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The only model displayed here that has to do with physical products takes costs into consideration.

Other than that, surely if you're making 10M a year on any of these business models you won't have operating costs of anywhere near 10M a year.
Indeed, the current autopilot implemented has the initial "proportional controller" feedback loop, which only stabilizes the flight vehicle, which is a crucial first step to building a guidance system on top of that.
...also, I own 10 various brands and sizes of flash drives, all work perfect.
Or rent a car, for some reason.
The $1,000,000 dollar question... Literally
You seem to think that $10 out of $10 in taxes goes directly towards roads, schools, or whatever.

I never said anything about the direct allocation of tax dollars.

$6 out of the $10 is a dead weight loss... completely consumed by government waste and inefficiency.

Of course there is waste in government spending, just as there is in private spending (hey, we just can't get around the laws of thermodynamics). But do you have any (reputable) sources to back up your assertion that 60% of government spending gets lost as "waste and inefficiency"?
First, although electric cars are nippy, stylish and as easy to drive as conventional vehicles, electric motoring has some distinct disadvantages.

Such as...?

Second, they are not really as green as their promoters claim.

So? I care about convenience (less/no trips to the fill-up station) and overall cost.

But that final 1% of journeys presumably includes the summer holiday when people pile into the car and head off for the coast. Hopping on the train laden with suitcases and children may not be an attractive alternative.

So rent a gas car. Plan for this when figuring the ongoing costs of your electric car.

And even the relatively short ranges that salesmen advertise may be optimistic. On a cold, wet night when lots of electrical systems are running and the vehicle is laden with passengers and luggage, a car may lose around a third of its supposed range.

So require that this be disclosed, so people know to get something with at least 1.5x the range they'll need in a day.

I guess those two things were the "distinct disadvantages" mentioned earlier. Neither is terribly convincing.

Although electric cars may not themselves produce greenhouse gases, generating the electricity they use does. How green they are depends on the fuel mix at the power plants in the country in which they are driven.

This should solve itself in a decade or two if we stop letting the NIMBYs block nuclear plants. And all the already-sold electric cars will benefit just as much as the not-yet-sold ones.

The only efficient way to cut greenhouse-gas emissions is to impose a carbon tax.

And here I suppose we have the purpose of the article. But why not just stop subsidizing it before adding a tax?
>They refused to help because of the questions Medical nature. Even when I told them it was just personal FYI and I wasn't actually taking the medicine (a lie, but i thought it might work)

I suspect that this is a liability issue.
I find the "I wonder what his future will be like without a college degree" vs "upswings of $160,000 at a time" to be interesting.
They forget to talk about noise pollution. Electric cars are extremal quiet, that's a huge bonus for big cities.
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I have an unlocked Vibrant, and it works well on AT&T's 3G network. Generally it's AT&T phones that don't work well with others, since they actually disable non-AT&T frequency bands.
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Ditto. I also attempted to do this full-time but only managed to squeak out a moderate living, and eventually grew sour with those points of intense rage (going on tilt) that would crush weeks (and sometimes months) of work.

It's strange how poker works but I imagine Buddhism and poker to be the most complimentary religion-to-profession complement on the planet.

And I agree with the first point - poker is an empty job. You do not create wealth - you make another poor soul, likely a gambling addict, further burdened by that addiction. Meanwhile, the only person you're "creating wealth" for is the guy with his feet up that owns the poker room.
this wasn't on ATMs, it was on the credit card payment machines at the registers.
I'm not really convinced that Jane Austen inspires the same level of fandom that Star Wars does.

There is, of course, one genre that inspires the same sort of crazed-geek fandom as science fiction, and that's "fantasy". Both genres, of course, are based in worlds very different from our own, though not too different (there are always humans or human-analogues, at least in popular examples of the genre). What's more, what these worlds have in common is that they allow people whom the reader considers analogous to themselves to become ridiculously powerful and important in a way that they just don't in the real world. An entire universe is provided for readers to escape into, and this becomes particularly addictive for those who aren't finding much success in the real world.

Now I guess Jane Austen is interesting in that it wasn't originally set in a world all that different from Jane Austen's own, but with the passage of time the world of Regency England has become almost as foreign as Middle Earth. I can see how someone tired of a world where wooing is conducted by misspelled text message might prefer to escape into a world where every girl seems to wind up with a handsome millionaire without trying too hard.

Maybe in two hundred years, American Pie will be escapist fantasy as well. "Man, I wish I lived back in the days where you could have sex (or eat a pie) without having to get a license from the government..."
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The OP was attention-whoring, so he was put in his place. His sister has done nothing admirable, period. This is not trolling, this is circle-jerk prevention.

I suggest you guys take a trip to Siberia where you'll find women in their 30s who have two jobs, several kids they raised by themselves (their husbands traded them for hotter 19 year olds by the time the girls were in their late 20s), and who still find the time to take care of their old, frail parents all by themselves. Compared to that... law school, baseball team, six kids... small potatoes.

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PS: anyone who works hard for 3 years can do law school. Sailing around the world solo requires at least 10 years of training. It also requires a unique set of psychological traits, such as the ability to tolerate loneliness and boredom for weeks. Few people sail around the world solo every year, while millions graduate from law school every year. Given that, yes, some things are more admirable than others. When everything is "awesome", nothing is. Call it the "cry wolf effect". Just because something deserves praise, that does not mean it deserves one's admiration.
The only real difference between this and m2sh is a social one. I agree, in addition to a `-dbtxt` option, one could also include a `-dbm2sh` option. I added to the post to reflect your suggestion.

I should also emphasize that I'm not proposing this for technical reasons. The sentence where I clarify this is now bold in the post.
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"My goal isn't to provide you with useful feedback."

Shouldn't that actually be the default goal of any reply?
Also, if you don't care too much about the CO2 side of things (which I don't) then the world has a lot more coal than it has oil.
In fact, many of those higher-tax countries do export their top academics and entrepreneurs to the US.

None are as populous, large, and diverse as the US -- so each may have an easier time (politically and operationally) centralizing and nationalizing services with consensus support.

But alternatively, why wouldn't we be getting economies of scale which make an equally high tax burden (as a percentage of GDP, which is the measure you seem to be using) unnecessary?

Also, the US is on average wealthier than many of those countries. Why wouldn't tax-funded goods and services -- being as they are for the benefit of people of all incomes -- be inferior goods, whose proportion of income should decrease as a consumer -- in this case, the nation -- becomes richer? We have a lower 'food burden', as a percentage of national income, than many countries -- yet few would argue we must increase that number for our national benefit.

The times of strong growth and high taxes occurred post-WW2, when the US had an uniquely unassailable competitive position, and much of the rest of the world had ludicrously high taxes, too. The whole world moved away from those peak rates; implying we could today have the same "unprecedented" world-beating export economy of the 50s/60s with similar ~70-90% top marginal tax rates would be insane.
Funny, no one ever complains about the times you want to go where highways don't go.

Seriously, though, countries with functioning infrastructure have trains that go nearly everywhere, or at least close enough you can walk or bicycle the rest of the way.
One-page version: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10...
Not to mention most of those 7 billion likely don't drive, which effectively increases your risk if you DO drive.
The canonical version of the server configuration doesn't play nice with version control, and so staff has to work with a facsimile and hope that nobody makes out-of-process changes.

You claim that this is a social problem, and I claim that the solution to the social problem is to have a well-defined process.

Even if the canonical configuration is under version control, that still does not prevent anyone from making out-of-process changes.
i did and i have been having gui issues ever since
I have noticed in the last decade that the left has started to perceive the entire south as racist and full of stupid people. This is one of their prejudices. Of course anyone who's actually lived in the south knows this is not the case at all.

Copeland isn't an idiot. Some of his books are good, and he is good at having an understanding of some cultures. He is just hamstrung by a narrow perspective of the world, probably due to seeing everything from the "Vancouver" point of view.

EDIT: Please note that I say "the left" and "liberals" above because the people who were prejudiced against the south that I have known were all of this pursuasion. Maybe it is something else and that was a coincidence, but it seemed to be that they frequently attributed characteristics of George Bush to people of the south.
One thing you've got to accept, though, is that if you're in this to make a really good company, you're going to hurt people.

You're going to make people redundant. Your company is going to destroy someone else's value. It might create more in total, but you're going to cause damage.

It can't be avoided.
I remember reading in a poker magazine where they had asked several professional players what it's like to be a poker player and they all agreed it's actually rather depressing. Your job becomes preying on people with gambling problems, and the whole idea of "emptiness" was brought up by everyone. I wish I could find that article again.
To me, this sounds like the "old NASA" that I read and heard about from the 60's. Limited time frame, small team and a focused goal. Is there a way we can get NASA back to that type of organization?

If we did that (and had some audacious goals), I think it would get the public interested in space travel again.
Right. American Pie is a movie, Star Wars is a universe. Just about every movie or book with an obsessive fanbase is actually an entire universe.

The only obvious exception I can think of is Rocky Horror, and I don't claim to understand that fandom at all (I've never actually seen the movie). I guess it's still much more divorced from the real world than American Pie is.
There is a limit to how expensive oil will get, thus many of these expectations I disagree with. Right now what people think of as "oil" is only a particular class of oil- light sweet crude. This is easy oil and is cheap to produce. This may be running out. I don't think the hubbard peak is actually correct, but for purposes of discussion, lets assume it is. As the price of oil goes up, a lot of lower quality oil becomes economically viable. At $150 and a bit of time developing infrastructure at that price, and there is probably more economically viable heavy sour crude, oil shale, coal tar, oil sands, etc than there was ever light sweet crude on the planet. People will still drive at $6 a gallon gas, especially since by that point sodas will be $6 from vending machines due to inflation.
True, but unfortunatly blind people maybe not let the seeing keep the cars quiet.
It's a pretty stupid bug to ship with, I'd easily call it a showstopper.
$10 got me 2 spare batteries for my Droid. They're great insurance and I don't know why it took me so long to go this route.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_oximetry for more information, but basically you measure the difference in absorbance between two specific wavelengths of light (one is near-IR and might not be captured by a cellphone's camera) over time. The difference tells you how saturated your hemoglobin is (most of which has oxygen bound to it).

Pulse oximetry is one of the more reliable/least invasive/cheapest methods of determining pulse rate. Additionally, there's a massive market opportunity for extremely cheap PulseOx sensors that keep a data history: busy hospital emergency rooms would love to slap such a sensor onto the finger of every patient that comes through the door (and subsequently has to sit and wait). When a patient crashes while sitting in the waiting room the pulse ox sensor would be able to give the nurses and doctors a little bit of information about what happened that lead to the crash.
According to the release notes, nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 are the ones with the issue.
There are number of json, yaml libraries for c. SQLite is portable for sure, but json, yaml parsers are usually consist of few files without any dependencies.
You don't have much of a choice if you're using the default theme.
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Plenty of them. One startup I worked at had hundreds of cluster machines booting from USB drives. I'd say one or two failed every month. They were Kingston brand, too. But they got a lot of use (read and write) and there were literally hundreds of them going at a time.

It goes without saying: back up your data. Never trust your data to be stored in just one location.

Mode of failure varied, but it usually manifested itself in the form of a corrupt filesystem. A few wouldn't even show up as a device when plugged in.
Clicks on paid links - 5%

Can anyone confirm this statistic ?
I want to upvote this, but then it would go past 10 upvotes.
The long term fix for the issue of window resizing being difficult (unless you use Alt + Button2) has only just landed in GTK+ 3 master:

http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/10/09/getting...

It makes it possible to implement an easy to grab window handle in every GtkWindow regardless of whether it uses a status bar, among other things.
You're framing the debate in terms of the immediate postwar economy, but I could just as easily invoke the 1990's.
Well, the $1,000,000 answer is worth $0 if you can't make something out of it.
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"You have very little interaction with other people, your working hours are partially out of your control, and it is incredibly stressful/tiring."

Sounds exactly like my current situation as an internet entrepreneur :)
Which is odd since, doesn't ALDI not accept credit cards?
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It would be if I was commenting on Shaw's blog. It's not, by default, on HN. Here, the goal is: discuss.
The author wasn't complaining about not selling programming. He was complaining about not selling languages.
Energy density of the fuel. An electric version of this should be significantly heavier (and I think bulkier) due to the batteries, quite possibly having regenerative breaking wouldn't be enough to get back the losses from the extra weight.
Yes, but in previous years, it was on the 30th of the month that the release happened. This year it was on the 10th of the month so 10.10 could be year.month or month.day.

They broke with tradition slightly to celebrate the day.
Only counting 10 seconds worth reduces your precision pretty substantially. I generally count for a minimum of 15 seconds, with 30 being typical.
> The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and
Everything is... 42, and in its' purest form 101010.

Source: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-Octob...
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Such a service is transforming a potentially copyrighted text, thus possibly violating its copyright license.

Moreover, imperfect translation could harm the reputation of the site.
Shorter Economist: carbon taxes are better than electric cars so let's have neither.
For anyone unfamiliar with it, many wifi issues can be taken care of with a little research and the compat-wireless (http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download) downloads. Very easy to patch in the latest drivers for your chipset.
I haven't seen American Pie action figures, but it is interesting to note that there are action figures for some decidedly non-SF/fantasy/horror movies. There are Reservoir Dogs action figures, for instance, covering all the major characters, and including sets for scenes like the ear scene (including removable bloody ear).
"I am totally taken aback by the lack of hyperbolic romanticism in the foreword of the programming language book that I just got."

I don't know why, but I really like this statement.
I had the same thought. Even though the scope of this operation was pretty limited, the can-do! of the NASA folks made me smile. Simple or not (relative to, you know, sending human beings to space and back), that's a lot of guys to throw at this and it can't have been cheap. I'm proud a few cents of my taxes went to this project.

More on the man who has come to embody the 60's NASA you're thinking of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kranz
Replying to myself as sort of a reply at various other repliers: if you're arguing that DRM helps "slow down" piracy for the first week or however long a game is expected to sell well, you're now going against the article's major premise that piracy doesn't affect the sales all that much. Furthermore, this is a console we're talking about, the costs of pirating are relatively harder than just going to a torrent site and finding an EXE (that you may or may not trust) or something as simple as an MP3. We have distributors like Walmart showing shiny game cases to many people every day. A single game is 4.37 GB ( http://wiki.nintendo-scene.com/index.php?title=Wii_Disc_Back... ). Lastly, DRM does not imply sales at all. (For those of you who forgot: http://www.wolfire.com/humble )

The best strategy in the first place for game companies is to create something people want, as Nintendo admits. Whether you have DRM after that is irrelevant, because people will buy regardless, and people will pirate regardless, which makes Nintendo's whole DRM stance very peculiar, and now I wonder if it's just trying to make third party manager-types feel better.
Did I miss the part where he lost his fortune?
Bottom line: a smartphone has to last for a full day of heavy use on a single battery. Not 16 continuous hours of high-drain usage, but a mix of phone calls, web browsing, audio or video recording, still photograpy, listening and watching.
Hard to argue with you there. But advertising is how most of the web makes money off of "free" services, and I believe it can be done tastefully.
By outsourcing NASA to the private sector (e.g. Space X and whoever else enters this potentially lucrative market) and allowing capitalist competition expose the bureaucratic fluff that NASA is composed of these days. Eventually, the giant NASA-yak will be shorn, and scientists will do work again.

At least, that's what I think.
I completely agree with you.

Let me clarify: the social problem is that everyone is whining about how they are forced to know that config.sqlite exists. They even need to remember this while writing their "run_my_webapp.sh" script.

I'm proposing a command line option which hides the `m2sh load -config examples/config/sample.conf` step from the user, and stores the config.sqlite file somewhere other than the working directory.

The sole goal is to make people STFU about the config format.
Wondering how they deal with abuse issues (or rather how AWS is OK with them doing this).

Usually to get an EC2 account, you give out an email and a credit card and also do an SMS message confirmation. Any abuse issues will be tracked to you (unless you figure out how to get around source packet provenance). And you're either at fault or your VM was infiltrated and you have a venue to explain yourself.

I realize that is not foolproof or anything but it is a higher bar than just needing an email confirmed and getting right down to it.
Its $5000 from California and up to $7500 from the Feds. Which is exactly how much interference I think it is.

And all policies start. After a couple of years, a tax credit is always only a couple of years old. I don't see how long a policy has been in please is relevant in deciding whether it should be.
> I'm proud a few cents of my taxes went to this project.

Likewise. I was thinking about this recently, and this article is a great example. Disasters happen relatively rarely, and by involving American scientists, first responders, and military in assistance, we get disaster preparation experience, higher readiness, help people out, and build some goodwill and good relations around the world. Very much a win/win/win/win situation for all involved.
It's certainly true, in most cases, that noodling around on your own is no substitute for professional experience. But where are the entry-level Haskell jobs that would get someone that experience? Only route in is academia?
Didn't notice that. Much appreciated.
Cool: the web app itself is written in Django, and the source is available: https://code.launchpad.net/awstrial
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I'm learning Amazon Web Services and I have already used two hours in the process. I certainly see the need to use it for at least several more hours for learning. I will try Ubuntu this way, too - to see how it goes.

Creating another account, or ssh key, or whatever is certainly not worth the price and feeling unclean for cheating - even for me, unemployed student from the 3rd world. Because prices for instances start with 2 cents/hour. Good move for Canonical, anyway - 'free' is attractive, even if the usual price is 2 cents.
Growth in the 90s wasn't 'unprecedented', and the 90s top 39.6% tax rate wasn't 'significantly more onerous' than today's 35% rate, considering the history of rates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States...
American Pie didn't take off like Star Wars because it didn't make the jump to hyperspace even once.

And let's face it: pie crust is just not built to withstand those kinds of shearing forces.
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My aunt married a guy who paid cash for everything. DirectTV required a hefty deposit before they would hook it up. This was a few years ago, but make no mistake, they ran credit.
I can honestly say - I was happy at the reaction to Eric's talk at DjangoCon, and I loved being part of the discussions after the fact.

After seeing the way the Django core team has since "reacted" - maybe not just to Eric's talk, but to the general criticisms levied against them as a whole - I can honestly say I'm proud to have them all be a part of the Python community.

Eric is perfectly right: That's how you respond to things.