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In the US, public sector pensions have been mismanaged so frequently that no conflation is required.

EDIT:

Further, there's a basic accountability problem. It was - is - easy to gain politically in the short term by making promises about pensions. Promise bigger pensions, smaller contributions, and so on. The gains can be realized almost immediately. The price is paid much later, often decades later, and the people who made those unwise promises cannot be held to account so long after the fact.

For many states and cities, pensions act as a counterweight to the ability to do anything other than pay pension costs.

As before, you are absolutely right that there are mountains of waste to be investigated and addressed. You're completely right that there's a lot of money to be freed up there. Those issues are real, and they are pressing. Yet it is perhaps no more real or more pressing than the burden imposed by decades of financial mismanagement around pensions.
Couldn’t the tax just be on profits as calculated by the fraction of the revenue in the specific country? So if a company has a global revenue of 10B of which 5% was in France and a global profit of 1B then the crude estimate of “profits from France” could be 5% of 1B.
Maybe :) but if you're going to provide numbers like that, then I'd be interested in hearing, for example, how much foreign corporation tax was paid by French aeronautical companies on their 50B worth of exports? Or German car companies on their 100B worth of exports? Or any UK companies on their exports?
>When you invest in a San Francisco start-up, “you’re basically paying landlords, Twilio, and Amazon Web Services,” said Ms. Bannister of Founders Fund, referring to the companies that provide start-ups with messaging services and data hosting.

This is the most absurd realization. Literally 50% of your startup's funds will be sent directly to landlords if you locate in the bay area.
My guess is that they don't collect the data themselves, but buy the location data from some other company. Then they can combine the location data with the movie data they collect themselves. Then they could either use that for advertising, or sell the bundled data along to advertisers for more money.
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Summary: Apple has made a mistake by prioritizing "Sound Quality" over "Smartness". The HomePod needs to smarten up quickly for it to gain a following outside the Apple faithful/audiophile market.
GP is rather sweet, amirite?
Last time I checked, school/class last minimum a year.

Where do you derive your "vast majority" conclusion from?

Ps. English links are allowed for this Belgian.

Ps 2. Being rude doesn't help your statement
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This looks like the perfect storm for online advertising. For one, ad blocking is on a steady rise and it seems that it got the networks worried to the point that Google tries to circumvent the whole trend by supporting better practices. Then we have the upcoming GDPR ruling in EU which could wreck havoc to advertising networks. On top of that we have ad fraud which has gone to new levels especially after the story about Methbot broke out last year. And now we see major consumer brands pulling out of online advertising.

I have to admit, I love this whole situation. Online advertising has long stopped being useful and it's becoming malignant hurting the medium in so many ways. It seems that ad networks don't bother at all to fix any of the problems from privacy to malware and whatnot. So fuck them. Let them wither and die for all I care.
I'd argue that it's a scale and every piece of art falls somewhere on that scale.

Further, I'd argue that because we don't fully understand the political climate for many ancient works of art that we cannot, in fact, fully appreciate that art within its ancient political context.

As an example, lets say some ancient work, e.g. stone henge, was in fact built either in support of or in protest of the practice of human sacrifice - wouldn't that knowledge enhance the work and our understanding of it?

The timelessness of the artistic beauty is still just a piece of the work as a whole.
From the article: "Therein lies the paradox of the social network that no one wants to admit: as the size of the network increases, our ability to be social decreases."

For this reason I've a tiny community of close friends and family on Path (remember that) where we socialize. The slogan is "what's on Path stays on Path". It really works well, it's like Facebook in the early days.
Would you hack your own body?
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The fundamental problem is that the hyperloop track is a cascading single point of failure.

So, pretty much like highway-speed transit on highways. One breakdown, and huge stretches of highway slow to a crawl or to a halt. The same goes for the US air travel system, except it takes the weather disruption of a major hub to get the cascading failures.
Apple hired developers of Clang and started supporting Clang around the time GPLv3 was being pushed by FSF, Apple at the time was using GCC in their development and feared that GPLv3 would taint their code.

other than technical merits, permissible license of Clang is attractive for some developers/businesses
If a tool or user interface often prompts misuse, either alter human (group) psychology, or change the tool.
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An Android, it also asks for permission to read all your photos and you can't use the app if you don't accept. I only run the app on an old iPhone I had lying around for that reason.
Their algorithm is mostly unchanged as far as I can tell. They take a bunch of critics and aggregate their reviews as positive or negative. Therefore most of their highly recommended movies are, and always have been, predominantly broad-appeal films that are mostly inoffensive.
>it's a statistical certainty that X% of the risk pool will die early, whereas with your own savings you can never be sure how long you'll have to make it last

This is rather similar to a tontine, which have been considered highly unsavoury for a long time and are illegal to boot.
> It's disgusting to me that something like this could even be published in the NYT.

Just because the take is left-of-center and questions neoliberal doctrine, it shouldn't be publishable?

We were sold that privatization would lead to more efficiently run societal safety nets, that it would provide a net-benefit to the worker and to society. The article argues that not only did transition to 401k enrich money management middlemen, it's done worse: it's disenfranchised us. It's destroyed our ability to collectively act via our retirement funds.
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Life insurance companies commonly sell various kinds of annuities as well, since they are experienced with pricing life expectancy. Google "immediate annuity" or "income annuity" to get quotes.
In New Zealand, we have Government Super, which is set to 65% of the net average wage (1).

Of course, this is expensive, which is why we have the Government putting aside money into a sovereign wealth fund to help pay for it (2).

We also know that we should personally contribute if we want a better retirement, so we have personal retirement accounts, where the minimum contribution is 3% of salary, matched with 3% from your employer, plus ~$500 NZD from the Government (3).

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_in_New_Zealand#Superan...

(2) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Superannuation_Fun...

(3) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiwiSaver
From my understanding, the bet that MoviePass is making is that they will be able to sell user/usage data to studios (or others) to make back the money that they're losing paying full price on the tickets; they've even admitted this in other interviews... just without specifying what data. Even if it's not location data, I would imagine that any/all data they can associate with a user they will.
Yes, all up until you need to check in for the movie. You have to be physically located within a set distance of the theater in order to load up funds on the credit card.
Social security is an annuity, and a damn good one--it's guaranteed by the US Government. What we need is for supplemental annuities (above SS amounts) to be offered by the federal government at cost, or to guarantee annuities sold by insurance companies (a la FDIC).
Is it surprising that people with scientific education tend to notice scientific errors?
I know some people might not like this idea, but I feel more production systems should use some assembly. Although everything is a bit much.

Also of the mindset we should be using more domain specfic languages.
Deferred income annuities. They're insurance against your risk of longevity.

Here's an example from New York Life:
https://www.nylinvestments.com/annuities/products/New-York-L...
Local stores can't compete on price in areas where it moves it (usually rural areas where consumers are super price sensitive). So most of the local retailers go out of business, taking away a towns retail base and often hollowing out its downtown areas. Wal-Mart siphons all the profits to its corporate HQ, furthering weakening monetary flows in areas where inflows are already weak due to stagnating industry.

This leaves the small town dependent on Wal-Mart, and when Wal-Mart decides to close a town, the whole town is screwed because they don't have any retail left and no one has the means to rebuild it. The cherry on top is that Wal-Mart's square footage is almost always too big for anyone to take over, so the buildings generally sit there rotting until they're demolished

tl;dr walmart hollows out the retail base of small towns, leaving them super dependent and screwed if they ever leave
"Ghost Soldiers" is also an excellent view into the Japanese POW system.
See this is what I don't like about these kind of tech companies. They act like they're special and deserve special treatment. They aren't and they don't.

A company is fully within their right to choose how it spends money but the taxation should work on an individual nation basis. Why should investment in country A come at the expense of tax revenue generated in country B?
Vanguard itself offers annuities [https://investor.vanguard.com/annuity].
Is there a use case in the app that makes that somewhat reasonable? If not, it sounds like grounds to be reported and removed from Google Play as malware. I thought that would be 100% against the developer rules. Maybe it is just a guideline to only ask permission for things you need, and to let the user use the app even if permission isn't granted.

Maybe it's just that Google won't feature you or something. But it should be against Play Store rules if it isn't already.
It's not ABI compatible with MSVC
That’s far removed from he real world - many many consumer facing companies are just now rolling out 2FA, and many of them are SMA based. Think banks, credit unions, utility billing, etc...
If you're interested in related problems, try improving on the performance of the wfg algorithm for computing the volume enclosed by a set of n-dimensional points. I spent a good 3 months convinced that I could, but I couldn't. The reason I couldn't is that I thought I could reason by analogy with 3D space, and it turns out that this is foolhardy.
>It also doesn't help that every state in the midwest has been slashing educational budgets and in some states has enacted almost a war on education. I think the attitude of "SV toxic culture" is ironic, after having grown up in the midwest and seen horrible racism, anti-intellecutalism, anti-free speech measures, and all others kinds of issues.

Well you have to understand that when people say they are looking for more "diversity of thought" they really mean "people who think like me".
Social security is an annuity, and one of the most popular retirement vehicles. I mentioned this in a comment below, but I believe private annuities aren't more popular because a) the industry is rife with high fees, perverse incentives, trickery and b) they're not guaranteed. The insurance companies offering them can fail. If we had something akin to FDIC insurance for annuities, I'm positive they would become far more popular than they are.
Man, the definition of big problems has really changed over the years.
During my undergrad and masters, I worked for Chris Edwards, who took over the IC engine lab from Fritz. It was a fun place to be -- running a single-cylinder research engine and a chevy LS1 on the dynos, setting up a miniature turbine engine and a hybrid rocket motor stand for the advanced undergrad thermo class. I arrived too late to meet Fritz, and I never had the pleasure of meeting Ron. I wish I had.
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The New Math was something fairly different than what I am suggesting. It was an attempt at an alternate curriculum for primary/secondary school based on higher-level / more abstract mathematical topics, partially displacing study of arithmetic.

The New Math curriculum per se wasn’t so terrible, though it certainly had flaws (like anything invented from scratch out of context and not slowly developed and tweaked over time in response to feedback in a real-world setting). The bigger problem was that the proponents of the New Math didn’t have much buy-in from students, parents, teachers, school administrators, or the broader society, didn’t really do any outreach or teacher training, didn’t really produce enough supporting materials, and just dumped the curriculum on schools without support.

Parents and teachers didn’t know what to make of the curriculum (were unqualified to teach with or assess it), and didn’t feel involved in the process, and as a result there was a lot of opposition.

But what I’m talking about is not teaching different subjects per se, but teaching whatever subject in a different way, focused more on solving problems and thinking than on precisely mimicking teacher’s demonstrations or memorizing formulas. The current typical math pedagogy is patronizing, emphasizes memorization/recall and very careful attention to details (sometimes irrelevant details about formatting), teaches students that they shouldn’t try to think for themselves and teaches them to conflate getting the right answer with being “smart” or “good at math” and that anyone who makes a mistake or doesn’t know how to get the answer is “stupid” or inherently incapable.
I generally 100% agree with you. The problem with your stance (and mine) on #4 is that there aren't consequences to their actions.

Those consequences will inevitably be put on group #3 since they will be vilified as a group and it will be very easy to politically take their money to give to group #4.

I've not really figured out away around that problem. The numbers are simply too great too ignore - unless you truly feel something like 60% of retirees who have saved literally nothing other than their (meager) social security benefits will simply quietly die in the street.

Unfortunately this fact is one of the larger reasons why I feel this social division in the country is just starting, not coming to a head as most I talk to seem to think.
As I understand it, with the GPL, you must offer source code under the GPL to everyone you distribute the software to.
With the AGPL, the same goes for those that use the software over the network.

So you must offer the source of the database everyone who connects to the database over the network, under the AGPL.
But if you deliver a web app, not a database-as-a-service, your users don't connect to the database. And since this database uses the Cassandra protocol, I'd say your web app isn't a derived work of the database in any way.

Of course, that last part is the sticky bit.
But if applications using database servers via a well defined protocol are judged to be derived works, we might have other problems - hence the reference to MySql in my first post.
Congrats on the two year old. Mine turns two next month. Some nights, after he goes to bed and I'm done with chores, I'll open up my laptop, fire up VS Code, and wake up on the couch four hours later.
As I asked in my reply above, why should investment in country A come at the expense of tax revenue in country B? That isn't right.
What about the salesman in Europe ? Or you consider that code is the only value in a company?
Writing another comment I realized I used the term "decent", because these values sits very deep in me that it was just feeling. Reflecting on that I suspect the thing I really want is to:

maximize happiness in the universe.

(no more, no less)
My pet peeve: matchmaking in games vs dedicated servers. Yes, dedicated servers had problems, and required some technical know-how to run as well as decent hardware. But they were mini communities. And some people actually enjoy matches with some level of imbalance. Mopping up a few players, getting smashed when you stumble upon a great one. There were some to watch out for.

Long story short these days I play single player games and board games. As a bonus, a well thought out board game stays relevant forever. It never has its servers disabled or becomes incompatible with new system.
I've never quite understood how pensions are supposed to work when one changes jobs every 1-5 years. With 401(k) I can roll my account into a Vanguard IRA and keep all the control. I'd hate for my retirement to be beholden to 5-10 different sets of pension fund managers.
This is definitely a good idea - I believe similar to what happened in the movie industry to combat Hollywood Accounting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
The BSA is much less about gender distinction now. They are even letting girls join the program now, which is great progress considering their history. Young women have also been working at scout camps for decades.
This has unfortunately been my experience with not just meetups, but other things where common wisdom says you can make friends, like volunteering. I volunteer every few weeks at a soup kitchen, but despite having done it for a couple of years, none of my fellow volunteers have become more than casual acquaintances.
Not as good? The only reasons I'm not using those two is because of the fact that English/western users are an afterthought/secondary concern and some privacy concerns. They are pretty good in what they offer. I find myself using Bing more than Google nowadays.
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I thought Apple didn’t just “hire” the developers of clang. They started the clang project in-house before eventually open sourcing it.
You are being pedantic - it is pretty clear from the intro I am summarizing the history of AI research into playing games and mean that by 'Game AI'; there is not a single reference to video games, and indeed it would be ridicolous to try and include any amount of summary of that since most video game AI is a lot more heuristic/hacked together/ad hoc that the Game AI stuff I summarized.
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> It's as if the rules of free trade are fine for "old" stuff like cars and aeroplanes, pharmaceuticals, banking, legal services, wine, etc. but not for modern tech/IT.

European Union angle is: stop opening up branches in Luxemburg and Ireland (or other tax havens) to sell products to customers in other EU nations. Aka pay where you generate income.

I hope i understood you correctly, but it really has nothing to do with modern tech/IT. Such regulations have been already applied to Ebay, Amazon and other companies which sell the 'old' stuff you are talking about.

Just like you, I fail to see where the jingoism would be in forcing non-EU members to pay a fair amount of taxes and punish those who try to exploit the system.

EU has _never_ been a free market and if you want to play you have to follow rules (and IMO that's partly why EU refused to sign the TTIP). Same thing for foreign companies trying to export goods to the USA, especially these days - no?

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I don't often find myself doing sequential side effects so often anymore, but when I do doseq has been my go to, though I will confess I didn't know about run! until this thread.
Unfortunately, mingw profiling code and the toolchain is tainted with GPL.
From experience, Google does flag up permission usage as part of featuring. Insofar as listing all the ones that are used and requesting an explanation of why each is needed.
Someone in an earlier thread about Moviepass posited that they are banking on making money on data, because they are losing money on the ticket portion.

The surprising thing is that the CEO admitted it so readily.
Tech keeps hitting the FCC over net neutrality
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I didn't finish graduating. I left school with 8 or so credits remaining (I already had a job lined up) and something like a 3.0 GPA.

Hasn't affected me in the slightest. To be fair, I also had multiple top tier internships through college and led a bunch of events on campus. I disregarded GPA entirely while in school and focused on what I felt was impactful and important (internships, community, etc). It doesn’t mean I slacked off in school though - I definitely learned the same material and put a lot of effort into doing so. I just took the tests and assessments less seriously and applied the 80/20 rule aggressively.

Today I have a fantastic career at a Unicorn startup while multiple top tier companies contact me every quarter trying to poach me away. My parents were initially very skeptical and were pushing me to finish school but now that they’ve seen the results, they don’t care anymore either.

The real lesson here is that GPA matters initially because companies have nothing else to frame your experience with. If you give them something else, then you’ll find that they’re more than willing to overlook GPA. If you don’t give them something to anchor your skill on AND your GPA is bad, it will be rough finding a job initially. Once you’ve had quality experience under your belt, GPA should cease to become a factor.
Would pensions be needed in a world with Universal Basic Income?
Not exactly. It's more like you're taxed even if you are unemployed and not making any money at all. Taxing based on revenue rather than profit would mean that a company making no profit would still have to pay tax.
Many comments blame 'politicians'. I agree that some particular politicians exacerbate the problem of underfunded pensions.

But it's easy to blame someone else. The problem is the people posting here, including me, and the people posting on every other forum on the Internet and people who don't use the Internet. People don't vote, they don't hold politicians accountable, they create perverse incentives for politicians to kick the can down the road by voting against those who are fiscally responsible, and people oppose paying their share to fund the pensions.

I know it's more complicated than blaming the voter, but on the other hand, it's also much more complicated than blaming the politician. There's also a systemic problem, but that's also on the voter IMHO.

Trivia question: Name your local elected representatives (e.g., state legislators, or the equivalent wherever you live. Can you? Those are the people dealing with the pension issue to a large extent.
Very interesting, thanks for the info!
It’s interesting to wonder if a contraption might be built whereby some slider adjusts the sizes of the two smaller squares, while maintaining the right angle (i.e. keeps the corner on a circle with the hypotenuse as diameter). It would be much more mechanically complicated and harder to build, but pretty awesome.
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