Kids and getting older make this a less bulletproof solution.
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It's a misguided attempt to control the culture of their community, but in their mind I think they really feel threatened and harmed.
High conviction rates aren't inherently bad. Bias and a lack of individual rights are bad (which it sounds like are present here).
In an ideal society though with strong individual rights and little to no bias, a high conviction rate would mean less innocent people getting prosecuted which is a good thing.
That means the country is arresting and bringing the wrong people to trial.
In an ideal world you're only arresting and convicting people with clear and obvious guilt. That would probably look like a society with very strong individual rights, extremely low (near 0) bias and a high conviction rate.
Sometimes it's real though.
Clients might have to make a vendor decision by the end of a quarter for example and want a bug to be fixed or a feature to be added before they sign.
In other cases, there might be a huge event and ad campaign where you have a limited timeframe to make a good first impression on a lot of potential customers.
Deadlines suck but in certain cases they're very necessary.
I've never heard anyone promoting the idea of keeping taxes complicated to avoid higher taxes.
There's nothing inherent in complicated taxes that stops the government from raising rates.
Conservatives have long wanted the flat tax (file taxes on the back of a postcard) and lower taxes, so simpler lower taxes.
I think the reason it became so complicated was because businesses lobbied for special rules and tax breaks that made things complicated in the first place. Businesses are now setup to take advantage of these loopholes (Amazon passing $0 in taxes, etc.).
TurboTax was built as a result of complicated taxes and they lobby heavily against a simplified tax code.
It's not some cabal of citizens wanting to keep taxes complicated, it's the industries that benefit from the current tax code that wants to keep it this way.
It's an interesting design exercise, but I can't imagine people using this day to day.
It doesn't mean you're fighting the fires but it does mean you're staying informed, keeping people motivated through long hours and bad news and ready to make difficult decisions.
I doubt homeless shelters produce this effect on existing home prices.
And yes, telling a hard working middle class family with kids to just declare bankruptcy and move on is a big deal and worth examining the impact before you create policies that make that a real possibility.
Culture matters to a lot of people. Why do you like one town versus another? Maybe the weather, maybe the jobs, but probably also because of the people, the shops, the architecture, the parks, etc. The later are all a function of culture.
Some of the most unique cities are ones with a strong identity. If you take an agricultural town with lots of great festivals, open space and farm to table restaurants and basically make it an affordable housing suburb for the nearby big cities, it's not an easy win/win. You'll need to take that open space and popup some fast food restaurants to feed the demand. Something is lost culturally in that process and it's worth examining rather than saying it's inevitable or necessary.
That's why it's not as simple as "build more affordable housing", not everyone wins if it's done too fast.
While we need to provide affordable housing there are reasonable economic / environmental / community reasons why some small towns don't want it in their own backyard.
It's not that simple. Rapidly increasing the housing supply has all kinds of effects on communities:
* Decreasing the value of nearby homes (supply and demand)
* Increasing traffic and strain on community services like schools
* Environmental impact
* Rapidly changing the demographic and possibly culture of the area
Zoning laws and the permit process exist to help ensure safe buildings but also to help protect the home value of existing residents.
This makes sense in communities with the infrastructure to support it though and we definitely should be looking into ways to safely house everyone.
128GB+ drives are standard on mid-range laptops. Even at 64GB are you really going to fill up disk space because of Go executables?
CockroachDB (a large software project) is only 123MB. I doubt most people even have 100 pieces of non-default software on their laptop or that executables are going to fill up storage and break anyone's bank these days.
If you're short on HD space, I'm typically targeting photos and videos, not software.
If the author still got a cut of the resale price, this might actually increase sales.
There are tons of books I'd like to read but I felt were out of my monthly book budget.
If I could recoup a good portion of my costs I'd buy more books.
Most dating apps try to answer the "who" and "where", but the OP is trying to answer the "how" as well which is brilliant.
Another twist I thought might be effective was suggesting a first date based on mutual interests.
Or, one person could lead with a blanket first date offer: 2 tickets to XYZ on MM/DD. Kind of like a timed auction where they select their date partner by a specified time.
I think it would be interesting to see the variety and creativity increase when you're showcasing a first date.
You could brand yourself as the "one and done" dating site of you're really that good.
Or, come up with a payment model that's more like an a recruiter where you get paid when there's a match (assuming you can verify a successful relationship).
It's challenging but I don't think the industry is doomed towards conflicting interests for users and match makers.
More accurately for me was salary was equivalent to the market price.
I needed to maintain a certain level of talent to be competitive, so I recruited and found developers at that level. After enough interviews and salary requests it's easy to ballpark the industry average for a certain level of talent and I'd hire the ones that were a good fit at a reasonable salary.
In my case supply was scarce but just available enough that prices were pretty stable.
As the supply of good developers increases it makes sense that the average salary request will drop.
This is economics 101 that no capitalist industry is immune to.
Some would end up lower but some would end up higher.
Nothing is guaranteed, but neither is a job.
1 year of working in Silicon Valley got me dozens of quality connections that turned into meaningful long-term projects.
It's hard to justify the ROI on college.
At $25k/year for a low-tier college, you'll spend $100k (if you don't need loans). If you take that $100k and put it in the market (avg. 7% annual returns) with 0 contributions for 45 years, you could spend every penny you make and retire at 63 with $2.1M.
At more expensive colleges ($50k/yr+) the math seems less and less in your favor.
Even small fasts seem to sap my concentration and critical thinking. Once I eat again I feel like I think better.
Same. I don't like too much cable TV content, but it is nice that it's all bundled into a single service. I might enjoy one show on Discovery and one on NatGeo, but I'd never sign up for their channels individually.
I've never heard of an autocrat that doesn't directly or indirectly manipulate elections.
This is the only method that works for me. A scale with weight, body fat and muscle mass measurements each morning after waking up.
What gets measured gets done.
Each generation has it better than the last but at some point the knowledge of the fundamentals of life and success is lost and the process restarts.
Not a hard and fast rule of course, but an interesting concept.
Zoom out far enough and any activity can have parallels to programming. Almost every activity requires concentration, planning, fear of failure, etc.
Zoom in close enough and programming in Go is nothing like programming in JavaScript.
It's all perspective.