amag · HackerTrans

And in Sweden, another "nordic socialist country", there's no tax on property nor inheritance, as well as very low taxes on invested capital. There are about 1.5x more USD-billionaires per capita in Sweden than in the US. I think there's room for some more taxes.

amag

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You mean I can't sue society if I die nine years into retirement?

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> are predicted to get to what 90-95 on average?

That may be true, but will we (who are in our 40's now) have the same quality of life at 90-95 as a now 75-year old will have at 80-85?

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Of course there is no guarantee that your 65-75 years will be good, but it's a lot more likely that your 65-75 years will be good than your 75-85 years.

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This is truly sad. As a Swede I fear my country may follow suite. The retirement age in Sweden used to be 65 and now it's 67.

Looking at older people around me, most lead a much less active life after 75. So, if we were lucky we used to have some 10 good years of doing whatever we wanted before old age and age-related diseases start affecting us so much we become limited to a much smaller world. But now we have maybe eight years and if we follow Denmark, five years.

I think if you've put in 40-45 years for the man, you should be allowed to have some good 10 years for yourself. Travel, play golf, cross a continent in a camper or climb a mountain.

amag

2년 전discuss

Well, people in offices need new shiny phones every year and new Teslas to get to the office after all...

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I really wish people would stop talking about MD5 already. It is almost never the answer. On a modern CPU you get HW accelerated SHA-256, it will always be much faster than your best software MD5. If your SHA-256 hash is too long, chop it up, it will still be better than MD5 for the same bit length.

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> Perhaps the doom isn't so imminent?

Perhaps, or perhaps we don't know what the fall of civilization looks like? I remember watching a talk by Jonathan Blow where he poses that question. Did the Egyptians who built the pyramids realize when their civilization fell or did it just look like business as usual until it suddenly didn't?

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Last I used it, even pretty small grammars took forever to build. I had to be very diligent not to let the grammar cpp-file depend on anything else in my codebase.

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9년 전discuss

It looks like git-mediate does one more important thing; it checks that the conflict is actually solved. In my experience it's very easy to miss something when manually resolving a conflict and often the choices the merge tools give you are not the ones you want.

amag

10년 전discuss

The quake sources taught me many lessons on how to structure C code!

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10년 전discuss

> Most large C++ code bases are similar [...] outlaws exceptions

While I can understand the ideas behind it, exceptions do cause head aches, I find it really weird. Enforcing this means using a very limited part of the C++ standard library, e.g. no std::vector, std::map, etc, because all those can throw exceptions. If you say no to exceptions but yes to std::vector then you either need to write code that works in the presence of exceptions (which means you could just say yes to them) or you have shoved your head in the sand like an ostrich thinking if you can't see them they can't happen.

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