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As someone who's met Warren Buffett, I can say he's definitely an extrovert.

He's a complete social butterfly and absolutely loves being the center of attention. He's constantly telling jokes and making people laugh.

That said, his partner Charlie Munger is definitely a lot more inline with the classical definition of an introvert.
So got a call, from our church leaders yesterday, saying
my husband's work email was on [redacted], oh my!

This is extremely irresponsible and repulsive! I'm surprised that some organizations can take the liberty to encroach onto people's personal lives!
Out of curiosity, do you realize that the same thing can be said about religion? You don't know enough about it - definitely not as much as the people who specialize in it - so you should listen to your priest on the subject. Or politics: just pick a party and follow its lead, politics is a complex subject and you can't know as much as the professionals.
best health for whom? There is a lot of variance in metabolism between people, and even more ways the body can react to different diets. There are people whose digestion track that are too efficient and those that are too inefficient, and a high carbohydrate diet will have a radical different impact for each of those. Even for everyone else with a healthy metabolism we must ask what effect if any a high carbohydrate diet does and if there is any correlation in that group for improved health or not.
It's only 10:21 Eastern Time on a Monday as I read this at 7:21 a.m. in the Pacific time zone. Like, wait for the trading to close, then tally up the damage.
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Cosmic rays flip bits all the time:

"one error per month per 256 MiB of ram was expected"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580933/cosmic-rays-what-...
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I get a 5% match with a group RRSP at work and I'm at a small non-profit company. Most tech companies don't even offer an RRSP in Canada.
Cosmic rays flip bits all the time:

one error per month per 256 MiB of ram was expected"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580933/cosmic-rays-what-...
Why would it be appropriate here when very few people hold such a view? A lot of people say they don't judge others and think judging others is wrong, but they are always limited in scope to some subset of judgments. They will often be quick to judge a thief or worse who is on the stand.

In the original story this quote comes from, the one guilty was to be stoned to death because they had committed a crime deserving the death penalty. In comparison to crimes with similar punishment today, how many would say to not judge a murderer unless you are blameless? Say it and mean it?
It's fair in the same way banks closing when there's a run on them is fair; for the same reasons.

Basically to let cooler heads prevail and prevent worse consequences.
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> There are 510 trillion square miles of surface area on the planet.

I understand it's a big job, but that's why big governments have billion dollar budgets and toys.
Also remember we have no need to take photos of the entire surface, only the Atlantic (and even then, only the North Atlantic right now)

>You could, conceivably, completely miss the object in your imaging passes

I feel quite confident when images are taken their exact co-ordinates are known, so it can be quickly determined if you've "missed" a patch or if you have them all.

>* or the satellite you have tasked for a particular ground track has an error in it's imaging sensor or downlink equipment*

I feel quite certain they've tested these things extensively, and they're not going find some previously unknown bug while looking for a ship in the ocean. They work properly.

> * You might also have to move the satellites around occasionally making imaging useless during these periods as well.*

I thought most satellites were in orbits that make it possible to image almost the entire surface without moving them.

> Also.. there's night and weather

I didn't say it was going to be easy.

> whole-earth real-time imaging is seriously difficult

I'm not for one second proposing whole-earth real-time imaging.
I don't understand why all clothing sizes (for both men and women) aren't just in inches (or cm)? Why do the clothing manufacturers have to make everything so confusing?
-markets get put on pause

The day to day stock market has limited liquidity. Most of the time people have enough buy and sell limit orders to keep the price reasonably stable. (Sell if price reaches X, or buy if it falls to Y.) But, if the price falls say 10% more people not actively looking at stock prices are going to get in on the action.
>> I wonder how this will affect my life, if at all.

Depends on where you invested your money. A lot of 401K's lost close to 40% of their value after the 2008 crash. A lot of people near retirement had high exposure since most of their investments were in equities (90% or more) and lost even more.

I'm pretty sure this is just a correction. You should get concerned when the market goes down and stays down. As pointed out earlier, the market has already gained back most of the losses already.
Yeah, I have a firstinitialverycommonlastname@gmail.com address which is full of misdirected email. I don't use it either, though it is my default throwaway email for access walls (enter your email to read this article!) and the like. Someone opened a facebook account with it, an instagram account with it, etc.

I get cell phone bills which you can't unsubscribe from, since the auth is actually tied to the phone. I get tons of email newsletters. For a good chunk of them the unsubscribe flow doesn't actually work, so I wind up marking them as spam.

Apparently people signing up to gmail with bogus secondary recovery account emails that Google has a whole flow for "disavow this email from your account". I wind up using that flow 2-3 times a week.

The concept of email is hard I guess.
> The key issue is that upgrading is almost always a manual process that is likely beyond the skill level of a home-user.

Seriously? Beyond the skill level? All I need to do is login and click the check for updates button, then click apply. In fact, that's as complex as it has ever been for all any of my routers for going on 10-15 years.

IMHO, if a home user can't manage that much, chances are slim they could even drive a browser.
A pause makes sense, if you study this history of sell off's, they're often emotional... and sometimes technological. A pause gives the market time to recollect itself.
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Just like there's no "healthy" amount of carbonated soda either, but having an occasional glass of coke won't have any result on your health whatsoever. That's also moderation.
I don't think I've ever seen a water cooled engine that doesn't have a radiator fan (or two). Older ones are crank driven, these days they're electric.
Only 8 cups? My throat is uncomfortable if I drink less than that at work, and I drink a lot at home too.
It's not a joke to the media, but fundamentally their job is to report new things. Not to take a view on the things, or check them for truthiness or flawed methodology -- just to report them.

(Your choice of media will determine how much extra value in terms of checking, discrimination etc is added to the news you see reported)

But they like telling you to forget what you know and take on board $newfact because it is easy copy (scientists say so!) and it gets pageviews/sells papers.
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Let's say fair you shouldn't expect to have account removal on Steam because it's would be abused as hell: family conflicts, script kiddies, "friends" "jokes", etc.
Highly technical posts on HN have a tendency to accrue a lot of upvotes before a discussion develops. I attribute this to (perhaps optimistically) people actually taking the time to read the post. When something is so technically dense, it can also be difficult for people to add anything to it; hence it takes a while before a real discussion starts.
tangent: "Winter 2010 was a tough one for a lot of people. Physically, it was brutally cold, the coldest in more than a century. I had to stuff up my stupid, impractical windows with black bags and cower with an electric heater through the nights."

Black bags are not going to do it. Get a 3m window insulation kit. It is available in Ireland and actually does a pretty good sealing job. Used it in an apartment in ND and it did wonders. Plus, you can remove it easily so it doesn't damage the apartment.
Would you mind providing some color around these metrics, or pointing me towards a source that paints the picture in greater detail?

I don't mean to be snarky or sarcastic, I'm just generally uninformed and would like to develop a more nuanced opinion.
As far as I can tell, I still only have the option of accepting or denying apps' permission on CyanogenMod. Also, I can hide my contacts and location from apps, if I'm really persistent about clicking the deny box a million times. But I still can't approve only the app permissions I want and not approve the ones I don't (which coincidentally are not essential to app functioning).
That's surprising. Here in the US non-profits aren't allowed to match at all.
more like "obey or die"
Capitalism at it's finest. The race to the bottom will eventually force someones (possibly everyones) hand. The mechanism that will drive change (either violent/non-violent) is just a matter of who blinks first.
> "Thinking for yourself is untenable"

Well, that's the best thing I've read all day.
Tech sector suffers huge selloff, led by Netflix
Interesting discussion at /r/legaladvice: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/3hkhk7/ca_i_wa...

> Thanks for all your replies. My general understanding here is that it not explicitly illegal to download but would put me in a possibly uncomfortable legal situation should I get unlucky. I have plenty of other work to do, so I'll avoid satiating my curiosity.
I have an gmail account with an initial and a very uncommon surname, and even I get regular updates on a lady's food deliveries.

If ever a potentially relationship-breaking revelation was plausibly deniable, it's this one.
(Not writing this for your benefit but for passer-by who may not be familiar)

The unwritten context of "buy and hold an index fund" is that it's for retirement—people with 20, 30 or 40 years before they actually need the money. That's enough time to ride out swings in the market.

If you need the money to buy a house or start a company in a few years, keep it in cash.
That's not true in much of the US. Their are a surprisingly high number of cameras pointed at the streets including security, ATM, private web cams, and weather cams.
You can begin contributing to your own 401k immediately upon starting. They begin matching immediately as well, but you lose that match when you leave if you aren't vested.

Source: am an Amazon employee
My employer matches in company stock too. It's not a big deal, you can exchange it immediately for a portfolio if you want via the 401k management portal (T Rowe Price for me). It's probably just politically easier for the board to issue more shares than to spend cash.
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Good luck finding those diesel-electric boats.

If they manage to creep away from the AOE, they could be anywhere.
Another one:
https://github.com/zenna/Sigma.jl

There was a talk about Sigma at JuliaCon this year, but I don't think the video is posted yet.
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I mean, if you want, you can hunt through my comments on this site and reddit/voat around 6 months ago and find me saying then that there would be a crash around this time.

I'm not going to claim that I have any deep technical knowledge of the stock market, but the writing has been on the wall for quite a while.
Long-term investors who bought stocks after the 1987 crash did very well. It took a few years, but the market fully recovered.
Hey on the bright side, just look how far we have already got without too much financial incentives!!

My motivation for using libre software is:

- When you use a proprietary software, you are using "somebody else's software, licensed for your usage".

- When you are using libre software, you are using YOUR software.

Software built for profit have better incentives for financial development support, and that's why it's hard for libre software to catch up on features.

We can support libre software with donations (or better not giving money to the locked competence), and more importantly using the libre software that lacks of the non-vital features, at least at personal level.

In the long run, libre will outlast the locked, it's a matter of financial incentives.
I just can't decide if there will be more blood, or if this is just the start...
Would you consider it less flawed if it hadn't rebounded after the drop? I thought being able to recover quickly from market shocks was considered a good thing.
I wonder if any of this could be related to recent tensions in Korea?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/21/asia/koreas-tensions/
Two 'Suicides' reported over Ashley Madison hack
We shouldn't think for ourselves about our health (I wouldn't prescribe myself medicine, after all), nor should we listen to what mainstream media has to say. I thought it was common knowledge that for people actually interested in staying healthy the best thing to do is ignore the fads publicized on media.

Just listen to your doctor, or research medical papers yourself.
There is a cool down system if things become too volatile. They halt trading for 15 minutes or shut it down for a day. They mentioned that if S&P500 were to drop 7% they would halt trading for 15 minutes today.
I mostly agree with this point of view, with the small caveat that what constitutes moderate is not always obvious - I remember coming to the US for the first time and being in awe as to how large portions were, for example.
Roberta is 100% free software, though.

You can also install the server component in your school, your lab whatever.
This is the season for forms and fees day for us (few?) parents. Two kids in a top level public school system (aka a rich area, plenty of prop tax revenue) and I still had to pay $224 for two grade school kids for one year of books and technology fees and PTO "contributions" and stuff.

If you make over $100K its a rounding error, and if you make under $25K (or whatever) then absolutely everything is free covered by the state, including free lunches, the real people to pity are the remaining few middle class folks. The government will get rid of them soon enough... then what?

If you read the school paperwork VERY carefully you'll find the monetary payments are technically voluntary. They're not allowed legally to not educate your kids if you don't pay until they're over 18 at the start of the school year. This probably varies greatly by state and district.

One interesting side effect I've seen is massive price increases for school supply list products... Come on Target, $3.88 retail for small pack of postit notes during "school supply season"? Talk about profiteering. Damn. A twelve pack of the same product is $3.48 at Amazon with free prime delivery. Feel sad for poor folks who can't buy at Amazon, so stuff that costs me 34 cents costs them almost ten times as much retail. I saw a lot of stuff like that, $2.99 for a dozen pencils, etc. I walked thru Target with my phone out the whole time putting in the order for supplies and buying what little was cheaper, retail.
"Communists"
Note: I've been slow banned for this comment. Please read it, I'm sure a hell ban is coming next. Apparently having a different opinion politely expressed is not even allowed here anymore.

Debt to Income- yes everyone and their dog walker is not out there buying condos hoping to flip them in 3 years, so we are less leveraged than we were. Hard to tell how much of this is because people have more money coming in or are more responsible having just gotten burned 7 years ago.

Capitalization of Companies-- well we've had significant monetary inflation, have you accounted for that? Ok, now have you accounted for that using the real money supply?

Productiivty- this is the result of technology, should continue to increase.

Oil Prices- Oil prices are shockingly low, especially when you account for inflation. This is good as energy drives the economy... but it hasn't been this way long enough to see real economic effects that are lasting, yet.

Savings Rates-- well, compared to 2006 when everyone was leveraged to the hilt to buy just one more condo, sure they are better. But are they actually good?

Housing Prices-- "healthy" is also what they said in 2006. The monetary inflation that drove the housing bubble in 2000-2008 was only amped up after 2008. The spigot is open even wider now, and while we're clearly not in the mania we were in 2006, it's not obvious that these prices aren't also.... quite artificial.

I'd like a stat that was EBIDTA of the S&P 500, inflation adjusted against the real money supply, over the past 30 years. I think that would be a good indicator.
>How have we come to accept this kind of immoral behavior on the large scale

Cheating is legal and doesn't affect me a customer. Its crazy that an entrepreneur forum is obsessed with exposing these men and women. Not too long ago, my dad's generation were saying "A company run by a gay? I'd never do business with such a morally bankrupt pervert!" Meanwhile, my own bosses have said things like, "Hire someone who smokes pot? Well, we don't hire immoral criminals here! Now piss in this cup."

Now here we are, again. Maybe we should just stop moving the goalposts and understand that what people do privately is their own fucking business. I don't care how many affairs you've had. I just care about the value proposition. I hate how cheating makes everyone a moralist and a biblethumper, when they otherwise have secular liberal values. I hate this entitlement and culture of shame it brings out in people who should know better.
>They don't see the real underlying issue about privacy and informatic data.

And many against even these hacks feel that the victims of hacks of hidden tor services 'had it coming'. Most people think that a sufficiently immoral online action means the hacked individual 'had it coming'. The difference is in what counts as sufficiently moral, not in the underlying view of if it is possible for someone to deserve to be hacked.
Staggeringly unequal benefits distribution makes for an unhealthy economy. We don't describe the economy of Mexico or Brazil to be healthy even when they are at high employment and growing GDP mostly because the burgeoning economy doesn't produce a similar ripple in their societies.
"In the US, for starters, there's a huge bubble in stocks"

The median PE ratio of S&P 500 stocks at the moment is $14. That's certainly not "bubble" territory. The current market correction is surprising nobody, but I don't think many people consider this a bubble (at least for the US markets).

Now there are certainly subsectors within the US that could be in bubble territory and could get hit really hard... unrealistically valued tech stocks being one of them. But again, across the whole US economy things are alright.
Actually it's not. (In case anyone might think you were being serious.)
So is new IIS with HTTP2.
https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
Having worked on both... no. Flash apps would routinely be 20-50mb of streamed assets.

A couple of megabytes of JavaScript which is then gzipped to a few hundred kilobytes is nothing in comparison. The biggest slow down today is in performance AFTER loading due to 3rd Party ad code; not due to the weight but what it actually does.
I'm guessing most HN commenters don't have the liquidity to become rich off a crash, unless they had knowledge in specific industries and companies that were set to get hit hardest. Not all Chinese sectors of industry are equally hurt by this collapse.

Besides, it wasn't just this commenter who predicted it. Many have before. In fact, even the laypress TV news like 60-Minutes have pointed out issues that will cause major growing pains to China. Run a Google search, click "Search Tools", and query the date range from the beginning of last year to end of Spring this year.
^ This. I have had kidney sand which bothered me a lot (because of stomach aching), until a doctor said that I should drink more water. I haven't had any problems since.
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Love to know the actual reason for this coordinated attack on Amazon. What's about Seattle based software companies and irritated established interests? /(a big) wink
> But I still can't approve only the app permissions I want and not approve the ones I don't (which coincidentally are not essential to app functioning).

Hmm? I can do exactly this in the Privacy Guard settings.

You can choose which permissions you want an app to have and which you don't. You can also set to Ask every time as well as just blanket blocking/.allowing permanently.
> The met has bid for the contract, and lost the bid. The BBC and the met have both independantly confirmed tha.

Where does it say this, please? All the articles I have found say that the contract will be put out to tender, but none actually say that the Met Office will be prevented from bidding.
'Suicides' over Ashley Madison hack
A couple of years ago, I went to an Amazon tech social gathering and rubbed elbows with some of their people.

I wasn't looking for a job, the gathering was 5 minutes from where I work and I knew there would be free food. They were looking for people to relocate to other parts of the country. A lot of H1B people showed up at this event. Since they didn't have any ties to this area, they were a lot more receptive to the idea of moving to the West coast.

I went, ate their food, drank their beer and won the door prize. They asked me if I'd be interested in interviewing, I graciously declined and the more I hear about working there, the happier I am that I declined their interview.
This article is technically right but practically speaking incorrect. You are 100% vested after 3 calendar years in which you have worked more than (I believe) 1000 hours.

This means that if you start before about half-way through the year, you will have worked more than 1000 hours that year, then the next year, and will have reached 1000 hours approximately halfway through your third calendar year there.

The end result is that practically speaking, a full-time employee will be 100% vested after no more than about 2.5 years, and possibly as soon as 2 years.

Source: Am an Amazon employee and I've got 401k contribution confirmations wherein my "vested employee match" went from 0% to 100% after working there just over 2 years, having started in mid 2012.
Have you done analysis on:

a) what would have happened had you stayed in for an extra month? An extra 6 months? The full year?

b) what would have happened if you hadn't gotten out at all?

The only reason I ask, is that most of the studies I've seen show that being able to predict macro level shifts in the market up to and including within 1 year time frames are largely less valuable than people would think. Especially for people doing long horizon investing.
You cannot offer a different view. Go home. Sorry.

(And they won't even perceive the sarcasm).
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I'm coining a new term! dang charitable: being charitable in interpretation even in the face of aggressive uncharitableness.
Didn't I qualify my statement and choose words to castigate Microsoft? It's amazing to me that keylogging is now reduced to injecting something into hosts and decoding their protocol. The latter may be tricky but knowing MS security record, inevitable.
That requires the server to be able to make network requests to the host - not gonna happen for most users busting your site.