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I live in the core of a city and love it, but all the damn jobs I get offered are an hour away in the suburbs.

It's gotten better. It used to be

Me: Restaurant

Google: Restaurant Supply Store

Meat Wholesale Warehouse

Place Where a Taco Cart Occasionally Parks

Former Location of a Restaurant

Hilariously your replies would be great bot replies to start comment thread fights.

I regularly have recruiters coming to me with jobs in the Bay Area. I tell them that my salary requirement is double for up there versus Los Angeles. A few of the big players will always be able to afford that, but I see smaller tech companies and startups moving away due to cost.

They're all in D3.js and available on GitHub.

I've seen plenty of "coders" with 15+ years experience maintaining and changing other peoples code that couldn't write code from scratch to save their lives. You see it mostly from people who've spent a lot of time someplace huge and old and corporate.

I applied for an analytics position that unexpectedly had me take a Python coding test like this (I know a bit of PHP and Java but no Python) and I was able to google everything I needed to pass the test in the time limit. Apparently I got one of the higher scores too. Got the job. It has not required me to write a single line of Python, lol.

New York also almost had a skyscraper blow over because no one bothered to calculate what the wind hitting it diagonally would do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center

I see no way of controlling privacy in a decentralized system. It'd be like trying to delete all the emails you've sent to other people or stop someone from forwarding an email. Once you put the data out there in a decentralized system, it's out there permanently. Centralization allows for some control.

My tactic is always to pretend to be an assistant doing it for my boss so I have no authority to do anything but cancel/downgrade etc.

The grocery stores I go to have price tags on everything.

https://www.quora.com/Do-slow-drivers-cause-more-accidents-t...

The cars would creep along at 5mph every time there's a pedestrian on the sidewalk then, obstructing traffic and causing accidents.

It's actually more dangerous as it forces other cars to change lanes to get around you.

That's easy. The ad network that serves you ads on YouTube also serves ads on Facebook. They have a profile of you that connects your facebook and google accounts.

Not just online activity. Bank/credit card transactions. Utility/tax information. Postal information. Subscriptions to anything. DMV records. A detailed profile of you is for sale to anyone who cares to pay. Probably less detailed than most people, since you're careful, but enough to be spooky.

They buy the info from massive data brokers, who buy data from other large and small data brokers, who buy the data from app makers, services, etc. User123@gmail.com expressed interest in buying kitty litter isn't exactly sensitive information so there's probably not much in the way of auditable logs maintained, probably impossible to determine the original provenance of the data in many cases.

IP address, or if you have any shared accounts you could have a cookie identifying you as the same user. Ads also target connections of people who're interested in a product so you could get the ad from being friends/following someone who watched the videos. The ads will find you.

In Tucson AZ it was a constant problem that freight trains would either blow through town at full speed or crawl through level crossings blocking traffic rather than obeying speed laws. It was always cheaper for them to pay the fines than to comply.

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Gotta love using trendy non-ACID databases for financial transactions and suddenly rediscovering why ACID databases were invented.

"Well, obviously, you needed to press CTRL+Q+F4 between steps 2 and 3, it's so obvious we don't even need to put it in the instructions."

Oh god I can feel them doing it now.

Main use of HSR is going to be getting to and from peripheral cities. Fresno to SF and Bakersfield to LA in under an hour would be HUGE. That's going to get used more than the full SF to LA trip.

Nothing created after Mickey Mouse will ever enter the public domain in the United States.

More important difference is that a lot of the empty space in Europe is at its northern and eastern extremes and America's empty space is mostly in the middle (and Alaska).

Obviously. He'd have fallen of the edge.

Orion designs really only work if you're evacuating the planet. Massive fallout and radiation would be caused by each launch.

Rent in an area is generally considered excessive when it's more than a third of the average income. And it also has to cover taxes, maintenance, etc. This is assuming you own them free and clear with no mortgage. If you finance buying a small rental property you're usually losing money each month for a few years until rents go up enough to cover your costs.