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Tail recursion can't use constant space if it's strictly generating another data structure of the same size. That doesn't even make sense.

Interesting fact about foldl'. Regardless, in practice it is strict and tail recursive. As I mentioned earlier, this does not mean the same thing as constant space unless the reduction function returns a fixed size result.

Yes, you can guarantee that a linked list in Java is finite because Java does not support codata.

Haskell's tail call recursion is also often optimized to be allocation-free, unless, again, it is generating some data structure.
Buying a home in the 'burbs is often a terrible investment

You realize the burbs can become highly desirable areas right? I've lived in a number of cities where the butbs in 1960 became hot areas in 1990 due to population growth.
If everyone becomes 'upper middle' then it's no longer middle. Statistically, there will always be a lower, a middle, and an upper quartile.
I don't know. With VX?LANs you need a whole lot of other infrastructure to manage e.g. routes, load balancing or tenant-specific ACLs. By coercing BGP into providing isolation, you can slap on routing, load balancing, ACLs "for free", i.e. managed by the same control plane.

If you just need isolation I agree with you. But I actually find the Calico solution rather elegant when looking at the whole package.

(--System administrator who manages VXLAN on a public cloud)
Chinese passport holders require visa for Hong Kong even though they are visa-free 145 countries!

And visiting Iran is visa-free for 186 countries!
"Ifs considered suboptimal" carries the spirit of Dijkstra and the general argument of the anti if folks.
I've never read any of her blogs before (that I can recall) and I do agree there are some misunderstandings. But it was clearly written as as a brain dump to help other people going through the same process and it largely achieves that goal. I really don't like the concept "don't write a blog unless you're an expert" - we would lose out on lots of valuable discussions and helpful articles, especially for beginners. For example, we wouldn't have this HN thread with useful commentary if it wasn't for the author.

I think the best approach is to constructively comment and engage to improve the article. The important thing is to do this in a positive manner so that the author feels they have done something of value and started a conversation. It is surprisingly difficult to do this, and I've certainly failed on occasion, but it is definitely worth trying.
The OP was referring to the US mational average price index.
The Battle of Palmdale
Wine predates crossover by a few years. The company behind crossover is CodeWeavers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWeavers), founded and run by mostly the same Wine core developers.

Crossover is a paid-for version of Wine with more patches/hackwork which may be less acceptable in the wine mainline (think of it somewhat like wine-staging: https://www.wine-staging.com/), as well as commercial support.

I really like their model. It allows Wine to thrive as a foss project and gets the project funded.
This will be controversial, but France doesn't have any right to be a "French" country. Individuals have rights, but cultures and nations don't have a right to exist. If they did we would be obliged to preserve them, but peoples, countries and cultures always vanish over time, and there's no general obligation to stop this happening. Saying otherwise is simply a conservative demand, with no ethical basis.

"The French like being French and living in a French country, with all that entails" - This claim also implies a right for the French people to preserve the ethnic composition (white French) of their country, which is both racist and probably impossible.

I'd argue the aggregate human benefit to letting people from poor countries move to wealthy countries far outweighs any inconvenience or discomfort caused to the wealthy. 100 million people aren't going to move from the Middle East, but they might well move from subsaharan Africa, and it would certainly greatly improve their lives, and living conditions in Africa as they sent money 'back home'. French culture does not seem important compared to stopping millions of deaths from disease and starvation.
It would be nice to see something beyond a github repo with an empty readme. A demo perhaps? A video, or a gif?

As it is, this is not very inviting to the reader, you know?
Right. And if they aren't in prison, they are all middle class.
Yeah, at the time, I exercised 4-5 days a week, with intense cardio and a bit of weight training. Even with that my cholesterol levels were at an unsafe level, and we were beginning to see odd side effects. Those side effects were enough for me to decide to switch.
This guy transformed himself into women from Game of Thrones – and it's stunning
That's because they are middle class. If they were upper class or working class, they would not think of themselves as such. Income does not determine social class.

Do yourself a favour and read the essay on class linked to elsewhere in this thread: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light
"Papers, Please", of course... I'm not worthy of glorious arstotzka.
That's impossible. Almost everyone in TV shows is far richer than the overwhelming majority of Americans can ever become. Like, Friends is so famously about a group of people who live in large, expensive, well-furnished apartments without ever having to do commensurate work that TVTropes coined "Friends Rent-Control" to describe it. The Simpsons is about a man who can always support a family of five people and two pets on a blue-collar worker's income even though he quits his job to pursue a non-remunerative life-dream in one third of all the episode plots. And then he always gets the same job back!

TV labor-economics is a special category composed exclusively of hand-waving that lets the writers portray cool stuff without having to actually use nothing but the idle rich as characters.
Kubernetes has a requirement that containers (more accurately "pods") can connect via a "flat networking space". How this is achieved varies between deployments, flannel, calico and weave are all common approaches. Kelsey Hightower's "Kubernetes the Hard Way" simply configured it at the router level: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/b...
People get passports to go away, not the opposite.
I have these three in my list, and one more: APL (or J or K -- especially K)

Scheme/Lisp is about how data and code are equivalent in a practical sense.

I'm not sure how I would describe Prolog in a single sentence - it's about using a powerful concept (Unification) as a base of computation - it makes a lot of logic programming simple (and unfortunately, it makes some simple iteration complicated).

Forth is an exercise in minimalism and blurring (or actually removing) the line between compiling, interpreting, parsing. I wouldn't treat Forth and Factor equivalently - Factor borrows Forth's concatenativeness, but it is very far from Forth's minimalism.

K is an exercise in choosing the minimal set of operators and functions that would produce very terse programs that need much less abstraction, without having to compromise on speed. Unlike Lisp and Forth, the base K has some 50-100 mostly orthogonal operators (depending on how you count) that work together to give you a lot without forcing you to abstract.
This is actually too broad a generalization to be useful at all. Regulations do hamper and get in the way of business by usually increasing costs. But there is usually a good reason for those regulations (e.g. we have mandatory airbags because they were deemed necessary for people's safety, despite adding to the cost of the vehicle).

I can see why you would have such a viewpoint though. What you describe is exactly what happens in many countries where corruption is more prevalent (e.g. India, Russia etc) with regulations being created precisely to keep out others.
> you'd be better off renting one (or taking out an interest only loan) and investing the principle payments you would be making into the broader market

How do I invest the principal payments in the market when I need that money to pay my rent?
TLDR version:

For home prices, a good part of the answer comes from supply and demand. As prices rise, companies build more houses and the supply floods the market, keeping prices down.
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Land and homes are the only leveraged asset available to the average American. Even at only 1.1% per year, if you take out a mortgage and put 20% down, you get 5.5% real return.

The S&P is something like 7%. It's not insanity if you can fund an investment with close-to-inflation debt and 20% or less deposit.
So your assumption is that the Bay area real estate prices will continue to go up and could never go down?

Bay area prices don't invalidate what Schiller said. If you can time the market then of course you can make a ton on real estate. Same thing with the market.

Just because someone bought in a market where prices rapidly went up doesn't make them an investing genius.
Ah, but these flavours all still seem sweet. Once I have sweetness on my palate, I find it difficult to abstain from sugar.
People have tried for a long time to find correlations between language traits and cultural or political effects. For the most part, it doesn't seem to be there.

What people actually do in practice in the situation you're describing is to just use the foreign word directly. That's how languages end up filled with loanwords.
A similar idea is that of abandoned tech and terminated/less lucrative branches of tech within functional branches, like image display tech (I.e. mechanical TV>crt>plasma>lcd>oled)w where research grinds nearly to a halt. We can learn a lot by looking back and seeing some odd tech that was a neat demonstration 100 years ago, that we basically forgot about, but might make commercial sense today.
Which is delusional; blue collar is the archetypal working class.
DB2 is bad... If you're used to using MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, or SQLite, the tooling and limitations of DB2 are pretty galling.
Did you know Cuba has agreements with individual countries; like for example, for Serbs it's one of the few hassle free countries to travel to.
'X are called Y' normally means X is mostly like Y, but differs in some key fundamental ways. Anyone who doesn't know about X doesn't care of X/Y. But if you call it X, anyone who knows about X, will have to regularly have WTF moments, because even though it is called X, it is not behaving like one.

e.g. javascript classes/inheritance/OOPs in general.
I’m based in Belgium. A lot of people of European nobility (not just Belgians) actually live here. I’ve had the chance of having dinner with a few of them and it’s actually quite interesting. They don’t really think in terms of class these days. A lot of it has to do with values. They accept people without significant wealth, and see them as equals (which might not have been the case 200-300 years ago).

For example, most of them are still quite wealthy (i.e. a net worth of >€5m). One cardinal rule is you don’t flaunt your wealth. You can talk about investment returns etc, but you don’t drive around in flashy $500k-1m cars. Some capitalism is good, too much of it is bad. Most also like art. They enjoy living outside of the spotlight. A lot of people of nobility have been brought up to help fellow citizens in any way they can (i.e. not just giving money, helping them out with various stuff).

Overall, these are mostly good members of society that enjoy living their life outside of the spotlight. They respect the society they live in. It's not because you have you money that you shouldn't have respect for society. If you are well educated and respectful, you won't have too much trouble being accepted.
For those who speak multiple languages: can you think of some examples (besides technical words) that don't have clean translations into languages besides English?

Surely there must be some... English speakers (especially native ones) just don't consider them to be notable due to familiarity.
Of course that's assuming housing prices never go down. That never happens...right?
Well, two people making $150k/year together are making $75k/year each, which is actually reasonably middle-class-ish, and they're definitely both working-class in the strict material-relations sense because they sell their labor-power to survive.
Re: Japan/Singapore/Senegal and 2 other passports - in theory a great idea but those 3 countries do not allow dual citizenship.

As far as dual citizenship (with the greatest amount of travel) is concerned, anyone of the G7 country passport (minus Japan) and one other should be fine. Best I could think of is US/Germany/UK/etc. + Chile (visa free throughout S. America, Europe including Russia, India). For visa-free travel to China, if your nationality & business qualifies, you can apply for an APEC business travel card.
exactly, and this key point is ignored by Shiller

Also, there are more options for homeowners who use leverage vs. stock traders who use leverage and are at the mercy of the awful brokers. For mortgages, payments can be deferred, etc.
Yes, but as far as I can tell this is not France's biggest problem, and if they fixed the bigger problems this one would get a lot more manageable.

It's... frustrating... that a failure in presenting 1st, 2nd, 3rd generations of immigrants with a good life results in terrorism, but two wrongs don't make a right.
For dramatic effect, which is good, since language is a construct for human expression.
> There is no logic at all behind any of it.

It isn't logic, it's politics. Immigrants who become citizens get the vote. It should be self-evident that the ideological composition of the voters controls what our laws and constitution will be and is therefore very important to the existing people.

Even outside of general ideological differences, you can imagine the trouble if antagonistic governments were free to send a million of their people to vote in strategic districts in swing states.
From the Medium blog:

> The cypherpunk, anarchist future wasn’t supposed to be about stronger banking guarantees and wealth redistribution among Reddit users.

I think your interests may fall more closely in line with what the Monero folks are doing. I'm not aware of any other cryptocurrency project with better privacy features. And they're working directly with the I2P developers to get better privacy at the network level(Kovri).
I'd expect that Gavin Wood has substantial DAO holdings. He might not be a foundation member, but the way that ethcore is acting here doesn't make me think it's operating in an unbiased fashion.
> trucks, tractor-trailers, trains, and buses are basically moving bricks, slamming into the air in front of them, and dragging a partial vacuum behind them.

There are lots of aero studies for these (aerodynamic efficiency is why tractor trailer often convoy on highways, it's also why some trailers are skirted), but aerodynamic efficiency is not the only concern, and the speed at which they go means the actual effect is relatively low (just look at trains, serious locomotive profiling starts at system going twice the standard speed of a semi or more, trains going at roughly semi- or car-speed like freight trains tend to be even boxier than semi tractors)
That's a useless blanket statement. There are many places where it makes sense to buy a home even if you can't max out your 401k -- places where your mortgage payments are a bit cheaper than your rent would be. You wouldn't be able to max out your 401k either way, so you might as well take the cheaper housing option, which is ownership, and put a little more into your 401k than you could otherwise.
They're using "aged people" to frustrate as well. If there was some more meritocracy, or better pay, we might be able to get some new, technically useful, blood in there. Personal accountability wouldn't hurt either. It works for more than business and families.
From the asian perspective, it's who you were born to, and who you are friends with.

Manifests itself a lot in questions of access to the higher positions, career growth and so on. It's fairly common to get refused on a promotion because you are a noname and know no one of the right folk.

One might have quite a bit of money, and be unable to do anything about a situation, while the other would know someone who cold make a call to someone else who would "call the elevator down" in exchange for a later favor.
Travel restrictions sound okay until you're in a situation where they actually affect you. I went on my share of hostel trips after university. I have yet to meet a traveler from any country, who thought it was fair that they couldn't work or live wherever they wanted. If you wanted to live in Japan, for example, and some Japanese guy told you he was worried you'd personally be damaging the country with your foreign values, I doubt you'd find much merit in the argument. That might be correct, I don't know, but it's hard to accept when the liberty being denied is one's own.
I'm also interested in the more specialist products - holography, xray, and movie film.
Leverage also has the downside of magnifying loses. Put 10% down on a $500k house. Market falls 10% and your return is -200%.
Depends which Americans you ask. Try asking old, white and rural people about this and you might get a surprising answer. There is a disagreement about what America is and what's un-American and foreign.
It mostly just sounds like the income-to-population curve is shifting from a Gaussian to a power-law curve. The power-law curve is gonna have a longer tail, with the "upper-middle class" making up more of the population (integral of the probability density function), even while the density at any given point along that tail is much lower than the density used to be for the right one-to-two sigmas of the Gaussian.
No mention yet of the very best passport to have - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_laissez-passer

(It's baby blue of course) It's kind of neat to see them in the wild.
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Entry load of 6% (real estate commissions)

1% penalty every year (property tax)

Exit load of 6% (commissions again)

That is why real estate tends to be a worse investment long-term compared with the financial sector.
"Why don't car manufacturers go the same route?"

They've tried and failed. The third-party auto parts industry fights back, and has consumer backing.
Home ownership in the US is over 60%. What should it be? 100%?
Curious, why is it the best passport to have?
Setting Up Amazon Echo Outside the US
Exhibit A: Silicon Valley. (The actual geographical Santa Clara valley, which does not include San Francisco in any traditional sense of the term.)

People who bought houses here for $100-200k in the 1980s can sell them for more than $1 million today.
Majority are down to a dozen crew members. Organised into 2-3 watches over a 24 hour period. And the kitchen (galley) crew who feed the crew.

And at sea things are literally breaking all the time. Ships require ongoing maintenance, as in someone walking around tightening, checking for rust, repairing.

Finally, SOLAS rules requires someone to be on watch and manning the radio. Though this I'm pretty sure is ignored by some. I've hailed a few cargo ships and never got a response.
Does anyone know if there is a word that roughly expresses: A feeling of anxiety or unease because you strongly believe there is a problem with a thing but don't know exactly what
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Businesses are where you get people the best benefits.

Entrepreneurship has a 90-95% chance of failure...Bay Area homes have doubled since 2011..the choice seems obvious to me (provided you have enough money to buy a Bay Area home).

Business make the world better than houses do.

You're comparing apples an oranges here. Businesses very often lease real estate..guess who ends up making most of the money in that deal..

More expensive houses, to the point of unaffordable are the enemy.

Where is the incentive to invest in urban development if there is no return. If a private equity firms wants to buy a bunch of blighted homes and improve them, why should they not profit from the land value?
Ubuntu isos are signed by the same key that's present in the installation, so if you have older version laying around you can verify against that.
> The idea that "our world [is] parsed and circumscribed as it is by the limits of our vocabulary" is nuts.

Superficially yes but it is just a rephrasing of Wittgenstein's "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." which has a proper philosophical foundation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus

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

> The fact that the author was able to write this article and convey these concepts in English shows that the idea that vocabulary limits our experience is incoherent.

How so? The author just describes a phenomenon, one he can write about because he experienced those limits and reflected upon them. He never said those limits cannot be pushed or overcome, the point is that experiencing them is what allows us to "learn about the world and ourselves".
I believe that this is the exception rather than the rule. There aren't many 1980's-era suburbs that I'd want to move into today.
http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/interpreter.pdf

;-)
> Patenting often precludes licensing.

Don't you mean "precedes"? You can't license something you don't have the rights to.
It sounds horrible that we should compromise potential performance (including per watt and per transistor) by giving up on (micro)architectural flexibility. Why should branch delay slots, instruction combinations that do not handle hazards and weird memory models matter in an era in which something like IBM's TIMI could be used for compatibility if you need it, and native ISA accessed if you don't or if you have your own toolchain?
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Yes, that is true - the prices make no sense from a local perspective. However, I heard a keynote by an economist/urban planner, who suggested Vancouver needs to be considered within a global context rather than a local one since it is a very desirable city internationally, and draws buyers from all over the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejections
> It remains unclear what the remaining added value of an UNLP is, in view of the restrictions imposed by different countries.

What is the value?
I can't speak for most people, but I was young and ignorant enough to get talked into buying a home that I couldn't afford during the housing bubble. I managed to make it 5 years before having to foreclose. It was a terrible money pit and I'm in a much worse financial situation now than I was before I bought the house.

Before i bought the house everyone talked about how great of an investment homes were, but nobody talked about how expensive home ownership was and how much deeper in debt you need to get in order to fix a house up.

The funny thing is that I could buy a house but couldn't get credit or loans to fix the house up. Worst possible situation you can be in.

Even though the bank and realtor were liars and pushers, I don't blame anyone but myself for falling for it. I hope you take this in mind before you buy your first home
Because I'm an incorrigible optimist? No but seriously, do you have any anecdotes regarding an election where a difficult choice had to be made between multiple good (from the perspective of a large majority) candidates? Because I don't (Canadian, in my 30s).
That's not confusing at all.
>In American English, 'refined' feels mostly neutral (shading into a pejorative with 'effete') and while 'cultured' has a positive connotation, it doesn't directly speak to the person's character. //

Your point still stands I think but it sounds like you're describing "classy" in en-gb.