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So, you're pretty negative on WebGL then?

Don't most streets with houses on them have houses on both sides of the street? In which case if two houses are each paying 60% the cost of the street on their frontage, isn't there a 20% overage?

But then we wouldn't be applying the invisible hand of the market to fix things!

Nope, but they are required if you want to do anything on it that's custom. And Apex as a platform is a nightmare to work with.

Well, that's how it's 'supposed' to work. According to 18th century agrarian economics. Before the telegraph (let alone the internet) enabled businesses to get that large.

But due to collusion, sometime-insufficient regulation (e.g., ad networks that can and do deliver malware), sometime-overbearing regulation (e.g., software patents), and ... well ... the rest of the real world, Adam Smith market economics is exceedingly reductionist. It works in the microcosm. Until you take into account that no economic entity or system is fully enclosed.

For example: has Blackboard yet been toppled, or are they still suing and/or acquiring any potential competitor via its vast patent portfolio, all the while being the absolute worst solution to its problem possible?

They often lead to more suicides _at the beginning of treatment_, but less suicides in the long run.

That's why hospitalization is often necessary when beginning treatment for depression when that depression includes suicidal ideation, but is not necessary for the duration of treatment.

Getting upset about the definition of words when they don't fit your privileged view of the world is a common tactic of those in places of privilege when equality seems to attack their base of privilege.

You don't understand racism at all. That's not even the dictionary definition of it. Any of the dictionary definitions of it.

Racism is believing that one race is superior and basing the oppression of other races upon that belief.

Thus, the oppressed cannot be racist. They can be intolerant or bigoted or any of many other things; but they cannot be racist because they are not coming from a position of privilege to even be able to oppress.

When people are really depressed, they don't kill themselves. Because they have no energy to.

Once they go on antidepressants, they go on suicide watch. It's the most dangerous time. Because they'll still be depressed, but they'll finally have the energy to get up. And they just might have the energy to do themselves in.

But ugh. Suburbs and driving.

If there was a light rail to an urban center and I could get my daily/weekly errands done via walking or cycling, sure.

But the car centric culture of, well, just about everywhere is IMHO grosser than an "urban prison"

Wasn't just uber and lyft, the outer borough taxis steppd up their game after they were allowed to pick up street hails (but not in Manhattan).

If you're going by incorporated municiple.... SF is something like 21 on the list.

Before, or after EA pillaged it? :)

Ultima Online continued this. keywords required for opening shop and bank menus, for example.

There was always the urban legend that if you said just the right thing to a wisp, good things would happen...

So ahead of its time, that game. And so unable to evolve to become relevant after most of its groundbreaking ideas were dropped because, for 1998, they were unattainable.

In some respects, it was a victim of its own success...

"sure, I can repair your armor for you, just accept the trade...!"

(before you could target the repair skill to items in the trade menu)

On the other hand, it vastly simplifies some of my CSS. Those spans screw up whitespace in text. And can really throw a wrench into flexbox layouts.

That's the only time I'm targeting them... To fix what they screw up.

And if you're not cisgendered it can be even worse...

Funny story... A lot of places have more reliable internet than the bay area.

Why does it look like a new balance?

Rather not give the daily beast ad revenue, thanks

Alaskans have been receiving a guaranteed income of ~$1,000 per anum for the past 34 years.

Soviet Union and China didn't really have a universal basic income. They had a state defined income, if anything. Which meant you couldn't make more than that, either.

It actually has been "field tested" - and in the US of A, no less.

The entire state of Alaska has a guaranteed minimum income.

Granted, it isn't much - on average it's been about $1,000 per anum.

And yet everything you're writing shows the exact opposite. Gender identity and sexuality, for example, are orthagonal. A common misconception. One can be assigned male at birth, be genderqueer, and be primarily attracted to those who were assigned female at birth.

There is nothing special treatment about having the ability to identify yourself as yourself.

And discrimination is very real, from being fired for being trans/genderqueer to being murdered for being trans/genderqueer.

Heightening visibility by, e.g., providing an option on a salary survey, helps fight against the very real violence that the LGBTQ community still experiences.

It's a bigger percentage than you think. Non-binary is a pretty inclusive designation, and effectively represents "not entirely male" and "not entirely female" and any and everything inbetween. Genderqueer is a similarly inclusive designation.

It's important because not representing it as a viable selection reinforces discrimination[0] against those who don't identify as one of the binary genders.

In any case, your reduction of things to 0.0000001% of the entire population is pretty heinously insensitive (then again, this is Hacker News, so cis-sexism and transphobia is generally expected). And pretty false. In a UK survey, 0.4% (or 1 in 250 people) identified as neither fully male nor fully female [1].

Edit: by adding more than the binary male/female, especially with a salary thing like this, you can more easily expose discrimination in pay between not only those who identify as male or identify as female but also those who identify as trans/queer. And given that there is a lot of discrimination out there against us (it's not even illegal to discriminate against trans/genderqueer in many, many, many states), it's an important data point to collect.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_towards_non-bin...

1. http://practicalandrogyny.com/2014/12/16/how-many-people-in-...

There are more genders out there than you have on your dropdown :)

Consider adding a non-binary/genderqueer option, please.

It doesn't have as much traction because as a whole, coffee script is almost always unreadably ambiguous (even moreso than jsx).

And the best parts are already here in es2015.

There sure was a whole lot of force and coercion behind social security.

Safari is so far behind every other browser, it's not even funny.

Going through Calc III for the first time. I can't imagine how many more trees I would destroy if I had to write out double integrals longhand. Not to mention, it would make it a lot harder to reason about everything going on...

When I first started in my adult adventure in math (never doing well with it academically, I started on pre-calc with Khan Academy about a year and a half ago; I'm now working through multivariable calculus on MIT OCW), I used scratch mode in emacs because hey, I'm right there on the computer.

I gave up and started using graph paper as my scratch pretty quickly :)

I can't imagine trying to actually _do_ math with something "descriptive" like LaTeX.

Math, from what I've come to realize, is less about describing how to compute something and more about describing something in such a way that it can be manipulated in order to reveal something new.

And that's why the obtuse iconography is popular in math, and why the obtuse iconography of APL never became truly mainstream in programming.

I was a good tenant. I paid on time. I didn't wreck my apartment. I did need repairs once: the hood (required by code) over my stove was never installed. I did ask for an exterminator repeatedly, because mice were coming in through the walls (there was a 2" gap between the floorboards and the sheetrock behind the baseboard radiator cowling; I caught 18 mice in one weekend). I did ask for an exterminator repeatedly, because about 15 months in bedbugs started coming in through my walls. About 16 months in, my landlord informed me they were going to begin eviction proceedings against me for failure to pay rent. I had paid every month, on time. The building had changed owners, and the new owner bungled their rent payment history. Had to hire a lawyer to send them a letter (along with a thick packet of supporting documents) declaring that no, in fact, I did not owe them four months rent.

So yeah, between illegally trying to evict me, never once exterminating that place, etc etc .... I'm glad I don't live in a building owned by a shitty landlord anymore. I'd give my previous landlord a solid F-; I'd give my current landlord an A. I'm also paying 150% what my previous place was for the privilege of having a landlord that doesn't violate the law monthly.

In NYC, you can look up your building in the DOH complaint database. This ranges from things like damaged flooring (e.g, broken wood floors, pealing linoleum) to rat/roach/bedbug infestations and many other building violations (such as failure to provide heat in the wintertime). It's not usually complaints like 'my rent is too high and my landlord sucks, argh'. It's more complaints like, 'this building is hazardous to live in.'