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Good question. The answer to that should be related to the answer to why things change in price.

Reasons for a smaller dollar amount: inflation, cheaper production, too few buyers, too many sellers (thus more competition)

Reasons for a bigger dollar amount: more expensive production, too many buyers, too few sellers (thus less competition)

I'm no economist but I suppose the reason should be a combination of the above. However, my intuition would expect weed gets cheaper over the years due to inflation and competition. So there is probably another reason: It might have to do with weed culture itself, which is highly ritualistic I think. The ritual (of consumption) probably doesn't change and the price doesn't change either.
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There is a glitch with Google login that causes this error when you click on the "Continue to memobuild.." button. If you wait for the redirection instead, it should work.. Am I correct?
Yeah that was my first thought - supply has kept up with demand enough to offset inflation.

Tobacco, coffee, gold are better currencies alternatives to weed due to their stable legality. Weed's stable demand in relatively illegal times may change drastically if it becomes completely legal. But if that happens, it may be more stable a currency than tobacco since most people on it feel that it does no harm and therefore don't feel incentivized to quit.
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No, that's one of its advantages. It's pretty much impossible to "cut" it.

This is what a cannabis bud looks like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macro_cannabis_bud.jpg

You can't just throw some similarly looking vegetation in there without the buyer noticing. You could throw in low-grade hemp, but that's just as hard to grow, so it's of no benefit to the dealer.

One thing you can do is to not dry it. The moisture will add a bit of weight, but probably not more than 5-10% more, depending.
"How hard can it be to implement?"
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So then your post is plagiarism since you don't site your English teachers? Your post is fundamentally different because they taught you English. Of course it isn't, "close imitation" is the key. Then where does close become too close?

She probably did copy the examples, I doubt two independent people would come up with the exact same list of examples unless both plagiarized from a third source.
The fastest way to make your bug tracker into a challenging project is to approach it with the idea that it's not a challenging project and therefore unworthy of serious developer time or energy.

We had one of those where I work. It just got its ass decommissioned and replaced by virtue of being too challenging to work with.

Every non-trivial program has significant challenges in it; if you can't see them, it's probably your lack of experience or your casual assumption that it must be easy, not the fact that the task itself is that easy.

Of course, that challenge may be hidden behind other problems. You may not be allowed to actually address the challenges; a code monkey making the same change to 50 webpages instead of writing the proper code to do it all in one fell swoop is doing something challenging in the sense of difficult (more difficult than it has to be!), but not the right things. This is a far more common cause of "unchallenging programming" than the actual lack of hard problems; most of the time, most programs completely fall apart under their own complexity load before the true challenges even come into sight. This is, however, the fault of the system building the program (programmers and management), not the problem domain. Wherever there are people to interface to computers, there is challenge.
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Really? Why is that "nice"? I think it's sad-- and even sadder that you wrote that and people voted it up. If one minority is stepped on in a corner of the world, it is NOT justice if members of that same minority get to step on someone else across the globe. We should judge people as individuals.

For some (very rare) software companies, pure business guys aren't super useful in the early days (Dropbox seems like an obvious example, though they certainly now need a good finance person and senior bizdev person). For the rest, an A-level sales/bizdev guy can literally make the business. Do you think Groupon is a technological feat or a business feat?

They're just like programmers (and the rest of the planet). 95% of them AREN'T A-level players, but the rest are changing the world.
When I was a kid in the mid-70's a "lid" cost $25. A lid was a pound of weed. Both the quality and cost shot up in the next decade.

Disclaimer: I don't smoke pot, so this is second hand smoke, so to speak. But, there were so many hippies around where I grew up that I literally thought patchouli was what people smelled like when then hadn't bathed in a week.
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my point is that saying "nothing new here" often dismisses what really matters, the quality of something.

I've never used dasher so I can't comment on it
Wikipedia; without the edit history the license of the information becomes problematic.
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You might want to look further into this.

I know that there's a well established rule of thumb that states close collaboration just doesn't tend to happen beyond 30??? feet or a single staircase (i.e. people further apart just don't tend to collaborate). This is of great interest to universities and other places that do research, you should be able to find something, maybe in Peopleware (which if you haven't yet read you want to anyway).
And that generation grew up to become the very people they hate.

It's entirely possible Tony Hayward was marching around his university campus about environmental issues in the 80s before turning into the frakking cunt he is considered today.
Those results are highly odd, but I don't think okcupid is mainstream enough to really glean any insight into racial psychology (if such a thing exists) from their data. Furthermore, they don't provide enough info on their analysis method, but I would be interested in seeing the results of a null-run: randomly assigning profiles to groups (rather than by race) and seeing what "statistically distinct" phrases arise (if the analysis is valid no phrases should arise).

It would also be interesting to see them do the same analysis for other features such as height, income, photo attractiveness, etc.

Similar analysis for craigslist personals by city: http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=42
Yeah, I'm not a consumer, but I always thought that the "dime" in dime bag referred to the price, not the amount of weed.
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I don't think Google necessarily has a bias, but only drawing from my own experience - technology companies have two seemingly (even though they are not) independent goals. These are to create a great product/app/technology/service, and to make money.

Page and Brin are hackers. Schmidt, while decorated with a Technical past, is a CEO. There are enough articles going around right now that say what a CEO's job is.

I figure a lot of the hackers here may not have the direct experience hearing someone talk solely about making money - taking the product and the quality out of the equation completely. So my comment comes off as abrasive or inflammatory, even though its most likely the reality.

Schmidt doesn't say "how can we make G-Mail great?" in meetings. He says "how can we be synonymous with the web, how can we be the absolute end-point for users and their technology?"
Annoying? Poor usability? It looks like a button, reacts on mouseovers, and would totally fit in some game's website. Besides, it is not the point here.
It's a status symbol. He spends his money like a pro football player or a member of Poison. Bullshit, he didn't try to be anonymous about his Lamborghini racing, by the way.
If the price of weed goes up, industrious users and profit motivated sellers will begin producing (more) weed. Supply goes up, price goes down giving weed price stability. Weed sales, other than the illegality, operate in a free market without regulations and red tape. This allows producers to enter the market with relatively low barriers.

In Canada at least, as long as you are discrete nearly anyone can start growing weed with very little concern about the illegality.

This is the way a market is supposed to work. In most markets today we have mountains of regulations and red tape keeping the little guy out of the market and leaving production up to the largest, most politically connected corporations.

If weed is legalized and regulated watch for the price to go up as more and more production costs are added via regulation and red tape.

Personally I don't find this mysterious at all. IMO, the price stability of weed is simply a function of supply and demand operating in a free market where producers can easily enter the market.
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whenever I release a site the biggest challenge is to find a way to promote it so that other people notice it. the product is excellent focused to help make other peoples' lives easier but without a $1+MM budget it is nearly impossible to get it of the ground. what to do?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669210
The generally accepted definition of plagiarism is Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

Even if they recycled your "idea" they didn't do it consistently enough to constitute plagiarism en masse and your basic idea isn't unique enough to really warrant attribution.
It's very typical for sports stars and other egotistical young men, however. It would be cooler to see someone sucessful investing or spreading his wealth, at least for his own sake, then blowing it on showy possessions which lose their value immediately, like $700,000 cars.
Interesting read, a couple things come to mind though: how does "the people who have ok cupid profiles" vary against "the general population". Several things I suspect are skewed because of the population bias.

Also, they say most of their users are urban, but I'm curious if people aren't prone to list themselves as the nearest big city rather than where they really live. For instance, I suspect everyone within 45 minutes of Des Moines is listing themselves as living there, rather than the tiny farm town / suburb they really live in.
I think you are mistaken. Perhaps you're thinking of the "king size" version which costs more?

http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/rising_cost_of_candy/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672033
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I track my negligible Adsense earnings every now and then. In fact, every month or so. Last month, I was glad to learn that the famous $100 limit was near. I had $96 or thereabouts. Hallelujah!

Considering that I get around 500 visitors daily on my site, I log in today to check whether the $100 limit was crossed, and I find that somehow, Google has recalculated and now the Adsense figure stands at 87-odd dollars.

Now I am pretty sure that the Porsche will have to wait.

What also pisses me off is the sheer Opaqueness of Google. Does this sort of Adsense weirdness happen to others?

Thank you.
Working as I do on a very old mainframe/financial system, my youngest co-workers are in their 30's. For some reason, all of the under-50 mainframers I encounter are Hispanic or Indian or Asian while all us older guys (yes, 95% guys) are Caucasian. Could it be the tech schools that churn out mainframers only attract the poor, motivated guys who want the quickest path to a job (that was my own route, BTW). The younger immigrant guys are absolute workhorses and they don't bring their politics and environmental consciousness to work. They are worthy heirs to the code edifice we have built. The old guys don't mess around and worry too much either--we're too busy hacking COBOL and assembler and coveting muscle cars and other toys that we can finally afford. Oh, and we who started in IT in the 1970's and 1980's didn't start out with any guarantees, lifetime jobs, or easy rows to hoe. TwentySomething, keep plugging away on your own behalf and don't identify too strongly with the self-pitying ones in your generation.
They have a free trial, so it's only not free after a certain time. Would you say it was free if they had a freemium account instead? The reason I ask is because we've been kicking around the free trial/freemium thing ourselves, and think the freemium accounts are probably seen as a better value to end users.
Right, you buy a bespoke 680hp race car for the purpose of masturbation, essentially. Some people choose to invest in other companies. Some people choose to operate charities or donate to them. Others may invest in something that holds its value, like real estate. What type of person spends their money on stuff like this? Not a particularly interesting person.
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Yes. Apart from the editorial aid mentioned by camiller, I use the history tab to get a quick sense of the trustworthiness of the article as a whole, and of individual claims.
Actually, inflation would raise prices. Given the figures cited in the article, $10 in 1980 should give something like $20-25 now based on the US CPI. Thats precisely why it's interesting - the real (vs nominal) price has actually fallen since 1980.

And then you're right, basic supply and demand theory would suggest that supply growth has outpaced demand growth over the same period (and by a rate about the same as the inflation rate to keep nominal prices constant). But why? loosening regulation/enforcement is mostly on the demand side, I would say. It's probably getting easier to grow higher quality pot (more information readily accessible, better equipment, mobility, economies of scale, etc). The overall market likely behaves perfectly competitively (its a commodity, no single dealer could charge more per unit of 'high' without losing business). So, perfect competition with supply growth = lower real prices.
I've had it bad at both ends.

The 'we have no heirachy - the owner doesn't have an a office' open cubical farm where you are stuck between chatty secretaries and shouting salesmen.

And the private offices where one office = one person = one module and the only way to talk to somebody about 'their' part was a request up the management chain.

Best was a 'programmers only' room with one huge desk for three programmers on the same project.
It might be fun to scrape and index all HN stories; and perhaps create a way to download links/comments to a local machine automatically . There is a lot of really great information provided via this place.
Did any of you actually read the text? The Economist's answer is hilarious.
This is sort of built into the quality scaling tho. Properly dried (not too dry, not too wet) fetches a higher price than what the difference in weight for lower quality offers.
Minor annoyance, but in those pictures, book IX as after book XII rather than before X.
CPI has changed over time to fit the needs of policy makers. They removed things such as food because the populace wouldn't be pleased if they were told the truth.
It replaces some of Archers functionality in that 2 of the Archer modules are: risk management and threat management. However Archer is the rolls royce, it ties to be all Governace Risk and Compliance (GRC) to all people. It is also a lot broader than just security risks and can be used for all sorts of operational risks. And for that you pay the rolls royce price and companies where I have worked that have used it have need a team to support and develop/customize features and entire training courses to learn how to use it

My software enables users a lot simpler way of performing the risk assessment functionality focused on information security. It is designed to be really easy to use, turn-key with zero setup but still robust in the methedology, reporting and collaboration. You can also export to Archer if you have it.

That is what I'm wondering though... is $20 too low.. should I start at $100? I am talking to two MD's of large financials this week who maybe prospective clients and have agreed to mentor me so I will get their opinion on it also.

How much value do you think security risk assessment software that assists to cut your security costs by prioritizing investment where it makes a difference and helps you comply with regluation like PCI-DSS is worth to a customer? It is B2B only: target markets are large firms with large mobile security teams (30-100 in IT security) and smaller merchants that need to do risk assessments to comply with PCI-DSS Level 1 and 2
I'm not sure that's entirely true, although I've seen certain topics frowned upon in a general sense (I'm thinking of politics). What do you have in mind?
Interesting how this was voted up to 6 last night and then is down to 0 this morning. Did the OMG I LOVE 37 SIGNALS voting bloc arrive or something?
It's a pretty poor example. I'll try and put some others up.
But look at 'sebastianmarshall.com' on line 4 - it's so much more compressed. In fact, before it is 139px wide, with acceleration it is only 132px wide: it's not just the look, it's actually changing the dimensions of the text!
People who complain the button is ugly seem to be missing the point. iF there is something that flash can do that HTML5 and the canvas can't do then it's a bridge to be crossed.

While this might be a bad example it would be worth wile to have a list of what flash can do that HTML5 can not yet. The we can talk about if it is or is not worth implementing.
In the US, medical devices are regulated by the FDA. When it comes to using 3rd party software, the company manufacturing the device has the responsibility to ensure any 3rd party components function correctly. Its unrealistic to impose regulations on every piece of software that is written "just in case". It is far more practical to put the responsibility on the company doing the integration and selling the device.

Here is the guidance from the FDA on off-the-shelf software: http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidanc...
It's likely that your tongue isn't moving much. It's also possible that the tongue isn't moving front-to-back (as it would for the English word "she") or that it isn't moving with respect to your lower jaw or that it isn't moving very much compared to nearly any other set of sounds you might utter. But the tongue must be moving if you are making any differentiated sound at all there.
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Please check it out and let me know what sucks, what works, and if you'll ever use it.

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The article doesn't talk about how much a bag costs. It talks about the price per gramme staying at $10.
I couldn't have said it better... and that assuming either no corporation or a pass-through entity.

There is no way I'd leave a job for 2k/month startup when virtually any job I can get employing the skills I used to build the startup would easily get me 3-5x my startup income (and health insurance too).
One of the things I like is that when you email someone here asking for help or advice they're quite nice about it. I've gotten some very thoughtful responses from people here when I've asked for feedback.
That's why he needs the fancy Manhattan office, business class flights for interns and catered lunches.

He is competing for programmers with grad school (cool projects no money), google (cool projects good pay) and wall st (cool projects* awesome pay)

And he is offering a bug tracker written in a home grown asp.net language.

* He paints Wall St as boring but remember he isn't competing to hire Oracle/Sharepoint back office devs. He is competing to hire C++/CUDA/Erlang/maths realtime quant types.
Once again, you're missing the point entirely, you can repeat your non-explanation over and over again it does not change my perspective as a customer. If you include turn-by-turn navigation then voice is not 'optional', it is a safety measure. Especially for a device which unlike other navigators for vehicular use is not glued to your windshield which makes it even more dangerous to use without voice.

Sending and receiving internet mail have nothing to do with being able to use a navigational package, not matter what 'google market requires', if maps are free and the app is free then I don't need an account.

> Yes, I understand, that when it was downloading updates from Market as a first thing after turning on, it is not something pleasant.

It's simply wrong. I need an account of some sort at the moment that I download a paid product, not before then.

I know the market is set up in such a way that that is not the case, but it is my opinion, not a fact, as a customer that to require registration of an email account with an email provider which I do not intend to use in order to download basic functionality on to a device I have just bought from an unrelated provider is a process that is not 'unpleasant' but broken.

> However, that's what users want,

Not this one.

> as updated as possible and Google obliged

It could easily do that by just downloading a bunch of stuff from a repository a-la apt-get without requiring registration of anything whatsoever.

I really don't understand why your 'that's the way it works' view tramples my 'it doesn't have to work that way' view, I really couldn't care less how it works, even if it does work that way, it is a negative experience and you try to avoid those in people using your products.
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whenever I release a site the biggest challenge is to find a way to promote it so that other people notice it. the product is excellent focused to help make other peoples' lives easier but without a $1+MM budget it is nearly impossible to get it of the ground. what to do?
Generally, OKC's demographics are perceived as being college age, liberal, middle class, and alt friendly.

I'm not sure they've ever directly posted demographic data, but that's their perceived demographic, at least.
I have heard of people using hairspray to weigh it down. Turning shwag to the sticky icky.. at least enough to fool high school kids.
Agreed. The white male info made me think "divorced 30-45 yo professional type" quite distinctly. (I'm a young white guy). Also, I bet this thread will get seriously contentious if not for the fact that the HN audience was depicted quite well there (based on my imaginary demographic profile of Hacker News).
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Not in my experience. Sure, if the post is either offtopic (to the site) or easily mistaken for trolling, it's going to be downvoted pretty quickly.

From the guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

So even if it's related to the original submission, a post might be off-topic.
Perhaps, I haven't purchased one since I stopped doing packaged foods, but I no longer notice the standard sized candy bars, the liquor store counters and grocery store check-out aisles seem to be filled only with the "king size" versions.
Perhaps it's just convenient to pass a $10 note. No change required.
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