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I completely agree that it should be talked about more and plans made. Unfortunately several family members don't see things the same way and this provided the impetus for discussion.

> You should stop thinking that way. A decade past the initial scare, you're likely no more at risk than anyone else.

I'm not an expert, but the last time I researched it, I wouldn't even develop symptoms for at least a decade. So I'm actually at the point where I could actually find out that I have it.

> You weren't given the disease, you were exposed to a small possibility of it.

I absolutely agree! That said, my probability is still drastically higher than the _average American_. I was dating a science teacher at the time and she did some research into it. Basically the only other Americans with similar odds are military personnel stationed in Europe during the Mad Cow scare. There are other populations, e.g. Europeans during the Mad Cow scare, that are at similar or higher probabilities. But among Americans my odds are definitely higher than average.

> but as far as your day-to-day life goes you should consider yourself squarely in the "average" category.

I'm anything but average ;-) but I definitely don't let this impact my day-to-day life. It's much more of an intellectual curiosity and medical awareness for my family and doctors in case I should become symptomatic.
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Pretty sparse on details. Apparently my linux desktop is not a "supported device"?
Homeowner property wealth is a ponzi scheme, enriching early adopters and money lenders at the expense of wealth generators - like teachers. Helping people get on at bottom, while it may help them outbid their compatriots, ultimately benefits the higher ups to the detriment of everybody else.
and it's wider than criminal justice, some of these tests are used in family cases too. Here's a blog post from England about hair strand analysis for substance misuse: http://www.pinktape.co.uk/cases/hair-strand-testing-some-int...
I don't disagree with your comment -- none of us are necessarily great blog writers :).

I would say the way we think about this is that there is both a cyclical and structural housing problem in American cities. The structural piece is that:
1. there is a limited supply of land in near proximity to economic opportunity -- most of this land is concentrated in cities.
2. cities need a wide variety of people to live in them to function properly.
3. even if we paid all of those people a median wage, the median person will struggle to accumulate significant wealth while paying rent.
4. the banking system cannot be expected to take low down payment risk without making the entire system vulnerable to another housing crash.
5. therefore if no 3rd party equity exists, then the only people that will be able to acquire any land holdings will be the sons/daughters of those with existing land holdings (intergenerational wealth transfers)
Independent contractors are not new. Their use has been rising for years before Uber
While we're on the subject of misleading language, let's talk about why this is always labeled as "pension reform" and not what it actually is, "reducing payments", or even better, "reneging on a contract."

I don't understand why it's controversial that California (or any other state) should be legally obligated to pay the pensions they promised to workers. People make long-term decisions based on those promised benefits, and pulling the rug out from under them is unconscionable. And, luckily, in California at least, illegal.
The particularity of prions is that when they come into contact with the normal form of the protein, they can change its conformation to create a new prion (that's how the disease spreads). In that light I think an "anti-prion" protein should be possible, going around the body converting prions back into healthy molecules.
Homeownership is a luxury, not a right. Its still within reach in many locales. If the locals value education as a product they will bid it up.

I dont see how this isnt just the market telling educators they should go elsewhere?
How is this even neutrality at this point? And what is there even to attempt? It is ridiculous and serves no purpose that they do not write "CIA" once.
Probably 25% on the average day. Occasionally 0%. There are entire days that I'll spend working on nothing but side projects, but our company is getting big so no one notices or cares. Sometimes I work from home just so I don't have to do anything other than be around for a couple meetings.

The bigger we get the more lawyers and compliance people we ad, and the less noticeable it is that I'm not doing shit.
You're almost certainly getting a sampling bias by asking this question at ~2pm Pacific Time on a weekday.
Its hackish (needs setting up bhyve/ubuntu vnc, don't bother with the plugin), but crashplan central can be used with freenas.
You might be reading too much into the phrase "mathematical fantasies". This is not saying Borel claims they literally do not exist. More that they are not "accessible" or "usable".
May not be visible if your phone is still, but you can see faster flickers if it moves or your eyes do. I don't have an OLED phone, but the backlight flicker on my Pebble Time is visible as I raise my arm up.

Not actually a problem for watch usability, but looks funny and takes away from the image of the pebble screen as a constant object. Can't vouch for how it affects phone usage.
This has gotten a lot of study and comes up often here. The issue appears to be the same as with the so-called Hispanic Health Paradox where poor and likely obese Hispanic Americans have better health and life expectancy than the general population. The cause appears to be socialization and lifestyle as both Southern Italians and Hispanic Americans tend to form large accepting family groups. What is less discussed is the downside of this which is that with more social bonding and acceptance these physically healthy people are less likely to rebel in general or become extremely wealthy from business success. Neurotic and unhealthy people may have more personal challenges but build more dynamic economies and societies.
> That's because it shouldn't be.

Why not? Who's reading my HTML? It's not there to be read by a user. HTML is for devs. They're the ones that deal with it.

> No, you might can have multiple "products" on the page.

True, in that case you would use a CSS class with no styling if you need code to select the block.

> Absolutely none of this true if you use Sass (or an equivalent) properly.

It doesn't matter what you use, you can nest your CSS by hand or with Sass. Either way, you now have CSS tightly coupled to your HTML structure and it can be hell to change. I'm literally dealing with this right now (we use sass).
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 - wikipedia, there isn't currently a way to test for it while alive, but there are some promising areas of research.

>At present, there is virtually no way to detect PrPSc reliably except by examining the brain using neuropathological and immunohistochemical methods after death. Accumulation of the abnormally folded PrPSc form of the PrP protein is a characteristic of the disease, but it is present at very low levels in easily accessible body fluids like blood or urine. Researchers have tried to develop methods to measure PrPSc, but there are still no fully accepted methods for use in materials such as blood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encep...
This is what happens when your public sector unions have local and state politicians in their pockets.
I take Reddit with a grain of salt anymore.
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The other thing they're missing is: how has this changed over time? I don't think it has much. How many people ever aspired to be a waiter, a customer service rep, an office clerk, a stock clerk, etc.? Zero? People don't aspire to these jobs when they're young and full of hope for their future; they get into these jobs after cold, hard reality hits them and they need a job. Maybe they flunk out of college, or don't get accepted into college, or have to go to work early to support their family, etc.; these are the jobs that people do because they don't have a choice, and need the paycheck. Asking teenagers if they'd love to do these jobs is doing it wrong; it's like asking teenagers if they look forward to going to prison and becoming felons. No one plans for that.
> The interpretation of Cantor's result will depend upon one's view of mathematics. To constructivists, the argument shows no more than that there is no bijection between the natural numbers and T.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument#I...
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On the flip side, even the existence of pensions is amoral. Promising the funds of future generations, which may never materializes, condems citizens for decades of wasted spending.

Just look at San Jose. Just look at Social Security. It is hard to identify these liabilities as working the way they were intended. And what do the people gain from them? Overpaid cops?
It seems as if Debian insiders are put in difficult circumstances by government officials. Maybe it's just a convenient coincidence.
But the solutions shown in this series are just pointlessly esoteric. I'm not actually sure what the point of this series is.
I've had the experience in the reverse order, but with the same conclusion.

First lot of web server configuration I had to do was Tomcat. After that, IIS 6 through to 8.

Compared to any of those those, writing Apache httpd config actually seems pretty straightforward.

But yeah, Nginx is a lot plainer and I pick it most of the time. Usual time when I don't is if deploying someone else's software with complicated rules and don't have the time to port them.

Damn Tomcat config is godawful gibberish. Seems to be a running theme in Javaland.
Sure, but why? Why isn't there just one test? Why are merit scholarships handed out for PSAT results and not SAT results? I can't see any compelling reason other than making more work for the College Board.
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Real question: what kind of website she visited to get such infection? It's quite uncommon (even though theoretically an existing risk pretty much everywhere, and probably even not that hard to do if you control a website)
Yeah, it seems like deep learning would be apt here, but couldn't find almost anything. Time for disruption :)
I'm still using one of the previous generation HP N54Ls. Great pieces of kit. The Gen8 was a slight step backwards in some ways insofar as loosing the standard 5.25" bay which was handy for installing 4-6 2.5" drives. Agree that HP should definitely keep evolving this, but seems like they aren't interested. Plus they have taken an actively hobbyist-unfriendly stance with regard to access to updated drivers now requiring a support agreement.
I actually just ordered a refurbished quad-core Mac Pro a few days ago at the discounted price of $2119 + AppleCare + tax; it should arrive tomorrow. I bought my Mac Pro for three reasons: (1) I needed a Mac more powerful than my 2013 MacBook Air and my personal needs can't wait until 2018 (and I'm not fond of the 2016 MacBook Pro; I really wanted something like the 2015 MBP but with support for 32GB RAM, some USB-A ports, and upgradeable storage [I could cope with soldered RAM, but soldered storage crosses the line]); (2) It's my response to the promises that Apple's executives made to pro users last week; and (3) I feel that $2119 is a good deal for a Mac Pro, even though it is three year-old hardware. It's still mightily faster than my MacBook Air.

Now that Apple has promised Mac users that it still cares about the Mac and that it will start focusing on the needs of pro users again, I'm still invested in the Mac platform (I bought a refurbished ThinkPad T430 not too long after the October MacBook Pro reveal to see what Windows 10 and modern Linux desktops are like; I found Windows 10 very annoying, and while I believe desktop Linux has caught up to Windows or perhaps even exceeded it in terms of usability, it still has a while to go before reaching OS X in my opinion), and I'm patiently waiting for what Apple reveals over the next few years to see if it keeps its promises. Hopefully Apple is truly listening to its customers and Apple releases an expandable Mac Pro and a version of the MacBook Pro that focuses on power and perhaps even upgradeability again (like the pre-Retina MacBook Pro models) instead of exclusively on thinness and lightness. I'd love a Mac version of the ThinkPad P series.

I also hope that Apple's competitors don't stand still in case Apple doesn't keep its promises. I would love for desktop Linux to catch up to OS X within the next few years so that way I could take advantage of the wide diversity of PC hardware options. And in many ways desktop Linux is almost there; it just needs some more polish and elbow grease (some nicer fonts would be nice).
Over the first 15+ years of my career as an engineer and engineering manager, I've repeatedly surveyed colleagues and friends in engineering roles about this question. I've asked it of people I consider low-performing, all the way to folks I'd consider 10x developers.

I have never met a single software developer who, when pressed to give an honest assessment and when "working" is defined along the lines of "actively defining, coding, or debugging a feature", self-identifies as working more than 50% of the time. There are occasional stretches of 12+ hour working sessions, but they are very rare.

I'd say I've asked this of over a hundred people.

This isn't to say these people only do 4 hours of work a day. Often, peers have described how they hit a wall at work, go home, and then work on personal projects in the evening.

I've come to the conclusion that is generally impossible to do mentally intensive tasks for more than 4 continuous hours over the long term.
Here's an interesting long-form writeup on how CalPERS mismanagement contributed to this situation:

https://www.city-journal.org/html/pension-fund-ate-californi...
Just like how in the 60s more teens wanted to be astronauts than actual space explorer jobs existed, but somehow many of them managed to find good jobs either in aerospace or something else.
I'm not sure what you mean by "paying an equity grant". If you fire someone they no longer receive new equity. And for a company that's been public for 4 years with a constantly dropping stock price I doubt the volume of early employees exercising options could possibly bankrupt the company. I don't understand how that could happen to any reasonably well managed company.
I'll be honest; I don't think using HN is anything close to what I would consider "working." At best it's marginally optimized random browsing.
This is decent prolog code ;)
What do you mean by this statement?
Land is like any commodity of fixed supply. It is increasingly valuable as incomes and inequality grows. Until such a time that the supply/demand dynamic in cities is significantly altered, it will be valuable (whether it is properly priced is another matter altogether).

I guess I'd rather live in a place that has more distributed ownership of land, rather than less :)
Here's why:

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

Private sector unions are essential and should get more protection from the government, but public sector unions don't make any sense to me.
This is incorrect

The law says

>Compensation shall be 400% of the fare to the passenger's destination or first stopover, with a maximum of $1,350, if the carrier does not offer alternate transportation

Stopover is defined in the law as

>>Stopover means a deliberate interruption of a journey by the passenger, scheduled to exceed 4 hours, at a point between the place of departure and the final destination.

Thus the carrier is responsible for 4x the total cost of the ticket, from Pick to destination unless the connecting layover is more than 4 hours in length

as to the point on "after fees excluded" the law requires compensation based on the full fare

fare is defined as

>>Fare means the price paid for air transportation including all mandatory taxes and fees

SO while some fees may be included, if they are optional addons like baggage fees, upgrades, drinks, meals, etc. Any mandatory fees and taxation must be included

Source:https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.5
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A first class ticket is about double the cost and has the traditional leg room. If you can live with only half the cost of the 1950s then its an option.
I don't understand this but this is Rule 4:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/wiki/index#wiki_-rule_4-
Thanks for the really detailed ZFS allocation write up. I've recently been building ZFS storage systems on Ubuntu 16.04 (one in excess of 800TB), and I've poured over the various ashift/recordsize options and spreadsheets, but your description was quite useful in cementing my understanding of why the large recordsize is useful.
Pension issue isn't renegging on past promises. Its because SB 400(passed in 1999) did retroactive increases on pension payments and lowered retirement ages. Undo those changes.
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy.

If you can, consult a professional (e.g. a therapist) who can help you formulate a plan, etc. Other than that though there are lots of great books on the topic that are helpful (one I'd recommend is "Full Catastrophe Living").

Mostly mindfulness based cognitive therapy is about developing new habits that eventually change the way you think and feel. Specifically for you a lot of it is about being able to treat your thoughts and emotions as things that don't necessarily "sweep you away" and force you down a particular path of behavior and emotions.
Pensions, done right, are nothing of the sort. You commit present funds to secure future payments. Social security, which is very much the opposite, has issues as a result.

(I assume you meant immoral, not amoral.)
I spend around 90% of my time at work doing real work. There are often days where that number is nearly 100%. At past jobs that number was closer to 50-60%, but I've moved into a lead role (Marketing Director) where slacking means getting buried. I don't mind it one bit, either. I'm helping to steer the company and that's very rewarding, even if it is a lot of work.
How does this compare with Chicken Scheme?
That's true. But it's also true that contracts are subject to renegotiation in the case of bankruptcy. When we make financial deals we typically assume some of the risk of our financial partners.
Ok, that's great, but at a point you simply run out of money. There's nothing ethical about pulling funds out of public schools to pay public pensioners 100k+ pensions.

Politicians bribed unions with promises of payments which could not actually be sustained. That sucks, there need to be checks against that happening, but that doesn't need to be held sacrosanct at the cost of actual services.

There's a reason that the US has a robust bankrupcy court for individuals -- it doesn't matter if you signed a contract for 15% credit card debt; at the point you are out of money and can't pay the bills, there's nothing ethical about keeping someone enslaved to uphold it.

This is the exact same thing, except mostly it's their parents who elected corrupt politicians, so there's even less reason to hold people accountable for the decisions of irresponsible politicians two decades ago.
I'm interested here because to me they don't seem at all incoherent. Can you unpack that a bit for me?
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Are you unaware of what people gain from Social Security?
They probably make snide remarks because they don't understand that someone executing according to plan, consistently over several years and projects, working 5 hours per day, is more valuable than someone working 8 hours in a less organized manner and sometimes missing deadlines.
Why is there any category of worker that you feel doesn't deserve the right to collective bargaining? Why should any group of workers be prevented from organizing for rights and benefits as a group?
The most recent proposal I find reasonable. Keeping currently funded benefits but no guarantee on ones that haven't been given yet. The government keeps raising my minimum social security retirement age, but since I'm far from it that doesn't change my plans much. I don't see how changing future pension benefits is any different.

I understand your argument, and the real problem is that state never should have made those promises.
Did the state, or any city, declare bankruptcy?
http://www.ocregister.com/2016/08/12/the-100k-club-public-re...

21K of $100K+ pensions. I wonder how much i should make to afford 401K contributions large enough to have result equivalent to one of those $300K/year pensions.
"Alive implies needs-resources" is not the same as "needs-resources implies alive"
> I'm a trained mathematician as well.

Mayhap.

>A constructivist would state the result in a variety of ways. But none of them would involve a potentially self-referential construction based on the absolute truth of an infinite number of statements. Which really does rule out Cantor's argument.

But in any case you misunderstand Cantor's argument and constructive mathematics.

mbid is correct; Cantor's diagonalization argument constructively proves the uncountability of the real numbers, see e.g. Bishop-Bridges' CONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS, Theorem 2.19, page 29.
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Yes, they did, except this is not a winner takes all thing. We're still living in the same country.
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And yet the Canada Pension Plan is fully funded[0] and in no danger. California's problem is over-promising and mismanaging.

0 - http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/oca-bac/as-ea/Pages/ascpp.asp...
I'll be the first to advocate for higher salaries for educators, nurses, firefighters, police officers and essential public employees. I think they provide an absolutely fundamental service to our communities.

That said, Stanford has a similar housing support program for its professors because when you're moving from Iowa to Palo Alto, it doesn't matter how much your pay has increased. You're going to need equity support to buy a home.
Are the same people that want to break pension contracts the same people who want to break student loan contracts?
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At least 90%. If I'm at work and not working, I'm usually working on one of my own projects.
The EPA is concerned with regulating air and water quality, and the immediate impact of burning fossil fuels. Air pollution from fossil fuels has a profound impact on American lives. Whether or not they do research is irrelevant. Neutering their ability to enforce standards clearly shows the administration doesn't acknowledge the realities that affect the country and the world.

By diminishing the power of the EPA, alongside Trump's executive order that attempts to reduce/reverse the broad set of climate and clean energy initiatives from the Obama Administration (Clean Power Plan), the U.S. may continue to lose the leadership in the clean energy economy and adherence to climate change goals.

Furthermore, given Pruit's anti-EPA philosophy, we could easily see him push the body to revise the Clean Power Plan in a way that would benefit the fossil fuel industry at the expense of the environment and the long term health of Americans.