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Instead of cutting public employees numbers, their salaries or pension plans, they're focusing on cutting the actual benefits the state provides for its people. Say hello to the inherent incentive structure of government.
We may benefit from increased energy efficiency but that's largely a benefit the market can handle for itself. Whether it is better to buy more fuel or more insulation depends on the price of insulation and the price of fuel and how long you plan to live in your house. All energy sources are alternative. Fossil fuels exist, if they can provide cheaper sources of fuel than otherwise available why not use them up, to stop using them earlier is to waste resources we could have used. What exactly is the difference between buying the oil from a "foreign petro-power" and buying the goods it could be used to produce from that foreign power, or the goods some other country produced from that oil. It's not like there is a global gas tank that will keep running continuously and then suddenly turn off with out notice. Production will slowly dwindle sending signals via the market that it is time to start looking for alternatives as the price of oil goes up and other energy sources look comparatively cheaper. Wealth for the history of humanity has been tied to energy production. Gas shortages are caused by gov't intervention in the market, not solved by it. Case in point, read about gasoline shortages in Iran caused by the gov't fixing gasoline prices. This is a scrappy startup forum, if you think there is a lot of money to be made finding alternative energy sources perhaps you should pursue that as a market opportunity, or invest with people who are pursuing it.
I think we also have to much demand for housing in Australia to have a really bursting of the bubble. IN recent year immigration has kept demand up. There is also the artificial raising of the value of new estates by only allowing small new allotments at a time to be sub divided to become new suburban areas.
It might not be a terrible strategy overall. Bing is the least unsuccessful Microsoft foray into the web so far, and it's heavily built around a combination of: advertising the site, having tie-ins to things like Bing Shopping, and cutting default-search-engine deals. It's probably easier to do all that by focusing on one country or region at a time.
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Hey Chris,

Thanks for the response - I'd love if you could forward over the info?

Best,
Elliot
Ah yes, we have a ticket for this.

http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/132

Now that there's the self-compiler that can be run without ever saving the compiled JavaScript as a file, this becomes far more important.
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I'm guessing most of the people on CR are also on /b/.

As for me, I really can't be bothered on both instances.
> To an intelligent person who understands the basic principles of the greenhouse effect, the real questions are "How much?" and "How fast?"

The first question should be 'is this happening' - skepticism is the default position of science. The onus is to prove a hypothesis, not to disprove it.

I honestly don't ever think I will know whether man-made large scale climate change is happening or not - the IPCC, University of East Anglia, Auckland University, and Al Gore have all made very public mistakes and in some cases have been shown to deliberately manipulate data - all within the last 2 years. Meanwhile I keep hearing other credible sources (the Oxford spokesperson on the BBC) still state that the link between man and climate is still not considered proven. Given these two facts, it's very hard for someone without scientific training to identify the credible sources from the incredible ones, and until I can do so, I remain skeptical as I should.
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Is there a list of ones they plan on posting? I was under the impression they were only posting 1 every weekday, and so far the only 2 up (at least on the official site) are Blaise Aguera y Arcas on Augmented Reality and Jamie Oliver's wish for food for every child.

While I found both of those interesting, I'm really looking forward to a few of the others and only 1/day being posted is brutal.
I can't agree with the IC idea.

In practice, importers would set up fake shell companies to invoice the imported goods at a lesser price than the actual cost - the incentives to do so would be enormous.

Not unlike the behavior of the "re-insurance" business - which Buffett has been involved in since 1998 or so with his purchase of General Re-insurance and with another re-insurance company called National Indemnity.
It's unfair to point out that Buffett made a bad trade that lost a billion dollars? Regardless of his status as the foremost investor of probably _all time_, he was empirically wrong on this one, and the article was about him talking down the dollar, so it's not unfair to point out that he lost a billion dollars putting his money where his mouth was.
To summarize:

bit.ly shouldn't attempt to shorten links that are shorter than the URL it will generate.

However in this case the error is actually in Tweet Deck. The bit.ly API can't reject short(er) urls sent to it in case you really do just want to wrap an existing short link in analytics - systems trying to read your mind and getting it wrong with no way to correct it are amazingly annoying.

So, the bit.ly API working as intended. I can't even believe that the Tweet Deck bug is malicious as URLs that are shorter than a bit.ly link are rare, and certainly not common enough to be worth complicating the UI for. There's already an 'undo shortening' button after all.
In fact, Buffett is the first to admit his mistakes and apologize to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders, each and every year he seems to apologize for one monumental fuckup after another.
I've been a Drexel University student for 7 years (multiple degrees) and had no idea we had a "Drexel Plasma Institute". I guess that's what's inside the building across from 7-11.
If you decide to go this route, I'd build it for you. More about me in my profile.
Please don't take it literally. I meant SWPL as in this:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

and thought it would be understood.

What I mean is stuff that is too "liberal", too bland, too politically correct for my taste. A bit hypocritical at times. It's just my opinion; perhaps I should have phrased it differently.

This is only tangentially related to race, by the way. People all over the world (including me) love classical music etc, but by using a derogatory term I'm implying only the stuff I dislike. ;-)
Similarly, the market in carbon emission credits is rife with fraud.
I'm glad you brought up mutable assignment. The reason for allowing colons as an alternative to equals signs in CoffeeScript is two-fold, the lesser reason is to make regular assignment consistent with JSON assignment, eg, both of these are legal CoffeeScript:

obj: {prop: val}
obj.prop: val

obj = {prop = val}
obj.prop = val

But the main reason is to avoid the equals sign as a symbol for assignment, because it has such a different meaning that you would expect in its use in math (unless immutable), where it implies the equivalence of the expressions on the left and right side for the entire duration of your proof.

Using colons, like JSON does to great effect, looks more like tagging a value with a label, which is much closer to the meaning of what you're actually doing in JS.
Sorry, I misread you then. So please do tell me why you call them "insights" and what's wrong with evolutionary psychology in a nutshell - I'm genuinely curious. Also, Sperm Wars might be excellent material for changing preconceived notions of laymen in the field, but not so much for people who are well versed? Because despite recognizing that people want to procreate and that this influences human behaviour, the book puts forward several arguments I as a laymen wouldn't have recognized myself.
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Maybe ... in this case the current proposal on the table is to make it optional. For a significant subset of students, the ones who the school system is essentially warehousing, that strikes me as OK. After all, a high school degree nowadays is essentially worthless, a basic college degree has replaced it.

There's the danger of the slippery slope, of course.
Surely the question to ask here is whether the analysis in the linked article stands up. What they are saying is that there were indeed errors in the report, but these were minor errors of the kind you can find in any report hundreds of pages long, compiled by many people: misunderstood statistics and some mismatch between sections prepared by different people.
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Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out," adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_be_evil

Exploiting users privacy in order to build a social network is evil - - and saying "I'm sorry" and fixing the issue when you have exploited millions of users does not make Google's Buzz act less evil.

An analogy could be to spam millions of people to build a social network - - and then you say "I'm sorry, we won't spam any longer, see we fixed it". Is this acceptable? I say no. They should be accountable for their actions and be punished like spammers get punished.
I wonder if this means they are dropping plans to move Maemo to QT? Moblin is Gnome/GTK based (as is Maemo currently) and Intel doesn't have Nokia's crossplatform reasons to be committed to QT.
Governments does not really need to care for other governments laws, that's the difference. So it's neither illegal or a crime as long as a foreign government is concerned.

And yes, governments and borders go hand in hand.
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An autocomplete list is automatically generated, so doing it on a by-country basis should not be that hard. The big time investment is doing it for one country, and I imagine rolling it to analyze other countries' data is straightforward.
So he takes an URL shorter than the minimum bit.ly length, and uses that as evidence that URL shorteners suck? That's like saying cars and airplanes suck because they won't save you any time if you want go from your bedroom to your toilet.
The danger of arguing about these proposals - they may very well be worthy of separate appraisal - is that one accepts the basic principle that in times of receding tax revenues it's ok to cut benefits for the taxpayers but not to downsize the actual legislature or governing body with its employees as well. It's a perfect smoke screen on the part of the legislature.
From http://meego.com/about/faq

MeeGo builds upon the Moblin core software platform and reference user experiences, adding the Qt UI toolkit from Maemo.
Excel supports this traditional sequential top-down approach in the VBA codes (see the example on the previous page) and additionally it provides a very new, fresh and revolutionary opportunity as well.

"very new"? "fresh"? "revolutionary"? I call BS. They then go on to show the basic idea of object-oriented programming. The call-references in auditing is cool, but it's also quite doable in a debugger (though I don't know of any which work this "graphically"). Admittedly, the graphics probably make it a lot easier to non-programmers, but the language has nothing new in it.
Yet they've published Isabel Allende's talk?
There are two main areas that you'd need to learn: front-end development and back-end development.

Front-end development knowledge points: HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Back-end development knowledge points: Server administration, databases and interpreted languages.

I'm biased towards open-source technologies, so I'd recommend you learn Django, Ruby on Rails or one of the PHP frameworks (personal preference is Symfony). Then tie that in with MySQL or PostgreSQL. Most of these technologies have great documentation, especially Django and Symfony, and shouldn't be too hard to get started with.

For learning front-end development the quickest way would be to go and buy a book rather than attempt to follow the myriad of tutorials out there. I'd recommend the standardistas book: http://www.webstandardistas.com/book/ After learning the knowledge in the book, follow on to using javascript libraries such as jQuery and YUI to get some funky front-end interaction working.

Finally, tie all the knowledge in by attempting a few pet projects.
Props to the author for a well written article.
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"One picture does not a systematic investigation make."

No, but it makes a great polemical tool, like polar bears sitting on melting ice and so-forth.
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I think that if you "Next" for hours, something interesting happens, especially if you try to be more active chatting, talking, or trying to look attractive, or something like this.

Is it worth it? Not in the long run I bet, but it is one of this stuff that can give you an interesting short term experience.
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I wonder about possible cancer side-effects of high energy systems like this.
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You should really read the linked article with an email from the founder, age 17. This kid has built a pretty impressive site, although I wouldn't really call it a business yet. He does host it on 7 servers and uses 7 gigabits of bandwidth to handle all of the video streams. The code optimizations he must have done to handle this are pretty impressive:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-found...
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Unity publishes web apps. I assume you could embed them in any web content, including FB, however, you'd need your users to install a Unity browser plugin.
I kind of understand, but I would really be interested in the "other stuff". I suppose for TED, ultimately the speakers are still selected by the organizers (don't know TED very well).

What would be a more exciting event? I suppose there already are some?
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With the returns VC investing has had the last several years, the only reason there's still money in VC is because it's a fun and exciting thing for people with lots of money to invest in.

People without lots of money and who will have no one-on-one time with the founders they're investing in are throwing their money away with something like this.

Those types of investors need index funds, not the "Kiva for tech startups".
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From what I've read, there is a lot of truth to what he says. Its not that poor people are dumb, but that the short term spending that everyone does has a much bigger effect on them (as its a much bigger proportion of their income).

Caveat: The paper I'm thinking of was referring to incredibly poor people in India, so it might not necessarily carry over to all contexts.
You're reading way too much into it; please see my reply to Tichy.

Oh, I happen to be South American, but it's not at all about that level of cultural difference. In my country there's a clone of the SWPL blog called "stuff middle class people like". On the other hand, someone very white like Mark Steyn would likely agree with me.
I was noticing that too, like how it was apparently stuck in horizontal format, and the massive stutter when it scrolled down to text input. The video example at the end was amusing to me too, as it appeared both applications simply froze part way in.
If you look at the numbers it appears that the market in fraud is rife with carbon emissions credits. Not even joking -- one particular fraud (VAT carousel) was generating over 90% of the exchange volume, according to Europol.
In the Philippines, completing high school means you've done a total of 10 years. I don't know of a good way to compare high school outcomes per se, but RP college grads who go on US grad schools certainly seem to do okay.
Mercifully free of pornography.
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In the end will this debate really matter at all? So many browsers are already supporting html5 features like canvas and the video tag.
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Hmm...Since it's not valid for people outside US so I wont be able to participate but would I have participated had it been valid in India?

Let me think...Probably Not. I have lost any hope that such marketing campaigns can ever solve real world problems or help in nurturing the next big idea because that's not the main motive behind such campaigns.

The motive is to engage as many people as you can and that is bound to happen after having a look at the site, which is rather attractive and from a designer's point of view quite appealing.
Well, yes, that and being born into a very rich and influential family.
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If we look at the arguments for or against vigorous action on climate change, there really is an overwhelming weight on the side of taking action.

And that's the case even if the climate change argument were a weak one (and it isn't) since the remedies have so many ancillary benefits. In truth, most (though not all) offered solutions should appeal to both deniers and skeptics for reasons having nothing to do with climate.

Yet meaningful action seems impossible.

So we come to this:

If the weight on one side of the teeter-totter is overwhelming,

And yet the teeter-totter won't budge leaving good solutions in the air and stagnation firmly rooted...

Then we must consider that the teeter-totter is broken and/or a new fulcrum is needed.

I'm not trying to be mysterious here. It just seems a good analogy.

In which case, the solution isn't piling on more good arguments...

It's to find out what's wrong with the teeter-totter and get to fixing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_budget

Isn't that what a classified budget is for?
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I hope there are stronger rejoinders in the pipeline than this one. Evidence of crumbling (if not collapse) of stout party comes with the final retort 'And even if it was ....'.

Thermometers located adjacent to aircraft parking areas?
Sounds eminently sensible!

And which serious sceptic is claiming that 'one bad thermometer doesn't mean climate change can be thrown out the window.'?
This is not the first time MS have focused on their home market, for example Zune HD and the music subscription service is still not available in Europe.
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I went to high school in the States and a decision to graduate a year early was one of the best ones I've made. There's no reason not to teach half of the stuff that's covered in high school to middle schoolers. It was rather ridiculous to see 9th-10th graders open algebra and geometry textbooks for the first time.

Incidentally, there's no 12th grade in Russia and in most of the former Soviet Union countries. There were only 10 grades until 1987-88 or so.
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Conducting debate by lawsuit is not a very good idea when you believe that the other side is composed of well-funded special interest groups. I mean, its a bad idea for a lot of reasons, but that particular reason is one you should find appealing. If I'm a corporate stooge for SaudiExxoFoxlican Party it is highly likely I can afford to outspend you virtuous protectors of truth on lawyers, and it is highly possible that given a debatable point of fact I could litigate you into penury.
Just the other day a story about the percentage of the Netherlands below sea levels being wrong in some article got a lot of upvotes on hacker news...
I understood you just fine, didn't take you literally, knew that you didn't mean to offend and still found your comment a bit annoying.

Annoying's not so bad, I wouldn't go as far as to say I was offended, although it's more out of repetition and boredom from the stereotype of certain subjects being cast as a white thing. I'm old enough to be over that kind of thing but can't pretend I don't notice. I'm not white and I love pretty much all the TED content - the SWPL comment just takes me back to high school.

If it makes you feel better, non-white people aren't immune to unintentional and mild racism either - nobody is. My in-laws constantly make jokes about white people and it grates my nerves when they do it too - they don't get a free pass just because they're Hispanic.
Adobe seem really great at communicating with their users. Pity their products have declined so much recently.
I think this is just sloppy coding on TweetDecks part.
> OK, we can all have a giggle at 'portable' computers from the early days of computing but at nearly 16 pounds the Mac Portable really was taking the piss.

My first computer-of-my-very-own was my beloved Compaq Deskpro Portable (autoexec.bat ftw). It weighed in at just under 30 lbs.

Edit: I still have it some 25 years later, and it still works.
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What I don't get is why he doesn't block the guys jerking off? If +5 people report the feed as offensive then blacklist the IP for a couple of hours or something like that. That would instantly improve the site's appeal a lot.
I wouldn't blame them even if they did. Apple basically declared war in deciding not to carry flash on the iPad. However, 'sabotaging' HTML5 just seems like sensationalist tripe.