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I did compulsory service, and the most important lessons for me from it are:

1) You get (well, are forced) to mingle and cooperate with people outside your "circle" and bubble (of course this is truer for compulsory service).

2) You are in place where no one treats you like a "unique snowflake".

3) You get to do all the shit people usually have their parents, mothers, cleaning services, etc do for them, even more so than when merely living alone, because there you are forced to do it, and to do it for 100s of people.
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Yes, this resonates with me. I thought the article lumped together multiple different types of understanding, and attacked an "understanding first" approach by using a very limited definition. From the specific examples in the article, you can see that practice is useful to gaining a systemic understanding. But there's a bit of a claim that repetition leads to useful understanding, which is simplistic. Juggling the terms of F=ma is not what I would call repetition. It is practice, certainly, but to me repetition pretty strongly implies the absence of tweaking things according to the understanding you have so far. And that, I would assert, is a very slow and ineffective way of building up knowledge and deep understanding. (It will works, but only because our brains will get bored and sense patterns and start inferring some level of understanding no matter what. Although I'd gamble that a disinterested student who only needs to make it through all 50 problems on a worksheet will be pretty successful in avoiding any learning.)
Awesome! (:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140310144412/http://ipaidthemo...
> "...No, that's close though! They were the accounts of people who forgot they had an account at Fidelity."
It's because people seem to believe insurance companies are an endless font of wealth. It's maybe a caricature, but a lot of stuff starts making sense if you assume it: e.g. how people are fine with burdens if they are nominally imposed on "insurers" rather individuals.

I remember there was the controversy in the '08 election about Gov. Palin charging rape victims for their rape kit, and several people refuted it by insisting that they actually billed their health insurer [1]

Forget for the moment whether the argument worked or not, or is valid or not; the fact that they thought it was responsive says volumes about the typical person's "bottomless vault" model of insurance.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/sep/22/...
Religion is one of those things that doesn't really play a role in Albania. Granted, the majority of the population are officially muslim. However very few are religious. This is probably the result of one of the toughest communist regimes in Europe, which fought religion very aggressively, but also because Albanians have been forced to change their religion by the Ottoman empire, eventually reducing the extent to which people identified themselves with a religious group and giving birth to the phrase "albanians' religion is albanianism".

While it is true that most refugees that were hosted during the Kosovo war were ethnic albanians, and that nationalism is still present (expressed mostly as a disliking of neighbouring countries), the article does mention the case of jewish immigrants during WW2, who came from a quite different culture and religion.

Hospitality in Albania is one of those few older values that is still obviously present. As I already mentioned, nationalism still exists, but that is a whole different discussion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania but more recently the Channel Tunnel, which makes a small operating profit these days but also lost most of the original investment and went through bankruptcy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurotunnel

(The railway mania wikipedia page even blames low interest rates for it! Personally I'm of the opinion that the government can set its bond coupons to whatever it likes and investors are not owed a minimum return, but there we go)

Edit: since the original comment was quite popular, I'll make some forward-looking statements: there is likewise a lot of investment which needs to be done in order to decarbonise, has major social benefits, but will not necessarily be profitable in the market. Even the highly distorted market that is energy. It may turn out that substantial negative interest rates are needed to finance the transition.
I'll take tangled headphones over eminently losable $150 headphones.
This isn't true, you don't have to file taxes if you make less income than the standard deduction plus one exemption which changes from year to year and also is also dependent on your age and your filing status and the threshold is different for unearned income.
I think it's ridiculously high. I have a running calculation where I figure the APY of all my 20+ years of retirement contributions, had I immediately put my contributions into an S&P-500 fund. It uses "adjusted close" prices, so it takes dividends into account.

Right now it is at 7.6%. It is not inflation adjusted, so it's lower in real terms. Also, for the great majority of those 20 years, the APY was much lower. And, since most advice says to do some mix of domestic, international, and bonds, most ideal portfolios will have even lower performance.

I know it's just one data point, but one reason this is lower than expected is because people tend to have more money to put into the market when times are good (and the market is high), and less money to put into the market when times are bad (and the market is low). It was true for me in terms of my contribution history, at least.
You can actually link right to the individual entries from the site: http://www.ipaidthemost.com/history/32

(Go to history in the dropdown, then click on the entry in question.)
This is a great PR play -- leverage the founder's origin story as a hook for the real point: promoting the app.
iWatch wasn't dweeby-fashion-victim enough.
Apple turned white earbuds into a fashion accessory back with the iPod.
You don't miss anything. The whole point of guided meditation is to get you in the habit to meditate and to tell you what to focus on (breath, body sensations, rising and vanishing of thoughts and emotions). New content on guided meditations? Sounds like the exact opposite of what one tries to achieve.

Also, best phrase from the article:

the meditation and mindfulness industry

Somehow absurd.
Here's my take on these questions:

1) packaging: this is the feature that's easiest to see benefits from. Having a single artifact that can be run on your CI infrastructure, development machine, and production environment is a massive win.

2) scheduling: there are big cost savings to be had by packing your application processes more efficiently onto your infrastructure. This might not be a big deal if you're a startup, and you haven't yet hit scale.

3) dev environment: It's powerful to be able to run exactly what's been deployed to prod, on your local machine. I've not found developing in a container to be great though; I still use the Django local dev server for fast code-loading. (It's possible to mount your working directory into your built container; this is just personal taste).

4) security: containers are not as robust a security boundary as hypervisors, so they are less suitable for multi-tenant architectures. The most common use-case is to run your containers in a VM, so this isn't necessarily a problem. As an additional defense-in-depth perimeter, containers are great.

5) networking: think of network namespaces as a completely isolated network stack for each container. You can run your containers in the host namespace using `--net=host`, but this is insecure [1]. Using host networking can be useful for development though. In general the port forwarding machinery allows your orchestrator to deploy multiple copies of the same container next to each other, without the deployed apps having to know about other container's port allocations. This makes it easier to pack your containers densely. (More concretely, your app just needs to listen on port 8000, even if Kubernetes is remapping one copy of it to 33112, and another copy to 33111 on the host).

6) secrets: containers force you to be more rigorous with your handling of secrets, but most of the best practices have been established for some time [2]. The general paradigm is to mount your keys/secrets as files, and consume them in the container; Kubernetes makes this easy with their "Secrets" API. You can also map secret values into env variables if you prefer.

7) container images: the Dockerfile magic is a pretty big win for building artifacts; the build process caches layers that haven't changed, which can make builds very fast when you're just updating code (leaving OS deps untouched). Having written and optimized a build pipeline that produced VMDK images, and experiencing the pain of cloning and caching those artifacts, I can attest that this a very nice 80/20 solution out of the box.

[1]: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/14767
[2]: https://12factor.net/
A coupon/deals site built using Roda gem for Ruby
Whoever "Kev" is, I gotta say: I like your dedication. =3
Better: run your own domain with a catch-all address, so you can sign up with something like linkedin@domain.org. Everything gets routed to the primary address. Pretty easy to set up with Google Apps or Zoho.
I am all for flexibility -- but I think the quid-quo-pro here is that the phone is only for legitimate problems.

Not for example: "Oh the customer has decided that the feature we thought we implemented wasn't what he wanted. Can we have this weeks' requirement met by Monday?"
I think the point wyattjoh was making is that having to install the go toolchain is hindering adoption and that giving downloadable binaries that you could run directly, like `./dingo` would be nicer.
I think the fact that we don't look at our solar system as a whole instead of trying to isolate data to "prove we are doing this" is indicative of politics corrupting science. We need to get back to pure science and forget about trying to force this country or that country to do something, namely force it's citizens to pay a tax that fixes nothing.
http://www.space.news/2015-10-06-entire-solar-system-is-heat...
The poor fit is terrible for sound quality, no matter your ear shape, to boot.
It's not so bad to survive as a service for news and press releases. You can't do that very well on Instagram and definitely not on Snapchat. It means Twitter is going to shrink (points 1 to 4) but it will keep paying salaries. Not world domination but still a success.
> You should open a SEP-IRA, which is a special account type that is similar to a 401k in mechanics but has very, very generous funding limits.

Actually, both account types have the same yearly limit; it's just that the employer can contribute much more than the employee, and when self-employed you can contribute as the employer.

In fact, the difference between SEP IRA and 401k is not the funding limits, but the fact that the SEP IRA allows only employer contributions. You can actually open a "solo 401k" for yourself if you are self-employed, and make both employer and employee contributions. That will let you put more money away for a given income than the SEP IRA, until you make 275k or so at which point you have hit the cap for both (and the cap is the same for both).

Edit: Vanguard has a calculator to show the difference:

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/SbsCalculatorController
I've invested comparatively little in emerging markets for the reasons in your penultimate paragraph plus the standard bogle/buffett advice. I definitely also have a nagging feeling that I could be very wrong about this strategy. For better or worse, I've viewed emerging markets in the same way that patrick views investing in startups: I have little reason to think/presume they will outperform the US markets on average, but I also couldn't successfully argue that they wouldn't.
Any advice for non-Americans? I'd like to get to Vanguard but...
Yeah people have different reactions to such an odd environment. I had a really bad time the first two weeks of Army basic training, but by week 3 I was actually kind of having a good time with it, in an odd sort of way. Everything still hurt really bad, but it was also kind of hilarious and was glad I stuck it through to the end.

Didn't make an extended career out of it, but my years there gave me a needed boost of confidence.
Hi! nice to meet you. I've used this in C++ to great effect. It's also in boost. I put it in anywhere I expect math on units that are easily screwed up. I don't retrofit them in. It's easy enough to have a meters_t typedef from the beginning. It also serves as documentation for the code.
What I meant was that he recommends that the average investor should invest in the S&P 500 or total US market only. He doesn't seem to think people should invest their money abroad.
Yuck!!

Yep, I really mangled that sentence. Sorry to everyone who just invested their life savings into the company they work for.

I guess I really meant...

> Consider the scenario of investing all your money in the company you work for.
Have you stopped to consider that this might be the natural outcome of such an endeavor?

Perhaps support was diverted simply because the benefits simply weren't going to outweigh the costs... ever.
I wear an Outback Trading Co. oilskin River Guide hat [0].

I don't care if it looks cool, because it keeps my glasses dry in the rain, and the sun out of my face the rest of the time. If I want to be fashionable, I can wear something else, but mostly I just want to be comfortable.

[0] http://www.outbacktrading.com/river-guide-1497-brn-md
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I gave in and installed bash from Homebrew.
> The influential U.S. Adm. Hyman Rickover shared this view. In a 1982 congressional hearing, legislators asked him how long American carriers would survive in an actual war. Rickover’s response? “Forty-eight hours,” he said.

That's a terrifying assessment, and tells us that if there was a war, we don't really know what anyone would be fighting it with. Perhaps the only thing we can feel good about is that if the US has been wasting its military budget on aircraft carriers, China appears to be pretty eager to emulate this mistake.
That's why you need to buy their $160 wireless earbuds.
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CWGIX is one of those front-end load and high-fee funds you should avoid, though.
Well, if your situation is desperate enough that you are deciding a life-or-death (ha-ha) matter with a flowchart, might as well roll with it.
One minor, probably obvious, warning about dollar-cost averaging to new investors: commissions.

Say you have Fund A and Fund B set to automatically invest 50/50 your $100 dollar contribution bi-weekly, with a buy commission of $5. You pay buy commissions on fund A and B 4 total times a month, so you've wasted 10% of your monthly investment ability ($200 - $20). In a year that money is $194 at 8%. (This used to be the case with old ShareBuilder/ING/Capital One---not sure about the new-style other brokers)

Consider a monthly payment to Fund A and two weeks later a monthly payment to Fund B. You saved half commission cost of above, and in a year your return is ~$205.
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The Perils of Power
Why are bluetooth earbuds more lose-able than wired earbuds? I have several pairs of wired earbuds that came with my phones over the years, and I only know where 1 pair is (coiled up in a drawer on my desk).

Unless the earbuds are permanently plugged in to your device, it's just as easy to lose them as it is to lose wireless earbuds.

Unless you're trying to argue that they'd fall out and you wouldn't notice until you've already lost it? Because that seems unlikely. How often have you had an earbud fall out without you noticing? That's never happened to me. I mean, they do fall out, but it's pretty hard to not notice when that happens.
I built this site using Roda gem for Ruby. I was experienced with Sinatra but after reading that Roda was faster and more lightweight than Sinatra, I thought to give it a try instead. Its really great.

Other than that, the site uses many API services and they are integrated to the site using Ruby.

Would love to get your feedback on the site.
I did this in Asia for a year.

If you can find a stable enough Internet connection (which costs a lot more in Asia), you will need to be very disciplined to actually get anything done.

All of the expats I met were 20 something college-aged students that just wanted to party, drink, and smoke weed every day or people that were rejected from their home country for one reason or another and can only find a job as an English teacher because most schools don't do their due diligence and weed out bad workers.

The rest are a small percentage of people that are in the same boat as you and were transferred for a short amount of time (usually 6-months to a year) for work.

It can be very isolating, unless all you want to do is party and get drunk. I was lucky because I had some other like-minded friends that came with me and I had studied the main language before I came. Almost all of my friends were locals, not expats.

I finally had to leave because my business was suffering and tripled my income after I came back.
You being called an NSA shill again.
The problem many investors run into is that they do not like being referred to as "normal" or "average". This makes them susceptible to investing theses that lose money (ie. most of them other than Bogle style investing).
Why run your database inside kubernetes though? We've always white gloved our database (and a few other special services). You don't have to put 100% of your infrastructure in docker/kubernetes.
In diplomacy and international relations, the US has killed countless civilians, used nuclear weapons, launched unjustified invasions of other countries, deposed democratically elected foreign leaders for opposing American interests, and to this day spies on everyone we possibly can. Maybe you're the one who should do some more reading. Or at least watch a movie.

If you think the US has behaved better than other countries, that's reasonable. But that's not the same as behaving well. And a far cry from behaving well enough to be entrusted with "supreme military power".
Reminds me of an experiment on ants that I once heard of. Put a drop of the pheromone produced by dead ants on a live worker, and watch as the others dutifully carry her to the trash pile, despite the fact that she keeps protesting and going back to work.
It's like a traditional IRA, but the age for penalty-free non-healthcare withdrawals is higher (65 vs 59.5). Just something to keep in mind if you're older and think you might need the money sooner.
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Well, that writing style certainly is calculated to make me think that the author is a douche.

As to the substance of the argument: if your basic point is connecting AirPods to the Apple Watch, then man, you're really begging the question. I suppose it's possible that the watch will eventually become a big success, but it just has not yet.

(I was also amused to see the gold Edition watch ad in there -- the gold has been discontinued and the Edition has gotten a 90% price break).
right about what?
are you arguing against the gospel of the up every year forever s&p500?
Yep. Honestly the only sure-fire way of getting kicked out of army basic it seems is to either repeatedly fail rifle qual, or to repeatedly fail the final PT test. And by the time you get to either, its clear that the easiest way out is to just do your thing and graduate.
The biggest surprise was the feeling of being trapped. In the US military you volunteer for a period of years and once you sign up you are in for that long unless you get kicked out (really bad and career limiting), get discharged for administrative reasons (unusual at least in my day), or die (see above). This only fully sinks in after a few days of basic training.

My service was a while back during the second cold war, which was actually pretty peaceful for the US military. The wars in the Middle East have added whole new dimension that I cannot comment on from personal experience.
So, I thought I'd type up a bit of more detailed explanation of my story and why I think real estate is a great investment for software developers, since my previous comment was a little lacked.

I bought my first house when I was 19.

It's a little two bedroom shack in Boise, Idaho, which I bought in 1999 for $68,000.

I still have that little shack. Today it's worth about $135,000 and the tenants I had in it essentially paid the mortgage on it and I own it free and clear.

I've actually got 26 total rental units and I generate about $10k a month of almost completely passive income off of them, net.

I made a ton of mistakes along the way, but I learned quite a bit--which I'm happy to share.

Over the years, I tried to buy one property every year.

At first I could only afford small properties and would put 10% down, so I was a bit leveraged.

But, eventually I was able to afford bigger properties and put more money down.

I always bought properties using 30 fixed loans and that ended up working out well.

I watched in horror as many of the other investors I knew--who were really speculators--went under, during the big housing crash.

I actually thrived during this time, picking up properties for cheap.

All the time I was working as a software developer, I had this goal of retiring early.

I kept saving as much as I could and investing real estate... little by little.

Like I said, I made mistakes, but learned from them and got smarter as I got more experienced.

Eventually, I had built up enough cash flow to actually "retire." This happened a few years ago.

Why is real estate such a good investment?

Well, I think there are two main factors: leverage and hedging against inflation.

Leverage is extremely powerful.

A bank will lend you a large amount of money, sometimes 90% or more, for you to invest--if you buy real estate.

This isn't the case with other investments.

So, you can buy a house for $100k, put $10k of your own money into it and if it goes up 10%, and is worth $110k, you make 100% return on your $10k.

That's insane. I don't know other investments where that is possible with such low risk--if you mitigate the risk properly.

Now, I don't depend on appreciation--and you can't count on it--but, you don't even need it.

Just the cash flow alone can get you excellent returns on your money. Again, with little risk and huge upsides.

Hedging against inflation is also a beautiful part of real estate investment.

Most other investments are hurt by inflation, real estate isn't.

In fact, if you owe money on a mortgage and inflation hits, you actually owe less.

Home values go up with inflation, as do rents.

I know it's a bit difficult to believe--I probably wouldn't if I hadn't done it myself--but, I have done it and I did escape the rat race.

Anyway, if you'd like to know more, let me know and I'll post the link to my YouTube videos and the video course (that is in beta) that I am releasing on specifically real estate investment for software developers.
I get ~40 days of vacation and unlimited sick leave (France). I use all of the vacation because of children but otherwise I would probably take half of them. The fact that I have unlimited sick leave helps to never be sick, actually. I guess that this is some kind of positive psychological feedback.
Does anyone have suggested reading on what the estimates of 8% (or 7% or 5% or whatever gets used) are based on? Is there any data to support that the next 30 years will see those types of returns from the total market on average?