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There's also a difference between discriminating against people for their political views (which isn't a protected class anyway) and choosing to avoid adding people to your team who have expressed opinions that make the workplace hostile to other employees -- which appears to have been the intention of the managers in question.

Of course, trespass laws don't apply directly, but I think that's an excellent analogy and could be an appropriate basis for future laws about web use.

As far as I know, the laws against trespass in the physical world derive from common law. It's a shame we don't have a similar common-sense starting point for computing law; but computing is so new (and to many people so esoteric) that few of us have had a chance to develop something like "common sense" about it.

The result is that the correct analogy for a situation isn't always obvious. For instance, we could go with the ever popular car analogy: Corporate players want their (public facing) servers to be treated under law not as stores open for business but as cars on a dealer's lot that you're welcome to test drive with permission but that it's illegal to just grab and take for a joyride.

So what sort of fuel mileage does it get?

Thank you, that's helpful!

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the meaning of the differing brackets in the notation you're using: "[0,1)"?

File a ticket in our issue tracker. Fix the bug. Commit to source control. Deploy it to our staging environment. Verify the fix. Merge branch to stable. Deploy to production.

Isn't that how everyone halfway sane does it?

Your biggest challenge might be not the frames but the lens curvature. Lenses these days are ordered from a catalog of standard prescriptions.

Unusually strong prescriptions sometimes have to be special-ordered because they aren't kept in stock, but AFAIK they're still not custom-ground. Or at least they're still machine-ground from standard blanks.

If you want a lens with unusual curvature, you'd need to start with a blank that supports that curvature - which may not exist. And the grinding machines may also be unable to work with that curvature (hand-grinding, besides being immensely more expensive, will be less consistent in its result).

And then you'll have the problem of fitting the lens securely into a frame that's designed for one with lesser curvature. Heck, even my (moderate prescription) sunglasses suffer from poor lens fit.

I'm not saying it can't be done; just that there are a lot of obstacles to what you're looking for.

Fair enough. I'm just curious.

Good on you for putting yourself out there and putting in the work to improve your English. It sucks that feedback is so harsh.

Your English is understandable, but still recognizable as written by someone who's learning. Your next major challenges will likely be a) learning tenses other than the present tense; b) understanding what prepositions to use in what context; and c) understanding where to use singular vs plural nouns.

You shouldn't feel bad about not having internalized those points yet. The present tense is always the first tense a language learner encounters. And even as a native speaker I'd be hard-pressed to articulate clear rules for B and C. IMO the best way to learn those things is to read a lot that you're confident has been written or copy-edited by native speakers. For instance, articles in the NY Times or the New Yorker are edited to meet a high grammatical standard.

Are you looking for direct feedback on your writing? Here's how a native speaker would write the first paragraph of the linked article:

Writing has been one of my hobbies since I was in high school. But writing an English story is still a bit new to me. I started writing English articles/stories a year ago.

Another way to phrase that last sentence might be:

I've been writing articles and stories in English for a year now.

Or:

I wrote my first English article/story a year ago.

As a puzzle game fan, I'm most likely to download a free app whose IAP is ad removal. FWIW.

It's evident that this sensitivity is pretty rare. But with essentially everything LED-backlit these days, living with that sensitivity sounds hellish!

You're right; I should have said "web-based SaaS"

If you know what you're doing, the UI/UX of a native desktop application can be light-years better than that of a web application. For almost any purpose.

SaaS, by contrast, is typically easier to monetize, distribute, and update; it can also be easier to build, depending on functionality and UI complexity.

Being asked to join a startup as co-founder. The startup itself totally flopped. But I learned a ton and was subsequently recruited for an entirely new class of opportunities.

What methods exist for safe disposal of heavy metals?

What would you do with the mushrooms, though? Presumably one wouldn't want to eat them once they'd absorbed a bunch of heavy metals, right?

You're doing pretty well saving more than half your take-home. How much more do you want to save? Maybe set a target and then look at specific areas to pare away expenses or look at ways to make a bit more income?

Yeah, usually you have more control over IRA than 401K investments, and I think the penalties for withdrawal differ. Otherwise they're pretty similar.

The other benefit of the 401K is that the annual contribution limits are higher, so you can sock away MORE pre-tax than you can with the IRA.

Tornados? Drought?

A) You can do this more effectively if you group your expenses by what you bought rather than where you bought it. At WalMart, were you purchasing video games or necessary clothing or holiday gifts or groceries? At Whole Foods, were you buying prepared meals or rice and beans? And wtf are DCU or STASH?

B) The best way to cut your expenses is to start with the biggest ones. Where do you live? Your rent is pretty low for SF or NY but pretty high for just about anywhere in Kansas or India. You're spending a lot on various car-related expenses AND a bunch on cabs. Do you really need a car where you live? Can you get by with transit? Or with a bike and the occasional cab? If you are in a car-dependent location and happy with it, can you find a place with lower rent?

C) Figure out which of your expenses are fungible and which aren't. Medical expenses aren't so much. But you could probably spend less at restaurants if you tried, and less at supermarkets if you prepared more meals from scratch.

D) You don't show how much you're saving or really what you're spending on, so it's hard for me to determine whether you're being frugal or extravagant relative to your income. If you're not saving at all and want to increase your savings to a respectable 10%, you've got some work ahead of you in terms of how you think about money. If you're saving 48% of your income and want to inch that up to 50%, that's likely a much easier task. If you're trying to edge up from saving 80% to 82%, you may have run out of places to cut.

1) I've never broken down my expenses this way. See point A above. It's normal for housing to be your highest expense. It's normal in much of the US for transportation to be the next highest expense, followed by food. (Medical can be a crapshoot where it's an enormous expense or nearly nothing.) In other places it's typically in the order housing, food, transportation and virtually zero on medical.

2-3) I spend about 50% more on housing to have access to transit, and my annual transportation costs are less than one month's rent. I live in a relatively expensive location and spend only about 25% more than you per year - which allows me to save over 50% of my take-home pay. How do I do that? A few things:

a) Max out pre-tax savings accounts (401K [with employer match!], IRA).

b) Auto-transfer money from each paycheck into investment accounts so it's not available to spend.

c) For any purchase that you don't absolutely NEED to have immediately (and be strict with yourself about what that means), wait a week to buy it, then re-evaluate how much you really want it.

d) Set yourself budgets for various categories, and stick to them - a weekly budget for groceries, one for restaurants and entertainment, etc; a weekly or monthly budget for optional purchases (e.g. games, fancy soaps, whatever it is you tend to spend money on because you want it instead of need it). You can save this up and roll it over for larger purchases (e.g. new electronics). A monthly budget for utilities (so you can watch whether you really need to spend as much as you do on electricity, or data overages, or pay-per-view or whatever). An annual budget for vacations, one for gifts, etc.

And finally:

e) Let yourself splurge once in a while on something small that you want but don't need - an ice cream cone or a fidget spinner or whatever. It helps the strict management of your expenses continue to feel like a choice rather than a straitjacket.

Meh, New York could be wiped out by a moderate-sized earthquake (that we're supposedly overdue for and definitely unprepared for) any day now.

I'm not sure there's such a thing as a city that's not vulnerable to at least one climate change or natural disaster threat.

The Times did an article on that last week.

The subway needs a case made for it? You'd think it would be obvious that NYC can't function at its current size without the subway. And that's even before you get into the benefits in terms of sustainability, transportation access for those who are less well off, real estate values, and all that jazz.

To be successful, it doesn't have to make as much money as the other exchanges. Just enough to continue to operate.

They are in many cases. But they can also be prohibitively time consuming and expensive for a small business - be it your corner bodega or the 5-person startup working out of your neighbors basement.

A great place to begin to explore would be medieval European cathedrals, many of which took 500 years or longer - dozens of generations - to complete.

A child whose father(s) commissioned an egg donor and a surrogate?

An adoptee (of a father or fathers) who never knew who their mother was?

An orphan who never knew who their mother was and lived in an institution their entire childhood?

Sure, everyone has at least one biological mother. But there are plenty of people who don't and never will know their biological mother's name.

That's why I don't use a cloud password manager. I use one that allows syncing my devices directly with my phone via wifi. Doesn't even touch a file hosting service like Dropbox.

Yes, that makes the physical devices a vulnerability, but the attacker would still need to guess or brute-force the master password to decrypt the vault. It's also a much less juicy target than a million customers of a cloud service.

And as someone else pointed out, using the same password everywhere is a non-starter. Nor is memorizing the passwords for more than a tiny fraction of the roughly 1000 entries in my password manager.

Also NYC does have an enormous homelessness problem. It's just that it also has a culture of police action driving homeless people out of upscale areas so that the well off don't have to be distressed by noticing it.

Do you mean management consulting vs software engineering?

Or do you mean working in software development as a consultant (contractor) rather than a full-time employee?