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Well, what's China going to do as we print our way out of our debt to them? If they get bellicose, then our nukes will come in handy. If they sit there and take what will essentially be a default on our debt via printing, then will be be conquered by them economically?
You come up with only a single, high level reason for what could have thousands of reasons, and you seriously come up with one that is a detriment to our entire species. Draw from that conclusions on your capacity and will for logical thinking, sorry this has to be blunt. You are the modern day crusader. You get an idea in your head with next to no logical reasons and then start to proselytize everyone around you.

I'll give you another just as likely reason for past societal collapses (frankly, a lot likelier reason), and you can then fill in more if you are able.
In times of peace, leaders have no dire motivation to mold their citizens into specific paths that are catalyst for military purposes. This leads to societes that are directionless. Historically, only military societies prevailed because they had direction and motivation to improve. However, what's so bad about being directionless? What exactly causes the downfall of "peaceful" (=actually just directionless) societies? We have to dig a little deeper. You jumped the gun and proclaimed it was peace itself that was doing the damage. That sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Peace itself has millions of little and big effects on society. Among these effects is the loss of need for children, therefore inevitably marriage laws get relaxed. Humans want to have sex a lot and with many other people, and marriage gets in the way of that. In peaceful times we have seen a gradual destruction of marital laws. This leads to marriages which can be formed and destroyed at the whim of any person, and in our society today, it's even worse because women are considerably favored in the break-up. This leads to people being very cautious to form deep bonds, and this ultimately leads to a weaker society, a society devoid of the ultimate motivation for every human being: Providing and protecting your family. It's like taking away one of the primary engines of a spaceship. There is still other engines that powers it: Need for food. Need for sex. However the strongest one, the motivation to protect your own children is gone. Because there are no children, because there are no marriages, because marriages are nowadays too fast and detrimental for male parties.
What we need, is actual equality between the genders.
1) I understand your point, but according to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

It only took a decade to go from 6 to 7 billion. We can build up a population in the blink of an eye.

2) Do parents have children to bring more tax payers into the world? :) Ponzi scheme or not, people taking the time to establish themselves first means fewer children, but also fewer neglected children.
You highlight a real tension: a great strength of a tiny startup is to thrive on niches so tiny that established companies cannot justify entering - so they don't compete. The tension is that it's not exciting (unless you're prone to visions).

Also, a tiny niche is probably all you can cope with, with limited resources.
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It would be awesome if there was a forked Django/Rails/Sproutcore framework with tight integration with something like Twitter Bootstrap.

That way you would have a super awesome looking app right from the start.

The pros can work on the lean frameworks while the lazy ones like me can hop onto the shoulders of the giants ;-)!
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If things did lead to decentralization, I would celebrate such a thing. In general, decentralization wouldn't necessarily be the death of the software industry, just of centralized gatekeepers in specific areas. Things like Big Data(tm) (gathering and analysis) would be hard to decentralize.
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Gold rests on a mass psychological base that has remained reasonably stable for thousands of years. Well, if you want to to call something stable that went from $100 in the seventies to $800 in the early eighties back to $300 at the turn of the century to $1800 now. At least it never went to $0 as many currencies did in past millenia.

For me, that kind of "safety" is like becoming a farmer to avoid starving to death in the event of war.
Not to mention a lot of the browser wars right now are about core performance, as UI cues are rapidly picked up by every competitor. You can't directly compete with entire teams on that playing field.
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BTW, if you see any of yourself in this article, do yourself a favor and look in to the Lean Startup methodology.
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What will happen is no other country will invest in us again, and considering our addiction to debt, we will run into some... problems.

Heck, if we inflate our currency aggressively enough, other countries could wind up simply not accepting our money. It's hard to imagine today, but it's a real possibility- the value and purchasing power of your money is entirely rooted in everyone else's confidence in it's stability.
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On a crude statistical basis children born out of wedlock don't fare too well either,...

True, but the crude statistical basis fails to account for wealth (and to a lesser extent race). In the US, marriage is for rich people. Since the children of rich people fare well in general, the bias here is obvious.

I'd love to see stats comparing children born out of wedlock holding income and race fixed.
Do parents have children to bring more tax payers into the world? :)

You say it like it's a silly idea, but not long ago people in America had children expressly for the purpose of helping around the farm, and in Asian cultures there is still an explicit overtone that parents have children so that they have someone to depend upon in old age.

And by 'explicit overtone', I mean your parents say it to your face and you become a social pariah if you abandon your family- at least as best I understand it from my Asian friends.
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AKA the Planck time

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It's ridiculous because if the cell companies can afford to allow you to send 1000s of texts for $10/month, then:

* Why does it cost $0.15/text to send/receive? 1000 texts at that rate is $150.00.

* Why do they charge for incoming text and then make it so hard to block incoming texts?

* There are perverse incentives. The cell carriers have no incentive to block/deter SMS spam on their network. Actually, they are incentivized to allow it.

* In the US, on some carriers, it's ~ $0.25 - $0.35 to send/receive texts without a plan, whereas unlimited is usually ~$10/month.

* The cell carriers want people to pay a standard rate because it makes their accounting calculations/projections easier.

* The cell carriers want people to pay a standard rate because they probably would pay less on a pay-as-you-go plan. (Though if people started taxing the SMS system, they would quickly reverse course and start talking about people being 'SMS hogs.')
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I don't want to gloat, but when I dump my database in postgres and then restore the dump, I don't have to concern myself with character sets and --default-encoding parameters because the dump will contain a "set encoding" statement that corresponds to the files content.

Aside of that, IMHO, the database is the least problematic part of the chain as long as you tell the client library what character set the incoming data will be in. It then should transcode automatically if needed.

One additional thing: I once witnessed MySQL silently truncating Latin data I accidentally tried to store in an utf-8 table, so you might to be a bit careful. Usually you should just get an error if you tell the database that your data is utf, but it isn't (http://pilif.github.com/2008/02/failing-silently-is-bad/)

Lastly, IMHO, the biggest issue is, as usual, the browser: to this day it's possible to have IE submit data in ISO-* (depending on the users locale) despite clearly stating to only accept utf. Be mindful of this and fix the encoding if you can (or have the database blow up - see above)
I see your point. Although, I've been using 303 redirect for this purpose in my app after reading the specs, and haven't experienced any problems yet. So maybe you should consider switching to 303.
Did you just buy and convert a few admin themes that you now have shelved for future projects or is there some sort of workflow / tool you use to integrate these themes into your rails app ?

I just found out about install_theme (https://github.com/drnic/install_theme) which looks usefull.

Personally I've been using active_admin for simple apps, which has a pretty good theme, but there's not really much variation, if any.
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According to http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10...

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Unless I misread something, you didn't actually deny that peace was the ultimate cause of the problems.

"Detriment to our entire species" is also far from proven. This far mankind has done pretty well even with all the wars. While it's certainly unfortunate for the ones actually involved in the war, it might be better for "the greater good". Or maybe it isn't. The point is that you shouldn't dismiss an argument just because it's politically incorrect nowadays.
"/" is also not a single key on all keyboard configurations. On a swedish keyboard it's shift+7, hardly any easier than ctrl+f.
Not only that, but is there a theoretical peak for that which is necessary for survival, another peak for wide spread population and dispersion, and yet another peak for max efficiency?
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I need some milk! Let me add that to my shopping array.

Back in the real world, I see non techies deal with lists every day. Ordered lists. Given a list, with numbers in the margin, they can easily answer "Who came first?" or "What's next on the list?", or "What's item 5 on the agenda".

But noooo. We have to call them arrays. Lists are something else. o_O

The way I would describe an array to a novice is that it's a more complex and potentially useful type of variable

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There are many people out there wondering the same thing - the Win8 HTML/JS announcement has thrown the rumor mill into a frenzy.

My advice - wait one month for BUILD (http://www.buildwindows.com/).

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I always assumed you could not do that as the terms of service say

You agree not to distribute in any medium any part of the Service or the Content without YouTube's prior written authorization, unless YouTube makes available the means for such distribution through functionality offered by the Service (such as the Embeddable Player).

Am I mistaken?
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Add to these the recent announcement of Foxconn to install 1000000 robots. Now software will even be eating up sweatshops. Unfortunately, the rest of the economy is slow to catch up with these changes, in both the developing and (in a smaller degree) in the developed world. For the developing world this means a slump in growth until a more educated generation grows up, for the developed world, it means slow job creation. It's not a fault of technology; governments should have seen this coming decades ago. It's a shame that still, in many countries, programming is not required in primary or secondary education.

Take a moment to brag and enjoy the glory. Marc is a hero and this is an inspiring piece. Now back to work...
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Agreed. The author's purported "better" designs are visually unappealing, really very cluttered, and seem to miss the point (re: menu items being cut off at the bottom, etc.).

The author has said in another HN post that "it's my job to look at things others don't look at"--even setting aside the holier-than-thou sort of tone that that evokes, this sort of "it doesn't line up with the grid" complaint reminds me of those obnoxious "unsolicited redesigns" of websites you see hit HN once in a while--the ones that don't take into account critical aspects of why things are done the way they're done.
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Interesting replies. 0% on IE 9 and Chrome 13, and 15% on firefox 5 (which translates to 60% of a core). Running Win 7 x64.
Aaaaaand... just upgraded to Firefox 6. 0%. Rather fickle piece of javascript, eh?

And just because why not:

IE 8 in a winXP vm: 0%

IE 6 in a winXP vm: 0%

Doesn't work in FF3.
My suggestion would be to use Silverlight :

1.Single codebase between Mac & Windows

2.Out of browser support

3.Rich UI capabilities http://www.silverlight.net/showcase

Seeismic Desktop 2 is a good example .
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In other words, when women have more economic freedom.
So what exactly have you seen that makes you lead to this conclusion?

The theory you have can be noticed by other travellers and students of history; so I would have to ask: what have you observed and analyzed that led you to this conclusion?
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Can you elaborate on this "mandatory elderly tax"? I've never heard of such a thing.
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Permutation City[1] by Greg Egan is one particular (hard SF) look at this idea.

I'm pretty sure there are others, it's quite a common trope.

In the (hopefully) real world, there was something fairly recently about possible violations of the Planck length:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110630111540.ht... (news wrapper around http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1068 )

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Permutation-City-Greg-Egan/dp/00610548...
I think "true love for life" is a very american possibly western fairy tale. In asia it's more like "a partnership in the ups and downs of life" and is centered on creating a solid foundation to raise a happy and prosperous family.
We're just using the embeddable player (the iframe version of it) which automatically uses Flash on the web and HTML 5 <video> on iOS http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/iframe_api_reference.htm...
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Are they also clearing the PC:s? I wouldn't mind an HP Envy..
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No, HP is not going to stop making PCs, unlike tablets. They're just spinning off the division.
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Agreed, in asia a family unit is not just parents and their children. It involves, grandparents, and great grandparents if they are around. It's not a "you have to take care of me" kind of a deal but something like "family takes care of itself" -> when you have kids, grandparents help out actively in raising them, then you are adults you help your parents, physicall, financially. Families often have assets stowed away as a collective unit.
Never more quickly have I realized that there is no point in discussion. There are too many things I'd need to explain to make this anywhere near worthwhile.
I'll just point out a few things and then I'll be on my way. This is nowhere near enough to explain everything to you, but I feel the need to give you a few more pointers.

First of all, it would be common courtesy in any fruitful discussion that if you require me to provide evidence or some sort of logical construct supporting my theory, that you would do the same for yours first.

Secondly, you make the mistake of thinking life is easy. It's a really healthy attitude, and it is certainly born out of real life experiences, but the unfortunate truth is, that it's not easy. It's terribly complicated, and everything has so many reasons that it makes it pointless to try to enumerate them. I only ask that you don't restrict yourself to a single reason, like you did in your post. I only ask that you recognise that life is not easy, and that discussions are not easy and that you can't possibly ever understand a problem fully.

Your simple request for evidence to reject equality of gender as a requirement for peaceful societies is not simple to answer. This question is really a symptom of what I pointed out before. Your question would require extensive research into gender history, statistical analysis of marriage data, sexual encounters, the change of laws over history, how governments evolved under different societies, how governments treated genders, how that affected them, and many more personal assessments like how equality is historically always fought for and therefore it would be a pointless battle to reject it in the long run, ...the list is endless.

I hope you can now see that discussion is pointless. What we are all left with is the belief that we can achieve stable peace, that we can achieve gender equality and at the same time maintain a thriving society. This is what I want, and therefore I try to find theories to support that. Do not take that as naivety. Many will, but only people who have thought this through will agree that all their facts are in essence belief. You are doing the same thing, but labeling it differently. It's like the chicken or egg problem. What came first, your belief or the fact? In order to form any sort of belief, you need facts. In order to find facts, you need some beliefs first.
I see what you mean.

As pg points out: "One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy." (http://paulgraham.com/13sentences.html)

Regarding the fact that they are all "we are the x of y of z" and seem derivative, pg says:

"One good trick for describing a project concisely is to explain it as a variant of something the audience already knows. It's like Wikipedia, but within an organization. It's like an answering service, but for email. It's eBay for jobs. This form of description is wonderfully efficient. Don't worry that it will make your idea seem "derivative." Some of the best ideas in history began by sticking together two existing ideas no one realized could be combined." (http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html)
It's in Hollywood's interests to reassure people that they are still smarter than computers.
I choose to mention the nickname Japanese have for this tax. Really it is the municipal-tax which is either 7% (I think) of the income, or minimum of 180 USD/month (in my area, in Tokyo it is higher). The tax is used for the local infrastructure, but has risen dramatically in the past years to cover the costs of pensions. Therefor it got the nickname "elderly tax".
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I've worked with Brandon and got a WP7 phone fairly quickly. But I already had a popular iPhone app.