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> “Never before in history have basically 50 mostly men, mostly 20–35, mostly white engineer designer types within 50 miles of where we are right now [Silicon Valley], had control of what a billion people think and do.”

Hey, is this right place to contact those 50 guys? We're having this little problem where society is becoming increasingly polarized and fractured into camps, which are attacking one another with greater and greater ferocity. Like, I know you like money, but could you maybe use your influence to prevent societal collapse and/or nuclear war? Survival is actually in your interest too.
Dismissing criticism of the wealthy as "envy" has disturbing elements in common with dismissing criticism of politicians - i.e. both groups have a kind of power over the public that means they deserve and can withstand hard critique (an attitude I consider to be one of the best parts of whatever can be called American culture). Therefore, I think we should allow a little more leeway when considering what might look at first glance like just anger, or just a rant.

*Edited to accurately quote your comment
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Great suggestions, thanks! Indeed, that's a beautiful connection and many proofs of reinforcement learning algorithms with function approximators actually use contraction mappings.

Say hello to Kwabena for me if you get the chance ;)
Like it or not the physical and digital world will continue to meld. Just think what these kids are gonna get in the future with AR/VR everywhere, smart/IOT objects all over the place and some national ID system. We're worried now but they're preparing for a future where losing your digital access keys more or less shuts you out from participating in the world. Still, doesn't mean we can't teach more responsibility and encourage healthier behavior.
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Careful, though - if you live in an area that's been populated for a long time, that may increase your exposure to lead. Maybe get the soil tested first.
Exactly right. Michelle Alexander explains these racial consequences of selective law enforcement in The New Jim Crowe.
The comment by Brian Skinner who discovered the correlated noise in a graph is available on Arxiv [1]. It's not claiming fraud but points out that such an effect of correlated noise below a threshold temperature between seemingly independent measurements has not been observed before.

Quit-your-bullshit played safe ;)

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.02929.pdf
I am exactly the same @ age 27. I have an emergency fund, but living in USA in 2018, retirement isn't something I expect. I expect nothing like what my grandparents experienced (all unionized, large pensions, SSI). I fully expect to be working until I die (not by choice) unless some massive union push happens, and I'm very skeptical that it ever will.

I'll probably never own a home.

My future is pretty bleak, but I feel like that's the general millennial view.
> Programs like social security and medicare are re-distributive in nature and indistinguishable from taxes

I do think the distinction is relevant: The expected result is that you will get every dime you put into social security and medicare back. And then some. They're required savings accounts. Taxes spent on interstates, debt repayment, and the military, however, are truly expenses.
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Find a way to be better compensated. Find a way to solve more interesting (to you, not just the company) problems. Find a way to solve meaningful-to-society problems.

A former colleague of mine hated that half our job was defense work. He managed to stay off those projects, but was never happy because he was always one day away from being assigned to them. He didn't hate the military, but had no desire to be involved in it. He got a job making systems that saved lives instead (infants, at that). Maybe someone else was still getting outsized profit off his labor, but the work he was (is?) doing had more value to him than his prior work.
I, too, pretty much had nothing at that age. I hadn't had the sort of life that actually allowed for such things - between lowish paying jobs and a severely mentally ill spouse who gave me a gift of weird financial insecurity (no telling if I would have money one day to the next), my 20's weren't the best for that sort of saving.

Heh. I don't have anything now either, but to be fair, I'm now a seasonally working spouse in a different country than I lived then :D I'm not so worried about it. Even if I'm poor, I'll be OK.
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I haven't heard of a "practically free" blockchain yet, though.
> A waste of time? When I train a dog, I want the dog to respond to a specific input, for instance saying the word "sit". I'm not going to stand there trying different words until the dog's ass hits the ground.

Agreed, it's far from efficient - but it's what I've seen a ton of people do. Throw random inputs at the dog to try to get them to go pee, or go outside when peeing, or sit on command, or etc.

> The difference lies in that the dog cannot be said that it wanted the door opened when it tapped the glass. The dog simply wanted the door to open. Of the many things the dog (might have) tried, tapping the glass was the only thing that worked. So the dog goes with that from now on.

My question was mainly centered around the idea that, the way you describe it, I think is the same that a lot of people use in "training" dogs. They don't care what the input is, they care what the output is. Even during simple things like Sit. They don't pay mind to all the random variables they're throwing in like body language, tone, gestures, food, etc.

> Is the input just as crucial? Yes, it is. If for no other reason than a standardization of language. Because teaching your two year old to just use whatever random word she makes up for what the rest of us call "strawberry" isn't going to get her very far in life. In a similar manner, standardization of language with dogs is just as essential. I've got two dogs, you think I'm learning a different language for each? Duh, no. Consistency of input/desired-output mappings is a key element to training in general.

Well I think you misunderstand me. I'm not asking if input matters, I'm asking if input matters to your definition of "training".

Ie, if a dog tries random inputs and eventually figures out a way to get me to let it outside - it sounds like you did not consider that training. Yet, I feel like frequently people do the same to "train" dogs. Hence my question towards you.
If what I wrote came across that way I'm really sorry. My intention was to cover the state of Linux in general on the XPS 15, an "operating system" choice that Dell does not endorse.
I felt that my experience with the machine might somehow be relevant to potential buyers that want to replace their current MacBook with non Apple hardware, who also aren't willing to use Windows.
The distribution the I mentioned in the post is largely irrelevant to the premise I set out to cover, as Debian testing can basically be described as a very bleeding-edge Debian variant and everything I stated would still be relevant for Arch or any other distro. I still stand behind that original premise, but it seems that I somewhat screwed up the delivery.
Monsanto teamed up with Bayer to gain influence within the EU. Monsanto was having trouble bribing EU officials. Bayer already have them in their pockets. Might not be good for PR, but Monsanto was terrified because the EU almost banned Glyphosate last year. Bayer itself does not have a good PR image either.
One faces a similar problem with thinking about how much time is saved to go a certain distance: velocity is measured in meters per second, not "slowness" in seconds per meter.

Thus speeding by 10 miles per hour makes much more difference in your time if it happens at 20mph (3 minutes per mile -> 2 minutes per mile) than if it happens at 60mph (1 minute per mile -> 0.86 minutes per mile).

This can sometimes be erased because one typically (at least in the US) spends more time at the highway speed, but if we're talking about you need to spend 10 minutes getting on the highway, 30 minutes driving on it, and 10 minutes getting off it, then even allowing for 5 minutes of the city driving to be non-speedable (it's spent stuck at three traffic lights, say), you can save 5 minutes of time by speeding 10mph on the only 5 miles of city streets, but only 4 minutes of time by speeding 10 mph on the 30 miles of highway. You're speeding the same amount for 6 times the distance and something over twice the time, but because your average speed was higher it simply doesn't buy you as much.

Working out the numbers also helps you realize that speeding on the highway to get a substantial amount of time is, while not pointless, more unsafe than you think. Even under great circumstances, like if you are facing 40 minutes of driving -- if we're talking about a 70mph highway and you are 15 minutes late while you think 5 minutes late is still socially acceptable, you need to cut 10 minutes and thus average 4/3 * 70mph = 93.3 mph to make that happen. That means that to handle the moments where you are stuck behind two cars both going 10 over the limit at 80mph, you will need to at times be going 30 over the limit. And that's with a relatively long commute! If it's a 20 minute commute you have to drive this recklessly just to shave 5 minutes.
> I'm not confident that I'll receive social security.

This is a common sentiment, but it's a strange one to me. I think it's extremely unlikely that a program as popular as Social Security is going to just disappear. Entitlements have alligator blood. They're going to be really hard to get rid of.

And, anyway, it's pretty foolish to think you can predict what's going to happen in politics 30 years from now. 30 years ago the Soviet Union still existed and nobody had heard of the Internet. And people want to tell me they know what's going to happen with Social Security?
We store information all over the place, on paper, in other people's brains and now on our digital devices. When we need to handle more information about the world the last thing I want to store in my brain is someone's cell phone number. I'm sure you ask your family members, roomates, work peers similar questions over and over because you know they are the keeper of that answer, they essentially act as off site storage for your brain. Now we're just taking that concept and strapping it onto a rocket but it's probably the only thing keeping us from information overload.
Should mobile device info be considered private?
Doesn't work with accented latin alphabet characters ("ü𝕓𝕖𝕣") - is it a fundamental restriction of the styled unicode charset or a mapping issue? Seems like it should be supported but would need a transition from precomposed characters to the equivalent combination of letter + diacritic.
Well, the NYSE is only the foundation of the financial system in a figurative sense.
A-116 Diag7.asm. Really if you got to page 45, you got through almost half. A-126 and on is just data tables.
Intel has done that in the past, actually, their first "dual core" chip (2005) was actually two chips in a package.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D
There have been times when I received more than a fair share of the value that I created, because I was well paid, but the company wasn't profitable. Oddly, I felt more alienated then, because I felt like what I did didn't matter (at least not enough to make us profitable).
Yes, but users can't be expected to know how to do that. And my users are the ones who want to play ROMs.

Maybe it's possible to bundle tor with the executable though, and have the network connections automatically route through tor.
I'm making a large amount of money creating software that helps real people. Others are also making money from what I do, but then they provide the tools that I use, and a huge amount of infrastructure that makes the whole system work. And they take the risk. I feel like I get a fair share of the value that I create.
> "I see in practice that a lot of us are putting retirement down the goal priority list, in favor of paying off student debt or buying homes,"

If that's the actual reason why retirement savings are low, then this sounds more like a paper crisis than a real one. If you're putting $30k a year towards paying down student loans or home equity, then – assuming nothing changes – eventually you're going to "fill" those buckets and start saving $30k a year for retirement, which over the course of a normal career should be plenty to retire.

That said, I have my doubts that millenials' low retirement savings as a group is really because they're saving in another bucket.
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Because communism was a very real and very dangerous threat to a lot of people and that we at least tried to contain/stop it and thereby save the lives of millions of ungrateful people. At least that is what I want to believe because otherwise the answer is that the US war machine has a will of its own.

Note: Afghanistan was in response to 9/11, but one day we will all know who was really behind 9/11 and I will wager that the intelligence community is itself to blame for aiding and abetting and bringing to life that event for their own devious purposes, up to and including a bailout of the broken financial system. Look at who benefitted the most and then work back to who controls that system and you will know who really did the deed. The bullshit conspiracy theories exist only to confuse people and force them to believe the media narrative of how the event took place. You are not supposed to remember that George HW Bush led the CIA, or that the Bush family itself has very long roots with not only the CIA but also the Nazi regime and that Prescott Bush once considered a coup against FDR. No, you're not supposed to remember all that, or that these men all come from Yale, in particular one fraternity at that school. Those are all just conspiracy theories you see?
Is Zuckerberg a millenial?
And if you live in an area that used to manufacture semiconductors (and possibly contaminated with heavy metals), it is recommended that you use a certain kind of plastic sheet between the dirt in the ground and the topsoil that you buy at a store. There are these square wooden frames made for these kind of farm plots.
1. You can use it purely as a CDN, turning security to "essentially off" and only having to deal with the website certificate being sni.cloudflaressl.com

2. Only on the enterprise plan. On Pro/Business you can only "challenge" (captcha) or JS/browser Challenge countries, not outright block them.

3. Even with all the other cool and useful features, DDOS mitigation is still one of the most valuable offerings possible.
This is a field of active research, with wildly varying approaches.

For example, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225796422_Solving_j... uses puzzle shapes only, and http://webee.technion.ac.il/~ayellet/Ps/15-PT.pdf works with square pieces.

(both randomly picked from a google search; I don’t know what the state of the art is, and am still looking for the smartphone app that does this)
I actually did this once, with a 100 piece puzzle. It took about an hour. There were several pairs of pieces that looked like they fit, and even felt almost right, but weren't correct. It might be possible with computer vision, as long as you set the right tolerance of how tightly the pieces should fit together.
Engineer graduates from a Big Ten school can make a solid salary and have a very nice cost of living if they stay in the midwest. If you and your spouse bring in a combined >$150k a year and buy a house that costs <$400k, you can have a good amount saved away by the time you are 32 (10 years of working).
My wife and I buy most of our meats and vegetables directly from a farm. We have the farm owner's number on hand, and can call and ask. We can also ask to be there at the slaughter if we'd like or to visit the animals before hand. Surprisingly, it's not that much more expensive than whole foods for us. The farm is about a 20 mile drive from where we live. We like it.

I found the program online. Didn't need any special contacts or anything.
Yes and that's how it should be: it's part of the definition of "work". When you work, you should be providing value for others that's why they're paying you money. This necessitates being a pawn. You may even have a high degree of latitude and freedom to choose objectives, for instance if you're a founder. But, even then, you're just a pawn of capitalism, attempting to provide value to a marketplace that dictates what can and can't exist.

The way to "deal" with it is to understand what employment is. Employment is the exchange of your time for money. Think of your body as an asset: like a house you rent out, or like renting out your car on Turo. Only, you're renting out your body and mind for 8 hours a day. Inexchange, you get a paycheck. What you choose to do with the rest of your life is up to you. Out of those 168 weekly hours, you still have 128 hours left to do whatever you like with. Historically speaking, that's not a bad deal.
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It was 10 years ago that I was 32, but at that point in time I had over $100K easily in my 401K. By the time I divorced three years ago, I had over $200K in there.

After the divorce, I have about $20K left after having to split it with my ex-wife, who had saved a grand total of $2.00 during our marriage.

I don't really have a point, except that some people are very good at saving, even from a young age, and some people will never save a penny. The key is starting young. As soon as you are able to contribute anything, even 1%, you get the advantage of compounding interest over time, which is the key.
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I think you're right. About half my social circle is friends from work (other millennial in the high tech sector) and for the most part they are doing fine. Took a few years to knock out student loans but folks are saving well and buying houses now. The other half are those who had other degrees / no college and probably don't have a job that provides a 401k and I wouldn't be surprised if a majority don't know what an IRA is.

Me and my long time girl friend have been really fortunate, no student loans and high paying jobs for the first 5 years out college. Our retirement portfolios are in a pretty good place right now.

Seems that at all levels of American society inequality is rampant.
That would be hacking. I couldn’t build datacenters with that. I’m a professional engineer, not a hacker.
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AMD introduced HyperTransport in 2001.
Thanks for the recommendation, I adore the Stalker film.
Ah that's so cool. I've been reading about expander graphs lately. Their interesting properties make them pertinent to lots of questions. In particular, you can use expander graphs to cook up error correcting codes and prove the PCP theorem. There's a class of expander graphs called Ramanujan graphs which are characterized by an analogue to the Riemann hypothesis involving a zeta function that counts the prime cycles in a graph.
> I just can't imagine any legitimate Tor user checking that checkbox

Legitimate Tor users will click it for the same reason a large fraction of users in general will click it--it's stopping them from getting where they want to be, and they believe clicking it enable them to move on, and they believe that reading it won't speed up that process.

It's just to them more "stupid stuff the site wants me to agree to that I don't need to bother with because (1) if it is asking me to agree to some rules I don't care because I'm really nice and would never do anything they could object to anyway, and (2) if it is making me give permission to use my data or track me it doesn't matter because (I'm already tracked everywhere else | I've got ad blocking and privacy add-ons installed)".
Thanks! In case anyone is curious, I found the excerpt that had what I was looking for (the list of specific endocrine disrupting compounds). From page 2:

"The probabilities had been based on assessment of the toxicological and epidemiological evidence for 15 exposure–response relations between EDCs (PBDEs, organophosphate pesticides, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, di-2-ethylhexylphthalate, bisphenol A, benzylphthalates and butylphthalates, and exposures to combinations of these substances; appendix) and disorders (loss of intelligence quotient [IQ] points and consequent intellectual disability, attention deﬁcit hyperactivity disorder, autism, adult and childhood obesity, adult diabetes, crypt-orchidism, testicular cancer, male factor infertility, early cardiovascular mortality due to reduced testosterone, leiomyomas, and endometriosis) with use of a modiﬁed Delphi approach to achieve consensus."
I find retention of audio at any speed is lousy.

This is why I'm a big fan of transcripts
> Flat tax doesn't even simplify anything.

Yes it does, depending on the implementation. There's a 2005 Economist article which does a good job of summarizing why[1].

BEGIN QUOTE

Fewer brackets are simpler to administer, but one bracket is simplest of all. Under a pure flat tax, the taxman takes the same cut from the last dollar you earn that he took from the first. The appeal to high earners is obvious. But the administrative elegance of such a system is not so immediately apparent. Because every dollar is taxed at the same rate, it does not matter to the tax collector how many dollars are going to whom. Thus, in principle, the taxman could simply withhold 20% of a company's payroll, without needing to know who was paid what. Add a second rate of tax, however, or a personal exemption, and the tax collector must find out how much money is going into each pay packet before he can be sure of collecting the right amount from the right person. In America, for example, the tax collector needs to tax the wage packets of 130m or more employees, rather than simply taxing the payrolls of 8m or so enterprises.

END QUOTE

The mistake you're making is assuming that the tax system can only be simplified on the individual level, but as the quote above demonstrates this isn't true.

Certain changes to the tax code do entirely away with the need for the government to exhaustively audit large parts of the economy.

Another quote from the article demonstrating such a case:

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In Canada, Australia and the European Union, for example, staple foods, but not restaurant meals, are exempted from value-added tax. [Therefore] hot roast chicken is taxed, but cold roast chicken is not. “Does anyone expect tax administrators and business owners to have thermometers on hand when they do their tax calculations?”

END QUOTE

In this example, by progressively taxing food you're creating the accounting problem that the government theoretically has to track economic activity down to the level of whether a chicken was warm or not when it was sold.

Simplifying the tax code does away with needing to solve that problem entirely, and eliminates some of the current incentives for tax avoidance and other fraud.

1. https://www.economist.com/special-report/2005/04/14/the-case...
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> And people want to tell me they know what's going to happen with Social Security?

No, they are telling the exact opposite, that they do not know what is going to happen to social security. So they are not confidant that they will receive it because they do not know what will happen to it.
Both of you should have read High Output Management, at least the sections related to 1-1s.