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That's not ignoring. So you are disagreeing with Raganwald, but haven't said which of his points you believe is mistaken.
Services like electricity don't have unlimited pricing, but they don't gouge either. Anyone know exactly how that works? Is pricing regulated?

How do you know they don't gouge? There is no competition in 99% of US cities (there are two cities I know of with competing electric companies), so it's pretty much impossible to say they aren't gouging.

And yes, pricing is regulated, even in the cities with competing companies...they can only compete on service (naturally, consumers in those cities report higher satisfaction than average with their power companies). Consumer energy is very similar to the telcos before deregulation.

It's actually pretty interesting how the regulation of power pricing effects business decisions in the industry. It has occasionally led to pathologically bad decisions. Nuclear power, for example, was more expensive than coal until very recently...but there was a time when many power companies in the US were building a nuclear plant because it would allow them to raise prices (because pricing is based on the amount it costs to produce the power, and nuclear was, for a time, something that the powers that be wanted to happen). It's really quite unfortunate that it shook out that way, because it gave nuclear a really bad name and so we're still several years away from nuclear being considered a politically viable alternative energy source, despite the fact that it is economically and environmentally the best option many locations have available (compared to coal it's downright miraculous).
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They must leverage basic cellular technology in pretty creative ways. I can't imagine these farmers would have advanced smart phones with data plans. Is this all done through sms? Does anybody know more about this system?

Android could potentially have a large impact in developing countries. It could provide open source location based services on cheaper handsets. All it needs is a good distribution system (like app store).
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I'm sorry, I try very hard to avoid being the typical arrogant internet jackass, but I just can't not respond to that.

I'm an athlete first, and a technology worker second. And what you just said ("better to ... use a machine that isolates ... while not straining unrelated muscles") is the fitness equivalent of something that would be a top post on The Daily WTF.

That is almost exactly the wrong idea. I mean, so precisely opposite of correct information that I hope you didn't write that as a joke and I'm not getting it.

The only time isolation movements make sense is if you're already a very competitive bodybuilder who walks around with hundreds of pounds of lean muscle mass. Otherwise, isolation movements (especially when performed on machines rather than with free weights) are a genuinely terrible idea. At absolute _best_ they will make you gain muscle and lose weight vastly more slowly than you could. Most likely, they'll make you wind up with a chronic injury.

Please, please, please don't go to the gym and work on machines. Do compound movements instead. If you're interested in making physical improvements, go pick up Starting Strength. It's $30 and the author is an absolute genius.

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But not having to work again is tied directly to consumption along with income.

The interesting component of the article was that the average income of somebody with $1 million of net worth was approaching $400,000. This implies a poor savings rate and not very much savings at all.

If freedom is the goal, it seems the key component is a modest lifestyle.
I think the same is in Taiwan, high quality service, like 5mbit lines for $30/month or so (converted currency of course)

Uhgh 250gb for a cap is a little bleh. I have 20gb website backups I make every week. Thats already 80gb used in what, 4 days worth of downloads?

Maybe I'll move to Sweden ;)
I'm not so sure about it... the times I felt something like this my creativity was ok for doing other things, just I was blocked for coding in some specific kind of project.
That's NOT true. The surgeon is the most important part of the procedure just like all surgeries. Most complications occur while creating the flap (they cut the front of your cornea), and a skilled surgeon will do it without any issues. However, inexperienced surgeon sometimes cut the flap too thin, or cut a hole in the middle of the flap, etc. Then you are in a lot of trouble.

Skilled surgeon also knows how to react to complications during surgery. The experience of the surgeon is very important - just like all surgeries, definitely don't ignore this variable
Thank you for the feedback.

1. I don't have access to an adequate data feed to be able to search based on company names - and no it's not useless, it's needed.

2. I understand where you're coming from, but if there is one thing I've learned, it's that 99% of users need to be spoon fed.

3. I don't understand what you're saying with the numbers. I just checked the page and it looks fine.

4. Nice.

5. Strange error. Being that the news content is hosted on other sites gives me no way of including a Streetread logo or button to return. I don't know of any mobile browser that doesn't have a back button. What would you suggest?

Video - maybe. Good idea. I thought the interactive demo was enough. I never had the patience to ever watch an app demo.

Thanks again
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Yeah, good point - that's a much better way to draw the analogy. (For some reason I missed this comment when the thread was current.)
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It's a tough situation :). On the one hand, it isn't as good as it used to be (as you point out with the water company analogy). On the other hand, that also points to the fact that people can just be wasteful of what is a communal resource - or they can just use more because they're ridiculously thirsty people, either way, less for others/more required.

Hopefully, Comcast will keep the cap high and offer rates scaling up linearly (or preferable logarithmically).

I guess I'm a bit luckier than most people since I have the option of FiOS, Comcast or RCN and both Verizon and RCN offer service at 20Mbps (with Comcast being the slow-poke at 8Mbps). Most are limited to cable or DSL. So, I don't have the same concern on a personal level that Comcast will decide in 6 months to move the cap down to 150GB or 100GB or 75GB. I just have other options.

If Comcast tries to pull that, I hope the government steps in since they do have monopolies in most areas they serve (because who would use DSL). Maybe a nice formula specifying norms and standard deviations could be created that would automatically set and raise levels as people's bandwidth consumption increased? That sounds like a good plan? This way providers have to keep up with the times (so they can't just start offering crap service hiding behind caps), but it still deals with the issue that there are some people who just use, use, use way outside the norm.
Ever heard of libraries, people?
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Also why I run Linux.
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I was hoping for a eugenics article.
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I think it's both not working to earn a living and what a person can easily afford to do.

I say this because I don't think one needs a lot of money to not need to earn a living.
I thought of doing this a while back. Call it "shiningarmor" and have a knight slaying a troll, or something. Seems like there's a need for it; I remember Mike Arrington saying he had to spend an hour a day erasing troll comments on Techcrunch.
I like the concept. The initial images are far too sparse (only 2?) but I think there are some good ideas here.

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Don't take it at face value; "I'm to old for this shit" is a reference to the link. I was pointing out some of the (unjustified) frustration of a guy who started at 20 when others started out at 12 or so.

In the link there's a comic of a guy who says he can't do math like he used to, until it's revealed he's thirteen. My point was, I'm aware I could have started younger, but I didn't. That doesn't mean I'm off the hook, though. I'm still learning to hack. I agree with you that giving up on programming just because I didn't start very early on would reveal a bad attitude.
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It does look like that doesn't it?
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I should have said "in a few hours", lol.

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Frameworks are not simply libraries and I think that's one of the more valid criticisms of frameworks. Frameworks call you. You don't just call them as you would call any other library function. That means they provide the glue code, not you. They structure the application, not you.

The difference between libraries and frameworks isn't allways clear cut, but try to combine multiple frameworks in one application and you'll quickly see what I mean. Frameworks create a lot of dependencies. In a way that is what makes them useful, because a dependency is a decision you don't have to make.

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How hard is it to forge the required identification or bribe a store clerk to not check identification?

If someone's house is broken into, are they going to be liable for piracy through their stolen media player? (Assuming there's a several hours before it can be disabled)
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/me shrugs, well I was explaining the original article, not advancing a point of my own.
No-one really has a good solution to this at the moment. One thing you can't do is try to do this passively, i.e. by making one and then stashing it somewhere. You need to keep it online, back it up regularly with the rest of your data (I use a 1T Apple Time Capsule for my first-stage backups) and just keep migrating forwards as you upgrade to larger storage solutions. This does mean some ongoing work on your part, and it rests on the assumption that someone will have created a truly permanent storage media before you die (or that you train your kids to keep on doing it).

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