rsheridan6

I tried to use Scheme years ago, and I found that no matter how good a language is, writing something to interface with some ugly API or something like that, or debugging an existing one that hasn't been used thoroughly, is a lot of work. Not sure where Racket itself stands these days, since the last time I used it it was called PLT Scheme.

Trump's crassness, and the fact that the other coastal elites legitimately hate him, makes him seem authentic, despite his background.

I lived in Houston for a few years and I'd take its flaws over being house poor in a coastal city.

I don't get how this is supposed to fit in with the fact that discrimination against older workers is a big thing. Who is supposed to be hiring these 70 year olds with no savings?

I just bought a sub-$300 laptop, which was unusable with the default Windows OS. It's snappy with Ubuntu/unity.

I don't think very many people care about running 2001 laptops anymore.

You do interact with other players via gym battles, and if gyms are dominated by cheaters it ruins the game for everyone else.

Walmart recently (this year) changed their pay structure so that nobody will make less than $11/hour, which is good for jobs that don't even require high school or the ability to speak English, so data from 2011 is outdated.

But being paid $11/hour still means that at the workers with dependent children will still be on Medicai and other public programs.

Very few unskilled jobs pay enough that a single mom is not going to qualify for benefits, so these stats probably reflect more than anything who the company hires or retains. If they hire lots of single moms, they will be lots of employees collecting benefits. If they hire more men, older people or younger people, they will not.

Any unskilled job is going to have a low enough pay rate that many of the employees will qualify for public assistance. This goes for Walmart, Target, and the mom and pop shops Walmart replaced. If Walmart went out of business tomorrow, these people would still be on public assistance. That's today's economy.

They look purple and orange to me, and I am not colorblind.

I have sometimes disagreed with other people whether a color is orange or red so maybe there's some other variation in color perception that's never been worthy of diagnosis.

It's the standard size of a vial of insulin - 1000 units, same as the extremely expensive insulins referenced in the article and by other people in this thread. How long it lasts depends on how much you need to use, which can vary widely.

The article fails to mention that you can get a vial of insulin (regular or NPH) without a prescription at Walmart for $25. Not generic, but inexpensive. The rapid acting and the once daily insulins are indeed very expensive, but $25 will get you the very best the early nineties had to offer, just like most drugs that were expensive name-brand drugs back then.

The whole thing shouldn't weigh very much, assuming it's limited to delivering lightweight objects, and the rotors could be covered with a screen. I don't see much potential for danger. The worst thing that could happen would be a total system failure causing it to drop out of the sky, and even that could probably be mitigated with something like a failsafe that deploys a parachute if the speed is too high.

It should be safer than multi-ton delivery trucks, which can and have killed people. I was a mailman at one time - we were required to get out and look behind the truck before backing up because a mailman once killed a toddler who wandered behind his truck (though I doubt very many carriers actually follow that rule).

Xanga.

There was an error in my calculations, which are based on freshman college physics I took in the 90s, so never mind.

Attempt #2: Gravitational potential energy = kinetic energy = .5massescape velocity^2. = .5human bodyweight kg 11,200 m/s. Convert the units and you've got a few years worth of calories (which I think I mixed up with kilocalories the first time).

It is not safe to say that. By many measures, including height, disease burden, and hours worked per week, paleolithic man was better off than his descendants until pretty recently.