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"TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION" pretty clearly applies to the package accompanied by the license. I looked at the Wikipedia page and this wasn't raised as one of the objections. Do you have a link to some lawyer complaining about that? If the OSI lawyers said it's equivalent to a public domain dedication, that seems useful in countries that don't have a public domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

Read the last line.

Your mind (the rational part) is just a collection of ideas. One of them is called oil.

Maybe he thought your comment was under the WTFPL? Hooray Anarchy!

I think screaming at people and all sorts of other stuff (16-hour days?) is just an unfortunate reality of the restaurant business. It's not like your experience is unique. I feel like most of the problems could be resolved with more money - because the real problem is that every day there's some unpredictable crisis and you have to pull the resources to deal with it out of your ass. Service jobs are so hard because clients want cheap, high quality, fast service are there is tons of competition.

One aspect of the difference is that the physical force and violence with white collar crime are indirect / externalized, because the crimes involve manipulation of intangibles.

"If you're serious you cannot reason" is such a great projection.

There's a nice table with $5 and $.5 words here:

https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/style/pompous_words.html

First time encountering the expression for me. It's not about jargon, as far as I can tell.

There are quite a few massive cities in wealthy countries where a significant number of people choose not to drive even though they can afford it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...

My 3% came from this article (which I linked, but which is fine to have ignored):

http://www.japan-guide.com/topic/0011.html

The LGBT stat came from Wikipedia. For controversial stuff like that in the US, WP is pretty good. I used to think it was 10-15%, 1 in 7 was the number I learned growing up, I guess it's 1 in 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Unite...

For me, "abnormal" generally means "what is wrong with you" (the response given here), whereas "normal" can even include eye-rolling and "oh so you're one of those". The difference between 1 in 33 (3%) and 1 in 666 (0.015%, from the tail end past +3 sigma which accounts for 50% - 99.7% / 2) is really quite palpable.

But again, let's face it: it's not as common as I thought, and it's not as uncommon as you thought.

Alright, so I missed the "half of". But you missed that there are 9 8-hour blocks of leisure in a week, not 7. So it's half of 5/9, or simply 5/18. Which doesn't sound that bad compared to 2.5/18 which is what a 1-hour commute gets you.

Let's face it, we're both being kind of sloppy.

It's not 5/7ths, you're awake for 16 hours: 8 work, 8 leisure. This means on 5 out of 7 days, half of your leisure time is gone. So if you burn 4 commuting then you've given up 20 hours out of 40 + 2 * 16 on the weekends = 72, which is 28% vs. your 71%.

Personally I would never do it, but like, different strokes.

Also, define richly. Assume monthly savings of $2000/month on housing, call it $500 / week, that's $25 an hour. Plenty of people make less than that, so again it's just priorities.

I didn't link to the wrong thing. If you read that article the top cities excluding Nara are all in greater Tokyo. The max time for Kanagawa is not reported, the average time for Kanagawa is 90 minutes (for men with kids under 6). Your calculations are median / max / average of averages.

+/- 3 sigma = 99.7% of the sample, and we know 3% is > 2 hours (for all of Japan, not Tokyo). There's near the same percentage of LGBT adults in the US (~4%).

All we're arguing over is the use of the word normal. Would you be happier with "uncommon but not an extreme outlier"?

But even just assigning someone to jaywalking duty is already selective enforcement. Even if the entire police force was on jaywalking duty, you couldn't catch all the jaywalkers in the city.

Yeah, me neither... but I don't think blaming commuters like ryandrake for advocating their lifestyle is the answer. Different people have different priorities. You wouldn't sneer at OP for working 60-hour weeks (it's glorified in the valley), but that's what a 40-hour work week with a 4-hour daily commute amounts to. I dunno, maintaining a separation between work and home can be healthy.

Yeah, ok, fair enough. First, I was conflating Tokyo with Japan. Second, by normal I meant "culturally accepted" so maybe I shoulda just said that. But you know, normal kinda also means "within 3 sigma" as well as "mean". These data for Tokyo are interesting:

http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/02/20/124942

and this one for Japan paints a more vague but differently interesting picture:

http://www.japan-guide.com/topic/0011.html

Really, it's not unusual to meet a salaryman with a 2-hour commute.

Everyone is tearing you apart, but this is normal in Japan.

I also agree that you have a point about the arbitrary distinction. Presumably you agree that accidental / criminal / insane / unnecessary shootings are a problem. What do you propose as a solution?

The four things I can think of are:

1) tighter registration and controls, GPS tracking

2) better training and education for gun owners, mandatory, free

3) arming more citizens so they can take out mass shooters

4) better training in non-lethal methods for police

We stopped buying raw sugar as well as things with added sugar at the grocery store. We also stopped buying juice and obvious junk food like potato chips. We still buy whole milk and bacon and cheese and pasta.

It was hard at first, but we still have sugar in various forms around the home to use on occasion. We're buying more fruit now too, but eat less than it takes to make the juice we eliminated.

We're losing about one pound per week, with no change in activity levels. So that's crudely about 500 calories per day, each. We have sweet things for social reasons, or to celebrate. The trick is just to avoid buying them so you can't eat them when you get hungry. Once we get down to our target weights I imagine we'll buy more.

It's really quite shocking when you stop buying sugar, just how many of your usual purchases you end up putting back on the shelf.

Yes, I agree, if you're optimizing for "success" you should optimize for "net worth", since for a lot of people those terms mean the same thing, no argument that this is the mainstream interpretation.

Personally I believe that as far as financial success is concerned, how well you handle transactions is just as important as net worth (so it's best to have a lot of money and handle it really well), but that's impossible to quantify of course.

Presumably money. There's a discussion on the correlation between wealth and intelligence at LW with lots of links. Summary, from a quick read: being smart contributes to being rich, but it isn't necessary or sufficient.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/jw5/how_much_wealth_is_produced_by_h...

As long as you pay them back, the mob won't give you a hard time. If you just want the money to get a job, and you're not using it for drugs, you'll be fine.

But, mostly this was just me refuting your claim that I don't understand what it's like to be poor (and desperate). I could go on, in ways that don't have anything to do with organized crime, but I have to go now. It's really infuriating being told by someone that doesn't understand your experience that you don't understand your own experience.

I was speaking from personal experience. Borrowing from illegal sources is not out of the question. For example, one of my friends is always borrowing money from the mob so he can buy more coke. He's currently about $20K in debt. Another one of my friends was tied up and threatened with a blowtorch amputation unless he paid back his loan. Another one was dragged into a bush and beaten up outside his apartment at 3am because he was overdue.

If "understanding the poor" is your goal, you'd do well to dispense with the condescending generalizations.

It was an honest question. GP did say "his house". The fact that not everyone conforms to "tend to" stereotypes is exactly why it's worth asking these questions. Plenty of poor people in America have buckets of debt. Also, there's always pawn shops and the mob. Unpalatable, but still better than not being able to work.

He's unable to borrow money from friends / family / bank / mortagage / credit card to pay the child support?

Communities function better if people work and live in the same place.

I looked it up and the truth is in between. You get "ferritizing" annealing starting at 1300F. Microscopic amounts of that will happen at 500F but nothing significant. Thank you, now I will stop wasting my time with this piece of folklore...

If you comment out b, and it segfaults, the segfault is caused by some code in a. Otherwise, the segfault is caused by some code in b. The root cause of the segfault in b may be found in a, but even looking at the stack trace from a debugger will still point you at b. This is nevertheless helpful information.

Further, there's a misunderstanding about the method. You do a binary search on the "percentage" of code viewed as an instruction stream that is allowed to execute, starting from the beginning. I understand that a can have a different length from b. Given more code, you can also search based on timestamps. You never comment out a and allow b to execute without it, this is nonsense. If that's what you thought I meant, I can understand comments about not actually being able to program. I did not explain this clearly, but only because I had forgotten that it was necessary to explain this clearly, because some people actually don't know how to program, even on HN.

There are many reasons why a cast iron skillet inexplicably cracks.

Poor quality control in manufacturing, natural crystalline formation defects, excessive impacts in handling, extreme thermal stresses, etc.

Cast iron, being a non-ductile material, in the daily thermal cycling of cooking, any minute microscopic fissure will start to propagate through a process known as metal fatigue, and eventually fail catastrophically.

To some degree, cast iron can be annealed or hardened, depending on your cooking habits. Something I do which I would not recommend to anyone else: I buy cheap cast iron cookware, heat it up red hot and pour cold water in it. If it didn't crack, them I heat it up again in an oven and let it cool down as slowly as possible to anneal any internal stress.

In any case, if the skillet is of great value to you, there are places that actually can repair it for you.

As a last tip, stop practicing skillet abuse and trying to be an iron chef. :-)

There's no reason the government can't level the playing field by subsidizing the fixed overhead portion of meeting the regulations. They don't, and it's stupid - ever tried to buy or sell farm fresh eggs? - but there's no reason they can't.