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If you have been living in same place for years it's possible your rent is less than half as much as someone who moved into a similar unit this year.
The other case is that people not in high paying jobs don't live there and instead live far away and have 1 hour plus commutes.
I've done this before on Hacker News (on a different account). I've pointed out that an asserted fact was untrue and linked to a PDF compiled by a government agency and pointed out which data table to look at. I agreed with the conclusion the original poster had, but not the facts he used to support the case, and I didn't mention what my political views were.
All I ended up with was a lot of downvotes and lots of comments accusing me of supporting evil policies and that I should read certain books and I'd get my eyes opened. No one even discussed what I said. The funny thing is that I had read the book that was recommended and had it with me in my bookshelf. I was thinking of taking a picture of me holding the book and posting it with the comment saying: "Hey HNer, I'm on your side! But when people use incorrect facts to try to push an agenda, it causes the whole side to lose credibility. There are enough reasons to support policy X that we don't need to make stuff up".
It opened my eyes that people don't engage with the actual content. They just make assumptions of a posters point of view, and then argue against stereotypes.
The pricing seems unsustainably low. If each person spends 1 hour with a mentor per week, it seems like the price would have to be at least 5x more to make any profit given that your mentors are expensive skilled developers.
For "Co-coding Evenings", when you request help, is it through a chat room? Or screen sharing?
You may want to look into https://www.bloc.io. It's more of an online coding bootcamp, but a big part of it is having a personal mentor who can answer your questions.
I'll ask a lot of questions, don't be offended if you've already thought of all of these ideas:
Have you heard any feedback about why you aren't getting any interest from employers? Can you ask your friends to review your resume and do a mock interview?
I've heard good things about getting feedback through http://interviewing.io.
Can you interview at a less selective company where you would be more likely to get an offer, just to get something? I know people who were able to get their first job at a non-profit such as a charity or library. Those positions probably don't pay well so there aren't as many applicants, but it can get you back on your feet.
Have you reached out to all previous managers and coworkers to see if they are aware of any opportunities?
It sounds like you don't currently have a job which means you can go about job search differently. I don't know if this is a possibility, but some companies have a situation where they pay you to work with them for a week, and then they decide if you are a good fit. This might help if you are fine at doing work but under perform in interviews.
Have you applied for unemployment or government aid?
There have not been issues with high inflation.
Let's say someone comes up to you and says "Where are you really from?"
The motivations for asking this question can be ambiguous.
One way to interpret it is as a subtle racist insult that implies you are an "other". At this point you can be mad at how society is so racist.
An important part of CBT is that you can't read minds. The other way to interpret it is that the speaker is genuinely interested in me and wants to learn more. At this point I can have positive emotions and go about my day.
From a mental health point of view you are less likely to have anxiety if you choose option 2.
Some quotes: "Sages in many societies have converged on the insight that feelings are always compelling, but not always reliable. Often they distort reality, deprive us of insight, and needlessly damage our relationships. Happiness, maturity, and even enlightenment require rejecting the Untruth of Emotional Reasoning and learning instead to question our feelings. The feelings themselves are real, and sometimes they alert us to truths that our conscious mind has not noticed, but sometimes they lead us astray."
"Beck’s great discovery was that it is possible to break the disempowering feedback cycle between negative beliefs and negative emotions. If you can get people to examine these beliefs and consider counterevidence, it gives them at least some moments of relief from negative emotions, and if you release them from negative emotions, they become more open to questioning their negative beliefs."
The author's of the book don't desire "children's alienation from their feelings.".
Let's take for example a student failing a chemistry test which may lead to anxiety. The student might think, "My life is ruined. I'll never get into college now."
The author's would suggest looking for counter evidence. Is it true everyone who has failed a chemistry test doesn't get into college? No that's ridiculous. Even if you aren't able to get into an Ivy League school, does that mean your life is ruined? No, plenty of people I know have great lives without an Ivy League education.
The book presents mainstream views on cognitive behavioral therapy. Do you think CBT leads to emotionally crippling men?
I frequently see their cars on Folsom street in the Mission. I've seen their cars make right hand turns without being fully in the right hand lane. There is a bike lane and a lot of bike traffic on that street. Their behavior puts cyclists at risk of getting hit with a right hook when they are going straight through an intersection.
Based on everything I've seen, I'd much rather have a human driver than Cruise so far.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
About 1/3 of the book is how kids these days are being taught values that are pretty much the exact opposite of what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches and how that leads to more anxiety.
Instead of learning: "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" and to not assume someone's intentions, they are being taught to be on the lookout for microaggressions and to report them.
Instead of being taught to critically question the feelings they have, they are taught that if they feel something, it must be true.
I work at a >1000 person company that codes mostly in Scala, and some in Go, and would prefer to read unknown Go code any day. With the Scala I run into things like implicit parameters and 7 layer of inheritance, but the Go code is straightforward.
Go is somewhat of a lowest common denominator language. You could out perform it with a small team of strong developers, but when once your project gets to a certain size, it's unlikely all of the developers will be strong.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15163932
It doesn't make sense.
Would anyone suggest spending a lot of effort to speed up the part of the program that is taking 0.03% of the time?
There definitely is environmental fatigue. I know someone that always unplugs her microwave when she leaves the house because she is concerned about phantom electricity usage. She feels like she is doing her part, but then ends up running the air conditioner all the time which uses way more.
"Lines vary at field offices, but Gonzalez [DMV Spokesperson] said the average wait time is about two to three hours -- an assertion that Patterson [Assemblyman] is challenging."
"People have got two-hour wait times on top of the two- to three-hour wait times in the waiting room," he said. "The DMV is not only failing to do their responsibility, they are essentially trying to cover it up."
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-lawmaker-a...
It has very actionable and simple advice. I've given the book to many people and they all have liked it.
I really wish places like r/Fitness would talk about risks of training more. Unfortunately I was going to post there, but they pretty much ban any discussion of injury.
I've been reading this book and have found it really good: https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Training-Anatomy-Workout-II/... What it does differently than other books is tells you what are the pros, cons, and risks associated with each exercise. That way if you want a chest exercise but you have an injured shoulder, you can choose the one that is the best choice for you.
The book also talks about how its a myth that the best way to gain strength for everyone is to do heavy compound barbell exercises and talks about how your individual morphology makes certain exercises better or worse for you.
Another plus from reading this book is that you will learn what the individual muscles are and their purpose much better.
If anyone knows a good place online to discuss avoiding injury, please let me know.
While biking to work today, there was a Cruise car behind me, driving at about 7 mph and just randomly stopping in the middle of the road constantly for no reason at all. Lots of cars kept on constantly honking at the car the whole time.
Last week I saw a Cruise car start to make a left hand turn at an intersection, but its sensors must have thought someone was in the crosswalk, so it stopped in the middle of the other lane of oncoming traffic causing other cars to abruptly stop and start honking.
If this was a normal car, I'd call 911 to report a drunk driver. I wonder if I should just call 911 for a dangerous driver in this case. Is there any way I can report this behavior and get their cars off the road?
In case anyone wants to do some investigative reporting, all their cars come out of a garage labeled Borden Decal Co. (https://goo.gl/maps/F85WPTwkmbQ2). If you follow them around you can probably observe similar behavior.
After having them read the book and then following up with code reviews from a senior developer they improved their code significantly in just a few months.
"Refactoring" is also a good book, but a lot of time it is too advanced for people who copy and paste code all over and don't use functions, etc.
The base rate of getting type 2 diabetes is 11%. So if you increase your consumption of sugar sweetened beverages to one serving per day above the average, your chance of getting diabetes is now ~13%.
You increase your absolute risk by 2%. So the average marginal healthcare cost is $85,200*.02 = ~$1700.
I'm not sure how he goes from 1 serving per day to 2555 per decade. I would assume it would be ~3650 servings.
So for every soda you drink, it would add $0.47 in additional medical costs.
But the study also controls for adiposity since people with higher body fat are more likely to get diabetes and are also more likely to drink sugar sweetened beverages.
If you control for that then each drink adds $0.21 in additional medical costs.
In any case, the headline doesn't seem to be right according to a recent meta-analysis seems to suggest we aren't getting any less sleep than 50+ years ago: "Has adult sleep duration declined over the last 50+ years?" https://www.semel.ucla.edu/sites/all/files/Mirwin%20Has%20ad...
As part of due process, it should be clear from reading the law if I'm breaking it. I shouldn't have to guess and face years in prison if I happen to be wrong.
The email they sent me even confirms that. They must code their systems to still charge the fee even when they say they wont: http://imgur.com/a/JqTgT
The fact that it is James Gosling saying this instead of a random employee seems important.
It looks like this is the source for the claims: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
This is what the paper says: "Total family income is the measuring stick used to determine levels of affluence achieved. This is defined as taxable income of head of household and spouse, taxable income of other family members of the household, and transfer income of head, spouse, and others."
Based on what I know about US tax, you don't have to pay taxes on the first $500k in gains for your primary house (if married), and inheritances usually aren't considered taxable income.
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/capital-gains-and-your... https://www.hrblock.com/get-answers/taxes/income/is-your-inh...
http://www.aei.org/publication/evidence-shows-significant-in...