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What if instead I said that the rise of the Islamic State can be traced back to dictators allowing a small elite to get rich off of oil, while oppressing and impoverishing the masses, who finally revolted? I'm guessing you might find that less objectionable even though it's just a specific rendering of "income inequality."
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No reasonable person would expect there to be a single factor. But some straw did break the camel's back.
Japan's debt is denominated in Yen. They don't have foreign denominated debt and they issue their own currency, therefore they're fine. The crisis in the Eurozone is due to the fact that members of the EMU gave up their currency sovereignty and can't make new Euros when they need to. Japan and Europe are in a completely different situation to one another.
Counterpoint: I have never used Trello as a kanban board, with predefined column names, left-to-right motion, and strict WIP limits.

I have a board for my house, with columns for "buy/sell", "maintenance", "check later".

I have a board for my family, with a column representing an upcoming milestone/event/party, and cards representing tasks my wife and I still have to complete.

Our company uses a top-level Company Report board, with each column representing a company goal, and each card representing an in-progress project.

I've also seen boards represent options and possibilities - "everyone add a to the column of the conference(s) you want to attend this year" - then the card becomes the locus of planning for that person's conference travel and so forth. My family did this earlier this year when searching for a home to buy - each card was a house, and the columns approximately represented neighborhoods.
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Friendly reminder that Foursquare still exists, from one of its early investors. :-)

But seriously, lists are useful because of their content. What a list does is condense information--an artifact of curation and maybe prioritization. So the value of the list correlates with its author.

Some lists are popular because they are curated by experts (newspaper restaurant reviews). Others are popular because they are curated by crowds, and thus express a collective social signal about what's valuable (Reddit, HN).

So, I'd have to say that lists are a horizontal thing. Lists will succeed or fail based on their utility and relevance, which to me says that lists don't really compete across verticals, except to the extent that everything competes for mindshare in general.
While I agree, there is one point that must be considered: the Arab Spring directly sprang, if you will pardon the pun, from an extreme rise in the prices of basic staples, and the population of the Middle East didn't have the income buffer to compensate. Not being able to afford bread tends to lead to a lot of revolutions, or at least the breakdown of society. Just ask France.
Let's call it a contributing factor and make the headline less insane.
I'll address the argument.

Lots of countries with high income inequality do not have a terrorism problem.

When is the last time Brazilians terrorists attacked New York and/or Paris?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
Islamic State is about religion; not economics.
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And all those spanky new Toyota pick-ups. Uh huh.
In our culture. That might not be the case in every culture. Some cultures even practiced infanticide, others practiced child sacrifice. Surely it cannot universally be the worst thing or such practices could never exist.
This doesn't work when Comcast offers services that directly compete with Netflix, it just makes Comcast streaming services seem relatively less expensive.
The US issues it's own currency and only issues debt in it's own currency. It can't be insolvent.
But that isn't how it is. Someone who says "um" a lot while speaking doesn't sound stupid. They're grating, to many in the audience, but that doesn't reflect on the speaker's ability (except, obviously, their public speaking ability). That means the audience will be focusing on the speaker's verbal tics instead of the message that was intended, which is the root problem. The word "stupid" was intended to startle the employee into action by how rude it was.

I mean, obviously, in this particular instance with this particular person, it was effective, and for all I know, the manager is a really sharp observer of her reports and knew this was the right approach in this situation. I don't think it's a good general approach, and I'm afraid people are going to take away the wrong thing from this article. It's not good managerial advice to say, "Tell your employees they sound stupid if they are bad public speakers!" It's better managerial advice to say, "Know your employees, and how each individual might be best motivated, and don't accept complacency." You have to be really careful when taking cues from drill sergeants, because for a lot of people, that approach will backfire horribly, and the message will be overshadowed by the delivery style.
As far as I know (amateur language learning enthusiast) there's no support linking programming languages to foreign languages, other than random Internet folk such as ourselves drawing upon superficial similarities.
Yes, to which 'notacoward replied:

"What do you actually think is wrong with Piketty's analysis, other than the fact that he has actually published on this topic before?"
There is absolutely no credible, facts-driven research to suggest that lack of wealth, access to health care, access to mental health care, or access to education have a direct correlation to individuals joining terrorist groups or the rise of such groups. It's just a common trope repeated because it fits with people's existing ideologies. Terrorism is much more complicated than that.
I'd argue that the main problem with the theory is that there are plenty of places where there is high income inequality (such as the United States, as indicated by the diagram) and something like ISIS seems rather unlikely† .

Sure, you can say that inequality may have contributed to the issue, but there are a ton of factors that have resulted in Syria being plunged in Civil War. Pointing to any one as a decisive factor seems like an inevitable simplification. Also, it doesn't really answer the question "Why _now_?". Claiming that something eventually happen is not really predictive if no time frame can be given.

† Or I might be overly optimistic about my own country's stability.
Understood, but why do you think that hammer is out of place here? A hammer is still a useful tool for certain tasks, and a true statement doesn't cease being true when it's repeated. If Piketty is wrong, the constructive response would be to explain why.
Hetzner is not an ISP but a hosting/servers/colocation company. The ISPs are the companies end customers are using to access internet in the first place (Deutsche Telekom, AT&T, etc)
There's nothing wrong with laying down and closing your eyes for 15 minutes even if you don't fall asleep.
Does anyone have data on how effective those face masks actually are as personal protective equipment?
We need an Open ISP movement... Maybe there is one already but I mean like a non-profit ISP type deal.
One question I haven't seen asked in this particular thread is, can it be used in production? What type of ecosystem is available (something like CPAN) for Perl 6 and how reliable is it? Two questions I suppose, but I guess the first one is more important.

Edit:

What I really mean by "can it be used in production" is really: is anyone using it in production and what is their experience with it and their recommendations?
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You are addressing a one-sentence summary of the argument, not the actual argument, which is much more complex than "income inequality results in terrorism."
Mark, that's a good point. However, I don't know how much of the world's dollars are used to buy goods that are priced in dollars, but I suspect the holdings of the developing countries to defend their currencies dwarf the amount used to buy such goods. From http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/ss/How-Much-US-De... foreign governments own $4.5T of the US debt.
We need to start realizing that reality isnt a great headline. Making bold or absolute claims is a good way. Once we keep that in mind it makes these conversations easier.
The hard truth is that open source software is the wild west; if you don't have a thick skin, you'll have to grow one, and if you can't grow one, they'll just eat you alive.

Eventually you realise it's either you or them. That's when you've mastered it.
I don't understand why we shouldn't believe what's coming straight out of ISIS' mouth.

ISIS has said they're killing us because of their interpretation of a book written in the first millennia. They say this every time they attack us. Yet (mostly on the left) we keep coming up with reasons why this isn't the case. "No, actually, you're not attacking us for that reason, really it's our fault because we gave the oil to the emirs."

When someone shoots up a Planned Parenthood, however, he doesn't even have to make a public statement and the same people are quick to blame Christian beliefs or rhetoric and immediately accept the ideological reason for the violence. Why don't we say that gunmen attack Planned Parenthoods because of income inequality in the United States?

Finally, is there anywhere to find the original article by Piketty in English? The linked version is in French.
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I'm intrigued by ARM machines in general. I want to see where this goes.
I was suggesting that the difference between the word "murder" and the word "killing" is demonstrative of the sort of broad thinking that allows people to say that there is a set of ethics that is universally believed.
I'd like to see YC Research create Academia 2.0. The current university research model is trending towards broken. Scientists are forced to chase funding. That's not inherently bad, but it's reached a degree that subverts the scientific method.

Creating a new model seems more valuable than specific areas of research.

As far as specific projects go: big discoveries are almost never centrally planned. It might be important to set up the environment to let small ideas grow from acorns into oak trees.

A research team needs to be able to pivot like a startup, and current systems don't really allow for that.
The US only has "debt" in USD and pays interest in USD which it creates. It deosn't even really have "debt" in the sense that it hasn't "borrowed" to fund any spending. The bond market just allows USD account holders at the fed to earn interest on reserves and is used as a tool to target the overnight interest rate. Nothing more.
but "GET / HTTP/1.1" is likely the most common.
The simple counter-argument is that it is not the only driving factor. And Piketty offers no real proof (by his very lofty standards) to show that this is the principal contributing factor (which in itself would be huge).
A more interesting question is finding the 'catalyst(s)' that led to the rise of ISIS.
archgoon: We have had extremely frequent domestic terror incidents in the US recently which can be readily linked to religious and political extremism, notably the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shootings.
I think we're all waiting with baited breath for Perl 6.Stable to be released. Hopefully that'll be around Perl 6.Christmas.

For now, it's fun to see what the future will bring. I'm excited.
I drove to the hardware store three times during the course of a single plumbing project yesterday. Each time, I bought everything I thought I would need to finish the rest of the project! I'm not even in the suburbs, I'm right in the middle of Seattle. I definitely would have paid extra for drone delivery instead of making that third trip, because I was really tired of driving across town at that point.
Your missing something.

Reading beyond the infographic, the article is really about how Apple is able to offset the need for R&D dollars (which as expanded from $4b in 2013 to $8.5b in 2015) by being an overwhelming large consumer of components ($29b committed next year).

This causes the suppliers to invest heavily in R&D to be able to "wow" Apple and lock up big contracts with their innovations, instead of Apple needing to do it directly.

The most interesting part to me is if this speaks to a counterpoint of the slow direction Apple appears to be taking moving more and more in house. This appears to indicate there is significant value by keeping key partners separate and in the free market, even with the lessened control of being a 3rd party.
So in the Middle East the top 1% control 26.2% of the wealth (under a "high inequality model"), and in the US the top 1% control 22.83% of the wealth. Just 3.5% more and the US will turn into a medieval barbarism state.

When will people stop believing this crap. There is one variable that explains a tremendous amount of human misery: surrender of the mind to a supreme authority (human or god). Of course there are other important factors, but when are we going to acknowledge the elephant in the room?
Given how awful inequality is in the Middle-East and seeing that the United States is not really far (comparing for France for example), it just made me realise how worse the situation is in the states.
Not everything can be made into a damn hacker house or incubator. That's not a business model for the economy as a whole. We're going to start seeing startups doing rollups of startups doing shared working spaces for startups making apps and productivity software for startups doing shared working spaces and online advertising.
Yes, please stop publishing these ridiculous headlines that seem to be used just to incite political arguments for clicks and ad revenue.
The issue is the taxes and the brain drain. It's impossible to keep people there (I'm a native of upstate NY and have recruited developers). We kept losing people to NYC and West Coast based companies before we could even offer. Anyone we did get who wa sworthwhile moved west as well (I did too).

Upstate has a lot of advantages (its a great place to raise a family), but has some massive disadvantages as well (the weather is one of them). There isn't enough tech to keep developers, because they know if your company tanks or fires them, the market isn't very good.
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Yeah, I had quite a bit more in my reply originally, including that and code snippets with assignment back and forth between a hash and array, but decided I didn't need to turn this article into a Perl 5 tutorial ;)
It has everything to do with it. Imperialism destabilized the region, led to the removal of the stable and sovereign Iraqi government and the fomenting of the Syrian civil war (to the point of funding elements that became ISIS) with the aim of removing that government as well. The results of all of this created the conditions for extremism in general and ISIS in particular to arise and build.
You could call it PDPi-11 :)
Ostensibly Brazil does, but domestically: http://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/terrorism-in-brazil
What I meant was that it may have started out as cumbersome (i.e. someone's Word document)...but hopefully by now they've moved it to a spreadsheet-like format. Given that Macrumors is a well-established site, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't baked into their CMS as some kind of module...though it really could be done as a set of spreadsheets (or YAML) and then as a static site.

How long would it take to research every iPod-era-and-onwards Mac product line -- including dates of refreshes/announcements? I bet no more than a day...especially if you just start from the Wikipedia page, which needs some cleaning up of taxonomy, but is pretty good (and relatively machine-parseable):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Apple_Inc._product...

There is definitely some editorial decision making that needs to be done about how to best classify things. But the Apple product line is pretty small, so the number of decisions -- e.g. should "iPod classic" and "iPod touch" be separate "families"/product-lines -- is relatively small.

After you have a list/spreadsheet of product-lines and dates...then it's not hard to write a script that calculates the number of days between each subsequent release...which gets you much of the main utility of the Macrumors' guide: days since last release, and average days per cycle.

(it'd actually be kind of cool to see this done with the major programming languages...)
This looks very promising as a laptop that could be upgrade-able like a desktop PC.

Hope to see more about this :)
I've been following Mr Pettis for a while. I don't have a degree in economics, just a few classes and an interest. I like how he argues from identities, but can't vouch for his methods in the greater economic landscape.

I'm not sure I understand all of your argument, but would be interested in your counterpoints to point 6 of his appendix on that post. Perhaps he's missing some of the benefits of a reserve currency that you espouse.
I've envisioned something similar, but for wet food (dry food is better for our convenience than it is for cat health in my experience). You'd fill a (washable and refrigerated) cylinder with wet food, which would be forced out a heated tip by a piston (sort of like squeezing a toothpaste tube).

The refrigeration and heated tip are the complicating factors. The heated tip is used because cats don't tend to like cold food, and if you're going to go to the trouble of hacking something like this together, you might as well go all the way.
It's most definitely not about religion, these are mostly childish criminals which are using religion as an excuse to commit even bigger crime.
Seems a little backwards to me to design your case and then design the motherboard to fit inside it, but I've never built any laptops so I'll just watch and see where this goes.
A sovereign currency issuing government doesn't need to raise taxes in order to spend, and the US government only issues USD denominated "debt" in order to target the overnight interest rate. The "debt" people talk about is not a borrowing operation.
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American Imperalism has a long history of provoking and/or arming people in the area to prompt regime change. They also support Saudi Arabia who export radical Islam to the area and fund terrorism (including 9/11 per Commission Report). Assad regime was one of America's opponents. And, of course, the group hitting him happens to form out of the remnants of and with weapons from the American imperialism in Iraq. Surprise, surprise...
One of the episodes of the 1960s Batman series involved the UN, and seeing that episode playing in bar a couple of months ago made me think of how no TV show today would feature a UN plotline; the most likely plotline indeed would only be about diplomatic immunity - ie how some people get to be above the law. My point here is that in the late 1960s, international diplomacy was respected enough to be part of the pop culture conversation. Fifty years later, teh pop culture conversation centres around popular violence (mass shootings) and terrorism, like ISIS. It seems to me that in the past, people had hopes for the future and believed the politicians were working to make a better world. Today, they don't believe that and see how politicians have created a world were some people are above the law and the rest of us are considered irrelevant and to be placated with realty-tv entertainment.

When inequality leads to hopelessness, what are we to honestly expect?
Only expressing yourself to another in private is not being candorous to the rest of the team.

What does it mean to remember that you are talking to a person? I generally only talk to persons. That is, if I am talking, it is to a person. I also generally know when I am talking.

I also think that if you are talking to a person, you must personalize it.
Yeah, but unless you were from the area, you wouldn't start a new business there. Nor would you look for employment there if you weren't from the area.

> This is a great region to start a family, and at the end of the day, your best employees are the ones tied to your office and location, not mercenary college grads shopping around every couple years for a raise.

In other words, you take what you can get from the local hiring pool and hope your best people don't have better options. This is great if you're looking to bootstrap a small business, but once you get past that stage it can be difficult to recruit executives with the market savvy you need to a small town. I'm all for remote work arrangements, but when developing a product strategy, colocation is a huge help.

Don't get me wrong; I don't mean to shit all over Buffalo -- I only used it as an example because the weather is awful. But as a city to build a tech startup in 2016, it's not high on the list. Hell, the list pretty much stops after "Silicon Valley" and "New York City" -- which leads to its own problems (like how you can't really afford to live in either city on less than $125k/yr).
It just so happens that Piketty is French. Maybe you can find a translation somewhere, though.
Most people live their lives just fine without financial independence, because they put higher priority in other activities in their lives. Entrepreneurs are different types of people, they put higher priority on being able to control their own destiny and because of that they can push through the comfort zone. If you're not motivated enough, of course it would be hard to do this. If entrepreneurship was that easy and rewarding for everyone, everyone would be doing it.
"I don't understand why we shouldn't believe what's coming straight out of ISIS' mouth."

Because they're proven masters at propaganda and messaging. To take prop at face value is the definition of naive.

"ISIS has said they're killing us because of their interpretation of a book written in the first millennia."

That's their justification for their actions, not the reason. Come on.

Recruiting for ISIS pays $5000 - $10000 per successful recruit.

If their true motivation is purely religious, if religion is the INCENTIVE, then why incentivize people with lump sumps larger than yearly income from honest work?

ISIS represents a way out of poverty, at least, that's how they sell it in recruiting.

"When someone shoots up a Planned Parenthood, however, he doesn't even have to make a public statement and the same people are quick to blame Christian beliefs or rhetoric and immediately accept the ideological reason for the violence."

We call that quid pro quo, and yes, it's intentional. If Islam itself is responsible for the actions of a minority of a minority, then it stands to reason that Christianity itself is responsible for the actions of a minority of a minority. So long as conservatives blame Islam in general for ISIS, we will blame Christianity in general for Westboro Baptist, for Clinic Terrorists, for Jehovah Witness child negligence murder, etc.

"Why don't we say that gunmen attack Planned Parenthoods because of income inequality in the United States?"

We do, often, we bemoan the war against education (ignorance as pride) and growing wealth inequality for social tension and violence both here in America and worldwide.
Why should this be the "most controversial theory"? Have we already forgotten what triggered the Arab Spring, and consequently the power vacuum that created the IS?

The only thing off, as far as I can tell, is the remark that "economic deprivation and the horrors of wars [...] benefited only a select few of the region's residents." I'm not sure if this is the WP mis-reading Piketty, but he makes it pretty clear in Capital that war benefits no one, especially the super-rich. It's not like the Arab aristocracy were itching for multiple revolutions that called into doubt the existing power structures.