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I have so many friends, and some family members, who act as though the optimum life strategy is to buy as much material stuff as they can without getting into a default situation. Given a lifetime exposure to marketing I don't much blaim their attitude.

The thing is: the idea of maximizing material success is so very wrong. A good life is about experiences, not material stuff. Having savings and flexibility that entails makes life more relaxing and pleasure full.
We don't want privacy - we want the illusion of privacy that entrusting couple of corporations to not assist the LEOs gives us.

What they want from apple is to use ability(and keys) they already have - so apple has not provided you with privacy in the first place.
The number is 1500. I know because I have been talking to them about this since last year.
>Businesses use debt in all sorts of ways, they certainly don't limit it to buying assets. A common use recently is to fund share buybacks

You don't think buying a stake in a successful company (in this case one that happens to be your own) is buying an asset? The mechanations are slightly different, but you're still buying shares. An effect is rising EPS (due to retired shares), but that isn't the purpose.
> You don't see them going after servers, because the servers are far more vulnerable.

Really? Every kind of server? I'm sorry, but that's some ridiculous statement.

A device running proprietary software that governments have physical access to (after it was confiscated) is less vulnerable than (possibly) your own device running open source software that nobody except you has physical access?
Keep that learning spirit up
Same story in comic form: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/bees_vs_hornets
What about Nix (https://nixos.org/nix/)?
But it makes sense if half the configuration (or what not you expect from a package) is platform specific, like where do the libraries and resources live, does pip know about the windows registry? I doubt it.
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Consumption smoothing is a perfectly valid use of debt.

Suppose I have utility = log(consumption), but my income is volatile. If I have 1 income in year 1 but 10 income in year 2, and use no credit, my utility is log(1)+log(10) = 2.3.

If I use credit, I can have utility log(5.5 / (1+r)), with r the interest rate. At 10% interest, that's 3.2. At 20% interest that's 3.0. At 50% interest that's 2.6.

So even at 50% interest I'm increasing my utility by 10% due to the use of credit.
So, they always bounce back from it, it's not as if they haven't botched things before.
You didn't just totally miss Rayiner's point, but also wrote an extremely creepy comment that would have been inappropriate for civil conversation even had you been right about what he was saying.
I imagine this phenomenon generally has less to do with meditation/mindfulness, and more to do with Relaxation-Induced Anxiety: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22relaxation-induced+anxiety%22 . Which is its own problem, with its own treatments. Like in programming, reliable reproduction is at least half the battle in solving a bug.
While I agree in that it obviously is not the smartest way of doing that, if it gets people to actually feel like they have a plan for taking care of their debt and to start making progress on doing so, then it's worth it.

Obviously they probably shouldn't have bought a bunch of things they didn't need, but hindsight's always 20/20.
I wonder why the head of FBI didn't ask Tim Cook first in private. or I missed something?
> I use software from free software ecosystem for the no bullshit, high quality software that it delivers. People like me would benefit from free software being more mainstream.

It isn't obvious that you benefit from this, there certainly is a kind of "eternal september" effect which makes popular software worse.

For example, in the good old days googling for Linux driver related issues yielded useful posts explaining what's going on and how to make things work, but when Ubuntu gained popularity the results suddenly became flooded with posts by clueless Ubuntu noobs trying package up/downgrades, alternative repositories etc without any understanding what they are doing and why.

I think it's getting better now, mainly thanks to sites like stackoverflow, but few years there was no way to get usable results without "-ubuntu".
You're correct that there are a multitude of uses for debt (e.g. working capital management). I do think the parent was on to something though - the cornerstone of the private equity/leveraged buyout industry is borrowing debt below your return on equity to amplify returns. This can be a wise strategy for individuals to cautiously replicate.
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Sometimes you don't get to choose. Sometimes someone higher up in the company gets to choose for you.
Apple put themselves in that position by being the only entity able to sign software on their systems. This is a wide open backdoor by design.

If they provided ios devices with the capability to have their own master keys - it would have been moot. iPhone is as secure as the pk of the iphone owner. They cannot do anything to help FBI
What bothers me most about this article is the following statement which is accepted without contest.

"Law enforcement agencies have a legitimate need for evidence, which is all the more pressing in terrorism cases."

What makes a terrorism case more pressing? How many domestic terrorist attacks have had related followup attacks? How many domestic terrorist cases have been linked to other domestic terrorist attacks? How many domestic terrorist attacks have been carried out by the same set of individuals or groups?

The reality is that domestic terrorist attacks are not common or frequent, there is no urgency in investigating them because they do not lead to followup attacks. They're coordinated events, not a series of related events so there's no pressing urgency?
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I waited for years to get Age of Empires 2 on digital distribution as my computer hasn't had a CD drive since... shoot, 2009? And right after it was released on Steam, my PC broke down and I bought a Mac. And AoE2 doesn't work on a Mac. Boo.
Not the amateur web design channel.
All they need to do is compel companies (by hook or by crook) to install backdoors in their algorithms or hardware.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/after-nsa-backdoors-se...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

http://www.cnet.com/news/spy-fears-lead-nuke-lab-to-dump-gea...

Who is to say that other state actors haven't done the same to chips produced by their companies? The truth is, the genie is out of the bottle.

A year and a half ago, I wrote a serious article on this: http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
The users are the hard part of a social network, not the staff or the codebase. Pissing off users leaves a stench that keeps away new people.

Source: worked for a social network that died by sacrificing users for an idealized vision of what it could be.
That particular logic is not wrong; relative hardship is something courts routinely take into consideration.
With respect: I completely disagree. I don't think the govt has any right to force apple to allow them to bypass anything encrypted. IMO, this isn't a balance situation, but rather a binary situation.
The govt is just aiming to completely rewrite history. Tiananmen square? Never happened!
I would be interested to see the benchmarks against Pyramid, because it tries to be really minimal while at same time it is very friendly and flexible if you want to write REST API's with it.
Right now there is a free rider problem with internet content. If this becomes more prevalent the market will have to adjust to deal with free riders.

If you believe that content creators have a right to earn money there are two ways that can happen:
1) directly - you pay directly for the content that you want to consume or 2) indirectly - you see ads or sell your data in some way.

I wonder what people will choose if these are the choices. Right now you can ignore paywalls because relatively few sites employ them and they aren't robust.
Almost certainly done by host blacklisting. Even ad blockers on computers usually do this. It's just easier.
Our CEO from the uk didn't bring any of those benefits over.
I can see how a share buyback would put upward pressure on the share price, but how could it have a positive effect on earnings? Seems like it would have to have a negative effect on net earnings over the long term if the buyback was financed via a loan, due to the need to repay the loan.
Don't forget underground coal fires! Some of the thousands of coal seam fires burning today will continue for centuries, releasing CO2 (up to 3% of global emissions) and sweet, sweet mercury into the atmosphere.
This is a browser design issue not a protocol/server issue. At the time HTTP 1.1 was written browser caches would hold at most a few weeks of browsing history before things started falling out so 'permanent' functioned like our intuition

Whats more surprising is "13.2.2 Heuristic Expiration"[1]

If you specify (or your framework does) a Last-Modified time WITHOUT Cache-Control the browser is free to make up its OWN cache expiration rules (the item is implicitly cacheable)

[1] https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
Haha, that was confusing. I also have the extension and I can't tell who is actually using Butt and who isn't in this thread
Wouldn't being able to continue your life unobstructed by the need for some potential purchases be an asset in the same way the parent described student or car loans as potential assets? If something comes up outside your usual cash flow, say a tire blows, and smoothing out that irregularity helps you keep your job, I would consider that a worthwhile investment.
Neat. I hadn't thought about distributing and receiving challenges privately as I was planning to basically interview candidates on site. But I see the value in your idea as not all candidates will be able to spend half a day on site. The library of challenges is equally useful.
>>The best way to write will always depend on what the goals are, but in general the further away from the original thought you get, the more writing and other creative ideas tend to degrade.<<

So very true...

Open a vein...share yourself...reveal yourself...share what you've learned and let the excitement you felt while discovering it flow...

For most writers, the majority of the time, your true audience will "get" both you and the ideas you're trying to share...

Sometimes you'll expand the size of your potential audience with raw enthusiasm, even when they have no idea what you're talking about...
It could also be simply that this means they only have to (try to) keep up with the law in one country, vs. many if they try to allow non-U.S. citizens. If it's a one-person (or at least not-many-people) show then keeping up with legal requirements/liabilities in one country is already a big deal.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." --Albert Allen Bartlett

Considering that 97% of the survey participants allocated their debt payments in financially suboptimal ways, perhaps the second greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the compound interest.

"Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation,' Essays, First Series (1841)
So how about Edge?
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I think that China's openness (or lack of) in internet affairs is strongly correlated with the health of their economy. It could be a nice proxy.
I don't even think of myself as using debt. I see credit cards as a way to get an extra $50-70 a month in rewards[1] and increase my credit score. I have never paid a cent of interest.

[1] I have a card that gives me 5% cashback in gas, groceries, and books up to a limit that does not often surpass what I spend and some rotating 5% cash back cards, in addition to a 2% general spend. I do not pay any annual fees for using the cards.
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Intel controls the keys for the management engine and other bits that are vectors for back doors:

https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel

The Snowden leak claimed that the NSA had special Intel chips, but no one has ever claimed Intel did a special production run. However, if they stole Intel's signing keys and internal documentation, they could just reflash the existing chips and Intel would not need to know a thing about it. Anyone who gets their hands on that information would be able to do the same and there is not a thing you can do about it beside using hardware where that is not possible.
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Isn't it rational to use the strategy you know you will follow?

Logic depends on a subjective choice of axioms, and an unstated one is "a plan that motivates permanent improvment is better than a temporary one".
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What law are you talking about? PCI-DSS is required by the card companies and run an organization called the "Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council". It's self-governed essentially. It's not federal law
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Parent was writing about "earnings per share", key word being "per share". So with fewer outstanding shares, this obviously increases.
Another issue, tangential and not widely discussed, is the very fact that a court, at a federal agency's behest, is ordering a private company to do highly technical and difficult work, at its own expense. They have not demonstrated that Apple committed a crime, and yet they demand that Apple set up an internal project and commit employees and resources to, essentially, do the FBI's work for it.

There has to be a violation of the Constitution in there somewhere. The government cannot compel private companies or individuals to surrender private property (in this case, intellectual property), it cannot restrict freedom of speech (in this case, software is an expression of speech), and perhaps there is also a tie-in to the Commerce Clause.

In other words, at a certain point the U.S. government's power should be and must be limited. Unlimited power is dangerous and surely would violate the vision and foundational philosophy behind the Constitution. In this case, unlimited power means that a law enforcement agency can justify nearly any kind of forcible action with the vague reasons of "national security" or "criminal justice".
Could someone well-versed with bankruptcy please explain the pros/cons of going that route? I have heard that credit card debt is essentially free money because filing for bankruptcy will wipe out all the debt.

If you already own a home/car, and have no intention of getting a loan in the next 10 years, what is wrong with this strategy?
"Only" 34% ?

I imagine it is still a huge amount in absolute terms.
This article makes much of rationality, but the concept of a rational actor in economic terms is really way more complicated and sophisticated than these sorts of analyses. So much so that it's possible to argue that there is no such thing as an objectively defined rational actor at all.

To do my best to shorthand the issue, assume that a rational actor is defined as someone who takes the course of action presumed to have the greatest likelihood of a positive (or the most positive) outcome. In order to evaluate their current strategy for rationality you have to have forward looking prescience to determine if the strategy is in fact the most probable to lead to the desired outcome.

This runs headlong into the issue of uncertainty, familiar stuff like sensitive dependence on initial conditions or just simple complexity.

For a thought experiment, consider a game such as chess. The game is completely discrete, all possible game states can be easily defined, the rules are known, and there is no element of random chance or rules changing during the game.

Nonetheless, the idea that you can put an average person in front of a chess board and say "OK, play rationally" and expect everyone to cheerfully plot out the exact same sequence of moves is obviously ludicrous. There are too many possible outcomes and threads to reason about fully, there are competing priorities in any strategy, etc.

Then when confronting an economic system that is certainly as or more complex than a simple game of chess, we expect rational economic decisions to be an objective truth?
I was told that the current president is a real traditionalist and that he "secretly / openly" detest the capitalism.
The microcode is not, although I heard that it is under consideration for POWER9 depending on how well Talos does.
While that's a valid point, the parent was speaking in generalities across most people - given that most people have consistent incomes from wages, do they really need consumption smoothing?
Totally agree, especially with the grattitutde aspect for existing. In my experience, getting into 'the zone' while running, hiking or bouldering is what I consider my meditation. Treadmill running doesn't cut it, it's got to be outdoors where my brain is stimulated by all the natural colors, sounds and patterns. It's a far cry from what alot of people think of when they think meditation (sitting quietly doing nothing). When running trails or climbing, its hard to be distracted by other thoughts, and the mind is clear but focused intently on the next step or move. For others curious to try meditation, I recommend trying minimalist running, or any activity which brings you closer to nature and your own body.
Better question: why do people buy things they can't afford and most often don't need, putting themselves in this position?

So many of my peers don't make a lot of money, but then still go out and buy a new or newish/used car and put themselves on a multiyear payment plan. "Oh but it's only 200 a month, I can swing that". Repeat for like 3-4 other things and suddenly they're always complaining they have no money and don't know why.

I highly recommend to anyone who's looking to take their financial situation more seriously do two things:

1. Read up on Mr. Money Mustache, a guy who managed to retire at 30. Even if you don't plan to retire early, it's eye opening to realize you don't have to spend your entire paycheck every month: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-...

2. Check out YNAB (You Need a Budget): https://www.youneedabudget.com/. Takes a little work to start using, but once you do, you'll understand your money in a way you never thought possible.
Can you provide more info about romans and debt?

Edit: Somebody was faster. Thanks for posting links
Paying off debt in the way that saves you the most interest over multi-year timeframes may be optimal financially but is not necessarily optimal psychologically or logistically.

If you've got a 2% debt you can pay off in 6 months to open up $200/mo in cash flow that may be better psychologically than plugging away at $80k in student loans that are 4/5/6%. Yes 50 years from now you will have slightly less money. Suboptimal does not mean wrong.
>Excuse my ignorance, but is Apple's encryption in iOS 9 devices significantly stronger than any of the newest Android devices?

AFAIK, I don't think we know, or can compare. It's my understanding that Apple's setup is closed-source, so we can't inspect, whereas Android's is open.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

>Also, are there any precedents of any government demanding the unlocking of any Android phones?

This isn't an issue, as, by default, android phones send everything to the cloud (exceptions for custom roms, etc). So govt can just ask Google for a copy from their server instead.
Upon re-reading the OP, let me stress: generally. As in, various reports and articles about meditation triggering anxiety and/or panic. I am by no means e-diagnosing or responding to anyone in particular! Just noting that Relaxation-Induced Anxiety is a real and treatable problem, and that it would make sense for meditation to be a reliable trigger for it.
No fully-functional debugger. Minimal instrumentation. No good code transformation or refactoring tools. No concurrent data structures.
I had a single mother and she had 3 bank accounts, all about 500-1000€ in the red for most of my childhood. This made me rather adverse to taking credits.

I only took one, for paying study fees. And it was "only" about 4000€ which I paid back one year after getting my first job.

After that I always tried to have enough savings to live from for a year.
I imagine when you "buy" your supplies and don't pay for them until about ninety days after you took delivery of the supplies, that is considered debt as well?

I mean if I want to ship something, Fed Ex will ask for payment up front but when Amazon.com ships something they probably don't actually send the money right away. I am still trying to grasp this concept credit terms. I must add that I have had no training in this field and have basically just skimmed through the soylent blog post

http://blog.soylent.com/post/133420708272/pricing-soylent-ef...

so in my mind, what we want to do is get the "interest-free loan" from our supplier of equal or greater duration to the credit term we give our customers.

I imagine this is a double whammy because suppliers offers better terms when the going is good and become strict when the going gets bad. Now that I think about it, perhaps Apple sitting on a pile of cash isn't such a bad idea after all right? I mean if they have to go through a rough patch again, won't any credit terms they get (banks, investors, or suppliers) automatically be worse? I don't know the rules about financial stuff but my perception is that as public companies there is only so much information you can withhold (and only for so long) without breaking financial regulations (and those regulations presumably exist for a good reason).
> I want to _achieve things_

It's true, the Buddha taught the cessation of suffering. But he said to do it by really understanding what's going on. You can achieve things either way. But you might choose to achieve different things if you have more insight into the nature of reality.
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first time heard of this, how does this compare to mindcraft? is this good for young kids?
It seems that the wealthiest Chinese are quickly leaving China for the US. I believe that this will have negative impacts on their long term growth.