Agreed, but in the collective suburban mind there's always that picture, and the idea of someone driving by and kidnapping your kids who're playing unattended in the front yard. I've heard that many times, and been pretty much told that my parents were neglecting me when they let me play in the street till night time, in a city. In any case, the density of other kids around would make the city safer, if nothing else, because you only have to outrun the fattest kid:).
LA is actually a very nice city by many measures. It's just a few neighborhoods you don't want to go through if you're not familiar with them. I found New York or DC much sketchier during the few weeks I spent in each.
Yes, it's a strange thing that people prefer to drive to places and be isolated than being easily connected and walk or take convenient public transport. Since I live in the US, that's what I miss the most: Nice downtown areas.
Venice is a suburb of LA. I've lived for 2 years in Silverlake, much more urban, and I never experienced (or heard of) anything even close to that. There are messed up people at the most random places. Living in the suburbs just makes it more boring, not safer.
Lucky you. When I was in school, I had to hide any hint of satisfaction when I got good grades. Some idiot even came to rub it in my face when I got mediocre ones because normally I would "make them look bad". It was all a game of trying to learn while pretending not to be paying attention, or caring for it, because if you did, you'd be out of friends. High school, at least in my side of town in Spain (and I wasn't in any ghettoish place) was an odd experience.
Ditto. All I ever got was an ice cream the last day of classes. They were obviously happy that I was doing well, but they didn't have to reward me in any other way. But then again, they always made it so that learning was fun and challenging.
I knew a few people who had low paying jobs like lecture scribe, librarian assistant, or campus bus driver just to pay for expenses other than housing and tuition. Even though that's not exactly paying for school, it goes a long way towards alleviating the financial pain on the family.
Well, I take them with a grain of salt, but I assume everyone does their tricks. If they all look the same to me at the store, they have the same price (within $1, interestingly), and have equally valid brand reputation (at least for this uninformed consumer), I loot at the cold, misleading, cooked numbers for the final tip.
If done (and used) right, this could be a quantum leap (yes, I work for Intel) in Internet search for semi-structured information search. However, my first search: 7 wonders, gave only partially satisfactory results. Stonehenge 120 yards tall? The Empire State building and Panama channel? Well, it's rightly beta, so I shouldn't complain.
It'd be nicer if the real world would learn from the cryptography field. Meaning no White House security procedure would be considered really safe if it hasn't been publicly reviewed. Everything else is security through obscurity, and it's bound to be leaked as shown. Just speculating.
The most important problems should be tackled first. 45000 deaths are a far bigger problem than adults exchanging money for natural functions. Yes, I'd make the case for throttle limiters in some situations (in Spain they're applied to scooters driven by teenagers, for example), and for alcohol meters incorporated to the start system of some vehicles, at least those under the name of DUI offenders. But that's not the point. The point is that CL is monitoring the messages beyond the legal requirements, and more strictly so than many printed newspapers, but yet they're being singled out because they're in the interwebs.
Interesting. Last night Jim Buckmaster was talking on NPR about the case, and complaining that everything in the Internet, and particularly Craigslist, is held at a much higher standard than, for example, the car industry. If cars kill 45000 people a year, why are car makers allowed to make cars that can two twice as fast as the speed limit? Asking CL to go so far beyond their duty is, to say the least, unfair.
Before I read the summary, I was picturing a bunch of Mexicans posting their work resumes on some kind of semi-transparent fence along the border with the US. Who knows? Perhaps that could be the new way to find jobs across the border?
I heard (no hard references) about a study on why charter schools outperform public ones. One of the principal reasons seemed to be longer school hours. In order to do so while remaining in budget, they had to increase group sizes. So perhaps the Asian model is the way to go, as much as I would have hated it as a student myself.
I recently skimmed over a very interesting email conversation between the CEO of Boxee (a net based content aggregator) and Mark Cuban, a cable bully. Besides reminiscent of the infamous Linus-AST flame, it's a great illustration of the point of view of the cable industry... and how, I would say, they're marching steadily to a slow demise.
I know at least one well reputed professor who behaves just like that at his best. Most often you don't even hear the echo. I think this is just a severe case of tenuritis, though, so it might not be related...
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Agreed, but in the collective suburban mind there's always that picture, and the idea of someone driving by and kidnapping your kids who're playing unattended in the front yard. I've heard that many times, and been pretty much told that my parents were neglecting me when they let me play in the street till night time, in a city. In any case, the density of other kids around would make the city safer, if nothing else, because you only have to outrun the fattest kid :).
Not the proper city, really. But there's a continuum of inhabited land that spans almost that far.
LA is actually a very nice city by many measures. It's just a few neighborhoods you don't want to go through if you're not familiar with them. I found New York or DC much sketchier during the few weeks I spent in each.
Yes, it's a strange thing that people prefer to drive to places and be isolated than being easily connected and walk or take convenient public transport. Since I live in the US, that's what I miss the most: Nice downtown areas.
Venice is a suburb of LA. I've lived for 2 years in Silverlake, much more urban, and I never experienced (or heard of) anything even close to that. There are messed up people at the most random places. Living in the suburbs just makes it more boring, not safer.
Last time I checked, deer didn't shine direct light at the sky. But then again, it's been a while since I've seen one.
Lucky you. When I was in school, I had to hide any hint of satisfaction when I got good grades. Some idiot even came to rub it in my face when I got mediocre ones because normally I would "make them look bad". It was all a game of trying to learn while pretending not to be paying attention, or caring for it, because if you did, you'd be out of friends. High school, at least in my side of town in Spain (and I wasn't in any ghettoish place) was an odd experience.
Ditto. All I ever got was an ice cream the last day of classes. They were obviously happy that I was doing well, but they didn't have to reward me in any other way. But then again, they always made it so that learning was fun and challenging.
I knew a few people who had low paying jobs like lecture scribe, librarian assistant, or campus bus driver just to pay for expenses other than housing and tuition. Even though that's not exactly paying for school, it goes a long way towards alleviating the financial pain on the family.
Well, I take them with a grain of salt, but I assume everyone does their tricks. If they all look the same to me at the store, they have the same price (within $1, interestingly), and have equally valid brand reputation (at least for this uninformed consumer), I loot at the cold, misleading, cooked numbers for the final tip.
Actually, I chose my HDTV based on contrast ratio and response time. It's supposed to help with high speed scenes, like sports.
If done (and used) right, this could be a quantum leap (yes, I work for Intel) in Internet search for semi-structured information search. However, my first search: 7 wonders, gave only partially satisfactory results. Stonehenge 120 yards tall? The Empire State building and Panama channel? Well, it's rightly beta, so I shouldn't complain.
Well, I think if the usage fee for internet was significantly less than the flat fee, you'd also consider it. I wouldn't call that being a hypocrite.
Actually, I can see this becoming pretty popular. A la jennycam, only in reverse.
It'd be nicer if the real world would learn from the cryptography field. Meaning no White House security procedure would be considered really safe if it hasn't been publicly reviewed. Everything else is security through obscurity, and it's bound to be leaked as shown. Just speculating.
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The most important problems should be tackled first. 45000 deaths are a far bigger problem than adults exchanging money for natural functions. Yes, I'd make the case for throttle limiters in some situations (in Spain they're applied to scooters driven by teenagers, for example), and for alcohol meters incorporated to the start system of some vehicles, at least those under the name of DUI offenders. But that's not the point. The point is that CL is monitoring the messages beyond the legal requirements, and more strictly so than many printed newspapers, but yet they're being singled out because they're in the interwebs.
Interesting. Last night Jim Buckmaster was talking on NPR about the case, and complaining that everything in the Internet, and particularly Craigslist, is held at a much higher standard than, for example, the car industry. If cars kill 45000 people a year, why are car makers allowed to make cars that can two twice as fast as the speed limit? Asking CL to go so far beyond their duty is, to say the least, unfair.
Technically, they only elected him once.
I think I only got "Jonny Cash" in the whole 3 minutes.
Before I read the summary, I was picturing a bunch of Mexicans posting their work resumes on some kind of semi-transparent fence along the border with the US. Who knows? Perhaps that could be the new way to find jobs across the border?
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I heard (no hard references) about a study on why charter schools outperform public ones. One of the principal reasons seemed to be longer school hours. In order to do so while remaining in budget, they had to increase group sizes. So perhaps the Asian model is the way to go, as much as I would have hated it as a student myself.
I recently skimmed over a very interesting email conversation between the CEO of Boxee (a net based content aggregator) and Mark Cuban, a cable bully. Besides reminiscent of the infamous Linus-AST flame, it's a great illustration of the point of view of the cable industry... and how, I would say, they're marching steadily to a slow demise.
I know at least one well reputed professor who behaves just like that at his best. Most often you don't even hear the echo. I think this is just a severe case of tenuritis, though, so it might not be related...