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Get a job at a company with East and West Coast offices at the East Coast office. Always offer to help on the projects and areas that have mostly West Coast resources and leadership.
My own experience is that people who focus on successes and failures in terms of themselves and how they will deal with the environment next time, do well. Those who focus on how the environment limits them, will not do well relative to how others with less advantages will do.
My only negative would be that the touch screen accuracy is sometimes subpar which is a real hindrance when trying to find a starter smartphone for tech curious retirees.
People with chronic pain or health issues may want something with more support like the stress clinic at UMASS lowell medical. But you really only need about 15 minutes of instruction and guided meditation and then to find whatever motivators work for you.
Further, that process requires a legal proceeding with the US to investigate you for potential liabilities that is now paid for by you.
The idea of citizenship is not representative of anyone's rights in the US, which is made all the clearer by the new renunciation terms. The US could switch to the british term subject since every US person is at a minimum a subject of investigation. :)
Gone are the friendly (in retrospect) days of "if you don't like us you should leave."
From other nations with sketchy governments, you can claim asylum status where you land. For US citizens, you will be assumed to be crazy if you request status. You may as well be as no US citizen is able to prove their own prosecution. If the FOIA keeps any teeth it is still ~30 years after death that a FOI request will show anyone was politically targeted by the executive branch like Martin Luther King.
Enjoy your GDP, but try to stop spending it all in one place.
Probably, lawyers are good at email if they are routinely sent a lot of email given the customer demographic in their region and specialization.
Organizations are people too, or corporations end up getting special permits? Either one leads to trouble and groups that buy up to maximums since they want to use all their entitlements.
> no two domains could serve essentially the same data for more than a certain transition period
So now we all need different VPN gateway and email system homepages? Who is to say domains exists for HTTP? They are unique names for many protocols.
The main problem is the ability to sell them for value. Make that hard. For example, make parties prove it is a legal inheritance or court victory that requires a transfer otherwise push it into the pool where others can try to buy it faster and deny the old registrar involvement until it falls out of the next valid ownership chain.
I mean the article states that being drab is about not investing in expensive traits. But everything about it is written as if there isn't a lot of natural culling of colorful things that is more natural to talk about.
This model is really the US standard to screw lower social classes that plays out elsewhere, i.e. credit cards as the national payment system instead of payer initiated direct transfer like in most(all?) of Europe.
Richer people will tend to have strategies and resources (i.e. the money and rights to modify their residence, control over their work schedule, etc) to pay bellow average which will make them richer. People under stress will have to pay whatever the spot rates are.
This is the only defensible position for businesses as the ones with resources and time to invest in organization are the ones who have the resources to use the political system as a tool against anyone who would have them pay their full share.
But I found it difficult to get a thermal pot down to the right temperature range to begin yogurt and switched to making only kefir. Kefir is less likely to lose to a contaminant at room temperature as it is a diverse cocktail.
Yes, I think the logic here is flawed. The only way to know someone can do something in the physical security theatre is by their doing it. Needing to cajole any normal user into running a script is a tad more optimal than convincing them to physically move devices from the server room to the new machine that they won in your raffle.
Much of the bootcamp/training/etc programs work on presumptions that may not apply by graduation about gaps in the market that require less than average experience.
You mean like this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/10/condoleezza_rice_to_...
But a paranoid board director is reasonable, or?
With recruiters here, I generally decline the job they were thinking of and tell them what I am interested given that it has to significantly beat my current work. After a few times back and forth, that eventually brings the conversation to an end. The nicer ones tell give me some local companies that wont pay third party recruiters but might be a closer match.
Really, I think recruiters naturally tend to over represent employers who are incredibly bad deals since the better the job the less often it is empty and the easier it is to fill for free through networking (I.e. you have employees who wouldn't see guilt/risk in recommending it to friends.)
Given that recruiters are sitting in that skewed perspective of the market, they should naturally get bitter and irritated with people who turn down their "best" positions while being rude throughout the process. Probably they also feel all the more helpless in their role since I can only imagine the bizarre feedback they get from their most rewarding/difficult/longstanding customers on what were "good" matches.
If recruiters were replaced by neural networks, it may kick off the first AI rights campaign to protect AI from poor input abuse.
Hmm, I actually find that very unsettling in the context of this article and the recent VW debacle. Detecting fraud and recall worthy software failures was already a scary prospect. But a random companies' random engineers tuning a few thousand cars here or there to see what happens in real time.. I feel like we are about to enter a horrible new world where computer forensics meets regular forensics.
Yes, I immediately thought of the motor skills experiments[1] that raised brain density in the relevant regions.
I think the first half of the article was too sensational and brave new world oriented given that the explanation for the differences in regional brain densities and contentedness would mostly be from the home environment of a young child.
It was a bit like predicting the availability of hearing tests will lead us to build classrooms of super hearers instead of intervene to address hearing issues before children fall behind.
The US is the worlds #19th richest country as far as GDP (per capita) which makes the most sense as a measure of individuals and taxes.
I don't think it makes any sense given that lower GDP nations should be doing the same thing to extract money from the US economy on any of their citizens who make more than ~$20K (if their GDP were $14K) based on the same "logic".
When The US is happily paying fairly for its brain drain, it can complain. But either way as an expat I actively boycott US services and financial relationships for my own protection.
(edit- make it clear I mean per capita, and reference: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... )
From reading the description it sounded like they were making original elements in the style of Apple's for apps with non-native features that need to blend in.
In the case of other "gifts" the value can be negative. The trojan horse, software, and blankets from Lord Jeffery Amherst all need careful examination.
The winners apparently write both the history and the idioms. The Trojans would have done well to look a gift horse in the mouth.
A wooden horse can be full of physical soldiers and a digital horse with legal ones.
You can't use any of this in an actual application. So, I make a mock up and show it to someone and then my finished work has to be different from the mock up to avoid copyright infringement? In that situation, I would say I have intentionally defrauded my customer(/employer) and they should refuse to pay (or fire me) and win.
(More likely still, I use them anyway since a graphic artist has made the mock-up and I presume they created or correctly sourced the graphics.)
I'd be curious to try something else for easier testing at a higher level or even figure out how to run the 8086 in a virtual machine..
>> but GForth, the only accessible Forth, looks a bit unloved.
With something as stable as Forth, I'm not sure what kind of activity would indicate a project is active enough unless it is adapting to new or highly unstable architectures?
I am also very skeptical that private data in Germany was or is any safer from the problems with the safe haven as far as data intentionally illegally shared with institutions in the US, not due purely to issues on the ground when defending the data in good faith.
Basically the EU is creating a PR stunt that in theory could force them to enact some minimum veneer of standards and that PR stunt is going to have higher short term costs for the small private sector players than the large ones.
It is entirely possible the stunt will instead pay off for the other EU governments and against the privacy of their population by getting them invited further into the club.