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What's interesting is birth rates say otherwise. The wealthier you are the lower your birthrate. People that can certainly afford to have many children are not where as very low income people are having many. I think it's something more than people feeling like they can't afford it.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
> [Feds] intervenes, maasively if necessary

The Feds have some scope to nudge the interest rate, but they cannot massively change it against the market. The persistent low rates of the past 2 decades are mostly market driven, because there's been a lack of growth.

The feds try to nudge lower the rates past the "natural" rate (a rate as if they weren't there), but the trend of the rates being down isn't determined by the Feds.
It is generally recommended for sound insulation and strength (ability to hang heavier things onto walls).
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I was also going to mention that confidence is a powerful predicter/cause of success & promotion, more so than any skills behind that confidence. Anecdotally, I've noticed people are much more successful in work & personal life when they are confident, as other people use that confidence as a shortcut for assessing actual talent & skills. Narcissism is a mix of unwavering confidence and self-assuredness that exploits this shortcut and lets people progress in life without any test of their actual abilities.
Got my invite 17 years ago to date. Have to see if next year if I pass these... I wonder if they think that I managed to make account at less than year old...
Well said. I have similar feelings about Neal Stephenson, though I'd say Gibson's literary skills are a level above.
But the censorship is global. I see it in France, even if there is no legal reason for it. I've seen plenty of male dicks or female breast on old french movies as a kid, it was not considered immoral.

Also I don't recall my TV requesting my credit card to watch content as a kid.
QtCreator and Visual Studio as well.
Try rereading my comment. You are writing to some phantom in your head.
I think the GP didn’t mean “in non-new condition”, but rather “from the secondary market, so that you aren’t giving Apple your money.” Getting a refurbished Mac from Apple still involves giving Apple money.
I think you're getting off track or putting words in my mouth.

"Based on these figures, MarketWatch reported Bezos donated just .5 percent of his net worth last year - a quarter of the 2 percent the average American donates each year."

I'm not looking at percent of net worth. Most of the time that is not the "money" that we are talking about here and would not be subject to the utility and use being discussed. For example, the vast majority of Bezos' worth is tied up stock. Also, not every billionaire is the same. Some may not be giving much, but there are many who have pledged to give away the majority of their fortunes.

"Also, why should money be concentrated in the hands of the wealthy, does that make them more qualified to decide how it's spent compared to society/government?"

I've made no claims or mention on this topic.

"Well-publicized philanthropy also conveniently distracts attention from how several of these billionaires are endangering their workers and, by extension, the public."

Again, not part of my discussion. However, I will say that I find this to be untrue when you see articles coming out discussing this very thing (ie your quote).

"Oligarchies aren’t the same as democracies."

Again, off topic. I agree that they are different. I even agree with the implied part about living in an oligarchy. However, that oligarchy in my opinion is more based on if someone is in the ruling class with special privileges and the power to ignore laws when they want (politicians, judges, cops, DAs, etc) than being a billionaire (although money can help influence).
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Just out of curiosity, which packages do use Meson as wrapper over CMake? Sounds like total misuse but I'm interested in how it's done.
Don't make me contort into an awkward position inside a screaming metal disk then :(
Not sure I follow. Are you saying that the mainstream media has a good enough record of covering science stories without distortion, exaggeration or just plain wrongness to make my cynicism unjustified?
> Exchange rates are set by the market, but the interest rate is a decision made in a boardroom

Only partly. One of the points the author makes is that central bank interest rates, while conceptually set arbitrarily "in a boardroom", are constrained to a narrow range by market realities, and attempts by "the boardroom" to set interest rates outside this range result in various forms of economic dysfunction that central banks try hard to avoid.

> Returns on such investments have been high in recent years. CB interest rates translate relatively directly into the cost of borrowing, and the cost of repaying old debts. Interest rates do not determine the return on savings.

Yes and no. We've been in a bull market for so long that people such as yourself have begun to think of investments as simply savings with high yield. You're neglecting to account for risk. CB interest rates set the risk-free savings rate. Of course you can get higher returns by taking more risk, and for most people, taking a bit of risk is the right thing to do.
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I have very little proprioceptive sense of my tongue, and when I'm at the dentist I have to consciously move it to know where it is. I basically pick a corner away from the dental instrument and touch the tip to that corner. After a minute or so I'll drift back to center and will hardly notice it.

I often ask the technician if my tongue is in the way, and they always say it's not, but I'm not sure I believe them. I sometimes have anxiety that if my tongue slips a little bit I'll get injured, and that sure doesn't help.

Physiologically, I would imagine that when the mouth is closed, the tactile pressure on the tongue is constant enough that your brain filters it out. When my mouth is open, the tactile pressure is gone, so there's even less sense of location. Without the muscle extension, it's just a blob of jello with no sensation. Hence why I place the tip at a specific corner.
"I over-engineered my network for privacy" .... by trusting a third-party for DNS resolution.

Doesn't compute !

Even more so as the OP chose Cloudflare ! US Jursisdiction + Commercial Company ?
Companies seem to have a very weak understanding of what their workers do day to day, so rely on being told.

That was another new to the workforce lesson about industry for me. My direct managers often don’t know what I did last week beyond the general assigned project.
Tell me about this, after an egotistic crisis I went full humility, I'm now at the bottom of the ladder, watching lazy, vaguely competent people whining about why 2-3x the average salary is not enough for their performance.

Thing is, I cannot let myself play politics and mental games just to swim warmer waters. I find it even sadder.
To your second point, you might consider that economists have learned a few things since the great depression, just as technologists have learned a few things since 1939.
You said it: estimate

It knows people have teeth, but the teeth are only estimated, not real teeth. Maybe they have been copied from some other face. The point is, it is not her teeth.

Imagine it was low res car photo with unreadable plates. "Enhancing" them this way would not bring back the plates. It could paste some plates, because we know this part of car usually has plates, but the real information (actual registration number) is already lost and can't be brought back this way.
Most wealthy people don't put all of their wealth in a cash account that earns them no money. Sure, they might have some largish amounts in cash, but the majority of it will be invested making more money.
I think you could already buy this from China... Isn't this pretty much what is done for that online gaming service limitation?
I don't know if a company without any senior devs is going to make it long term.

My point is even with a relatively small amount of experience, I have an unbelievable amount of opportunity, so I wouldn't take an Amazon job.

If Amazon becomes a revolving door of new grads who are just trying to get a year or two experience and bolt, it will not be good for Amazon as a company and eventually and the Amazon stamp on your resume will loose its prestige, at which point even new grads won't want to work there.

Amazon desperately needs to change its reputation.
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On behalf of patients, we're sorry! The first time I had an MRI, my tech told me over the speaker that I was moving around too much. I was really surprised as I'd thought I was staying completely still!

I had another one more recently in which I apparently did much better. The trick for me seems to be to focus on my breathing and mental relaxation rather than trying to consciously "hold still."
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Unlikely. Educated, empowered women with access to family planning facilities have less children if they have any children at all. Birth rates in developed countries with more robust social safety nets and less inequality have total fertility rates below that of the US.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...
Death by bureaucracy.

Useless people making useless rules.
It's worth pointing out that never in all of world history has such a large percentage of sovereign debt yielded a nominally negative rate.

Where this ends is anybody's guess. But when the situation finally does resolve itself, it seems reasonable to expect economic and social dislocation both qualitatively and quantitatively beyond anything ever seen before.

The incremental manner in which the GFC continues to play out has numbed most people to the danger they are in.
If you were using Django and rendering server side, then I don't imagine you would bother with a REST api layer. But, assuming the the data was already in some REST/JSON api, you would have a Django template filter that used json.loads(), right?
hear hear, a man in AI calls psychology pseudoscience :DDDDDD
>> Amazon is 100% nationalistic anti- the existence of other countries

> what do you mean? Given they have to quote shipping, it's not unreasonable to take into account.

I'm not entirely sure what the GP was getting at, but there is some friction with amazon and the international sites. I have amazon prime, but prime subscriptions seem to be region locked as it is only reflected in the .com site. When checking out through the UK or Italian Amazon storefront, it'll even prompt me to try a trial prime subscription.
I made a fairly popular reddit post recently on how I down-leveled my career in recent years. Each time I down-level, I get a raise in salary -- it's pretty great.

What that permitted me to learn about myself is that - at the end of the day - I just like solving interesting and challenging problems, working with colleagues as equals, and creating products and solutions that I'm proud of. I have utterly no interest any more in climbing any sorts of ladders, or "chasing" a role, position, or title because I think that'll somehow be the road to riches. Having autonomy, the flexibility to work when I'm productive and inspired (and to not work when not), and interesting/meaningful work is infinitely more important than role or salary. I also feel like I'm not the first person to come to this conclusion.
I’m also renovating a house, and before I started the closest thing I had done to that was assembling IKEA furniture. I have a few family members who know a ton about that stuff, and that’s been 90% of it for me. YouTube etc is helpful, but a lot of that knowledge is specific to your geographic region (especially when it comes to what sort of insulation/roofing/etc you want, especially if you’re renovating existing things that were done a certain way for a certain reason) so you really need local experts. I certainly wouldn’t have undertaken such a project if I didn’t have those family members I knew I could rely on.
The nature of adult behavior in workplaces fascinate me. It's a deep game of tap dancing. I'd love to find places to discuss this at the meta level. I cannot stop watching all the weird games people are playing to get by..
Why not get the Air? Are you optimistic that the touchbar will be fully supported?
What's interesting though as that households with over $200,000 in income have the lowest birthrate of all. The highest birthrates are in households with very low income. In essence, for every dollar of household income you have, your birthrate decreases.
Strangely “we” can do that for linux, but cannot for the web. “apt install myapp” pulls the required trusted binary dependencies, if they aren’t there, and that’s it. Qt, wx, gtk, ffmpeg, mesa, you name it. Potentially malicious code is reviewed by distros and is not included, so if you want to distribute libhacky with your myapp, the entire ecosystem has to accept it before a user could trust it. But browsers are somehow different. I think the main reason is that browser vendors want their control over the market, and the entire issue is not technical/community at all.

It’s hard to get big groups of people to work together effectively.

One of the valid ways to deal with it is to let them work separately.
Part of it is that things like driver's licenses and residency generally are not actually at the federal level. They're at the level of the states. And lots of real money is involved with respect to state taxes.

There could presumably be a "no fixed address" category at the federal level but don't hold your breath as this is an outlier among people who earn enough to pay taxes and would absolutely be abused if it existed.

I actually agree there is an edge case of people who are nomadic for at least a period who genuinely don't have a fixed address and have to "fake it." I'm also not sure it's a large enough category to institute the significant changes needed to deal with it.
They should start calling them "problematic"
It's in the abstract of the paper. They used fMRI
Sure…

If you look at all the complaints being had here it’s all basically related to banking and legal stuff. This is a failure in governance, not really the tech companies.

Some quick devil’s advocate talking points:

- Access to ridiculous amount of information and reviews basically anywhere. What to do. What not to do. Finding hidden niche cool things. Etc…

- Access to ridiculous people too. We did a small trip in a remote location and had this young college student show us around for a private tour. Was amazing, personal, real, and got to see/try things/places we normally wouldn’t. We would not have ever had a chance to be connected with her before. It would have been big stupid tour company.

- Instant mapping basically anywhere and looking things up (just the fact you can look up a bike or car rental store in 1 second on your phone even if say you can’t do the auto bike option…)

- I can just hold my phone over a menu in any language and it translates it in real time

- Safer between family tracking me in real time via location app or just having the option to ship medicine nearly overnight if needed, etc…

- Netflix… no comment

I just feel this is a bit dramatic for one annoying rent a bike station.
Fully agree.

The reddit model of moderation has been broken from the start. The sub-land grabs and fake internet points imply a sense of authority, which itself is fundamentally wrong. Then the lack of appeals process/nuance in arguments is more along the lines of a Soviet-style purge. And honestly I'm not so sure there's ever going to be any "coming back".
The first one is streaming audio player for Windows phone 7+ platform. C# was the only language allowed by MS (the native code only arrived in Windows Phone 8), and the OS enforced strict memory limit. You exceed 11MB RAM, the OS kills background agent process, audio stops playing. The networking wasn’t great either, that worked on top of EDGE and early 3G.

The second one is a general-purpose cross-platform graphics and multimedia library. The specific part I linked implement an equivalent of <Video> HTML element on top of Linux kernel APIs like V4L2 (video decoder) and ALSA (audio rendering). All that stuff is C# on top of .NET Core 2.1. It’s running great with JIT and GC, even consumes less memory than VLC player.

If directly consuming low-level Linux kernel APIs and implementing non-trivial APIs on top of them is not a system programming, then I don’t know what is.
I think some of the blame here should also go to the fact that people appraising performance often have very little idea about the facts of someone's work, and are in fact simply praising personality. In a perfect world, a narcissist couldn't get very far on confidence alone.
So when is this coming to Pornhub? Asking for a friend.
There shouldn't be any chat at all. This crap just creates unnecessary opportunities for liability. The only purpose for these chat services is to create attack surfaces for plaintiff lawyers. In banking the government saddles the banks with logged chats and recorded phone lines that get forwarded to regulators. Yet now in tech the industry has saddled itself with risk without even being forced to, bombarding employees with pointless notifications to boot through these insipid, time-wasting chat services.

It is very bad for employees because employees are the sacrificial goats for shareholders. The catch all escape for liability is 'an employee did it' followed by 'a manager did it' followed by 'an executive did it.' These chats to some extent make it easier to sacrifice peons to the government and/or civil plaintiffs but it also makes it harder to fend off such conflicts in the first place by just making it harder for the other side to find any dirt.
This is pretty similar to what Thomas Piketty says in Capital in the 21st Century
Except when you’re not in a toxic environment. Those are rare, but should be recognized very fast if one wants to stay there.

Throwing away humility is a sure way to be paired with one-uppers for the rest of one’s life (and then say with utter confidence that nobody cares about humility)
If it takes time and is not wholly reliable, it sounds like you might be using one of the "indirect methods" they mentioned in the article.
Exactly this. They are doing that by the billion.
But they can only set the Fed Funds Rate at a rate that is lower than the 30y Treasury rate. Any higher and we get a yield curve inversion and a recession[0]. And as the GP says, the destabilizing effect of that recession only pushes rates down until we reach 0%.

So as the 30YT falls, the Fed can do nothing but allow it to fall further.

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ENDs
How about using a look-up table for small numbers (say up to 12x12), left shifts for powers of ten, and decomposing larger multiplications into summation of those operations?
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Podopi was built in Elixir, a functional programming language I've never used before. Elixir is widely different from JavaScript/NodeJS and the tools I'm used to. It made the learning curve quite steep, but somewhere halfway down the path it all started to "click" for me. Elixir is a beautiful language that comes with many benefits from running on the BEAM (Erlang virtual machine). Phoenix/Elixir comes packed with many great features that makes it possible to ship products and features quickly, with confidence.

Feedback appreciated!
Yes content on Netflix is specific to the country you're currently located in, however it works without complaint if you're in a country other than the one you were in when you signed up.
Mass vaccination and exposure. The hope is that our immune systems will collectively get used to it, and its evolution will be constrained enough that, while it will continue to mutate, our immune systems will continue to have a "good enough" answer to it that we avoid the cytokine storm problem that's killing people.
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For those wondering: Exercism is a platform for learning how to code by solving problems. You work on your solution locally and then, if the builds passes all tests correctly, you submit it. I heard there is an option of mentoring bu I've never used it. Some of the problems are quite interesting and for me they're especially useful when I'm learning a new language as they support quite some of them, including some interesting new ones like Nim.
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500 10x developers for the price of 50,000 developers doesn’t seem like a good deal.
They made it easier. Still far far from easy. Especially at the level that is claimed necessary by proponents of popular editors.

That is, my claim was geared to the IDE it ships with. And pointing out how successful it is despite any shortcomings that may have, precisely because of how empowering it is to users. In large, most of that empowerment is heavily invested in through maker fairs, magazines, and YouTube outreach.

And I find it hard to see how the ridiculous level of empowerment in emacs couldn't benefit from the same outreach.
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And for even more photos, probably thousands, see this page from the linked website (aggregation of visitors own photos/videos): http://vcfmw.org/past.html
> I am curious why the government would need to punish people because they are living as they wish, in land they bought and own.

Think of this as more like an area permanently deeded for a certain kind of activity, with the existing belief (encoded into law) being that permanent living there is in conflict with that activity.

I think it's fine to argue that this belief is wrong, and that living permanently in the structure that is permitted to be on the allotment is just fine. I might even agree with you.

But in general, it also seems fine to me that communities can mark out certain places as being for only a specific set of activities, and exclude others from taking place there.
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Yeah, i had the same reaction. For example, meson couldn't find pybind11 until i added `pybind11-config --cmakedir` to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.
Not three. More 8-10
another feel-good story about a system that will never work.
A YouTube video about this machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJIO7aRXUCg
Why the downvote? Here is a citation [1] that molten salt reactor was killed for political reasons.

Or was I jumping to conclusions to suggest that activists knew or cared about such details?

[1] http://moltensalt.org/references/static/downloads/pdf/WhyMSR...
Why doesn't this company have like 10x the valuation of Amazon, Google and Apple combined?
How about the idea that age blocking content and failing to put that trust in our kids is what's detrimental? Reminds me of the all too common tale of a child raised in a helicopter parent household who goes off to college and parties way too hard at their first taste of real freedom.

Circumventing child controls was part of my childhood. I couldn't play runescape until I was "13" but I sure got around that one. Was that bad for me? Seems extremely unlikely.

I agree with the parent comment that this is a pathetic attempt at adults trying every last measure to feel some sort of control over their children.
I've been thinking about Estonia. Relatively high wages in IT and everything is cheap.

We'll see...
In the long term this evolutionary pressure is present, however, it's not an iron law - as I understand, in addition to becoming more transmissible, COVID variants have become a bit more fatal over time.