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> So they do their magic, and -- again let's assume the article is correct and this was actually the cause -- wheat prices jump like crazy.

If you are not going to explain prices in terms of supply and demand, you need to have clear, compelling alternate explanation. Magic and assumptions don't cut it. If the "natural" (i.e. where supply meets demand) price of wheat is $3, it would be very difficult (and likely expensive) to establish an artificial price of $6. I am curious to know what that story is, exactly.
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No? then you suggest to wait at least 6 months after an intensive time-consuming-I-can't-do-anything-else English fast course to get up to speed to a competent English hacker level, so I can read/participate in something like HN?

Does this looks realistic to you? considering that the number of good Spanish hackers to-be and that-are is not small.
In those days, and I hope my memory isn’t failing me, the number of tweets from third party clients was dramatically higher than those “from the web”.

That hasn't been my experience (in seeing what people I follow use since Dec 2006) and I've seen a few surveys over the years which, to my memory, showed the Web client as being the most popular (even taking the majority, usually). One I just dug up: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_twitter_clients_def...

It's not exactly the point, though, and it doesn't make Twitter's new stance any less ridiculous, but the Web client is certainly popular. I'm biased though, been using it since 2006 and 25,000 tweets..
This is the reason why I occasionally do answer question on YA! If nobody comes in to fix the obvious errors, it will always be full of nonsense.

The real danger is that the site is used buy a lot of young people who will consistently walk away with a completely skewed and incorrect notion of the subject they are asking about.

As they say: "Be the change you want to see around you".
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> But he's done an excellent job of explaining it in layman's terms. I found myself on an emotional roller coaster whilst reading this piece - at moments I was enraged, then again at moments felt like I could suggest something that would solve the issues, and then felt a little "let's stick it to the man"-ish near the middle. Excellent writing...

Sigh... You are responding to rhetoric. That's why it's an emotional rollercoaster. Bad guys are identified and vilified, so you can feel like a righteous victim.

Markets tend to reflect overall sentiment and expectations about the real world. There are a lot of tricks that bad guys can play to defraud markets, but speculation is assuredly not one of them.
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But they did't give it away. It was part of the Mac people paid for. They are perfectly entitled to give stuff away. What they can't do is retroactively claim that part of what they sold you before was free.
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Don't forget that speculation works both ways. It can also bring down prices very quickly and consumers benefit from that.

That's like me expecting you to say "thanks" for returning an item I took from you when it's speculation which helped drive up prices in the first place.

What speculation really does, in my view, is to insert a component of future expectations in addition to the current supply and demand effects.

That's exactly what it does. Why do we need that?

It is not entirely clear to me that adding this expectations component is always bad. It can get out of control when it becomes self feeding, but it can also convey valuable information that allows us to react early to fundamental supply and demand issues.

React early and do what? This isn't like hurricane preparedness. Again, the point the article is trying to convey is that prices don't reflect supply and demand. We experience sky rocketing gas prices but no longer see gas shortage or rationing lines. In 2008 we had significantly more people go hungry from food shortages, although nothing has changed about wheat farming except, if anything, farmers producing it more efficiently. The wheat harvest that year was the most bountiful the world had ever seen.
I don't see your point and the authors point being completely contradictory.

The purported role of the commodities futures markets is to 'provide liquidity' to commodities producers and consumers and allow them to sell the production (and buy their needs) forward.

In fact the futures markets are completely dominated by speculation and leverage. Relatively few buyers and sellers of futures contracts either possess the underlying commodity or have a need for it in the future. Almost all futures contracts are rolled forward. There is much more 'paper' trading than actual commodities exist to back. When leverage is this cheap and loose, (i.e. you have more dollars being constantly created through various borrowing mechanisms) futures tend to be very choppy and whip the spot prices around.

The price you pay at the pump is being driven higher by people who neither own nor need oil, but rather have access to cheap leverage and do it because they can and it makes them money. (This is happening in almost every tradable commodity right now)

You seem to think that this is just the way the world works. But please realize that these are synthetic contracts that are being traded around: works of legal fiction. If the reason society allows people to trade in these contracts is supposedly due to help the market function more smoothly, why should we not consider alternatives to the current state of affairs?

Imagine if there was a futures clearing house and futures contracts could only be originated by commodity producers. (and then only in a decaying relationship to their forward production) The set of all futures contracts in existence would actually have some relationship to the forward production of the commodity. Imagine then that in order to purchase a futures contract you had to demonstrate that a) you had facilities available to take delivery of the commodity and b) that your business wasn't just to trade. (Note: the above will never happen) Do you really think commodities prices would be as volatile as they are today?

The poor and middle classes are more affected by rising commodity prices. Even if the bubble will eventually contract (which is what you seem to be saying) Why should they be they be subjected to this just so a hedge fund can make a killing for its customers?
You borrow shares of the index today and sell them immediately. You will need to return those shares at some point, depending on your contract. The day the shares are due, you can buy them at the market price and complete the deal.
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I don't get it. Currently www.sun.com redirects to some oracle.com page, just like www.digital.com redirects to hp.com. What will be the change exactly? Some parts of the site will disappear, but the current site already has little in common with what was sun.com before the acquisition.
iFixit runs a program with a few universities, including Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where students are given recycled devices (such as an old cell phone or laptop) to write repair guides on iFixit.com. iFixit also provides all of the tools required to take the device apart and take pictures of it (including cameras and tripods).

The class was originally created because some of the Cal Poly's teachers were tired of the project that students were given at the time for the Technical Writing for Engineers class (Engl 149), which required students to make a fictional product and then write a user manual from it.

Most of the responses from teachers and students has been positive now that we have been running the program for two years. There are still some teachers that teach the class the old way, so if students dislike the project and want to write a twenty page paper instead, they are welcome to take the class with those teachers instead. Also we have excepted requests from students who want their work taken off of the website after the quarter is done.

As for being losers, well, sorry?
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Sounds more like the Hegelian dialectic than Marxist.
I agree with that of course.
Your best bet is to post a comment on the teardown if this hasn't been added yet.
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There will never be a nuclear explosion.... even a meltdown is not a nuclear explosion. Even chernobyl was not a nuclear explosion.
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For reference, 100 oldest domain names:

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Probably won't have one -it's dangerous territory, but they are managing it. The Japanese are good at managing things, right? (right?)

They have a mix of nuclear, hydro, and other power generating systems to meet their energy needs. Nuclear is one of the cleanest and least disruptive to the environment.
I think we need a component of future expectations in prices because it increases incentives and provides funding for averting real future shortages.
What the author said is true, Quora and Q&A sites in general are more about accumulating knowledge than helping individuals. So, trying to help someone with an XY problem can get you penalized.

One service that I really liked was Aardvark which for a long time did not have public Q&A pages. Also, connecting people through IM allowed for a very personal and instant help.
Have been hearing this thing too often here. Don't know who we are telling this and who is not listening.
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Art. High quality photos from a large portion of museums. Maybe something like 500 pieces from each major art movement and time period?

Then chuck wikipedia on there, and maybe a dictionary.
No really, I mean that there was never a rule (by God or the local church) that this sharing was mandatory. The members of the church did this spontaneously. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ananias_and_S...
So somebody is paying nontrivial amounts to store oil that they think will be worth more tomorrow than today. If they're right, they win. If they're wrong, they lose money. If what they believe is true, they help us all and make a profit. If what they believe is wrong, they hinder us all and make money.

Where is the private incentive that is actually at odds with the public one?
I do agree that learning from a teacher does have benefits - I just don't like comparing learning from a book to watching a piano player and getting his autograph. What is really the point of getting the piano player autograph - who ever would think this is a legitimate learning procedure?
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That's one way to do it. You can also use things like puts and mini-futures, which have some convenient properties. For instance when selling something short your equity can become negative. When buying puts, the worse-case scenario is zero.
Are you imagining some kind of scientific engineering of society, as some other posters seems to think?

Or are you simply hoping that our political views might actually have some correspondence with real facts in the physical world?

The latter sure would be refreshing.
The speculation is in commodities indexes which are all long positions. Thus, it won't work both ways - prices won't go down.
Here's the best article I've seen about how to donate:

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"At this point we strongly recommend holding off on giving to this relief/recovery effort. We believe that money isn’t a cure-all, and that there can be such a thing as an 'overfunded' relief effort even in a devastating disaster. We don’t know yet whether that is the case with Japan, but we believe that the next few days will bring valuable information about it (and we will be providing updates in this space). We also believe that waiting a few days will not diminish the impact of your donations."
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Does that strategy work at all?

Sometimes! Twitter has done pretty well with it so far. Depending on the specifics of your product you might fail. But my intuition is that making stuff people care about, and only monetizing where it's painless is a pretty airtight strategy, yes.

A company that doesn't have to borrow money to stay alive that also happens to work on cool projects

So you think the only two options are "sacrifice your community's goodwill" and "having enough money to stay alive"? I think there's a middle ground where you can leave some money on the table in order to stay focused on the stuff you care about, but still pay your bills.
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>This makes no sense. Who did the placing? Every market has speculators, and even end-user-buyers base their decisions in some part on speculation.

Did you read the article?

These buyers and sellers of real stuff are the physical hedgers. The FDR administration recognized, however, that in order for the market to properly function, there needed to exist another kind of player - the speculator. The entire purpose of the speculator, as originally envisioned by the people who designed this market, was to guarantee that the physical hedgers, the real players, could always have a place to buy and/or sell their products.

>The speculator is there to make money, and providing liquidity is a side-effect.

Yes, speculators making money is fine. The liquidity side-effect is the reason to allow for some speculation in regulations.

> If supply is indeed artificially constricted by hoarding speculators, they will need to sell off their supply at some point.

Yes, that's why, as I said, consumers are subject to volatile price swings from investors, rather than steadier prices which would more accurately reflect supply and demand.
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I'm the Android developer on the team. It's been a wild ride so far.

We had an insane stop in Baton Rouge. Police escort into town, drinks at a rooftop bar overlooking the river, and hotel & dinner paid for by the Chamber of Commerce. Southern hospitality is indeed a wonderful thing.

In any case, we launched our 0.9 yesterday. It's very rough, but the full featureset should be arriving today/tomorrow.

Wish us luck as we polish the app up for the semifinal & final rounds!
As a former Summer of Code Student, I advice every student to look into GSoC and try to apply. It's one the best 'competition' out there.
So, you can root most android phones. Surely someone has figured out how to disable Google's kill-switch once that's done?
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Was the iPad client not developed in-house?
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How is that cruel? When talking about revenue generated by software firms only people in certain countries matter. How much money do you think apple makes from the entire african subcontinent, for example? Why should apple give a crap about making it easier for that group of people to purchase their developer kit?
I agree with this, but that's a gamble people have been taking for years, most often with Microsoft.

I think it does come down to how big of an asshole the ecosystem provider is. Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, etc have all done this. And they have to weigh fucking over a partner against the benefit to their core product from muscling in on their partner's turf.

As a developer, people have been asking for years "How valuable would this be as a part of Windows?" and "How big a dick is Microsoft?" and "Do we have any competitive advantages over Microsoft?" and deciding whether it's worth taking the risk to build a particular business on Windows.

But in the end, you've got to build on someone else's platform, whether it's Windows or Twitter or iOS... or as in Mahalo's case, depending on Google for your traffic.
I guess with that loose of a definition, Android could be a walled garden. But once you get past the broad strokes, the walled garden of "we have a kill switch and could potentially use it for anything, but so far only for security purposes" and the walled garden of "we approve everything unless you exploit a security hole and have blocks apps just because it was in our interest" are very different.

There is always a balance of security and freedom. To this point, I'd say Google has erred on the side of freedom. And at least with Android, if Google were to go rogue in a doomsday scenario, we could always fork it.
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I worked at SCEE in 2003, and Frequency and Amplitude were played a lot by the gamers in the office. I guess those in the know knew.
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I think what actually influences prices is trading of futures contracts. The price in the contract can be above or below the price of a shorter dated contract, i.e the "current" price. So I can speculate on falling prices, thereby depressing prices. That's my understanding, but I don't claim to understand all the details.
I think we need a component of future expectations in prices because it increases incentives

I'm extremely wary of the term "increased incentives" in light of recent events sparked by this model on Wall St.

and provides funding for averting real future shortages.

We just don't see gas lines to support that argument.

Edit: And what do you mean "provides funding" anyway? Speculative contracts don't raise oil producing levels, nor stockpile oil (as our Strategic Reserve does). The extra money which exists is all used up by the speculators playing the game.
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Yahoo answers are useful in many cases. Ask a question about health, sex, travel and its awesome.
Every student's favorite pastime: bitching about everything and not being informed about anything. (I'm allowed to say that because I'm a student myself.)
That's surprisingly nice. I'd love a dark theme to match.
How so? I've found it to be a very nice experience.

Additionally, it troubles me greatly that this uninformative and borderline trollish comment has so many upvotes.
> If your business is built entirely on someone else's ecosystem there are two possible outcomes:

> 1. You fail or have meager success;

I don't know why people keep repeating this fallacy. There is no shortage of counter-examples, the most obvious being Zynga (hell, the homepage has a story about Angry Birds' massive success _right now_, which is another example).
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Awesome! We are one step closer to the digital reproduction of "real" music, where you once might need a pianist with real skill, now you just need a musician that understands how to create such sound! A digital Richter so to speak....
But why? Oh I know. Oracle is trying to make money on everything. They may try to sell the domain name.
Though, a ceo should not make a comment like this, this is certainly true for me.
I'm in the UK and your comment made me realise that I've never lived in a brick building - they have all had stone walls. Having said that, I don't think I've ever lived anywhere that wasn't at least 150 years old (and I've lived in ten different properties).
Let the whole state go under. I'll be long gone by then. (All kidding aside, I haven't really heard anything about that, and it isn't a pleasant thought. Any particular articles on the subject that you've seen?)
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this may go too, or disappear into different parts of oracle.com, so have a look at it now.
What you are saying looks good for making an argument, but seriously, he is saying the truth to some extent.
Anecdotally, it feels like Yahoo Answers has been more useful for me for non technical topics. Usually, when I'm googling for the name of a song from a commercial or trailer, I'll find a Yahoo Answers page with the info.
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General anti Wall St. sentiment is not a very potent argument. It's difficult to deny that higher prices increase supply and/or destroy demand. Wall St. didn't invent this logic.
There is a more transparent and fair way to run quality assurance and acceptance procedures. This is what we do at Maemo: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/application_quality_assurance_in_l...
Your assumptions are silly. I simply pointed out the literary origin of what was offered as a definition of socialism.
I initially assumed that Japans energy gneration profile was similar to the US where it's almost all coal and LNG which is why I didn't think it would impact the oil market as much.

A bit of googling gave me this article which states that oil is actually more popular than coal. http://www.fepc.or.jp/english/energy_electricity/electric_po...

I still wonder if their demand will go up since a lot of the infrastructure is damaged and unusable. But if it does go up, chances are they'll need more fuel oil.
My point was regarding large scale power plants that would have a major affect on the market. Still, it turns out that oil based power plants are far more popular than I knew earlier.
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I've used Ambiance before and always dark color-themes with it like Wombat and Zenburn. I'm having a break with lighter themes recently. I guess when I switch again I'll make a darker one. It doesn't make sense for me to make a dark one when and not use it :) When the new Ubuntu release lands, it should come with a new default dark theme for gedit. That could prove to be a nice inspiration for a similar Emacs theme.
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I'm usually happy to see Stack Overflow in my search results, but I was reminded of a flaw this morning when I searched for "Manhattan layout algorithm". I clicked the "Show more results from stackoverflow.com" option. It turned out that a number of the SO listings appeared only because they all had the same link in the "Related" sidebar. I don't know if this is a common problem with other sites that list internal links in sidebars, but I only seem to notice it in Stack Overflow results.

(Unfortunately, I never did find a good description of the algorithm.)
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