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> It would be terrible in the short run, but it would be vastly better in the long run. Presently, the US is on the unsustainable trajectory of acquiring debt until it defaults.

Some of us have been saying this ever since Bear&Stearns went down, in the spring of 2008, that you cannot just prop up an non-solvent bank/country/whatever.

At that time all the "bright" economists were saying things like "it's only a liquidity problem, we just need to grease the system with a little more printed money and things will be just fine" (which they finally did, after Lehman's collapse), while now they're saying things like "let's just raise the debt ceiling this one more time to allow the FED to print more money and things will be just fine". Well, if things have turned up to be "just fine" first time around how did we "evolve" from the level of "Wall-Street bank going into default" to "the first military power of the Earth possibly going into default" ? To this question the bright economists don't have any answer, apart from stupid things like "we should have printed more money".
This family bicycled 26,000 miles over 43 months and didn't run into a single one of those nasty horrible people. Maybe they were extremely lucky, but I like to think you can't live your life worrying about the few nasty horrible people.

http://familyonbikes.org/blog/2011/01/isn’t-bike-touring-dan...
Definitely tweakers. I wouldn't use that sink near open flame for a while.
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Unfortunately for the president, he is the one who has the final move if the debt ceiling isn't raised: he will either have to shut down non-essential government services and skip making some entitlement payments, or he will have to skip an interest/principal payment on the sovereign debt. This puts him in a weakened position relative to the Republicans (many of whom would probably consider skipped entitlement payments as more of a feature than a bug), which probably explains why they are pushing it down to the wire. In addition, the Democrats clearly wish to avoid having another debt ceiling showdown next year during the presidential election, which further weakens their position. It appears that the Republicans are angling for a short-term benefit of spending cuts with a minimal amount of revenue increases in addition to a medium-term benefit of getting to play this game again next year when they have an even larger advantage, so they are presenting this unpalatable option along with the even more unpleasant option of major spending cuts with no revenue increases over a longer period. Attempting to view this from the position of a neutral observer, it actually appears very well played on their part.
Causing problems for PayPal's service is shortsighted and has a lot of collateral damage. For many small business owners, PayPal is the only viable way to take global payments online. There are a few other payment providers, but their fees are usually much higher than PayPal's, or their payment schedules and API integration are severely limited in comparison. With PayPal I can charge a customer and have the money in my account within a couple of days, plus feel safe that most fraud is going to be stopped at the door.
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Cui bono?

On some level, the bad bastards who did it.

Alternatively yes, of course. Building 7, Area 51, Chemtrails etc...
"You want to see less government? Visit Yemen or gangster Russia"

Quite a strange statement given that the governments of both those countries are central to their problems and deeply involved in crime and corruption themselves. In Yemen the government employees shoot innocent people in broad daylight with impunity. Real libertarian haven they've got there.
I disagree with recruitment not adding value. Imagine a recruiter that sent you 5 qualified candidates who were all interested in your job. You would spend a little bit of time in the interview to verify they were qualified, but mainly you just have to decide who is the best fit for your team. Compare that to hours of reviewing resumes, tens of hours of interviews on unqualified candidates, etc.

A recruiter could offer a lot of value, the problem is that it's difficult to show that you're a useful recruiter. This is an econ problem[1], where you have people offering something valuable and people offering something not very valuable and you can't tell the difference. What's needed is a way of signaling that they're going to be a good recruiter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
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Blakley on Fashion and Intellectual Property
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pg groupies may also want to check out the Econtalk interview with Paul Graham. Finding it is left as an excercise for the reader, primarily to encourage people to check out this amazing resource.
bear in mind protest can be seen as a way to change a company policy. noone is saying paypal shouldn't exist, but personally i do agree they shouldn't be disallowing payments on behalf of wikileaks.
Brilliant and very inspiring, thanks for sharing!

It goes without question, of course, that it could have been done much better, that's not the point though.
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Great work. I <3 Travis.
I did a pretty thorough review of the players in this market, and although there are alternatives they're all worse than Paypal.

The chances of Paypal suspending your account depends a lot of what you're doing with it, if you're operating in the b2b space or if you're selling a product then you shouldn't have any problem.

Most of the companies that have had accounts suspended have tended to be doing non-standard things (asking for donations, acting as payment middle-men, etc.), if you're going to be doing something weird get Paypal to ok it upfront and put a note on your account.

You can also sweep money from Paypal to your bank on a daily basis to minimize the impact.

My second choice after Paypal would be 2co, although 2co have some pretty bizarre requirements on the UI of your purchase screen, which in practice a lot of vendors just ignore. But it made me hesitant about using them.

Depending on the nature of your customer base Amazon or Google payments might work for you as well (but these both require your customers to have an account with the respective provider).
Wow, Google couldn't just tell him, "dude, you got kiddie porn in your album". I commend this person's frankness but it still comes back to the lack of communication happening with Google support.
AirBnB makes us travelers vulnerable to being scammed as well. In the most recent rental, it really was a roll of the dice to see if we were going to have an apartment or not (and of course, by the time we could have contacted AirBnB to say we'd been scammed, the scammer would already have our money, due to the way AirBnB works, and their lack of any way to contact them.)

I travel full time. I'm a nomad. I would rent thru AirBnB for 365 nights a year if they provided the service that they originally set out to provide. I think they changed their focus, and rather than building an organic community of people renting their places to each other, they are pursuing the expensive travel market. This makes sense given the profits are higher and it is easier to get vacation rentals in the system than individuals. But they're not the ebay of travel anymore, they've become a HomeAway clone.

They also really need to change their policies on communication- they inhibit our ability to talk to the owners before renting, and this is worsened given that many owners may not speak english. Letting us call them or email them is not going to want us to cut AirBnB out of the deal, because the primary value AirBnB provides is the fraud protection of letting us pay by credit card.

There's no reason for any company of this size not to have a 24/hour hotline. It may be midnight in california, but it is 5pm somewhere. You have listings around the world.

AirBnB's priorities seem to have shifted away from building an organic "ebay of travel" with regular people to maximum growth in revenue, by going after the high end travel market, with a distinct lack of customer service. This may not be intentional, but I'm part of the market-- a heavy use part of the market- and that's how it is looking to me.

So, 24 hour hotline, policies for dealing with things that go wrong, to help customers, and letting the people use the site communicate are the changes I'd make. I bet you'll find that more communications means more confidence and more nights rented.
> [...] all for taking part in a historical activist movement.

Sorry, you've lost me there. Get off your high horse.
Wouldn't the wiki-community-spirit help prevent this kind of thing? Guess not, it'd be one person vs another.
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I have had a similar experience. I don't mind at all if they talk about the best way to catch a girl at the next party or how cool it would be to hide the word penis in the final version of their thesis. But I can't participate in that talk, though I started to appreciate sexy women now. I just can't help being aware that I'm the only girl an an all male group and feel out of place. I feel more comfortable if I imagine that I'm a guy too, I've even thought if it wouldn't be nice to have a gender change to better fit in.
How do they even come up with a prediction like this? Is it any different from Astrology?
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The apartment-trashing was entirely senseless. The motive was clearly not theft, for example.

The simplest hypothesis is that the purpose of the crime was to create outrage - in order to destroy the reputation of AirBnB and its business model. It may yet succeed in doing so.
I can understand disagreeing with the premise. I don't understand citing lack of evidence and then making the claim that it is is "extremely unlikely" based also on no evidence. That's a very whimsical notion of probability. It seems far simpler to me to tolerate the uncertainty of the circumstances than make baseless assumptions either way. The original author managed this just fine. I don't see why TechDirt feels the need to, or why they felt it appropriate to mis-attribute the statement to "officials" in their headline.

By comparison: a month ago people here[1] and elsewhere were claiming Lulzsec might be a false flag operation by the CIA. Why would one consider that a reasonable possibility, and expect others to do so, but then consider an analogous statement a "propaganda campaign"?

[1] For example, nextparadigms, you expressed that possibility yourself:"Could LulzSec actually be working for the Government to help create that "civilized" Internet Sarkozy was talking about." -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659640
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I've had terrible experiences while travelling extensively and staying semi-permanently where landlords do anything they can to keep your deposit, especially when you don't speak the language so well. I'd not be comfortable having a stranger be able to claim I made some kind of damage, and it become some kind of paypal-like black-hole of unwarranted claims. Ultimately reading this, I feel so sorry for the host, as a random, rare victim of a dehumanizing crime. It could have happened on craigslist, or via a friend-of-a-friend. Not to say that AirBnB doesn't need to address this, but holding a large amount in escrow like a car rental deposit would be offputting to me (with car rentals there is clear evidence, and you do a full inspection beforehand, though I'm sure it's possible to get burned on this).
I'm not debating the importance of tests, but rather of the test-driven approach. I can write code and then write tests (or intermingled) and satisfy your point. I don't have to switch my brain into this wierd test-driven approach to do that. TDD zealots don't seem to understand that.
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Eventually there will be a good deal of money printing involved in solving this problem, especially given the paucity of options available for fixed-income investors with a low appetite for risk (what, would you prefer the Euro or the Yen?), but it will never be the case that the US will have a solvency problem in the same way as Bear Stearns or Greece because they can always print their way out of it with inflation as the downside. Inflation is still very tame relative to the period between 1972 and 1982, and it is very unlikely that we will see contributory mistakes of the magnitude of imposing price controls and eliminating the link to gold during the upcoming period.
They did pass a bill, the debt ceiling is tied to a balanced budget amendment.
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Didn't we invent DNS for this issue?

But seriously, I can see the need for something like this. But the proposed three letter words don't really help. It's still too hard to pronounce.
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Congress already passed a bill instructing the Treasury to pay interest on debt, social security, wages of troops in that order. If the President does not follow that law, it's probably an impeachable offense.

The result won't be a default or social security checks not getting sent out, but a normal 1994-style government shutdown.
Can you explain how Obama could invoke the 14th? After reading it, it doesn't seem to mention any executive powers (IANAL, I am curious though).
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I believe this is the major force. The reason why medicine equalized first was that it is the highest status profession. Law, business and accounting are similarly equalizing faster.

Low status professions are losing women. Usually low status non-labour professions like teachers, librarians and nurses were done by women primarily but computer science started off early equal so now it is skewed male.

It sucks to be in a low status profession but that's the way it is.
LulzSec's message.

See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811650
Looks fine, but as a potential customer, my main question is not answered:

Why should I stop using SugarSync in favor of you?
I would pay to be verified by AirBnB, by uploading a picture ID and having a human verify this. A service I use provids added verification by mailing you a code that you enter on the site to prove your address. Things like this could help a lot to assisting with identity scams.
Agreed, but plain old DDOS against PayPal seems like a great way to get PayPal to upgrade their DDOS defensive measures and not a great way to get them to change their policies. Companies change their policies when their customers become educated about them and the company starts to lose business and look bad in the media as a result.

In this case, Anonymous will achieve making PayPal's website even slower for a while. If they lose customers it'll be for the wrong reasons. Anonymous needs to find a way to educate the public about a company's wrongdoings, not just disrupt the company's service while not making sure everyone knows exactly why that company's service has been disrupted. They seem to have this misguided idea that DDOS = public education and corporate humiliation. That's what I find shortsighted.
There's one big flaw in any plan to unilaterally increase the debt ceiling: it's not really clear whether that would be legal. You could make a reasonable argument on either side, and the final arbiter would be the Supreme Court, which is not particularly liberal these days. Nobody who wants a safe investment would buy the new treasury debt issued under those conditions without a significant risk premium above what they are paying now; I certainly wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole without a couple of hundred basis points of spread over the current yield. Not something the government would want to lock itself into for 2 years to avoid skipping some Social Security payments.
It sort of looks like dropbox with a few extra features - I guess it is always good to have competition. But what is up with the pricing? I don't think too many people will pay $100 per month for 5gb
You are aware that there exist nasty people? People who take pleasure in inflicting pain? That's the simplest hypothesis. There's no need to lurch into dark conspiracy theories without any supporting evidence.
Tea Party-leaning legislators have constituents who actually want them to shut down the Federal Government, so they have less to lose than those legislators beholden to sane voters.

The problem is, once your opponent in this game of chicken has visibly guzzled a fifth of bourbon and torn off his steering wheel, it's too late for you to do the same.
Send a physical letter to the address of the user's bank account, or other form of ID?
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I dunno, the "meth party" hypothesis elsewhere in this thread seems pretty simple/plausible also.
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I was on the phone to a recruitment agency and genuinely heard a bull horn going off followed by cheering, I presume signifying a big "sale". This is one of the best companies I've had dealings with, too. The worst edited my CV before sending it to companies without telling me first - nothing like being asked "So why were you fired from your last position?" in a job interview when you left due to illness in the family.

Edit: Not to mention the INSANE amount of companies that claim to be "specialist developer recruitment agencies" (or similar) but only accept CVs in .doc format. Not even docx, they need the original proprietary .doc format. They refuse to believe that it's difficult for me to send one rather than a PDF, and apparently "[their] systems can't handle PDF files or DOCX files". Sorry, what?

Anyway, it's far more work than its worth for me to produce a Word document from a .tex, as the only solutions I've found are manual, but I doubt I'm missing much by not interacting with these companies.

I am actually currently looking for work so if anyone knows of UK recruitment agencies that don't entirely suck, please let me (and everyone else) know who they are!
It's good to see activity in the Dutch hacker community. I won't be able to make it to this meetup, but I will try to make it to the next one!
To the other side the South Koreans/Kulaks/Jews/Blacks are the "evil" ones, and it's interesting that no one is as wise as I, the keeper of the Great Scales of Balance, who knows the truth: if there are two sides, they are equally good and bad.
Despite your visa waiver, you still have customs forms to fill out and they do ask whether or not you are on business or not.
They're very clear that having a waiver, or even a visa, is not a guarantee of entry into the US and that ultimately it's up to the CBP agents.
This issue is getting some coverage in the Register today: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/27/android_market_searc...
not legal.. it specifically refers to rebellion and insurrection and costs associated with putting down a rebellion or insurrection which by no stretch can apply to the war on terror..hence Obama rejecting its use.
Do you think there's a recruiting board somewhere where they complain about snarky coders?
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Bull horns, bells, etc have been present in every single recruitment environment I've worked in, including my current workplace however the bell here is gathering cobwebs as the team refuse to use it much to the delight of our manager!
Outside the US you can easily make 200k USD.

160k CHF in 2000 = 88 USD

160k CHF today = 200k USD

160k CHF after US defaults = ???

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Meh, I think most of the 'pressure to act confident' has little to do with wages and a lot to do with social mores. I have worked with many people over the years with much less confidence than I have who managed to out-earn me.

I've met more women who would prefer a relationship with a confident man who earned less than they do than I've met women who would prefer a relationship with a less-confident man who did earn more. I mean, that's all anecdotal, but I've been both (comparatively) wealthy and unconfident, poor and confident, and wealthy and confident, and as far as I can tell, the comparative level of wealth involved has little to do with dating outcomes.

On the subject of being out-earned, with traditionally male jobs falling out of favor and traditionally female jobs rising in importance and pay, it seems that us men may not end up being the primary provider for our families[1]

this is consistent with my observation both of the lower class and the upper middle class people I know.

[1]http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00....