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Not true, as home prices key around monthly payment, so high rates put downward pressure on prices to keep the monthly payment relatively constant.

When long-term risk-free rates are exceptionally low, capital seeks excess return, much of which gets invested in real estate, increasing demand and prices. When the risk-free rate is 7, 8, 9% on a 10Y bond, then messy, illiquid, physical real estate is far less desirable as an investment.

That's just one factor. Another is this. When interests rates go up, the reason why price pressure is down in the first place is that fewer buyers can afford fewer houses; in other words, sales go down. This is already happening today (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-25/are-risin... <-- today's article). When sales go down, sure, there's downward price pressure. But by that time, contrary to what you seem to be suggesting, the little guy doesn't necessarily benefit (because borrowing costs can be out of reach). And worse: if they go down far enough, it could bring some people underwater, which as we saw from the last cycle disproportionately impacted the lower middle class. And even worse: any home equity line of credit that has a balance is going to be more expensive to pay back.

The original article was about income inequality -- when average Joe can easily borrow $300k for a house, the average company can easily borrow $300 million or $3 billion to get larger, buy competitors, execute LBO's, etc... all of which consolidate power and capital among the wealthiest and ultimately reduce labor opportunities for everybody else.

Yes, the original article was about income inequality. And I've addressed these above, using different factors than the ones you've honed in on (capital concentration). I have news for you, capital concentration still leads to inequality during times of cheaper housing. You're making a mistake by thinking higher interest rates will make a big dent here: Blackstone and American Homes 4 Rent have sources of cash that you and I don't have (IPOs, bonds, to name some, I am sure there are many more).
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Right, the real solution would be to have a listing of usual and customary costs per region.

This is what people who offer advocacy services to the uninsured do. It's similar to getting comps on real estate, those people have access to billing systems to find out what insurers actually pay and negotiate based on that pricing.
If you bought and held an index fund for a year you got taxed less as well.
Well good luck. It's just too easy to fool your self in an up market. It would be much more interesting to see your results in a down or sideways market.
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Earning 10k/month after taxes and still having to share an apartment is not normal.
Even with remote work, cultural barriers are still an issue.
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Straw Man Fallacies are also tiresome.
Possible self dealing.
secure scuttlebutt has a github impl. too, i heard (didn't try yet)
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Or enough people never move there.

I recommend every CS graduate move to a city like Austin. Austin is a great city at a reasonable cost-of-living.

I don't see why you'd want to start a family and set up roots in a place where property values will eat you alive. You can have a similar programming career in a place where you can actually afford a decent house on a junior dev salary.

Personally, I graduated from a top CS school and I'm in Houston (due to family reasons). I do not envy my peers who went to Silicon Valley.
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sorry, I'm a new user of this forum and know next to nothing about it. Do you want to email me? My email is jwoods7676@gmail.com

We can go from there.
How is it beneficial? It removes the vast majority of the benefit at the very least
I've always been of the opinion that kind of information should be available next to the ballot box.

Even the quickest of comprehensive summaries about a the ins and outs of your average healthcare plan would probably run at least 30 pages (and the actual bills run 100s of pages). Do you really expect to people to read that just before they vote?

Honestly, unless you are a hardcore healthcare wonk, reading the 1 page 'propaganda' summary is realistically all you can expect from people.
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Yep, and being able to claim that U-boot can boot Windows (on x64 or Arm) would be a really strong statement around completeness. I hope someone gets to work on it soon (Alexander Graf ;-)?).
Fortunately for developers it won't be suddenly. Most land in the city is already occupied: even if the construction and banking industry could rebuild the entire city in two years it takes longer than that to get the current land owners to agree to sell their current house which works just fine for them right now.

Companies only build new offices quickly because they are willing to locate to any new suburb that currently has land. Downtown areas that are already well developed might be more desirable but it takes time to get the land rights. (note they are always re-building something downtown in nearly any city, but it wasn't an overnight thing to decide to do that)
how was population growth ever possible before?
I'm in this boat right now. I'm lucky to have a very short commute today, but for personal reasons I may need to move where I'll have a 90-120 minute commute. It's to the point I may need to switch jobs or companies to make it work.
That is just a trivial semantics issue, and yes I am familiar with the calculation.

Where do you think the flaw is specifically? Say we are doing a 1-sample test.

0. (setup) Suppose we have a real number mu and a positive epsilon. Define the interval I as [mu – epsilon, mu + epsilon]. For each “candidate mean” within this interval, we have a corresponding t-statistic. Let the statistic t_0 be the inf of all these t-statistics. Let T be the event that t_0 is at least as big as the observed value.

1. You can use Student’s t-distribution to compute an upper bound for the probability of T under the assumptions that the observations are iid normal and the mean lies in I. I will call this probability p(T | null, normal, iid), where “null” is the event that the mean exists and is in I. It makes no difference that it is more typical to lump these assumptions together as “null” because in math you can define things however you want as long as you are consistent.

2. We have that p(null | T, normal, iid) = p(T | null, normal, iid) * p(null | normal, iid) / p(T | normal, iid).

3. Therefore, if we have an upper bound for x = p(null | normal, iid) / p(T | normal, iid) then we can get an upper bound for p(null | T, normal, iid). That is my main claim.

Which of the above statements do you object to?
My wife's MBP 15" has exactly the same problem. All of my modern Macbook keyboards have stopped working, and I've completely given up on Apple laptops, switching two a Pixelbook with Crouton, which is excellent. I use browserstack for cross platform browser testing.
I think the article's point is that with Future's you can still pretty easily invoke a Future-returning function and forget to return its value, ending up with what you might call an orphan continuation.
>The built in thread pools must have a limit.

The go runtime has been shown to handle millions of goroutines, and there are performant and scalable programs, like Cloudflare's RRDNS that run tens of thousands of goroutines (https://blog.cloudflare.com/quick-and-dirty-annotations-for-...). There's plenty of web software using this model written in Go.

I haven't done UI programming in Go - but in your example, I'd imagine you could simply have an event launch a goroutine - you could do whatever you want in that routine without blocking the main thread and simply pass a message back to the main thread if needed. Managing the number of goroutines isn't something you have to think about in go.

`Task.Factory`, and `Task.Run` still create threads, OS threads, which are different and much, much heavier than goroutines. You'd run out of memory trying to create 1000 OS threads, where as 1000 goroutines are a walk in the park (not just for Go, but for most runtimes using M:N threading).

async/await does have it's advantages over coroutine style concurrency, but I wouldn't count thread count as one of them.
I think it's a stereotype from the old web when it didn't require as much technical skill as other programming fields. Most of my colleagues started in other languages and learned Node/JS on the job.
Anonymous Pro, especially when you use a smaller font size

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It's not clear to me whether there's an actual HPET bug, or if is just that Intel's HPET is another victim of the Meltdown bug and the damage caused by workarounds for Meltdown.
Yeah, that's one of the pieces that's never made sense to me. Like the woman in the article. There really isn't a closer Red Lobster or similar restaurant you could work at?
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If you run the “mmap” command in UEFI shell, and count the memory regions marked as Runtime Code and Runtime Data, that will give you the total resident (after booting OS) memory footprint.

Note that these numbers will also include Arm Trusted Firmware and firmware tables.
A bit surprised at the comments here. As far as I can remember, robots.txt has always been used by the Wayback Machine this way. Often a bummer when the original domain expires and a domain squatter takes over - many have robots.txt
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> I would argue that healthcare is not a right.

I would argue that rights are things that we declare by agreement as a group, not physical objects or measurable qualities. Of course healthcare is not currently a right; we haven't made it one. The question is: "Should healthcare be a right?"
I think people are missing the merits of what the author said in their defensiveness of their existing approaches, which is a bit sad.
Happy to discuss if there are any suggestions
So with global anycast bgp, people usually use it for short sorts of things, preferably single packet requests, and redirect to non-anycast addresses for longer TCP streams so that there aren't problems from flapping. The idea is that if one dns packet goes to ns1 and then next packet goes to ns2 on the other side of the world, we're cool. I get my answer from both, as those two packets are different queries. But if it's a webserver and packet 1 of my tcp stream goes to lb1, and packet two goes to lb2 on the other side of the world? lb2 is going to send me a rst packet because it has no idea about the tcp connection I'm speaking

In the legitimate world, this usually means you global anycast your DNS servers, which then respond to queries with IP addresses of load balancers that are only announcing from one location, out multiple providers.

I think this maybe could be extrapolated to a BGP attack of this nature and could explain why the attacker, in this case, focused on attacking the DNS server rather than a different piece of the stack.

I'm guessing that your global anycast setup in the legitimate world is going to be way more reliable and flap a lot less than whatever the attacker can cobble together out of upstreams with inadequate prefix filtering.

Note, I'm not trying to claim that the attacker couldn't take over the end machines that serve longer TCP streams; I'm just pointing out that the attacker has good reason to attack DNS first if possible, for the same reasons as the legitimate operators have for using global anycast for DNS and not for HTTP.

(as further trivia, I have seen setups where the http server was global anycast, but that webserver only returned really short responses, 3xx redirects, again redirecting the request to a non-anycast webserver.)
I'm having a hard time to pick between mysql8 and postgresql10.

MySQL is under Oracle is one of the major concern, plus it's said to be good for less-write-more-read workload, which is fine.

PostgreSQL is more on the open source side, however bugs like this really concerns me: https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/ -- basically, PostgreSQL does not do its own DIO instead it depends on file system and it can lead to data corruption, and there is no quick fix...

tried to install mysql8.0 on ubuntu16.04 failed so far, need a vm to test it out sometime.
Not really. It changes things, but in the location of the new housing things get busier. The major hiways elsewhere see less traffic and the average is probably better, but the local situation needs to be fixed to handle it.

Of course ideally the local situation would be everybody works within a couple blocks and so the elevators and sidewalks can handle it. Most zoning boards hate this idea though.
lasik is a luxury surgery and as such is treated like an expensive toy. you really picked a misleading example.

if i need a hip replacement i don’t want to “shop around.” if i have procedures every month like my parents i don’t want to “shop around.” i just want to be healthy.
In this article the goal of life is described as winning games, and doing everything else is subsumed as a means to that end.

Helping others, having empathy, not hurting others.. those presumably wouldn't be worthwhile things to do if they didn't help one "win".
A lot of the regulations are there to protect existing players in the market as well. It seems that the market-based approach degrades when it comes into contact with democracy, probably because the equilibrium the market is trying to achieve is incompatible with our values.
No, the message sending system still needs to actually send the message to the network at some point, which gives away the sender’s IP.
that's right... even prime isn't enough
This is one of my pet peeves about self-reported returns on the internet. It's always the case that, if they report absolute returns, they're starting from huge capital and getting 0.00001% gains. If they give relative returns, then its miniscule trades with no market impact and no slippage.
Author here, feel free to AMA.
I agree. The MySQL -> MariaDB stuff is bonkers. I would like to read the discussion of it on the lists but can't be bothered to look for it.
There is no actual performance hit the number of frames per a given unit of real time is still identical the only thing that happens is that the frame counter on the machine does not count it accurately.
I live in Milpitas and work in Sunnyvale, commuting the 10 miles to my workplace on the infamous Highway 237. Having done this commute for 34 years, I can track the state of the economy by the time it takes to get home in the afternoon. During the recession, it was a breeze, 20 minute average. Today, even leaving around 3, 30-40 minute commutes are typical. Trying the same commute an hour or two later can add another half hour. I truly feel for people who have those longer commutes beyond Milpitas on 880, 680, and 580. Those are truly nasty.
It's highly subjective, I personally cannot stand temperatures below 15C or so, it's "painful" (yes, I'm a wuss).

I haven't lived in Colorado but I did live in Europe and recently looked at the climate/temperature tables of Boulder to compare to Bay Area. It rather seems to me that it has weather similar to where I lived in Europe (hot summers, cold winters) with a large variation of daytime/nighttime temperature and a bit drier climate (in Boulder at least) because of the nearby mountains. All in all, lots of days in Boulder where temperature average would be <15C so not that good.
OpenTracing: Zipkin as Distributed Tracer
https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/
PostgreSQL's fsync() surprise

this is very scary, if not fatally scary.
Someone already came up with a Yelp for people app, called Peeple. Thankfully the backlash made it pretty clear there was little, if any, support for the concept.
Sounds like maybe both sides need a nap.
> How this isn't already mandated by law is baffling.

It's not baffling if you look at the way the medical billing system actually works. In short, Medicare is able to use existing laws (the requirement that Medicare receive the lowest price, along with the lack of mandate to reimburse COGS) to force providers to use funds from privately-insured patients to cover the costs of treating Medicare patients. From a financial point of view, the biggest adversary of price transparency (for privately-insured patients) is Medicare itself.

In that light, it's not surprising that an administration which has been very clear it wants to defund Medicare (without actually admitting as much in those words) is establishing rules that will essentially restrict the effective operating budget that Medicare will work with, long-term.
>MySQL got reliable enough

MySQL still doesn't support nested DDL's, and this has caused me extreme amounts of pain in old projects where consistency was expected and we did not receive it on crucial payment processing.
I have more confidence in people riding light rail than taking a bus. From what I’ve read about SF, private busses funded by big tech companies are already an issue.
Don't forget that optimization also costs time. Performance improvements just shifted the equilibrium between optimization and output. In the world where every programmer was forced to optimize their code, we'd have a lot less code.
Trading volatility might imply that he's buying options in both directions.

Big moves either up or down would be profitable. The only unprofitable move here would be no substantial moves in either direction. (In which case you lose your entire bet, but no more.)
Simple solutions are always better.

Solutions to individual problems should not significantly increase the overall count or complexity of problems the user is facing.

Python would be a better solution than any spreadsheet if one only looks at the specific problem. Of course the learning curve,support cost and pool of workers and colleagues that have mastered python does not make it an attractive solution.

Still, writing an app to replace spreadsheets can be profitable depending on the specific problems and needs of each user.
I have mixed feelings. Their tutorials and selection are great, but their markup is pretty obscene on some parts and their libraries are often over-complicated/take up a ton of space. I try and support them and buy parts from them occasionally because I love what they do, but it's hard to justify getting more stuff from them price wise and I don't generally like using their code.

But for someone just getting started? Absolutely, you'll have a pretty seamless experience.
The next interesting question. Say you needed some surgery, would you choose the cheapest one or the most expensive one?
If people are genuinely a fraud they won't be able to talk about the code in a sensible manner.

I didn't write the monstrosity that I am working on just now, but I could explain how it works and I know where to look to fix bugs. I don't know why some crappy design decisions were made. Does that make me a worse programmer than if I had written it myself? Is harder to understand someone else's code than stuff you have written yourself. There are far more jobs working on existing code bases than on new new projects.

(My guess is that you have never worked with anyone who has claimed ownership of someone else's code, have you?)
Wow this law is so ridiculous, it basically applies to most the stock.

I don't think most people enjoy this benefit of rent control, it wouldn't make sense to rent out properties. I wonder what is the effective rent control rate (that which has affected price significantly). Maybe a rental turnover rate would hint at a solution.
Beats what we have now, where there's a two-tier system, where healthy, wealthy people have concierge preventative care and very fast specialist referrals, and the non-wealthy are stuck in a privately run system with exorbiant fees and impossibly high medical bills.
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You could do secret splitting:

http://www.moserware.com/2011/11/life-death-and-splitting-se...

It's vulnerable in that whichever threshold N that you choose allows for N participants to conspire to publish ahead of time, or M - N to conspire not to publish after the fact.
The google query turns up unhelpful SO answers. I’ve noticed you seem to have a pretty fixed idea of the categories questions and answers fall into, and the overall rightness of the state of SO. There isn’t much I can say. You might even be right about the majority case, and maybe my whole experience is outlying. Except there are so many with the same complaints.
A third for great cultural works: great!

A third for actually learning how to build things: why so low?

Ah, right, because science fiction (but only the rigorous kind!) and futurism take up the last third.

I find that hilarious.
Yes, most would. The NHS also treats anyone who needs it if an emergency need arises with the caveat that they will bill you if you don't have proper coverage (be it by virtue of residency or private cover).

Many, like e.g. HCA International explicitly advertise to an international client base, and tout their large numbers of ICU beds as one of their features, so would rarely expect to need to transfer patients.

One thing that certainly does bring costs down in the UK is that the system is geared heavily towards maximizing utilization of resources by e.g. allowing the NHS trusts to take on private work, and allowing NHS doctors to take on work at private clinics, and allowing private clinics to rent NHS resources, so you may very well find that your treatment by a private healthcare company involves being operated in an NHS hospital by an NHS consultant on their spare time. But while they certainly then benefit from economies of scale, all of this happens on commercial terms - e.g. NHS trusts use profits from renting out capacity to offset parts of their running costs.

The biggest private providers do have their own operating theatres and ICU's, but they too tend to have NHS staff working part time or consulting and may still rent NHS resources where it makes sense.
Apologies, when I say native software, I don't just mean the UI.
That is absolutely not within the definition of insider trading.
I think that in a lot of Sci-fi the people still play a critical role in the story, alongside the ideas. Not all sci-fi stories are about the ideas. They can often contain how the ideas impact people, how people use the ideas to shape their world and so on.
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https://github.com/men37/kob

Not a system wide enhancement. Interact directly with kob.

The program does these two things 1) protects your input of your password string during operation 2) applies your password to a file and overwrites the file...

..while giving you the opportunity to avoid hardware or software key logging attacks. best works assuming key logger is no more advanced than tracking key presses.

note: some effort is made to keep things "secure" in memory.
Diesel engine with almost zero impact on air quality
That effect goes both ways: medicare gets patients that are old and have more expensive and chronic diseases, thus their spending per service might be very efficient. Which leans on which is hard to know without some rigorous analysis.
Maybe this is what is being referenced: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-San-Francisco-apart...

Though, I don't think this is "rent control" in the NYC sense of the term where rents are kept way under market rate.

Rather, it seems to be a set of ordinances around what landlords can and can't do, largely pertaining to rent increases: http://sfrb.org/rent-ordinance
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