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I'm confused – do you think people are talking about getting a home less in 2020? I know that many of my friends were previously paying crazy high rents in various metropolitan areas and I know two that have already purchased houses in much smaller locale's because it made way more economic sense.
> Interestingly, they are all sold by amazon directly and are printed on demand so it doesn't seem to be a case of a 3rd party trying to game the site.

Eek. I didn't even notice.

That makes it even worse.
Sure, but in a democratic system with perfect information you should expect to lose the vote on your hypothetical "me vs 1000" trolley problem right? And in the absence of perfect information you'd I guess you'd mount a special interest lobby and hope for the best...
Did you consider using more traditional macros like VEC_ADD which works for all types rather than generating e.g. vec_<type>_add? The latter approach doesn't work with cscope and ctags, which is a pretty big drawback in my book (I like it when my super trivial IDE configuration works, which is only possible with C).

See the comment and following 4 macros for how this would work with a (add-only, not growable) hashmap:

https://github.com/matvore/nusort/blob/master/src/util.h#L16...
Where can one read up about Volvos supply chain?
> Hopefully still under warranty

1 year iirc, but I still recommend extending it via AppleCare (and also other methods like credit card warranty extensions.)
I bought a house in Q3 2012 because I thought I was settling down in the area, and then ended up moving away 18 months later after unexpectedly getting a Google job offer that was too good to pass up then and in hindsight now after promotions and raises was unbelievably too good to have passed up. I still own that house and rent it out through a rental agency, but that's definitely not the best return on investment on that money (it's not the kind of property you would've bought if your goal was to maximize return on investment).

I would own a home again some day just because there's things you can do with a property you own that you can't do when you rent, but I definitely wouldn't be approaching it as if it were an investment like I did in 2012. I'd be financially better off (admittedly to an insignificant degree) had I not bought that house, and I certainly put a lot more of my time and effort into it in those 18 months than I would have if I'd continued renting.
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When I worked in banking I'd always use this to keep track of prime interest rates and when I'd have to prep borrowers to either close sooner or maybe wait and redisclose docs.

http://fedprimerate.com/

Prime is essentially the base rate for everything. If banks are matching prime, it's because they're not making money on interest but either servicing loans or the fees charged. So they just want to close the loan.

We haven't seen 3.25% since like early 2017. I'd personally recommend getting a fixed loan now just because we were teetering on 5.5% pre-covid. 3.25% is of course dependent upon the institution, FHLB or FHA, and credit score.

I'd say only buy if you retain the house for the bare minimum required for you to sell and come out even or turn into a rental property. If you can't be patient enough to do either, don't buy a house.
Right but that won’t affect a sensible buyer who has one property, accessible savings covering a year of repayments, a stable job, a fixed rate etc. You can just wait for the market to rebound.

Or even better, provided you’re not in negative equity and have some cash in the bank, move up to a bigger house when the market crashes.
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Adding fuel to the fire; I remember reading an article last year which appeared on HN, it was about how sellers create groups on facebook which offer to send people free products in they agree to give 5 star reviews. Apparently this is also a massive problem with thousands of people doing this

So not only will the reviews be for the wrong product, there is also a good chance that the reviews were bought and are fake.
I would work 4 days for 80% pay. I would work four 10 hours days for 100% pay. I’m not sure that those solutions will provide the best business outcomes though.
>He's wrong.

Nah, the numbers are pretty firmly on my side. I picked a fairly 'risky' procedure as far as the routine ones go to make the comparison really conservative.

I'm still more likely to get fried to a crisp by Lightning than die by the procedure.

That should give you an idea for how safe most procedures are.
I switched to a 4-day working week a few years back, taking a 20% pay cut in the process - and I haven't looked back!

There has been no drop in productivity - I guess I procrastinate less, and am more focused on doing things that need done.

I have an extra day for family and side projects - 1 day might not sound like much, but having that extra day off feels like my work/life balance is so much better!

If anyone else has the opportunity, and can afford the pay cut of course, I highly recommend it.

P.S. there was no way to negotiate less than a 20% cut; I work for a megacorp that has rigid rules and doesn't give half a crusty shit about individuals.

Edit: I should have also mentioned that I'm in the UK, where under EU law, employers have to consider reasonable requests for flexible working. I should have also mentioned that I work 7.5h per day, and the only time I work overtime is when I'm travelling to a customer site (which itself is rare, obviously not happening at all now!)
Completely agree.

I think we are at the top right now (especially for houses), FOMO is setting in after house prices rose due to increased demand from WFH/remote work, and of course interest rates are quite low. Once the pandemic is over/simmering, we can expect demand for SFH and interest rates to return to normal, though the interest rate part may take a while.

On the other hand, for someone who doesn't expect to sell their home for a very long time (or ever), if you can afford your desired home right now, there is no reason not to just grab it and remove all uncertainty from further price increases. Which is pretty much FOMO, but it's not necessarily irrational if you'd rather grab your dream home now than take the chance at getting a better deal.

For someone like me who would prefer not to take out a loan that is large in nominal value, even if the interest rate is low, it's actually better to wait for interest rates to increase, though you may end up waiting quite a while.
I think the usefulness of that calculator can't be overstated. It was incredibly helpful when I was making my decision to buy. Unfortunately now it's biased a bit more towards home ownership compared to reality. It doesn't incorporate changes in tax law like the $10k SALT cap, mortgage interest cap, income tax brackets shifting, etc. I keep hoping that the NYT will update it someday. Maybe after a few more years of wishing I'll just make my own calculator.
My employer has an unlimited PTO policy- you simply make the arrangements with your manager, which are almost always approved as long as your on-call/customer-facing shifts are covered.

We most often use this policy to take a few hours off during a day when needed to take care of errands. It's nice to be able to schedule around doctor's offices, bank and school hours.

My sister worked a 9/9s schedule at a previous job (9 hour shifts with every other Friday off) and also found it very useful.
>You also generally can’t borrow 5x your income and invest it, but you can do that on a house, so if you think house prices will rise then you’re missing out on a change for major leverage you won’t get elsewhere.

I've been struggling with this part. I just moved to Austin, looked at the market from 2012-2020, and what do you know almost every house I look at has doubled in value in 8 years. That's a 9% annual return! Shouldn't I get the biggest house I can afford since the city is growing so fast?

Well not so fast. I have to subtract from that about 3% for interest, 2.5% in property tax, 1% for maintenance. Not to mention HOAs, PMI, insurance, etc. I might end up making 2% annually compared to 7% in the stock market and that's only if I see the same returns as the most cherry picked period I could possibly find. Anything less and I'm absolutely losing.

I agree on the you have to live somewhere part, but treating it like an investment seems like a bad bet.
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Sounds more like Soylent Green. There is a lot more going on in Brave New World than how people die.
>> focusing too much on ideological purity re: economics

I hate how people take Economic theories as some irrefutable fact even though they're all proven wrong in the real world. I mean look at any economic study or forecasting from any of the major firms and the one thing that they're consistent on is being wrong.

I swear Economists are just like modern day shamans/seers, filling the role that was once held by court wizards. While modern economists may not cut the heads off chickens or consult the stars they do have bogus "models" and secretive proprietary forecasting tools they use to fool idiots into thinking they have special insights. And this is very dangerous too since Economists tend to be very dogmatic, stubborn and seem to double down even when their theories fail, it's like a religion, and they refuse to ever admit their world view is wrong.
Being fit is essential. Fitness spending is non-essential, in the most literal sense of the word. All you need to get fit is free time. I agree with you that spending money on fitness is worthwhile. But if you're strapped for money cutting it out is a no-brainer.
The slum lord stereotype is always a fun one. I prefer it to the 'evil landlord' stereotype.

I don't have any slum properties. I have properties I'd classify as lower income, and properties I'd say are middle class. I'd live in all of them, whereas my partner would live in half of them.
> the smartest targeting of the population (a focus on saving lives by targeting most vulnerable groups first)

Can you elaborate on this?

IIRC the US recommendations take into account the population's chance of infecting others, rather than just solely the risk of death.
> we are throwing less money in the trash than before.

This phrasing needs to die. You weren't throwing your money in the trash, you were exchanging it for a place to live. There's a big difference between throwing money away and using it to not be homeless.
> You can't have it both ways.

Clearly you have to be a megacorp to get it both ways. Amazon shouldn't be able to evade liability for products sold on their website if they compete against their "sellers" as well.
The thing is you still "throw money away" in owning a home through maintenance, see the 5% rule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwl3-jBNEd4. There are large, unrecoverable costs in upkeep of a home. You will have to replace the roof in 15-20 years, just to have it not go to crap. That's $20k with no actual improvement to the home. Plumbing, outdoor siding, and so on. These would normally be covered by rent.
For the last hundred years or so, for a country to be militarily powerful it must be able to produce four key vehicles from domestic designs: cars, planes, ships, and launch vehicles. However, it's threatening to focus this capacity on military production, so all countries with powerful militaries also happen to have massive civilian industries that produce those four as well. If you can produce these four vehicle classes you can build tanks, fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, battleships, aircraft carriers, and missiles, and ICBMs.

The civilian industries for those four classes build expertise, education programs, finance, and all the other wonderful things that create the environment for high-class military production programs. If you don't have a large domestic capacity for those four classes of vehicles, the military struggles and this sets the foreign policy posture for a country -- as the military is one of the tools of diplomacy.

It's useful to look at a counter example, Brazil -- long wanting to be a major regional power. But it has only the most minimal domestic auto, plane, ship and space industries and most of its heavy military equipment is imported. This means that if Brazil were to ever get in a protracted war with...well anybody, it can only last as long as it has inventory.

Contrast this with a NATO power, who has factories to endlessly churn out tanks, planes, ships, and missiles. And has the domestic capacity to scale up by simply taking over existing domestic infrastructure and turning a factory that makes axles for trucks into one that makes barrels for tanks. These countries also have the domestic intellectual capacity to design improvements, new generations, and seek efficiencies in later generations. They can often source most of the materials to build the materiel themselves, and can, factorio-like, crank out vehicles of all classes faster than domestic training programs can push recruits through a cursory training pipeline to drive them.

These countries will eventually win most wars against countries that do not have this industrial capacity because they can treat their equipment as expendable. Whereas Brazil can't engage in actions that deplete its inventory.

The Chinese government understands this, and has all of the foundational heavy industries in place to build a war factorio, but not yet the expertise. It has raw materials, smelters, metallurgy, chemists, on up the value chain. But it still struggles quality at volume needed to build domestic engines, avionics, sonar, etc. It has a large and capable electronics industry, but is behind state-of-the-art in semiconductors (but catching up). It has a fully capable and high-end software industry, including state-of-the-art work in AI/ML.

This airframe, even if there's still foreign sources bits and pieces in it, is a demonstration, a feeling-out, of native domestic production capacity and understanding where it lacks capacity. I have no doubt those areas will become major national pushes (or already are) over the next 5-10 years enabling China to achieve a NATO-like capacity and no longer be a Brazil-like.
Outside of a few rare events, real estate has reliably appreciated historically. Like any investment, certain geographies have seen a decline in value, but overall it is as good, if not better, than equities as an appreciating asset depending on your investment objectives.
Worst vaccine we know, developed more than 200 years ago, has a chance of severe adverse effects of 15 per million and one in a million chance of killing you.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-most-dangerous-vaccine/#app

Getting sick with Coronavirus for a person of your age can kill you in at least 30 cases per million. Chance of severe long term effects is way higher.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/10/06/what-i...

It seems that even the worst vaccine we use has orders of magnitude lower probability of causing harm then just getting sick with covid.
Hasn't there been only 1 fatal accident? If not, I can't imagine there have been >5, so seems unfair and misleading to make bold claims like that. I think the courts will rule, and if the system misunderstood something, the manufacturer will be at fault.
That’s the case in most capital markets in general. You’ll almost always pay less to rent money and invest it than rent the item directly.
Love that you brought up Snowflake. I've been wanting to get my hands on it to play around and learn more about a Salesforce integration with it.
There is a name for that. It's called Chinesium.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chinesium/
They make the best IDE, they actually invented many of the features that we take for granted.

I remember the first time I used IDEA (I think it was version 2.5), it was a truly magical experience. The little idea lamp popping up and almost reading your mind.

I was hooked, learned the refactors and most shortcuts and I could fly. They earned every cent.
More details, if possible please. Is this a company that we know? Thank you for sharing.
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This is excellent, however I think that discussion of implementation details is obscuring the real glory of this project. Allow me to explain.

Once upon a time, I spent a whole lot of time in physical libraries. To this day, I remain enamored with the 'stacks', those 'endless' rows of roughly categorized text that allowed for discovery of knowledge new to an individual in a manner that the post usenet internet seems to be unable to emulate.

Why, when we have the 'sum of all human knowledge in our pocket' does an interface similar to library stacks not exist? Search engines in their modern forms were probably unavoidable, just as librarians and card catalogues are necessary to help patrons quickly access specific information, but a library without public access to the stacks is hardly worth visiting. In fact, libraries were like this during a particularly dark period in western history and only though the work of a handful of forward thinking librarians did public access become the norm.

The agora 'nodes' listing is possibly the closest I have seen to a 'stacks' like structure for the modern internet. To me, regardless of implementation, this is a momentous achievement. Also, if anyone knows of a similar structure, please let me know.
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You asked for accepted products that kill people, not for products that kill unconditionally. Foods are conditionally unsafe (if consumed in excess) just like cars are conditionally unsafe (if not operated carefully). Deaths by cardiovascular diseases (partially caused by inappropriate diet) exceed vehicular deaths. And yet they're accepted.
It's almost like the banks have skin in the game to vet who they lend money to!
My experience is 4-10s work IF you take a break in the middle of the day. An actual break, not a lunch at your desk break.
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I have to clarify at this point the Agora is not based on [[underlay]]; they are just a reference I go back to often in the context of [[distributed knowledge graphs]].

I know Samuel Klein though and I'm looking forward to collaborating more with him and the Underlay project; it hasn't happened yet mostly because the Agora is still at a very early stage in its development :)

https://anagora.org/node/underlay
https://anagora.org/node/distributed-knowledge-graph
> Those are some of the hardest-working chips in a device.

(Mis)quoting Randy Fromm, "the things that work the hardest fail the most."

I've always liked that quote, even though at the time he was referring to CRTs and the color output transistors (well, mostly). It generalizes to most anything electronic.
Of people which also haven't signed their terms of service.
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I saw that around Black Friday where electric toothbrushes were on sale and they had merged the product pages a bunch of SKUs with just one of them being on sale. Of course the one on sale previously had a bunch of bad reviews, but merged with the reliable SKUs it appeared to have a good average and had a nice star rating. The comments showed an inconsistent story all about that one SKU.

What Amazon is doing is just outright dishonest and ought to be against the law. They are certainly intentionally utilising this to sell products with dishonest reviews and star ratings.
We’re switching to 4 days in 2021, with no pay cuts[0]. AMA :)

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Well yes, the whole democracy thing. The humanists, and the enlightenment. There is some of that in the American constitution (though not quite realised; it's not the best example but it is the least unknown around here), and in the successive declarations of human rights, the abolition of slavery, women's vote, de-segregation, to name a few. All of this was done, not for revenge or retribution, but because it improved things for some people who were disenfranchised. So, social justice and progress instead of hatred or vengeance.

The witch hunts we are seeing are actually from the standard totalitarian playbook, or straight up from Animal Farm. They ape the progressive ideals and turn them into a stick to hit people they don't like.
I used to do 4/10 hour days a week, and like it much better than 8/5. Between the commute, meal prep, grooming/getting dressed, etc., it feels like the day is gone anyway because I didn't feel like doing anything resembling work when I got home. 4/10 felt like getting a free day off. The only downside was when some sort of mandatory meeting would get scheduled for your off day, and you ended up having to do the whole morning routine and commute just to come in for an hour.
If it were me vs random one thousand and obviously so, yes. But fortunately, the Wobegon Effect makes it so that anyone can conceive of themselves being me (or even better, of themselves being better than me - considering I'm not particularly a safe driver).

It is precisely because it is democratic then that makes it possible for any individual to exploit human cognitive errors. An authoritarian meritocracy would not fall for those tricks.
I moved to a 4-day week at the beginning of the pandemic due to a salary reduction.

it was so good for my productivity and mental health that when we returned to full pay i negotiated to continue the pattern but switch from 4/8 to 4/10. No objections.
I've done quite a bit of Scheme in the past, but I've been playing with Common Lisp a little recently, and I often find myself thinking things like "how do I convert a string to a list of characters" or "how do I check if this thing is in this list", like simple standard library stuff that I could implement myself but expect to already be there, and then I go look in the Hyperspec, and sometimes it's hard to find thing when you don't have a name to look up.
I own a Tesla and I ride a motorcycle. I would much prefer to deal with 100% autopiloted Teslas than current human drivers.

Teslas don't have blind spots. They have eight cameras that give 360 degree views around the car. They also have a dozen ultrasonic sensors that can detect obstacles up to 5 meters in all directions. The only way to collide with a Tesla on autopilot is by doing something really dumb.

In practice, a Tesla on autopilot tends to drive like a human taking a driving test: accelerating slowly, always signaling before turning or lane changing, always yielding to pedestrians, always braking or cancelling lane changes if an aggressive driver gets in the way, never honking. If traffic is too dense to lane change to the desired freeway exit, it reroutes rather than cutting into traffic (as pretty much any human would).
I didn't really mean offense by it. I did about a 2 year stint in commercial lending and we had good and bad slum lords. Some just bought slums because it was efficient. Others bought slums because they were just real terrible people trying to screw honest folk.

How many properties do you own in all?
Depends where you live. In the UK there are no tax breaks for a property.

You pay a duty when you buy a house, and a low yearly tax based on an estimated value/band, but generally no tax on gains either.
In practice, are the last 8 hours of a workweek as productive as the first 8 hours? Would employers actually be losing 20% of a worker's productivity in many cases? Or would it be more like 10%? Maybe even less, if productivity improves on the four working days?
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I’ve seen some of these trends in browserless.io as well. Good thing you went full time back in January! I postponed going full time on browserless until just a few days ago.

I’m still a bit worried about how next year will shake out. Even though there’s some stimulus in place, there’s a cost to them that’ll eventually come to bear. Perhaps not next year, but years after.

I guess there’s always something going on. Good luck and congratulations on your success! Keep listening to your users, and keep innovating!