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If you think inflation was 20% over the past year, that's equivalent to saying someone's salary going from $100k to $119k in a year has resulted in them being poorer. That just doesn't pass the common sense test, IMO.
Well there is something you can do about it, but you probably don’t want to. You can start an arbitration hearing with AAA. Zelle pays the fees.
If we forced them to be honest we'd also force them to account for the huge carbon sink the plant represents until it has generated enough power to offset its construction footprint.

We need solutions that pay back as fast as possible, not stuff that will go neutral in 20 years.
Git has become so ubiquitous that I'd find it weird if a recent project was using anything else.

Even if most devs don't know even 10% of it (I'm in this category and I don't care), same goes with my car: It can drive very fast but I limit its speed to something I can control.

The analogy is a bit weak but in general I see no problem not using something to it's full potential.
Should have?
What do you mean you weren't able? What happens when you try?
Yeah, let’s keep those pesky wages suppressed.
Living grandparents are also increasing the survival chances of their grandchildren.
Well usually the term end-end means from you directly to the user you are talking to (if its in a chat context for example). TLS (in its normal usage) isn't end to end, putting encryption in a lower layer makes it even less likely to be end to end.

In end to end encryption, preventing mitm attacks is the hardest part and often is glossed over. How many people actually verify the "safety number" when using signal? Probably most do not.

So i would say common definitions of end to end allows for trusting someone in the middle to not perform active attacks (after all, you also have to trust them not to provide malicious binaries with keyloggers) but should prevent passive attacks by someone in middle.
That was less English than the first guy
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Every time I read this I think that an intrepid boot salesman would issue credit and sell the good boots for say 7 yearly payments of $10 and make a killing.
This is a valid criticism of the methodology and if you look at a sibling of your comment, someone has posted a great resource that discusses some of this in depth. There are a lot of critics of CPI who feel it is manipulated by the BLS either intentionally or unintentionally. The methodology was also changed from being a "Cost of Goods Index" (literally the basket I described above) to a "Cost of Living Index" (which is intended to reflect the cost of maintaining a constant standard of living over time allowing substitutions in the basket but still suffering from the problem I describe above where your personal standard of living derives from the goods and services that you consume and therefore will differ from the index composition), and there are entrenched proponents of both the COGI and COLI methodologies.

I'm not an economist, but one fundamental problem with any consumer index (as far as I can see) is that as you become richer in absolute terms the marginal utility of any additional dollar goes down (eg your life doesn't change that much if you upgrade your already expensive phone but it changes a heck of a lot if you can't afford to buy enough food) and therefore poorer people experience far more harm from inflation than richer people. Not sure any index ever captures that effect adequately.
Way faster for everyone. Most people are really bad at bagging groceries, and it slows down lines.
Don’t conflate the service sector with customer service. For example most white collar jobs that have nothing to do with normal “customer service notions” are part of the service sector.
What were the vows broken? I feel like I’m missing the lead up to the punchline.
You've stated the point well: there are substitute beef products that haven't seen the same price increases. This is not the same as me general inflation, or nearly as concerning.
My aim is to point out the absurdity of comparing obesity vaccination and viral transmission.

Herd immunity? One of my responders says that's impossible and the only way to be safe is get vaccinated. You are essentially saying "hey just let it happen no vaccination needed".

What is a HN reader to make of these contrasting viewpoints?

How about this given current public health guidelines? Get vaccinated, or stop complaining when us vaccinated want to deny you entry. Wear a mask, or also be denied access. The difference between obesity and a deadly virus is that the deadly virus is directly and immediately affecting me by your choices. I can pay higher health insurance premiums, but I don't want to die.
It's a feature for prose text, so programs like Word should support it. It's a security bug in anything designed to be parsed or interpreted by software, so programs like Visual Studio Code should refuse to honor it.
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Except most obese people don't have issues with COVID. This is the thing that is most confounding about COVID. Most comorbidities only increase the risk factor by a little. The biggest and most reliable risk factor is age. We know there is almost no risk below the age of 5, and 15% chance of death over 75.
This is the same administration that claimed we saved $0.49 on a 4th of July BBQ this year, bec they cut out all the meat compared to the BBQ last year. I’m sorry but you can explain all you want. I’m not buying it (at any price)
Twins, and then probably ~18 months later a younger child.
It doesn't help that VPN providers in the consumer space pay small ISPs to front their traffic so that netflix et al doesn't drop their traffic coming from a datacenter and they still get to keep up the false pretenses and get valued at billions of dollars.

Smaller ISPs are also more likely to have issues with CPE getting compromised and routers running botnets within the comfort of your home. There are services which invite people to sell their residential bandwidth in return for money, this can potentially have a disproportionate impact at smaller sample sizes.

Networks can declare themselves to be ISPs. You could check if your ISP shows up as an ISP in peeringDB.

https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/44585...
I live in lansing and I’ve not noticed groceries getting more expensive in the past few years
The Fed massages the inflation rate by throwing out "extreme" deviations.

> Mr. Powell used a gauge from the Dallas Fed that throws out the top 31% and bottom 24% of personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price changes, and was bang on the Fed’s 2% year-over-year target in July, the latest available. An alternative measure from the Cleveland Fed strips out the top and bottom 16% of consumer-price index changes, and was far higher; worse, the monthly rate was unchanged in August from July, giving no support to the idea that inflation is already coming back down. [0]

[0] WSJ: https://archive.md/A7SIh#selection-4683.0-4706.0
My guess is Consul shit itself. It works until it doesn't.

For now I prefer Zookeeper because at-least I have experienced most of it's failure modes. i.e they are probably all prone to blowing up but I have lost my eyebrows enough times in ZK explosions that atleast I know what I'm up against.

Consul isn't widely used enough for me to have the same confidence for now, same goes for Vault and Nomad tbh. I really like the design of Vault and it's dynamic secrets system but I am probably just going to implement something similar on k8s secrets so that I don't have to carry around something that might spontaneously combust on me.
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"But Cole believed that the government, while accounting for quality improvements, still failed to capture how
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getting. He didn't believe it was some sort of Illuminati conspiracy of Satan-worshipping pedophiles juicing the statistics."
oh man Stephen wolfram being an inspiration again
That harm does not capture the reduction in debt caused by inflation though. Inflation benefits debtors over creditors, even if it also effectively lowers wages.
I did not say they can "predict" such systems. Plans are useless, planning is indispensable. You can course correct as you go, as long as you're going somewhere in particular, which I'm not sure we are at this point.
Yeah, I am concerned with the methodology more than the reporting.

> 11. How are CPI prices collected and reviewed?
BLS data collectors visit (in person or on the web) or call thousands of retail stores, service establishments, rental units, and doctors' offices, all over the United States to obtain information on the prices of the thousands of items used to track and measure price changes in the CPI. We record the prices of about 80,000 items each month, representing a scientifically selected sample of the prices paid by consumers for goods and services purchased.[1]

> The CPI survey collects about 94,000 prices per month to compute indexes for commodities and services. Approximately two-thirds of price collection in the CPI is done by personal visits of CPI data collectors to brick-and-mortar stores. The remaining data are collected by telephone or on the outlet’s website. In some cases, these data are supplemented by data provided from other sources. The outlets where prices are collected are selected based on data from the CE survey. These outlets may be brick-and-mortar stores or websites (e-commerce); currently, about 8 percent of CPI quotes are collected from outlet websites.[2]

This seems easily biased and inefficient when considering theoretical alternatives.

1. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_1...

2. https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/data.htm
Part of this is true, part of this is not.

Stores carry what is demanded of their customers, and they don’t carry what they can’t sell before it goes bad. The food isn’t there because it’s not consumed, and because you can’t buy it, it’s not consumed. Fresh food is expensive and goes bad, it’s too much risk as a small business to carry if you don’t think you can sell it. That’s the issue you often see.

My second point would be the huge number of ethnic markets in low income areas with a tone of fresh fruits and veggies. When consumed, they are carried.

There is a culture of convenience that pushes people to shelf stable meals. Those are quick, and generally unhealthy.
My read on this is that it seems like the equivalent of a subtweet about pay inequality.

If that is indeed the case then they should be arguing for something I wrote the SEC about a couple of years ago which is to have public companies report their salary costs broken down by executive pay and non-executive management pay and non-executive non-management pay. And to report the population of individuals in each cohort.

That 'pie' of payroll costs can be split up anyway a company chooses, but the weighting of it will allow investors to understand the future prospects of a company that under pays its rank and file relative to its executives and management.
The key part is in "obtain a basket of goods".

The ONS (UK statistics) are quite open about how they do this: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/arti...

Specifically:

> For example, if the price of tea rose dramatically during one year, consumers might switch their spending towards coffee, making it necessary to adjust the expenditure weights accordingly in the following year.

Or put another way, if fuel goes up astronomically and people buy less of it, they will adjust its weight downwards, limiting the effects of its price increase on the headline inflation.

It's not that statisticians and economists are fooled. The methodology works assuming that people have spare money and can choose to spend or not. But the reality is that things have got so expensive that most people are living paycheck to paycheck and spending everything they have, so their attempts to eradicate the bias of choice ends up just measuring how much money people have to spend (i.e. wage growth).
yes. gas is included in the transportation group
It's sad that largescale exploitation of this is stopped only because many applications still have really poor Unicode support and would therefore make the changes human-visible.
> I wonder, what will replace traditional devices.

Looking back through history you can see that the average home has slowly become automated via; washing machines, dish washers, and more recently robotic vacuum cleaners.

Using this trend I believe there will be more home automation devices which will be affordable. Trash robots (deal with taking out the trash), gardening robots (tend to the garden), delivery robots (fetch deliveries from the front door).

The future is unknowable, but we do know that robotic devices are becoming much cheaper and applications of them within the home are limitless.
The level of luxury people get acclimated to is pretty amazing. I'm trying to imagine the response I'd have received if as a child I had demanded ribeye regularly, or what my grandparents would have said if they heard it discussed in such a manner today, as a product deserved at a cheap price (I gather your family can still afford it.)
Given the scope and the description it's highly unlikely to be caused (or investigated by) juniors. It definitely sounds like the service-discovery/configuration store (which is Consul from what I understand) or their orchestration layer (Nomad) shat itself.

So most likely their most senior SREs/infrastructure folk were the ones sweating bullets.
Nobody thinks Pandemic+Covid shots are better than no Pandemic+no shots. You got to weigh the hypothetical risk of the vaccine with the reported risk of Covid death.

People take this decision thinking it's personal but it's not, it affects many others. Your 'personal' decision to assert medical sovereignty could kill another.
To be honest I think all these posts are looking for a single causation, where it is more likely a combination of all the factors listed.
Dialectic materialism by engels and marx. If you take their communist ideas out of the equation (because we may not agree on that), on their philosophical system, they took all the great dialectics of hegel, advanced it further and replaced hegel's idealism with materialism (very, very roughly speaking).
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European living in Asia for substantial amount of time by now, staying in Singapore, Japan, HK.

Not sure what OP likes to hear, but the most important thing is to live with intellectual and cultural curiosity. I've seen a lot of expats tossing away local peculiarities just because they were conditioned things should have been done differently. In other words, keep remembering about Chesterton fence [0]

[0]: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
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Overweight people per se don't create hospital shortages. You can argue that obesity is a huge expense overall but it's a predictable and manageable one. It doesn't generally cause sudden spikes in medical utilization in the way a pandemic or epidemic can.
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Portions are enormous! Example: Chipotle, a super popular fast food restaurant, average food is like 1300kcal. It's huge and enough food for at least 3 average sized meals in Tokyo. And that's not including the giant soda most people buy.

Go into any supermarket in the USA and you'll see collections of giant cookies. They are easily 4x larger than cookies from the 1950s (or for that matter 2x/3x larger than cookies in many other countries) and they come in packs of 20+, each cookie is at least 400 kcals and people easily eat half the box at a time.

Chips come in giant bags. The average bag of chips in Japan is ~65g. The average bag of chips in the USA is 280g!!!

Cold Stone Creamery (an Ice Cream chain), you can see how big a single portion is in their front page image

https://www.coldstonecreamery.com/assets/webp/slides/2021/ba...

It's also at least 3x the portion I'd get in many parts of the world.

Those types portions have been arounds so long that now pretty much all of the USA takes them for granted. Anything smaller is considered a rip off. The culture is high volume, low price = best.

It's crazy to see all the giant obese people all over the place. Except maybe in SF/NYC, restaurants that served smaller portions would quickly go out of business.
I know right??
See https://www.clevernero.com/adobe-us-employees-have-until-dec...
This fact became really obvious to me as soon as I moved from USA to Japan - I realized that what's considered "delicious" in the USA is really an arms race for how to inject the maximal amount of sugar and fat into all foods, and when I visited the USA again after being here a couple years, eating out at restaurants and tasting that kind of cuisine made me feel grossed out.
This chart isn't remotely plausible. No legitimate difference in reporting mechanisms or standards would exactly match every upswing and downswing - if you're weighing the basket differently, you'll get spikes at different times. They have to be just making up a constant value and adding it to the official statistics. (You'll note that the reporter in the linked article didn't ask anyone other than the people who made the graph whether it made sense.)
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> Now, that's more a sign of poor Unicode support in those programs than it is anything to their credit.

But that behavior is intentional. If you want, you could do "alias less='less -r'", and then it would behave the way you want, and you'd become vulnerable to this attack.
When I started reading this I thought it looked familiar. I remembered reading this years, ago, and sure enough the article is from 2012, so needs a (2012) after the title.
Half of America can't just consume less unless you mean less food, medical care or less living indoors.

Worse moving to sustainable purchases requires up front investments so to a degree poverty breeds waste.
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Yes, obese people are vastly worse for society than the unvaccinated in terms of financial costs. The solution is even simpler than getting a vaccine because they don't have to go anywhere. They simply have to eat less.
Portion size / spoilage / price per unit are also a huge issue for those who are single. I'd have to eat almost the same thing every day to properly use up most highly perishable (good for me) foods before they spoil.
To the parent commenter: do you shear yourself, or does somebody just come by with clippers every now and then?
Related: What Do Executives Do, Anyway? struck me with its succinct description that the CEO is always the least informed person in the room, being furthest from the action in almost every aspect.

And, like your reference, also maintains that they ratify decisions that are in line with the company values.

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926
They also silently load Threatmetrix now under a walmart domain CNAME.
Eh, Git works, which is all it has to do. The reason you see typical small dev teams use Git is because they're familiar enough with it from dealing with FOSS. And when you are doing FOSS, there's almost no contest – Git destroys the competition for n-person teams when n → ∞.

Besides, it's not even all that complex, there's just an abundance of bad information talking about "diffs" and "branches containing commits" and confusion over the word 'tracking', when most of that is either a convenient representation or an internal implementation detail that doesn't matter at all to the user.

Also, compose key flex.
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Implying that legacy code gets migrated from 8.

haha
Usually people don't need to get research articles. this is differ to people on HN, usually people will not "do their research", and government will ask university offer science services. so they don't hurt public benefits.
One of the problems is we tend to offset exercise with reduced activity elsewhere. It seems the body/mind is really good at balancing these things out. So you might find your extra gym visits don't have the effect you want (although they will have other benefits).
I love reading about the level of physical detail a dedicated hobbyist thinks about.

The world is such a rich place compared with the digital world where everything is abstracted and simplified.
Late to this conversation, you may not get this.

But ...

> People's internal emotional states are their own to manage. Language is a tool for communication...

It is not very good communication to not consider how people understand what you say.

Communication has two ends and simply blaming people for not understanding you when you were aware that a word has multiple meanings in general usage makes no sense.

Also, word meanings change through usage. A non-pejorative word becomes pejorative. Ignoring that is not good communication.

This is not just about "internal emotional states" but simply what the word means to someone else objectively. I.e. "internal rational states", if you will.

A word whose common usage has become pejorative is in rational fact, and in any up-to-date definition, pejorative. If you are not trying to be pejorative, you achieve better communication by not using it. Even if in the past it did convey what you wish it still did.
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> we essentialy won the war on terror

Are you from Afghanistan by any chance? Or are you trolling way too hard?
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What makes inflation tricky, both in terms of calculating easily but also in terms of being easily fudged are substitutional products.

Inflation is measured by the price of a representative basket of products. And what’s reasonable to put in that basket today, might not be reasonable tomorrow.

If beef explode in price, people aren’t going to buy steaks, so maybe it makes more sense to change the index away from steaks to pork chops. It’s both a cop-out and the only reasonable thing to do.

The national isn’t poorer just because caviar went from almost free to extremely priced over a century.
In addition, the total lack of cheap but healthy prepared foods. In the USA, "healthy" = "salad" = "$15 at Sweetgreen" or something. But living here in Japan, despite the cost of groceries being consistently higher than it is in the USA, there's an huge variety of healthy $5-10 meals, as well as healthy, low-calorie/high-protein snacks easily available at any convenience store (that are actually delicious - dried seafood and pickled veggies are a favorite), that simply doesn't exist in most of the USA.

For instance, I just had a grilled fish lunch set meal (teishoku) similar to this one [1] with miso soup (full of veggies), pickles, eggplant and small bowl of rice for $6 today, which based on similar meals at chain stores that publish calorie counts, probably amounts to maybe 600-750 calories with around 30-40 grams of protein. If you're hungry maybe choose a pork cutlet instead for the same price, or add a side dish for $1, or switch to a larger serving of rice for free.

That said, even if those options were available, convincing Americans that "tasty" is not equivalent to "supersaturated with butter and corn syrup" is a difficult proposition...

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/%E3%82%B...