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After doing the math, it's looking like my rough estimate was a little high, but I suspect the numbers I'm about to share is higher than you're thinking.

Sure, they qualify for Medicare, but that doesn't mean they won't be still be spending serious money on healthcare. According to CNBC, if you were retiring in 2019, as a couple in good health you'll need on average of $390,000[1]. That assumes you're on Medicare as well. I'm guessing most people here are about 35 years old or younger, so not eligible for Medicare for at least another 30 years.

If I assume 2.5% inflation over the next 30 years (the default given in the following link[2]), that $390k in 2019 becomes $860k in 2051.

Granted that seems to be the average, and there will be people with less expenses. But that's just healthcare. While you'll probably own your home outright by then, there's the eventual assisted living that might be in your future as well, which already can cost up to $1500-4000 a month today (with monthly expenses another $2k+)[3], let alone 40-50 years from now. Although I suspect some people help pay for that by selling their homes at that point.

So okay, maybe you don't need to be a multi-millionaire when you retire to be comfortable, but you probably should try to be a millionaire, at least you and your spouse together (assuming you're going to have one).

One thing I didn't take into account was Social Security, which assuming it's still around in 2050 that will offset some of this. I do have a bad habit of assuming Social Security is going to be either severely nerfed or fall apart by the time I retire, so I tend not to account for it in my retirement planning. Maybe you could knock off $300k thanks to Social Security checks, I don't know and don't have time to dig further.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/18/retiring-this-year-how-much-...

[2] https://smartasset.com/investing/inflation-calculator

[3] https://www.assistedliving.org/the-average-cost-of-senior-li...
Good article. I always get to 90-95% and then find the return on investment plummets for small biz websites.
>It's really sad that in the age of unrestricted access to information public discourse is self-restricting to avoid wrong-think and dissenting opinions. If you look at the history of intellectual progress, much of it was exactly due to unpopular opinions.

Cancel culture coming for me yet? No? Obama and Trump have condemned it and here we are.
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Probably also a fallacy that it would take infinite amounts of money to alleviate poverty (:
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You're missing the point entirely: it's better to hire someone who shows some creativity, can follow through with their goals, and can bring new perspectives on top of their work-related experience, instead of a robot with the same exact work-related experience. Being passionate about something is a good indicator for these qualities.
I think that in 50 years, maybe even 20 years cancel culture will be looked at a low point in the culture of the US and its adherents will try to disassociate themselves with it by saying thats how people thought/acted back then(popular sentiment). Similar to McCarthyism and its blacklists which ruined actors/directors, that moment is taught in history books as a backwards time, cancel culture will be similar.
Did you find a better one? :p Or just no longer making diagrams?
Not sure a 66 year old can truly understand what consequences young people can face. You can be completely blacklisted not only from your works being stocked, but even all means of promoting yourself too and in the most extreme cases get blacklisted from payment processors which I'm sure will trickle down and become more common over the next few years.

End of the day you have to pay the bills and if you want them paid you have to at least make your writing a certain way of thinking and ideology.

Until this changes this is terrible advice for young artists. Just don't rock the boat, follow right think, don't write anything controversial and pray you eventually get enough money to write what you actually want to write.

Sure yeah art will suffer as a whole but the decision was already made what's more important, art or a few annoyed people on twitter and the annoyed people won.
It depends entirely on what you mean by "unpopular opinions". You would face backlash in the 80's if you advocated overthrowing the government. Today, you can lose your job for not having your gender pronouns in your bio. I don't think its fair to equate both of those things as "unpopular opinions".
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My word is what I say to you, face to face.

Legal BS is legal BS. Putting BS terms in a contract amounts to a direct personal insult. Calling attention to a direct personal insult can be counterproductive, but signing it anyway is a way to spit on their insult, silently. Having disposed of that, you are on even terms again. You can trade unspoken insults day after day, if they like; each time you don't acknowledge one, it is one back. That is what we call business, in the modern US of A. It isn't necessary, or good, but those motivate only some Americans. They could choose to interact honorably any time they like, but they choose not to.

It is better to find circumstances where they do; but not everybody can, all the time. Nobody should need to suffer, or feel obliged to suffer, for being pinned where they cannot call out insults. Power imbalances are the norm, today. There is no possibility of free agreement, or of honor holding any meaning, under an enforced power imbalance. That should be as sad for them powerful as for us, but they never seem discomfited by it.
Could make an offer on the Handshake version for probably a lot less

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It's just a way to filter out people that "don't fit in" or whatever. Cultural fit type stuff.
An Airbus A380 is the closest comparable aircraft to Starship. It can handle about 82,000 liters of fuel. Until the last 5 years or so, jet fuel fuel was $3/gallon (peaking at $4/gallon) in the US, higher in Europe and Asia. It’d need about 3 or 4 refuelings to travel to the other side of the world and back with about the same payload as Starship. That’s about $1 million worth of fuel.

The rental price to charter an A380 to the other side of the world and back is about $1.3million not counting fuel or the time spent on the ground fueling and going to/from charter location.

So I’d say a couple million per Starship launch would be on the order of a long-haul aircraft price. Still has plenty of room for smaller and cheaper per-launch fully reusable rockets.
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Almost all web innovation I've seen has not come from universities, that includes US based. They come from advertising companies, at least lately. Angular? Ad company. React? Ad company. QUIC/HTTP3? Ad company. WebUSB? Ad company. WebSocket? Ad company. WebRTC? Ad company.

The research that happens in universities seems a lot more theoretical, like interacting with WiFi, pathfinding, robotics, health-tech.
Maybe there is a higher awareness of the costs imposed by censors and as the censorship encoded in government recedes that of private realms is brought more into light.
I understand the source of people's fears here, though I'm not sure whether they are justified. In attempting to clearly articulate ideas, writers too often fall into cliches--the sort of pitfall that might be widely understood at the expense of predictability. Those, coupled with topics related to current events and sensitive topics, can be a dangerous brew.

Yet in a world where media are not centrally controlled (cf. N Korea), ideas can propagate without being direct. Philosophers and heretics have written indirectly for millennia to avoid being read by the authorities or by the public; even the Soviets were accompanied by a thriving culture of satirical literature (and more importantly, jokes/anecdotes) that were allegorical yet far-reaching. If there are meaningful truths that must be said, there is a way to say them without being blunt about it.
There's tons of conservative books on Amazon. They do appear to be banning fascist books.
That the actual story is the source of the October surprise and the fact it was an obvious attempt to sling mud. Greenwald didn’t want to sling mud, he just wanted to turn up and write an article about how muddy Biden was looking these days.
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Wow, you bring up a point I had never considered which is; we've seen this before. In the 1950's and 1960's, you kind-of had to tow the line in what you said, how you dressed, etc... The cancelling wasn't quite as broad as it can be now simply because it wasn't technically feasible back then. You could, however, be in real danger of losing your job if you said you supported a registered Communist's right to speak their mind, for example. Or if you were openly a Communist yourself for that matter.

As you point out, the punk era was in direct opposition of those attitudes. Punks wanted the freedom to express themselves however they wished, as long as it wasn't harming anyone. Want to do make music that is raw and in your face? Go for it. Want to do drugs or even NOT do drugs of any kind? (Straight Edge) You're cool too. Just don't tell me what I need to do or what I can or can't say.

I think you're right that we very well may see a resurgence of that. In fact, I hope we do.
It wouldn't take that much effort to add a glyph in the editor for it?
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I believe that the point was that if that group decided to overturn the results, the democratic will of the entire population would not have overruled them. The intent of those provisions is for a case like 1877 when the democratic will of the people was actually in question.

Unanticipated in the Constitution was that a group of violent people would attempt to force Congress and the Senate to overturn the results. Had the protestors succeeded in that goal, it would have effectively ended the Republic. We would continue to be a Republic in name, just as Rome was after Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC. But not in reality. And not too many years would pass before even that charade ended. As happened in Rome when Augustus Caesar became the first real emperor.
What did Google offer him? Did they promise their won't arbitrarily ban anyone from now on? I doubt it.

He hasn't said anything on his tweeter about this.
Nice Heller/Kobain reference.
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AIM eventually got offline messaging; I beleive with AIM 6.0 that launched in late 2006.
Rowling's identity was uncovered when a family friend of her solicitors tweeted it out.

> The Harry Potter author released her first Robert Galbraith novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, in April 2013 under the guise of a very British sounding man who was said to have previously served in the army. But her nom-de-plume was uncovered three months later after an indiscreet tweet divulging the true identity of Galbraith was sent by “@JudeCallegari”, a family friend of Christopher Gossage, a partner at Rowling’s solicitors.

Some people would suggest that the book was doing poorly, and needed a sales bump.
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All of those things happen to homosexuals and non-Christians in huge geographic swathes of the country, and with MUCH greater frequency.

When CPAC starts eg hosting FFRF or ADL speakers I'll take the cancel culture bugbear seriously.
Does anyone have a link to the original interview with the BBC? I'd be interested to see more of the context of his comments.
There's a whole nuance here that often gets lost.

A lot of people are straight up _raging jackasses_ - or worse and/or their work is repulsive - and at a certain point, wind up getting to be the target of an Internet Hate Mob. Note that in a perfectly just world, these people might be in prison or have otherwise major life consequences applied by the designated authorities - yet they have not had consequences.

And there are, of course, people who simply say something that flips the bit of the online mob and becomes the target of an Internet Hate Mob. Someone ran their mouth and said something dumb. Oops.

It is critical to consider that both of these cases are true, and the outcome, in the moment, doesn't per se look different without a careful attention to the ground facts. Much of the social media system has been unintentionally engineered to be an outrage machine. Shockingly, outrage results. I suggest not having outrage before reading facts.

It is, of course, the case that immature activists are immature, that is tautological. I share the national eyerolling when it makes the news. Thank you for reading my TED talk transcript.

I have very little fear of young literary authors self censoring. Self censoring is a conventional part of basic society and something we teach children from a very early age. Understanding the difference between a thought useful to express and something vomited out of the id takes time and some level of maturity.

Having to have a basic understanding of what you're talking about and taking on as a topic shouldn't be controversial, yet it seems to be.

edit: minor clarification.
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You'd throw impoverished and depressed people under the bus because they can't muster the energy to "better" themselves?
I really enjoy your story, but to say "I made it and you can too" presumes there is an endless supply of $200k jobs in this country. There obviously is not, and we can't conceive of an economy wherein there would be, so the "you" who can make it "too" is always going to be an exclusive and finite group.
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Yeah, your right, slightly off topic, just a bit frustrated with the chrome people just suddenly reporting problems or the fact that the dashboard is very old.

Didn't know about the Publish API, thanks for the suggestion will check it out.
> However, I can't resist but asking: if those things do have their uses then why didn't the hobbyists support them through patches to GCC / clang and LLVM?

They didn't decide to create a whole new language and make everything dependent on it.

At some point, when you reach a critical mass, you have to spend more on seemlessly "irrelevant" tasks, like supporting other architecture. Don't shift the problem away by making ridiculing it, own your shortcomings.
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The way I see it is that we should optimize less for the theory of pure agency. It's like the Polgar sisters - bootstrapping with structure yields benefits.

So it's less about "refuse to work to better themselves" and more about correctly placing incentives on the growth path for individuals so that they become the kind of people who want to "better themselves".

Of course there are those who, provided any amount of support, will not become productive individuals and it makes sense to continuously evaluate for growth.

But it is beneficial to society and to each participant to offer a minimum childhood to adulthood transition experience that optimizes for productive adults.

Of course, this is usually only important for the poor because most wealthier people are better at bringing up children.