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If some of the top 1% can't retire comfortably, then who IS retiring these days?
"Offer me a decent salary" should be on the top of this list.

If you have a solid, established relationship with somebody technical, and he or she is interested in a startup endeavor, raising the possibility of going into business together is one thing. But if you have to "recruit" a technical co-founder because your social circle is void of competent technical people, the number of potential co-founders who will be eager to jump on board your boat without monetary compensation is probably fairly small.

Let's face it: the kind of person who would make for a good technical co-founder probably doesn't have any shortage of opportunities in today's market. So what's the appeal of a jumping in bed with a complete stranger if all that's on the table is equity and "salary upon funding"? There typically is none, which is why so many of the people trying to find a technical co-founder experience so much angst.
> I wish Linux had ONE great interface and standard GUI programming API.

Gnome2 was the de facto standard Linux desktop for probably a decade. Then it was abandoned overnight because the developers got simply bored with endlessly maintaining it for free. But exactly that, maintaining, polishing and evolitionary improving Gnome2 and letting an app and extension ecosystem slowly grow for the next 10-15 years, is what Linux desktop needs.

After decades of boasting "stability" over Windows, I think Linux desktop users are slowly starting to reckognize the real value behind a commercially long-term maintained "stable" API. Having a "free" desktop is in practice useless when there is no one willing to maintain it.
Less spammy link: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/inside-north-kore...

Should this type of thing be flagged?
The point of the article isn't that we should pity those folks making "only" $300k/year. They have nice houses and nice cars and eat at nice restaurants. However, they still need to worry about money. If your $300k/year is coming from your labor as a lawyer, and you go blind, your financial situation does a 180. If your $300k/year is coming from dividends on the huge pile of stock you own, that's a totally different ballgame.
I recently changed from Xubuntu to Mint XFCE and really like it:

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1725

Xubuntu is still an excellent choice though.
It makes sense for the legal system to guard against copying. If people buying Android phones actually thought they were buying iPhones - that's a problem. But if Apple can convince the government that they had a truly original idea and that no one can use that idea regardless of how they came up with it - that's absurd.
The answer is no. More interestingly, even 20+ year old software was not necessarily disclosed in a way that meets the legal requirements for "prior art", so you can be sued for using it.

I believe exceptions for prior usage are one of the things being messed with in the current "patent reform" legislation, though, IIRC, they're being influenced in a negative direction disappointingly and unsurprisingly.
Next time someone tries to justify fluffy government program X remind them that every dollar spent on it is taking away money from stopping this. I'm looking at you war on drugs.
I've found it works about half the time. Still good enough for me to bother checking. They have a bookmarklet.
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Right, new dollars have to enter the economy somewhere, and the purchasing power is increased at those points of entry, decreased everywhere else by an proportional amount.

I'm all for bitcoin but the powers at be will find a way to stop it if it catches on. But the cat is out of the bag. I just can't see the dollar standing up to all the benefits a technology like bitcoin affords.
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By the end of this decade Microsoft is going to become the next Yahoo.

Their biggest asset all these years was being the default OS on the majority of PCs sold in the USA and around most of the world.

As other free options catchup and become much, much more robust this decade (and already most portable non-x86 devices ship without the need for ANYTHING from Microsoft) they become irrelevant. Lawsuits and patent royalties will be all they have left by 2020.
The argument in the article that inspired this work[1] (and it may be an academic one) is that data models are all semantically very similar. The authors argue that category theory provides mathematical formalism for a generic abstraction that would bridge both the relational and K/V worlds.

The ideas all seem very formative to me. There are a bunch of assumptions, logic gaps, etc. But it's not all bad.

[1] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106584-a-co-relational-...
I am SICK and TIRED of people bashing the current fiat system when there is no other viable alternative in sight

Bashing something when you don't have a better option is timeless. People do it all the time. I don't blame you for getting a little warm under the collar over it. Heck, I'm currently irked by the same thing with power. Alternative power never gets to move forward because nuclear is scary, windmills kill birds, etc. Coal is the worst by far, but we're sticking with it because we haven't found the perfect free energy source.
So in a modern economy, accumulated wealth as an "earmark" on current and future productivity. People don't buy food and store it for retirement. They buy shares in Intel and get dividends from the labor of future workers to pay for their retirement. The current state of affairs seems to be one where too much has gotten earmarked. Those booming corporate profits that come from layoffs rather than above-the-line growth are going partly to CEOs, sure, but they're going mostly to retirement, pension, etc, funds. Retirees/near-retirees earmarking future productivity.

I think inflation is inevitable as the younger generation decides to reallocate this distribution of the fruits of its own labor.
Coming from HN, this just caught my eye on the NYT: "Even Marked Up, Luxury Goods Fly Off Shelves" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/business/sales-of-luxury-g...) while the country struggles to pay its debts and is losing its future. Just goes to show how separated the top .5% of American society has become from the rest... What I as a an "Asian-European" will never get is the unmitigated adoration of material wealth in American society/mass culture. Can't help but feel that is also a part of the problem. I mean, you don't have to be all ethical and bright to realize that Einstein, for instance, was not particularly wealthy and yet deserved (and commanded) orders of magnitude more respect than your typical billionaire. What's with the obsession about bling?
Or security will show up and escort you off the campus for "hacking".

I've been places where I would expect that kind of response.
Well if the consortium had plans to keep the patents closed, while Google wanted them to open them up, I can see why Google couldn't be a part of that panel.
I asked about this on Twitter to deaf ears. Isn't Microsoft mixing up Novell and Nortel? Even if Microsoft did offer to partner on the Novell patents, the accusations are being levied more directly at the Nortel buy by Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Maybe I'm missing the point, or it's not fair to think that Nortel vs Novell makes a difference. I really have no idea. I'm just wondering aloud. I don't really get how this is all perceived in a legal sense or in terms of how this affects Google's statement today. I get it's relevancy, but does it make Google's position less tenable? Maybe I'm just naive because they support the position I was already in favor of.

edit: I guess my other post which is more speculative would be the response to "they also mentioned Novell in the post".
I have been wondering about this and you may be the person to answer it. My thought is that inflation only occurs when the increase in money supply is greater than the increase in wealth generated in the economy. So if an economies' wealth increases at 5% a year and so does the money supply then there's no inflation.

Have I got this right or even close to the mark?
At least their new product will be "DISRUPTIVE"! But, the question is, can it be as disruptive as pulling the tablecloth out from underneath your customers? I'd be curious to find out if their customers knew.

Also, look at their twitter feed: http://twitter.com/getwillet

It looks like they had some kind of weird spammy auto-retweet operation going on. Weird.
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I already know about that and I like it. I wanted to see a different take on it, though!

I'm going to take another look at it soon.
Gnome has been around, what, 10 years? If they are randomly changing behavior just because someone feeling it would be 'better', it indicates either nobody is using Gnome, or they don't care if anyone has been using Gnome. I don't see either Mac or Windows making these sorts of minor, workflow-breaking changes and just telling people to suck it up.
> However, that being said, you make it sound as if those banks are lending/giving that money to rich Saudi princes who squander it. They are not. They are lending it to entrepreneurs that have built a business to X point that want to expand.

Banks create 80% of the money and declare themselves owner of it, which they then loan out. There is nothing wrong with loaning money. But there is something very wrong with creating new money and then loaning it out, which is what banks do. They are money trolls... hijacking 80% of the money and charging a toll for using it.

> I apologize if this reply comes across as very terse and perhaps facetious, but I am SICK and TIRED of people bashing the current fiat system when there is no other viable alternative in sight.

Bitcoin is a viable alternative. (I'm aware of all the limitations of bitcoin, like the maximum rate of transactions. But the fundamentals are sound. The problems that exist can and will be fixed in time. Bitcoin will scale to be a global currency.)

> The fiat system is one where the global economic systems evolved into it - not because bankers wanted to get rich, but because policymakers realized that by being able to print more currency on-demand, it would soften economic pullbacks.

Nope. It very much is because bankers wanted to get rich. The Federal Reserve was designed by bankers. Other central banks are designed by bankers. Governments go along with it because they get to benefit from the inflation just like the bankers.

> At the end of the Fiscal year, if the Fed has profited from it's monetary activities during the year, it writes a fat ass check to Uncle Sam. Sometimes in the $50B range.

The Fed does not produce wealth. Any profits they give to the government, thus saving taxpayers a little money, are more than offset by the loss in purchasing power the taxpayers suffer through inflation.
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Yes, because Google was using ideas that were implemented long before Java, Sun was just the first one to bother patenting them.
If there is a reluctance among the very wealthy to pay taxes, I'd guess that they don't trust a government that they believe to be inefficient, and that they see no benefit in paying taxes for themselves or their businesses.

It seems like in order to get into that top .5 percent, you'd usually have to have a certain kind of perspective about reality, and to change the mindset of someone who takes every possible action in terms what's best for the growth of their wealth or their business might not be easy, sometimes close to impossible. Regulation is important here to keep these folks from getting carried away.

You'd have to get them to see the value in growing the economy as a whole and how that serves their interest. And hey, they may already know that and just not think the government is any good at growing the economy.

I guess it's about finding common ground and moving in a way that the very wealthy and everyone else thinks is beneficial and responsible.
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Post-merger, there were some really nice reviews of culture clashes; one I recall was simply stated as "Ebay believes people are fundamentally good, Paypal believes they are fundamentally scammers."

Credible, given their histories, I'd say!
From Google's googleblog post:

"They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents (the “CPTN” group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel’s old patents (the “Rockstar” group including Microsoft and Apple), to make sure Google didn’t get them;..."
Read Google's original blog posting by David Drummond again:

They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents (the “CPTN” group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel’s old patents (the “Rockstar” group including Microsoft and Apple), to make sure Google didn’t get them.

We’re encouraged that the Department of Justice forced the group I mentioned earlier to license the former Novell patents on fair terms

They made it about the Novell AND Nortel patents. In some regards they need both to show a pattern of collusion. Rather they have a situation where THEY turned down Microsoft to go it alone. Makes their case a lot weaker.
Huh? HTML5 + Javascript would not avoid future patent abuse. There are lots of dubious web-related patents from the dot-com bubble that haven't expired yet.
Yeah, craziness. If he'd be open about his agenda but consistent with the terms reality uses, I'd be fine with it.

I actually think carry should be taxed as regular income (except that the people who get carry are the kind of people who could structure to get around this).

I'd also be ok with capital gains and regular income being taxed at the same rate IFF that top rate were low (say, 25%) without deductions/credits, AMT, etc. A flat ~25-30% tax for everyone, plus a decent personal exemption (possibly even refundable, so if it's "$20-30k in free money from the government per person per year, paid in cash or paid as a credit against taxes owed", some people can live 100% on the credit and not work.

Allowing capital gains to offset capital losses, with carryover, probably is enough privilege to capital gains vs. regular income. It may create some disinvestment at the margin, but there's plenty of capital out there. For a startup founder making $100mm at exit, there isn't really an argument that he'd take the $200k/yr job instead of the $100k/yr job with the shot at the big exit due to being taxed 25% vs. 15% at exit; the uncertainty remains in the "will my company sell (and will it be for big money)", not the tax rate at that time.

That said, I'm totally happy taking every capital gain benefit available to me; waiting 5 years for a $10mm tax-free capital gain (Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, good for investments including founder shares purchased until 12-31-2011) is pretty damn nice.
The primary function of the Windows key has been to open the Start menu since the day it was introduced. The modifier key aspect of it was always secondary.
I find it pretty disappointing that SICP is considered too tough for matriculants of a top CS program. Perhaps you should consider enrolling fewer students and raising standards.
Again, re-reading, it seems like Google's major complaint was in relation to the Nortel patents because of the ridiculous price that they sold for (multiples of what their expected worth was). Even if Google missed out on joining an effective patent troll consortium, is that really the way innovation and industry should be encouraged?

It seems imminent that Apple will benefit from Android via Samsung, and Microsoft is already from Android via HTC, Motorola. Is it possible that Google did try to buy them to secure Android. If they had such a large set of patents, wouldn't that have given them and their hardware partners significant leverage against Apple and/or Microsoft? It seems like a defensive pattern.

Is it possible that Android's success will feed Google's competitors who've joined together to ensure their ability to leach off of Android via patents? Doesn't that make Google's interests fundamentally juxtaposed from Apple/Microsoft's who will profit simply from patent imbalances?
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As a startup co-founder do about 10h/week doing stuff I wouldn't otherwise do for free (mainly, recruiting, admin, contracts, and driving to meetings). I spent about 100h/week doing stuff which is fun and which I'd do for free (hacking on stuff, talking to people about stuff, reading and learning about what I'm working on, etc.)
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http://xkcd.com/837/ How I wish this was a real thing. :(
Actually, I feel that while Win7 and Lion simplified things, they didn't really take many features away. Some Linux designers seem to confuse removing complexity with removing functionality. But then, this is Linux, so someone will add the functionality and complexity back in soon enough.
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That might very well be the source of the strangeness :-)
KISS is still independent and unlikely to be able to afford the legal fees to fight it to the bitter end, increasing the trolls chances of getting quick settlement dollars. I hope KISS pays them in pennies.
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If you weren't exposed to calculus in college, would you have even known what to google for when you were doing your physics simulation for your toy game apps? My guess is, no. The point of education is not to cram and remember everything you're exposed to-it is to be able to look up and reference stuff more quickly than someone who doesn't have a clue.
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I've often wondered before about this. How do you plug in a big generator set without disturbing the power company? I imagine they would get pissed if all of a sudden they are getting weird frequency or voltage perturbations down the line.
Even Amazon will let you get pretty far before it tells you that product is not allowed for sale in your region. Worst case was a big ticket ASUS laptop I did plenty of research on (there may be warnings on the product pages IF you are logged in while browsing, I was not).
The wealthy can renounce U.S. citizenship and lose the protection of U.S. system on their properties. Just don't cry when some thugs in their new home island state rob them of their wealth.

The U.S. system provides the scalability for these people to make vast wealth. Shouldn't they pay it back to keep it up? The system is expensive to upkeep. There ain't no free lunch.
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If capital gains were taxed as regular income, that would mean a whole lot more money would be flowing into the governments coffers, and as such the income tax rate could be lowered as a result for all parties. You'd have to run the numbers to see but it seems reasonable.
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This is refreshing to see in some ways. I hope Google becomes even better at targeting.