skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. They don't sell that much, and more importantly they sell at a far higher price because the market went up. So they comparatively sell more. Studies we have on older people is that they do not actually liquidate theory holdings. What they do is get more loans to invest in rent, backed by their holdings. Or they reduce their money need, by stopping investing in their holdings.

2. Most Boomers are only starting to retire. And they have enormous needs. Plus university endowments, charities funds, etc also are institutional investors. The problem is do they sell. These days usually they only sell to shares buybacks, which actually reinforce the problem.

3. Move pensions to a government tax funded redistributive system, so the income of today pay the pensions of today. Tax land and housing ownership heavily, except for primary house (with a limit based on family size probably for primary house). Heavily (massively. Like 90% at least) tax inheritance. We have good economics support for these, even in heavily capitalistic and neoliberal economic circles. The problem is political. The Boomers will not vote for it, it would take away from them.
I hadn't considered it before reading your comment, but it seems plausible when I google "air density vs temperature". It seems a few degrees is enough to change the density by several percent, and IIRC density is proportional to the lift you get.
N26 is German fwiw similar to Revolut
I don't see mention of the Polish judicial system in the article.

It mentions a "a Polish arbitration court whose very existence has been questioned by experts in the country" and "Agnieszka Durlik, director general of the Court of Arbitration of the Polish Chamber of Commerce, says she has never heard of it."

If it doesn't exist, then it can't be part of the Polish judicial system.
this is very, very true. I found out long ago that I have a favorable reaction of calm clarity and default to logic instead of freezing or overreacting, and I also found out that without training I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. I would much rather be hyperventilating and shaking but have a clear training-based plan of action than to calmly realize I'm useless at the moment. I still do my best, but I think people overvalue clear thinking in the moment.
A lot of things that I know how to do now seemed impossible at some time: driving a unicycle or even a bicycle... playing piano with two hands!? Impossible!

We all have memories of that moment when something "clicked" and we just "got it", but most of us forget about when we did not know!

My point is: even though a particular musical piece (or any other creative activity really) may look impossible, who knows, after enough practice, it may "click" and become as easy as walking! The fact that someone was able to do the thing, means it must be doable :-).
You are clearly on a mission.

The key thing that I think you are missing is that you are conflating miners with mining engineers.

You have very specific experiences and are close to mining in a way that the broader public isn't. To lost of the broader public, when they say miner they mean a guy that's all black from digging coal carrying a pick axe.

The grandparent comment was referring to that, old, industrial revolution image of a miner. You shouldn't take offense.
>Isn’t it widely recorded that handwashing only came to be a norm mid-1800s?

You're mixing up two completely different modes of washing. The one related to medicine in XIX is about washing hands in lime solution. Pop science magazines always miss this part to make it feel more sensational I guess.

Washing visibly dirty hands (e.g. with soil, grease, or blood), often using sand as an abrasive cleaner, and ashes to dissolve fat, or (depending on one's wealth) a real soap was a norm for a very long time before.
[Edit: added the last para]
There was a time when many of us on this board lived in buildings without personal bathrooms and only shared facilities. Dorm style housing could work.
Oh yes, the license is definitely not great. But it's also much better than it could have been, and at least gives official assent for the model to be used for the majority of commercial and non-commercial purposes, which is better than what we had with the first leaked Llama.
> once you get a national ID or residence permit in some of them then the card will contain a chip with a certificate that can be used for public key crypto

H.Can you use them at home to sign lime a rent agreeement or something? What equipment do you use them with?
I guess if you doom and gloom about a recession long enough you can slow down the economy.
Have any references?
It's even simpler than that, PAUSE just prevents the CPU from trying to speculatively execute across iterations.
Yeah, in Czechia you pay approx. 1,5 eur for a verified signature. Your identity is verified against your national ID or passport. Every post office, every notary and every barrister can do that.
I’ve stopped tipping at places where I wouldn’t have normally tipped pro-Covid. Probably perceived as an A-hole by the service worker, whose pay wasn’t raised in liu of tips. What irks me more are businesses who tack on a service fee (disclosed in small print on the menu) to cover minimum wage increases.
git has been around since 2005. It's ubiquitous. And yes, I think it's a short-sighted and not-great decision to build your own version control system. Whether you're the lead developer of the unix kernel or just some guy writing your own scripts, it's not a good decision. Your title doesn't have much to do with that.
There is a difference between what is perceived as effective communication and what is actually effective communication. More communication for the sheer sake of more communication almost never means more effective communication or coordination.
Tax havens are generally pass-through entities of a sort, they're not spending billions of dollars on cocktails in the Caymans. The passage through is just disguised well enough to avoid being taxed.
Well, do not disagree with that, but the first thing which need to vanish is the excuse of everyone that they have no idea. And a single incident by a regular court process would be enough to fire the supervisor.

It is a tool in the end. How effective depends how you use it.
What do you think are the reasons then?
I know this has been getting a lot of attention, but tips are out of control.

I recently went somewhere and was forced to tip — as in, 0 USD/% was not an option — for literally doing nothing but ringing me up. The minimum amount was 25% of the bill.

Tips are becoming another mandatory hidden fee, which is a form of bait and switch. Wages shouldn't be part of that and it shouldn't happen either way.
It took me six, and I had to accept a contract-to-hire position. I’m feeling pretty fortunate nonetheless, as it’s in an industry I wanted to get into, but it will still be another relief when I (hopefully) get that W-4.

Don’t lose hope. Things can seem hopeless until one day, they aren’t.
I think most older buildings are able to be converted, but not the new types of commercial buildings.
> The perpetually growing economy on which this strategy and associated worldview are based is not a safe assumption

Why not? What is the counter-factual (i.e., what should we assume instead and what actions should be taken)? How do I organize my life, finances, and retirement investments otherwise?
> This is still an issue in 2023.

Because its remaining an issue enables "value extraction". Magic wormhole would work if people knew about it but somehow software that promotes itself by honest word-of-mouth has difficulty competing with software that is bundled with Windows or is made by the world's largest advertising corporation.

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

https://github.com/sneakypete81/wormhole-ui
Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Change Its Logo to X
It's quite embarrassing to be paying the lease on an empty office though.

But I suspect this groupthink is not originating from individual companies.
Neither is assuming it is going to come tumbling down all of a sudden. Bears have lost out over and over barring a handful of lucky and well timed bets.

So far the economy growing during your lifespan has been the correct assumption.
>Most likely it's a lack of talent

Lack of talent is not a national issue in Germany. German unis and schools produces great devs, along with the slef-taught "hackers" and tinkerers which are quite numerous there. The whole "talent shortage" in Germany is propaganda from shitty companies engaging in wage suppression, and actually a shortage of pay that keeps decent devs away from such companies.

It's more the lack of good pay/equity to motivate people, but the main issues are the immovable and outdated bureaucracy without any wish to address it, and the heavy top - down approach where top management is clueless and dysfunctional, scaring away the top talent over time and ensuring that only the equally clueless yes-men stay, and the result is what wee can see.

These large German "ships" are only good at bureaucracy, maintaining the jobs and status quo for those at the top, not innovation, efficiency(despite the stereotype) or customer satisfaction.

My favorite about German companies is project management done in Excel, and bosses who don't want to use Jira and demand their seniors send them emails explaining the current work status. You can't make this up.
But that's just a made up number.

The pentagon has failed 5 audits in a row.

Money is not real.
You are missing something. Where else would it go?

The returns do not matter. What matters is finding something.

Also it depends on share buybacks. If they mostly sell to shares buybacks, every sale actually prop up the price. Also uni endowment and charity funds keep growing with rules to never take money out, so they will be the one buying from pensions.

I highly expect stuff to stay bear until we actively work on it.
Whats the layout like? Many office spaces are hard to partition into housing due to not having enough natural lighting, plumbing and other building infra that is built with offices in mind…
That’s not true.

Companies get tax breaks when opening offices and warehouses / factories from local authorities and landlords have quite the sway with the latter.
Honestly, it sounds like there will still be a few pedants who disagree with the phrasing of this new Commandment.

To me, what you described sounds like both Hell and entertaining Theater; Theater the first couple of times, Hell at 3+. It’s alternatively The Ninth Layer Of Hell if I have to provide input at any point for any reason.
I’m happy to say “no” on visits to the USA because I’m just that, a one-time visitor to any establishment. But isn’t saying “no” if you are a regular customer fraught with risk? I've seen Americans who work as wait staff claim on FB or Reddit “If you don’t tip at least X%, you’re going to get some nastiness in your food or your drink next time.”
Assuming the alternative involves driving the costs associated with being at home are still heavily in your and society's favor.
I'd kill to have something like this on Android.
Am I missing something here? Are these lotteries +EV in the first place? How does the lottery expect to make money if that is the case?
https://wobblypaint.com/

Doing the thing that it means to do and isn't cluttered with additional stuff. Don't make me think mentality is great for website design and makes great ux. User interfaces are cluttered with ads now a days and click cookies yes.

AI makes great looking UI's, but the UX isn't that great:

https://www.amazon.com/user-interface-design-concept-art-ebo...

https://www.amazon.com/Sci-fi-warfare-software-interface-con...
Two decades and a pandemic and even then companies are fighting tooth and nail against keeping the (new) status quo.

So much for progress...
Not yet, it is not only boomers. Also return are still high and there is low supply because shares buybacks.

So even if the retirement impacted it, it will take a long time. If ever.
Oh I wasn't meaning to correct you - you mentioned draining, and I know some people don't press it any more than under its own weight like that. (I do prefer it a bit firmer personally though - just not as far as the stuff we get in shops in the UK, which is like rubber.)

I just meant that up-thread cheese sounds like paneer because it is (on its way to being), ricotta is/should be slightly different.
I researched each and chose the ones that sounded relevant to me

I'm not as old as him nor trying to do anti aging. Being >50 has different requirements.

I'm just healthmaxxing
Why not? It doesn't ultimately require increasing resources extraction.

Increasing efficiency or technological capability could have the same outcome
Is it easier than earning nothing because nobody is going to use the building otherwise?
It's probably not a valid contract, assuming a fair hearing. The scammers would not sue the victim here, most likely. They get their money from these schemes purely through fear and anxiety and vague legal threats. A simple, pay us what we tricked you into signing or we'll sue you, often gets an impaired or naive victim to pay up even though they owe nothing legally or morally and the threat is empty.
"I've never had to knock on wood, but I know someone who has.

Which makes me wonder if I could.

It makes me wonder if I've never had to knock on wood.

And I'm glad I haven't yet because I'm sure it isn't good,

That's the impression that I get." - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

I have, and it's not. At least I know that in the moment, I run towards the fire rather than away from it.
Thats poor phrasing on my part. Voters dont generally need IDs in the US. I meant "need" in the sense that IDs aren't even a desired issue in the political process.
I adore this 'game'; you can actually engage with it like a simulation in many aspects. I didn't fully get it until I found myself spending hours optimizing forklift paths between factories and warehouses, and thinking about pedestrian thoroughfares as I expanded my industrial center. Unlike most city builders it's not on a grid, so you have a lot of freedom to just be creative!
Looks good. How about adding some more screenshots/a video on the appstore page?
Typical business leases were 5-10 years. If you weren't willing to commit to 5 years in 2018, nobody owning a building in a major CBD wanted to see you. You could get sublets from businesses that wanted to recoup costs while moving to a bigger space, or space at the fringes or outside of the CBD.

The leases are just starting to run out.
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Note that this is now in Finder, not iTunes, as of.. some recent MacOS? 11?
Martin Luther might not have nailed his 95 Theses to the church door (2018)
Boeing engineer builds home wind tunnel
The author implies that because there are presently certain social customs that it is logical to presume that these customs are inherent to the human condition.

It is not logical to presume so.
I’ve only worked for 15 years but I already know if the inheritance I’ll be leaving to my nieces and nephews will be taxed at 90% I will just retire sooner. And I’m center-left.
On the cargo culting point. I just want to add. You can actually get pretty far by apeing what you've seen before even if you don't totally understand. You should definitely try and understand and figure out why it works but you can still get by without it sometimes.
I want good software. For client/consumer stuff, it seems necessary to pay for it. Though I run lots of Linux in my life too. But Linux makes a terrible laptop experience, and a terrible phone experience.
The solution is state-backed asymmetric cryptography, ideally with the private key on a hardware token that is protected by a pin. There would need to be a process for replacing a lost or stolen key, but that process could require physical presence.
> Imagine editing a spreadsheet like `cat foo.xls | select-cell B3 | replace '=B2+1' > foo.xls`.

It would be even more cumbersome than that. After that command you'd have to restore foo.xls from a backup, and then do the edit again this time remembering that the "> foo.xls" executes before the pipe executes. :-)

I wonder if anyone has written something to make pipes like that work? E.g., write two programs, "replace" and "with" that could be used like this:

replace foo.xls | ... | with foo.xls

What "replace [file]" would do is set a write lock on the file, copy the file to stdout, then release the lock.

What "with [file]" would do is copy stdin to the file, after obtaining a write lock on the file. I think most shells would start the components of a pipe in order so "replace" should be able to set its lock before "with" tries to get a lock, but to be safe "with" could be written to buffer incoming data and only start checking the lock after it has received a significant amount or seen an EOF on stdin. Or "replace" and "with" could coordinate using some out-of-band method.
It's not "sewer gas".

It would be natural gas that leaked in.

Normally it would not be the sewer since it should be sealed, unlike storm water, but many cities still mix sewer and stormwater. You can see the pipe is actually square in some pics, which is not normally sewage in developed places.

Gasoline in the sewer occasionally happens, but there's no reason to think that happened here.

I'm surprised no terrorists have tried gasoline in the sewer. Or maybe they have and it doesn't work and just like lazy universities they don't write up the null hypothesis.
I guess the real question is do they have to be competent if they can hire 3 of them for the price of 1 in the US?

Edit: Thought I would add my current experience with this. My company is replacing contracted staff with permanent staff but out of South / Central America. The salaries are pretty much 1/4 of the US salaries. The people I am given to thumbs up / thumbs down (and that's very much what it is) are just ok. A couple are good but the rest are meh. I am allowed to thumbs down maybe 1 out of every 4 before I get push back. So this is very much a real thing where the US engineers are stuck filling in the gaps when the company onboards very cheap but not very good engineers.

I am curious to see how this plays out in the long term
https://archive.is/7IF4T
Companies hire during growth because that's just what you do to please the shareholders. I highly doubt a large portion of those who were hired were actually productive and producing any value for the company.
Definitely. According to the OED, "ape" included monkeys before the word "monkey" was introduced in the 16th century, and even after that any primate without a tail was an "ape", including the "Barbary ape", as it is still often called.
Probably the boomers are not liquidating their stock market assets until very last minute - after all it’s pretty liquid so personally I would only sell if I really needed the money or had an a idea of where else to put it for a better short term return.
Many boomers also have rental income from properties and other forms of savings.

Finally on average people of that generation tend to save more than they need and still have money leftover when dying.

So based on that I would say don’t expect heavy liquidation from the boomers ever.
Looks interesting - I tried to build it but got:

[ 2176412 ERROR C:\Users\user\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f\wgpu-0.16.0\src\backend\direct.rs:1174] Shader translation error for stage ShaderStages(NONE | FRAGMENT): FXC D3DCompile error (0x80004005): C:\Users\user\git\Egregoria\called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value(432,18-24): error X3005: 'ddx': identifier represents a variable, not a function

(Windows 10)
For all their faults, it seems that official Polish courts never even touched this scam.
We really need national legislation on this. Sales tax being added on is one thing, but tipping is really per business and it will only get worse.
I think the reason is simpler - the leadership has no vision, they sont know where to apply the engineering talent.
It says the rational[e] for the atrium like that was that there is a subway line beneath. I’m not certain a subway line underneath necessitates the building above ground expressing that bisection.

One they could have hidden the compensating structure underground or two they could have moved the building a few meters one way or the other to avoid bisection altogether, so to me it seems more like a perfect excuse to realize some fanciful architecture.

It’s not as if we don’t build buildings over busy roadways or subway lines elsewhere.
I don't mind if it's 100% up to date or perfect, but I'd only trust it if I can see somewhere that it's not been stuck not syncing and I can have a look at the sync logs. There's nothing worse than thinking you are covered whereas you weren't and you could not know about it.

"Don't worry it will work" isn't satisfying enough in my opinion. Maybe it's because I'm a software dev but I know things can break, bugs do happen and I know by experience it's necessary to have a place to check the status of it.

Back to my example where I help my father, I bought some extra storage to my father because he got an email that icloud was full. How long do I need to wait before the iphone is fully synced in order to format it? There's no way to know.
Yes, but so do the costs of the commute. How much wear and tear is that 55min/41 mile commute on the worker's car - or more rarely how much does that train/bus ticket cost monthly?

Some of the cost is always borne by the workers. And most people don't realize just how expensive wear and tear on a car is (or just owning one to get to work independent of wear and tear).

Personally, I'd take the wear and tear on the house over time lost commuting.
Many city centers used to be a lot more varied and interesting (and depraved at nights) a few decades back. I guess its possible with falling rents they could become more interesting again.
It's not easy but it's also just like an ordinary phase of construction. They have to strip it down and replumb it, which in construction also just looks like drilling big holes through the floor.

What they're saying is the buildout from commercial to apartments involves more work than the buildout from one commercial client to another.
The worst cases of pointless busy work I've seen were when everyone follows an out of date plan that they know is out of date because the effort to change it is too high.
Id say that it’s insignificant. Moreover one can write off office equipment. The stress and wear on daily transportation to and from offices is far more significant at that: wasted time, energy, pollution.
Time and flexibility is worth much, much more to me.

I agree that employers should pay for adequate equipment (desk, chair, additional monitors, a great camera and headset, not just the laptop). A reasonable sum of money for mortage/rent and utilities should also be considered.

Though be careful what you wish for. One of the advantages of home office is that commuting time is not paid (with the somewhat reasonable justification that people can freely pick where they live and it’s not the employer’s job to subsidize those living far away). I think if those at home get something for the additional rent/mortage and utility use then those commuting should also get something for their commute time and lost flexibility. So in the end that comes to me out in a wash and I’m generally fine with no one getting anything.
I recommend the author's interview on the Ludology podcast about his work on the book:

https://ludology.libsyn.com/ludology-276-text-messages
https://retroshare.cc/