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by logicalmind 10y ago
Here's alternative way to think about this. If you consider the fact that a lot of states are oppressive to their people(minority suppression, anti-choice, anti-environment, etc.) you see that people who can't live under those rul
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Big fan of Leonard Cohen, big loss. I think his Isle of Wight performance is one of the greatest of all time considering what was going on the crowd and how he used his showmanship and calming music to turn things around: https:/&#x2F
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The checks and balances are a republican controlled congress (House and Senate). And a supreme court where republicans will be able to select a majority of the members. The only check and balance left is via a Democratic filibuster.
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A sub-category I find is the "scientist" programmer vs the "engineer" programmer. With the scientist programmer being these category-three people. An engineer will use existing frameworks, technology, standards, etc. to
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I'm a bit of a germaphobe, so I may be over-sensationalizing the risk. But high human density seems to be a dangerous living condition in terms of illness. History has shown numerous plagues that have wiped out vast numbers of people l
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Yeah, that's my point. You're talking about a retirement plan that impacts retired people who vote in droves. For the considerable future, those retirement age people will be baby boomers. They also happen to run the government. S
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I don't really see it as a stark contrast. Pensions and social security may be accounts where money is coming from someone else in the future. But a 401k is only semantically different. You do not own your 401k account in a real sense.
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I highly doubt it would be that direct. A realistic way to do this would be to change the tax structure based on age. Meaning, the only way to extract the money without incurring severe penalty would be to do so after some advanced age. The
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But weren't all of these vehicles put in place by the baby boomer generation? And said generation will be retiring more and more in the future and also living longer. This would seem to mean that those people will be moving their retir
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They could realistically change the tax structure or even the retirement age(s) at which you could withdraw the funds. But if there were another mega-stressor to the financial system in the future, it seems that this pool of trillions of do
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How is that any different from social security though? Social security taxes are being taken out of every american's paycheck as we speak. Yet, anyone under the age of 40 or so has no illusions that social security will be solvent by t
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401k plans typically consist of employee and employer matching contributions. But in any case, the things that stops you from fully accessing this money of your own free will are laws. Laws can be changed. I'm just wondering if today w
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Since the 401(k) laws are federal laws within the IRS, couldn't that law be changed at any time by the federal government? Based on history, it seems naive to think that trillions of dollars sitting in retirement accounts would not be
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Tangential question, but is anyone else worried that the rules of 401(k)'s can be changed at a later time. History has shown that retirement funds are highly valuable sources of money that companies and governments eventually eat away
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by logicalmind 10y ago
Is that really the problem though? In my circle, plenty of people are doing the boring crud apps at random big company. The problem is that they're paid very well. So taking a job that is more challenging often involves taking less mon
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by logicalmind 10y ago
Yep, and this really becomes a problem has you advance in years. I'm a programmer and have been for almost 20 years. When you're younger, you are always negotiating upwards. When you're at a job making 70k and you leave, you
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by logicalmind 10y ago
As someone who is a programmer in finance, but not trading, it is difficult for me to wrap my head around this as well. If this is specifically targeting programmers and companies who are interested specifically in the trading aspect of fin
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by logicalmind 11y ago
I was born and raised in the town next to Robbins. My family still lives there. Robbins is the worst of many notorious, small, south-side suburbs (Markham, Harvey, Phoenix, etc.). It is next to an oil refinery. It has an abandoned incinerat
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by logicalmind 11y ago
I assume you are strictly referring to within the city limits. If you include the burbs, then check out Robbins: https://goo.gl/maps/ompv1Df5aqT2
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And this whole thing came full circle once Paul Graham stepped away. YCombinator was initially cool because it was a hack on the incubator/vc scene and a successful one. Now it seems more like an MBA-esque scheme replete with spreadshe
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> Wear a sleep mask. If you can open your eyes and see any sliver of light or a distinguishable shape, you need something different. But couldn't this cause the opposite problem? In the morning, the rising sun levels tell your body
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This isn't data, but this post and the comments are one point of reference. This in on the frontpage btw. https://voat.co/v/news/comments/147052
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I work at a company that was in bad shape during the financial crisis. A temporary CEO was put in charge. Ultimately, a number of companies were merged to create one company that could survive. In the end, one of the CEO's of the merge
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I was in the same boat. The comparison should really be about the long-term downsides. Sure, the sedentary lifestyle of computer work could cause various ailments. But the farm lifestyle will cause its own long-term ailments. Everyone is bu
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This is actually easier than you think currently. Most muscle cars (like mustangs/camaros) allow you to change your rear end gearing. Different size rear end gear ratios are different factory options. There are programmers that allow y
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Director: Our operating expenses are through the roof. We've got a dozen developers and we're still behind schedule... Manager: That's because we don't have any "good" developers. We need to find some of those
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I think the problem is that everyone freaked out with the angular 1.x to 2.0 changes. The angular team, not wanting to lose the 1.x momentum, decided to attempt to write a 1.x to 2.0 conversion tool. The major hurdle to doing this successfu
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Because Microsoft wants to add tooling in Visual Studio to use this and they obviously would want to use Typescript for that.
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Hard to say. It didn't seem like Microsoft had a good strategy for modern web development (javascript/rest/etc.) at least from the client side. They had webforms/MVC but you pretty much had to use client side controls fr
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This type of mass shaming existed before twitter. The Steve Bartman incident[0] comes to mind. The difference appears to be that it used to only be possible for such things to snowball when the media or a celebrity pushed the issue into the

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