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Pensions are Ponzi schemes, plain and simple, with government playing the role of Ponzi.

Buried deep inside the idea of a government pension is the idea that individuals are incapable of saving for their own retirement. That government needs to care for its people in old age because they won't take the necessary steps themselves.

Questionable assumptions aside, this article and many, many more like it demonstrate that government is incapable of caring for people in their old age, making many of the same mistakes with "investing" that individuals will. From the federal government down, officials have shown no reluctance to raid pensions to fund pet project, resulting in chronic underfunding.

Inflation supplies the energy to keep this toxic cauldron bubbling along. It's not enough to simply "put money aside for retirement." Instead, you need "investments" that will at least keep up with inflation. Savings accounts are out.

Enter investment "advisors," all too willing to tell an individual (or government) what to do - for a fee.

Edit: the downvotes are amusing, but a comment explaining why would be more interesting.
While we often confuse religion with the practices of the idiots fawning over politicians here in the US, there is beauty to be found in the wisdom of the ancients on occasion.
That's a vast exaggeration. You're assuming every single one of GitHub's active users: 1) was active during the exact incident time and 2) is a business user earning US wages.
Thanks, :-)
Average 50 percent active (as in daily usage)? 2 hours lost?

I'd estimate a couple of order of magnitudes less...
I doubt plumbing or electrical are any more complex now than they were 80 years ago. The principles haven't changed. What probably is more complex is dealing with permitting and inspections, which you alluded via fire code regulations.
I think the idea is that they will eventually create something called 10nm but it will be very different from the current process in development.
Owner of a "Thinkpad" X62 here. The most surprising part of the X series from Thinkpad is how serviceable it is. The repair manuals are all online and does not require any special hardware. The OEM replacement parts are extremely abundant online at a reasonable cost. I think when my current laptop becomes obsolete, my next laptop will probably still be a Thinkpad.
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A conventional rig has spikes for each gear, one for each ratio as the engine revs through its power band. Sticking to only one gear ratio only consolidates those spikes into one massive mountain of a spike.
> A feudal monarchy makes a fine ally. The next it isn't, it doesn't. The next day, one little murder in the journalist persecution capital of the world threatens to blow up the entire alliance, military, political & economic.

Just like selective law enforcement is a tool used to oppress and exert power so is selective outrage used to drive public opinion.

There is something odd about this case. It is a terrible crime of course and should be condemned. But it seems we went from the head of Interpol disappearing in China and everyone not caring much, to let's start a war with SA over a journalist most people haven't heard of before. Something is unusual and I feel there is more to the story and more to the motivation to push the story at this point in time.
> It's a monarchy in the real, undiluted sense.

This is the part that blows my mind, really. I didn't think there were any true Monarchies left, especially not in a country that wealthy and prominent in the world stage.
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Then they really aren't morals, are they?
Before I did a couple of rage quits on StackOverFlow, I wanted it to be the definitive place for learning any computer topic from the beginning through advanced topic, especially esoteric topics. You could easily build the ultimate learning guide given enough questions, linking, etc.

I spent quite a bit of time on elisp questions. For example:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2170528/writing-hello-wo...

I think I had close to 200 questions at one point.
There are definitely problems with outdated content. SO + Google seems to be particularly bad at finding accurate answers without cross-referencing several different posts all linking to each other, combined with forced immutability and the difficulty of some changes.

Some other sites like Quora have a full question "merge" feature which SO needs, it would cut down the duplicates and allow a single question thread to become more useful.
People who don't have the ability to create and maintain the quality of the linux kernel seeking to have power, via social, political and economic ostracism, over those who do actually have the skills and competence to do so.
> Regardless, I don't see how this satire could be considered dangerous.

Watch the twitter mob forming outside the window!
This post was written by Jeff Atwood, not Joel...
On the subject of fundamental misunderstandings, you do realize that Jeff Atwood wrote this post and not Joel Spolsky, right?
It's not a dupe. None of the discussion there is about Torvalds coming back.
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One challenge not discussed here is when an accepted and highly voted answer _used_ to be a good answer, but no longer is in later versions of whatever software/platform/library is discussed. This is also something that gets worse over time, like the uniqueness problem.

I think it's worse than the uniqueness problem, multiple duplicate _good_ questions/answers don't actually harm, misguide, or delay anyone looking for an answer; one _wrong_ one does.

And of course, if you try to ask a question again because you think the old one might be outdated (if you were _sure_, you wouldn't have to ask probably), it'll likely get closed as a duplicate. :)
A version of that is published in the Help Center and The Tour--both which everyone is directed to but nobody reads--and then everyone argues with us about.
The latest message appears to be:

"We are validating the consistency of information across all data stores. Webhooks and Pages builds remain paused."

Which is a bit scary. Half my requests appear to hit some storage which is still many hours behind.
They should be seeing that...
In the end it's a trade-off between having an extra dimension to deal with, or having to deal with a non-euclidean space. Between the two it's nearly always easier to go for the higher dimensional euclidean one, but exceptions might exist.

Of course if you want an approximate solution then projecting the sphere to 2D might be an option, but glueing together the different projections required could be a bit of a hassle.
That's a joke, right? Right?
It would be cool if it could also generate code to marshal and unmarshal a protocol.
You can buy an upgrade kit using the same Sharp screen from the Dell XPS series for the X220/X230. The best bet is to go through a TaoBao agent and buy it from nb51 directly.
I'm still running an X201t with no intention to upgrade. One of the last machines in that sweet spot of having a sensibly designed keyboard, no trackpad and an IPS display.

I recently had to swap out a keyboard on a 2012 era Macbook and its very clearly highlighted just how good I have it with this thing.
> To people whose primary focus is the growth of their own business, that could be a big cost for upholding their own sense of moral justice.

Not generally a fan of biblical quotes, but:
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
The SQLite folks are saying that code of conducts are irrelevant. Hence, they are saying that the problems solved by CoCs do not exists, or are not problems.

This is a disgusting move and we need to make sure to react appropriately by not using sqlite and fossil and other software these people created.
For the 30 years where it was one project, the community was split? And now that it has been forked because of outside political issues being forced in, that's the same amount of split as the last 30 years?
Oops, thanks - corrected. Also makes my deleted last paragraph’s speculation a little bit irrelevant, nominally, while also remaining entirely relevant.
It's not really a conspiracy theory.

A "New Yorker" writer has publicly claimed credit for Torvalds' change of heart. There was a massive hit piece ready to go if he didn't accept the CoC and step down.

https://www.itwire.com/open-source/84590-new-yorker-claims-c...
I always used a small towel, it doesn't get dirty because if you clean your butt properly is just wet, and you wash once at week (like all the other towels)
CoCs are not silly, they solve very important and real problems.
I had an $800 electronic item that was delivered at 11:30 PM on a Friday night and was left outside of our office building where 300 people worked because we were closed. Took massive effort to convince customer service i never got it. Of course it walked away before i went back Saturday morning to pick it up.
Her TEDx video [0] makes it clear, she just believes she knows better and within an hour of any subject matter that has experts she could revolutionize their field by just thinking outside the box. The experts too limited in their thinking to see how awesome it could work lol

[0] https://youtu.be/ukgnU2aXM2c
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I notice the article fails to mention that the bidet is extremely diffused in Italy, where nearly every household has one
Saudi Arabia does not run by a primogeniture succession. Essentially all potential male heirs can become the overall leader. So all his brothers, his uncles, and some of his cousins are possible choices. It is politics that decides which one is heir aparent.
Distributed kernel (LegoOS)
Might be good enough to be remembered as the site that killed Experts-Exchange.
tons of irish and american whiskey in Edinburgh :)
There is a big difference though: self-hosted Gitlab won't kick them out:

> GitHub has the right to suspend access to all or any part of the Website or your Account at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-corporate-terms-of-s...
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Nice that they go over XEmacs time period, it was my favorite variant, as it provided better GUI tooling support back then.
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It did but there aren't enough mods and knowledgeable users to monitor and police the tremendous inflow of off topic questions and answers.
I meant to say distinguish between counterfeit goods and the genuine article. I just think when you spend at least 4 digits on something you should either have experience in the area or buy with someone who does. Should Amazon do a better job on stopping counterfeit? Yes but that doesn't stop you from using common sense.
Also the use of Amazon logistics is very regional and I assumed the OP would have mentioned that.
There is always going to be a good enough margin for selling counterfeit goods of luxury brands that this will most likely never stop.
>3d interaction with information objects in virtual space is future

[citation needed]
Sure, but mostly policy is the problem here.

Instead of

"Hunt down bad content and delete it!"

they should use

"Hunt down good content and promote it!"

Why not create a premium version of the product that features only chosen content?

Creators can do what they always did and maybe they're even motivated to become "premium creators".
The US had a multi-decade plan to take Saddam and Gaddafi out the instant we could get away with it, for a whole host of reasons, and the dollar-denomination thing is like #15 on that list at best.

Some euros or RMB becoming dollars for 5 seconds before they become oil is just not that big of a deal.
I don't think 2 hours is an exaggeration for an active user. The 50% might be too high, I agree.
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Hardly revolutionary.

I was following this back then -- Apple had just come out with 3D manipulations in the desktop (e.g. turning a widget window around in dashboard around to view their configuration on the "other side").

Some engineer at Sun, in their spare time, put together a quick demo with 3D windows (using Java/OpenGL bindings IIRC). Basically a quick play on the idea of windows being objects rendered in a 3D space by a compositor (which OS X had introduced to the mainstream a while before).

OS X still rendered them as 2D projection, except for the occasional effect like the flip-around in 3D space, while this demo had them floating by default (but still only shown the same effects, flip around to write notes etc).

The Looking Glass demo was very basic, it got some talk in forums at the time, and it was even presented a few months later in a SUN "keynote". For a while they pretended like they had something there, instead of just a half-arsed demo.

There was never any big project around it, nor much thought. The highlight was ...turning a window around to write notes, configure, etc (e.g. a copy of what Apple had done commercially and already shipped with minor changes).

Even the very concept of Windows in 3D space is not that novel, Microsoft had done something similar before Apple, as well as others.

It didn't went anywhere, because (at least as implemented this far) it doesn't solve any problem better than the regular desktop.

In short: Looking Glass never went anywhere because it was a proof of concept by 1-2 Sun employees, when window compositing became possible in XWindows/Java.
I must say I once read a prospectus for a sharia financed product. No "interest", only "percentual administrative fees".

Wait, what ?

Other than that, they're essentially "pulling an uber". They're significantly riskier investment schemes that most institutions have had really bad experiences with a few decades ago. They're ignoring regulations that exist for good reason, and regulators seem to let them for some reason (for now).

If you want to do that, great. Risky investments are most often the mispriced ones (cheaper then they ought to be). But please, do it yourself, figure out the risks, and don't let some institution do it for you with the promise of cover or ... or you will regret it.
SO has a "merge questions" feature, but it's rarely used. It is only available to elected moderators, and it's quite dangerous because it's not reversible without assistance from SE staff.

One major problem is that merging two very similar questions that are about the same concept would still end up with answers that seem out of place because they address a slightly different version of the question.

Most cases should be solved by closing as duplicate, as that will create a link to the canonical answer. Anonymous users will also be automatically redirected to the canonical answer if there are no answers present on the duplicate.
Give the guy a break, the US government itself cleared Saudi Arabia of culpability in 9/11 and reafirmed they were a regional ally.
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The placement agent would be powerless if not for the pension board's incompetence and corruption, otherwise it wouldn't matter if the pension was being pitched by the marketer or the fund manager itself. Don't get me wrong, it's a game that hedge funds are playing and I despise it, but the disease is what goes on in the board room of the pension.

All of this is a sideshow to the egregious overpromising of benefits and underfunding mechanisms.
Oh I can help with that, the numbers — which may not be up to date, for obvious reasons — are easy to find: https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7602-semicon-west-int...

Note that there isn't a single widely accepted way to say who has the better density, but this table sums up the various metrics pretty well.
it's just one of many fronts in the ongoing culture war. Allegedly, progressive activists are pushing CoCs onto open source projects and other people are opposed to this. Obviously, you'll get different explanations for the motivations involved by asking different parties so I can't speak to that objectively.
How would you do the calculation of the costs of this outage? Don't forget that the 50 US$ is lost added value, not wages.
The graph in TFA does show Intel's 14nm as having better density than competing 14nm nodes, though the lead seems to be less than a full process node.
It seems kind of like how incorrect news about science becomes “common knowledge”. This person probably saw someone else post this, and now they’re just parroting it back. That other person, they might have had it from a news article. Or maybe they were just parroting another comment in turn. Even if it was from the news, was that news sources from a sophisticated engineering perspective, or a bit of marketing fluff? Hard to know. Not saying whether this is correct or incorrect either, just making a comment about the sources of knowledge in general in the age of internet comments.

But it would be pretty quiet on here if people only talked about what they actually know.
Honesty there are tons of dumb SV scams but people tend to focus on the founders more if they are a woman in my experience.
Site is recently reopened (2 weeks) with new domain https://www.junglesearch.net and I get feedbacks to add other countries and I really like to add them. It requires some API work to get new country's categories and checking which options are working on which department so it required some work. CA, UK are on my top list to add.
I'm still getting a bit of a humble brag out of this.

But thanks for the shout out, for all my contributions on SO. It's amazing, I really feel like an indispensable cog now. /s

However, keeping Documentation[1] would have really accelerated the progression of SO. But whatever... I don't run it.

This really isn't all for ourselves though; the Stack Exchange community is more impressive to me. I really enjoy the Parenting, Money and Music SE's.

[1] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...
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They are not irrelevant, they are actively harmful. We need to ridicule code of conducts more before this gets out of hand.
Usually the country is "better off" as a whole on the backs of the few who will suffer tremendously in order to achieve that.
Hi, I think you product has not failed just because isn’t on the spot right now. Maybe you have to try hard to make your product be known. Maybe trying in other sites like product hunt or indie hackers.
Pensions needed to reach for yield with the fed funds rate scraping zero for the better part of a decade.

> Pension funds should have steady, modest gains year over year and minimize risk of dips as much as possible.

This is what hedge funds were built for - hedging.
If this is true, then we will likely see MacBooks with 7nm A12+ in 2019 or 2020. They might surpass Intel on raw performance if TSMC's 7nm process is good (and Apple paid a lot of its R&D costs).
I am not the OP, and by the way, mounting /home with noexec isn't the only way to prevent execution. :)
Or use the data and feed it to the self learning program that will design the next bridge.
"Being a community manager is a thankless, unrelenting assault on your confidence and emotional and social stability."

Oh man I volunteered to moderate on a large gaming related forum ages ago. The amount of BS you deal with along with personal attacks and etc is pretty high. I never felt emotionally upset by it as I felt you had to maintain an even keel .... but it certainly is not a job for everyone and the rub is the folks who WANT to do it the most are often the worst at it. Being a good moderator is not a skill everyone has, but it's also not valued in any real way by most communities / companies.

Really the most frustrating aspect were the non trouble users who seemed to go to bat for the folks who were truly bad actors because of some perceived injustice (lie)... and all the meta that goes into that.
Major League Sports teams are generally pretty solid investments. Also, the Ontario Teachers didn't just own the Leafs, they owned MLSE which includes the Leafs, Raptors, Argos, Toronto FC, the Marlies plus the arenas at which those teams play.
It's not a bad investment to own all but one (they don't own the Jays) pro sports team in a city.
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But this is a false dichotomy.

They could just refuse your code without calling you an idiot.
Lately I've been working with c++ and, at least in my experience, as a developer who's native tongue isn't c++, many of the answers have failed to keep up with the radical changes in the language in the last 10 years. Post-17 C++ is completely different from pre-11 C++.

That said there's usually an answer further down the page with a more up to date solution, it's just not the accepted or most popular one.
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https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7602-semicon-west-int...
See the table "7nm comparison"

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7544-7nm-5nm-3nm-logi...

And: https://wccftech.com/analysis-about-intels-10nm-process/

tl;dr: Intel 10nm gets 106.1M transistors per mm^2. TSMC 7FF gets 96.49. Intel 10nm has an HD SRAM cell size of 0.0312 micrometers. TSMC 7LP is 0.0270.

Intel gets a few more transistors per area, TSMC gets more SRAM per area, but on balance, they're pretty similar. From the second article:

"From figure 3 the 4 processes have similar overall process density. GF has the smallest CPP x M2P x Tracks, Intel has the highest MTx/mm2 value and Samsung has the smallest SRAM cell size. The size of a design in each of these processes will therefore be design dependent and I would not judge any of the four processes to be significantly denser than the others. In terms of relative performance, we have no way to judge that currently."

[Note: Updated this post to quote the TSMC numbers instead of the GF numbers, since TSMC is shipping and GF has pulled the plug on 7nm]
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2 hours lost? Maybe 2 hours affected, but then just don't push/fetch during that time. Very few would have to stop and wait.

Average lost I'd guess to 10 minutes (most of it being "huh, wonder what's up with github")
Hi,

I'm in a similar situation myself and in the process of figuring out why. I would recommend reading the book "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg.

I think it is relevant for you to share your project - there could be many different factors why traffic isn't converting. Trial users from a Show HN are great but I've multiple websites that had traffic but 0 converted. This tells me that the traffic audience may not be my target customers.

I'm doing things that don't scale now .. so actually going out to acquire users manually. What I've found is that the value proposition might actually be a better fit for folks outside of the HN community.
They've already missed at least two 10nm deadlines.
> The SQLite folks are saying that code of conducts are irrelevant.

Did they? It's a Code of Conduct for communal matters that was written some 1500 years ago. Given that the Benedictine order still exists, it may well be practiced to this day (not sure if they updated it. I wouldn't see a reason.)

Given that there's no larger community around sqlite in the GitHub sense (they usually don't even take patches), and https://twitter.com/drichardhipp claims that DRH is Christian, they could as well pick a CoC that matches the family operation that is driving sqlite.

The page is rather explicit about not having to adhere to the CoC to _use_ sqlite in any shape or form, and you don't get to _develop_ sqlite anyway, so...
Willing to bet not many people.

Society at this time seems thoroughly content to trust big names/people instead of code, which can be vulnerable and manipulated maliciously.