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Did you read the Criticism section of the wikipedia article, which describes how the theory doesn't apply if capital flows freely (as it does) and that even when it did apply it created uneven distribution of wealth which have caused countries like China to enact policies to ensure that Comparative Advantage does not apply?

At issue here is that we're not trading goods we're good at producing for goods China is good at producing. Instead, we're trading the future earnings of US citizens for Chinese goods. That might have been ok when our debt was low and the goods were low-value, but now our debt is unsustainable and the goods are high technology which we invented and used to produce, but don't anymore. The theory was that we were becoming a 'service economy', but the Chinese don't want or need our services. We have nothing to trade with them except our future financial independence... and the future is coming very quickly.
But then, how do poor countries end up getting day after day such lousy governments? Is the people/society a factor in that? (after all, they DO vote, at least in Ecuador)
David Cowan captures it better here http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2009/11/gladwells-igon...
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The thing is, the Chinese are fiercely nationalistic

A quality they share with most nations on earth.
The hierarchical filesystem was invented back when UI and API were the same thing and it hasn't moved past that.

You wouldn't tolerate a UI that was full of dangerous "system buttons" labeled with user-hostile jargon. You wouldn't use a user-entered mutable title field as an indexed unique key in a data schema.

FUSE is great but it abstracts the back end, not the interface. That's a seperate issue.

Platforms like J2ME with object persistence solve half the problem. Fast access to structured data is a breeze, but the user has no control.

All data is meaningful to the user at some level, even if it's as shallow as "Settings for the Blah app" or "The entire Blah app". If an object persistence platform forced all data to be wrapped in a user-meaningful container, which the user could manipulate atomically but not look inside, that would give you the best of both worlds. It would probably also encourage more modular and interoperable data design.
Some poor countries are able to bootstrap themselves out of it though. The article cites China, Taiwan, South Korea, Botswana, Chile, India, Mauritius, and Singapore as countries which historically were chronically poor and now are some of the fastest growing economies in the world.
To respond to techiferous quickly, I'll just point out that the author is basically advertising the fact that he is reductionist by heading sections with "The Missing Jigsaw Piece", etc. Maybe the book is different, okay.

We can use science, mathematics, and statistics to test hypothesis

You can't, though. It's really hard to make the world a laboratory, though it does sometimes happen by accident. The differences between N and S Korea, E and W Germany, China and Taiwan, I think, settled the question of Communism vs. Capitalism. But good luck in getting the grant money to set up such an experiment. I've pointed out that the USA itself is really a quite corrupt, thieving, murderous entity, but this hasn't really mattered that much. Another example? Nazi Germany. They had a ridiculous war economy, they sent all their young men to butcher people, they imprisoned millions of citizens and foreigners, they had brutal police and internal security, etc, etc. All the worst possible things. Worse than Cameroon could possibly aspire to. And yet the country was prosperous almost to the end of the regime. And this was coming off the heels of the worst historical instances of hyperinflation, depression, and world war. All of which were also caused by politicians.

That's a lot of bad government but it ultimately didn't matter at all.
Instead of actually doing the diff process on the client or server side, this may be useful as a method of returning Javascript events and transformations from the server side to the client side for rendering; i.e., instead of returning script fragments, or JSON detailing the data itself, as the result of an Ajax call to the server, the server script would return an abstract set of "changes" to perform in the DOM, potentially along with other data. Sort of a server-side "DOM diff" structured with JSON, allowing a higher level of description than just spurting out some Javascript or an array of data.

Wow, that was way too many tacky web 2.0 terms for one paragraph.. forgive me.
Ugh, talk about sensationalism. The mother who is "appalled" at this is more annoying than the slightly insensitive TSA blogger.

She even made a Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Get-Mikey-OFF-The-List/2971719...
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> It was filled with information and still very easy to read.

I completely agree--I knew nothing about how these type of displays work, and yet I found the article to be very understandable and enriching.
Hmm. Let's see how this goes:

Google acts like an asshole to somebody. Typically this is because they refuse to spend any money on customer service, while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge their verging on monopoly market share (though not in the payments market).

Next, if someone has a big enough soapbox, Google gets embarrassed. Matt Cutts or someone similar shows up to do damage control. Meanwhile, the G screws without repercussions anybody who can't raise a big stink online.

Wash rinse repeat.

See: adwords problems, adsense problems, search problems, payment problems, Nexus One problems, etc
Yes, society/culture are an important factor I guess. People do vote for the wrong presidents.

The law allows them to promise a lot of things during campaign although there is not a strong control, audit system in place.

Historically the congress majority is controlled by the president's party.

It gets very complicated if we keep looking into the problem. The conclusion is that we may be indeed partly guilty for it.
If (and this is totally hypothetical, I really don't know) the pixels respond non-linearly to power input, it might actually use less power to turn on all the subpixels to a low brightness than to make one subpixel really bright. It might take more power to go from 50% to 100% than from 0% to 50%.
"It's really hard to make the world a laboratory"

I agree completely. The sort of thing we're discussing isn't amenable to repeatable, controlled experiments. And it's very complex.
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The follow up research which refuted some of the Kruger and Dunning's conclusions: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kburson/files/bursonlarrickklayma...
The argument that I think you're making in your first paragraph is fallacious. In particular, it can happen that (1) everyone wants to give some money to the poor but (2) if they all have to do it individually (rather than a universal tax) no one will do it. This will happen, for instance, if everyone strongly dislikes being worse off than their neighbours, but weakly prefers that the poor be helped. (This is the same idea as in the familiar situations of "prisoners' dilemma" and "tragedy of the commons". It's also why some sports have officially-enforced requirements for safety measures: everyone's better off if everyone's protected, but if it's optional then that's at best an unstable equilibrium because a player or team that chooses to forgo the protection may get an advantage over those who don't. But once no one is protected, all those competitive advantages go away and everyone's worse off than if everyone had been protected.)

Now, if (as your second paragraph suggests) you really believe that taxation is so fundamentally evil that it cannot be justified whatever its good consequences, then of course the above will leave you entirely unmoved. But if you are prepared to consider trading off harms against benefits, then I don't think you're entitled to dismiss the possibility that some redistributive taxation is a good thing overall; in particular, you can't just say "if people want to give money to the poor then let them do so" unless you have good reason to think that the sort of situation I described above doesn't obtain.
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Probably been submitted before but it is one of my favorite mainstream enough example of how humans think.
That first graf you wrote: exactly what I was wondering about. Thanks for the crystal clear explanation.

The second graf is a problem I've spent some time with for clients, and figuring out that someone is shopping a block and jumping in a threat that everyone I've talked to has called "frontrunning", but I don't know what the real name is.

I'm working at a lower level than figuring out and trading towards optimal pricing targets, but that aside, I think there's a real future to research into the programming flaws of automated/algorithmic trading systems.
My only point is that payroll taxes aren't really a risk-based standard. Small business owners do take on different risks than employees, but they're compensated by long term returns, not by tax breaks.
Go for it.

Since I've never been translated to Russian before, could you drop me the URL once it's up? There's a "contact" page on my site (from the homepage, on the right). Thanks!
And it's incredibly expensive. Let me put a word in for Chicago. 80% of the benefits of NYC, only 5% of the problems. For instance: no bedbugs.

(We're headquartered in NYC and Chicago).
I think there must be already a service offering everyday good reviews on any selected website like Yelp. For business owners it would be a better brand management tool and probably the least expensive.
"it would not surprise me at all if many of these attacks are being done without government sanction"

Every Chinese compsci student seems to know who to call if they ever crack into someplace useful.
> It is actually fairly plausible that Stoppelmann has no idea at all that his sales representatives are using such shady tactics.

I kind of buy this--I've been told that the sales reps at Yelp are paid by commission, which can lead to this sort of thing.
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This is what scares me away from the Nexus One. I know I will see software support and bug fixes for general (and many obscure) problems for some time to come, but I am wary that I may fall into a gap somewhere, and be stuck with a fancy paperweight. At least Nokia and Apple etc have service centers, a phone number you can call, a real response to your needs as a customer.
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I've been using this for years, for anything that requires this sort of knot. I'm disappointed that nobody ever comments on how quickly I can tie my shoes (say, after a TSA checkpoint).
"Australia is currently attempting to censor movies, the internet, and video games in rather absurd ways--and just like China, they're getting criticized for it."
If China's online censoring was like Australia's, there wouldn't be a problem. Australia makes public a list of blocked sites, with the reason, e.g. porn. China blocks http://www.python.org/download/ and subpages seemingly arbitrarily, so everyone thinks someone paid someone.
in my head i was thinking of a process that puts things in an authorization queue. pull in all data that is probably accurate, and have an admin either hand-verify it or hand-edit it so that its right.
HFT is a nice scape goat for the finance industry, where the public at large, and the current status quo for that matter, are looking to point fingers at and cry "thats-not-fair", due to the last 18months of joy.

... and as we all know its far easier to attack geeks than other more politically astute sections of the industry
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I think what the article was trying to say is that someone earning 120K is worse off or the same as someone earning 60K - so there is no benefit in earning more money in some cases - you will get no real benefit from that money, you will just have to pay it out for things that others get for free. I think (again) that the issue was that really high earners 300k plus have real benefits from the money but everyone from 150k down is screwed. But i could be wrong.
So, give up my trust in the huge corporation that has to answer to their shareholders if they are seen being evil... and instead trust some hacker with nothing to lose if things go tits up?

No thank you.
Of course it will make it more attractive.
new next-gen?
Oh the the issue there is that puts a limit on the liquidity of the market.

In a case such as the 1987 crash, it's possible the such a delay in trading would've lowered stock values further as the volume of buyers versus sellers would've been less clear and selling pressure could've pushed down securities further before buyers could evaluate proper values.
Inflation was due to fears of Opec increasing oil prices

That would depend on your understanding of inflation. The monetarist views, which it seems to me have proven themselves out most successfully in the real world, say that nothing of the sort can happen. Inflation is caused by one thing, and that's an increase in the money supply. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#Monetarist_view

and moving off the gold standard

Well, yes, but that's precisely the point. The end of Bretton Woods was already a done deal by the time we're talking about. We were well into the era that the Keynesians though they could play games "stimulating" the economy by injecting money, bringing down unemployment by so doing. The fact that this didn't achieve their goals is exactly what I was talking about, and one of the reasons you should be listening more to the Monetarists like Friedman, rather than to Keynes.
My apologies. From the title and the minimalist design it appears I didn't consider the financial resources that went into the project. Quite honestly - I can only hope that tools such as this knock Yelp and other out of their place. I wish you good luck. Thanks for the down votes everyone.
It's also a Star Trek / William Shatner reference
now that's some serious future right there. why don't any scifi writers write like this?
There was talk a year or so ago of calling next-gen, "now" gen. My completely unsubstantiated guess is that the PacBio's of the world will end up being called "third gen"
One conclusion to be drawn is that many countries were better off under colonial rule.
You should add a twitterbot too and get specials from local businesses that use Twitter.
There's a reference to "reddits" on the preferences page.

Also, I am randomly getting 404s and other server errors when loading the homepage.
Depends on how you define nationalistic. The hundreds of thousands of students who protested at the Tiananmen Square could also be considered nationalistic in some sense of the words.
Has anyone heard of, or used, this framework:

http://weblocks.viridian-project.de/

And if I was to start playing around with one would you recommend Weblocks or KPAX or something else....
Actually, it does make it hard. To do subpixel smoothing correctly, you need to be able to keep the total amount of color the same -- so if you want to move a part of the glyph right one, you'd light up a red from the next pixel right and turn off blue on the last pixel in your line on the left. This becomes both much harder and less useful when not all pixels have all colors.

But you are right on the other point -- at 800x480 on a 3.7 inch screen has a ppi of 250 -- or just normal font rendering looks as smooth as subpixel rendering on a computer screen, and I for one would be hard pressed to distinguish between subpixel rendering and normal when looking at text at size 10 or so on that screen -- just because I'd have such a hard time seeing it at all.

I wish we could get proper OLED computer screens.
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As an Australian I'm not really up-to-date on US politics, so I have a question.. why are democrats unhappy about health care reform? I thought that was what they wanted?
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It was Seth Godin and "Brands in Public":

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/launching-br...

(I had the same memory this morning and tried searching for it and couldn't find anything, but thanks to your post I thought to include "brand management" in the search)
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I don't see any fees.

Amazon would "make money" with access to interest free funds (money sitting in accounts), and by having more people pay for purchases via ACH, saving on credit cards fees.
Ah, my URL had the utm_* params in it. I was surprised it wasn't already posted. Oh well, at least more people are seeing/discussing.
You know who says NYC is awesome? People who already live there. Good luck finding a place to live in the city. Your options: room with four other people in a two bedroom or have insanely rich parents who can co-sign a lease with you.

Of course, I disagree wholeheartedly with Thomas on Chicago unless you're bootstrapping. If you don't want to do SV, Boston and LA (especially now with Jason's Open Angel Forum events) are pretty good options.
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Which is why the 10K hour rule is absolute nonsense. It is meant to sell books by appealing to talentless individuals that make up the vast majority of the population. If you spend 10K hours playing tennis starting from childhood, you would not be a top pro. The only people who do that are those who already had talent and were successful at an early age based on that talent. That's the Outliers loophole. You can't find people without talent who spend 10K hours doing something, so therefore talent must not exist. If you can't understand this then there is just no hope for you. Outliers is simply a book to let losers feel better about themselves. That's all.

Bill Gates is an extremely talented individual. It took going through Math 50 at Harvard to tell him that they were actually people in the world markedly smarter than he. A lesser individual in Bill's circumstance would not have been able to do what he did. They would have learned to program and become a mediocre career software engineer somewhere, which is what I think the vast majority of this site's readers are. Sure, keep telling yourself you're just as talented as Gates. Pathetic.
I'm more interested in The Pacific, which is the companion to Band of Brothers. The budget for that is supposed to be more than $150M, and it's set to premiere in March. One of the books it's based on, "With the Old Breed", is quite good. It should give Band of Brothers a run for the money, although I think they'll be fairly different as the source material, and the war in the pacific itself, was grittier than Band of Brothers.
Indeed, and the same qualifier would give a blanket "wrong" to supply-side theory too. After all, it failed in the '28-'32 period. Just how wrong is the question. That logic doesn't work, sorry. Keyensian thought isn't "proved" wrong in anything but the ideological fantasies of Wall Street Journal editorialists.
They are not third either, more like fourth or fifth. Maybe I will go with next-next-gen.
Some Democrats on the left of the party think it makes too many concessions to the private insurance industry. Some in the party's moderate wing worry that it's too far to the left. Many people on both sides are responding less to the substance of the proposal and more to signaling and positioning.

There are plenty of other Democrats who think it would be an imperfect but nonetheless valuable achievement. (I'm in this camp.)
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That's not accurate. The human eye uses primarily green to detect resolution. Red and blue are used for color.

I wish I could find it, but there was an online example, where someone took a picture, divided it into the three channels, then pixelated (mosaic) one channel at a time and recombined it.

When he did green you saw it right away. With red it took some pixelation before you could see it. And with blue it took a LOT of pixelation before you noticed anything.
I for one plan to open a startup in NYC.

Why? B/c there are no girls in silicon valley. If you are in your 20s, or early 30s, you are probably wasting your best dating years away.

I like to work hard/play hard and NYC seems the perfect place to do it. In SV, you work hard/get more bored. You are surrounded by boring suburbs. SF is fun for a while, but good luck finding dateable girls. (If you are into hipster chicks, it is perfect).
Eventually work hard without corresponding fun becomes tedious, and people burn off, and move on.

NYC seems to have a better balance. When people leave NYC, (or Manhattan), they seem to settle for the cheaper boroughs, or New Jersey / RI.
When people leave SF/SV, they just move away.

Fred Wilson should start emphasizing this more in his posts. He doesn't realize how bad the 'dating' situation is here, and just be in a city where you meet lots of well educated girls, is a huge perk for many single 20s-30something engineers.

Ps. I have been talking with some friends also, that are in the same boat.
Our plan is to actually have at least an office there.
Seriously. I guess it is just like rock bands, where people join them "to get the chicks", so will be my next startup. "To get the chicks". Life is too short. :D
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It seems to have inspired a smattering of fair discussion here at least. To be fair, he did warn readers in the very title, so it isn't necessarily supposed to be an excellent, discussion provoking piece.
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Any business relationship can be voided with a proportional amount of effort as it took to enter it.

You got your Google Checkout or Paypal account nearly automatically by virtue of controlling a checking account (by having a pulse) -- why does it surprise you that they'd suspend it an the slightest hint of anything untoward? You're but a twinkle with a twitter account in a sea of fraud.
Yes, but they were probably even better off before they were invaded.
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The standard for patenting is higher than that. I was responding to the claim that the patent "describes basically any data-mining software", which is simply untrue.
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I ride to work (and for errands) year round despite the weather. It's not that big of a deal. Riding my bike 40 miles out of town then camping in this stuff, though, would be a tall order with the gear I have. Mostly, the camping part would suck.
Hmm,

I'm not sure it's disincentive to work as such.

It seem more like a disincentive to make more than $60K/year if you're not going to make $200K.

There's still an incentive to work to avoid homelessness.

Perhaps it could be called a disincentive to work hard.
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