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to me what is worrying is not that pension funds are crying about trouble (although it may end sadly for those to be covered)

what is worrying is that people keep the current economical system which creates the need for pension funds.

if all immobilia were rent only, and the rent was continuously redistributed per capita to the population, then everyone would enjoy the average rent:

housing: everyone sleeps somewhere and the total expenditure on housing is fairly redistributed,

food: everyone eats something and the farmers use the bulk of their income to rent the land, so the population gets a significant fraction of their food payed back

energy: wind and solar take up space, competing with farms and housing, and the energy companies spend the bulk of their income on renting that land

ecology: we can democratically agree to leave a fraction F for nature of different degrees of wildness, and only put up the the rest for human rent

in such a world, why do I need a pension fund? when I am old and less mobile, I can be satisfied with smaller housing, less transportation to compensate for my probable inability to work. If you look at how elderly are [mal]treated in elderly homes etc, I would prefer to be in control of my fair share of average rent, so that if I don't like a place I can go rent somewhere else. Instead of having to gamble today if insurance company X will be solvent in the future, or even if it is, if the resulting pension will even cover for food, housing, ... while with average rent, while the average rent does not devalue with respect to the average rent other people receive...

why would I need health insurance? in the current world I would need it because of unexpected lump payments to hospitals etc, but in the system of average rent (under correct compliant conditions), I could set up a standard smart contract for health: "if you treat me now, part of my future income will be diverted for a duration long enough to cover the medical bill", or I can choose to disagree at the moment itself! The current system requires you to predict in advance for all possible medical urgencies, and across all available treatments if you agree on average. There are situations where I would decide against a certain proposed treatment, with another treatment not being covered. But then why did I pay medical insurance for the last X years?? With a system of average rent, your expense is a free trade at the moment it arises and you are capable of consulting your feelings about a certain proposal, instead of having to guess in advance if you will like what is compatible with your insurance plan...
> Depending on the fund, there may in fact be another option: more risky assets.

Everybody knows the ECB will take some "risky assets" either as collateral or by outright buying it as soon as markets begin to crack. This whole article is just a rant for the public. Behind the scenes some traditional risky assets such as index funds are already on par with mortgage backed securities in terms of risk and will be accepted as collateral by the central banks.

> And this is where things start to go off script pretty quickly.

There are serious finance people (Mosler) who think this is nothing new and we've been doing "Modern Monetary Theory" in disguise for decades now. It's hard to tell for sure since most of the relevant information is not public, but almost everything makes sense if that's the case. It looks like new finance textbooks are being rewritten now with both QE and MMT mentioned with no references to them being measures of last resort, obscure or unusual. I don't know where this is coming from but it's speculated this is an attempt at normalisation of the current policies and MMT.
In the 1930s the answer was to create a job guarantee in the form of a massive public works program. That's how stuff like the Brooklyn Bridge and the LA Griffith Observatory got built.

The other option is to keep the retirement age down. I'd like to know why so many people who believe in this automation revolution are instead advocating for the exact opposite on the grounds that we actually really have the opposite problem...

You can't take both sides of this fence. Either the automation revolution is real and retirement ages can be lowered or it isn't and articles like this are spouting horseshit.
Spice in some report-bias as well. NSO is doing great PR work. Others may prefer less public exposure.
Funny you should mention the corporate environment. My company has a LastPass subscription and encourages us to use it, but they don’t prevent us from installing extensions, within reason. Given that , are there any good alternatives that are both secure and trustworthy while imposing as small a performance burden as possible?
> you aren’t making something people want to buy

I hear you but in 2018, finance and insurance represented 7.4 percent (or $1.5 trillion) of U.S. gross domestic product.
I was watching some Trump press report and he made some completely outrageous claim like that unemployment was at 3.4% or something, the lowest in 10+ years. That is not the normal amount, the normal amount is 7-10%.

Since I read the liberal media, surely I would know if there were a historic level of low unemployment level. Maybe the true level is extremely high - 15-20% or something.

I have two tasks for you:

1. Task 1. Find the true current unemployment level. This is closely tracked, should take you less than 15 seconds.

2. Compare with the liberal media reporting. Is the tone appropriate?

Spoiler below:

Spoiler spoiler spoiler

The first article I found was "Hiring Slowed in September as Unemployment Rate Fell to a 50-Year Low", in the New York Times. If you did 1 and 2 you would find this is totally inappropriate reporting. I like this example as it's very natural and factual. The unbiased headline would be: unemployment hits 50-year low.

The facts are still there, but the actual headline is clearly biased and totally inappropriate.

There is no way that can be considered an appropriate headline.

It's like imagine if Iran agreed to denuclearize and stop seeking nuclear weapons, and the headline said: "Iran armies, planes and helicopters have the U.S. in sights, but won't be sending nuclear bombs for now". The greatest possible success could be misreported to an absurd level.

Or let's say Trump makes vaccines mandatory and signs legislation introducing fines for parents of unvaccinated children, due to child endangerment.

This would be an amazing win, but based on my research, the news would report it in an outrageously biased way. Like what's the most biased thing you can think of. Maybe:

"Trump still doubts vaccines, even as he makes some mandadory." Just something outrageously biased that takes everything away from the huge win.

Go ahead and do the exercise and you will get really clear results.

It's a really interesting exercise. If I had time I would look at a Republican (Trump) list of "wins", then do 1 and 2 for each one: find the actual facts or figures, usually quite straightforward. 2. Decide what would be appropriate reporting. See if they are reported appropriately or in an outragrously biased way. (Instead of man lands on moon, some outrageously negative version).

(I would assume if you do this exercise you will fine many Republican points are false or exaggerated, hence why it is a 2 part exercise for each point.)
In my small Canadian island province there are small towns in the countryside where people never leave. Work, church, Saturday nights at the legion then repeat.

I recall a story of a person who was refused gas at a rural gas station because they were not from the area. In a another town a motel refused Coast Guard workers a room because they weren't from the town.

Small towns can be weird.
I'm not a fan of his. Although I think he's super-smart and one of the few people I would actually trust to repair my devices on a component level, I really hate his click-bait videos when they're anti-Apple and/or pro-Right-to-Repair and he intentionally omits or mischaracterizes things to make the discussion more sensational.

This USB shielding issue is one of those times. He spent almost an hour bitching about how Apple had skimped out on the new Touch Bar MacBooks and how they couldn't even get basic WiFi working and then, when it was pointed out that it was likely due to his cables and it happened in another video, he completely ignored it and never corrected the initial video to explain that it had nothing to do with the MacBook. His only admission ever has been on a buried comment in a Reddit post where a user flat-out asked him to confirm the case.

His whole assessment of Apple with regard to right-to-repair is also really disingenuous and he constantly brings up PC Kompaniet (do a Google search if you're not familiar) as an example of Apple being hard on the little guy without mentioning that "the little guy" was actually doing exactly what Apple accused them of but stopped doing it when it went to court and the court decided to dismiss the case on the grounds that the offending behavior had been terminated. Since that other portion didn't fit his narrative and would no longer support his stance that Apple is the big, bad corporate enemy of small repair shops, he just ignores it.

He's funny but I would take everything he says with a grain of salt. He's a YouTube personality, after all.
Hmm, like Shape Security did with web elements, this appears to do with hardware elements.

Seems promising, but not the level of enterprise architecture most at risk.
The most worrying thing is that the media machine seems to want this recession to happen. It's madness. It's like they want to destroy the world's economy for their own short-term click metrics.
It baffles me you see no place in our conversation to acknowledge the effect of your words on others. You got downvoted (not by me) and I've explained to you one reading or interpretation of your post. And you've ignored the central theme that came up 3 or 4 times about how your post feels to read and how it can be antisocial. It's wrong to ignore what I wrote and still reply anyway. What's the point? So you can defend yourself "on the record"? Go talk to the record then and not me. Start a blog that the authorities can log and record for you, so the public can see your reputation.

This conversation was as pointless as you intended it to be with your first post and follow-through behaviour. I am disappointed beyond measure and my day is ruined, to quote a youtube video. I don't care if you or anyone else reads this, this post is as pointless as your internal walls made our conversation.

Plausabilities and versimilitudes go together well as likely alt-accounts. Given the similarity in name.
If SRS software has taught me anything, it's that memory is reenforced when recalled.

If you don't have anyone to talk with and share your memories (or perhaps you don't find them important enough to think about), you're going to forget them.

I wonder if they found a correlation between introverts and extroverts here. Because I'd almost certainly peg this phenomenon on that.
I tend to follow Benjamin Graham's advice from The Intelligent Investor. Summarized by investopedia:

- Graham recommended distributing one's portfolio evenly between stocks and bonds as a way to preserve capital in market downturns while still achieving growth of capital through bond income. Remember, Graham's philosophy was first and foremost, to preserve capital, and then to try to make it grow. He suggested having 25% to 75% of your investments in bonds and varying this based on market conditions. This strategy had the added advantage of keeping investors from boredom, which leads to the temptation to participate in unprofitable trading (i.e. speculating).

I've been shifting over to bonds for a while now (currently sitting something like 70/30). Running the numbers on where I would have been if I hadn't started swinging towards bonds, I haven't missed out on much at all. The S&P is pretty flat since the January 2018 peak, and I'm in a safer position if a crash happens.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/07/grahamprinci...
Hi John, thanks!

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Uploaded by one of my favourite YouTube channels, Techmoan.

There are a few clues to the era in this video - older vehicles and suchlike - but the most striking difference between now and then to me is the absence of smartphones.

Crowds of people going about their business and not staring at their phones is such a bizarre sight nowadays.
Hasn't been as big as, say, Germany, but it can still be important to address someone with their proper name and title, as Barrin92 pointed out.

Consider that Mr., Ms, Mrs. and Miss are four very common honorifics in the US, to the point where there are forms which require entering one of those terms. Just why do I need to know someone gender and marital status?

Yet referring to a married couple as "Mr. and Miss Smith" can make people angry. Just like referring to someone as "Ma'am" can make them angry.

Go to, for example, United's web site to enroll in MileagePlus. They require a title, which must be one of Dr., Miss, Mr., Mrs., Ms., Mstr., Mx., Prof., Rev. Sir, and Sister.

Mx. is the the very new way to avoid the question of gender and marital status, but you likely won't get a good response referring to the couple as "Mx. and Mx. Smith".

Which means that Barrin92 is right, and the US is one example of "Communities have guidelines and addressing someone ... with their proper name and title" is something we do.

The Mx title is a very new way to avoid the gender+marital status problem, showing that, yes, the US has
Telecom Lobbyists Successfully Remove Canada from Wireless Pricing Report
Great experience with Amazon Lightsail. The smallest instance is only $3.50 a month, and you can add a swap file if you need a bit more than 512 MB of RAM.

Lightsail is like swimming in the shallow end of the AWS pool. Doesn’t have a drop down with 50 services like AWS, but has enough to run a small or medium sized web app.
So the fact that this'll be fixed this month means you're back on the macOS wagon?

Seems fickle.
What is moral? selling it to you? not selling it at all?
if you'd been able to speak candidly to your boss's bosses you would have discovered that your boss had been encouraged to lead an expensive life precisely because it would lock him into the lifestyle and control his choices.

If you'd stayed and worked your way up the ladder, that would have been your fate too.

So much respect for quitting - rare, and much appreciated when it happens.
I always say "risk-vee", and everybody knows what I mean.

I also say "macosix" and "windos" (and used to say "solarix") as generic alternatives to commercial trademarks.

Marketing departments can only propose pronunciation, they cannot dictate it, and they have no right or power to prevent inventing synonyms for the trademarks they control. They also have no authority over verbs, so e.g. "googling" is a generic term right out of the gate.

There won't be a RISC-VI, so it doesn't matter that it means "5" to some people.
According to most style guides as of 5 years ago, it's only proper English when the gender of the person is unknown, though even that isn't universal - he/she is often preferred.
I've run into all of these, but, FWIW, I still prefer smart autocompletion in bash by a large margin. Somehow I learned to avoid the bad areas I guess.
Given the news, Brexit does not seem like a great idea for the future genetic diversity of the kingdom.
And borrowing from loan sharks or other criminals is not the best idea. A predatory pay day loan company can set you up to fail in civil procedings about the money you owe them, and then garnish your wages, take your savings, resposess your car, etc. But there's still a limit to what they can do, and there's still that final-resort escape hatch of bankruptcy procedings.

Conversely, criminals, by definition not being bound by any such structures, can come take not just your wages or savings, but also you kidneys,
your wife or daughter, etc.

This is not to say that all criminal lenders are or would immediately become as bad as the worst stereotypes about the mafia, but whom do you think it would be a better to owe money to, when considering your long term ability to get out of debt, or even the long-term survival of yourself or family & friends? Predatory Payday Providers, or Big Tony?
I agree - I don’t think I’m qualified to say which sides/groups filter more, nor should that be a main focus. It would be great if we could work together harmoniously and professionally without so much group identity bs.
Law is not about laws. The study of law isnt memorizing what is and isnt illegal. It is the difference between simply knowing the rules of baseball enough to play, and being the umpire at the world series.
So rent seeking is only slightly related to actual rent (like for an apartment or office). It is the idea of extracting value from something without providing anything. A landlord who does no work maintaining an apartment but charges rent would qualify, but a good landlord who works to improve and maintain the property to rent would not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Article is kind of silly, because you'd obviously be levered when playing any kind of non-momentum strategy (e.g. buying the dip), especially if you were actually omniscient, which would completely crush dollar-cost averaging.
>Yea, so the cost of electricity is 25c/kWh (NYC)

Is that 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
Thanks I watched it,
Very interesting. Nice mix of comedy and information.

Tldw: within a small number of miles of shore it’s police or federal (USA I guess it’s similar for other countries).
After that it’s up to the ship. Cruise companies don’t want crime statistics so are unlikely to do anything about petty crime. There is death on high seas act but that only helps for a blatant murder. Jurisdiction is the flag which is likely to be panama or Bahamas. Your living areas can be searched any time and security can lock you up in your cabin. Cruises seem horrible to me and there are reports in the news of fights breaking out. But the worst thing for me is why be stuck on a ship that has less to do than I can do in my home city?
I think the situation is the other way around:

* Singular “they” can be the correct pronoun for some people, especially enbies.

* Monica does not want to use singular they for grammatical/stylistic reasons – when talking about persons of unspecified gender, alternative constructions are available.

* SE's CoC clarification supposedly says you must use the correct pronoun if it is known, including singular they. Constructions that intentionally avoid pronouns would then be ruled out.

* This is not a ban on the use of singular they.

Of course, SE's new CoC or new interpretation is still not public, so its actual contents are unknown.
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>I don't find it to be unreasonable. If a trans person clearly states that her pronouns are "she/her" and you twist your sentences around to avoid using pronouns at all, that could certainly give the impression that you don't recognize her identity as valid.

...and why should I? Why is this a given? Reminds me of when Andy Bernard goes to therapy and when he comes back he asks people to call him Drew.
Just like how a parasite won't kill its host.
Ah, looks both have their own rationality.
":" is ok for single-value returns. AS3 also uses ":".

The Haskell language looks interesting. Maybe I should spend some time to study it.
The site says that it's in the very early stages of development. Would it be better if they iterated completely in private?
You’re right, I must have been misremembering from a bug where return type inference was failing.

So yeah, TypeScript doesn’t but perhaps should infer assertion signatures where a return type is not specified. However, it would be bad if people who do want to specify the return type were unable to do so, so an `asserts` annotation syntax would still need to be available.
> A number of inaccuracies as far as I can remember.

Do you mind clarify these?
AJAX has been bad for the web. Letting Javascript make requests without explicit user action & vetting of whatever it's sending is basically the reason the web's so messed up and user-hostile.
No, I'm not a PostGIS expert unfortunately. It probably depends a lot on the balance between reads and writes/updates.
>#1. The "Show First 10 Rows" dropdown... nice here would be "Show First 10 MOST FREQUENT Rows" ... helps get a view of the distribution of values

You should be able to do this with a pivot, then a sort. But pivot doesn't work with non-numeric values at present. Next release!

>#2. A "Map" transformation - you can give it a list of input values and a list of one more more output values to which the inputs should be mapped. E.g. input values might be "New York", "Peekskill" and "Middletown" which map to "New York State" which can be placed in a new column (like the "If" transform)

You could do that with 'IF'. But I guess that could be a bit verbose and I should perhaps offer a 'Lookup' transform as well. The table lookup has the advantage that the lookup table can be created/modified by Easy Data Transform.

>#3. Finally because it's Hackernews... a "Function" transform allowing something like a Javascript function to be applied to a column, the output put in another column

Yes, an option to have some sort of scriptable transform would be very useful (even if it is slightly at odds with the "without programming" positioning). I personally loathe Javascipt, but I guess it would be easier to embed than, say, Python or Lua.

Thanks for the feedback.
AFAIK in Slavic languages you don't even have a cop-out like English "they" and the only way of expressing non-gendered pronoun is a neuter pronoun which has very strong dehumanizing connotations when applied to humans. So I think if it ever reaches Slavo-sphere they won't be as an easy solution as using they/them in English, unless the English solution would be just copycatted - which is quite alien to Slavic languages but I guess learning newspeak would require to give up on oldthink.
> We shouldn't ban lending to the poor, we should ban lending with interest period.

This is the worst opinion I have ever read on HN.
This may be off topic, if somebody that has "privileges" wants to verify this and post it - - I just downloaded BRAVE browser and started checking what are typically Paywalled Hacker News articles and ALL OF THEM are coming through without nag screens - - what's going on ?
Sentiment/Emotional based investing will get your face ripped off. As the old saying goes, Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.

This recession had already started when the Fed started Quantitative Easing again. The Fed's balance sheet is twice as much as when it was doing QE1 back in '08.

The real unemployment rate is contained in U6. If this economy were so great, why is the unemployment rate at 6.9%? Why is the Fed doing QE again?
I’ve asked before, but never got a good idea. How should a lay person best understand law without becoming a lawyer? What do we read? Where is a good course?
Thinkpads are still good, however it annoys me that even the T series is being pushed towards the Mac design, when they already have other lines like the Mac (X1 being most notable). Don't mess with the formula, please!
Do you have any videos on this? RIght now it takes forever to compile my pdflatex documents.
The media seems to think along the lines: if it generates revenue, then its fit to print. Until traditional news media can stand on its own again, absent corporate largess, it will not be free and independent.