When Amazon fully departs, Seattle will be become the Detroit of the NWP. Hahaha
Yeah, it sucks when a company's presence is responsible for revitalizing a whole city. Amazon is the behemoth, but it isn't like they are dying or leaving any time soon, or like there hasn't been a ton of collateral growth that will be perfectly sustainable. Detroit's decline was slow, and the city wasn't a paradise even when the big three automakers were booming. Seattle was trendy and had a lot going for it before Amazon became what it is today.
Property tax doesn't work like that in King County. The amount collected is fixed and it's divvied up by figuring out your ratio of appraised value to the county as a whole. As my house has gone up in value, my taxes have gone up some years and down others, depending on how the year went.
Tax revenue goes up when business boom, due to the increased income that companies like Amazon are being taxed on, while rates should more or less stay the same or fluctuate only slightly. In my neck of the woods, some communities offer far superior services such as schools, police and fire, recreation facilities, roads, etc., because they have large corporate tax bases, and often a lot of wealthy residents. In some cases, they are also able to keep rates lower because the per capita income they are taxing is so high. So the rich get richer, the poor are continually penalized, generally. The levy system is fairly convoluted and pretty screwy though. I can't believe that the situation in Seattle is all that bad, seeing as everyone seems to be willing to pay a premium to live there.
[M]edian home prices have doubled in five years, to $700,000. This is not a good thing in a place where teachers and cops used to be able to afford a house with a water view...
That is, in fact, a damn good thing for the cops and teachers who bought undervalued homes there in the past. Maybe their next homes won't feature the same prime locations, but they'll likely be bigger and nicer, or be paid for largely in cash. Somebody feeling left out because he missed the market on the way up?
I get it that life has changed in Seattle, in the Bay area (the nice parts, anyway), in Austin, etc., but if it were that horrible why is everyone paying a premium to be in those places and put up with the downside? Is it better to live in Youngstown, Ohio where the once-dominant industry (steel) is long gone, homeowners are stuck there because they can't get anything for their houses, and the lifeless economy has driven the more mobile half of the population away? If you hate the current state of affairs of high wages and high property values, you are free to go somewhere poor and stagnant and take what comes with that. Amazon isn't showing any signs of fading away any time soon, so I think you either have to learn how to deal with the new reality or find a town that's more to your liking.
Anyway, that's a pretty interesting whine-piece coming from someone who writes for the NY Times, an organization based in one of the craziest and arguably least livable cities in America.
Fuck, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey have a lot to answer for. If not for their disgusting antics, we would have had this medicine decades ago.... They're worse than Harvey Weinstein in my book.
Leary and Kesey were definitely over the top, and kind of sound like dicks, but without them psychedelics might not have received any mainstream attention at all. To call them worse than a(n alleged) rapist is going a bit far. They got carried away and went off the deep end, but you have to give them credit for making so many people aware of the power of psychedelics. Hell, they've been pretty much irrelevant for several decades and we're still talking about them.
I have read about research being done to use psychedelics to treat PTSD. Sorry I don't have a citation for that. The reasoning for PTSD treatment sounded much like what this article says about depression. There was or is a controversy about research to test whether such a treatment is effective. The research was approved in Europe and denied in the US. This was a few years ago so I do not know the current status.
Mushrooms (or psilocybin and psilocin) have been reported by more than a few people to alleviate or cure cluster headaches, too. MDMA, especially, has been used to treat PTSD. These treatments are only administered a few times, at most, and carry little risk. There is some scientific data to back up these uses of psychedelics, so more research should absolutely be conducted.
The "dark web" used to mean websites that weren't indexed in any search engines.
Has the definition changed? Damn, I missed that memo.
You've missed nothing. Journalists just fail to grasp the difference between dark web and dark net and use them interchangeably.
You've missed something: users frequently use the two terms interchangeably now, too. Dark net, dark web, whatever, those are terms they're using for something more specific than their original use, but this is not incorrect, as the shady grey are markets in question fit either definition.
I wonder if this is a way of finding the customers. The dark system may hide IP addresses, but if someone can affect the timing on one end, that itself can be a signal. If they can flood one end, maybe they can look for indications of that congestion at the other end.
No one's interested in tracking down customers that way. There are too many of them and they are too small to bother with. The method of combating online illicit drug sales is to take down the sites, since using a collection of seized records makes it a lot easier to find the sellers, and the site owners are considered big fish.
Why would it be unusual to see migratory birds going from north to south this time of year? That seems like what we'd expect from any migratory creature.
I'm also confused by this. The butterflies were headed South to Mexico (self-deportation does exist!), and shouldn't any migratory birds traveling through Colorado en masse in September or October also be heading South, more or less? Something isn't adding up here.
Are you one of the 3.7 million Netflix users who still get DVDs sent in the mail? If so, what's keeping you from embracing the digital age and streaming movies via the internet?
A few possible reasons: I'm 75, I enjoy going to the mailbox even more than watching Matlock, I do stream, too, but it ain't easy to hook a Roku to the 13" CRT w/ built-in DVD player in my den. And how are DVDs not "digital age," since the first D is in fact "digital?"
How bout Tesla's flying electric rocket cars? Those are going to be really fast and all the rage in a couple years. Press release coming later this week.
Little-known fact: St Louis has better BBQ than Kansas City.
Well-know fact: anyone who considers the BBQ scene or culture of one region to be absolutely better than that of another, knows nothing about BBQ. I love some Texas brisket (which itself comes in many forms, by the way), Nashville chicken, Carolina pork (which, again, is far from being specific) and KC ribs, but that doesn't mean one is "better" as a fact, nor that I can't get good Q in Ohio.
Why would anyone want to go from St Louis to Kansas City, or vice versa? And if there is some reason that you actually need to make that trip, why would you want to do it in such a hurry?
I'm not trying to make a joke here. I really need to know.
Every large city in the country, and many small cities and towns, can provide you with most anything you need to live every day of your life. So why not ask why anyone ever travels to a different city, and why they don't normally walk or otherwise take the slowest route possible? Why not travel as quickly as possible?
Maybe there are people who do business in both cities, live in one and do business in the other, or have family on the opposite side of the state? You wouldn't even think to ask this question if it involved New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, so why should KC and STL, while much smaller, be any different?
You can't hijack a hyperloop and crash it in to a building.
While the cost of damage would be very high, the risk to life isn't really any different than a bus or train full of people.
No, you can't crash a hyperloop car into a skyscraper, but if you blow one up you might take down the whole, expensive loop, requiring millions of dollars of repairs. The concerns may not be as great for above ground sections, but any tunnel portions will be especially vulnerable to destruction. One incident would scare a lot of people away from the technology, because how easy do you think it will be to mount a rescue operation if a tunnel collapses? Catastrophic failures in a hyperloop system will be virtually guaranteed to be just that, catastrophic, and deadly.
Security and entrance screening will necessarily be tight, likely similar to what we see today at airports. Anything so new and strange would be an obvious target of interest.
...so maybe we should not allow companies to store vast repositories of personal data that is very bad if breached?
You might be onto something here! If Equifax and their two cohorts can't be trusted to keep our credit histories and personal information secure, maybe they shouldn't be permitted to control certain aspects of our lives and defame us, no? They're not "too big to fail," so maybe we need to break them up, or at least require that they provide people in their databases with all of the information they provide to their customers, free of charge. Reporting incorrectly on me is one thing, but charging me to see some of that incorrect information, disseminating false information, and refusing to institute good security practices should come at a price - a big one. They basically set their own standards and pay no penalties for their missteps.
Immutable data should not have any value at all...
Stopping the criminals won't work - as long as there is anything of value, there will be intent and crime to get it.
The value itself must change.
Wow, somebody just took Philosophy 101 and smoked a doobie, didn't he? If only the world were that simple, and if only you were right.
Different post, same lame racist epithets. Come up with something better, please, and stop posting anonymously if you think you're such a revolutionary. H1Bs aren't the problem, assholes like you are.
Bah, typical racist, hiding behind an anonymous post. LAME. If you feel so strongly you should own your epithets. This isn't about H1Bs, this is about you being a racist. No one likes stereotypes, but you're little better than KKK wackos or Nazis. Thank you for being so clear about your thoughts that we need not have any doubt to give you the benefit of.
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When Amazon fully departs, Seattle will be become the Detroit of the NWP. Hahaha
Yeah, it sucks when a company's presence is responsible for revitalizing a whole city. Amazon is the behemoth, but it isn't like they are dying or leaving any time soon, or like there hasn't been a ton of collateral growth that will be perfectly sustainable. Detroit's decline was slow, and the city wasn't a paradise even when the big three automakers were booming. Seattle was trendy and had a lot going for it before Amazon became what it is today.
Property tax doesn't work like that in King County. The amount collected is fixed and it's divvied up by figuring out your ratio of appraised value to the county as a whole. As my house has gone up in value, my taxes have gone up some years and down others, depending on how the year went.
Tax revenue goes up when business boom, due to the increased income that companies like Amazon are being taxed on, while rates should more or less stay the same or fluctuate only slightly. In my neck of the woods, some communities offer far superior services such as schools, police and fire, recreation facilities, roads, etc., because they have large corporate tax bases, and often a lot of wealthy residents. In some cases, they are also able to keep rates lower because the per capita income they are taxing is so high. So the rich get richer, the poor are continually penalized, generally. The levy system is fairly convoluted and pretty screwy though. I can't believe that the situation in Seattle is all that bad, seeing as everyone seems to be willing to pay a premium to live there.
[M]edian home prices have doubled in five years, to $700,000. This is not a good thing in a place where teachers and cops used to be able to afford a house with a water view...
That is, in fact, a damn good thing for the cops and teachers who bought undervalued homes there in the past. Maybe their next homes won't feature the same prime locations, but they'll likely be bigger and nicer, or be paid for largely in cash. Somebody feeling left out because he missed the market on the way up?
I get it that life has changed in Seattle, in the Bay area (the nice parts, anyway), in Austin, etc., but if it were that horrible why is everyone paying a premium to be in those places and put up with the downside? Is it better to live in Youngstown, Ohio where the once-dominant industry (steel) is long gone, homeowners are stuck there because they can't get anything for their houses, and the lifeless economy has driven the more mobile half of the population away? If you hate the current state of affairs of high wages and high property values, you are free to go somewhere poor and stagnant and take what comes with that. Amazon isn't showing any signs of fading away any time soon, so I think you either have to learn how to deal with the new reality or find a town that's more to your liking.
Anyway, that's a pretty interesting whine-piece coming from someone who writes for the NY Times, an organization based in one of the craziest and arguably least livable cities in America.
"my whole brain was out of tune
my whole brain was out of tune
I don't know how to tune a brain, do you?
went in to a brain shop
they said they'd have to rebuild the whole head
I said well, do what you gotta do
when i got my brain back, it didn't work right
didn't have as many good ideas
haven't really have a good idea since i got it fixed"
-My Brain, by Morphine
Fuck, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey have a lot to answer for. If not for their disgusting antics, we would have had this medicine decades ago.... They're worse than Harvey Weinstein in my book.
Leary and Kesey were definitely over the top, and kind of sound like dicks, but without them psychedelics might not have received any mainstream attention at all. To call them worse than a(n alleged) rapist is going a bit far. They got carried away and went off the deep end, but you have to give them credit for making so many people aware of the power of psychedelics. Hell, they've been pretty much irrelevant for several decades and we're still talking about them.
I have read about research being done to use psychedelics to treat PTSD. Sorry I don't have a citation for that. The reasoning for PTSD treatment sounded much like what this article says about depression. There was or is a controversy about research to test whether such a treatment is effective. The research was approved in Europe and denied in the US. This was a few years ago so I do not know the current status.
Mushrooms (or psilocybin and psilocin) have been reported by more than a few people to alleviate or cure cluster headaches, too. MDMA, especially, has been used to treat PTSD. These treatments are only administered a few times, at most, and carry little risk. There is some scientific data to back up these uses of psychedelics, so more research should absolutely be conducted.
The "dark web" used to mean websites that weren't indexed in any search engines.
Has the definition changed? Damn, I missed that memo.
You've missed nothing. Journalists just fail to grasp the difference between dark web and dark net and use them interchangeably.
You've missed something: users frequently use the two terms interchangeably now, too. Dark net, dark web, whatever, those are terms they're using for something more specific than their original use, but this is not incorrect, as the shady grey are markets in question fit either definition.
I wonder if this is a way of finding the customers. The dark system may hide IP addresses, but if someone can affect the timing on one end, that itself can be a signal. If they can flood one end, maybe they can look for indications of that congestion at the other end.
No one's interested in tracking down customers that way. There are too many of them and they are too small to bother with. The method of combating online illicit drug sales is to take down the sites, since using a collection of seized records makes it a lot easier to find the sellers, and the site owners are considered big fish.
*NOT* allowing source codes reviews poses unacceptable risk. I guess I STILL won't be using Symantec products.
Butterflies flap their wings in Denver and radar systems go nuts.
..and all without a single weed joke!? We're slipping.
Why would it be unusual to see migratory birds going from north to south this time of year? That seems like what we'd expect from any migratory creature.
I'm also confused by this. The butterflies were headed South to Mexico (self-deportation does exist!), and shouldn't any migratory birds traveling through Colorado en masse in September or October also be heading South, more or less? Something isn't adding up here.
Are you one of the 3.7 million Netflix users who still get DVDs sent in the mail? If so, what's keeping you from embracing the digital age and streaming movies via the internet?
A few possible reasons: I'm 75, I enjoy going to the mailbox even more than watching Matlock, I do stream, too, but it ain't easy to hook a Roku to the 13" CRT w/ built-in DVD player in my den. And how are DVDs not "digital age," since the first D is in fact "digital?"
Know thy enemy.
Guilt by association doesn't even require association or action in the UK, just reading? Yikes.
How bout Tesla's flying electric rocket cars? Those are going to be really fast and all the rage in a couple years. Press release coming later this week.
Little-known fact: St Louis has better BBQ than Kansas City.
Well-know fact: anyone who considers the BBQ scene or culture of one region to be absolutely better than that of another, knows nothing about BBQ. I love some Texas brisket (which itself comes in many forms, by the way), Nashville chicken, Carolina pork (which, again, is far from being specific) and KC ribs, but that doesn't mean one is "better" as a fact, nor that I can't get good Q in Ohio.
Why would anyone want to go from St Louis to Kansas City, or vice versa? And if there is some reason that you actually need to make that trip, why would you want to do it in such a hurry?
I'm not trying to make a joke here. I really need to know.
Every large city in the country, and many small cities and towns, can provide you with most anything you need to live every day of your life. So why not ask why anyone ever travels to a different city, and why they don't normally walk or otherwise take the slowest route possible? Why not travel as quickly as possible? Maybe there are people who do business in both cities, live in one and do business in the other, or have family on the opposite side of the state? You wouldn't even think to ask this question if it involved New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, so why should KC and STL, while much smaller, be any different?
You can't hijack a hyperloop and crash it in to a building. While the cost of damage would be very high, the risk to life isn't really any different than a bus or train full of people.
No, you can't crash a hyperloop car into a skyscraper, but if you blow one up you might take down the whole, expensive loop, requiring millions of dollars of repairs. The concerns may not be as great for above ground sections, but any tunnel portions will be especially vulnerable to destruction. One incident would scare a lot of people away from the technology, because how easy do you think it will be to mount a rescue operation if a tunnel collapses? Catastrophic failures in a hyperloop system will be virtually guaranteed to be just that, catastrophic, and deadly.
Security and entrance screening will necessarily be tight, likely similar to what we see today at airports. Anything so new and strange would be an obvious target of interest.
Sorry, but security is almost purely a reactive thing.
Not if you do it correctly and effectively! Being proactive is the only way to be good at security.
...so maybe we should not allow companies to store vast repositories of personal data that is very bad if breached?
You might be onto something here! If Equifax and their two cohorts can't be trusted to keep our credit histories and personal information secure, maybe they shouldn't be permitted to control certain aspects of our lives and defame us, no? They're not "too big to fail," so maybe we need to break them up, or at least require that they provide people in their databases with all of the information they provide to their customers, free of charge. Reporting incorrectly on me is one thing, but charging me to see some of that incorrect information, disseminating false information, and refusing to institute good security practices should come at a price - a big one. They basically set their own standards and pay no penalties for their missteps.
Immutable data should not have any value at all... Stopping the criminals won't work - as long as there is anything of value, there will be intent and crime to get it. The value itself must change.
Wow, somebody just took Philosophy 101 and smoked a doobie, didn't he? If only the world were that simple, and if only you were right.
This is leftist propaganda, trying to give businesses a bad reputation for security.
reality has a left-leaning bias
Reality doesn't have a left-leaning bias, left-leaning people have a bias for truth, facts, and reality.
Different post, same lame racist epithets. Come up with something better, please, and stop posting anonymously if you think you're such a revolutionary. H1Bs aren't the problem, assholes like you are.
Bah, typical racist, hiding behind an anonymous post. LAME. If you feel so strongly you should own your epithets. This isn't about H1Bs, this is about you being a racist. No one likes stereotypes, but you're little better than KKK wackos or Nazis. Thank you for being so clear about your thoughts that we need not have any doubt to give you the benefit of.
What is the best car to drive?
Easy: Mazda MX-5 or Porsche 911 GT3, depending on your skill level and desire to spend your kid's college fund. Next question.
Is the "surveyor" connected somehow to the Central Scrutinizer?