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I've not heard of a modern country where debt is inherited by the children.

However, you said, 'estate', which can be sent into receivership due to defaulting on loans. So your assets may be seized before they are transferred to the next generation.

But the debt itself is certainly not transferable, unless your descendants have co-signed on a loan.
This article is talking about negative wealth, not just people in debt. Meaning that the small number of homeowners who have negative wealth have debt (primarily student loans) larger than their home equity and other investment.
in the US: Not usually. Its fairly complex, but so long as you did not co-sign on any loans with your parents, or put forth any personal guarantee's on their debts - you're not responsible for them if they pass away. The "estate" is responsible, so they would liquidate any assets they had to cover the debts.
Yeah, I mean, it's tough to evaluate this with that thrown in, because it's technically a debt, but you have an incredibly long time to pay it off. If you're managing your money well, it is not a huge risk. I could not pay off my mortgage now outright, but I could make payments on it for YEARS even if I lost my job. So I don't consider myself "broke", even though this definition would suggest that I am.

Your first goal to financial security, if not a positive net worth, should be ensuring you have enough padding in your savings to handle unpredictable events like loss of job.
Not so sure about that - the war was mostly Russia and Iran backing Assad against Turkey and the US backing the anti Assad rebels. Now Assad and Erdogan are buddies things may settle down with Assad, Putin and Erdogan all being presidents for life with questionable elections and the US not able to do a lot about it.
Hmm, I wonder if there'd be any value in a monthly whoishiring-esque thread for open source projects?
Different set of parties having access to the car-originating data.

That, and you can always drive without a cellphone if you so desire.
I think a few state legislators have to be caught enjoying excessive telco/cableco bribery (e.g. "factfinding" junkets, jobs for relatives, etc.), and then they have to lose reelection over those misdeeds, in order for their legislative colleagues to perceive the opportunity that exists to help their constituents.
Not only that but he implied that the doctor's symptoms were caused by children sleeping their own bed!

If any parent has unexplained symptoms it must be caused by their children sleeping alone!!
You're kidding, right?

> The term "open source" has become a buzzword.

Nope, I'm pretty sure that its meaning remained the same since the term "open source" was founded. Feel free to prove my otherwise.

> Especially recently by the GitLab guys and their rhetoric.

Mind elaborating what rhetoric you're thinking of?

> GitHub is another fine example of a company who preaches open source, but doesn't have an open source product.

GitHub has a shit ton of open source products (https://github.com/github), out of which most popular example is probably Atom. The fact that their core product is not open source doesn't mean that they don't have an open source product at all. Bad phrasing perhaps?
As others have mentioned, many of the examples in this article are creoles. A non-creole example of language descended from English (or rather Middle English) is Scots, which has its own dialectical variations that vary in intelligibility with Modern English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language
Even if every bureaucrat and official says, "my group is a snowflake and needs a bespoke system", opportunities will arise to change a project from completely out of scope to "possible if we leverage this open system". That's the hook that consistently pushed open source into business IT.
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> The invasion of Iraq was stupid. It was likely illegal,

I agree that the invasion was stupid, but it was not "likely illegal," it _was_ illegal.
Canada's gatekeeper model can be infuriating. I have various issues that I'd like to address but I've become so fed up with the long waiting times, and often lazy doctors that I keep deferring visits. It's reached a point where I don't trust or respect doctors at all.

But I wonder if the different provinces have a different system - I'm complaining about OHIP specifically.
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"less fuel per passenger", the claim made in your link, is not the same as "less fuel", the claim you're refuting.
In the Netherlands, you're advised not to accept the inheritance before having investigated the legator's credit situation. If you do accept the inheritance, you WILL be hold accountable for all debts.
Here in Czechia, you as a descendant can opt out and decide not to inherit anything. In that case, you will not inherit the debt, but you'll also lose the right to any other inheritance you might otherwise get.
>> "Being disturbed signals lack of touch with how reality works."

Could you explain what you mean by this? That level of data collection disturbs me for privacy reasons. I don't see how I lack touch with reality. It's interesting and I would like to have all that data on myself too but the privacy risks make it not worth it for me.
By "broke" they mean liabilities are more than assets. So if someone uses credit cards to pay for a $3,000 vacation, they have $3,000 in debt and no measurable asset. If someone takes a $300,000 mortgage to buy a $300,000 house, the asset equals the liability. (Minus transaction costs and all that good stuff) If the house increases in value to $500,000, they are $200,000 in net assets minus whatever they've paid down. If the house value drops $100,000 below the mortgage, then they're still negative. (In much of the US, houses are still worth less than what people paid for them 10 years ago)
There's a very wide continuum in arabic as well.
And what about the early years of a mortgage, where your home equity is very low?
No that isn't a negative becuase you can sell the house and pay back the mortgage, as long as it's value hasn't nosedived.
I use znc to fix the multiple devices issue. Admittedly, it does involve running a server, but I've got that handled. As far as the protocol, it's just irc... I connect to znc via irc, and it connects to freenode or wherever. No extra protocols.
I understand "Open Source", I understand "Free Software", but to be honest, I always thought the "Free and Open Source Software" (FOSS) term is just stupid. We have a local saying: it's like trying to reconcile both the goat and the cabbage.
It's humanity correcting the growth rate - it's been well overdue, it's just going to be tough for a little while but we'll manage. If anything, robots could make this a lot better for us. People are relatively content in the West and the rise in living costs are putting people off kids.
No, it's relatively easy to estimate the "net value" of a mortgaged house, which should (except in a housing market crash) be positive, otherwise the bank wouldn't lend you the money in the first place.

On the other hand, it's very very hard to calculate e.g. net "student loan value" (i.e. future earnings - future loan payments) - in fact, many people took out huge student loans but found themselves making way less income than they expected (hoped for)! Unfortunately, lenders don't care about that, becaue the government guarantees the loan...
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morphology I'm not so sure. looking at the evolution of keywords seems to suggest that the morphology is there. phonology, I'd have agreed with you a few years ago after I finished a minor in slavic linquistics, but now after seeing how people verbally communicate programming concepts over the last decade and how that communication has impacted language design itself...I'm not so sure. In either event, the structure of the english language has heavily impacted the design of languages used to program computers. Not so drastic a difference as whale to fish, more whale to dolphin.
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Cool. Now i can buy the cheap offbrand clones from Aliexpress without thinking i should have supported the actual creators.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12263341 and others: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Letter%20of%20Resignation%20fr...
Not necessarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so...
I agree that it's not a very useful definition of "Broke", but you can sell the house, pay off the mortgage and (probably) have money left. With student loan debt etc. there is nothing on the other side of the balance sheet (except from hopefully higher earning potential over the long term).
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Wait till you try trading on an exchange without liquidity robots.

It kind of sucks
The word 'broke' normally means something like 'bankrupt' or 'insolvent'. We need to distinguish between two states, which are quite different:

(A) Insolvent: Unable to pay for necessary outgoings (rent, food, loan payments) as they become due.

(B) Negative equity: The value of total liabilities (e.g. loan principal) exceeds the value of total assets (e.g. cash, bank balances, stocks, and real estate).

The word 'broke' is usually used to indicate (A), but Bloomberg is redefining it to mean (B).

Imagine I've just graduated from medical school, top of my class, and have debts of $200k that I incurred during my studies. I have $10,000 in my bank account. I have a job lined up that will pay me enough to live on, but I expect rapid rises over the next few years.

Would you consider me 'broke'?

Bloomberg would, because they'd calculate my net worth at negative $190k.
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Any tips on how to tell what I should actually be worried about from FUD or WOO wrt/ drinking water?
Thanks for sharing how you use it, seems like there's no real async mode for IRC. So I guess my preference for mailing lists or XMPP isn't just personal taste.
What's the difference between Junior and Senior developers?
They way they do everything else. The threat of economic sanctions. Tit-for-tat. Except that the US has the stronger hand
So basically the Arduino the Software Company (IDE), and Arduino the hardware supplier broke ties?

I use the ESP8266 which I do believe is an Arduino (Hardware) Killer. However, the Arduino IDE has amazing support for the ESP8266 among other hardware components.

This isn't a bad thing, at least for consumers, since I feel like Arduino (the hardware) is a few cycles behind (eg. Particle, CHIP, bbc micro, pi zero, nodemcu/esp8266... etc)
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> Bah. If you want a statically typed language, get a statically typed language.

Which statically typed scripting language would you suggest instead of Python?
I was thinking the same thing. From an environmental point of view, less damage. From an economic point of view, more capital and wealth per person. The only downside is people will need to live longer.
No mention of Sketch? This list is garbage.
You can get a lot of performance back just by taking branch predictions and cache misses into your designs.

I did just that in C# last years and got at least two orders of magnitude of performance gain from it. Still, I constantly wished I was working in C instead :)
Even higher income brackets?

I don't know what you mean by "true" GDP growth. It feels like you're making some non-standard distinction but not explaining it.
Being both hydrophobic and hydrophilic, I assume most standard activated carbon filters cannot remove them? I guess that just leaves reverse osmosis.
I count on this so I can buy cheap Outside Lands tickets from cash poor drug dealers that "had something come up"
Turkey is not a good argument for Islam being "tolerant" or Muslims being somehow naturally "less religious."

Ataturk abolished the Caliphate in 1924. He explicitly introduced the constitution to Turkey which declared the state to be secular, that is, independent of any religious influence! He effectively banned headscarves (hijabs, nijabs, whatever) in all public institutions (being religious attire, therefore to be separated from state), including schools and universities.

The West however wasn't so smart recently, forgetting how much fights and sacrifices were needed to achieve the freedoms we have now (but will we keep them depends on our readiness to stand for them, more than up to now).

Erdogan now pulls Turkey back to the pre-20th century state. And unfortunately, there are enough of those who support him and his Islamic "revival."

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The comics Persepolis that you mention, among some personal stories, also covers the moment of "Islamic revolution" in Iran, which, among many other things, destroyed women freedoms. Before:

http://www.parstimes.com/fashion/pre_revolution/

Now:

http://www.aquila-style.com/focus-points/iranian-women-campa...

Watch and weep. Or consider whom you support.
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More resources split among fewer people only really works well if your economy is capital-bound in almost all lines of work. If there was anything where you really needed labor, you're fucked.
I think you're reading into the term "utopia" too much. The experiment was a utopia of the body perhaps where there are no biological needs that aren't satisfied with no external forces of nature acting to reduce population aside from the size of the habitat that the rats lived in - as you mention we do not live in a utopia as people do grow hungry and are lacking jobs.

It also was not a utopia because the rats clearly where not happy.

I'd disagree and say that in overpopulated areas there is a higher rate of depression, obesity and psychological problems than in places with lower populations - but I haven't provided numbers there and neither have you - so both of our arguments are anecdotal.

As an aside I was more referencing the hikikomori phenomenon when I mentioned NEET's - whilst they are NEET, they are extreme cases of social withdrawl and other mental problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
Similar experience but my first panic attack was around 8 years ago. Have recovered somewhat as of ~2 years ago, but this is due to extensive CBT and medication. I don't think I will ever completely eliminate the attacks - it's just a matter of managing them at this point and minimizing the negative effects they have on my life.

"Hope and help for your nerves" by Claire Weekes is a classic.

That being said I believe mental health is still not diagnosed and treated well enough by modern health care systems. Took me more than 4 years of bouncing around from doctor to doctor before I found one who could help me.
Or find the (almost always available, almost always higher quality) equivalent under a license that doesn't try to make software into a religion. That option has served me well for over a decade now.
Indeed. It seems weird that Wickard v Filburn deemed that growing corn for your own use was "interstate commerce", but a city building a broadband network in competition with multi-state companies is not "interstate commerce".

The states-rights argument might swing more weight if each state had its own commercial broadband providers, rather than national companies locking up the market state by state.
Love the posts - "Indian-net" is a classic, as an aside man that scene in money no enough really blew me away - it's crazy to believe that my laptop (not even a desktop, mind you!) has a thousand times more RAM... to say tech moves quickly is an understatement.
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And more importantly xaddress.org is open source under an MIT license. There is no claim of intellectual property on each address like what3words.

That discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12260958
Bit of a leap from the facts in that article (Clinton got $454k in donations from defence industry workers vs $310k to Sanders for example) to her having to go to war as a result.
Meanwhile Azure and Office 365 still use Symantec issued SHA1 certificates which are insecure, Symantec owns bluecoat who sell interception technologies to governments and private enterprises, all to convenient given that Microsoft themselves are a CA and could have issued their own certs, handing that off to a company like Symantec means they aren't directly giving your data away and are avoiding direct blame as much as possible.
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Re B and your med school scenario:

If you're living paycheck to paycheck, or just barely above, then yes, you'd be broke. In particular, a lot of people in this situation find themselves treading water, financially. Their income may grow, but so does their debt (accruing interest and more debt due to lack of cash). They're not insolvent, until they lose their job. But they're also not able to (reasonably, many still do) spend money on much beyond necessities.
Education, while not perfect, tends to lessen our propensity for succumbing to emotional appeals, instill a sense of confidence in our area of study, while simultaneously encouraging humility outside of those areas. Contrary examples abound, to be sure, but these are virtues which are by and large instilled in those with more education.
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I haven't read that myself, but even in the absence citation, you have to believe it is true, given her Middle East affiliations.

Hint: She and her husband are in bed with the House of Saud. Her (their) deep commitment to Israel is unquestionable. Never forget that she's a neocon and worships Henry Kissinger. It's just that she's joined at the waist to a democrat.
> “We won’t release that information without a subpoena,” American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein said.

Just because Ross said something, doesn't make it true.

> And a police dog smelled drugs on the cash

There is so much wrong with that assertion

1) Dogs are trained to find money

2) Most cash is cocaine contaminated [1]

3) A dog indicating is not proof of anything [2] usually nothing more than what the handler wants to happen

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency

[2] https://nevergetbusted.com/2014/07/20/university-study-trick...
The manufacturer will have bought a SIM for the lifetime of the car. You could potentially pull it and use it until they notice and shut you down, although it may (ought to!) be limited to a VPN tunnel.
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In a knowledge based economy there is no upper limit on income. Theoretically it could continue growing indefinitely even with a stable population.
"It doesn’t feel good when your net worth is a negative number. But many of these debtors aren’t necessarily doing something wrong. It can make sense to borrow when you’re young—to get an education, buy a home, or even sometimes to meet emergency expenses—as long as you’re pretty sure you can pay it off later when you’re earning more money."

(Regardless, the article is quite shallow and it seems to come from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious).
Am i blind or does the whole site mention nowhere where the servers are located? IMO this is pretty much one of the most relevant facts when renting servers these days.
> If there's something that brexit taught me is that masses have a lot of power.

I'd hold off on that opinion until the UK actually invokes Article 50...
> Of the the large python code bases I've worked on (4 at current count), type errors have tended to account for a small proportion (around 4-8%) of production issues.

Some projects are more than eager to cut up to 8% of potential bugs with such a trivial change.

>If this feature came at relatively little cost this would be great - 5% of bugs squashed just like that. It doesn't. It contributes significantly to the verbosity of the code - chipping away at one of python's main strengths - concision and clarity.

I'm not sure you're being serious. Stating a type in a variable declaration doesn't harm concision, and obviously it does exactly the opposite of what you claim regarding clarity.
It's interesting that economists' notions of "steady-state" differ so much from engineers'. I think of a "steady-state" as being cyclical rather than static, and I think this is probably more realistic for human populations as well. Instead of population completely flattening out, I see cultural shifts, climate change, and wars driving continued fluctuation. Hopefully our poles are in the left half of the plane.
The dose makes the poison.

In Brazil, people started getting their _first_ mortgages. In the US, people had 5 or more at the height of the subprime boom.

Only recently has credit for second mortgages been available in Brazil.
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> I agree that the existing state laws are bad and clearly a product of cable lobbies, but

.. you don't believe anything should be done about it. Local monopolies were created because local and state politicians were paid to make it that way. The FCC was acting as one of the few groups that would be funded and large enough to stand up to that, but the laws of the land are for the corporations not the people. Here you are praising a move to keep it that way.
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It's supposedly going to be mandatory by 2018: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/ecall-all...

eCall is weird. There are supposedly privacy protections, but I can't see how it can work without being always on the mobile network. Which tells you what cell the car is in.

Hardly anyone has heard of it and details seem vague.
Discussion from yesterday about a free open source alternative:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12260958

http://xaddress.org (Note: not https)
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Maybe so. I only glanced at the reviews, I haven't read the thing.
I am very much aware of my student loan debt, thanks Bloomberg. Quite aware.
I'm not sure you're being serious. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what real-world programming language would you propose as an improvement regarding the aspects you've mentioned?
Problem with this is also, that especially technical people don't have the skills and often not (really) the need to price well. The other side of "pricing anything" you could say.

I mean, if you charge 100€ per hour for your consulting and you would "just" work for 25 weeks a year, you would make about 100k a year. Even if you just charge 70€, you still just need to work 36 weeks a year for 100k and 100k is a rather good income in most parts of the world.

Yes, it's pretty cool that some people charge 10k a week and I would like to do this too. But if I don't, I still have a nice life.
I don't think we should say let's pay for the invasion with their oil, it's probably more accurate to say let's take their oil or steal it because when you say 'pay' it implies Iraqis asked for invasion(which they didn't) and you are talking of oil as payment.
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