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The Social Security Trust Fund has no looming liquidity issues for the next 20 years or so[1]. Solvency is a different issue, and has nothing to do with student debt payments.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Trust_Fund
It makes much more sense if you don't think about SS as a pension. It is a tax you pay to not have old people destitute on the streets. That's all. It isn't a savings account or an annuity. It's a tax to take care of old people today. When you get old, you may be eligible for funding to keep you off the streets. You might not. That is what SS is and should be marketed as.
A better assessment might be that it is normalized. We don't have to like it, but it is what it is.
That is pretty tiny. Since the ACA has gone into effect, my family's health insurance has gone up $700 per MONTH ($500 of that just this year)! Nobody is voting that for themselves. But everyone wants world class health care, and we're compassionate and want everyone else to have it too - as long as we're not the ones paying. Well, I'm paying and it kind of sucks.
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There's different degrees of endorsement. There's "agreeing with every jot and thistle of the system's actions" and there's "not trying to violently overthrow the system as bullshit." Most people live somewhere in between, closer to the former position than the latter. Most people want to change the system, but do not dispute the necessity of the system. As such, that means "the state is made of the people" is truer in the consent of the governed sense, and not the dystopian Soylent Green sense. That isn't to say there is no need for large-scale reform and changes; of course there is.
I don't think 'retained knowledge' is the best metric for deciding if a liberal arts education is worth it. A degree, particularly a liberal arts degree, seems (in my admittedly limited experience) to be geared towards honing critical thought, and the ability to express ideas well. I think this is important. And even though a lot of students may take it to the extreme, I think partying/socializing in college may be important too.

Ultimately, I think the issue is with insane tuition prices, not with people who want a liberal arts degree.
This is solid advice. To illustrate a little based on my own experiences and goals this year:

- Yes, centralized logging is the biggest thing. What you put into it matters; queriability matters; but nothing matters as much as having that centralized logging pipeline to begin with. Once you have that, you can start adding other relevant metadata, like host config states, API calls, et cetera.

- Giving employees a budget to buy the device they want is probably a better idea than BYOD. Strong password policies still matter. If it's BYOD, you probably still want to bring the device into policy. That can include physical rules (only do work work on the VPN or from the office) and software ones (you can use any device you want but it has to be running our osqueryd or whatever). Unfortunately, visibility becomes a double edged sword: there are good legal and ethical reasons for not wanting to see everything on an employee's laptop. (Overall, I think BYOD is a bad idea for most companies.)

- 2FA is pretty cool. It doesn't just solve the usual "bad/compromised password" model -- it also typically makes it a lot harder for employees to mismanage their credentials (e.g. re-use the same SSH keys and have their personal box be compromised). For some reason, having that around seems to remind developers that you can make users re-authenticate for important/unusual actions -- you don't just have to count on the ambient authority of a session cookie.

- We'd all like to imagine that we're going to be attacked by space alien 0day ninjas. Realistically, the main vector is an employee (rogue or confused deputy). Trainings are boring and don't work. Signature-based detection gets outdated pretty quick. I've done a little work on faster analysis tools -- I'm hoping we get a lot better at unobtrusively protecting people from even spearphishing in the next few years. (The tools we're building at Latacora are ready to beat a lot of attacker tactics right now, but I think we have an arms race ahead of us. Boring domain generation algorithms still aren't detected by most organization, so there's not a lot of evolutionary pressure.)

- I have no idea if we'll get better at quantifying metrics for debt and security risk. I did a little bit of research into this, and it's a wide open field. You can get decent high-level reports with a "DEFCON number", but most of these models are not sophisticated in the sense you'd expect actuarial tables to be. And that's what they should be! It's revenue-at-risk! Step one here is fortunately getting all of that data into that centralized logging pipeline, and security professionals seem to mostly agree that's what you do first, so hopefully we get better here.
I could be wrong, but I haven't heard a better theory. I doubt they're just being cowboys, Uber's lawyers and stratgists are demonstrably skilled in the dark arts, I suspect they've calculated their outs.
It's a pattern to keep in mind. Develop your tools not just for users bot for developers as well, and you'll also have strong engineering ressources targeted at improving your tools and brand.
Steve Jobs, without any doubt. Apple's renaissance wasn't so much about technology as about an entrepreneur at the top ( instead of a manager) who could turn the ship around.

A solid UNIX operating system with a well-designed UI certainly helped in terms of technology. As did Objective-C. Technologically, Apple's achievements would've been difficult to realise with their classic Mac OS (which Apple knew quite well as they had been shopping around for a new operating system technology for quite some time at that point).

NeXTSTEP and Objective-C probably hit a sweet spot there, albeit one that would only come to fruition years later. I doubt Apple's current success would've been possible (in the way it turned out to be at least) with BeOS (another serious contender at the time) or Linux.
Windows support it pretty well. Some/Most applications don't. I am running windows on a MBP at 150% and a second monitor at 100% somethings are zoomed on the second, some are very small.
Except that you're setting yourself up for a lot of suffering for the next decade, as your credit rating is destroyed. This cuts you out of a lot of opportunities. Very few people are in a position where they can opt out of having a passable credit rating.
> The end result is a sort of artificial consensus, which has been quite controversial and caused many long time users to leave.

As a long-time user of the site and an occasional commenter (I seem to be sitting at around 1500 comments after 8 years of having an account, which marks me as a bit of a noob), this feels to me like a true but perhaps misleading statement.

MetaFilter demonstrates that intensive, situationally attuned, full-time moderation can be very effective at maintaining a functional community. It also demonstrates that this process can (and almost certainly will) create its own style of drama and discord. Whatever else it is, MetaFilter commenting is a game system with rich, subtle, and frequently unsettling dynamics. It's somewhat driven by what I think of as a correctness ratchet, where locally established positions and norms are both ruthlessly enforced and endlessly subject to critique or reversal (except for certain positions which have attained the status of axiom or common-law moderation practice). As far as I can tell, as many people leave the site because they are on the _leading_ edge of this process (and view the overall state of things as regressive) as because they trail the consensus.

This can all be pretty frustrating. At its worst, it devolves into hyperbolic groupthink, and occasionally edges into the kind of emergent self-satire that you see so much of on, say, tumblrs produced entirely by socially isolated teenagers. I'm currently disinclined to participate in a lot of MeFi threads for the simple reason that I don't see any real gain for anyone in litigating positions contrary to the current mefite correctness state machine.

I don't think any of that serves to undermine the basic point, or demonstrate that the MetaFilter comment culture is a failure. (Participating in MetaFilter, and engaging in good faith with the really difficult aspects of MetaFilter-style discourse, has probably done more for me as a thinker than any other single thing I can point to.)

It rather serves to highlight that no discourse is _without_ its significant problems, or statically assured to remain productive & humane. Humans fail. Systems fail. There are very definitely other kinds of community you might want to build than MetaFilter, but we would be doing a lot better if we built more systems that fail as well as MetaFilter does.
The article doesn't explain how they made money, you need a relationship with SSPs and Exchanges to make requests and monetize the impression, even if you're just sending firing tracking pixels for creative view or complete, etc.

So how did these people make money? Are they for hire? Did they offer services to spoof the publisher domain and make revenue out of thin air, taking a cut from the pub?
Sorry, I copied from the wrong press release (I guess I got confused about the two meanings of 'cell' somewhere in my search path. It can be either a solar cell or a battery cell). Panasonic plays a large part in both Tesla's solar cell manufacturing and their battery manufacturing. https://electrek.co/2016/11/02/tesla-panasonic-2170-battery-...:

"Tesla’s current custom 18650 battery cells produced by Panasonic are estimated to have an energy density of ~250 Wh/kg"
I'm saying that the liberal arts majors who graduate are spending far more time drinking and partying than learning or thinking. If they are spending so much time partying, and don't retain any knowledge (as there are many studies which attest to that), I don't see the value in subsidizing this behavior.
This has always been the case. I've been in Silicon Valley for ~20 years, and even back during the dotcom days, most employees didn't know much about stocks, let alone stock options. Given the fact that it's such an important part of Silicon Valley life, you would think that people would educate themselves more, but it hasn't happened in 20+ years. It's just human nature, and some people don't care, or think it's too complicated and ignore it.
The effects I was able to see were nice, but I couldn't see most of them. CodePen was just a mess: cross site requests, missing headers, etc.
Yea that's definitely a product I haven't seen much from the ARM side. Most of the time if you've got a the things you want, it comes with the GPU and a bunch of other stuff you don't want because they're all being targeted towards cell phones.
Nobody should work 30 hours straight without sleep whether you're a doctor or not.
I would probably trust the worst student in a medical class when sober and well rested more than the even the best doctor after being awake for 30 hours.

Mistakes will be made and people will die. After mission critical all nighter you also need 2 days at least to be able to recuperate.
> I had to encrypt something in PHP then decrypt it in ColdFusion. Despite being the same algorithm, key, etc, it didn't work. Strangely, the exact same data in the other direction (CF->PHP) worked just fine.

Padding issues most likely.

PHP might auto detect padding, while CF might not.
I read an article that said we should move away from all taxes except for one tax on moving money around. Something like 0.01% on all transactions(bank to bank, c2b, b2c, etc.). The taxes would be taken at the point of use and wouldn't need to be progressive because for most people it wouldn't cost much for typical use. Large businesses or very rich people would have to pay that tax to move money off shore etc. Not sure how feasible it would be, but it's an idea to ponder at least.
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> The US Federal Government does not qualify.

Part of the problem is that we keep electing people that want to destroy government instead of people that want to make government work better.

> East and West Germany

In your analysis does West Germany qualify as an example of glorious free market or as a social democratic state that is too small to serve as a good example?
Well, the same thing can be said about so-called fakes news--that it drowns out more objective, fact-based news, making constructive discussion difficult and ultimately damaging democracy. So then what? It sounds like quite a pickle to me, without any easy answers.

Also, how can the government encourage censorship by corporations? Short of making laws regulating speech (which it cannot do directly, period, or even indirectly without strong justification based on a concrete need unrelated to the speech), it would need a carrot or stick.

The carrot would be something like tax incentives. Are you seriously worried Congress will use a tax give-away as an incentive for Facebook to censor news in a partisan fashion? I suppose it's possible, but so is my winning the lottery.

The stick would be using the threat of unfair regulatory scrutiny. Now this is far more plausible, but definitely not something keeping me up at night. And in any event, the solution would be to limit the ability to abuse discretion by rescinding regulations, removing discretionary authority, and/or making regulators more independent. That would be better overall.

By the way, this is why net neutrality is such a dilemma. It's a government mandate that has the effect of limiting the ability of corporations to effectively censor other groups by imposing transit taxes. But the mandate does that by censoring corporations--they can't chose to throttle, block, or otherwise differentiate communications from hate groups, etc.

Would you want to extend net neutrality principles to content publication platforms like Twitter or Facebook? What about your own bulletin board system? Mailing lists? How would you be able to block spam?

If your position is that all censorship is bad, and any law or market dynamic which limits anyone's freedom to communicate or not communicate as they please is bad, then you're just building a tower of dilemmas and paradoxes. The only way out is to deconstruct "censorship" into finer, more concrete concepts. In other words, avoid generalizations and discuss issues well within their context. And don't spread Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt by making recourse to poor rhetorical devices like slippery slopes (e.g. OMG if government or other powerful agents does this than that parade of horribles will happen).
That's the closest answer to where I'm at now... real estate is the best candidate at the moment, rental properties or flipping houses.

Besides California, where would you be looking to buy?
The point I was trying to make is that complexity is not in encrypt() and decrypt(). Those things can be very simple, yet cryptographically strong.

Complexity begins when you try doing something more involved than just symmetric block encryption.
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Don't know your requirements, but take a look at picorv32. https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32
A good question. But I guess people downvote it since this is not the correct platform for this kind of question.
Rolling Stone lost all credibility after publishing that fake rape story.
10 shares of AAPL in 1996 isn't that large of a windfall today.

The stock has had 3 splits 2:1,2:1,7:1 in that time frame. 10 shares in 1996 would have had a cost of $7.50 and a present market value of ~$32,000.
As I see it, it is more for "I just wrote/ended up with this code doing a complex math equation. But I just can't read it even with all these comments." cases.
You have 3 significant "problems" with employee stock options:

1) need to exercise them upon leaving: when you leave a company, a company might force you to exercise the stock option within 90 days of leaving (and this takes cold hard cash too!).
This gives you stock in the company, BUT:

2) taxes: you have to pay taxes on "fair market value" of this income

3) illiquidity: you can't sell it (now, and potentially ever)

There are multiple blog posts dedicated to this problem, if you want to read more and at least try to understand all the caveats and the gotchas. I am still learning those, so take this advice with a grain of salt.
So the only value of education is to increase the bottom line of the capitalists?

The meaning of life is to maximize my contribution to some CEO's yacht?

Our declaration of independence states a desire for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It doesn't say anything about maximizing human capital.
In answer to your question, the answer is "Yes, many if not a majority, of tech employees are clueless about stock options." I've thought about the reasons for that, and mostly they are around actual use.

Every startup, and nearly every company, that I've worked at had "the talk" about stock options, they went over ISO, NSO, and RSO. They talk about taxes and gains and tax law. They talk about vesting and cliffs and blackouts and strike prices. They dump a ton of data on your head.

And the problem is they are dumping it onto people who have absolutely no way to connect what they are saying to their own personal existence, and so they forget all of it. It is human nature, a brain defense, what have you that when you are given information that you only barely understand and has no immediate relevance to your situation, you promptly flush it out of your brain.

That all changes once the options are actually worth money and can be exercised and sold.

Once options have value they become relevant and generally a co-worker or someone more clued in will do something like buy a new car "using their options" or even just a new bike or TV. And that will trigger the questions, "Hey I think I have options maybe I should figure out if they are worth money." Sometimes this happens when you are being laid off or fired and you are given 90 days to exercise your options or lose them.

At that time, the information you develop about options will stick in your head because you needed it to accomplish some task, which ideally rewarded you with some extra cash that you didn't know you had access to. Later in the year this action will trigger you learning a lot more about the tax code than you wanted to know :-).
> We just need to make student loans dischargeable through bankruptcy, and all of these problems will be fixed. Lenders will stop lending children hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a European history degree, tuition fees will implode...

And lenders will also stop lending children a few tens of thousands of dollars to go to a reasonably priced state school and get an education that's valued by the job market. This can allow them to escape poverty and have comparable equality of opportunity to the children whose parents happen to be wealthy.

Taking away student loans is not fair to those kids.
Steve Jobs, the team he assembled, and a willingness to cut. Apple at the time was running the Newton which, although I loved programming it, was a totally wrong direction. It just wasn't connected as Mr. Jobs explained in his Q&A[1]. He built a much better OS than the Mac at that time.

Palm couldn't build the iPhone with Palm and had to build WebOS. QNX is amazing, but its UI and client developer library wasn't there or else RIM / Blackberry would have used that. Apple had used Linux, and frankly, there was no way Apple would have done a Linux-based system after the whole GNU thing at NeXT.

I do think Objective-C, the developer tools, and NS class libraries don't quite get the credit they should. They were very good (go read the Taligent documentation). Truthfully, if Adobe and Microsoft hadn't insisted on Carbon[2], the Mac would have been much better off.

Apple had done an Intel translation internally and had the institutional knowledge already from the 68K to PowerPC transition.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3MrpLyUOo8 - its pretty amazing some of the statements, guess the clone thing changed

2) not absent the Classic layer, just absent Carbon.
There are a number of secret stores. Some more basic ones resemble password managers on steroids, with audit logs of who checked out what and when. Or you can go to a full HSM (hardware security module) that totally isolates secrets (keys) from secret users (actual users, application code etc). HSMs allow you to sign or encrypt without ever having the keys used. It's hard to accidentally leak a secret if you never had it in the first place.
When nearly everyone constantly has a cell phone on them, why is this even necessary?
But it could cause demand to decrease. Price does not just affect supply. There would super high demand for talented Bay Area SW engineers if the going rate was $50K per year. Not so much demand if the going rate was $500K per year.
Sorry the public voices aren't loud enough--- I'm also against those things. We should've let the banks collapse during the crash of 2008 too. "tax payer funded research with private profit" is a grayer area is, but that's not our point.

I have a degree in Biochemistry. After I graduated in 2009 I was unemployed for 7 months while looking for a job--- and when I got my first biotech job, I got fired within two months. I ended up working data-entry, and just feeling like: "wow. This is fucked up. Let's do something else". I took a night class in python and my first software job paid _double_ what my biotech job paid.

People can and should continue to problem solve on their situation. We are not passengers in life, we are active agents!
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I was applying for jobs back in 1997, and during that time they had a huge career fair called the Brass Ring fair. Employers from around Silicon Valley would have booths and hire people on the spot. I distinctly remember Apple's booth being completely barren, they were practically dead to most engineers. How the tables have turned since then. The big question is, Apple's path appears to be following the path after Steve Jobs left the first time, with the muddied product picture, no innovation, etc. I hope history doesn't repeat itself twice.
I am a developer(-ish) who used a Macbook for a while because Windows used to be awful and 'PC' laptops used to be dreadful.

Thanks must go to Apple for taking the lead and showing how laptops could be really good.

- They work hard on optimising for power use, so you can leave the power adapter behind (sometimes)

- They showed that it's possible for your machine to be ready to use the second you open the lid

- They proved touchpads can be a joy to use

- They saw that high res screens were something people actually want

- They popularised a new style of keyboard which seems to be generally well-liked (writing this on a ThinkPad T450s... with a chiclet-ish keyboard, and liking it!)

I fear that if they turn away from their 'Pro' laptops, the industry will stagnate again and we'll all be cursing the cheap creaking plastic and terrible pointing devices on our Toshibas or Fujitsus. Just as we notice there's no battery left.

I'm liking Windows 10 on a ThinkPad, but I'm using the TrackPoint / a mouse, because, while the trackpad is improved, if it's not 99% as good as a Macbook's, they might as well not bother (I've switched it off).

Also, 3.5 hours remaining after 30 minutes of use, most of it typing this comment. I carry a power adapter.
We have a set of larger EVA blocks in faux woodgrain that are a great buy for young kids too. They look exactly like wooden blocks, but are quiet and you avoid incidents when they're flung around.

My 4yo and I have previously played the "cantilever game" too. Adults get involved when we play "improbable structures" - that quickly gets competitive!