Cryptocurrencies can have inflation too. All it takes is to change a few settings in code. Some cryptos already changed their monetary policies.

And somehow daily trading volume is 10x higher than actual transactions on network. It is almost like someone is printing money out if thin air.

This tablet could be made by 12 years old scribbling his homework. Most important thing is they actually had geometry and used it.

Yeah, as an American expat, I watch South Park to catch up and learn about what has been blown out of proportion in the US, politically and socially. Because when South Park starts making fun of it, you know things have been taken too far, like next level messed up. Plus, it is a good source of entertainment.

I always am fairly aware of the news, even abroad, but I stay off of social media (except HN). I only read actual news from formal print publications. Honestly, the lack of American foreign correspondents reporting abroad (especially in print) makes the US susceptible to a lot of uncertainty, and plausible deniability (such as with Russian propaganda being propagated on social media). With respect to that, the Financial Times does extremely well, but it is not an American news source. But, it is definitely worth getting a subscription to. They also do a lot of reporting about tech, which is typically spot-on. I have only been disappointed once when reading a tech article on FT.com.

Imagine some people retire in peace at 50. What a sad, sad, pathetic existence :)

Retirement is often sad and pathetic.

Exactly. I am almost 50 myself. Retire and do what? Wait do die? Drink wine all day and wait to die?

There isn't much to me that is worth doing that wouldn't produce some kind of income.

Still so much I want to do yet, I don't have time for retirement.

Ride bicycles and/or motorcycles. Travel. Hike. Read. Learn things. Volunteer. Cooking is fun. Gardening as well.

I'm at a loss for how people can get bored and I don't even game or watch much in the way of movies or television. I think for some people they get attuned to work so much that they don't remember what life is like without it.

Totally agree. I don’t think I’ve been bored since I was a teenager. Every day I think to myself, all the things I could do with extra time in the day, if I didn’t have to work for a living. I am counting down the days until I retire! My nightmare actually is I die the day after I retire, just as I’m getting ready to start living my life!

Have you actually experienced a long period (year or more) with no obligations like work or school? It's much easier to be motivated when you're busy than when there's no real need for your effort or deadline for anything. I know some people manage great and have very active retirements but some just fade into passivity. Keep an eye out for the danger warned by John Mellencamp - "Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone".

>Have you actually experienced a long period (year or more) with no obligations like work or school?

I have. And have had no problems filling it with the above activities. My folks are retired and don't seem to be having much trouble finding creative projects and enjoyable things to do, like hiking and discovering new things.

Honestly I thought my dad would be a prime candidate for the type who gets so used to chasing the rabbit that they have no idea what to do once they retire. I'm glad to see that isn't the case.

Fantastic. I'm pretty sure I'm the wrong type myself and it's a bit of a worry. Hobbies are a lot more exciting when I don't have time for them.

> Every day I think to myself, all the things I could do with extra time in the day, if I didn’t have to work for a living.

I think about stuff like this too, but then I remember how my existing hobbies are already funded by my job.

Why retire at all? Depending on what you want to do, why not just do it for as long as you can?

Actual reality is that they aren't in majority of cases despite representing a larger percentage of college graduates.

In my experience, successful women would rather be single moms than be a breadwinner and support a stay-at-home husband.

One more reason to skip uni. Remote only experience for full price with orwelian nightmare included. All documentation and lessons are online for free. You do not need human text to speech engine that costs 30k/year.

> You do not need human text to speech engine that costs 30k/year.

So you don't need to ask any questions, ever? Then go to the library instead.

Not all lecturers welcome questions, it depends on the country and culture. Certainly my own undergraduate experience consisted of a "human text-to-speech engine" experience where the lecturer lectured mainly from a text, while students were expected to silently listen, and then answer any questions they had themselves by searching in the literature.

When I moved on to graduate studies and had a weekly seminar, then questions and discussion were welcome, but I sympathize with the feeling that in-person undergraduate education is a waste of time and (in countries that charge tuition fees) money.

I really didn't ask many question during my career as a student. The whole thing really was an exercise in obtaining credentials.

Did you visit public library recently? It is closed or full of homeless people. Scihub and laser printer is much better option!

For $50/hour you can find experts in most fields. You could even hire underpaid postdocs who teach at unis.

If you're in any other engineering field (EE, ME, etc), you're really not going to get a job without a degree. Compared to programming, it's like perhaps a 1% chance.

Unless you're going to become a doctor or civil engineer, those qualifications are pointless.

They absolutely are not pointless for software engineering. I tried skipping university and there is a night and day difference in responses before and after graduating.

I am pretty sure I got nocked back for a job at EBAY because I have an atypical career path.

FB, Google etc dropped gate keepers.

Facebook and Google aren't most companies, most companies will still turn you away if you don't have a degree

it is infinitely easier to get a job w a degree than without one

I worked in similar company, I could do all my weekly work in 10 hours. But company did not like my side projects.

We _love_ side projects --- that's why we started our company, because we didn't want Bezos to own our zombie card game.

Churches and malls were converted to residential buildings. Why not office space?

It would be a lot of work, e.g. just the plumbing for residential (kitchens and bathrooms in every unit) would be very different from plumbing for offices (a few central toilet rooms).

Electric, HVAC would be similar.

However, still could be possible in some buildings and ultimately be worth doing. For other properties it might be cheaper to raze and rebuild rather than try to fit residential space into a commercial-plan building.

Completely agree with other posts that the risk of loss should be squarely on the owners/investors. Property is an investment like anything else, and may lose value. And I'd guess commercial property is riskier than residential.

Just converting a very small share of buildings to mixed commercial-residential might be enough to adjust for the reduction in office demand.

It's been done but very often "class A" office towers lack things which are needed for residential use, like windows that open, balconies, locations in the concrete walls and floor slabs for water and sewage pipes. Even basic things like if you take a floor of an office tower and turn it into 700 sq ft condos, how are you going to ventilate the bathrooms? Retrofit can be very costly.

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I have seen some instances of older 1910s to mid 1930s era office towers in NYC retrofitted to (very high end, very expensive) condos.

Yep. It's not practical. It's often better to bulldoze, rezone, start over, and build high-density vertical housing. It's totally SimCity. :)

There is something on YouTube. They are very profitable, machine learning, filtering and stuff. No trading.