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In US and other developed countries it is. Other countries it is entertainment but not so safe. A few examples within the last five years or so around the world.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/68gzpe/surprise_buildi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/29g7n9/flying_debris_f...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/4m7qzp/standing_too_cl...
I wish I could support individual journalists somehow. As things are today I’d be supporting the status quo where the owner has complete editorial control, and the audience has none. I’m 100% not interested in that. I also don’t really want to support the massive administrative apparatus and various other freeloaders which tend to dominate organizations once they grow past a certain size. Under the current set up a hard hitting journalist won’t get an extra dime.
It's the same for lots of low wage jobs. I know people that work at Walmart that I can't imagine being able to hold down a job anywhere else.
Responding to your comment here:

WaPo headline for CFPB story:
Fight over consumer watchdog agency goes on as two acting directors try to take command

HuffPo headline:
CIVIL WAR AT FINANCE WATCHDOG!

One is clearly more hysterical than the other. The story content may be roughly the same, but the headline is not. And if the headline is so clickbaity, it's probably not unlikely that the content is more dramatic/hysterical than is necessary too.
Crime is caused more by envy for what others have and a failure to understand the role of work in getting what you want.

Basic income will only FEED these two problems.
> Lectures as part of course are designed to be attended after reviewing the material at least once on your own.

> Its astonishing how many students resist this fact, even when it is clearly spelled out for them.

I've taken a lot of classes, I've been a teaching assistant for a lot of classes, I've observed a lot of classes, and I've never gotten the impression that the instructor expected the students to have already looked at the material. Certainly no one ever said that explicitly.

I will say that it is true that the handful of times I tried to structure my class differently and have students read material on their own before lecture, they were indeed resistant and it didn't go well. And I do think that would be a better approach. But my point is that this is overwhelmingly not what is generally expected of students, at least in my experience, mostly at state colleges in the US.
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> They're constantly dabbling with soylent shakes or paleo/keto fad diets... because the truth is they're just lazy and don't want to get off their ass, and look to rationalize that.

This is a stretch to me. Doesn't matter how much I exercise: aggressive keto diets are the only way I've ever lost weight (though not necessarily maintained it, I can maintain on a normal diet) in my life. Playing two games of full-court basketball a day or sitting around playing video games, I'm just not as hungry and the food I eat when I'm going that route just doesn't stick the way it can otherwise.

I certainly feel better, you're not wrong about that, when I exercise even moderately. But the diet matters plenty, too--it's yet another one of those more complicated in practice things that you're claiming exist in the first place.
I'm not sure whether you're being serious, but as a serious answer, that unabsorbed food has to go somewhere. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra#Side_effects
Is tech supposed to just "solve" political consensus? Like blow bast it like Napoleon or something? At the end of the day, I fear that people sincerely and durably disagree on these matters, meaning that political deadlock is the legitimate outcome.

Tech makes it easy for people to share snappy political prose on Facebook, but what about the non-tech skill of human conversation? Are people any good at talking to each other on political matters?
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Where on earth are you paying that much for a 1br? There are 2br apartments that can be had (still in SF proper) for less than that!
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I’m an atheist. I sing in an Episcopal choir. I’m the chair of an organization within the church. Everyone knows I’m an atheist and nobody cares. Half of the choir is gay (including me), both organists are gay, one member is Jewish, one member is a former Muslim-now-spiritual, and everyone’s super chill. I’ve never felt unwelcome or out-of-place. I don’t get much out of it spiritually, but it’s a gorgeous space and I get to make delightful music with people I love. There’s nowhere else I’d rather be on Sunday.
> What this does prove is what the US is willing to even consider doing to justify various things it wants to accomplish.

It doesn't even begin to prove that. It proves that the US military, which has plans and contingencies for nearly every imaginable scenario, has plans and contingencies for nearly every imaginable scenario.
>> I'm so glad that I attended university before it was the done thing for students to be on laptops during lectures.

I'm also glad I finished before laptops (and even www) became a thing.

For me, the clicking and clacking of the keyboards would drive me bonkers.
I am still happily using a stock(ish) Xeon-based 'cheesegrater' tower at home, but if you wanted to just reuse an old (PPC or Intel) Mac Pro case to build a new system in, there are some ATX adapter kits available[1].

1: https://www.thelaserhive.com/product/mac-pro-atx-kit-with-ps...
If you were in West, you were near Dinosaur Valley State Park. It's not quite the same as stories go, but it has obvious attraction.
Software engineering wasn't recognized as a field of study when I was in school, as a matter of fact I don't think software engineering is an ABAT accredited field of study anywhere in the same vein as, say Computer Engineering, for instance.

A wise man once said computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
That is a form of exercise, so in that sense yes. It isn't significant, even on the scale of a year, but it is something we can calculate.

For practical purposes no. When you breath faster your body just gets rid of less CO2 per breath. The amount of CO2 your body creates for a given exercise level can be considered a constant.
It's also interesting to consider the fact that we humans are not the pinnacle of intellect in all the history of space and time.
Yes, I'm not sure why it's never been reprinted or why used copies appreciate like they're made of pure bitcoin. There is a copy kicking around on libgen.
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> Open HN comment section on an article about labor conditions

> Top comment, find a better job

> Every time
Still zero motive. FBI takes over a week to decipher a note that is trajectory calculations. Most mags unloaded. 23 rifles, most unused.

And he was wealthy enough to buy proper machine guns. If he really wanted to go all out, why not use the right tools? Why buy a California legal gimped rifle?

"Crazy" is not an excuse for glaring plot holes.
This is really an excellent intro to personal finance. I came to it expecting to see the standard "save 10% of your salary" rule that's so pervasive. But this is really thorough. I wish my school had a course like this. Great work!
That is definitely true of sub top-20 universities. Even intros for the top-20s as well. This however is not true of that top tier for the average student.
http://i.picresize.com/images/2017/11/09/A7KWg.jpg

:) I basically divide the screens into 8 1080P windows. A "basic workday" for me is usually:

1. Chrome with Email, hangouts, and other administrata
2. A second Chrome with web dev.
3. A third 1080P with the web inspector for above.
4. An SSH window to the nodejs server
5. pgAdmin to postgres
6. VSCode
7. Xencenter if I'm juggling VMs around
8. Choice of: another chrome for goofing off, or a bunch of smaller windows with git bash, filesystem windows, or other little distractions like spotify.

It's hard to tell from this photo (lol messy desk) but I sit about 80cm from the screens. There are some downsides:

I'm too close to the TVs for gaming -- they're too bright even at minimum brightness setting. One "all white" explosion cutscene and my eyes will hurt. I'm in the habit of closing my eyes when I sense impending white-out.

The "curved" monitors are only subtly curved, and I still fly them in a "Vee" configuration. I could've saved $200 by just going with 2 flat monitors. It seemed cooler at the time than it is.

I see others talking about fighting firmware and whatnot, but these MU650Ds from Costco (which I'm told are identical to MU6500s, but re-numbered to avoid price-matching...shrug?) just worked out of the box. Setting the "device" to PC HDMI and the TV took it from there. I dinked with the color settings to taste.

It's weird, my laptop is an XPS13 with the 3200x1800 screen, and when I try to do ANY splitscreen work, I find myself edging closer or squinting. I don't wear glasses, but I think I must just be a "not a HiDPI" guy. square inches on screens are cheap and cheerful.

I haven't found it hard to focus on a "tile" to work.

It's nice to step through the node debugger by flicking VSCode fullscreen, hunting and pecking through the 100-line-high code, all on the right side while the SSH/Chrome/Chrome debugger/pgsql windows sit on the left and I can watch them whirr with each step. Works for me anyway.

$0.02 :)
Oh nice an ethereum browser extension. Yet another attack vector for people to hack your ether coins.
What are you putting on 6 (!?) screens when you code??

Does look cool though.
Sure, but that requires a budget
Locomotion is incredibly inefficient, even by engineering standards.

An average human exercising is about 22% efficient, that's worse than some ICEs. An electrical engine is >80%.
https://vprgs.msu.edu/stephen-hsu-vice-president-research-an...
So you earn 18k, save 5.5k, and live off 12.5k? Do you have any assets, such as paid off home, that would significantly reduce your monthly expenses? Context would be key here.
I have never in my life met someone who has the physical and mental discipline to exercise regularly, yet also still sits around eating candy and pizza the other 23-hours of the day.

MAYBE if you're still in school, or a new grad in your 20's, you might know people who are physically active but also like to drink heavy / party. But by the time you're 30 or so, exercise and decent eating habits tend to correlate one way or the other.

Whenever someone strikes up a conversation with me about exercise being of minimal importance compared to diet... it's usually when I'm heading downstairs for a workout in the company gym, and some brogrammer with an energy drink in his hand takes it upon himself to justify why he isn't.
What I said hinged on a very narrow definition of unit testability, one that I believe is quite useless. My code was highly testable, and thoroughly tested. Those may not have been unit tests™ (I hard coded my A->B->C dependency chain instead of injecting it), but I don't care: it works, it's simple, and it's easy to read.

> There's no perfect design in the face of future changes in requirements. So the most important quality of the code we write today is the ability to refactor it and[…]

I take issue with the idea of such protean requirements. I'm more the YAGNI type: those changes you're trying to anticipate? They likely won't happen. I'd rather keep the code simple, and add the flexibility only when needed. Simple code is easier to modify anyway.

(Of course, I'd rather not ossify an architecture if I can avoid it, but an ossified architecture is often the sign of tight couplings, which to me are a form of complexity. If we keep the interfaces between modules small and simple, we are more likely to end up with something flexible.)
Is there statistics for this? I recently dropped 20% of my bodyweight, but didn't find that my behaviour changed at all. If anything as the routines set in it became easier.
I've been thinking of going to 4k for a while, just been waiting for prices to drop :) I'm currently using 2 24" dell 1080p monitors, and I have to admit the low DPI is getting to me and I want more screen real estate in general -- I can never have enough code listings open at one time :).

OTOH, upgrading my home setup (which I use for side projects, etc.) will only make my work setup seem worse - they gave me 2 22" 1680x1050 monitors. I've only been here for 2 weeks and haven't been given any actual work to do yet, so I don't know how annoying that low resolution is going to be (but I'm sure it will be). Not nearly as annoying as the loudly buzzing/rattling vent and the headache-inducing blazing fluorescent tubes directly over my head, I'm sure (though, combined with the gray carpet, the gray walls, the gray ceiling, and the lack of any and all natural light, I must say, they've really nailed the office environment from "Joe vs the Volcano")...
Those platitudes are also, well... Wrong. My favorite example:

> "Calories in, calories out!"

Well, sure, but those calories on the label are calculated by burning the components in a machine and measuring the heat output. The human body isn't going to convert the input food at 100%. That percent is going to depend on a lot of factors!
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They also make for some beautiful furniture: https://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/23/power-mac-g5-furniture/
According to the article, a typical person will breathe out about 200 grams of carbon per day. (The oxygen in the CO2 comes from oxygen you breathe in, so doesn't contribute to any net weight change.)

A pound of fat is about 3500 calories, and typical sedentary metabolic rate is about 2000 calories per day, so you'd expect to lose about 0.57lbs ~= 260 grams per day if you didn't eat. The article says that CO2 makes up 84% of weight lost (the rest is water), so that fits fairly closely to the 200 grams/day of CO2 breathed out.
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The insight that I found to be more helpful is that if you want to count calorie losses from exercise as weight loss, you at least need to make sure that you aren't consuming more extra calories than what you burned from exercise.

It can be hard to do this if you don't have awareness over what you typically eat.
I do, I convert to amazon gift cards. Last purchase was a playstation VR.
Very much so, I've had a few coworkers ask about Bitcoin and if they should invest (because they've seen me use my lunch money). I say, it's an interesting subject just like maybe a slot machine that has a theme you like such as Game of Thrones. I do the same with some company stocks that look promising _and_ I enjoy following but again - not viewing these as a true investment.

I would love to strike gold, but it's complete gambling at this point and I'm likely not putting in enough to see life changing dividends. I never would recommend someone to invest in Bitcoin but if they have extra money and are looking to gamble in an interesting way go for it.
Um yeah, that might be something local. For me it shows $9,704.50, which is pretty close to what coinmarketcap is showing ..
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Hi, We are going to start charging for our services from this time onwards. We are an on-demand parent care space with open-ended childcare. I have few questions:
a)Recommendations of reading materials,(precise and to the point)on financial points to be taken care of;
b)Can break even point be achieved the first time?
c)How to go ahead with the payment stuff?
Anything else which first-time founders might miss?
That release of energy does result in mass loss. e=mc^2 as everybody knows, without understanding. However the energy is fairly small, and c is already extremely large before you square it. Over an entire lifetime the mass loss is still insignificant.
I think you're misreading the function of those slogans. First off, they're hardly "obvious" when you account for the overwhelming FUD around nutrition anybody who's tried to lose weight. And you get it from everybody: your Mom, magazines, movies, the news, pop sci articles, the government, etc.

But more importantly, those things are TRUE. Anybody with significant weight to lose will not be able to out-exercise a bad diet. What fat people hear a lot more often is, "oh, you gotta hit the gym". Hitting the gym is great if you're 15 lb overweight, but at 50 or 100 it's all but useless.

> exercise tends to ramp up your metabolism for hours after each exercise session.

Yep. If you spin hard for 45 minutes you get an extra 170kcal through the rest of the day. That is... 2 fun sized Snicker bars, 19 grams of butter, or 17 Pringles chips.

Caloric intake is the absolute key to weight loss. Everything else is complementary. Telling people who are more than a few pounds overweight to hit the gym as the base of their weight loss strategy is complete un-based in science and almost always self defeating.
Hopefully the ruling encompasses other modern technologies and methods for location tracking such as smart tag data, facial recognition and license plate readers. All of them result in data similar to person X was at location Y at time Z.
Comptia #CyberMonday deal spinner appears Rigged
Waited for cyber monday in hopes to get a sweet deal on a certification voucher from comptia but was disapointed this morning. Had to contact them directly for the following link and after a little testing the best I saw was 10% off which isnt a very good promo when you can get that any time of the year from any of there training partners or approved study materials, or a google search of coupon code websites.

Id be interested to hear if anyone gets something different that 10% off when testing this promo spinner game they posted. Seems the game is rigged but I could be wrong.

https://certification.comptia.org/cybermonday
the increased processing speed will bee an improvement....but memory is definitely the biggest constraint with my machines at the moment.
I’m currently working at one of the largest Amazon delivery stations in the US and seeing as there probably aren’t too many low level FC associates hanging out around these parts I’d be happy to answer any questions anyone might have.

Keep in mind that I’m at a delivery station, this is a huge warehouse where we receive packages and sort them for delivery, and not one of the warehouses were products are packaged for shipment. Also, I just ended my night shift so I might fall asleep but I’ll be happy to return later to answer any questions.

Edit: I should add that I really enjoy working here but when I was first hired I was unemployed and homeless, and I’m currently semi-homeless, so I probably have an overly positive outlook on working here. I’ll try and not paint too rosy a picture though.
I'm a pragmatist - Tesla has had years to prove it could eke out a profit. Everytime it hasn't met this expectation, Elon Musk has managed to change the conversation to something forward looking, pie in the sky BS. And surprisingly, investors bet on short term stock inflation based on these fables, probably fully knowing they aren't achieveable.

At this point they're betting on stock movements triggered by Musk, not company fundamentals. It's Vegas glorified
There are already quite some levels of welfare here in the US, including food stamps, government healthcare, housing allowance, and welfare money. You’re much better off being poor in he US than the countries in your acronym.
I have a twisted idea to appeal to people's sense of charity:

Each person that subscribes, sponsors "no ads" visit for a random stranger. The cookie could last for a day.
Trees (and other plants) are almost entirely air and water. Very little soil gets incorporated, and almost all of that is trace minerals dissolved in the water.
Economists perhaps but central bank governors don't feel they've hit any sort of limit. They all say over & over they remain "prepared" to "respond" & have an array of "tools" at their disposal. Not to mention some of the largest central banks are still actively engaged in aggressive QE & negative interest rate policies.

Don't confuse a slight ny-fed tighetning with central bank prudence. They have none. Aggressive interventionism is a policy that will never go away & will likely become even more aggressive in the future.
The problem with conspiracy theories is that in hindsight, many of them turn out to be true.

That's not to say that there's anything to the 9/11 truthers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
At the risk of crossing the streams here... “wait! HN must be listening to the Microphone on my phone because I talked with my son about this exact topic 36 hours ago and now it’s in my HN feed!”

Yes, that’s a joke, but it’s also a completely factual statement (except for the Microphone thing) and a good reminder that with enough page views even extremely low probability events will happen with great frequency and predictability to someone in your audience (you just can’t predict to whom they will happen)
I tried it - I lost nearly 25% my weight (down from 132 kg to 101 kg) over this year by eating less and walking on foot a lot more. Eating less is certainly having a lesser effect than it did at first, but I'm still losing weight bit by bit.
Germany was rebuilt from that, first through a brutal dictatorship and then, after that, with enormous assistance from the largest and strongest economies in the world, powered by a demographic boom in the richest parts of the world.

And no matter how much progress has been made between 1950 and 2017, there's so little comfort in drawing a parallel between our present situation and the trajectory Germany from 1910 to 1945.
I don't get what you're saying at all . Publishing opinion pieces that advance a socio-economic agenda is one of the things I expect of a news paper.

If you don't agree with it you can disagree with it in the comments, write a letter to the editor, or stop reading.

But I like opinion pieces.
Much closer to Mammoth National Monument. I didn't make it to Dinosaur Valley State Park, but might next time I pass through. I have servers in colocation in Dallas, so I pass through there at least once a year, or so, just for upgrades and disk replacements and such.
You left out the part where the market 'corrects' every 7-10 years and you lost 10-30% of your portfolio. It'll likely take you several years to recoup your lost investment at 8%.

You had a 100K invested, you lost 30K of it, leaving you 70K. At 8% interest it'll take you 5 years to just get back to where you were. Thats a full 20% of your investment life span. Count on this happening to you at least every 10 years.

Ya ya, I know. But it's happened to me personally at least 3 times in my adult life. Just how much risk is a person is willing to take is a personal question. If your shooting for an 8% avg return. You're a stuntman in real life.
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Here is what I calculate
250m[1] * $1000 * 12 = $3,000,000,000,000
Now take away the people on social security - 56m
Now take away the people currently employed - 145m
Give us around 50 million people, at a cost of around 600 billion per year. Wow, thats a lot BUT if we now look at cost for existing social welfare programs - 927 billion.

Means we would save around 300 billion per year!

Of course families would require more, but this does not seem quite as crazy for a country that has a 18 trillion GDP.
Whether this estimate is accurate or not is less relevant than the question: If the US economy were boosted by a basic income (or any change, in fact), what percentage of that economic gain would go into the pockets of the people who have been capturing 90% of all growth over the last 20 years?

If the answer to my question isn't a very high percentage, then such a program would never even be discussed in Congress.
Try doing that a few times then you get even worse ones.