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Is economic growth necessary? Is it valid that no growth / slow growth is the same thing as stagnation? What does a world look like when the population is staying roughly constant, with births and deaths in balance?

Japan has been in a situation like that for a while now. Instead of poo-pooing it as a long recession, maybe the rest of the world should try to learn from it.
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> Some parents are generously allowing their children to live at home rent-free. Mine are not.

As someone who has struggled with my parents for years to let me go and live on my own place (on my own expense), I can't understand why parents won't let their children live with them.

Is it because of space? Is it because of the extra cost? (I'd suppose it is negligible and you could contribute to it)
>Some parents are generously allowing their children to live at home rent-free. Mine are not. They provided me with an education, but in fact that was a scholarship from the institution my dad works at, not their own generosity.

You seem to feel that you are owed more. Are you joking or are you really this bold-faced entitled?

>Young people are better-educated, well-travelled, and more aware of the world than ever before. But old people control the Human Resources department. To protect themselves, they keep changing the rules to keep us out. HR demands years of continuous work experience, not only a degree.

Since when does being well traveled or aware of the world mean you are better qualified for most jobs? It very rarely matters (would you put this on a job resume?). Young adults do have degrees at a higher rate than ever before, but most of those degrees are worthless degrees.

>But old people control the Human Resources department. To protect themselves, they keep changing the rules to keep us out. HR demands years of continuous work experience, not only a degree.

This is quite the conspiracy theory. So there are jobs to be had but the old people are keeping you out of them?

I define a worthless degree as a degree where you could have learned the same skill on the job or at a trade school. This is the way your parent's generation did it. The degrees in this case are a waste of time and money. They provide false hope as well.

>Pension funds take money from young people and pay it out to old people. I have no hope that the fund will still be around by the time I'm able to retire (and the retirement age is probably going to increase anyway). A similar thing can be said about insurance. Therefore I think that young people should boycott pension funds. The system is not working for us, so we should not pay into it. We must continue to pay taxes because of legal requirements, but all other financial services are biased towards an older generation.
The worst part is the inequality that will come when the older generation finally pass on their inheritances. Some people will be very rich. My parents promised me that I will not receive any inheritance. So I will be poor.
The instability and debt is likely to lead to a war. It wouldn't surprise me if the USA decides to fight China about the huge debt they owe the Chinese. And who will die in the war? Young people.

Is this whole thing one big joke? You got me, you are trolling with sarcasm right?

Millennials are scary...
I didn't say you couldn't do it, I said it was unlikely you'd get rich in the US (true), and there's probably a system to tax you on imported wealth (as there is in the US).
who will receive their inheritance? please don't say some charity or gov instead of own child which could use it
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Young people are better-educated

Is there any good data showing that young people actually have more useful skills or knowledge than their predecessors did, not just certifications and years of schooling?
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Thanks for your feedback, James!

Check out my reply to andrewstuart2's post above. Seems like there is a way to make this work. Really excited and appreciative of all the comments here.
IMO, this happened because of the Ethereum ICO fever. While there are a number of exchanges that allow you to trade USD -> BTC, there aren't as many that allow trading USD -> ETH. So there are people who might have traded USD -> BTC -> ETH, and this increased demand for BTC.
I have been using React Native for a year now on a large project and came to the same conclusion. I find using Redux can quickly lead to over-engineered software.

As goes with every extra dependency: don't use it until you actually need it.
Hey, fellow older folks in the US! Wanna do your part to help deal with this problem? Wanna do it without all the trouble of getting organized?

Use some of your wealth to pay off the education loans of a younger friend or colleague.
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> The only text editor with vim keybindings

Vim also has Vim keybindings. ;)

Sadly, the iOS version has a number of other issues that make it impractical for real use, which is probably why you overlooked it.

(Apologies for the pedantic derail. I couldn't stop myself.)
While you do not have to pay the benefits for social security while abroad, you could and it's not even that much. One pays around EUR 12k / year for social security on a rather well payed software developer job (EUR 50k / year). Given a salary difference of a factor two or more, it is actually very much feasible to life and work in a US technology hub and pay for German social security. So the question "what the hell is wrong with economics" does remain.
doesn't declining population mean also lower expenses on infrastructure and everything?
I get it, and I've actually used the same metaphor just a couple days ago. What I mean though, is that the maths are OK, and although the heavy notation goes over my head (as I'm not academic), I understand the ideas. But I'm lacking some practical examples of how this is put to use. I understand how neural networks work for example, but I do not understand the maths behind how they work. There was (is?) a site called ai-junkie which used (does?) have very practical and layman docs about A.I. before ML became the buzz word du jour.
yeh, I work in clean energy, and I'm all about it, which is why casual conflations or assumed relationships like this are irking, because all it does it add to the pile of things parties that still want to reject climate change get to point to show how many arguments are lacking in substance, this being one of them.

I guess its true just about as much as any other correlation can be made with anyone who purchases anything. The more valid and underlying issue I thought would be focused on here is the baby boomers who have paid off their houses, have nice pensions waiting for them and refuse to retire after living 30+ years at the same job, while our generation has to re-educate ourselves 3-4 times over throughout our lifetimes (the first time in college being 500% more calibrated for inflation than baby boomers paid to go to college, many of who didnt need to go to get a good job) and change jobs every 7 years to stay relevant, relocate to follow our industries and/or navigate around jobs where we find out there is not career progress for the next 15 years because our superiors won't retire, or require a large amount of effort to navigate around their information hoarding habits to maintain job security.

This along with the fact that as our generation is laden with college debt and switching jobs to stay relevant, the few who can manage to pay off loans, afford to live in nice cities where the good jobs are and set aside money for buying a home, are competing with baby boomers for starter homes as baby boomers downsize after kids graduate from college, so now many jobs, even most engineering jobs outside of software have us held back from higher positions and catalyzing change due to baby boomers, and their cash offers make it impossible for promising young couples or individuals to mortage houses.

The icing on top of the cake is the passive comments I hear from baby boomers about how we are narcissistic and lazy.
Good point, but the James Bond of nowadays (Jack Reacher, john wick, etc...) are all American movies now.
>That poor valvetrain will be full of gummy carbon deposits. RIP whoever buys the car second-hand.

Or actually, the car will be perfectly fine. Nobody changes their cars every 3-4 months in this here parts, and the sky hasn't fallen.
1. Examples of gunplay in prime time british drama?

2. this might still be because we're influence by the movies in the US
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> I can't see how this says anything not already well-established

I am not a neuroscientist. It sounds like the cavities are orderly in 11 dimensions, whereas previously they seemed chaotic - the "shape of the activity" (i.e. something akin to a fMRI) is structured. This is different to the mathematical model of a neuron (being the matrix you mentioned).

I could also be reading this incorrectly.
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> While in my country, it seems that most people under 30 don't believe the government pension scheme will survive to our retirement, people older than that do hope for their promised pension.

FYI and based on my anecdotical observations, mid- to late Gen-Xers rarely if ever think they'll get anything either. As to your finances when you'll need to support your parents or those of your spouse, IMO just try to get over it. You know it's coming anyway, and so do they.

What might be more concerning in practice as a society is what to do with boomers and early Gen-Xers who didn't make enough (or any) kids. Where before retirement plans it may have been for 4+ kids to take care of their parents, it's trickier when there's a single kid or none.

Aside: the Swedes, if memory serves, have an interesting take on retirement. Namely, there's a fixed-sized pot. What you get isn't based on how much you put in but rather on how much you put in compared to others. I'm pretty sure all countries in Europe with eventually adopt a similar system.
Well, sometimes using cat is faster, as I discovered to my surprise recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14414610

But in that case one could probably say that Gnu awk is just not very good at input handling (as Mawk doesn't appear to benefit from an extra "cat").
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Put in place what was effectively an inheritance tax for payment of social care

This is the one policy of the Tories that I supported. There's been a massive transfer of unearned housing wealth to the elderly in recent years, owing to property price increases. It's criminal to tax young people to pay for elderly care, when those same young people cannot afford housing, housing that is owned by the elderly they'll be paying to care for.

This is exactly how the old are eating the young.
Disclaimer: I know about economy as much as the next guy.

Retirement pensions are one thing, the other is debt - whenever I hear that all countries are in debt I think of the law of conservation of mass and have an obvious question: who is this monumental, multiple-GDP debt owed to?

I figure it must be the private sector, but in such case - why are they lending? It looks like either there are people with resources they have no idea how to invest in something actually productive or there are people who knowingly choose to invest in this somewhat risky business of "pay companies to do something for the public now and hope that the public will return you more than the GDP of the whole country, maybe it will work out", which is how I see these big national debts.

Who are these investors and how hard would it be to make them cut their losses?

At the risk of committing a blasphemy against capitalism, could it be a sign of insufficient taxation of the proverbial "top 1%"? This doesn't necessarily need to be "top 1% individuals", maybe it's "top 1% companies" or "top 1% banks" or whatever. In either case, it appears that somewhere, someone has some big money which is being spent on public projects anyway but under the guise of an "investment" which may actually be a big dud.
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During the last 5 years where I wrote LOTS of concurrent code I was in various thought stages, where in each stage I had some different feeling of what the best model might be.

In the meantime I have the feeling that both threaded and single-threaded event-driven programming programming models work well, and that the main thing to avoid is mixing both.

E.g. I found that using callback based or push-style APIs (like Reactive Extensions) in multithreaded environments is not a great idea, since it often won't be obvious on which thread a callback will be running and which kind of synchronization is needed. Not using callbacks and instead waiting/blocking for results works better. In a pure singlethreaded environment it's generally easy to know what to expect from a callback or promise - it will be fulfilled from the same thread and the continuation will also run from the same thread. In a multithreaded environment it can get hard - e.g. a promise continuation (like Task.ContinueWith() in C#) could run in any thread depending on the setup. And blocking on promises (like with Task.Result) may be valid in some situations (where the Promise is fulfilled from another thread) but not in others (where the Promise is fulfilled from the same thread). Using only synchronous primitives in multithreaded environments (like it's common in Go) avoids these pitfalls and questions.

Sometimes having a singlethreaded eventloop even in multithreaded environment however makes sense, like e.g. for GUIs (and other applications which have lots of shared state). In that case it should be assured that all objects which are living on the eventloop should just be accessed from other objects on the same thread - and do not involved directly in function calls from other threads. If that's required posting events or function calls to the eventloop thread is a much saner approach then trying to add low-level multithreading synchronization primitives everywhere.
We all know MD5 is broken, but looking at it from purely a brute-force perspective:

If you look at a US English keyboard, you've generally got 47 unique character keys. Let's double it and say there are 100 different characters you can type just using the character keys and shift.

This machine could brute-force crack any 6 character password in under 4 seconds, any 7 character password in just over 6 minutes, and any 8 character password in just over 10 hours.

And that's using the least efficient method known.
What does that even mean? A football team is also a 11 dimensional or 11*N dimensional.
> the drone can water the plants

If you're in drylands you might look at land imprinting. Making shallow depressions pools all water and organic matter right next to the seeds, and allows infiltration in parched soils that otherwise run off all of the occasional rains.

https://permaculturenews.org/2012/09/19/imprinting-soils-cre...

http://imprinting.org/
> The government is doing this in an effort to prop up the economy and spur growth.

How so?

From where I sit, Japan's borrowing is funding infrastructure rebuilding and quantitative easing. The infrastructure, including energy production, is necessary for future economic and human activity. Quantitative easing combats deflation and keeps monetary policy functional when interest rates are low. This borrowing looks neither unsustainable nor does it look like a measure to artificially prop up the economy.

> If they were to stop borrowing money without a substantial leap in technological progress, would the economy go into a deep recession?

If you suddenly stop borrowing money, it would cause economic turmoil, just because everything is economically connected and everyone's economic forecasts would change. The borrowing is being used to support QE which causes inflation, without it Japan could be at risk of deflation. Deflation would mean that goods and services would get cheaper (and maintaining quality of life would also get cheaper), but there are also negative consequences—people who save money win, people who borrow money lose, people who invest money have a hard time making good investments, lack of investment causes problems down the road, etc.
I have no idea. I've had upgrade issues with VS betas in the past, so I'm not willing to install it.
No. The error that you have made is confusing stocks with flows. Your problem would be true under two circumstances - if all debts had to be paid at once, or if money disappeared when spent.

But when you introduce the time dimension, the system works. The money supply is a 'stock' of some quantity, but payments (principal and interest) occur over time, making them a 'flow'. Those payments will then generally be spent back into the system, which circulates (all expenditure is someone else's income). This circulation is measured as the 'velocity of money'.

So interest isn't a problem ultimately, but the increasing accumulation of wealth by the most wealthy may become more and more of an issue.
Yes, but the road has a stop sign.
Let me know when those "alternatives" are as good as React.
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Pension liabilities are, no doubt, big. But other unfunded large scale liabilities include loans, infrastructure maintenance costs, student loans, household debt, health care costs, etc.

Basically all the stuff that turns into daily cash outlays in the Sim City game.
Oh I do understand you. The manual for driving a car has to be different from the manual for designing a car. I believe you are looking for a manual to drive the car where you don't really need a lot of visibility into the inner workings.

A problem is that ML is not quite as mature as a car yet, so the driving manuals will be a bit on the thinner / shallower side.

> I understand how neural networks work

Quickly write that down please, that would do the world a favor. Researchers are still grappling with the question 'why the hell does this freaking thing work as well as it does, when it does'.
There is a sort of benefit to Facebook - React increases its prestige, which helps recruiting.
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I was going to suggest something like that. I have worked with bioinformaticians before, and while the code is often very poor quality, it is also used for one off calculations, so doesn't need to be great in terms of maintainability.
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> NNTP. [...] I guess the reason it never took off was that the backend mindshare and software ecosystem was poor.

Oh, but it did take off. It was the most popular on-line group discussion
place twenty years ago. NNTP (or rather Usenet) decline started around the
time that web forums popped up in the internets.
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For good reasons, React is a fantastic piece of tech!
I don't see the sadness -- or the stupid.

There are several very valid business cases to store files as blobs in a DB.

What's the problem is the DB is 150GB? It's not like the working set (which for the files will just be the metadata) will be that big for storing file blobs.

10GB Database + 140GB of pdfs on the filesystem are not any different to a 150GB DB with everything in.

And you have other issues (consistency, transactional issues, backups, etc).
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For something somewhat related, see parts of this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14414610

Note that cat+gnu awk was faster than just gnu awk - but mawk was faster still (reading a not entirely small file).

And in a similar vein of gp comparing Gnu and Openbsd, note that openbsd cat is a little more convoluted than the simplest possible implementation (at least to my eyes):

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cat/cat.c

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c

(That is, Gnu "cat" and OpenBSD "cat" are less different than Gnu "yes" and OpenBSD "yes").
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It seems alot of the critcism is focused on Marissa Meyer but I'm more interested in understanding how Yahoo got to such a bad state where they had to ask Marissa Meyer to come rescue the company, why it was in such dissarray when she got there and what led to her inability to save the company, from a logistical and business standpoint as opposed to just the constant banter about her being a horrible person and her salary being more than everyone elses (I never heard this criticism about the previous Yahoo CEO who let the company fall to pieces before she got there despite having similiar income)

Also, on a separate note, I've noticed multiple multibillion dollar companies who fall into disarray, have CEOs sit quietly in the background, hire a woman to come in and try to save it when to me the finances, business portfolio but most importantly jaded work culture and workforce of thousands of people seems hard to face, and then I see these women get relentless criticism, one particularly being related to their salary, which is comparable to the men previous to them in their position as well as men all over the world who earn a disgusting amount more than they should for their contributions as leaders of their organizations, but I only ever see woman CEOs in the spotlight for making too much money. Is there a slight bias here or is it just me?

Edit: I'd also like to add that I'm not rephrasing your comments as Marissa Meyer hate, just the thousands of non stop comments and general immediate focus on her income and failures as opposed to the failures of yahoo as a company that led to there being a new CEO (male or female) in the first place and what was faced during that time.

From what I know, Marissa Meyer worked many late nights for months going through every line item cost trying to understand what noone was hired under a man to summarize in the line item costs while she was pregnant, but the only news headlines I saw was how unfair it was to her employees that she was going to have a nursery in her office while asking her employees to not work remotely, when I'm pretty sure that decision was made purely based on her line item evaluation and the evaluation that the culture was lacking the accountability other software companies who had remote workers adhered to.

Nonetheless, everything she does or attempts to do seems to be immediately commented/overshadowed by how much money she makes or how its unfair she can afford childcare when noone else can. This is really quite bizarre to me being a woman because I never see overwhelming responses about a man making too much money or their negligence to employees about their ability to take care of their children (or criticism for having or not having nurserys in their offices because obviously why would I man need that when there is a presumed woman at home taking care of them?). Is there a relevance to this and why does it seem to overshadow and be constantly associated with everything she does despite not being the case for every other CEO who has been at the helm of a failed company?
Yes, but lots of companies manage that without having an open source web framework they've made.

Especially if they're one of the largest SV companies and can afford to give crazy wages.

Google hardly had anything special open-source wise for most of its existence. Apple ditto (they do have Webkit, LLVM etc) but it's not for them that people go to work there.
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