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The conventional wisdom is to first max your 401k up to your employer's match, then max your Roth IRA contribution if you're eligible. After that, the optimal savings path depends on your priorities.
"Mistake."
> If you're interested in roughly what the wholesale price is plus a very small markup

What about the rebates mentioned in the article several times? I know in the car industry one trick is to go on and on about "dealer invoice" and how great a deal you are getting while ignoring that rebates make that number fairly meaningless.
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The urban legend is that Sun invented the CDDL explicitly to prevent GPL-licensed competitors, Linux in particular, from benefiting from their work. I've not studied the CDDL at all, but I never hear anyone claim there's any other benefit to it.

I'm not sure what the rightsholder situation is with regard to ZFS (that is, I don't know if they had a copyright assignment for contributors), but it'd be really interesting if someone could convince Oracle, who I assume is the owner, to re-license it under the GPL. Oracle seems to have at least equal commercial interest in Linux as Solaris at this point. I'm not sure what the benefit is in keeping the license incompatible anymore.
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> But that's the whole problem. Canada presumably doesn't want to subsidize U.S. citizens.

Well, right now the US is effectively subsidizing Canadians, because the US is funding the majority of the pharmaceutical research that produces the drugs they consume. Half of the entire world's funding for pharmaceutical research comes from the US. A large chunk of that is funded by earnings on pharmaceutical sales[0][1].

> If Canada subsidizes a popular but expensive drug so that it costs $1 for Canadians

This is kind of a moot point, because Canada doesn't do that.

> It will happen for as long as the manufacturer resists.

I don't understand what you mean by "resist". If reimportation were permitted, the manufacturer literally has no power to prevent cross-border trade. In your hypothetical scenario, yes, Canada would probably adjust the degree to which they subsidize their drugs, but that's a moot point because they're not actually doing that.

[0] and again, most of that come from the US, because earnings will be higher where the sale prices are highest

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
I've read that paper more than once. It doesn't contradict what I said.
I don't get it. Is the story real or fiction? Why didn't the manager ask Bart why he did not want to work? Why did he prefer staring at his desktop background over working?
YAML for Java. A user-friendly OOP library., 1.0.1 released
True, though that's a gap in UI rather than a constraint of the protocol.
Sending taxes in the US by mail was unnerving for me, I don't know if things have changed but basically you put the envelope in the mail box and then .. you don't know, no receipt from the IRS, nothing. What happens if the envelope is lost? In all the countries I've lived you submit your taxes and you get and instant receipt or acknowledgement.
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I congratulate you on your innate talent that allows you to excel that way.

In various subjects, particularly abstract mathematics, I had to grind heavily in order to keep up with the class. I attended every office hours and pattern matched heavily, studying into the wee hours. (I had tried your method and failed in previous semesters).

Other subjects I had no problem. Low-level operating systems, writing, literary deconstruction, chemistry, foreign languages, statistics: I had no issues studying a reasonable amount and having a good work-life balance.

Eventually I realized that I was never grokking things with mathematics beyond a certain point. I was in office hours with the professor, asking how I could generalize the concept to a new problem. He said "just use your critical thinking skills! That's what employers are looking for." I truly didn't have the ingenuity to do it. I really wanted to be good at it, but I knew I never would be.

I think you are forgetting about the areas in your life that you don't excel at, that you couldn't be good at no matter how hard you tried. Some people genuinely have to grind at some things in order to succeed. For me, it allowed me to realize that no matter how beneficial it would be to have a Math minor, it wasn't going to happen. I spent that time pursuing coursework I would benefit more from.
I'd argue that the idea got into my head because that's how it's being marketed upon purchase. For Sling at least, "$25 gets you all of these channels, or $35-ish gets you these, or just do $40 for EVERYTHING!" The marketing pitches value based upon quantity first, quality second.

I guess I _was_ just hoping that the coming revolution was something like a "pay per channel" thing, where channels set what they believe is a fair value to charge monthly and I can decide a la cart which ones I want. I get that the cost per channel would be higher, but with the ability to pick and choose, with no obligation into buying into the bigger picture, I feel like there's at least be more pressure for the networks to produce quality content. I know that's probably small-town thinking, but it's a hope.

The numbers in this article of "ESPN subscribers" is not equal to "people that watch ESPN," and I get why switching to a "only selling to people who are genuinely interested" model is absolutely terrifying — because the numbers inflate when subsidized across the entire subscription populace. That's the insurance model, and I don't see cable/Sling as entertainment insurance.

Not sayin' you're wrong, I'm just saying I wish there was another option that wasn't buying shows on iTunes if I just want one channel's programming.
Secret laws, Secret courts, hush orders...
Hardly the USA described by the Constitution I read.
I don't know what is means for something to be "official" in this context. I do think they (the Law and the metadata) should be clearly separated and what is free should really be free, and what isn't should be made available as per whatever terms Georgia negotiated.

If Georgia fucked those terms up and are bound by something we all feel isn't reasonable it needs to be stated, and I think we might be doing just that here on HN.
> And every one of those three billion devices is vulnerable, due to the use of C.
Due to the use of unsafe C implementations.

You would have the same problems if you used an unsafe CL or rust implementation.
Right on. I strongly believe that if we do not admit something about ourselves, we cannot change that thing about ourselves. The most important skill I think I've ever learned in my life is to say "I don't know" often and unabashedly.

For me, saying "I don't know" was more of a social fear than an academic one. I thought people only liked me for my performance. But, like you, I learned that saying it didn't really affect the outcomes I thought it would, but it did result in learning a ton more. And I think, socially, it actually helped, because it humanized me to people who just saw me as "that super smart guy who gets good grades". I was no longer a machine they could not compete with, but a companion in the same struggle.

It's also much less exhausting just being true all the time, rather than trying to achieve some arbitrary educational or social metric.
Perhaps you mean group calls? Group chat is available in Telegram.
leakage is happenening here http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/casestudy/news/n0681-now-th...

we could extract this before it get's into the atmosphere.
Trade mastery also equates to future money on a scale which may render quibbling over an extra ten grand of current compensation meaningless. Failing that, it at least helps secure future employment, which still translates to money.
I'm guessing what you're talking about is using Bayesian techniques to compute something useful, which nobody will stop you from doing.

The part that has opposition is using a Bayesian justification for the experimental results in a paper -- presenting a conclusion about how we should update our beliefs because of the experiment, instead of a p-value.

Right now it seems pretty common to translate Bayesian experimental results sloppily into frequentist ones to get them past reviewers.
> not at all true.. not being able to easily modify the binaries on your router is not the same as modifying the code which they distributed to you..

> it is a license for the source code - not the runtime application of the source code.

That is a fundamental difference between "open source" and "free software".

See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html, specifically the explanation of freedom 1.
Almost all other developed economies use this approach and it works for them. Many Of these very companies are based on those very countries. We need a reasonable price for these medications. The market isn't delivering them. The scandal here isn't the pay these companies researchers receive. I'm happy to have them paid more for their work. To me the scandal is how much profit is being taken while many people go without due to the price. What do you say to those people who might die for lack of funds?
https://www.walmart.com/cp/4-dollar-presscriptions/1078664
you're right, it'll be companies buying used rockets.
> Manufacturer control over whole gets the buy drugs and what they can do with it after that is a cornerstone of drug distribution strategy. It also maintains drug pedigree and product integrity. I can't see it going away.

Not really. Manufacturers already have essentially zero control over wholesale resale within the US. (They can track it, to assist in things like recalls, but they can't prevent it). And there are other countries which already permit free trade of US-produced pharmaceuticals between their own international borders. The only difference is that it can't cross the US border again, which is why the easiest way for manufacturers to make money is to price-gouge US customers.
> The main problem is that, if they wanted to, it shouldn't take Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon too much work to put out a comparable product and offer it for free.

Apple[1], Microsoft[2], Google[3], and Amazon[4] already do have comparable products, with comparable prices[5].

1. https://www.apple.com/icloud/icloud-drive/

2. https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/

3. https://www.google.com/drive/

4. https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home

5. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/onedrive-dropbox-google-drive-an...
The root of ESPN's problem seems to be that what they call 'ESPN subscribers' are actually just 'cable subscribers', because ESPN is bundled with so many cable subscriptions. The actual number of people that want ESPN is some subset of all cable subscribers.

Since the only way to get ESPN right now is to be a cable subscriber, it means two things: everyone that still wants ESPN still has ESPN (because they still have cable), and all of the people unsubscribing no longer want ESPN. Note: To keep this away from pricing issues, I am excluding "cannot afford or do not want to pay the price of cable but still want ESPN" from people that truly "want ESPN".

The true number of ESPN subscribers as a percentage of cable subscribers is likely going up. The cable companies probably know what this number is (feedback from set top boxes), but as far as I know don't share this data.

I would assume their cost to get rights to events seems would be somewhat based on their published subscriber numbers. Since those are the wrong numbers, they are getting hit in two ways: the subsidy from non-ESPN viewers that no longer subscribe to cable is going away, and the cost-per-subscriber of broadcast rights is going up because number of subscribers (according to their broken metric) is going down.

Had they just always charged for ESPN separately (meaning 100% of people who paid for ESPN wanted to pay for ESPN) it seems like neither of these things would be a problem, though, they'd have lower revenue. The market will correct itself eventually, and ESPN will either adapt by cutting their costs or they'll eventually go bankrupt.
This webpage does some funky history writing on firefox and chrome on scroll, so just scrolling through the page you get dozens of fragments in your visit history. You need to click back a dozen times before you get out of the page depending on how far you scroll!
There's a deeper question here: how does this apply to politics and what are we going to do about it as life spans become longer?

It's a really tricky topic...
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If the company culture doesn't suit you, that's o.k. To me, the bigger cultural disconnect is over going to lunch because it relates to social norms. The second take home is more or less a confirmation of your disconnect and that's why it is framed in terms of ethics and professionalism.

People struggle with social norms when it comes to remote work. It takes extra effort to treat remote workers well and so it is not uncommon for people to take a pass on it.

Good luck.
Violence is inherent to living in our civilized, city-building way of life. That doesn't mean that property isn't a system for regulating violence. It is. We allow the state to monopolize the right to violence and entrust the state with the responsibility of settling property disputes in a legal framework so that we don't immediately resort to violence.

An alternative system that avoids violence is not living the way we live. That ship sailed tens of thousands of years ago though. Too late now. In our current state we just have violence and systems for regulating it.
"time in the gym" is way easier to measure than tangible improvement. It's not surprising that people try to optimize things that are the easiest to graph in Excel :P
It's bewildering to me how a company can have $1B in revenue and not able to make file-syncing profitable.
This reminds me of "Clarke's First Law" [1]:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#On_Clarke.27s...
If you receive a huge tax refund from the IRS, that means you set up your initial deductions improperly.

If your sole income is 1 main full time job, it's really not hard to estimate your taxes to the point of having a refund under $500. That way you don't government use you as a bank for 0% interest and have more money throughout the year.

To preempt some of the responses - no, let's not denigrate poor people for their spending habits and pretend like somehow getting the refund is better than having that money during the year.
Can anyone find the original Swedish book in digital form?
It's $20/month for unlimited storage on Dropbox.
Paper is a great little part of Dropbox that is showing some real potential. They recently added task dates and assignments, and some nice formatting options (like code blocks with syntax highlighting).
I'm failing to see their competitive advantage. Is it the file history? Linux client?

Genuinely asking, I pay 7 € / mo for OneDrive (1 TB) and I get a desktop license of Office along with that too.
Did you infer from anything I wrote some sort of group-above-individual dogma?
Can GDS avoid becoming just another Whitehall silo?
Well, Belgium and Florida are kind of ok. But what would you do with Poland, which has basically no wind, solar or hydro generation potential? Life's going to be hard for some countries.
I don't choose my car for its seatbelts, but if they are broken, I reject the car.
Side note:It's also important to remember it takes an extraordinary amount of investment to get a new drug to market. Often our 'staple' drugs are being used to fund future cures.
Look at OTC medication costs, every store makes their own generic and they are very cheap.
"Maybe," replied the old man. The following day, a group of bandits came to the town and razed it, torturing the village folk. The farmer's young daughter had already passed in the night, and didn't experience the horror.

The neighbors were dead at this point and couldn't be reached for comment.
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Property is a system for regulating (hopefully reducing) violence). I'm quite sure that is a widely held view.
Hm, this isn't working for me. I've been searching for a way to undo scrolljacking for a while, so I'm curious how to get it to work. What browser are you using?

I tried in Chrome (56.0.2924.87) and Firefox (forgot what version and now it's updating). Firefox doesn't even respond to `getEventListeners` and in Chrome I'm seeing `.scroll` instead of `.wheel`.
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Thanks for your feedback!

The problem is that, while my current startup is "imaginary" money compared to RSUs, the business is going very strong, we have multi million dollar yearly revenues so I'm not at a point where I consider the options as a huge gamble. It's very likely that they will retain a significant value.

Also notice that RSUs are 300k over 4 years, so effectively 75k a year: is 75k a year "extremely high"? I was under the impression that several employees at google and similar usually double their yearly compensation with RSUs, every year, which means RSU grant = 4*base salary (e.g. 350k a year total comp)
Can you spell out why judges don't have an incentive for defense lawyers to have better access to the law? When I was clerking for a judge, my main complaint was that the legal briefs were not well written or researched and I basically had to do it myself. Informed lawyers make it easier on the judge and his staff.
You're over privileging people using the drug today and undervaluing the hundreds of millions who will use it for decades to come. For the most part, the expensive drugs like Sovaldi are under patent protection. That protection lasts for 20 years at max, and practically, a much smaller window since R&D cycles eat much of that time up leaving a small commercial window. Once the patent expires, companies like Teva and Perrigo line up to make generic versions of the drugs and flood the market at ridiculously low prices. A small group pays a surcharge for the long term benefit of society.
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Developers, on average, don't even use the free tools.

I mean, speaking as one of the 1% who fully voluntarily uses these sorts of tools (and can generally only get free ones either because the price is prohibitive for the expensive ones, or I'm working in languages that expensive ones don't exist for), I think you're all bloody loonies for not doing it too. Offload to the tools everything you can, to save your precious brain cycles for the stuff that matters. Makes you look like even more of a hero.

(The excuse I see all too often that by doing that you'll atrophy your own judgment is, by the way, itself just proof you've never used these tools, or at least not used them properly. If you use them frequently, i.e., at commit-time, rather than quarterly-release time, they train you by telling you what you did wrong, and you learn how to write better code that meets their criteria fairly quickly. They make you a better programmer. These things should be used early and often; I'm sure a lot of the reasons people tend to not enjoy using them is that they want to write a quarter million lines of code without ever consulting the tool, then run it once at the end. That is a terrible plan. The tool will scream bloody murder and especially in C you are very likely to discover that your entire architecture is fundamentally impossible to fix now, making it very discouraging. Use the tools early and often. Seriously, as soon as you've created the new project and have hello world going, hook up the tools. They both provide more value and are way easier to use that way.)
I was winter. The #@! coldest winter I saw in a long time and I was on call.

Sometime in the middle of the night, I received an SMS: "Datacenter temperature is high: 24C" (yes, centigrade about 74F).

I saw the graphs and I could see there was a temperature spike. In the last hour the datacenter went from 16C to 24C and it was going up.

Three of the four industrial HVAC machines failed that night. Nobody knew why - I called the HVAC technician (he would come around 9am) and meanwhile I opened all windows and doors in the datacenter floor to stabilize temperature. 26C inside the DC, -6C outside.

Turns out HVAC systems used water... and someone broke the pipe isolation and the water froze inside.

It was fixed in the morning aplying a blowtorch to the 3 frozen pipes, then when we had water in the circuit instead of ice, HVAC machines made the DC cold again.

Temperature peaked at 27C in the morning (-1C ouside) - at 28C (84F) the VP of Operations would call everybody for a controlled datacenter shutdown that - fortunately - didn't happened.

6 months later I had a similar problem with HVAC. This time water evaporated inside the pipes and we had a "normal" panic because both the inside and the ouside were hot.

That was my last on-call duty.
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Although an HSA generally can't be used for premiums (with a few exceptions).
discredited rhetorical technique. you can do better.
That makes sense, and as the article points out, that's sort of the gambit that HBO's run. (And it's worth mentioning, is how we consume HBO. Let the shows have their run, and then binge all the shows in 1-2 months per year for $30/year instead of $180.)

I guess my pitch isn't even abolishing cable packaging all together. If people like it and want it, then let them do it. But there's a lot of room between a cable subscription and wanting one or two channels. If ESPN makes $6/mo off subscriptions, and I don't have cable but want ESPN, $6/mo becomes a lot more enticing than $25-40/mo.

Again, it's sort of how HBO works. You can get it with your cable or get it on its own. And I'm sure it's a contract thing, but at this point it just feels like more money than what they're already getting; that they may find they gain more subscribers in the transition than they lose, or at least find more eyeballs that are actually watching versus those inflated subscription numbers from "people that have cable with ESPN attached" numbers.
You haven't really answered the question:

> For example, I'd love to see a progressive tax rate for corporations: companies' tax rates would be based on total revenue or profits. ex. If your company earns less than $50k/year, no taxes, 10% tax rate up to 250k, 20% up to $1M, 40% up to 10M, 50% on earnings over $10M.

What sort of politicians would actually push this through Congress? What stops it from being repealed with the next cycle? Without a culture of socialism and understanding that corporate/owner and individual interests are not incentive compatible, none of this would work.
Or in the even more simplistic Herzberg's dual-factor theory: Money is just a hygiene factor.

If you have not enough, it will negatively impact job satisfaction and motivation.

OTOH if you have enough, it doesn't raise job satisfaction or motivation.
If for no other reason, because Python.

It's an aesthetic thing mainly, and a bit silly I'm sure, but dammit, I find it unsettling to have my Python 3 stuff running, and then the legacy Python 2, simply for the sake of supervisord.

Likewise, I don't need any Python on my Go-server, please.
I assume their two biggest expenses are employees and the free product.

Drop employees and they are insta profitable, but innovation slows.

Drop the free plan, and they lose the cheap marketing they have going on.

What is the right play for them? Seems tough.
Okay, now ask the highest-paid employees what is most important to them.

Compare.
Oh absolutely, it's a revolution in the making. In fact the limiting factor on their launch cadence in a few years might just be how quickly they can manufacture second stages. That would be a great problem to have.