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One issue is plumbing. A floor of apartments needs more pipes and drains than were built in for office space. Interesting problem to solve, for sure.

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This guy better brace himself for internet fame, he's got a full page dating profile on The Guardian. He might never leave Wales but I bet people come to him now.

Most children understand the Golden Rule without much guidance. Being good isn't complicated or controversial. Sharing feels good. Friendship feels good. Being kind feels good. Expressing appreciation feels good.

So there's no good reason to write an article about the value of being grateful, unless you aren't:

Entitlement also often develops among kids who are not told no. This kind of entitlement is wreaking havoc on American society today, including and especially among the black culture, where the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement has appealed to black men and others who share the common misfortune of not having a good father in the home to discipline them.

Gratitude doesn’t come naturally for most people. The growing turmoil in our society, including riots and general disrespect for the law and order that has made America prosperous for hundreds of years, can be directly traced back to a lack of gratitude on the part of the hundreds of thousands or millions of people who feel like society owes them everything, that they can be perpetual takers while giving back little to nothing.

This is truly racist, sanctimonious rubbish.

Anyone interested in historical Indian law cases that didn't set good precedent might be interested in reading In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided, by Walter Echo-Hawk.

Watch Gaza Fights for Freedom, a documentary by Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, for a horrifying look into what life is like in Gaza for the Palestinian people. It was filmed inside Gaza and the footage smuggled out.

It is a humanitarian crisis to say the least. I personally think it's closer to genocide.

While it's nice that Dell promotes Linux, they need to greatly improve their support for the products they sell. I bought an XPS with Ubuntu and regret it: persistent wifi issues, erratic power consumption with sleep/suspend, and zero software diagnostic tools available for download. Tech Support was friendly and helpful but was ultimately unable to help me troubleshoot, seeming to have no Linux-based tools, manuals, or experience on their end. I was somehow even more out of luck when I upgraded from 18.04 to 18.10 -- Support resisted providing any support for a non-Dell installed OS version.

Bundling service config and launch makes the whole process easier, for sure. There's also more than one way to configure this depending on what your needs are, so it'd be cool to have a few different versions of SCAR.

I started with a setup similar to your diagram and tweaked it when I realized S3 didn't serve index.html when the URL was just the parent "directory", i.e. example.com/foo/ doesn't resolve to s3://example.com/foo/index.html. To get this working I had to write a bit of JS in a Lambda function and deploy it at the edge of my CloudFront distribution to do some URL rewriting.

Given that's the behavior most people expect, might be worth considering?

I've seen this more where I'm from, too. Our underwater ecosystem is collapsing. Their world must be like some of our smog-choked, acid rain hellscapes, if not moreso and even more acute.

I agree with you about government action.

That said, if you work for a company, rally together with your like-minded coworkers to push for change within your organization. Even small companies can have an outsized impact on both mindshare and environmental direction.

I belong to a group broadly devoted to environmentalism where I work, and we push on things from renewables; having less meat and more vegetables at lunch and dinner (we're very lucky to have catered food); and bringing in guest speakers.

I use a shared host for some personal projects, clients, and friends.

Most people I know aren't tech-savvy and want WordPress or small no-frills HTML website and the ability to upload files through FTP. I want email forwarders and mailboxes that are easy to configure, regular database backups, no-hassle SSL certificates, and decent email support.

I've been using Pair for about 10 years and I've been happy.

What have you been trying so far?

Is organizational politics inevitable once you reach a certain size? Any ideas or lessons in avoiding politics in favor of solving problems – short of a mind meld?

I think PG makes a few assumptions in this musing that deserve more though and criticism. Power and charisma together often brew megalomania, and I don't see charisma itself as a powerful person's antidote to being hated. Without diving into politics, I think there are a few good arguments out there for "lack of charisma" being the least of HRC's problems.

I'd be more interested to hear PG explore his own relationship to charisma and power on a personal and professional level than read this oddly deflecting set of statements.

It isn't even a terribly difficult Hawaiian name, either!

Fix the SFMTA would be a great hackathon project. I'm sure there's more than a few willing and talented people in the city to lend their skills to solving this immediate problem...

Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs

I like the post, and the ambitious GitHub repo with a single README made me smile. We're re-discussing an existing idea to see if maybe something sticks or clicks. An idea might be the same, but circumstances change.

That said, I agree with a lot of the comments here. Like coding, let's see if we already have a library that does what we want before writing it (again). A good question is, what's the most pressing problem we face, and how does this solve it?

I don't have a problem using Twitter or Facebook to, let's say, organize a grassroots movement or lead a protest, but I ought to be concerned about the viability of these platforms for such activities when they're unpopular with the company or government behind it. How might we solve this? Maybe this project leads to some solution...?

How much better this letter would be if it were reframed: we can't ignore the pain, struggle, and despair of the homeless; we need to do more to help – and here's what I plan to do.

San Francisco, like many other towns, is a troubled place if you look closely. Homelessness is a complex and overwhelming problem with no easy solution. Addressing it in a practical, effective, and humane way will take concerted action by government and the residents of this city together. There's no other way.

As real as the author's discomfort and frustration may be, his words stink. Here is someone who neither recognizes the full potential of his undeniable privilege, nor sees its true limitations. He wants change, but having already paid for it, is entitled to it (he seems to say), and so the burden rests on others to fix the problem.

Justin Keller knows what a good society should (literally) look like, but he doesn't understand how to get there. I'm hoping he doesn't lack the empathy and humanity his words and tone suggest.

There's a world of difference between the two candidates' positions. Sanders has a history of stubborn, unwavering commitment to his progressive ideas, whereas Clinton has only recently aligned herself with some of the popular ideas championed by him. (Many of these ideas were truly radical when they were first proposed, even fringe.) Clinton, like most politicians, maneuvers for votes when convenient, and when required by her deep, complex ties to industries with their own, decidedly non-populist agendas.

As for reality – if I had to define the dialogue of this election, at least on the Democratic side, it wouldn't be a focus on modest, incremental, or "practical" approaches, but rather achieving ambitious, populist goals, demanded by those with a deep frustration with and even sense of injustice about the state of politics and the world. There's a very real desire for these kinds of changes, so much so in my view that implementation will necessarily follow from such strong demand.

I'm glad someone else picked up on this. I cringed when I read that paragraph. For some interesting perspective on men's issues, take a look at the Men's rights movement. It's ambitious, broad, controversial, and contradictory, but full of interesting thought.

"Public space is an arena in which no single authority should reign and multiple voices should be heard, so we started from a profoundly democratic conviction that the public sphere is a place for communication, a place where people can speak, establish their presence, and assert their rights."

As we spend more time buried in mobile phones and other screens, our eyes and hands in intimate connection with these devices, I wonder how the artists would examine "private" spaces like those. Could advertisements – which demand attention and energy, even without active mental application – more damaging in this smaller sphere than in the public one?

I like the idea of and motivation behind reclaiming of public space. The artists nod toward property ownership and the "rights" of advertisers, following it with, "no, thank you."

They recently rolled out a "log in with phone number" feature, so there's no need to have a Facebook account anymore as far as I can tell.

At what altitude are these wind currents? What is the relationship between what we see and what one would feel generally close to the ground?

And for a tiny fraction of $88 million. There's something about throwing such a large amount of money at a project that causes it to bloat into failure.

Fantastic!

If it already exists as you say, would you mind sharing what that feature is?

I ran into this problem time and again with my own language acquisition startup. My cofounder and I did what research we could and gleefully discounted all the big names in language learning as true competitors. But as we talked to more people, ones who knew about some other new startup (or worse, a feature on an existing product), I'd run back to my computer with a sinking feeling in my gut.

In the end, financial reasons prevented us from continuing, but we did produce a product that we ourselves used. We were happy for meeting our personal goals. Furthermore, there might be academic/non-profit applications for your technology that might encourage you to continue work. If you can pivot and regain momentum, try it for a little bit.

In the end, if you're too disheartened to go on, you probably won't and you'll be miserable. So figure out a way to address the competition, alter your own path in response, or move on and feel good about the fact that you did four great, solid months of work, learned a ton, and that your time was well spent.

80s pop, all the way.