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How does people defending themselves from outing or unauthorized publication of their sex tapes have a chilling effect on journalism?

I would have thought it has a chilling effect on outing people and unauthorized publishing of sex tapes.
Do plans like this ever take family and children into account though. As a single person it's all very well saving half your income if you are reasonably well paid. But if you have children I just don't think that's practical.

I saved a fair bit before kids. Then me and my partner made the decision that we wanted one of us at home to bring up the kids, and not have them raised by daycare workers. So now we have one income, and more expenses than before. I'm reasonably well paid, drive older small cars, don't have any particularly expensive hobbies or holidays. I still save, and contribute to a private pension, but the idea of saving 50% of my income is unachievable.

Now that's fine if you don't want kids, but I often think these lifestyle philosophies promote themselves as fantastic and obvious, and why doesn't everyone do it. But forget to balance them with the hidden sacrifices you have to make that they never seem to mention.
Yeah sure, piss of you fake account of kataras. The evidence is linked here.
Worth noting here that he haven't had anything to do with Copenhagen Suborbitals for a few years, as he split away to do his own thing (RML Spacelab).
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> Not just in America. I don't have any saving at all, and a lot of people around me neither, and I'm in France.

The situation is fundamentally different though.

Unlike what happens in America, in France you are already paying the pensions of currently retired people. Which means you aren't supposed to save yourself, as future workers will (in theory) pay for your pension once you retire.

In practice, we know that it might not happen this way, which is why you might want to have savings, of course. But the current system means saving for your own retirement ends up representing twice what an American would need to save, since you have to 1. fund current pensioners 2. fund your own future pension. Americans only have to take point 2 into account.

In theory, according to the French system's design, not having any retirement savings is completely fine and is even the intended situation. Transitioning from our general contribution system to a personal savings system might be good in our period of stagnating population growth, but the transition itself is hard precisely because it means one generation will have to both contribute for others and save for itself. And it looks like it might be going to be ours. But it's a very different situation from what happens in the US where people just can't save, but they have no other way of getting a pension anyway.
some engineer at google must have loved doing this.
Thanks for your input. This is the sort of response I want which is a well rounded one. I want to hear about the failures as much as the successes ;)

For reference, I am plugging a fair amount of cash into a savings account when I come across it and avoiding unnecessary luxuries. That in itself has netted me a fair amount of cash and flexibility. Not spending it is better than saving it.

I'll read further into the investment side of things. I really want to get 50% of my cash reserve into something with a better return at the moment.

Currently I am taking 1-5% of that and netting £300/month profit which totals about a 11% a year rate but the effort is quite large for this.
That's my strategy.

I invest in 1000+ Euro batches in ETFs. By now I covered half of the world or more.

Nonetheless it is a bit frustrating to see ETFs bouncing up and down - everytime Mr Trump says something stupid you can expect the MSCI World to drop and with it everything else, too.

Even a globally diversified ETF seems to be indirectly highly US centric. The DJ drops - then also ETFs focusing on Asian EMs drop. It's a bit ridiculous.

And sometimes I am sceptical if the average market growth of up to 10% per year can be expected for the future.
I'd like to do this, but 2 things are keeping me with gmail. The first is their spam filter. I find it works pretty damn well. I don't think a self-hosted solution would beat it.

But for me, the really killer solution is their 'important mail' filter. I'd love to find an alternative to gmail with a similarly well-functioning system.
Yes.

Basically I can't see Madsen straight up stabbing her with the clear intention of murdering her. Unless he is crazy or did something else before that, like rape her.

The mutilating part is just what throws me off. If he didn't kill her intentionally, how could he go that far? I can see him dumping her body in fear or shock or whatever, but he took his sweet time on the body before doing that.
The alternate system I described doesn't involve "allowing trades" and therefore can't create perverse incentives or affect subsequent rounds.

The idea is to make an algorithm that performs a Pareto-optimal assignment algorithmically, so that no possible mutually advantageous trades exist when it is done. It's totally possible for an algorithm to do that, and the current Dutch one clearly doesn't.

One possible way is to run the current algorithm, and then as long as the solution is not Pareto-optimal, perform a swap at random from the set of all pairs of students where swapping would improve both of their preferences. This can be proven to converge with sufficient steps. Doing this kind of swap algorithmically has nothing to do with "allowing trades". I'm calling them "swaps" instead of "trades" here to make clear there is no manual action involved on the part of the students.

I hope this clarifies what I meant, and why objecting to "allowing trades" does not make sense as a response.
Typography people generally agree that lines that are too long are harder to read and recommend fairly short lines, less than 15 words. They have a number of studies backing them up. Maybe you're an outlier.
Jog people. Seriously jog. To work, to the store... Smoothly, avoiding heel stomping (youll have calves in 3 days), to avoid joint pressure, especially at first. (my knees are still fucked up, but even then, I barely feel pain after 4 miles jog when I amort the landing properly).

2 miles per day will change your life. I now miss when I can't, I sleep better, I wake up better. It's a huge stress reliever, resets your mind, burns fat, opens your lungs, makes you hungry for healthier food (less pastry, more veggies and meat). bonus point: you get a tan

I couldn't "move" for three years and I notice the difference now that I can.

See you in 2 miles.
Looking at her article history in The Guardian, it doesn't seem likely at all: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/kim-wall
Sounds like something the mafia would say!
> I don't believe that 100+ a batch is the same YC as what started a decade ago. YC is now a factor, not a family.

You are not wrong.

The batches are of noticeably lower quality. I wont name names out of respect for the founders obviously, but you certainly have to wonder if some have been chosen solely based on their touting the latest cool tech buzzword in their application. My opinion also is that YC has moved from its earlier mandate of discovering talent to funding companies that the partners consider 'promising', where 'promising' == 'safe bet'. A lot of talented founders do not have the resources to build a company that has gained traction by the time they apply; heck a lot of talented founders not even have a viable company/idea at the time of first contact.

YC now funds companies that in another era would be considered stable, non risky investments. Could AirBnB, Reddit, Segment and DropBox (companies founded by wild youngsters with only an idea,in the case of Segment and Reddit founders a bad initial idea, and no market presence) be funded by YC today ? I'd bet not. Why? Because YC now places safe bets. You know which other institution plays it safe when giving out money ? Banks. The partners were on to something when they announced YC fellowship in 2015, it would have been a way to return to their roots and explore anew the lost idea of seeking out and funding talent, but sadly they shut it down. YC has grown big and successful and perhaps is itself ripe for disruption.
Same here in the Netherlands. Everyone has to pay into a pension fund (entrepeneurs and some fields excluded).

In total, the Dutch pension system now has almost 2 trillion USD saved up and invested for 17 million people.

This was implemented to prevent the dystopia that the article predicts: people who save money having to pay for people who didn't.
The downside is that if you don't keep buying the new systems even though the old ones work perfectly fine, eventually your device will get too old and you will be categorised as a legacy customer. When that happens, your shit will stop working.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/4/11362928/google-nest-revol...

That's the future. The dude with the 80's hifi setup knows what's up, in my opinion.
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I'm talking about contributions because I want to make an easy distinction between public and private property. Everyone should have a right to do whatever they want on their own property as long as they don't break the non-aggression principle.
I think you and the OP have a clash of definition and are looking at different models of socialism.

You look at the socialism how it was conducted in the USSR and Eastern Europe where OP is probably looking at Western Europe.

Socialism isn't well defined and ranges from far left to Democratic socialism. Discussions with an American POV often neglect to acknowledge that in Europe lots of governments in Europe have socialist parties in them.
The average American has a weaker social network than people from other countries. Americans are also highly focused on consumption and status symbols - more than people from Russia or China.
Figures 12 and 14 are the same but I think the figure used is only supposed to be like that for figure 14, not for figure 12.

The "two-bit" scheme that fig 12 is for does not have branch history, whereas "two-level adaptive, global" which has fig 14 fits the bill.
The biggest issue I see with Common Lisp is that the standard is stuck in time, lacking stuff like database providers, a common FFI or threading.

It needs a review of the CL environments that survived to modern days and adopt the common extensions.
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LEDs and photovoltaics are both PN junctions. I wonder why they don't mention making better photovoltaics, or why their landscape function can't be used to improve photovoltaics.
Here's a pertinent current example:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/07/jim_de...

> Most of that time was spent, post–Hulk Hogan and Gawker, finding a media outlet that was willing to run it.
Suggesting short term trading to someone without any experience or proper investment thesis is ill advised.
> (good population age distribution, the classic "pyramid")

I would say that this is part of the problem: relying on something that is basically a ponzi scheme. Of course the European social systems work if you can constantly increase your population. But this doesn't work in the real life - the area of the country doesn't increase, therefore you can't increase your population infinitely. The reason young folks nowadays don't have 3 kids is that it's just not economically feasible any more. Add the fact that the top of the pyramid is getting wider every year (life expectancy is increasing) and here we are. The system was flawed since the beginning and now we are hitting the limits.
"But __our_ai_project_here__ ran into trouble, said the five people familiar with it, dogged by its size and by the lack of a clearly defined vision of what __our_company_here__ wanted in a __our_ai_product_here__. Team members complained of shifting priorities and arbitrary or unrealistic deadlines."
So, now we know why the sub was sunk. I'm curious what implausible rabbit of an explanation Madsen will pull out of his hat to explain this away, and I hope that instead he will now simply confess to what actually happened. What an idiot. Poor family and spouse.
Why not cycling instead? Seems easier on the joints and muscles
Transportation is becoming a service rather than a product. There is no room for a Veblen good in a market of non-owners.
How do you propose we save for the future then? Gold? Bottle caps?
I would say they probably do.

I think the OP's point is that those that save often spend or debt-finance a lot of things like phones & cars.

I feel slightly jaded when I see people with $1k phones who clearly can't afford it, when I'm rocking an iPhone 5. Probably not a healthy psychological state and I feel a bit like a "financial puritan" at times, but it irks me for some reason.

I understand debt and having access to capital is useful in a lot of ways (expansion, plant & asset purchase etc), but I feel like being able to buy a rapidly depreciating asset on credit, at extortionate rates, that provides no additional utility to capture value (a $200 and $1k phone have similar utility) is a bit of a ridiculous scenario.
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Know a Googler who makes $350k/yr. Lives in San Jose, CA and no kids. Says he can't figure out how to save because his "modest" expenses are too high; thus, he needs a higher salary. Borderline absurdity.
Depends how history plays out in the future. If people who save end up paying for people who didn't, it implies one of three things: 1) financial panic 2) inflation or 3) taxation.

All of these are fairly likely, but looking back at history, there are a number of other possible futures that would take care of the problem. Mass plague, where all the old people die off. Mandatory euthanasia, where the government kills all the old people. War or anarchy, where both young and old die indiscriminately. Colonizing other planets, which opens up vast new resources. Mass automation of health & elder care, so the robots pay for the people who don't save.

The depressing thing is that most of these are pretty horrible, and the two that aren't - automation and spaceflight - are probably the least likely. But then, history is filled with black swan events that open up human frontiers that nobody could've imagined. Maybe one of them will save us.
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You could invest that $10k and the profit would yield infinite trucks.
>Nonetheless it is a bit frustrating to see ETFs bouncing up and down - everytime Mr Trump says something stupid you can expect the MSCI World to drop and with it everything else, too.

That is all part of it though. You shouldn't look at 1, 2 or 5 year yields. Look at 50 year yields. It will go up on average over all those years. Including crises like 2008.

You only die on a rollercoaster if you get off in the middle.
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There would also be an increase in institutional spending, which would offset at least some of the deflationary pressure.
I'm French, I use the definition of socialism other French thinkers have such as Tocqueville, Jean-Baptiste Say or Bastiat. This definition includes all the kinds of socialism you described and as these thinkers say they are all bad and since the 20th century we also know they are criminal the more they are enforced.
Indeed, that might have been better. The thing was that many arguments ideas I took issue with were repeated by different people and I didn't want to spam all those comment threads.

My reasoning is that people might search for my comment (I sometimes do when others post), but by the time I wrote the it the first comment page was full and it ended up on the second one.
As I said in my post, it's certainly not good advice.

"There will be lots of people advising you against this, and that's absolutely correct."

It's merely a personal tale of what works for me. I'm not a financial advisor, and I am not here to teach nor preach.
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I'd like to be able to sit much of the time but have frequent short periods of standing. But even adjustable standing desks don't really facilitate that well, and most of the adjustable standing desks I've seen are _worse_ sitting desks than a standard one.

My solution it to sit but every 45 minutes go for a 1 minute walk around the office. I'm not sure it's very effective but can't hurt too much
Right, and I think it's the obvious way to approach autonomous vehicles. With the correct infrastructure investment, self-driving vehicles would be vastly simpler and more reliable.

The problem is who pays for it, and who authorizes its installation. It's really something that has to be done at the governmental level. And I don't think there's any will to pay for it.

There are other issues of course. One is that in an Urban environment transportation issues would be better served by good public transport than self-driving vehicles.

The other is that I think once the government get involved, the numerous sociological issues associated with self-driving cars (which I personally think are more significant than the technical issues) would become apparent.
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> how much do we care much about a division per row of pixels?

EDIT: I just realised I'm not actually answering your pixels question, but a more generalised question of "when would we want to use this integer arithmetic method instead of floating point multiplication and division?"

As much as the rounding error of repeated addition matters - especially with cumulative addition. The comment by white-flame only regards this from the point of view of pixels, but there are many other applications where Bresenham's algorithm is the best solution. As described on Roman Black's website from 2001:

> Bresenham's Algorithm is a system where 2 imperfect periods can be alternated to produce an average that matches any "perfect" period.

https://www.romanblack.com/one_sec.htm

I probably don't have to convince you that this can still be a serious issue in embedded systems. The most obvious use-case would be long-running code where cumulative errors add up. A famous example of this going horribly wrong is the Patriot Missile disaster:

> It turns out that the cause was an inaccurate calculation of the time since boot due to computer arithmetic errors. Specifically, the time in tenths of second as measured by the system's internal clock was multiplied by 1/10 to produce the time in seconds. This calculation was performed using a 24 bit fixed point register. In particular, the value 1/10, which has a non-terminating binary expansion, was chopped at 24 bits after the radix point. The small chopping error, when multiplied by the large number giving the time in tenths of a second, led to a significant error. Indeed, the Patriot battery had been up around 100 hours, and an easy calculation shows that the resulting time error due to the magnified chopping error was about 0.34 seconds.

http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html

Bresenham's Algorithm avoids this rounding error altogether (but it only works as long as you have a fixed numerator/denominator ratio - or if you really push it one denominator and a set of numerators).

EDIT2: Also, this does not just apply to repeat addition: calculating xp/k from scratch whenever x changes doesn't always work either. You can still get significan rounding errors if the intermediate calculation of xp is such a large number that it barely fits in a floating point.
apparently weight lifting is bad for you: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060915204024.h...
1. He doesn't speak for Apple so can't confirm anything. 2. "I think". 3. '"Shelved"' is an accurate word..'
Not sure where they're from but it may be a language thing.

For example in Germany "Mord" ("murder") always requires intent. Unintentional killing is called "Totschlag" (manslaughter), if it was an accident it would be called "fahrlässige Tötung" (reckless killing).

US law seems to make similar distinctions but groups all of them as "murder": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law)

So I'm guessing the strong implication of intent present in e.g. German "Mord" is not present in the English word for most native speakers?
> Warren Buffett lives in a modest house that's worth 0.001% of his total wealth

Haha. Not very practical for most people. If you take "total wealth" to be assets - debts, my house is worth about 400% of my total wealth.
Lowest risk would be inflection protected government bonds.
What is it with Madsen that gets people to come up with conspiracy theories about the woman involved?

Really, this is getting annoying. Just the other day someone came up with the absolutely brilliant theory that she must have been stealing submarine secrets for the Chinese or something to that effect and now this.

Did you notice that (1) he lied about having dropped her off, (2) he sank his sub on purpose claiming it was accidental and (3) he said she died in an accident and (4) he claimed he buried her at sea?

So far only (4) seems to be somewhat truthful, he forgot to mention he butchered her first.
Yes, but what search engine to you think they will use? I would expect Google.
was kinda hoping he'd burst into flames...
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> Beside I find it very peculiar that my parents could live the life my friends live, yet could afford children, have saving and now have a retirement.

I understand you know that yourself, but the past is the past - my grand parents were suffering through wars.
Are there any reports showing what happens when all the traffic lights in a city stop working? I would guess it would be similarly chaotic.

The infrastructure would need to be designed such that large scale outages are unlikely I guess.
As I understand it, it was 20% (2 out of 10) vote for removal, 20% (2 out of 10) abstained and 60% (6 out of 10) voted against removal, which is a little less bad.
Just out of curiosity, what's preventing the US from implementing changes to Social Security that are sustainable? I read up on this for Norway a few months ago, and was actually pleasantly surprised at the thought that's gone into the sytem.

Norway's public pension system is now funded by every employee having 8% of their salary taxed away and earmarked to retirement. The money is placed in a broad stock and bond fund. In retirement, the earmarked amount of money for each employee is paid out in a monthly amount that matches the life expectancy of the retiree.

E.g. if the employee has paid $150.000 to the system over a lifetime of work, retires at 65 and the life expectancy for this age cohort is 10 years, the annual payment will be $15.000. The state covers for retirees that live longer, keep the money for retires that live shorter and provide a guaranteed minimum for people who reach 67 without saving up a minimum amount. To offset this, the possible monthly payment is capped with a maximum for high earners. There is also some inflation adjustment built in.

In effect, this provides a living wage for all retirees, with additional private savings required if you want to maintain a higher standard of living. The system is self-contained and is not based on younger workers paying the pensions of older workers.