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>You're saying that $1MM in retirement isn't as much as you'd like...so...it'd be better to have nothing and have saved zero?

If this is what you got from my comment, it's probably pointless to engage with you.

In the off-chance you're sincere: the thought experiment in the article is interesting, I get that. But it's trotted out as evidence that you can be the worst investor in the world and still make money. Okay.

Now examine the assumptions. This fictional person started with $2,000 at age 22 (about $15,000 today. No student loans, nice windfall. Sound like the 22-year-olds of today?), and assuming they were making the average salary in 1970 (unlikely as a young person), they managed to save a substantial proportion of their salary every year. This gets invested, instantly cut in half, but then compounds for 45 years, with more dollars added along the way.

Yes, you can be the worst investor ever and get reasonable results over 45 years if you're a really good saver. So what? This person managed to 6x their money over half a century. In my opinion that's a devastating result. Now imagine if you're one of those people in between the best/worst saver/investor? Without some luck your results will be similar, ie not great. And this doesn't account for the fact that past results != future results.

It also doesn't account for when you need to disinvest. This article was written in 2014, with stocks near record highs at that time. Pretty convenient for this calculation. What happened if retirement came a few years earlier, in early 2009?

So to answer your question, of course something is better than nothing. But the other lesson I see there: saving what you can and investing it blindly in an index fund isn't a guarantee of a cushy retirement, even though that's what the population is being sold. This is a crisis in the making.
Sure. But my point is that it's not correct to go from "multiple independent organizations think this way" to "basically everyone must think this way", as if those multiple organizations represent a random sample of the population.
The fact that Europeans are standing up for free speech while the United States is not speaks volumes to how things have changed in the US over the last few decades.

Have our politics really gone so far down the "Win at all costs! Censor all other opinions!" rabbit hole that speech here is now less free than Europe?

Before you parrot the "but.. but... inciting violence" talking point in reply, try to find an actual source of President Trump calling for violence on Twitter. Don't believe everything you read.
Me, but I'm not sure I count because it's more of a theoretical interest than a practical one at present.

Past me, however, did things like write an OTP generator for TI-83+ partly on the grounds that it was a non-networked device and simple enough to leave less in the way of interesting ways for malware to hide.
This is an important comment. Would you put an engineer in charge of a bank product? What about a medical service? It's one thing to be consulted, it's another thing to be the decision-maker.

I agree with the premise of the article that more engineers need to be in powerful positions, but some domains are just too complicated and require substantial domain knowledge to make "product" decisions. It's the collaboration between product and engineering that's important, not switching one for the other. The biggest problem I have with the article is that it presents the problem as too binary with only 2 possible outcomes - someone being in charge.

Tech companies put engineers in charge because the engineers are the domain experts, not because they figured out some secret sauce.
Thank you very much for the detailed link
I think that it’s likely that Trump crossed the incitement line, and that he’s also vanishingly unlikely to be prosecuted for it. If he gets prosecuted, they’ll probably stick to easier to prove charges.

That being said, setting the line at illegal behavior being the thing that can get you banned might feel correct, it creates all kinds of weird problems.

First, the law is not designed to be the description of all that is worthy of condemnation. The law is designed as a back stop; it’s the state saying “this behavior is so bad that we need to curtail your freedoms”. The founding fathers explicitly believed that the marketplace of ideas should take care of things, and being ostracized is absolutely part of that.

If companies can cut contacts only for law breaking, then there will be all kinds of pressure to legislate every single aspect of human behavior. I doubt you’d like that, I know I wouldn’t.

Second, there are all kinds of unpleasant behavior that is and always will be legal. Selling guns is legal, as is pornography. Walking around and calmly saying racial slurs to everyone is also legal. Would you deny Starbucks the right to exclude patrons that call everyone a racial slur? Would you attempt to make that illegal? Someone would. Would you obligate every social platform to allow pornography and make eBay sell guns? After all, it’s legal to sell guns.

Third, if the only way you can get kicked off a platform is by breaking the law, this makes companies the social deciders of illegality. While they won’t turn into courts, in the public eye a lot of people will assume that being kicked off means that a law was broken. You do not want the ability for Amazon to accuse people of crimes, trust me.

If you fear that Amazon or whoever has too much power here, then the appropriate legal tool is anti-monopoly laws, not to create some new burdensome system with all kinds of bad side effects.

> In either case, is Amazon acting on legitimate orders from law enforcement, or are they taking the law into their own hands?

The irony is that in attempting to defend freedom, you’ve expressed a shockingly authoritarian sentiment. Law enforcement does not get to tell companies who they can and cannot do business with, and giving them that ability is horrifying.
From the end of the post:

> This iPhone would never be able to boot iOS again, as its nvme nand is completely dead.
Not necessarily. See my other comment on this thread, but they may have failed-open when the OTP authentication dependency was down- ie, hey, Twilio throws an exception sometimes so presume the user is approved so we don't impact the user experience due to Twilio being flakey.
How so? Twilio simply suspended service which they are allowed to do based on the ToS. It was Parler that reacted to it by allowing unrestricted authentication rather than simply failing authentication.
No, it'd be a fuckup by whoever code it to go "if Twilio is unavailable, just let them in".

It's highly unlikely Twilio's API responds with something like {"authenticated": true} when you haven't paid your bill or they suspend you.
That's backwards. Flexible panels are less efficient than rigid ones.
This loooks serious. I might have to start looking into Twilio alternatives form my company.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
> Accordingly "USB 3.1 Gen 2" became "USB 3.2 Gen 1x1" and "USB 3.1 Gen 1" was renamed "USB 3.2 Gen 2x1".

Is this correct? It seems swapped.
Maybe people disagree with the last statement of it being worth the bounty (as many including myself think it’s worth way more)
That's an advocacy report, reaching 90% by 2035 requires an awful lot of policy changes. Without any change the US will hit 55% by 2035.

Also, I think advocacy groups tend to underestimate the obvious and not so obvious impacts an increasingly larger share of so-called clean power. I suggest we do not yet know the true cost of grid-scale battery, e-mobility battery, solar pv and wind because we have not yet reached the end-of-life for a statistically significant percentage of installed projects.

“Solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment has grown at unprecedented rates since the early 2000s. As the global PV market increases, so will the volume of decommissioned PV panels, and large amounts of annual waste are anticipated by the early 2030s. Growing PV panel waste presents a new environmental challenge, but also unprecedented opportunities to create value and pursue new economic avenues.”

https://www.irena.org/publications/2016/Jun/End-of-life-mana...

“This report, prepared jointly by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (IEA-PVPS), is the first-ever projection of PV panel waste volumes to 2050. It highlights that recycling or repurposing solar PV panels at the end of their roughly 30-year lifetime can unlock an estimated stock of 78 million tonnes of raw materials and other valuable components globally by 2050. If fully injected back into the economy, the value of the recovered material could exceed USD 15 billion by 2050.”

edit: here's a 2017 in depth EU sponsored study

EU Commission: JRC Science for Policy Report – Materials Impact on the EU’s Competitiveness of the Renewable Energy, Storage and E-mobility Sectors – wind power, solar photovoltaic and battery technologies

See section 6.1 "Recycling of materials from wind turbines, solar panels and batteries"

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J...
It would be in the interest of the software company that a open source dependency stays around and continues to get updates etc.
Yes, I find referring back to old chats is extremely valuable - they’re as important to me as old emails are.
https://inrupt.com/ Is the startup.

Unfortunately at the bottom is a copyright notice. Nothing is going to “put people in control of their personal data” as long as we have copyright. Otherwise lots of your “personal data” will remained locked up with corporations.
Sounds like a great way to turn people into actual terrorists. The US never learns abroad or domestically.
In Java, the "write once, run everywhere" is true only if you are in some boundaries.

Java Preferences API are a classic example of this false myth, since e.g. on MacOS it behaves differently than in Windows/Linux.

And ever heard of Native Runtime? If you want to create a native runtime, you just need to do this on the target platform.

So this is very odd to me. GoLang went much further, doing true cross compilation
People also tend to give trucks a wider berth, or at least notice you more and respond more readily to your actions.

I’ve only ever owned small cars, and in the handful of times I’ve needed to drive a U-haul truck or similar the trip started with trepidation. But I quickly discovered that other drivers have a strong tendency (self-interested, of course) to help big trucks out.
> Or anything from FDroid.

This is the best heuristic to apply not just for QR code scanning, but for pretty much everything. To avoid malware, avoid the Play Store.

When using f-droid, also check out the project web site and git repo (at least in a cursory way, even if you can't fully audit the code, you can get a sense of who the developer is and the project's overall health from the commit log and issue tracker).
But even semi-controlled isn't fully controlled.

I've always wondered about what happens when the system really gets off the 'happy path'. Maybe there's an accident, and police are directing traffic? Does the truck understand hand gestures (which aren't necessarily standardized)? Or maybe the police aren't there yet, damaged cars are blocking the road, and the truck may need to get out of the way for emergency services to arrive (possibly requiring going a little off road). These happen less on highways, but they still certainly happen, and not having a human in the loop can make things dramatically worse.

Do they have to stop at weigh stations? Do they understand the signage? I suppose most would have the system where you don't have to stop, but I don't know if all weigh stations support that.

There are lots of instances you can imagine that don't require driving skills, but actually require a general intelligence with knowledge of the world around them.

(I suppose you can have a command center where someone can take control or give commands to the truck. Sounds tricky but possible).
Where are you getting new LFP batteries for that price?
That still doesn't mean someone leaving a bit of space or a few seconds time between you and the light changes anything. You're still just going on to another stop light afterwards, which is a much larger limiting factor and the de facto limiting factor in traffic design. Too many people misunderstand this, leading to unnecessary aggressive driving. Understanding the basics of traffic mechanics should really be part of the exam in getting your licence.
>follows the trend of those who then arrive at the shit-storm, which is not only illegal, but a clear manifestation of inhumanity

...what?
Well they aren’t going to provide code or the dataset. Which is pretty bad since it’s pretty easy to dispute what their AI is judging. (Not scientifically, but the team really isn’t acting all that scientific by setting themselves up to be undisputable)

IMO I think this is likely to strongly apply to the US, since politics are regional. And which groups/ethnicities settled where is regional as well. (This also exists in Europe to some extent as well, IE: a German person can identify which part of Germany my family came from by my forehead).

Though the study claims the AI is judging people based on how often they smiled in life, how many children came before them, and whether they were exposed to alcohol or nicotine in the womb.
I got a 5k payout from google for serious OAuth bypass bug. I'm not a security researcher so I wouldn't have any idea or really desire to sell something like this to a Government.
But I'd have to agree that if I had publicly revealed the bug Goog would have lost magnitudes of business or possible fines from governments far above and beyond 5k.
As far as I know, only Apple is producing their own Thunderbolt 4 controllers so far.

Also, I heard that Thunderbolt 4 is the same as Thunderbolt 3, except all the optional features from 3 are required in 4.

This interview seems relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnSMbgndFHo&t=2m3s&feature=y...
my guess is most people appreciate the convenience of location tagging but haven't thought through the implications of having that info in the image file itself.

on the other hand, when you share a picture you're already sharing your coarse location. anyone who recognizes the scene will know roughly where you were. of course, there's a big difference between "this is the NYC skyline" and "this is the NYC skyline as viewed from the northeast corner of my apartment building".
As I'm reading it, Twilio simply shut down the account, Parler is the one who reacted to that by assuming everything is authenticated if the API doesn't work.
I think us "old hats" using GNU/Linux from the 90s are increasingly getting interested in the hardware side of things.

You are likely too biased in the Windows world, which is exactly what HN is not (probably! I have no data to prove that, just a hunch based on the discussions I took a part of on HN).
This implies there's better logic than sheep logic, and that some subset of humanity is privy to it, which feels like the source of the problem in the first place; people thinking that they're better than other people and reacting to that feeling.

Wouldn't another definition of "sheep logic" just be "society", and don't we kind of all agree that society (though not without drawbacks) is vastly superior to no society?

This argument feels like frustration with the price we pay for allowing others to exist alongside us.
This is not a question of phones scrubbing the data - after all, the phones add the EXIF data in the first place.

There's plenty of value in EXIF data and, in most cases, users value that data being attached to an image.
tbf doing things like GR or QFT is not even required for a graduate degree in physics depending on your field of research
Hard to understand exactly what happened, but seems like a faulty implementation of Twillio's authy service.
China's Geely, Baidu announce electric car ventures
My suggestion wasn't that someone should get credit. My suggestion was only that leaking the bugs and causing actual damage would eventually raise the price paid. As for proof of date of discovery, write a letter and sign it with bitcoin or equivalent.
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A better interim solution is having nuclear energy pick up any slack.
Sigh... The question remains open. Large scale manipulation needs a large target audience and a message, propaganda should not be hard to identify.

I find some Russian espionage operations in the report. It was actually US Americans that told me to expect such things when their mass surveillance went public. I did not find anything too relevant.
Journalists go where there is the news. These days, the news is on Twitter, and that is the real problem.

Actually, the problem isn't Twitter per se, is that we've found out it's easier to digest (and regurgigate, and fabricate upon) 140 characters at a time. Twitter has inadvertently found an incredible exploit and vulnerability of the human mind, and now it's out there and we're fucked, excuse the French.

Even if Twitter were to die tomorrow, my conjecture is that most of the news and media will move to some other form of short-and-easy-and-dumb social network. 140 characters is what the TV was to the radio.
this was all very easy to follow and made sense. kudos to the author.

for the experienced hackers in the room - what would your reasonable next step be if you wanted to get audio or higher resolution video?

just wondering because i often see these researchers not stop after finding the first exploit, and its often the subsequent exploits built up from their knowledge of the system that uncover the really damning security holes
Can they handle winter yet?
It's something that must be said, even if they did only a summer internship.
Can someone explain the hype about VVVVVV? I bought it and concluded there are no fixed level platformers I enjoy. At least with Spelunky or Catacomb Kids I can bash my head against different walls. I suspect I'm partially at Asperger's Syndrome spectrum, and timing challenges are infuriatingly hard for me. Many screens in VVVVVV are easy to figure out but rely on perfect execution. I really don't see the game as very puzzly. More like a game for speedrunners. At least the chiptunes are nice.

I guess I enjoyed Cave Story and Knytt Stories, but that's it. I thought about Celeste but it doesn't have 'story' in it ;-).
I originally wrote a long response, but it's gone so I'll keep it short:

A. Siege type pressure when one lets food in (or food is passed in anyway) have extremely poor success rate since WW2. Note that Yemen itself wasn't conquered (given the terrain and people, any idea of conquering it was laughable in the first place). Eventually PLA will either go Yemen, attack directly, or stop. All options are bad or worse than just attacking without trying a siege.

B. SK and Japan will band if threat is deemed extreme enough. Or go nuke.

C. The typically discussed invasion scenario is very tilted towards what American Marines did in WW2. A smart PLA would instead be far more aggressive on exploiting its air superiority, upto mobilizing sea assets after the air attack or even doing a Crete 1941 style attack. There are things Taiwan can do to defend, but it hasn't yet and I am not sure it's going to happen.
Brake pads aren't on that list? That's the other obvious consumable I can think of.

And for what it's worth my mechanic ran low on chains and sprockets at some point. I don't know if that was just him or larger supply chain issues though.
How is this Twilio’s doing? Parler was not a customer when this happened. This was Parler being held together by duct tape and not having choices. This is what happens when a young and populated site dependent on services loses all of said services. That is to say: you are a fool to trust websites, especially Parler.
Is Betting on drone races possible now?
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Because they do anything to cling to power and make sure their side of the isle wins and therefore their own seat. Career politicians are why Washington is so dirty.
But the reduced availability surely enabled dealers to sell a far bigger fraction (likely very close to all!) of what they sold at list price or reasonably close, whereas a typical season will see a considerable part of inventory being pushed out at wild discounts. The entire pricing structure is built for a high margin/high discount pattern. I wouldn't be surprised if some would be able to earn more than usually even on less than half the inventory, and the upstream availability surely didn't collapse that hard.
That's not how it works. The decision was entirely political. Twitter is full of assassination calls but it's in no danger of getting banned: https://twitter.com/hashtag/assassinatetrump .
it makes 1984 look like a fairy tale for children
But not really. The person never makes a fuss (nor can realistically do so), and netiher does want to make a fuss for a simple job for one company, driving cargo owned by another company, with overall operation insured by a third company that's just going to reimburse everyone.
When I read that the FBI was asking for help in identifying people at the capital on January 6th I didn’t think someone would actually help.
And yet heavy policing has not solved those problems. It's almost like you should take care of underlying issues that cause these things (community disinvestment etc etc).
Hadoop is still widely used in enterprises (especially in banks), if you have experience working with Hadoop ecosystems it is a big plus anyway.
Pretty clear where their priorities lay, huh. Breaking the security of their users is less important than getting new users.
That is what the people he has gathered understood. I suspect ( can't tell for sure ) that no individual came to Washington and then said "oh he didn't say storm, I am going back home".
It does, but in a murder trial, the weapon was generally out of police custody for at least some time, right?

There's an opportunity to introduce reasonable doubt when a third-party is in possession of the data in-between, but it's likely this sort of data isn't going to be the only evidence in any resulting prosecutions. It's far more likely to be probable cause for warrants.
> built by Silicon Valley hackers

No, it's not.

> a lot of Silicon Valley hackers have worked on it

No, they haven't.

> well Portland is basically SV

No, it isn't. Just do your research and nobody will correct you.

EDIT: If you'd like, maybe you could clarify your "underlying point" or which "idealistic Silicon Valley hacker" traits you mean to highlight. Nazis have been trying to weaponize Scuttlebutt for years, so I don't get why it's "funny" that MAGA chuds are trying to join now. They aren't welcome.
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