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> he never made much money from

You believe that? Dude banked on both the sale and takeover, plus the ad revenue when he was running the site.

He had no alternative but to push the poverty myth (Kevin Rose@Digg also did this). Can you imagine what the users would do if he disclosed how much he was raking in?

My guess? $10 million n/w post sale, most likely much more.
The editor was probably confusing the A-29 Super Tucano with the A-29 Hudson, which really was WWII era.
I'm sure he'd be happy to let that go unprotested ... "Skrelicame to attention after his attempts to have the FDA not approve drugs being produced by companies whose stocks he was shorting".

Who needs morality in the free market, right?
I used to use a mobile RSS reader that was just a phonegap app. It was useful for downloading reading for my morning subway ride. Cell service on the TTC has been long project filled with fail.

In general I expect that it's not the best solution. But look at projects like turbolinks. JS replacement is quicker than a full page reload.
Well they said it was because of the post-pc era, more mobile phones connecting to skype, mobile phones are not really suited for p2p video streaming. But then they somehow managed to make skype mobile experience so bad that it probably wouldn't be that big of a problem
I have a couple loose Ethernet lines running about for laptops. Sometimes I use them on Wi-Fi, but only if it's momentary.
Your comment was meant to be witty, but is actually just uninformed. Exponential growth is a well-defined mathematical concept [0] and distinct from other formulas of growth. And, to specifically address your comment, the exponent in exponential growth is time, so no you cannot just dismiss it as being "some exponent".

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That is certainly one part of it, though many people go significantly further. frequently, this involves simply sawing off the whole exhaust system and having a local muffler shop fab a new set of pipes and mufflers for you.

The truck that my friend has is a ram 2500, with a chip/tune and the exhaust removed, it dynos at about 490HP/1100 ft-lbs of torque, and still achieves ~25mpg highway. The downside is that there is an unknown emissions toll for doing that modification.

Again, I have to wonder though, at almost 10mpg better, is the reduced emissions actually logical? i.e. do the emissions reduction systems really make up for needing to burn additional fuel to do the same work?
Formulating the generics isn't the hard part (well, beyond the chemistry but that's straightforward enough - once you know something can be done, it's just a matter of time and effort). Once a generics company does that, they have to perform bioequivalence testing. It makes a lot of sense, because generics can have different inactive ingredients (fillers, etc.) that can still affect the patient.

But in order to perform that testing, they need examples of the brand-name drug to test against. If a manufacturer can prevent them from gaining access to those examples, then the generic is never coming to market. They can't get a doctor to just write up a prescription for somebody, so they have to go through established distribution channels. There are a lot of other, equally nasty ways manufacturers can use to try and forestall generic versions of their drugs. It's not easy to do, because the laws are written to incentivize generic competition, but if a company thinks it's profitable enough to try (and certain factors are in their favor, like with Daraprim), they can.

The FTC has a really interesting document available on their ongoing efforts to fight anti-competitive pharmaceutical practices if you're interested:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/us-submissions-...
No it isn't about "sizable"ness, its about competing for something real. The psychology here is that everyone puts in a contribution, and 3 groups walk off with it. So that adds a bit of "pain" if you lose out, and a more positive affirmation when you "win". Per the original article, you want some competition to bring out the best in people, but you also want the system to naturally self limit so that it doesn't get crazy and bring out the sociopaths.
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Sometimes I'm amazed how much better consumer hardware seems to perform over enterprise wireless hardware. I just haven't seen an enterprise wireless device I was impressed with.

Mind you, I assume enterprise hardware prioritizes security over performance, whereas consumer devices prioritize performance over security.
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The thing that keeps me on them is that no other hardware/OS combo is even in the same ballpark for battery life as Apple mobile/iOS and Macbooks/OSX. Maybe, maybe high-end Lenovos or something with a carefully-tweaked install of Linux could come close, but probably not without sacrificing features and/or convenience.
It would be nice if hacker news would allow you to block sites in your profile. I'd love to block any article on medium.com, wired.com or nytimes.com; they all seem to be empty fluff articles.
So, let me get this straight, this company is in the business of buying zero-day exploits and selling them to corporations and government organizations. How does this even exist? Is it legal? Can anyone buy and sell zero day exploits with total impunity?
iPhone 4s can run iOS 9 and is not on the list.
Is there a website documenting the various unpatched security holes in iOS devices that can't get the latest updates?
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Just a thought. If you enjoyed these books, you might like _Old Man's War_.
> Security is hard. Really profoundly hard, not just superficially hard.

Indeed. There is an army of naked celebrities dancing around the internet today because of an "iOS" hole that didn't even involve the device OS at all.

Picking on specific features to announce "Apple is more secure" is very much missing the point.

That said, yeah: I'm not a big fan of Android's security architecture either, though it has been improving rapidly.
No. You need a leader. A flat structure will eventually create problems. And they will be hard to solve. Or you could lose a good chunk of the team due to the lack of direction and management.

The following will not be perfect analogs, I offer them as thinking tools:

8 seat rowing shell: It's hard to think of a better example of a small group of people with a well-defined purpose who train hard and execute hard towards that goal. Yet, the boat has NINE people on it. The ninth peeson is there to keep the team going in the right direction and at the right pace.

A leader is important and he/she does not have to be dictatorial to be effective.

The second example is more of a homework exercise:

Watch a dozen (or more) episodes of "Kitchen Nightmares" with Gordon Ramsay. Think about the most common issues leading to failure. Write a one page note advising your team on how to avoid failure.

The third and final is also homework:

Watch a dozen (or more) episodes of "The Profit" with Marcus Lemonis and write a short conclusion as above.

Business isn't hard if you understand there are commonalities between making burgers, manufacturing baseball bats and, yes, making software. At the core they are the same. Above that they have specialized processes that are aligned with what the business is about. The operating approach between knowledge workers and assembly line workers naturally diverges in a lot of areas.

Think of it as the OS kernel versus abstraction layers above it. The same kernel functions are pretty much required in order to build a successful system. That's where you start. Same with business.
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In the days of friction shifting, it used to be common to mix and match components across the entire drivetrain. You could have shifters, derailleurs, chains, freewheels, and hubs all from different manufacturers.

Drivelines are more integrated now, with derailleurs, cog tooth profiles, chains, and shifters designed as a system with minimal thought given to cross compatibility. At best you could use a non-Campy/non-Shimano chain.
It was always amusing to visit the Apple store and see a jailbroken iPhone on display when this vulnerability worked.
I meant the manufacturer doesn't have to know (so they can't take revenge on the doctor/hospital). You can still have a hush-hush audit trail.

Why is the original drug required anyways? Can't you prove it's the same without it? The details are all there in the public patent.
They are actually working on that. With DRM, DMCA, shitty software, etc. They want you to go back to the vendor to make sure things are fixed. Repairable? Only by authorized service dealers. At a monopolistic cost.

And in the US you can thank the EPA for helping with that.
I worked with Nikki on my last book. The comments she shares here (particularly her notes on common hurdles) are pretty representative of my experience. I.e., I did all of the dumb things she points out as mistakes.

Nikki works specifically with design/photography writers. That said, I think her comments are quite applicable to most non-fiction writers.
The start of it, sure. This is all public record at this point.

Judging what exists now by what existed over a year ago is hardly fair. People who actually harass people are now loudly shouted down wherever they're seen doing it.
Alan Kay famously asked if there was any new invention in computing since 1980 (and the answer was essentially 'no'):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...

Our whole industry got sucked into making a fortune and now suffers (ironically) from "The Innovator's Dilemma".

We have more money than Croesus now, but at the expense of any real progress.
The way Google penalizes itself or other websites?
> Bond mutual and exchange-traded funds now own 17% of all corporate bonds, up from 9% in 2008, according to the ICI.

Purely an unintended consequence of the Volcker Rule. Banks were penalized for holding corporate bonds, and needed to sell them somewhere.
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First bulletpoint in your cited article reads:

>In the short run, stocks and bonds tend to run in opposite directions to fluctuations in investor risk appetite

I take this excerpt to mean that Pimco shares the same "common wisdom" assumption that Chollida1 does
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I think object-capability based access control would solve the problem as well. If the login screen is only given the capability to talk to the authentication program, then even if you could force opening photos, you wouldn't have the capabilities to hand to the photos app to actually view them.
What is free speech if the state acts to prevent anyone from finding what you published?

Imagine a despotic regime that allowed it's citizens to publish or say whatever they wanted, with the only restriction being it had to be in an empty auditorium.

Is Baidu or Yandex going to comply with RTBF? As soon as people know you can't find something in Google globally, they'll just work around it. Metacrawlers will return which just query every search engine.
If consumer demand doesn't exist there is no problem - everyone already has everything they want. Is it your belief we live in a post-scarcity world? If so, we indeed need no new investment.

Then again, the consumption of retirees is also not really a problem.

I don't know China well, but the idea that the emerging world doesn't have unmet demand is insane. Indians (a nation I know much better) certainly want to consume vastly more than they currently do.
Eh, I don't know about violence, but I'm pretty sure games teach people to:

Secure a weapon - and use it if necessary for the following:

Secure shelter;

Secure food and water;

Secure transportation;

When in a bad situation. I don't know if it's a bad thing or a good thing.

We've been taught to stick together and help each other in hard times, video games kinda teach us the opposite - fight for yourself/your team and the use of force is acceptable.

Maybe it ingrains itself in our subconsciousness.

Then again, I laugh at how people in The Walking Dead break up in groups that treat each other with extreme suspicion or hostility; surely Americans aren't crazy and would all work together if something bad happened?
Meanwhile GM gets away with a laughable $900m settlement for knowingly using faulty parts that have caused the deaths of hundreds and many more severely injured.

Reason I'm saying this is I expect VW will end up paying magnitudes of this amount for their wrongdoing that did not result in anyone's death.

EDIT: Toyota had to settle for $1.2b in the unintended acceleration lawsuit that may have caused the death of 3 people where, up to this day, there is still no proof that there was something wrong with the cars, let alone that any employees were knowingly approving the installation of faulty parts.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-18/gm-s-cynici...
In California it will be unavoidable due to CARB-DMV coordination. If your vehicle hasn't been fixed they won't allow you to register it.
What ad revenue? 4chan has always had a huge problem attracting advertisers due to the ahem nature of its content.

I could imagine that he made some serious bank on the sale, but the site has always has run at a net loss.
Wired's already a bad egg in my book for refusing to allow the first part of their articles in RSS and reader apps like Feedly. While every other website shows me the first paragraph in the app before I tap the link, Wired just gives their bullshit "This article first appeared on Wired" blurb
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It is being continuosly harassed by people who claim they are fighting harassment, that's for sure. But I don't think that such strategy is going to pay off. You can't just yell harassment as means to abuse people into submission. Many have tried similar tactics in the past and it never works in the long run.
How would you expect the second one to work?
And it was resurrected later on - by comex, I think.
It's a win-win for Zerodium. They are getting free publicity for having the biggest bug bounty ever, and if somebody actually does submit a working exploit, they sell it to their clients for a hefty profit. I'm sure there are government agencies that would pay well over a million for the ability to infect any IOS device silently and easily.
> Can you imagine what the users would do if he disclosed how much he was raking in?

Probably nothing worse than they've already done
It was never fully p2p was it? Calls and messaging may have been p2p at some point before Microsoft, but you still needed an account managed by a centralized entity to authenticate with the service.
You're confounding Capitalism with pure Keynesianism, which you'd probably revere.
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How did she ruin things? Everything you say above clearly puts the blame on the selection process and those who ran it.
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"...turned off the WiFi entirely just using it as a switch + NAT combo."

I took this angle early on and have never had second thoughts. As they say, "It just works."

Glad you are seeing the benefits.

However, I think "WiFi" is a strong marketing signal. Even if it does not work as well as Ethernet at transferring data, it appears to work well to sell products and services.

"I really don't know how this tech is going to work..."

It may not have to work. Consumers of computing devices have developed a high tolerance for stuff that is either ridiculously slow or does not work. Many do not know any different: when none of the devices people use have an Ethernet port, they will never know the speeds they are missing. The choice of using Ethernet has been removed.
"The Science of Leonardo" by Fritjof Capra is easy to read and a good intro. Martin Kemp's "Leonardo da Vinci" is a bit scattered but has great visuals. But most interesting is Leonardo's own "Notebooks."
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They are a public good and a natural human right.

No they aren't. Saying that is equivalent to saying that you would be justified in putting a gun to a chemist's head and forcing him to make a drug for you even if he didn't want to. But there's no reason to say that your "right" to a drug trumps his right to be free from threat of violence and denial of agency.

What you're talking about is more of an entitlement than a right.

Holding people's health hostage is unacceptable whether you do it with a knife in an alley, or a capitalist health system.

Why exactly should I feel like society owes me health care that I can't pay for? Especially when the model involves a scenario where my getting health-care possibly involves using violence, or threat of violence, to make somebody else provide that care? How is that ethical?
Every single user could block ads until mobile began taking over. Media companies hyping how damaging ad blockers are this past week and a half is that they have successfully created mass awareness that you may block ads.

If you are a publisher there are scripts and tools you may use to detect ad blockers. I would recommend running one.
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An appalling view of a bizarre subculture of alcoholics, so addicted that they apparently need to be reminded how to provide alcohol-free drinks.

"Informal interviews are conducted in bars, to see if potential employees are likable in a social setting, or can hold up under heavy drinking with clients."

Informal (or secret) interviews in bars are fine, but I would say goodbye at the first signs of "heavy drinking".

"Co-workers gather in pubs to bond and shed the day’s frustrations."

I don't know anyone who attempts to drag colleagues to pubs instead of going home. Coffee and lunch breaks provide more than enough "gathering".

"Good performance is rewarded with shared whiskey, tequila parties, opening up the office taps."

How can booze at the office be anything more than a secret vice?
For example, in my workplace fridge there is a bottle of vodka, purportedly brought by a naughty Ukrainian colleague just in case, and someone has consumed almost a third of it over the course of a few months. So many people occasionally stay late, alone or almost alone, that nobody cares to find out who's drinking.
To be clear: this actually counts as an unhealthy situation, not as a good example, because someone might be occasionally drinking too much (at least, too much to drive home).

"Free drinks wouldn’t be an acceptable payment for free labor"

The very idea implies alcoholic employers selecting mostly alcoholic employees.
Sadly, if USA universities are the dens of vice pictured by crime news and popular culture, new graduates are likely to be at the peak of alcoholism and therefore hiring addicts might not be too discriminatory or intentional.
"America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs."

For one, read "the only". New Zealand was the only hold out (due to a trade agreement), but even there it's now been illegal for several years.
Wasnt there an IMAX movie about Everest in the 90's?
Ah, I took "his harddrives" to mean "his EBS volumes" or something similar.
No, using your shortcuts and actions in PS full-screen is a thing of beauty. having to stop what you're doing to go click on something can ruin your flow.
Every way of dealing with something has its flaws, the point is to fix them. The patent system is flawed in its foundation, i.e. claiming a discovery for yourself and keeping this technology away from the rest of humanity.

For the rest, I wouldn't know why there wouldn't be multiple medicines. Labs would still come up with multiple compounds that have more or less the same result, and if not, research would continue for the people who fall outside the bell curve of the other medicine.

The whole difference would be that instead of competition, there is cooperation, and the aim is not to make money or profit, but to help humanity. This is not unrealistic, it's basically what we (at least in NL) learn in primary school: "Two know more than one", "Many hands make light work", etc. It's only that the schools after that tell us to forget it all and teach us how we need to compete each other and especially to keep everything for ourselves and never do anything without expecting something in return.

[quote]where companies use controlled distribution (such as with Daraprim) to prevent generics from being tested, and thus, being brought to market. [/quote]

This wouldn't happen, as the resulting medicine IS the generic.
Honestly I think single payer healthcare in the US gets you 95% of the way there. At that point the government is in control of most of the revenue to the pharmaceutical companies leaving them in a much better negotiating position. It even makes sense to then bring some of the pharmaceutical production "in house" to cut costs since you're de facto paying for all of the pharmaceutical research anyway.
Tesla is [not there yet](http://jalopnik.com/heres-what-a-tesla-model-s-can-do-around...) and all these car-makers have to sell cars, that 1) handle well and 2) do not go into reduced performance mode after some burst of activity. So I expect a lot of 7ers being sold with their lawnmower engines. If I were in the market for a nice sedan, I would also pick G11 instead of Model S.

P.S. With regards to Lenovo: have you ever seen the 'For those who do' series of ads? I would never dare to take any Apple laptop into such environment. No problem with Thinkpads ;). And even in cafe-houses conditions, having built-in mobile broadband or smart-card reader is nice.
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Your statement makes the assumption that paying bills is the goal.
and the government protects your property such that others can't make it cheaper?

The problem here isn't the market, corporations, or libertarianism. The problem is the government and its treatment of "imaginary property".
Sure, both authors are pointing out certain truths: the horror of being unable to defend your tribe against an existential threat; the horror of having to go and kill other beings.
I also had to whitelist the site on ghostery. I'm not sure which one it was depending on.
>My guess? $10 million n/w post sale, most likely much more.

Any particular reasoning behind that guess?
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That is a very biased view of the situation.

Pharma companies try to put the best face on data to get a drug approved. Analysts try to approach the data in an impartial way. If an analyst looks at the data and sees issues, it makes sense both ethically and financially to push for the drug not to be approved. Ethically, if the drug doesn't work as advertised, it is better that it is not sold as a cure. Informing the FDA of your analysis is a duty. Financially, if you think the drug doesn't work, it makes sense to short the stock in the belief that it won't be approved.

Pharma companies always present it as hedge funds trying to kill their products, but if the data is strong and the drug works, the analyst could just go long on the company instead.