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Your stats on within India inequality do not refute or contradict my stats on global inequality.

It transfers wealth from rich countries to poor countries, although it provides the poor country with far less wealth than it transfers from the rich country, with the difference becoming profit for the industrialist.

This is the very mechanism of inequality reduction. You are sounding a bit right wing, suggesting that the main mechanism of inequality reduction is destroying wealth. Is that your intent?

You are wrong about the total quantity being negative in this case, however - look at Milanovic's graph to see that everyone has become richer, it's just that the poor got richer faster.

Apart from this one point you seem to be agreeing with me about everything I've said.
The timeline changes from the new Star Trek movies imply that the Vulcans (pacifist science beatniks driven by cold logic) hold dramatically less sway over Starfleet Command, which is why Admiral Marcus almost succeeded in a coup.

Kirk always had a mixed-bag relationship with Starfleet and had to go to bat up against them in Spock's favor. Picard also foiled a number of infiltrations on Earth during the early seasons of TNG. Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien repeatedly tussled with agents of Section 31 on DS9. Tom Riker ended up fleeing Starfleet so he could fight with the Maquis, who were betrayed by the Federation and tortured by Cardassian overlords. Sisko himself murdered an ambassador and implicated the Dominion in a diplomatic plot to get Romulans to join the war.

There's a hell of a lot of well-intentioned extremists, even in Star Trek's utopia. Now what happens when you take away the biggest voice of reason? Sends shivers down my spine to think about what kind of darkness in the hearts of men the crew of the Possibly-Enterprise will wrestle with.
There was a good This American Life episode recently [1] that walked through a few different alternatives for how VW could respond to this whole scandal. The host solicited feedback from 3 different marketing firms:

One firm, run by the guy who saved Jack In The Box with the ubiquitous sphere-head Jack commercials after an E. Coli outbreak killed 4 kids, said that VW should run an ad of a new executive blowing up the boardroom to symbolize changing the old guard.

Another firm suggested they crowdsource answers to how they can fix the problem/make it up to the public.

The last firm said they should just shut up and not draw attention to themselves. They're not in a good position to say anything right now, and they should just let the collective public forget about it and move onto the next scandal.

I'm assuming the third options is what VW's retainer-ed marketing firm has opted for.

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/569/p...
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What's with all the downvotes? Was it the CW comment? If so, are the downvoters not currently watching CW's Flash? That sort of light-hearted, inter-personal drama-fueled show would work for Star Trek, I think.
This is the part where you offer a few links to alternatives and demonstrate why said "open source alternative" meets that requirement.

Otherwise, you have a noisy and unhelpful comment.
They give up the upside because they have protection from the downside (they get their money back first).
Whether or not you agree with this it has always been the core message of Lessig's campaign: Getting special interest money out of politics should be first priority, and until we get enough citizens to care about that, it'll be extremely difficult to pass legislation that goes against any special interest.

Yes, his strategy for getting the message out was broken, but he understands his campaign was quixotic in its initial state (referendum president), and has since agreed the idea was "stupid". Since the beginning, he made known what he really wanted, at a minimum, was the chance to make this issue more of a priority among all candidates.

This is just my opinion, but being a "spoiler" for the party never really appeared to be a likely outcome for Lessig, nor did being an agent for change. The only prospect he ever really had was one of failure. Failure to deliver his message to the masses. And it's a shame, because I think a grass roots movement focused on this message might be successful with the right person and strategy behind it.
Whenever I see a Top Dog defending their industry--I worry.

I don't know if it's a bubble. I'm so bad at predicting the financial future, I looked onto something called a Contrarian
Investor. If I had money to invest, I think I would do the ablosute opposite of what the experts advise. While I terrible about predicting bubbles; I, along with most people predicted the last tech bubble. I know certain tech companies are very different today.

I don't want to argue with anyone. I'm a nobody. These are just my uneducated/novice inner thoughts. I do know the people around me are underemployed, and too many just stopped looking for work. They haven't benefitted from this recovery. They didn't benefit from low interest rates. The low interest rates just hurt guy's like me. The bank charges me for everything. Rent is always going up. Fines, and fees go up, while my salary stays stagnant. I make nothing on my savings account. I am greatful we don't have much inflation though. I am greatful for health care, but it's not what I thought it would be. I'm not knocking Obamacare, just the enetites that are exploiting it. I couldn't imagine being in a state where the governor declined funds from Obamacare.

Yes, tech is booming, and I hope it stays booming. Being in the Bay Area, I see the amount of money tech is bring in. I see rents skyrocketing. I see houses being bought up for outrageous amounts. (I'm not claiming tech is the only reason housing is going up in cost. I see REIT's and foreigners buying residential properties with a phone call.)

I just don't know. It's Monday, and I don't feel great. If it is a bubble, I pray it leaks, and doesn't burst. Sorry, about this post. I'm all alone today, and this is my port hole to others. I know--I'm pathetic.
Besides the local repairs, all of these seem to attempt to stop people from being able to purchase the items you can see in store cheaper online, which makes the assumption that if the shopper can't find the item cheaper online they will purchase it in store.

It seems unlikely that a shopper savvy enough to have an item recognition app is going to not know what the online price is for a similar item, even if it's not identical.

Consumers obviously assign some value to being able to see the actual item, but it's not clear that the value is as high as you need to sustain a retail operation vs a generous returns policy.
I feel fine with my decision and would do the same thing again. In fact, I voted third party in 2k4 as well.

The thing is, I don't really care that Bush II won. In fact I miss those days when most of my peers were anti-government since their team hadn't won.

I am not particularly interested in what flavor of shit I will be forced to eat, and I won't legitimize the process by asking for the one that seems less foul.
The big difference is Ralph Nader had people who wanted to vote for him, Lessig does not.
My biggest concern is that the only official job of the President is to be commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Lessig is a fantastic policy wonk, but a single-issue candidate has no business leading the military, even though that was effectively the job he was going out for.
Using p/e to value growth companies doesn't work too well. The "E" in the ratio changes too fast.
Yes, a long shot, we know. Hence Sr. though.
Worse redundancy = cheaper is what I said, not the reverse. Amazon doesn't setup an AWS datacenter without multiple physically separated connections. The data to support my statement is in the fact they had 1 line connecting the data center and it was cut taking everything out. They may have started making additional lines into the center but they didn't have them today.
The difference is really the level of popular support. Even Graham and Santorum, who weren't even on the "main stage" of the recent GOP debate, have won U.S. Senate elections and have national name recognition that far outstrips Lessig.

Lessig seems to think that if he eked his way onto the stage of a televised Democratic debate, he'd have a chance of jump-starting a national political campaign on the issue of campaign finance.

But it's actually the reverse: you only get onto a debate stage if you already have a campaign. The polling criteria is not a gotcha. It's just the easiest way to ensure that only people with actual popular traction get stage time. The debate is not intended to be a "big intro" opportunity. There are other events for that, like the convention (Obama), or big events like the Prayer Breakfast (Ben Carson).

In part the difference in the numbers between the parties is simply that there is no clear favorite on the GOP side, while there is an overwhelming favorite on the Dem side. There are a lot of senior Democrats who have chosen to sit this one out rather than challenge Hillary.
People recognized ~20 years ago that, semantically, SSA is just reinventing lexical scope:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.3...
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Google Patches More Stagefright Vulnerabilities in Android
This isn't just a jailbreak it's a remote exploit that they can use to fully compromise you, or anyone else with said iOS versions.

They can do that by man-in-the-middling you while you browse away with Safari but other ways exist too.
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How do you think companies with lots of revenue and zero earnings are valued?

Like, say, Amazon.
Since Porsche do not use small diesels in their cars this looks to me like the scandal is a lot bigger than first thought. It isn't just the team working on the 1.8 litre diesel engine that fiddled the software, there is something more endemic going on as the 3 litre upwards size engines are implicated.

The funny thing is this:

Porsche could sue over £25 a day congestion charge (2008)

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/feb/19/travelandtra...

> The mayor's office responded saying the threatened legal action was "a double attack on Londoners".

> "First Porsche are trying to deprive Londoners of their democratic right to decide in the mayoral election on 1 May whether they want gas guzzling and polluting cars to drive in London when there is absolutely no need for them to do so. Second they are trying to impose on all Londoners unnecessary levels of pollution and greenhouse gases by a tiny minority," said a spokesman for the mayor.

> "No one is allowed to throw their rubbish in the street and Porsche should not be allowed to impose gas guzzling polluting cars on Londoners who do not want them."

I hope Porsche get taken to the cleaners.

Schadenfreude?
Excellent post, and the "investment as debt" theme is spot on, who cares what the valuation is if you get 2 - 3x your money back right? However you do need some sort of liquidity event for that and I worry that some Unicorns will become Ponzi-corns as early investors contribute their shares to be re-sold to the later investors as a way to cash out their 2X and move on. Then its "last one in, loses everything". Of course a couple of take out re-capitializations will probably put a damper on some of that zeal.

Mostly the people being screwed here are employees with 100% common stock. That argues that high value employees should be negotiating for preferred stock grants rather than common stock ISOs. That will come with a bigger tax bill but has a better chance of providing a return on their sweat investment.
"Might" is quite a stretch here. A search for "livecoding" now ranks this thread in the #2 spot, just after the site in question. The damage has already been done, I think.
I would say this issue could be resolved the same way maximum occupancy limits are established. Require buildings to establish maximum egress numbers (i.e. how big a crowd can be before a building is not allowed to open at all until the crowd is partitioned down into groups that are below the maximum egress number. This would force a pod-like crowd control solution that is observed the the NYC NYE event.

With a solution like this, Walmart would not have allowed a 2000 person line to form. Instead they would have had to partition the line into something like 20 groups of 100 people. Each group would be physically separate from the other with a buffer.

Cost of managing such a crowd grows proportionately to the size of the crowd you attract and costs are only really incurred if a crowd ever forms.

The only added cost is the work necessary for someone to calculate a maximum egress group size per building entrance. That's probably minimal extra work and likely to be proportional to the figures calculated by the fire department for getting people out safely in the event of a fire.
I recently discovered http://visualping.io/, which does a good job of this.
I don't think you can lump all technology into the same group anymore. There is a big difference between materials science technology, robotics technology, big data and analysis, and your run of the mill internet startup.

To me, I would say the industries closer to STEM are far undervalued, and the internet companies are generally overvalued, mostly because of one other industry: advertising. These days it feels like the standard model is to get as many users as possible, secret sell their data to third parties, eventually start advertising to them, and finally selling out to some corporate management husk which will take the company under the same name and run it into the ground capitalizing on the advertising potential, until it collapses or, if it's lucky, it gets turned into some sort of monopoly (eg, reddit on posting, facebook on social, linkedin for business social, google for search and email and big data, amazon for cloud services, twitter for immediate/short blurb social, etc)

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like most of the net startups just want to suckle on the teet of big advertising because they have are still so willing to give that teet out, and I'm hoping eventually this model collapses because it corrupts some of the important functions of society (eg, journalism).
As the post notes, the JS world is moving away from the side-effect heavy code that motivates Object.observer.

It may well be that Object.observer was the wrong level of granularity, and I agree that language specs should evolve cautiously.

That said, I think it is far too early to make generalisations as broad your statement above. React-style development is still a tiny fraction of overall web development, and React itself isn't even at version 1.0 yet and IMHO still has significant fundamental architectural concerns that haven't been fully explored yet. It promotes some interesting ideas, and I'm glad someone with the profile of Facebook is challenging assumptions, but in turn reasonable people could challenge a lot of the ideas coming out of the React team and we're still far from understanding the long-term trade-offs of that style of building for the web.
It is a myth, mythbusters tested it. You can put a lot of sugar in a fuel tank, it won't make the car not run.
Are they testing other cars beside VW?
Feedly doesn't really sort by Popularity. Instead they simply load ca. 20 entries and select the three most popular entries on the client side as Featured. That being said at scale you have to compromise one way or other.

The Idea behind my popularity algorithm is that I don't want to calculate what is popular among the Users of my service. Instead I want to estimate what is popular with the original User base of each Feed you subscribe to. I think the average User base of The New York Times is different from the typical reddit, twitter or facebook crowd. So this should be an interesting Differentiator.
A similar story like this one was posted this morning.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492824

Within one hour it had nearly 200 up-votes, and over 120 comments. Then, suddenly, it was flagged and buried into the archives of Hacker News.

While this may not be "Hacker News" it is obviously content that resonates with a large percentage of the HN community. I hope the mods just let it be this time.
Another reason to never use windows again.
The Ferengi and their culture are a focus of Deep Space 9; You should give it a watch.
Wut? What does this have to do with vehicle manufacturers programming their ECUs to defeat emissions tests? There isn't a single diesel truck that 'rolls coal' from the factory.

Also, diesel trucks that emit black smoke do fail emissions test - in counties that actually have emissions tests.
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> Can anyone explain why iOS jailbreaking info would be worth more than $1m to the NSA?

Jailbreaks are essentially reliable exploits, so any "jailbreak" if tweaked would also be a good way of installing malware or an implant in NSA parlance. This is also not just one vulnerability it's several, a remote vuln to get on the phone, a sandbox escape, a info leak to calculate the ALSR slide and a kernel exploit. This is a considerable amount of work, I'm guessing a month or so of fuzzing and manual testing, and 2 months to develop the jailbreak/exploits.
People on "our" side of the ideological spectrum are going to have an unpleasant reckoning soon with the fact that the governing that really matters happens at the state and local level. State office campaigns build a back-bench for federal politics, and the states actually do serve as laboratories for democracy, and most of the rulemaking people come into contact with are state and city rules, not federal ones.

If you want to fight corruption in politics, start by finding a way to do it in your city or state, and then try to get the idea to spread to other states. That's how cannabis is going to end up legalized; it's how death- with- dignity legislation will happen; it's also how the GOP is going to carve out reproductive health rights.

Liberals suck at this. We control a fraction of the state legislatures that the GOP does and we haven't managed to leverage control over urban centers to mitigate that.

Meanwhile, the "outsider" liberals all tilt at federal windmills. What did Lessig think was going to happen in the parallel universe where he won? The President doesn't set campaign finance policy.

He could have run for a state government office and won.
Have you seen Maciej's "Six Fixes"?

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http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you....
Obviously the logical assumption to make here is that this isn't the only exploitable bug for this version of iOS. Many many more exist and are already in the hands of various nation state actors, possibly even common criminals.

Look at the capabilities Snowden revealed, some of them read like SciFi and NSA had them close to a decade ago. Do you seriously believe the NSA and any other similarly well-funded actor _does not_ have multiple remote exploits for iOS and if they just fix this one, everything will be alright?

There are other actors, not quite top-of-the-pyramid-NSA level, that would gladly pay a million $ for this though, and this is where zerodium is selling.

Your only hope is to assume that everything can be compromised and if you have reason to fear said compromise (some would say do it even if you don't), come up with a plan that takes that into account (risk analysis, compartmentalization, segmentation, assumption of compromise).
You should crosspost this to r/iamverysmart
Surly Porsche has their own quality assurance and compliance engineers though? And they're proper Teutonic Engineers, right? I mean, they're Porsche engineers... They'd just take an engine from their parent company and not see that it lives up to the Porsche marquee?

Maybe it's possible, but if it is, Porsche is really not the Porsche I think it is or want it to be.
If you think the value will continue to rise, then the price you pay now is "cheap" compared to the future value. It's a really weird way to phrase it though.

I agree with your point about "cheap" being used more traditionally in that an investor may think the price they're paying is high compared to what the stock price should be based on fundamental analysis. That situation isn't the same as a bubble (although it might happen in a bubble).
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Good point, but I believe he addresses that:

> One thing we have to be wary of in this calculation of persistence is surname
changing. If people going to the university born with the surname Anderson were
changing this to Wigonius, then there would appear more persistence than there really
was. The biographical sources for some of the student nations at Lund and Uppsala,
Blekingska, Göteborgs, Skånska, Smålands, and Vermlands at Lund, and Östgöta at
Uppsala, allow us to estimate the fraction of Latinized surnames which were newly
adopted in each generation at the universities, since it gives fathers’ and mothers’
surnames for most students also. Figure 19 shows what fraction of students in each
generation inherited rather than adopted a Latinized surname.18 For the earlier
generations, 1730-1819, 96% of students acquired the name by inheritance from
their father. However, 1820-1909 that proportion fell to 88%, even though by
design these are all surnames that first existed before 1730.19 This will bias upwards
my estimate of b, but can be corrected for by calculating for each period a b based
just on the relative representation of the surname among the inheritors in that
period.
> There are race conditions in rc.d. Like most concurrency bugs, they are rare, but we shouldn't ignore them.

Doesn't systemd have roughly the same problem, with non-deterministic boot order and dependency heuristics resulting in opaque, hard-to-debug ordering issues that appear only intermittently?
Is it really a good idea to outline all the weak points on a public forum? (referring not just to this comment but to the group of similar comments)
Awesome! Now if someone could port the "Twilight" animated wallpaper....

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?t=16282
You may think that's an easy solution, but the side effects could be pretty severe...