"sleeping on the streets" and "living in Brooklyn Heights" are hardly the only two options here.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Readit Newsnoah91734 commented on Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/jbredeche
There does seem to be a "Diagnose network problems" in the context menu when right-clicking on the internet connection icon.
Oh wow, and only two and a half years after Windows 11 was released. Better late than never, I guess. I should have heeded the age-old warning of "every other major Windows release is terrible" and not upgraded.
noah91734 commented on Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/jbredeche
First of all, the headline is pretty clickbaity -- from the article it seems quite clear that this was a case of competing buyers, and the 8-foot setback is some spurious justification for why one of the buyers didn't move fast enough.
Second, many commenters here are arguing that perpetual clauses like this ought to be disallowed. It certainly makes sense to me that clauses like these ought to be converted to regular zoning laws that the city can then adjust as future generations deem necessary.
But third, this particular clause makes sense! You wouldn't want to get rid of it. All the buildings on the block have façades that are aligned with each other, to form a continuous "wall" of buildings. The last thing you want is for some random property owner to get to jut out 8 feet in front of all the other buildings. Ensuring some minimal level of architectural consistency on a dense city block is a good thing.
So keep the eight-foot setback. It makes perfect sense. But just convert it to be a city zoning regulation. It should be decided and modified if necessary via democratic means, not private contract.
> Ensuring some minimal level of architectural consistency on a dense city block is a good thing.
Check zillow. Of the 32 units for rent in Brooklyn Heights, the cheapest is a tiny $2,600/month studio. The median rent is $4,500/month, and that's for an apartment with one bedroom and one bathroom.
No, I don't think allowing a 200 year old private rule to reduce living space in an age of incredible housing scarcity is good. I could not care less about your architectural consistency when it is part of the reason why people are sleeping on the streets and others are paying most of their income on rent.
Windows 11 is awful. It ruined the calendar view on the taskbar, which is a huge pet peeve for me.
There were a lot of regressions that upset me. The option for seconds in the system time was removed. Right-clicking the WiFi/internet connection in the taskbar no longer has the context menu option for "Troubleshoot connection", forcing me to go to options, search Troubleshooters, click "Other troubleshooters" (Because troubleshooting internet is so uncommon, right?) and THEN troubleshoot the internet connection.
From what I read, Microsoft let some designers who only use Mac OS do the design, and they plowed ahead despite hearing extremely reasonable concerns that their OS developers had with some design decisions.
Intramurals are one option, often favored by immigrant parents who place more importance on academics, to exercise at school and by extension (usually) fairly close to home (see: volleyball, basketball, wrestling). Aside from some sports that require lots of travel around the city (like hockey, soccer) there are normally quite a few that tend to stay fixed, except for tournaments.
You are missing the point entirely. Only in America is "exercise" something you must go out of your way to do. Walking (miles) is exercise. Playing is exercise. Our kids do neither of these things independently of household income because we've built our cities to make walking impossible and dangerous, and because we've now normalized locking our kids away indoors and shoving an iPad in their face because we convinced ourselves that they will get kidnapped or run over by a car if they are ever outside and unsupervised.
Doesn't 'home life' depend on the parent's emphasis on physical activity, sports, or general fitness? I.e. if the parents put a higher value on other things, it seems likely that the children will follow their lead.
A poor home life in any sense of the term should not matter unless it means the parents are outright abusive. I did not play outside as a kid because my parents emphasized it. I did it because there were kids right outside and playing with them was more fun than anything I could do inside. If one of my parents had to drive me anywhere for me to be physically active, I would very rarely have gone anywhere or done anything at all.
Parents chaperoning their kids every hour of every day _is not normal_ and never has been, except in the US.
Not doubting the importance of physical activity, but poor mental health makes it significantly harder to maintain fitness as a child.
Often, school sports have minimum GPA requirements. A poor home life increases chances of mental illness and decreases chances that someone will drive you to practice. Will you even maintain the team sport if your teammates never accept you, given whatever mental condition that gives you anxiety or quirks? When can you even consider being active when much of the rest of your life is in shambles? You’re also less likely to have the ability to pay for it, given the correlations between low household income and poor mental health.
Poor mental health just makes everything harder to do, and you see that impact every aspect of life in aggregate.
The paper isn’t public so “controlling for confounders” is all you get, but I doubt they went through all the effort to have deep, revealing conversations about the home life or other nuanced cofounders of each participant.
> A poor home life increases chances of mental illness and decreases chances that someone will drive you to practice.
That you need to be driven at all to exercise is a huge part of the reason why exercise and fitness rates are so low in our youth. Our grandparents and great grandparents walked miles to go to school five days a week, and we've built our cities such that this is impossible or dangerous. We now live in towns that sprawl endlessly, and most of us forbid our kids to go outside unsupervised, so kids never find each other and play amongst themselves.
And for what? What exactly are we gaining by building our cities and our towns like this? It makes us all unhealthier because we are forced to drive everywhere. It isolates us and our children, who are now lonely on top of being merely physically inactive. We are poorer because we spend so much money on car loans, car insurance, gas, and parking. We are just as likely to die a violent death in the suburbs due to the increase risk of car crashes. We are isolated, poor, unhealthy, and unhappy, and in exchange we get... what exactly?
> The paper isn’t public so “controlling for confounders” is all you get, but I doubt they went through all the effort to have deep, revealing conversations about the home life or other nuanced cofounders of each participant.
The study was conducted in Taiwan which does not suffer from US-style car extremism. "Children cannot go out to play because their parents cannot afford to drive them" is a statement they would consider unthinkably psychotic. Can they not use public transit, or at worst, walk to where all the other neighborhood children are playing unorganized?
noah91734 commented on Poor Predictors: Job Interviews Are Useless and Unfair psychologytoday.com/us/bl... · Posted by u/udev4096
Sorry no, that's why you have a trial/probation period even in Europe, ranging from a month to a couple of years when you can fire them without any cause or severance.
It's precisely so you can gauge their performance on the job without any risk to the employer.
So what's the issue here?
But companies are being needlessly pedantic about only wanting to hire "the best of the best" and nothing else will suffice as if they're all working on problems the scale of Google or Astra Zeneca.
Here's a recent article saying that "EU jobs crisis as employers say applicants don't have the right skills"[1].
Well then, train them or be more flexible since people can also learn and train themselves if you give them the chance. No candidate will have 100% math to the skills you want.
[1] https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/04/08/eu-jobs-crisis-...
This would be great. It's odd to me that we in the US get the worst of both worlds: despite at-will employment laws and almost no employment contracts, it's difficult to get hired because companies are so afraid of bad hires, and companies don't exercise their right to fire people who don't work out.
We hire like it's hard to fire people!
What's old is new again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_line
> Entertainment will be kept simple as well, "focusing on relaxation and mindfulness." The handset will feature Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, with 5G currently being explored,
Ah. I didn't see it on the kickstarter/gofundme page with the specifications. Back on my wishlist then :)