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Irony so thick you can karate chop it.

the whole argument of left is flawed.

she's anti status-quo but are unwilling to sacrifice short term for it.

basically her dream case scenario is to tax amazon 5B and then invest 3B it to bring them to Queens.. and then rake the returns going forward. In what fantasy world would that ever play out?

hey man. just FYI i'd kill to be in your shoes.

- almost broke startup founder

While I still think Carnegie's book is a must read, I feel like it can be summed up by: "empathy, have some."

But his ethos is applied and over applied so much that some times it's a breath of fresh air when a sales person just cut to the chase. Especially in this day and age in most cases, the user probably have had a couple weeks to try and thoroughly read the manual on your product. The sales calls are basically a formality. Beating around the push just wastes everyone's time. Just my 2c.

adding to that, i believe:

fb is one of the first social implementation of b.j. fogg's behavior model + and engineered addiction, and the subsequent commoditization of likes and shares

politics and math. they don't mix :)

fortune cookie quotes for a fun example? :)

I agree. I can easily convince myself I'm making a really good educated guess but in reality I'm probably just shooting 50/50, maybe even less because of bias.

Probably the same reason why it's better to stick with indexes in the long term on stocks.

I propose "思索". It means "think, search for a solution"

is this open source? I'm working on a similar project but aggregating bloomberg

yes. and platforms like Hootsuite lets you easily queue up and post them at a pre-scheduled time.

my thought is. is there an interest for hyperlocal/true realtime instagram clone. so people can really discover what's around them

almost all of Golangs core libraries are written in Go and are fully open sourced. This makes jumping from your code to the std liberary super easy. Besides all the amazing open sourced projects, the best and easiest way to learn the language is by looking at the Golang source itself.

agreed. depending on the area. take Toronto for example, detached home prices are growing by 15%+ YoY.. soon young couples looking for a place of their own will have no choice but to look towards a condo.

I've had an uber driver take the on-ramp instead of the side road beside the highway at the destination because the pin indicated it's a bit further ahead.. I guess it's my fault for not noticing (since I was in the front seat). Added 20min to the trip, good thing Uber refunded though. Seriously, driving + gps = zero common sense.

One child policy was meant to be educational than actual enforcement. The problem happens when local governments takes policies literally (as the examples provided, pay docks, quotas etc). What was meant to be a family planning policy turned into another statistics for the local municipal governments to look good on paper to their bosses, and their bosses to their bosses.. etc. Good intentions, bad execution.

<300k gets you 500sqft bachelor pad. Rent is about 1500$ for bachelor, goes up to 2k for 1bed+den. I think the 30 rent rule is a great benchmark for living affordability, renting a 1bd+den is around 1700$ for downtown in a decent building.. with utility, internet etc .. make that 1800$.. ((1700+100)*12)/0.3 = 72k a year. If you're making that dt toronto, you're doing okay.

Again, the Creative Cloud is not just for individuals, it's the future. Just trust me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78yigV0GYGQ

Unlike in C you can't tell the garbage collector to "ignore" a large chunk of the memory allocated in the buffer. what ends up happening is Go's GC spends lots of time traversing the heap and marking anyway and end up doing nothing. I know they've made optimizations like here https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9477 but I haven't followed it up and gave it another look yet.

sync.pools aka buffer pools.

this puts lots of back pressure on GC trading bursts of speed for a more noticeable pause at a later time bc of the pause-the-world style GC. I'd love to see if this is still the case with the GC improvements in Go 1.5+. One solution is to manually load balance your web services to switch seamlessly between GC pauses (stagnated gc), without this it's almost unusable in real time applications.

you know what'd be a good PR move? Uber helping private cab drivers such as those in the stories out by buying out the medallions and letting them drive under Uber. Win win.

nothing a couple generations of "re-education" couldn't fix. take China for example, took less than 2 generations to go from country of ancestry worshipping to "i don't know where my great grandfather is buried/from"

it's because we stopped "moving".

for example, when was the last time you "ran to the store" to grab something like milk? I wouldn't call that exercise but it's definitely something current generation lost compare to all the previous ones.

Including myself and friends, our weekend preferred activity are changing from going out (to parks, movies etc) to "Netflix and chill".

think about this, "Running" didn't become a thing until the late 70s. People simply didn't do much to stay "fit" before that. You can attribute it to biomes or genetics, but this is just within one or two generation.

What I would find interesting is if we can find data similar to what we record with fitbits, ie. # of steps per day etc. from people 30/40 years ago, and compare to actual fitbit data of today. I'd wager we'd find some interesting correlations.

The real question is, what is the acceptance rate of non-asian with similar profile as you just described. I'd be interested in this piece of data.

I don't remember the last time I wrote a cover letter..

you don't have to click the ads to mean something. every time you see an ad you're most likely getting cookie retargeted as well, meaning the advertizers now can uniquely identify you across the internet. The next time you purchase something related to an ad you saw half way across the internet, she gets paid for showing you the ad.

This isn't a cultural effect, this is a Human effect. What I don't understand is why haven't anyone done a comparison of modern day China, arguably at the same stage of development as the Industrial revolution (Circa 1800) era Britain/France. Anyone read any stories from that time period could easily do a one-to-one social phenomenon comparison. Young homeless/helpless girl frozen to death/killed on the street on Christmas day/broad day light without anyone batting an eye? Check. Middle class is generally a crappy place to be in society? Check. Oliver Twist? Any stories by Victor Hugo? Charles Dickens? Thomas Carlyle? Any Victorian era writing?

you may say that French and Italian are "dialects" of Romance Languages. Just like how people wrote commonly in Latin, people in China share a similar writing system but differ when spoken.

if you need a tldr, reddit is that-a-way.

it most indefinitely is because the original Chinese post he sourced (Solidot) didn't mention crack down on netcafes "for youth" at all. original text sounded more like they went around and hunted down all the "illegal" blacklisted sites that were peddling illegal materials, spreading political rumors and being anti-communist/party leaders/party systems. sounds like a normal day for left leaning anything in China.

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