I do like getting the postage stamps attached from various charities. It makes it easier to mail back the donation. It is more expensive than a business reply mail though, but since so many charities do this I suspect having an actual stamp results in more donations. Perhaps people feel more guilty having the stamp and feel every so slightly compelled to donate. But if these expenses do not result in higher donations you can be sure that the charities would stop doing it.
I remember way back in high school when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we had a local state legislators assistant give us a talk. When asked he told us the salary he made, and we thought it was huge (being naive high schoolers of course). Then he added that this was a significant pay cut from his older job, and it had most students rethinking things.
Which still leaves a question. If a rich guy takes a pay cut do we still consider him an asshole or hypocrite because he's still rich? How much of a paycut is necessary before we're allowed to say that this is a good guy? I also think it's very hypocritical that someone who gives no money to charity will accuse a billionaire who gives enormous amount of money to a charity of having ulterior motives.
I think a lot of it comes down to human nature, and thinking that anyone making more money than you must be an asshole.
However, if they spend 100% of money received on helping people, they will receive less money because no one will have heard of them. Sending out envelopes asking for donations (whether or not a dime is included) will vanish. No web sites will exist to accept donations. They won't be able to hire anybody to collect the money and cash the checks. You essentially must spend more than $0 on fundraising efforts in order to get money in the first place. You could rely on an army of volunteers but you still make more money if you hire some full time people.
So the dime they stick in the envelopes, or the free stamps some charities include. It seems like a waste of money but they would never do this if it did not result in a net increase in funds.
So hypothetically, 10% overhead raises $1000, or $900 to spend helping people. Versus 20% overhead that raises $1500, or $1200 to spend helping people...
In Finland, it is very common to have access to a sauna in your home, even some company buildings have them. Now true, the homeless might not have saunas but this is not so big a problem in Nordic countries.
On the other hand, I think the reason for these stats is because saunas kill off anyone with a weak cardiopulmonary system.
The problem is that the popular names for neighborhoods change over time, and may not be the same as the official names. Few people head to city hall to inquire about what their neighborhood is actually called.
However, Google seems to be giving nicknames to some very tiny areas, some smaller than a city block, named after a major street or intersection. It clutters up the map to see these names in largest font on the map. They weren't there a few months ago when I looked. These aren't "neighborhoods" and some are so small no one would have named them (seriously, one by me encompasses only a single set of condo units with only one entrance). I don't think these are "neighborhoods" at all but just quick search short cuts, since you can type in the name to google maps and zoom there quickly. Ie, you can type in "east cut" to zoom to the San Francisco area mentioned in the summary.
Crackpot indeed. I did notice he's managed to find some of the worst lawyers in New York. It's good though that Trump gave these guys jobs, as unemployable as they seem to be.
The congressional committee is a filter. If a bill isn't approved by committee then it will never be brought up for a full vote and is essentially dead.
And auto makers do have separate markets because of that. US auto makers will make different brands of cars for Europe, in Europe. Ie, the Opel. There's a very tiny market in Europe for big luxury fuel guzzling pickup trucks, but it's a huge market in the US (huge margins too). Smaller market for economy cars in the US (lower margins) but big demand in Europe so the automakers suck it up and make them for Europe. So the auto makers can and do deal with this issue, they don't need special handouts from Congress.
People will argue about this until it runs out, and then because there was no planning we will see major collapses in parts of civilization. But since people are stupid and short sighted, what can you do other than hope the extraterrestrials will invade?
To be honest, I haven't owned a car ever that would go 800 miles on a single fill up. But my current hybrid does have the longest range per fill up.
So why not rent a car for this, which is cheaper than upgrading the original auto just because every now and then you will take a long distance road trip. It reminds me of people who commute using a Hummer who justify it because once a year they will need to buy something that won't fit into a sedan.
No one says everyone must have an electric car. If you live on a rural ranch then get a truck. But it's idiotic to get a gas guzzling truck for the highway commute.
If you need something for the once a year vacation that's 500 miles away, then you can rent a car for this and save money. That sort of thinking isn't new, it's common in parts of the world. My grand parents had a car for driving into town instead of taking the truck to get groceries.
Because some people seem to think that cost is the only factor that matters. I assume they take the kids to the cheapest doctors.
Newer autos are better then last decade's autos, and being more fuel efficient is one driving force behind this. You can get to the 50MPG goal without even going to a hybrid or plugin model, but you have to stop using those gas guzzlers. We need to get out of the 70s mindset where we made badly engineered autos while the foreign auto makers were innovating and eating our lunch.
Anytime you've got a rockstar at your company it's time to update that resume. Anytime you've got a rockstar in a language then it's a sign that the language is more about status than in getting work done. Rockstar is the way kids say "douche" these days.
Use UTF-8 and it's trivial in C. Can use all the normal string functions unlike the abomination of wide characters. The only time you need to convert a multibyte format into a fat character format is just before you actually display it, the rest of the time just treat it as a normal string and it just works. Of course, on the project schedule you can claim and extra two weeks so that you have time to head to the beach.
Python is a pretty advanced language. I don't use it much but it's not at all like the Python from the 90s. The only thing really stopping it from being "mature" is that version 2 and 3 are incompatible. I whipped up a simulator for a board with it so we could work with it before the board was ready, and no way could I have done this with C without adding a few months effort, and easier than Perl even though I know Perl better than Python.
Lisp is a great language. It's probably too abstract for some people though.
Occam used this feature in the 80s. The snag with it was that the editors at the time were not very customizable. I had a vi that insisted on replacing a string of spaces with tabs, and no one I knew had ever seen a manual for vi so I could try to fix it. But over time editors got a lot better or more accessible. Whitespace in python are not a problem for anyone who was programmed in it for more than a few hours and who either avoids tabs or else uses a smarter editor.
Only really ambiguous if you have tabs and spaces intermixed and you print the raw text file. People that do this often use IDEs though and most IDEs have a print function that prints formatted text instead of the raw text. However with online tools like Jira, Reviewboard, Gitlab, etc, the tabs do have a tendency to make things less readable.
I have had to use some files that were indented with 4 different settings for tab stops! I could tell because with each different tab stop a different section of code would suddenly become readable (ie, long continuation lines would line up). Tab stops would even change within a function, a nested loop would use a different tabstop than the outer loop. I have no idea how it managed to get into that state in the first place other than a lack of a style guideline combined with lazy programmers. Probably they all thought their code looked great and everyone else's code was sloppy...
It's another reason I wish there was no such thing as the tab character.
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I do like getting the postage stamps attached from various charities. It makes it easier to mail back the donation. It is more expensive than a business reply mail though, but since so many charities do this I suspect having an actual stamp results in more donations. Perhaps people feel more guilty having the stamp and feel every so slightly compelled to donate. But if these expenses do not result in higher donations you can be sure that the charities would stop doing it.
Versus $500 grand in the private sector?
I remember way back in high school when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we had a local state legislators assistant give us a talk. When asked he told us the salary he made, and we thought it was huge (being naive high schoolers of course). Then he added that this was a significant pay cut from his older job, and it had most students rethinking things.
Which still leaves a question. If a rich guy takes a pay cut do we still consider him an asshole or hypocrite because he's still rich? How much of a paycut is necessary before we're allowed to say that this is a good guy? I also think it's very hypocritical that someone who gives no money to charity will accuse a billionaire who gives enormous amount of money to a charity of having ulterior motives.
I think a lot of it comes down to human nature, and thinking that anyone making more money than you must be an asshole.
However, if they spend 100% of money received on helping people, they will receive less money because no one will have heard of them. Sending out envelopes asking for donations (whether or not a dime is included) will vanish. No web sites will exist to accept donations. They won't be able to hire anybody to collect the money and cash the checks. You essentially must spend more than $0 on fundraising efforts in order to get money in the first place. You could rely on an army of volunteers but you still make more money if you hire some full time people.
So the dime they stick in the envelopes, or the free stamps some charities include. It seems like a waste of money but they would never do this if it did not result in a net increase in funds.
So hypothetically, 10% overhead raises $1000, or $900 to spend helping people. Versus 20% overhead that raises $1500, or $1200 to spend helping people...
I went in the Finnish sauna, with an enthusiast who made sure it was hot. Very brutal.
In Finland, it is very common to have access to a sauna in your home, even some company buildings have them. Now true, the homeless might not have saunas but this is not so big a problem in Nordic countries.
On the other hand, I think the reason for these stats is because saunas kill off anyone with a weak cardiopulmonary system.
I think this would just build up demand amongst hipsters to live in a place with a cool name.
And West Gash is a real place. Well, real in a game anyway.
They're naming things with a much smaller area than SOHO, even a single block sometimes gets a name. I'm not sure what these are supposed to be.
The problem is that the popular names for neighborhoods change over time, and may not be the same as the official names. Few people head to city hall to inquire about what their neighborhood is actually called.
However, Google seems to be giving nicknames to some very tiny areas, some smaller than a city block, named after a major street or intersection. It clutters up the map to see these names in largest font on the map. They weren't there a few months ago when I looked. These aren't "neighborhoods" and some are so small no one would have named them (seriously, one by me encompasses only a single set of condo units with only one entrance). I don't think these are "neighborhoods" at all but just quick search short cuts, since you can type in the name to google maps and zoom there quickly. Ie, you can type in "east cut" to zoom to the San Francisco area mentioned in the summary.
Well, it does seem like a huge achievement compared to the normal hand waving that startups do to get funding.
Crackpot indeed. I did notice he's managed to find some of the worst lawyers in New York. It's good though that Trump gave these guys jobs, as unemployable as they seem to be.
This was never going to be a required service. You could always just use a different browser.
The congressional committee is a filter. If a bill isn't approved by committee then it will never be brought up for a full vote and is essentially dead.
And auto makers do have separate markets because of that. US auto makers will make different brands of cars for Europe, in Europe. Ie, the Opel. There's a very tiny market in Europe for big luxury fuel guzzling pickup trucks, but it's a huge market in the US (huge margins too). Smaller market for economy cars in the US (lower margins) but big demand in Europe so the automakers suck it up and make them for Europe. So the auto makers can and do deal with this issue, they don't need special handouts from Congress.
Thirteen states have essentially adopted California emission rules.
People will argue about this until it runs out, and then because there was no planning we will see major collapses in parts of civilization. But since people are stupid and short sighted, what can you do other than hope the extraterrestrials will invade?
To be honest, I haven't owned a car ever that would go 800 miles on a single fill up. But my current hybrid does have the longest range per fill up.
So why not rent a car for this, which is cheaper than upgrading the original auto just because every now and then you will take a long distance road trip. It reminds me of people who commute using a Hummer who justify it because once a year they will need to buy something that won't fit into a sedan.
No one says everyone must have an electric car. If you live on a rural ranch then get a truck. But it's idiotic to get a gas guzzling truck for the highway commute.
If you need something for the once a year vacation that's 500 miles away, then you can rent a car for this and save money. That sort of thinking isn't new, it's common in parts of the world. My grand parents had a car for driving into town instead of taking the truck to get groceries.
Because some people seem to think that cost is the only factor that matters. I assume they take the kids to the cheapest doctors.
Newer autos are better then last decade's autos, and being more fuel efficient is one driving force behind this. You can get to the 50MPG goal without even going to a hybrid or plugin model, but you have to stop using those gas guzzlers. We need to get out of the 70s mindset where we made badly engineered autos while the foreign auto makers were innovating and eating our lunch.
Anytime you've got a rockstar at your company it's time to update that resume. Anytime you've got a rockstar in a language then it's a sign that the language is more about status than in getting work done. Rockstar is the way kids say "douche" these days.
Use UTF-8 and it's trivial in C. Can use all the normal string functions unlike the abomination of wide characters. The only time you need to convert a multibyte format into a fat character format is just before you actually display it, the rest of the time just treat it as a normal string and it just works. Of course, on the project schedule you can claim and extra two weeks so that you have time to head to the beach.
Python is a pretty advanced language. I don't use it much but it's not at all like the Python from the 90s. The only thing really stopping it from being "mature" is that version 2 and 3 are incompatible. I whipped up a simulator for a board with it so we could work with it before the board was ready, and no way could I have done this with C without adding a few months effort, and easier than Perl even though I know Perl better than Python.
Lisp is a great language. It's probably too abstract for some people though.
PHP is a web language. Python is a general purpose language.
Occam used this feature in the 80s. The snag with it was that the editors at the time were not very customizable. I had a vi that insisted on replacing a string of spaces with tabs, and no one I knew had ever seen a manual for vi so I could try to fix it. But over time editors got a lot better or more accessible. Whitespace in python are not a problem for anyone who was programmed in it for more than a few hours and who either avoids tabs or else uses a smarter editor.
Only really ambiguous if you have tabs and spaces intermixed and you print the raw text file. People that do this often use IDEs though and most IDEs have a print function that prints formatted text instead of the raw text. However with online tools like Jira, Reviewboard, Gitlab, etc, the tabs do have a tendency to make things less readable.
I have had to use some files that were indented with 4 different settings for tab stops! I could tell because with each different tab stop a different section of code would suddenly become readable (ie, long continuation lines would line up). Tab stops would even change within a function, a nested loop would use a different tabstop than the outer loop. I have no idea how it managed to get into that state in the first place other than a lack of a style guideline combined with lazy programmers. Probably they all thought their code looked great and everyone else's code was sloppy...
It's another reason I wish there was no such thing as the tab character.