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Consumers can't spend money unless they are also producing (where else would they get their money?).

People generally like to consume, so the question is not how do we get them to consume more -- they want to do that already -- but how do we make it possible for them to produce more.

And while credit can be used to start producing (like you use a battery to start a car), it is not, and should not be, used in perpetuity to fund operations -- doing so isn't sustainable.

At the same time we wilify the rich, and those who are the most productive (see examples of how people treat Steve elsewhere in this thread). While there are certainly criminals among the rich (maybe even more than among the general population) this doesn't mean that we should blame all of them (you don't blame all African-Americans, even though they also have a higher crime rate).

As for paying their fair share -- they already do, they pay more tax than most people do and get a lot less from it (how much does Steve get in food stamps?).
Look into IMG Global. They'll give you catastrophic coverage for less than $100/month anywhere in the world, thus eliminating any possibility of "financial hit".

Low deductible group coverage is mostly useless if you're young and healthy. High deductible "Don't ruin my life if I get hit by that taxi and only break my hip" insurance is absolutely worth it.
Whether "mankind makes it" in the end matters or not, our not making it would involve millennia of avoidable human suffering. It's a little hard to care about anything without caring about that, which I think is what your parent was getting at.
>Steve earned his money, you have no right to them.

Are you implying Steve earned all the money Apple has?
I could think of a number of ideas that would be severely unpopular.

One idea: Start taxing people based on their net worth. It'd be for the greater good after all, right?
Clearly: provide a merge mechanism, for example by allowing users to vote for a merge. If a certain threshold is met, the two submissions are merged.
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But you would properly build or create something with it.

That is the problem the US have -- they don't create anything.
it doesn't say anywhere that this class is free. i doubt that it is free.
Think about the definition of Insurance. It's money you set aside to cover the costs of a low-percentage, high-cost thing.

Now think about what the Health Insurance industry wants you to think is the definition of Insurance: In addition to the above, pay us all the money you'd normally save for cold medicine and doctor visits and we'll give most of it back to you when you need it.

They're not the same thing, and if you're paying for the 2nd one and not using it every month, you're going to come out worse.
Organized music piracy (mp3 scene) began in the summer of '96 when 3 of the major groups were formed (of which RNS was the most famous and long-lived). By '97 it was 'adopted' by the software (warez) scene, and also borrowed its supply and distribution chains--there was now competition for having the fastest releases, as well as means for getting these ahead of official release dates--precipitating popularity.

According to mp3scene.info, there's was mp3 piracy on usenet as early as '95.
No. "Unlimited", to me, means you get the advertised speed every second of the month, no matter the data volume you transfer. As soon as they start slowing you down, it is no longer unlimited.
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Remember nice guys can

1. tell lies
2. lobby for PR
3. spam Craiglist
4. fake listing counts
5. hide robbery for 5-weeks
etc

Don't poke your nose, drag journalists and damage YC brand. Just tell that you don't know.

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I never implied that I'd say anything.
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Wow, thanks, I didn't realize he even had the money but the issue was that he wanted to buy the land without drilling on it and that was enough to got to prison for two years. That is pretty amazing.
Can anyone say when Oracle is justified?

When the ERP application you are installing has in it's specs

- Supported database: Oracle

I am sure a crack Postgres guy can bash and file that sucker to work. But the vendor will not support the result, and some places, some situations, that really counts for a great deal.
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He didn't just make himself a nuisance, though.

He did two illegal acts:
1. He misrepresented himself by saying that he was a legitimate buyer for the drilling rights.
2. He was unable to pay for the bids he won.

Both of which are pretty cut and dry fraud charges. Those are what he was found guilty for.

If he had just broken into the meeting and annoyed the people present, I would have a different opinion about his punishment, but what he did here was clearly illegal. If he's serious about this being a case of civil disobedience, he should accept the consequences of his actions. Trying to avoid the consequences just defeats the entire purpose.
Funny how it comes around again but in circa 1995 everything was streaming using RealAudio so the music industry was pretty eager to have it available since the user never actually had the files. http://books.google.com/books?id=wAcEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA107&...
I am under the feeling they believe they can crowdsource the security. I understand security and safety will hurt their business scalability, but they will eventually have to offer insurance, escrowing, legal support and authentication to their customers.

Failure to do so will probably end up in the service collapsing under its own weight.
I can't speak for him either, but I'll speak for those of us who are against destroying the environment but won't use the word environmentalist as it, like the word organic and the word christian, have been co-opted by evil bastards with corporate control agendas. Screw all that. It is impossible to take "environmentalism" seriously as a movement when you have people like Al Gore respected, and the Goldman Sachs controlled Carbon exchanges the purpose of which is obvious and it's not to reduce needless consumption.
The thing that I think is wrong in your calculation is your thoughts that data transfer forms the highest cost for these providers. I sincerely doubt that.

Anyway, a total fee of $0.03 is ridiculous, as it doesn't include fixed costs for the connection.
I...actually think that's pretty good. It's funny, while bringing up the fact that [if you bring strangers into your house] they could steal something. Still, I see why they would remove it at this time.
Want to opt out? Don't visit sites using tracking methods with which you disagree. This is a fairly trivial way of opting out of such tracking, and would help incentivize those sites to change their tracking policies and technologies. If you really care that much, vote with your actions. It won't change anything, much like voting in united states elections, but you can at least back up your stance while knowing that most people do not care one bit nor wish to think about what happens behind the scenes of each website, tv program, and news story they consume in the course of being entertained. You're free to choose, at least until you decide not to be.
Airbnb is a YC startup, Hacker News is YC-focused and Airbnb are in the news and being criticized for their safety and security. What's the problem, now?
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Ah, my bad. I totally see I needed to scroll down >.<
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Is libertarianism defined by Ayn Rand? Is capitalism defined by Donald Trump? Let's put Gore aside for a minute, and focus on the core issues. An environmentalist is someone who, fundamentally, sees the protection of the environment (for practical and/or idealogical reasons) as one of our most serious responsibilities. To say that certain people who identify with the movement are wrong, therefore the movement is wrong, is to say you can't believe in animal rights without being a PETA supporter. It's just a terribly flawed argument. Flipping it on it's head, I could say that environmentalism is beyond reproach because it has people like David Suzuki [1] as its champions. Those arguments simply don't hold water.

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There's Firewall iP for jailbroken iPhones. Also one can install other browsers than Safari from the Appstore and, for example, iCab Mobile has the ability to use filters (and comes with some).
Excellent list.

I disagree with getting rid of drama, writers and editors in journalism. It's often drama that makes a story compelling enough to bother to read, and then care. It's also drama that gives some victims the only remembrance they might have. Few people beyond the geek-sphere are going to want to pore over charts and graphs.

Absolutely include those (interactive) charts and graphs along stories, I've liked this trend since I noticed it.

Here's an example of a dramatic story that made me care about a murder case and the people, both cops and victims, involved:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-laza...
I'm not an active Airbnb user, but I've read in comment threads here that if you decline a guest, your search rankings go down. Is this true or FUD? If so, how does that reconcile with "If for some reason it just doesn't feel right, feel free to say the booking won't work for you. If it's not right for you, it's okay to walk away."
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Listen, someone was gonna post it.
Since when have users been entitled to privacy? It's just more obvious now when user data is collected, and things move much faster so it's on a more tangible scale. Small town gossip was used in much the same way to gain competitive edges at the expense of customer privacy, it just wasn't as easy to see/prove how the data moved from one spot to another back in the days of pre-electronic commerce.
> It's all part of the game.

To be fair, game theory also indicates that the way to get cooperation is to punish selfish actions.
I haven't seen it yet, but you can apparently apply for some jobs with a linkedin button.

Would be nice to have a similar set of health data, under my supervision, that I can submit to a new doc or hospital.

EDIT: Looks like an opportunity for someone to fill the role of LinkedIn for health data, instead of employment data. The various more or less stove-piped doctors, hospitals and agencies are going to take a long time to coordinate their data, and get it correct, if ever. I, however, am very motivated to keep my data up to date and available.

I recently saw a new doctor and was pleased that she had online history forms. I filled them out with pleasure. Then at my first visit ... wait for it ... I filled out paper forms with the same information. gack!
/me puts some popcorn on to pop, cracks open a soda, and sits back to watch the show...
When you need multiple spatially distributed active/active write nodes (multiple masters...) you pretty much need Oracle RAC.
When confronted with the cost, you end up designing something where writes are pushed to a caching layer, which deals with an active/passive setup, with enough buffer to switch passive to active if something goes wrong.
unless the top 5 percent just get pissed off and leave altogether.

But this is exactly what will most likely happen. Assuming that at least a larger percentage of this top 5% are 'power downloaders', I can pretty much assure you that those will not take this, and leave (if they can, that is).
Actually he COULD pay for the bids he won, he just wasn't intending to drill them.
My personal favorite is the "at least one capital". I've taken mnemonics with a large subset of the asciibet, but I can't memorize case well. So what happens? Every password begins with one capital. "Ehsiwvky" instead of "ehsiwvky", right?

I enjoy the juxtaposition of following the letter of the rule, violating the intent of the rule, but nonetheless honoring the spirit of the rule.
It's time to nationalize Apple, sell its assets and use the money to take off of the crisis.
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According to this site, Romania has no gift tax.

Yeah, I probably made a mistake -- I was under the impression that we had a gift tax.
I just won't wear that label, sure I care about having a clean environment, nice land yadda yadda but I wont describe myself as an environmentalist for reasons that others have pointed out in this thread.
Who at Airbnb called her?

That's like saying to me when I walk into the office; "Someone called you about something." It means nothing.

Names. Times. That's the way to handle this. You know, you guys REALLY need good PR people.

Number 1 rule of damage control: Make sure everyone involved (on your side) is on the same sheet of music.
Number 2 rule: Never lie.
Number 3 rule: Give the victim what they want.
Why even bother with the state? Just get the postal code.

Hell, just let the user write in the postal code and use their IP address to match it with the country of residence. They can put any number in there and you can match it to some location. No states. No assumptions. Well, beyond the one about IP address being accurate, I guess.
I disagree. This is a Whack-A-Mole game, and that means a societal solution is required.

Compare with spam. Technological solutions have reduced the problem, but to virtually eliminate it requires global law enforcement.
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My uninformed assumption is that there is no technical reason why this couldn't happen for most banks tomorrow. It's the way it is because they want it that way.
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AirBNB competitor Wimdu.com seems to be advertising agressively these days.

Their ads seem to be all over the place.

Have seen them today on Youtube - not even related to housing content

http://i.imgur.com/Nh6Q5.jpg

also have seen Wimdu ads today on some travel related bloggers site - as affiliate ads

etc.
> I'm saying that the levels of emotional response she's describing are so over-the-top that I find it incredibly difficult to identify with them. [...] These are not the actions of a well-balanced person who is in a difficult emotional state due to circumstances. These are the actions of someone who really needs some serious help.

What's not the action of a well-balanced person is telling her or anyone else how they should feel in response to traumatic events. There are many, many people--men as well as women, so you can't write this off as some kind of weak-minded feminine hysteria--who are mugged, for example, and consequently develop serious neuroses that take them years to overcome. A former school mate of mine, an ex-special-forces martial arts bad-ass who you'd think would be fearless, had that happen to him and could barely get himself to leave his apartment for an entire year. That kind of response isn't based on a calm and rational risk assessment, but that doesn't make it any less genuine and deeply felt. Sufferers are often aware on a conscious rational level that they're overreacting, but that doesn't make the problem magically vanish.
It's all fun and games until someone is homeless.

Remember, a midst all this BS, there is still that woman who still doesn't have her house back.
The way many people here jumped to conclusions after the initial AirBnB story based on almost no information is really disheartening. Insulting the founders of the company, the victim, and concocting conspiracy theories based on a few paragraphs of information with barely any evidence is a really poor way to conduct oneself. Most decent people wouldn't do it in face-to-face conversations without getting to know a person at least slightly, and it's unfortunate that our psychology is built in a way that an extra layer of anonymity afforded by the internet enables a large number of people to drop all sense of tact and respect, and jump into personal attacks with very little information about the actual incident. If you're one of the people that engaged in this type of behavior, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. You're doing real damage to real people, while knowing almost nothing about what's actually going on, but more importantly, you're damaging your own reputation.

I had the opportunity to hear the founders speak a number of times. They're one of the very few founders that are incredibly genuine about bringing a positive change into the lives of their customers. They live and breathe positive change they bring to the world, to the point where they carry letters from customers that thanked them for saving their lives because the bank would have repossessed their home if not for AirBnB. Jumping on them because they didn't have a chance to give a complete response while handling a crisis is really uncalled for.

I don't know the victim but it's easy to misinterpret events after going through an emotional trauma. Most likely it's a misunderstanding, but even if it isn't, it's really inappropriate to insult people given the information currently available. In fact, it's never appropriate to insult people, and it's best to hold back criticism until more information is available, lest you do some real damage to real people.

There are some valid concerns about where personal responsibility ends and liability begins (legally and ethically), and how AirBnB's service will evolve to address these issues, but there are different ways to discuss these concerns, and discussions here so far have been nothing but poisonous.
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I find it curious that you say that. A thief is not just someone who shifts a few numbers in a spreadsheet, a thief tends to break things in order to gain access to valuables, or threaten people's lives. The line between that and willful vandalism is not so terribly thick.
I think it's more interesting to see how people respond to the open question, rather than the OP limiting the scope. You can now look at any of the responses for various and possibly surprising narrowed domains.
I would agree, except when such ease of use comes at the expense of your standard (or more experienced than standard) techie.

It's my opinion that the Mac platform has been able to succeed because of its developers, and its developers flocked to the platform because it made coding so fun (and full of Unix goodness). (For more thoughts along those lines, see The Art of Unix Programming.)

Hiding the Library & System folders isn't terrible, because it's easy for me to undo. However, requiring me to type in my password every time I move an application tells me that Apple is going in the wrong direction here, a direction that only hurts developers and, by extension, its own platform.
I'm aware of that, but this part of the story seems to have evolved past that. I'm only referring to the "Arrington vs. pg" sub-story that's fallen out of this.

I certainly don't mean to make light of what happened to the lady who's home was ransacked.
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Does it work that way in other browsers too?
- "Brian Chesky called me and I updated that post"
- "Chesky repeatedly thanked me for the updates by email and on the phone"

Seems like Chesky and Lukezic spent more time talking to Arrington trying to do "PR damage control" rather than talk to their customer EJ. Which, given Arrington's new post, totally backfired, too:

"At least have the decency to stand up and say you’re wrong, Airbnb, and apologize for the lies. Because hiding behind investors, and attacking the press, is both dishonorable and stupid. That’s no way to gain customer trust."

Ouch. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
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Another example of a select few bad apples ruining it for everyone. This is such a shame. I've had great experiences with Airbnb. The last person who rented my loft left it cleaner that it was before!
Good point, that bit about fiber is wrong. What I said should probably be amended to mean that juice = (fruit - fiber). But surely that's no reason to stop drinking juice, unless people really use juice as a replacement for whole fruit, and fruit as a primary means of getting fiber. I guess it is a valid concern, though.
Android is not a toy, you can easily see it's an improvement over traditional mobile, and it highly influenced by the web.

I fought Android until I decided to throw my entire weight behind Java and settled on it as a platform. Don't fight it: learn Java proper, do a few SWT & Swing apps, feel the burn .. then do Android.

You can ignore the abstractions and just "draw up" your application with Eclipse, inside one giant activity, but you would be doing yourself a disservice.

I told myself "Java sucks, it's bloated, it's big, yada yada yada. Just man up and learn it; no sense in bitching about what you don't know" :-) Glad I did. It gets work done.
Hmm looks like a lot of work for relatively little in savings [1]. As a guest I'd rather avoid it and pay the premium for the convenience of a traditional hotel [2]: you just walk in and book a room. I recognize that making friends is claimed as the other benefit of using Airbnb, but I doubt that ever had as much broad appeal as the promise of saving money.

[1] - And even with this much work, there are still substantial risks, for both the host and the guest.

[2] - The only exception might be extended stays of weeks/months.