You need to look at the numbers instead of intuition and guesswork. Real buying power rose consistently, and at a remarkably steep rate compared to most of the word, in the US from the 70s to about 2000. It's been effectively flat since then (lots of short term up and down, but little net effect), mostly because the economy has sucked.
Sure, it takes a few years to shake off the juvenile need to sleep in after years of staying up late partying, or gaming, or binge watching TV shows,
Being an early bird is not a moral virtue. Different people have different circadian rhythms. If yours is naturally less than or about 24 hours, you'll find it easy to get up early, and fatiguing to stay up late. If yours is naturally, say, 25 hours, you'll find the reverse.
Looking at it from the point of view of an (intelligent) employer, I would want to hire employees that were most productive during regular work hours.
Sure, if conformity matters to you more than ability. Makes perfect sense for a manufacturing line, or any number of related jobs that robots do better. But if you need your employees to be creative, you make every allowance for them you practically can, because it's damn hard to find anyone competent, let alone great.
If you make software developers come in early on a regular basis, you'll get the dregs.
Until I was about 40, I wouldn't fall asleep before about 1AM, and lying in bed didn't affect that. Being an early bird is not a moral virtue. Some people naturally stay up late, some naturally rise early.
I've been a developer for over 25 years, and I've never come in regularly at 9AM, and would never accept a job that required that. Real developers are night owls, not early birds (exceptions allowed if your wife makes you drop the kids off at the crack of dawn).
Early to rise, early to bed makes a man poor, stupid, and dead.
Sure. But deferring gratification for long-term gain is precisely what separates humans from animals. Broadening your experience of the world, good and bad, so that you can grow in unexpected ways is an early part of that.
There really seems to be a market for these walled gardens. I don't get it, but then I browse Slashdot at -1. I guess enough people prefer bland innocuous pap to freedom. Well, that's people for you.
Yay! Let's let the state step in and interfere with a contract between two entities!
Even libertarians believe it appropriate for the state to do fraud prevention. Companies promising pensions have a long history of not delivering, either going under before delivering, or getting acquired for the explicit purpose of robbing the pension fund. There's a ton of regulation around this already, and it's still uncertain whether you'll really get what you were promised. Much better to have an employer-matched 401K, where the money is yours all along.
I'd say it's 'actionable' simply because he's very obviously using his position as POTUS to affect a perfectly legal, legitimate, and big (read as: good for and significant to the health of the economy of the Country) private business.
The President can pretty much say what he wants, legally.
I've never ever heard of a POTUS doing such a thing.
I don't remember a POTUS who didn't. For example, I don't remember Obama being very fond of the coal industry.
Trivia question: which US president said:
I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, I will rout you out!
This whole attack on Amazon, on top of the Trump Administration's attacks on free trade and the threat of tariffs, makes me think Americans voted in a 19th century president.
Populism has always been with us, though it bounces randomly from Left to Right looking for a home. Bernie was also big on tariffs and the like.
My view is that Amazon's disruption of retail is not only inevitable (if Amazon hadn't done it, someone else would have, and Amazon is hardly the only one causing the disruption, eBay is up there too), but a good thing. The retail industry has basically remained static for years, and even the "revolutionary" giants like Walmart and Target (with their highly sophisticated JIT inventory systems) had been resting on their laurels.
Yup. Amazon and Walmart both excel in their logistics. Amazon just takes it a bit further, though they're not yet a threat to Walmart. Both are a threat to higher-cost operations.
Why do they get a bulk discount? To keep them from using a competing shipper? Whio is this competitor?
Amazon mostly uses UPS. I had a couple packages delivered by drivers who work directly for Amazon, when I lived in Seattle. No clue how widespread that is.
Because they ship a lot to the same address? Bulk discounts are for situations where you buy 100 of something all the same in a bulk package. 100 packages all to different addresses is not this.
Because they ship a lot from the same address. And that's half the battle.
All defined-benefit pension plans should be illegal: public and private. The private ones are a scam, for just the sort of reason you mention. The public ones just rob our grandchildren for current benefits (i.e., are a different kind of scam).
I remember when folks on Slashdot weren't convinced that every phone conversation in the US was recorded, translated to text, and the text indexed and searched for keywords in real-time. Snowden settled that argument. Seems a bit naive to assume that skype conversations don't get the same treatment - heck, if MS is doing it, it would just be part of the servers.
Their presentation. It seemed to go beyond political objection to intimidation. Oh, they go about it differently from Antifa (opposite, really) but the implication of violence seemed just as strong.
So what exactly is the difference between your fear of your culture fading away, and their fear of their culture fading away? No, seriously, enlighten me? I'm not trying to suggest that your culture should fade away, by any means.
Spoken like a true clueless anglo-saxon that has never lived with the fear of seeing his own culture slowly fade away and go extinct.
Funny, I saw a rally by a bunch of anglo-saxons that live with the fear of seeing their own culture slowly fade away and go extinct. They were carrying tiki torches and chanting "they will not replace us". To me, they didn't seem like models of virtue.
when you cannot be served in english anywhere you go, when you can't find a single book, a single movie, a single song in english anymore. When every single day of your life you feel like a stranger, an immigrant, an outcast, in the very country you were born in.
Yup, that's pretty much exactly what those guys were protesting.
Test tracks are useless here. That's the problem with machine learning - if you test too much in the same environment, the algorithms will "memorize" the test data and still be useless in the real world.
What these companies need to do is put all the needed sensors on millions of cars and collect the data, without actually being self-driving. Problem is, what consumer would pay for that?
Money, power, fame? These do not equate to happiness.
I'll just quote Randy Newman form It's Money That I Love
They say that money Can't buy love in this world But it'll get you a half-pound of cocaine And a sixteen year-old girl In a big long limosine On a hot September night And that may not be love, but It's all right
Cant say it better than the voice of Disney music.
C#, the full language, is years ahead of Java and a far, far better language. So much less boilerplate with C#. Heck, Java is plain unusable without Lombok.
OTOH, until the language has fully rich open source support on Linux, I'll pass. Does seem to be headed that way, however, so I'm hopeful.
More than an anecdote. Everything's on YouTube, except the actual courtroom proceedings. You'll find 100 videos on this, videos after different stages of the trial, etc. Here's the original joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Note that it's still up on YouTube, which shows just how mild it is. I don't think the joke worked - at least I didn't find it funny. more like simple shitposting - but it's quite clearly a joke, not secret Nazi propaganda.
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Allot of it is based on your habits.
Some of it is, some of it isn't. Not everyone is like you physically, you know?
So yes it is actually a moral virtue.
Of course you would think that. Bit of a self-serving belief, no?
The fact that you can do it after 40 just means you've either finally figured it out and/or your body just can't keep up the pace anymore.
Or that the body's metabolism changes as you age.
Try actually listening to other people, you might learn something.
You need to look at the numbers instead of intuition and guesswork. Real buying power rose consistently, and at a remarkably steep rate compared to most of the word, in the US from the 70s to about 2000. It's been effectively flat since then (lots of short term up and down, but little net effect), mostly because the economy has sucked.
Median HHI (but just since 84): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...
The second chart on this page is good, shows quintiles: https://www.advisorperspective...
You might find the total inflation-adjusted growth by quintile enlightening.
Sure, it takes a few years to shake off the juvenile need to sleep in after years of staying up late partying, or gaming, or binge watching TV shows,
Being an early bird is not a moral virtue. Different people have different circadian rhythms. If yours is naturally less than or about 24 hours, you'll find it easy to get up early, and fatiguing to stay up late. If yours is naturally, say, 25 hours, you'll find the reverse.
Looking at it from the point of view of an (intelligent) employer, I would want to hire employees that were most productive during regular work hours.
Sure, if conformity matters to you more than ability. Makes perfect sense for a manufacturing line, or any number of related jobs that robots do better. But if you need your employees to be creative, you make every allowance for them you practically can, because it's damn hard to find anyone competent, let alone great.
If you make software developers come in early on a regular basis, you'll get the dregs.
Until I was about 40, I wouldn't fall asleep before about 1AM, and lying in bed didn't affect that. Being an early bird is not a moral virtue. Some people naturally stay up late, some naturally rise early.
I've been a developer for over 25 years, and I've never come in regularly at 9AM, and would never accept a job that required that. Real developers are night owls, not early birds (exceptions allowed if your wife makes you drop the kids off at the crack of dawn).
Early to rise, early to bed makes a man poor, stupid, and dead.
Cavitating the joint also increases range of motion in the joint. This might be another source of feeling good.
A certain health care profession that gets little respect around here has known these things for a long time.
Paging Doctor Ruby. Doctor Ruby, please pick up the green phone.
this is not new. Some of the detailed analysis might or might not be new, but the main result is known.
You've just described almost all published results in any scientific endeavor.
Sure. But deferring gratification for long-term gain is precisely what separates humans from animals. Broadening your experience of the world, good and bad, so that you can grow in unexpected ways is an early part of that.
There really seems to be a market for these walled gardens. I don't get it, but then I browse Slashdot at -1. I guess enough people prefer bland innocuous pap to freedom. Well, that's people for you.
Yay! Let's let the state step in and interfere with a contract between two entities!
Even libertarians believe it appropriate for the state to do fraud prevention. Companies promising pensions have a long history of not delivering, either going under before delivering, or getting acquired for the explicit purpose of robbing the pension fund. There's a ton of regulation around this already, and it's still uncertain whether you'll really get what you were promised. Much better to have an employer-matched 401K, where the money is yours all along.
I'd say it's 'actionable' simply because he's very obviously using his position as POTUS to affect a perfectly legal, legitimate, and big (read as: good for and significant to the health of the economy of the Country) private business.
The President can pretty much say what he wants, legally.
I've never ever heard of a POTUS doing such a thing.
I don't remember a POTUS who didn't. For example, I don't remember Obama being very fond of the coal industry.
Trivia question: which US president said:
I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, I will rout you out!
This whole attack on Amazon, on top of the Trump Administration's attacks on free trade and the threat of tariffs, makes me think Americans voted in a 19th century president.
Populism has always been with us, though it bounces randomly from Left to Right looking for a home. Bernie was also big on tariffs and the like.
My view is that Amazon's disruption of retail is not only inevitable (if Amazon hadn't done it, someone else would have, and Amazon is hardly the only one causing the disruption, eBay is up there too), but a good thing. The retail industry has basically remained static for years, and even the "revolutionary" giants like Walmart and Target (with their highly sophisticated JIT inventory systems) had been resting on their laurels.
Yup. Amazon and Walmart both excel in their logistics. Amazon just takes it a bit further, though they're not yet a threat to Walmart. Both are a threat to higher-cost operations.
Why do they get a bulk discount? To keep them from using a competing shipper? Whio is this competitor?
Amazon mostly uses UPS. I had a couple packages delivered by drivers who work directly for Amazon, when I lived in Seattle. No clue how widespread that is.
Because they ship a lot to the same address? Bulk discounts are for situations where you buy 100 of something all the same in a bulk package. 100 packages all to different addresses is not this.
Because they ship a lot from the same address. And that's half the battle.
All defined-benefit pension plans should be illegal: public and private. The private ones are a scam, for just the sort of reason you mention. The public ones just rob our grandchildren for current benefits (i.e., are a different kind of scam).
I remember when folks on Slashdot weren't convinced that every phone conversation in the US was recorded, translated to text, and the text indexed and searched for keywords in real-time. Snowden settled that argument. Seems a bit naive to assume that skype conversations don't get the same treatment - heck, if MS is doing it, it would just be part of the servers.
Their presentation. It seemed to go beyond political objection to intimidation. Oh, they go about it differently from Antifa (opposite, really) but the implication of violence seemed just as strong.
So what exactly is the difference between your fear of your culture fading away, and their fear of their culture fading away? No, seriously, enlighten me? I'm not trying to suggest that your culture should fade away, by any means.
Spoken like a true clueless anglo-saxon that has never lived with the fear of seeing his own culture slowly fade away and go extinct.
Funny, I saw a rally by a bunch of anglo-saxons that live with the fear of seeing their own culture slowly fade away and go extinct. They were carrying tiki torches and chanting "they will not replace us". To me, they didn't seem like models of virtue.
when you cannot be served in english anywhere you go, when you can't find a single book, a single movie, a single song in english anymore. When every single day of your life you feel like a stranger, an immigrant, an outcast, in the very country you were born in.
Yup, that's pretty much exactly what those guys were protesting.
Test tracks are useless here. That's the problem with machine learning - if you test too much in the same environment, the algorithms will "memorize" the test data and still be useless in the real world.
What these companies need to do is put all the needed sensors on millions of cars and collect the data, without actually being self-driving. Problem is, what consumer would pay for that?
But that more or less gets you to Level 4, which IIRC is just Level 3 + pull over safely if something goes wrong.
Money, power, fame? These do not equate to happiness.
I'll just quote Randy Newman form It's Money That I Love
They say that money
Can't buy love in this world
But it'll get you a half-pound of cocaine
And a sixteen year-old girl
In a big long limosine
On a hot September night
And that may not be love, but
It's all right
Cant say it better than the voice of Disney music.
C#, the full language, is years ahead of Java and a far, far better language. So much less boilerplate with C#. Heck, Java is plain unusable without Lombok.
OTOH, until the language has fully rich open source support on Linux, I'll pass. Does seem to be headed that way, however, so I'm hopeful.
More than an anecdote. Everything's on YouTube, except the actual courtroom proceedings. You'll find 100 videos on this, videos after different stages of the trial, etc. Here's the original joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Note that it's still up on YouTube, which shows just how mild it is. I don't think the joke worked - at least I didn't find it funny. more like simple shitposting - but it's quite clearly a joke, not secret Nazi propaganda.
Stalin and Mao didn't murder 160 million people in protected classes, they murdered 160 million people who were politically inconvenient.
Not protecting political views is also a licence to discriminate on any grounds you like. See: every totalitarian state ever.