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Why consider renegotiating pensions, instead of all the other agreements with creditors?
This. facebook is like the cheetos of content.

It tastes great but if you stop buying it, you'll feel so much better, and wonder why you thought you "needed" it all along. I've been off (deactivated) for 4-5 years, maybe longer, and I rarely miss it. I have a pretty active in-person social life, though.
Well, lets think about it. The average life expectancy in the US is about 79 years. If we assume a retirement age of 65, that is 14 years of retirement on average. Lets make it 15 for the math.

According to bankrate, you would need to save about $24,000 a year for 40 working years to be able to support $300,000 a year for 15 years of retirement (using the default bankrate settings of 7% returns during pre-retirement years and 4% returns during your retirement years).

That is only 8% of your annual salary (assuming you were making $300,000). That is NOT an unreasonable saving rate for your retirement.

You also have to remember that retirement benefits is a HUGE selling point for government work; they are able to pay WAY below market rates to workers because they have promised this benefit.

Of course, when you are planning your own retirement, you can't just assume you are going to die at exactly 79 years old, so you have to save more. That is one advantage of a pension fund - it averages out the cost for people who die early versus people who die late.

Anyway, bottom line, the pensions aren't ridiculous when you look at them in context. Of course, they were not being properly funded, but that isn't the fault of the people who took them.
No argument there, but public employee pension funds have access to a unique resource: they can hold the taxpayers over a bucket to make up for the deficit. In California's case, the difference comes from tax increases and cuts in funding to higher education.
Shamefully poor tech competencies! Come help us! :)
thank you for your reply. can I ask you a question? why are you using a throwaway account? the reasons aren't obvious to me.
Or simply a pragmatist.

Reals are a useful sensory abstraction. Countability is another sensory abstraction, although for most people it's a rather less useful one.

There's no particular obligation for sensory abstractions to be logically watertight - if only because logic is an abstraction itself.
Multiple A records are also fine. Also more supported as you pointed out.

Unless you're constantly talking to a service, your stats will get old quickly. It could also cause everyone to target a specific host creating problems.

I'm still not sure what service discovery is required beyond knowing the name of a service.

Linkerd doesn't free me from anything. I still need to know how it's done, how it's configured, and how to fix it when it breaks.
> but no browser actually does this today, and the first part of the file gets sent down regardless.

Are browsers really not doing this? My understanding was that just one round-trip was wasted for the client to send an RST_STREAM frame, or does it really re-download the entire pushed file where normally it would be a 304 on request?
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I don't think it is possible to contribute enough 'pre-tax' reliably insure a $200K/year retirement income.
As a, for lack of a better term, total vegetarian, do you have any moral thoughts on different types of animals? Was the herbavore vs omnivore vs carnivore thing a consideration? Did you debate mammal protein vs fish?

Curious how people arrive at "their" vegetarianism.
I don't know what the rigorous definition of a real number is nor even what the rigorous definition of French (texts) is but I'm pretty sure it would possible to define "reals" in terms of "French texts" in such a way that all the results hold.

Funnily enough: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 are French words along with . and ,

So, how do we proceed to define reals in French?
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In even shorter, whoever designed those plans failed to account for the fact that future economic environment may be different from the current one. Despite that being pretty much their only job - otherwise they could just give that money to people to invest for themselves in 401k, IRA, etc. plans. The whole notion of one big pension plan is based on the premise that whoever manages this plan knows what they're doing better - or at least not worse - than non-professional people could, and even than most of people on professional market could. "We didn't predict interest rates could change" doesn't really inspire confidence in that premise.

The worst aspect, though, is that the next step would be to ask for my and other taxpayer's money to fix the botched job the pension managers did. And next worst aspect would be that this request would never be refused, because you can't deny people their money, can you? That means, if they work for the government, if they not, you can take their money as much as you wish, that's why they are called "tax payers".
I'm personally a big BSD jails fan. The idea of containerization is nice, but people often forget that it requires tooling and care, just like anything. And isn't a magic bullet
here's a Frontline about how nearly all "forensic science" is not actually backed by science

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/real-csi/
Everyone gets a seat on the flight, except those volunteering to leave for the incentive...
@alphapapa: 'Honestly, more than 50% of the downvoted comments I see on HN do not deserve to be downvoted'..

They've even downvoted that comment :)
"zero issues" is a bridge too far. Rocket, for example, only works on nightly Rust, and that might be a non-starter for a lot of people.
Can you explain to me what 'paying off employees equity grants' is?

They are just giving them shares, right? That shouldn't count against P&Ls because it's not cash.
Perhaps a solution to this is to allow public sector unions, but to require the general population ratify it.
So in other words, American kids and millenials are lazy, delusional, don't want to work hard and want all the glamor with none of the work. Is this really news?
0,1,2 etc are French words. All reals are French words 8)
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Back when I lived in London, I made friends with an old, salty Welshman who had worked as an administrator for the Port of London, before containerized shipping made London as a port eternally obsolete. His last official act on the job, 30 or more years prior, had been to assign himself and his cohort generous pensions and an early retirement (he was in his early 50's at the time). I can't blame the man -- jobs at the port were going away forever, and everybody knew it. But anyway, if the same person cuts the cake and serves it you can bet they'll end up with the biggest piece. Pensions for civil servants often fall into that category.
Really excited to dig in on the content and appreciate to have such a high quality course for free.

I wanted to give some feedback of my impressions so far. The quality of the content is great, however the quality of the audio in the videos is not so much. It sounds like the lecturer is speaking so that he doesn't disturb people in the next room or something, and kind of mumbles over the words, which is a bit distracting to listen to. The content would benefit from him projecting his voice more as he speaks.
> Can someone explain how pensions are calculated? How do they get so high?

It's based on peak earnings, including overtime: http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/20/california-public-employee... So naturally California public employees will rack up huge amounts of overtime in their final year of employment.

> Also, what is the purpose of such high pension promises?

Well funded public sector employee unions donate huge amounts to Democrat politicians and strongly encourage their members to vote for the same. More simply, it's outright corruption.

> Does the government really have such a high talent retention problem?

Based on my visits to the California DMV, no.
No. States (currently) cannot declare bankruptcy.

A city certainly can, and they have, e.g. San Bernardino, Stockton, Detroit.
The answer that covers many cases is: they otherwise have no retirement.

When I worked for a state university, in IT as a senior DBA, I earned half what private sector friends and professional acquaintances earned.

The story was something like "well, we can't afford to pay you enough to save for yourself, but we'll make sure there's a decent retirement to draw from for you."

The problem is, after the housing bubble, and with low-interest rates, the investment methods they had relied on haven't kept up.

Not saying this covers the more extravagant pay outs. But public workers on the whole have largely been shorted up front in exchange for a decent retirement.
So, I ask you - at what point fascism in Europe could have been stopped? At what point did fascist speech, rallies, and demonstrations turn into action?

Was it after they seized power? They were so appreciative of free speech, that they immediately repressed it.
And it's not only about frequency of updates.

I only buy Mac Mini - and I don't want a computer that has the RAM soldered down and I don't want anything that prevents me upgrading or replacing individual broken components. Apple's level of lock in is just too much.
Yes because that was the case before this commission came into existence in 2013 under then President Obama.. /s
I don't know why you think I'm misrepresenting. This was one of the first articles when I googled "uber statement on leaving austin": http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/08/technology/uber-lyft-austin-...

Perhaps the Lyft statement (Lyft left too) says it the clearest:

"The rules passed by City Council don't allow true ridesharing to operate. Instead, they make it harder for part-time drivers, the heart of Lyft's peer-to-peer model, to get on the road and harder for passengers to get a ride."
It comes down to "Maximizing profit by turning undesirable or inaccessible meat into nuggets in a potentially dangerous process."

I don't agree that is a particularly good description of the process. They are making the meat accessible, it isn't undesirable to begin with.

There could be some occupational hazard, I don't know. It seems clear enough that it isn't much of a food hazard (we've been eating it for decades).
At one point I saw a www.landed.com which wasn't a link, but then i just copypasta'd it... so yeah, you have a vaild point!
Funny enough, it would've only cost United ~$10k to put their crew on a dedicated Embraer 145 commuter jet to Louisville from Ohare. Oops.
Yeah, that's basically the deal: crap job/salary now, cushy retirement later.
> Of course, they were not being properly funded, but that isn't the fault of the people who took them.

Yet it is somehow the fault of the taxpayers, who are asked to sacrifice part of their income to make up for it.
> Given the choice

Why do we have to choose ? Surely it is better to attempt both.

Throughout the history of science knowing when something does not work is just as important as knowing when something does work.
Thats kinda the whole point of the article, in fact. All possible encodings of all possible thoughts, books, formal systems, and whatever, fit into the rationals, and the reals are categorically outside that.
> RetailMeNot started out as WhaleShark Media and changed its name in 2013 after acquiring RetailMeNot.com, an Australian-based coupon site founded in 2006.

huh so thats what happened
> "pi" and "e" - among the uncountably infinite transendentals - are probably reasonable responses to this article in it's entirety.

The point of the article is that most reals are useless in practice; pi and e might be transcendental and the transcendental numbers are uncountable, but they are both computable, and the set of computable numbers is countable.
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Yes - and given that's the situation with meat consumption, it's no wonder some of us decide on throwing out the whole premise and going vegetarian :)
There's nothing ethical about letting a minority claim the majority of a societies wealth.

You want to fund things? Get Trump to send a bill to Gates, Buffet, Koch's, etc.

Why blame the public system for the mess private capitalism is truly responsible for creating?
That wouldn't apply here since the goal was to spread an idea but that copyright made spreading it illegal without a license. Modifying to Creative Commons aids the goal plus is cconsistent with stated principles. So, it's the best move.

Fortunately, the author agrees and intends to change the license.
I've solved a bug while eating a cup of yogurt while walking around outside the office. Definitely worthwhile.
This demonstrates that ballot initiatives are a poor tool for creating and implementing public policy. When the outcome of a binding statue comes down to the wording, elected legislatures should be given the task. It's part of the reason why the US is set up as a Republic and not a democracy. Even with inevitable gridlock, At least getting folks in the same room helps to eliminate the cognitive biases inherent in us all.
Speaking for the municipal aspect: the municipal voters voted for these measures and certainly voted for the mayors and city councilmen who brought these measures into place. Then the cities, under the same politicians, failed to fully fund the pensions they had set up (they are normally required to fund pensions, each year, to a significant level, but the cities postponed the funding).

Years pass and then the cities lament, crying that these pension funds are now undue "public commitments on the back of the taxpayer", such as aswanson says above. IOW cities are trying to screw retirees out of their pensions.

For example, at this very moment Houston, in the name of "Pension Reform", is trying to coax the state to pass a law that would cut the pension of widows and widowers in half!

And that's just part of the cutbacks Houston is asking.
> "I'd rather cut my toenails with a rusty butter knife than write the paper."

> Okay, perhaps that's a slight exaggeration.

I have ADHD, this is not an exaggeration. I actually really like your example.

It's literally how it feels like.

I remember being in school and doing things like lining up my pencil with the rays of light coming from outside, and then trying to outline the shadow of my pencil with a different pen. I would spend an entire class on that instead of listening to a single word the professor said.

The worst part about it is that part of you knows the professor is sharing interesting stuff, it just that your brain tells you its boring.
You don't need to hedge. That's exactly how logic works.
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That sounds like enough for 10 cups of coffee, so 5 coffee meetings/dates. Ask a stranger out. Turn an acquaintance into a friend, or reconnect with a friend you haven't been in touch with. Buy a former colleague a cup of joe, and ask how they are doing. Buy a potential colleague at a different company a cup, and ask them if they like their current job.
Yeah, good point. I don't think it was a particularly good design. I read somewhere that the philosophy was 'not to do the obvious thing and put the guts of the computer behind a large screen' - which is what they eventually did with the next iMac.

This desire 'not to do the obvious thing' is also behind the Trashintosh. And it's also why I'm worried about the future Mac Pro. The obvious thing would be to revive the cheesegrater case, but Ive and co feel they have to do something 'radical' to justify their salary.
The term you're looking for is lacto-ovo vegetarian.
Whenever I see "systems programming language" in the context of Rust advocacy I've basically begun mentally substituting "programming at the applications/systems grey-area border". There's a lot of ambiguity about what "systems programming" really means, so I wouldn't say they're not using it correctly, but I've been getting the impression that your brand of systems programming isn't what they're targeting.

And that's okay. There is a ton of space outside of that context, and still within the "systems" space that C and C++ could use a high quality competitor in, and Rust fits that bill nicely, in my view.
It depends on the pension (in California, there are a number of big ones.) Here is the calculator for calstrs, the teacher's pension fund:

http://resources.calstrs.com/CalSTRSComResourcesWebUI/Calcul...

I think it is about 2% of your highest salary per year of service (once you hit 60). In other words, if you work 40 years and made $100,000 in your highest paid year, you would get $80,000 (80% of 100k). Some of them take highest 3 year average, or something like that.

The pension promises are absolutely about solving a talent retention problem. They pay way under market, and try to make up for it by offering amazing retirement benefits. If they were funding the pension properly, this wouldn't actually gain anything (since you could just give the employees more money instead). However, the government never funds them properly, and is basically borrowing from the future to retain employees today.

It should be noted, however, that governments aren't the only ones who do this. Detroit motor companies did the same thing (offered amazing pension plans in lieu of more money to keep workers), and also failed to properly fund them. The difference is that auto companies can file bankruptcy and not be obligated for the pensions. Because of this threat, unions were more willing to negotiate a lower pension rate in return for no bankruptcy.

Personally, I think a deal is a deal. If a worker chooses to give up salary in return for a pension, you shouldn't be able to just revoke that when you realize you promised too much.
> Homeownership is a luxury, not a right.

Why do we spend $100+ billion per year of tax payer dollars subsidizing luxury purchases? (via the federal mortgage interest deduction)
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> Theoretical significance

> There is currently no proven physical significance of the Planck length.
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You forgot to mention, that you're Jim Jagielski, the director of The Apache Software Foundation, who carefully monitors nginx news and never miss an opportunity to say something bad about it.

Haters gonna hate.
0%. I work as a upwork freelancer. More precisely by hourly rate and upwork desktop app takes screenshots at random times, so i can't really browse HN and other sites. But I will tell you honestly, i don't want to go back to normal work. I get shit done( there is also that "gambler" feeling, when you see how much money you earn each week ) and in good quality( I get reviews from my clients, so i can't code bad either ).

So yeah, a hour paid is a hour worked.
Are intergenerational wealth transfers the primary means to down payments across the Bay Area or the US? The latter doesn't comport with my friends experience, but I'm always easily persuaded by hard data. Any references?
You forgot to mention, that you're Jim Jagielski, the director of The Apache Software Foundation, who carefully monitors nginx news and never miss an opportunity to say something bad about it.

Haters gonna hate, right?
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You may not be aware of this, but the dairy and egg industries kill an insane amount of animals. I too was an ethical vegetarian for years before discovering that and reevaluating my dietary ethos.
This is a completely legitimate answer to my questions.

I'm just curious - I'm not passing judgement at all. Hell, I've a C++ compiler I've been working on for a while (it doesn't get much attention). Why? It forces you to confront the spec (all +1200 pages of it) and to understand the nuances of the language. I don't ever expect my compiler to be released publicly or used in production, but it's for my own personal growth and to increase my understanding of the language, which makes me a better C++ developer. I'm more of a data systems programmer (I work in finance), so working on a compiler exposed me to other areas I wasn't familiar with (parsers, grammars, ASTs, etc).

But, more substantive answers to the questions I've asked of a language(s) designer(s) can provide insight into what the language is well (or poorly) suited for or for it's potential longevity. If it was created for fun by the author, it's probably significantly less likely to have large adoption.

Unfortunately, I now commute 2 hours a day in the car, so my spare reading time is greatly diminished, so I don't have 40 minutes twice a day to read something novel like this in detail on the train like I used to have.
It'd be much better of if each Twitter user would become a verified user and pay $1/yr for normal plan with let's say notifications about posts/replies, $6/yr for read/write access and $12/yr for some premium plan. Maybe that'd make Twitter better off financially and better platform in general. Each time I post something from my blog here I get natural organic comments etc.. Each time I post on Twitter, I get some bots following me, retweeting and others. I'd much rather pay and know there is real life there.
I think the big focus of the article is the "California Rule" that prevents changes to pension commits that have yet to be earned. It's like buying a house and having the real estate market crash. You can renegotiate your property taxes (lowered home value). You can refinance your mortgage.
> This is part of the real reason why California is imposing the new gas tax in the name of infrastructure.

> Part of the reason why even reasonable people do not take left's claims of "tax to protect environment" seriously because this is all the money that they can see going to the pockets of politicians and government employees.

"Hey, I want to be able to rob government employees of the compensation they were contractually promised when they did their jobs."

Color your argument however you want, in whatever political flavor you like, that is essentially what you suggest. I'm really not going to feel guilty if the government taxes you to pay average Americans the pay they agreed too.

Sorry, I'm genuinely not interested in your politics of envy.

Personally, as far as I can tell, for the same job the government would pay me less than I make now. So...I'm really not worried Government employees are being overcompensated.
It depends on your moral system. Lets say it's Mirosoft pushing a server OS, Windows, saying it's better than UNIX's in every way. Definately worth the money. Then we find their Hotmail service runs on FreeBSD for better reliability & performance. I'd say what they tell customers about Windows Server was fraudulent in that situation and they need to get off FreeBSD if they really believe what they preach.

Something along these lines for companies pushing proprietary software and patent suits as good for innovation/productivity while using non-patented FOSS for own innovative or productive projects. It's dishonest. Although, I recall the Hotmail incident actually happening and they had to switch over lol. Same when people found out Microsoft ran on one AS/400.
Vanilla git can't handle a repo the size of Microsoft's combined codebase though; surely there must be some additional secret sauce involved?