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It's also usually possible to reverse some forms of sterilization. Vasectomy reversal, for example, has a high success rate and is minimally invasive.
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I'm surprised that you don't have access to dsl but do have access to 3G, I live in a pretty rural part of my state but dsl is still available (but my first real hop is 80-100ms) but it is 1mbit. My only other option is satellite internet or purchasing a t1 for ~300/month.

I must say though if the cell networks stop charging so much for access I could see a real use for it as it is much faster than satellite internet and if they encompass the whole country in 3G broadband for all would be more of a possibility.
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Have you tried the cloudkick control panel?
Sounds like you agree with the comparison but not the conclusion. Calculators, like wristwatches, are instant-on, very durable, and can go through years of use without charging the batteries.
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Incidentally, even partial progress within our current life expectancies can extend our lifetimes, perhaps enough for more progress to be made which will extend our lifetimes more, and so on. This gives longevity research more runway, which is nice.
Maybe pypy or unladen swallow is pre-compiled, but CPython is interpreted as bytecode.

Could you give an example of python that's faster than C? Genuinely curious; I'd love to see one.
(EDIT: wait I'm a noob, the article said that, not you. Sorry.)
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You definitely need to adopt a reasonably thick skin when contributing. I've had many patches flat out ignored (literally no response at all from the mailing list despite other discussions going on around it), I've had patches interpreted as a kind of subversive / ideological attack on the project (usually it's a feature or issue that was discussed before and you're unknowingly picking at an old sore) and rejected.

What amazes me most though is that while I've had plenty of positive comments from other users of the projects I've contributed, not once have I ever had a project maintainer say "Thank you". I can understand this from some perspectives (they created the whole project and gave it to you, and now they have to do more work to accept your patch for something they probably don't need themselves - so saying thank you in return for one tiny patch seems very asymmetrical). Nonetheless, it surprises me that simple words of encouragement are often so lacking from the open source movement. At a human level it feels very strange to spend hours working on something for free, to give it as a gesture of good will to a community of people you thought were your friends and get a response somewhere between neutral and hostile.

Nonetheless, the rewarding feeling from patches I've had accepted has outweighed all negatives, so I can highly recommending just putting on your thick skin and going out there and trying.
Speaking of smart phone HP calc apps, don't forget the free Droid48:

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1. Depends on how much you're willing to give up up front. Are you willing to work for almost nothing? Should be quick. Many startups are dying for good free labor. Are you looking to match your Fortune 500 salary? Could take anywhere between 3-6 months. Also varies with what skills you are bringing to the table.

2. You need to pay these back. You're typically given a certain amount of time but often companies will be flexible with you.

3. ABC's. Hustle like a mad man. Get out there, meet people, bang on doors. If there is a sector you are passionate about, call the CEO of some relevant company in it and talk to him. Better yet, drop into their office.

Also, if you're going after a marketing/PM role, make sure your resume is spotless and put together some sort of portfolio. I typically find that the more ppl have to go with the easier for them to make the hiring decision. Less is never more.

Final note: dont make any silly decisions. If you're feeling burned out, take a couple days off and clear your mind. Dont show up to work tomorrow and quit. This is important stuff. The longer you can work on your side project while having a job, the better off you will be.
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Here's the deal.

If you are a single hacker founder and have an app with a market or service that I am also interested in working on, I will design the website, the logo and the user interface for free. Plus we will get to market it not only in the US but also in Latin America.

Interested? Drop me a line at nico @ nico .im
That's a really good point. Although if it's just for practice I's rather wait for it to come to EC2 and just pay by the hour to practice.
How are you integrating with all the different POS systems. I'd imagine that is quite a hurdle?
Not so subtle dig at slicehost/rackspace...
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Nope. Not at all. No forced migrations here. "
i dont whether people will agree to this ... because you're lucky enough to get help of $100K ...you must join MIT - this is once in a life time opportunity ... at least you won't regret later in your life ... once you start your program you may work part-time (on or off campus) ... also because your case is genuine you can also ask for donation thru sharing your technical knowledge thru blog or social media or any other method (i'm sure you'll succeed) --- good luck.
Tied into this is the general devaluation of photographs over the last decade. Previously, you might take three or four rolls of photos while you were on your holiday; now, you can take three or four rolls’ worth every single day of you holiday and still spend less that you would have spent on a single roll of film. The result is hundreds or even thousands of photos, and the chance of finding the one photo that evokes the feeling you had on that holiday drops dramatically — that one photo gets lost in the flood.

This is demonstrably false, just ask any professional photographer how many photos they shoot. It's not like good photographers just sit around thinking until finally everything is just right and they snap their one exposure. No, you shoot and you shoot, because most photos are nothing special. If you don't keep shooting, you'll miss that opportunity. I remember reading that photographers for National Geographic would typically shoot something like 40 rolls for a job, and that ends up being maybe 4 pictures in print.
Talking about the extremes of things - such as this - is a useful way of thinking about the subject.

After all, physicists posit perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum, why can't we posit something at the end of the spectrum of possibility?
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> Realistic immortality is also sort of more boring to argue about.

Not necessarily. People seem to find talking about health care rewarding in some way, and that falls in the immortality discussion spectrum, I think.

> Sorry, please don't hate me.

You're going to make an awful immortal if you spend eternity worrying whether people will hate you or not.
the thing about Eliezer's rather snide take on cognitive dissonance is it doesn't really address the issue at hand.

people dying does clear out old ideas. the leopard doesn't change his shorts.

or at the very _least_ you could make an argument that people can be changed, that old hard-line racists can be won over, instead of claiming that any idiot who thinks immortality might have its seamy side is just displaying 'cognitive dissonance.'

labeling arguments 'cognitive dissonance' ought to be a fallacy all its own. it says "I won't tell you what arguments defeat your argument; you're just being irrational."
There are certain services which are available everywhere with relatively equal quality: power, mail, water, voice cellular phone, and wired telephone.

One server that isn't available, despite subsidies given to build it out, is high speed broadband- both wired and wireless.
You are right -- it might be a win for both.

It would, however, be pretty big shift in strategy for Intel. They've been the best at silicon process for a long time, and they could have chosen long ago to be a fab house for everyone. That, however, doesn't deliver high enough margins for them.

They want a product that people _want_ -- something that pushes them up the value chain. That's hard, since normal consumers don't understand or see processors. With stickers and ads, they've created brands like Pentium, Core 2, and i7. (My Mom couldn't tell you that she has a Snapdragon processor in her phone, but she knows she has an Intel processor in her computer.) Considering Intel's margins are _much_ higher than most silicon vendors, they've largely succeeded.

This makes them give that up. Intel's fabs are more expensive but superior. Samsung and many others offer slightly inferior chips at lower costs. Winning this business may be good for Intel, but it will hurt their cherished margins. Apple pushes their vendors very hard.
I've read his blog posts on the subject. I've also read plenty of other posts that explain why his advice is terrible: self-publishing works for him because he already has a huge fan base, which he established while working through the traditional publishers. The following post, written by an outspoken proponent of e-books, deconstructs Konrath pretty thoroughly:
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/joe-konrath-needs-...

Key passage (original emphasis):

1) He has had books in print
2) He was not a total unknown
3) He busted his ass on the Net for years to get better known

But many, many people are out there doing number 3 and getting nowhere.

So for him to tout his New Religion while ignoring 1 and 2 is like those experiments Cory Doctorow periodically engages in, where he wants people to forget who he is, as if he’s starting from scratch, but while still using his well-known Cory Doctorow name.

And that’s why I will always say Konrath’s name with an emphasis on con.

Because unless you out there have numbers 1 and 2 and also 3 going for you, there is no damn way in hell you are going to even come close to the alleged number of sales Konrath brags about (over and over and over again…).
Have you considered that perhaps you're simply smarter than your grandfather and great-grandfather, regardless of the Flynn effect?

Ancient history is full of geniuses - and that's people that had the opportunity to use their minds. I'm willing to be a thousand Einstein-equivalents died every year as slaves on galleys, thralls on a farm, and footmen in war. The Flynn effect is still pretty new - it might only hold for recent times.
I disagree - I relate very much to the quoted text. I have so many photos that the good is lost with the mediocre.

Previously your average photographer (not talking for professionals, just me) would ave to consider the value of shooting, as opposed to being snap happy at every moment and defer review to later.
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China's national debt is 4% of GDP and they have balanced trade. They don't need to borrow when they have 3 trillion in reserves. Totally different animal we're talking about here.
When I said required, I mean that it would be required to maintain as close as possible the varietal diet of here on earth whilst in transit.

Being in deep space and being able to grow a wonderful filet, some fish, whatever, would probably make the journey far more pleasant than a staple of algae.
Screenshot or it didn't happen. (not like that couldn't also be faked, obviously)
Sometimes it feels like we don't even have a Gigabit to our country, even if we were allowed to use Netflix...

(New Zealand)
I briefly looked at elance as a means to gauge what "markets" were hot for me to focus on. At the time (and it may still be the case) Wordpress was really taking off. One of the things I noticed from the top paid developer there was that he seldom had to bid on anything. Based purely on his reputation and previous work he was able to land more work then he could probably handle while everyone else was competing with teams out of India who were low balling everything.

I believe what mootothemax is advocating is that getting your foot into the door opens up a lot more possibilities than trying to out bid people who have a lot more experience. Sure $20 may not be much but often people who frequent these sites have much more work to offer and they are more likely to offer it to people they can depend on.

Personally though I have found the best way to land gigs is to network. There are plenty of shops out there that have more work then they can handle and they are always looking for people to help ease the load.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1253959/Picture%2012.png

They edited it quickly. But i was able to get a screenshot before that happened.
Kind of ironic that you post about their typo and you type "3th line" instead of "3rd"
The points you make are economic in nature. Supersonic flight is just too uneconomical to really be worth it at this point in time---regular jet service is "good enough" (just a side note---some thirty miles west of Miami a two-mile long runway was built for supersonic flights; it's now used for training. You can see it here: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.861695,-80.871048&...)

A friend of mine, an architect, says that it's technically feasible to build a skyscraper a mile high (not to say it wouldn't be technically challenging; just that it is possible). But they aren't not because it's not worth the money to build (hard to rend out the office/hotel/living space where there aren't windows).

And for phone quality, mobility and convenience of use has trumped quality for most people, so again, it's economic in nature.
>But this guy? He killed men, women and children to make a political point. He sacrificed his own, to make his point. He sat back in his mansion, rich and pampered, paying to have people killed.

The same could be said about thousands of people on both sides of this war. Personally, as long as there are people willing to take his place, I'm not rejoicing one bit.
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The warmer months are here, the outdoors would make for a great subject for photography, and it can be tempting to go places.
That's equivalent to 4 /32 subnets, or 2^34 = 17,179,869,184 /64 subnets. I think they could afford to give each customer a /64.

IPv6 subnets don't really get smaller than /64. The way the routing is configured, the first 64 bits are "network address" and the last 64 bits are the "interface address". One /64 subnet has 2^64 addresses, about 18.4 quintillion.
> My iPod only holds 30GB of music, and I already have that much on there. So, every time I want to add a new album, I have to get rid of something else. I already chopped my music collection down to the 30GB limit in the first place. At this point, any new album I buy actually displaces an album I already know I love! That puts the price of discovery pretty high.

While I generally agree with the sentiment of the article, he really has trouble picking which of the 16 days of music to take off? My iTunes is set up to automatically load the most played couple thousand songs (4-5 days of music or so), the most recently added songs, the most recently played couple hundred songs, and then more or less randomly pick from the rest. There are songs I haven't listened to in literally years, and I find it hard to imagine that I will, while driving or elsewhere away from my computer, suddenly want to start listening to them right this instant. Talk about first-world problems...
"Ordinary chinese citizens save $1T in bank deposits."

Wrong. Chinese save in Renminbi. Mall developers pay builders in Renminbi. Banks potentially default on borrowers in Renminbi. Dollars are only for buying commodities, and external trade. There's 1/5 of the world's population in China who trade and do work for each other and they don't pay each other with dollars.
I'm pretty sure the benefits would outweigh any perceived drawbacks:

1. Like elves in Tolkien's works, people who can only die by disease or by being slain might be much more careful about starting wars that could kill them (politicians probably wouldn't, but those who have to do the fighting might).

2. Imagine a world where the Einsteins, Hawkings, etc. don't die just as they've come to master their field, but continue contributing for centuries.

3. Would the saying "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it" still hold? Would we keep making many of the same mistakes over and over, or would our longer term memory and experience allow us to better avoid them?
You're precisely right. Calling a photo with an instragram filter applied to it "not real" simply means you're constructing a continuum of "realness," which introduces the obligation to draw the line somewhere on the continuum between the "real" photos and the "not real" ones.

Cameras don't work exactly like your eyes, much less your entire visual system. Gamma curves are different, and dynamic range is way different. Not to mention the obvious fact that a photograph is a frozen instant from a single vantage point, so for example a facial expression may look way sillier that it did in person. Then there's the subtler filters and modification like levels and white balance adjustments, cropping, etc.

Where does this author draw the line?
Take any site like this, they all suffer from this problem when the number of users reach a certain point.

I like the slashdot way of organizing stuff. Mods who actively moderate and categorize comments. It's more work, but the end result will be of higher quality.
English is my third language. But these people are supposed to be pros, correct?

Anyway, it was just a fun observation.
Note: in your case, customer means ISP.

From what I remember, the instructions were that ISPs receive no less than /32, which should provide end-users either /48 or /56. End users use the remaining 8-16 bits to partition their networks in /64 subnets. /64 is the minimum routeable prefix, and is the prefix used for automatic configuration.

Linode offering /128 for free and /64 at a cost is ridiculous. Users will have problems to forward since that would require breaking the /64 into smaller networks (to have at least one distinct subnet at each end of the tunnel), which is not possible for radvd.
Ah.. but stored procs are faster if you are executing business logic in them, because you can avoid round trips.

I think it's a terrible idea, but I've seen multiple places where there is a very blurred boundary between stored-proc-for-data-access and stored-proc-for-data-access-after-a-bit-of-business-processing
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Since it's not often used, I would suggest that Google's 'I'm feeling lucky' button should return a random number frequency if clicked without a search result entered. I would love the idea of Google picking my weekly lottery numbers etc.
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> So you start talking with them about realistic, scientifically achievable, immortality, and you end up answering arguments against mandatory immortality. WTH?

In a society in which life-extending practices are widespread and accepted, an intentional "failure to take your medication" could be tantamount to suicide. Most governments don't currently support a person's right to choose to die, often acting to prevent suicide and (admittedly, inconsistently) bringing legal prosecution for the performance of euthanasia.

Granted, it isn't the same thing, but it suggests that consideration of "fantastic immortality" might bring insight into the ramifications of more realistic life-extending procedures.
Not if you live in a country where you can vote and drink at the same age :)
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>people dying does clear out old ideas. the leopard doesn't change his shorts.

First, that's not necessarily true. Old ideas persist across generations even today. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, etc. etc.

Second, new ideas are not necessarily valuable anyway. Having just moved to the SF Bay Area, let new age religions and whatnot be exhibit #1. There's something to be said for passing the test of time.

Third, your implicit assumption is that immortality would then prevent old ideas from being cleared out, which is not necessarily the case. The reason why older people 'cling' to old ideas is that as we age our neural pathways become calcified along current paths and connections, making it more difficult to change our minds about something. If aging were inhibited, presumably that problem would be one of the ones solved as well, so people's minds would remain as agile and flexible as they were in young adulthood, indefinitely, and hence able to change and adapt new ideas.
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We came up with our model of tracking independently, but I found out later that Mixpanel has an eerily similar tracking API (see http://mixpanel.com/api/docs/tour). I think it's a fairly natural design, though, and wasn't surprised to see that someone else had thought of it.

Mixpanel does deal with funnels differently, however. With their API, you explicitly define events as being some numbered step in a funnel; in ours, the events are agnostic about what funnels they participate in, and we piece them together in a post-processing step.
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I thought about this discussion a lot more today, discussed the points with the rest of the jQuery core team, and we decided to land an improvement to bring back the boolean attribute handling (with virtually no performance overhead).

The bug and commit are as follows:
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9079
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/a9d9f8c5422f171d9c45...

You can start using this code right now with the following version of jQuery:
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-git.js

Hope this helps!
Doesn't sound like a drop in 'cafe'...although its pretty cool what they are doing
How many governments today will punish people for failing to take their medicine? Usually they go with some bizarre double-think law where killing yourself is forbidden, but passively allowing yourself to die is fine.

Of course, even if someone passed a mandatory life extension law, it would be easy enough to get around if someone decided that it was time to die. Someone in good health who's actually serious about suicide is hard to stop, considering how many things are lethal.