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Why not just sell it all now when you're alive instead of making it a burden on them after you die? I'm just getting a dumpster over to my dads house and chucking everything when the time comes.
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100% the truth. My family had below-average income and all I sought to do was augment my life with stuff through my early 20's. As I've grown older I totally understand that it didn't make me happy (quite the opposite), but that realization doesn't set in until you've had the stuff in the first place. I saw much the same pattern with other poor kids I grew up with who went on to make good money.
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This wasn't my comment but it may as well have been. This describes my material posessions exactly, except for no garage. I'm 32 and live in a one room warehouse art studio with a shared bathroom. I can't find reason to get a legal home because this works perfect.
Came to a similar epiphany when I had to move out on short notice. Since then I follow what I call the "1 suit case philosophy" - If I can't fit all my stuff into one standard size suit case and fly, then I have too much stuff.
I rented a private office in Manhattan for $900/month. i.e., <10% of my salary. This is a no-brainer... Why not just rent each individual engineer a private office? Why the need to own the office space? Company identity/"cult"ure?
From what I understand, regular masturbation can decrease sperm count temporarily. But it will come back to normal within 2-3 days of cessation.

This is what I've found from googling around, but I didn't stumble upon a definitive source. So make of this what you will.
>>Even in companies like Infosys, most training is done in-house. So we are not talking about insane amounts of money.

Infosys provides free housing AND pays salaries for 4-6 month training period, during which you don't do a dust-peck worth of production work. This is for thousands of freshers. So yes its for all practical purposes insane amount of money.

>>Additionally, if you need to really spend insane amounts of money to train freshers, then either you are hiring wrong, or you are dumping complex work on them.

When given good work complain the work is too complex, when not given complain of lack of opportunities to learn.

>>Either way, it's the problem of the company.

Yeah, In India its always somebody else's problem.

>>Of course, students out of college will not have any exposure to real work. There is no real internship system in India.

There is. It doesn't arrive on a plate though campus placements.

>>Also, training fresh students, just out of college is a process followed by literally every company on earth, which is hiring freshers.

NO. In US you either perform or will be fired.

This level of entitlement among us Indians is sickening.

If people really think there are jobs and companies beneath them, please feel free to go work wherever you like.

World doesn't owe you a job on your terms.
I happen not to like the mouth feel of guar gum. It tastes "empty" and, well, "gummy" where I am looking for that creamy, fat sensation.
Coming from a math background, this actually reads as very expository and not at all pompous.
An interesting somewhat related phenomenon is the rise of the medical divorce, where a couple will divorce to protect assets from medical debt bankruptcy[1][2]. The ACA and Medicaid expansion lowered the divorce rate by a measurable amount in some population groups[3] which I find amazing.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/feeonlyplanner/2014/08/21/divor...

[2] http://www.helsell.com/helsell-news/medicaid-divorce-an-over...

[3] http://fortune.com/2017/02/16/obamacare-divorce/
Yeah, but as dspig mentioned above, this only applies to v3 of VST, which is almost nobody uses. We're all using v2.3/v2.4.
Just because he's not referencing a survey or study doesn't make it useless data. Anecdotal data is not useless.

There's been a noticeable increase in effeminate men in NYC over the last 6 years. Maybe it's due to the increased acceptance of LGBT, maybe it's something else...
Even when you hate the work, getting in the zone and coding makes the time pass quicker.
If you go to Montreal, you'll see the solution adopted by rural people when they moved to the city in the first half of the 20th century: backyard sheds. I don't know about the US, but here in rural Quebec, people in my parents' generation tend to accumulate stuff in part, I think, because my grandparent's generation lived in relative poverty, and poor people tended to hang on to stuff just in case it could be useful at some point; for instance, when you got a new car, you'd keep the old one behind the shed so you could strip it for parts.
and if so the explanation of why it affects Western men and not Asian men ...
I hear this pride in having few 'things' from some folks - but it seems like it frequently comes from people who aren't creative, enjoy making things, or have non-computer related hobbies.
> I just don't want any more stuff.

That's also because most of us live in cities nowadays and you can access to "stuff" you need outside of your place pretty much anytime, anywhere, therefore there is no need for you to build inventory anymore at home. But if you were living far from everything, you'd definitely want to possess things.
I wish that's the case for me but can't with kids and wife. Looking around though, most of the stuff I use daily will fit in a suitcase, except for 2 monitors.
Large populations expecting or knowing longevity are new. Never forget we count down from Depression hysteresis and post-WW2 50% share of global wealth. We have horrible diet and health statistics here. People are wise to not marry. By way of comparison Japan's population falls faster than their economic deflation.
It's definitely a generational thing and younger folks have never seen a repair and retain society or scarcity that drives that hoarding attitude. And unless they collect or inherit vintage equipment (survivor bias aside) they haven't purchased anything designed to last many years much less decades.

Before anyone accuses me of slagging on Millennials I don't mean it that way. I mean since we have a manufacturing base that is in my opinion far more aggressive about planned obsolescence than 50+ years ago and several generations used to cheap, low quality goods manufactured overseas why would they want or need anything else? We value the novel and inexpensive over the durable.
It's useful to bootstrap things but it cripples your mind too, often you need to be creative and that's where rote learning stops being useful.

But in a way, I feel like many times, I reach understanding of a topic, after some information has sit in my brain enough that "i get it". I often don't feel I've done something special compared to my state the day before. So maybe it's all rote learning.
Actually, if you look at the hunter gatherer societies that best resemble the environment humanity evolved in, romantic love plays a big role. Such societies are often lenient about divorce as well. The !Kung San and Hadza are well studied examples of this.
Not that the op comment has any basis, but singing falsetto or having vocal range has little to do with the high/low-ness of the baseline voice.
I can't help but have noticed that same thing, anecdotally (very anecdotally, but seems seems so pronounced that I'm commenting). Higher voice registers, smaller frames, more effeminate postures and body language.
Here's a theory that it's caused by jet fuel: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3587983/
I had gynecomastia from when I was 10 years old up until I was in my early 20s, when I had surgery to remove it. Wonder if I can blame plastics for that.
This is only the most egregious comment in here, not the only one in general. Someone above is talking about gut microbiome (which we know vanishingly little about) as being a primary causer, diet is apparently 100% the issue (colinear effects in other populations throw water on this theory pretty hard), plastics are a real problem (no evidence supports this, though there is a significant lag), etc.

Basically no one wants to just say "No one knows, let's keep researching." Everyone has to chime in. That'd be one thing if it was relegated to HN or forums, but it's true in the "scientific" community [1] and the media as well; perhaps moreso.

[1] Of which I am sadly a part of, so don't think I am an anti-science person, just anti-parts of this ridiculous industry.
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Well I imagine, if true, chimps aren't mysteriously gaining weight it would be related to their diet. Very likely they eat a fruit heavy diet, that's sugar. Unlikely are these wild fruits, but sugar laden industrial farmed fruits.

Now if you don't think there is a difference in fruit today versus the fruits of yesteryear just look at the fruit itself. The bananas you eat today are not the same type from 100 years ago which died out do to disease; look at a genetically modified seedless watermelon today vs the nearly hollow watermelons depicted in (fruit bowl) art even a couple hundred years ago; or even a high glycemic vegetable such as a carrot did you know the wild carrots weren't even orange but tiny little white roots looking nothing like the elongated thing you buy in the store today?

See the difference for yourself: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3428689/What-...
The worst (for my taste) is Mister Softee, common among New York ice cream trucks. It tastes like plastic foam and does not melt well. I'll prefer the cream-based five ingredients any day.
This is fair. My dad grew up in the Great Depression in farmland, and the Federal government stepping in is what prevented widespread starvation. And during the dust bowl, again the Federal government came in and taugh everyone better soil management techniques. And from that, most people in that time and place were Democrats and expected that the government helped fund and organize the things that needed to be done on a grand scale that individuals couldn't do, nor did insurance.

Reagan did a lot of damage to the perception of what government should do and how citizens need to hold it accountable. Instead he described it in terms of being inherently bad, which is demonstrably b.s. but the country pretty much bought it as evidenced by his election, the ensuing cut in taxes, the near total stop in investments made to large scale private and and public infrastructure spending, and a shift to hoarding wealth rather than keeping it moving so that everyone benefits from it.
I don't understand how nobody here can compromise. Build quiet spaces into your office floorplan and eat the cost up front. If you can't afford to provide a place to work quietly for those that want it you can't afford space in that office building. Or you can't afford that number of employees. It's getting ridiculous, If you're going to keep saying it's expensive take the cost from somewhere else, like payroll. Provide a great workspace for your employees and in return you'll get great work. Poor planning upfront is going to cost you so much more on the back end.
I was fortunate enough to do something like this as well. It started with leaving a bad life situation and moving westward across the US to Seattle with everything I owned in the back of a 95' Honda Accord. Then a few years later it became everything I important I own in one box sent to a friend to sit in a closet and the rest in a small suitcase and a duffle bag.

Both times were escapes to something better and the first time I had stressed greatly about "what am I going to do with all this stuff?". Actually getting rid of the stuff was a real relief, and now I wonder why I kept most of it and moved it so many times.
As someone who is far from knowledgeable about the field, I'm glad to hear it.
I would like to boast that I have clearly solved an intractable problem, since (as I said) I have tools that happily track this very thing. But the truth is that the idea that it is intractable is rubbish, rather than that I can achieve impossible things before breakfast. (-:

You've switched tack between "not such a big deal" and "can't be solved" in the space of two messages. Both of your extremes are wrong. The truth is that this is simply difficult and needs either improvements to compilers or, as in my case, add-on tools that replicate the compiler's pre-processing and emit both the redo-ifchange and the redo-ifcreate information.
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I get where you're coming from, but the increased effemination in men has been so pronounced in my own experience over the past 20 years I'm still chiming in on it.
>these shows have replaced community culture and personal belief systems.
This can be said of the whole internet in its current state as attention sinkhole.

And its highly misguided to think critical thinking abilities have anything to do with taking advantage of ppls weaknesses. Obama, the iPhone, Game of Thrones and Star Wars are using the same mechanics that the Kardashians or Trump are - if you want ppls attention rich/poor/illiterate/educated/religious whatever - you follow the same rule - given them what they want.
Landlords won't generally let you make structural/material changes to a floorplan without a longterm lease to justify it. However, you can make some pretty snazzy temporary office space that doesn't require permanent modifications to the space using privacy walls and glass partitions[1].

From a structural standpoint, they're basically fancy cubicles, and made by the same companies as standard cubicles. The most damaging thing they do to the structure is mount the tracks for the glass into the floor and ceiling. But that's usually considered normal wear and tear since it's easily fixable on move-out.

From an aesthetics perspective, they're effectively mini offices and can be done very well, making a space look nice and chic and making employees a lot happier. All with what amounts to some fancy cubicles.

[1]http://spaceplus.com/products/glass-office-partitions/
I grew up in a postsocialist country so I think I did experience a repair and retain society of scarcity at least in my childhood[1] and through strong cultural tradition later. But you know what? I just don't have room to repair and retain stuff. I have to throw things away when I buy new and better things. I'm cash rich and space poor. It is often cheaper to throw things away and buy again later. Or better still, rent stuff you don't need often.

[1] when I was a kid we'd go shopping in Italy or Austria because so many things/brands (clothes, toys, food, everything really) simply weren't available at home or were significantly cheaper across the border. We would also repair eeeverything for as long as we could and take extra care to treat things nicely so they wouldn't wear or break.
The relevant comparison is amongst all the wealthy nations (European, N. American, Asian & Australasian), not "USA" vs "Europe" (the various nations constituting the latter have highly divergent social policies).

There are many differences among these nations. Some are densely populated (the Netherlands), some sparse (Australia). No comparisons I've ever seen amongst them however remotely suggests that as you add more sophisticated social welfare policies, this reduces social cohesion. On the contrary, such policies tend to smooth out the effects of inevitable industrial change, rendering populations more resilient. It's no accident that nations clinging to relatively crude social policy (the US, the UK) have far lower economic mobility than those using the state of the art (Sweden, Germany). And it is about sophistication, not absolute expenditure, by the way. France, for example, has high spending, but it's badly targeted and rendered inflexible by traditional interests, so on many indicators other than health, it looks more like the laggards (US, UK) than leaders (Sweden, Denmark, Canada).
In support: I'd rather have no ice cream than anything with guaran. That stuff tastes like plastic and gives me an upset stomach.
I think both sides here have a point.

One argument: For many kinds of knowledge work, unnecessary unplanned distractions are a huge drain on productivity. Tapping someone on the shoulder is far more damaging than sending them a message they can reply to asynchronously, even if you're defining expected response time in minutes rather than hours. If there's something that really does require face-to-face time, great, plan a meeting.

Another argument: face-to-face communication is so much higher bandwidth than voice or text chat that it's worth prioritizing. Tapping someone on the shoulder and hashing something out over two minutes can save an hour of online back-and-forth.

Both of these are totally true! It's really about how an individual, and a team, work together best. To me, the frustration is that most modern team environments tend to implicitly choose the latter value system without it being a conscious choice.
I would qualify spending $20 per serve on steak as bourgeois, rather than comfortable, at least if you're making a habit of it.
That is true. I see it also on how my parents act with leftovers. If I have leftover food of certain things, I tend to throw it away and rather buy fresh. I am throwing it also sometimes away because I know for sure now that I won't eat it in the future.

On the other hand, my parents put away all leftovers and eventually also eat it. It is pretty similar with many other every-day things.

I just lived with my parents for a few weeks after living abroad for 5 years and noticed how they have kept so many things that I have seen when I was a child. I am not even talking about 1 or 2 things, but many (or most) things.
In part that could be because new generation can't hope to make money by owning their homes - rapid appreciation of homes was one-off thing and it hit their limit - homes aren't affordable for too many people now so they just can't appreciate more.

So, they don't want to own big homes, or at all. Smaller homes (probably condos) means less stuff.
Fruits haven't significantly increased in size or sugar content since the 70s though. And it doesn't explain the increase in weight for other animals that don't eat fruit, e.g. dogs.

EDIT: And this article is terrible. E.g. the painting of the watermelon is just a regular watermelon just like those grown today: http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07... That's just what it looks like when it grows without enough water. Most of those examples are things that happened centuries ago.
You don't like licking the liquid as it melts off and starts dropping down the side? Or putting your lips on the top and sucking the dessert as it melts?

I don't think that you can say that melting is objectively better, but I think it's an intrinsic property of the food.
Exponential growth won't last forever. Pretty much everything that looks exponential is actually logistic. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
So the fund is managed in the Caymen Islands?
Discovery: Blaring music of any kind, including my preferred genres, is unpleasant when trying to watch a demo.
was wondering the same thing. Not from some complex, hormonal thing, but more like men are possibly masturbating a lot more with porn's technological progress. Are the studies controlled for sex/masturbation frequency? ...whoops, I guess the study did account for it.
>That heavily downvoted post in Russian

Was spam. He is referring to the parent post, plainly stating that your team has agency ties.

>Again you ignore that we're a for-profit company

Again, you don't suggest how you turn profit, when you take no fees or run any infrastructure.

>I also use Tails and am working on making OB work on it. So what?

If you have to ask, you're either being deliberately obtuse or missing the point: Tails = Tor = hidden services = drug markets; which you seem to be developing

>You're not my boss. I can talk where I want how I want.

Not if you're as low level as you say you are, or you may be out of a job very soon; you aren't painting a very good picture of your company. On that note, if you aren't at a high level, you may not have all the info, and are unqualified to have this discussion.

>Ask me anything and I will respond here publicly.

Yes, with shifty answers. QED.

Etc.

Not the GP, but you have definitely damaged my opinion of OB far more than /u/sillysaurus3 has, and I think someone needed to call you out before you hurt yourself.
My grandparents entered the antique business in their retirement. They did well for themselves and passed away in the same year, about 5 years ago. My family is faced with just forgetting about all the energy they have spent trying to get money for the items. Of course, a few things had surprisingly high value but 99% was more trouble than $.

My grandfather was a uranium physicist for the Atomic Energy Commission and I grabbed as much related memorabilia as I could. They are currently stored in a secure barn attic but I want to get them out. But, actually do want to test them for radioactivity lol. Anybody know about this?
code challenge as application? Where do you find things like that?
I think that was quite long ago. Yes, `SCons` can fit into a single file if you so choose. But its behavior under recursive builds (with nested directory structure) is far more predictable than most build systems I have seen.
Its easier to independently change the workspace running on a secondary monitor than it is to rearrange individual applications.
1. Huge majority of stuff I used to have in 'volume' is now digital - Books, DVDs, CDs, records of certification, documents in general.

2. Technology stuff I had is far smaller (think transition from CRT to LCD screens).

3. I cant afford anywhere NEAR the size property that my parents would have so the number of actual furniture items I can own is already significantly reduced, and this in turn includes available storage space.
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It's the poorer countries with low GDPs per capita that have thin public safety nets, and where strong marriage and family ties are a must, economically speaking.

This used to be true, but over the last 15 to 20 years the rest of the world has gotten a lot richer, and safety net programs have become much more broadly available.

It's hard to compare of course, but https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/ gives some guidance.
Charity and the free market are not antiethical to each other. Charity is part of the free market.

Also, you're arguing that you know better how to spend money than others. Probably about 90% of people feel that way about it, too, and they all have different ideas than you.
I did check. And it's not at all clear from FDroid that Klar and Focus are the same thing (and reading the other comments here.. it sounds like maybe there is some difference?)

I almost only use FDroid, but it can be sometimes of a pain. Like not even having Firefox and VLC is kinda bananas
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Sure. Sorry for the late response! It is basically maintained by a reputable source (android police) and they also seem to take security seriously. If they cannot verify the origin of an APK for sure, they rather reject it.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/19/meet-apk-mirror/

https://www.apkmirror.com/faq/#What_measures_do_you_take_to_...
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Eh, I don't know about that (at least on time frames of a typical human lifespan).

For long term things, maybe. Do you have any good reads on that relationship?
Homes are definitely still appreciating - probably more so in the last decade than any time before. The problem is that they've increased to a point where most can no longer afford to enter the market. Someone, somewhere is capturing that wealth, though.
I guess it's NPM. It's a different entity.
> But, actually do want to test them for radioactivity lol. Anybody know about this?

Perhaps buy a radiation tester? https://smile.amazon.com/GQ-GMC-300E-Plus-Radiation-dosimete...