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"This piece is amazing. It masquerades as a critique of science, but at bottom I would argue it is really just a very complicated smokescreen for Obama-hating and anti-Keynesianism. I bet this guy Thiel just wants lower taxes."

I personally discussed this topic with Peter in that same cafe several weeks ago, and I find that hard to believe. He didn't seem interested in discussing near-term politics at all, or near-term stuff in general. What's your evidence?

"We built airplanes as soon as we could, and Hitler turned them into blitzkreig."

If the airplane had been built fifty years later, is there some reason that it would not have been used to wage war
more efficiently?

"But if 100 rich people could live forever in an undersea bubble powered by green nanotech, would it really change the global situation?"

Yes, because the technology that would need to be developed for that to happen would benefit everyone else.

"The real technological problem is bringing the billions of people who eke out a stone-age existence in tribal towns all over Asia and Africa into the modern world."

That's not a technological problem, it's a political problem. The example of China shows that a well-run country is perfectly capable of starting out from ancient-world level and catching up to the industrialized West within fifty years or so; there are no big technological barriers, just political ones.
The problem that Apple faces here is one of fragmentation. The UI on the 9.7" iPad isn't just going to scale down to a 7" without any problems -- look at the difference between using the portrait and landscape keyboards, and now imagine that kind of difference in physical scale applied to everything else in the UI.

So, that means they'll have to retool the iOS UI conventions once again. Which means a third target. Universal apps will now have to have usable interfaces on iPhones, big iPads, and small iPads. It seems like a lot of effort to support something bridging a relatively small gap, and I don't think Apple is going to see that as necessary until the tablet market has matured a lot more.
Wow, that sounds totally unlivable
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I agree, in Canada it seems trivial. Perhaps the study presumes some lower level of capacity, literacy or computer ability.

The numbers for 'enforceability of contracts' and 'paying taxes' are absurd. Puts the rest of the results in doubt.
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San Luis Obispo, CA

Apartment Rent + Utilities: $400-$600
Internet (1 Mbps): $25
Food: $250
Phone: $50
Transport (Bike): $20

A decent meal: $8-$30
Bans? He got a 14-day suspension. Even if he was just using cheats for kicks and Blizzard flagged him unfairly, it's just a slap on the wrist.

It's also worth noting this article uses boilerplate arguments that are the hallmark of somebody with almost 0 defensible ground latching onto the only available rock and spouting it left and right:

"Some people might be older or handicapped or simply not possess the fast-twitch reflexes of a 12 year old which seems to be a requirement of some games these days" - nice try, but that statement doesn't even begin to apply to SC2.
I believe that the majority of players will support Blizzard in this. Please read the whole comment before you downvote me ...

SC2 players are very competitive and trust Blizzard to prevent cheating or devaluing the Battle.net achivement system.

Single player games can be played offline (not logged into Battle.net) or played online with cheats. Both of these situations do not reward players with points or Achievements (badges for having accomplished something).

Blizzard is banning people who gamed the Battle.net reward system. They are not banning people who played offline or played with built-in cheats.

If you mess with Battle.net, you will be banned.
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It's a wedding. In the majority of cases, the male point of view is irrelevant.

Also, as I said elsewhere in this thread, what a woman might say in theory or outside of planning mode is often quite different to how they'll act once things get real.

(Recently married for the second time, FWIW.)
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Norman, Oklahoma (Monthly)

Rent, 1 room- 250
Utilities- 60

Gas- 2.50/gal

Groceries- 150-200/month (depending on ramen to steak ratio)

Entry Level Programming: $3500/month
Oh, Miraflores. Such a nice part of Lima (an otherwise rather unpleasant city).
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Right. Moore's Law vs Medicare: http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2003/07/the-great-r...

It's clear that neither party in the US has the slightest interest in fiscal responsibility, not as long as it's a winning strategy to buy votes with tax cuts and free benefits. The only way I see to avoid the coming demographic and financial time bomb is massive economic growth, e.g. one or more of AI/robotics (replace most human labor), nanotech (make material goods much cheaper), and biotech (cure aging, radically reducing medical expenses and increasing productivity).
How does one get a visa to be in Japan if they intend to start a company there? It would appear to be difficult to get a visa if you are not already profitable, correct?
Is the diff of those sqlite dumps useful?

I have had to maintain databases where the dumps were useful and others where there were so many inter-table references that figuring out what the changes did was painful.
iPhone, meet Wireshark...
If you're interested, there's been plenty of research done on the matter. Search for "well to wheel" studies. You can find a good number of them online if you look, and electric cars beat the pants off of everything else.
It sounds more like he stopped getting checked years ago, and ignored warning signs due to life pressures.
Can you imagine if government had tried to pick winning information technologies the way its now trying to do with electric cars?

For a real-world example see South Korea, where until just a few months ago government regulations mandated the use of IE for all commerce: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/01/korea.no.longe...
It's amazing what people are coming up with for extra uses for phones.

Tangentially related.. someone on Twitter just convinced me to buy "Instant Heart Monitor" which turns at least iPhones and Android phones into heart rate monitors. In my case it used the flash on the iPhone 4 to light up your finger and works out your heartbeat from fluctuations in its color. My first test proved accurate.
Dude, $2000 for a two bedroom? That's not true. I live in a Raheja Apartment, for 25K ($600) /month. Two bedroom , 1100 sq. ft. Comes with 24/7 security, car park etc etc.
Usually you can access full WSJ articles through Google News.
IANAD, but my guess is that he was unlucky and the cancer was especially fast to act. Yearly checks might have been too granular, and the marker could have spiked shortly after his last test. Also, I'm guessing that it's rare to even know you have it until you start getting symptoms. How often do doctors run blood tests for random protein markers?

From wikipeida, it looks like the cancer is related to abnormal white cell buildup. If he's traveling a lot, he would be exposed to more sicknesses, and so might have more white cells then usual, so he has more to build up. But then again, IANAD, so this might be completely wrong.
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You may be looking at the quarter where they wrote of Bebo, ICQ and a bunch of other assets
What are some good (cross platform, decent clients, low cheating, good for n00bs) online poker websites?

EDIT: I mean poker playing websites.
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check this out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1778880
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Technically I started before I quit ... something that I highly recommend any other entrepreneur to do. However you could definitely pull it off with 6 months money although 12 months would be better :) A few months after going on my own I also landed a contract dev job that helped me make it an additional 6 - 8 months and attend some events I wanted to. I did the dev work at night and then just worked on my project during the day.

If you are all-in on your new project though, you should be able to make it though. Just make sure you already have that new computer or whatever tools you'll need to get started. I've found a nice computer always boosted my productivity and made me feel better :)
It's OK. I sometimes get riled up about politics too.

I agree, to spend is to tax. But to spend even more is to tax even more. I'm sure additional stimulus dollars would be money far better spent than the money we have spent burning Iraq and Afghanistan to the ground, but the fact remains that additional stimulus spending must be additionally paid back some day. The chief question in my mind is whether the return on those additional dollars would be worth the price.

I think you may be overestimating the extent to which outright Republican lies, numerous though they are, are affecting consensus on this issue among economists. For example, there are many non-Keynesians out there who disagree with the assertion that high government spending can counteract a recession.

I must confess, though, I don't have my ear to the ground as well as I would like on this topic. Kind of makes you wish that there was a Cliff's notes for recent updates in the outlook of experts and academics on various important topics. My understanding is that Krugman's outlook typically differs somewhat from most economists' beliefs (as surely it would with Mankiw's arguments in the linked article), but perhaps that is not the case re: additional stimulus spending?
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Hatyai, Thailand (southern region, close to border with Malaysia)

Monthly expenses:
rent (three bedroom, two bathroom, AC, carpark): $150
electricity (incl AC): $40
water: $7
food (eating out in nice restaurants 80% of the meals): $300
groceries: $166
car/motorcycles: $183
other expenses: $133

total: $979

Starting salary for designers/developers just out of uni: $400
Salary senior developers/managers: $665
Cool.. always good to see technology being applied towards education.

Few comments, take what you will:

- I expected the "ClassConnect" logo at the top to be linked to the home page.

- "We saved the best for last. ClassConnect is 100% free. Forever." I don't think you should really save that for last.. seems like something you'd want to have stand out on the home page.

- I got about 2 min into the intro video and it froze up, so maybe check bandwidth issues. The video seemed to be too long, and the first 2 minutes I weren't that interesting. I think starting off by showing your main workflow would be better - how simple it is to upload a document or save a video and share it with your class.

- "Why license" and "License Features" look basically the same, and I'm still not totally sure what it is. Why would I want support?

Hope some of that is helpful. Good luck!
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crud... I came up with (and executed) that idea four years ago, but it worked using a series of perl scripts piped together, no way I could deploy that to high school chem labs. By the time I learned how to program android, there were other, more capitalizable ideas...

The way it worked was to instead to use a 96-well plate (indexed, by blotting out certain wells) that would allow the software to key the matrix of wells and determine 'circles' to sample optical density based on the rgb values of the resulting jpg image - averaging across the entire circle. The experimenter would set up a 'calibration curve' in certain pre-indiced wells.

Typically you would have to have a color filter - i.e. if the color being evolved was yellow then you would take the photograph in blue light.
Yup, but foreigners get a choice of whether or not to contribute.
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I kept reading that you were "passionate about recreational consumption", but then the rest of the sentence didn't make any sense.

A single comma makes a big difference to understanding what you meant:

"When I have as much time as I want to work on stuff I like and am passionate about, recreational consumption does almost nothing for me."
Sigh, he almost has the answer, but he is too limited by his set political believes to actually see it.

Lack of technology is not the problem, the problem is lack of demand, and there is lack of demand because most people are poor. That's pretty much it. Once there is demand the technology will catch up pretty quickly.

For example, when after WWII middle class americans ended up with money (either from their pay as soldiers, or due to the higher salaries during the war time labor shortages), the US economy and technology grew very quickly to acomodate every single desire they might have, cars, houses, highways, boats, every consumer product you may think of, etc. were built in enormous quantities.

But now the middle class is relatively poor and at their best hope is to stay at the same level. So their spending decreases or stays the same. And the economy suffers.

Why aren't there household robots? Because people are too poor. The middle class american is too poor to afford a complex piece of robotics, and also there is a bunch of even poorer people that will do your housework for cheap. So why would anybody invest in a complex expensive Jetson's like household robot?

Take Hacker News for example, full of innovative people but most of them are working hard trying to figure out how to make money from a free product. Why? Because the average American does not have much money to spend.

So IMO, Thiel is in denial when he blames lack of technological know-how and advances for the economic woes.
But the ramen you make for yourself in Japan is "real" ramen, not instant ramen, is it?

I'm looking at the more interesting pictures here: http://images.google.com/images?q=ramen&biw=1714&bih...
Stay an extra year at the next job, then you might be able to get a job to do from a distance.

If I lose motivation@work (got some allergy issues around where I am now), I'm thinking of sitting down a few months somewhere cheap with good weather (== sunny) and hack/read.

A question: How do you find apartments to rent for 1-3 months in random countries, like e.g. India or Japan?
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How much did you manage to save (or loose) last year?
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You must be living in a shanty at those prices (or you have roommates) in SLO, CA.
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First of all, you rock. Thanks for your great feedback :) I'm going to run all of your points past my two other co-founders
Santa Barbara, CA

Apartment Rent + Utilities: $900
Food: $250

Lawrence, Kansas

Apartment Rent + Utilities: $200 - $500
Food: Same

I miss Kansas sometimes =(
His PTR pages clearly show most of his hands at 5k/10k/20k NL. That's not medium stakes.

I'd guess his losses at 40k/60k/100k NL /are/ due to luck; doubt he's a -20BB/100 loser at those games.
Oaxaca, Mexico

1 bedroom apartment in very nice building with weekly cleaning - $450/mo (all bills + wifi included).

Food: $200-400

Beer: $1/bottle
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This comment brings back memories. I was pretty serious for a decade or so, and I remember how long the losing streaks can be ("Oh my God. This is my first set in a week and you just cracked it with a one-outer on the river.")

I had a girlfriend for most of that time who went pro. She was pretty good, too, but she had that lack of respect for money in spades (heh). She'd spend a whole day grinding out $3000 in the $40-80 game and then lose $20,000 in an hour at the Pai Gow table.

One day she decided to skip the Pai Gow and went to the mall instead. Bought all kinds of designer clothes and perfumes and electronic gadgets. She practically filled up the car. When she came home there was this shocked look on her face. I asked her what the problem was and she said "Look at all the stuff you can buy for only $5000! I'm so used to using money as ammunition I forgot you can trade it for stuff."
you may want to ask daniel bogan of usesthis.com how he managed to interview him: http://why.usesthis.com/
Really surprised that the UK ranks 16th on 'Starting a Business' and the US ranks 8th. From what I know, it takes a lot longer, costs more, and tends to involve actual lawyers to open a business in the US. In the UK, I did it all online for £25.
By websites I'm assuming you mean places to play poker. Full Tilt and Poker Stars are the most common if you're in the US.

Two Plus Two is probably the most popular poker forum. There's also a few subscription based training sites like CardRunners, Deuces Cracked, etc. Steve Silverman is a coach (although he doesn't put out many videos) at leggopoker.com.
$18k - is not that much at all, and it will disappear fast. If you don't have any family to back you up with some reserve/emergency cash when you ran out, i would be really careful.

You will use it within 5 - 7 months. Keep in mind, that just even for renting, you will have to give a first, deposit, (and sometimes last month). Assuming you are going to have roommates, if your rent is 1k (can be more, can be a bit less in crappy area), + moving costs, you could see easy 4k gone, just when you land there.

The chances to get funding, or any revenue within that time are pretty much 0, unless you have a solid prototype already build, do you?

My advice, is move to SF, find a job (hopefully one that will pay relocating costs), or maybe even a contracting one, and then develop your product on the side. When it is at least 60% done, and you have a bit more savings, go full swing into it.

The rule of thumb, you should have at least 1.5 years of savings. If you have parents that lend 20k extra when things go sour, then 9-1yr would be good enough.

In SF that would be at least 30k. add about 10k you will need for the business (servers and such, depends on what you are doing, then 40k is minimum.

If you are working as an engineer, and are smart with money, you should be able to save at least 20k-30k a year.
Thanks for info. I've talked to a few people that worked in Singapore and they loved it.
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That last interview with the laureate asking if it was really necessary to stop his experiments was particularly sweet.
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I think technological progress has slowed down dramatically. in 60 years we went from the first plane to landing on the moon. We haven't been back to the moon since. The invention of electricity, atomic theory, radio, the internal combustion engine were all far more world changing inventions than anything we've developed over the last 60 years, including the Internet. For instance, we are desperately trying to keep Iran from getting hold of 60 year old technology (uranium refining)!

I love studying the period in history between the franco-prussian war and World War II (1871-1940). The speed at which technology snuck up on the world and completely changed it was astonishing.
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She got an excellent education in being an independent thinker and a very creative person -- but she's been using the Khan Academy over the past few weeks to learn Algebra II.
The big takeaway from this for me has been how much I'm enjoying reading the cucumber tests!

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Tests as documentation are really coming around.

Sincerely,
A cucumber convert

(ps: For those not familiar with cucumber, it provides a DSL to describe application behavior in plain-text, which is then translated into runnable tests. http://cukes.info/)
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is this in USD or EUR? Are you in amsterdam?
I worked as a customer service rep for DirecTV in high school. They DEFINITELY run a credit check when you sign up - the rep never sees the actual number, they just get back a result group (ie good, fair, poor - though I forget the actual breakdown). You can refuse to allow the check, but then you will be ineligible for any sort of promotions that might be offered. IIRC, poor credit required an immediate payment to activate service.

Granted, this was 10 years ago, so things might have changed since then. But I doubt it.
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The only people saying it's a net negative are people that don't actually use FB that much. For those of us who like it and use it to communicate with friends and family daily, the new groups features are long awaited. Group chat built into FB is so convenient! And fun.
Those table rankings do have some influence. Germany cleaned up its act partly because of them. E.g. you used to need 10.000 Euro in capital for a limited liability company (a German invention of the 19th century be the way), but they reduced that requirement to 1 Euro plus the need to re-invest a certain part of profits until you reach 10.000 Euro.
http://www.facebook.com/groups

The new groups look different, have different features. It should be up for everyone now.
Indeed.

Though Italy and Germany and to some extents Japan had some experience with fascism. The current constitution of Germany was heavily influenced by American demands (and the Japanese constitution, too).

You could say that Germany had a strong history of social-monarchy, and then social-democracy. (With some fascism in a 12 year year period and 40 years of socialism in the east.)
I didn't get that feeling from the article at all. My brother actually has multiple myeloma as well; he's checked every 3 months to see if the blood levels have spiked and a skeletal survey is done every 6 months. It's almost a certainty that the cancer to start eating away at your bones and you not know it between the skeletal surveys.
BTW if anyone has any tips on how to do this "always on" video concept, I'd love to hear them!
I was really sad to see India ranked so low. I remember my friend starting a company by paying Rs 6000 to broker, who took care of all the things. Things work differently in India, if you do not go through a broker, you might take a few weeks :-(
perhaps why a bottle of vodka is 3 dollars

*also fun fact: doshirak is a Korean brand
> When you're essentially facing no competition (e.g., Windows, Office, 10 years ago) you can push a closed approach. When you're behind and facing two formidable rivals (Apple and Google), you need to apply a different approach.

Microsoft seems not to have cared much with the 360. And though you can make the argument that console game developers are used to no two consoles being compatible tools- and SDK-wise, the HD generation proved so expensive to develop for that a number of developers went cross-platform to have an easier time recouping their costs.