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> You’ve lost your mind if you really believe inflation has only been roughly 2% the last decade.

Do you generally find that being insulting without providing evidence for, or even explaining, your position usually brings people around to your point of view?

Over the last four decades, the slow and steady annual inflation looks very easy to plan for: http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/united-states/histor...

Stash gold for a Zimbabwe scenario, lead for Mad Max.

That seems like a major obstacle to mass adoption. The average HNer will understand that, and be willing and able to do it, but the average person will not.

This question occurred to me while reading the article. Thanks for pointing this out. This seems like a serious limitation. Is the solution just for everyone to run their own instances?

It wouldn't really, but it would be significantly less douche-y, because it would ultimately be based in a less disparaging view of older job seekers.

Despite significantly increasing its total number of users since 2014, Facebook has many fewer users in the 13-17 and 18-24 brackets. The 13-17s dropped 40% in three years.

https://isl.co/2017/02/2017-facebook-demographic-report-adul...

Yep. I was hoping that sentence would end with "because I figured people over a certain age probably wouldn't be interested in entry-level positions," and I was prepared to think that was an interesting point.

Probably living in extreme poverty is sufficient.

> In the past, there was another extreme in societies when raped woman could be considered guilty for inappropriate seduction of a men.

That still happens in some societies today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatif_rape_case

> So now, we can see overstretched definitions of rape and harassment and absurd claims that 25% of women experienced sexual assault etc

You need to get to know some women.

I am suggesting that the broader homeschooling community may be equally fertile ground to find enthusiastic early adopters.

> It's a good reminder to keep your coins off Coinbase.

I'm finding that keeping coins off of Coinbase is easier to do than keeping cash off of Coinbase. It's fast and cheap to transfer cryptocoins to Coinbase, but takes me days to add cash.

> A good place to promote this would be with secular homeschoolers. Those homeschooling for nonreligious reasons are often dealing with a bright kid interested in advanced subjects.

I don't see any reason to restrict this to those homeschooling for nonreligious reasons. There are plenty of bright homeschooled kids interested in advanced subjects regardless of their parents' primary motivation for homeschooling.

> It probably isn't, but isn't that awful, too?

Sure, but it's something we've been doing for decades. And I can't really blame parents for keeping kids occupied the easy way for a few hours at a time.

I didn't know Saturday morning cartoons had died. But surely the huge volume of content on Netflix et al played a role?

Is there any real difference between this and targeting children with advertisements on good old fashioned TV?

> Do these exchanges report 1099s to the IRS?

Not usually:

"With the exception of some business accounts, Coinbase does not provide 1099 forms. Coinbase does however provide a specialized Cost Basis for Taxes report which will help with filing your taxes." [1]

After this hypothetical transaction you will likely owe capital gains tax. It would be hard to hide any significant amount from the IRS if you actually want to convert it to USD, for example by transferring to a bank account [2]. Regardless, the IRS is definitely paying attention and going after back taxes on large exchange accounts [3].

[1] https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/149...

[2] https://pocketsense.com/deposits-reported-irs-7557.html

[3] http://fortune.com/2017/11/29/irs-coinbase/

> I can imagine that that would stimulate a huge influx of people who do that simply as an excuse to take a 4-year vacation (of sorts).

The current trend is to run universities and colleges "like a business." In this model, students (and their parents) are the paying customers. The mantra of good customer service is "the customer is always right." This is ultimately the source of much of the grade inflation[1]. If you tell your customers that they are "wrong" by not giving them the grades they prefer or by making them work harder than they would like for those grades, they will react in ways that ultimately hit your bottom line. Undergraduate education should not be like a vacation. Any student who treats it that way should be flunked out after their first term.

Having taxpayer funded "free" (or dirt cheap) higher ed wouldn't fix these problems over night, but it would help remove some of the weird incentives that are currently undermining the core mission of actually educating people.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/29/survey-finds-...

I'd guess Teichopsia was more interested in sources about slave labor, energy costs, and environmental impact.

E.g. [https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-what-we-die-for-child-... | This Is What We Die For: Child Slaves Made Your Phone Battery]

> You can also go beyond free. After Reader, I decided to go with Feedbin so that I know it won't evaporate when the next annual drop-the-least-sexy-projects time comes around.

This is why I went with Newsblur.com, which is open source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur In the worse case I just run my own instance.

> you absolutely have to cuff up your pant leg to pedal anyway

You absolutely do not need to cuff up your pant leg. You just need an ankle band to keep your pant leg away from the chain: https://www.amazon.com/High-Visibility-Reflective-Ankle-Stra...

The title of this should be "Don't expect VPN to magically protect your privacy," not "Don't use VPN services."

Here are some reasons I've used, and continue to use, VPN:

* When I am on a network that uses an idiotic blacklist to block certain types of content. The network might even be run by my employer and I might be accessing content that is necessary for my work, but there might be no way to appeal the idiotic blacklist.

* When I am on a network that INJECTS content into HTTP responses (a certain paid airline WIFI used to do this).

* When I am on a network that might allow other users on the network to snoop on / mess with my traffic.

* When I want to access services that I have paid to access but are only available to IP addresses in a specific geographic region, and I happen to be in another geographic region.

Etc.

> Is there a distance that could be calculated between 2 hashes and tell if they are similar ?

Yes, maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-preserving_hashing

> So are your old passwords stored in plain text somewhere so they can compare?

You betcha!

> The standards for acceptable conduct in the 18th Century were quite different in this regard than they are today.

Well, they didn't have Tinder, but I'm not so sure things were as different as you may think. Here's a pretty amusing letter Franklin wrote that may provide some insight into his thinking on the topic:

Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745) - http://www.themightypen.net/topic/16757-benjamin-franklin-ad...

> I wish I had more insight into why Ben Franklin thought this was important.

Perhaps you would if you'd tried it :)

But really, doesn't this point boil down to: don't act like a sex addict, and avoid stirring up a bunch of drama?

> Ah, but nowadays there are sites that won't let you set a new password "if it is too similar to previous passwords".

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I don't know how people who don't use password managers are able to deal with this kind of crap at all.

I wouldn't even know how to go about tipping my delivery person(s). I started home delivery of a newspaper last fall and the service got pretty bad right after the holidays (the paper is now consistently halfway down the lawn rather than on the covered front porch, where it was ending up consistently before Dec 2016). I'd be happy to tip, but the billing and payment is all handled online, and this is a person I've literally never laid eyes on. Parcel delivery suffers from the same problem. I'm a heavy user of Amazon, but never present when UPS comes.

> So the annoying workaround is to append year+month on the end of each password (which I was basically told to do when first setting up my account). So combined with a "maximum 10 characters" leaves 6 for my actual password...

Or do <password>, <password>1, <password>2, ...

I'd be willing give it a try. But if used in typical decorative grass fashion (small clusters as border accents) it should generate about enough flour to make a muffin or dinner roll every year or so.

Is backyard production of quinoa driving its popularity?

"but for health" allows a lot. And "never to dullness, weakness, or to the injury of your own, or others' peace or reputation" is a pretty solid policy.