My husband is also very smart and logical, likes math, builds computers for gaming, but he has absolutely no interest in programming at all. We've been together for 6 years, I've brought it up a few times, showed him some things, but he's like "Okay, that's nice. Sorry, just not my thing" And that's fine.
He's a social worker who runs a group home for intellectually disabled adults, and he's been in this career for 15 years now, and he loves it. There's absolutely no reason for him to get into programming, and he's had enough opportunities over the years that if he were drawn to it he would have already done it.
He's certainly supportive of my work, he brags to his friends about cool things I've done, he knows enough to talk about what I do, but as far as actually doing it himself, he just doesn't care. I think you need to be okay with your girlfriend not being a programmer. I mean, do you feel a drive to pick up her career as a hobby? :-p
I think OP is talking about officers as "possible perps" and referencing the fact that officers can view the footage before filing a police report recounting their own version of events.
I've been to dentists in Boston and Washington state, and I've never had experiences like this. My dentist in Boston (who is awesome) I found off of Yelp reviews. You should ask around for someone better.
I think the reason you didn't get a straight answer on the "invisalign vs. braces" is that they do such their jobs so similarly that the biggest factor is really what you want. Do you want a slower and more expensive treatment with less pain, greater dental hygiene convenience, and that less visible to people who see your teeth? Can you put up with a little pain and inconvenience, don't mind the aesthetics, and want to save money?
In some some cases (to the best of my knowledge -- I haven't had to know anything about braces in 15 years), only braces are available until the teeth are in a state where invisalign can do the rest. Clearly, you weren't one of those patients, so the rest is up to you.
The dentists don't know your financial or social situation, they don't know what kind of inconvenience you can and can't put up with. What were you really expecting them to say here?
What you say makes sense, but the people involved didn't even attempt to make me aware of the differences in the concise way you just did. And when I asked about the difference in final result, pain, and time, there was no straight answer. It was just, "This is what I do. I can't tell you about the other thing."
Insurance companies and hospitals "accidentally" bill you for the wrong thing all the time, even for the little stuff.
I went to the ER for a broken hand a couple years ago, got a $450 bill in the mail when I should have just had a co-pay. Called the hospital, they said I had to pay. Called my insurance, insurance company said I didn't have to pay. Got in a three way call with the insurance company and the hospital... The billing specialist at the hospital literally said "Sorry, that's a known billing error!"
I'm generally not a conspiracy theorist, but I've never heard of a medical billing error that was in favor of the patient... If you see something alarmingly high or out of whack (especially if you've done your due diligence, read and understood your policy, and researched covered hospitals) you'd be silly not to fight it.
I've reported two vulnerabilities. One to a fairly large web hosting provider that allowed me to access the databases of anyone else on the shared server my website was on. Another to a major credit card company -- Given a person's first and last name I was able to see what kind of credit cards they had.
In both cases, they fixed it, thanked me, no arrests or threats were made. I think your experience is only outside the norm in the sense that you got monetary compensation out of it! Nice!
It is what it is. It has many benefits and it is not going to be reversed, but it has negative effects on social and racial inequality.
If a person educates their own child, or cooks their own meals, or provides other domestic services, that labor does not get taxed, does not contribute to making distant investors rich, and does not employ union labor.
(I am male and I have done those all of those things at times.)
Liz Warren points out that an "at home" family member can often get a job to supplement or replace the wages of a primary wage earner; long-term changes could be weathered by the secondary wage earner becoming the primary, or it could be a temporary job to save some money or pay off some debt.
It is not a subject we have good conversations on because it is so inflammatory.
Not for me. Even if wages don't go up, productivity does, and that makes things cheaper. I don't think we would be able to produce and consume so much with only half the workforce.
As for the destruction of families, that's going to happen under capitalism anyway. Free markets don't like nepotism and families don't like mobility of labor.
For the people who don't benefit from capitalism, it's a very bad deal to them because they gave up the safety nets of familial bonds in exchange for nothing. It's why conservatives aren't enthusiastic about capitalism and free markets (anymore?).
I got my master's in software engineering half time while working full time as a software engineer. During those four years I was also volunteering once a week, had a few side projects going on, wrote a book that made >$50,000 over the last two years, did freelance work, and maintained a relationship (got married two days after I graduated!).
There were certainly periods of time where I didn't see friends much, and my husband had to (gasp) cook dinner once in a while, but it was doable, and I graduated with a 3.7 GPA. I'm not a genius, I certainly did my fair share of procrastination, it was mostly just about making almost every day a "work day" (at least for a few hours), keeping things interesting by alternating between different types of work, and finding creative times/ways to study (commuting, lunch break, doing class busywork watching TV in the evening, etc)
I don't think I would have gotten "more" out of the program by quitting my job and just doing that full time. If anything, the financial stress would have made things more difficult.
Good points in the EFF letter that all web programmers (or programmers who use content from the web) should be aware of. The difference between "click wrap" and "browser wrap" ToS is extremely important, especially with web scraping.
Okay, let's say you're a judge and you get a commercial real estate case in Boston Massachusetts, in which the defendant broke their lease early and is refusing to pay a pro-rated lease break fee in their contract on the grounds that it's unreasonable and violates established precedent. The plaintiff argues that the defendant signed the contract, knew what they were getting into, and needs to pay the fee.
You discover that the plaintiff has not made any effort to find new tenants and has not listed the building as being available, and has not fulfilled their "duty to mitigate."
You discover that some portion of the defendants precedent is based on residential, not commercial cases.
What other questions do you ask? Should the landlord be allowed to charge any lease break fee, or write any penalties into the contract that they want? What if the lease is a 5 year term, the lessee broke the lease in the first 6 months, the lease break fee is the remainder of the 5 year term, and the landlord found a new tenant within a month of the old one leaving?
These are the sorts of cases that judges rule on all the time. There may be no clear "right and wrong" where you can sort of go "Oh yeah, clearly, that's illegal and the harm lies here, and your evidence sucks, and so my ruling is this" The cases may involve layers upon layers of state and local laws, and precedent going decades back -- for good reason.
I would argue that someone who wasn't trained in "the law" wouldn't be able to _consistently_ ask the right questions and evaluate each party's argument appropriately. Do residential landlord/tenant laws apply to commercial cases? Does the landlord have a duty to mitigate in this situation? How many rights are people allowed to "sign away" in a contract, and which rights are protected? Is the harm to the tenant weighed appropriately against the harm to the landlord within the boundaries established by law?
I consider myself to be a pretty logical and rigorous thinker, but I certainly wouldn't be confident in my ability to correctly and efficiently handle cases like this, and ask the right questions, day in and day out. Sure, maybe spend a week of research and get back to you, but if you're seeing multiple cases a day? Forget about it.
He's a social worker who runs a group home for intellectually disabled adults, and he's been in this career for 15 years now, and he loves it. There's absolutely no reason for him to get into programming, and he's had enough opportunities over the years that if he were drawn to it he would have already done it.
He's certainly supportive of my work, he brags to his friends about cool things I've done, he knows enough to talk about what I do, but as far as actually doing it himself, he just doesn't care. I think you need to be okay with your girlfriend not being a programmer. I mean, do you feel a drive to pick up her career as a hobby? :-p