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By all means, if you can get through the exams, you will be left with a low stress, well paying job at an insurance company, and you’ll likely have great job security. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But as Christensen talks about in one of his books, those are hygiene factors. You can find fulfilling, motivating work as an actuary, but salary should not be the main reason for choosing a career.
I live in an extremely hilly area, made of soft rock (limestone), but very little water. Carving out a hill to 100m down, with a 100x100m cross section is totally doable—we have larger projects just to make flat land to build houses on. If the weight was only 10m high, it’d be ~200k tons. By your calculation that’s ~54MWh/day, or enough energy to power ~1500 homes. There’s a hill the right size next to my village of ~1200 homes. We have excess wind & solar power.

So... where do I sign up?
Who do you think voted for Trump?
Obtuse, full stop.
I suggest not reading the guardian when it comes to anything related to health and tech. They are not reliable.
If you are still interested in therapy, online therapy is an option. Haven't used it myself but I have seen others vouch for it, ex. https://www.betterhelp.com/
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Yes, and they are always slightly second-class citizens, although QT comes closest. Using a cross-platform toolkit is inevitably not quite the same as a native app on every platform - because you're not targeting the native API but a limited subset via a shim layer.

If it was easy, we'd be seeing a lot more apps available with Windows/Android/Linux/iOS native ports.
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I've lived in France and the US. Until your friends have taken the bus in a major US city (or a suburb thereof) in a non-tourist area they have no idea how good their quality of life is. And I was in Paris where, yes, most side alleys smell awful and most areas with anything resembling nightlife have at least one poor soul passed out on some porch in their own fluids by 1am. Still doesn't compare to the look on the faces of the (mostly black and Hispanic) legions of America's glad-to-be-working class.

The US has in some ways a fascinating culture. People there, especially in the middle class, can be driven and open in ways that are usually outside of the imagination of even middle-class eighteen-year-olds in Europe, well-educated or traveled though they may be. But in America some of them start out having already lost, and they know it, and they truly in their hearts believe it's their fault. And it's heartbreaking.

I paid taxes in the US, you know? And it was the worst. Because I was still paying those 20% or whatever it really was, but I couldn't see where they were going. It could have been the court system I guess. Every other block had some kind of sign with something prohibited and "violators will be prosecuted" written on it. The roads were nice.
And I bet you rarely encounter awesome, happy pets. You might get the occasional cute puppy/kitty in for theirs shots (which the vet techs probably do), but I bet most of the pets you deal with are sick and/or dying.

Even if you grow callous to the death of animals, encountering the related human suffering must be miserable. I imagine the people most likely to take their pet to a vet are the ones most attached to them, therefore the most affected by their suffering and death.
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"Completely worthless" is not what comes to mind, when it provides your living.

If it doesn't fulfil you, and you have a math degree, why not change careers?
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Same impression here. Could turn out to be a worrying trend for Amazon in the Long run. And with the growing fix costs coming with an ever increasing logistics food print and brick and mortar stores, Amazon might end up in tight spot, still an e-commerce leader but not dominating any more.
> Nearly 8 percent of views on Amazon product pages came from sponsored links in May, more than double what it was a year earlier, according to data from analytics firm Jumpshot, which collects URL data from a panel of 100 million people.

It is fitting that an article talking about increased number of ads is using statistics from a company that collects data for ads targeting.

Guess why the ads are working so well?
Social media is used by companies to improve their public perception but we cannot ‘shame’ them by its bad practices. No way. And if the Community managers throw lies we have to also shut up? Respect always, but the ‘shaming’ are not CManagers fault because security decisions are not taken by them but other people so they shouldn’t feel bad by the public response.
The ultimate flaw with democracy is that it is predicated on the majority being right.
Hi,

I'm 41. Always in tech. Currently back in school for an Economics degree. I had 4 or so years where I was considered schizo-affective by my PCP and a Psychiatrist. I got better and it has been about 15 years since I have taken medication. My PCP eventually told me it was probably just an "episode" versus a "diagnosis". However, it caused my divorce and I too burned bridges.

My advice:

1. Seek help, immediately. Your situation wont change if you don't. It will get worse. Professional help is very important and starts to give you a support system.

2. Can you get back to the United States? I assume you are a citizen and there should be a way for you to get into a facility to start getting help.

3. Start seeing your kid. It is clear you want to but are afraid/nervous since you want to "shield from the crazy". Perhaps seeing your kid will help you get some renewed energy.

4. Take a job that you can do. Even if it is working at Starbucks. Starbucks is accepting of all walks of life, provide benefits, usually starting pay is more than minimum wage and they embrace being an individual. Have fun with the job as you start to polish a resume, etc.

5. Start to learn slowly. You wont become an expert overnight. Practice, practice, practice. There are so many free resources.

6. Lastly. Believe in your self. Look in a mirror and realize the good. If you dont see any good. "Get a better mirror, look a little longer, stare a little harder." [0]

Hang in there.

[0] "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful | Shane Koyczan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa1iS1MqUy4)
This is the best advice in this thread. I would also focus primarily on a frontend framework like React after you learn the basics (dont bother with vue), since many mid-sized companies are needing people with these skillsets. All sites are going to have a frontend component regardless, might as well master this early

I had to conduct studies for Code For America on the junior dev market, I would also checkout Seattle, Anaheim, San Diego, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston among other places

In the meantime while you focus mostly on frontend you can slowly learn backend / compscience on a slow ongoing basis
It's just one of many factors, but at the current price points, if there are 2 or more people going somewhere in SF/NYC, then Uber/Lyft is worth a few more dollars to get there on time (assuming no traffic) and without a chance of any other headaches. There's too many delays, service interruptions, etc with public transit also, so it all adds up to be a better experience with Uber/Lyft at a low cost per person.
First of all, there doesn't have to be a single definition. Here's some other factors that could be part of "value":

- degree of job satisfaction

- how much that sort of work benefits the world

It's very narrow to equate value only with money.

And because I know someone is going to misinterpret what I'm saying, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with equating value with money. It's just a bit sad when that's all value is equated with, and more so when it's just an unstated assumption like in the article.

You can compare all this with how college degrees used to be about more than just getting a job. The goal used to include making the person a well rounded person. These days it seems treated solely in financial terms.
Some play volatility. It’s also a game of betting against the trend. When the trend goes in one direction for long enough, you get burned taking the other side.
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Amazon hasn't had the cheapest prices for a few good years now. They're taking advantage of the fact that they have what I like to call "brand inertia".

The problem is brand inertia is not infinite. If you no longer do the things that have given you that inertia to begin with, eventually you'll run out of it. When a worthy competitor appears, your customers, who by then will have little loyalty to you, will switch.
you're describing Wirecutter and its many clones
The animal (mostly bird)/vegetable/mineral life references are brilliant, and I wonder how familiar they are to the readers of today.
I started out wanting to be an actuary. Did all the preliminary tests I was able to do before associate level. Like many I bought into the 'actuary is a great, high-paying career' line that was touted during my university.

The job market in Canada is incredibly saturated though. Having all tests out of the way was not even enough to stand out it seems. And I ended up moving to Europe to work in data science.
In the UK, getting to a town center to do some shopping is so horrific that Amazon is the only remaining option.
Nop a german bank, they have stopped doing it somewhere around december last year.
> I don't know if I can think of a better solution than an open-source password manager

Sure, KeePass(XC)

> I guess Troy is just focusing on what he knows best

No, KeePass(XC), as you said, stores everything locally, no Troy needed.
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It seems odd to make that claim about other companies without actually checking. It could be true, but it also wouldn't surprise me at all if Tesla were cutting corners here in a way that McLaren doesn't for the really obvious reason that they're selling £185k cars, not £70k cars.
Since C macros are glorified copy/paste, you can do anything with C macros... which was the point, I think.
It was true before the new measures as well. Even 9/11 only matched the death toll from one month on American roads.

Basic security measures definitely help. The rate of hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s was absurdly high, and dropped fast one basic screening was put in place. But there’s little evidence that anything beyond that helps.
Some background: miniKanren is a logic programming language in the neighborhood of Prolog (they are similar in the way that Python and Javascript are similar). The language is described and implemented in the book The Reasoned Schemer, which is a sequel to the classic The Little Schemer. The major implementations of miniKanren are in Clojure and Racket.

I was reading TRS and wanted to run the code, but I didn't have (and didn't feel like getting) Clojure or Racket. At the same time, I wanted to try my hand at some serious Elisp programming. The obvious answer was to put miniKanren into Emacs, and that's what this is.
You might want to consider classification as a "Proprietary Trading Firm" instead of a hedge fund
The payments are not a donation, they are earned by helping provide the Tidelift Subscription service (the set of tasks and responsibilities enumerated at https://tidelift.com/docs/lifting/tasks-overview ). If someone earns the money it's theirs and they can send it anywhere they want, charities for sure are an option.
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Neo-nazis and such are the fringe of the movement. They were also around long-before the term 'alt-right' existed.

Alt-right is the political upswelling that attended Trump's massive rallies, gathered and orchestrated around the likes of Alex Jones. My personal definition is "anyone who felt like they got left out of the modern world."

Perhaps my definition isn't in line with how people really want to use it, and if that's the case, that's unfortunate. Restricting a broad term like alt-right to just the likes of neo-nazis gives them way more legitimacy than they deserve and overstates their numbers.
The article says:

> This Tor Browser exploit was acquired by Zerodium many months ago as a zero-day and was shared with our government customers.

It's a possibility that it has been used. I'm not sure if a government would buy an exploit and not use it before it's patched, unless they couldn't find any use for it. This exploit is different than the one the FBI used on the child porn site though. They'd need to combine it with something that can bypass the Tor Browser's socks5 setting. It would be a much bigger deal if they had an exploit that could do that.
Even if the blocks are technically efficient the logistics and lack of granularity would keep it from being more than a curiosity like recharging your phone via a thermoelectric generator stuck in a campfire. Technically it works and is neat but it isn't going to be used much.

Water you can get it perfectly load matched. Here you get one concrete block lowered worth of energy and stopping midway has its own share of problems. Look at the mere 100MWh Tesla bank in Australia. They made millions per day and reduced power prices for consumers by millions as well. They did it by not only utterly cornered the power service market but managed to outrun the problem so well they weren't getting paid for all of them until the grid upped their sampling rate to deal with the unprecedented speed for a system that expected dispatched natrual gas turbines to be the fastest thing it would ever deal with.

I may be wrong and it may have a legitimate use but it would clearly need complimentary components to cover its flaws.
Aesthetics is a philosophy in the sense that all serious studies are. (Hence PhD, Doc·tor of Phi·los·o·phy, being the catch all for masters of most intellectual pursuits.)

That self-same wikipedia page you listed also denotes Logic and Cosmology as branches of Philosophy, and the Wikipedia page for Philosophy also lists Physics, Mathematics, Economics, Linguistics.
Calling aesthetics a "branch" of philosophy in the pejorative sense that you have here is absurd, given that just about any serious humanity is technically an area of Philosophy.

Yes, I agree that language is contextual. And when you discovered that you were using a very informal definition of beauty on a board full of extremely well educated pedants, while having yourself only a middling appreciation for the study of aesthetics, you'd think your language would modify to reflect that realization. :D

As to your field -- working in a field related to Aesthetics does not mean you have education in Aesthetics.

I make a living in Art and design as well, but that isn't the foundation for my arguments in Aesthetics. Quite the contrary. People working in Art are usually some of the least educated in aesthetics, since our art education has been destroyed by baby boomer hippies.

Don't confuse your craft of Art, with the science of aesthetics.

That would be as absurd as an engineer arguing that his having built a building which stands up to gravity means he has a strong education in the study of gravity. The one hardly relates to the other.

The ability to create works which stand up to the gravity of Aesthetics does not mean that one has a strong education in Aesthetics itself.

Now, I'm not going to say that every engineer who hasn't studied theoretical physics is in a poor position to be an engineer, but it certainly tells you something about their seriousness if they haven't read any books in the field.

Further, if an engineer went to some length to pejoratively tell me that Physics is just a branch of western philosophy when debating the theoretical foundation of the force of gravity, I'd similarly call them out as seemingly not serious.
> namely that of ending the names of test functions with p

I feel like this was a missed opportunity to say "predicate" instead of "test functions".
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They're still orders of magnitude more "native" that whatever you can make with HTML and Javascript.
What's B&H?
And fictional.
Qt, wxWidgets, JavaFX, SWT, Xamarin, Unity, ....
I've switched to other independent online shops as I can usually find what I want. I just search for "buy 'something' uk" on duckduckgo and can always find a few good non-Amazon sellers.

I avoid Amazon as much as possible now since it's no longer possible to rely on their reviews and there are way too many results to be able to find one that's not fake or of extremely poor quality.

I'm starting to appreciate going to brick-and-mortar shops again and having the choice between only a dozen of good quality products, instead of thousands cheap barely usable ones.
I remember things slong similar lines. Poor IT decisions chosen so as not to offend faculty —bending backwards for them.

Maybe it’s because it’s one of the ways they have to signal power or influence, even if it seems petty.
This point about ethics was so important, I thought I'd follow up with a more detailed example.

In a previous position (well over a decade ago, for a company which no longer exists), I was asked by my boss to do something which was both unethical and possibly illegal. Loyalty to your company and wanting to keep your job is one thing, but we all have lines we are unwilling to cross, and this crossed one of mine. I considered my position, and refused to have anything to do with it; I did not want to be remotely associated or culpable to any degree. In the meantime, I considered my future, and decided that I couldn't in good conscience continue to work for the company. I made my plans for the future, secured them, and I handed in my notice a short number of weeks later.

We all have a duty and personal choice to conduct ourselves ethically, even if that means taking it on the chin and finding another job. To ignore it is to implicitly condone it and the increase of suffering and evil in the world as a consequence. I do wonder how the subset of the employees of Uber, Facebook, Google etc. who are knowingly engaged in unethical and/or illegal work justify it to themselves.
Aldi and Lidl - the discount supermarkets in the UK manage just fine with spurts without a self scan machine anywhere. They are constantly opening and closing checkouts as the people waiting varies. They seem to have a default to get staff off tills and back to the rest of the store when people waiting drops to some prescribed number.

Go in really early or late and there are no lines occupied until a customer waits - usually no more than a minute as they appear to have a strong focus on keeping an eye out.

I would say there's a shorter overall wait, and a far higher likelihood of getting out of the store in the shortest overall time than any of the alternatives at the competition.

So no, I haven't seen any of these much-touted speed benefits. Quite the opposite frequently.
I used to be like this a bit, but I've come to really embrace the extent to which Visual Studio (not "Code", the real one) can help. The integration does have to be above a certain quality level in order to help though.

Why is "jump to definition" a context switch? In VS it's a single keypress.
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One could almost come to the conclusion that Amazon running a global experiment on price elasticity on their complete customer base.
Interesting points on volatility and the rate environment. I wonder how much is other big picture issues.

- The buyers are getting more savvy and don’t want to pay high fees for whatbthe can do in house.

- More high risk money is going to private securities.

- For some strategies (derivatives) there are less people to trade with. (Fewer suckers in the game)

- Fewer smart people are going into finance. (I’m not sure this has gone on long enough to impact hedge fund startups)
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I guess you'd be lucky to get a 'next week' delivery from amazon, right? I'm a swede and I regularly order from amazon.de, and shipping from germany is usually pretty quick.
As if HTML/CSS was the same as a native app on every platform.

It is easy, just not for those brought up coding for the browser.

Or do you want to imply Electron is more native than even Gtk+?!
It depends a bit.

On smaller flights, there may only be one gate agent and scanner. If someone's boarding pass isn't correct or there's some other issue, there gets to be a big backlog while they get sorted out. Sometimes that takes several minutes, and the smaller flights are often the ones with short 20-30 minute turnarounds scheduled.

Had this happen on a flight I took a few weeks back.
I guess it depends on how serious you are? If you're just one person managing money, including a significant amount of your own wealth, then I guess you can do things relatively cheaply.

If you want to grow big however, with a decent size investment team, the expenses all adds up quickly.
When people who know what they're talking about talk about "election hacking," they know that no actual hacking took place. They were Facebook ads. That's it.
Interesting. So the law firm is an independent entity that can theoretically sever ties with the tech company any time ? But still, clever structure.
Ever heard of UWP, iOS, Android, snap, Flatpak, QubeOS ....?
The bank doesn't own your house. The asset it has is the mortgage on your house. The bank could could sell the mortgage, but the only impact to you is that your mortgage payments go to someone else.
Its not exactly equivalent, but having spent the last month debugging a nightmare of C++ template meta programming mixed with a lot of C macros... I think things like this can be nice if they’re applied tastefully but I wouldn’t trust 99% of programmers to be judicious with these things. As someone else said, it’s catnip to a certain type of coder. It also creates a really nasty implicit dependency — you can’t pull out individual components because they’re dependent on the DSL, and who knows what dependencies the DSL pulls in? I would actually argue that macros might be why Lisp didn’t become mainstream; it creates a lot of fragmentation. Most people don’t even want to learn the syntax of their build system, asking them to learn some weird language extensions they can’t take to their next job seems like a rough sell

Edit: one more thing I forgot to add: this is a nightmare for tooling. I know there’s the contingent that wonders why you’d ever want anything more than vim or emacs, but for the rest of us, this just means refactoring/code navigation/syntax highlighting/autocomplete/static code analysis are totally broken.
I am not a developer, but something like AdBlock or uBlock Origin should be able to at least highlight the "Sponsored" text to make it more prominent?
How can you make money with a mini hedge fund? I've looked into setting up something, and at the minimum you'd need a few million (and that's even keeping everything super lean) for it to make sense money wise.
Unlike the other replies, I did read this book based on an HN recommendation, and it's pretty terrible. If you know anything at all about economics you'll find it very dull, like a secondary-school level introduction to the subject. I found his analysis was either simplistic and obvious, or in a few places I recall it being obviously wrong.

Also (and I didn't know this while reading the book) the author is a nutty Brexiteer.
Sure, but if you ask for a beer, you usually get the sponsors beer without question, even if they have different beers.

edit: talking about bars here
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