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This is gross double taxation: they already paid taxes when they earned the money you are investing, and you are suggested taxing them again at high rate.
The funny part is that it's completely true, albeit not very useful if one doesn't know how monoid constructions work categorically (good explanation at [0]).

Algebra: Chapter 0 has a similar overly technical definition for groups (which they elaborate of course). Also see[1]

Joke 1.1. Definition: A group is a groupoid with a single object.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/ap25mr/a_monad_is_a_m...

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e3/b6/23/e3b62382a9eb1021ff30...
Not sure if the parent meant this but here is one, starting at around 7:05.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U2eDJnwz_s
You might have to disclose: I broke X phones in the last 12 months, but most likely the insurance already knows really well how often a phone screen breaks and you're not that special. I think those kinds of insurance calculate with "when" instead of "if". So if I pay $10 a month for phone-screen insurance, it costs $100 to replace it (after X months) and the screen breaks on average after 20 months, the insurance has a nice profit.
Cost of living indexation being applied to salary of a knowledge worker is a flawed economic thinking that is being perpetuated by some.

Firstly, knowledge workers should be paid market competitive rates – and the definition of market in a digital economy is global.

Secondly, cost of living index for a software engineer in India vs US is not that different - cost of electronics, housing, clothing, accessories, vacation/travel etc are all same.

In some cases, things are more expensive due to global trade economics – for example cars/bikes, fuel, travel, luxury goods etc are way more expensive in India than US.

Food and housekeeping was assumed to be cheaper – but that was based on flawed logic that someone is cooking food at home for you for free (an unemployed family member) and you are exploiting some poor person for housekeeping without caring about their healthcare or their children's education (these are basically un-costed externality that keeps poor families poor).

In reality, today's generation of software engineers have to cook their own food (costs time which is learning opportunity cost which is nothing but money) or hire professional help (costs money) or eat catered food (which is possible due to app based delivery services in major cities like Bangalore, costs money) every day.

Besides, no matter where you are living, only a small part of your paycheck goes towards non-discretionary expenses like basic food and basic shelter.

A large part of your paycheck should be going towards future savings/investments and discretionary spending like leisure/travel and enhancing your quality of life through better nutrition/healthcare, continued education etc. None of these things cost less in India than US. Expecting Indian engineers to do this any less than US engineers is just another form of discrimination.
> I can't prove collusion, but mandatory insurance seems wrong.

I do not know how it works in the USA. But in Spain the mandatory insurance is for 3rd parties, for the damage that you may cause to others.

It has historical roots. A driver will crash their car and damage or kill others. That driver has no insurance and no cash. So the victims are left with high costs and probably in poverty. Mandatory for 3rd party insurance assures that when that happens, the victims can collect some money that will alleviate their economic situation.
It actually is used in at least one sci fi novel, although not at all dystopian, Becky Chambers 3rd wayfarer novel: Record of a spaceborn few. I read the first 3 and highly recommend them, the world (universe?) building is wonderful, and the characters are sympathetic and well written. I'm saving the next one for when I next feel down, there's only 5, don't want to finish them too soon!
Not sure if I agree with “NixOS people went to endlessly harass him” unless there is another thread apart from this one [1]. Mic92 is clearly well across the line stating that “to keep the home-assistant free-software it would be better not increase the reliance on his projects”, but for example SuperSandro2000 and blaggacao are certainly not harassing unless you deem any action rather than accepting frenck’s request harassment. The whole exchange also seems to have lasted for about three hours. It could (and should) probably have been avoided, but let us not blow a brief interchange on a public e-mail list out of proportion.

[1]: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/consider-to-avoid-addi...

Personally, I probably would have sided with jtojnar that cited Debian’s policy to drop packages when the relationship to the upstream is beyond repairing [2].

[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...
There's a lot of rules on comedy this breaks. It could be much better with half of it removed
Are EU citizens employable in the US?

Do NATO agreements give some sort of visa?
Car insurance is almost entirely not about repairing the damage to your car.
What evidence do you have that management cares about student education?
Also banning sex-ed. Do that and unintended pregnancies (and by extension abortions, BTW) will skyrocket.
Yep, there's a whole market in insurance risk where it can be sliced and diced and traded, much like most financial risks.
Super rich pay several orders of magnitude more taxes than you (in absolute numbers).
His point is that it will only take a month to get him up to speed, not 3.

But I agree that a better answer would probably be something along the lines of "I have so much experience that I deliver in a year what the average guy would give you in 5; and if you're good to me, I might well stick around as much as I did at X", or something along those lines.
So many in India treat it like an investment, if they were really worried about insuring lives they should take out term insurances instead of being promised of arbitrary lumpsum at the end of a life insurance policy but in reality with horrible returns
Not at all.

Peace of mind is about no longer fearing. If my phone were insured, I would dare walk around with it outside of a case. That would give me peace of mind.

Insurance makes people less worried. Both because of financial risk, aswell as some insurance companies also handling the fallout.

Besides that, insurance is paying for risk reduction. Lower risk, in and off itself, gives peace of mind. Not everyone has the same risk tolerance.
They want the security and finality of Ethereum’s consensus model.

BSC is showing that the permissionless deployment model has utility to the market, whether it is centralized or not. People want to deploy contracts and create liquidity, the same ones that work on ethereum work there. It’s no different than shopify launching an app marketplace, people don’t care that’s its centralized it wasn’t even a factor.
I believe the point of OT was: it doesn’t matter that much if you view stocks as long-term investments.

At its all-time high in 2007 the S&P was roughly at 1,500 points. It returned to this value in 2013 I believe, and is now over 4,500.

So in hindsight you could have easily just put all your money into a S&P ETF at its 2007 "all time high" and still would be doing great today.
Is there a similar template, but for conventional commits[1]?

[1] https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

EDIT:

We reject the git commit message style of projects such as Angular, Commitizen defaults, etc.

- Because these use a leading tag that is sometimes a word, sometimes an abbreviation, sometimes a plural noun, etc.

- Examples are using "feat" for feature, "docs" for document, "perf" for performance improvement, etc.

- Instead we use "Add" for adding a feature, "Document" for documenting help, "Optimize" for performance improvement, etc.

- Active verbs are easier to skim, and easier to use for people from other cultures who may be less-comfortable using English.

and

We reject using a ticket id number in the summary line.

- Instead, we use fully-qualified URLs in the commit message body.

- This is because many of our projects use multiple tracking systems, and multiple ways of launching a URL.

- We want URL tracking to be easy to use by a wide range of systems, scripts, and teams.

I disagree with the first point. The second point makes sense if you use multiple issue trackers, but doesn't make sense if you're standardized on Github Issues.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/git-commit-message#re...
Yup, that's why every single linux system I ever work on has molly-guard installed. Don't know about Solaris back in the day though.
Two things to this:

- That bit of info you give can be used to infer other info. Also it's possible those first three things explain most of the variation. We've all heard that young men in their 20s crash their cars a lot, I get the feeling it's true though I've never checked.

- You only need the risk groups to be granular enough that it isn't totally obvious that people are different risks (footballers and grannies).
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Talking about this specific case. I might be wrong here, but as far as I understand if the license does not state that it is non-revocable(which MIT doesn't explicitly state), it means that it could be revoked by the copyright owner.

A similar case was raised with regards to the Artistic License in Jacobsen v. Katzer [1]. In that case, the US Federal Circuit held that the license could only be revoked unilaterally if nothing of value had been exchanged between the parties. The open source software was held to be something of value, and thus the license was held to be irrevocable without consent of both parties.

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that this ruling would apply equally to other licenses that don't have an explicit revocation clause, like the MIT license.

The license agreement normally should outline a procedure of revocation and termination of the license for applicants. And it should be a part of the agreement. This is pretty much normal practice in many proprietary licenses.

Yes, that is one of the ways that proprietary licenses distinguish themselves from free software licenses. However, in this case, it seems like the author of the package wanted to have the benefits of a free software license (i.e. lots of people will use their software) without the downsides (i.e. people might use my software in ways that they don't like and don't agree with).

[1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=177761825741712...
Making everyone more healthy (resulting in everyone in the pool having the same baseline risk) is a net good for both society and the insurers.

Really the issue is people with incurable conditions. Universal health care is there for them. Private insurance fucks them over.
Software engineering is about working with different layers of abstraction
One of the things that my mentors or industry veterans have failed to teach is the importance of abstraction.

I've been in this industry for few years and being self-taught one of the questions that still disturbs me is what the goal of software engineering was about?

My mentors (typically principal or staff engineers) would answer it along the lines of the business use case. And for some reason, I'm not satisfied with the answers or maybe I'm just too arrogant to accept that the business matters more than its engineering discipline.

It just occurred to me today that the most difficult part of software engineering was building better abstractions. And the issue I had comprehending was not the business aspect of it but the actual definition of software engineers (and software engineering). I guess the better definition would be 'system designers' or even 'abstraction designers' because that is what we always do build complex systems for simple components.

Maybe I'm just naive in my thinking?
> Lisp looks like Python, that's far from C, and usually it's a "interpreted" language, far from machine

the currently most popular Common Lisp implementation is based around an optimizing native code compiler. That compiler has its roots in the early 80s.

See http://sbcl.org .

It's far from being 'interpreted'.
> Some events are low probability but high cost.

Yes, and I sometimes think about the inverse - that people like to hate on lottery players (which I'm not) with a clever sounding argument like E[X] < 1, so don't play, you'll lose.

But this fails to acknowledge the harder to model 'but I can pay £1 to play, I won't miss it, who cares, it's insignificant, and on the tiny chance I win, the win is significant'. I.e. 'but Var[X] is massive'.
If I bet on, say, TSLA, I'm going to convince everyone that it's good bet. Why would he state his opinions about stock markets, without having his investments reflecting that opinion? I don't see how your statement adds any validity to his prediction. It's logical step. Short sellers put out such opinions all the time.
That's correct. As an insurance company you buy reinsurance to insure yourself from catastrophic outcomes (i.e too many claims for your reserves to handle).
Polygon is working on their own L2 solution, both optimistic and zk rollup. Optimistic will be released by end of year, co-founder also said current sidechain could be upgraded to rollup when released https://twitter.com/MihailoBjelic/status/1398648183354429444
I didn't mention North Korea, why are you talking about North Korea? What does North Korea have to do with the subject matter?
Another way to look at it is government jobs just need to pay better and have much more prestige. In some Asian countries, government jobs are the most coveted of all. Imagine if we lived in a reverse world where the smartest people clamored to work at the local ministry of economy and working at the big banks was seen as second-rate. Companies would no longer outsmart the government, and voters would understand that the extra tax income more than pays for the more expensive top-of-the-line people. A man can dream..
> As sidenote, this is one of the 25 points of advice in John Perry Barlows "adult principles" which I discovered late in life. It is the only written work I have on my wall, with items 1, 3 and 10 marked with highlight pen by my wife as areas for personal development for me.

I want a little more context because if my wife highlighted areas for my personal development that was hanging on our wall, I would feel controlled, diminished, and disrespected.

By the same token, I would never force her to eternally view highlighted areas of personal development I had judged she lacked. It privileges your view as holy, when you are in fact just another person with a perspective, not absolute legitimacy.
The staked MATIC coins for the PoS chain reside on Ethereum mainnet, so the PoS chain is dependent on Ethereum mainnet to run its consensus protocol.

Source:

https://kriptomat.io/polygon/

>>Where do staked tokens reside?

>>Staked tokens are locked in a smart contract deployed on the Ethereum blockchain. Validators do not hold the actual custody of the tokens delegated to them.
>Novell controls the XFS development and Redhat has bought a competing technology.

What? Are you trolling? Redhat is the biggest contributor to XFS

> Silicon Graphics Red Hat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS

>Its use amongst large companies speak for itself however.

Tell me please? Facebook and.....?

>second class citizen zoth a terrible license

RHEL does not support btrfs anymore (since 2017) i wonder why is that...oh right RHEL is not a experimental distribution.

I would say btrfs is not first class at all (ext4 and XFS is), i just wait until Linus and his Fedora create some entertaining emails.
Bitcoin is approaching the global political stage, like Google, but with a twist
> 15k, 30k, 5k liability doesn't cover much. So little why mandate it?

Capped liability seems stupid to mandate.

In the Netherlands, liability insurance is mandatory and uncapped. The insurance company will pay, and then do their best to recover money from you. It doesn't take you of the hook. It just ensures the hurt party gets their payout immediately and unconditionally.

That seems like a better system than what you described.
Undervaluing myself and not having my personal life in check. Spent a lot of time juggling what was essentially dead end volunteer work with trying to sort out whatever drama my ex had constructed that week.

Not quite what you're asking, so sorry about that, but it's my answer to the general question
Investment bankers barely enjoy their jobs and take a lot of abuse from their bosses, yet there is no shortage of banker aspirants. Some even stay for the long haul, or go to even worse working conditions such as private equity, for more money.
If I’m reading this correctly, it would be the security of my phone that would suffer if I chose to side load apps. So what’s the problem. Stick a pop up on the installer saying “woah there” and be done with it.
Because for like £200 a year I get insurance for literally all of my appliances including the boiler. And yes, boilers break and need replacement, that's usually at least £1500. Washing machines are cheaper but not insignificant. Same with the dishwasher, the dryer, the hob, the oven......

I'd rather pay that £200 once a year and have a complete peace of mind about it.
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It's mostly a myth that you need great soil to grow anything in farming.

Most of the time, the soil merely acts as a substrate to temporarily hold water with nutrients from the fertilizer that was put there during irrigation.

Having great soil does help, obviously, in that you can probably save on fertilizer costs, but in the end the soil will be depleted regardless by industrial farming.
Just to point out. At my current workplace I got a huge pay increase only in one situation. „When I said I quit”..

Employer runs a business and will do w/e is best for him money wise. If ppl want to work for 50% what they are worth - employer will alow it (bad employer).

Ppl tend to quit such places because they see no options to advance.

Employers rarely learn from such cases. For me its the issue of poor middle management not managing career of pupils correctly.
I tried that, but it seems to be for downloading editable things to edit, and I can only do it for small sections at a time. I just mean seeing the streets and things, some of which load automatically as you move and zoom, and some of which don't.
I’m no expert but AppleCare seems priced highly enough that they cover butterfingers too. I’d expect regular insurances to charge much less for a similar service (except definitely not as convenient)
> just sentence those students to jail for life already

Seems inefficient, exhile them to Somalia instead.
(Un-)fortunately, just photographing a QR code(0) with the mentioned SSID does not work ("Unable to join the network "%p%s%s%s%s%n").

Don't have a quick way to setup a WiFi with the specific SSID ATM. Would be interested to see if that works.

0: https://qifi.org
Show HN: Eulogy.io – Generate a loved one's eulogy with GPT-3
Last week I got access to OpenAI's beta program. I also recently bought a domain name. So naturally, a side project was born.

Eulogy.io is a website used to generate ideas for a eulogy or speech about someone. All you need to do is provide a name and short description of the person. Eulogy.io then generates a handful of ideas ready to copy/paste.

Why build this?

I had two deaths in my family when I was young. I know how hard it is to produce anything creative after a loved one passes away. I'm hoping this can help generate a spark of creativity at times when all seems lost.

https://eulogy.io
Indeed, same with healthcare. For example here in the Netherlands there's universal (mandatory) healthcare. The basic premium for full standard coverage (which is pretty much anything you'd want that affects health) is about $150 a month regardless of age. So me (30) and my dad (75) pay the same amount.

You can see here [0] that I'm averaging about 2k per year in costs and he's averaging about 12k a year in costs, or 6x the amount. For us it's actually closer to 0 vs 20k.

No difference in premiums.

Of course it must be noted that the state pays something like 80% of it through taxes which are progressive, my dad on low-income pays essentially nothing, I pay at high-income essentially everything between us.

It makes sense to set a high deductible for me, that's the only way to get a discount on the premiums.

I'm super happy with this system, don't get me wrong. But financially it makes no sense, and if the state allowed it, our premiums would be massively different. (mine much lower, his much higher to the extent of completely unaffordability).

The life insurance market is interesting in that at a young age the rates are really tiny (at least in certain countries, for term-coverage), like the cost of an expensive coffee or a couple sandwiches per month, for those ultra-rare early-death risks. I guess people just aren't that price sensitive around $5 or $15 a month, when insuring against half a million in coverage. Maybe that explains it? Otherwise you'd think the first competitor to offer insurance at say 5x the actuary table instead of 10x would just simply take the market, while still massively profiting.

[0] https://www.rivm.nl/sites/default/files/2018-11/kosten%20van...
> "If you take the risk profile down to influenza, it fundamentally changes how we deal with this pathogen ... it's not something that shuts down society," Chagla said.

Yes, because it is becoming endemic like any other cold pathogen that is out there. Things are starting to become normal.
This is a great example of how poverty is a trap. You cannot afford insurance premiums, so you are stuck without insurance for situations you cannot handle.

As you earn more, and get room to save, you get the option to forego insurance.
BSC gets its credibility from being backed by the largest crypto exchange in the world.

But even then, it's far less trusted for long term storage of digital assets than Ethereum mainnet.

But I do agree that BSC, and to a lesser extent HEC, show the market places a premium on permissionless-ness and composability, even in the absence of a decentralized consensus process.

It's simply more convenient to use MetaMask to interact with exchange-native assets than an exchange-specific username/password. But I think all of that just solidifies Ethereum mainnet's utility as the root settlement layer.
You're absolutely right, the thing to look at here is the St Petersburg problem.

You have a coin, and each time you don't get heads the payout doubles. Get heads and get the payout. What do you pay to play this?

It turns out that you can't work out an E[X] for this, as it's a series that doesn't converge. But also if you go around and ask people what they'd pay, surprisingly they don't say infinity. Expectation is thus not the last word in decision making.

Turns out utility is a thing that matters, and we can come up with some thoughts on it (von Neumann-Morgenstern etc).