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The fed printing more dollars is done in a way designed to push people into riskier products.

The literal point is so that people put their money into the economy instead of parking it in a savings account. So even though your favorite personal finance guru is having you celebrate 1.75% in an Allied Savings account in exchange for referral commissions, the point is for that to be an unattractive use of your money.

Basically the fed buys things in exchange for dollars that didnt previously exist. Asset goes on the Fed’s balance sheet, the dollars are in the prior owners pockets.

The fed predominantly buys US treasuries, from both the secondary market and directly from the US Treasury.

When you buy these you are picking them up at a higher price than the last person, and this lowers the return you can get from the treasuries. The US government treasury bonds being the safest assets by guarantee of getting your money back. When you cant tolerate that yield anymore, you buy higher yielding assets that are less safe. The fed bought the whole yield curve, pushing people to buy more municipal bonds, corporate bonds, junk bonds, stocks, private equity funding startups, houses

The whole point is to push people to make their money circulate in the economy

Yes the market decided that bitcoin and cryptocurrency would give them ROI, after every socioeconomic class figurd out that houses and stocks are too overpriced to make sense

Why not crypto? Okay now that went further than demand would tolerate

And as risk off mentality comes back, and as other assets lower on the yield & risk curve come back into better lower pricing, people will likely find them attractive again because they are safer and you’ll also get your 5% annually with no work
The New Yorker put the article being discussed online in 2015, at the 70th anniversary of the explosion (https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/john-herseys-hir..., https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima)
This is a very reasonable comment I completely agree with. Even if you don't agree, it's a valid point of view that contributes to the discussion, it doesn't deserve to be downvoted.
I love the song. I personally would be much more interested in high quality lyrics, beat, audio recording, etc than a music video but that's just my opinion.

Your flow in this song is much better than your "Opinions" song so I'd say keep working on how you spit, not producing a video.
ClearCase was my first VCS and I couldn't agree more. Compared to that nearly everything with git is easy and few things aside from complex merge conflicts / unstashing conflicts are difficult.
Similar things happened in Vienna. The U6 line is completely different from the rest because it was originally a Stadtbahn and not a subway. The rolling stock to this date cannot be used in automated operation at all, has different electrification (overhead wire and not third rail), has lower platforms and still retains many of the old signage.

Originally there was a steam operation on that line as well: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/St...

Later they made the line even weirder by running mixed tram and stadtbahn operation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Wien-wvb... (tram rolling stock stayed on that line even up to 2008 but were not going into mixed operation any more https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/U6_Hande...)

It's now a proper subway by all accounts but still retains some of its weird history. For instance there is still a track connecting to the tram network so you can sometimes see a subway train go on the tram network for maintenance: http://www.vormagazin.at/tools/imager/imager.php?file=%2Fmed...

The stations still retain much of the old Stadtbahn architecture and show the old signage more prominently than the new one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Me...

I always find it very interesting when some old things stay around and become integrated into something else and that transition period never really ends. Many transit networks in Europe have history like this and it's fun to rediscover this history.
Only 72¢, just think of the potential profit margin!
Me:

>I’ve had bad neighbors

You:

> you’ve clearly stated there’s no such thing as a bad neighbor

I wish you luck managing the effects of your wild imagination in the future.
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Yes. Extremely useful for undoing the effects of conditioning. For severe cases I would say it’s almost indispensable.

However, I would strongly recommend proceeding with more caution than I did. That means taking psychedelics in a safe space with a clear medicinal intent and with a trusted guide, as opposed to rolling the dice by taking them casually or recreationally. You want to be 100% safe when your demons finally come out of hiding to reveal themselves to you, otherwise you can harm yourself in the process of trying to heal yourself. Safety third, that’s what I learned at burning man.
holy smokes false equivalencies!
Sooo good!!
The problem to me is that this is used too often as an excuse by sloppy developers to not care about the quality of the software. It is too easy to overlook the impact 6 months down the line of the lack of design/readability of some piece of software.

I have seen this too often. Technical debt is OK when it is managed. I.e. taking shortcut when we need to ship a product or reach an MVP in 3 months is fine, but having a sustainable software will require to pay back some of this at some point, or velocity/quality will suffer on the long term.
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Yes, those points are true.

And yes, I am the author.
I think there's a lot of potential for varied topics within rap. When you start listening to more politically aware artists or artists with meaningful lyrics then you start to see how amazing rappers can be.

Logic sings about some mainstream rap themes but also other important issues like anxiety, mixed race challenges, etc.
Sometimes I don't think we realise or appreciate just how old things are and how they've survived through consistent and conscious effort. A century is beyond the lifetime of most people. A lot of similar-style public transport in the US was practically killed between 1920-1940 with the dawn of the car.

In the UK you might live in a house that is 100 years old, and in London you take a tube train through a tunnel carved out 120 years ago, or something. But it rarely registers that you are using what we in tech would consider way beyond a relic.

Your automated train on the Victoria line was done in the 60s or 70s, the DLR (similarly automated) a decade later. They were so weird at the time that, story has it, the drivers couldn't read a paper in the cabin because it freaked passengers out. Despite the fact they weren't in direct control. Still, automated is weird and it's half a century old.

So what does this say about other historical events that are slipping beyond our collective conscious, like the two world wars? Or even something like 9/11 where there is a whole generation who never saw that?

And what does it say about knowledge? What we keep in our awareness and what we pass on to historians?
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> Sorry to hear about your eyesight issues, dealing with that is always hard, but the good news is that there is life here.

You're awesome. Reading this made me tear up a little bit. There were a few blind software engineers at my previous workplace and I've always found it admirable. I wish you all the best.

As a software engineer, one of my greatest fears is losing my eyesight. I am currently not showing any signs of macular degeneration but having had LASIK, I am under increased risk of that happening. Had I known more, I would have kept my cornea intact. Now I feel slightly worried whenever I have problems focusing on text at night or getting blurry vision for a brief moment on occasion when I blink as these might be early signs.
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Sorry, I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I knew some prolific visually-impaired developers in my youth, and never had the wherewithal to ask them questions about their toolchain.

1. what can we as engineers without visual impairments do to make our work more accessible and easier to collaborate with?

2. are there tools that you wish existed / could make your life easier, but that would require a significant capital outlay / massive time commitment? of course you're a dev and can "scratch that itch" yourself, but there are only so many hours in the day and you have a day job.

I had a friend who was red-green colorblind who pointed out to me that a lot of the color schemes I was using in my talks were hard for him to quickly understand, and it was (pardon the pun) quite eye-opening.
> The question is, why is mainstream psychiatry still so obsessed with "curing" addiction via chemical means, as opposed to through psychology/trauma recovery?

I'm a psychiatrist, and at the risk of sounding defensive, I'm not sure where you are getting this from. I have never worked at any addiction program where psychological and behavioral interventions weren't the primary mode of treatment. There are medications that can help with diagnoses related to trauma or other contributors to addiction (PTSD, depression, etc), and a handful of medications that can address some limited facets of chemical addiction, but the bulk of treatment is non-pharamcologic.

The same is true when I got to national and international addiction conferences: medications are a side-dish, not the main course.
>then you shouldn’t say “Zero mystery here”

There’s zero mystery about OP showing misanthropy, but I can’t say where it comes from.

Let me know if there’s anything else I can clear up for you as you struggle to remain current in the discussion.
I'm getting somewhat of a Jon Lajoie vibe out of this - great work!
Thank you for the feedback! I keep getting comments that some visuals would go a long way. I also think it'd be fun to do, so it's pretty tempting. I do agree that the focus should be on song quality though.
Ah, OK! I thought every file in every dir. To do this you would have to remember each absolute path which is 4K max per path (or allocate dynamically and free every time when changed). We try to keep `nnn` light on memory.

I must admit this is the first time I am hearing it's a problem. Probably because of the abundance of other navigation options available in `nnn`.
When I eyeball the graph, 2002 to 2011 really jumps out. For about a third of the graph the two move in lock step.

It's a weird sort of inverted relationship when the variables spend so much time moving in the same direction.

Here's another take:

“If you look at the relationship between [mortgage] rates and [home] sales and home prices, the relationship is almost zero,” said Sam Khater, deputy chief economist at CoreLogic.

https://www.curbed.com/2018/2/20/17029746/interest-rates-ris...

Maybe all these people are biased, or lying about simple numbers, or it's some big conspiracy.

The alternative explanation is just that the economy really has more than two variables.

That second hypothesis doesn't seem so preposterous to me.
Unless I’m mistaken, /boot isn’t where any kind of network / ssh config would live.
Ask the Arabs living in Israel as Israeli citizens - about 21% of the population [1] - what they think about this, the answer might surprise you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
A very interesting thread about this on HN recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18414562
I get people saying “Well of cause”.
But this is just a fluff piece. I honestly would love to see a scientific breakdown of just how often we are actually seeing people become addicted due to purely psycological or environmental factors. I come from a family that has seen all to many cases of addiction so I am absolutely certain that there is a genetic component to it, and as a result I have consciously stayed away from anything addictive short of caffeine, to which I honestly feel I have an unhealthy addiction that I just cannot cut. I’d love to see someone break down the science. And I truely think that if the consensus became that addiction was most often due to past trauma, then we would see a revolution in how fundamental where distributed and in treatment.
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Just because you, and some people you know, have had addiction and trauma, does not mean there is a connection, and certainly that connection is not obvious.

I have relatives and friends with serious addiction problems who had no serious past trauma (of the kind described in this article)
Really simple things like counting how many people folks talk to in a 30 day period can illustrate the bigger point. It’s a real problem.
At some point Shopify may create warehouses and stock the popular goods from their largest clients and handle the shipping, fulfillment.

Thus there will be "Fulfilled by Shopify."
> But what if you could just go ahead and use a proven, extremely popular templating language/engine anyways, just in case. At no cost.

I don't see added complexity as no cost, and I don't need to add a templating engine when Razor works very well.

> And the web application exposing this data is already not a borderline SPA? I'm surprised.

See, I look at this a completely different way - I wouldn't want clients able to communicate directly with all these components. In particular, I really wouldn't want web clients communicating directly with our (multiple) ERP systems (and neither would our licensing or security people) - it's a lot simpler (and cheaper) to centralise access at the server-side.

I can tell we're not going to agree on this, and thats fine, I like that you're passionate about it, and bid you adieu :)
And has already been extensively discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18518407
The company would create a new Google account for you.
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how do you know these memories are real?
I think the diversity-conscious will look at a statistic such as "80% white men, 20% everyone else" and see that as a problem to be corrected rather than as the natural outcome of a complex series of events compounded throughout many generations. Absolutely.

Straight white american males are so boring, so standard, so unremarkable in their appearances and their backgrounds that people can't help but focus on what they are saying instead of who is saying it.

These diversity play's that highlight people's status as minorities inevitably fail because they can't divorce who a person is from what they want to say. By making us pay attention to who a person is and making us self-conscious about who we follow and don't follow we ultimately distract ourselves from what matters: content.

It would be incredibly grating if I had to be reminded someone was part of an underrepresented group every time I interacted with them, to the point that I would just stop interacting with them because of it.

Real diversity is not a conscious effort. I've seen it. A bunch of people of different backgrounds come together, work on something, and go home, and no one even realizes or comments how diverse the group is. Nor do they even care. That would be weird. As weird as being in a conference room of white men and blurting out "Hey guys! We're all straight white males!"

I'm curious what the impact on your site would be if you removed all language of diversity and simply presented the people there as interesting people to follow, not even giving the user a chance to realize you are over representing minorities and playing into their guilt of following mostly straight white males. Would your site still receive such acclaim, or would it fold like a house of cards? We'll never know. You'll never know.
I made my own Changa to handle my own severe stress causing tinnitus so I could barely hear which it took away with one trip and also made me quit a 20 years heavy weed smoking. Gave it to others with the same benefit.. some even told me it stopped them from being suicidal or saved their marriage.my variant will often be memories and real life visions. Friend revealed a sexual abuse he had experienced as a kid that came back to him and explains why he has issues with relationships and religion and only able to deal with it now after his trip.
This will happen eventually, but it takes a massive amount of resources to build a university from scratch, and existing universities risk diluting their brand if they take on too many students.
And also, if and when medications are very effective, why not use them?
No, because you signed the contract in another state. They can still sue you there in the majority of cases.
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That might be the case for javascript or css, however even if the HTML is sent down minified, the browser will not show this minified HTML if you and Inspect it.

Was there a specific case you were referring to?
And how do we know the "repressed trauma" wasn't invented between the therapist and the patient?
plus the "hacked in php " version is far more likely to work 20 years later because php is boring and people don't care enough about it to mess it up every week.
> It's clearly not _illegal_ for me to own a private key.

How is that clearly true? Under the computer-fraud-and-abuse act, it's probably illegal for you to own information on my server I don't intend you to own (if you got it from my server at least).

If I worked at a certificate authority and stole the signing key they used, quit, and began minting certificates, I can assure you I would be prosecuted and found guilty (both for damage to the company, for stealing company property, violating my contract, and probably a CFAA violation to boot).

There are plenty of numbers that you can't legally have on your computer under certain circumstances [0].

All of this relates to "the color of bits"[1], which is to say what's legal and not legal depends on more than just the number. If you steal someone's private key, that's probably illegal. If you are given it or derive it by chance, it's possibly legal. If you use it to steal their bitcoin, even if derived by chance, that's probably illegal (the law doesn't really care about the details of bitcoin, it's still a thing of value that's owned by an individual).

The law doesn't care that all those bits are the same; some of them are legal, some of them are not, and we as technical people don't like that.

> claim it's public domain, and some legalistic construct pops through a side channel and claims that in my jurisdiction public domain doesn't exist; clearly my personal attribution takes precedence.

That also doesn't seem clear to me. In reality, no one will care enough for it to be an issue, but it seems legally arguable.

I would like to again refer you to the second post I linked. As a technical person, you don't want to think about how arbitrary and situational the law is, especially in technical issues that seem like they should be clearcut. The reality is much more complicated.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

[1]: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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Bariatric surgery has been shown to reverse diabetes.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/34/Supplement_2/S36...

>It has been over 10 years since the resolution of type 2 diabetes was observed as an additional outcome of surgical treatment of morbid obesity. Moreover, it has been shown unequivocally that diabetes-related morbidity and mortality have declined significantly postoperatively, and this improvement in diabetes control is long lasting.
A major issue with GUIs is that they are not scriptable [1], at least in the way CLIs are, like with a bash-like shell and all the stuff of the Unix philosophy [2] (I/O redirection, pipelines, wildcards, other Unix special characters that expand to, or mean, something (all of which you can use in your command pipelines).

[1] I mean, I know there are some tools to automate GUI tasks, like AutoHotkey, AutoIt, etc., but due to various window-related issues, they are fragile, I've heard.

Not saying that this makes CLIs superior for all uses, of course. Just better for some.

[2]:

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s08.html
I think he missed the point that the long cellulose fibers are being filled with resin and then acting as a fiber optic channel, which is why it only works in contact with the page. And why the letters “jump” to the other side of the sample.
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That's true, but if you need that extra benefit then it's worth the cost. As long as the process is invisible for you once you set it up, would you justify the complexity for extra gain?
Still Coding - I would of course work much more family friendly hours with lots of mini breaks, but you would Still find me coding, specifically OSS GovTech. (My theory is that software has tramlines in it - software written for democratic societies will inevitably leak democratic assumptions even when used by other states (who presumably will pick it up cos of free beer not free speech) see www.oss4gov.org
Look at us getting downvoted :)
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Lol typical response of someone who wants to believe they know something. You'll find out one day. Meanwhile you missed the answer implicit in my reply.
What's the opposite of a sweet spot? Pain spot? Pair programming has a big one. Basically whenever you sit with another programmer and try to do initial design of something while coding it. God that is awful. Don't ever do that.

But it is useful for other purposes. Two people think better than one, when the solution space is well defined. And you always pick up, or teach, some good tricks and habits from other people. If you're working on some code that you wrote yourself, you also learn a lot about how easy it is for others to understand it.

The pitch for pair programming should not be increased productivity - at least not directly. Almost everything about the setup means things are slower. The benefits are in other areas, and are real. That said, the fact that you are two people means that you are 100% focused and not goofing off and procrastinating, so in the end you get things done just about as fast as you would have alone. It's pretty exhausting though, I would not recommend it for more than a few hours in one day, at most one or two times a week.

Also, cool song :)
"Trauma is Just One Risk Factor Out of Many Possible Contributors to Addiction Disorders" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

But to your point, there are well-described genetic risk factors. And socioeconomic, environmental, etc. risk factors. Like any complex behavior, there's no "one weird trick" that explains it all. But that doesn't get clicks. (I am an MD who treats addiction)
> Google and all of its employees who make products like this are on the absolute wrong side of history.

A few things:

1. It takes a fairly high throne to look down on people for their employers issues.

2. You assume a great deal about what people are willing to put up with for free services.

I think you're probably going to be wrong. Most people will whore themselves out for convenience because they don't care if they get targeted ads in order to get those free services.