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I think you and the book agree. The title "This Time is Different" is a reference to how economists tend to see the same signs that always indicate a financial crisis and say "This time is different".

When I said that this is a vanilla financial crisis, I meant that the things the grandparent post mentions aren't necessarily unique, albeit more widespread than normal. In fact, it's surprising how frequently you see the same patterns appearing.
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You're right. There's about 10-15 countries that haven't. Still, the point that default is the rule and not the exception stands.
Link to auction:

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If you look at the bidding history you'll find that a lot of the bids have been retracted or cancelled. The current bid is down to $101,000.00

I'll be surprised if at the end of the auction the winning bid is anything more than a few hundred dollars.
It is incredibly easy to arrive hours before you leave. Just fly East across the dateline (like Aus to North America).

And I've even lost a birthday flying back in the other direction. Great scheduling, that.
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As far as I know different states in USA have different laws (e.g. in Philadelphia you can't buy single bottle of beer in supermarket). Different states have different taxes. Some laws are nation wide but that's the same in Europe. If country does not put laws into its law base it should pay penalties (and you don't even have to be member of euro-zone for that). The only real difference between USA and EU is language however even that is not big problem (e.g. my country lost about 18% of population because of emigration to richer EU countries).
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There are two sides to this article one is correct and the other is deceitful. I assume that this article was written by a Greek (I infer this from the first person accounting of situation).

The true part of the article is the part about debtors options and possible scenarios.

The deceitful part is the part about "ordinary Greek not understanding the situation and having no part in it". In eastern Europe we have a saying that someone is "indebted as a Greek", meaning that someone is perpetually taking loans to repay old ones while having not a slightest intention of ever paying them off. And this proverb is centuries old AFAIK. So all this protesting going on, pleas of "ordinary Greek people" are an elaborate scheme of shedding guilt. Modern Greeks as a nation are an entitled (an order of magnitude more than attributed to gen-Y) and lazy bunch. Boasting their "heritage", while they have nothing in common with the antic culture.

Any businessman worth his salt will be weary of doing business with Greeks - thats how bad in general their ethics situation is. While I cannot offer any meaningful opinion about how to get out of this mess. I can try to provide some insight into how Germany and France got into this mess. The first would be that greedy coke powered bankers got all optimistic that Greeks will repay their debts this time and went on to issue insane amounts of subprime loans, ok this is not what happened.

What did happen was that western world knew full on from the beginning what would happen - but proceeded anyway, since Greece was too strategically placed in the cold war and could not be lost to Soviet influence. The Greeks being smart, knew that and took full advantage. What happened after the cold war, was basically the subprime mortgage scenario of US played on a national scale - it is fraud committed by German and French bankers over the people of EU. I'm not believing anyone "in the know" telling me with a straight face that they didn't know that Greeks were cooking their books.

So in a sense like US subprime fiasco is fraud committed by US elites over people of US, European sovereign subprime debt crisis is also a fraud committed by European elites over their peoples.

I recommend reading this analysis of Greek[1] and Irish[2] debt crisis. It has to be some of the best journalism I have ever read.

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-b...
[2] http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-...

Let the Greek diaspora and leftist lunatic downmodding begin!!

Edit: Indeed it was not written by a Greek. But the part about people of Greece not knowing what is going on is pure bullshit - I am not accusing the author of having an agenda. However I am accusing him of not having balls and bringing it out.
Strange then that we'd scold a developer for assuming the number of hours in a day, or the timezone, or whatever, but not for using Unix time as an absolute time, when in fact it is not an absolute time at all and even caters to the same error in thought.
Screenshot when logged in: https://img.skitch.com/20110704-j2fdjyed367jcehytnqfp5mea4.p...

Initial thoughts and observations:

1. It's 'Stack Overflow for the common (wo)man' with cash instead of reputation.

2. Alternative pitch: "99designs meets Yahoo Answers."

3. The top prize available at the moment awards $50.

4. The sign-up process could be a lot better. Prompting sign-up via twitter/Facebook, then prompting for a prizes.org-only username and password is an unusual approach.

5. 'Contest' creation is currently by invitation only.

6. Answers you give that are accepted become the IP of the person who awarded the prize. (http://prizes.org/faq )

7. I'm not yet convinced that there's a huge market for paid responses when the Stack Exchange network and Quora both offer large userbases who give their time to answer questions for free.
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Now the teacher can for sure know if you "opened" the book.
Uranium reactors are children of war, much like hydrogen-bomb-shaped communications satellites. They are a byproduct of A-bomb research. From wikipedia:

1) Weapons-grade fissionable material (233U) is harder to retrieve safely and clandestinely from a thorium reactor

2)Thorium cannot sustain a nuclear chain reaction without priming, so fission stops by default.

The focus with Uranium reactors wasn't to make reaction efficient over time, just violent. What I'm trying to say is the current atomic energy industry is heavily invested in Uranium. No wonder they're resistant to change.
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But they did keep fat percentage low, unlike low-carb diets like the Atkins diet which call for 50% fat.
Could you explain about 20% population loss to EU in Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia)?
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C is not the best way to manipulate information, as you have noticed. It's abstractions are all wrong. On the other hand, C is great for computer engineering, as opposed to computer science.

If you are writing firmware, for example, the exact sequence of memory writes is critical. Program the hardware registers in the wrong order, and the device doesn't work. Access the FIFO the wrong way, and your ISR has a data race. Hiding memory access from the programmer is useless when accessing memory correctly is the problem. C is pretty much the only usable language for this kind of work.

The guys writing kernels and system-level libraries face similar issues.

So, C is stateful because the hardware is stateful. C has raw pointers because the hardware has raw pointers. C doesn't manage memory for you because you don't want C to manage memory for you. This all makes sense when you realize that C was invented for writing operating systems.

So, while I do understand your criticism, I think you are looking at this from the wrong angle. The electrical engineering guys build the hardware, and the C guys make the hardware boot up. Fancy functional programming languages are useless without real machines to run on, and C makes those machines go. It's part of the plumbing, just like transistors. Plumbing may be messy and unpleasant, but even the architects designing skyscrapers need to know how it works.
The links below the story. Looking at them now I guess I could infer they're ads, but I clicked on them and it was one of those "keep clicking to get to the story" rabbit holes.
It was written by John Lanchester as it says at the top. He is not a Greek.
> I didn't understand at the time and still don't know how they matched up my Google account to my Twitter account

The information on http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/search/social can be informative for checking how Google links you with other people. Even if you didn't share your Twitter username with Google, I suppose that if someone on your contacts list shared their Twitter username, Google would be able to make the connection.
If we wanted to help inventors we'd help inventors. If people found a started using a new thing we'd track it back and reward the creator, those who popularized it, teachers, etc. And we'd make education free.

But instead we have a system that, if you pay a large (to individuals) fee, and file a ton of complex paperwork, may be persuaded to give you the monopoly right to sue people who used 'your' idea even if they independently invented it. But you're responsible for hiring lawyers to persuade the court to give you the money we supposedly ruled you have a right to. The court won't help by investigating the issue but can be easily convinced to issue crippling restraining orders, an action more likely to kill the accused witch than prove her innocence. No rewards for inventors, but here's a club and license to use it for extortion.

We could reward inventors, instead we reward lawyers. Specifically lawyers who cheat inventors. Patents, and copyrights, are a huge negative force on society. We need to get rid of them or we'll be eaten alive by groups who did.
I would say it would be a different (limited) representation of the same resource.
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The RESTful way to solve such problems is not just by better conventions, but by conventions standardized by the appropriate media types. E.g., the REST service may define a

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that means that all "href" properties are URIs that may be paged by appending "?page=NNN" to them. If both server and the client understand this content-type, the representation may omit the "rel:" part from the parent example altogether.

Constructing arbitrary URIs by the client is not RESTful; however in this case it's the server-side that is in control of URI generation mechanism (it could serve a different representation, with a different Content-Type:, if it chooses to) -- thus it's perfectly valid from the REST point of view.

This is the same story as with the HTML <form> element. It also allows client to construct URIs by the specific rules known to both sides -- because the rules are defined by the appropriate standards about text/html.
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It's like a lot of other calculus books I have, only polychromatic, difficult to read, and gives me this slightly creepy face every now and then. I mean, it seems solid, but it's just really hard to read.

Really, my favorite gentle calculus textbook has been one I recently was Thompson's "Calculus Made Easy." The way it's written is informal by the standards of when it was written, but to a modern eye reads like your whimsical grandpa decided to bust out a pipe, an expensive brandy, and serious calc knowledge.
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Knowing SK, this is probably just the result of giving a special deal to a chaebol that has cozy relations with the government. Noble goals such as advancing the state of the art in education are the last things on their minds.
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To learn why, I'd recommend this talk from Steve Blank:
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http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/why-accountants-dont-run-st...

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I sincerely hope that folktales and sayings about groups are not the common source of judgement on HN. Nice also that you also have "leftist lunatic" as an explanation for any possibly contrary opinion.
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At one point, I'm pretty sure Google asked me if my Twitter account was me. That is, they inferred it, based on some number of available signals.
Are you implying that folktales have absolutely no merit?

Also I am not implying that there are no honest Greeks. But from my anecdotal experience their moral standards are quite... flexible.

Edit: Goes the same for people of southern Italy and whole of Balkans. Have you ever been to Balkans? Are you intimately aware of moral and ethical backgrounds of peoples living here? If not - then you might be guilty of "everybody is a good person deep inside" type of thinking yourself.

Disclaimer: I am Slovenian, as you may have noticed discussions that we might be next in line to join PIIGS. And I have to admit that our nation is guilty quite of some of balkanisms ourselves (no matter how some might try to deny it).
Presuming he's not on there. I don't believe he has a Facebook account either.
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Is this really a google property? It tweets for you, follows its twitter account without telling you, and spams you as well.
If it is just about not using +,-,* or / operators, we can do it by using "++" operator.

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This. When it comes to money, people will exploit it as much as possible.

From their FAQ: "Do I have to pick the winner of my contest?
If your contest receives less than 5 entries by the time it ends, you're not obligated to pick a winner. You have the option to extend the contest for seven (7) days for free. 'Extend Contest' and 'Contact us' link information is available on the contest page.

So, what if I just forget to log back in and award people the prize? Does google automatically pick a winner?
so it is much like google answers?

http://answers.google.com/answers/

(( imho :: google answers was a project that could have been stack exchange // 99 designs, but google never pushed it where it could have gotten to ))
If someone is a known thief, it stands to reason that they will probably steal again if the price is right. Zuckerberg showed, unambiguously, that he will not only steal ideas but sabotage the people he's stealing from. I would say very little is beneath such a person.
I've always felt that calling this "Worse is Better" is misleading.

It's more that "Worse leads to more mind-share" (a kind of economic argument) and "Worse tools can lead to better design of system's built using them".

Neither of which actually mean that worse is necessarily better.
Yep this is a great question. I don't think it is ever to late. Just like any job/skill there must be a commitment that must follow. Programming is something that is nothing more than another job it just so happends that many people start young as a hobby. I don't think this means anything but that they got a slight head start. I like you started programing later in life and I'm 33. I have been studying programing and am getting my degree in software engineering in a month... As far as my degree is concerned, I have not really studied programming exclusively until my last 30 credit hours (there was alot of system admin, network, and OS stuff prior on top of a few basic programming)which lands around the time I was 31ish. Most of the stuff I could have learned on my own without a degree. I recenlty got my first job as a .net programmer at 33. I would suggest that if you are going to web dev think in teams of stack. Like .net C# or vb.net, html, css, javascript, and SQL or PHP and mSQL. This sounds like alot but maybe start with heavy emphasis and priority learning the background language as far as syntax(vb, c#, C++, Java). Then do small (very small no overkill) projects developing a test database, test website, and so on. I suggest this approach cause you will be focused on the backend programming language and developing skill while incrementally building comfort for a tiered based environment. You can focus on learning the html, javascript and sql slowly overtime and not at the same pace as the background language of your choice. This is okay because in a 1yr or so you will be able to code effectively for backend and have comfort with the rest of the abstraction. This approach has worked for me and if for me anyone can do it!
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I am growing tired of this one item.

Women did not (and still mostly do not) want anything to do with computers. Now x years later they want to reap the same benefits as the nerdy dorky white kid who spent all his youth in front of a monitor.

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I don't know if Google will win or lose, but I don't think it's possible to split that market because of the herd mentality. People follow their peers and they will all either stay at Facebook or move to Google+.
> In other words: Nobody would have spend the money to make movies like Lords of the Rings, or whatever you fancy.

Sure. Like how nobody would write encyclopedia articles, operating systems, fiction, manuals, textbooks, etc, for free.
It's by Max Levchin's company Slide, which was acquired by Google last year. They have many apps that are popular on Facebook and were popular on MySpace.
If G+ wants my list of Facebook friends, all they have to do is ask. I'll gladly hand it over.
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But Java or R programming language results, that's not what I am NOT looking for. these two results are not even related.further, for other queries too -- I see ton of such irrelevant results stuffed into google which have to NO relation to original search term. This wasn't always like that -- earlier I used to get better results.

That's why I used this query to express my opinion that search result quality has gone down in past few years & you are now more likely to find spam results for your queries.

--Cross posted from Google Plus
> It is incredibly easy to arrive hours before you leave. Just fly East across the dateline (like Aus to North America).

Or use a fast plane going west (Concorde used to take ~3h for London to NYC, and NYC is on UTC-5, so passengers on Concorde would arrive "2h before they left").
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This last post was directed toward the original post. I just could not find anywhere to respond the originator of the topic but only to the responders on the post.:)
Efficiently determining the news feed per user is a pretty big technical challenge when you get to 500m users (which probably means a million or so news feed requests per second, possibly more).

If you think about it, there are broadly two ways you can handle me posting an update which appears in my friends' news feeds:

1. Post an item which is has my user ID as the owner, and each time one of my friends reads their news feeds you join together all the news items based on a 'friend' relationship (presumably a many-to-many link), order them by timestamp and do all the filtering necessary where they've clicked "don't show this kind of update from this user".

2. Store a news feed per user and update all my friends' news feeds when I post something new, remembering to keep everything in sync should I delete the post, be removed as a friend etc.
I can see how it's imprecise, but I'm struggling to find a better descriptor. "Size" doesn't really work.
The approach certainly has merit - in the sense of making math seem less serious and more fun. We need more of this approach!

Execution needs work though. Way too cluttered and dense. I would move more slowly and make sure 1 concept is put totally to bed before moving onto the next one.