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The answer to every question about why DCA isn't as you would expect is that it's controlled by Congress and they optimize it for personal purposes.
I don't think of Calgary as affordable. And the weather is bloody awful. I spent 13 years there.
You're right,I was correcting a common misunderstanding.
There are way more than five phases of matter...
Because they explicitly don't want the HQs to specialize.

And the thought is that at some point there's going to be two Internets, US and China. There's a pretty good chance that China is going to run Africa's Internet access. Europe has been a also ran against the US as far as the Internet is concerned, and the Middle East is projected to lose their economic momentum in the coming decades.

https://nypost.com/2018/09/20/former-google-ceo-predicts-two...
Start traveling. It will give you a lot of different perspective on how big the world is and what an abstract thing is the concept of money.
Not that I think it matters, but Dulles has direct flights to Beijing, Tokyo, and Seoul.
Nothing is stopping you from doing exactly that.
Not just economies of scale. PoW IS a proof of capital.
"I can buy one million dollars worth of mining hardware and wait a year to earn my money back" is a proof of capital.
The trick is to realize that most money is made accidentally and anyone telling you how they did it is ignoring luck. For every 30 year old multimillionaire, there are 2-300 more who did exactly the same as they did, but one got lucky.
> Ms. Thames says she is “transparent about the fact that my husband still works a conventional job from home and that I enjoy working for myself through Frugalwoods.com.”

> Ms. Pattee, who married in 2015, says she and her husband, Andrew Hanna, 33, live off the rental income and save his salary in medical administration.

This doesn't sound like retirement. It sounds like being a housewife.
>I make an average living (low six figures,

I make 33k a year...
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This reminds me another OpenBSD-based project, but just for hosting emails — caesonia[1], which was recently discussed here[2].

[1]: https://github.com/vedetta-com/caesonia

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392096

edit: formatting
Atom means indivisible. Calling it a super molecule might seem like a better term, but it's not about the chemical nature of the substance.
It's already had an impact. The stalled metro stop between DCA and Braddock (next to one of the potential build sites) magically started moving forward again a few months ago.
Check my Sciter Notes application (https://notes.sciter.com).

Essentially it is a personal database and management system for your documents. You can store there all your documents in different thematic notebooks. Assigning keywords to your document you can make hierarchies and cross-links between different documents.

Notes stored in HTML format so you can copy paste info there as from as to MS Word/Excel, Google Docs, etc.

As publish those documents on sites if needed (another my app https://html-notepad.com may help with that).

The document database can be stored as on your hard drive as on DropBox as on other Drives.
Many of these schools have run deceptive marketing campaigns to convince students to get useless degrees. Meanwhile, many colleges have hired endless useless administrators, while most classes get taught by underpaid adjuncts. They should get rid of the loan guarantee and instead subsidize the cost of education or just give young people money.

The whole student loans system just seems designed to enslave students to debt. It is just a cruel way for elites to control people.
That's the sad fact about human nature: when you have a project that requires everyone to move at the same speed, chaining people together and putting unnecessary weight on their back works better (more reliably) that asking the fastest ones to please slow down a little.

(Then of course there are also other problems, such as companies wanting to keep all their employees completely replaceable, which is incompatible with people using their unique skills.)
Er... This is the 'prediction' for "Google":

>At around the same time, Lem envisaged a future where people have an instant and universal access to a giant virtual data base which he called a ‘Trion Library’. Trions themselves were tiny crystals of quartz, ‘whose particle structure can be permanently changed’. Trions operate like modern pen-drives, but connected by radio waves, forming a giant library of knowledge. This is how he described it in his The Magellanic Cloud from 1955 (our translation):

>Trion can store not only luminescent images, reduced to a change in their crystal structure, that is images of book pages, not only all kinds of photographs, maps, images, graphs and tables – in other words, anything that can be observed by sight. Just as easily, Trion can store sounds, the human voice as well as music, there is also a way to record scents.

Um; this doesn't sound like Google at all. I mean; maybe if this was described as predicting the internet or smart phones, it'd be more reasonable. However, the author follows this description with

>Lem’s description is quite accurate, only that what he describes, we call today the Internet or simply Google.

I'm a bit concerned that an index of a thing has been confused with the thing itself. Is this common? Has anyone else encountered this confusion between Google and the Internet?
You say you keep reading about all the people making millions. I suggest you think and read about 99% of people of the world poorer than you - who live in war torn countries with brutal dictators, who have to walk miles to get water, who don't have enough money to feed their children. Then you will realize how lucky and privileged you are to be making a six figure salary in a peaceful country (I am assuming you live in a peaceful country here). That would help curb your greed. Money is a mirage, the amount you want always seems just out of reach and you keep running after it. After a certain point it has diminishing happiness returns (if you earn a six figure salary in dollars/euros/pounds) you have reached that level already. You should feel lucky and enjoy other things like your hobbies. People who make very less money don't have the luxury to enjoy their hobbies. Realize how lucky you are and it will change the way you view life and money.
You absolutely can if you broaden your world to outside of Canada.
In general, private university tuition is extremely expensive. There are certainly exceptions to this rule that keep costs reasonable--e.g. for the financially strapped, Stanford has a "student obligation" program[1] as an element of financial aid--but they're not all comparable.

Conversely, I personally think in-state tuition for public research universities of sound rapport are fair. A big issue is when an undergraduate student moves to a different state to study and is charged out-of-state tuition for at least a year before establishing residency; that single-year cost often exceeds what a 4-year student would pay at in-state rates. In some states--like CA--you're pretty much screwed[2] and will pay out-of-state rates comparable to private universities for the effective duration of study.

Then there's private student loans issued by banks at gouging rates. They're super easy to qualify for and super easy to get out of control. Anecdotally, I took one out (12.74%!) during my last semester of undergraduate study which amounted to ~10% of my total student loan obligation in the end before capitalization; it was my only option since I didn't meet full-time student status that semester and didn't qualify for federal aid. This was the first loan I paid off and within 6 months of graduating, yet the interest paid on this single private loan accounted for 15% of the interest paid on the 7 other federal student loans that I paid off over the subsequent 4.5 years! It's crazy to think what that one private student loan would have cost me if I had paid it off over 5 years, let alone a 10-year period that federal student loans are amortized over.

EDIT: > Also, shouldn't the government provide direct financial assistance to low income people being admitted to good colleges without needing them to ever pay back?

Forgot to mention, this takes the form of academic grants[3]. Pell and SMART Grants are fairly common.

[1] https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/how/student.html

[2] https://www.ucop.edu/residency/residency-requirements.html

[3] https://www2.ed.gov/programs/smart/index.html
CO2 produces a greenhouse effect by absorbing IR.
This alone doesn't prove that Industrial produced CO2 alone is this time mainly responsible for climate change. All the other times' science believes the climate changed because of sun intensity.
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I get what you are going through. I overbuy products when I find something that I like because I get anxious that I won't be able to find it again. I have stockpiles that irritate my wife and take up space.

Do you have a wife and kids to support, by chance?

If yes -> is this effecting them?

If no -> have you fallen on hard times before? Or has a family member and you were not able to help them out?

Money is far from one of my concerns in life. For me, I meditate, I read books, I enjoy friends, I enjoy making pour-overs, I enjoy walks, etc.

Maybe you just need to slow down a bit? While slowing down take a look at the things you enjoy and try to make a plan to enjoy them more.

The thing about money is that when you have it you want more, you won't ever have enough.

Have you watched "The Big Short"? Perhaps do and realize that as people make money others tend to lose money, jobs, houses, etc. From the movie for every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die.
Will they? Continue to exist? I'm not very certain about that. How would any human survive an ecosystem collapse? How would they sustain themselves? With technology that runs without any power, can be repaired without any specialized knowledge and operated without training? Because, you know, the ecosystem just collapsed and everybody not struggling for survival in a world unable to produce food is probably already dead.

I'm not so sure at all.
From the article:

"But the correlation some studies have found between increased screen time and outcomes like depression do not prove one is to blame for the other, he says. It may be that kids who are anxious or depressed are just more likely to spend a lot of time using screens."
That’s a valid view, but it would definitely be powerful if the language’s type system could express restricted character sets, right? You can already do something like this with e.g. Ada’s constrained subtypes, like encoding the length of a string or the range of a number into the type, making it statically impossible to accept invalid input. That’s really cool!
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Thanks. I think the issue is DOCTYPE, here’s the real file that I use hosted on GitHub, haven’t had any problems with it.

https://github.com/cullum/dotfiles/blob/master/fontconfig/.c...
It is not 1980 anymore. We moved on. And that is one of the reasons that the ibm pc was so successful. One platform to develop for, as opposed to TRS, Commodore 64/128/Amiga, Acorn etc.
It'd be helpful if kids actually got a greater chance to see things like where their food came from or the factories where the things they use get made. Our modern economy cuts off and hides much of the world and gives them a filtered, fake sense of reality. When you consider the kids are stuck in a fake reality, it seems obvious it should cause mental issues.
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There’s also general trends. Modern (mid-century and more-recent) furniture is more trendy. I wouldn’t want much pre-modern furniture even if it is beautifully made and fits my life functionally.
They want to be where the big money is. And that means DC.
This is wonderful. Bravo, and thank you!
I see a pro Apple sentiment here for privacy, just my 2 cents.

Apple is constantly raising their prices ( asp ) and they won't share unit sales in their next stock report.

So I'm curious what this will do for the future.
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> he only advantage of this representation is space efficency.

Not even close to true. Simplicity, future proofing are two more at least.

Reference to PDP-11 assembler is a furphy.

You only have two ways to store anything at the lowest level: 1. length + data or 2. data with sentinel value.

If K&R chose option 1 we would have versions of strings with 8 bitlengths, 16 bit lengths, ..... all the while incurring a base load of inefficiency within any program. (In fact I'd warrant programs would use data+sentinel internally anyway.)

There are now many many "safe string" libraries for C.
Use them if you like. The fact there are so many and get so little use tells you something.

Is length+data safer? It's easy to lie on the wire, so I don't think so. If much.

BTW, one way to provide future proof (length, data) format is to encode the length with UTF-style encoding. So the length field would have enormous range.
Most core system software is still written in C though, and I think it's not reasonable to assume we are going to rewrite more than 40 years of computer history in Rust in any reasonable amount of time.
>Communities can elect and impeach their own mods by voting.

This invites tyranny of the majority. Which will mean for certain topics where the community dislikes open discussion and questioning of ideas, divisiveness will grow because bad ideas can not be effectively challenged.
You know, what is interesting in all the responses I see here is how few people admit to feeling the same way. So I'll say it - I am also greedy. I also have to work on it. It's ok. More than anything, if you are aware of it you will work on it, and working on it will make you a better person.
Yet you are the one telling us we all have to spend ourselves into the poorhouse or society will tip over....
Sorry about that, it's an amazon url shortener; was in a hurry and just c/p the link from ios kindle app. Others have posted the url for you.

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What farm and/or factories that you visited had the biggest influence on your life?
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the best camera is the one you have with you
Although I don't have it yet, this seems like it'd be a good pairing with my software: https://metacortex.me/

My system automatically indexes based on expertise and although it's not in the HN demo: https://hnprofile.com/

It also generates ways to contact one another.

If the creator is reading this, please feel free to reach out!
Going back a step, can someone explain the logic? If 'the few big names gobble up all the instruments they can', why doesn't this push the prices up?
> You want the internet to degrade to a centrally-controlled, one-way medium rather than enabling the kind of dialogue you and I are having right now?
quite the opposite actually. i think we should be skeptic about the things we read on the internet and steer away from the "it must be true if it's on wikipedia" mentality. so _do_ your research if it's concerning a sbject you feel passionate about and _do_ engage in discussions and stay open minded.

most of us consume content rather than generating it and as the internet has become of such great interest to big companies and governments, parts of the (news) information we consume is biased and sometimes plain false, just like it is in the offline world.

> Never before have we had such great resources to see through things
absolutely true, but people have to be willing to see through things / be skeptic.
i think (assumption) the largest part of the people using the internet do not question what they read and are not likely to do so in the future, hence my suggestion to "delete the internet"...
Maybe people just want a group to hang out with, and emotional support group is a way to get that. As to why they are increasing? Because the competition is weakening; other groups are declining.
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For a significant number of people here the US is a foreign hostile government spying on all our comms.
> Retirement implies a sort of finality

Coming out of retirement is a not-extremely-rare thing; I don't think retirement implies finality, though it might arguably imply the absence of an expected financial need to return.
Well let me ask you this. Is your "greed" for money based on an actual need (even if it is say paying off a fairly decent McMansion) or is it that you want money for the sake of it? I dont think having genuine needs like paying off loans (which yo u dont) or kids' college or living comfortably constitutes greed. Id say if you are anticipating retirement that is being cautious than greedy? No?
That's because it is designed to be installed indoors. It's more of a prefab datacenter aisle, not a standalone structure.

They explain that the central exhaust plenum is to be connected to the building's HVAC, and say "the Vapor Chamber can rest just as easily on a slab floor in an equipment room as it can in a traditional raised floor data center."
I wouldn't mind doing that but the security update patch problem for Android phones that suddenly stop getting them is a nightmare.
I'm still young but I made a change last year that I should have done so much sooner and I will never forget the impact it had on me. I might not be able to offer the life experiences of any of the parents or grandparents here, but still.

So I started college 4 years ago when I was 18 and at the same time I started my own startup. This was fine, but I focused more on my startup than on my social life. I grew tired of it and I stopped with both of my startups last year because I was just plain sick of it. I didn't enjoy being woken up at 5AM by a client that I want to strangle in the first place because he woke me up so early and that I have to be very nice to. That being the superficial reason why I quit. But I never really made any time to go out, meet new people, stay in contact with friends, etc.

Once I quit, I joined student clubs (not really like frats and the American stuff, but imagine those kinds of casual friends), invited people over, went out with people, organised parties at my place... I've honestly never been happier in my entire life. I went from solely focusing on my future career to putting my social life before that. This past week has also just been plain amazing and I wouldn't have experienced this week and the many good ones before it if I didn't prioritised what made me happy.

Prioritise what makes you happy, put old ideas out of your head (e.g. being afraid of what people think of you), and just don't overthink anything (still something I need to teach myself).
But not to Shanghai.
I used to be driven by money, but then I realized the reason I wanted money was so I wouldn’t have to work for other people and put up with crawly-bum-lick micro-managers. I started doing my own thing and my lust for money subsided. I hope this helps.
I think that talking about financial independence requires a sort of implicit elitism which is difficult to avoid.

Basically, it's obviously the case that _everyone_ can't do this in an instantaneous fashion.

Consider - if everyone works for 10 years in total, then in the stable state (no pop growth) at any point in time roughly 15% of people are serving the other 85%.

The claim, is more like "if you try, you can do it". As in, a randomly selected individual is likely to be able to push themselves into a higher income group and cut their budget, if they focus on it.

I think this sort of problem plays out all over. An individual can be paid well if they study computer science and get a job at a decent company.

The nation can't. It's a logical impossibility.
The voting machine certification gauntlet is text book regulatory capture. Meaning the vendors themselves fund and run the testing labs (last time I checked).

Further, since appropriations are (mostly) done locally, the "surface area" is quite big. Like the parable of the boy plugging the dyke with his fingers.

For example, I was able to block the purchase and use of gear that added the voter's id to their ballot. In my jurisdiction alone. There are roughly 2,000 counties in the USA. So to protect everyone's secret ballot, that fight would have to recur many, many times.

Alas, saving democracy doesn't pay very well, nor does it scale.
> On the other hand, I see no reason to think that "demand for good locations is increasing".

I think demand pretty clearly is increasing and my hunch is that it's a technological effect. † The internet didn't make place irrelevant, as many thought it would; in fact, it had the opposite effect in that it made it a lot easier to move to the most desirable cities. You can scope out neighborhoods on Street View; shop for new apartments on Street Easy or Craigslist; endlessly research the target city, apply for your new job, and complete the first round of interviews -- all on the internet, from the comfort of wherever you live now.

(And, not for nothing, it's also a lot cheaper to fly back and forth today, once you get to that point in your transition.)

† In some abstract, Platonic sense, San Francisco is probably no more desirable than it might have been in 1971, but, as I try to argue above, a Clevelander then would have had a much, much harder time manifesting that desire than today. And as more and more people realize this desire, the attraction grows as if by accretion.
Wouldn't the sensible solution be to say exchange your tertiary education for say 25% of your income over the next 20 years?
Would seem sensible to align the interests of both the provider and the consumer to the common goal of making you worth more on the market.
But then there's the obvious next step of cutting out the middle-man and the government paying for the education and clawing it back with progressive taxation.
Vintage Steinway is my dream piano. Sorry that you have to get rid of it.
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Won’t this be resolved the way it does on Reddit with people ejecting to more specific communities?

I’m a feminist for example, but I’m no longer welcome in mainstream feminist subreddits, so I subscribe to various more-specific-feminism subbreddits, and explicitly debate friendly ones.
Have you tried Typescript? It's extremely popular now and seems to have all the features you're presenting, it would also be a good place to start if you really wanted your own language.
Los Angeles County is one of the few jurisdictions with the resources and heft to move the needle on their own.

They're making their own OSS tabulators. I've been out of the election integrity game for a while, so I'm not immediately familiar with the scope of their effort.

Any one wanting to reform USA's election administration stack should start in LA. Help their effort. Lobby to import their gear to their own jurisdiction. Study their effort, roadmap.
This comment is hilarious to me. Quintuple your salary? I worked in consulting for 5 years, and I can assure you that Amazon is already paying less for equivalent candidates. I'm not sure what you think happens in government consulting, but it is nothing like government employment.

Edit: The strategy you outline re: government employees is already employed by all of the large government consulting firms. Amazon is late to the game and behind the ball with their lack of awarded contracts. They might be able to catch up, but contracting is one field that has repeatedly shown itself to be resistant to disruption.