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This thread is so freaking depressing. So many great mobile games and great developers buried in a mountain of shit. I love iOS and mobile gaming but the current state of the app store is downright depressing.
I want to believe in that model for human nature, but I think you would only have a minority of people actively avoiding their parent's mistakes. Too often, things like cycles of bad parenting (from lack of discipline and care, all the way along the spectrum to abuse and neglect) seem to repeat. It's not that people want to do these terrible things as they were done to them, but often we don't know any better or it's what feels familiar.

That, and poverty and bad education are big risk factors for teen pregnancy, and being born to poor, poorly educated people isn't likely to lead to you riches and a fine education.
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True, but a monopoly due to beating the competition with fair business practices is not the same as the monopoly targeted by anti-trust laws. Until a genuine competitor beats the honest monopoly fair and square, they stand at the top. Government work usually is fertile ground for the wrong type of monopoly, so I am very happy to see SpaceX disrupt this field. SpaceX's rockets are upwards of $40 million a launch, and the Lockheed F35 fighter price is going to keep climbing upwards of $200 million per fighter. Now let's see another SpaceX or similar innovative company step in to the military weapons system market! This should, but it will not translate to less taxes for the average Joe.
He employs people to create value
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Sametmax's point is that you're comparing a simple count (atoms) to a factorial (combinations of pieces). For example, it's hardly surprising that 6! is larger than 6 - factorials grow much faster than simple counts.
I don't see how you get that conclusion. For one thing, it's not even true, people don't actually hoard currency. They put it in a bank, which invests 90% of it back out into the economy. They've done that even since currency was backed by gold.

Second, even if people literally did fill vaults full of cash, it doesn't hurt anyone. It's not like all the currency is going to actually disappear and people will have to go back to bartering. The remaining currency just becomes worth more.

The bitcoin economy doesn't collapse everytime someone loses a wallet. It never will, because the remaining coins can always be divided further, and always increase in value further.

Lastly it's not like people will literally never spend that money again. They of course intend to spend it at some point. At some point the number of people saving vs taking out of savings will stabilize and everything will be normal. And saving for the future isn't a bad thing. In fact it should be encouraged.
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I am really propositing any, just polling the hive to see if other people feel as i do
I don't know if you're serious, but I'll bite. "Quantify" == express or measure a quantity (thus having an objective measurement that can be compared with other quantitative measurements). GP's point was how to you create a measurement for "quality of discussion" that isn't subjective.
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What harsh sanctions? The sanctions are against officials responsible for violence and human rights violations [0]

Obama has just befriended Cuba, you can hardly call him a man waging a war of aggressive capitalism.

[0] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/...
I've been to NW Kansas, and I wouldn't have expected a lack of empty land to be a problem in that region. Can the rentiers also prevent annexation, and the extension of city utilities to annexed land? Even if they can do that, surely they can't prevent the drilling of wells?
Which was based on the following quote from actual real person and astronaut John Glenn:

"I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
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When was this open sourced?

The last info I recall us getting about it was when the SPOT watch came out and they said we'd be able to write code for it and that didn't materialize, iirc.
FTL on the iPad works really well, too.
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This is very clever, but with all the research on the ineffectiveness of multi-tasking, I'm not sure it's a great idea to use it.
Though if it is dynamic programming, then it should be possible for you to answer dogecoinbase's question using not much more computational power than you used to count them in the first place, right?

If you think of dynamic programming as counting the number of paths in a directed graph (in this case, from skimming the paper, the nodes correspond to border states), then given a path number, you can trace the path backwards through the graph, as long as you remember the number of paths ending in every vertex.
There can always be made more USD or Euro, the bitcoin had a fixed amount from day one. That makes it a commodity like gold, not a currency.
If they can show that you've been using the password regularly, recently, for a while, then not believing a claim to have forgotten seems, if not necessarily correct, at least not absurd.

If they can't show that, and the file might not have been accessed since it was created years ago, then I think it's unquestionably wrong to ignore the fallibility of human memory.
Atlas V had a partial failure in 2007, cutting down the operational life of the satellites. The most recent Cyngus mission was also nearly a failure when MECO occurred 5 seconds prematurely, but Centaur was able to make up the difference. Atlas I and II also had a healthy number of failures, so the question is whether you consider III and beyond a new vehicle, or a continuation of a single development program.

CRS-7 was certainly a blow to SpaceX. There's no sugar-coating that, but there's no such thing as certainty in space. Even with the stellar Atlas V record, there's still risk.

Also, for this mission, no justification needed to be made, as ULA did not submit a bid. And yes, Falcon 9 went through a lengthy certification process.
I am not familiar with Rebol but from what I gathered from the "So...What Can't Be Done?" section of the article is that `use` is more like a code walker that does lexical binding before the given expression is expanded and evaluated (hence the need for `compose`).

If I understand things correctly this is a lot like the `defmacro!` and sub-lexical scoping that Doug Hoyte writes about in _Let Over Lambda_. There the intention of code walking and rewriting is to prevent unwanted variable capture (walking over the code and replacing certain names with unique ones that have their own unique locations is basically implementing lexical scoping).

So where `progv` might run into trouble is:

(progv '(msg) '("Hello") (greater10 20 '(foobar msg)))

Where foobar is something like:

(defmacro foobar (x)
`(let ((msg "abc"))
,x))

And a Common Lisp `use` might be something like:

(defmacro use (var binding expression)
(let ((var1 (gensym)))
`(let ((,var1 ,binding))
,(subst var1 var expression))))
No people do not hoard currency, but they do hoard commodities. As such, bitcoin is at present more a commodity (its setup pretty much use math to emulate gold) than a currency. And the situation will only get worse with time.
Wall Street gas running water. Flint and many towns in California don't. Strange
Neat. I'm an extremely happy customer of Surge.sh. Good to see other options in that space.
How is this different than, say:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Great post. I'd add Atomas to your short list of undervalued games.
It's exactly the same, just running on a host, publicly accessible.
Thanks for the reminder. Yes it kinda takes on the form of a Ponzi scheme.
Capitalism is also rarely actual capitalism. It is frequently just a system where friends help each other to continue increasing their fortunes. This is true specially in third world countries.
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...the Venezuelan people were entirely fed up with the longstanding political order, which was why Chavez as an outsider was so popular.

Hmmm, it seems we've seen at least the initial stages of this scenario play out in some other oil-rich nation of the Americas recently... It's on the tip of my tongue...
Right. I understand the resource curse and the need to diversify one's economy and develop strong, trustworthy institutions, but I didn't understand what hackerboos was referring to when they said "revenues outside your own economy". To me that sounds like invest the money in a foreign country or maybe it means invest in different industries?
The definition of socialism is democratic, collective worker control over the means of production. It is an extremely simple definition, which is why there are dozens of variations on the basic idea. Put 10 socialists in a room and they'll walk out with 11 ideologies.

Venezuela has not had democratic ownership of the means of production. Venezuela is a state capitalist entity with either a centrally administrated or command economy depending on how you want to look at it.
Dividends are taxed, stock buybacks are not, so if the company repurchases shares at reasonable prices (often not the case, imho) repurchases are more advantageous.

(Stock buybacks are not forced, the company purchased them from people wanting to sell)
Having read through many of the applications, I think that we could safely get down to 25 without risking throwing out any that deserve the win. There just weren't all that many applications that clearly described a remotely plausible business idea and that had founders who posted thoughtful responses. I would say that at least half of the applications seemed like a hobby or an idea that had been simmering in the back of someone's mind, with little to no thought given to how it could turn into a viable business.
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Oh interesting, thanks
There's no solid definition on what makes one a crank, but this does feel very cranky. It's more than just being "wrong", it's being "not even wrong". Saying things that are nonsense and incoherent.
The UI is much improved and more modern looking in the new version. Try it out. It's pretty great software!
You're having the wrong argument. Bill doesn't WANT the job anymore, he's doing more important things with his life now.
Easy.

Elon Musk doesn't want to rule the Earth.

He wants to rule Mars.
The founder of Zappos had this problem. He realized there was no way he could do shipping or call centers in the Bay Area. So he moved shipping to Kentucky and call centers to Nevada.
I think what made the librarian think it was outdated was that it came with a 5.25" floppy disk.
Same, I have forgotten about pinboard too
Correct me if I'm wrong but Ganeti only does Xen VMs while ProxMox also does LXC containers. Nice to have both via one central UI.
Feel bad for you being downvoted, your observations seem to the point. But they don't answer the parent's question.
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Yeah, I don't get it either. This is pretty much what happened to the Soviet Union -- weak economy pushed to the brink by collapsing oil prices.
Latest release was back in October? What's new that I'm missing here?
He tried to bring back cocktail cabinets as a 1v1 casual arcade machine for bars, talking about a celebration of in-person social gaming in an age of faceless online gaming and solo games. I loved the idea. Didn't pan out.
The resource curse and the Dutch disease are two distinct, but linked, phenomena.

The long and short of the dutch disease is that if you introduce a revenue source that is independent of the rest of your economy and pour all of the money into your economy, it will cause your currency to appreciate, making every product made in your country less competitive. So even while your country keeps getting richer through oil revenues, all the rest of your economy stagnates or decays, until you import most of what you consume and are wholly dependent on your oil revenues.

Note that this is not limited to oil. The Spanish went through this in the 16th and 17th centuries because of silver imported from the new world.
Heh, I couldn't help it!

What you said, up there, is basically that some owner in the distant past could make a contract with an HOA that, despite the property changing hands, grants the HOA some power over that property forever.

What on earth kind of freedom is that? If I want to buy a house that some previous owner inducted into an HOA, and I don't want to join the HOA, why should I have to? That sounds like government, but worse, because I can't vote the bums out!

And if you're about to say "you don't have to buy a home within an HOA neighborhood, buy one without," well, what if I want to buy this house, but don't want to join the HOA? Why should some private organization be able to force me to join them for no reason other than some previous owner had an agreement with them?

You know, the more we explore the HOA idea, the worse it seems like being any kind of freedom at all.

How about it, ancap? Gonna rethink your ideas at all?
Hmm. I wonder if there could be some societal change 20 years ago that could have an effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Wo...
Beyond that, a logical argument can be made against putting all the national space eggs in one basket.

If that argument actually carried any weight, then ULA wouldn't exist, but Martin, McDonnel Douglas Aerospace, and GD Convair would. That is, the DoD and the defense companies trot out any arguments they feel like, and hope that Congress accepts them.

I concur on your analysis of companies that are fat and happy bidding and working on DoD contracts. It's really, really hard to turn those companies around.
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It depends on the costs of the payloads.
So maybe they undercut all contracts except the DoD ones?
How does dns work with now?
This is too broad and abstract to be actionable, let alone analyzable. What is "democratic" control?

If people elect representatives who try to run the economy as if it were a diesel engine, is that democratic control? Or does it mean a plurality of worker's owned corporations?

Furthermore, "state capitalist" is about as pitiable a phrase as "late capitalism". Venezuela is populated by Communists and run by Communists who ran their political campaigns on Communist promises, therefore, Venezuela is a Communist country.
It is common practice to put all economic failures in the backs of leftist governments, but then there is the huge question: why third-world countries have such bad economies before taken over by leftist governments? The truth is that right-wing governments have no solution for poverty, otherwise people wouldn't be pissed off with their way of life. Leftist governments try to realign the economical interests of common people with those of the government. Now, stupidity, global pressures, and corruption can make this difficult to achieve as in the case of Venezuela. But that is hardly a problem that exists only on leftist governments.
I'm totally fine with it being much, much lower than the assets I'll have when I die. I plan to leave the vast majority of my assets to charity, and even if I didn't, I wouldn't WANT to leave a lot of money to my children. I've met a number of people who grew up with large trust funds, and in every case I think the kids were worse off for it.
As I said in the parent comment, there's nothing different about bitcoin vs other commodities that people can hoard.
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Of course, communism wasn't the problem there. We can do it right this time, we're smarter than they were.
Blame the network effect. Large hardware brands are operating on razor thin margins. So the way to get a profit is bundling. And to do that you need to offer the biggest platform there is.

So what they do is they strike a deal with MS for Windows and Office, quite possibly with a bunk discount.

And then turn around to companies like Symantec and make them a deal, X amount of dollars pr device shipped with their 30 day preview package pre-installed.

Basically the reason you have to muck about with powertop is that you are doing an aftermarket install. You would see similar problems with Windows if it was not the big dog in the market.

I really wish Canonical all the best with that tablet of theirs, but as i have to order it from abroad, and deal with potential taxes etc, i am not going to buy it any time soon...
He makes some good points.

Problem is the average person uses Windows because it came with their PC. They got no idea what free or open source software is or why they should use it.
Yeah, pass-along would easily be higher for Tweets.
Not in the 1950s - that would have been the F-4 Phantom, and it was actually quite successful, in production from 1959 to 1979, and probably still flying (albeit totally hotrodded) by lots of air forces.

You might be thinking of the F-111, which was supposed to be all things to all services. That was the 1960s. Or maybe the failed A-12, which was supposed to be an attack plane for all services.

But you're correct, unitary, multi-role fighters have a bad history.
They do have receipts since they own both sides of the transaction.

And to be honest, I'm not sure if the IRS cares since the profit gets taxed at some point in time.
You're implying that there has been a vote on F-B at some point so far.
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
For example, Haskell's ifThenElse is just a normal function of three arguments.
Why not state it here in a few simple sentences, like for a 5 year old? Clarity is usually an evidence for deep understanding. I hope I will be able to get it.
I meant all the billionares do this to avoid paying taxes. I assume they are the 1% that own half the wealth.
> But I am also confused how there are/were actually sexually active teenagers who think things like "Ziploc bags are as effective as condoms".

I had many stupid friends in high school :). But the schools were not highly rated as well. I do remember many new mothers in my 11th and 12th grade years and also a few who were pregnant during the graduation ceremony. So I don't think they did a good job but I don't know how much school education helps compared to at home education in regards to sex ed.
So restrict that to specific lists of people. Don't restrict it to people claiming to be under 30, or male.
would've been cool if it had identified the bulb!
> We may never know precisely how much more powerful the ideology of software freedom made us as developers

Just try to describe what the world would be like without it.
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I'm glad that you found the distinction to be profound, and I'd also rather not hear about it in the case that you found it to be otherwise.
The reason the IRS doesn't care is because they get their tax money regardless. They just get it from the subsidiary instead of the people ot should have gone to.
> drug dealer

"street pharmacist"
Sun never had a billion daily user network effect protecting its kingdom. Sun never generated the kind of net income that Facebook already is after just a decade. Sun never had the pile of cash that Facebook has. In fact, Sun hardly had any barriers protecting its kingdom, which is why it imploded so quickly after its peak.

In 1999 during the dotcom craze that bolstered Sun, they were generating about $300 million per quarter in profit. Inflation adjusted, Facebook is already four times larger, and they're growing extremely fast.

Sun was more like DEC. They never had anything in common with Facebook's business position today.
That's pretty much the only way to do a security update for something people are going to want to patch asap. warn people in advance it's coming so they can be ready to apply when released, without giving away any details that might help someone find the exploit before it comes.
> The only person I can think of who didn't fall into this bizarre pattern is Gates, who just funds a foundation that hands out grants to various organizations, mostly non-profit and NGO, who might get things done.

I think you make some insightful points about the "weird pattern", but I don't think Gates is a good counter example. He, his wife, and his foundations seem as top-down/central-planning as anyone else, he just isn't as outspoken about it.
Someone commented recently on older submissions being closed for comments: If it is technically possible without too much effort, you should open all the threads for comments for X days before/during the "vote" (however it looks). Many people are going to pay attention (again) to the threads, and they should be able to ask questions and receive answers before they vote.
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I don't see Disney really making a huge amount off Mickey Mouse. Mickey is mostly just the corporate mascot.

I have no problem, though, with makers of cartoon animals making bunches of money. They provide happiness. I'm glad I live in a day and age where it isn't just the people who can make the best weapons that do well for themselves.

I'm sure there are more "noble" pursuits, but....how many people actually participate in them? Most people seem to just move money from one place to another, while grabbing a bit for themselves in the process.

For what it is worth, though, the cartoon animals that bring the most joy into my family are those on the cartoon Peppa Pig (I have a two year old daughter, but I find that I enjoy it myself, albeit on a somewhat different level). I hear the people who make it are making a killing, and rightfully so, in my opinion.
Ah okay so thats why I see people using read only mount on a docker socket. that makes sense. Some how I never thought of that implication I was just thinking about how in the world a file descriptor permission would effect the http traffic as it travels over the socket, but obviously it doesn't.
Handling large volume of downloads of one static large package is in general a pretty solved problem.
Golang is praised for attention to details and fair attempt to attain that kind of balanced mix of complementing each other features.

The principles, rather idealistically, are outlined here:

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Bootstraping

Pattern matching is technically almost unchanged since Standard ML, but in Haskell the syntax is refined by perfectionists (in best possible meaning of this word).

Swift, obviously, trying very hard to look familiar for [Objective-]C (but not Java) programmers, and to follow the principle of less astonishment, produced much more concise syntactic choices, and the devil is in the details.

BTW, if one wants to see another example of carefully crafted language, there is PLOT

http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT3/
So it's the same as:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 && ngrok http 8000
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The new replacement is certainly more corrupt, they're involved in all kinds of known schemes, such as the Panama papers, Car wash operation, laundered money on Swiss banks, connections with drug dealers... Just do a quick search.