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I appreciate your response, but this is the same thing I'm annoyed about by the article itself -- it's an article written in English, describing a naughty phrase in Dutch, and then leaves only hints about the real problem. We're all adults here, you can write the phrase without fear of reprimand.

I think it's a little... I don't know, rude? Inconsiderate? to leave the reader with the task of filling in the blanks.
The idea is that the bidder's precision signals confidence, and that low confidence signals amenability to negotiation, and that negotiation leads to poorer outcomes for the bidder. The HBS paper they cite on M&A [0] is most interesting, to my view, in the sense that both players in the M&A "game" are presumably quantitative. One would think a social psychology effect would be less so in a game between quants, but their interviews suggest perceived confidence does matter. The precision signals that the bidder is confident pricing and negotiating analytically.

The thing I am curious about in [0] is that they report the bid price per share, and not (unless I missed it) the asking price. I don't know how M&A "works". If you and I are both estimating the value of a good, if our estimates are close it's one thing and if they are far apart it's another. Are rounders losing because their estimates are less accurate, relative their counterparty's?

[0] https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/16-058_27d73983-...
Sounds like a mild burnout. I don't know your personal situation, but if you've been earning tech salaries for 15 years, maybe you can afford to take a sabbatical? Six months to furbish a nice home, get some therapy, connect with family. Should at least help put things into perspective.
I actually came across JUCE the other day for the first time. I was wondering -would it be a really terrible idea to make a general purpose cross-platform GUI with this?
Agree. I hate my job and clock watch. But I enjoy other things in life. When I get screened for depression it never comes up as a problem. So it seems you can be fine and still watch the clock.
>I love that there are people far more educated than me who are also paid to explore these topics.

Sadly, there's some of us who would explore these topics, yet the pay and some of the conditions surrounding this profession are less than ideal, so to speak.

Also, you might want to study the math around the strong interaction and gravity before making any speculation like that. What is explained to you in words might not be accurate.
> All the forfeited houses from the people who cannot serve their mortgages will flood the market and drive down prices.

I used to think this.

How does your model change if there is a large pool of private equity, ready to buy properties for cash, and turn them into rental units?

Assuming this pool can easily handle the flood (which it looks like it can).
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In the well known tax haven where I live, Finland (sum of taxes and employee part of pension and other social security, 2020. YMMV due to municipalities setting different rates, deductions etc):

30% at 50k
40% at 100k
49.5% at 250k
52% at 500k
53.5% at 1000k

I have these handy in a spreadsheet I use to calculate.. things. (Nope, not making enough yet for special arrangements to make sense. edit: aside from the commonly used tricks my current employer already provides)

Capital gains is 30%-34%.
I was in Copenhagen last week and spoke to a dozen people who all agreed that the housing market there is terrible aswell.
Most certainly looking for a payout. Has anyone been to a thrift store recently? About 30% of people are in need/want of inexpensive secondhand items, while the rest of the crowd — smartphones in hand — are trying to see what can be resold for profit on EBay. This whole “side hustle” economy is killing the thrift store as an source for people in need to find inexpensive goods.
i remember reading something similar (unit conversion) on HN. Maybe someone can link.
We once did an order cancelling feature in crunch. The prompt had a cancel button in green (which will actually cancel order) and a cancel button in white.
Natural tobacco, like I smoke, has a lot more radiation than bananas[1]. In the form of Polonium-210, mostly absorbed from phosphate fertilizers. Turns out the content is actually higher in "organic" tobacco[2].

So as I light this cigarette, I'm going to reflect for the millionth time on why I should've gotten addicted to bananas instead. But all else being equal, either cancer is cured in the next 20 years or we're all dying in a nuclear war, so, smoke up. And eat your bananas.

[1] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2019/ph241/lord1/
[2] https://www.straightdope.com/21343841/does-smoking-organical...
I think off-site backups are the way to go regarding the fire scenario.

Having a print out of where your financial assets are located is a good first step for the scenario you die. This way your next of kin can track them down.

You should save your passwords in an encrypted file that gets backuped.

I've not got a good solution for if your email provider bans you.
As another commenter said it was "one of many things". Also, it's not the fact that it was non-English that was off-putting. It's more the fact that the T_ identifier was used, presumably via a macro.

People are often defensive about PHP, but at the end of the day we choose our tools. I wrote a significant amount of PHP for a brief period and out of maybe 20 or so languages I've used professionally I found it by a wide margin the least pleasant to work with. Supposedly it has improved a lot, and I'm glad if so. But I have no desire to use it again, and am unlikely to ever have a reason to.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnso4nfdM9w
Bari Weiss doesn’t seem to know basic economics. Are all consumer goods perfectly competitive markets? No. Is demand for consumer goods highly inelastic? Yes. Does the author account for collusion? No.

One can’t just say that consumers should find cheaper alternatives. Reality is not so simple. But after reading far too much of Bari Weiss’ writing, it seems clear that all she ever offers is surface level takes.
I think in CA in 2006, they hit 10X. So getting close to crash levels.
Good job linking to a NoJS page without any info lol
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I don't think London throws them out of whack all that much. I'm around Milton Keynes/Bedford so SE but a bit further than most folk would want to commute to London (and I'd imagine a reasonable percentage of the population live within a similar radius of London) and that average house price feels about right. You'd might manage to get a three-bed terrace or two-bed semi for that sort of amount I'd say.
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> I live in a city with a great public transport network but I still need a car

Your experience doesn't match mine. I also live in a city with a good public transport network, but I've never had a car, or felt much need to have one, or even to learn how to drive. For your examples (except the parcel one, which hasn't happened to me and I have no idea how it would happen):

> I need to visit friends or family outside the city

The friends or family I have which live outside the city actually live in other nearby cities. To visit them, I'd take a bus to their city, and then a bus or taxi within that city.

> I have to make bulk grocery shopping sometimes and bags are not enough

Every store large enough that I'd do "bulk grocery shopping" in it has a taxi stop next to it, sometimes even within the store's underground parking floor. So whenever I do bulk shopping on one of these stores, I simply take a taxi.

> I sometimes buy big housing furniture

Every store which sells big housing furniture has the option to send the furniture to your home using their own truck. You might have to wait for the next day (since they batch the deliveries - it's a big truck), but for big furniture, you usually aren't in a hurry.

> Heck, even to go to work, sometimes I'm late, or I missed my bus, or public transports are on strike

If I missed my bus, I wait less than 10 minutes for the next one. If I'm late, public transport is still faster than a car (or a taxi). And if there's a strike, it's true that having your own car might help, but when that happens (and it's not common enough to make it worth it to have a car just for that), the traffic slows to a crawl.
I didn’t make it that far as trying to dismiss the cookie overlay triggered the chat bot instead ;(
"Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely"

Basically just one of those meaningless buzz words that gets thrown around.

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ot...
D: has been here for a while but never caught up, don't even looks “new” enough.

Nim: quite old also, but gained a bit of momentum in recent years and even reached version 1.0 in 2019, after 11 years of development. Doesn't looks like it gained much more since then.

Zig: unstable, experimental and used to be developed by a single person, recently gained a small community of contributors. May be usable in 5 years but not earlier.

Ada: has important marketshare in some industries, but even in the said industries its future is uncertain because not many people want to work with it. For instance, in one of the biggest train manufacturer in the world, Ada has been replaced by C in some sectors because hiring Ada people was too hard.
>For example, the React components can update themselves, without having to go through a central authority. Also, each component has its own internal state. This state is managed by the component itself.

This is why I make sure to use Redux in every single projects, no freedom for these components!
Me too. It's like they don't want people to use their website. Strange decision.

Put the search box on top, and all the secondary fluff at the bottom.
it's an acronym, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. So if you're struggling to read books say, "Finish this book by the end of the month" is:

Specific: read the book
Measurable: no ambiguity as to whether you've read it
Achievable: a month is a reasonable amount of time to finish a book in
Relevant: read a book to improve your reading habits
Time-bound: it's not a project that'll hang over you for ages, you're done at the end of the month
Rust doesn't have linear/relevant types, only affine types.
Some examples of directly measurable KPIs:

1. Mood diary

2. Time spent on social media, negative

3. Hours of sleep

4. Steps walked, number of repetitions in exercise, calories burnt

5. Psychometric tests (help measure mental clarity) https://openpsychometrics.org/

6. N-back: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0220...

7. Active vocabulary test to measure available crystallized intelligence

8. Biomarkers, for example the simple Levine PhenoAge clock: https://michaellustgarten.com/2019/09/09/quantifying-biologi...

You don't gave to measure every one of these, of course. In my experience they are more or less correlated: good lifestyle interventions improve many measures at once.

SMART goals regarding these KPIs are pretty obvious.
Manditory youtube on the cobra chicken. Leads down a fun rabbit hole of people in nice suits being attacked by birds that weigh less than thier briefcases.

https://youtu.be/GvkkDRiLYkI
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How could anyone trust you to respect women in the workplace?

HN is a sausage fest, which is why you get these male insular views here, but the majority of university graduates are now women. Your attitude is an impediment to recruiting them.

If you doubt that this guy is harmful to the workplace environment, keep reading down this thread.
The probability of an average person being able to afford to live in a home in a "nice area" is much higher in Sweden and other countries with rent control than in countries without. There is no shortage of homes, there is a shortage of homes that people can afford.
> it is easy to be a cause of error and just throw the exception, then expect up the stack to handle it.

Agree, this can happen. Perhaps the bad attempt at fixing this in Java for instance - checked exceptions, made people dislike exceptions ever more. The caller "has to handle" the exceptions or re-throw them of course. Even though RuntimeException's can come from anywhere at anytime, so "guard" provided by checked exceptions just made a complete mess of things. People are lulled into thinking that methods without the 'throws BlaBlaException' signature are safe and so on.

I guess no language is 100% on everything, but I've always felt that exceptions are one thing I really like; especially when a language manages to do them correctly.
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Real incomes cant keep up with compounding, especially when the latter is basically tax free. It's driven by capital gains, not salaries.

What's most depressing to me is that the only time a party promised to slow down this madness they were destroyed in an election.

People voted for this. The majority voted for this.
Can you provide any notable examples?
OK, I'm not into Rust. It just seems a bit too complicated :-)
Maybe because France use the long scale, so a billion is a million millions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale#French-sp...
In almost two decades of PHP programming, I can remember that I was 'forced' by a webhost to update my code only once. They went from PHP5 to PHP7 - if I recall correctly - and I had to change some MySQL function calls to MySQL PDO.

It was slightly more work than changing function calls, but if my code had been object oriented at that time, it would have cost me one hour max. Your mileage may vary for bigger code bases.

Edit: okay, make that two hours.
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Some of the earliest LTE devices did data over LTE and voice over 3G. Notably this applies to the iPhone 5s does not support voice over LTE - which you commonly see on Android devices as VoLTE. There’s a variety of other devices in the the same situation. The user experience on these devices often does not make it clear that audio is going over 3G.

This has caused many people to get notified of incompatible devices that they thought would work. The devices do continue to work, for now, but as 3G is shut down in a staggered fashion, they’ll seem like they work until the owner tries to make a phone call or realizes they haven’t received a call in a while.
They are probably looking to expand into the market vacuum left by Silk Road, lol

Next week they will do 'medications'?
You forget energy storage.
Pretty sure that's just the market getting efficient.
if your government uses windows and their services, they are either corrupt, or doesn't care about security, including geopolitics, and surveillance from foreign countries

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30803000
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This is genius. Attention to detail and quality of the writing and delivery is amazing. The fact that the watch in the first animation also shows accurate time reminds me of the 9:41 in each iPhone screenshot when Steve Jobs was doing the Apple demos. Sweating such details indicates a labour of love.
Never run from a Turkey. With them you need to square up, puff out you chest, spread out your arms, and make loud aggressive noses.
and the trend is clearly and strongly towards fewer owners.

Look at the percentage of houses bought by PE vs individuals in 2021.

https://www.redfin.com/news/investor-home-purchases-q3-2021/
Real-Estate Investors Bought a Record 18% of the U.S. Homes That Sold in the Third Quarter

yes, I know 18% < 1/3. But I also know that 18% > 6%, which was the figure in 2000.

the trend is pretty obvious.
Fun fact: just as the Chinese (and I think other asian cultures) utilize "rice"(their staple grain) as a synoym for a meal so in English we use the concept of a staple grain as a synoym for a meal: meal.
A friend of mine is selling his 1 bed terrace (about £200K) and the prospective buyers are older than they would have been twenty years ago - in their 30s not their 20s is the impression I get. I imagine there are large mortgages too. Possibly some help from parents or inheritances as well. And couples so two salaries.
This also often worked on ebay for me, e.g. if you are willing to spend 60 $currency on an auction, make your highest bid 61.52 or something like that. The extra 1.5 dollars/euros/whatever doesn't really hurt but if there's many people who'd want to win the action for a similar price as you, it can be the distinguishing factor.
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If you have not been able to do this at least 5 times last quarter - why not? What can we do to allow for that to happen.

This is an example of an actual goal I have for members of my team - it is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic/Relevant and Time-bound.
It's also tangential to the OP's topic here in a couple of ways.

Good things happen when you allow for slack, but we often put too much pressure on ourselves, and won't allow it.

I'm looking at it as a bit of "lucky lotto":

https://danlebrero.com/2021/06/30/cto-dairy-lucky-lotto-chao...
> I've already had a few uncomfortable conversations about when I'll be coming back

If they truly care for you, they'd understand that where you are right now is better than back home. If a place is expensive and unaffordable, the best option for you (and anyone really) is to leave.
Agreed. For some reason, translation is considered secondary, and many websites resort to automatic translation tools. They produce content that seems "good enough" but often result in snafus like this.

A proper translation company would cost a lot more, sure, but the results would be orders of magnitude better.

This is somewhat similar to the way money is spent on making movies. Pennies are saved during the writing process, and millions wasted on stars, locations, special effects, to shoot pointless scenes in stories that make no sense.
> I would argue that "usable by everyone" is an unreasonable goal which tends to result in catering to the lowest common denominator.

Extremes are always unreasonable, the goal should be to support everyone that you reasonably can. Nobody is telling anyone to make their tools work for the blind deaf and mute quadruple amputee - but that does not mean that it should be acceptable to completely ignore the variations in capability of people wanting to use your product.

> To apply this analogy to web accessibility, consider WCAG 2.5.5 Target Size -- in order to pass, click targets must be 44px by 44px. Seems reasonable right? Try designing a desktop spreadsheet program with 44x44 click targets. It's basically impossible to do in a way that doesn't severely impair the design for people who can click smaller targets.

Blindly following guidelines leads to problems, yes. But you can achieve the goal of making the spreadsheed usable for someone who has trouble with small click targets: For a desktop program you should consider adding efficient and discoverable keyboard navigation so that noone needs to click anything. This will help power users as well as those with fine motion problems. In general, a program, unlike a physical staircase, is also something that can dynamically adapt to the needs of the user. For example you could make your spreadsheet zoomable. For a desktop program it could be OK to rely on third-party (or platform-provided) zoom utilities - just don't write your program in a way that makes those impossible to use.

For buildings such dynamic adaption is not as feasible and so we make compromises that require some people to rely on others for help in incommon situations. But even there we should do what we resonably can - for in many parts of the world public buildings do have wheelchair-accessible entrances these days, even if the emergency exit is a stair.
> the black hole was 55 million light-years old. It is 55 million light-years away.

Are these not basically the same thing ?
Generally for EC2 AWS is transparent about which CPU model and clock speed they are using.

For other services, not so much. Like, is 1 CPU / Memory in Fargate the same as in App Runner and Lambda?
My guess is that the suggested search is a common or trending search term. Then in most languages they apply a naughty-word list filter, but in other languages perhaps their filter is non-existent or in-exhaustive.
"Features" was probably the wrong word for me to use. What I was referring to is interface + customizability.

The STL map allows you to:

- specify the key/value types

- specify the equality predicate

- specify which hash function to use

- iterate over values

along with a host of other things that most users don't initially need but they might need in the future.

You could implement something that has feature parity in C++ or ideally find a battle-tested library that does.

Using C, however, you'd have to sacrifice type safety and possibly readability. Yes it can be done, and yes it can be done correctly. But it's tricky and difficult to ramp up on for the new developer. This is the one that you should be careful about adopting.

My philosophy is to use the STL containers because they're familiar and they're more than good enough for 99% of the use cases out there. Developer time has a premium, and this saves developer time.

If you need performance because you're constrained by CPU cycles or if you're running at scale (Google for example), by all means reach for something better.
The whole idea of "NSFW" is hypocrisy. It has to die for good. Every time something "NSFW" breaks out - that's awesome.

There are things/words we all have seen/heard but somehow are meant to pretend we have not. This is absurd. This is why many problems exist and can't be fixed - because we are taught the way of thinking/speaking when we pretend living in a version of reality different from what actually is real, even when we are perfectly aware of that.
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also three letter shorter, so a definite improvement.
Yeah, it seems a lot more well-known and I'd rather give my attention to something that isn't a copycat of hard work.
"neukende vrouwen" means "women fucking" in Dutch.

"Höschen für ficken" means panties for fucking in German.

As you see, a hint is enough :P
The "popular search term" theory also fits with incompetence since it's automation run wild :)
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Sometimes shops use the low order bits to encode metadata, e.g. “this is the 20% off price” or “this is ineligible for the sale (discount) going on now”.

Thus $15.20 vs $15.40
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The Dutch text "neukende vrouwen" means "women who are having sex". The German text "Höschen fur ficken" means "panties for having sex".

I agree that for an article obviously intended for an international audience it's weird and lazy not to provide a translation for the very thing that the article is about.
No true scotsman, ay?

Yes, there are many artificial constructs that prevent true free market, but I still do not believe that capital accumulation by capital overs is not an property of this idealistic system. Do You have any real example of invisible hand working (by which I mean not ending with the top dogs holding all the bones) ?