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> A mortgage payment is always less than rent for an equivalent property, anyway.

Not always, though they often track closely to reach other, they can also diverge. If rent is high and home prices are low that could be a good signal to buy.

And you also have to consider what you equity would be doing if it was invested in something other than your house.
> functools.singledispatch works with type annotations[2]

Only for the first argument. "Note that the dispatch happens on the type of the first argument, create your function accordingly".

Making delegated kwargs transparent is 100% cool though and addresses a huge problem with delegated interfaces. I'd use that all the time.

I agree with you about the swiss army thing. I wish it weren't bundled with all this other stuff.
Most of these companies offer unlimited PTO so what, exactly, is the problem?

"I'm taking PTO and I don't need to justify it or tell anyone why" should be the process.

As your co-worker or manager, I don't need to know that you or your kid or your dog or your parent is sick, or if you're really just sick of working and need some time to zone out.

If someone is taking so much PTO that their work suffers, address it in private with HR.

> We’ve added more support for all of our employees and encourage everyone to have open discussions about the challenges they’re facing

Please don't.

I don't need to hear my co-workers sob stories, and I don't want to burden them with mine. And I certainly don't want to feel compelled to overshare.

Offer private counseling through HR or the health plan.
I agree with your point. In addition, this book also suggests ideas that, in my opinion, are so far away from the minds of an average person that it's kind of absurd. Admittedly it's been years since I've read the book, but one example I can remember is setting up a corporation to reduce tax burden through. I don't think it's useful advice for somebody whose trying to get by and not already wealthy.

I would've appreciated the article more if they skipped mention of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" entirely.
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Ha. I'm stealing that joke, that's quality. I wonder if anybody's managed financial success on Medium/Substack yet with a "hustler inspiration" focused GPT masquerading as a guru. I'd love to read that postmortem.
So, so true. But if you have conversations with a hundred people about the math behind their real estate, it’s the only thing the vast majority are considering in my experience, which is such a big miss.
Jeez there's a lot!
The strongest, most "steelmanned" defense of Anarchy (and it's not even close) is Michael Huemer's The Problem of Political Authority: https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Political-Authority-Examinati...
I follow people that are great programmers personally. I find that the famous open source programmers are typically the ones with the most followers:

* BurntSushi: 4.4k followers

* wesm: 9.6k followers

* tj: 43.6k followers

The followers section of the post may have cherry picked a non-representative example.
I really like Fedora honestly - I switched off of Ubuntu a few years ago after the Unity shakedown and have not regretted it one bit. Works perfectly and has very up to date pkgs available in core repos (unlike Ubuntu).
I don’t know what German tenancy laws are, but I suspect that they give
the renter much more protections than Americans. This affects incentives.

Here in the U.K. I wanted to make sure we owned a house before having children because I wanted to mitigate the risk of being in a rental and given 2 months to to find a new home because the owner wanted to sell.
>The internet of the 90s is still alive if you step outside the walled gardens.

Dont you see the bars on the windows and doors?
Yeah the Lancet has had some questionable publishing standards as of late, but the thing about science is that you should always hold everything loosely, run more experiments, try to disprove pást studies' findings, and take everything with a grain of salt until it's confirmed by several peer reviewed studies. So, we shouldn't trust the Lancet, and we don't need to, because everything in proper science should always be taken with a grain of salt.
That's not a new idea. Walter Greiling projected back in the 1950s that world population would reach a peak of about nine billion, in the 21st century, and then stop growing [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.

Being an extravert the book inspired me on how to get energy from my inner world of ideas and images during quarantine. Beautiful metaphors and philosophical inquiries into values.
Again this is taking the position that anarchism would need it's "government program" to justify itself and then maybe society could see about moving over to that program, I don't think that's the point, as I've argued in my previous comment.
The simplest expression of anarchist principles I've seen is that it is opposed to coercion. All else follows. This is very appealing but at any scale we find that people must be forced to be persuaded. If that sounds Orwellian, you're not wrong. Orwell was anarchist adjacent and a keen critic of the left. (Check out Homage to Catalonia.) Anarchy is a fig leaf for totalitarianism. It is a short step from the University diversity council to the reeducation camps. We need to be very careful that the political options we are advocating in the spirit of freedom and equity are not poisoned bait preying on our best instincts for fairness and care.
Fascinating discussion and rather ironic. There are people at tech companies that object to people that don’t have kids being forced to effectively subsidize other people who “aren’t pulling their weight.”

And yet the majority of people at those companies vote for leftist economic policies that do that very same thing.
Could you expand on how one could face a trial for littering in a society that has no government?
I find every modern Apple mouse super uncomfortable, and I don't think I'm alone. They are too small/flat and create hand strain.

My favorite mouse to use with a Mac these days is the Logitech G305.

https://amzn.to/3h0bqiU

Also, here's my review: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B07CMS5Q6P/R1KU320KW6ZI3...)

I also personally like having the Magic Touchpad around as a second input device, for silent mouse motions (for calls) and for gesture support. You can have both connected nicely and if you use the paid app BetterTouchTool it serves as a nice way to have a rich input experience while retaining the precision of a high DPI mouse like the above. Another minor gripe of mine is that the Apple Bluetooth keyboard/touchpad combo from the last generation, with AA batteries rather than Lightning chargers, are better than the current generation in lots of subtle ways, so I stick with them.
That's not the right way to frame MWI, there's no explosion of entities at all, just a single wave function that evolves. The wave function starts out being a function of n variables, evolves according to a differential equation and remains a function of n variables.
Regarding setting scroll wheel settings on Linux, if you set them on a Windows machine, the mouse should remember them, even if you switch to a different machine.

I also swapped the gesture and top button, so pressing down with my thumb switches between free-scrolling and detent mode and I use my index finger for gestures.
Is there a name for this type of thing where you label yourself as something that everybody already understands, but then try to bait and switch the definition on them?

Anarchists: we don’t believe in anarchy! We believe in the human spirit and peace and harmony!

Satanist: we don’t believe in evil, we believe in love and treating each other with respect and kindness!

I see this pop up all the time in politics and it’s always kindof funny to me.

(I won’t go into specifics of places this is happening in politics right now for obvious reasons)
Those issues you addressed are problems when everyone centralizes in one place and then an attempt is made to find one set of rules/ethics for everyone.

Cut the gordian knot. Just don't all centralize in one place and you no longer all need to follow the same rules.

That said, if you're using those platforms for monetary reasons then you'll have to stay there. Network effect. But that's for the best: profit motive is eventually toxic to community.
Do people still design rest-ful APIs? I often find I end up needing to do RPC-like things that make the API end up as a weird hybrid. I'm on the verge of abandoning the idea of trying to be rest-ful at all, so it's less incohesive.
Monkeypatching anywhere except unittests is a nono for me. It adds some black magic you need to know before reading the code.

Am I reading the standard pathlib.Path or the monkeypatched one ? If I have a bug with it, it comes from the standard library or the patch introduced silently ?

Remember the zen of Python:

> Explicit is better than implicit

And I would personally prefer a unification library ( https://github.com/mrocklin/unification/ ) over the type dispatch proposed here. It's just more powerful and closer to pattern matching if that's really what you want.
Basically, he made some poor decisions on various things. Not only sexual harassment, but also defending others who are accused of some not very nice things and has a history of misogynistic comments and behaviors. Here's an article giving more detail on a few of the issues surrounding the resignation so you can draw your own conclusions:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/richard-m-stallman-resigns-fro...
It’s true, and maintenance costs can easily erase the difference in any case. I wouldn’t say owning is definitively better financially than renting, but i do think it is better in general.
I don't ever consider my primary house an investment. I purchased and put money into projects that allowed me to live in the house. Usually, housing markets are stable enough that at the very least you are either breaking even, making some moeny or at the worst losing a little money to when selling the house. Despite maybe losing some money, consider the overall amount you spent. If done right, you should have at least lived rent free.

There are downsides to owning. Bad stuff happens and you are on the hook for it. A furnace can cost a pretty penny. Water damage is messy, expensive and hard to repair. If you aren't handy, renovations are costly. Even if you are handy, renovations often cost more than planned and take WAY longer than you might want. I wound up doing a lot of punch list work as I was getting ready to sell my first house. I spent years living with my imperfect, incomplete work.

Consider this, though: renting is as bad as leasing a car. There is no financial benefit long-term. That money is gone and you will have no real leverage from that rental to put towards your next adventure. Not even the security deposit with interest will cover the overall cost of renting for a year, though you may get it back with a little interest. You will have spent a significant amount in rent over the time you lived there, more than that deposit + interest is worth.

You do have some benefits (maybe). You aren't responsible for renovations or equipment failure. Hopefully you have a landlord that is responsible and willing to quickly repair that furnace in the dead of winter. You aren't as tied to a location long-term. When the contract is up, you can leave immediately. You don't have money tied up in a house that may not sell at the same time you are looking to purchase.

Ultimately I was able to walk away with a chunck of change for my next house, if I calculated it out, I likely broke even or lost a little money over renovations and interest, but I didn't lose all those payments over 5 years to rent.
The null hypothesis we use in the absence of proof reflects our cultural assumptions, and I think this is a case where Chinese and European assumptions collide. From the European standpoint, "we don't know the origin of this language, so our null hypothesis is that it developed independently" contrasts with China's "we don't know the origin of this language, so our null hypothesis is that it's related to another language nearby." Given the long documented history of various Chinese languages and culture in East Asia and the lack of competing origins with equally dense documented history, it's quite common for a laymen to assume that everything is linked in some way to Ancient China. Old Chinese has records dating back to 1000 BC, while Old Japanese and Old Korean both have their oldest writings from post 700 CE. That's a 1700 year gap for our null hypothesis to fill. In a 1700 year gap where we only have records of Chinese, then suddenly we start getting records of Korean and Japanese, the idea that there's some kind of cross pollination from Chinese we aren't aware of in that undocumented period isn't too big of a leap.

Another language origin could have been nomadic peoples to the north traveling across the Eurasian steppes, and frankly I'm more inclined to believe that's where Korean and Japanese actually originate from. However, despite the growing study of these peoples that have been neglected in traditional Chinese historiography, they don't leave behind enough archeological evidence for us to prove something like the Altaic language family convincingly, so we're back to null hypothesis and cultural assumptions.
You mean, decide by voting and agree on penalties for people who break the rules?
"How many hours would we really need to work in order to maintain a functional society — that is, if we got rid of all the useless or destructive occupations like telemarketers, lawyers, prison guards, financial analysts, public relations experts, bureaucrats and politicians, and turn our best scientific minds away from working on space weaponry or stock market systems to mechanizing away dangerous or annoying tasks like coal mining or cleaning the bathroom, and distribute the remaining work among everyone equally?"

Somewhat interesting thought, but it does not sound anarchist at all. Who's going to do the turning of our scientific minds, decide which minds are the scientific ones, or distribute the rest of the shitty jobs? When jobs are being distributed, who is going to be paying or otherwise providing for the workers? This sounds a lot more like some kind of totalitarian communist state.
The only reason I have been using Ubuntu is because it was the distro with the most installable software available.

I'm ok with default GNOME, I'm beyond cool desktop, I just want something that works. On the other hand I need to be able to install a large selection of software easily, and recent-ish versions of them (hence why not Debian). I also can't have things that upgrade themselves on their own schedule (kids in school with capped bandwidth).

Having done it myself in the past, I understand how taxing creating official .deb and .rpm is for the developers, and how difficult dependencies issues are. Given how Ubuntu is digging itself into the snap hole, what's the best solution here?

Why pick Flatpack vs Appimage? Reading about it they both seem to have pros and cons.

I see a lots of PopOS proponents here, but found that they don't produce that many .deb packages, and the choice will dwindle as Ubuntu's moving more and more stuff to snap. It also was a lot of work to un-customize (going back to a vanilla GNOME).

I'd honestly be happy with even Fedora, if I could easily install most OSS.
Interesting, although that goes the other way, indicating different degrees of implied scaling (rather than none). If you were labeling a header or axis on a chart, or naming a variable you'd probably include the word "decimal", "fraction", or "scalar".
It unclear to me what investment of a 20% down payment the author thinks is going to have net returns greater than the leveraged real estate investment.

Also the statement “Especially, in big cities where down payments are huge, renting is always a better idea” is just straight up wrong and it’s uncomfortable to me that people write financial advice articles with such a clear lack understanding of markets, real estate, and motives of home buyers.
Is that better than not allowing any such workers in at all (looking at most of Western Europe and the USA)?
VPN or No VPN
I'm not surprised. They see themselves as doing the best for themselves - that's anarchy, right? But they are prepared to harm others to do it. But even so, they want to be thought well of.

I guess bankers and communists share the idea of looking at 'the people' as a group to be governed and managed. Both are wedded to the system. I think communistic thinking is the idea that seems to have won, and (technocratic) governance is going to proceed with that as its basis.
Another bit of reality is that most homes aren't available to rent! If you want a nice home for your family in a nice area in the countryside... well guess what that isn't something easily available on the rental market.
The anarchist argument is distribution of power.

Take the example of pollution. Say you're an employee of a fossil fuel cooperative. Is it in your interest to continue polluting? Yes, because you after all own some of the ressources of that company and control it. So what is the anarchist solution? Well, it's in the interests of everyone to stop pollution, right? So you'd need people to come together, decide that population is a concern, at least a good percentage of people, and offer you to be compensated for your investment in fossil fuels in exchange to stop polluting and find another job or not work in industry at all anymore. You might say that this is unrealistic, but for the government to do anything about pollution we needed hundreds of millions of people to protest and a majority of the people agreeing that pollution is a problem worth fixing. And if that doesn't work either, you elect and randomly chose people to supervise the elected with short term limits in order to have authority against pollution.

This is the anarchist solution to the tragedy of the commons in this case.

As for making incremental change, there are hard limits. There are existing power structures that will hamper you very strongly - the state, private interests, the corporate media, and so on. If you do incremental change that they don't like, they absolutely will use violence to prevent you.
Depends what country you're in really. Here in Australia the advise is pretty terrible.

House prices in some cities go up faster than any investment you could make and there are some pretty crazy tax gymnastics purposely put in place to keep the dirt cash churning.

Meanwhile your mortgage repayments are slightly higher than renting in the same area so why wouldn't you just pay for an asset instead of paying off someone elses mortgage.

Youre building equity which you can leverage for other investments while keeping a roof over your head.
Honestly, prefer GraphQL -- it's more like designing a schema which you may already be doing in your database anyway. The client decides which data in what shape it fetches.
Sorry, but there's a lot more to it that a simple one-off sexual harassment accusation.
I recently moved from Ubuntu 18.04 to Pop OS 20.05. So far everything works smoothly, and no snap.
Anarchy = non-hierachy. Anarchists definitely do believe this
> reflecting a sentiment voiced at several companies, complained that the policy seemed to put parents’ needs ahead of theirs.

So much for caring about others. As someone who doesn't have children, this still sounds really selfish of them to complain. Instead, the childless should petition HR for a complementary benefit (additional PTO) when the pandemic is over or a bonus (cash) now for picking up the slack. Complaining without solutions will fall on deaf ears
I'll add a comment to my own comment. In the last 3 months we've seen a HUGE advantage to home ownership over renting. I recently refinanced, as lots of Americans have done with the historically low mortgage rates. I knocked hundreds of dollars a month off my mortgage payment. You think your landlord is going to knock hundreds off your rent when he refinances the building you're in? No, that extra profit is going right into his pocket.
I second this, I couldn't care less about snaps, flatpacks, debs.

But snaps are - for me - A LOT SLOWER than everything else out there.

*.deb, binaries run stuff in less than a second.

Flatpacks, appimage, I have those running in a second or two. Snap, for the same app takes 3-5 sec. sometimes (I wouln't know why), it evens takes as much as 8-10 sec.

NOBODY can get a pass on artificially making slower apps in 2020.
Since Medium started I've said it was called Medium because it wasn't Well Done...
For further reading see "Studying Studies" https://peterattiamd.com/ns001/.
Venture Captital is not the same as capitalism. In fact, you could argue that the hyper-growth pro-monopoly attitudes of VC firms is decidedly anti-capitalist in as much as they are anticompetitive behaviours.

Arguing that the current system is the only one that will work, regardless of how broken it is, is a very dangerous position to advocate for and an anti-pattern that would eventually lead us away from a fair and equal marketplace. That's not capitalism.
>everybody already understands

Seems like a problematic assumption to make.
Yes! But in a way that works via consensus and that doesn't establish unnecessary hierarchies. For example, you could have people coming in voluntarily agree to the penalties and have the primary stakeholders vote on penalties.
Covid Vaccine Will Require Billions of Vials, This Billionaire Family Makes Them
He’s also put up a page with translations into Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Persian and Turkish and a handy matrix at https://svr-sk818-web.cl.cam.ac.uk/keshav/wiki/index.php/HTR...
Surely if it's on the roadmap then better to address it now and potentially avoid it rather than dig in deeper until sunk-cost fallacy suggests there's no way back?
I didn't do any testing to figure out where the latency came from, but the article was pretty thorough in documenting the palpable difference between Ergodox and e.g. the Apple Magic keyboard. I managed to dig it up for you: https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

Come to think of it, I might have incurred some latency myself with the particular layout I'd brewed; some keys had dual meanings depending on whether I held them down or not. That was a patch on the problem I had with the physical Ergodox layout lacking my Danish characters, though, so even if I'm partly to blame myself for the latency, that wouldn't have made a great difference in my overall assessment.

I agree fully; pick whatever suits you. I kind of still want a mechanical keyboard that has extreme amounts of click and clack, just because it feels so nice to type with. I just don't know which model I'd pick, and it'd be pretty expensive for something I'd only use occasionally.
This is actually wrong, you can choose to have your streams recorded and placed in the 'Videos' tab on your profile where others can watch them forever.
I also work at a big tech company who is equalizing their performance-related bonuses this year. Before the pandemic, I went remote to a place which is not impacted by the pandemic as much as Silicon Valley, so I have been able to continue to make use of most of normal childcare facilities. During these past 7 months or so my output has increased as I put in extra hours to pick up the slack of my colleagues who have had to deal with their life situations in hard-hit areas, child related and non-child-related, while I am in an area where life has continued relatively normally. Now I find out my annual bonus this year will be capped to what everybody else gets. So this doesn't just impact the childfree - it impacts SV expats as well.