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> they know nothing about money.

Oh, I think they probably know the basics.

They know how percentages work well enough to know that they could take all that money and put it strictly into safe investments, and get a considerable, steady cash flow from that, on which a more than comfortable life is possible.

Any rank and file financial advisor at a local bank branch could set them straight on the basics, if they want.

Come on, just half a percent earned on $100M is $500,000; total no-brainer.

That's boring though; they want to substantially multiply their wealth. They want to take their dough and blow it sky high. E.g. guy who has a $100M million put away thinks he can turn it into a $1B empire.

It's like another sport; scoring another goal.

In some ways, taking the risk makes sense (just not to the point that you go broke). Say you have that example $100M, and you could earn 0.5% on it for the rest of your life. Well, whoopee; why would you? You could simply draw 500,000 a year from that for 200 years, even if it earns nothing. (Let's ignore inflation and all that for simplicity.)

So you can see why the lower-yield safe things are not attractive if you have a lot of money.

I think these guys just fall victim to a "go big or go home" thinking. Plus they probably think that they have so much money, they don't have to keep tabs on exactly how much.

Also, while they have those high paying contracts, they think that their income can always save them.
Even then it doesn't matter because you are signing an insecure hash.
Or perhaps the question should be why the gun didn't have basic/full protection against foot-shooting.
The solution is to fire whoever convinced you that javascript belongs in your database.
This is not a good way to calculate it because it ignores volatility of the investment. There are decades of publications in the topic of sequence of returns and the impact on retirement.

$25,000 is likely a little too low but $70,000 is way, way too high.

Most people who've done research agree that something like $25,000 to $35,000 a year from $1,000,000 is reasonable for someone retiring extremely young.
I'm sure you're also trying for better content. I'll continue to embrace my displeasure for posts like these, thank you very much.
You’re saying a thing doesn’t exist. I know people that specialize in that thing. That seems like a disagreement of facts; I don’t really see how that’s explaining your experience to you. Whether a medical speciality -exists- isn’t a subjective issue.

I’m gonna leave it at this: if you’re willing to take a trip, NYU has a dedicated repeat pregnancy loss center (Phone: 212-263-6359).

(And for what ever a strangers internet words are worth: I do earnestly hope that they or someone else succeeds in helping you.)
This was the most interesting part of the article. It’d be nice if someone could verify this claim with more research and study.

>Tylenol (acetaminophen) is the least-effective over-the-counter painkiller. At the time of writing, it beats placebo 62% of time. To put that in perspective, taking a sugar pill will cure your headache better than Tylenol 38% of the time. In other words, it’s not that effective.

>Going back to the depression page, we can see that our favorite SSRI, Lexapro, beats placebo 58% of the time. In other words, the best SSRI that big pharma can muster has a probability of benefit 4 points worse than Tylenol—the least effective painkiller. Let me say that again: the worst headache cure you’ve tried is more powerful than every SSRI.
Esperanto flag is missing, not sure why it was not approved yet
According to the Yodel driver who delivers to us, they are paid a rather small per-parcel fee and expected to make an almost unreasonable number of deliveries in a certain timeframe. They already have the same factors that are likely responsible for pushing the quality of Amazon's service down.
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boom-bust.jpg

Not sure we are there yet, nobody knows for sure because if they knew they'd own the market.

But that was what I was talking about.
Basic income is bullshit that's getting loudly advocated from the top of society as a convenient way to tamper down social discontent while doing nothing about the unfair inequality at the root of many societies.

In the middle of Dallas is a small city never actually incorporated by the city called Highland Park. This is where George W. Bush and the upper middle class lives. The people who grow up in Highland Park will go to some of the best high schools in the nation. They'll be well trained and well prepared to go to colleges like Harvard and Princeton and Yale. These people end up running major corporations and dominating politics.

Meanwhile, if you drive ten miles south, you'll end up looking at public schools that look like prisons, that are desperately underfunded. These students, already having hard lives, will struggle to succeed, a large number will not graduate. There are no million dollar payouts or election victories for these people. They end up being the poor sods that the wealthy academics, politicians, and business people talk about when from their perch they are able to finally read about and observe human misery. But if you look at their actions, they will continue to take and take and take from these people. If not that, they benefit the most from talking about them.

Every city has a Highland Park (Detroit, certainly). Check out the people who run most major companies. They come from those places to a large extent. Name a major politician that doesn't have elite school roots. That's not to say these people are bad or evil, but if we're going to be serious about ending this charade of meritocracy, we've gotta stop rewarding that. Basic income is more of the same. It's bullshit that doesn't strike at the heart of the problem.

Netflix has a new series called Dirty Money. I thought the first episode about VW was pretty damn good, but the second is fascinating and sad. It's meritocracy in action. We have lots of practices in society which are business as usual which are basically scams. The poor are the most vulnerable to these scams.

https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/83?jbv=80118100&jbp=0&j...

Why talk about basic income when we have glaring systematic flaws which can be solved without giving more power to that system?
Why would it need to send audio? Convert it to text in the device and send that.
there's only a bitcoin address on scihub's site
Yeah I was overthinking it. They definitely meant the average period of this happening was about a lifetime, i.e. what you said.
No, don't do that. Git's gpg signing function signs the commit hash, which is SHA1.

Until git uses something other than SHA1, this is insecure.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/at-de...

You can gpg sign code, but do not sign a SHA1 hash.
I don't think your scenario is realistic.

Are there examples of machine learning used to break into a system? I've heard of other machine-supported techniques which seem more effective, like fuzz testing. But not deep learning.

Wouldn't it be more useful to talk about more realistic examples? Like how deep learning methods end up encoding race or gender bias (eg, https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nz7798/weve-alrea... or http://randomwalker.info/publications/language-bias.pdf ) because they are trained on data created by humans with human prejudices?

Or using deep learning to keep people "engaged" with a web site or app with in-app purchases, by making making it more addictive? (eg, https://boingboing.net/2018/02/07/literal-sociopathy.html )
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Lawyers don’t have the monopoly on 60 hour weeks of deep thinking.
I think you and I are in 100% agreement, because I didn't try to ad-hominem all people who value nature, I was being a very tiny bit reductionistic in describing a large vocal population, which are people who demonize technology or our current state because it doesn't fit into their personal narrative (often surprisingly fed by many 90's movies).

So I was targeting it towards the idiocy of the original author, not of those on every side that realize nuance and balance are just as important.
Look at the comment in this thread declaring that you’re unreasonable to expect overtime compensation if you should “expect” overtime because of the nature of the work. That’s not a fringe opinion.

We live in an era where the rights of workers and individuals is held in contempt by those in business and government. If you aren’t wealthy, you’re defective.
This thread have given me the uneasy feeling that I watched a completely different show.

I only remember the outlines of the issue but I recall the Conservatives wanting to not "look weak" on policy reflecting ongoing negotiations in Berlin when they had already been repeatedly warned about the consequences and decided to play chicken with the market?
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There are several smart bulbs that people have reverse-engineered enough to put open-source firmware on them. They'd still be using wifi, but you could use firmware that doesn't require any "cloud" or external connections.
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another thing I love about scihub is how fast it is - paste the DOI and boom it's there!
I think the bigger part is that a lot of luxury goods are very hard to select without seeing them in person. Clothes are an obvious one, since you wouldn't want to buy them without trying them on (and, at the higher end, getting them tailored). But the same goes for all sorts of fashion products - leather, handbags, jewelry... you don't know whether it's what you want until you can try it on, feel the material, and see the true color.
Nope. Switched outlets are pretty uncommon in the US. (I've seen them, but not recently.)
Sounds like contract work done by the lowest bidder. No coherent chain of a command, just get stuff to people's houses no matter what or lose your contract.
I think the last point really drives is home. Following the trial for a week, there honestly wasn't any strong winner. It was pretty weak on both sides, and no one could've really predicted which side the jury would've fell I think. It was down to game theory, they would both rather get a settlement than bet on the jury.
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it's happening already
> This will enable older women to have kids and solve some reproductive issues.

Under 35, the success rate for IVF is ~40%. Between 35 and 42, it's about 10%. After 42 it's about 4%. Each time you try it costs around 20k, albeit sometimes the first one or two tries are subsidized by insurance or state grants. And there are also all sorts of health risks to both the mother and baby.

So even if you can safely create unlimited eggs at a nominal cost, I don't see this having any practical effect on family planning. (Other than as a treatment for certain infertility issues.)

Given that it takes around two years to have a baby, pragmatically you're still going to ideally want to start having kids no later than 35 - 2 * (desired kids), at least for the foreseeable future.
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In the Philippines, never, given my observations of the culture here.
That's an interesting idea. What would you say makes the LSAT difficult?
The regex crate doesn't support it, and it's not something I'm personally interested in working on. My goal at this point is to make the regex crate as good as possible at what it does, across the board. There's still a long way to go.

Other than that though, there is a WIP crate that actually builds on the `regex` crate and provides fancier features: https://crates.io/crates/fancy-regex (Created by the same author as Xi.)

You can also use bindings to a more established library. The Onigurama bindings seem well developed: https://github.com/rust-onig/rust-onig

There are also bindings to PCRE, but they are of varying quality. The regex crate's benchmark suite binds to several other libraries (including C++ and D libraries), but they are very minimal bindings sufficient for rough microbenchmarking: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/tree/master/bench/src/ffi
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What's being tested here has nothing to do with Spectre. Only KPTI.
Is that actually a requirement? I know it's the norm, but my house still has plenty of unswitched outlets.
er, I switched to firefox when it became a good browser again. will see what I can do about the cert. thx
I found JL Collins' "Stock Series"[1] of posts on his blog really helpful. He lays out a very simple investment strategy using low-cost index funds and talks about a lot of different investment vehicles in an easy to understand way. He also wrote a book on the same subject matter called "The Simple Path to Wealth".
[1]http://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/
That's addressed in the post.

> Oh, where did you think it was going to be? Somewhere convenient for you?

> One of the stronger reasons for adopting a new time zone is to more easily do business with a neighbouring territory which already uses that time zone. China, a gigantic country spanning some sixty degrees of longitude (and therefore, nominally, four whole "hours") has been unified on a single time zone since 1949. And it was already the largest single time zone in the world by population.

> So, this phenomenon has now spread globally. Everybody wants to do business with China and her allies - everybody is China's ally. Everybody is on China Standard Time, UTC+08:00.
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To my knowledge it hasn’t been tried. It shouldn’t be too difficult to author a tool to do so, which could itself be made go-gettable. With this you’d avoid the mess of shipping an alternate build of the go tool and all that entails.
> This is nothing less, Soros claims, than a theft of citizens’ autonomy. “People without the freedom of mind can be easily manipulated.”

What autonomy? I’m usually one to shrug off the “no free will” problem and just buy into reality, but the quoted statement brings the problem front-and-center.

We are all being manipulated, all the time, by everything that we interact with. So FB isn’t really stealing anything from us. And yes it manipulates the mind, but isn’t that just part of the human experience?
I read somewhere that big companies use BitTorrent internally to update their codebase.

But yeah, I'd really like for someone to develop a VCS like that (even more if it's in Go, with no Cgo, and under BSD, MIT or Apache license). It'd make distribution, immutability and mirroring so much easier.
It got so bad with the AMZN delivery company that we finally requested they ship to us with anyone but them.

- Delivery dates constantly getting pushed back 1-3 days (why even have prime?).

- Delivery notifications for packages that were never delivered, and not even attempted to be. Someone is almost always home and we have a security camera on all approaches to the house, they don’t even try.

- Completely lost packages.

- Our stuff getting delivered to the neighbors, and vice versa.

Amazon’s delivery has been an unmitigated disaster in our neighborhood.
Thanks. The info on the other crates is what I was looking for, I wouldn't expect this one to do more than what it aims for, which seems to be a specific type of regex engine which isn't amenable to all features but gets extra speed in that trade-off.
What about a (theoretical) general AI that could socially engineer passwords and banking info from victims online? Or pretend to be a person to call in a bomb threat?
You forgot an important detail from your physics classes: the electric field inside a Faraday cage is only zero when it's exposed to static electric fields. Changing electric fields, like radio waves, can pass through, although they'll be attenuated.

Also, if you place an electric charge inside a Faraday cage, it will cause an electric field outside the cage, and the electric field inside the cage will still be zero.
Has anyone who is not a native speaker gotten dragon to accurately detect even basic commands like page up, page down etc.? I've been testing such a system for months now and I can't get past the basics.

Also has anyone used the smartnav? I've been thinking about it but wasn't sure how good it is. I just switched to a roller mouse red which is still hand operated.
I find it incongruent that you have valuable skills yet can't find work because if they are valuable then people would buy them. I went homeless, and would have remained homeless if I stuck to what I valued. Instead, I shifted my values to work on things that other people value.

The cruelty of our world, imo, is that values shift and there is no good safety net to help everyone bounce back efficiently.
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We have already figured it out how to make babies not die. Have babies when you are young.
Bro, I just want to give you a hug right now. I am crying in a public place and looking weird and I know HN is not a cool place to express this and this is not a good comment to insert into an otherwise intellectual conversation, but I love you and I hope you are good, man. I went through some shit like this a while back and it worked out for me in the end but I know it doesn't always. It doesn't fix anything but I'm thinking about you and hoping things are good for you, for what it's worth.
The problem is the population size. There's no way the environment can recover from 7+ billion people using the resources we need. Additionally, the term comfortably is relative, the more we have the more we think we need to live comfortably. Ask a hunter-gather what he/she need to be comfortable vs an upper-middle-class individual in New York and you'll get an extremely different answer.

I see a future where we get our food directly from the sun and with most animals and plants destroyed- pets and house plants will likely be the survivors we pick.

Very sad!
The first Mad Max was not particularly post-apocalyptic - the world was falling down, but the vestiges of society were still rather strong, and the lunatic fringe like Toecutter were just motorcycle gangs cranked up to 11.

Things have gotten weirder and weirder in every installment since.
Because paying for things more than they are worth makes all the sense. Soviet experiment worked out really well!

Of course what Amazon will pay their delivery personnel will match the quality of Amazon service, such as it is, anyway.
I don't think there's any uncertainty that the rate of child birth is peaking and is going to decline and continue declining.

There's really no alternative path I can see. One could put it at urbanized, cosmopolitan women aren't interested in child birth unless there are positive options.

I mean, first people thought China's one-child policy was reducing childbirth but a close look and efforts to dial showed the decisions were fairly well set.

Brazil didn't have to have an education outreach program. Ordinary TV was enough to reduce the reproduction rate.

And a variety of nations are looking at their negative reproduction rates (Japan, Taiwan, Russia, France, China etc) and finding there's no easy reversal. It's more like high reproduction are an exception in society's transitioning out of peasantry but after that, it goes down and doesn't go up again.
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I'm not familiar with the current state of the art in speech recognition, is there a low bitrate which is still intelligible to speech recognition engines, or is this still a domain that the human brain has enough of an advantage?
Absolutely nothing in your screed even talks about a basic income, except your first and last sentences.
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You are confusing Shakespeare the author of the plays with Shakespeare the actor and producer and theatre manager. No one I believe disputes the latter.
I quit facebook years ago for this reason. Many people quit facebook for privacy reasons my main reason to quit was that facebook was consuming the open web. Where many businesses etc were using facebook as their main web presence. It allowed them to have low cost web presence but to me this was going to lead to death of the open web.
We live in an era where the rights of workers is held in contempt by workers. Everybody wants to drag everyone else down.
Regime change is currently on the table. In the event of further economic collapse.

What Would a U.S. Intervention in Venezuela Look Like?

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/venezuela/2017-11-08...
Yes, they are different. Fortnite is arcade-y and the end game changes significantly due to the building mechanic. PUBG is much more methodical and strategic. I play both for different reasons and clearly the market can support two wildly successful battle royale games with 3mil+ CCU. So again, why do need to have a “winner”?

Your desire to see them suffer because god forbid the servers go down for five hours is an example of the shitty toxicity game developers have to deal with from fans nowadays. Blue hole isn’t Epic, they don’t have the resources or the comparable talent, but they made a really fun game. Isn’t that enough for $29.99?
Traditional ones, yes. However, modern tag databases are just that, databases. Sending a query to a database to find all callers and such can be offloaded to another process easily enough.

Note that this isn't really that new, for the modern tag. Cscope was already an external command. And you already offloaded the tag creation to an external process. I see very little need for the tag navigation to all be in elisp.

The final selection, of course, can still be in elisp. Since that will be user input driven.
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You could reset your expectations. Paying the bills every month is a lot better than many people manage. OK, you aren't getting absurdly rich... but the bills are paid. There are probably personal things to focus on. You can treat work as just work, a job to pay the bills, so that you can afford to do normal things with your life. You can take up a hobby, raise a giant family, or whatever. There is life outside of work, and your work makes that possible.
Have you ever watched "The Road Warrior"?
You're right, but most of the real intelligence in the voice-to-text these devices are relying on comes from computation done on the server side, I believe. That way they get to constantly train the algorithm with new data, and so on and so forth. (the point still stands, either way: the network bandwidth these things use is not a big deal)
MBA who doesn’t know what a tax deduction is? I call bullshit. I did a business minor and took finance, any business student would fake finance.
I did a podcast with a friend covering a lot of these points here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffQEoSJW4w

I think a big myth people need dispelled is that cryonics is really expensive. It's not a very expensive gamble to take, and it's pretty easy to see that it's worthwhile for many people.
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