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I stand corrected. I had $1.5T in my mind for some reason.

Still, $3T more would be a pretty large increase. And there's exactly zero chance that a corresponding $3T would be cut somewhere else...
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HTTP is not intrinsically tied to finance, though. This is specifically a protocol for financial transactions, for sure it would fall under AML laws.
The funny thing about what you're saying is that there's always somebody richer saying the same thing about you, just with bigger sums of money. "He wouldn't have a mortgage if he just made better financial decisions!" ;-)

Honestly, though, you're just stating the obvious: people screw up and behave irrationally. That's common knowledge.

The goal is to minimize the impact of poor decisions and give people a way to get back on track. "F* 'em, I've got mine" doesn't help anybody.
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> Your post is optimistic to the point I choked on my coffee.

Don't sneer. Do the hard work to make necessary things happen.
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Wow, everything in this thread is "those evil rich people, fleecing the poor." Quite aside from the fact that the target audience of this site can expect to make around 2X the median income of the US--meaning that we are those evil rich people--surely the problem isn't this one-sided.

The poverty rate in the US is about 13% [1]; we would expect those people to not have any savings. That leaves about 33% unaccounted for. It looks like 42% of workers in the US make less than $15/hr [2], which does fit the figure fairly close. However, some of those are teenagers, so they don't count as they aren't living on their own.

I'd like to see some analysis of spending. How many people don't have any savings because they aren't spending wisely. This girl [3] discovered that she could actually save for a deposit for a house in London, despite making under £40k (about $53k). That's less than the median US income and presumably doesn't go all that for in London. She was simply spending a lot of money on food, drinks, and specialty coffee.

[1] https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-un...

[2] http://fortune.com/2015/04/13/who-makes-15-per-hour/

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jan/29/can-you-really...
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Absolutely, friends have done th full ring road and it remains uncrowned for the time being.
You are right. Not an oxymoron in the literal sense, but a contraction (unless there's good reason to avoid the trivial amount of fat in full-fat milk).
It might be construed as a feature, since a blog can consist of simply static files, no need for running any code relating to RSS.
As I mention below, the very large 200% increase in college attendance is more likely to suggest that this demographic group has extremely low college attendance rates than that the intervention has an extremely high impact.

If you do your intervention and 2 out of 127 children enroll in a college when you would have expected 0.7, you've tripled the expected rate, but that was easy to do by chance.

In this case, the sample size was presumably half that, around 64.
The average American spends about twice that on just beer (not all alcohol) every year. I share your concern for poor people dumping money into the lottery, but that’s actually a pretty small vice.
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That argument can certainly be applied to Lisps, with their extensive macro systems, but that's mostly orthogonal to programming paradigm. Lisps aren't necessarily functional: Common Lisp is highly imperative, and even Scheme is 'the ultimate imperative' https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5790 !

As for that `ifThenElse` example, there's nothing "meta" going on at all and there's no fancy control flow: it's just a (very simple) function. Consider a function like:

renderPage User page register = page
renderPage Guest page register = register

Doesn't look like 'clever spaghetti' to me: we branch between 'User' and 'Guest', returning a different one of our arguments for each. Yet this is identical to that 'ifThenElse' function, except for the names (which are irrelevant to the machine).

This is what I meant by writing "more meaningful, domain-specific alternatives". Not to "re-invent control flow", but to avoid talking about control flow, and just use functions.

Note that we can do pretty much the same in any language, e.g. Python:

def ifThenElse(c, x, y):
return {True: x, False: y}[c]

def renderPage(session, page, register):
return {User: page, Guest: register}[session]

Nothing "meta" or "re-inventing the flow-control wheel" there; just some functions. Of course, this isn't a great idea in Python since Python is impure and uses eager evaluation.

Note that such "meta" "reinvented control structures" appear all over the place in OOP, due to dynamic dispatch, e.g.

class User:
def renderPage(page, register):
return page

class Guest:
def renderPage(page, register):
return register

These are the two solutions to the "expression problem":

- FP restricts the allowed values but allows new functions to use them. For example, adding an Admin session would be hard (need to rewrite renderPage), but adding a renderAvatar function is easy.

- OOP restricts the allowed functions (methods), but allows them to use new values. For example, adding an Admin class would be easy, but adding a renderAvatar method would be hard (need to rewrite User and Guest).
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Any links to good articles about this? I for one have not heard of this before.
Quoting a factoid about the distribution of actual medical _spending_ doesn't change the incorrectness of projecting CPI onto medical _costs_. There are indices - the BLS maintains one and a number of actuarial firms publish others - that track the costs of various medical services and they all outpace CPI.
> Actually, it appears that voters and politicians have zero interest in improving this situation, seeing as the current administration is making every effort to demoralize and defang the CFPB

The current administration was elected with fewer votes than the leading opponent, so it certainly reflects a subset of voters and the politicians comprising the administration, but hardly is a basis for concluding that voters in general have zero interest in issues simply because the administration evidently does not.
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Indeed. I am always surprised/amused by how often someone will go to the ends of the earth to criticise big up-front design and proclaim that you ain't gonna need it, but then routinely set up several layers of indirection and abstractions in the most basic code, frequently for no immediate benefit other than letting their similarly complicated automated test suite run.
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Climate modelling on Earth generally refers to the scale of tens or hundreds of years, not to billions of years. Our climate model for the next few billion years is essentially "Eventually the sun will turn into a red giant". And we live here.

edit: Apparently it's not even certain whether the Sun will engulf the Earth or not!
"Smoking employees cost $6,000 a year more, study finds"

https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/smoking-employees-cost-6-...

>A startling part of the calculation was just how much less productive smokers really are. “Though all employees are occasionally unproductive in one way or another, research suggests that smoking status negatively impacts productivity separately and apart from lost work time due to smoking breaks and absenteeism,” Berman’s team wrote.

>“This is because nicotine is a powerfully addictive drug. Although cigarettes satisfy a smoker’s need for nicotine, the effect wears off quickly. Within 30 minutes after finishing the last inhalation, the smoker may already be beginning to feel symptoms of both physical and psychological withdrawal. (Much of what smokers perceive as the relaxing and clarifying effect of nicotine is actually relief from their acute withdrawal symptoms.)”’
TIL. Thank you, stranger.
In response, YouTube actually implemented this (though only as an option, and it's since been removed): https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/10/08/youtube-audio-preview/
>It is completely unacceptable to not have $400 on reserve for an emergency as a functioning adult.

The problem occurs when there are MANY emergencies. You're about to get evicted, your car is broken down (so you're about to lose your job) and your kid is sick and you need a doctor but can't take the time off to get one.

>I will say this again. As a mobile adult, in the United States, to not have $400 on reserve for an emergency is simply not possible with proper decision-making.

Okay. The day your turn eighteen, your parents (who taught you very little and gave you nothing) kick you out on the street. You have no money (because they flat out stole it the day before you became an adult). Where does this magic $400 come from?

$400 is a LOT of money. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 before taxes. That's a week and a half of work without accounting for gas money to get you to the job or food to eat when you get there. After the basics (taxes, cheapest-possible rent, basic food, some kind of heating and lighting and a few other things) you're probably at the point where you have $10 or $20 left over.

Let's say you get sick, or disabled, or laid off. You are so fucked.

> Individuals at that level of poverty have national and state level food stamps, welfare, disability, affordable housing, rent control, minimum-wage laws, child-support, often social security, medicare/medicaid.

Have you any idea how long it takes to get disability? Years. And years. And it's not certain at all. What do you do in the meantime?

Even the other programs - they often fail the very people they are designed to help the most.

Child support? Again, have you any idea how many years it takes to get child support from someone who bails from their job every time the paperwork makes its way into the syste, and who never files a tax return?
Surely there are many more ways.
I'm running it on a RPi and it works perfectly.
I think so too. I use RSS as a very minimalist blog and have had good experiences with it so far. It's hard to monetize the format, but it really draws a lot of people to my side.
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I would push back on this bit about teenagers:
> so they don't count as they aren't living on their own.

I think it's a significant assumption to make that parents would be able/willing to cover a random $400 expense. The study did not specify a specific type of emergency expenditure, just that it was unexpected. I can fully imagine a scenario where parents would cover hospital visits for a bad case of the flu, but not cover an abortion, or repairs to a car from an accident where the child was at fault.

The latter two examples still seem like fair 'unexpected expenses' for the child dependent making < $15/hour
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Really? The #1 priority? Over keeping people fed and housed?
I wonder if that's due to the trend of not writing that many comments in your code to start with? Maybe all that has migrated to the version control commit logs?
The causal start is advancing industrialization. This both reduces fertility rates and favors cities over the countryside. The relation is very consistent over many different countries, and it is easy to see what the causal chains are for each of them.

>Why is internationalism a practical necessity in cities? Are there no cities in the world with quite ethnically homogenous populations? Have the authors visited eastern European or Russian cities? Or African cities?

These cities are far more interconnected, both internally and externally, than the countryside.

Also, I hate it when someone claims they have an alternative explanation, but don't present it so that we can examine it critically.
This is a crucial aspect of Hyperapp that often goes unnoticed because simply no one in their sane judgment expects it.
I guess you haven’t been watching what they’ve been doing to Trump for the last couple of years?
Maybe from Panasonic, the same company Tesla gets theirs from.
Anyway, there's a crucial difference between "financially impossible" and "politically feasible." It's important to distinguish this because what's politically feasible can shift over time; it's not interesting to talk about whether we can agree to build a perpetual motion machine but it might be interesting to talk about whether we should send a manned mission to Mars.
Torrenting is illegal because you (generally) weren't authorized to make a copy. Stripping commercials isn't because you're removing something, or changing the way you read it. There might be some legal case if you have to make another copy of media in order to alter your consumption, but thank God I'm aware of no case attempting to control your personal use of media.

(DMCA doesn't count, it's about circumventing things that prevent you from copying, not change your consumption.)
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Indeed, if you're ever thinking of buying a new instrument, you have to start playing them. I'm a double bassist. When it was time for a new bass, my first few trials in shops were practically wasted because I was still wedded to the sound of my old bass, and the adaptation of my own technique to the instrument.

One luthier told me: "Every bassist starts out wanting a bass that sounds like their old bass." Like any other musical activity, auditioning an instrument requires practice, which can only be done with real instruments. The luthiers know this. You have to do it.
From what I understand, nothing forces it to ever go out. But if it does go out, it must go out to charity.
Non-profits can have a for-profit component. They simply have to pay taxes on the for-profit component if it's not directly part of their charitable purpose. (It gets complicated, but for example: museum admissions fees are generally not taxable; gift shop income isn't taxable if all the stuff is related to the exhibits, etc.)
The only argument I would make with your statement is the word “too”. Hammerstein is almost an entire definition of “twee” himself. That doesn’t preclude him from being one of the most loved lyricists of all time.

It’s also rather strange to compare composition and lyricism. Rodgers certainly had nowhere near the talent Hammerstein did at actually putting words to music.
> Could these be extended to support recursion using these new recursive CTEs?

Sure, in the end they generate (prepared) sql statements; CTEs are just another statement with an expected result type.

As for supporting parameters in a recursive CTE, I don't think providing runtime values would be an issue.

WITH RECURSIVE $name (n) AS (
SELECT $init
UNION ALL
SELECT n + $incr FROM $name WHERE n + $incr <= $limit
)
SELECT n FROM $name;

Could use it right now with built-in string interpolator, but not sure how this would look in DSL form since recursive CTEs can support both real and temporary tables (i.e. the DSL has to know the structure of the temporary table in order to statically determine the result type of the query).
That is pretty much how it is.
short answer: no, not slow.

longer answer: you can do some really cool things with triggers in postgres, my favorite is what I like to refer to as "writeable views" - https://legitimatesounding.com/blog/stupid_postgresql_tricks... (2010)
It looks like you believe stability is simply a matter of 100% good decision making and that lower middle class is just one bus fare and two transfer passes away. You're painting a picture with a brush as wide as your canvas and with only one color on your palette.

I think we are mostly products of our surroundings so, yes, good decisions can help a lot. It just seems placing that level of "blame" is counter-productive and just does not represent reality on the ground. Trapped is trapped, you used the word yourself. I'd wager you have little idea the sorts of life traps that are laid out there. Having debt is pretty easy even with a better than average stability matrix. A single hit with bad luck is simply made worse as the "socially permitted" trolls eat their prey where no "socially permitted" social safety net exists that could possibly save them.

What is that? Trickle-down blame? You got yours? I simply don't understand the economics of "it's your own damn fault" with the force of a gavel.
There is plenty of technology available to private citizens and companies that cannot be freely used by government entities, unchecked, on a massive scale. The news is that the government wants to use a new technology that is rife for abuse, which currently has no regulation when used by law enforcement, and Amazon wants to sell it to them.

Amazon might be a bogeyman here, but calling out the potential for abuse by governments of new tech is a primary function of the press in a modern free society.
Genuinely curious... What is wrong in craving impact? Why does it feel like a buzzword to you? I like to think my impact drives me. I doubt I would have cared about it as much if I wasn't financially comfortable. But I am not rich by any measure. But 'impact', quality of work and the people I work with is still what I prioritize while looking for a job.
The don't and they won't, don't fool yourself, This legislation will never be backtracked, it's just political suicide as there will ALWAYS be a bogeyman to scare people straight. You know, like communists, drugs, terrorists, etc.. the usual [1].

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Do you know where that quote is from?

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Fantasyland-America-Haywire-500-Year-...
It is not about the instrument alone but also who is playing it, and how, certainly. Here is violinist Hilary Hahn playing Bach Partita No. 3 -- it is emotionally moving, to the human ear. It represents so many years of her training and performing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VOkrddp6M8

Her instrument is a Vuillaume, and this instrument was owned by Pagnini. (Paganini had an unfortunate betting habit. He lost his favourite Stradivarius in one of those betting bouts. Later, the French luthier Vuillaume built him one just like his Stradivari. Paganini liked it as much as his lost instrument).
No, gravity for microscopic purposes may as well not exist. Surface tension matters for very small creatures.

Silicon is basically impossible as a building block for life. It forms bonds that are too strong, meaning it requires much more energy to fuel life processes and reducing the rate of chance collisions which lowers the prospects for abiogenesis.

Carbon is the only realistic choice; it is the only element abundant enough with the right balance of stability and versatility.
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I think there's plenty useful to meditate on in the Tractatus, 6.0+ has most of the exciting stuff but it's worth working through to get there.

But at the same time I totally get what you mean.
>Being trapped in a debt spiral due to past financial desperation is just a way of iterating forward in the loop of bad decision making.

Imagine you went to a crappy school where you spent most of your days trying to avoid gangs rather than learning anything. You did everything people told you to do and you applied to some for-profit bullshit college that accepted you. You signed some paperwork that you literally didn't understand the details of (because of said shitty school and parents who have never dealt with this situation before and for-profit colleges that explicitly set out to target people exactly like you). Now you have $50,000 in debt that you literally can't even declare bankruptcy on and no marketable skills. What do you now do?

To blame it all on personal responsibility degenerates into a No True Scotsman argument very quickly. It's the kind of overly simplistic thinking that makes thirteen year old kids think Ayn Rand had it all figured out and never think further than than her heroic fantasy novels.

(I admit, I actually really like Ayn Rand's philosophy if it's seen as an ideal, rather than something that is practically p[possible. Marx and Engels were also idealists and in their perfect world everyone would be happy too.)

Humans are not born with an innate understanding of optimal decision making and the power of compound interest. Our environment shapes us to a massive degree and you're discounting this.
In discussion of capitalist economies, a rough definition (loosely following Marx) of the major classes is:

haut bourgeoisie (capitalists): those who own capital and rent labor to apply to it.

petit bourgeoisie (middle class): those who live by a combination of labor and capital, particularly those who apply their own labor (perhaps alongside a small amount of rented labor) to their own capital.

proletariat (working class): those who derive income mainly by selling labor to members of either of the preceding classes.
Any advice on how to chose loose leaves tea, especially green tea? I'm scared to be taken advantage of going to one of those fancy tea shop; they seem tailored for people who prefer pretty over quality, when I just want basic green tea, not laced with cadmium, and not 20% twigs and dust.

Brands maybe irrelevant, as I'm not in North America.
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It's an abuse of the standard.

The email standard was built so that you can check your email with a client, and view the contents offline at your convenience, archive, back up, etc.

Google's email proposal kills this functionality.

When was the last time I used this, you may ask? On Saturday. I was in one of the slot canyons in Utah with zero signal, and, while taking a break, I wrote several emails in my Opera email client, in response to some messages I've procrastinated writing a response to.

The trickery is that the sender might think they're sending a message over email to the recipient, whereas they are sending the message to Google's servers over an internal protocol, and are sending a link to the message to the recipient over email.
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It's totally legal and normal to start a corporation in any state in the US you choose and Delaware is by far the most common for tech companies.

However, California is especially tax-hungry and will penalize you for doing this if you live here. If you choose to register in another state instead and thus avoid the $800 CA fee, they will just charge you an $800 foreign corporation tax (minimum) for "operating" in California anyway.
During the original presentation they said the demo video was using 2x Volta cards which is $3k each, so $6k in graphics cards. But I'd trust the guy on Twitter more than the marketing pitch.

https://youtu.be/7dqOSTjpfOI?t=3m18s
Two words: News. Blur. I have been using https://newsblur.com for years now (ever since Google Reader died) and am not switching to anything else soon.

RSS is not dead.
100% agree with self-hosting an RSS aggregator. It's awesome.

Personally, I gave tt-rss and FreshRSS a shot, but went back to Miniflux[1]. One binary to run (written in Golang) and
plugs into Postgres. Easy to set up, but I prefer Miniflux for the same reasons I prefer Hacker News' website—simple and functional.

[1] https://miniflux.net/
If this is an opportunity for change then what is a positive change that you would suggest?
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