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The solution is not to educate people to starve or go homeless instead of taking loans. It's to ensure that nobody is placed in a position where they're stuck between starving/going homeless/etc and taking out a payday loan. If the current system is not ensuring that, what changes would ensure it? That's the question.
> corporate taxes should absolutely be lower, they're among the highest in the world.

Effective Rate

So lets say Corporate Tax is a 20% flat tax from 35% the taxes would actually increase. Because they are actually paid at around 15% and no where close to highest in the world. We are actually on par or bellow the average tax rate across the world. https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2017/04/24/trumps-c...

Personally I would love to see a drop of corporate federal taxes and place them more on the individuals. Tax the shareholder and those that profit from the corporations. The truth is this isn't happening and why we see the money continually going to the top and not filtering down. Corporations are incentivized to lower wages and benefits to extract more profit. As the economic disparity continues to climb and the burden is placed on the middle and lower class to support profit growth. Looking at taxes for the national safety net for the working poor, higher utilities bills, and higher medical expenses and insurance cost. None of these are of concern for the wealthy.

We can't even have a conversation on what is fair for the working poor and instead we disincentive work in America. The "conservatives" today are just totally Libertarians who could careless if work is incentivized.
> And, if your so poor you can't afford that, then it's irresponsible to have kids.

So what happens if you had kids while you were prosperous, but then become poor? You might be willing to fast for a week (have you tried?), but it's an entirely different thing to make a six year old fast.
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Real estate is a good target because developers will frequently crank out a new website for each new development, which will be used for six months or a year until the units are sold, then mothballed. The requirements of such a site are well defined and simple, and the short lifespan means there's no point in spending much money on them. Still, they have to look like money.

Source: developed real estate websites for several years.
The reason that Postgres can't kill Oracle, it's not the technology
There is a more pressing reason that has pushed farmers to continually buy new equipment. Farm credit services pressures farmers into this practice.

When giving out a loan for operations, a farmer's ability to pay is heavily weighted on farmers having newer equipment. The excuse that I have heard for the bank to do this, is that the bank can't easily tell which farmers take better care of their equipment, thus favoring the newer equipment across the board.

The agents working directly with the farmers advocate for this, as there are internal incentives for making larger loans.
I don't think you can, and such a comparison is not really needed here anyway. People are not chattel slaves and cannot be racked into data centers to solve boring problems.

Of course, you can hire people, and that has a well-defined cost, so it does all come down to money again.
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I've fasted for 3 days. Day 1 was kinda rough, day 2 was easier imo. Day 3 was the easiest of the 3 days. That said, I fasted from a place of luxury. Not eating because you literally have no food available is a completely different psychological experience.
Only a half key exists in permanent storage on device. The other half paper key is loaded into memory for transaction signing, and then removed from memory the moment the transaction is sent off

You would need both halves to sign a transaction
While this is an interesting exploration of the history of the Internet, gTLDs, HSTS, and various other things, the story boils down to this: never make up an unregistered domain/TLD and assume it won't exist in the future; always use a reserved test domain/TLD from RFC 2606 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606) or the updated RFC 6761 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761): .test, .invalid, .example, or .localhost, depending on what semantics you need.
Not monopolistic, but pretty obnoxious. I don't think that move made them many friends.
I had the same thing happen with Comcast. I filed a complaint with the FCC online for erroneous billing and the inability to cancel my account.

Forwarded the FCC complaint in an email to comcast and within a day got a response .A few days later they acknowledged that I was erroneously billed 600 bucks and that they actually owed me 10 bucks.

Good thing these people are now going to be our internet gatekeepers.
you could at least populate the list of works from the composers we chose on the first screen.

i didn't pick any of the top 5 composers, and yet the works were largely from them. the 3 composers i was actually interested in don't appear anywhere on the list of works i get to choose from. :(
Haha, what?

Please explain how ruining someone's life, which he believes deserves to be ruined due to their taking advantage of the poor, is 'hypocritical'.
A journalist did not ask the question that was on your mind.
Your response: "Very dishonest magazine and culture". That's a large jump.

Culturally, calling someone dishonest, particularly a journalist or publication is a very serious claim that requires serious evidence or argument. Now we have a president who throws it around carelessly. We don't have to allow this to become normal.
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If they don't work, they're not actually safeguards.
This isn't quite fair. Google makes it virtually impossible for Amazon to add support to cast from its own devices (Kindle Fire, etc.). This is likely part of why Amazon added a Prime Video app for Android but refuses to allow casting support for other Android devices when its own devices cannot use it.

I don't, however, agree with Amazon's decision to not sell devices without Prime Video support. I don't think the case they make that customers will expect Prime Video support holds much merit. In any case, the Apple TV is expected to return now that the Prime Video app has been released on that platform.

I would like to see Chromecast support added to Prime Video, which is easiest if both sides concede slightly.
I graduated with a BSc in Mathematics in 2008, and didn't exactly know what I wanted to do. I just typed the keyword "analyst" into job search engines. It worked pretty well! I ended up getting a job in a field that I didn't even know existed when I started (web analytics). It turns out that almost every industry has some sort of data that they can benefit from having someone analyze it, and a Math degree is a pretty good qualification for it.

Don't worry too much if you don't match the exact description of a job posting. I've actually never met all of the job requirements for any of the jobs I've been hired to. Point of fact, most people will look at a Math degree as a degree in "Very Smart" and give you the benefit of the doubt about being able to pick up any specific skills you might be missing. This is doubly-true for niche fields (like web analytics) where there aren't specialized degrees, and picking up the skills on the fly is a requirement.

I will say, almost any job that you take won't look like "doing mathematics" in the sense that you're used to from college. That pretty much doesn't exist outside of academia, with the possible exception of research labs that require an advanced degree.
Feels like block-chain authentication could resolve parts of this.... If we required that all debt be digitally signed in a central ledger, either nationally or by state, and then all payment transactions were also recorded there, it'd be a lot harder to fake this stuff... first though we need someone in gov to understand bc tech.

I know that most big banks and FI have a few devs working on some sorta blockchain ledger for internal transactions, and apparently the big exchanges are very seriously considering using them as well, so it shouldn't be too difficult to make the leap to loans.

ugh, I know we hate just saying throw current fad at this problem, but I'd like to know more why people are against this idea.

I know the idea isn't perfect and would require a lot of work shopping but the current model of lenders selling each other spreadsheets with just a $$$ amount and phone number simply isn't sustainable.
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MySQL has had replication for _longer_, but I would the MySQL team has a history of releasing half-baked functionality with a long list of gotchas. PostgreSQL has only had replication in the core product for the past couple of versions, previously you had to rely on third party tools which had some interesting behaviours, or that were entirely commercial.

Since PostgreSQL 10 WAL and logical replication strategies can support just about any sort of replication you desire, except multi-master.
Kudos on the new budding programmer you got there. ;-)
I'd recommend the book "Coders at Work," it features lots of industry veterans and candid interviews with them. I remember not being able to put the book down while reading the chapter interviewing the founder of LiveJournal.
Replace it with what exactly?

It’s not like there’s a secret reserve of smart, dedicated people who know what they are doing.
There's a pretty huge difference between "dismantle unit" and "insert USB drive". The latter could be done on a lunch break.
Having also supported hundreds of production MySQL databases, statement based replication is absolutely inferior. But it should also be noted that row based replication (similar to streaming replication in that the actual data changes are synced) has been supported in MySQL since v5.1.5 (current is v5.7). And row based replication is the default since v5.7.7 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/replication-formats....
don't forget Jesus' rage at the tax collector.
What financial mechanisms exist to short Bitcoin?
The Lord our God is hardly a stranger to raining down holy vengeance upon those who defy His will. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." (EDIT: I'm an atheist, but there's wisdom in the Bible.)

EDIT: "This guy isn't a hero for making a threat. He's a hero for making a change which would actually help other people." Please don't downvote this person.
To take it further off-topic, anyone on a cell phone while checking out or delaying the line at the grocery store gets an evil eye from me. That goes for you too granny that counts out every penny! :P
It's UBER savings! Get your life subsidized by VC money! Get it before it's gone!
I've been dealing with this for years. Every once in a while I get a call from some random debt collector looking for a guy with my name who skipped out on his college loans. I've gotten letters threatening wage garnishment. One time they even called my Mom's cell phone saying they needed to serve me papers.

The conversation ended when it got to S/Ns(which didn't match) and me demanding they never call again. Eventually the conversations got real quick when I'd stop them before they got to begin saying, "No I didn't live at XXX, No I didn't go to college at XXX, No I don't have XXX in student loans."

Luckily I've never had to deal with the level of threats that this guy went through. It's been a while since I've gotten a call looking for this guy with my name. Maybe there's no one left who wants to try to collect this debt.
Won't somebody think of the concrete and asphalt!?
Maybe to you, but to me this is probably my favorite usage of this technology that I can easily come up with. In other words the way it will have the best impact on my day-to-day life (hell, if it stops the "run to the store for detergent" drives, it'll probably be better for the environment as well).

If this ever gets to the point where I can buy filament for it and print stuff myself, the first thing I'll be doing with it is hacking something together to order stuff as it runs out.

Just look at it from my perspective. To me it's like people saying they can use BLE for medical and industrial purposes, and everyone is shouting about how useless and anti-consumer it is...
We're talking about that too; in fact, there's more talk about the usage than nitpicking about the description.

That said, to invent uses for a technology, one needs to understand what it does, and what it does not. Hence the nitpicking. This technology is functionally worse than regular RFIDs, but it's potentially dirt-cheap to manufacture. Saying it has anything to do with "Wi-Fi" or "connecting" is so deeply wrong that it heavily distorts one's understanding of its pros and cons.
There are specialized tools like Patroni (https://github.com/zalando/patroni)
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"It's fundamental value is essentially nil,"

That's not strictly true. It's fundamental value is the effort required to obtain it - which at the moment is some rather large amount of electricity and hardware. If you have deployed those resources you will not let the Bitcoins go for any less in real exchange unless you absolutely have to.

That is the same for anything that is a currency. It's base value is what you have to do to get it.

The problem with crypto-currencies is that nobody has to hold them to deliver them anywhere. There is no solid drain other than to savings.
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How much do you know about Christianity?

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to bring peace, but a sword."
Christians are supposed to turn the other cheek not slap back. You either take a vengeful stance and declare you want payback, or you take a pious stance and abide by whatever your religion tells you. Taking both is hypocritical.
Is this a real problem? Usually when I need a testing domain I make a subdomain on an address I or my company owns. dev.kluny.com. Easy.
You mean the negative reviews created by the competition?
to be fair, before icann introduced the gtld program, it was a fair assumption that there wouldn't be a .dev tld.
I did a BSc in math/econ, then MSc in math. Went into consulting work, mostly in security. Now work in crypto for a tech company.
Related presentation by Joel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgBrYpihvLY
in SQLSERVER you could build your selects (using unique names or aliases) and then wrap it all in a common table expression like so:

; with cte as
( select a as A, b as B, c as C from dbo.table1 tbl1 join dbo.table2 tbl2 on tbl2.id = tbl1.id) select A, B, C from cte
> On Subaru’s they disable functionality related to Bluetooth pairing when you are driving

I have always felt that ends up incentivizing simply using the device itself, which seems to be less safe than letting the car take control and using the functions that are designed to be used while driving.

Ideally people wouldn't feel the need to use their phone while driving at all, but the world is far from ideal.
NSA is the obvious answer if you want to do math - they do math at a lot of levels, from research in algorithmic number theory to programming in mathematically correct exploits. One former NSA employee told me that they retrained him as a programmer.

Data Science is possible, but generally seems hard to break in without prior programming experience or a masters or higher - I had problems getting in as a 4 year PhD dropout from a prestigious math program, and ended up teaching myself programming & have carved out a nice career as a software engineer. My math & physics background has proven to be a bonus in my favor when interviewing, and I generally am favorable to people with a math background I encounter in industry/interviewing candidates since I have found it fairly uncommon.

I would go to on campus career events if possible, and talk with company recruiters about interviewing & general tips. There are potential other options depending on how open you are to them - the options are a lot more open IMO than with most degrees. One thing that might help is to go to Indeed, LinkedIn, etc., and just search for jobs in a particular area - if a particular profession sounds like something that might be feasible/palatable for a career or first step, jot down the title, and continue. This doesn't mean you're committing to anything in particular, but it will help you understand what you are looking for better and better prepare for any future interview sessions where they ask you what got you interested in <insert position>.
There are wealth taxes. (property tax is one of them, estate tax is another -- phased out by this bill) In my opinion, we could do with a lot more wealth taxes.
I can imagine someone turning this into a heart-warming film.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
It is irrelevant. You're talking about oil spills in Nigeria. I'm talking about one specific health-care company in America. I don't care to hear your opinions on the market and how it operates. I also don't care to hear anecdotal testimony about your friend's business practices.

It is a matter of public record when Aetna has been fined and when Aetna has been sued. It is trivial to research the subject.

I'm not sure why we're still having this conversation. Aetna's P/E ratio is 50% higher than the market average which means its price (and therefore CEO bonus) are driven by future growth potential. Not profit "extracted" in the here and now.
"But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."

See, I can throw quotes from the bible too.
You cannot resell items from a lootbox. In fact, they are not entirely your own according to many ToSs.
Maybe you've heard the old finance saying: "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".
Several phones already have neural net acceleration hardware in them today, including the latest iPhones.
But Hillary wasn't a liberal. Liberals actually hated her. We are now in the world perception of Democrat = Liberal and Republican = Conservative and its just wrong. I grew up being a Republican and I don't think I have changed much in my political stances but everyone else has moved far to the Libertarian doctrine.

Case in point: Increase the wages and benefits = less government funding. Never going to get backing from Republican Party in its present form. So instead we have this Corporation Welfare system where tax dollars for Walmart's benefits.
This was very informative, thanks. I am perusing postgraduate studies. I've been accepted into an Honours degree in Applied Mathematics so I am not hanging up my academic hat yet.

My reason for asking the question is two-fold: some badly needed reassurance that I have not rolled myself into a hole (I think it was a design flaw that we cannot re-roll characters in real life) and getting a broader perspective on potential places to keep in mind - in terms of extra-curricular skills that I need to gather along the way.
i'm sure that icann can be persuaded to reassign ownership of that subnet if google paid enough money. it's not like there's much people using anything other than 127.0.0.1, so why not sell 127.128.0.0/9 for some quick bucks? the only thing stopping them is the billions of legacy devices around that can't route to that address.
That's pretty much how my grandmother manages her land. A guy I went to high school with now plants and harvests it. The normal stuff: soybeans and corn.

An orchard would be sweet.
> The other option is to change your .dev domain and never look back. But what domain could we migrate to? With the gTLD gold rush, is anything safe?

Just buy medium-devel.com or something and make it resolve to 127.0.0.1 in internal DNS. This gets you a couple of benefits:

- No one will ever take it from you

- You can configure it in external DNS if you'd like

- You can get a real, publicly-trusted SSL certificate for it, for free, because Let's Encrypt can resolve DNS challenges against it

(By the way, you want to get an SSL certificate for internal development, because of the policy - Chrome-initiated but now followed by the HTML standards folks in general - to require HTTPS for fancy new features like geolocation and service workers: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/prefer-secur... If you don't have HTTPS of some sort, you can't test these features locally.)
We don't.

People want it because it is faster to count.
If its a high frequency wave, then you would "hear" it with the skin and other tissue on your head rather than your actual ears. Earplugs wouldnt really help.

How it works: you can hear a high frequency wave if its modulated at audible frequency. If it's switched on and off at a relatively low frequency, you can sense the presence and absence of the high-frequency vibrations. Those waves are poorly absorbed from the air, but once they make it into the body they are transmitted much more easily by tissues besides bone. So your ears are not much better than the rest of your skin, which acts like a funnel for sound, diverting it to your cochlea.
So the whole article is about a future where Uber might be able to do the bankrupting but the title is about how it is doing it right now?

A classic clickbait.
Down with Determinants (1995)
Why blockchain?

If you have a trusted entity (the government) you just need a public database.
> Gas station and retail POSs as well as smart traffic lights predate that and aren’t related.

> Maybe some people have decided to take IoT literally and redefine it to include existing technologies

I'm pretty sure it's normal to take new descriptive terms and group preexisting things into them where applicable. For example, just because the terms "car" and "motor car" came into use circa 1895 doesn't mean that nothing prior to that date can be considered a car.

Whether the definition actually works for the devices mentioned is still a valid question though.

> that definitely wasn’t the original intention of the word.

That's an odd thing to argue. We aren't talking about people who compute things when we talk about computers, are we? The original meanings of words are fairly inconsequential if over time the accepted meaning is something else.
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Yes this has been really tough for me to learn. My cash outflows can vary by up to $30k per month. I’m self employed and often have to travel and various clients pay me net 30,45, or 60. I thought maybe 60 days of cash would cover net 60 but it turns out I need more like 180 days of cash.
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One of the rare comments that actually made me LOL
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The short answer is “everyone”. I’m a mathematician who’s worked in various roles in various sectors. Not one of them actually involved doing any maths, but plenty of them appreciated the kind of mental training studying maths gives you. (There are other routes to this clarity.)

So I guess the question is: are you looking for a job where you get to do maths, or are you just worrying about employability?
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Sure, but the whole point of the above idea is to compare our 20W computers to what we can build that eats 20W. And don't give Silicon Valley ideas about disrupting the lucrative Mechanical Turk ecosystem by scaling it up with ideas borrowed from growing veal because some VC sociopath will take it seriously. Just sayin'...
There's another one about how to fight these types of loans in court, I can't seem to find it now though.