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Saul is a classic Anti-Social Personality (sometimes referred to as socio-path). People are tools for achieving his personal goals. Anti-Social Personalities tend to have high social IQ's as evidenced by Saul's ability to pick out the "happening people" and know what makes them tick to get into their inner circle.

PG was right that this kind of personality flourishes in organizations in which social IQ, not ability to produce something, is the key to influence.

I took a General Psych. class around 2003. We covered this area. When psychologists talk about this personality type it's a broad range with the most anti-social end of the spectrum being serial killers. In one study referenced in the text, CEO's of large companies tend to be in the lower end of the spectrum. (Note: This is considered a topic in Abnormal Psych. "Normal" personality types do not fit in the spectrum at all BUT anyone can exhibit instances of anti-social behavior.)
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Still NAT is useful for creating "virtual machines", where more than one machine maps to the same IP address. Sure, the DNS can be used to do this at a higher level. But NAT does it much more dynamically.
"Last year 8% of U.S. residents founded companies"

Really? That simply can't be right. Were there 24 million companies founded last year? I have to say that if I count all the people I know that have ever founded a company, let alone last year, it's nowhere near 8%.
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If I had a dime for every science fiction story with super-realistic spaceflight yet also with completely unexplained "ansible" technology that allows instantaneous communication with anyone in the universe....
By 'online', I assume you mean online from your home/office. There is no way, I can think of, to prevent someone else from watching how you vote in that scenario, which pretty much stops the idea dead in the water.
It's an interesting game Google seems to be playing: playing off China's need to prove itself as commercially viable against China's desire to keep its citizens in the dark about its political actions.

I am, of course, assuming Google is acting in the interest of freedom of speech, and not acting in the interest of its own profitability in China, or elsewhere: I can't see how protracting this as Google is doing would help that at all.
Waffling on whether to flag this one - the charts and some of the facts are rather interesting, the political handwaving not so much.

Edit: Made that comment when I was only two-thirds of the way through. The conclusion is very poorly thought out:

> Let's demand returnable bottles and deposits on everything

Let's refrain from conscripting people who don't agree with the author's stance: The author can patronize companies like Starbucks and Whole Foods that encourage bringing your own mug or shopping bag and give discounts for that, meanwhile we avoid adding bureaucracy and hassle to people who make the choice to go for a disposable cup or bag. The facts of the article are somewhat interesting, the political side not so much.
How about just 1 question: What are you gonna do with it?

I'm not buying it, because I can't think of a single thing I'd use it for. Microsoft's Courier, OTOH, has the potential to replace all my note-taking, diagramming etc.
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And scanner darkly (7.7) - still eXistenZ is the one that really stands out for me. But I admit that there are other "good" movies out there that use PKD as a basis.
Ah. In the states, you only get severance if you're laid off. If you're fired, I don't think there's any severance pay involved.

Also, in the states, if you're laid off, you can apply for "unemployment benefits" from the state. If you're fired, you cannot.
I'm surprised video rendering takes ANY cpu cycles - with all the video card horsepower available. What is it doing if not codec tasks? Hm.
Forget about exercise, just eat broccoli. Your body will co-operate with you the moment you start co-operating with it, by giving it food which is actually nutritious. I lost 75 pounds in 6 months without eating less or exercising. I mean I exercised a little, but not enough to have any contribution to my weight loss at all. Google "dr joel fuhrman". I also saw my cholesterol go down 100 points in three months, along with similar huge improvements in blood pressure and triglycerides.
And good on Enders Game for trying to fill it in with ansible tech.
A couple of comments. Firstly "under God" appears to have been added in 1954. I was of the understanding that the founding fathers envisioned a secular state - so "under God" appears not necessarily part of that vision.

Were I required to recite a pledge each morning that included that section I expect I would politely decline :) Trouble is I know Americans who have done that (politely used one of the original versions) and then been accused of not being patriotic and in one case quite badly threatened.
It's interesting in how many ways Kerala differs from other parts of India. For most of my lifetime it has had exceptionally high rates of literacy and better than Indian-average figures for various aspects of social well being. It is also the state with the most Christians (many of whom are part of a church they say was founded by the apostle Thomas) and the state that long had a state government of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) coalition led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala

I had a friend from Kerala during my university studies in the 1970s, which is why I have long been curious about that part of India. This is the first I have heard about alcoholism problems there.
That seems way off. SBA says it's closer to 600,000.
On the other anecdotal side Bebo was founded by a husband wife team as well. They seem to be successful on both sides

Other side of that anecdote. Flickr was started by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield who are now divorced.
oh but back on the good side. Six Apart is a husband wife team
I'm running a single founder startup and my wife is definitely filling in as a cofounder when it comes to helping me stay focused, talking me through problems, and basically just keeping me motivated. Every time I start getting distracted she brings me back around.
I am not even an US citizen and I know that US was built on faith. Most of the founding fathers were secularists and atheists themselves ... so this Christian value thing is bull-crap.

Faith must be a private thing and not thrown at you by the government.

And by the way ... you are clearly not an atheist :)
It works for the EU.
Should there be options for smart guys like this to come to America? Absolutely, but let's be realistic; these guys have a few options. They could immigrate to Canada - unlike America, Canada welcomes people with open arms. Forget that rubbish about "all the expertise is in Silicon Valley". There is no shortage of smart, experienced people in other countries. Heck, in Vancouver they would just be a short hop away from the valley if they really must be (although why you'd want to leave Vancouver beats me... think San Francisco, except much nicer).

And of course, they could always do this in Holland. Seriously, why not? It's not like a business never became successful in Holland.

Personally as someone who is dealing with US immigration bureaucracy, I am opposed to the founder visa because on the very long list of things that need to be fixed with immigration in America and that would also benefit the US economy, this one is item #217. We don't need yet another special interest carveout. No. The system needs to work in the best interests of the nation and to treat people with fairness and dignity. Aiming for anything less is just not even trying.
Economic arguments, not "green" ones. Mostly about who pays for recycling. Reminds me of passengers on the Titanic arguing about who will sit in front of the lifeboat and who in the rear.
I can see it for updating products--they don't want anyone with the product in their cart to get a surprise when it's updated. But yea, just for allowing pre-orders for a product it seems odd to require a take down.
I smell a revenue model, and its sweet. I'm glad to see one of there companies step it up and partner with the industry. Foursquare is awesome as it is, but this will make the adoption and retention rate much better. Who doesn't like rewards?
For those of you who dont know, the IPL is a cricket tournament in India.

Enough of cricket.

This is a huge event for youtube, its infrastructure and its a glimpse into where we might be going with sports events in the future.

Just had an ad, a friend in another country, saw a different ad to me.

Equally, maybe its just in this instance, but the "Official Community" is linked to googles social network, even tho they are showing live streaming of twitter.

As you can tell, im quite excited about this.
Am I alone in thinking this is amazing use of technologies.
Personally, I never see the front page unless I'm on a new browser install and need to right-click > "Create Keyword For This Search" in the search box. But I imagine people who don't use nav-bar keywords go to the front page all the time to search for something.
Of course it's hype. It's not like they're hand-cranking html over there.
There may be an inverse correspondence between risk appetite and quality of life at the high end. Many European countries have a fairly high degree of social cohesion, resulting in a kind of contract between the state and its people: reduce the downside risks of life in return for more regulation and higher taxes. Part of reducing the downside risk is a kind of conservatism, a maintenance of the status quo, with social bargaining and efforts to reduce the impact, speed and consequentially the profitability of change.

But if you're younger, have less to lose, and more appetite for risk, this can look unappealing. It acts as a kind of club that you have to break into, for one thing - too many young people in Europe work on the basis of short-term contracts rather than full-time pensionable positions.

FWIW, speaking as an Irishman living in the UK and holder of a H-1B visa, there's a lot to dislike about the Bay Area too, some of which has informed my decision not to move there (as yet). There's something about it as a place to live (outside of work) that feels like a hastily assembled holiday resort, with wooden buildings (I know, earthquakes), car orientation, shallowness of culture and institutionalization of recreation.
Based on the discussions I've had with other iPhone developers the one problem you won't have is a lack of "designed for iPad" apps.

There will be a lag as Apple isn't allowing "garden-variety" developers to submit iPad apps before they are tested on real hardware (and no we don't get our hands on any before anyone else) so expect there to be a couple of weeks before the flood hits the app store.

The other item I'll comment on is app cost. Given that the iPad version of "Pages" will be about $10 (and from what we've seen it's definitely at the high-end of the quality scale) I wouldn't expect a significant difference in price compared to existing (quality) iPhone apps. This may change with time however.
Recycling is bullshit only if you don't also try to reduce waste as much as possible in the first place. If you use recycling as an excuse to generate lots of unnecessary waste (disposable everything), then it can nullify a big part of the positive effects in the first place.
You live in a bubble.
Exactly! I don't have a daughter but the story resonated so powerfully that I cannot think of anything else this morning.

This would be an interesting case to discuss with proponents of cultural relativism (pretty much everyone in academic circles), along with bride burning in India and female circumcision in Africa: I see absolutely no way you can defend it.
You may be right, I'd have to check, but I thought that was the 'SEP', the somebody-elses's-problem-field.
Send them a DMCA request for copyright violation?
Actually, shouldn't this be doable entirely in software?

The POS already scans the reward card, the POS talks to a master computer (for inventory reasons), that data gets back to an office which has internet, from which emails could be sent.
This is a fantastic phenomenon.

Also, that black & white panorama picture [1] with the Milky Way is just gorgeous, and big enough for multi-screen wallpaper as well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg
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What would be the top 3 items on that list?
>> are rated 97% by most magazines (ie, the few that are really worth playing).

You live in a universe where those two things are related?
Could be selection effect - maybe newspapers report ages when victims are old because they want to imply they may be at fault, or because they think they will get more sympathy.

Is it normal to mention someone's age if they are not old? Do newspaper articles commonly say "Mr Smith, age 37"? Perhaps not. But they are likely to say "Mr Smith, age 82, and grandfather to 7" because it "adds colour".

[Edit: although I suspect the same also happens around age 18-21, implying irresponsible driving.]
I am mostly an atheist myself

You can't be "mostly" atheist. Atheism means: without a god belief. Either you have a god belief, or you don't. If you are unsure then you should classify yourself as agnostic.

I am born into a country founded on faith

I was under the impression the U.S. was founded on freedom.
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If you reread what I wrote, I acknowledged that it was a limited data set for the content of reviews. If I had been able to read more reviews, I would have done so.

My main point (which I fear you missed) was that I cannot be violently wrong about the demand for background audio streaming, given that less than one percent of all iPhone OS device users who can use Pandora Radio have rated it.

I find your attitude bizarre; Apple didn't "give in and [add]" copy/paste. They figured out the right UI/UX metaphors and added the feature when they had it right. Look at the problems that people have been complaining about with the usability of the Nexus One's copy/paste implementation.

Apple will do the same with background applications when they get the UI/UX metaphors and the appropriate battery consumption issues dealt with appropriately.

Your assessment of the ability to enable background audio streaming "without interfering with other apps or significantly harming battery life" is, well, wrong. If this were the case, I wouldn't experience periodic random slowdowns of my iPhone 3G (even in SpringBoard!) that appear to be related to when the radio is waking up and sending or receiving.

Your assertion about the battery life is utter nonsense, since streaming audio requires an active data radio (which is a huge battery drain) and CPU activity. The CPU will be required to coordinate the data connection and decode the data from the network stream into an audio stream; if the data isn't in MP3 or AAC format on the network, the CPU will also be required to process the data into one of the supported formats. Remember that all iPhone OS devices have dedicated audio codec chips for processing MP3 and AAC audio.

The radio, however, is going to be the key point on battery drain. I stopped using a hands-free Bluetooth headset (I now use a hands-free Bluetooth speaker in the car) because simply having the Bluetooth connection active drained my battery faster than anything else. I tried using my iPhone as a proximity token for my computer at work and found the exact same problem (and absolutely no data was being exchanged).

At an OS level yes, it's trivial to schedule this. Above the kernel level, though, it's still pretty damned hard. Achievable, but Apple have shown themselves to be perfectionists, and if iPhone 4.0 is going to allow background audio streaming, it will be because they've figured out how to do it right (and it could easily include restrictions on the format of data being transferred).
Have you seen Twitter Feed? That has a lot of features and is pretty easy to use (and free).
I've also created a topic over at Joel on Software's Business of Software forum, which has yielded some responses:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.801989.0
Good luck with that.

Pages are a good metaphor for many websites. Many RIAs are better suited to a single-screen metaphor (for example, my own business, Woobius, or GMail, or Google Maps), but to claim that, for example, a blog, or HN, should be single-page, is silly.

Use multi-page metaphors where it makes sense. Use single-page metaphors where it makes sense. Don't go on crusades trying to force round pegs into square holes, or vice versa.
I like the part about having my rights given to me by God. What's the alternative, parliamentary procedure?
I have no idea who this person is, but I assume he had something to do with the film.

If you don't know what you're talking about, why speak?
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is a sci-fi story that's also considered real literature. It's mostly set in the 20th century.

I don't like terms like "real literature". I would say the Foundation series despite its weaknesses is worth reading for anyone who wants to be well rounded in his/her book choices.
Perhaps I'm splitting semantic hairs, but what is "regular" fiction? Science fiction is a subset of fiction, but it is fiction nonetheless. If a novel is set in 18th Century Europe is it then not "regular" fiction? Is it "only" historical fiction? Only "European" fiction?
This is the model that padmapper.com follows, and it has worked fairly well. Users don't have to ever leave the tool's main interface (except that listings open a new tab/window), which has had a number of benefits. Making the possible states crawlable by search engines was a pain, but in the end I think the tradeoff was well worth it.

EDIT: As swombat says below, though, this isn't a natural fit for all types of websites, and it's a bit hyperbolic/silly to call this the next model of web development. That time might come, but it's not nearly here for the vast majority of sites.
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The First Amendment to the Constitution has this in it:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Requiring the Pledge of Allegiance to the Republic to include affirming a monotheistic God seems a lot like "mak[ing a] law respecting an establishment of religion", which is prohibited.

There are people who are polytheistic and people who are atheists. If taking the Pledge of Allegiance is required for civil service or military service, you're putting them into a rather uncomfortable position.

Edit: I generally dislike the Pledge of Allegiance anyways. If you look at the words - "I pledge allegiance... to the flag... of the United States of America... and to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" - it's just not particularly well formed. Pledging Allegiance to the flag first, then it's not clear what "the Republic for which it stands is" - who am I pledging allegiance to? To the federal government? To the States? To the federalist federal/state mix? To the idealized version of American values? If there's a conflict between my state and the federal government, who exactly have I pledged my loyalty to? And what is entailed in allegiance? It's just a murky, hazy, not well thought out thing. And we start doing it at five years old or whatever, which is far too young to understand the implications of the Oath of Loyalty that you're taking.

As an example of a much clearer and better oath, here's the United States Marine Corps Oath: "I, (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." Very clear exactly what you're pledging, to whom, and what your duties are, and who you ask if you're not clear on what your duties are. And Marines take it voluntarily, knowing the weight of what it entails.
To be honest, I'm more fed up with the constant handwringing about them over here. I've never even heard of them outside of here, and I've never seen them in my search results.
Run noise.io. For me the iPad is the next generation ideal in synthesizer technology. It will change the landscape of synth plugins forever.
Wow... I am surprised refillable beer bottles are so rare in the US. You drink that much of your beer from aluminum cans?

Sounds strange because for me, beer in cans is just for camping... and even...
IMO if the law states the desire of the people, for example the law makes it clear that irresponsible dog ownership is not acceptable to the degree that a law has been passed, then it is effective.

Will passing the law alone make everyone obedient to it? No, of course not.
You've made some valid criticisms of Mahalo in the past, but the content and tenor of this article makes it look like this has gotten personal for you and now you're reaching.

He's not kickstarting it with Wikipedia. Mahalo is not new.

This isn't about age, this is about size and activity of user base. Again, I can empathize with anyone trying to bootstrap a UGC business. You practically have to seed it with content.

The two main issues with all of these scraped pages is that a) Jason recently boasted how Wikipedia was, in his words, simply a "free for all" (thus leaving the impression that he feels that his site was therefore better, being moderated), and b) that his pages were all UGC built by "his" users, not bots.

While both of these are certainly reasons why you may personally find his use of Wikipedia's content distasteful, neither of them rise to the level of being "stealing," ban-worthy, or even particularly unethical assuming that he's in compliance with the appropriate license.
If africa became empty, i would move to it. I hate noise.

But then someone who also hates noise would follow...
To interpret this we'd need to know what the distribution of Prius drivers is. Perhaps it overwhelmingly attracts older drivers?
These are great for those (like me) who can't make it, thanks. I think one of the difficulties that the NoSQL movement has is that SQL ORM's have finally gotten to a level of maturity that people are comfortable with them. If you're building a small application and are unsure that you will ever need scale, you will go with the SQL approach. It will take application frameworks a while to reorganize around, and take advantage of the benefits of the NoSQL db's.