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I think it's just hard to compare between the generations due to changes in how lifestyles are financed. My parents came out of school with no debt and were able to buy a house way before me. I came out of school with considerable debt and wasn't able to buy a house for a while.

On the flip side, my parents talk about when I was first born and they had to choose between two toys because they couldn't afford both (a mirror and a little bird - maybe $20 each). I have never had an issue with access to money, even when I had nearly nothing in the bank and was paying down my student loans as fast as possible and something came up - a quick call to the bank was all that stood between me and enough to finance a full repair across the next 3 months instead of a bandaid. My parents didn't have that type of access to credit.

Me and my dad worked in a similar role (software development - him for a bank, me for defense) out of college. Granted, even inflation adjusted I made a lot more than him right out of school.

Also, even though my parents had a house way younger than me I wouldn't want a credit card with the interest rate my parents were paying on their house. It was insane.
So, is wiki.c2.com something that people keep writing on or is it really readonly nowadays? Is there a way to become a member? I just mistakenly signed up to hypothes.is from the right side-bar thinking it was c2.com.
> I do wonder about who draws the line for where a generation begins/ends

It's not really fixed as far as I can tell. Around the actual turn of the millennium, millennials were said to start in 1980. Now it's more commonly pegged at 1982.
clang actually does have the warning you want gcc to have - this is how I found our instances of it.

What none of the above can do is two different projects have MESSAGE_H headers that are different can fully compatible to include both. #pragma once handles this correctly.
Onec you implement your own Auth you are liable for the all the risks storing personal information comes with.

And accusing someone of storing personal data without any substance is something that I don't consider to be in the HN spirit.
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Potential regulatory solution in Boston:

"The new law allows short-term rentals to be offered only by owners who live in the properties they rent out. Owners of small multifamily buildings who live on premises may also rent out one of the other units in the building along with the unit they live in."

https://www.avalara.com/mylodgetax/en/blog/2018/06/boston-ci...
It's a lot of fun to be in your '50s, have your body start to fall apart and be a few paychecks away from being thrown into the streets. But hey, you could afford having a few beers with your friends in your '20s. Or even take a holiday, you rich bastard.
I always find it a bit strange when people pit generations against one another. It's common to find articles complaining about millennial, I also often see young people online complaining about how "baby boomers ruined everything".

I mean, do we seriously believe that if we magically swapped these generations around things would've gone massively differently? I know that Americans put the individual first and foremost but I have absolutely no doubt that the current generation would have done mostly exactly the same mistakes if we had been born a few decades earlier. And similarly I'm pretty sure that my grandmother would be wasting her time on Instagram or playing Fortnite if she was born today. Does anybody really believe otherwise?

It's such a ridiculous thing to do. It's not like you can chose when you're born. It's just a way to deflect your own problems onto other people while at the same time not proposing anything constructive to move forward.
I just finished installing my spring boot app on elastic beanstalk, I think features introduced in EB are not that important, I've mainly setup all by myself, except creating EC2 instance.
I scratched by head for 3 days to install a free certification on nginx ...
well, if you automate backups too much, the Ransonware would eventually have reached your backup storage and screwed things there too...
Exactly. Some blogs and other websites are offering bad advice. Performing overt actions such as: checking one's credit, sending debt validation letters, paying small amounts, maintaining other debt at the expense of another, seeking jobs which check credit, and others can empower debt collectors to pursue that individual vigorously. On the other hand, a completely destroyed credit report (100% charge offs) with no known mortgage or vehicle with a hard-to-find debtor is unlikely to be pursued since they are more likely to be collection/judgment proof.

What many people do not realize is that most charged-off debt is uncollectible. Only a small fraction actually gets paid. Most debtors cannot be located by their collectors, and that's the primary reason why debt collectors will normally settle for less than what is owed.
By product differentiation. People who do not want or cannot spend a lot of money buy an older generation (currently iPhone 7 and iPhone 8), people who can spend more buy the latest iteration. With the watch there is also a lot of differentiation, from basic bands, sports bands, to expensive metal or leather bands.

Though, I do not agree that people are only buying Apple for status. A lot of non-tech friends just find iPhones simpler to use, does not have preinstalled crap, and gets updated longer.
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It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
We talk about which movie grossed the most because it’s the best proxy we have for how many people saw it, not mainly because we care about how much the production company made.
Can you? There was a security report posted last week on here recommending that enterprise users rotate their accounts to prevent some of it.
First, if you're making miniumum wage, don't have kids.

If you do, you (or at least your kids) likely qualify for Medicaid, so you do get treatment. Often preferentially. I have been to providers who have a 6-8 week lead time on appointments for new private insurance patients, but Medicaid patients get in almost immediately.
The greatest takeaway from this is that we [millenials] ought to make an effort to treat Generation Z with a respect that we are often not given. Let's not propagate that nastiness down the line.
I don't know the legal system in the UK, but my guess is that what you describe is not illegal. I would agree HR is lazy for not to find out, but they have still done their job with respect to my post since nothing illegal happened.
I was born in 1984. I had a curious upbringing, true, but I find I have very little in common with "kids" born in 1997, the last year of my "generation". In 1997, I was a freshman in highschool. Things changed dramatically between '97 and '10. For instance, kids my age didn't grow up with social media, we had land lines and dial up internet, and none of us had cell phones.
Or fines for short-term renting which make normal rent the more feasible option.
With trial in absentia laws and precedent, I'm not sure this would help. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_in_absentia#United_State...
Nim's roots are firmly in Pascal and Ada, which are both case insensitive; Every editor supports case insensitive search so I don't understand what your problem is with case insensitive identifiers.

"Basic refactoring tools" would just need to replace the case sensitive search with insensitive. Every editor knows how to do that.

If you're talking about the underscore and first letter rules - yes, they're different, and that's why nim includes nimgrep, and support was added for just about every editor under the sun already (Emacs, VSCode, Vim, Sublime, TextMate at the very least). It's still Ctrl+F
Not to mention general shifts in population sizes, methods of upbringing, shared cultural watershed moments, shared childhood information sources, cultural norms and expectations at a given time, experiences of war or famine or financial crisis, etc etc. Essentially all your priors from a Bayesian point of view.

I don’t know what’s not clear — if you grew up in China during the cultural revolution, you will be different than if you were born before or after. Your basic assumptions about humanity and government will be affected by such experiences and it will carry with you thru life.
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As crazy as it may sound, this SMT engine proposal ma be able to performa translation without preexisting bilingual corpora.
Funny that you bring that up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)#Nami...
Amazon, and every other business, does the same thing. If a customer is causing you to lose money, then you shouldn't be doing business with them.
Good comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18497717 from the previous discussion about why this vehicle exists, however it sounds like it's being abused / exploited by these lending firms. They're not actually trying to make money from interest (they're happy to break even on the loan) - rather they are making money from penalties and fees assessed when the borrower "violates" the agreement (said violation often involving fraud by the lender)
Thinking that entire generations of people are really different at their core is fallacious, but looking at their behaviors and indications of differences in the system they operate inside seems valid to me.
Explain more.. what visa, insurance etc
That's not easy at all. Instructors design their course typically before the first class starts. Trying to incorporate suggestions from students -- students who have no experience teaching -- is just going to lead to disaster.
Gonna try using rust this year as well. I have no background in rust at all so I'm a bit excited for the extra experience of trying a new language.
Isn't this similar to the Nuitka project?

http://nuitka.net/

Nuitka has fantastic Python 3 support (up to 3.7 currently).
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That tactic has been shot down by the courts, but there are some big loopholes to it. Any acknowledgement of the debt (normally in writing) or any token payment by the debtor can reset the clock. Sometimes, debt collectors employ shady practices to get the statute reset, such as telling the debtor, "If you pay us $10, we'll stop calling you for three months." This token payment will reset the clock.
Been there some years ago for two weeks of paragliding. One of my best memories for sure, beautiful island, very clean waterfalls.. There's an active volcano though [1]..

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union#/media/File:Volca...
This is happening in places like Toronto as well. I visited there an stayed at an Airbnb near the CN Tower. The condo itself was newer and large swathes of the condo were occupied by Airbnbers. It was obvious, people with luggage were coming in and out at all hours of the day. The Uber driver I got also said he was maintaining 2 condos in downtown Toronto for Airbnb.

The next time there's a recession, things like this will only worsen it because people will be foreclosing on large numbers of housing properties because they were used for investment.
It's a real shame that boomers weren't creative or intelligent enough to prevent issues related to automobiles and climate change. It's also a shame they didn't come up with a decent fix for Social Security that will only benefit their generation and no one after.
I have written code to traverse matrices in which I use indices `I` and `J` to iterate over submatrices and indices `i` and `j` to iterate over individual values in a submatrix. Upper/lower case add a new dimension to name things that are related but different.

But is not a deal breaker for me. If the language doesn't let me I can use `ii` or `i2` or whatever.
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> Then there is the widespread obesity because of corn syrup being a heavily subsidized food ingredient

You forgot to mention that the US Gov't also subsides the other side via food stamps, which poor folks use to purchase corn syrup and cheap grain foods, further exasperating the obesity epidemic. It's true insanity.
That’s when Steve Jobs went falling at Bill Gates knees asking for some money, and Mr Gates curtly replied - “Steve, get a market first!”
> You used the term "specifically" but nobody is nitpicking the meaning of that word to elevate a non-generous interpretation of what you mean.

What do you think the word “shill” means to most people? I’m baffled at your attempt to characterize this as “nitpicking”.

> Sometimes people are just not that careful with the words they choose and don't expect others to jump on their word choice as indicative of some highly nuanced intent.

It’s pretty clear the author intended to call politicians who don’t “support public education” shills. There’s nothing “nuanced” about that.

If you don’t think calling such people “shills” was the intent, I’m curious to hear your alternative interpretation.
Generation and age demographics are not the same thing though. Age demographics are constantly shifting and you go through several of them as you age and you situation changes, generations stick. Of course that means that a given generation will tend to go through the same stages at the same time but all generations went through the "kids" phase and the "teenager" phase at some point.

Generations are really a blunt and rather useless tool IMO. Besides "only 90's kids will remember this" memes.
that was the case before the "cloud" too
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...I don't see that as being nearly as big of a (potential) national security risk as, say, a plane from a country with much lower national standards being flown into a major hub and either accidentally or maliciously crashing into populated areas.

I'm honestly not sure how "we can't legally commandeer the plane to transport military personnel in wartime" qualifies as a national security issue. Seems more like a logistical issue in that unlikely event.
Yep, was going to say exactly this.

All the SRI, CSP, etc is great, but if you can't control your own site you're screwed regardless.
France too. The amount of locked area is quite sad and no legal solution to turn this into a useful asset for homeless and owners.
I think the big problem is that there are less stable paths now. Previous generations had a clear path to getting a house, affordable education and stable retirement whereas now you have to take on a lot of debt, gamble in the stock market and have to have some level of luck to retire safely. Any major health expense or company layoff may destroy your well laid-out plans and put you back to zero.

I think today's life is just more stressful. With some luck you can do incredibly well but it can also go the other way big time.
It's pretty well known that Microsoft folds their office revenue into the cloud so I'd be surprised if it's fooling many investors sophisticated enough to differentiate the revenue.
> Last time I was going to try it, I got sidetracked reading up on rules for identifier equality

It's way too easy to ignore (or even embrace) the identifier equality rules in Nim to make this the hill you die on. My story's very similar to other responses - I've been using Nim for quite a while and these identifier rules have never been an issue.

I strongly suggest anyone hung up on this monster under the bed try Nim anyway as it's really pleasant to use. It's sad that all Nim's benefits are sometimes drowned by mostly unfounded hangups on this identifier thing.
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"No you don’t. You don’t have to pay your parents debts. Not sure what “debt” you are referring to?"

I can think of lots of debts that boomers incurred that will need to be paid (or absorbed) by subsequent generations.

- A vietnam war whose costs changed our economy and lead to the end of the dollars convertibility.

- A transition to urban life without investment in public transportation leading to a half century of malinvestment and disjointed transport infrastructure.

- Failure to invest the time and thought into learning how to eat and walk when you don't live on the farm anymore. Three square meals a day combined with driving everywhere has lead to an obesity and diabetic crisis.
One of the things I've been contemplating is how student debt is a retirement issue. Especially with Social Security in a bind with all of the Baby Boomer retirements it's really important for people to take charge of their retirement early, but they can't if they are saddled with school debt. It adds up in a hurry too.

Assumption:
Average student loan debt in the US is $25,000 with a 6.8% interest rate, with a 10 year repayment plan. Graduation age is 21 and retirement age is 65. Market return rate is 7%.

If you took that student loan money and instead invested it in the market after the 10 year loan period you would have $49,673. Leave it in the account until retirement and it grows to $495,642.

Of course half a million bucks won't be worth as much in 2062, but the difference between having the loan and not is substantial. This is one of those cases where subsidies up front can save a whole lot of money in the long run.
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Hemingway also took a phrase from the Spanish bull fighting rings, "la hora de la verdad" and rendered it into English "The moment of truth." This immediately became a cliche in all kinds of journalism, especially sports reporting "They've only got 5 minutes left and they are down by 3, so this is the moment of truth."
There is an effect where the progress of science can stay the same, but the progress is in expanding details.

So instead of Einstein reshaping our understanding of spacetime, we gain a more detailed understanding of the consequences of that discovery. The average cosmologist these days probably has a superior understanding of relativity than even Einstein did.

Consider the map of human knowledge to be an ever expanding tree. If you have growth happening at the same rate, it can seem slower, because it's hard to grasp the full breadth of the growth now. I don't know if I'm explaining it that well.

Our understanding of the universe is extremely detailed compared to even 50 years ago, and we continue to advance rapidly. It's just that advancement is spread out much more, and is much, much more detailed and nuanced.
I bought a 6s in 2015. I kept it until earlier this year, replaces the battery for $29, bought an Apple battery case and gave it to my son. It runs the latest OS and is still faster than most midrange Android phones coming out this year.
If you store an email, you're liable for GDPR controls, IIRC. Why expose yourself to that liability if you don't need to?
It's amazing how often perfect storms happen, since every outage is apparently caused by one.
A populist beat the incumbent and started taking America in a direction in which the majority of the voters represented by the electoral college approve of, is that not a success of American democracy? Or should are we deciding what’s right and wrong based on a different yardstick now?

You can bet both parties are going to use similar tactics next election.
You're definitely right that war is bad, and a war fought well is still worse than a war not fought at all. However if a violent conflict is going to happen, you want to keep as many people out of harms way as possible. In this case the taliban is setting up truck bombs in downtown Kabul to kill as many people indiscriminately as possible. The US military has drones that capture video full-time of every part of kabul. But the data is too huge to go through manually. If maven had succeeded in it's goal suspicious truck bombs could be intercepted and lives of everyday people just trying to live their lives in Kabul would be saved. Sometimes the line between combatants and civilians gets blurry, but in this case it's quite clear.
That's a pretty apple to oranges comparison. iPhone sales is selling physical hardware which obviously comes with a much higher total cost then just software. A much better comparison would be from how much Apple earns from it's app store and developer fees.
"GenX adults spent only 41% of their income on rent by age 30"

Doesn't seem out of line with the previous generation?
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Multiple orders of magnitude? So 100x or 1000x?

I don't think so.
A lot of older people had stable retirement pulled out from underneath them with pension cuts
I guess is there a reason to believe Apple would be good at providing enterprise IT or infrastructure services, especially when its become hyper-competitive? Delivering to enterprise is usually about customizing 10-20% around edge cases versus delivering one seamless, yet rigid experience.
It gets more insane. I've also seen that in some places they instituted a "sugar-tax" but the federal government intervened and made an exception for people paying with food stamps: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-soda-tax-food-sta...
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It seems also plausible that the cases where paternal mtDNA are passed on, would be disproportionately likely to have mitochondrial disease and thus eventually die out. We don't know that this is so, but it seems more likely true than not, given what we do know. If so, they would not really impact research done over evolutionary timescales.
Because wealthy aging boomers spend more on speculative anti-aging fads in a bull market.
WWII. There was such a large group of people born between 1945 and 1950, after the war ended, that they all push through the system at the same time.

Woodstock music festival happened in 1969 right when everybody was in the their 20s or about to hit 30.

Then they all had kids at roughly the same time, the 1970s and early 80s. Housing boom of the 1980s. Lots of new kids shows that happened in this time period as well.

Now all of those kids are buying houses and having kids. Another housing boom.
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Again it would be more useful if you explained why they better to use than the ones we've heard of. The title should be "10 services I use".
I was a structural engineer (EIT) once. I pushed back against a manager that wanted to do something that I knew for certain would degrade the structural capacity that the design engineer had planned for. He could have fired me but it would have made the news if he did because the public has trust in the individual engineers that design our buildings and civil works.

We need the same for software. It doesn't mean mistakes never happen. Mistakes happen even with the best of intentions by the smartest people. We don't blindly strip engineers of their livelihood. Only when an engineer has shown gross incompetence or carelessness or repeated poor judgement does that happen.
Making minimum wage can happen years after having kids. I know a guy with two young kids who lost his job and is now making ~35% less. That’s not the kind of thing you can know ahead of time.
Right now the system is so that I have sent links to friends and they replied: "Can't find it"

Both are minor things, but I am in favor of creators being in control over their videos. Especially since it would get used to correct accidental misinformation and things like that.

I just don't see much harm in the ability even if the video creator could completely switch content.
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