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I somewhat agree.

> inflation will be concentrated in staples and consumer goods

It would indeed raise prices unequally. That it would be in staples is not so clear; the US is not a place where many outside of childhood starve due to poverty. But whatever the next-most-urgent class of goods or services are -- home or car repairs, investments in health or education -- there would certainly be more demand for them. With greater demand comes initially an increase in prices. In the long term, in a competitive industry, an increase in supply that eliminates those excess profits. In oligopolistic sectors like education and healthcare, those rises in prices can somewhat persist.

In the long term, money are neutral while inequality is real. If you doubled the amount of money everyone had, prices would (eventually) double and nobody would be any better off. But if you give a fixed amount to everybody, you're muliplying the wealth of the poor by a much bigger factor than that of the rich. Prices will not adjust by enough to make the benefits to the poor outweigh the costs.

> If prices stayed as is, it's hard to see why anyone
> would do a lot of the low paid to medium income jobs

Median income in the US is just shy of $60K today. US households routinely have both parents working multiple jobs. Almost nobody aspires to live on so little as $12K a year

Labor market outcomes would surely improve. A giant fraction of Americans currently don't have time to search as long as they would like between jobs; they've got to take an offer fast. The freedom to take, say, two months off to find a good match would not only help workers, it would make industry more productive.

> increasing taxes on the wealthy doesn't
> significantly increase tax revenue

If that were true why would they be lobbying so hard against it?

There are, yes, a lot of loopholes in most tax codes. A rise in the tax rate that merely complicates it further will probably disappoint. But there are simple solutions. Equalizing tax rates across different kinds of income, for example, or imposing a wealth tax.
Oil, gas and coal are all quite different beasts. Oil is the scarcest, and is still running out (hence looking at more expensive fields in remote places, and tar sands). Gas has only recently (last couple of decades) been 'tamed' (i.e. capable of being stored and transported long distances). I have no idea what gas reserves are like. There is _heaps_ of coal. Which is the problem for climate change. And that's also why no-one talks about peak oil anymore.
I thought they had a patent on it, however, I haven’t been able to find anything...
My website bill rose to exactly double. It's still only a dollar, but that's twice what I was paying last month!
Anecdotally, I don't think this panned out. I worked out of a WeWork in August (10 months after the article) and there was no key card restriction on the tap.

However, compared to the (different) WeWork I worked at in 2017, the tap seemed to get locked up much earlier. Didn't make sense to me at the time versus opening the tap later; it was almost incentive to drink around 5 or 6 instead of waiting until later (I tend to work later) if you wanted a free beer.

Also worthy to note: instead of two taps for beer (at my WeWork in 2017), there was one for kombucha and one for beer.
> what exactly does WeWork do that is so unique?

My impression is that in addition to being startup-friendly with flexible terms, they give your average remote worker for standard boring companies the startup culture experience in their work environment. I don't know what that's worth in premiums though. Personally, if I was allowed to work from home (yeah, blanket policy of no remote work where I'm at, because stupid) I would rather lounge on my couch with a keyboard in my lap and monitor on a flex arm in front of me.
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I've never seen that at a job I worked at. While I know other fields where this can be the case (typically housing related), Google's difference was rather extreme
It's not the 5K that does it, it's the $500k for heart surgery that will do it every time.
The recession talk was mostly media-driven based on a few cherry-picked data points. Sure, they may be right...but they may be wrong. For whatever reason, every media outlet has been running with this lately.
In which the garbage collector serves no advantage; only as a trap you have to remind yourself to step over.
It’s totally doable. You want to run a VPN server on the host so that you can connect to it and have your network traffic go through it. You could tunnel all traffic thru the VPN, or only the DNS traffic. Then you could have the pihole bound to the local interface only, not accepting connections from outside that host.

I’m making it sound easier than it is, but it’s still pretty straightforward. There’s actually a doc on the official pihole site that explains how to do this but I haven’t read it completely.
> it was a freak anomaly and I assume I will never see that again in my lifetime.

Why do you believe this? The earth's climate is indisputably changing. This means that different patterns will be established than what was normal in the past. There are good reasons to believe that increasing ocean temperatures and higher ocean levels are likely to increase hurricane frequency, intensity, and destructiveness. Although the data we have so far isn't yet conclusive that this is happening currently, it's definitely suggestive and certainly consistent with said reasoning. Why do you think you know better?
Sanders wants to replace credit reporting companies with public credit registry
The union I have experience with (Sound Engineers union in Burbank) was nothing but a complete pain. The union admits members based on nepotism (friends and family only essentially) and the work they did was always second tier in comparison to the non covered studio engineering team.

I was on a systems engineering team at this studio, and our union counter parts were nothing but incompetent pains in the ass.

Unions don’t have to be this way, and I think they serve an important roll, but people should really be careful what they are asking for as the results might not be what are expected.
If you want some actual number for France: In 2016 France had 63.1 GWe of nuclear capacity and they generated 403,000 GWh. 403,000 / (63.1 * 24hours * 366 leap year) = 72.7% useful capacity factor. Even with massive exports, France’s low capacity factor increased price per GWh by well over 20% vs the ~90% utilization Nuclear is generally designed for.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

PS: “have already needed to design or convert the majority of their nuclear power plants for flexible operation”

This directly says nuclear power plants designed around high capacity factors where a problem which they spent money to fix.
I can imagine. Good luck and goodnight!
Until it's not

If you're in the market right now, you may see no gains in the next 3-4 years so you should have a 10 year horizon to realize gains.
Taxing them into the ground would indeed be a bad idea. It's a question of levels. Tax rates in the 20th century for 55 years were above 50%, and for 45 of those were above 70%[1]. You get a lot more for being in the US than a certain tax rate.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Marginal_...
What is it you're looking to do? crop/plot/plant tracking? pictures in a database? (bud baby pics!) ... considered hiring someone to write what you need, and making that open source?
Some of it is due to historical context, for example:

Violet – Luxurious

Historically, most clothes for most commoners were pretty bland. Dying something purple was very, very hard and expensive. Thus, it became associated with royalty because no one else could afford it.

The association still persists, though now any schmuck in most developed countries can wear something purple.

https://www.livescience.com/33324-purple-royal-color.html
I love Sky Map Android app, would love seeing satellites and planes like this there. Are there any available out there? Sky Map AR basically.
And by subsidizing the heck out of it. Oh, and by not buying any more when recently it came in at 3x the cost of other energy options (after which they sold the Candu IP to a private firm for $15M).

https://www.thestar.com/business/2009/07/14/26b_cost_killed_...
No, the US government has taken the position that it’s always best to have a few tricks up your sleeve when the chips are down. It is most certainly intentional stock piling of zero days for strategic advantage.
Interesting thing to know: "Pew conducted the survey of 10,618 panelists Nov. 27 to Dec. 10, 2018."

Which means these results are about a year old, and given how many things happened since then they could have become completely different.

Also: 10.618 people surveyed in a total population of 247.813.910 (the total amount of adults in America, give or take) without any demo information of the survey group at all in the article as far as I can tell.
You act like it's 3 trillion on top of what we already pay though. Obviously you and your employer quit paying insurance companies and that money goes toward the government program. Also the richest pay more in taxes on their income and "wealth" instead of being able to hide it overseas and buying up land. They'll have to sell some of that to pay the 2% wealth tax every year so they can't store it away for 10 generations of a dynasty.
This is positively shiver-inducing.
the 1935 Labor Day storm was the worst storm in recorded history to ever make landfall. The 1932 Storm that hit the Bahamas was far worse than Dorean. It was only eclipsed by the aforementioned labor day storm, the 1928 storm that hit Okeechobee and the 1932 storm that hit Cuba. 1932 an 1933 where the worst recorded 2 years for major hurricane landfalls. We have never seen a concurrence of 2 seasons like that in modern times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Category_5_Atlantic_hu...
> Are OOP and "data-centric" approaches at odds with each other?

Yes, because OOP Objects are data plus code (methods). If you don't have methods, but just pass data around, you don't have OOP. If you do have methods, you meet the "expression problem".

If you have static types and well typed code you get pure data at runtime, and if you include unions and product or sum types at runtime, you end up with algebraic datatypes, and if you have RTTI and polymorphism and inheritance then you get classical OOP.

If you have just data living in memory at runtime, and just transformations of the data (functions) sitting in your code, then you get FP.
This was a reminder to try to contact the ISS using amateur radio.
I don't think the workers here are contractors; they are employees of a firm contracted Google, which is a different thing.
I have a Cat S60 with a headphone jack and last night it sat in my pocket in a hot tub for 3 hours and still works fine. Granted, I don't know if I can have headphones plugged in in the water.
Yes, but some places are far worse than others. Down here in Atlanta we get some pretty bad thunder storms (and accompanying low lying land floods), and rare but not unheard of hail. We're pretty far from any real faults, though we have gotten tiny tremors from east Tennessee and north/south Georgia before, they're at most 4-5, with everything in Georgia around a 3. We're far enough away from, and high enough above the ocean for sea level rise to not impact us. Tornados are exceedingly rare. We hardly ever get any real hurricane weather, usually just some rain from the outer reaches of it as it hits the coasts.

I'd choose this over my former South Louisiana digs any day. We had to evacuate for hurricanes multiple times when I was a kid there. For hurricane Andrew we were driving north in the pouring rain and wind so high nobody could close the car doors except my dad. I've never been even close to that scared of weather in Georgia.
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It needs lots of people, and many of the people must be highly trained. This makes it more suitable for low labor cost markets.

Nuclear was having serious cost escalation problems in the US even before the TMI accident.
Which other service provider puts a price tag on each HTTP request routed through a reverse proxy?

Some service providers such as Hetzner don't even charge for bandwidth up to 20TB, but somehow AWS found a way to hike the bill per HTTP request.
Stocks are up because there is so much money around these days, and not a lot of places to put them. Bonds aren't paying, so don't put them there. Where else do you put your money?
You just need to ignore the terrible proof-reading.
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> Index fund buyers don't read EPS, so the frauds are targeting the dumb active investors.

I'm not saying the buyer's do. The selection criteria of the index fund may include it.

> It's generally agreed that index funds are going to eventually destroy the stock market

Or, like I've been saying, companies will find says to adjust their figures to get selected for index funds. And then eventually implode, due to the cost of doing so, which in most cases is quite a lot, taking down the investors along with them.
You don't even want to expense a Stata license. Stata is the worst thing I've ever had to use. Maybe as a person who can't program it makes sense, but as a professional developer almost everything about Stata is non-intuitive, confusing, and stupid. Also the only thing to go on is their stupid pdf manual. Finding real people on the internet who actually use it is almost impossible.
The title is, to put it mildly, overblown. It's a comparative study of two small meditating & non-meditating populations, with no attempt to investigate causality. As usual with studies of this type, there's a disclaimer to that effect in the Discussion, essentially contradicting the paragraphs it follows.

What's more, it's not even a study of 'meditation' per se, but of one little-known practice:

> The recruited meditation practitioners were individuals trained with BWV, a meditation practice that combines ancient Eastern philosophy with modern scientific methods to elevate human awareness

So at most this shows some small brain structure differences between two non-randomly-selected populations. Despite a heroic attempt (figure 3) it doesn't even find a dose response of note.
> I’m not sure why but programmers like to reject entire languages instead of just rejecting the features they don’t like.

The article mentions that:

>> What I want from a language

>> The strongest thing on my desired, but not required list is simplicity. I find looking up language features, and quirky 'clever' api's incredibly tiring. The ideal language would be one I can memorize, and then never have to look things up. (emphasis mine)
I see lots of people here talking about recessions and market crashes as though they were the same thing. So let me point out that they aren't. A recession is when GDP goes down and a market crash is when stock prices go down. Either one can happen without the other.
I did this with the much lauded sci-fi “Three body problem”. First half was good, then it took a dive for me and haven’t picked up up 3/4s of the way through.
Guided apps don’t do anything for me. They essentially were like taking a break but I often felt bored, or annoyed.

I went to training for TM meditation and it was a night-and-day experience. I do 2 20 minute meditations most days and I usually don’t want them to end. I highly recommend it.
They should definitely disclose vulnerabilities in American made software for SIGSEC. If it’s foreign then not disclosing it would be SIGINT
Why is Hindi required?
This is cool if you don't have time, but if you just look at the sky at night for a while in a dark enough area, you'll see a satellite.
Because, I have for the past 44 years been in a hurricanes path on a pretty regular interval. It has not changes with the exception of a single year where I got hit by 4 of them. After that for the past 14 years it has returned to that interval where about once ever 8 years I either get winged or direct hit by a hurricane. Unfortunately the last one was a major hurricane. It's been 2 years so in about 6 I will get winged or hit again. It's like clockwork and has not changed and until it does I will accept that about every 8 years I have to deal with a storm.
Solar has not reached cost parity with nuclear. It has blown through cost parity. Solar and wind are 3-4x cheaper than nuclear, on a levelized basis (depending on location). This gives them both plenty of space to implement storage, curtailment, transmission, and/or demand management and still beat nuclear.
I agree with you for the most part. There are companies providing an extensible and open source platform for incorporating models into production systems and even helping you build those models, like Lucidworks (my employer). Algolia platform is not powered by any ML afaik because their system is very closed and not easily tuned.
But kombucha!

Really, The whole booze on tap in the work environment never made any sort of sense to me. It seemed like a short-term recipe for poor productivity (I could be wrong though) and worklplace conflict, and a long-term recipe for lawsuits 10 years out when alcoholics sue for their work environment facilitating or causing their condition. (yes, it's happened before, breweries used to allow it, but stopped)
Exception handling doesn't work very well. It requires exception frames on the stack, and those go missing sometimes, leading to leaked exceptions and unexpected crashes. For example, if you pass a C++ callback function into a C callback, say in libcurl, the C library doesn't have exception handler frames in the stack, so exceptions are lost. If your C++ code throws from within that C callback, any catch above the C language boundary won't work. This is just one of countless gotchas. Don't use exceptions.
> "I want to be clear that this decision is not about contract value — it is about maintaining a consistent and fair business approach in these volatile times. I do not believe that it is appropriate, practical, or within our mission to examine specific government projects with the purpose of selecting which U.S. agencies we should or should not do business."

So if this were 1940, and he lived in germany would he gladly continue doing business w/ the country knowing they're gassing jews?

I mean it's the government they always have our best interests in mind right? We should always support the government we live in no matter what right? Seriously? Without question?

This CEO is obtuse, and probably shouldn't be running a tech company.
So if an employee steals from their employer, is it the employers fault for hiring them?

Unions always enforce expensive, outdated work. The taxi cab unions fought Uber and Lyft, a vastly superior taxi system, all to prop up an existing outdated system.
Probably something along the lines of the end of the soviet union followed by China taking over as the world reserve currency.
The author states:

>"Southwest always had a lot to say about projected modifications to the 737, and Kelleher’s team mostly wanted as few technical modifications as possible. With the MAX, they upped the ante: According to Rick Ludtke, a former Boeing employee, Boeing agreed to rebate Southwest $1 million for every MAX it bought, if the FAA required level-D simulator training for the carrier’s pilots"

This seems like an important part of the story yet I'm not understanding if it's inclusion is meant to have significance to the tragedies of the 737. Could someone explain how of if this is germane to the crashes?
The default is the HTML geolocation API, as implemented by your web browser.
His attempts to become an authoritarian and being a Russian puppet however are not good for you. I would say that's against every American's interest. Lower taxes or not. By the way 75% of his tax reductions went to the richest 5% and the middle class tax deductions expire in a few years.
C++ has sum types as of several years ago with std::variant.
I disagree. I highly recommend a timer, but rather than an alarm, use something like a quiet bell. I use the Insight Timer app, but just without all the social aspects that come with it.

Sitting as long as you feel like is not beneficial, because most of the actual work will happen when you start to notice your agitation and at that point is when you will just want to get off the cushion. Stick through it, and watch that agitation and your monkey mind go crazy, until the end of the timer.

I recommend starting with a short timer, 10 minutes, then slowly increase the time.
In gamedev, we often use UDP for network I/O.

I am far from an expert in security but I've done a bit of reversing/hacking when I was 16 years old (DOS era)

I think this is hard to check for everything, but in my opinion, good security can be achieved with extreme simplicity.

Packets are fixed-size, every fields are manually bound checked and the packet is rejected if anything looks wrong.
> Given the choice between a secret fool who has fun, and a joyless thought-policing jerk who happens to be right on an issue, people will choose the fool every time; and frankly I can't blame them.

It always amazes me that people who need so strongly to express their individualism in such ways are willing to tie their own puppet strings and offer to dance to another's will.
No, I continue to think you are mistaken, for the reasons I've given. I think if we optimize out the energy system of the future, taking into account cost of construction and operation, it's going to optimize to 0% nuclear.

France's past system is irrelevant, since it was built at a time when renewables were completely noncompetitive. The world has changed now, and changed radically. Going forward, France will be going renewable too.
Is the time in local timezone ?
Yeah something is crazy.. I killed a bunch of service content and my cost STILL seems to be going up.. My bill for this month (even after the reduction) is going to be almost 85% higher than last month with the same level of activity.
I’d say that while the stock crash of 2008 may have subsided, there are still fundamental problems being suffered through across the US from that fall.
Reducing waste can only go so far - zero waste - and worse, it has diminishing returns. Improving technology, on the other hand, has no upper bound and builds on itself to enable even more improvements.

Imagine if people had just reduced food waste instead of inventing fertilizer? We probably wouldn't have western civilization.
So has acid rain an the Ozone layer depletion. None of them killed me even though everyone in those days used the same vague scare tactics at one point I literally had months to live in the 1970;s due to acid rain. Pesticides and fertilizer in the sea is going to, in at least my children's lifetime. I am literately watching the ocean die every day and it is due to what we are pumping into the ocean.
Generally stocks fall during a recession.
Came here to post my favorite part: "At this time, I am busy. I am happy to entertain proposals for later work but immediate availability is scarce."
> A 100 million GBP note is literally money and could theoretically be spent at a store.

True, but only in the same sense that you could theoretically spend a barrel of oil at the store. The "legal tender" language you see printed on US currency is unrelated to commercial transactions. To the extent that it still has force, it comes from laws governing financial transactions -- specifically, if someone gets a court judgment that you owe them something, they have to accept currency.
Caches generally sit above the auth system. Sharing them between customers is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

We spend a lot of time here in postmortems asking what they hell were they thinking. This is a great opportunity to ask pre-catastrophe.