged down.

This might be my imagination - but I think you changed "Free Speech" to "Freedom of Expression." If so, this change makes a lot of sense. This change captures the intent of your article without confusion.

I see all the time in modern discussions that people use the same words but have different definitions in their head of what those words mean.

It might be that in the UK when people say "Free Speech" they mean Bertrand Russell's definition. I give the article that leeway since I don't know. But in America when when people say "Free Speech" they mean the 1st Amendment which predated Bertrand Russell and is more common.

When two people are communicating using common words the definition of those words need to be common otherwise communication does not happen. Otherwise you are just using jargon.

Bertrand Russell was British.

This is the difference between British law and American law. People often get confused with the definition of free speech since in America it refers to the 1st amendment which only applies to censorship by the government. Britain actually does allow the government to censor speech.

The article does give insight into the Brit's definition of free speech. In America private companies can moderate their own platform since they are also liable for that platform. It is a thin line between the two.

I am not sure which I prefer but I notice I get spooked when government gets involved in free speech.

Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.