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What are you even talking about? When you retire you stop accumulating savings and start spending it. At first it continues to grow but if you plan correctly you will have made good use of it by end of life. Then it will be depleted.
They unfortunately publish a lot of useless filler nowadays, but it's pretty easy to skip past that, and they still seem to do real journalism on a regular basis. Are they really worth less than $0?
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I type "reboot" into the wrong SSH window all time, especially when I'm tired.

It's really quite a lot easier than pressing the wrong power button (I do that too at my desk).
We're talking about a country that gave 1.35 million votes to a literal clown [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiririca
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Social Security, in my retirement? That's a laugh.
I have a simple standing table arrangement. My main table is wide enough to put another small side table on it (bought for 5 quid or so at Ikea). Most of the time I sit, but several times a day I stand using the side table. Works perfectly. Standing up also helps me to re-focus. I highly recommend this.
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'Today we expect far more parent involvement than ever before (at least in the US)...'

True also in the UK. As a kid, the normal after-school routine was to walk home, get changed and play out until it was dark. All achieved with minimal contact with parents.

Now kids seem to have very little independent time and this, in my opinion, is/will be very much to their detriment in later life.
Sure, but what are the chances of a bitcoin hardfork?
Is the issue a lack of jobs or a lack of jobs that pay enough to prosper in our society?

BLS has the mean annual income for a truck driver at $43,000 (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes533032.htm) versus ~ $22,000 for a personal care assistant (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home-health-aides-and-per...).

That's a huge difference, especially in a country with the health care system we have.
Washington state has passed laws protecting net neutrality
Again, no, we didn't care.

First:
We were already publishing all our GCC changes, as we did all our work upstream (we worked on a staging branch in the gcc repo, and changes were moved to trunk as fast as possible) Plenty of other companies used our branch and we were happy with it.

We do all our work upstream for clang/llvm as well, and pull compiler releases when upstream is green according to our internal testing.
(Pretty much the only cherry picks are a small number of reverts sometimes)

Second, literally nobody has ever come and expressed a concern about using GCC to me.

I've had to explain the runtime and libstdc++ exceptions to people, but that was the other way around -- They weren't worrying, and I needed to make sure they worried and shipped source when they ship it as a .so.
That's the power of compounding interest. Just make sure to avoid fees. They compound, too.
A lot of people hate it but I actually find the daily standup a good motivator to help getting shit done. The desire to be able to report something the next day helps keep me focused.
"The system will be 5 times cheaper than current drilling methods"

When did it become acceptable to write nonsense like that? How can something be five times less expensive? What is wrong with saying "one fifth the price?"

It's not just this author, I see this in print media everywhere.
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You and the author are both suggesting that improvements in jobs for women raise the opportunity cost of having large families, yet you are framing it as a refutation.
... who are often the best early investors :)
Yes, of course. Just get the NCERT history texts of Grade 6 and 7[1]. Grade 6 deals with ancient india till Harsha (6xx AD). Grade 7 starts with Delhi Sultanate (12xx AD). 600 years of history that included the brutalism of Ghazni and Ghori gone. Poof. Just like that.

1. https://www.books4jobs.com/ncert-books-history-class-6-12-ia...
The bigger patent troll company would have to prove it has been patent trolled by the smaller company though? If the smaller company has never even contacted the bigger one, how is there any shred of a patent abuse violation?
15 years ago when we were hosting servers in a co located facility I accidentally turned off a server instead of rebooting it (from terminal services).

The support personel were annoyed as they had to drive over to the facility and manually push the power button
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Don't you think they'd be able to take that into account with the software? Large trucks already put a huge amount of wear like that on highways (I've seen plenty of ruts from trucks in asphalt roads). Technology like this is an opportunity to actually improve the wear patterns.
"are you sure it's worth it" It is for me.

I think advertisement should be taught at school, so everybody can recognize when they are being pushed/nudged into feeling something. Because I think it does a whole lot of damage to society (obesity, stress, debt, etc).

I know it sounds depressing like that, but have a nice day :)
"Jobs for women are higher-paying and more satisfying than ever before, and that raises the opportunity cost of having large families"
This is not true. Depending on the wife for income prevents her from focusing on having a large family.

You claim to be disagreeing but I think you are agreeing with that comment. By referring to "opportunity cost", the author means precisely that when a woman works it is harder to have a large family. Not having a job is one opportunity cost of children.
It is still a mystery after watching that.
Do you mean "frontloading" the year? As in 1000 jan, 900 feb, etc? Or was it a typo and you meant decreasing your spending?
>>Like in most of the 3rd world ...voters don't understand how corruption, nepotism, patronage and incompetence affects them.
All the above in US is called "lobbying" and it's legal, so you really can't jail anyone for it.

USA voters don't do much better, don't worry. We just have a printing machine that churns out new dollars at record pace so we face no debt deadlines.
A model of PS/2 I worked on when I was a teenager had mains voltage across two exposed terminals behind the big power switch. I discovered this when dropping a screwdriver across them.
I often find myself slacking when I have to write code I am ashamed of.

Writing new stuff from scratch is fun, I have zero problem being motivated to code things that are hard or challenging. And I can keep focusing for a long time.

However, if my task is to shoehorn some code that I know to be crap into my project for x or y reason, oh boy, then I can drag my feet for a looooooooong time.
Maybe the Norwegian model/Canadian model is a good example (not that it's increasing fertility, but it's improving affordability). We have:

- Subsidized daycare

- Subsidized education

- 1.5 year maternity leave

- Subsidies for families with children under a certain income bracket

It's affordable, but couples in western countries don't really want more children (just under 2 is the average)
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You're in pretty dangerous territory when you start to justify censorship because the right people are getting censored. Censors, be they government or not, never think they're censoring the wrong people, they always think they're doing the right thing.

Also, if media and network consolidation make non-government censorship as powerful as government censorship, and the "physicists, doctors, artists, etc making the same complaints," then it's probably too late to do much about it. It's much better to nip the problem in the bud, and prevent the infrastructure of private censorship from getting too developed.

Think of it this way: if you give too much power to good people in government, then when some crazy fucker like Donald Trump comes along, he can do a lot more harm because he has all the tools and precedents he needs to fuck things up, handed to him ready-made. It's the same for power generally.
The article focuses on very utilitarian ways of thinking of a family, which is a sad way to look at kids.

I know lots of large families - many who are extremely poor - who are the happiest people I know. The difference being that they've made their family their source of joy, and don't look somewhere else to find fulfillment.

I'm writing this in case someone reads this article and thinks "well, the math doesn't support having children, so I won't". There's a _lot_ more to kids than financial calculation.
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You can just zoom out. It 'works' properly on desktop.
Do this when you are young, too. Doing this when you're older, say 50+, can still work, it's just harder. Unless I pay my mortgage off early, before I qualify for Social Security, I'll still be paying it. On the other hand, it's less than $800/month, so I am not too worried.
This is re. India, but might also apply to other developing countries - public school is not an option. Because the public school system is so abysmal, it is used mostly by the very poor who have no other choice. Sending your kids to private schools is a fundamental aspiration, one that is realized even with single mothers who work as maids / domestic help.

This point along puts a huge cost on having children, even for people below or just around the poverty line. When sex was the only recreation option available with no known birth control methods, lots of kids was the norm. That has changed now, though. People at all levels of society know that raising a child with an semblance of upward mobility is expensive, and logarithmically so - the good private schools are 10X more expensive than the regular ones, with the international schools going to 100X.

Breaking the norms is difficult, but it looks like the country is already tending towards a voluntary one child policy, at least for any parents that hope their children will live better than they did.
Marinated chicken (made in bulk) and protein shakes are your best friends to get the protein macros in without spending too much time on cooking.
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I opened, there is too much info for my small brain to grasp and closed it. :-(
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Curious why you wanted 5 kids. Seems like a large number these days.
The U.S. used to have extensive short-haul rail, even inside cities. That's how cargo moved around back in the era before inexpensive motorized trucks.

I suspect the reason it disappeared is that rail sidings are large and expensive compared to truck loading docks. You're not going to have ten sidings on a property as easily as you stick ten bays in a loading dock.
These seem underwhelming compared to what the Chinese manufacturers are doing. For example, 100$ can get you one of these: https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_4_(4x)-8608.php
Yeah, as well intentioned as it is, the real corruption is people taking huge backhanders for stuff, and diverting government funds to their family, not people forgetting to name the members of staff they had lunch with on paperwork, getting the date wrong on the paperwork or buying stuff in both the origin city and destination city of their flights. And the real corruption generally doesn't involve expense receipts

The UK had a similar issue which started off with looking at very specific instances where politicians made hundreds of thousands of pounds from fraudulent representations for expenses associated with a London "second home" and ended up ranking MPs by office expenses they were very much entitled to claim and highlighting legitimate claims for snacks just because they were funny. Trouble is, the basic conclusion was "all MPs are corrupt" which actually makes it harder to grab public attention over more serious conflicts of interest.
> Then, they blocked the IP address of our scanner so we could not scan their server anymore.

Long time lurker, made an account just to ask this: What are your comments on this unprofessional reaction from the Swiss?
Then don’t release it.

This isn’t the first time Google has released a product exclusively for Chrome, trying to pull more users to their own platform. Even if this is not directly intended, the result is a massive anticompetitive effect.
>I’ve struggled at times though to figure out how to balance the need for off the cuff collaboration with teammates with the productivity that comes with isolation.

I suspect a good metric to use here is how valuable you perceive your collaboration time to be. i.e. if all your collaboration time was highly valuable and productive, you wouldn’t feel a need to change your balance.

Thus, I’d suggest looking for ways to increase the value of collaboration time. I wonder if your issue stems from simply being more productive/experienced than your peers, which could give you the sense that collaboration slows you down.
This is a great tool for showing people what risk actually means..
cons are an infringement on our privacy.

You have to explain why I'm supposed to care that MoviePass knows where I am when I'm near a theater (i.e. why is this a con). You're acting like this is obvious, but it's not. All your work is ahead of you.
Oh, you're one of those people that thinks we're exceptional from our historical counterparts. Or exceptional as Americans from the rest of the world.

Neither of those follows from the gp comment. (Careful, your biases are showing!)

And you should really take a look at what our "much more sophisticated notion of humanity and the self" does every day in unfortunate shithole countries around the world. Or even what we do in nice countries.

You make some good points. However, I didn't say we were done; Just that we've made undeniable progress.
i'm more involved in forensics than, uh, apparently the rest of you.

i suggest that when thinking about the various forensic "sciences", a good way to think about their reliability is "was this concocted for purely legal reasons, or is this a bunch of normal scientific/medical techniques bent to forensic purposes?" that will quickly let you divide things up into "bullshit" and "not bullshit".

bite marks, tool marks, firearm testing? all concocted to generate convictions; bullshit. nobody uses any of those things for anything except legal cases.

forensic toxicology, drug chemistry, dna? normal science bent to forensic purposes; not bullshit. those were all developed elsewhere, by scientists doing real science, and then later applied to legal cases.

can the folks doing the testing go bad? yes. the best and only way to address that is for the defense in cases to bring in their own independent experts, and do their own testing if enough sample remains.

at least in the US, the best way to make that happen is to fund public defenders better, which solves all sorts of other problems, too.
1. Not abi compatible

2. Not performant (Relative to other solutions)

3. Would be the odd man out. Literally all other development was on clang/llvm at this point.

Supporting mingw would have meant duplicating all performance/etc work for GCC.

4. Chrome also wanted other benefits that clang/LLVM would bring them (easy ability to build various forms of refactoring and analysis tooling, etc)
Will Uber pay a bigger portion of the road repair taxes? Especially considering truckers already pay a disproportionately lower tax compared to the impact they have on the roads.
This is really nice. Just want to say thanks for the work. This will help myself and a ton of people
It models a bunch of different possible investment returns to show you how your money would fare over a long period.
I love the simplicity and the look of the UI. Unfortunately I think the simplicity means that very important parameters are being left out. Ideally, you should be able to specify estimated return rate and estimated inflation rate. Also, specifying the draw down rate would be nice... I've poured through a lot of these calculators recently as I've begun to get interested in FIRE... I think the most simple (but good) one is the AARP calc if you want a simple example.

Finally, and I think this is where it really falls short - this calculator is WAY TOO OPTIMISTIC out of the gate. I just cross checked it w/ my own calculations - it doesn't add up. Its "conservative" estimate is way higher than my "optimistic" plan (10% return / 3% inflation based on a passive index investing strategy)
Since that poc they're using Scylla on hundreds of machines... that's just an old post.
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I assume these self-driving trucks still have a human driver in them. So, which exact parts are self-driving? Is it like Tesla's autopilot where it does lane following, cruise control and keeping the distance on highways?
This was a failure of the court itself to enforce proper standards of evidence. For once you can't blame parliament.
"Not to mention how expensive large vans/suvs are to actually drive them around. "

Just driving is pretty expensive. Not owning a car saves loads. Unfortunately, it usually takes a lot of money to live somewhere that doesn't require one.

Also worth noting - my wife would be at home with the kid right now (I have a much higher income) except she has substantial student debt, so off to work she goes. This means paying for creche too.

We couldn't afford creche fees for two kids, and she can't afford not to work due to aforementioned debt.

Also we had a kid because we were approaching mid thirties and it was a now or never thing, but it would have been nice to get a home big enough for two kids (a 3 bed apartment, or a bigger 2 bedroom apartment, would suffice) but the numbers don't add up.
The main advantage is reserving tickets via fandango or any other website that sells the tickets. Personally we didn't watch more than 2 movies a month in theaters, so this works great for us.
Funny fact, IKEA is a non-profit, and don't pay taxes on profit.
This is a really good interface but the assumptions backing the results seem weak. The growth rate on conservative and aggressive portfolios are high. The recommended amounts of saving should be as % of income. Recommending someone that makes 100k save 100 dollars a month is not great. It's also sad that the maximum amount saved per month is 1k where even just maximizing 401k is 1.5k a month.
I can only imagine that those couples with a lot of children find happiness in having many. It's not that large families make people the happiest. Just want to clarify in case some depressed person thinks they will cure their depression with many, many kids.
By the time you retire you have more capital accruing interest, and generally more to invest in the attendant better investment opportunities available. That's what they meant.
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Ort you should learn to read, period. They’re just specifying the country, not including it in the list. They do it even in London, England.
I had a chat with a bunch of Japanese university students last month. They told me the same thing. They told me their English classes weren't too bad when it came to grammar, but they hardly ever practiced speaking the language. I can't even imagine learning a language without speaking it!

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I think the comment was that JS is more popular than C. ;)
Social security is a supplement, it’s not meant for you to live off, nor should you expect it to always be around.
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The Chinese room argument builds on the premise that there is a meaningful difference between "simulating" intelligence and possessing it.

If you "execute" the program manually, you may still not understand Chinese, but the program still does. The room, including you and the program, is functionally a single entity that speaks Chinese. The human is an implementation detail as much as the grey matter is an implementation detail in a Chinese speaking human.

Searle's argument that the machine does not actually possess "understanding" is simply special pleading. Unless he can define "understanding" in a meaningful way, the difference between an "understanding" entity and a "simulating" entity is non-existent.

These arguments all boil down to unscientific armchair philosophy. I have no idea why people seem to accept them as meaningful other than that the people who came up with them or wrote about them are otherwise highly regarded -- but that's literally an argument from authority.
Just in case you or someone else doesn't know what soh-cah-toa represents:

- Soh: sin θ = o/h

- Cah: cos θ = a/h

- Toa: tan θ = o/a

Where "θ" is the angle, "o" is the side opposite of the angle, "a" is the side adjacent to the angle, and "h" is the hypotenuse.

Or for the visually inclined:

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Be careful with this: The projections are gross (ie not inflation-adjusted) and the advice buried in the explanatory text below does not sufficiently discuss this issue. It says you can do a "simple" calculation by applying one year's worth of inflation versus a compounded rate of return. Assuming historical inflation rates, the value of the savings it projects will be significantly eroded compared to what it shows.

Edit: And as others have pointed out below, the returns assumed are unrealistically optimistic. Be warned about basing your retirement planning on this.