The cost of living is 28% higher in California:
http://livingwage.mit.edu/stat...
http://livingwage.mit.edu/stat...

The average dollar salary of a programmer is 10% higher:
http://www.indeed.com/salary/q...
http://www.indeed.com/salary/q...

Texas programmers therefore have average effective salaries 18% than in California. I AM having good luck.

>. You are welcome to your state where a lack of laws allows employers to restrict your opportunities to change jobs. Yeah, welcome to your overlords who use the lack employee protection to push your income down.

Yeah, it was Texas where that happened, not California, right? It was Google and Apple conspiring against employees. Nope, must have been Toyota and Texas Instruments who did that.

The thing is, when the statehouse is deeply involved in business, those three or four businesses who purchase state senators have a huge advantage over all the smaller companies. Those three or four companies collude and the employees are screwed. When the politicians are expected to stay out of the way, you have hundreds of companies hiring just at one job fair in Austin alone. It's not possible for 500 tech companies in Austin to ALL collude.

Many, many people are moving from California to Texas, often following companies who are either moving their headquarters or like Apple, who is moving their new development to Texas. They come here because this is where the jobs are, and the cost of living is so much lower. The same person might make two to three times as much real income after accounting for cost of living.

They come to Texas because Texas has jobs, Texas has affordable housing, Texas has a road system that works, unlike California gridlock. Yet they bring with them the very same political ideas that have failed so badly in California. If you want to regulate your employer out of business, please STAY in California. Your welcome to come here and join in our success, but your also welcome to stay there and keep your fail. Please don't bring your fail here.

The Colorado representatives favor ULA, of course. So they asked for information about the full costs to have SpaceX do it, mentioned that SpaceX has a higher rate of cancelled launches, etc. Just as SpaceX and their representatives point out the downsides of the ULA contract. I think that's a good thing, that the House and the American people hear both perspectives, then make decisions.

      Certainly you wouldn't want the administration to make these choices behind closed doors, with no public information about why they chose one vendor over another and what the options were, would you?

I'd fully support removing any barriers to that. They'll surely get charged out the nose, but it's a reasonable proposal. What's not reasonable is having regular drivers subsidize Uber drivers by letting Uber drivers do commercial work on non-commercial insurance.

I'd hazard a guess that it'll be priced like all the previous versions. $49-99 for an upgrade copy, and $79-129(oem) and $129-199 for retail.

You mean like Tumblr or Blogspot or LiveJournal or just about any other blogging platform?

I thought the biggest complaint about Twitter was sockpuppetry. See Twitter use thirteen different characters.

But how long have you been able to PUSH START TO RICH with Fortran?

I have the opposite experience. Because my mobile device has no cellular Internet connection, I often load pages over Wi-Fi at home and then read them while riding public transit. If a page uses this "lazy loading" technique, none of the images will load when I get around to reading them.

I'm @PinoBatch.

But this list mentions Erris, Mactrope*, gnutoo, inTheLoo, willeyhill*, westbake*, Odder*, ibane, DeadZero, freenix, myCopyWrong, right handed, GNUChop, trimmer, and wiiiyhiii*. Or, rather, Twitter uses them. All of them. And this Twitter can post more than 140 characters.

* These are typosquatted versions of other Slashdot users' usernames.

I should have said right up front, I'm part of modern American culture too, so saving doesn't come natural to me either. I want a 3D TV, because I really like 3D. I have to be shown, and repeatedly reminded, how to live in a way that finances aren't stressful. For instance I listen to Dave Ramsey sometimes - not to learn new information, but because I have to be reminded. It's not easy and natural for me. It's worth it, though. First I have the peace of mind of knowing we're financially secure in the present, with no bill collectors calling* . Secondly, I know we'll have all that we need later in life too.

* we have two items from the past we're still cleaning up.

>. Realistically, it's frippin' hard to save a lot of money with a below-average income. It's real easy to get sideswiped by a substantial unexpected expense that I'd just deal with without affecting my retirement savings plan.

It's not easy. Mindset makes a huge difference though; it doesn't have to be that hard. In the 1950s, the average income was what we'd call $24,000. (That is, $24,000 in current dollars). Average families bought homes of around 1,000 square feet or so. They cooked. Making coffee at home costs 27 CENTS. Buying Starbucks is what, $6? They played a board game versus spending $35 taking the family out to a movie.

If you play board games and make coffee, if you have a lifestyle like June and Ward Cleaver, you can save all income beyond $20,000. It's a different mindset than most Americans today, certainly. And it's entirely doable. The big thing, I think, is to pay yourself first. The FIRST $xxx dollars goes to savings, then you decide how to spend the rest, rather than trying to save whatever is left over after you're done spending.

I've rarely seen a substantial expense that's actually unexpected. The roof needs to be replaced - yeah we've been expecting that for 20 years. We knew in 1995 that the roof would last about 20 years before needing replacement. The car died? Been expecting that since the warranty ran out. I can't predict WHICH month the car will die, but I know one of the cars will probably need major repairs between 150,000 and 200,000 miles, so each month we set aside $100 for car repairs and maintenance. Medical expenses can be unexpected, which is why we have insurance, to cover unexpected high expenses. We expect to pay the deductible each year, or close to it. We actually don't know which it will be this year - the house, the car, or medical, but we can certainly expect that one of three will have a $x,000 expense each year. That is, we expect an average $x,000 / year expense from those three combined.

So we have three types of savings. One is for expected significant expenses, like replacing the roof or air conditioner. Figure each year this fund needs to cover 1/4th of the cost of your car. (Fixing a new Porsche costs more than fixing an old Chevy pickup). The next is for retirement - a special case of expected expenses. The third is the emergency fund, $1,000-$5,000 for unexpected expenses. Unlikely expenses over $5,000 get insured. Neither an expected expense nor an unexpected expense will touch your retirement if you've put a bit into each of these three accounts each month.

No, but money changing hands (commerce) impacts whether it is "commercial", and requires a commercial license.

"Impacts", perhaps. But it's not definitive. Especially in California.

For instance: I bought a pickup truck, to use as a tow vehicle for my camper and my wife's boat. Then I discovered that CA requires pickup trucks to be tagged with a (VERY pricey) commercial license, regardless of whether they're used for business. (You CAN petition to tag a particular pickup truck as a personal vehicle - but are then subject to being issued a very pricey ticket if you are ever caught carrying anything in the truck bed - even if it's personal belongings or groceries, and regardless of whether you're being paid to do it. (Since part of the POINT of having a pickup truck is to carry stuff home from the store this would substantially reduce its utility.)

The one upside is that I get to park for short times in loading zones.

If we aren't going to require commercial licenses for commercial driving, then why even have them at all?

And if we ARE going to require them for clearly personal, non-commercial vehicles that happen to be "trucks", why NOT impose this requirement on putatively commercial vehicles that happen to be cars as well?

The real answer to your question is "because the state wants the tax money, and the legislators and bureaucrats will seek it in any way that doesn't threaten their reelection, reappointment, or election to higher office" - in the most jerrymandered state in the Union. The Uber case is one where an appraent public outcry arose, bringing the bureaucrats' actions, and public outcry about them, to the attention of elected officials.

The full form of the so-called "Chinese curse" is: "May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of people in high places."

By this definition, your Internet service provider is a third party. If the blockchain is really several gigabytes, that can be more than a month of the typical data quota on cellular Internet, satellite Internet, or Iowa DSL, all of which are billed by the bit.

Also, a commentor on TFA pointed out the requirements for abandonment of copyrights are:

1. the plaintiff intended to surrender [ownership] rights in the work; and

2. an act by the plaintiff evidencing that intent.

So to effectively put it in public domain permanently, simply write:
I surrender any rights to this work.
Done.