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Another handy aspect of the google doc is the ability to sort by other columns. You might want to add that to the website, too.
Functions only return nil when nil is a valid value in your logic.
That doesn't always work as is the case for farm work once you make immigration harder. How many Americans if given a choice would rather make $40K a year doing nice and comfortable office work than make $120K a year (yes I'm making up a number to make a point) to do back breaking manual labor in the hot sun?

Not quite to that extreme, but I'm giving up money now by choosing not to go into management and stay a senior developer because I don't want to be a manager and not to get a better paying job as a consultant who would have to travel more and be away from my family. My wife took a pay cut when we got married to work at a job she enjoys.

Some jobs are not worth the extra money to a number of people no matter how much money you throw at them.
"51% attack" is the name of the attack, but you don't actually need 51% of the hash-rate to do it, just 50% plus a small margin.
Yeah, no. 51% means just that, 51% of getting a block.

If you control more than half you can dictate terms, you can fight back against the other miners, and in a protracted battle you will ultimately prevail. With 49% they can always eventually override you.
OK, so build low-income housing in rich districts (unless you are saying the presence of poor kids destroys the good school) and stop using zoning to limit what kinds of residences can be built (lot-size, multi-family, building height, etc.). In the suburb of Saint Louis where my wife grew up, each lot had to be at least 1 acre, and had to be single-family. Given how expensive it was to live there, realistically the only properties that were profitable to build were McMansions. Amazing school district though!
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All those things are true and yet the freedom you mock isn't a delusion. It's just not evenly distributed. And that's the key idea of the USA. Instead of concentrating on using government force to ensure equal outcomes for everyone instead it's about equal opportunities in a free for all. Free to fail and free to succeed. There's a lot of extremes here and the USA is a much larger, more heterogeneous place than many imagine from watching the exported news and media.

re: this story, for example: nothing like this exists in states that are not on the southern border. From state to state there are huge differences in culture, demographics, and governance.
As you increase driver pay delivery costs increase. If the shortage was real it would mean deliveries are not being made that would have happened at an increase in delivery cost.
Truck driver's are basically consultants. They generally have to cover the costs. So 100k has a lot of expenses attached to it. Plus long hours and time away from friends and family. And long boring drives in the middle of Nebraska. I don't think I would want to do that for 45-65k take home pay.
First, I disagree with that opinion politically. But that's not the main issue I have with the mindset.

There are a HUGE number of business opportunities in the "short-term" 5 to 10 year market. About 15 years ago, when 3d-printing was "about to take off", I know of some entrepreneurs who started a 3d-printer / 3d-CNC Mill sharing service.

It was an old-school service. Telephone based, door-to-door, handshakes kinda deal. They knew it was a temporary job. This was a door-to-door business in the age of the internet. Furthermore, 3d printers were about to become mainstream and in everybody's houses.

Well, it looks like they were wrong. And their business model matured for the last 15 years and grew instead. Turns out that the 3d printers at Universities and bigger labratories sit idle most of the time... and even today, there's no consumer-grade 3d printer you can buy that gives you the quality or speed of the ones at public universities.

Indeed, there are probably more business models out there that are based on "temporary" work than are based on forward-looking models. If there's a need today, that need will likely remain for decades to come, even as technology improves.
Part of the problem is with BNSF, UP & the other major long haul rail lines, there is no good aggregator for those looking to ship a few pallets of goods from California to Seattle, and the railroad is happy to set high minimums which make long distance trucking viable. Its ultimately quite silly, I really do think an Uber for Railroad shipping which partnered with the local railroads (that are desperate for revenue & work for cheap) and long haul railroads could effectively shrink the need for long haul trucking.
They track your every move with a gps and you never have time to take it easy between runs. Traveling,the one upside to the job aside from money is ruined by their control-freak managent.

You want people to be truck drivers? Get the trucks good internet access,provide laptops and tablets where possible and give the drivers time to take it easy between and during runs. Internet access wherever you are means you can maintain some social life and video call with the family.

On the flip side,trucking isn't just a job,it's a lifestyle. You never leave work since your truck with the hidden Mics and location tracking is also your home. The compensation just isn't worth the job for most people. Better pay helps but so does hiring convicts and relaxing the driving history restrictions (like running a stop sign 4 years ago shouldn't make you unhirable)
On the bright side, I guess self-deselection will reduce the amount of job displacement caused by automation if people preemptively choose to not be truck drivers or to leave the field.
But how fast can you do that? Wouldn't the double spender immediately tumble them by exchanging them for other coins across a bunch of different exchanges making a fork to fix it nigh impossible.
I wish he had an RSS feed.
Yes. This is how a well functioning economy works.
The term usury has religious origins predating the modern concept of law. It is a term used by law not invented for it.
Oh.

Thanks!
He's a big proponent of a return to the old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9cP-1kC3So
Actually #2 was consumer products and services. Technology in general and software ranked 3rd.

>Now look at long-term health and economic prospects of the two careers, beyod short term satisfaction with survivorship bias.

Economics seems to be the real reason the original poster saw people switch away from manual labor after trying it for a while. Construction workers may be happier and more fulfilled day to day, but software engineers are paid more and it's hard to say no to a larger, more consistent paycheck.
I've made six figures going on three years now. I came from nothing. I was an emancipated minor at 15, made every mistake I possibly could from there to 35(now). I'm climbing out from under it quickly in some respects. My teeth are getting fixed, I'm paying off debt, etc. I know for a fact that I'm one bad lift and twist moving a couch or peculiar mental/physical incident from being homeless.

When I fret to my partner, she says "Honey, you're being to hard on yourself, we are doing great!" But when I look at the stakes and the people I know; The only ones insulated have established families. Having established family even has it's own curse in this day and age. Insulated, sure, but kids that are too insulated via trust fund can get stuck in this weird developmental purgatory that even though they have and won't want, it's hard to find meaning or even give a shit to look for it and take on the risk for what it's worth if they weren't groomed. I've seen lack of meaning take lives.

In the next year I might break loose because I have some ownership in something interesting, but I'm acutely aware of how much it costs to transcend being the wretched of the earth. The treadmill we are on as a human race isn't sustainable. Something I think the article points out succinctly is that with greater inequality we all lose. His grandmother bet it all on the dot com boom and went to work at Wendy's. Anything that isn't an ivy league education is indentured servitude.

I'm lucky to have technology and because I have it, I guess all I can see is potentially a technological equalizer in the near future (at least I hope we can find it near), but we are all being fleeced no matter how you shake it. Globally we are in a race condition similar to a drug addict who didn't realize they were that far gone getting fired from their job. Yeah, the apartment and the girlfriend are up next. But, we have plenty of lies to stack up before then to mask like it's the status quo. This problem is going to take a good think to get solved and we'll need to get high and tight to deal with the stress.

We can still pawn grandpa's coin collection to get a fix this weekend. We'll be back on top before anyone notices.
"51% attack" is a term of art in the blockchain field.
How fucked up is it that our only tenable solution involves paying banks extra money through interest rather than just having the government pay it directly? It's more inefficient, but of course makes the banking lobby plenty happy...
Is having a 22-year-old living at home any more expensive than having a 17-year-old? Presumably their bed is still there, the marginal cost of an extra portion in each recipe was already accounted for, and they don’t outgrow clothes as quickly. The safety net of moving back in with mom and dad does not require mom and dad to be rich.
I cant see it too, but this video was just stupid.
Comparing Nest Cam vs home made camera, of course its gonna be cheaper.
Its litteraly comparing apple vs oranges.
TFA did touch on this, the comment was that self-driving trucks are a long way off. And I happen to agree that they are a lot farther off than people think. That last 10% of functionality needed to be safe on the road in non-normal situations such as construction zones, traffic accidents, ice, heavy rain or wind, is going to take a long time to achieve
Not Louis, but the article I linked above says they used 3D Studio Max and converted it to the slice model format.
No, it's nothing like the first two. Common law would disqualify the first two, while certaintly allowing the last.

The last is only thrown out by courts because of statutory interference/intervention in contracts.
Yes it does. The minute a company doesn't maximize profit you will have activist shareholders come in and demand they do something!to increase profit.
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> I'm sure those 9.9% would be very surprised they belong to the top 10%

Someone with over $1 million in assets is going to be surprised they're in the top 10% of the country? I don't buy it.

> You could strip out the hypocrisy like so: "I am not at the top, so I am still against inequality, but I am comfortable, but since I AM NOT AT THE TOP, YOU CANNOT BLAME ME, so blame the richest"

My read of the article was almost the exact opposite, namely that the author was trying to call attention to the fact that the "top 9.9%" is in fact very much to blame, as evidenced by his concluding remarks :

"It’s going to take something from each of us, too, and perhaps especially from those who happen to be the momentary winners of this cycle in the game. We need to peel our eyes away from the mirror of our own success and think about what we can do in our everyday lives for the people who aren’t our neighbors."

> but you know, at least I don't complain because when I compare it to the rest of the world, being in the lower 50% or 60% or 30% in a modern and developed country is still a pretty good life.

On the one hand, it's nice that you have a sense of perspective and can appreciate that you live a more comfortable life than most of the world's population.

On the other, there's a fine line between a stiff upper lip and stoic complacency. There will always be a greater evil somewhere in the world. Just because Mogadishu is more dangerous than my neighborhood doesn't mean I'm cool with people getting robbed outside my house.

Put more plainly : you have the right to ignore issues in your local community, but you should not try to shame others into silence simply because they're not starving.
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> nothing like this exists in states that are not on the southern border.

Are you sure about that? Pretty certain I've seen articles covering similar stories up in Montana and like.

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Here's at least one that was easy to find offhand: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-montana-border-patrol-20...
I think I would enjoy trucking, but as a person born in the 1990s, I grew up in an area supplied entirely by trucks with no substantial agricultural land. One of the retail airstrips with the movie theater and a mall and a supermarket. Our community was connected by automobile transit, internet, and telephone.

I wouldn't want anyone still living like this to go hungry--we don't make the choice to enter the world we find ourselves in, as far as I know--but I can't stomach that lifestyle for myself or my children, or the kin of anyone I've known or met. When I was young it was thrilling, with engines and freeways and drive-thrus. My friends bought cheap sports cars and motorbikes, and there was 100 years of movies to watch.

Now I am older, and I find it inhumane.
More intercity traffic should be shipped by rail anyway. Heavy trucks cause enormous damage to the freeways, far exceeding the weight taxes charged.
Why is 120k the right number? Have you taken some implicit biases of your own, and decided that's the worth of farm work?

The correct price of farm labor is whatever it costs to obtain it. There is no cap. It's whatever it costs to persuade people to move from their comfy office to the farm.
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It's meant to expand the class warfare numbers, that's the sole purpose of moving the goalpost from the 1% to the 10%.

You could just as easily set the line at the top 1/3, because that group in the US is better off than any top 1/3 in any other nation. The US controls ~35% of all wealth on earth, with 4% of the population; that wealth is almost all stacked among the top ~85 million adults - a bit more than 1% of the world's population. Among those 85 million adults, there are over 11 million millionaires [1]. Nothing like that mass affluence exists anywhere else. So if you really wanted to push the class warfare game to its inevitable conclusion, you'd pit the majority bottom 2/3 against the minority top 1/3. If you were a nefarious type, this also works particularly well because it pits whites & asians against blacks & hispanics, as those groups largely divide by those income/wealth lines.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/24/a-record-number-of-americans...
On-the-horizon is at least 20+ years. The wheels of bureaucracy turn much slower than tech.
A lot of the tooling speed comes from a couple places:

1. The compiler optimizations being applied to code
- Things like GADT's are able to be allocated very efficiently
- Can generate code that doesn't box at runtime (smash it into a pointer is done as well)
- Pointers are word-aligned

2. The OCaml runtime
- No JIT
- No warmup
- Can emit native code

3. The HM type system
- Typecheckers for HM are really simple [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley%E2%80%93Milner_type_sy...

This simplicity + the features of the compiler combine to make the OCaml compiler very fast, and very easy to write one (some undergrad CS classes do), and developer-time tenable to make both happen.
Uber for railroad shipping? LCL (Less-than-container-load) freight forwarding has been an industry since God-knows-when, and you'd think this includes intermodal. You learn all this when you've done a few international moves.
Let me guess, you can't entirely live off your investments? ;)

Not sure I agree though. So someone who makes $1M per year from their work, but has no investments isn't rich?
Absolutely a serious question here: what is the big deal with companies e.g. Facebook and Google using your data for profit?

These companies provide services that you, a user of their platforms, want. Providing those services is not free, and yet the prevailing sentiment across the internet seems to be, "Wow, I can't believe FB was using my data to sell me ads!"
Free market people understand these things pretty easily. I do not see why you are finding it hard. One obvious fallacy in your statement is that someone getting paid infinite money for talent. I have not seen any such examples so far beside Pentagon who get paid more and more irrespective of their incompetence.
Strongly agree. I only found Lean after a couple of weeks of struggling to pick up coq. In my opinion, this tutorial alone makes lean a better choice for beginners.
I'm sure a bunch of children also wonder the same thing. The same way they wonder why we can't just cool off Texas with a big fan when it becomes too hot. After all, look how easy it was to come up with the idea (the hard part).

By the way, the reason is because you'd use a trebuchet, not the inferior catapult.
Probably just saying that would be too vague. A law generally can't just point at something and say "don't do that", because it'll leave enough loopholes for antisocial people to drive a fleet of oil tankers through.
This is definitely a major problem in large corporations with HR rules baked into the fabric of the thing over decades.

Many positions get assigned a grade based upon the nature of the work. A series of qualifiers fix that kind of position to a grade. You can earn anything inside of that grade, but not distinctly above it.

Considering yearly cost of living increases are usually fixed at about 2%, it can take one some many years before they even approach the cap. And then there is the yearly culling of the herd with no standard qualifier.

Somebody wants more money? You find a better job.

One of my favourite [read that with sarcasm] lines I'd heard in a yearly review was, "your salary here is like running a marathon..."
businesses are not entitled to cheap labour just so they can have cheaper products, sorry.
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I hired the same company to move my car across the country then back four years apart. The same man drove the truck. He told me he expects the company will shut down in another decade or two as it’s too hard to find good reliable drivers who want a long term trucking job. It’s a family run company with a stellar reputation and they aren’t interested in short timers
So why is this not happening in trucking or other areas? Whenever salaries go up in an area it's being reported almost like a miracle.
Have the polyfills got any better recently? Last I looked, they had a list of performance issues or only partially supported the spec. Made it really hard to consider them for a serious production app.
Just put the truck on the railroad flatcar.
Isn't this what reddit already does? a media giant with no reporters but instead of robots using humans scraping content for fictional internet points (karma)
You don't have to go public and you don't have to always go for short term profit (Bezos didn't, for a long time).

This is just how the game is played because that's how it has always been played. It's not very imaginative if we assume that maximizing profit is truly the requirement of all companies, because it's not.

There's also nothing that says that customer satisfaction and profit aren't mutual, it's just many companies lean towards profit.
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There has been no reduction of education spending on a per-capita basis (or any other form of measurement).

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1970_202...

It has grown at an amazing rate (as have Medicare/pensions etc).

Half of the income of the middle 20% of retired folks (those making less than $65K) comes from the government subsidies you'd like to cut. The 2nd 20% gets 2/3rds their income from the government and the bottom gets practically all of it. Cuts here will materially impact the poorest elderly.

Citations: https://usafacts.org/reports/annual/2018

My personal TL;DR is that we've been throwing money at all these problems and they are still so far from being solved :( Actually throwing money around seems to make things much worse.

People are taking a NIMBY style stance (cut those programs I don't use and give me/people like me the difference -- definitely don't cut my programs) that is not going to achieve anything but further animosity and grief :(
I'm ok with companies using my information for our mutual benefit - I have a relationship with them.

I'm NOT ok with companies selling my information.

I might be ok with companies selling derivatives or analysis of group information.
> The labor laws in the west are generally quite good

According to who? By what standard? And regardless of their current state, shouldn't workers get as much as they can for themselves, just like everyone else? Corporations sure do everything they can for themselves; IMHO even enlightened self-interest, such as net neutrality or reasonable tax laws, is not a limitation.
> It is not an idea that is supported by the whole Emacs community.

One problem is portability, Emacs Guile means alienating Windows users. Guile does not run on Windows.

As it is now, I can use same Emacs on my home Mac system, on my work Windows 10 computer and on various Linux servers.
For example CEO salaries have been increasing rapidly for several decades. Are they so much better now than 40 or more years ago?
Conversely, maybe there really isn't a shortage, and trucking companies want to get more drivers so that they can pay less. So they push a narrative of being able to make 80 to $100,000, but don't disclose that it's only a tiny fraction of experienced or specially qualified drivers who actually earn that much
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Thing is, the way I put this parser together, it should be quite easy to add group variables (linking to results from another group by preceding with $ or something) and some forecasting functionality using standard date formats (I myself use "= XXX Month YEAR").

This was an amazing thread that gave me lots of ideas. I plan on keeping this codebase moving forward with them.
The author did make the argument that revolutions that start from the middle are usually less violent and chaotic. I don't have the relevant education to know if that is true but I do know that I'd rather lead a revolution than be the victim of it. To be fair to the author, that is his ultimate point.

It feels to me that the idea of sacrifice has become a secular heresy. Humility as well. If the middle class has any hope of allying with the lower class then those two traits will have to ascend from ashes. The real questions is: are we too far gone and is it too late?
There is an enormous existing market for this. It's called intermodal transport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_freight_transport
The margins on this type of business are very low. I had a client who couldn't afford to process more than 20% of the invoices online (even though customers demanded it) because of 1.5% cc processing fee.
If you've done an international move surely you saw how horribly the industry is run. It's ripe for "disruption." Most of the pages of companies doing the work look straight out of 2004.
> All eventually leading up to poor people paying even more for their daily consumption items such as diapers and baby food.

Shareholders make less, consumers don't pay more, because you're still going to rather have your goods get to market versus not being in business.

As many others in this thread have mentioned, there is no shortage. This is a narrative pushed by actors attempting to keep trucking wages low.