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Yes, you may be right. I haven't kept up with the new laws. I just remember actor Christopher Reeves getting paralyzed from his horse accident and he blew right past the health insurance lifetime cap ($250k or $1million I can't remember). Afterwards, the actor and friend Robin Williams chipped in to help with some medical bills.

If the lifetime cap is gone, some other issue will crop up such as an experimental (and very expensive) cancer drug is not covered by insurance but you want to pay out-of-pocket to try it.
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The conclusion to this is very strange. There's vast amounts of people on both sides of this deal that come into the fray in black and white. What I mean is they're either totally for or totally against. I've watched one of these presentations to the EU Parliament and the MEPs completely shredded the negotiators on ISDS. And yet there are still people concerned that the European Parliament is somehow going to lower standards and screw the public over.

The final few paragraphs state that if one EU member votes against TTIP then they will be blamed for not facilitating growth. Yeah, by lobbying companies, but not by the people. The EP have generally been the 'good' guys in history, and I highly doubt that they're going to U-turn and go against everything they created in the past few decades by allowing multinational companies to lobby them into lowering standards.

It's all very sensational and the media takes a very jazz hands approach to presenting the happenings to the public, when in actuality if one did a little research, you would find that the documents that exist right now present the opposite case of what the public believes.

If TTIP is horrible, I still have faith that our MEPs will reject it. But we're not anywhere near a final document to vote on, so I don't think we should be running around waving our hands in the air just yet.
Yes, the ACA prohibits lifetime limits on essential health services. There are things that are insurable that do have caps, but if your kid gets sick, the ACA says there's no limit to how much insurers have to cover.
Mozilla could be just as easily compelled to turn over user data as Pocket, they're both US companies bound by US law.
Exactly.

Many of the people who work on string theory obviously believe it to be true in one way or another; it's hard to stay motivated otherwise. But the rest of the world need not care whether it is true or not. For the time being, it's just one untested hypothesis among many.

It can take years (or even decades) for a theory to grow to the point where it can produce testable hypotheses, and more decades (sometimes even centuries) to test those hypotheses. This is especially true for theories that deal with extreme scales of space and/or time, such as cosmology, geology, paleontology, and (at the other extreme) anything that deals with subatomic particles.

Gravitational waves [1], for example, have been predicted for almost a century now, but we still don't seem to know how to build a machine to detect them.

The last time this topic came up, I wrote a response titled "Why so impatient?" I'll leave the link below [2] in case anyone is interested.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

[2] https://www.kijinsung.com/post/why-so-impatient
The dynamics of capitalism put wealth into the control of its wisest custodians - frugality being defined as among the wise virtues in this context.

For those who argue that democratic government is the wisest custodian, e.g. there is estate taxation and government redistribution and investment.
I think it really depends on the kind of life you want whether one million is enough to live off. There is this guy, "Mr Money Mustache", that preaches a "frugal" lifestyle as a means of retiring very early with less than a million in the bank. On his blog he talks extensively about this.

In particular, he provides some evidence that it's safe to spend 3-4% of your assets every year, indefinitely, if you invest in index funds. That means that it's enough to safe about 30 times your annual expenses. For me, that would be around 650000 Euros. A million certainly would cover this, and have something left over for extreme crisis.
TL;DR: fck power users.

Well, fair game, given that those power users can switch browsers in the blink of an eye (). All my hopes go to the Vivaldi browser now.

The only problem is that these power users promote your browser and installed it on grandma's computer, and who make your precious extensions on occasion, often for free. Don't be surprised if you need partnerships now.

(*) Well, thinking about it normal users can also switch browsers in the blink of an eye, too. All it takes is Flashplayer update that sneakily install Chrome as the default browser. Just sayin'.
Democracy is a bad ideal that is much inferior for economic prosperity than one party states/kingdoms like Singapore, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Qatar who have a high degree of economic freedom. This deal would increase prosperity and trade and prevent unelected bureaucrats on both sides of the atlantic from restricting commerce with oppressive laws.

If only US and EU weren't a democracy, but allowed full blown economic freedom, we would all have plenty more money in our pockets.
Do you have a (more or less) formal description of the type system?
"And while they own three homes — condominiums in Naples and Boca Raton, Fla., and a house in Lebanon, Pa., where they grew up, none of them are huge. One splurge is an annual trip to Italy."

Frugal? Is this a joke?
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You are mixing pro sports with people playing casually. Pro sports is about players pushing themselves to the limit for the audience's entertainment. Modern day gladiators. You think of society like some noble, all-knowing and wise entity. It is not, I'm sorry to tell. Modern day gladiator games is all there is to it and the crowd loves it.

Panem et circenses.
While your are correct in a fundamental physics way, you might be ignoring the details of human chemistry and its resulting psychology impact. There's are reasons for the relatively recent obesity epidemic. Those reasons are rooted in the misguided dietary recommendations to reduce fat in favor of increasing carbs.

https://www.thebairs.net/2015/05/recommended-reading-why-we-...
Frugality is easiest to practice as a habit. E.g. rather than regard entertainment as an expense, frugal folks make simple errands and tasks into their entertainment.

Also frugality is not about showing off, except among frugal friends comparing notes.

Another factor its that not advertising one's wealth is an inexpensive form of household security.
You can create expression-based indexes on anything. That has been possible with regular JSON for a while now and it still works with JSONB.
That's not entirely true, not everything is garbage collected. With some care, you can get a whole lots of things allocated on the stack. Tooling can also help you figure if things escape to the heap.

You can also control the size and number of objects your program creates, which impacts the performance of GC. Sure you can't pick a GC from a stack of GCs, but you do have many things in your hand to control how memory will behave.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Java compiles to byte code which is then JITed for the processor on which you're currently executing - I don't need to recompile for every platform and I still get native performance. This has been Java's primary strength since the introduction of JIT. Even better, I don't have to use Java to create the byte code. My favorite happens to be Clojure but you have several language options to suit your needs.
football in italy has unions, but the same pattern applies.
Cannot read the article, however, we should be careful about the definition of "millionaires".

If we define "millionaires" as the individual with 1M of worth asset you are definitely right.

If we define "millionaires" as High-Net-Worth individual (HNWi), the people who have at least 1M in investable finance without counting the primary residence it start to get more interesting.

However, if we define "millionaires" as individual with a net profit of 1M in the last fiscal year, they DO NOT have to be frugal :)
I really wasn't trying to be condescending.

Comparing it to zah/bash and ruby illustrates my point. It's got some fundamental differences to those environments. Providing a common argument parser is one. PowerShell is actually more than a Shell. Its an environment that can be hosted in a shell. That's my point. Commands are actually objects that are processed by the environment. If you get passed the "I know how things are supposed to work" attitude and look at how PS is meant to be used to administer a large number of windows systems you would see that it makes quite a bit of sense.

It is different then what you are used to and probably been using since you were in university. I wasn't rude or mean. I certainly can't be as indignant about things as you are while I'm on HN because of the downvote brigade. But hey, like you guys always say...you're right and I'm wrong because you have karma. Honestly, I tend to be pretty sharp when reacting to people as well so I'm trying to not take things as personally.

But your appeal to authority doesn't scare me...I've used stuff for a long time too. I just don't think that I'm better than other people because of it.
Okay, develop a free/open source version. This is how it's been done in the past; you use a proprietary version of something until there's a free software version and then you work on the free software version until it's good enough.

Mozilla is in a heated competition with Google and other proprietary players. It isn't a niche product, it isn't made for a small part of the population. If adding Hello or Pocket to the browser gets more people to use Firefox or stick with it and spurs people to create free/open source replacements then it's alright.

The only thing I dislike is the underhanded way these changes have showed up. As if they knew the loud minority of users/devs wouldn't like it.
I still hold that grief. If not for SC2, we could still be watching another Flash vs Jaedong today. So SC2 basically killed a source of entertainment for me.
> Since Apollo 13 many people have asked me, "Did you have suicide pills on board?"

I would have to imagine that if the circumstances made it obvious that returning to Earth was impossible, the astronauts probably would have chosen to end their days on the surface of the moon. Assuming the LM could land with three on board.
Thats not true in the slightest. I know a pro strongman who doesn't make enough in prize money to cover his training, let alone flying to contests, and I used to work in pro tennis where the bottom tier (still pro players) are borrowing money and living off relatives and national sports grants.
I have no problem with stripping rights as part of the punishment, however, the problem arises when the term of the punishment is complete and those rights are still stripped. Take for example, voting rights. When an offender completes his/her sentence they are expected to become contributing members of society and not recommit crimes. As part of this, common sense would say the individual should get a job and work hard at that job. So you expect an offender to get up go to work and pay taxes, but you don't expect the offender to have a say in how those tax dollars are spent by being able to vote. There are also political motives for permanently stripping voting rights, but that is whole other conversation not suited for HN.

We live in a society where punishment for breaking the law becomes a moving goal post. Offenders are set up to fail in reentry in the US legal system, thus the high recidivism rates we experience. Fortunately there are many programs that are working to reverse this trend, but the fact of the matter is that until we stop moving the goal post on when the punishment ends the problem will never be 100% solved.
A reading list, be it a feature or service, has a workflow suited to easily add and remove articles and view them as a simple list. You can do this with bookmarks — and I do at the moment because it's the best way I've found to sync between Fx on desktop and Android — but there's more friction when managing articles.
Uh, um, did I say that it hasn't?
Agreed; lots of folks have enough passion for cars and driving that a Ferrari is not such a preposterous thing, weighed against its marginal utility; and, the race-inclined Ferraris have turned out to be pretty good investments.
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Everyone's appetite for risk is different.

If I had $10,000,001.00 in the bank, I personally would not feel secure enough to spend $300k on a car (and also pay all the expensive maintenance that it entails.) Since the car is 3% of my available funds, I'd be constantly hyper paranoid about a stray rock being kicked up by the truck in front of me.

If I had $100 million, the $300k car would feel a little more "disposable". If a runaway shopping cart dings it, I'd just shrug it off and buy another one and donate the imperfect one to my landscape gardener.

On the other hand, Elon Musk bought a $1 million Mclaren F1 after the 1999 zip2 sale netted him ~$20 million. Like I said, everybody's risk profile is different and most people including me do not think he's fiscally irresponsible.

I think the nuance that's getting lost in translation is my idea of "affording" to buy an exotic car. Yes in mathematical terms, $10 million subtracting $300k leaves plenty left over so one can buy without requiring a loan and still be "wealthy."

However, my idea of "afford" also includes the state-of-mind after one pays for it. I'd like the luxury of not giving the super car no more thought than a Toyota Camry. If I'm paranoid about the car, I can't "afford" it no matter what my bank account says. The car is ruling over me instead of the other way around. The cost of ownership is too high (this includes "mental costs"). The threshold isn't "how much money I need to buy the car without a bank loan" but "how much money so that the car feels disposable."
One is an idea, the other is reality.
Now, i'm waiting for sqlite to add native support on json & xml data type
Soylent 1.4 has a grainy/nutty taste, similar to almond milk with oats.

If you like those flavors, then you'll probably like Soylent. I spike mine with a healthy amount of chocolate protein powder (Isopure) and coconut oil since I do better with less carbs in my diet.
Why wouldn't we get those things due to Google having gone public? It seems they are working on them despite having gone public.
>figuring out what our government is spending our money on

FTFY
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This is actually a common issue with charities; there are few sources of data on their effectiveness and no one wants to poke the dragon so to speak because there are hundreds of thousands transferred each day to charities.
Not sure how the non profits work, but aren't there laws to force them to publish all their fundraising data and expenses data? Last week there was an article on how a cancer nonprofit raised tens of millions of dollars, only to be swindled by the family running it. They were during it for a while before getting caught.
I've gotten some great information from that reddit subgroup, especially on some of the variants of Soylent that people have created.

I have some Keto Chow on order to see how that goes.
Compound interest? Where? The interest rates are such that inflation would destroy whatever gain you have. Nearly all savings accounts are paying an annual yield of less than 1%! That means WITH compounding, you're looking at a 1% or lower gain. Inflation is typically between 1-4%, with 2% being the benchmark in terms of financial planning, though admittedly in April, we had slightly negative inflation, but that trend won't continue.

Investing is the only way to build wealth. It's impossible to save your way to financial freedom. If you make an average of $100K per year from age 30-60, that's $3 million in income. Assuming about 35% in state, local and federal taxes, that leaves you with $65K per year. Now, you're saving 10% of that per year, that's $6,500 saved per year. With a 1% rate, at the end of 30 years, you have about $229K. Assuming you live to be 80, that's $229K that needs to earn enough to pay your bills. Even if you saved 20%, you'd still not even have $500K at the end of 30 years.

With the same 20% savings rate and some reasonably smart investing (12% returns,) then you'd end up with over $3.5 million over the same period. If that investing is in real estate, you could potentially earn that gain tax free (or tax reduced) because building depreciation percentages can generally exceed the "profit" from real estate cashflow. On top of that, a 1031 exchange means you can keep selling and trading up to larger and larger real estate without paying a capital gains tax, which means you build even more net worth that can then be leveraged to buy more properties. Most millionaires get there because of property, very, very rarely because they save their way to it. A typical middle-class wage doesn't lend itself well to saving your way to millions. The math just doesn't work, the tax code also doesn't support it.

Frugality isn't the key to success. The $30 you save by washing your own car is peanuts compared to the value of that time doing something more productive (like sourcing real estate or researching investments.) Frugality can actually cost you more money because of the time-value of money. But admittedly many of us have inherited our parents/grandparents' Depression Era, middle-class ethos. It's a classic example of Rich Dad Poor Dad.
Thanks. Yeah, I thought you were an admin. Sorry. But it's really not about "what I don't like", it's about making HN better. These people are not using "Who Wants To Be Hired?" correctly according to HN.
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This is a pretty good design series that breaks down the fundamentals of design for non designers: https://hackdesign.org/
>Let's just be fair and teach the next generations that our countries have been hijacked by corps+lobbyists, and that democracy is just a word used to make people accept their totalitarian power.

You can fight them, you know.
I was voted down for pointing out that what Russia does is not exactly unique(except they're not really good at what they do since they're easy to spot)... so here are some links.

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...

Israel to pay students to defend it online
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-s...

HACKING ONLINE POLLS AND OTHER WAYS BRITISH SPIES SEEK TO CONTROL THE INTERNET
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-o...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_Internet_sockpu...
Surveillance of the users' reading lists, obviously.

Thats what a very large part of the computer industry means when they talk about "monetizing" all of the "big data" they suddenly have. Go back over the last ~decade of goods and services made by internet-related businesses, and you can see a clear trend towards turning features that used to be stand-alone (browser bookmarks), into "free" services. Often this makes the product mildly worse (latency, uptime), which is then lampshaded with a minor feature like bookmark-syncing (which could be done in other ways that do not betray the contents to a 3rd party).

If you have any doubt about anything I just said, I recommend watching the talk I've been suggesting lately by Aral Balkan ( https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html... ). If it wasn't obvious why Pocket was being pushed instead of improving bookmarks, then Aral's talk might just terrify you.
I think Crystal could fit this bill, yes: it has Ruby syntax and the concurrency model will be something like Go (spawn and channels, but we are still working on this). And the code ends up without much repetition, as you have generics, macros, very few type annotations, and things like sort, map, select, inject, etc.

The community likes to call a library as "shard", so I think we'll eventually end up using that name :-)

You can see a list of shards here: http://crystalshards.herokuapp.com/

For now that just lists GitHub repositories. Right now there's a very basic package manager that fetches repositories from GitHub, but it's too basic. Someone is working on a much better package manager ( https://github.com/ysbaddaden/shards ) that we'll probably incorporate in the future.
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I think "frugal" in this context means "spending within their abilities".

In contrast, many lottery winners are bankrupt within 5 years. Why? They're "rich"! They can spend money like it's water! And they do... Then they run out.

As other commenters point out, a million dollars is money, but you still have to be careful. You probably still have to work.

You can go out for dinner three times a week at a reasonable restaurant and not worry about it. You can buy a decent car without it impacting your budget too much.

They're not penny-pinching. They're not part of the 47% of americans who'd have trouble raising $400 for an emergency expense.

But care-free? Nope.

One trip a year to Italy is probably $5K for two people. In comparison, that's like $50 for someone with $10K to their name. It's money, you likely have to plan for it, but it's do-able.
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don't sell yourself short. I used to crack and patch 6502 and i have messed around with webrtc. IMHO they can be equally maddening.

dis-assembling without source code can turn you into a pretty good debugger though.
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What you describe ("hostile science" ... nice phrase) is human nature. Why would we believe this wouldn't happen among scientists?

Also, it's "chock-full" not "chuck full" (I had to look it up and I had another wrong answer for the correct spelling, so I thought it worth mentioning.)
> $URL and $URL?$SPURIOUS_GARBAGE are actually the same URL

They are not, in fact, even if you observe getting the same outcome from using both.
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Where I live, buying rolled oats off the shelf from a regular grocery store will run you $0.00244 per gram. A serving of oats as indicated by the packaging is 3/4 cups or 65.7g of oats by weight. That works out to a whopping $0.1647 per serving. Prices are fairly average if not a little higher where I live so yes most people can get oats for $0.20 a serving. The secret is probably not buying at whole foods.

Honey can be a bit more expensive, for me it's about $0.012 per gram when not on sale. I use around a tablespoon in the morning so that's about 21.25g by weight which gives $0.255 in cost. Once again, that's hardly unmanageable on a daily basis. I don't know how much cinnamon you generally put in your oatmeal but a couple of shakes usually does it for me, not sure what it would be if measured but certainly less than 1/4 tsp. and it takes me a long time to go through a bottle (125g) or bag if I buy the cheaper stuff and refill a bottle ;) so the couple dollars I spend on it only gets shelled out every 2 - 3 months.

You can also order those ingredients from amazon:

50lbs bag of rolled oats $57.99 (0.00255/g) [1]

220z x 3 raw honey $28.80 ($0.0154/g) [2]

18oz. ground cinnamon $8.48 ($0.0166/g) [3]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Regular-Rolled-Oats-Bulk-Pound/dp/B007...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Y-S-Eco-Bee-Farms-Honey/dp/B000Z93FQC/...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/McCormick-Ground-Cinnamon-18-oz/dp/B00...