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Generally speaking, as a whole they're not militant enough in their opposition to consumer debt, and there isn't enough of an emphasis on frugality.

You'll find highly upvoted submissions there encouraging people to go into debt for a vehicle, for example. They'll justify it saying the interest rate is 3% which is less than the average return of the S&P 500. The problem with that argument is that the financing was also used as a justification to buy a more expensive vehicle, which is a rapidly depreciating asset.

Vehicles are a massive drain on wealth. They're a cost center to be minimized as much as possible, but in that subreddit they're treated like a game where you do numbers on financing to get into the nicest car you can. That isn't personal finance, it's financial debauchery.

Some examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/521p56/bes...

^ 13.8k net upvotes encouraging people to take on 3 years of auto loan debt. Brilliant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/63eukr/pay...

^ Here the subreddit encourages a couple who doesn't even have enough for a down payment on a house, to go into debt and make minimum payments on an 18k car. Brilliant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6wkiv6/how...

^ Here the subreddit basically reveals that almost everyone in that subreddit is in auto loan debt, feels good about being in auto loan debt, and they all pat each other on the back and encourage each other to keep being in auto loan debt.

Cars depreciate in value by about 20% annually. It's on average the worst-performing financial asset that people own. To go into debt so you can get as much of your wealth into the -20%/yr asset is just about the stupidest thing I can imagine. It's right up there with payday loans on the stupid scale.

So that's one example.

What the subreddit does with credit cards is spend a lot of time arguing and doing math over cash back percentages and point rewards systems. If you spend $1000/month on credit cards, the difference between 1% rewards and 2% rewards is $10/month. It doesn't fucking matter.

What actually matters about credit cards is that people have a strong tendency to overspend when they use credit cards. They also have a strong tendency to incur annual fees and interest and penalties. If you're disciplined enough to use credit cards without letting them effect your spending and without ever incurring any fees or carrying a balance, then go ahead and use one if you want. If you can't, then cut them up and use cash or a debit card. The rewards points don't matter and neither does the interest rate.
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Ok, fair enough, I was lazy in my Googling. But the point stands. Money yielding 0% and wasting away due to inflation is a straw man.
i think it is just that we are witnessing how the national media moves into a story and then after the audience grows tired of it, they move on. we are particularly aware of this happening, because the "national discussion" has moved into talking about tech right now. in time, the conversation will shift onto something else.
C# has both unsafe blocks and unsafe methods. The behaviour is the same as in Rust. (Unsafe function can be called only from unsafe scope and safe functions can contain unsafe blocks)
These articles ignore people’s real alternatives. I’m in my 30s and have a small child. While I love to fly into Chicago or New York for a night of drinking with my still-single friends, that’s not really something I get to do more than once every couple of months. Seeing my wife’s extended family (3,000 miles away in the west coast) is a once every year thing, and seeing my extended family (7,000 miles away in Asia) is maybe a once a decade thing. But Facebook lets me see the woodworking project my Chicago friend is working on, the delicious things my father in law is making for the holidays, and at least know what my cousins’ kids look like these days. Far from being junk food, Facebook lets me maintain the most basic and important human relationships.

What did people in my situation do before Facebook? My parents, like most baby boomers I suspect, weren’t going out in the evenings to see friends in person. They’d sit down in front of the TV after work. Their social lives were narrow, focused heavily on home life and the kids. That’s what Facebook is replacing, and it’s a huge improvement.
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That's fair, but while my 19 year old younger brother has heard of Bitcoin and not Ethereum, the same is not true for developers. I think there is some information asymmetry and a discrepancy in the quality of the users between networks - by quality I mean how likely users are to contribute to new software to make it better, the level of what is essentially corruption/bureaucracy in making changes to the platform, etc.

Facebook and Snap did well because they were "cooler" than their predecessors, and they had different/more uses. I think that's analogous to where I see the future of crypto
I suspect this is how most "blockchain" projects will end up in 5 years; no utility from the fact that it's a blockchain and practically just a database.
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I agree that FB can be a big time sink. Every time I consider removing FB from my phone, I realize how much I learn about marketing on FB from the ads I see and the groups to which I belong.

If your job involves online marketing, being on Facebook is almost like research for one's job. And without maintaining a connection to this world, it's easy to lose touch with what other marketers are doing and rely on blog articles -- which are, oftentimes, out of date and common knowledge by the time one comes across them organically.
I know many people personally who have done this
That depends on how cheap space flight is in the future

Your argument works better to support the statement, "That depends on how cheap space manufacturing is in the future." We can fairly easily procure massive amounts of aluminum and silicon on the Moon. If we can invent industrial processes and perfect tele-operation, then we could create massive solar farms on the Moon. However, it might be even better to launch the material from the lunar surface with electromagnetic drivers and construct the solar farms in orbits, where they would receive sunlight 100% of the time.

Japan's space agency has already conducted tele-operation tests in conditions of massive lag. It turns out that highly motivated people can tele-operate manipulators even with 1 second of lag. This puts the Moon within reach of such tele-operation.
Your GBP is not made valuable by 'the military'.

It's made valuable by the credibility of numerous UK institutions and the social contract inherent in the every day trust that people have in it as a currency.

That said - it's a currency, not really a store of value.

And FYI - your GBP holdings are definitely generally worth more than you BTC, mostly because of the inherent volatility of BTC and the fact that it could go to 0 tomorrow. BTC owns the high end of the probabilistic outcomes - but also the low end. You won't get rich owning GBP, but they won't go to zero or near zero either. And if you live in an are where GBPs are useful, like the UK, well there is that added value.
I'd agree with you that a legal system driven by the individual wealth of the parties involved is corrosive to modern society. I don't see how you can claim that Thiel's actions are, barring some internal bias against him or wealth people as a whole.

Outing Thiel as gay is legal. Thiel funding Hogan is legal. The only party here who fucked up is Gawker by flagrantly skirting the law.
first of all, i think you made it over complicated. just gh-pages and cloudflare would work very well. you might need raw storage for your images and stuff use something like imgur.

increase those:
- number of external links in your website
- number of links to your website from external resources
make them available in your public profile, fb, twitter, linkedin, github etc.

make your site multi paged somehow. so it will seen as resourceful (eg. you can make intro in the main page but add pages that explains how you did in some project and link them with first page)

include links of websites of companies you worked for

for fonts use googlefonts or some cdn, use same stuff for external resources this will have your site linked with billion visitor domains

have proper mobile version
have https properly configured with hsts
^ these are important, use page speed insights to increase those

btw i didnt do anything much but when searched my domain comes in #3rd place, first 2 are linkedin and github. name is "mert akengin" domain is n0pe.me for reference.
Yes, agreed. But what I'm saying is that, I don't believe the average teenager uses social media in a "healthy" nor "educational" type of way.
What sort of QP problems are you hoping to solve using OSQP? When I tried OSQP on stock LP problems (i.e. the P = 0 special case; instances were afiro, adlittle, fit1p, dfl001, maros-r7, wood1p), I didn't get encouraging results. Apart from afiro, I got a lot of pretty wrong answers after relatively long periods of computation.
Thanks for the patient explanation. I should have read your original comment more carefully.

One could argue that capping effectively exists in many US regions due to the limited competition in the US broadband market. So one outcome might be that current home users will see little or no change but ISPs will sell value-added uncapped video, etc. As far as I can tell the line capacity already exists in many locations.

On the whole it would be vastly better for consumers to introduce more local competition.
Please don't put words in my mouth. It said nothing of the sort.

The message is this: What so often (read: too often) masquerades as meaningful and of substance - in the grand scheme of things - really isn't. It creates a self-serving blind-spot. And thus reactions such as yours.
That sounds pretty scary, oceanghost. It sounds like you haven't actually confirmed yet what you come to know through your practice of meditation and how you are changed by it.

There is a huge, polar gap between the process and results of the meditation taught in modern spiritual practices (such as Zen Buddhism) and what Gautama Buddha taught to his students.
It would cook whatever ecosystem is there. Better to just dig a man made cave somewhere else.
Someone should write a book like, say, "Bitcoin 36,000".
So what is useful in your life?
Which Australian right wing government are you referring to? Australian telecoms ran off the rails in the late 90s, the moment that the Howard government privatised the state-run phone network. They either stuffed it up (thinking charitably), or pulled a dodgy related party transaction to rip off the public and enrich their mates in business who were kind enough to donate back part of the loot (thinking cynically).

There were no good options after that. In hindsight, the least bad choice was to nationalise the network again, think a lot harder about competition and monopoly issues, and maybe have another go at privatisation some years down the track. But no one had the guts to do that.
100% agreed. I see what the Phoenix team was trying to accomplish, but I don't think it will pan out in projects how they expect. It reminds me a lot of fat model and skinny controller when that was popular.

I think the underlying issue I have with contexts is that it's forcing us to predict the future. We have always had to predict/plan but I think contexts push it a bit further that we can reliably predict/plan. This is especially true for new apps which tend to change rapidly.

Like I said before I think it's a great pattern to extract existing code into but it's feels too heavy to start with.
Funny, I was working on a research paper for this Ethics class talking about organized crime, and how they made movements into cybercrime (credit card, ID theft, etc). What popped up in my head last week was with the whole USDT/Tether Tokens, there has to be a good chunk of cash getting into these networks that is dirty. Cycling around in the various networks will get easier with Atomic Swaps / SEGWIT...

Far fetched idea is that these networks were designed for this type of washing. Clean and Dirty money enters in, someones bound to walk at some point.
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It's been grandfathered. If alcohol was discovered today it would be illegal.
Note that Microsoft Azure was a launch partner this month for the Certified Kubernetes conformance program, which is explicitly designed to reduce the chance of forking and lock-in by defining the standard Kubernetes APIs that all platforms and distributions must support.

https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/

(Disclosure: I'm executive director of CNCF and helped lead the conformance efforts.)
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The FCC chairman appears to be listening only to corporate lobbyists. I consider this to be a dereliction of duty, but of course Trump thinks otherwise. As long as Trump is in power, the rules are going to keep changing in favor of corporate interests. Those of us who oppose the new regime at the FCC need to start thinking about what economic tools we can use to discourage telecoms from taking advantage of FCC rule changes that we think will harm internet freedom and the common good.
But what about the other way around? Would it be possible to get a C compiler written in Lisp in ~200 lines as well? I mean, not a linker and macro processor etc, just the compiler to get objects.
For those confused about the relevance of fegu's comment. That acronym was popularized by Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", which includes kinetic bombardment of Earth by lunar inhabitants as a plot point.

Your comment was opaque, but was the first thing I thought of too
If that’s what it takes to update it, so be it. I think greater internet connectivity to rural areas would solve a lot of metro-area congestion and be an economic activity multiplier.
Yes, intermittent fasting is said to be quite good for organisms. Maybe a form of hormesis. I'm unfortunately not in a position to comment much on caffeine's health effects aside from various interesting and likely true points of speculation but I find what you shared interesting and do not doubt for a second that medical science (including nutrition, and immunity) is not properly understood except by a rare handful who have the ability to see things whole.
The past 3 months, there hasn't been a single day on HN without a post attacking FB specifically or social media in general by news organizations or other "journalists/writers". Not only that, we get the same generic "I deleted facebook and I feel great" comments.

Certainly this isn't the work of the russian trolls. Then who or what is behind the constant "I hate social media" spam.
Gradients are sometimes translated strangely--I used illustrator to cover some .eps graphics to svg that were given to me by some company and the gradients got funky.
Which is to be read "the price of the Master is incorporated into the amortised price per unit time of the agent nodes". Microsoft is not giving you something for nothing here.
Well the IO is ultimately handled/sandboxed by the browser not by JavaScript so as far as security is concerned JavaScript and WASM should have the same access to IO/Web APIs. I think the attack surface you are talking about is really a implementation detail and browsers could use a common middleware that both JavaScript and WASM can use.

In a distant future I would see JavaScript actually compiled to WASM(maybe the browser would pipe it directly into a WASM compiler before to execute it) to reduce the maintenance costs and perhaps also the attack surface you are talking about.

The whole point of WASM was to cut off the middle man (i.e. JavaScript) so that we can reach native-like performance. WASM should be the ultimate dominator not JavaScript.

>> It's for the community to make nice libraries that expose the browser features to WebAssembly land in JavaScript. It's also the right place to deal with cross browser differences.

I believe the community could make nice libraries compiled to WASM that anyone can use regardless of the programming language. JavaScript would be just another language(albeit a popular one, at least due legacy reasons).
Haha, this is even more baffling! How did you know that?

PS: Might it have come from a botched attempt to hash the current date?
Rust is not super worried about purity. That said, Rust is also more pure-ish than not; the large control over mutability and sharing helps. Controlling allocations is also generally easy, as there's no special things that are doing allocation behind your back. Arenas/memory pools are well supported too.

> better than other languages compiling to WebAssembly?

The best supported languages for this are C, C++, and Rust. So that's really the comparison here, IMO.
Concur. I had a decent business selling software dev tools, gave up in the late 90s. The market shrunk, and today it is extremely limited. Even very profitable companies developing embedded systems (which used to be a goldmine, e.g. medical devices) prefer to use open source.
Came here to say the same thing! Link: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
Did you test miosqp against standard MIQPs? For example, in QPLIB, there is a handful of convex mixed-integer QPs.
My dad's doctor and not mine. Keep in mind this was antidotale from my dad. I'm sure the conversation was longer but that is how he (my dad) represented it.
Illegal drugs are banned, but anyone who wants them can still get them. The point is, what the government wants and what society wants don't need to be synced.

Your argument has been said when Bitcoin was $1, $10, $100, $100, $10,000. You will keep saying it at $100,000. And no one cares - the only way you can be proven right is if / when BTC goes to $0. And if it never does, you can keep saying the same old arguments, waiting patiently forever until it happens.
It’s extremely productive if you include the resources we are able to patriate into the private sector after the wars.
Mind linking me that article about dumping Go for Node.js? I'd love to hear the reasoning behind that!
The difference between the two isn't important (there is no objective difference between saying either). The fact that someone is asking the question is what's important.

And then the real question IMO becomes what are useful questions to ask, rather than what is the answer.
Didn't know you could be a citizen of detroit...

Why not just say detroiters?
Is gold a good comparison though? Gold has value beyond fiat in manufacturing. If Bitcoin cannot provide value for exchange then why would it be a better store of value?
Maybe separate subsystems in the mind had to evolve to follow the same leader ("I") as obediently as possible because pausing to debate with other subsystems at some critical moment instead of running meant that a predator had time to kill you. The unification of subsystems from this pressure would tighten over time, maybe to the point where a subsystem challenging the primary conscious agent would be perceived as mutiny by the other subsystems and they would try to bully it back into submission by producing anxiety. I wonder if a subsystem successfully powering through the protest and claiming the throne of "I" is what happens when people snap.
Sure, I'll raise my first to the sky and yell "Damn Cars!".

This worked pretty well for the past 3 years I've been commuting there, and never has been an issue. Local Business in Playa / Marina took a hit. I went to some of the townhalls that were held, and besides the carted-in cyclists (that probably were driven in by a car (OH GOSH!), as none of them lived remotely close to the South Bay), the general populous was pretty active about getting back our 2 lane street.

Edit:
The main grief for me, was the shady reason they slimmed the road down. It was cited, that a young woman died in a car accident on this road 8 years ago. Yes, that is true. Sadly, the council-member in charge of this road died, failed to mention that she was heavily intoxicated & running across the street, when there was a crossing 300ft down the road.
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I don't care what the price is, take a look at those price swings: https://i.imgur.com/pR15IgV.png Data: https://charts.bitcoin.com/chart/price
Media sources designed to target confirmation biases, echo chambers, and viral fake news are a negative influence in all politics.

Why do you think they mean only negative towards their side?
This is exactly what I want to talk about.
To be fair to MS here, the agent price is the same as the stand-alone VM pricing, so there really does not appear to be a premium/hidden cost here.
According to a summary I read a while back, Ripple the company has a fair chance of success, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea for you to bet on the appreciation of XRP. IIRC the company keeps far more of it than they've put on the market. I haven't looked into this myself.
I don't know why people experiment with bizarre techniques and experimental drugs. Western Europeans could just follow the Christian tradition to achieve better results more safely. People have been studying this stuff for millennia. Unfortunately we're so confused nowadays that people are gonna think of Jesus Camp and jumping around and shouting when they think of Christianity.
Ask HN: Help, Google Admob can't create payments
This is the error I get on their site: https://18220747100232649887.googlegroups.com/attach/dbf2bb1edcc1/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-20%20at%2021.59.33.png?part=0.1&view=1&vt=ANaJVrFqEzLKw2lNONDMI8MTCyx-0QCha22dOp0OTO-n75E27bojkqYHD3_ux9kIZG0BV_KH4vWqmcm7987AJ43DFSzj73o0DRGopPsKYrHQiLvHuVSbb2w

I tried asking on https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/google-admob-ads-sdk/SuJHtH5EDy0/hSoWIiN5CgAJ

Kafkaesque replies.

How do I reach a Human Being at Admobs? I will try calling Google tomorrow in working hours but I don't expect much
The article in question is definitely a consumer issue: http://archive.is/l1kTW

Alexander attacks gamers and asks that developers cease to consider them as their core demographic.

From the article:

> It’s young men queuing with plush mushroom hats and backpacks and jutting promo poster rolls. Queuing passionately for hours, at events around the world, to see the things that marketers want them to see. To find out whether they should buy things or not. They don’t know how to dress or behave. Television cameras pan across these listless queues, and often catch the expressions of people who don’t quite know why they themselves are standing there.

I’d be mad too if she bashed my culture like that.
One thing I'd worry about working on the noon would be finding myself in the sort of indentured servitude many cruise line workers and domestic helpers find themselves across the world.

I bet you won't be making $20/hour on the moon, if certain people have their way.
> If you force everything to always be passed by value and returned by value (never by reference) it's clear that the costs of constantly cloning all these objects would quickly add up.

That’s not what happens. See: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-March/0727...

“Pass by value does NOT imply copying and never has; copying is only required for mutable data structures, and Erlang hasn't any.”