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Some emails don't work, I had the same problem therefore the admin (u/etc) added me via console. I contacted him via lobste.rs, if you have an account there msg him.
Millennial here, thanks for the daily reminder of the future I have to deal with.

Failing government systems, check.
Unaffordable educational system, check.
Limited housing and land, check.
Degrading climate, check.

Some days I believe I just may find a way out of it. But, for every day I participate in the rat race is just another lost when I should be working on building a better future for my family.
You forgot to mention the cops. Cops and debt together are the United States solutions to all problems.
That was an attempt at it, though one made in bad faith by many of the leading proponents. If you are genuinely making something obsolete, you don't usually need to go to the bother of banning it.
It isn't, student debt dies with you too, or at least federal debt does.
Great read, and good catch!
While I agree with you, it is a personal choice, I think that’s not the framing most people are in.

For instance my parents strongly believe that having kids is a duty, the more the better. They will brag about having 4 kids and they’ll tirelessly push married people to make them (the endless “is it on the way yet ?”). I also saw a lot of people of their age care a lot about the family lineage not disappearing. Some even atrocely cared about the name being carried on.

Even trying to have serious discussions about it just ends in “that’s how the thing have been, that how they should be” kind of rethorics.

I sympathize with couples that have their surroundings constantly repeat them they should have a baby, and wouldn’t fault them for thinking it was part of their duty to do so.
My understanding is that the BABY ON BOARD sign is to notify emergency personnel arriving to a car accident that there is a child/baby in the vehicle who will not be able to get out of the vehicle on their own etc.

Personally, I've also looked at the BABY ON BOARD signs as a heads-up that the person driving that vehicle may be more cautious or slower than other cars. I treat it like a student driver decal.
What is the impact to the American economy when the Federal government has to write down the value of over half its assets as the average lendee dies without paying?
Treasuries are liabilities when the government issues them and assets when the Fed holds them. One person's liability is another person's asset.
It could still go both ways though, there's many registered sex offenders that shouldn't be. For example, indecent exposure charges absent any underlying sexual motivation.

That said, OP did use the word shameful.
> the US government has already guaranteed all of the loans and has no way of getting out of the without the US government defaulting. That only leaves room for printing money, which hurts all holders of US dollars

If college students are defaulting on their student loans en masse that means we’re in a recession. Recessions are deflationary. Monetising the debt would just take the place of central bank bond buying, except in a more egalitarian way.
And tls-sni-02 does not fix the problem.
So in a sense "reserved instances" are more like time sharing then.
Here's a reply I posted elsewhere in the thread about this:

Although there hasn't been a release in two years they're currently working on releasing 1.14 this year. In case you're interested the core devs have been doing a pretty good job on keeping people informed on the status of the release on the subreddit. Latest post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/7oxi53/developer_...

Also, there has been lots of updates to the github repo, just look at the 1.14-dev branch instead of master.
There's still a chance for you if you can get adopted by someone rich!
These are so-called "financial assets" (which I'm guessing are a relatively small portion of the US government's total assets).
That's good to hear... in full disclosure, after reading the first 2/3, I got tired of reading it and decided to rant :)
> The Board of Trustees of Social Security tells us that the program is going to completely run out of money within the next 15 years

Can you cite any sources on this? Im fairly certain it will not be completely out of money, but will be to a point where more money is going out than coming in.
Cherry’s new low-profile switches may bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops
> The idea that it would become trivial to distinguish between good and bad investments seems to me to be incredibly naive.

It is not naive. It is exactly how smart contracts work.

If you purchase a CDO on a blockchain, you are purchasing a share of whatever revenue paid into another contract. You can monitor those contracts, and the ones that are programmed to pay into THEM, and the ones that are programmed to pay into THEM ad infinitum.
Right, and the gov't isn't exactly waiting on this money for solvency. This debt is just going to stick around for decades until people start to die.
“Interesting time” as in jail time for money laundering and wilful tax fraud?
This ignores $2.466 trillion of US treasuries and $1.771 trillion of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities owned by the Federal Reserve.[a] Although the Fed, as the US's central bank, operates independently of the federal government, its balance sheet should properly be consolidated. The largest financial assets owned by the US federal government are therefore US treasuries and government-sponsored-entity mortgage securities, not student debt.[b]

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[a] Figures are as of November 2017. See page 12 here: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/quarterl...

[b] Many people don't realize or understand that the largest creditor of the US federal government is the US federal government, through the Federal reserve. The US federal government currently pays interest on $2.466 trillion of treasuries to the Federal Reserve, which, at the end of each year, sends all that interest back to the US Treasury.
> What's broken or ruined?

I don't remember right now, but I do know I had to install the extension in order not to find the UI unpleasant.

> Still unclear about Unity, are you talking about this [2]?

Yes.

> It seems to say that this is unsupported/deprecated by the company itself [3]?

It was depreciated right after Mozilla announced they would no longer support it - Unity had no choice at that point. I can't imagine they were very happy about it, it all but destroyed their company.
GamerGate was orchestrated by misogynistic racists on 4chan's /pol/ board. They used "ethics in journalism" as a deliberate excuse to rile people up, and tricked a large crowd of gamers into buying that excuse and thus providing them with cover and additional power. Ultimately it was a disgusting and successful attack against women and people of color.

By repeating the excuse (that it was about a game review, when in fact it was an orchestrated attack, and the supposed review does not exist), you're perpetuating a mistake (providing cover to a small group of misogynistic racists) that caused a lot of harm. I doubt you did this intentionally, so I suggest you do some more research.

There is a fantastic YouTube series that goes into detail, including investigating the public record of the people behind GamerGate, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8XgGhXkTQ

If you can't watch the whole thing (although it's worth it), this part goes into the origins of GamerGate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6TrKkkVEhs .
For me, it is my "adult" McDonalds. I have 5 artisan coffee shops in a two block radius yet I mostly go to starbucks 3 blocks away for a few reasons:

- I can order online and have the order ready for pickup when I get there

- I actually prefer their latte

- They never mess it up

It was similar on my last Asia trip. While I try to avoid any sort of non-local food/restaurant while traveling, I enjoy the familiarity and quality I get at Starbucks and frequent it wherever I go.
The reason that the adblocking bit is significant is that it makes the benchmark comparisons pretty meaningless. Failing to load 40% of the content that was served will obviously cut the load times by a comparable amount.

For an accurate comparison, Brave's adblocker should be disabled so that it loads everything that Chrome did.
dont worry. put your funds into 'good money' like sensible cryptocurrencies and watch your savings multiply. that is how we will fight the crooked boomer system.
At least for android kotlin programming, with the release of api level 27 + support libraries, it’s a lot better. They have placed the annotations all over the place. Using nullable annotations have good use cases in java too.

I would think optional types and everything else being non nullable is the way forward for java too
I don't think the problem is about lack of innovative thought. The problem is a lack of a verification mechanism. Say I come to you with an amazing new black box. A candidate puts their hand in the box, and if a light on top of the box turns green, that will be a good employee and you should hire them. How do you verify whether my box works?
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I think if cryptocurrency were ever "officially" adopted it would be a centralized model anyway. Something like Ripple or that proposed Canadian cryptocurrency.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/06/16/canada-has...

With a centralized model, there's no need for miners or mining, because you trust the system that you run. And transactions could be extremely fast.

Basically, it would look a lot like a bank with an API and public/private key signatures, running on a regular old database. Governments would probably love this, in fact, since it would prevent the cash economy from stealing their tax revenue.

You may or may not consider this "cryptocurrency", but then again most "blockchain" companies these days are just using it as a fancy database. Why do IOT devices monitoring production of $PRODUCT need to sync a blockchain? Why not just have them hit a REST API that is controlled by the client? Again, you can presumably always trust yourself/your company, so the trustless part doesn't add much value, and for a lot of this stuff there is no real need for consensus-resolution type functionality that the Bitcoin part provides.

If all you need is Merkle trees... those have been around for what, 40 years now? Bitcoin didn't invent them, Ralph Merkle did.
Yes, the title makes it sound like the US government is in a dire situation because it has its solvency tied to students paying back their loans...

But mostly the government is a borrower of cash and not a lender.

Here the government is indirectly financing people's education by offering cheaper loans than the market would give. There is not much to talk about...
Yea, 538 is one of the only outlets I can think of that quietly lives up to the standards that most media entities seem to think they hold themselves to.

They're like Vox, minus the self-back-patting about intellectual honesty and plus the _actual_ intellectual honesty.
You haven’t used Truecrypt, have you?
Nothing? That person was also collecting social security and medicare if they were old enough.
I do, but I'm not confident that the Linux monopoly will go anywhere.

It's a network effects thing. Everyone demands POSIX compatibility, and it's getting to the point where software doesn't even try to be cross-platform anymore; it just assumes you've got POSIX and a GNU environment. Possibly even specifically Linux -- Docker will run on other OSes, but it does so by launching a Linux VM to run all the containers in.
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> the company will make a payment to a buyer’s student loans of as much as 3% of the purchase price, up to $13,000.

How does this make economic sense? It reminds me of the deals home sellers would make to prop up their numbers in '06/'07.
It's a product of straight greed. Look at any business that is making large profits but still won't give paternity or even maternity leave because they don't want to pay for their employees choices. Many people and companies viee themselves as individuals who are extracting value from society instead of members of a community who are adding value to their society.

Until that becomes a rare viewpoint, or at least one with no power, we will have these problems
But that's the last thing I want. I want to work hard and I'm willing to make sacrifices to reach my goals.
Arguably, it is the young people in a society who are most concerned with these long-run environmental impacts. If there's going to be a political (and scientific and technological) mobilization to address them, it's going to require young people.

EDIT:
And we can't get too far down this road before asking the question: Are humans fundamentally a bad thing or a good thing?

This is obviously subjective. But if we say some things have intrinsic value, such as the quantity and diversity of life, then we can make some progress:
From Gaia's perspective, if humans evolved, wiped out a bunch of species, then disappeared, then humans are like an asteroid. Bad at first, but ultimately just changed the direction of evolution, not the actual presence or absence of life.

BUT, if humans are able to go beyond the Earth and establish niches for life beyond Earth, then from Gaia's perspective, humans are a net-good. Sure, there's a lot of terrible habitat destruction as humans become a technological species capable of interplanetary travel, but now humans are capable of seeding life far beyond what other species have been capable of. Humans could create diverse, rich niches for life on other planets and moons that otherwise would never experience life. Humans would then be a net-good.

That becomes impossible if we just view humanity's impact in a zero- or negative-sum way. The more humans, the worse it is for life. BUT 10 billion may be just about the minimum needed to support a large-scale interplanetary capability that's able to establish a foothold for life to flourish across the solar system and eventually the galaxy. Therefore: have children! And reduce your impact on the Earth by eating smart and using efficient energy and transportation options.
"limited housing and land"?

I don't agree. The Midwest is very affordable. Plenty of land. Remote work is a definite possibility.
Pretty much.

Christians face the void and the emptiness, but the Christian claim is that the void is the lack of God in our life caused by sin; that is, to fill the void and to address existential crises, we must engage further with God.

Mystic theology in the Protestant tradition is very obscure. My judgement is that it is because the Protestants are essentially a textual tradition. Pentacostals shook that up, but have some maturing left to do there. :-)
You want low frequency for high efficiency in transmission lines. That's why HVDC is becoming more popular [1]. It wasn't really economical to use DC current for a long time because it's more difficult to step up/down the voltage than with AC (you just need a transformer). But power electronics and in particular power semiconductors have advanced so much that HVDC becomes more and more prevalent. As for AC: The higher the frequency the higher the losses, but you can use smaller transformers (without using any fancy power electronics).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
>>> Lawsuits ensued. Jo sued the bank. The bank sued Jo. Jo sued her stepchildren. The stepchildren sued Jo. The stepchildren sued the bank. And so on.

Neither Jo nor the children wanted to negotiate. They forced each other to have a third party and they fought until there was nothing left to inherit.

A family with lesser means would ruin themselves with a cheaper executor. It's really common.
So you compress the video to a smaller size, and then fill in the bandwidth you saved with random data?

Why compress at all? Wouldn't just having a pixel perfect stream solve the same issue and give better quality video?
I agreed to this deal and I feel like I do need to pay off the debt, but I'm lucky in that I have a job that will allow me to do it the normal way if the crypto market crashes (heaven forbid, plz). What about the 18 year olds whose helicopter parents never allowed them to imagine a filthy reality like failing to go to college?

Regardless of whether that kid should have been free-thinking enough to see outside their existence's bubble, it's irresponsible to exploit their ignorance for profit. Most of these kids haven't ever seen a debt-ridden life like they're signing up for. I grew up with parents who ranted and raged about debt, and I still did it. Are you sure the problem lies with the kids signing the papers (I guess clicking the "Get your loan here!" button these days)?
Why though? Why is programming seemingly the only field where companies feel the need to put up these super interview processes with mutiple interview rounds, technical tests, white boarding, etc?

Is it the high salaries? In that case, do you see such testing in law, or finance?

Is it the technical difficulty? In a previous life (read: up to a few months ago) I worked as a mechanical engineer, in a pretty technical field (numerical simulation of structures). Additionally to demanding reasonably deep knowledge in a few areas, the job came with the responsibility of making sure that your designs do not kill or injure people.

I had never had a technical test in an interview before I interviewed for my current IT position. Nor have I heard of colleagues having such a test. Is it because most engineers in Canada are licensed (myself included), and most jobs require you be licensed? If that's the case, it's pretty funny, because at least in my province, the test you have to pass for the license is entirely about ethics and professionalism, nothing technical.

Part of the code of ethics though, is that it's on you as a professional to ensure you have the necessary competence to do the work.
Ah, yes - the Spotify app is a product of work within the company but it's not the product.

Language isn't prescriptive so it's irrelevant anyhow but the problem here is you're using Google's first result (which is the awful dictionary.com results).

Using a not-awful dictionary (Merriam-Webster) gives us a much more normal (and broader) set of definitions, including:

> something produced; especially : commodity 1 (2) : something (such as a service) that is marketed or sold as a commodity.

Spotify certainly produces the software (it's their distribution method) but what they market and sell as their commodity is music. Music is, even dictionary definitionally, their product.
The Go MongoDB mgo driver is no longer maintained
The nerve of some people, asking you to drive more safely, just because they have a baby on board.

I wonder if there is any stats around it actually having an effect? Do the police record the presence of such signs?
You know, the consortium also approved the slightly smiling face,[1] which should show content without being so exaggerated. Also I would never thing that your example in 2 would be expressing exhaustion, the mouth closes in the middle like the face is crying, not like it is out of breath. To me the weary face on iOS 11.2 looks like "poor you, i'm so sorry"

[1] https://emojipedia.org/slightly-smiling-face/
The Social Security Trust Fund does exhaust it's surplus (if no additional changes are made to the system), but that reduces benefits to ~3/4 of those promised; benefit payments do not disappear entirely.

"In the annual Trustees Report, projections are made under three alternative sets of economic and demographic assumptions. Under one of these sets (labeled "Low Cost") the trust funds remain solvent for the next 75 years. Under the other two sets (the "Intermediate" and "High Cost"), the trust funds become depleted within the next 20 years. The intermediate assumptions reflect the Trustees' best estimate of future experience.

Some benefits could be paid even if the trust funds are depleted. For example, under the intermediate assumptions, annual income to the trust funds is projected to equal about seventy-nine percent of program cost once the trust funds become depleted. If no legislation has been enacted to restore long-term solvency by that time, about three-quarters of scheduled benefits could be paid in each year."

As long as the government continues to exist and has the ability to tax, Social Security will be around.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/fundFAQ.html

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/solvency/index.html
From my limited knowledge of encryption, this is why you don't compress before you encrypt. So if I understand the following article correctly, this kind of attack is well known. https://blog.appcanary.com/2016/encrypt-or-compress.html
I think we know how to do links and rotary joints at that scale, and that's all you need for these machines.
It is impossible because it is always possible to game the system.

If you devise an interview framework or a hiring profile, no matter how many traits you want to evaluate(as the article points out), they will lump those together and measure in some scale of how likely they are to hire the candidate(sometimes that is even just binary), if a candidate can emulate their desired profile he gets a high "score" and gets an offer, the bigger the financial incentives to do this, more people will game the system(prepare for specific interviews), think, if you can play the part for a couple of 1-hour interviews, you can get a 6-figure salary at a tech startup, that is a high ROI.

Most companies can't stop that, there isn't limitless budget for interviewing so the interview process has limited resources to evaluate people, which leads to false positives. There are also a lot of talented people that don't practice their interviewing skills enough and end up as false negatives.

It's human nature, people need to evaluate things on a single criterion and you can game that. The same thing happens with school, you can work your way through school material to maximize your grades without learning much.
> it is not possible even in principle to tell if the ibank has rigged a CDO to have more than it's share of lemons!

Yes, you can purchase a bad CDO on a blockchain just as easily as you can purchase bad real estate in real life. Nothing prevents humans from misrepresenting data. But that isn't the point of the blockchain.

The point is that the transparency of the blockchain lets you (and others) know when you're holding a lemon, because you can see in real-time that no-one is paying off the mortgages in your CDO. What you do when that happens is a good question and the blockchain can't help [1], but it doesn't crash the entire market because people can tell the difference between your CDO and the quality ones that are still 100% good.

[1] it actually can help in one important way -- it provides an indisputable record of contract execution and payments that is not contained within the computer system of your counterparts (the bank). So if there is fraud it will be much easier to prove it to the courts than if you need to subpoena records out of the bowels of a corporate banking system.
That's... an incredible over-simplification of their algorithms. To the point of ridiculousness.
I love this and am going to steal the phrasing.

Doge is an absurdity. Like "Cards Against Humanity" or the "C'est non un Pipe" paintings. That it can be considered to be 'legit' or anything else is fantasy.

Anyone that is investing in Doge is a fool. Unfortunately, there are just too many damn fools.
> The Board of Trustees of Social Security tells us that the program is going to completely run out of money within the next 15 years. Millennials’ retirement horizon is far beyond that.

That’s not how Social Security works. For practical purposes, it’s pay-as-you-go system: http://www.heritage.org/social-security/report/misleading-th.... As boomers retire, taxes will need to go up to account for the higher ratio of retirees to workers. But when the millenials retire, unless they end up having a substantially smaller generation after them, that strain will not be there.