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>If I lend my friend $10 every day for lunch and he pays me back the next day and this happens 5 days in a row in what context would it make sense to say I have lent him $50 dollars?

In a sense, kind of. If your friend is expected to be able to pay for his own lunch (because it's costly to keep covering for him) and only very sporadically need to borrow from you (because e.g. he forgot his wallet), and suddenly you find yourself doing it every day for several days at a time...

Then yes, it's worse than your friend having to "borrow $10 [once]" from you, even if it's not as bad as him having a $50 shortfall (esp since he does pay you back).

It also means your friend is making a systematic error he's not correcting, and you should probably start charging him more to, in effect, carry his money for him. If you don't, you're enabling his dependence.

Similarly, banks are expected to only very sporadically need liquidity directly from the Fed. If they need it over such long intervals, that's bad, and the daily amount borrowed, by itself, understates the significance. It also feels like the Fed isn't doing its job if the banks aren't paying (and savers aren't receiving) a premium for such an unusually scarce service.
Bukowskis work really struck me when I was in my twenties. I'm not sure it would now.
Helpful info and I understand repo predates QE, but could you shed some light on why this came about unexpectedly, why you think the funds dried up all of a sudden (and caused the repo rate (rates?) to skyrocket), and why the fed said, when it first started injecting funds, that it was a temporary measure (which is what all the pundits also said when it first started), but now is stretching the definition of temporary?

Believe me I want to believe it's benign, but as I understand it if the fed hadn't stepped in the repo rate would've been high single digits and things would've ground to a halt.

Also, I've heard the too-big-to-fail banks suggest that the funds would be available in the repo market if not for all the regulations around reserves, but I gotta be honest my trust level for what Jaime Dimon et al say is pretty low and in fact if they're saying it it makes it even more suspicious. That's my problem of course, but just looking for a more detailed explanation.
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You should look into setting up a Pi-Hole.

https://pi-hole.net/

Good jumping off point for this.
+1 for double-majoring advice. Double-majoring can also help create more than one way of thinking and more neuro-plasticity.
Can we just stop the 401k nonsense and have IRA have the same rules as 401k ?
That seeming difference in methodologies of disenfranchisement is where empires are made and broken
The 'problems' keep changing. Most people don't need or want to run a full node or even sync with the whole chain. Even so, anyone with $100 can buy 1 TB of SSD space and anyone who can stream netflix has an internet connection 600 times faster than the max throughput, so none of that is even close to being a problem either.

People say this stuff as some sort of FUD theoretical, but who out there is actually having problems with a reasonable computer or internet connection? A $35 raspberry pi is overkill, this is not a real problem.
Using that logic they might as well sue every American who buys products with Cobalt because they "force" tech companies to provide them with it.
> You can `alias podman=docker` and it will just work.

Yes, and it's super awesome. Unless you need docker-compose!
Right, it's there because future CPUs may have that instruction. Do you know of any that have it today?
The loans are backed by assets. They will be seized if the loans were not paid back.
It's funny because for years, as the opening of the article suggests, usual teenage vices (booze, drugs, and sex) have been dropping contrary to 80s teen movie stereotypes. FWIW, apart from the potential concerns with inhaling vaporized anything--something people skeptical of vaping point to although the science hasn't really established if it is harmful or not yet, weed is certainly the weakest of drugs (including alcohol) wrt harm for the body.
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> She told police she had set up the kidnapping because of her “overprotective” mother

Man. How bad was her mother for her to thing this was a good idea?
Historical reasons mostly, but also fantasy is a lot easier. You don't have to pretend to be realistic. That said, if fantasy is vanilla then sci-fi is chocolate.
It is a violation of India's obligations under international law. Specifically, Part 3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which India is a signatory of.
Why do you lack that discipline?
The article starts with something that is, by most accounts, harm reduction among teenagers: “Teenagers are drinking less alcohol, smoking fewer cigarettes and trying fewer hard drugs, new federal survey data shows. But these public health gains have been offset by a sharp increase in vaping of marijuana and nicotine..." The statistics, unused in this article, are quite clear: alcohol, tobacco and hard drugs more harmful to personal and societal health than marijuana.

But then the NYT proceeds to whip up some nonsense about how harmful vaping marijuana is, staring, and really ending, as we have no clue how harmful this behavior is, with a quote: “'This is a very, very worrisome trend..."

This is fear mongering, pure and simple.
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How devious of them to suffer, often because of US intervention in south and Central America, and then tell us about it.
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Charles Bukowski was a man-child and a grifter.
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>These accounts are no more a "give away" to the rich than the progressive income tax schedule is a "give away" to the poor.

Since only the rich are employed by employers who offer the benefits of these accounts, it is effectively a give away to the rich. If it wasn't a give away restricted to a certain populace, then it would be de-linked from employment and available for everyone.
Dude you don't get it, google BAD!!!
FSA is great if you plan to change employers, there is no clawback if you empty the account in January and change employers in February. I'm not sure why this was never considered, but it's one of the few places an employee can benefit.
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It's well within any parent's rights to block content like that, yes. If I can prevent my children from seeing obscene and objectionable things until they're old enough to have reasonable conversations about it, I will.

That doesn't mean I want to raise bigots, it just means I want to do what I can to ensure the narratives being pushed on my children are wholesome ones that will help them to grow up to be useful, contributing members of society and parents as well.

Maybe you don't care about that for your own kids; that's on you, champ. I'm not arguing for anything censoring anyone else, or anyone censoring what any adult reads.
Yeah I described the Pythagorean tuning badly.

But in my opinion, how the notes that you play simultaneously sound together is the core of music theory. A good chord progression can feel like a journey and it will set the mood of the entire song. Therefore, I would argue that note frequencies and the reasons why certain tuning systems are preferred in certain situations are the key concept to understand if one wants to elicit a chosen mood in the listener.
Many years ago, thankfully, I was commenting to a coworker that a hallmark of a good relationship is that the 'whole is greater than the sum of its parts', but in a company without the right culture, that the whole is often far less than the sum of its parts. And in the worst cases, the whole is worse than any of its parts. And this is how you get good people working together to do bad things.

At the time, I felt that this describes the phenomenon but didn't excuse the phenomenon. And while I have a bit more of a 'shit happens' philosophy today, I also still believe that 'the cost of freedom is eternal vigilance', and so I'm not sure my opinion on that subject has really changed that much. On the whole, I know that you can't foresee and prevent all problems. But, you can judge people by how they react when the problems are identified.

Which is why I delete Google recruiters. Why I couldn't follow a mentor to Ballmer's Microsoft when he asked. Why I declined the 'to hire' clause of the contract-to-hire mobile company where I was making great headway defusing a difficult lead engineer and a more difficult business unit (because every penny they made was off of Dark UI patterns). And why the short contract my company pushed me into at Amazon cost me politically.

We know the values we hold dear by the costs they incur. Not all of those costs are readily apparent to others, and the Internet is always quick to judge. But if they aren't apparent to you, then it might be time for some introspection.
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Don't know much about russian idioms, but "splitting the <rewards x> before <accomplishing risky thing y>" sounds a lot like that stock thing the dutch east india company created
Faith in that someone giving you $1 means that you trust you'll be able to spend that $1 for something of equal value?
While there are certainly many ways to build complex software, I haven't found composing a complex system from many simple and independent parts limiting.
This is a good pretty discussion of the issues (podcast) if you are interested. One of the takeaways is that this is an unintended regulatory effect from newer banking regulations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21827424
My point is that I am dubious about this legal theory.
Learning a handful of scales got me a long way toward sounding like I was good guitar/music. Then the progressions on top of that allowed me to make songs that sounded like songs.

But just knowing a scale is worthless unless you know the key a song is in, so I can not play with others really.
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That is not a new idea, even in the DRC and it has been an abject failure. Conflict gold, diamonds and coltan still flow out of DRC despite efforts to not buy undocumented minerals. In highly corrupt and impoverished places, documentation doesn't mean anything. One bribe of a few hundred dollars and your Congolese conflict mineral is now clean, documented Rwandan mineral.
There is absolutely no benefit of an FSA over an HSA, other than to pad the coffers of whoever gets the leftover FSA funds if the participant can't accurately forecast their spending. FSA's simply should not exist.
This is a hilariously bad idea. I agree with gshdg on this...
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But are they vaping instead of those other things, or were we witnessing a decrease in the other things until vaping happened?
> Amazon is choosy on what features you can implement

Allowing someone to holler into an open (or recently broken) window to open my front door sounds terrifying.
Well, overall the Netherlands only gain 8% if you discount export related emissions, so it doesn't gain you a fantastic amount.

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
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The thing that sucks here is the health issues have nothing inherently to do with THC and everything to do with vaping a black market product that has shitty ingredients in it.

I live in CA where it is becoming more and more regulated. I have a 'church' down the street where I can buy stuff at a steeeep discount (no tax, lower prices)... but I go to the regulated places the next town over (higher taxes, higher prices) that do lab testing and have their products sealed with a lab certificate.

As soon as I learned that the underground trap shops were buying, cleaning and refilling used cartriges with god knows what I stopped going to the churches.
Within the field of LEGO super fans, you’re going to be guessing right way more than 50% of the time if you go with “he.”
I've been bitten by this one over and over again in the last months. It's really unfortunate, and I see both sides' arguments here, but the effect is that on debian machines, running electron apps has become (even more of) a hassle, because chromium's sandboxing mechanism relies on these user namespaces.

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/17972
You don't have as many weird if-conditions to remember.

More LOC doesn’t necessarily mean more if-conditions, though! For code written in different styles.

It’s a strong statement that LOC and LOC alone is the best known predictor of bug rate, but that seems to be what several people in this thread are saying.

For example, I think most people (though not all) would agree that very dense code full of tricky one-liners (think Perl Golf) is more likely to be buggy and hard to maintain. But if so, “number of control structures used” or some such ought to be a better metric than plain LOC (I assume we’re using “LOC” literally here, not as a shorthand for something else).

Maybe there’s some second-order effect going on? Like very dense code discouraging modifications, so it gets less maintenance, and therefore accrues fewer bugs over time?

This is an interesting topic! Any research links appreciated.
I'll quote the reply to the comment which you linked:

"Unfortunately software engineering is not considered a "professional service" according to the final text in AB5. I'm not sure where you're seeing an exemption for software engineers in either of your linked resources. "Engineers" aren't software engineers if that's what you thought it was (see the part where a license is required)."

It covers _licensed_ professionals, which would not have been me. I didn't even have a formal education. The only sub-specialty I could potentially see is a security professional with certifications, but that would probably only apply to, say, situations working on FIPS compliance audit.
Just looking between the two (where I'm at we've adopted Terraform), I wish where I'm at would switch to Pulumi as well. After seeing the contortions required under Terraform when someone strays from Terraform's pre-conceived notions embedded into HCL DSL, I'm convinced that at-scale (>200 servers, arguably >100 servers), there is no satisfactory way around the "learn to code" requirement in devops at this layer interacting with infrastructure.
The reason data science is so expensive is because you have to spend so much time cleaning your data, teasing out the true relationships between things, and avoiding common pitfalls.

If you want quick, cheap predictions, there are tools out there that make it very easy, like Azure Machine Learning Studio where you just paste data and have common algorithms run on it.
> They're not. 1% is wildly un-competitive in today's environment.

Especially now that Fidelity offers zero expense radio funds.

https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/investing-ideas/index-...
In most of the industrialized world, good diet and exercise are engineered out of lifestyles, especially for the poor. Grocery stores are dying, neighborhoods are becoming less walkable, and leisure time is increasingly filled with internet entertainment designed to be addictive.

Your comment makes no sense within a broader, practical framework.
Welcome to HN, where the articles are never about hacking, but raging, virtue signaling and pitch-forking in a filter bubble they have created.

Look at all the articles on the front page today. How many are improving your true hacker skills and how many are brain-washing your way of thinking?
The problem is that this argument is a spectrum. For a consumer, who is (mostly) powerless to change the system, it might be (mostly) valid. But on the other end of the spectrum, the CEOs who actually could make a difference use the same argument to wash their hands. "It's all just business, the world is complicated, it's impossible to be perfect."
I enjoyed the description of your home automation setup! I learned about the wide range of sensors and devices that can be incorporated, and that technically it's possible for the owner to programmatically control everything. I can see you're riding the edge of the coming wave.

Looking at the differences between the KNX standard and the "Connected Home over IP" project.. From the latter's home page [0]:

> By building upon Internet Protocol (IP), the project aims to enable communication across smart home devices, mobile apps, and cloud services and to define a specific set of IP-based networking technologies for device certification.

This seems like a higher level of abstraction than KNX (unless "smart home devices" in the above description includes the kind of individual sensors you mentioned) - and exclusively focused on using the Internet Protocol.

Reading the Wikipedia article on KNX, it does sound like it has all the elements needed for home automation, including what this new standard aims to achieve.

[0] https://www.connectedhomeip.com/

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EDIT: Now reading about the ZigBee specs, I find there's a big overlap in protocols/functionality. As a complete newcomer, it's hard to disentangle the pros/cons of these standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee
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>I doubt previous conviction records would've deterred her from doing it.

I personally do not believe that line of thinking. Personally I think that if a few kids ended up being charged as an adult for lying, wasting police resources and making a big scene word will spread quickly.

What I think is that for every kid or adult who does this and gets away with a slap on the wrist, it only will embolden others to try to do the same as the reward outweighs the consequence.

Much like big companies doing illegal activities and pay a fine, only after making 10x the fine by doing the illegal activity. They could care less and will keep repeating this until it becomes negative to their books/reputation.

The most recent case I can think of was the fake hate hoax where that black guy hired buddies who were also black to stage a fake hate crime complete with a noose etc and then blame it on Trump supporters.

The judge let him off with nothing because he was 'famous' even when he was found out to be completely lying.

Now if they took him, threw him in prison for however long the hate crime perpetrator would have gotten and blasted that headline across the news outlets I feel it would deter others from trying to repeat his actions.

Instead you see him walking free with a smug grin on his face which only makes others think that it would be okay to do the same thing.

Clearly there should be some discretion in punishing children like adults but they already have a ton of laws regarding trying kids like an adult and could use the same framework in deciding how to go about doing the same with the hate hoaxes.
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>and even European ones have letters that can't be capitalized (for example ß)

In German, that character is never used at the beginning of a word or name, so it's really irrelevant.

I think a better example of something that doesn't fit that scheme is a Dutch surname like "van der Beek": they're multiple words, separated by spaces, and not all of them are capitalized. Some German names are similar: "von Staufenberg".

Also, some cultures have more than 3 names. Hispanic people frequently have 4 or (I think) even 5 names, not just 3.
Well, that was the ancient name of the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippopolis_(Thrace)
They added 2.5 months to be able to use it, if the employer wants employees to be able to. Still useless for the same reasons though.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-plan-now-to-use-health-flex...
FSA’s blow my mind. They’re pushed on young people who don’t need it. The loss is NOT MADE CLEAR.

And it hurts because a lot of people’s level 2 understanding of personal finance is max out your tax advantaged savings accounts.

FSA’s should be illegal. The advantages they bring to some (large!) don’t justify the theft from others.
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It's running straight-up linux. You can write apps in python with gtk or qt, or anything else that works on a linux desktop.
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By tech do you mean “consumer-facing software products”? For if you mean technology in its broader sense, I assure you many countries have and are built around it.
> When does Florida become America's Venice?

Quite an amusing comparison considering that Venice is commonly seen as an international beacon of sophisticated culture and history, while Florida is... well. I'm not American so I'll leave the rest up to the reader.
I doubt the data source can tell us this information. It asks students what drugs they have taken at what intervals, and does not seek to address the "why." Hence the pearl clutching by the NYT to provide the "why" for us.

Either way, we have no clue as to the harm that vaping causes us; we are rather certain of the harm alcohol, cigarettes and hard drugs cause us. The numbers in TFA are still pretty bad: ~17% of these kids have vaped THC in the past month where as ~50% had drank alcohol. Even if this was a tradeoff, it seems like a good one at this point.
Ok, so I guess you'll be going to prison too, then? Or do you not own a smart phone?
> It's hard to attack at scale. Conceivably someone could make a fake ID

The "make a fake ID" step by itself is already hard. The identity card is not just a piece of paper. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_identity_card#Security_... to see how many anti-counterfeiting features it has.
They have to, or will quickly find themselves racking up some PCI fines.
As far as I know it's Health Savings Account (HSA) in a high-deductible health insurance plan that rolls over, not a FSA.