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But the absolute variation of the value the 5$ represent is based on systems that can't exist with a limited total amount of money.

What will hapen is that if the population doubles, then the 5$ will also double. Laws of demand and supply.
The title is a reference to the book "Golden Fetters" by Barry Eichengreen which discusses the role the gold standard played in transmitting deflation during the Great Depression. Krugman isn't citing statistics because Eichengreen does the heavy lifting here. He's just reminding people that libertarians who attack the Fed because they want a new gold standard are basically crazy.

I agree with his assessment (bitcoin would be a disaster as a national currency), but don't think this is a problem since it is valuable as an asset store and transfer mechanism, and seems to be holding value.
Has anyone here used Nearly Free Speech (www.nearlyfreespeech.net)? I have finally started to make my migration away from GoDaddy (I have been planning this for years), and NFS seems pretty good.

I can't seem to find any horror stories about them... but I rarely see them brought up in discussions about registrars. Am I missing something?
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> the subset of vi you have to learn to is relatively small. You need to know how to enter and leave insert mode, how to delete, and how to quit with and without saving. (For a non-vi user, the difference between knowing and not knowing those simple things is significant)

As a self-learner out in the wilderness, I don't know how I could have learned Linux without learning that basic Vi alongside. And that really is all you need to know.
in your thought experiment, the buying power of a unit of currency would go up so the prices would go down. a big reason for a non-fixed money supply is so the government has the ability to change the money supply to maximize employment
Hello, I'm the author of the post.

These are all good points, I should have made my goals clearer. I do not use it as a web development machine or something that needs to be always on.

I use it as an occasional machine, to compile and test stuff that's not working or unavailable under OSX. I was looking for a powerful and cheap VPS (which is uncommon) when I figured I'd be better served by a headless VM.

Another big plus for me is having access to it when there's no connectivity.
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this is a really good idea. It makes me wonder about setting my twitter client to follow alternate sources.
According to Wikipedia, CMU currently has an endowment of $815m so rather huge donation. I was actually surprised by this. For some reason I thought CMU had one of those endowments where $250m gets a urinal named after you.
which 1?
Exactly what I came here to say. I don't use their hosting because I've tried it and it's painfully slow and I have had it go down intermittently for a number of clients who I know use it still.

I've had to talk with their support several times for little issues too, and I've actually had excellent interactions. Again, not for hosting however.

I use their SSL certificates as well, and it's a very easy process that I've never had a problem with.

I don't know why HN is the dumping ground for bad GoDaddy experiences. There are review sites for this. I've had miserable customer service experiences with countless companies, but I'm not posting them here, and they certainly wouldn't get voted to the top.
Backups don't matter in this case. What is he going to do with backups?
Exactly. Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency.
VirtualBox also can run without GUI windows:

VBoxManage start vmname -type=headless

If you need to see the GUI, you need the VNC extensions installed (which are, IIRC, not FOSS).
I tend to agree with you. When I write scripts, I target sh, not bash. If it doesn't fit in sh, then I look at a dedicated scripting language (perl/ruby/python) that will almost certainly be a better fit.
Always amazes me that there are people out there who have $265mil to give that you can barely find anything about on Google. (Bill likely has a lot more too, as he is expected to give a very large gift to the University of Pittsburgh).

More details on him here: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11250/1172681-455-0.stm
I think David Frum put it best [1]:

> Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Wall Street Journal editorial page between 2000 and 2011, and someone in the same period who read only the collected columns of Paul Krugman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of the current economic crisis?

[1] http://www.frumforum.com/were-our-enemies-right
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What's the basis for that statement?

How many pre-1965 US Quarters and Dimes do you run into during daily commerce? Answer: Very few, since they are hoarded by collectors for their silver value.
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To call this a "tax dodge" is libel. Amazon does not owe the taxes. The citizens of California do. How can Amazon be accused of dodging taxes that it is not liable to pay.

Once again the New York Times places the blame on business, when the blame belongs on the consumer, and on the government that has made the state of California hostile to doing business within its borders.

If the law is re-interpreted to mean that the ability of another state's citizens to purchase from your business in the privacy of their homes, constitutes an obligation of said business to collect taxes on behalf of the consumer's state, then all such transactions must be equal, regardless of the distribution channel. Business conducted by catalog or by phone should also impose such a burden on a retailer.

Consider where this would have to go: every retailer would have, of necessity, to collect taxes for 50+ tax authorities, as state-after-state makes the same demand on the retailer. While large businesses (admittedly, Amazon being one of them) have the infrastructure in place to do this, most small businesses do not. Their costs will inevitably increase, as they attempt to comply with the burden of collecting for and reporting to all the various regional tax authorities.

How many brick-and-mortar shops survive today based upon their online business? Shall said businesses be required, by the government to turn away out-of-state customers because they are not equipped to collect taxes for their customers' states of residence?
Total Commander is my absolute favorite file manager. I'm a Windows/Linux guy, and I always keep a Total Commander ready (in Linux through wine).

I'm certainly gonna try the Android app. Thanks for posting this!
OTOH, Virgin USA may still be subsidizing it (by charging below cost), and just willing to take a loss if you never activate it. Since it only works on the Virgin network anyways, this isn't a risky gamble.
yep, butt it still depends on your standpoint - where u stand in the economic ladder matters a lot.

If you are on top, you wouldn't want to make extra effort to stay there!
"There's a difference between some goods -- electronics -- getting cheaper every year and all goods getting cheaper every year."

Which is what exactly? People buy electronics even though they get cheaper every year but they wouldn't buy Xs if they got cheaper every year? Can you give me an example of some Xs?
People don't hoard stocks or property when the value of what they own is constantly increasing?
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I say "unfortunately" not because of PHP, but because other languages like Python and Ruby are still not as widely used. PHP's "upload-and-go" approach is a big reason for its wide success.
I don't think anyone can afford to be naive anymore. Even traditional journalism, by and large, was a sham--the "impartial" news media is still biased for the most part, they're just better at hiding it under a veneer of professionalism.
All the complaints here about GoDaddy have nothing to do with the one reason to use them, paying the least for a domain with free DNS. If you pay them anything else then you have just nullified this advantage as they can make back the few dollars you saved on the domain by charging you more for things like hosting and SSL (free at startcom).
So impressive, but so creepy.
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Wow. Well... Wow. Domain registrars are things you touch once every few years, and their entire goal is to make it more time consuming to remove yourself from them then switch since its such an insignificant task, most people ignore it and keep with the same one.

Is this even legal?
I don't know exactly how GoDaddy works but on my namecheap account, I can issue purchased SSL certificates to any of the domains I have registered there. I assume I may even be able to issue them to domains I do not have registered there (though I have not tried and may be wrong) because they have a verification process.
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> by putting another person’s username at the start of a statement, it limits who sees it

Is this correct?
Or maybe he wants to play with it now. He gets to have his cake and eat it too. Be fabulously wealthy and get accolades for his generosity.
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I loved this:

> Save yourself the embarrassment, and avoid posting on the comments section jwz's quote on regular expressions. You are not jwz.
Pinax development has not stalled at all, it's quite active.
I've lived in communism, and something that one should not forget is that communism is the home of the mediocrity. The things that pushed the society forward and from wich resulted a multiple field development were not communist at all.
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The jury's still out on whether or not it will work for us - we just launched today! :)

This software sales model isn't new, but at the same time it is not widely used. Most people either go for hosted offerings or encrypt the source code. The viewable source code model is the same one that vBulletin and ActiveCollab use, for instance.
Bringing Hyper-V to Windows 8
Yes. Not having to leave the box in front you is a good thing, it means you can continue working on the train even when your 3G connection drops out. It also enforces a certain discipline about dependencies.
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[request] If you paint outside the edge you can keep painting.

[new] Cursor changes to match paint color.

[fix] Images are now served as client-cacheable files instead of base64 encoded strings in the html loaded from MongoDB.
(HUGE speed impact.)
Very cool guys - looking forward to passing it on to my past adventures.
There's a certain "plasticity" to the skin—very uncanny valley.
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Where I can get good info about venture funding terms?
Where I can get a good info about venture funding terms?
What I’ve Learned From Launching 8 Projects in 8 Months
Right. This was something I remember was discussed quite a bit while I was a student there. CMU has a small endowment compared to the more established private colleges it is increasingly competing against.

Harvard: 27.4 billion
Stanford: 13.9 billion
MIT: 8.3 billion
Etc.
Time for that long dreaded merger with AOL.
Electronics are not commodities -- you get value out their use. Electronic devices would have to fall in price enough to exceed the value of having and using the device.

If you look at people's behavior with a commodity like gasoline, you'll see similar behavior. When prices go up, people will "top off" their cars more frequently. When prices are falling, people tend to go further between fill-ups.
The more people spend money that they have. Debt-financed spending means that future money is not going toward goods and services.

Investment is a good thing to have, too:

GDP = Consumption + Gross Investment + Government Spending + Trade Surplus/Deficit

Paying back of credit card debt (at least principal) doesn't fall into this equation. The interest falls into the Consumption category (paying for a service). That's why consumer debt adversely hurts GDP when out of control.
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"The answer is yes (with qualifiers). Many late adopters are late adopters because they are holding out for a cheaper price for those goods. From personal experience, I've done this very thing (waiting for prices to come down on a TV before I bought it). I put that money into something with a higher return for the time being."

But you could have kept waiting and prices would have kept falling. Eventually you spent your money anyway. This seems to indicate that it wasn't the situation of falling prices that prevented you from buying a TV, since that never changed, but some external factor.

"But, the reason that's not exactly a fair comparison is that the currency itself (in this case, USD) was not deflating. Ergo, my "hoarding" was actually putting it into something with a better return for the time being, which was available because the currency was stable. If the best return I could get was holding on to my money (instead of putting it in some sort of investment vehicle), then that would be deflation."

The currency was deflating relative to TVs. Holding cash does provide a better return than holding a TV. The value of a TV depreciates much faster than cash. That's the point--why would anyone ever buy a TV when if they just held onto their money for a month they could always get a better TV for the same amount? Since TV prices are always falling, this question reduces to: why would anyone ever buy a TV? The answer is pretty simple--people want TVs. At some point if they want one, they're just going to buy one regardless of what the prices are doing, just like you did. So where's the problem?
Klonoar, you make some very good points, I'll address them one at time:

"Need 10k enrollees. . ."

We are just getting off the ground and have planned on a 60% attrition rate; however, we will readily admit this may be optimistic. To that end we have raised our goal to 50,000 enrollees (people signed up through the website). Our initial plan called for 4000 units at 2.5 occupants per unit. In creating the website we have created a higher targert to account for attrition. We have changed the wording on the website to reflect this ambiguity. We have allotted one year for this phase of the project.

"we need to spin up a little marketing campaign to get people to sign off on it. Alas, this isn't a feel good movie, so we're going to give this a nice... six months (being pretty generous here)."

We have allotted a year for this phase.

"hey guys, you all also need to be pre-approved for loans"

This can happen in parallel with marketing campaign and will take approximately one year with the help of a strong volunteer base.

"Step three begins when we get a board to actually approve all of this. There's really no guarantee this part will work; that said, if it does, we're saying 1.5 years for all of the basic setup."

This is what the "marketing campaign" is for. Of course there is "no guarantee" we will get approval. The re-zoning alone will add $200 million to the value of the land and will not be granted without strong public support. As noted elsewhere, we have allotted one year for this phase of the project.

"Step four, huzzah! We're building homes... for another 1.5 years. Can't live here just yet! No worries, though, we've got a super high speed build process... hey, wait, you're not listening, are you?"

Snarkyness aside, we are listening. . .and have just launched the site, so please give some slack. We are proposing to use Variable Density Aggregate (foam concrete) poured in form with windows and plumbing intact. The VDA will act as insulation, fire proofing, as well as an earth quake tolerant structural exterior. We anticipate building 4000 homes, including infrastructure, in 12-18 months.

"Speaking of the people behind this, who are they? There's absolutely no information on this site explaining why you should ever bother placing some level of trust in the efforts spearheaded by these people."

Point well taken, we will be putting up bios on our new "About Us" page.

Thanks for your response.

-The Omega Project Team
Well, on the other hand, I've grown weary of "UX" experts that think that means just making things look pretty. The term HCI shouldn't be foreign to them. Usability studies shouldn't just be grabbing three colleagues and asking them what they think (few ever even get that far). There is a lot of psychology that goes into usability. I'll take someone that studies that over someone that only reads other usability blogs (i.e., an echo chamber) any day of the week.

And again, I contend there are people that do both extraordinarily well. And then there's a ton that think they can, on both sides of the fence.
> And this guy is about as far away from my libertarian worldview as you can imagine.

There is something really funny about a guy with a 'not so libertarian' worldview donating 265 million to a university and a guy with a libertarian worldview that probably will never be in a position to do so commenting on that.
Just had GoDaddy conveniently renew three expiring domain names for me for TWO years. These were domain names I didn't want any more. Thanks.
It is like them in terms of features and functionality. A self-hosted option is appealing to companies that want something like Campfire/Hipchat, but want more control/security over their own data (they can host themselves behind their own VPN/firewall, etc).
Chris H always gives an audience what they want ;) Another arrow in the post-modern HTML5/CSS3 quiver.
I'm a CMU alum, and I asked about that once when they were mentioning "space naming opportunities". Very roughly and unofficially speaking, $50,000 gets you a classroom, $1,000,000 gets you a floor or wing, and $20 million gets you a department. Apparently $265 million gets you a college.
I noticed transferring a domain to different Godaddy account immediately cancels that domain's privacy-protection service. You can probably try that first before transferring your domain out of Godaddy.
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From the language I'd guess they might be setting up a charitable lead trust or gift annuity, where he'd actually be giving he money now but will continue to draw an income from it over the rest of his life. I'm fairly far removed at this point from a former career in university advancement though - that would certainly be much much larger than any I'd heard of before. There's probably also a fair chance he's already set up or is now setting up an independent foundation or trust that the money will reside in.

It's (I'd guess) fairly unlikely this is a standard bequest, though, given both the revokability and uncertain future tax status of that option. I imagine it would also take multiple years for an estate of that size to close and the funds to become available to CMU.

In terms of "why" of now, well, he gets to live for however much longer seeing his mom's name on a school that obviously means something to him, and as CMU is doing a big campaign, he gets to be a linchpin of that.
In economic speak, he's saying he'd be less willing to defer the utility of purchasing electronics if they increased in price every year.

Currently, you can invest your money elsewhere at the opportunity cost of foregoing the utility of whatever gadget it is that you want to buy until the utility of said gadget is worth to you what its price is.
Thanks for the detailed feedback.
1. Oops too late to edit it now.
2. Hmm that level subtlety will take time to evolve i guess. My understanding(from the api results) has been that they use an elaborate model.
3.Cool idea, never thought of that. They do have an api and i think they can persuaded to give a free developer account for HN. Where can i propose this as a feature? Or perhaps i can learn arc and create a wrapper.Any idea where i can find the source for HN code?
> The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not visa verse and that begins by being among them.

My take away...
My introduction to Rushkoff was Cyberia [1].

He's much more temperate now than he was in Cyberia. He has a great point, though. Restated, it's as follows: If we have abundance, why are we working for more, instead of sending the abundance to those who need it?

He seems to fall down in the mechanisms of distribution though in this article and hand-wave through it.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cyberia_(book...
And I perhaps chose the incorrect term in saying "derive" earlier. I don't think conducting a usability study is going to magically surface a design for you. You need some sort of background to influence your hypotheses. But you can test and measure usability and you don't need to be well-versed in CSS 3 or Photoshop to do so was more my point. And you can draw upon well-established principles to get yourself started.
You'll notice that I am using branches. Branches != parallel development. Multiple developers != parallel development. This is a learning exercise. I don't need all the rush and hurly-burly of doing multiple things at once.

I'm not talking about referring to commits on the commandline. You're right, I use hashes for that[1]. I'm talking about referring to commits in later commits: http://github.com/akkartik/wart/commit/0f087dbaee. It's immediately obvious that I'd broken the app for a dozen commits.

If the project were ever to get so popular that people started submitting bugs and it needed parallel development I'd.. stop using numbers. If I were to get to 293547, ditto. But I think 1935 will be perfectly useable.

[1] I like hashes. I also like separating concerns. My friends have seen me wearing a woolen cap, a raincoat hoodie and a baseball cap, all at once. What? It gets cold and rainy and sunny all at once in Texas, and hoodies suck at keeping the sun out. Every cap or number should do one thing well.
Better than new HN account with negative karma? Yeah, I'm really sticking my neck out.
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Does this really even need to be said here? A single visit to GoDaddy and their insane upselling strategies should be enough to disuade anyone that they are in it for anything but ripping you off.

namecheap.com has been quite pleasant so far. I used joker.com for years before that without complaint as well. Plenty of reasonable options out there.
"People still need what they need and want what they want and are going to buy those things regardless of what relative prices will be in the future."

What about "investors" instead of "consumers"? Right now an investor simply makes a choice between losing money by sitting on it (through increased supply ... printing money leads to inflation) or investing. If the money supply were fixed would that not make it more attractive to investors to sit on assets?
You may be right about X-XSS-Protection (with the IE8 bug) and Access-Control-Allow-Origin (when set to "*"), but I wouldn't say that X-Frame-Options reduces security. It has two possible values, SAMEORIGIN and DENY, both of which help prevent clickjacking attacks without allowing any additional cross-communication.
CMU has an extraordinarily low endowment. They were not hit as bad during the economic collapse and resulting recession.
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An Android version? Where is the Linux version I've been waiting years for?

Not that I'm complaining, TC for Android could be awesome, but I could really use good file manager in Linux, and would gladly pay for it.