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> Incomes do go up and job quality does rise with increasing educational attainment

I really don't think this is found in the data. Among the general population, incomes are quite stagnant, and job quality is considered to be falling. At best, it is no better than in the past. With the rising rates of educational attainment, if what you say is true, incomes should be rising along with job quality. That does not appear to be happening.

What we do see that those with higher educational attainment are the ones who are more likely to have the higher paying and better jobs, but that is not the same thing as incomes increasing and job quality improving with increased levels of schooling. All that really tells us is that those who have the most difficulty in the workplace (those with mental disabilities, for instance) are also most likely to have less formal education. Which comes as no surprise to, well, anyone.

> That's a bizarre outlook that excludes every middle class job that increasingly tends to require a college degree.

That is a bizarre outlook. Employers are not a charity to help out those with college debt. Unless the law requires it, employers couldn't care less about where you went to school. And the jobs that do require it by law are vanishingly small. We covered why those with post-secondary educations are more likely to get those better jobs (high achievers tend to be high achievers in everything they do), but that does not mean it is a requirement or is increasing as a requirement.

The only thing increasing is the rate of post-secondary attainment, which understandably will result in more and more jobs filled with college graduates. Of course. That's just basic math.

> Hell, most college administrators don't make more than middle class salaries.

Along with everyone else. Why would you take on that massive debt if you knew you were guaranteed to end up in the same place as you otherwise would? Especially when education is a life-long endeavour. You can always go to college once you have saved up the necessary cash. There is no rush.

The only reasonable explanation I see here is that people see the small chance of significantly improving their situation beyond the average middle class person. Which, given the costs of post-secondary education, is a pretty big gamble. There has to be some kind of substantial reward potential given the high stakes. Not just another middle class lifestyle like almost everyone else in the country. That would never justify the costs.
Seems plenty fast to me: http://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html
Go strongly pushes a "way to do it", see concurrency for instance. C/C++/Rust have a (one or more) paradigm, but they leave as much liberty to you as a programmer as possible.

This I see as a stark difference.

Wrt concurrency, Go is more like Node: one way to do it.
Next they should address the nightmare of navigating conversations had via quote tweets. It's like going down the rabbit hole, trying to find the beginning of an exchange. Never know how deep it is. Then once you've found the beginning, it's a long trek of hitting the back button in the browser or app to follow the conversation in context. Quote tweets were a good addition, but the current implementation does not work with the way people use them.
The standard deviations in these numbers include the null hypothesis....
Hah, this takes me back -- I own the 8051 dev board he made and at one point built the original MP3 player design (though I don't think mine ever worked quite right): https://www.pjrc.com/tech/mp3/old_player.html

I should dig that up and get it running again.
In which Twitter acknowledges that the entire concept of their product is fundamentally incompatible with the way a large portion of their user base uses their product.
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Is there any access at all, even through other funds? If not then there is a problem. Maybe prohibiting advertising and soliciting is enough. Maybe place some limits. But there are no good reasons I can think of to blanket prohibit investment itself to the "non-accredited".
> nobody would be surprised if it were to drastically exceed its previous peak next week.

Apparently CBOE would be somewhat to very surprised.
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Do you mean Nazi? At least in the US, it's legal to use that word.
It's unfortunate that the researchers didn't perform the same analysis on control samples, i.e. brain tissue from similar individuals without an ASD diagnosis.

They say that the method of measuring aluminium is "established and fully validated", but this a weak claim. Really, they should have simultaneously performed the same method on non-ASD brain samples, to eliminate the effect of any experimental mishaps, and to find the background level of the binding of the stain to non-aluminium compounds.

With its lack of any control data to compare against, this study sounds like a waste of valuable brain samples.
How is that disingenuous? I don't think it matters what the curve looks like when it spans 10 years and ends up at 20%. There were implementations released 10 years previous to the graph's start. I wasn't implying it would never happen, just that even for something that's inevitable like IPv6, adoption is glacial.
> you get catastrophic failure and the rest of society is left holding the bag.

You didn't respond to what I said. When enough people make a large mistake, the effects go beyond just the individuals. At that point, it's no longer a "personal choice," it's damaging to the whole.
It's because of today's victim-hood culture. Achievements do not matter anymore. Merit is a lost concept. You get your achievements handed to you now by falling into protected groups and putting in the bare minimum effort. She wrote a blog post documenting her year at Uber, it's great she did that, but it not Financial Times worthy. Honestly, even on a social level, why not Terry Crews? He's the only man that spoke out. You'd think he'd win a victim point for being black. But then he loses a point for being a man. This whole victim-hood culture is ridiculous. Long gone are the days of the real heroes such as Martin Luther King jr.
Security robot that deterred homeless in the Mission gets rebuke from the city
Perhaps it is to be expected in Hacker News, but focus exclusively on the technological and totally ignore the cultural at your peril.

If you accept the premise that Susan Fowler has opened (or helped open) a door for women across the world to be more successful and freer of sexual harrassment, you could absolutely make the case that will have as big of an impact as whatever Bezos is doing with Amazon - women are quite a large portion of the population after all!
The senior author has a long history of bad science on autism and is funded by an anti-vax group. There's a [complete takedown of this bad science here]((https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/11/29/christopher-exley...)

There is a reason that this is published in the "Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology", and not in something more reputable.
" Careful; you're lightly claiming that no accuser before Fowler was believable."

Heh. Hopefully I'm given the benefit of the doubt on that. She bordered on unassailable, which is difficult to do when recounting anything.

Edit: Ugh, really? You're reading something that isn't there.
To now C's abstractions, you'd have to compare it to assembly I guess.
The "investor class" are prepared to handle loss. This isn't free money that oligarchy are keeping from the poor. Perhaps the floor is currently too high, but you should absolutely have savings before you consider investments where you stand to lose. In other words, an "investment class".
> Assuming the penalties for bringing in a gun are low

A quick check (ETA: of Nevada law) shows that "gunbuster" signs don't have force of law. Assuming you leave if and when asked, there's absolutely no legal repercussion to ignoring them.
> The other people have a extraordinary larger impact on global economics and politics.

That would only make sense if the primary criterion for selection were raw power. I don't know FT's criteria or the MO behind their Person of the Year designation. My hunch, however, is that it might be more nuanced, and they might be interested in people who stand up against established power, especially given the current sociopolitical climate.
For individuals, yes. For businesses, no.
He ought to be shot. For the damage I see these people cause to real families I know. So much wasted time, money on bad treatments, and worst, the emotional toll of being led down a path and duped over your child’s well being.

Are these guys cranks who believe what they say or is it a simple grab for fame and fortune?
Oh, they did more powerful, just in departments you don't pay attention to.

The biggie is the GPU. T420 has no oomph to run an external 4K display (at more than 24 Hz, i.e. in usable mode). Broadwell and newer do have the capability to run 2 of them.

The CPUs got less power-hungry. You can do the same work with less juice, so your battery lasts longer.

The SSDs with the new interfaces got much faster. There is simply no comparison between M.2 nvme drive and SATA3 SSD.

Sadly, wifi took a step back, with almost universal unavailability of anything better than 2x2 MIMO 802.11ac. In the past, MIMO 3x3 used to be available (Broadcom, but the option was there).

So yes, modern laptop is significantly different experience than few years old one, despite the CPU having the same GHz.
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> we tap our Visa card to pay instantly with no fees

I guess it's businesses, who pay high enough fees on your transactions.
My personal experience says that confrontations over minor shit happens at a non-trivial frequency where alcohol is served. Throw in poor alcohol-induced judgement with firearms, and someone’s going to feel compelled to settle it by waving a gun around. Odds are, no shots will be fired but accidents do happen when you’re drunk. Now, it’s not like this happens all the time, but I’ve seen it more than once with someone whipping out a firearm, and plenty of times over the decades where it ends up in a fight. Keep in mind this is all anecdotal, and somewhat specific to certain parts of the U. S.
I'm not sure the ACLU will have a problem with it. Private entities can have conditions for you entering their land. It only becomes a problem when the government does it.
Exactly that – I think there will be great opportunities to use both depending on what kind of code it is.

WASM is on the radar though: https://mat.tm/joy/#faq-webassembly
Your limited mental capacity and brainwashed mind don’t make it easy to argue coherently such a complicated topic.
Your base assumption is that the current state of the world is perfect and everyone who doubts is is a fool.
You are the type of person who would be among the mobs that wanted to burn Darwin or Copernicus. You are the type of mob the would shout soviet union slogans if you would have grown up there. Its a waste of time to engage in arguments with people like you, you are just a nerdy Trump. Go ahead bring back the coal jobs.
..because if you drink water when eating you dilute stomach acid and your food doesn't digest properly
Well, you might have just hit on it, actually: that assumes our job is to assail an accuser. Maybe that changed.
SelfControl.app is still my favorite Mac app ever. Add a list of sites to block, set a timer, go. I have a huge blacklist. I enable a 24 hour every night. This way I don’t even have a chance to start procrastinating the next morning.

The crazy thing is how many times you’ll try to go to one of your addicting sites even though it’s blocked. SelfControl acts as a great circuit breaker in this case, and can also show how bad the addiction is.

If I want to read HN, I have to do it on my phone. If I’m looking at my phone, I know I’m screwing around, so it doesn’t last long.
This reminds me of the inspiration for the name of Taleb's "green lumber fallacy". From Wikipedia:

The term green lumber refers to a story by authors Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan in their book What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars, where a trader made a fortune trading lumber he thought was literally "green" rather than fresh cut.[26] "This gets at the idea that a supposed understanding of an investment rationale, a narrative or a theoretical model is unhelpful in practical trading."[27]

The protagonist makes a big discovery. He remarks that a fellow named Joe Siegel, one of the most successful traders in a commodity called "green lumber," actually thought that it was lumber painted green (rather than freshly cut lumber, called green because it had not been dried). And he made it his profession to trade the stuff! Meanwhile the narrator was into grand intellectual theories and narratives of what caused the price of commodities to move, and went bust. It is not just that the successful expert on lumber was ignorant of central matters like the designation "green." He also knew things about lumber that nonexperts think are unimportant. People we call ignorant might not be ignorant. The fact is that predicting the order flow in lumber and the usual narrative had little to do with the details one would assume from the outside are important. People who do things in the field are not subjected to a set exam; they are selected in the most nonnarrative manner—nice arguments don’t make much difference.[25]
Am I the only one who sees a clear pattern here: each and every action of the current US president undos something that predecessor Barack Obama has accomplished.

There are the obvious things, like health insurance, immigration policy and the like. Whenever I cannot at all understand a certain action of the PotUS, like, for example, the scaling down (or closing) of two National Parks in Utah (Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante), I'll do a little research and find: the action is undoing some former act of Barack Obama.

Each day I get more and more convinced, that Mr Trumps only motivation is the extinction of the traces of his predecessor. As cited: it is not about Moon or Mars, it is about "abandoning plans set by his predecessor Barack Obama, to send humans to an asteroid near earth". Therefore it is absolutely unimportant, if the program gets funded or executed. The directive has fulfilled its purpse by rescinding an Obama act.

I am into archaeology and history. Extinguishing the traces of the predecessor is a very common pattern in history, you know, like chiseling away the former pharao's name from the temple walls. Alarmingly archaic, primitive and despotic.

Even the most absurd actions of the US president become completely reasonable, when seen in this context.
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You're raising money on behalf of other people and, presumably, pocketing some of it (even if you're say you're not, how do we know for sure?) Brave is doing this sort of thing too with their attention tokens and it strikes me as super shady. "I'll totally give it to them, honest!" doesn't seem good enough. You wouldn't get a fraction of the money you asked for if you didn't have the Wikipedia and EFF logos on that page.
I don't think I'm arguing against rugged individualism as an ideology, moreso the belief that the choices we make as individuals don't affect the people around us, which seems to be the repeating mantra from anarcho-capitalists.
If Disney goes through with their acquisition of FOX, they will control a 60% share of Hulu. Is there a chance of Disney using the platform they've built to make Hulu not suck anymore and put their content there, or will they simply control two of the major streaming services at the same time? It seems that Hulu would be a much better competitor to Netflix if they had the Disney catalogue, but I doubt there will be very many people who will not get the Disney service for their children simply because they already pay for Hulu.
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It hasn't solved scalability issues though. Litecoin will face the same issues if it is used as much as Bitcoin.
I provided those data points because they represent more than half of the portfolio. I never said that SC didn't make investments in "real problems", I was making a point that they were also investing in companies that could be considered "shitty, useless, idiotic companies" and/or "weren't solving 'real problems'".

> That seems like a pretty healthy mix.

Yes, these guys are very good investors, no doubt. As a fellow capitalist I too would have made the same bets. But that has nothing to do with my point - which is the vision of the fund is inconsistent with what I would consider the vision of the majority of the companies that are invested in.

> aren't you contributing to the problem he's describing?

How so?
Pinboard owner (and recently del.icio.us) responds to YCombinator
Yet they are expected already to operate as if they do. What's one more thing?
Why government should embrace personal technology, not ban it
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The most problems I ever had with Wifi was a mac machine (rMBP13). In the office, usually during RDP sessions, it often lost the connection and couldn't reconnect until reboot.

I've never had anything similar happen with a PC (we use Thinkpads), whether running Linux or Windows.

My Mac problem was solved using ethernet adapter.
> This system is mostly to reassure the overly-worried.

I was thinking it might be to lower the cost of their insurance.
Indeed. "Investor class" just means having enough saved, or enough income, that you are prepared to make investments where you can lose money. It's like saying those with FICO's over 480 have a monopoly on the ability to get a car loan, or that those with basic math skills have a monopoly on programming jobs.
This is how all future contracts work. There are daily limits that lock the contracts from trading. Interestingly enough these contracts seem to have very high margin requirements and lock limits. I also find the discussion about "shorting" to be interesting. All futures contracts have 2 position - a long and a short. The number of "shorts" is identical to the number of longs, unless I am misinterpreting the was these contracts are set up.
>It's not judgemental, just obvious if you have any insight into cis-males.

So its _my_ fault for _not_ stereotyping? Amazing.
No JSX – VDOM would mean things what JSX turns into e.g. `React.createElement(...)`
> Is this considered an invasion of privacy?

No.

> I wonder if they can track you with this tech.

About as well as anti-theft gates at Macy's track you.
The do what all hedge funds do - hedge. Simons put money on Hillary and Mercer put money on Trump. :D
Good points about C. Thanks.

> Go differs most in it's [...] built-in concurrency.

That was what I was driving at, as well as Go not being fit for writing a kernel in. Sorry being so inarticulate.
Many languages are spoken in the EU (as anyone can check by the several translations available for the many documents published by the EU: https://curia.europa.eu), so this sounds really silly.

I say this because most meanings are lost in translation if we're to use them literally.

Take the english word 'oil'.

- In Spain, oil would be translated to 'aceite': olive oil is 'aceite de oliva'; engine lubricating oil is 'aceite de motor'. The same thing happens in French, but a literal translation would sound weird in Portuguese, because

- In Portugal, olive oil is simply called 'azeite', a word that is not used for sunflower seed oil, called 'óleo de girassol', or motor oil, called 'óleo' or 'óleo de motor'.

A similar thing happens with the word 'cream', translated to 'natas' if it refers to the solid phase of cow milk, or 'creme' if it refers to some form of paste, be it an edible spread, a soup, or some body lotion.

So the very fact that they translated 'cream' as 'natas', in the portuguese version, means that the context is everything and that people are not unquestioning automata.
> very few objects with a comparable quantity of metal in them as a gun would routinely be carried into a casino.

I'm not sure this is true at all. A backpack with a frame has more metal than my pocket pistol, as does my MacBook Pro.

Is this system capable of discriminating between various types of metal? I know many hobby metal detectors these days can give you an idea of the conductivity of a buried target, although that can vary wildly based on depth and orientation, and is limited to about a foot or so in soil.
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The only price worth paying? Wouldn't an entity paying you to access your information be more worth it to the individual? Or maybe politicians not getting re-elected for not supporting digital privacy be a better "price" to pay?
I can assure you its not clickbait.

Fowler's post created ripples, at least in tech. It was a brilliant exposition of how not to run a company. Bullying happens in every company, what makes a company special is how you deal with it.

Uber dealt with bullying by pampering its odious alpha-shits and creating a structure around them that legitimised and encouraged it, in the guise of "culture".

Musk, Bezos xi et al, are uber rich engineers. Most moderatly intelligent people with >60 billion can change the world. Getting there in the first place is the hard part.

writing honestly about an abuse of power, knowing that it will most likley end your career and result in more persecution, takes a fuck tonne more courage than ordering a bunch of top people in thier fields to build a rocket/shopping empire.

in terms of impact, a nobody unseated Kalanick, something the US legal system never managed to do, despite his companies many legal transgressions.
2) I like K better (fitting the ideals of APL); I feel Q was done by Arthur to please some big client as it doesn't feel like he would choose that kind of thing (that's from reading interviews, seeing the iterations and his basic code philosophy)
This has been the case for a long time. This is one my my favorite movie scenes about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH0VGDi_oIY

edit: I had too many this's