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> I'm not comfortable investing the entirety into an index fund, given the current socio-political climate.

Over the the long term there is not really anything better to do with it than equities: the Great Depression, World War 2, gold standard retirement, 1980s inflation, etc. Even if you only invested in the peaks, you'd still do quite well over the decades:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

Jumping in with a lump sum amount can be quite daunting, so what you can do instead is put in (say) 40K every month over the course of a year or so:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...

Certainly better than sitting in cash. If you're worried about volatility, then also invest in some bonds funds: 60% stocks, 40% bonds? If you want more growth, 70/30 or 80/20 maybe.

And while the S&P 500 gets a lot of the press, a total market fund is what Vanguard is steering their own employees to:

* https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bogle-explains-why-vanguar...

See also:

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/should-you-invest-in-the-sp-500-i...
Reading his TAoCP you can see it in action.

The wonderful NY times article https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp... talks about this, with a quite from Norvig:

In those early days, he worked close to the machine, writing “in the raw,” tinkering with the zeros and ones.

“Knuth made it clear that the system could actually be understood all the way down to the machine code level,” said Dr. Norvig. Nowadays, of course, with algorithms masterminding (and undermining) our very existence, the average programmer no longer has time to manipulate the binary muck, and works instead with hierarchies of abstraction, layers upon layers of code — and often with chains of code borrowed from code libraries. But an elite class of engineers occasionally still does the deep dive.

“Here at Google, sometimes we just throw stuff together,” Dr. Norvig said, during a meeting of the Google Trips team, in Mountain View, Calif. “But other times, if you’re serving billions of users, it’s important to do that efficiently. A 10-per-cent improvement in efficiency can work out to billions of dollars, and in order to get that last level of efficiency, you have to understand what’s going on all the way down.”
Even if they were honest and absolutely no data ever went back to China after this (not likely), that’s still billions flowing right back to a Chinese company straight out of America if they’re purchased. If Trump is sincere about his America first claims, he’d have a good reason to ban it and make the product worthless regardless.
> that, but the argument that it would only pay for 1 week of the disaster is in bad faith; it wouldn't work like that at all

?? The point is to put the wealth of these families into context. It’s a big number, but tiny compared to the size of the economy.
It looks like a win-win i.e. you develop a product and also develop technical competency however it is not, my suggestion is to keep them separate, you can always delve deeper into technology if you wish to do so. Learning technology will just put additional constraint on what you can deliver and when you can deliver your product. Decide one thing whether it is developing product or tech competence and give it 100%.
So for example if you decide to go for product than take the most efficient path to develop it either by using no-code tools or using laravel saas template or whatever language template that would make your job easier to get the product out.
If you decide to go for tech, to maximize your chance of getting hired you should go for leet code and associated sites to make sure that you are able to clear the interview, there are countless tales of technically competent people not able to clear the interview because the interview process in industry is rigged in favor of leet code type interviews.
I’m not a particular fan of this, but there is a long tradition of the historical present tense (correct me if this article is talking about something different). I don’t know the details of its development but I first encountered it in Latin class, so it was at least being used with the Romans
There are two reasons why sites fall over in cases like this: CPU saturation, where the solution is better caching (which includes going fully static), and network saturation, where the solution is either to get fatter pipes or to reduce the data transferred. Hugs of death are normally due to CPU saturation.

But in this case, I suspect that the server is just saturating its network connection because of poor treatment of images.

I have JavaScript disabled so maybe it’s loading more if you have JavaScript enabled, but when you exclude images, it’s only transferring about 152KB. Images are where it goes wrong: it’s serving up a large number of images, and some of them are unreasonably large and high quality (like 34ᵗʰ place, a 1000×1000 PNG of a fractal being shown at 400×400), and most significantly it’s using quite a few multi-megabyte GIFs, which is flatly stupid and wrong and they deserve to have their site fall over for pulling that.

So the end result is at least 20MB. 20MB = 160Mb, and if your server has only a one gigabit link (very common), you can suddenly only cope with about six visitors per second (though in practice things will start falling over before that, maybe round down to five), which is not quite enough for the peaks you’ll get when high on HN, and it becomes a bit of a cascading problem, kinda like a capacitor but bad.

The solution is to treat the images properly: actually compress them, use videos instead of GIFs, that sort of thing. I reckon 3MB total is readily attainable here, which would allow you to serve 40 visitors per second, which is probably enough.

So yeah, putting your pages on a platform with really fat pipes will solve problems like this after a fashion, but I’d argue that it’s not really solving them, it’s just letting you get away with doing a bad job and shifting the burden onto users.
OP's perspective is clearly very skewed, even for the USA. $100-150k is considered absurd compensation for most of the country that isn't silicon valley.
Alternate title:

Timo Weigand’s presentation on string theory at CERN can be accurately described as pure, unadulterated hype.
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The article is about smartphones, not dumbphones. This matters as some people won't own smartphones for this reason. Not many though, I suppose.
I think you may have misinterpreted my comment, I said the opposite of that.
You are trying to time the market. If your goal isn’t to cash out within a year, don’t look at the prices, just buy S&P index fund like VTI and a bonds fund in some proportion. Rule of thumb is 100 - your age is the percentage that goes into stock fund, your age is percentage that goes into bonds.
I am in a similar situation. I ended up investing overseas on a good real state deal with high yields.
The tax side of things was simplified by the type of investment (debt investment). I think the pandemic created or accelerated a bunch of business opportunities, some of them out of the US.
> I mean, the societ union collapsed remarkably quickly

I don't think comparing these two is all that helpful. The Soviet Union made its authoritarian side too visible, i.e. Prague 68 etc.

Combine this with the fact that the union wasn't really united by any sense of national identity, that is the Czechs viewed the soviets as the Russians and their own party officials as puppets to Moscow.
In that sense the Soviets were foreign occupiers. This is not true for the CCP.

Another important point is that quite frankly, most people care about material well being first, political preferences second. By the time the USSR collapsed, its citizens felt like they'd be in a dire economic situation as long as the status quo continues. This is a much more powerful force than the rather vague promises of a democracy, I'd say.

The Soviets made the mistake of not allowing private business to occur basically at all, which means people had no hope of ever "making it".

In America, you have your Zuckerbergs that help keep the idea of an American Dream alive and something to look up to as being possible if one only works hard enough.

The Soviet Union didn't have that motivational force, however deceptive it is, but China does have its Jack Ma figures. Its economy is a mix of centrally planned and free trade and much more complex than the Soviet one was. It's also a bigger internal market. In other words, you could dream about potentially being a billionaire in China, you couldn't in the Soviet Union.

Also, many Chinese enjoy a relatively middle class lives that, as long as one doesn't get too political, probably don't feel that restrictive day to day.

As long as the CCP can keep the economy growing and people can maintain their middle class lifestyles, no revolution is coming.
Even better would be to limit what providers can charge to 105% of what they charge Medicare and Medicaid. You can put it in the Medicare contract with the provider that if you want to get paid by Medicare, you can't charge anyone more than Medicare. With about 50% of hospital and doctor spending coming from Medicare and Medicaid, they already have monopsony pricing power.
Well, you don't really "own" capital, you've "just" earned an authorization to spend some amount per year. It's like a debit card thats auto refilled every year. In the meantime "your" capital is being invested and reinvested by various firms. If you owned a valuable lake and deprived others from using it while you're alive, that would be a different story. But money? Meh, those are completely virtual constructs.
More lowest common denominator talk despite these issues being economic which was ranked as the #2 issue in the source you presented.

The three options you present are a completely different level of granularity, I'm not clear why you're ranking them. No one is a single issue voter down to Apple's 30% cut, that's just a piece being discussed to better understand the larger issue (or lack thereof, if that's your point of view).
A cubesat to replace an enormous ground based telescope?
Go through wiki and threads on https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance.

You may also find interesting to read through https://www.reddit.com/r/fatfire if you'd like this to be your starting point towards retiring.
I’m living in a major metropolitan area on the east coast. The salary range locally for any level is at most $35K -$40K. That’s real money, but the interview process is not much different for the high end and the low end. It’s mostly based on skills and experience.
I know a great financial advisor in the Dakotas if you'd like a referral.
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall

Use this money to max out all tax advantaged accounts available to you (401k, IRA, HSA), and invest the rest in a brokerage account. When in doubt, invest the money in a target date fund at Vanguard or Fidelity that most closely matches the date you plan to start withdrawing from the account. A total world fund/ETF, like VT, is also a fine option.
this still isn't making sense to me, is there a simple math example of how this is even possible if encrypt(1) = a, then how can encrypt(1) + 2 ever give me the correct answer?
Fair enough. My point was less that these are very good comparison points and more that video and culture are perhaps more powerful than we might initially think. I don’t think any CCP revolution is around the corner.
Ahh another tool to annoy your users. This reminds me sudden "Meet Local Singles in Your Area" popups.
That's what the government is for. Either let the corporation be wholly responsible for safety (including things like surveillance, risk analysis, prevention etc), or don't complain about the corporation not doing it when there is a government saying they have it covered. Why are you not angry at the government for not stopping this foreseeable crime?
Or even a TikTok China and TikTok for the rest of the world? (Considering the ban of TikTok in India and the perceived threat of TikTok amongst several other countries as well.)
This is a good resource: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

Long term VTSAX or FZROX are probably good places to hold most of that. You could keep $30k in cash for emergency fund.

The other comments suggesting the bogleheads forums are also right. Most of the other comments are a total disaster I’d be cautious about following any of the advice here (it’s also surprising to me how bad it is).

I also personally do some individual stock picks of companies I know in the field I’m in, but that’s still quite risky and not advised unless you like this kind of thing (Amazon, Apple, PTON, Nvidia, previously tsla). I hold long term for capital gains.

Long term index funds are the best bet, even if the market goes down you can wait it out if you’re young. If the current conditions scare you, you can “dollar cost average” entry which just means buying $X amount each month/week until you’re fully invested. Long term this kind of thing doesn’t matter though.

Are you looking to use the cash soon? If so you may want to not invest it. Being forced to withdraw is where the problems come from.

Don’t listen to anyone on here about bitcoin. That’s gambling, if you want to do that know it’s gambling and expect to lose everything.
I believe the poster has $450K in cash, in addition to the real-estate holdings, and that is already more money than they know what to do with. I don't know if it makes sense to mortgage "the base" to add more cash to that pile.
Buy land in Portugal or Malta and leverage it to get a EU Passport.
Make sure you have a store of value in your asset allocation (gold, silver or Bitcoin) to hedge for inflation.
> But there's little precedent for media companies to take action in US politics overtly.

Isn't this pretty much one half of their business, the other being advertising?
Do you guys think there's any realistic hope today (not accounting for what kind of horrible stuff might be possible in the future) of being able to keep your 'genuine' online activities separated from your public facing, sanitized ones? Such that no company's HR department would be able to tie your real life identity to your real online activities? I imagine it could be possible if you're serious and rigorous about it.

Or am I being naïve for even entertaining such a thought?
From what I have seen, those interviews show only how well you prepared for the interview. And they are designed to check if you know basics for the position needed. It really looks like most companies don't care what you know or did - they are only interested if you are able to do the job they need.
Small suggestion: this should be an `Object` method:

```
obj->Force += obj->Mass * m_gravity; // apply a force

obj->Velocity += obj->Force / obj->Mass * dt;
obj->Position += obj->Velocity * dt;

obj->Force = vector3(0, 0, 0); // reset net force at the end
```

As in

```
void Object::Step(double dt_s, const vector3& g_mps2) {
Force += Mass * g_mps2; // apply a force

Velocity += Force / Mass * dt_s;
Position += Velocity * dt_s;

Force = vector3(0, 0, 0); // reset net force at the end

}
```
If European academia is similar to American, the application process is quite distinct from the industry job application process.

Similarly, as many have said, for an industry job, it depends on whether the company is small, medium or large.
I wonder how this has affected the development of PlayCanvas. I don't see any statements about the acquisition or even just a roadmap or statement about the future.

It looks like Snap bought it + a game studio and then launched a few html5 games inside of Snapchat. But I dont see anything after that. Seems like maybe gaming inside of snapchat just fizzled out? That doesn't bode well for PlayCanvas development...
If hobos are a known problem, you have no right to be shocked when one steals a pie.

If hackers are a known problem, a huge company like Twitter has no right to claim it was completely blindsided when it gets hacked.

Twitter is a multinational corporation with access to the personal data of hundreds of millions of users.

It has a duty of care to those users, and at a minimum it should have a dedicated team with security policies and recovery plans.

Aside from the reputational damage, an aggressive and ambitious lawyer could make a good case for a very expensive class action if those plans turn out be defective and/or inadequate.
I enjoy how /biz/ and HN mixes together.
Articles like this get published and shared only because you (the collective "you") are overcome with anxiety about the subject. It doesn't tell us if the problem is widespread, only that it's engaging. The comments share the same dynamics.

For my part I hire people I know can remove more problem from my desk than they add to it. If you can show that you're a good fit.
Trump seems intent on this because of the Tulsa Rally fiasco. But at what point does it backfire on him? Tens of millions of pissed off 18yr olds could easily sway the election.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has quietly avoided the anti-trust spotlight recently yet has acquired github, LinkedIn, and now a social network that could rival Facebook. Satya Nadella is a genius.
I think that's the appropriate action for an economy in emergency mode. When you see a bad thing coming, you simply say "the bad thing is banned", and deal with secondary problems as they arise. The problem at a broader level is the virus, which economic policy can't directly address, and the health crisis is expected to end soon enough that our policies don't need to be sustainable indefinitely.
> What are the tradeoffs vs using docker? Just curious.

Probably some combination of memory usage and complexity, depending on your application. If you're already familiar with using docker as a development environment, definitely go for it.

I don't use pipenv, I'm still using plain old virtualenv for development. Mostly it's just a matter of familiarity. If there's not an itch, why scratch?
I think it is noble to preach being rich in the moment. I think for Derek quitting his job in his 20s to play music full time was for sure a mark of affluence in his social circle at the time.
With investing you can always wait an year or two with the cash and think about it. However if you end up doing nothing with the money for 10 years, you will lose some serious purchasing power.

I would just put first everything to an index fund, then from there on try to find more interesting investing opportunities.
> But there's little precedent for media companies to take action in US politics overtly.

Newspapers routinely make political endorsements, that is overt.
> Or even a TikTok China and TikTok for the rest of the world?

TikTok is banned in China, Douyin (also owned by ByteDance) is effectively “TikTok China”.
Python is fully on v3 now. It was a terrible transition, but it's done.
XSFI, the Extremely Simple Firmware Interface (currently in its second draft) is a good solution. https://www.alm.website/misc/specs/xsfi

It could be implemented in UEFI, and bundled with disks as a compatibility layer, for machines that support UEFI but not XSFI.
Step 1: Choose a diversified equity index based on your time horizon and risk tolerance. You can also choose a mix of indices.

- underlying principles: Diversification, reduction of exposure to idiosyncratic risk (as opposed to systematic risk), Modern Portfolio Theory

Step 2: Invest $8,653.85 a week for the next year in your indices of choice.

- underlying strategy: dollar cost averaging

Step 3: If the market tanks in September because school re-openings ravage the country, invest the rest of your money at an accelerated rate.

Step 4: Continue to reinvest income steadily for the rest of your life. Never liquidate a diversified index because of a recession (this ruins the whole investing strategy).

Step 5: Gradually readjust your portfolio into lower risk indices before/during retirement based on your risk tolerance. Warning: Even if you have low risk tolerance, you must have a strategy to live off your earnings for the rest of your projected life span. Generally speaking, the lower your risk tolerance, the longer you have to wait before retiring (because bonds are guaranteed to provide low returns) or the larger your portfolio needs to be upon retirement.
Buy gold
"TikTok China" exists already, it's Douyin. It was there first (2016). Bytedance created TikTok as "international" Douyin in 2017, then merged it with musical.ly.
The two-step approach to big code modifications
About fifteen years ago some of the more forward looking newspaper folks were really excited about targeted and personalized versions. It never came to pass because it’s one of those things that’s fun to prototype and hard to execute well at any sort of scale and on deadline.

That said, expandable context and background boxes are still a great idea.
I’m not claiming that the ban is related to human rights, but rather that the US and China aren’t in the same moral ballpark. Banning TikTok isn’t equivalent to education camps, forced organ harvesting, sterilization, etc of ethnic minorities.
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It seems less about the app itself than it does about China. It's so passive aggressive it reminds me of middle school.
Email is fine too! Or maybe RCS in the future, though I’m not sure if there’s a free RCS stack anywhere yet. But honestly, though I rarely use SMS for personal communication these days, it makes a pretty good fallback, and it’s damn near ubiquitous.
So you’re condoning foreign election interference now? Which is it? Pick a side.
I'm betting that General AI need many more things and some may be expensive to supply and once people realize that the hype will go down in road.
A favorite pastime of mine was lining up all the new hire computers that had to be setup and seeing if I could mute it before the entire office turned around and told me to shut Cortana up.

HI THERE I’M CORTANA AND I’M HERE TO HELP
And how would dependence on US gas delivered by ship be any better? As far as I can tell, it is the US acting up and sanctioning a German project at the moment. Not a great sales-pitch for future business.

There is no salvation West or East of Europe. Europe has to do it's own thing. The US has shown, that we are mereley allies as long as we are useful and it does not hesitate to sanction it's allies. There is no friendship between countries.
Interesting. Thank you for clearing that up.
That's true! I'm happy that I am paying low taxes. It just seems ridiculous that my effective tax rate is so much lower than the effective tax rate paid by other people.

As best I can make out, a CRUT reduces your tax burden dramatically if 1) you are young, and 2) you fund the CRUT with equity that has a very low cost basis. I don't think the tax code should contain a special magic wand that reduces tax liability so low for this particular situation, because this advantage seems unfair to people who accrue their wealth over a lifetime by more traditional means.