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No reason to say goodbye to them. It would just mean that the price would have to increase, or the industries that produce them will have a smaller profit margin.

Apple has $245 billion in cash right now.

If a business can only exist if you exploit your labor force, then maybe your business shouldn't exist.

The portion of people that work jobs for fun or a little extra income are a minority. There are more examples of people working several minimum wage jobs just trying to survive.

Maybe there is a compromise somewhere though. How about if you pay the minimum wage, then the owners/stake holders cannot make more than the lowest paid person.

The head(s) of a company making good money(so I'm lumping some small businesses in here too), while saying that they just can't afford to pay their workers a decent wage, leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Off topic, but I feel the same way about all the businesses saying we need cheap labor from Mexico or South America for the businesses to survive, since Americans won't do the job. It creates an underclass of people. If you can't find workers due to wage, and you cannot afford to pay more, the solution isn't to find a class of people that have it so bad, that living in poverty in America is a good option.

I just recently saw the video of the guy picking up trash with a claw/grabber and being told to drop his 'weapon'. Several police showed up to stop this threat from cleaning his property. Luckily though, no one was shot, and the officer that started it all resigned.

While there is no catching a criminal in this situation. Asset forfeiture is abused. This is where police take items, usually cash, and keep it. There is no trial, just a seizure of property.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/1/16686014/p...

It's a good example of what I mean. There are others, I'm just not going to post them all. The police seem to optimize for stats and profit. And the cities/counties/state are on board. That's why we see red light cameras too. There are also documented cases of tweaking yellow light times in order to increase the number of tickets sent for running red lights.

The police don't seem to be here to protect and serve anymore. Like most things in America it's all about appearances and money.

Thanks for replying. I was hoping for a more in depth explanation though. Insects are such a varied species. Just strikes me as odd that you would hate all insects. Without knowing more, it seems like you may hate cows because you had a rat in your house once...

Oh well.

Could you explain why you don't care?

I've read the articles about why organic can be worse than regular farming. Which is why I used the word 'hopefully'. I fully realize that organics can use chemicals, it's just that their chemicals are 'approved'.

However, once again, we have just torn down organic, and left people with the status quo. I've yet to read about any studies talking about wildlife populations bouncing back because of the advances in pesticides, herbicides, and GMOs. I have however read several articles recently about the sharp declines in insect populations like I mentioned before.

This brings me back to me original complaint. Everything is bad. Nothing is helping.

And because regular farming is bad, and organic is bad, I can't make a difference. There is no viable third option(I don't care to hear about how I can buy land and grow my own everything, and weave my own clothing).

If you want the status quo. This is what you do. You shoot down every new path.

I don't support organic because of climate change. Organic is hopefully better than the normal farming practices that dump chemicals on nature just to get better yield. Regular farming practices(using pesticides and herbicides) has been linked to declines in wildlife populations. It's my hope that organic is less harmful to wildlife and human life.

This article isn't that helpful in my view. It calls for the status quo because current practices produce more on less. But the status quo is bad as well. So the take away is both things are bad.

Well great, let's stay on this path while all our insects and birds die, but at least global warming is still on the rise.../s

I live in Minneapolis Minnesota. We have raccoons, opossums, squirrels, rabbits. That's all I have seen for small ground critters that aren't living in parks.

Recently Obama gave an interview where he pretty much stated something along these lines. You go into politics locally, and you meet idiots, so you shrug it off, go into state politics, and meet idiots. You then hit national, and world politics, and you meet the same idiots.

While I like and respect Obama, it did make me think about the saying, if everyone is a dick, you're probably the dick.

More on topic. I know a pastor and she recently told me that its sad and disheartening at how many people will come up to her after a sermon and say, "Oh that was great, I just wish X was here to hear it." It seems when people hear about a possible flaw in behavior/personality they always search for people that have that flaw. But they rarely ever look at themselves. So it's not too surprising that the author would displays a blind spot while decrying them.

We can only hope he's realized it and is working on it.

Social scientists are people. We are all people first. None of us are robots. We can be rational in certain situations, but overall, we are not a rational species.

In order to fight some of our worse qualities, we have to first identify them. Then break down any social barriers that keep us from not fighting them.

That is what this article is doing. It is naming one of them, and then asking us to be forgiving. And helping us realize that mistakes are not as punished as we all may think.

That's funny. That still makes me sad to this day. But I was pretty broken up over it too. Somehow the fact that I will have been long dead did not matter.

I agree.

I'm not saying you down play the threat, but you have to realize that children are not adults. Almost everything is a new experience to them. And they do not have the tools in order to deal with the emotions.

I was pretty annoyed when my partner's 2 kids came home from school in a complete tizzy over the presidential election. I'm not sure if it was from their friends or their teachers. But they were practically crying, thinking everything was going to fall apart.(It wasn't from either of us)

You have to be very careful about how and what you tell to kids. Especially since something like the presidential election or climate change just isn't something they can truly have an affect on yet.

I was going to mention the same thing. I too up until the puerto rico article blamed insecticides. But something much larger seems to be going on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarm...

"the agency estimates that a magma body that measures about a third of a cubic mile is squishing its way through the subsurface near Mayotte."

Since it's a magma body moving Mayotte, Mayotte could be moving relative to it's place on the plate?

This article reminds me of a clip from an interview with Obama recently. https://youtu.be/N7ZHDoNhScY?t=716

He states that he expected people in charge would be more informed or smarter as he progressed up the chain from community organizer to world leader. But in his experience they did not. In his words, "It was all the same people."

Another person that touches on this idea is Adam Corolla. His often states his observation that he thought everyone was good at their job when he was a child. But when he grew up and worked with people he realized that there are so many people that are bad at their jobs.

I dislike their video portion of their website. They have no history that I can ever find. And they don't have a recently watched section. If you don't finish a movie or show, or are watching a series, there is no easy way to get back to it without having to search for it. Hulu and Netflix both have a recently watched or continue watching section.

I often find a random docu-series on Amazon and completely forget I was enjoying it or what the name was when I want to go re-find it.

It's rather ridiculous overall. The more 'studies' I read, the less I take them seriously. If you don't like the result of any study, wait 2 years and you will have a handful of studies disproving them. It seems like every few years we bounce back and forth between if alcohol and coffee are good or bad for you.

I'm not sure if these issues are with the methodology in the studies, special interests wanting certain results, or just poor execution. But it seems out of hand.

Small off topic rant. If we want the masses to believe the results from sciences, then we need to be consistent. I'm not advocating lying in order to do this. The results from the studies need to be reproducible and accurate. How can we convince people that something like climate change is happening and real, when the earth is a massively complex system, when we can't even go 2 months without flipping dietary results from sugar is ok, to sugar is bad, back to sugar is ok. Or the other example would be the no amount of alcohol is good for you, when for years the common result from studies was 1 or 2 drinks was a benefit.

She's not smart. No amount of college is going to fix that problem either. She states that she knew her parents thought this was a bad idea. But she wanted to take the loan because if she didn't she would have to transfer colleges or drop out, and those two choices meant she would lose friends.

She chose a college she couldn't afford, and when the warning sirens were blaring in her face she doubled down.

It does. But if your endpoint is so inactive that it sits idle most of the time, having it on a server/ec2 instance means you are paying 24/7 for it to sit there not doing anything. You could argue that it's not that much different to pay to keep the lambda warm vs paying for a server to be idle half the time.

Yes. That's what I mean. The per user basis does sound interesting.

Sometimes though, you can't force a square peg in a round hole. I dislike server maintenance but docker is a decent alternative to lambdas if you can absorb the extra cost.

That's an interesting problem. We don't get many concurrent requests and if we do, well then it's not a huge deal.

How many instances do you want running? You could set up a separate keep alive path that sends another request to the lambda, with a variable on how deep into the keep alive request 'recursion' and break out if you deep enough. Does that make sense? Super weird and just off the top of my head.

edit: this isn't a good solution either because if you have a lambda kicking off 4 other lambdas because you want 5 running, and someone makes a request well then you still haven't warmed up that 6th and your 5 lambdas are running the keep warm code...

Not the author, but you can set up cloudwatch to hit your lambdas at defined intervals. I set up my lambdas that are accessed through api gateway with a special header to check. If the header is there with the correct value, it just returns. Most keep-alive checks are in the 10-20ms range, and since charges in increments of 100ms, it's the lowest possible tier for getting charged.

I hope no one is offering that job.

I think a lot of people miss this point. A home isn't an investment. It's a place to live. There are studies I have seen that show that your children do better in school if you have a house vs an apartment. There could be other variables there sure. But the main reason I hear to buy a home is to 'invest in your future'.

Personally, I live in an apartment. I don't want the upkeep costs and time associated with a house. Even if I were to find a place to buy with a mortgage similar to my rent, I would then have upkeep costs on top of that. No thanks. I'll let someone else do all my maintenance, mowing, and snow removal, thank you very much.

Yes. We saw the same thing with 3D tv's. People tried to cling to their old 2D sets and clearly the new technology won out. /sarcasm

No crap. $15? I have to imagine he spent at least a couple hours on it. Even $50 seems like it's not worth the time. I really doubt he's spending less than 2 hours on any of this. Not to mention just finding and applying...

If a person is alive, and invites people over, but does not frisk them. Is he not invited someone to stab him to death?

At some point there is reasonable expectation. On all websites worth their salt, input fields are labeled. An input field is not an open invitation to hack the system and bypass it's actual use.

Also, haven't people learned by now that debugging other people's systems can either be rewarded or punished? It's not worth it unless the company has very publicly stated a hack me invitation and reward system.

Does anyone have any good resources on why humans do this. Some christians love to talk about the book of revelations. There's a huge segment of the population in the US that loves the idea of a zombie apocalypse. What is the human fascination with the world ending?

Directly to corpMav's post. Settle down buddy. 8 and 9 won't happen unlesss the earth get's hit by an asteroid of epic proportions or is finally consumed by an ever expanding sun. And 6 and 7 are also extremely unlikely, to a point of being laughable.

This reminds me of a family guy episode, where Brian, who is normally liberal, finds that all the pieces of power in the government are now democrat. So he switches sides and becomes a republican.

While the above example is made up, and satire. There definitely is a portion of people that love to fight the powers that be. In the US you can see these people in both parties.