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Underestimation of what a wealth distribution looks like is just a common flaw with human brains, the same way people are terrible at estimating volumes of containers.

The other effect which confuses things is that we're talking about the distribution of wealth, not income. Many people survive very comfortably with a near-zero or even negative net wealth... a new law-school graduate on a $140K salary probably has a negative net wealth thanks to student loans, but nobody would call him poor.
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Because the alternative was that IBM or HP would buy Sun - or they would simply disappear.

The result (in either case) would be a lot of IBM hardware salesmen crawling over Sun's customers saying things like:
If you want to switch to DB2 to go with your new IBM servers we can do you a deal.
You misread my post. The poor are easily dealt with. Problems occur when the middle class starts to view themselves as the victim of economic inequality. This is why perception can matter as much as economic reality.
Color in a painting behaves quite differently than color on the screen. When dealing with a monitor we are looking at additive color, when looking at a painting it's subtractive. The more color I add on the screen the brighter the color becomes e.g., RGB 255 255 255 would be white. The more paints I mix together, the darker the color becomes.

The color wheel given doesn't describe additive color relationships. In RGB land, the complements for the primaries are generally given as follows: red cyan, green magenta, yellow blue. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model

The reason that green and red "pop" is because we have the largest number of red and green cone cells in the fovea, that area of the eye responsible for our most central vision. Colors are not by default "cool" or "warm" they are only such in relation to context. We could have a "cooler" blue next to a "warmer" blue.
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I generally just close an article instantly if it has one of those panels obscuring the text. There's enough other interesting stuff to read on the web that I'm not willing to put up with manipulation like that.
Is there any lack of evidence that wealth is correlated with intelligence?

It seems as obvious as "height is correlated with gender" to me, but feel free to go read The Bell Curve or something.
The State has the right to determine what is legal; I reserve for myself the right to determine what is fair.

I encourage you to do the same.
Any place that has any kind of "employee valuation policy" doesn't value their employees.
I use PPAs (personal package archives) in Ubuntu to have a semi-rolling release. My browser, compiler and other select applications are updated daily but the underlying system is stable.
Just turn off the distracting notifications. That means growl notifications, dock icon badge counts, audio notifications (ding!), and anything else that might pull you away from what you're doing.

So we use IM for work a lot (even within the same office), and I have found that the optimal level of notification is a static or barely animated icon in the bottom right of your screen (no pop-ups or audio or anything like that). It's subtle enough that you don't see it if you are in the zone, but easy enough to spot if you're task-switching anyway.

As for aliasing, I have gone backwards through the years - I used to alias everything, but then I discovered when I sat in front of a virgin system I couldn't remember how to do anything so now I avoid it whenever reasonable. I do, however, make heavy use of keyboard acceleration to minimise mouse use, which in turn minimises wrist pain.
Oops. I lost track of product names frequently, especially since there are so many ;)

You're probably also right about the reason for starting out with a PPC based system. I'd heard about a similarly sized offer for Be, as well as JLG's refusal.

There weren't a lot of realtime OS's out there, and still aren't -- BeOS could have been the next OS/2, only without IBM's marketing behind it. (Can anyone say, "Friendly fire?")
I think it is very curious when someone builds a website and a slideshow to promote something, then claims he isn't publishing anything. Or when that person feels the need to misrepresent another who makes any sort of criticism.

First hint: I at no time said that I found this "not worth talking about". Those are words you tried to put in my mouth to distract from my noting that there's not much here to go on.

Second hint: People say "community, come help us succeed" in order to blame the lack of community help when they go nowhere.
I was actually originally going to say -3 * 5 = -(3 * 5), as a joke. But from what I could find online, it looks like unary minus traditionally falls below exponentiation in the order of operations for math. See http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/53194.html and Wikipedia: "In written or printed mathematics, the expression −3^2 is interpreted to mean −(3^2) = −9."
No, the justification for "less equality" is that it is an optimal solution. Everyone is much better off than if everything was "equal." Equality is not an end in itself. If nuclear war were to break out, we would all be equal (and dead). That doesn't make it better than what we have now.
" Charles Stross has the early 21st century comprise a "digital dark ages" in some of his books"

Which ones? I'm trying to read more of his stuff, so far it's been hit or miss.
Rich people tend to be smart, smart people tend to have smart children, smart children tend to grow up to be rich, and so rich people wind up having rich children. Rich people would have rich children even in a society where all children were taken away from their parents at birth and raised communally.
Add to this the fact that children also pick up financial literacy and values (good or bad) from their parents, and there's your low upward mobility right there. I doubt if the other effects (i.e. rich children inheirit wealth and can often get into better schools) are nearly as important as the genetics of it.

this is so full of misconceptions that I won't even start.
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Although he seems to be over-hyped (especially by himself), Nassim Taleb makes a pertinent point about this problem in The Black Swan.

Certain things in like can accurately be described by a normal distribution curve (the Gaussian or Bell Curve). What we see from the examples of crowd sourcing is a real-life version of a central limit theorem: if you have enough observations in a sample, the sample mean will approach the population mean, if the distribution of the population is normal. Many natural phenomena are normally distributed, making the bell curve a fantastically useful statistical tool.

However, Taleb goes on to note that while the normal distribution is very good with natural phenomena, it often does very poorly with social phenomena. Many social phenomena are best approximated with power law distributions rather than bell curve distributions. As such, attempting to model social phenomena with a normal distribution will end up underestimating extreme occurrences or fat tails. This is Taleb's critique of using standard inferential statistics, based on the normal distribution, to examine social phenomena such as income distributions or financial markets.

In the article, we see that the central limit theorem does not hold when the distribution that is being modeled/approximated is too skewed. (One of the statistical tests for normality measures skewness.) Things like income and wealth distributions, as social phenomena, have been shown time and again to follow a power law distribution rather than a normal distribution. Thus it shouldn't be a surprise that averages estimates of the distribution fail to capture the 'fat tail' of the top quintile.
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I call it a 'rushed post'.
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you totally miss the point of why having egalitarian society is important and one of the building blocks of America.

maybe you heard about "American Dream" and stuff...
Very possible, but I've also known companies rush to comment on things too - sometimes within hours and sometimes not at all.

So lets all check back in a week... my money is on no response from any of them and they continue to "declined to talk".
And competent lawyer on the other side is going to say, "online banking".

I mean, guns are still legal right, despite the fact that people murder each other with them.
It is a perfect irony that the man calling for more openness and transparency can't handle it when his own private issues are aired publicly.

Some security breaches at wikileaks could lead to informants or employees/volunteers being harassed or harmed, but this breach could only harm Assange's public image. He needs to get over himself and blow this off, or step down if he can't ignore trivial rumors.
There seems to be a contradiction in your thinking. If 'opportunity' is seen as making something of yourself, being successful, getting richer, that seems to necessitate inequality of outcomes. If the range of socially acceptable outcomes are compressed be redistributive policy, doesn't it also follow that the opportunities open the individuals will be concomitantly restricted?
Yes, reading your other post below, it seems we'll have to agree to disagree on this.
Please don't do this.

If you don't have anything specific to say except "You're wrong, about everything, ner ner" then don't comment at all.

If you "won't even start", then, y'know, don't even start.
except costs of protecting more wealth grow exponentially, not linearly.
Use a neutral gray (this could be black or white). What you want to avoid is framing the image with any "color". Context affects what colors are seen. Knowing a little about something called simultaneous contrast is helpful: http://www.apple.com/pro/color/tools/caponigro/contrast.html
during recent years Sun was like an aircraft carrier steered by (actually with all the systems controlled by) a bunch of monkeys - a lot of noise and jerking right an left. When finally it was grounded and started to sink, its crew was saved by another ship.

Why it so surprising that ones who grounded the carrier didn't get to steer the rescuing ship?
This is strikingly good advice. There's no better way to spend this three months.

Independent wealth aside, most people don't have this kind of opportunity very often.

(In particular, starting a business is going to either disrupt your college plans or be disrupted itself once you start school. Besides, you can do that anywhere, any time. Take advantage of this opportunity to travel.)
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Watch it again. Page 132 of this version of the final script of the movie ( http://www.vantageguilds.com/itw/FinalScript_ITW.pdf ):

"Sunrise and nature awakens. Bird songs and flower
blooms. A waterfall cascades.
CUT TO:
245 INT. BUS - DAY 245
Chris reading Tolstoy’s Family Happiness. His POV: The
page: what Chris reads:
I have lived through much and now I think I have found
what is needed for happiness.
132.
A quiet, secluded life in the country with the
possibility of being useful to people...
CUT TO:
246 EXT. BUS - DAY 246
Chris sits amongst the pink bunches of fireweed choking
the vehicles wheel wells, growing higher than the axles,
his back leaning against the bus, finishing the reading
of Family Happiness.
ANGLE: Chris, reading with great interest. His POV: The
page: what Chris reads:
And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and
children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man
desire?
ANGLE: Chris: He looks up from his book. A gentle breeze
tickles morning flowers. The sunlight dances in a
coppice of aspen and leaves of trees above. The sound of
buzzing flies mutes. He is taking one last look at his
paradise.
CUT"

One last look at paradise. That means that he changed his mind about staying in the woods by himself after reading the following two parts of Tolstoy’s Family Happiness:

"I have lived through much and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet, secluded life in the country with the possibility of being useful to people..."

and

"And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?"
"I just finished an ALU (the math part of a CPU) in Minecraft."
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App Engine seems to serve exactly the opposite of its stated purpose. The idea with scaling is that when demand increases, you allocate more resources.

With appengine, when demand increases they turn off the server.

It's really the only platform you could pick that's guaranteed not to scale.
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Social Darwinism, alive and well in the 21st. Plus ca change.
Same here, I'm incredibly envious of great designers. For any non-personal project that I intend on making money with, I always hire a designer.
Interesting. I was thinking about using something like a hidden frame. Some StackOverflow posts mention storing data in "window.name". But we need something secure to store the user auth token...
Well said. There are valid arguments in favor of reducing inequality, but too often they come across as thinly disguised envy.
I bet they want to have almost anything that is possible on the AppleTV be possible on the iPad, but not the other way around.
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And yet the main body text of that page is "black" (well, unhued anyway)
I used to love C++ until I realized powerful languages existed that didn't require you to read several books (e.g Scott Meyers effective C++ series) in order to avoid shooting yourself in the foot.
Yeah I would say travel, if you have lots of money. Go out and meet people locally if you have some money. Get in amazing physical shape if you have no money.
There are two places where one might take a position: "are the laws being fairly applied in this case?" and "are the laws themselves fair?".

Clearly it would be unfair to treat Arrington differently than the law requires. I think the charitable interpretation of the above poster is that he thinks the laws themselves are unfair. You may disagree, but arguing that what Arrington did is legal is beside the point.
While I've made a number of comments on this thread, I've realised that it really isn't anything but politics of the sort that promotes flamewars, so I'm flagging it.
According to Calacanis, it's $15M-$30M.

See the 6th and 7th tweets here - http://www.businessinsider.com/calacanis-arrington-techcrunc...
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Sorry, I was just spitballing. As the article was about both wealth and income, I should've mentioned both. But especially with wealth, I don't know how to remove the financial sector from the calculations, as just fromreading this article, I don't know from what they derived their percentages (and even then this is probably beyond my expertise, not being an economist). Net worth of people in the financial sector is probably a good starting step.

Or more generally, a breakdown of the areas of work of the richest 1 percent of several countries would definitely be interesting (again, both wealth and income).
The wealthy 20% always use their influence to further their own ends. That's why income inequality is viewed as a problem in the first place. The percentage of wealthy philanthropists is never enough to make up for the lack of a prosperous middle class.
I'm not entirely sure I understand the logic here, and being not a math student myself I'm sure my original statement is likely to be wrong.

However, I don't see how the set of numbers found in an infinite number of trials would be countable.

Edit: I googled some about this and can say I definitely learned some math today..
I couldn't help myself from laughing when I noticed AOL's first post was one of those press releases that Michael Arrington despises.
Methane is a horrible greenhouse gas. CO2 is a bad one. So removing methane and getting CO2 is a good thing.

However if you start actively producing methane for use in something like this, then the greenhouse benefits are negative.
"Fair" enough.
On the other hand, I think that file systems are closer to the heart of a database company than quite a lot of other Sun technologies (e.g. JavaFX). Oracle does sponsor btrfs – which is even more in its infancy.

Also, Jeff leaving doesn't necessarily mean that ZFS is dead to Oracle. Maybe he left because they decided to focus more on btrfs, maybe it's just a personal issue.
Not that I saw. It's in the .tar.gz available on the package linked by zeemonkee.
To whomever downvoted this, you realize of course that Oracle's overly-litigiousness:

http://www.google.com/search?q=oracle+lawsuit

and poor conferences for Java:

http://www.google.com/search?q=javaone+oracle+sucked#sclient...

are what I'm referring to, right?

Oracle has seriously been screwing up lately. I think that the kids are taking their ball and going home with LibreOffice, leaving Oracle behind because of its anti-open-source attitude.
ok. can you make an argument for "doing things for others"? i think your comment makes an appeal to a principal most people would claim they share, but i wonder what an argument for doing so could be.
But you were wrong about basically everything in this thread.

You seem to have some weird theory that wealth is somehow correlated with genetics - a theory that you cannot support with any evidence, but continue to reintroduce.

And then you seem to make a conclusion that it's all quite ok and the research in question is totally pointless. I mean, what do all those former middle-class and newly-poor are whining about? There's nothing we can do if they were born with genetic defect, right?
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> The Right Way to do it, in my mind, is to take a snapshot of the available gems, and convert only those versions of the gems to debs such that rubygems and the Gem constant aren't involved at all.

If you think that's going to work, you don't know enough about the Ruby library ecosystem. You can't take a snapshot of the available versions and think that'll satisfy users. Users need to be able to install different versions of the same package in parallel, tons of things rely on this. Take a look at the rationale behind Bundler: http://gembundler.com/rationale.html
Sadly dpkg doesn't support multiple package versions.
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i've used OO only because of its Word compatibility. The root of evil here is why i needed the Word compatibility.
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Looks like maybe I was wrong
1) Unless I am misunderstanding the standard, malwarenet.org never asks for your OpenID password -- your OpenID provider does.

2) Why does malwarenet.org want your Facebook password / to connect with your Facebook account?
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I have implemented RSA encryption and key generation in DrScheme while sitting in my computer science class in high school. (Well, probably I did some of the work at home.) Please don't tell me that's supposed to be illegal.

On the other hand, if the article is to be interpreted strictly, as only making it illegal for online service providers (is that supposed to mean ISPs, or anyone who provides a service online?) to offer encrypted communication, then it will make it more inconvenient but by no means impossible to encrypt everything that you do. In other words, it'll be totally ineffective against serious criminals; but I thought stopping them was supposed to be the justification for a law like this.

I am mad.
It maybe true that YC won't penalize me for applying multiple times. Like I mentioned in my other response here, I would be far more confident of applying at this stage if I had a technical co-founder or traction. W/o either of these, my case doesn't appear very strong, at least for now... and that's why I have been going back-and-forth about applying right now or not.

Also, YC fall deadline is about 3 weeks away, and I don't want to make a hasty move wrt finding a technical co-founder.
What founding American documents can you point to that espouse an egalitarian belief? I would submit that freedom (America's true consistent ideal) and "equality" are mutually exclusive ends.
Indeed. So maybe there's no correlation whatsoever? I guess it does not matter to the argument about encryption, though.
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I'm not sure that's entirely true (well, except for the reporting thing). Some companies have a reputation for acquiring smaller companies with the express purpose of keeping their staff, e.g. Cisco (at least in times past) and Google.

But, yes, most of the time this is an important part of what makes the vast majority of high tech acquisitions fail miserably.
When demand increases they turn off the server until you pay for more. It's not a charity! If you want to just serve static HTML, put it somewhere cheap like nearlyfreespeech.net
Perhaps I didn't phrase my comment clearly? I meant that the website creator can pick one or two of the above to feature on the sign-up page. Examples: Aiming at techy 20-somethings? Google's your bet. Professionals? Advertise Linkedin. Users from Russia? Yandex and Livejournal.

Advertise one or two of the most likely sign-in credentials (so people who hate choice have it easy), and then put a small note that others are accepted too (so people who know what's going on aren't locked out).
True but that is for the free GB transfer per day. They probably wouldn't ever make any money if they took the hit for everyone's spikes. Otherwise you'd just offload all heavy spike situations to AppEngine. If you pay for bandwidth you get past the quotas.

I agree though in demonstration it seems silly. They shouldn't even have a free plan because all of them end up like this, bad perception.
Fair enough! (http://php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php) Still, it's taken them a long time to add that.
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You seem to have some weird theory that wealth is somehow correlated with genetics - a theory that you cannot support with any evidence, but continue to reintroduce.

That's a weird theory? I think it follows quite naturally from:

1. Wealth is correlated with intelligence, and

2. Intelligence is at least partly inherited.

These both seem like they would be fairly obvious and noncontroversial, and I'm sure could be backed up with a few minutes googling. Which one would you like to take issue with?

PS. It's possible your misconception comes from thinking that "wealth is correlated with intelligence" allows us to make statements about specific cases -- like that rich person A is necessarily more intelligent than poor person B, or that the lower average wealth of group C than group D implies that group C is of lower average intelligence. Of course it means nothing of the sort.
thanks, will check out your profile and ping then.
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