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Your interpretation is accurate.

Think about it, how many people in this world have actually signed up to be dominated by their government? Very very few (immigrants might count). Yet we don't question their authority because 1) we are used to it, and 2) every few years, they ask our opinion. Of course they know that they can safely ask our opinion because they know that we've already bought into the entire thing. It's like Patty Hearst participating in robberies. We mistakenly think that they protect us when in reality they are just exploiting us.
Key to a Successful Economic Recovery: A Return to Free Market Principles
The economic recovery from the ‘07-‘09 recession has been timid at best. Unemployment sits above 9%, the U.S. is on the verge of default and real GDP growth per year is shockingly low (2.8% - compare that to 7.1% post the ‘81-‘82 recession). The cause of such a slow recovery (if we can call it that) is subject to much debate. Are people saving too much? Maybe, but the fact remains that consumers are spending a larger fraction of their income than the ‘83’-84 recovery and the personal savings rate of 5.6% is much lower than the 9.4% of that prior recovery period. Is the weak housing sector holding the economy down? Again, this could be a contributing factor, but lower housing prices should be preferred to artificially inflated prices. And the weak housing sector seems to be more of an effect of the dismal employment environment. To be sure, jobs and housing exhibit a symbiotic relationship, so if unemployment improves it’s likely to promote a healthy housing recovery.

So what’s really holding the U.S. down these days? John Taylor, a Stanford economics professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, blames the current interventionist economic policy of our country today as the root of our dismal recovery. Back in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s (where more than 44 million jobs were created and sustained/stable growth prevailed), economic policy was decidedly non-interventionist. Monetary policy simply focused on price stability and regulatory reform encouraged competition and innovation. Throughout the last decade, the government has become much more hands on. Active monetary policy has kept interest rates at extremely low levels, interventionist measures have resulted in the unprecedented bailouts of Wall Street and regulatory reform is well, doing more than its fair share of regulating (see Dodd-Frank and Consumer Protection Act). Perhaps, as Mr. Taylor suggests, the solution to our weak growth and high unemployment is to loosen the reigns. Perhaps the way forward, as he says, is not with more spending, greater debt and low interest rates, but with spending control and a return to free market principles.
I am surprised such an obviously political story would be submitted by someone like Winer. That is, I would have expected him to abide the guidelines.
This kind of comparison is ridiculous. Gross domestic product (GDP) refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. [Wikipedia] It would have units of [money]/[time]. Apple's cash hoard is just a lump sum reserve; it has units of [money]. To compare the two is meaningless.

A similarly meaningless comparison would be between distance and speed or countless others. Simple dimensional analysis shows how inane this whole comparison is.
Because I finished my Economics classes aged 16 and have only a vague understanding of what the difference in all these different measurements is? :)
I see LulzSec and Anonymous more as fighting the concept of the super states as we see them today rather than a specific government in general.

By attacking the US they are attacking the instance which is most familiar / easiest / offers biggest impact, but not necessarily claiming the agency they attack is the worst in the world, ever.
DocumentCloud [1] provides all the pieces necessary. It's all very nicely documented, too.

[1] http://www.documentcloud.org
http://pix.am two-clicks screen shot maker, uploader and editor. 3551 registered users. did it for myself, but it's growing and people like it.
I agree. I totally agree that corporations need to be paying these taxes. Totally agree.

But let's be clear what will happen.

Their profits will immediately drop. They will put up prices in order to stem the decrease in profit. We will all pay a lot more for the same goods we used to pay less for.

And not just when we buy directly from the very same corporations, but b2b companies will be forced to pass on the costs incurred by GE's price increases, etc.
Reducing demand for overhead compartment space would actually seem to eliminate the entire reason people want to get on the plane as soon as possible. Apart from needing to jockey for space to store luggage (or, if in first class, get that first free glass of champagne) I don't understand why people are in such a hurry to move from a semi-comfortable waiting area to a completely uncomfortable airplane. The plane is not going to take off any sooner than scheduled, and in my experience it is pretty rare for a flight to be delayed due to slow boarding alone.

I actually have a frequent-flyer status that could get me on the plane very early in the process, but what I usually try to do instead is travel with only one carry-on bag, book an aisle seat, and wait until most everyone else in my 'zone' (presumably including the others in my row) is on the plane before I get in line.
I definitely hadn't thought of the Ford vs. Lambo angle - thank you for pointing that out. I think one could also phrase that as the Apple vs. Dell angle. Revenue-per-customer is definitely important.

I think that I could offer an investor a positive return - the revenue model is subscription-based with strong network effects - but not an explosively positive return. So if I were developing a pitch, I think I'd want to include something about the opportunity cost there, and like any founder, would want to explicitly say "here's why I'm less risky than other things you might fund."
Other people asked this not in so many words; Paypal really really sucks. Simple as that. Yet everyone uses it because it's everywhere and most online shops accept it. How are you going to prevent turning into a fraud outfit like Paypal? You know; taking thousands to tens of thousands willy-nilly without any proof of misconduct? Blocking accounts randomly because they were 'flagged as fraud' (based on, well, some if(full_moon)flag(account_no); Not documented, no possibility to fight it and so on)? Taking insane commissions on transactions as well as playing the forex market by always giving your clients the absolute worst conversion rate for their money possible?

I know fraud prevention is important, but PP definitely takes it way way too far. I know 100s of legit small companies who had their accounts closed/blocked, money stolen (because, let's face it, that's what it is; they are just outright thieves in these cases) or locked for months and months without giving any reason just 'fraud detected' or something lame like that. While there was no fraud, at least never on the side of the company; MAYBE on the side of it's buyers, but what does that have to do with the company? Anyway; I can rant on about this forever, but I won't. I wonder what kind of warm feeling you can give us as co-founder.

You just started, so answering whatever to the above will work; you will probably turn into pure undiluted evil in a few years (if you are successful) anyway. So then what's the reason to get away from Paypal if you can choose between evil#1 and evil#2? Sure it's nice to ride the waves of something that doesn't have horns for a while. I'm willing to bet most people won't though as they know everything which gets large will turn into Paypal and then the conversion and hassle is not worth it.

And US only; how is that taking on Paypal? Taking on Paypal would mean getting all countries in, also the ones Paypal does not allow. And rapido.
I am also quibbling with your claim “it's impossible for law to work backwards.” (IANAL)

1) It is unconstitutional to prosecute an individual for a crime that was legal at time of perpetration.

2) However, the opposite — decriminalizing previously illegal behavior — can be retroactive.

3) Changing future interpretation of copyright, etc., isn’t the same as case #1. If I’m not mistaken, Congress has passed e.g. the Mickey Mouse copyright law and the DMCA, which both extended “protection” & duration of copyright on previously created works.
With Intel's recent purchasing habits, could crossdressing be in their future?
If Telex is ever to become adopted on a wide-scale, it needs to happen now. Think about it: governments, in general, are not becoming more friendly toward an open Internet.

No governing body will want to deploy Telex more next year than they do this year.
Better a decentralized police state than a centralized one.

In fact, a decentralized police state is exactly the only thing a centralized police state has to fear.

E.g. see the laws making it illegal to film police in public.
Definitely in the event that he needs help paying legal fees.
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To be fair (and I didn't read the link above) - some of these low taxes may be due to losses from previous years. Not to say they aren't abusing international tax havens... but who wouldn't to save hundreds of millions?
+1, trying it out now and it works pretty well. Really wish there was a simple multiple monitor app though. The ActualMultipleMonitors settings screen is a clusterfuck, has all these 'features' like extra title menu buttons that I don't want and can't figure out how to turn off.
No, the problem of misdirected anger is unsurprising.

And it's especially predictable with groups such as Anonymous who in their writings come off as pompous, childish, self-centred, and self-aggrandizing. Not the kind of traits that correlate with empathising with people on the other side of the planet.

Their strategy (setting aside the more base stuff that is just bullying and focussing on their attempts to appear principled and 'crusading') seems to be to latch on to easy populist targets in order to win others approval. Their politics are those of angry teenagers who've read enough Chomsky or Klein to get all riled up.
Maybe.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/golan-v-holder/
P2P does help promote anonymity and platform robustness. What aspect of Telex do you suppose could use P2P?
"Here is the ideal: we pay people for the time/effort/resources to create, then we all copy and use that product freely and unrestrictedly. Everyone gets compensated for any loss, and everyone has freedom to access all gain."

This would be perfect, but the obstacles to implement this ideal are enormous. The first tough question: who are "we", how do we decide how much to pay for an invention and how do we split the costs?
Everyone can agree that funding a police force, fire department, ambulances etc (basically all things required to ensure and protect property and human rights) is an essential and beneficial use of taxes. Thats NOT the problem. The problem is everything else, including the gross mismanagament of healthcare, defense spending, and infrastructure; government salaries and pension programs that are completely out of control; billions wasted on silly research studies and commissions and aid sent to countries that hate the US. Public research services are a drop in the proverbial bucket.

I dont have a problem lending a good friend or family member money when they need it. I do have a problem when they take that money and blow it with totally irresponsible behavior. That's the growing sentiment in the US with taxes. People who are paying a lot into the system are watching it go up in smoke in such a gloriously irresponsible manner that they're getting fed up with it. At least I am...
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I don't know if someone making $200,000,000 (she said she was specifically talking to those folks) is a hard working sucker, and I think they might well see social security and medicare. Though they probably won't care about it.
Er, no. Until now I seem to prefer having the windows grouped together. Until now I never encountered a situation where I had to spread apart the groups. I guess it depends on how you use the Mac.
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The problem is that the evolutionary forces for fundraising non-profits can only result in ineffectiveness.

For senior management, success at fundraising and is income security and growth. Actual charity work is a cost center with no ROI, so you cut costs by having less and worse services.

related: Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bur...
>I feel like humans respond better to changing environments and being able to jump between the home, office, or wherever

At my apartment, I've been moving from one room to another until I get bored of working in each, then the circle repeats. Same with coffee shops. I do have a desk/office space at work, and I actually enjoy going there as well on occasion (well I have to be there a bit more often than on occasion), because it means an environment change.
Looking into it. That domain is not blocked. It is possible to post links to the root domain, just not deep links. It could be a bug or misconfiguration on their side. FB does a ping to posted links to grab the title, thumbnail, etc. That seems to be failing for deeplinks to TPB.
Probably you don't understand where the line is because no one else is quite sure either.

Most of the underlying information on Google Maps is public domain—road locations and physical features of the terrain are all uncopyrightable facts. What they claim copyright to are the map visuals: the particular style of drawing the maps, and the photographs they took. (though perhaps even that is debatable, since the photography is a robotic process)

You should be able to take the Google data and extract everything uncopyrightable from it to draw your own maps. (And if you're interested in public maps, you should see the OpenStreetMap project.)

But say you want to include some of the other things on Google Maps--place markers for hotels and restaurants, for example. Any one of them is an uncopyrightable fact: that's where it is. But what if you choose to mark the same collection of the same sorts of things that Google has marked--are you infringing on their copyright in the selection? The more you can make an argument that there was some original thought in the selection the harder it is to tell.

US law is pretty clear on plain facts being ineligible for copyright, even if it took work ("sweat of the brow") to compile them. But copyright in things like collections of data is much less clear.
There is competition - they're competing with other charities for funds.
While the parent is generally wrong, it has been shown that Scala programs have the tendency to generate slightly (5-10%) less garbage. This is especially interesting on Dalvik.
> increased IQ in children because of the presence of Omega-3 Fatty Acids. Did you know though that both Flaxseed and Walnuts are both better

The fatty acid in both Flaxseed and Walnuts you are referring to is alpha Linolic acid (ALA), whereas fish contains Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Out of these, only DHA is found in the brain. If DHA is not present in the diet, ALA can be converted into it, but only at an extremely low rate of efficiency [1]

The only reliable vegan source of DHA I am aware of is certain types of algae. Additionally, by consuming extremely large quantities of nuts you will typically be overloading your copper to zinc ratio.

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1186%2F1476-511X-8-33 "Are all n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids created equal?"
Really interesting that you mentioned 2005. To me, this is the year that Java programming become extremely unpleasant. This was discussed a bit in a few earlier threads...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2516940

I actually think that at the time, the servlet spec, jsp, and jdbc were reasonably good, productive ways to write software. It was admittedly verbose and laborious compared to modern languages and frameworks like Rails or Django (I'd also agree it was verbose compared to PHP and Python at the time), but it wasn't a depressingly long setup that was hard to even contemplate for simple apps. It was only a little more complicated, and it did come with some benefits.

My advice to programmers who are curious about what has become of Java is to go to the springsource home page, and work through the MVC tutorial. If you agree that this is a reasonable way to write software, then you'll disagree with me that web application with Spring has become too complicated.

I actually think that if you were willing to go back to the original servlet spec, and use libraries, Java wouldn't be quite so bad. You can still pick and choose, and you're not at all obligated to use Spring. There are better MVC frameworks out there.

To me, I don't really see the point, though. I know, there are problems that have already been solved, why re-solve them... I think maybe some people have more mental trouble with what another poster called "shoehorning your knowledge through the various abstractions of a framework" (I'm paraphrasing here). I've done this with Spring and Struts 2 (a different product entirely from Struts), and it was unpleasant. I've done this with Rails, and while I like Rails a lot and consider the trade-off worth it, I still never really felt in control (maybe I would if I used it more).

If I use Java, I'd prefer to just go back to the 2004 days, write servlets, and build from there with libraries. I do like Dependency Injection, so I'd probably have to use some kind of framework - maybe Juice?

But really, even though I prefer to be at a lower level and don't like frameworks, I think the future for people like me is Sinatra and/or webpy. Nothing really stopping me from doing more "low level" programming in those languages, trading efficiency for a code base that I really understand through and through.

That said, the difference between that approach and Java circa-2004 isn't as great as the difference between, say, Rails and Spring. Once you need (or just want) to drop to a lower level of code, I really don't think Java is all that bad.
It's being worked on ...

http://www.openstreetmap.org/
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Thats good feedback, you should add that to the comments in the page so that others can benefit from it! We want these templates to be organic.
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Great job tacking on a single paragraph to a lengthy excerpt from a WSJ article. Really. Fantastic work.
Does this mean you'd have to reload the entire 4GB file? Because given the quality of my home internet connection, that's about a 20 hour download. That's the reason I'm waiting for the USB drive. As an aside, I wonder if Apple has any plans to release a special Thunderbolt drive for Lion? I'd happily pay extra for that option.
It is not a meaningless comparison. It means that Apple could (theoretically) buy the entire output of any one of these countries for an entire year.

How much that matters is certainly unclear, but it's interesting to think about for sure.
Would you like to write a few templates for the library? Maybe around SEO or similar topics?
> anything that US has done other countries have done too

So that's okay, then.
For interested readers, further elaboration on some of the points raised in the article above can be found here.

http://mises.org/daily/5437/What-We-Need-to-Know-about-Money
Retroactive laws are common place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
I'm not sure i agree, but i don't know that i'm qualified to speak on the subject. In the case of necessities w/ inelastic demand, maybe that's possible. But w/ products where there are viable alternatives, i don't agree that that's a necessary consequence.

And even things like gas usage, there is flexibility in the demand. There is definitely some driving that has to be done, but people can and do cut back on the amount of travel they take because of gas prices. Also, there are sometimes alternatives to that means of travel too.
This is all well and good, but in reality the phrase "fix your own house before fixing someone else's" applies. If we can't have a good and fair government by the definition of the people, then can we really expect to fix other governments? Do we bring our own government in like we did with Afghanistan and Iraq and royally fuck up a country (not to say that those countries were in good shape in any way, nor to say we could fix them, they are pretty much dictated by oil as there have few other natural resources they can export)

I like to think if we had a good government that we can truly trust, then we can trust it to step out and assist worldwide injustices: land aid to the people fighting an oppressive government, enable communication between the oppressed, prevent the oppressive government from buying weapons, etc.
I agree. Not a coincidence that 2004 was the last year O'Reilly updated its "Java Servlet and JSP Cookbook." After that, it was all "recipes in spring" or some other framework, and that was also pretty much the beginning of the end for me with Java. I don't blame the language so much as I blame the frameworks.
For lack of better words, "Why so cynical?"

The speed of random boarding versus other viable methods is not a new result: I first heard about it years ago and I'm pretty sure it was old then.

(I emphasise viable because I'm pretty sure nothing can beat a perfectly strict back-to-front, but there's no way you're going to get that to actually happen with real customers.)

My real question is how changing boarding order affects the volume of overhead bins used. They kept emphasising that in the article, but I don't know what spacetime warping they are using.
I guess it depends on how you look at it. Every internet IPO was financed by Uncle Sam in my mind.
True. Civilization itself is made up of a dense web of people's contributions, only a small number of which are protected by law. Maybe the most important ones, in fact, have no protection. Writing, steel, structural engineering, etc.

Imagine a world where you have to pay for every innovation you use. It would make it impossible to do anything or create any new innovations on top of existing ones.

I'm not saying IP is always bad, but it does have a double edge: it rewards innovations which HAVE been made, but it hinders new innovations from BEING made.
It's not ridiculous to compare something to something/time. I could say a restaurant has more food in the kitchen than a family could eat in a month. That is what we are saying here, a company has more money in the bank than many countries produce in a year. It doesn't have to be the case, we could live in a world where companies are small and countries are all large in comparison. We don't.
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I'm curious what the average founder's take is in a talent acquisition. http://ycombinator.com/nums.html indicates that 80% of YC's acquisitions have been for <$10M - so does that work out to about $1-2M per founder, after investors and employees get their cut?

Not chump change by any means, but skilled engineers in Silicon Valley can easily make $250K/year in total compensation. If a startup takes about 3 years of ramen wages to come to fruition and then the founders are locked up for another year while they vest, the plain old employee will have made about $1M in the time that the startup founder made maybe $2.5M. Startup founder is still ahead, but they took on all the risk of their startup failing and them getting nothing, and the difference is only about a factor of 2 instead of an order of magnitude.
They may have to pay the publisher to host them on their server.

Not in this case, apparently; they're public domain. Although JSTOR did foot the bill for the scanning.

I'll take your other point, though: if there's real evil in the academic publishing world, it's Elsevier.