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Derivative of line parallel to floor is zer0.

This will make life even worse for the marginalized students as well off students will have parents or other sources of learning algebra.

English speaking world has developed intuition about strings due to ASCII which simply fails when it comes to Unicode and that basically explains a lot of these pitfalls.

String length when defined #2 is also fairly complex when it comes to some languages such as Hindi. There are some symbols in Hindi which are not characters and can never exist as their own character but when placed next to a character they create a new character. So when you type them out on a keyboard you have to bit two keys but only one character will appear on screen. Unicode too represents this as two separate characters but for human eye it is one.

त + या = त्या

Following code will print 4

console.log("त्या".length);

Only if they had told the city official that they were planing to cook meth and sell it on streets then these inspectors would have totally turned a line eye on this little operation.

The long story short the couple should hire the right contractor who has the city officials on take and things will go smoothly

What I would have preferred is that Canada removing the burden off the taxi companies and let them give competition to Uber in innovation space instead of trying to bribe politicians to act as gatekeepers.

Based on bureaucratic overconfidence.

The real problem with most american cities is that there isn't that much crime yet the politicians feel the need to fight non-existent unfightable crime by making our lives miserable. California could have lead the way in offering good solutions for homelessness, mental illness, drug war, school choice etc. but yet it pushes for more and more nazi styled policies.

Hospitals = real estate + admin staff + operational expenses.

Liability insurance for example will come under this and so will the retainer for the lawyers who will help you understand complexities of ACA.

Obviously. Same goes for fossil fuels and water.

This might be just an oriental way of living. I am not sure why researchers are hell bent on classifying almost anything as some kind of mental issue. I frequently stepped out of workspace to grab a hot coffee and my psychologist friend told me that drinking hot beverages frequently is a person's way of coping to the lack of emotional warmth in life by replacing it with material warmth!

Great work guys at LA Times! That is very transparent.

Homelessness should not be a problem in USA where land is plenty. If homelessness is a problem it is mostly because cities are not growing horizontally fast enough.

> . The US has known for at least a decade that spending more on IRS agents would earn more money than it would cost.

Isn't that proven to be a mostly false notion? Lower taxes tend to bring in more revenue and create more employment.

Obviously. Except that they have lobbied to pass laws to prevent competition and screw American consumers.

While I am personally totally going to try MJ once it gets legal I don't think I am going nowhere close to Heroine irrespective of its legality.

The miserable war on drugs is the failure of the society to acknowledge that people have right to their own life and even thought we may not agree with their choices we must nevertheless support them to exercise their right.

Drugs destroy life ? They dont destroy it as much as spending 10 years in jail for having few gms of heroine.

The overall theme of politics these days is to create an "other" group and blame everything on that group. Demonise that group and take more power in hand to then hurt them to cover up the failures of the government doing basic things.

Muslims, illegal immigrants, Asians, China, Blacks, stoners, hippies, Rock musicians, top 1% etc.

Thus government gets to pretend that they are doing something for "us".

I think you are totally wrong on this one.

> It's the illegal immigrants that suck the system dry, not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.

Vast majority of illegal immigrants perhaps just keep their head low and work hard. Also, they barely get anything from welfare and work below minimum wages. It is probably the criminal aspect that is sucking the system and good solution for that is to decriminalise drugs and help American companies sell drugs for a profit instead relying on Mexican cartels.

I have never understood why Mexican citizens cant get a 30 day to 1 years temporary below-minimum wage job permit

> not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.

I know founders who had employed 10+ American being rejected visa and sometimes entry for no good reason. I have seen cops, CBP officials and other government departments harassing these individuals all the time.

10-20 years is not the time taken by government. It is essentially anti-asian discrimination where the application is simply kept in cold storage. Take $10k from the person and give him green card in 1 month.

This makes H1B worker more restricted who is already screwed up pretty bad. Government can not track where people work. Can the person work from home ? Can the X Inc. rent out their 4 cubicles to Infosys?

The obvious solution for H1B is to increase the cap from 85K to 200K or so while giving instant green-cards to all the pending applicants.

Bureaucracy and honesty does not go hand in hand! I am more worried that when a disaster strikes it will not only destroys lives but then the government resolve to increase taxes and regulation fighting windmills will destroy even more lives. Just like how 9/11 has put America into a perpetual mega expensive war with no objectives.

> Increase the cost of vehicle registration or gas taxes to encourage workers to prefer jobs closer to their home.

Or perhaps impose such high state taxes/ local body taxes that the people simply leave the town, state or even better the country! Just kidding. This is a very heavy handed solution that hurts a lot of people and especially poor, minorities and vulnerable groups.

Roads, Vehicles and Gas has far too many alternative uses and this sort of tax gives broad powers and worse more money to state which will then be used to enforce drug war and other bullshit laws. Above suggestion deeply hurts poor and vulnerable minorities who have to travel a lot for work. This is like shooting someone in chest because breast cancer was detected.

A toll however is a far better solution. A toll applied only on specific routes on specific times will directly change the traffic pattern and will have much greater consequences over longer time.

> Someone is seeking to control the narrative.

China and Russia immediately come to my mind. China has been influencing american public opinion in more than subtle ways. Hollywood movies are forced or incentivises to show china is positive light. Any material manufactured in China is forced to adopt Chinese world view for example China secretly forces printers to make changes to how Taiwan or Tibet is mention in the books. NN Taleb's recent book face the same issue.

The problem with CIA or US Government in general has been they have long stopped using american ideas of freedom, transparency to their own advantage while being transparent and accountable to public. Constant lies, optimising for dubiously useful goals, financial mismanagement etc. has made them less credible and very correctly so.

I bet the next thing CIA would try to get Assange killed and facts suppressed only making themselves less and less credible and reducing freedom in the country.

When John Kennedy appeared on television during Cuba missile crisis the American public to a large extent believed their president. After what Bush did in Iraq I think American public will not trust another President like that even in the face of a real crisis.

I think that is how nations probably fail.

In Batman Zero Year, Bruce Wayne has made his first appearance as Batman and is almost 100% sure that people will easily find it out that Bruce is Batman.

Alfred then tells Bruce that during his performance as an actor he paid far too attention to minor details of the characters played including dialects, diction, consumes, makeup etc. just because he was terrified that people will see the person behind the mask. Only after some experience he learned that people pay to see the mask and not the face. They very willingly will refuse to see the face behind the mask because in their hear they want that mask to be real. People will not want to find out who is Batman.

Of course this is all fiction but it does ring a bell especially in today's super-heated political environment where we cant even know if a fact is a fact. Even when something becomes an obvious fact or an obvious lie it does not seem to matter to most people because in their heart they have an alternate view of the very facts.

Screw Adsense. I mean it. Google's policies over these matter are more opaque than functioning of NSA and their responses or FAQs are worse than the well rehearsed statements of scandalous politicians.

We found moving to native ads to be significantly more profitable when you have a website that has lot of genuine content. For me adsense = spammy ads.

We were blocked twice by adsense in past (two different companies owning two different web properties) for perfectly legitimate traffic giving no excuse what so ever.

The money you pay barely matters to USCIS. However this move directly helps those who are importing cheap labor.

Wolf in the sheep's clothing. When GovernMint says something you should look for whats hidden in the policy.

1. So if I want to change companies now I have to wait for few months to get the new petition in hand. Tell me I can't travel to my home country during this period!

This is essentially friction to job changing. This is clearly against the current administration's policy of Murica first and no to cheap labor.

2. On OPT ? Wait for unknown period of time to know if H1B gets picked in lottery or if it gets approved. Better go home.

3. So far FB, Google etc are always happy doing premium processing where as cheapo Indian companies avoided it. This is another big boost to cheap labor importers.

Can Amazon take responsibility and offer say 10% discount to all the customers who are spending >$X ?

Number of lawyers must have drafted those lines and 5 people including Bezos must have approved those lines.

Those lines are not reflective of what Amazon is but what picture Amazon wants to paint now. They have clarified it is their error and not some hacking attempt. Secondly they have not vilified the engineer in question because already Amazon's culture is a bit of a ??? in public mind.

But they have got it right. Shit happens and this is not the first time it has happened or the last time it will happen. Also it will happen with Microsoft, Google and everyone else.

May be we will build even better technologies that will rely on two different cloud providers instead of 1.

Net neutrality was a bogus hocus-pocus in my opinion to begin with. Good for Iraq but bad for us ? How and why ? The underlying principles seems completely arbitrary. People should be able to get more access for lesser price and that is always a desirable thing.