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The Federal Reserve has been trying to get inflation above 2% consistently for over 10 years. What are the chances that they get that even now with rates at zero?

Also, I would disagree with you about the Federal Reserve not targeting the stock market or other assets. Anytime in the past couple of years that the stock market in the USA has dropped roughly 10-15%, the Federal Reserve has jumped in dropped rates. They might say the don't target the market, but in reality that is what they are doing.

I think biggest issue in the future will be how will the Federal Reserve ever raise rates. They can't even go above 2.5% without the market collapsing.
Dude (or dudess or whatever), Fed literally has positions in all sorts of stocks, including bankrupt HTZ.

How is that not "buying the stock market"?
> Lightning kills

OP said "hit by," not "killed by." I wasn't able to find a number for people being struck by lightning in a cursory search other than "hundreds more" than are killed by lightning.
Do you have evidence that the government has been buying the stock market to prop everything up? I haven't heard that before.
One confounding factor is parking arrangements. If you have a garage then a wall socket is reasonable, but for many years the only place i could park a car was somewhere on the street, hopefully within 100m of my address. In that situation commercial charge points (hopefully near my employer, if lucky) would be the only reasonable charge point.
I thought I was failing as a parent because my 3 year old sometimes _still_ pushes my 1 year old. I feel terrible for the child and for the parent(s) who have created a _lot_ of work for themselves, the child, and maybe even society. But I also feel a wee bit of relief of, "okay so maybe I'm being too hard on myself."
So the soviets didn't bother to check the american made Xerox machine for bugs and just let it rip at their confidential documents? I find that hard to belive. Got a source?
I think it’s an in-group signifier (not in a bad way)
I'll recommend Imago training [1] to any and all couples. It's reflective listening on steroids and was transformational for us.

The basic process starts w/reflective listening, then goes deeper to get at the underlying wound ("when you do that, it brings up all the times my parents..."), then to what might happen in a perfect world ("the toothpaste cap would magically fly back on the tube after 30 seconds of inactivity"), then to some concrete make-ups.

The other things we do that helps is to stick with the current argument (which I find difficult, sometimes) and to not go "meta" ("see, honey, there's a pattern here where you ...").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imago_therapy
More specifically, other western societies had the political will to prevent all the people who weren't working and were being paid by the government at less than their normal wage from counting towards the unemployment stats - generally some sort of furlough scheme where on paper they were still employed by their original company. Still meant they weren't working, with no guarantee there'd be jobs for them to go back to, but it sure looked better on the stats. (At the cost of arbitrarily screwing over people who for whatever reason couldn't take advantage of furlough and ended up actually-unemployed.)

The US tried something a little like this with forgivable loans to pay businesses' paychecks, but the trouble is they did this after rolling out an unemployment boost that left less well-paid people better off than if they were employed, so it was a little difficult to convince business owners who didn't want their employees to try and murder them in their sleep to take it up.
>If you add American's median household healthcare expenditure (~$8,200) to Australia's consumption, America's consumption is still 20% higher.

Yes but the point is that's one example. I'm not going to got through the full list but i can't think of one USA government provided service that's better quality or requires less private intervention compared to social democracies like Australia and it shows up in so many intangible ways. eg. little things like the Australian government provided online tax filing. In the USA people need to pay to file taxes online (sure paper is free but ugh what a hassle). More private toll roads in the USA. Public housing is more common per capita in Australia. Australias national broadband network (i still can't get fibre here in the USA but i had it in regional Australia), etc. Again i'm not going to keep going except to say that i've lived in both nations and it's really obvious.

In more socialist countries per capita spending can be seen as lower but the services are better despite no spending from consumers going to them. The spending comes from the government. You can't compare spending between the USA and Australia for this reason.
Yeah - I’d argue that social response and the psychological toll from it does ten times more damage than the actual “failure” of seventh grade.

People can spend decades afraid to learn because some shitty teacher made them feel dumb when they were young.
There have been 1424 deaths "involving" coronavirus in the ages 0 - 34 in the US[1]. What happens to that number when you discount for underlying conditions?

Close to 500,000 military personnel (read: military-aged) died in WW2. Sorry to be crude, but what the f*ck are you smoking?

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

Edit: Keeping the vulgarity for posterity, but on reflection it was quite unnecessary. Apologies.
That is already what happens with factories. They find cheap land and cheap labor.

They generally don't move factories unless the wages are enough different to justify all the other pain and expenses that moving would entail, including hiring almost all of their low-pay workers from scratch in the new area.
You have no choice, that does not mean you consent. No driver license or you give the data, it's closer to gunpoint coercion than to free choice.
I'm jealous, I'd love to go spearfishing :)

I personally enjoy calamari, but it definitely doesn't hit the spot for bony fish / shell fish cravings. And it is missing the omega-3's of oily fish. :(
I'm claiming that the R part of R&D was always tiny to begin with. That rising spending R&D is not indicative of much more R compared to dedicated research labs.
A PW150 turboshaft engine is ~5 kW/kg. Some electric motors are up to ~10 kW/kg. But, as an example, engines on a Q400 regional airliner are only ~5% of the total weight. Fuel is up to 15% of total weight. So the savings are not significant.

Also, the batteries will likely require a cooling solution. This can be challenging (heavy) for high altitudes (where air is cold but very low density). Jet fuel requires no cooling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-weight_ratio
I'm amazed how dismissive all the comments are here. I read the article and it seems totally normal for a little kid not to be able to do "school" on a laptop. Kindergarten is so much different than later years of schooling. It's not about lectures and subjects, or homework and tests. It's about much more fundamental lessons, interspersed with creativity, socialization, and learning to be separated from your parents.

These are fundamental qualities that require physical interaction!

You give me the most well-behaved kid, and I'll show you a hellion when I attempt to sit them in front of a boring "remote learning" session for a few hours.
I know you were trying to make a broader point, but Facebook has been flirting with 90% gross margins for more than 5 years.
Don't come arguing on a topic you lack basic understanding of. Asking "for a source" on whether Comintern was exporting revolutions around the world is simply arguing in bad faith.
^ https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release
> I don’t know who initially said it, but… I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people.

There might be a different source, but I first saw it here - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to...
Apple will neither confirm nor deny the existence of such a project.
Yikes, posting like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We've had to ask you about this kind of thing before.

Could you please take the spirit of the site more to heart? HN is a community of millions of people in many countries. It is inevitably divided on any issue where society (societies) are deeply divided. We can't get anywhere by pretending otherwise. We can't get anywhere by trying to impose one view on everybody. We can't get anywhere by "fuck you".

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
>price / share goes up, price / fraction of company stays the same

That is obviously not true and he's pointing out why - if the market isn't very liquid, in this case not a lot of sales, price can jump nonlinearly.
I don't think that's a reasonable point of view. Most minimum wage jobs are not productivity jobs, but jobs that need to get done by someone but require no special skills. That is, you can't easily define the value of the sanitation worker who keeps a restaurant clean enough to pass health standards. You just observe that there's enough people willing to do it that you can offer a low wage.

What jobs are being made illegal?
Yay, more screen time. So 200$+ minimum. We bought some boxing gloves and connected 3 car tires and hung them from a tree branch and even a pole for indoor use. Tires were free and the pole was free. The cost of the cement was "dirt" cheap. The tires can take a beating from anything you want to train with. Swords, hammers, hands, you name it.

This feels like a gimmick for cash.
Fairness is leveling the playground. It's not equality.

By birth, you are unequal. Would you say we should have the same measures for people with physical disabilities from birth and healthy athletes?

No. That's why we have separate categories or measures. That is fair. And that is not treating everyone equally.
Everyone I know who has lived on government assistance is most certainly price sensitive.
> I think that most people throughout the developed world believe that ensuring the general welfare of a country's citizens is an essential function of government.

State governments are sovereign, too, and have far fewer constitutional restrictions on what they may do. I may not agree with the social-welfare schemes dreamt up by Texans, Michiganders or Californians, but they do not effect me, so it's not really my business. OTOH a federal social-welfare scheme effects me and is patently unconstitutional.
You can pause education but a child is a learning machine and they aren't going to stop learning just because you stop teaching them. They'll just learn in unstructured ways without direction.
I agree with you in theory, but it seems naive to believe political appointees like a chairperson of central banks give zero consideration to the stock market when that market is fundamentally important to those who appoint them.

I hope they have that kind of integrity but I won’t be surprised if there’s a gap between theory and practice
The most fascinating part of Americanism to me is that America regularly compromises and helps compromise any country that doesn't share the same interests, and America's citizens (mostly) think it's fine. The society lives in fear of its government, its representatives live in fear of its military, and the military is controlled by higher-ups who probably shouldn't have been given power. Often people accuse the leaders of these compromised nations of being dictators as if America doesn't have a track record of instilling even more evil leaders (for example, Pinochet[1]).

Why can't America just leave other countries alone and tend to its own sorry affairs? America tries to make other countries "more free" and then treats Blacks, Asians, Native Americans, Mexicans, other people of color, women, transgenders and other gender-nonconformists, homosexuals and anyone else that isn't heterosexual, Communists, Socialists, and anyone who isn't their form of "normal" as second-rate citizens in their own country. America (rightfully) accuses other countries of tampering in their election and then tampers in others' elections.[0] Their actions often contradict the values they claim to purvey.

I hear often that if another country was doing as poorly as America is right now, America would have "liberated" it already.

[0]: I found a source here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-interfered-in-elections-of-... for my claims, however it's questionable due to accusations of spreading propaganda. Here's a relevant article from a more trustworthy source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/the-us-has...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet#U.S._backing_...
Most arguments against minimum wages are not concerned with the impact on businesses, they are concerned with the impact on low-skill workers, inexperienced workers, and unusual workers (i.e. individuals with restricted schedules, or issues communicating).
> a pretty lonely

Nowadays with the internet one does not need to be lonely even if they are away from society.

In addition others might decide to follow them.

> primitive existance in Siberia or Alaska.

This does not make much sense. Why would living somewhere else automatically give them any duties?

Anyway, I do not see the point of this argument. It is like saying to a gay person "if you don't want to be discriminated by anyone, you will have to live a pretty lonely, primitive existance in Siberia or Alaska."
C++20 in 2020: Modules
I tend to think the opposite trend is occuring, for every IBM who gets out of human recognition, you have 10 ClearView AI's jumping at the chance to get any contract they can. Without meaningful regulation, nothing will change; expecting people to quit their jobs (and ability to provide for their partner and children) because of an ethics video series seems like a hollow solution
> I can sell my labour to many different companies with a relatively low switching cost.

Well, I disagree on this. Maybe you specifically can do it, but housing prices, healthcare costs, transport cost, family charges, etc, can make the cost and risk of switching prohibitive. Not to mention that "just switching" doesn't mean prices will be better. Just have a look at the latest stats on working poor people to imagine whether those can easily switch jobs and get better education.

> If the price of steel increased, building new mines to extract iron ore would cost great sums of money as well. It is not easy for all mining companies to do this. It doesn't mean that the market is not relying on price signals to coordinate the production of goods.

So there's a high cost of entry? That's very much a non-perfect market. A free market doesn't just "respond to price signals", that's a very low threshold as you'll hardly find a market that doesn't respond in any way to price changes. A free market has to respond to them in an elastic way.
If no one is entitled to anything why did humankind abolish slavery? Child workers? Indentured servitude?

Think about it. Indentured servitude is nothing but a contract between two people. By your ideology it should be of no one else's concern. Yet, it is considered slavery and is illegal. Why?

Because it turns out life isn't as simple as "you're not entitled to anything". This same sentence has been uttered by people throughout the ages who profited by the status quo until the commoners got their heads, literally or figuratively.

Every law we have, including the ones that allow you to have private property, private land and virtual property such as copyrights and patents are man-made and arbitrary.
One use case we're facing is dealing with the negative pressure created by exhaust fans and an exhaust-only air conditioner. Acting together they pull air in from the outside. I was hoping there'd be some means to have some filter media handling that intake air thriugh a controlled portal so we can still exchange air. Afterall even with multiple circulations filtered or otherwise we still need some fresh air for humidity, oxygen, and stuffiness sake.

You make a good point about the house being leaky in the end though. It's a real effort to have a completely sealed house for sure, companies specialize in that work. We bought three Honeywell air filters last year running continuously in the meantime.
Self-Styled Cyborg Dreams of Outwitting Superintelligent Machines
It's net income.
It is just _insane_ how night and day my 3-year-old is in terms of his ability to sit and focus, after he has sufficient "go wild" time in the yard, playground, street, or basement.

I'm not sure how much school has changed, but for me, in the 90s, the ~90 minutes (split into three uneven segments) per day of physical activity was just not enough. Could have used half and half.
> even though crucially that value was created by the worker

Crucially the value wasn't created by the worker, but rather the worker played a part in the creation of that value. In a capitalist society, that worker's wage is determined based on the value of their contribution and the supply of workers with the requisite skill. In a Marxist society, it is set by the state, and it seems to be very hard for states to determine a price that is sustainable.

In my humble opinion, Marxism seems like a denial of basic economic realities--namely that the state can set the price of anything to whichever value they prefer and it won't have disastrous economic ramifications ("price is just an arbitrary number"). Maybe I'm creating a straw man, but I do notice a lot of Marxists who make arguments about what is fair and not what is economically sustainable as though economic sustainability is an invented problem that we can disregard. Perhaps this view isn't uniformly shared among Marxists, in which case my criticism is "too many Marxists are making these kinds of unconvincing arguments, and more convincing arguments would be centered around economic feasibility--we all agree that we want poor people to have more money, the question is 'how?'".
If only I could figure out how to get that message to my boss...
> They didn't make nearly as much of a fuss about it all.

Yes. But my point is, I don't see how that could make them any closer to re-opening. The virus still exists. All the factors in play when the lockdowns started are still in play.
A lot of coffee in the US is imported.
read Taleb. This is extreme fragility, not antifragility.
I think maybe there aren't new or old wars anymore, just a single continuous amorphous conflict, against terrorism or whatever.
On a related note: also wondering whether there is a good book about swimming.
But it's okay to have a national minimum wage and also a state, county or city minimum wage that's higher than the national. That doesn't mean we shouldn't at least start with the national one. Individual areas can fight for their own raised minimum wage in their area. Everyone can fight for the national one, which would still be a big increase over what minimum wages are everywhere.
Ice Lake AVX-512 Downclocking
Or go and find a tree branch for pullups/muscleups/dips.

Or do some 100m max effort hill repeats

Or jump squats

Or buy a futon and try moving that heavy and bulky mattress up a flight of stairs, alone.

There are hundreds of ways to get great workouts that do not require an indoor gym.
Guide your own learning. Don't just follow others
I've literally never met a 5-year-old who doesn't do things like this when they're upset. Judging by what was happening on other families' screens when watching my son's online kindergarten last spring, it would seem that these kinds of challenges with the Zoom learning experience certainly aren't unique to my or my friends' families, either. This despite it seeming to me like a particularly happy and cohesive kindergarten class for the first part of the school year.

My sense is that that, if you aren't currently trying to usher a preschooler through this experience, you don't actually know how your kid would have handled this situation as a preschooler. And if you are doing it and it is going well, you should count your blessings.
Even less - it was asking for some tech support from Apple to learn how to hack Apple Hardware with their own (Bechtel) engineers - the actual hardware/software was done by Bechtel. Given this particular engineer is talking about it - they didn't have to undergo security clearance (if they had, they wouldn't be talking about it. Ever.)

All apple did was provide a little bit of JTAG/Build/Source Code support. The rest was up to a third party.
You also have to factor in the weight reduction as petroleum fuel is consumed vs the fixed weight of a battery.
Electric motors are simpler, more reliable, smaller, lighter, almost perfectly efficient, and have better torque characteristics than ICE.

You can't compare the energy storage density in isolation. Engines are heavy...Model S's motor generates 362 horsepower (according to the official specs), and only weighs 70 pounds...the equivalent ICE would be 500+ :-)

(Yes, the inverter weighs something, but the transmission is much simpler as well for electric...overall you save a few hundred pounds easily...A Model 3 battery pack is between 600 and 1000 pounds--so pretty close to the crossover point.)
Discovery of functionality is lacking, not the keybindings. Most of the time I want an answer to "how do I do...?" not "what happens if I press this key?", and even isearching the help buffer I have to guess did they suffix `at-point` or not? did they call it `swap` or `transpose`? `forward` or `next`? did they make a `sexp` do something useful in this mode, or will it just pick something between parens, or some awful mix of the two?
Maybe, but that wouldn’t necessarily require modifications to the iPod. iPods could be used as USB external drives and you could just load it on there without having to mess with the OS at all.
>> I feel like we're realistically far from "eat the rich"

We could have a financier as a main course as well as a dessert.
Or maybe freedom is simply the wrong frame for this question. There are others.

Public health. Commonweal. Morality. Consideration for the disadvantaged.
I'm worried for the kids that don't get to play outside and/or socialize in such a situation though. Which sadly will exist.
I wouldn’t really call it “being taken advantage of”.. in a real UBI, you’d only produce something if you were going to get paid enough that you want to do it.

Nobody will have to produce anything they don’t want to, now that the UBI removes the fear of where their next meal will come from. I know I personally would still want to produce things to take home MORE than the UBI.
I have one of these, nearly 12 years old at this point. Around two years in, it took nearly a full pint of double imperial stout head-on during a buzzed coding session. Was sticky for a little bit, but otherwise no ill effects. Built like a tank.
I dunno, it has never been tried right? What do you think would happen?
A most frustrating thing about many kinds of protectionist economic policies is that frequently the people who would benefit from the opposite policy aren't allowed to vote to count the value of it.

The people who would get hired if you didn't put this policy in place are the ones who don't get to vote against it.

The people who would be able to afford to live in a city that has rent control, don't get to vote against it.

It's not until you have some external shock that shows you how much this little island of protectionist policy has cost you that you realize what it did. And in the meantime you've favored and built up a system that is that much less resilient to whatever new problems you face.
Once the decision has been made that Node 6 is no longer supported, it is then possible to refactor the code so that it uses appropriate modern idioms, such that the external behaviour is unchanged for Node 6+ but will no longer be parsable by Node 5.

In this specific case, it is both a refactor and a breaking change.