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I feel for this guy. Ageism is completely real and mostly missing from D&I initiatives.

However there is a 2nd lesson to be learned here. Why in the world does he not have any savings at 64? The article is scant on details, but does mention he was in the computer industry from his 20s, and raised his son, say, until roughly his 40s. That leaves 20 prime years of earning power w/o savings? Something is amiss.

To me this is the lesson learned. If you're in the IT space, live way below your means. Most of us should be earning fantastic salaries and saving it for the day when the same industry that called us "Rock Stars" dumped us as fast as one leaving their 15 minutes (read: years) of fame.
No, I'm not talking about bandwidth. iTunes isn't generally selling one-time access, but perpetual ownership (kinda) of a single episode. This accounts for the outlandish $2 per episode sort of thing.

A non-subscription model for a Netflix service would be closer to fractions of a penny per view.
Me either and we're at least in good company:

> Last summer, a year after Watch went live in the U.S., half of consumers hadn’t heard of it and three-quarters hadn’t used it, according to researcher Diffusion Group
I wonder what the median values look like.
Need a burner laptop in 2019.
> This maintains the lower rate for people genuinely investing for retirement.

Insofar as we need tax favored retirement vehicles, we have plenty—general taxation of capital income need not be concerned with that. There are two legitimate interests I see addressed by special consideration of long term capital gains (but the current “jist give it a lower rate” approach is suboptimal for addressing them.)

(1) Gains over >1 year taxed as current income in the year realized, when this is not repeatable (that is, when the owner doesn't have a large pool of long term investments to liquidate some of each year) is unfair in a progressive tax system because you will get high taxes in the realization year because of a high bracket, but you need to use the income across multiple years.

This can be simply addressed by allowing taxpayers to recognize income for tax purposes before realizing it (and/or allowing deferring some of the income received in a spike year.) I prefer combining both.

(2) Because of inflation, the real net gain from capital may be much lower than the nominal gains for assets held for a long time. (If appreciation is less than inflation, you may have a real loss with a nominal gains.) This is best dealt with by inflation-adjusting basis values when computing capital gains.
30 Year fixed mortgage rates since 1970 in the US.[GRAPH]
Could you clarify a few things which come to mind when I read your comment? I have problems reconciling it with my understanding.

1) What guidelines do you have for judging if a group of people have 'integrated beautifully'? As an example, would those guidelines show that the Amish have integrated beautifully? If they have not, is the lack of integration a problem that must be remedied?

My understanding is that the Amish have not 'integrated beautifully' in the sense that they keep their own language and culture, and remain isolated from most of the rest of the country. My understanding is that that's also perfectly fine, because US culture is not homogeneous.

2) What does "breaking into the country" mean? As a specific example, when my US friends canoed in the Boundary Waters and knowingly landed in Canada to pretend to "claim" the land for the US - and did so not at a place of entry, nor did they report that entry - were they breaking into Canada? And was it a very serious crime?

My understanding is that it's illegal, but not serious.

3) For a first time offender, entering or or attempting to enter the United States at any time or place other than one designated by U.S. immigration officers is a misdemeanor, with a punishment of no more than six months of incarceration and up to $250. How can something which is "obviously a very serious crime" have such a mild punishment?

(The specific law is at https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-8-aliens-and-nationality/... .)

That is, my understanding is that "breaking into a country" is ill-defined, and reasonably interpreted to include things which are well-accepted as not being a serious crime.
Anything to handle business finances?
Well according to the article, that's exactly why they created Watch...

> Although the company accounted for an impressive 45 minutes of its average user’s day, that wasn’t in chunks big enough to send them the ever-growing number of ads at the heart of the company’s business model

> Zuckerberg and other executives decided to try to boost that number by pushing their way into a much older kind of advertising model: TV
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I think its not just video for the 90 seconds.

The article frames it as "according to people familiar with the matter—while you were waiting in a checkout line, trying to avoid eye contact between subway stops, or sitting on the toilet. "

I'd argue the visits are shortlived more because their visits are driven by people clicking links, watching/viewing/reading what was sent to them and closing the window as opposed to someone goign to fb.com and browsing the feed.
To add to this: the OS already takes up 10-20gb so now it can take close 30gb or nearly half of your hard drive, before you even open the box.
It's a fairly common thing for commuter transit generally in the US

Yep. I've used park-and-ride to get to buses in New York and New Jersey.
Anyone know if this is still relevant? It was posted in 2013.
Given how many decades it took me to get better at people skills, no, he does not want my suggestions on how to get better at it...

The one thing I might say is that it starts with realizing that people actually matter. Being right matters, knowing the tech matters, but people really matter as well.
Yeah right. Most likely more CNN fake news.
It’s probably easier to bootstrap and acquire than to deal with the union issues in an ongoing operation.

Seniority rules for assignment and training requirements for example may be hard to deal with.
Or the decline of FB ad pushing machine
The body’s microbial community may influence the brain and behavior
Agree, the Prada is easily one of the best museums of its kind in the world.
If you're interested in seeing the prevalent philosophy in these places, watch "Nueve Reinas (2000)".
For example, WinRT uses futures for asynchrony, and so does Python 3. As a result, it's possible to represent asynchronous WinRT APIs as asynchronous Python methods, such that you can write idiomatic Python code (with await).
What needs to be addressed if a founder separates from the company?
CSS Media queries allow you to trivially handle different mediums (screen size, pixel density, screen-vs-print etc). It really is very very easy.

I dont agree that CSS preprocessors are evidence that the technology is incomplete. Does a c/java/golang/etc compiler mean that x86 is incomplete or somehow flawed? I would wager that most programmers wouldn't agree with that. CSS preprocessors are basically just a way of saving time and improving maintainability by "compiling" some syntactic sugar down to "raw" CSS. Same could be said with doing assembly programming vs e.g. rust/golang etc.

I agree though that in the very early days layout was hard with CSS, but then in the very early days we didn't even have devtools and XMLHttpRequests were still something mysterious and exotic. Times have changed and CSS has changed along with it. I'd recommend you try revisiting modern CSS if you have not already done so - you may be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is these days.
Berkeley isn't just attacking plastic waste,it's rejecting our throwaway culture
> Just by reading Chinese news reports and textbooks, you will find there are lots of Chinese nationalist stories about their hero technician / scientists steal western technologies. They are literally proud of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater

> He memorized the designs of textile factory machinery as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry before migrating to the United States at the age of 21. He designed the first textile mills in the US and later went into business for himself, developing a family business with his sons.

Slater memorized these trade secrets, because any papers containing these designs would have been confiscated from him.

Consider also the brain drain, wherein educated professionals have, over the past few decades, been siphoned out of the developing world, attracted by higher remuneration in the West. This is not a dissimilar process, but it is operating in reverse.
Can you tell me without searching how to find a list of everybody you have added as a friend on Snapchat? You are free to look at the app itself.
You must be in incredible shape. Biking at an average of 24 km/h for 30 mins twice a day is not that easy. Same for your running times.
"If you're in the IT space, live way below your means."

That translates to: "If you're in a high paying, in demand field, save more aggressively than if you're in a low paying field with limited opportunities"

Honestly, those in the IT field should be able to get away with saving a bit below recommended levels, in part because pay is higher, in part because demand is growing with no signs of slowing down. It's all those other people who should be saving more aggressively!
This is a very astute take. Buzzfeed had its interests more aligned with Breitbart than the NYT all along. Yet they continued to attack not just Breitbart but everything within a political event horizon surrounding it.

There were arguments that Buzzfeed was attacking it's potential readers for political reasons to their own detriment. I think the meme "get woke, go broke" hints at this. The question is why did they and so many other new media outlets let ideology get in the way of their own success?
Work-to-hire needs to be more prevalent. Start this guy off as a janitor so he can work his way up. No American feels above mopping floors, in case you, hiring manager, were unaware. Source: unemployed techie who gardens and moves in Silicon Valley, for people who would love to hire me if they had a computer job and is dodged by recruiters.
I guess that gets rid of the generation that wants to install new social media apps but doesn't know how to google for things.

.... I don't know that thats really a generation.
Reality is pretty much the reverse in at least one important way:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldurkheimer/2018/03/01/0-...
The population of this town is 6,300 [1]. This area of Canada is not known for tech (at all). I totally feel for this guy, it must totally suck, but moving might be a good option too. Or, try starting a business or remote work, if you have to live there. These are all hard things to do, but if you are really down and out, all options should be on the table. Or, look for something in a different line of work, where maybe you can leverage your tech skills? I know this isn't what the thread it about, as age is a major theme here. But, this seems like a little clickbait given there are likely not many jobs in this town. You could likely burn though all the job postings in a few days. I know this comes across as totally tone deaf too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentville
LA is incredibly spread out. It's almost only single family homes with a few exceptions.
Facebook's WhatsApp limits users to five text forwards to curb rumors
Seriously? Like how hard is it to go from C++ prior to 2012 or whatever to 2017? Would it take you a couple of months to get up to speed on the features in 2014 & 2017 that they're actually using? I can understand giving you a bit less credit than someone with up to date experience, but zero? It makes me so glad I'm not a developer.
Divorce or family illness are two things you can't plan for, either one of which could wipe you out no matter how much you saved.
The legal fees come from the definitive agreement not the term sheet.
I had the same experience with btrfs. It killed my machine multiple times.

ZFS on my laptop took me an evening to setup, but it's been completely hassle free. ZFS is really easy to use.
>Most of all, the majority is poorly edited with significant grammatical and spelling/terminology errors.

This annoys me to no end, but from all websites. The websites are so concerned about being "FIRST!!!!" that their articles are littered with incomplete sentences, incorrect use of words, etc. I'm sure these are articles that are meant to be iterated on to get the final product, where the writer intends to revisit for cleanup or review by an editor. However, it always seems like there is no editor role, or the pointy hair bosses scream for an article to be pushed now, clean up after its online. Or maybe it's like software "let the end users QA for us"?

I just finished re-watching the final season of the The Wire where they spend a lot of time in the newsroom. Of course it's television, but seeing the interaction of the editors trying get the writers to fix issues was pretty glaring in light of online publishing.
Doesn't the IRS require reporting and tax payment for these non-cash fringe benefits?
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His Body Worlds exhibitions [0] are also really worth a visit, at least if you can get past the massive creepy factor. Probably still way easier to stomach than an actual dissection.

[0] https://bodyworlds.com/exhibitions/
The middle class income earners tend to have retirement accounts, don't they?
That’s literally what this amendment is about. They are talking about the content categories.
What do you mean by dwindling supply, we are talking about investors buying properties and renting them out. That doesn’t decrease supply in the rental market.
Right, I just thought it was a funny quirk of our legal system.
There's a trend amongst dynamic languages to slowly add type hints (see Mypy for Python, Typescript, etc) so I see these issues becoming less important over time.

I've been using Python on a daily basis for close to a decade now, I can probably count on my hand how many times a bug has been because of casting a string to an int.
Disagree. This happened with tokio, the most used crate that provides an execution runtime for futures for async programming, and it's fucking awful to use. But, the community rallied behind it and is now stuck with it for better or for worse. There's been barely any effort to provide any documentation, even recently the main developer pawned it off to be crowdsourced and it really shows.

So yea, give me choices.
China Conundrum Bombshell:U.S. files 23 criminal charges against Huawei
You need to read up on your history. There has been a lot of complaint about state to state migration too.
Interesting--is this a euphemism ingrained in industries, or is this explicitly defined somewhere? I just searched for some articles (limited, using Google translate), and the articles mainly glorify research work, and sometimes talk about reverse engineering. The latter is a gray area, and maybe I'm missing the point, but these articles are along the lines of, "We've broken through the technical blockade on satellite positioning with our own Beidou system!" and not, "Hooray, we broke the evil western monopoly by stealing their technology!"

http://news.baidu.com/ns?word=打破技术封锁
SALT exemptions should definitely not be restored - I grew up in the north east where those SALT exemptions are fully utilized but they introduce an illogical perverse motivation for state and local governments to spend freely since any taxes they introduce are essentially just that level of government getting a free non-revokable payment from the federal government.

I do acknowledge that areas with SALT exemptions tend to be areas that pay a disproportionate amount of taxes for the benefits they receive but I think this solution to that issue is ludicrous. Investment by the government should ideally try and maximize the benefits given by that investment means that denser population areas should be targeted unequally to receive benefits but SALT exemptions are crazy.

Also, just a note, this portion of their argument seems silly, what is one number compared to another number without context, if 82.7% is just too much for the market to bear than let's talk about 58.3% as a base marginal tax rate on $10M and above - in actuality the utility of assets decreases so steeply that I don't know if 82.7% really is "silly" but all this talk about specific numbers should be decided by people way more specialized than the general public.
When I was on my first job, we got a resume from someone twenty years older than us. Her resume was tossed aside quickly, but I fought with HR to get her to interview with us. She easily turned out to be the best hire ever for our team - she didn't know Java from assembly, but her common sense and problem solving abilities were orders of magnitude higher than any of the "young, hip, programming wizards" in the company at the time. If not for her, my team would've failed miserably. More than a decade later, I still fondly and humbly remember her.

Any time I see younger folks ignoring/mistreating older folks, it annoys me to no end. As a industry, we need to learn to value experience and wisdom as much as we value speed and smartness. And we don't need to accept just because "HR said so" or "manager said so". At minimum, we need to make them understand that there are lots of older folks who can be great asset to the organization.

end rant!
> As shrinking becomes more complex, requiring more capital, expertise, and resources, the number of companies capable of providing leading edge fabrication has been steadily dropping. As of 2018, only three companies are now capable of fabricating integrated circuits on the most cutting edge process: Intel, Samsung, and TSMC.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node#Leading_edge_tr...
Thank you very much , sincerely, jeromebaek. This is the real nice spirit of Hackernwes, and you are one of the heroes who help pass the good Knowledge. Thank you very much, buddy.

Cheers!
Then what incentive do I have to spend money and innovate when everyone else can capitalize on it? That comment is a demotivational one for innovation in that it doesn't reward the entity that spend time and resources making it a reality.
Well my grand-mother has an account on Snap and she keeps complaining she cannot find the account of Donald.
Facebook is becoming a total crap. The content is really bad and the audience too, its mostly millennials who have too much time on their hands and nothing better to do or professionals but who aren't sophisticated social media users. and their parents, of course. Facebook is dead for me and for most people I talk to. Not sure if advertising on Facebook is as effective as it used to be but I'm pretty sure advertising on Facebook is going to become a lame thing soon too.
I've been wondering for years what people listen to. Spotify and YouTube have kept me in a bubble and I have no clue what people are listening to. I'm hoping there's a few gems in these lists.
I definitely see your point, but if you view science and technology as aspects of culture, then your statement is false.
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I don't know who you are or what your agenda is, but any sane person would argue that citing something that happened in early 1800s does not make the same thing OK in 2019.
If you have a public DNS entry then you can get a certificate from Let's Encrypt using the DNS verification method, even if the name points to a private IP address. DANE would also be an option if it (and DNSSEC) were more widely implemented.

Local name resolution (mDNS) could take a page from what Tor already does and encode the public key fingerprint into the domain name. If the key uniquely matches the domain (perhaps just the first part, e.g. b32-key-hash.friendly-name.local) then you automatically get the equivalent of domain validation. While, by itself, this doesn't prove that you're connected to the right domain, by bookmarking the page and visiting it only through that bookmark you would get the equivalent of trust-on-first-use. Browsers would just need to recognize this form of domain name and validate the key against the embedded hash instead of an external CA.
Unfortunately not early enough to have covered Margaret 'Mad Madge' Cavendish's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cavendish,_Duchess_of...] attendance in 1667.
I believe so, yes. Supply and Demand.
For years now, Facebook has served one and only purpose for me: to connect with people I rarely ever speak to (like once in 5 years). If they come in town, they reach out and see if I'm willing to meet up.

For that 1% of functionality, it's great. I can't imagine using it for any other reason.
Six months isn't a mild punishment.
Ta for the explanation.
> Huawei could call/email you the next day (in Chinese of course) if they find something they want to buy to get ahead.

That's not stealing? That's just acquiring interesting tech.
Most college emails from what I’ve seen use tracking pixels and magic links to track applicants’ activity. The magic links don’t need JS to work, it’s a pure serverside redirect from click.[college].edu (or similar) to the page in question.
I wonder if it resists cracking by logical processes because it's not logical. For instance, the author may have not followed a system, but chose symbols that were partly pictographic, or based on word associations that occurred to him at the moment. Plus, for the author, it didn't have to be archival, because he would have been aided by his own memory when reading it.

My best chance at reading my own handwriting is to ask: "Now, what would I have meant here?" ;-) I hope nobody ever tries to read my notebooks.
A well functioning organization needs a mix of younger and older people.
I think what was meant was "If you're in a high paying, in demand field, save more aggressively (in absolute terms) than if you're in a low paying field with limited opportunities."

Since you're getting paid more, you can put away more money while saving a smaller fraction of your paycheck.
Do TSMC or their customers have insurance for this sort of thing? It would seem prudent given the stakes.
Is that really what they’re doing or just sarcasm? (I’ve never used Snapchat)
Must be some recruiter saying that because I cannot imagine a tech savvy HR saying that to you?
This is just the large scale version of the early Facebook employees who thought they were geniuses and went on to fail at places like Path and New Republic.
Well, the young criminal was black. The 62 yr. old guy was white.
Look into writing apps for Shopify, many are quite simple and charge a fee.
I do want to make it illegal, if you get a company car it is considered a benefit and you will be taxed on the value (either lump sum or by accrued value depending on things) and I believe this is fair and correct.

These sorts of soft benefits should be taxed at their value as their value is being incorporated into the decision to purchase or continue to hold. And, bonus thing, most people at the lower end of the income scale have no access to these soft benefits so excluding them from taxation is a regressive policy.

It'd be nice if everyone came to the realization that the easiest way to exchange a gained/earned asset would be money and then companies just rented out use of a yacht at the market appropriate price. This can cause a bit of craziness for things like "family discounts" but those, again, are discretionary benefits which are being offered to tip the ideal price point, and things of that class come with the added benefit that they usually will fall foul of discrimination laws under any casual examination.
VW Will Convert German Car-Parts Factory to Build Mobile EV Charging Stations
Now that Google is killing Hangouts, do you have something new planned?