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Feminism arose for the same reasons that any social movement arises: a part of society feels that they are being unfairly treated as second-class citizens. What exactly does it mean to be a second-class citizen? Whether it is getting paid less, or not having the same job opportunities, in the end it boils down to this: a second-class citizen feels that they are not given the same honor and dignity as a normal citizen.

So feminism arose because a significant amount of women believed that they did not have the honor and dignity that they deserved. So why did they not have honor and dignity? Had it always been this way in American society? It had not always been this way in American society. But the industrial revolution led to changes in society, and those changes changed the cultural values of American society. Cultural values such as what kind of person is honorable and dignified.

People with outlandish amounts of wealth came to be honorable and dignified. Eccentric/genius/rich/crazy type people became honorable and dignified. It was "cool" to be rich, to own a big oil company, to do ridiculous things with your wealth, to invent cool gadgets (and to a lesser extent, research - Einstein became famous, as did Edison, Tesla, etc).

As American culture shifted its values, people who did not take outlandish risks or were not rich, lost their honor and dignity. The group that was most affected throughout all parts of society were women, who tended not to take risks or behave in outlandish ways, and who tended to be stay-at-home moms and grandmothers.

And when the cultural values changed, not only did women perceive themselves as being "stuck" in less honorable positions because of their gender - but men began to think the same about women. Men also began to think that, "Well, a woman stays in her house all day and cooks and looks after kids and is a wife, well then she must be looked down upon as a second-class citizen because she doesn't get the same honor and dignity and respect."

When all of society - men and women - began to look at women as being in less dignified positions and jobs, not because they were women, but because of what they did (and they did what they did because they were women - they bear children), then women reacted to that and the feminist movement was born.

Unfortunately, the feminist movement has not helped the situation, because society still values the rich, powerful, eccentric, outlandish risk-taking person more than a person who just does his or her job in a quiet but fulfilling manner. As a result, the feminist movement has tended to push women into behaving like men, and women are still not satisfied, and the resulting changes in society have left men feeling unhappy to the point where men feel that they are second-class citizens. Until American societies returns the dignity back to women for being women - not for trying to be like men - this problem will persist.
Guess we'll know whether or not US Treasuries are meaningfully AAA in the next couple of weeks :-)
There is several ways systems can break down. One of the largest in recent US history went something like this:

You have 100 million. Now you can put it into a bank, but there is no FDIC for banks so AAA security's are basicly the safest place to put that money. You now look for someone selling safe debt and don't really care about intrest rates just AAA.
Banker notices this demand and sells AAA debt from a pool of AA grade debt and get's to keep the intrest as long as a rating agency is willing to certify his bonds as AAA. But how do you satisfy the new demand for AA debt, well a slightly larger pool of A debt can quickly become AA debt etc. But wait if I can take A to AA then AA to AAA why not save some paper work and make AAA from A.

After a while demand for AAA debt is satisfied with large amounts of what amounted to junk bonds and rediculus amounts of leverage. And that huge flow of money went directly to people and institutions that spent it, which stimulated the economy and make it like this where far more stable than they actually where. Meanwhile the people that bought the bonds in the first place now have even more money because the economy is doing great!!!, or atleast it looks that way.
It took me a week to make my first app, with no prior objective-C experience. Though I did know how to program in C beforehand and the app was really simple (it was a bar game to measure reflexes).

The apple guides are really good and there are so many free examples. Also Standford has a great series I used after I got started, if you have any prior programming experience it will get you up to speed fast.
Indeed. I have over a hundred repos, and I'm useless ;)
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I assumed it meant something like a corporation using regulatory loopholes to get their bonds rated as risk-free (and thus desirable to own) when they would more accurately have been rated risky. Put more simply, borrowing money more cheaply than their creditworthiness should allow.

His point was about the prevalence of AAA-rated products, not their existence.
Is there anything bad? Neither men nor women are born with anything anything to atone for.
The web browser is a different case than something like the Gmail app, or the Kindle app.
Not that I disagree with you, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a business act like that (e.g. contact the building owner). I almost expect it anymore, with the 'shock and awe' legal approach that is so prevalent.
Well, you can easily set up a friendly page at username.github.com/project with gh-pages, and link users to there.
FYI: using long quotes tends to break page formating on HN. If you not directly quoting something it's best not indent things or to manually break up the lines.
The real fiscal danger -- in addition to the murky issue of complacency -- is that financial institutions can call AAA debts "risk free" and hold them off their balance sheet. It allows them to leverage-up far more than they otherwise could, and since the big investment banks are publicly traded now it exposes shareholders to undisclosed risk.

This is tightly correlated with the problem of credit default swaps. At their core, a CDS is an insurance policy. You pay me a premium every year. If the insured bond defaults, I'll pay you out.

Well, if I'm insuring a AAA bond, or the AAA tranche of a bond, I can call that risk-free insurance. IOW, I can call the premiums I'm earning to be risk-free profit.
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Right. I think that overall that's correct - for all intents and purposes it's effectively impossible for the US Treasury to run out of dollars. But the way the incentives for agencies are set up makes me think we're begging to be lied to.

Mind you, despite all this you can have a serious news piece of "someone from Moody's" claiming that they might be forced to lower the US' rating http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14142621 - which frankly just sounds all kinds of ridiculous.
This sounds like an interesting insight. Could you elaborate?
So does the backend use Java Git, or some specialized version of C git?
Just want to chime in here with my own experience. I'm sure what you said holds true for you, but for me I find that the better I get, the less I'm being nipped away by cheaper competitors. Perhaps this is because of my specific skillset (I'm a web developer, not a designer -- although it's basically the same setup, same kinds of jobs, same kinds of clients), but I find that as I get better at what I do I gravitate more towards clients that appreciate high-end service and the quality I can provide (as they do me). I've also found that focusing on a smaller technical niche has helped tremendously (that is, getting really good at one platform -- in my case the Concrete5 CMS, but same holds true for people specializing in Wordpress, Drupal, etc.). Yes there are always people willing to do the work for cheap, and a majority of potential clients don't know the difference and will go with them. But finding someone who is good at what they do and communicates well and delivers on what they promise is incredibly difficult, and there are a lot of potential clients out there that understand this.
I was happy to return to my domestic airport security after coming back through SFO. This type of "security" is alienating foreigners.

I opted out of these scanners at SFO and was hassled by security as to why I would want to do that and then they waited about five minutes before beginning manual screening, despite having staff on hand. I assume it's to discourage people from opting out. Nice city, nice airport, bad security.
Hmm,

I guess I agree but the thing is that "greed" and "over-caution" actually very similar. Over-caution is greed for income without risk.

For example, Bernie Madoff's appeal wasn't based on offering income level that no mutual fund could match but rather offering an apparent combination of income and stability that no mutual fund could match (10%/year as reported each quarter).
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I believe that would be someone who emails a lot of different people that they are not familiar with but wants to appear familiar with the recipient's activity on twitter while using the Gmail web client.
The hours can get ridiculous, but they vary from company to company. Also, the hours usually get a lot better as you gain seniority.

On the other hand, you do have to put up with being surrounded by people who pretty much live to make money, and think about nothing but work and making more money.

Though that might not be so different than Silicon Valley.
Why aren't we talking about the 1950's? If you're correct, that the problem is a lack of glamour, then the 50's should not have been a problem. Motherhood was the ultimate glamorous profession for a woman in those days. Sure, you can go to college, but there's no sense doing anything with it when you could get married. The ideal was a beautiful, spotless house in the suburbs, beautiful and well-behaved children, a great and successful husband. Dress up every day, makeup, hair, a pretty dress, pearls even. Fingers in every community organization: church, PTA, charities. You get to host parties, lots of parties. The way we talk about 50's homemaking today is a lot different from the way we talked about it then.

Which cultures in which women are homemakers only, have stayed without change to gender roles for millenia? When I think of cultures that have stayed mostly unchanged, I think of the ones where women are contributing significantly to survival. Hunter-gatherer societies where men hunt and women gather. In most HG societies plant foods make up a large portion of the food; women's work is essential. And a step beyond that, societies where men hunt and women tend gardens or farms. Or where men and women farm and ranch together. Yes, women also tend to take care of the children in these societies. But modern-day me still has to do dishes and laundry; that doesn't preclude me from doing other things.
Why not apply for a permit, dress up as business travelers and pass out literature promoting your position? Seems that would avoid feeding into the "Why are a bunch of crazy leftists clogging up my airport" stereotype _and_ ensure you get to stay there for more than 5 minutes before being hauled away by airport police.

See: https://www.sfoconnect.com/public/sfo-rules-and-regulations for more info.
The article states that Firefox's behavior is according to the spec. I didn't read the spec myself, did you do so and see that the article is wrong?
The US Treasury is not, by definition, AAA. It can print money at will, but it cannot guarantee that that money will have value.
How did this kinda of article make its way to the front page? This kind of math makes no sense whatsoever, and the fact that Chris has probably never seen 13.125 down his pipe should have been an indicator that this was flawed logic.

Love to hate on Comcast, but I try to be intelligent about it.
Anyone remember posting to USENET with 'rn' and you'd get a stern lecture that your post would "cost the network hundreds or thousands of dollars" are you sure you want to do this (Y/N).
This guy just wasted two minutes of day on this crap article. HN has gone really down hill, this was one notch below blogspam...
It was pseudo caution. The finance industry saw that investors wanted to (in some cases, had to) buy conservative investments like AAA paper. They sold them a fantasy of conservative investment. It was so compelling that the utterly ridiculous notion of that much AAA paper was ignored.

After calling it 'excess of overcaution' he declared that it is leverage that causes crises. Leverage does not connect strongly with caution to me.
>What possible motivation does one have for behaving in a manner other than that of an animal,

well, actually most of "behaving like an animal" is only done by humans and such behavior can't be found in the animal kingdom. Calling it "like an animal" is a typical hypocrisy of humans.

>human beings as nothing more than meat-based mechanisms for storing and transporting DNA.

yes, like any lifeforms we know.

>This idea is dangerously embedded in society now, and it risks creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of barbarism.

Blaming society, ideas, whatever ... instead of taking personal responsibility is a human species trait that, i think, will either have to disappear or it will take the human race down (it wasn't that important before, when Mother Nature held your personally responsible for your actions, yet with technological growth and power wielded by individuals and small groups over highly organized masses of humans it becomes an extremely dangerous trait - i think the 20th century was a nice preview of the future and the WW III is going to be an interesting exercise).
Why only those two alternatives?
Isn't all of its debt dollar-denominated?

edit: Now that I think about, it isn't. They have inflation-indexed bonds as well. The more they print money, they bigger their debt grows!

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glanc...
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There's a lot of opportunity to build apps if you can collect a person's financial accounts (examples: Mint, inDinero).

Right now the options are DIY or contract prohibitively expensive services like Yodlee and CashEdge.

I'm wondering what sort of opportunity exists if there was a inexpensive, developer-friendly financial account aggregation service?
Credit ratings are only supposed to predict risk of default; if a loan denominated in dollars is repaid in dollars, the loan is satisfied. They don't have to also predict what the real value of that repayment will be in other currencies.
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Someone recently wrote that you know you are in a bubble when reporters start their own startups. Maybe that should be revised to be "when reporters start their own venture funds."

(that said, this ain't the same as the last tech bubble, and the issues around Arrington/access/other angels are only going to get more and more complicated.)
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Interesting. I guess each investment includes 10 free TC blog posts for the company ;-)
On an entirely separate note, all this talk of inter-gender differences is useless without some consideration of their scale relative to intra-gender differences.

But isn't that exactly what the author is suggesting? That the within-group variance tends to be higher in men than in women, even if the differences in averages between the groups are not significant?
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"I can appreciate that it's a hassle to write a long, well thought-out cover letter, but am I being too picky here?"

Don't ignore your own application requirement.

Answering the robot question should be what's in the cover letter; anyone who ignored that, or sent you some boilerplate they'd used elsewhere, is not the person you want.
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I wonder how long it took twitter to get to a billion.
This varies. Virgin TV (UK) has true on-demand, it's streamed over their cable to their box in your living room when you request it, rather than Sky who can do things like show a three hour film at 8/9/10pm.
Kiwi is for unit testing, KIF is for integration testing. They don't do the same thing (nor try to). Since you said you're just starting to get into it, here's what that means:

Integration tests simulate a user using your app - tapping on controls, manipulating views, typing in text, etc (see the video in the blog post). As these steps run you have simple tests to make sure the app is behaving as you expect it to.

Unit tests exercise more discrete things like model objects, controller logic, validations. Tons of small tests like "when we add these money values together, is the sum what we expect?".

At Square we use KIF for integration tests and GHUnit for unit tests. We run both on a continuous integration system (CruiseControl.rb) that runs the tests whenever we push new code.
i guess people either understand "grading on the curve" or not :)

Anyway, seems to be a business opportunity to start issue ratings for AAA papers, as obviously there is a lot of junk AAA out there.
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Your Internet usage is probably bursty, so you want bursty service; a 1% share of 100 Mbps is dramatically faster in practice than a T1. Someone is about to suggest that ISPs advertise minimum speeds instead of burst speed, but that doesn't serve the interest of most customers since perceived performance does correlate strongly with burst speed.
Maybe you're right, that it makes no difference to him. To me, it matters a great deal. None of these systems are static; they are constantly changing, and we have some control over how they change. You can compare the systems that already exist, and on some set of criteria say that these are better or worse than those. So although there's never going to be 'one system to rule them all', at some point I think we do need to figure out which aspects of our system are variables and which are constants, because if we don't decide what to change, someone else will decide for us.
Female reproduction isn't as limited as it might seem at first glance, because you need to consider the reproductive success of her offspring as well. If we're going to see life as DNAs way of making more DNA, Genghis Khan's mother did just as much reproducing as his father.

I've read that female bonobos, for instance, take a great interest in the mating success of their male offspring:

"http://www.indstate.edu/news/news.php?newsid=1742

So having a high social status in the pecking order can absolutely translate in to "unlimited" reproductive potential for a female in this case.

An interesting quote:

"Scientists believe a bonobo mother's rank in the group has an impact on her son's reproductive rank because if she dies the son falls in rank and becomes unimportant."
but does it have AOL Legal's stamp of approval?
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And are you willing to pay 115x more? How about 10x?
What we're talking about is: What is the risk of default of the tbills issued by the US treasury. It's conventionally considered that AAA means "1 in 10,000" chance of default.

Considering that tbills are issued with "the full faith and credit" of the United States and that it's against the US Constitution to default on them, the agencies have historically rated the debt as AAA.

And yes, technically, the US could not default and still pay back worthless bonds by deliberately hyper-inflating the currency.

Doing so would also make worthless all of the private debts demoninated in US Dollars and effectively destroy the US Economy.

While it's certainly possible that could happen, it's quite remote. Quite.
i used to work for an ISP like that. there were tons of independent ISPs back in the dial-up days. ADSL killed most of them that hadn't already been gobbled up by the bigger national ISPs, because the infrastructure build-out was too expensive. we tried our own SDSL service by ordering alarm circuits to customers houses and co-locating our own DSLAMs in telco offices. it was expensive and couldn't be done everywhere we wanted to.

in order to remain competitive, my ISP had to resell ADSL service straight from at&t/sbc (they provided the line and terminated them over our fiber connection, so we would be the actual data provider and route customers out to the internet). they only allowed us to do this because they were forced to by the government as part of the AT&T re-merger. however, the rate that they sold us a DSL connection was higher than what they were advertising to customers in the same market, so even if we broke even on a customer, we'd still be more expensive than what at&t was offering. we couldn't compete on price and by then, cable speeds were already much higher than what ADSL could do, so many customers went from a dialup connection with us to ADSL with at&t or cable with comcast.

we started our own wireless service to avoid the middlemen, putting up big antennas on water towers in nearby suburbs and backhauling the traffic to us over t1s, t3s, and point-to-point heavy duty wireless connections. it was much more labor intensive, having to do directv-style truck-roll installations instead of just remotely activating a toggle on a customer's phone line like with adsl. maintenance costs were high, having to send technicians out all the time to realign wireless antennas. other ISPs would pop up and other equipment on water/cell tower antennas would suddenly degrade our wireless signal quality.

they're still in business, but i haven't worked there in 5 years so i don't know what their books look like. looking at their website, their cheapest ADSL plan is $27.95, and the same speed plan on at&t's website is $14.95. when internet service is a commodity, people just want whatever works for whatever is cheapest. they don't care about expert, local customer service, or high quality datacenters.