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Criticizing a religion is not the same thing as dehumanizing its followers.
Dehumanization is a defense mechanism which helps us avoid feeling the pain of realizing that humans sometimes do (subjectively) abhorrent things. It's seductive to define such people outside the bounds of humanity as it allows us to excuse treating them poorly. It is nearly always a mistake to do so, because people are, in fact, people.
There are multiple points where averaging is employed.
FMR is a close to median value. From the linked definition: "The FMR is the 40th percentile of gross rents for typical, non-substandard rental units occupied by recent movers in a local housing market"
Additionally, FMR is itself statewide average, covering both high and low cost of living areas. Low cost of living counties have units available for far below FMR values.
Low end housing in low cost of living areas can be found for under $377/mo - their estimate of affordable minimum wage rent.
FMR is a close to median value. From the linked definition:
"The FMR is the 40th percentile of gross rents for typical, non-substandard rental units occupied by recent movers in a local housing market"
Minimum wage is not a 40th percentile income.
Yes, it's what they're saying. They quote $377/mo as the maximum affordable rent for a minimum wage earner.
There are many counties across America where a low-end two bedroom can be found for substantially less than that $377. These claims only make sense if they refer to median prices.
For example:
https://joplin.craigslist.org/apa/d/joplin-2br-1bath-apartme...
https://seks.craigslist.org/apa/d/pittsburg-1913-elm-complex...
The claim 'there is not one U.S. state, metropolitan area, or county in which a minimum wage worker who clocks 40 hours a week can afford a two-bedroom apartment' is simply incorrect.
This article like so many others makes a critical mistake in using a median price for minimum earners.
A minimum wage earner is not and should not be in the market for a median priced home.
A median wage earner would pursue a median priced home.
A bottom quartile earner would pursue homes priced in the bottom quartile. Not the median.
The title of this article is false. Minimum wage earners can often afford two bedroom homes priced at the lower end.
The unix filesystem api doesn't provide a way to interact with sectors. The primitives are files and the methods available are writing more data, or truncating.
There is no function provided for shifting the byte offset of data in a file.
You can write an entirely new file, of course, but the question has an implicit goal of doing this efficiently.
Michael Crichton calls these "wet streets cause rain" stories in his piece "Why Speculate." http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
From his article:
Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
Generally speaking theft requires an intent to deprive an owner of property. It's a crime to take my bike intending to deprive me of it, but it's not a crime to take my bike while attempting to return it to me.
Property owners do not have any obligation to lock up their items.
There are sometimes very specific laws regarding found property when the owner cannot be located, generally these involve turning the property over to the state first.
At scale, rare errors will occur on a semi-regular basis.
Multi-day outages tend to be indicative of a dysfunctional internal organization.
I'm discussing the problem of collections of python scripts using /usr/bin/python and I included the state of RHEL7 as an example.
The actual subject is CoolGuySteve's build system, which is likely to look like my example of RHEL7 rather than yours of ubuntu. The vast majority of environments look like RHEL7 or CoolGuySteve's build system where #!/usr/bin/python is the norm.
Right, someone working in ubuntu distro development has done this work for those packages specifically.
Above, we're discussing some build system where someone hasn't done this work. Most collections of python code in the world (I'm going to hazard a guess significantly upward of 90%) just use /usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/env python.
That's the nature of the problem.
Trespass to chattels. This is an intentional tort: The stated goal is to impair the property of the neighbor.
CoolGuySteve complained that things will break because existing scripts assume /usr/bin/python. CoolGuySteve is correct. There is an enormous amount of work involved in changing or removing the function of /usr/bin/python.
Offering advice about how to write new software does nothing to help with the frustration he highlighted: His existing build systems will break. Build systems are especially frustrating as they tend to have hacked-together code that no one really wants to look at.
People will often work around this by installing a python2 as /usr/bin/python. At the end of the day this change results in a less predictable platform. On previous RHEL systems I know what /usr/bin/foo is -- it's predictable given the major version of the distro. But now I won't know what /usr/bin/python is on RHEL8. It will be uniquely different and that's not a good thing.
You say "you" as if you're talking to the person you're replying to. Most scripts in the world aren't authored by the person you're replying to. They're powerless to change the ocean of python out in the world.
For example, out of about 50 or so /usr/bin/python scripts I see in a RHEL7's /usr/bin I can't find a single one that runs on python3.
No individual user is going to be fixing this. It's a very silly and shortsighted move on RedHat's part.
They hurt their reputation and they look like idiots, sure.
Above, people are suggesting that we need regulatory and/or criminal charges. There isn't any harm to customers and there isn't any evidence of fraud or criminal wrongdoing.
RH harmed themselves by looking stupid in front of the world. That's it. The rest is misguided hysteria.
Had they launched a product, sure. But this was mere talk about a future product which they've decided "to retool" after scrutiny.
No one was harmed here. This is fine.
I'm glad you agree that debt isn't necessarily bad.
The anecdote about secured mortgage debt might apply equally well to government debt. Most debt is serviceable.
This article isn't about net value. "The world" does not have $86k of net debt per person. That would be a mathematical impossibility.
Exactly. Most people have significantly more than $86k debt in the form of a mortgage. I owe a lot more than $86k on the mortgage for my home.
I have more assets than debt and I could pay off my mortgage but it's simply not the best way for me to spend my capital.
Additionally, I suspect this article is using a median value for "average income" but a mean value for "average debt." This paints a misleading picture.
I would go in that direction if I needed to but so far I simply haven't needed any google services that require a login.
I've read some horror stories about google pulling the plug on all accounts due to a billing conflict somewhere else in their ecosystem. That, together with the absolute PITA of managing multiple accounts pretty much ensures I will avoid ever paying to put my data in their hands.
My employer uses gsuite and managing google cookies in a multi-login scenario is sufficiently annoying that I simply avoid using google services altogether.
No. SLAPP statutes protect against frivolous lawsuits. If someone is sued over sharing an opinion, SLAPP might provide a quick way to demonstrate that the opinion is protected speech and that the suit is unwinnable. Generally, SLAPP aims to easily dismiss suits without merit.
This is not a frivolous lawsuit and is not without merit.