Parents are the biggest shortcoming in the education of children today.
Have you seen the tripe that passes for curriculum these days? Believe me a certain percentage of the parents are tuning them out because they've become politically indoctrinating baby-sitters.
If you're trying to live the American Dream of having it all, Silicon Valley is very expensive.
Exactly... But the other tech hubs offer choices. A lot of geeks disparage the other hubs as backwaters and diss the "bubba" factor. But... You can pick your poison. That's really all I'm saying. Greater San Jose offers two choices, the frugal but wise for the locale lifestyle you have chosen, or the tortured attempt at balancing a traditional 3bd/2ba w/kids + dog family lifestyle your brother is likely attempting in an economy built to blow bubbles and then pop. Where I call you out for your choice is that I ask if you have made an honest choice, or just been smart enough to not fight the local fight. Only you can answer that, and the answer is only correct for you. That said, you can make money off the bubbles, but you have to be "in the know", and take advantage when the time is right. Therein lies the problem...
But at the end of the day, we're still slaves to biology in that we are finite. If we fail to thrive and produce offspring, anything we gain is lost. You can be pro-feminist, pro-diversity, pro-whatever the topic of the day is, etc... but if you fail to do these two things, you will fail and collapse society in couple generations: 1. Achieve a > 2.2 child per breeding couple reproduction rate, and: 2. Instil in those offspring at least the same work ethic that led to your own success. I loved my Mills college girlfriend, but... Fail at those and the numbers collapse pretty quickly, the barbarians are at your doorstep and they will sell her in to slavery after feeding you to the delta smelt. It sucks, and its the biology trap we haven't figured out how to escape yet. I choose to have kids and am working to (hopefully) make them productive members of an advancing society, My attempts at doing that in the SF Bay Area indicated impending failure, so I gave up.
I come back for ageing family, and the periodic contract tech refresh. Then I get run out again. My son is starting to learn about Mindcraft mod'ing... I worry that Java will die before he finishes school...
Oh... and I drive old cars, and buy $20 jeans at Costco and wear cheap tee-shirts. The free tradeshow ones are even better...
Please move to Texas. When a fertilizer plant explodes in your neighborhood, wipes out the volunteer fire department and burns down half the town, you will appreciate why California has taxes and regulations.
From the article: "But Texas has also had the nation's highest number of workplace fatalities - more than 400 annually - for much of the past decade. Fires and explosions at Texas' more than 1,300 chemical and industrial plants have cost as much in property damage as those in all the other states combined for the five years ending in May 2012."
I was actually in Texas when that happened. I float back and forth between Austin and San Jose... But you're missing my point: There are multiple tech hubs, and some have significantly different lifestyles and costs of living. You can "do a startup" in Austin, or Portland, or Seattle, or even Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Austin and San Jose are kind of the opposite ends of the shelf. Austin housing is starting to catch up after 10+ years of stagnation... The Bay Area has finally recovered from the '08 crash.
You've identified one of the problems in Texas, and assumed it's entirely regulatory in nature (hint: cows are dangerous). But you can't just ignore the glaring problem that there are no politicians in the California legislature that have more than a few years of skin in the game due to term limits. They don't care about long term solutions, because they won't be around to take credit for them, or even be around to take the blame. Hence the horrible commutes, and the CalPers mess... They just raise taxes to kick the can down the road, and you get things like $600/yr car registrations, and 13.9% income tax rates, and find yourself blowing $40 at McDonald’s for a couple Happy Meals, etc... Those things add up, but they're just money... What keeps driving me out is the traffic. Spending three to five hours a day in a car commuting keeps me from raising my kids, damages my health, and prevents me from participating in the community I live in.
I'm getting sick and tired of explaining to people that San Francisco and Silicon Valley are not the same place. Every time the news media does a story on Silicon Valley, they show a tech company campus (typically Google) and the Golden Gate Bridge. The two places are 50 miles apart.That's like claiming Florida as a New York City suburb.
Given the recent California housing trends, it hardly matters. You can't find a decent house under $500k as far away as Stockton... And the whole state is functionally bankrupt / crippled by the public employee pension system and shallow bench politics. Move to the smaller tech hubs outside California and you can save 15% right up front, and then get a damage multiplier via cheaper living.
Some examples: $3.50 vs $6 for a gallon of milk $2.40 vs $3.68 for a gallon of gas Nice new houses for under $200k... Some tech hubs have no sales tax... Some tech hubs have no state income taxes...
Silicon Valley has every kind of tax possible, and you can't fix it by voting for an election cycle or two...
Less than 20% of California's water supply gets delivered to the cities. Of that, less than half ever makes it to a sewer. Most of it gets used by agriculture, or gets sprinkled on those neatly trimmed HOA regulated lawns.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
gee, it's right there in the constitution and everything
btw, "well regulated" in colonial america speak means well trained. the intent of the founding fathers was that those with guns be well trained. so the current status quo of "hand guns to every mouth breathing moron who grunts" is against the constitution and the will of the founding fathers
Another interpretation of "well regulated" comes from Masonic lodges, of which the founding fathers were in many cases members, which would be "well behaved and orderly". This is the definition that allows felons and others that are not "well regulated" to be denied the right.
I have progressives for every day use. My eyes have gotten bad enough that I can't read my car's dash insturments without them.
I spend 10+ hours a day in front of a computer and if I do that in progressives I end up with a very sore neck. So I told my optometrist I needed a prescription for "computer glasses". These are single focus with astigmatism correction but not quite the full strength of a reading correction. This of course makes them useless for just about everything else.
My 70 watt AMD "house server" has been turned off since early November to one of those sucky 5 watt Banana Pi boards, and a 3 watt R-Pi B+ for OVPN duty... Not a single problem so far...
Erm, you likely forgot the exact extend of the Kyoto goals?
Global CO2 emmissions are now primarily an emerging market issue. China, India, etc... That is nonsense, it is just 2 years ago that China exceeded the USA CO2 emissions. And right now they are also working on limiting them.
Working on it, as in "keep growing them until 2030, while the US shrinks"... I should just quit work and go on the dole with leadership like this. Why bother?
This is why America has no friends. It's like you think polluting is your god given birthright and will continue to argue about it long after everyone else has accepted that it's a problem.
Remember that it's only cheap for you because you are pushing the cost on to other people.
The USA has already met our (not ratified) Kyoto goals, and exceeded them. Global CO2 emmissions are now primarily an emerging market issue. China, India, etc...
You should not be using port 25 unless you are hosting a mail transmission agent. If you are submitting email from a user agent, you should be using port 587. Port 25 has been deprecated by the IETF for over a decade and is reserved for transmission, not submission.
Good advice for the unwashed masses, but... I have almost 20 years in email server software development... Unless you attend MAAWG, I'll keep my own council.
I have a $10/mo VPS at a major datacenter with static IPv4 & IPv6 addresses that hosts the primary DNS server for my vanity domain. My house has plain old boring dynamic address DSL with filtered port 25, etc... I have a Raspberry Pi running light network services on the house net. It runs a cron job that runs pubkey ssh into a no-shell account on the VPS. When that happens, a script rips $SSH_CLIENT and does a quick compare to see if it changed. If it has, another cron job on the VPS fixes up a record in my vanity domain with a 60 second TTL.
Some places, even here in the US, have a choice of electrical provider, it is VERY rare, but does happen.
Certain parts of Texas have fully seperated the generation market from distribution. Distribution is run by a monopoly called Oncor, and they get to leech from your bill at a mostly fixed rate. You then sign up for generation with a variety of providers offering various contract terms. When I lived there I locked in a 2yr contract, flat rate at 8.9 cents per Kwh, and tried my hand at bitcoin mining via dirty old coal. But I could have had 100% wind or 100% renewable at even lower rates, but they were seasonal and they tended to have short terms. 3mo then you get dumped on the market again when the 8.9 cent deal isn't available. Longer term renewables ran 11 - 15 cents per Kwh.
This is the system California was trying to set up, but the mistake they made was to not seperate distribution from generation. Now they're stuck with a politicized PUC making decisions that deem 1 Kwh used by a company has higher economic value to the state than 1 Kwh used at my house. So I get a form of rationing by tier, and if I leave my computers on and do too many load of laundry, they start charging me 50 cents a Kwh. Just who get s to keep the difference between that and the actual generation costs is lost on me...
That may be true, but the rate at which all that energy is released does matter. The crude burned for many hours, whereas Little Boy was done in a few minutes, with most of the energy probably released in a few seconds.
Actually the primary in Little Boy was done in a mere 30 nanoseconds or so. After that it was all energy distribution, mostly as gamma & x-rays, and the resulting secondary effects... like the atmosphere becoming opaque to x-rays, followed by crazy fluid flow mechanical effects, and finally a thermal pulse resulting from the Compton scattering. But that's after the surrounding air finds it's electrons again...
Some day, you should learn about automated regression testing, which allows an entire regression suite of hundreds of tests to run after every commit.
Maybe then you'll have something sensible to say.
Not just that, we're discussing changes in the tip of their source repo. Not "released" code by any strech of the imagination. We're basically spectatiors, watching one of those Bob Ross "joy of painting" shows. The picture has yet to emerge. (hmmm.... accidental Gentoo pun...)
THE reason California's personal income taxes are so high is that nothing can be collected through property taxes. Property taxes in California are in a perverse way the same as rent control. The property tax pricing has gotten so far out of whack due to Prop 13 formulas that the only way the state can get any revenue is on personal income tax. Of course where people always own home, personal income tax is cyclical so a lot of the boom - bust cycle plays out in California's budgets because the state is levered up on the economy. Economy does well, everything is great. Economy does poorly, whole thing fall down.
Dig a little deeper:
Prop 13 sets municipalities AGAINST housing. Since they can't get their money in property taxes, they take a chunk up front in planning and permit fee's. Last time I checked, many bay area cities are charging upwards of $140k in planning and permit fee's to build a single family home. That means that the barest wreck of a house with a valid occupancy permit is worth $140k. So that jacks up the prices of all houses, and gives them one way to get around prop 13.
The next way is to encourage you to move every few years. If you stay in your house, they never get to reset the property valuation. My parents are paying tax rates that last saw a major adjustment in 1978. I work in tech, making good money, and I can't afford to buy the house across the street from them in the east bay neighborhood I grew up in. So I commute in from a horrible distance, and hope I can make enough coin to move back in closer. When I do, the cities get to reassess the value of the house I sell and the new one I buy. The result of this is the transit problems never get entirely fixed. Most of the bay area freeways were built in the 20 years following WWII. Now days they have simple bypasses and rail extensions that have 20 year planning timeframes, and 10+ year construction times.
On the whole, California has rigged its economy to blow bubbles. That's how the cities and municipalities get by with the wreckage left behind by 40 years of NIMBY, tax and spend on free everything vs. proto-TEA Party types, all with the ability to amend the state constitution with 50% + 1 vote... The rich banker types have it down.... Let the system blow a bubble, cash out & crash, reshuffle, repeat. The people are just pawns.
"If you take productive money and piss it away on boondoggle projects instead of useful purposes then it's a complete loss for the economy."
What about the most massive boondoggle project in history: World War II?
Massive increase in government spending, massing increase in government debt and massive increase in taxes all to build highly specialized equipment, ship it over seas and where it gets blown up.
The result: decades of economic growth and prosperity ending only with the rise of neo-Liberalism.
Stop it. You are making too much sense.
You forgot the bit about only certain countries having any factories left at the end of WWII...
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Isn't the point of a laser that it's a single wavelength? Doesn't this fly in the face of that or am I missing something?
Coherence & single wave length. A laser has all the waves in lock step.
Parents are the biggest shortcoming in the education of children today.
Have you seen the tripe that passes for curriculum these days? Believe me a certain percentage of the parents are tuning them out because they've become politically indoctrinating baby-sitters.
Sylvan is damned expensive too...
If you're trying to live the American Dream of having it all, Silicon Valley is very expensive.
Exactly... But the other tech hubs offer choices. A lot of geeks disparage the other hubs as backwaters and diss the "bubba" factor. But... You can pick your poison. That's really all I'm saying. Greater San Jose offers two choices, the frugal but wise for the locale lifestyle you have chosen, or the tortured attempt at balancing a traditional 3bd/2ba w/kids + dog family lifestyle your brother is likely attempting in an economy built to blow bubbles and then pop. Where I call you out for your choice is that I ask if you have made an honest choice, or just been smart enough to not fight the local fight. Only you can answer that, and the answer is only correct for you. That said, you can make money off the bubbles, but you have to be "in the know", and take advantage when the time is right. Therein lies the problem...
But at the end of the day, we're still slaves to biology in that we are finite. If we fail to thrive and produce offspring, anything we gain is lost. You can be pro-feminist, pro-diversity, pro-whatever the topic of the day is, etc... but if you fail to do these two things, you will fail and collapse society in couple generations: 1. Achieve a > 2.2 child per breeding couple reproduction rate, and: 2. Instil in those offspring at least the same work ethic that led to your own success. I loved my Mills college girlfriend, but... Fail at those and the numbers collapse pretty quickly, the barbarians are at your doorstep and they will sell her in to slavery after feeding you to the delta smelt. It sucks, and its the biology trap we haven't figured out how to escape yet. I choose to have kids and am working to (hopefully) make them productive members of an advancing society, My attempts at doing that in the SF Bay Area indicated impending failure, so I gave up.
I come back for ageing family, and the periodic contract tech refresh. Then I get run out again. My son is starting to learn about Mindcraft mod'ing... I worry that Java will die before he finishes school...
Oh... and I drive old cars, and buy $20 jeans at Costco and wear cheap tee-shirts. The free tradeshow ones are even better...
The frightening thing is that this is true even if your "smaller tech hub" is New York City.
The nice thing about NYC is you can live without a car. That's a huge chunk of money right there.
Please move to Texas. When a fertilizer plant explodes in your neighborhood, wipes out the volunteer fire department and burns down half the town, you will appreciate why California has taxes and regulations.
From the article: "But Texas has also had the nation's highest number of workplace fatalities - more than 400 annually - for much of the past decade. Fires and explosions at Texas' more than 1,300 chemical and industrial plants have cost as much in property damage as those in all the other states combined for the five years ending in May 2012."
I was actually in Texas when that happened. I float back and forth between Austin and San Jose... But you're missing my point: There are multiple tech hubs, and some have significantly different lifestyles and costs of living. You can "do a startup" in Austin, or Portland, or Seattle, or even Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Austin and San Jose are kind of the opposite ends of the shelf. Austin housing is starting to catch up after 10+ years of stagnation... The Bay Area has finally recovered from the '08 crash.
You've identified one of the problems in Texas, and assumed it's entirely regulatory in nature (hint: cows are dangerous). But you can't just ignore the glaring problem that there are no politicians in the California legislature that have more than a few years of skin in the game due to term limits. They don't care about long term solutions, because they won't be around to take credit for them, or even be around to take the blame. Hence the horrible commutes, and the CalPers mess... They just raise taxes to kick the can down the road, and you get things like $600/yr car registrations, and 13.9% income tax rates, and find yourself blowing $40 at McDonald’s for a couple Happy Meals, etc... Those things add up, but they're just money... What keeps driving me out is the traffic. Spending three to five hours a day in a car commuting keeps me from raising my kids, damages my health, and prevents me from participating in the community I live in.
I'm getting sick and tired of explaining to people that San Francisco and Silicon Valley are not the same place. Every time the news media does a story on Silicon Valley, they show a tech company campus (typically Google) and the Golden Gate Bridge. The two places are 50 miles apart.That's like claiming Florida as a New York City suburb.
Given the recent California housing trends, it hardly matters. You can't find a decent house under $500k as far away as Stockton... And the whole state is functionally bankrupt / crippled by the public employee pension system and shallow bench politics. Move to the smaller tech hubs outside California and you can save 15% right up front, and then get a damage multiplier via cheaper living.
Some examples:
$3.50 vs $6 for a gallon of milk
$2.40 vs $3.68 for a gallon of gas
Nice new houses for under $200k...
Some tech hubs have no sales tax...
Some tech hubs have no state income taxes...
Silicon Valley has every kind of tax possible, and you can't fix it by voting for an election cycle or two...
Less than 20% of California's water supply gets delivered to the cities. Of that, less than half ever makes it to a sewer. Most of it gets used by agriculture, or gets sprinkled on those neatly trimmed HOA regulated lawns.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
gee, it's right there in the constitution and everything
btw, "well regulated" in colonial america speak means well trained. the intent of the founding fathers was that those with guns be well trained. so the current status quo of "hand guns to every mouth breathing moron who grunts" is against the constitution and the will of the founding fathers
Another interpretation of "well regulated" comes from Masonic lodges, of which the founding fathers were in many cases members, which would be "well behaved and orderly". This is the definition that allows felons and others that are not "well regulated" to be denied the right.
I have progressives for every day use. My eyes have gotten bad enough that I can't read my car's dash insturments without them.
I spend 10+ hours a day in front of a computer and if I do that in progressives I end up with a very sore neck. So I told my optometrist I needed a prescription for "computer glasses". These are single focus with astigmatism correction but not quite the full strength of a reading correction. This of course makes them useless for just about everything else.
My 70 watt AMD "house server" has been turned off since early November to one of those sucky 5 watt Banana Pi boards, and a 3 watt R-Pi B+ for OVPN duty... Not a single problem so far...
Erm, you likely forgot the exact extend of the Kyoto goals?
Global CO2 emmissions are now primarily an emerging market issue. China, India, etc...
That is nonsense, it is just 2 years ago that China exceeded the USA CO2 emissions. And right now they are also working on limiting them.
Working on it, as in "keep growing them until 2030, while the US shrinks"... I should just quit work and go on the dole with leadership like this. Why bother?
This is why America has no friends. It's like you think polluting is your god given birthright and will continue to argue about it long after everyone else has accepted that it's a problem.
Remember that it's only cheap for you because you are pushing the cost on to other people.
The USA has already met our (not ratified) Kyoto goals, and exceeded them. Global CO2 emmissions are now primarily an emerging market issue. China, India, etc...
Didn't even get woke up near Discovery Bay. Probably a shdaow effect of Mt. Diablo's mass...
Family member up in Pinole had some light damage. Things knocked out of cabinets, and ceramic planter pots sitting on concrete broken.
You should not be using port 25 unless you are hosting a mail transmission agent. If you are submitting email from a user agent, you should be using port 587.
Port 25 has been deprecated by the IETF for over a decade and is reserved for transmission, not submission.
Good advice for the unwashed masses, but... I have almost 20 years in email server software development... Unless you attend MAAWG, I'll keep my own council.
You don't know how to set up and use port 587 or 465?
Quite expertly actually... But, why should I suffer a telco's stupid filtering?
If you already have a server with a static IP, it's pretty easy to configure bind to accept dynamic updates.
I appreciate the setup example. I'll have to play with this. Ssh pubkey is pretty safe, but the roll-my-own thing becomes a maintenance issue.
I have a $10/mo VPS at a major datacenter with static IPv4 & IPv6 addresses that hosts the primary DNS server for my vanity domain. My house has plain old boring dynamic address DSL with filtered port 25, etc... I have a Raspberry Pi running light network services on the house net. It runs a cron job that runs pubkey ssh into a no-shell account on the VPS. When that happens, a script rips $SSH_CLIENT and does a quick compare to see if it changed. If it has, another cron job on the VPS fixes up a record in my vanity domain with a 60 second TTL.
OpenVPN gets me around the port 25 filter...
Why am I explaining this to a low four digit?
Some places, even here in the US, have a choice of electrical provider, it is VERY rare, but does happen.
Certain parts of Texas have fully seperated the generation market from distribution. Distribution is run by a monopoly called Oncor, and they get to leech from your bill at a mostly fixed rate. You then sign up for generation with a variety of providers offering various contract terms. When I lived there I locked in a 2yr contract, flat rate at 8.9 cents per Kwh, and tried my hand at bitcoin mining via dirty old coal. But I could have had 100% wind or 100% renewable at even lower rates, but they were seasonal and they tended to have short terms. 3mo then you get dumped on the market again when the 8.9 cent deal isn't available. Longer term renewables ran 11 - 15 cents per Kwh.
This is the system California was trying to set up, but the mistake they made was to not seperate distribution from generation. Now they're stuck with a politicized PUC making decisions that deem 1 Kwh used by a company has higher economic value to the state than 1 Kwh used at my house. So I get a form of rationing by tier, and if I leave my computers on and do too many load of laundry, they start charging me 50 cents a Kwh. Just who get s to keep the difference between that and the actual generation costs is lost on me...
And the geology majors get dissed again...
But hey... It's a great major for getting your conservative parents to pay for you to go co-ed camping every weekend...
New, fancy oil cars may be better than what they are doing now, but simply not having too much fuel in one clump seems better, simpler, cheaper, ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_train
That may be true, but the rate at which all that energy is released does matter. The crude burned for many hours, whereas Little Boy was done in a few minutes, with most of the energy probably released in a few seconds.
Actually the primary in Little Boy was done in a mere 30 nanoseconds or so. After that it was all energy distribution, mostly as gamma & x-rays, and the resulting secondary effects... like the atmosphere becoming opaque to x-rays, followed by crazy fluid flow mechanical effects, and finally a thermal pulse resulting from the Compton scattering. But that's after the surrounding air finds it's electrons again...
Some day, you should learn about automated regression testing, which allows an entire regression suite of hundreds of tests to run after every commit.
Maybe then you'll have something sensible to say.
Not just that, we're discussing changes in the tip of their source repo. Not "released" code by any strech of the imagination. We're basically spectatiors, watching one of those Bob Ross "joy of painting" shows. The picture has yet to emerge. (hmmm.... accidental Gentoo pun...)
THE reason California's personal income taxes are so high is that nothing can be collected through property taxes. Property taxes in California are in a perverse way the same as rent control. The property tax pricing has gotten so far out of whack due to Prop 13 formulas that the only way the state can get any revenue is on personal income tax. Of course where people always own home, personal income tax is cyclical so a lot of the boom - bust cycle plays out in California's budgets because the state is levered up on the economy. Economy does well, everything is great. Economy does poorly, whole thing fall down.
Dig a little deeper:
Prop 13 sets municipalities AGAINST housing. Since they can't get their money in property taxes, they take a chunk up front in planning and permit fee's. Last time I checked, many bay area cities are charging upwards of $140k in planning and permit fee's to build a single family home. That means that the barest wreck of a house with a valid occupancy permit is worth $140k. So that jacks up the prices of all houses, and gives them one way to get around prop 13.
The next way is to encourage you to move every few years. If you stay in your house, they never get to reset the property valuation. My parents are paying tax rates that last saw a major adjustment in 1978. I work in tech, making good money, and I can't afford to buy the house across the street from them in the east bay neighborhood I grew up in. So I commute in from a horrible distance, and hope I can make enough coin to move back in closer. When I do, the cities get to reassess the value of the house I sell and the new one I buy. The result of this is the transit problems never get entirely fixed. Most of the bay area freeways were built in the 20 years following WWII. Now days they have simple bypasses and rail extensions that have 20 year planning timeframes, and 10+ year construction times.
On the whole, California has rigged its economy to blow bubbles. That's how the cities and municipalities get by with the wreckage left behind by 40 years of NIMBY, tax and spend on free everything vs. proto-TEA Party types, all with the ability to amend the state constitution with 50% + 1 vote... The rich banker types have it down.... Let the system blow a bubble, cash out & crash, reshuffle, repeat. The people are just pawns.
Middle class? More like nearly rich.
In Silicon Valley that paycheck covers rent for a 2bd apartment.
"If you take productive money and piss it away on boondoggle projects instead of useful purposes then it's a complete loss for the economy."
What about the most massive boondoggle project in history: World War II?
Massive increase in government spending, massing increase in government debt and massive increase in taxes all to build highly specialized equipment, ship it over seas and where it gets blown up.
The result: decades of economic growth and prosperity ending only with the rise of neo-Liberalism.
Stop it. You are making too much sense.
You forgot the bit about only certain countries having any factories left at the end of WWII...