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What on earth are you talking about? I guess climate change but that's certainly not founded on people misunderstanding science, it's caused by people understanding science which led to industrialization. Or maybe you mean covid-19? Neither that. You're just trying to make it seem like it's somehow very serious and bad if everyone doesn't agree with you. It's not.
> not just opinion but facts

You can even argue that they're not facts, that they're wrong... but the OP is coming from the viewpoint that they appear to be facts. And, as such, it seems the OP is posting in good faith.
> Could this be D's niche market?

Maybe it could be, but our goal is not to have "niches". If anything, our niche is making people who would otherwise not be, productive enough to deliver what they want to make.

D isn't a gimmick language, it's a Programming (with a capital P!) language.
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What stopping you from paying much more to these poor workers?
What seems like a really strong streak of pessimism + huge increases in housing prices always makes me a little confused.

People want to tie themselves to huge loans while not feeling great about he future?

Maybe my perception is off on the pessimism?
Gilbert Gottfried's segment from that roast was pretty memorable [1]

[1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2x1bwa
So now we have the Whiny Nerd Paradox.

Google is evil because they took over the web with Chrome.

But they're still evil because they're singlehandedly keeping Mozilla alive with funding.

Yes. Especially evil for keeping distant competition alive.

And really evil for enforcing web standards with a browser engine that works.

And also evil because they open source everything.

Grr. Google bad, of course.
Well as I said I don't think I'm a typical case... and honestly a lot of it comes down to "because I can"

By far the biggest space user is music. I own thousands of CDs and so have a huge (and entirely legal!) iTunes library of over 50K songs. Back in the days of the 40GB iPod I kept it synced against a complicated smart playlist that tried to include what I was most interested in listening to... with very little success: any time something popped into my head I'd find it wasn't there.

The introduction of the 512GB iPhone models was the first time that I could sync it ALL to my mobile device, no compromises. Now does it make logical sense in the age of Spotify to have 4000 hours of audio synced to my phone? Probably not. However having access to even the most obscure material in my CD collection wherever I go (and even if I don't have internet access) gives me the sensation that I'm living in the future.

More broadly I tend to think of my phone like a biometric-protected SSD that I always have with me. I try to keep a lot of my personal files synced from my desktop to it (mostly using Secure Shellfish right now)
Interest rates are at 3% for a 30 year loan.
You've gotta admit, it's pretty messed up if you're making 3x the national median household income and your only options are run-down dumps on the wrong side of a 45+ minute commute
Is Des Moines, Iowa "super rural" now? I'm not even in the top 20% of income earners and I could comfortably start a reasonable mortgage on a single family home here. I mean... I know it's still Iowa which probably conjures images of corn fields and pigs for most people, but I'd hardly call a metropolitan area of over 600k "super rural".

Don't get me wrong, housing prices are still nuts here compared to where they were a few short years ago - even in actual "super rural" parts of the state thanks to materials and labor shortages. The whole 1% having to live somewhere "super rural" thing just threw me for a loop.
No inflation? Is this a joke or do you blindly believe the CPI numbers over your every day experience?
The question is whether this is a bubble or not. I was hoping for some insightful commentary on this. Are there any warning signs? I mean last time there was a rise in risky lending, rising defaults, etc.
The interesting part of the equation is how allocation shifts with political parties. In the last few cycles its been best to load up on assets when Republicans have more control and then switch to more debt when Democrats get in power. Net effect is the same but the flipping makes it seem like change is happening
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-executive-defends-tools-t...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5yzq/apple-defends-its-ant...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-says-it-wi...

I mean I could go on but benefit of the doubt is gone after seeing Craig defend them so adamantly.

Why would Apple go to all this trouble, get some push back, and just throw their hands up and say you're right, we're not going to search for CSAM, sorry!
When you compare the % share of wealth across generations when they were the same age, millennials are on track to own significantly less: https://twitter.com/graykimbrough/status/1198703644721524744
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Pretty sure you numbers are not factoring in children under the age they legally allowed to get the vaccine, because those numbers are way high if you exclude the ineligible

"All Persons" is not a valid statistic

>As such, we know much more about how well vaccinations protect people than we do about how well the immune systems of those who have recovered from COVID will protect from reinfection

We actually do not, given that the effects of the vaccine seems to diminish with time, we currently have no idea how much or for how long. We do not have long term data. This is why there is sooooo much confusion on if you need a booster and when, because the efficacy at 6mo, 1 year, 18mo etc is a big unknown right now
Or don't. It's a personal choice.
I had the same reaction. So many comics are fast with a joke but Norm was the master at drawing out a joke out and exploring the Truth as you say.
>and no inflation.

did you miss the last few CPI reports?
i think of it as: if the data is gaussian, use a mean, otherwise go non-parametric (medians/percentiles).

or put another way, if you can't model it, you're going to have to sort, or estimate a sort, because that's all that's really left to do.

this shows up in things from estimating centers with means/percentiles to doing statistical tests with things like the wilcoxon tests.
Please, without being racist, tell me, what is a "person of color"?
I've got a task at work to install Oracle WebLogic and migrate a legacy app from an older OAS instance. The Weblogic installer didn't even run on OpenJDK, it specifically checked for it and crashed with a "OpenJDK builds are not supported" error. No idea why that is since I read everywhere that they're essentially the same thing.
By that graph 2021 home prices are at 150% the trough in 2012. So that's like 4-5%/year compounded. Doesn't seem astronomical considering the trough was probably below intrinsic value. If you go back to 2000 you get the same price level and 2%/year compounded return.
There are people who do pay more to these sorts of workers, but that doesn't fix the broader, societal problem.
1. Forbid foreign investment in properties
2. Remove tax on first home, increase exponentially taxes on second, third, homes to reduce incentives for people to hoard houses.
"Mere 367k" as if that isn't enough to afford the down payment on a nice home. Sure, you're not going to pay cash for a $3M penthouse in NYC, but I make well below 1/4 of that in a city and I'm well on my way to a down payment on a nice home for myself. I would recommend one SERIOUSLY reconsiders their budget/priorities if they are unable to build a house fund (even over a couple year period if starting from scratch) at $367k/yr.
Just turn off those notifications
You are correct that racism as we know it is a product of, roughly speaking, the post-1550 world. The response to homoerotic acts has varied extremely widely across time and space. "Same sex couples" were pretty uncommon in most times and places (largely because almost no one thought of marriage/cohabitation as something constituted primarily by romantic love or even sexual desire). But plenty of examples of people having same-sex sex and even long-lasting relationships.
yes, exactly my "problem". it feels weird earning a relatively high salary and at the same time buying a house somewhere at least suburban or even a flat in my town would require me to pay off a huge loan for a long time. in theory I could do that - but in practice this is not really achievable as I do not trust in my mental health stability. I don't know if I can keep that up for long enough.
I agree. There is a lot of great software out there that never really tried to update themselves to the mobile world, and thus fell behind. Tiddly being made in 2004 is a great example of that.
Glances sideways at basically all assets

You sure? Is there a law that says inflation has to happen evenly across all sectors of all markets, at exactly the same time?
Just beware your taxes will require extra work as each deal issues a 10-K and TurboTax has no auto-import
Yes, I'm well aware. How is exchanging bonds for reserves, both of which are money, equivalent to money printing (in the figurative sense, obviously)?
The actions of the US government are a result of conflicting intents of thousands of individual actors, or maybe millions. Some of these actors are engaged in a game of chicken with other actors, and sometimes the outcome of such a game is not pleasant. Especially if those who play the game don't stand to personally lose anything if the end result is nasty.

But, just for your entertainment, just watch this space (i.e. the US debt ceiling debate) for the next one month. And decide for yourself if a US Government default is impossible or not.
People treating houses as investment vehicles are a big reason why the housing market is so awful for people looking to buy their first home.
Really looking forward to this bubble bursting.
but the CPI numbers are showing inflation. It might not match the 30% (or whatever) estimate that's inside your head, but it's definitely there.
Ok, but then I think it’s just as many people think “I have enough money in my paycheck to cover that mortgage payment so that means I can afford this home”.

When they aren’t considering the rest of their finances or what they would do if our of a job for multiple months, etc. Not unrelated, the number of first time home buyers that buy a new car within 3 years is like 75%.

We do a really really bad job at teaching finance in schools.
Downvoters didn't probably realize the phrase was from his joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3TI3iMb1E
> had surprisingly many stars and forks for being D.

Github stars are an extremely weak signal. Some D users have actually said to me that they feel slightly confused that their projects have more stars than the actual language implementation on github just because of hype, for example.
I’d support an immunity card with the same audit trail for antibody test. I think most people would - general common sense suggests that natural infection should be effective. How long it lasts, I guess we’ll need to study that.

Honestly the problem here is not the science. It’s the big clump of people who have turned being against the science into a part of their identity. Every time I think we have hit the bottom as a country in terms of the power of ignorance (and evil, on the part of the GOP establishment), we keep going.

What I find especially perverse is that these people are here! On Hacker News! I just don’t understand how someone can be in the technology field and yet so virulently pro-disease. Any comment that points out that IT IS THE REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE MURDERED 650,000 AMERICANS AND ARE ACTIVELY TRYING TO KILL AS MANY MORE AS THEY CAN gets downvoted below zero.
I know of several people who purposefully went to get the virus in the early stages of 2020: I don't think your worry is very far off the mark at all.
I'm in Atlanta, GA.

I have a huge penthouse condo with 25ft ceilings and wraparound 12ft windows. >3000sqft. It's in a historic building with lots of charm that has been featured in several movies. I'm also in a hip area of the city with skyline views and extremely walkable neighborhoods (on the Beltline).

My mortgage is < $2000/mo. I make >$500k a year.

I know my neighbors by name. Lots of them are in local bands and play in the courtyard. The food is awesome, and we're surrounded by art. I can do everything I want on foot.

Maybe you're in an overpriced city or a city without capacity for residents. There are lots of alternatives. With remote work, there's little reason not to explore your options.
Quick anecdote.

I bought my first house in Garland TX for $119,000 in 2003. 3 beds, 2.5 baths, a 'not bad' neighborhood. My wife was a teacher and we could afford it just on her income.

Looked up that house recently and it was for sale, now at $250,000 18 years later. Someone had updated it with typical flipper grade stuff, but ok it's double what it was even 5-10 years ago.

So then I go do the math on monthly payments for it. The interest rate back in 2003 was like 7-8%, and now we're down to 3%. Turns out the monthly payments I made 18 years ago and today are about the same.

We bought our second house in 2007, and similarly the price it fetches now is much higher, but the payments would be similar.

If you look at housing affordability like rent affordability; that is, what monthly payment can you afford, it seems like house prices are increasing to match interest rates decreasing. That house in Garland TX, inflation adjusted, is now MORE affordable than it was 18 years ago, even though it's purchase price has doubled.

EDIT to add - I now live in the Bay Area and this pattern doesn't hold up here. But most nation-wide patterns don't really hold up here. The house we bought in Oakland in 2016 has doubled, but we were already at like 4.25% back then, so the lower interest rate doesn't offset the whole increase.
It's always easy to wallow in apprehension when the status quo is politically convenient. The spectrum of forces, from home owners to bankers and everyone in between, is so vast that the only politically viable course is "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil," and it will remain so until the bubble pops. Again.
Personally I prefer fudged dice (I forget the proper term) where expected damage is maintained, but low rolls and high rolls are dampened on repeats, to avoid low-chance sequences of misses/crits.

In fact, I’d go further to say it’s fundamentally correct — repeat bad/great swings of the sword is too rare to really account for, has no real basis in “reality” and is purely an artifact of the simplified simulation. Their occurrence adds no value to the strategy, by either arbitrarily trivializing or exploding risk as to be untenable.

It’s removal also eliminates the majority of the “unfairness” of the dice — 80% feels like 80%.
Because it is pretty simple to account for who got the vaccine and who did not.

And running entire population through antibody test just to find, in most cases, that you still need to administer the vaccine is just wasteful.
To be totally fair I never said "handful of cities", but instead "major metros". My point is that the presence of a college is not a good predictor for the presence of a gay bar. It's very much a large metro thing.
I wish sometimes I were young enough and less financially constrained enough to allow myself to work for such a company. The thrill of working on something like this with people like this must be immense.
I think one of the use cases is that it's easier to have a series of functions on immutable data compared to chaining classes. Considering JavaScript may get immutable data structures at some point, this would work well with them.

There is also the fact that JavaScript supports different types of programming, functional being one of them. Having a pipe operator helps you to make very clean and readable functional code.

Edit: the article also mentionned that methods can't be tree shaken. That's another improvement.
We also know the advertising industry is toxic for teen girls; I shop at TJs just to bypass exposure of my children (girls) to the cover of Cosmo.
Adjusting the time frame a bit:

Many people I know from my parent's generations bought their home in the 70s while working low-skill jobs like retail. They describe that period of life as fun and generally enjoyable. Many started families during that time.

Conversely everyone I grew up with who slotted into low skilled labor living in those small apartments self-describes as miserable. They describe the long hours necessary to to maintain what they consider a basic existence as soul-crushing.
oh boy, there is inflation... and a crapton of it.

The economic policy of printing dirt cheap money and hiding all inflation is not working, because basic necessities (housing, food, basic services) are becoming more expensive while wages are not rising.

recently, i was looking at getting a mortage in my country. According to the accountant bureau, i was able to get roughly 400K in mortage (with 2 people that is). This ends up being around 1500 a month in payment.

My collegue got a house around 6 years ago, and was only able to get around 250K while stilling paying around 1400 a month...

Money is becoming inflated, but wages are not rising to play catchup fast enough.

This wil leave a lot of people in the dust, and if we do not change direction in terms of fiscal and economic policy, it will lead to massive problems in the long run. The housing shortage is putting young people on hold. Which in term means many are considering moving to other countries to get proper housing and be able to get children.

an anecdote.

In my direct team, around 1 in 6 young people has his own home. (rent or bought). The rest still live in student accomidation or at home. Many are in their late 20's and some are considering leaving the country for places with better housing markets.

These are people with high paying jobs who can afford to migrate, which will lead to brian drain in the future.

Also, i don't know the situation in the US. But many people are fed up with the current neoliberal economic model because it is not working them, and turning to more extreme politics as a result.

a good example of this is the youth wing of the dutch socialist party being cast out of the party because it is too extreme according to the party[0].

0:https://nos.nl/artikel/2359281-spanning-tussen-sp-en-communi...
Great suggestions.

I would add forbidding foreign people and companies from owning real estate in any given country.

And exponential tax on second, third and more houses to remove hoarding, air BnB issues, and reduce flipping incentives.
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If it is a commercial application, it is all about time to market. How fast can you get something in front of customers. For that, you need to use the language that you already know unless it is something crazy like C.

if it is a hobby project that you want to learn and have fun with, then you can choose a shiny language.

All the things you listed like Dev experience, performance etc. can be handled by many languages including the universally hated PHP. It really depends on what you are building and what your goals are.
Damn bro, get out of here with this logic. Cue the Ryan from the office nodding and pointing gif right here. Trying to put a ringtone on an iPhone is hilarious. And the airtag alert burned me so good. I have 4 of them and they are all chirping and alerting on my wife's phone. I'm gonna have to sell them at a loss after they made them so much more annoying.
Hi, productive person here. I'm also frustrated by my own productivity, tbh... some days I wish I languished more, to take in the moments as they come without any influence on my part to their outcome.
> In theory couldn’t they exclude any transactions made by an ‘exile’ from the chain? I’m not sure how much that differs from doing the same thing on a PoW coin.

That is also my thinking, that there basically isn't any difference between staking and mining oligopolies.

> So while it’s theoretically possible for a miners cabal to lock out a new entrant it seems pretty opposed to the value of their own holdings so it’s left to something like a country that wants to shut it down through throwing money at the problem then I guess?

In theory, if the stakers are anonymous, this make PoS more resistant to nation state attacks since it would be easier for a nation state to find the mining equipment producers and direct all hardware production to themselves until they acquire 51% of hash rate than it is to find the stakers and take their keys.

Looking forward to lmm explaining how we are wrong.
The current functionality is just for an email registration list. I might put it in Dynamo if it's easier to use with SES (and cheap). My current plan is to just stick the name/email in an xls and craft the emails (1-3 annually) manually. I really dont need a data warehouse for that.
This rings true to me. I used to live next to an A&W-- I went there exactly once, absolutely hated it and never went back.
> Google is certainly less trustworthy than Apple if we're speaking about scanning your files

How so? Are Google scanning the local files on all Android devices? They might be collecting all sorts of data on what's the phone used for and by whom, but scanning files? Since when?
Haven't you just described GoG? They're taking preservation seriously, and as far as I know they're able to make a profit doing so.

Would be great if they started pushing to release the source-code of more games, but they're still much better than nothing.
Sounds terrible, but all the US medical resident physicians are playing the world’s tiniest violins for this article, because they keep worse hours, get paid less (like half to 60%), and if they mess up, someone dies or is maimed.

edit: downvoted for truth — witness the medical resident physician reply below confirming exactly what I observed. To clarify, I support raising the standards for all junior people and do not advocate abusive employment and training practices.
Software requires maintenance and can benefit from refactoring. What's the equivalent for design?
Both my parents were raised in houses that were largely built by their parents. They both have memories of using oil lamps and outhouses for a while due to no electricity and no indoor plumbing while that building was taking place. And the final homes were tiny by modern standards.

That was 1940s and 1950s. I’m often amused by the “manual labor used to pay well enough to buy a house” argument since the houses available at the time were much different than those available now.
The joke wasn't his originally, but in that clip he'd actually evolved it on the fly, making it much funnier.

You might appreciate the backstory:

https://youtu.be/_oZkmob99FQ?t=100
Funnily enough, I am for vaccines just as I am for mandatory weight loss across the entire population. Banning all unhealthy activities is a given.
> once you move away from toy examples, most pipeline operator use cases are already covered by chaining class methods on classes

But what if we don't want to use classes? What if we want to be cool and compose functions out of functions, Ramda-style, or Elm-style?