Live below their means. One income or one income and a part-time job. Get on ACA, take the subsidies, don't be too bourgeois to take advantage of Medicaid if needed any your state offers it. It's a public option, and most other civilized countries offer public insurance with no shame. Buy a duplex, not a McHouse, have the tenants pay most of your mortgage. Drive a used car that's paid off. But no... most "middle class" people are too cowardly and brainwarshed to be seen as "poors."
It's not even the parents' choice in many cases. There's a lot of pressure from society (God, I hate that stinking word). To live like the Joneses, you need two incomes in 2019, and American employers demand 50+ hour work weeks. I mean, you can get around this bullshit by having one income and living in a duplex, driving used cars, not buying electronics every year, but most people are too cowardly to not do what society and the advertisers tell them to.
Better not to have the spy-cameras and let the kids have his/her fun and the dogs run around. A perfectly controlled society is a boring society where everyone is afraid to have fun. This kind of shit makes me hope that North Korea perfects an EMP missile and turns all of the cameras into burnt toast.
The problem, we haven't legitimized government largesse -- we've legitimized military and law enforcement parasitism. i.e. many Americans are brainwashed to think that using tax money against other people (military homicide sprees, mass incarceration) is better than using it to actually help people and make their lives easier. It's a typical attitude in failing societies.
California is probably as good as it gets in the US, since they allow home-grow for personal use. NYC's laws aren't reasonable, but there's progress towards reform and (frankly) weed is extremely available.
Nashville doesn't have: functional public transport, the same concentration of world-class research universities (other than Vanderbilt, what is there?), the same cultural diversity, easy access to beaches, etc.
Higher education system: many good universities within a few miles of each other. CUNY/Columbia/NYU/Pratt/Hunter/Cooper/CUNY Grad Center/Rockefeller. Public transport system is awesome; I love trains and not having to drive a stinking car daily is awesome. The people are awesome, BTW, once you stop hanging with rich suburban transplants.
If Amazon wants a deal with NYC, they should get to help the whole city, not just projects that benefit them. Milk them for all they're worth, pretend you're Bezos' mistress and the Enquirer photographer is watching...
None of those things are done "to get jobs." Those things are done to get jobs in an area where it's actually interesting and pleasant to live -- i.e. be around other interesting humans.
The NY subway isn't getting entirely rebuilt (it's built under too much expensive real states), but a few tens of billions for upgrading the electrical systems, signalling systems, and completing the 2nd ave line from 125th St to Canal St would definitely help.
They're hiring developers and business types in NY -- seems like a pretty good place to move to. TN has cheap land, it's a good place for a warehouse, but it lacks many of the aspects that attract techies to NY.
Taxes are great when they're used to pay for useful services like education, public transit, infrastructure, and public health care. Taxes suck when they're squandered on security theater, wars on moral panics like drugs, or wars abroad. Yeah, yeah, the latter is Federal, but NY sends much more money to DC than it gets back, so it adds up. Time to REALLY put America first and stop squandering tax money on nonsense.
Yadda yadda yadda, taxes bad. Taxes pay for things like education (NY state has some great schools and colleges), public transportation (I love trains!), and a social safety net. Those things actually make places livable. You know what's bad? Squandering $6 trillion on the Federal level on military homicide sprees and security theater. Wars and nudie scanners don't actually make places more livable.
2.3 billion looks big and scary until you realize that NY State's total population is 20 million. That's about $115 per person. Total state budget is $168 billion, so that's about 1.3% of total budget.
The real problem downstate is that Albany controls NYC's purse strings. The subways would run much better if they were run by the NYC Department of Transportation directly, not subject to authority of clueless bureaucrats from Albany.
Assuming this is a real exploit (for all we know, the program he ran had root credentials saved!), isn't it better that he revealed it to the public vs selling it to the highest black-hat bidder?
ONLY issue? Please. Soldered-in non-upgradeable RAM and storage are major issues, since Apple charges sodomizing prices for more RAM and/or SSD. A battery that's not easily replaced below the touchpad and keyboard is another issue (it tends to swell, breaking the parts above it). USB-C ports only, check. In the real world, people still need other ports and shouldn't have to carry dongles.
No. Thinkpad owners are the ones that care about function over looks. X and T series beat the socks off of Macbooks, but are ugly as sin. They can even run "borrowed" copies of OS X if you don't care about taking food out of Timmy-boy's mouth,
It's a Youtube video of some sort of program running. How do we know that the program can proceed without root (or admin user) access? For all we know, the program is given an admin password in its config files -- there's no real proof that it can proceed without credentials.
A PDF phone bill can often be used to change phone/internet service by calling the provider, since it has the account # + verification code. How many tickets actually get "stolen" or "altered" because of intercepted emails?
US per-capita emissions are approximately flat since 1970 despite more efficient technology and increased natural gas usage. We need to be doing more -- replacing fossil power with nuclear, shortening commute distances via urban planning, prioritizing electric cars and electric-powered public transit, to name a few things.
If you were a cynic, couldn't you argue that raising emissions of chemicals that are more harmful to humans (vs CO2) would actually reduce global warming? Lower population = lower CO2 emissions.
Mid 90s cars (assuming you're in the US and own a non-diesel car) already had catalytic converters and electronic engine management. Their emissions aren't really much worse than 2019 cars, assuming they're kept in good shape. The real fall in smog-forming emissions came between the early 70s and late 80s, where all US cars gradually ended up with EFI, O2 sensors, and cats.
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Live below their means. One income or one income and a part-time job. Get on ACA, take the subsidies, don't be too bourgeois to take advantage of Medicaid if needed any your state offers it. It's a public option, and most other civilized countries offer public insurance with no shame. Buy a duplex, not a McHouse, have the tenants pay most of your mortgage. Drive a used car that's paid off. But no ... most "middle class" people are too cowardly and brainwarshed to be seen as "poors."
It's not even the parents' choice in many cases. There's a lot of pressure from society (God, I hate that stinking word). To live like the Joneses, you need two incomes in 2019, and American employers demand 50+ hour work weeks. I mean, you can get around this bullshit by having one income and living in a duplex, driving used cars, not buying electronics every year, but most people are too cowardly to not do what society and the advertisers tell them to.
The less spycams, the better. If said North Korean EMP device took out the government camera networks as well, it would be a net win.
Better not to have the spy-cameras and let the kids have his/her fun and the dogs run around. A perfectly controlled society is a boring society where everyone is afraid to have fun. This kind of shit makes me hope that North Korea perfects an EMP missile and turns all of the cameras into burnt toast.
The problem, we haven't legitimized government largesse -- we've legitimized military and law enforcement parasitism. i.e. many Americans are brainwashed to think that using tax money against other people (military homicide sprees, mass incarceration) is better than using it to actually help people and make their lives easier. It's a typical attitude in failing societies.
California is probably as good as it gets in the US, since they allow home-grow for personal use. NYC's laws aren't reasonable, but there's progress towards reform and (frankly) weed is extremely available.
Nashville doesn't have: functional public transport, the same concentration of world-class research universities (other than Vanderbilt, what is there?), the same cultural diversity, easy access to beaches, etc.
Higher education system: many good universities within a few miles of each other. CUNY/Columbia/NYU/Pratt/Hunter/Cooper/CUNY Grad Center/Rockefeller. Public transport system is awesome; I love trains and not having to drive a stinking car daily is awesome. The people are awesome, BTW, once you stop hanging with rich suburban transplants.
If Amazon wants a deal with NYC, they should get to help the whole city, not just projects that benefit them. Milk them for all they're worth, pretend you're Bezos' mistress and the Enquirer photographer is watching...
None of those things are done "to get jobs." Those things are done to get jobs in an area where it's actually interesting and pleasant to live -- i.e. be around other interesting humans.
The NY subway isn't getting entirely rebuilt (it's built under too much expensive real states), but a few tens of billions for upgrading the electrical systems, signalling systems, and completing the 2nd ave line from 125th St to Canal St would definitely help.
They're hiring developers and business types in NY -- seems like a pretty good place to move to. TN has cheap land, it's a good place for a warehouse, but it lacks many of the aspects that attract techies to NY.
Taxes are great when they're used to pay for useful services like education, public transit, infrastructure, and public health care. Taxes suck when they're squandered on security theater, wars on moral panics like drugs, or wars abroad. Yeah, yeah, the latter is Federal, but NY sends much more money to DC than it gets back, so it adds up. Time to REALLY put America first and stop squandering tax money on nonsense.
Sounds like a company town. Will it come with "jumper nets" for overworked employees, like Foxconn's factories in China do?
And, BTW, "techies" tend to like to live around other smart people, not in a company campus surrounded by frack fields and coal-rollin' pickups.
Yadda yadda yadda, taxes bad. Taxes pay for things like education (NY state has some great schools and colleges), public transportation (I love trains!), and a social safety net. Those things actually make places livable. You know what's bad? Squandering $6 trillion on the Federal level on military homicide sprees and security theater. Wars and nudie scanners don't actually make places more livable.
2.3 billion looks big and scary until you realize that NY State's total population is 20 million. That's about $115 per person. Total state budget is $168 billion, so that's about 1.3% of total budget.
The real problem downstate is that Albany controls NYC's purse strings. The subways would run much better if they were run by the NYC Department of Transportation directly, not subject to authority of clueless bureaucrats from Albany.
Assuming this is a real exploit (for all we know, the program he ran had root credentials saved!), isn't it better that he revealed it to the public vs selling it to the highest black-hat bidder?
ONLY issue? Please. Soldered-in non-upgradeable RAM and storage are major issues, since Apple charges sodomizing prices for more RAM and/or SSD. A battery that's not easily replaced below the touchpad and keyboard is another issue (it tends to swell, breaking the parts above it). USB-C ports only, check. In the real world, people still need other ports and shouldn't have to carry dongles.
No. Thinkpad owners are the ones that care about function over looks. X and T series beat the socks off of Macbooks, but are ugly as sin. They can even run "borrowed" copies of OS X if you don't care about taking food out of Timmy-boy's mouth,
It's a Youtube video of some sort of program running. How do we know that the program can proceed without root (or admin user) access? For all we know, the program is given an admin password in its config files -- there's no real proof that it can proceed without credentials.
A PDF phone bill can often be used to change phone/internet service by calling the provider, since it has the account # + verification code. How many tickets actually get "stolen" or "altered" because of intercepted emails?
Plenty could, because they didn't have as much pigfat. Ever driven an 80s or 90s Corolla or Civic?
US per-capita emissions are approximately flat since 1970 despite more efficient technology and increased natural gas usage. We need to be doing more -- replacing fossil power with nuclear, shortening commute distances via urban planning, prioritizing electric cars and electric-powered public transit, to name a few things.
If you were a cynic, couldn't you argue that raising emissions of chemicals that are more harmful to humans (vs CO2) would actually reduce global warming? Lower population = lower CO2 emissions.
Mid 90s cars (assuming you're in the US and own a non-diesel car) already had catalytic converters and electronic engine management. Their emissions aren't really much worse than 2019 cars, assuming they're kept in good shape. The real fall in smog-forming emissions came between the early 70s and late 80s, where all US cars gradually ended up with EFI, O2 sensors, and cats.
Most societies that trended towards extreme inequality collapsed within a few decades. French and Russian Revolutions are cases in point.
History -- make them write about why and how, not when, to prevent cheating.