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That is, unless you're arranging play dates at free / public venues... like some kind of common poor.
I also like the general distaste for clickbait, markety bullshit,etc. I guess in that respect, it's like all the brains you'd expect from silicon valley with very little of the Kool Aid.
...but mostly I just like seeing people piss & moan about Electron using >50MB of RAM
My guess is that once you factor-in payroll taxes & regressive consumption taxes, the poor contribute a larger % of their income than do the rich.
> ...the viewpoint you advocate is extremely patronizing.
W/ all due respect, spare me the crocodile tears. Using economic chicanery to persuade huge swathes of voters is a storied tradition in electoral politics (as is accusing those who would call it chicanery of having 'no respect for the common man,' or whatever).
> ...is not to use the votes of the many to take from the few, but rather to set up a system that is reasonably fair to all?
I'd love for democracy to take from the many and give to the few, but for _some MYSTERIOUS reason_, the many don't appear to have much to spare these days.
So, until the Gini coefficient starts to tick-back towards this "reasonably fair" system you mention, I'll likely stick to my rube-like habit of suspiciously asking '_cui bono_?'
Yikes. SO is where I learned to program, and if this were the norm, I wouldn't have made it.
If I ask a question the premise of which suggests I'm _way_ off, I wanna know. I have to imagine this scenario is far more common than the one you outline, wherein the poster has arbitrary constraints on his/her problem that need to be respected.
Let the voting system decide which answers are useful for posterity & which aren't. But to the answerers who take the time to help askers tackle the spirit of a question--not just its text--I say: thanks.
Then the whole thing just sort of goes to hell.
Can you share where AI fits in the product?
It's not that I'm skeptical of every time a product vaguely alludes to AI in their copy, but... well... I can't think of a way to end that sentence.
The tragic part for me is that, despite the endemic poverty in the area, the chief talking points in local politics just mirror the national ones--nearly irrelevant tripe about gun grabbing and other nationalist fear mongering, with rarely a word about how to solve the dearth of opportunities (because being poor is always your fault).
Then again, poor Southerners have nearly always been manipulated like that. The book 'White Trash' is worth a read here, but southern leaders focusing local Animus at the 'enemies' in DC while ignoring gross under development in their communities is a storied tradition. Sort of reminiscent of N. Korea, though scale is obv. different.
Can you point me to something to back-up this claim? My gun-enthusiast friends often accuse the NCVS of under-counting, usually having to do with survey methodology flaws. But I've looked at the survey[1], and I can't find anything so substantiate their (or your) claim.
But, even still, the CDC numbers are _orders of magnitude_ lower than Kleck et al.--like 10x lower (afaik-not an expert here). So it's a tough pill to swallow that minor (or even substantial) survey errors would lead to that sort of discrepency.
I started by reading the tutorial in the PG docs[1]. It was _very_ well-written & accessible--def. recommend.
Later, I picked-up the book "Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development"[2]. It was pretty solid, and seemed one of the only books aimed at developers (as opposed to DBAs).
I recently started learning PostgreSQL after ~2 yrs of relying on BaaS etc. (mostly of the NoSQL variety).
I have to say: I regret not learning it earlier. Stuff like constraints, triggers, views, etc., are game-changers, but even just being able to write queries instead of navigating a proprietary GUI was worth the few weeks it took to learn.
It was also a boon for data analysis work. Whereas before I'd take a few hours cleaning some data with JavaScript or Python, now I just write a SQL query or two. It's faster, it feels more powerful, and it's _substantially_ less fragile than one-off data cleaning scripts.
Anyway: for those that started out like I did, afraid of SQL, dive on in.
I once worked for the USPS in a Middle Eastern country, and it was our job to assist local customs officials as they scanned / inspected every piece of inbound mail.
They ran each piece through an x-ray, and whenever they spotted a banned item (liquor bottles, sex toys--hell, they even inspected optical discs to make sure they weren't porn), they opened the package and confiscated it.
We cleared about 1 mail truck of mail every night, and it took 5-10 hours. No way that's sustainable on the scale of domestic mail throughput.
When I was in the service overseas, the USPS was a lifeline. Thanks to special arrangements between the military and the USPS, I could have anything shipped from the states to wherever I was in the world for the same rate it'd have cost to have it sent to NYC--usually with only a week or so extra shipping time added.
Cyni-casm aside, yours is a crucial point I think gets forgotten too often. Just yesterday I was scrolling through the comments on a Fox News post about an 18 year old who'd been sentenced to 25 yrs for being present during robbery when his friend killed someone.
Obviously substantially different crimes, but the comments were mostly people salivating at this "animal" getting "what he deserved."
Anyway, thanks for mentioning this point.
My sense is that, in most cases, sex workers do not act as their own agents, so I see backpage as a platform catering to pimps et al.
Though I guess there's an argument to be made that sites like backpage make it easier for sex workers to disintermediate pimps, which I imagine would be a good thing.
On the one hand, I don't think prostitution should be illegal.
On the other hand, it's not clear whether marketplaces like backpage bring the black-market closer to the light of day & make things safer for sex workers, or if they amplify demand to the point where suppliers have incentive to find new sex workers using more and more coercive methods.
It's not within the fed's mandate to worry about the price of the dollar or equity prices (until employment is impacted), is it?
_five months later_, I got a reply asking to explain further. I couldn't even remember what the bug was.
That, and I remember Staples of the JS ecosystem (eg ESLint) being somewhat difficult to set up. Maybe they were simple if one knew the Jetbrain workflows, but for me, esp. compared to VS Code, it seemed a huge undertaking just to get ESLint to work.
Actually, here's an SO question I posted awhile back about ESLint in WebStorm (well, intelliJ). This was shortly before I made the switch to Code.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34700062/intellij-plugin...
But lately I've been using Datagrip for SQL stuff,and geez, did Jetbrain crush the competition w/ this product.
...once I switched the shortcuts to match VS Code's, that is
These are all extreme examples, but I think the parent post example (not giving feedback b/c of liability issues) is cut from the same cloth.
Businesses take liability risks day in & day out. For some, the calculus concludes that (practically) selfless gestures, like giving applicants feedback, aren't worth that risk. That, imo, is a shame.