To be fair, the Trump team targeted the electoral college win. If they had targeted the popular vote, i.e. campaigning in states that they wouldn't win outright, but could garner votes, they most likely would have won the popular vote. Meaning they could have won that game if they had tried.
Yea, when companies really want to lower the cost, they implement directly with the bank, like say JP Morgan. That makes authorize.net even seem good. Stripe is really a pleasure to work with as a developer.
Yup, just did this. Got an extra master suite, and 1.75 more bathrooms with much bigger yard and garage for $1100 less. And neighbors that actually talk to you. Not to mention half the price for gas and food. Oh, and the swings aren't chained up. Good-bye LA, I will not miss you one bit.
Learning what questions to ask into Google is a critical aspect. Most of the time, coding is the process of writing some code, and then debugging it. Knowing to ask, my graphql endpoint is failing with a status of 500, vs. my graphql doesn't work. The first will help you narrow down the issue, the second is far too generic. I have been coding for over 20 years now, and I feel it is rinse and repeat in terms of hitting a roadblock, and finding the answer. Also, a lottttttt of patience. You might take two hours to figure out something that ends up being really trivial, and then you have that moment of feeling good that you solved it, and then you are right back into the next hurdle.
Could be the problem in America is the drug problem, the glorification of the drug culture, the glorification of gangsters, the glorification of violence in sports and video games. I wouldn't put these issues squarely on the police officers in our country. When the number one hit record in your country is WAP (I'll let you look up that one), maybe the policing isn't your biggest problem.
This was one of my tops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fucxG-he2qU Keith Hernandez, Emmitt Smith, and Walt Frazier. There were older commercials for this, but Emmitt was just soo funny in it. "Ohhh it's bad"
Yes, the 'global warming' piece is almost comical in that almost every person in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, year in year out buy the latest iPhone and every tech gadget imaginable. The carbon footprints of these are huge. To then have the argument that we need to do something about climate change is so hypocritical. Just do proper forest management and keep the climate change for a different topic is my opinion on it. Because, if people really cared about global warming by lowering their usage of things, this is the wrong state to ever even come close to doing it.
Does anyone who is bi-polar feel that they are able to navigate their down time well enough that it is not crippling? For myself, I believe it was more inline with seasonal depression, and after 30+ years of living in the northeast, where winters are longgggg and exgtremely cold, I moved to a place that this wasn't the case. I don't know if I have it, but when I am feeling down, I tend to read more, and just try to focus on the fact that I will come out of it and feel better shortly.
That is sad to hear. By any chance do you live with others. I thankfully have my wife and two kids which helped, though I just moved from LA to SC, because it was so draconian. We have already talked to more neighbors in 5 days living here than we did in years living in LA. Point being the isolation is much less here because people all walk in the neighborhood and actually say hello and mean it. They don't in LA. But, I too am missing interactions at work terribly.
I recently got the outdoor Polk audio speakers. And have them hard-wired to a fairly high-end receiver. The sound quality is so much better. I listen to a lot of vinyl, so that makes it an easier choice too. We use the smaller WonderBoom speaker when we do need it for the beach or something, but when at home, I will always chose to get the hard-wired path. Regardless how quickly the Sonos speakers connect to your source, hard-wired is better quality and is always connected.
I was paying $70-80 to fill my tank of gas in CA, and now am paying $35 in SC. I took my son for sushi the other night, and we feasted and I had two glasses of wine, and the bill was $50 instead of at least $100 in LA, so yea, everything is way cheaper when you aren't paying to live in the "dream" world of LA.
Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, and Joe Rogan all are on the high end, and all have headed out. I also headed out, but I am only on the high end in terms of total world population, but they are real high enders fleeing the myriad of issues coming to a head in good ole CA in 2020.