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If this goes anything like their "exploring integrating Python into Excel", in 18 months we'll have heard no more about it and it will be presumed abandoned.

> I know MS has considered it, I'm still pretty surprised they've haven't followed through.

Didn't they add Javascript support in 2018?

I agree though. They brought up that they were considering Python3 integration like 2 years ago and haven't said a word about it since.

This is literally a quote from the paper's author.

In light of continued questions about demand problems for the Model 3, this comes across as Musk trying to gin up demand from people thinking they "soon™" won't be able to buy a Tesla.

How does this work? At least 4 of the jobs I see are not software dev roles. Is it only entries from indeed? Is it only US? It doesn't seem to have any ability to filter based on geography.

Also, the font appears larger on numbers 6-10 than for numbers 1-5.

> Rejoice, people of Earth! News outlets are reporting that NASA is planning to visit an asteroid made of gold and other precious metals! At current prices, the minerals contained in asteroid 16 Psyche are said to be worth $700 quintillion -- enough to give everyone on the planet $93 billion. We’re all going to be richer than Jeff Bezos!

No one ever thought it was going to work this way.

Based on the name, color scheme and use of the infinity symbol (∞), I'm assuming the name is based off of this fella? https://www.google.com/search?q=sanic

FWIW I agree with you--going into unnecessary debt needs not to be treated like it's inevitable, or else people will continue to do so because they'll buy into the belief that "I never had a choice, debt was the only way I could have my wedding because I only had $10k saved" rather than "I can only spend $10k on my wedding because that's all I can afford".

This article doesn't really read like sob stories though. It seems like the opposite with they way they put (arguably) scare quotes around "Instagram-worthy" and have quotes from couples wondering if they should have done things differently. Also:

> “The problem is, you don’t want to rely on a personal loan for something that isn’t necessary — and there is nothing necessary about an expensive wedding,” said Stefanie O’Connell

> “You have to put it in context,” she said. “You could spend $30,000 on a one-day celebration, or you could use it to put a down payment on a house. These loans sound great when you’re planning your wedding, but afterward, I hear a lot of regret.”

> There are a number of times I've been the most senior person ever hired without a degree, one Fortune 100 even changed their rules specifically so that they could hire me without a degree.

Aren't these points against your argument? That they had to change the policy to hire someone without a degree implies that it is very uncommon for someone without a degree to get into these upper-level positions to the point that they had never run afoul of this policy before now, or at least that they preferred to keep the policy rather than hire someone without a degree?

Exactly. All of these "pay banding" methods are used to enforce a culture of no one asking for more pay regardless of the value of their contributions, because "sorry, even though I think you deserve a raise, you're at the top of the pay band for your role/title, there's nothing I can do". If your manager has to convince their manager to fight with their own manager to get you an out-of-band pay increase, it's almost never going to happen.

It seems to me that now title inflation is countering this somewhat. I'm the newest hire in my organization and my title is "Analyst". I'm the only person at this level in the entire group, because I've been here less than a year. Everyone else, who have each been here 3 years or more, is "Manager" or higher (about 2/3rds are "Director" or higher) even if they are really just individual contributors with no direct reports or management duties, because they have to increase people's pay to keep from losing them, but they can't do it without bumping them up a pay band, which is only allowed with a "promotion". But while this is true in my group, there are groups where there are 200+ individual contributer-level people, and maybe 10 managers, and those people are never getting pay raises.

It reminds me of how "VP" is an inflated title in investment banking roles.

> In brokerage firms, investment banks and other financial companies, "vice president" is a seniority rank rather than denoting an actual managerial position within the company. It is a relatively junior position, usually does not denote managerial responsibilities and companies have a large number of vice presidents, perhaps as an inexpensive way for a company to recognize employees, or perhaps because of delayering when an employee can't be moved higher in the organization but still deserves recognition. In most cases, the title merely implies that someone is in a medium-seniority individual contributor role

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_president#Use_in_financia...

> The real question is how much of the accounts are delinquent

Wouldn't how many people are carrying a balance each month (and thus paying interest, implying they very likely can't afford to pay off the balance each month even if they wanted to) be a better measure? The average worker in the US barely nets $6,500 in three months, they're definitely not charging and paying that much off every month.

Hasn't it only "fallen" by something like 1 point? That seems like it may easily be due to some (potentially very hard to identify) confounder.

More money allows you to retire earlier (or have a big enough cushion to take time off as sabbatical or to start your own company or whatever), which is a huge benefit IMO.

I don't understand why anyone would follow someone who promotes themselves as a "social media influencer". What is the purpose? To be influenced? You're willfully following someone who tells you their marketing things to you. I'm willing to accept there's some sort of legitimate reason of which I am as-yet unaware, but as it stands I really am completely baffled.

Did this just recently become public?

Their new logo is now up on their building here in Raleigh as of a week ago. Slightly interesting that they still chose to go through with their rebrand. I'd almost expected them not to, to sort of assuage peoples' fears that this is no longer their dad's Redhat.

What are the arguments for and against this measure? I'd imagine that (some) businesses don't want to have to accept cash because it's a hassle and securing/handling cash costs time/money. And the government doesn't want people to be forced to go through an intermediary (i.e. a bank) to be able to participate in marketplace?

Where are you getting that the wealth has been taxed 3-4 times? Knowing someone who has inherited >1% wealth (>$10 million, but anything less than $22 million is exempt from inheritance tax at current caps), the principle has been taxed once so far as capital gains. When they do decide to cash some out, only the as-yet-untaxed additional capital gains will be taxed for the first time at, at most, 15%, because they aren't planning to cash out >$400k in a year anytime soon. If they take out $100k/year they only pay 9% long-term capital gains tax (first 40K is completely untaxed); the money will ultimately be taxed much, much less than earned income.

This hybrid approach still requires purchase and regular operation of an entire personal vehicle, which will not be entirely attenuated by simply driving half as many miles. So if [driving] and [public transit] both cost x, the hybrid solution will definitely cost more than x, up to 2x, which means most people will only do one or the other.

Supply and demand. Is "nobody buying", or is your asking price too high?

> a mid-range sedan, and a mid-range SUV

Is there a definition for mid-range vs luxury? I wouldn't consider a sedan that starts at $35K (with an average sale price of $60K), or an SUV that starts at $47K (over 50% higher than the median US worker's gross personal income[0]) mid-range. Both the Mercedes A-class and Audi A3 start at $32.5K even.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

Hacker News for lobsters?

Three good universities within <30 minutes drive of each other, each in a city of a different size and feel at each anchor point, with a business/job center smack dab in the middle in Research Triangle Park, which has plenty of room to grow. And still a great COL at the moment. I'd agree that we could/will be the next Austin (but I live here so of course my perspective is biased) as long as we don't self-sabotage, which is a real possibility. For example: Duke University just effectively killed the planned Light-Rail between Durham and Chapel Hill for some reason.

Yeah I wonder if this isn't the simple (and sad) truth. Maybe every intelligent species discovers that the laws of physics are unavoidable hard limits and eventually decide it's a pointless waste of energy to endlessly broadcast signals to other stars and galaxies that are moving, ever faster, further and further away.

> So this actually is money trickling down.

Isn't this actually just money trickling up less quickly than before?

> If we want to keep claiming we live in a meritocracy, the effects of an estate tax on ensuring (restoring) equal opportunity are not optional.

As of 2018 a couple can leave >$22 Million without paying any tax on it. That's enough for your children, their children and their children's children (and potentially on and on) to never have to work. Generational wealth like this is how we get and perpetuate "classes".

Monopsonies can be as bad as or worse than monopolies.

He doesn't tell everyone to study math. In his speech he mentions that you should be searching within your abilities, and that you need to find out what those are.

> So far we've cut the Standard Graduation Speech down from "don't give up on your dreams" to "what someone else can do, you can do." But it needs to be cut still further. There is some variation in natural ability. Most people overestimate its role, but it does exist. If I were talking to a guy four feet tall whose ambition was to play in the NBA, I'd feel pretty stupid saying, you can do anything if you really try. [2]

> We need to cut the Standard Graduation Speech down to, "what someone else with your abilities can do, you can do; and don't underestimate your abilities." But as so often happens, the closer you get to the truth, the messier your sentence gets. We've taken a nice, neat (but wrong) slogan, and churned it up like a mud puddle. It doesn't make a very good speech anymore. But worse still, it doesn't tell you what to do anymore. Someone with your abilities? What are your abilities?

According to the NY Times, he actually received $413 Million

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/d...

Where's the $3 billion number coming from?

It didn't really give any indications as to how it works in the article, but the people I've known with the worst social phobia have been those who've been most scared of potential (or imagined) social punishment, usually because they feel there is a "script" that they will have trouble following in a social setting (e.g. responding to something "the wrong way", or not having the "right" answer ready for a question, etc.) Seems like it makes sense that if you're constantly places in scenarios with no script and no right or wrong answer, it would help alleviate the anxiety over not knowing "what everyone knows" you're supposed to do in [situation], and that being confident in what you say is like 50% of being seen as a socially capable person.