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by jlmorton 6y ago
While I realize we don't always have a logger wired up, it's also easy to implement this in standard logging. %(filename_lineno)s will give you the filename and line.
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I don't think you're being voted for a non-left opinion, and Hacker News certainly allows for non-left opinions more than most other forums. You're being downvoted for a nonsensical opinion.
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At the same time, out of the rest of the new super-heavy launchers under development, New Glenn, Vulcan, SLS, Ariane 6, and Long March 9, none have flown. Yenisei is expected in 2028. Meanwhile, SpaceX continues welding sections of their n
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by jlmorton 6y ago
Fair point. But you could just as easily pick neighboring Georgia, where 9.6% of the population is 65 and older. Same result.
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I don't think the liabilities are going to shrink on their own, I'm just trying to put the total cost in perspective. You see a lot of people talk about the unfunded pension liabilities in apocalyptic terms. And when you hear fig
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> and all the old people died. California is a geographically large state, but the bulk of the population lives in dense coastal areas. Given that, you'd expect California to have a very high death rate from Covid. But it's
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The number only reaches $1 trillion when you're talking about the entirety of pension liabilities, not unfunded liabilities. The entire liability is $1.05 trillion. To put this in perspective, even if you assume zero investment return
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First of all, it's not 1T. The figure cited in that article includes not just unfunded pension liabilities, but all state and local debt. We're talking about California's State finances here, so the figure you're citin
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Did you miss the part where there's been a massive pandemic and sky-high unemployment for the past year? California had the nation's healthiest budget prior to the pandemic, with the highest per-capita surplus, largest rainy day f
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We still don't have the exact CVR transcript from the Ethiopia Airways crash, but we have a description of it, and it appears the crew followed the runaway stabilizer checklist. They were certainly aware of the Lion Air crash. Howeve
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by jlmorton 6y ago
Just to add a bit more color on size: Starship itself is about 50m in height, somewhat shorter than the full Falcon 9 stack (70m). Starship has a much larger diameter though, at 9m vs 3.7m for Falcon9. But Starship is just the second stage
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> Streaming brings in a fraction of cent per play so his catalog can't be generating more than a million dollars per year at best. Wow, I think that's wildly off the mark. Bob Dylan probably has several billion streams per yea
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I find it interesting that that Havana Syndrome has been experienced by American and Canadian embassy officials in multiple outposts, but apparently no other NATO allies. One thing Americans and Canadians have in common is that we're b
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Alamo Drafthouse doesn't pride itself on throwing people out who talk. Their entire model of shared food, wine, beer, large distances between seats, and waiters moving around the theater naturally increases it. They have this card sys
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by jlmorton 6y ago
More like ten hours at this point for Kinesis
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This is affecting all of us-east-1, not just a single availability zone. Over the past few years, it's become easier to host an application in multiple regions, but it's still a heavy lift, requiring a lot of thought not just from
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by jlmorton 6y ago
It's a reflection of the damage caused by a Category 5 hurricane, and subsequent tropical storm.
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I don't know anything more about this than the two links you just posted, but the article in the Independent and the Politifact Fact Check certainly do not come to the conclusion that this "declaration" is fake. The Independe
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The out of pocket maximum also applies to non-grandfathered group insurance plans. There were some plans allowed to be grandfathered, so the plans wouldn't terminate as non-compliant, but in practice the vast majority of plans termina
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by jlmorton 6y ago
There's an $8,500 annual maximum out-of-pocket per individual under ACA. That's a lot over several years, but it's not going to be retirement-destroying for most SV workers.
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Pretty hard to claim this when Visa decided to massively expand their Global HQ in San Francisco after Prop C passed. The pandemic has thrown things in a wrench, but prior to the pandemic, San Francisco businesses were constrained only by c
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by jlmorton 6y ago
CPI is calculated nationally. The San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC-Baltimore, New York and Boston markets are not the only places in the United States. There are lots of places in this country where you can get a 1 bedroom
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by jlmorton 6y ago
I care deeply about protecting the environment, but environmental protection laws are being weaponized to prevent projects that would markedly improve the environment. That's rather perverse. For one recent and on-going example, look
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It's not a good environmental policy on balance. It results in only about a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions. It does substantially reduce air pollution compared to gasoline. But we have to devote large amounts of land usage to it, de
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by jlmorton 6y ago
War story time. Long ago, I worked for an interesting company that insisted on running its entire business on Linux desktops, all the way back between 1999-2002. Imagine running StarOffice/OpenOffice, Thunderbird, Netscape Navigator,
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No, it makes the case for not finishing the course. It literally concludes with: > The time has come to challenge the maxim “finish the course.” The article says more research is needed, but suggests patients, perhaps in consultation wi
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Of course not, specifically because electrical utilities are granted de facto monopolies, and for that reason are either heavily regulated, or else publicly owned and operated, and because electricity is a modern safety requirement. That is
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If driverless taxi services become cheap enough, they can help with this. Let's build parking garages outside the core neighborhoods, and then remove street parking throughout the city. That's 20 linear feet of space on nearly al
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Yeah, you didn't miss much. Fantastic book nonetheless.
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There are all sorts of inflation-protected assets you can buy. At a basic level, any durable asset will provide inflation protection. But you could also buy things like Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.

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