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The flaw in your argument is that currency is subjected to demand pressures as well. How so? When demand for housing, food, electronics is high, then it automatically implies demand for currency is low. That is another way of saying people are willing to give up currency for real goods; which is another way of saying people are putting less value on the currency over physical goods; which means the barter power of the currency is decreasing; which means lower buying power with respect to the currency. That is key point. This means that there is rise in prices (without monetary intervention) when there is preference to own goods. And we all want goods and services in the end game. But this rise in prices do not spiral out of control because there is demand for currency as well - which really is demand for time preference, that being the choice to consume later on. We also know the demand for time preference is not unlimited because ultimately have to consume to make good of the money. Therefore, with greater population, comes with greater demand for money, but also comes with greater demands for owning/consuming goods. So that is why price levels will not absolutely decline over time because money supply is fixed. In fact, history proves this point -- look at the USA data in pre-federal reserve era.
"SF cons don't usually provide food for all attendees, which is the big cost driver for tech cons. For PyCon 2011, catering was 54% of the budget."

Isn't the catering cost a catch-22? The only reason to expect food at a tech conference is because you (or more likely your employer) is paying out the wazoo for a conference ticket to begin with.

I'd be much more likely to go to a tech conference that was $99 and gave me no food than go to a tech conference that cost $500+ and was fully catered. I can take care of my own food needs for far less than $400 over the space of a couple of days.
The total number of bitcoins in circulation is capped, even though the total quantity of wealth in the world continues to increase.
If bitcoins were the only currency used, then yes, this would cause hoarding problems. Does this mean bitcoins are flawed?
No. It just means that there is a cap on how much wealth can be purchased with bitcoins.
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"Go to mysite dot tripl'x" ?
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As long some commodity (X) gains monetary value (demand for X is demand for a medium of exchange) it no longer needs any other value to function.

Still I doubt that cans of mackerel have no other use than monetary in prisons. Not many McDonalds around, beside if those were never consumed their supply would be grow continually which will to "mack" inflation.

P.S. Have you missed the point about the hot?
You're being downvoted for not using an HN approved workflow. Your workflow is inconceivable and therefore wrong.
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Please cite a source on this "one rule of money" you're thinking of?
Healthcare can indeed be pointed to as the primary cause of cost inflation in education, because, well, it is.

Don't take my word for it. Go to your local town/city hall and pull the budgets for the last decade, then scan the line items. Unless your locality has something very different going on than everywhere else, you'll see huge increases in healthcare costs and cost-cutting relative to inflation everywhere else.
Sorry I don't think Obama is any more of a socialist than Bush. My only point was that he wouldn't like the idea of getting rid of the union contracts which bankruptcy would allow. A Republican president would likely welcome such a change.
Rationally, people should wait as long as possible to buy tech because they'll get more later. Instead, they buy it at a furious rate. Why is that?
Love these stories - but, although I have Prey installed, my account is passworded and full-disk encryption is on too.

So I guess it would be a reformat for the thief and no Prey for me?
Replace "Property owners" with people of influence.
www has three times as many syllables as 'world wide web', yet somehow it caught on.
This article strikes me as being incredibly reductionist as to what the ISS has to teach us. Sure, pure science is not being greatly advanced by the ISS - as noted in the article, robotic satellites have proven to be a better solution for that. But we have learned massive amounts about the engineering needed for:

a) in orbit construction of large structures.

b) What things don't scale when building on a larger scale? What sort of joints work when large structures can generate large moments of torque due to rotation. How do we deal with leaks etc, which become more likely the bigger the structure. What are

c) keeping humans alive in space for months at a time (necessary if we are ever to visit other planets)

d) building high-capacity equipment for space - how do you deal with solar heating on something as large as the ISS? What's the effect of all of that moving charge generated by those massive solar panels, when there is absolutely no way to ground the system?

These are the sorts of things that can only be figured out by doing - as most of us on HN know, engineering is not a hard science - we don't necessarily know in advance which things are important and which things can be neglected - who would have thought that low temperatures could cause a shuttle to explode, or that falling insulation foam could cause one to disintegrate on re-entry? We learn these things by doing and discovering what works and what doesn't. The ISS is by far the biggest piece of hardware we have ever assembled in space, and the lessons we have learnt in building it are well-worth the dollars spent.

Of course, we musn't forget that the damned thing would have cost an awful lot less if the launch prices that we have available today, thanks to SpaceX and friends, had existed 20 years ago. If we must criticize the ISS, the thing to criticize is the fact that we used the Shuttle to build it, and the Shuttle was a really bad solution to the problem of launching things into space. But then, we didn't know the Shuttle was a bad idea until we tried it - prior to trying it looked really good on paper!
If money is decreasing in value, it gives people a huge incentive to do something with it - buy something or invest. As long as the decrease to the value is small (1-3%) and predictable, this is a good thing.
Why pay 3/4 of the population to work 40 hours a week when we could pay all of them to work 30 (then 20, then 10)?

Because many types of work do not lend themselves to be broken up into pieces. Communication/coordination overhead can be quite large as any programmer will be able to attest to. Also, educating twice as many people costs at least twice as much.

But of course that's a very narrow view on the costs and benefits of having a lot of skilled and motivated people around. Available work is not a fixed size pie after all.

I totally agree with you that the disappearance of a huge number of menial jobs is potentially disruptive. It's actually quite amazing how many people still do jobs that anyone can easily pick up within a week. These people are just not used to learning no matter how much politicians beat the education drum. That doesn't mean they're dumb, lazy or uncreative but that by itself will not get them a new job I'm afraid.
I don't think so. I want to treat any of N events as one virtual event and still treated like just one step on the funnel.

Don't think I can do that with segmentation, can I?
Would it really have taken off by now? I really don't know much about STM, and I know there is no one canonical STM, but it's often compared to garbage collection. How long did it take for garbage collection to take off? Wikipedia claims GC was invented in 1959 and STM in 1995.

edited to correct the date
Totally agree. My kids have gone to the public high school and a large fraction (more than 20%) of the students there could be getting an education but they choose not to.

I don't know why this is, but I know of no counter argument that supports why an individual, who gets to school, has the books and supplies provided for them, and teachers willing to help them with any issues they are having, choose not to learn. These are not kids who just don't do homework, they do no work at all. They are disruptive in class, they harass other students outside of class, why? It is not because they 'lack jobs' (which they aren't helping by not applying themselves to learning), it is not because their home situation is untenable (they could be homeless for all I know but they are at school and have all of the equipment they need to participate there).

No amount of 'money' is going to change this population of non-students. Their burdened cost is higher as other students get less done because of their antics.
That's not libertarianism. Libertarianism strongly supports private charity; it's government charity it's opposed to. Private charity is how it's supposed to work.
I don't want to turn this into a MongoDB vs Riak thread, but you may want to take another look at Mongo as the points you've mentioned are now handled. As of 1.6 we support automatic fail-over[1] and synchronous replication[2]. In 1.8 we added a journal for durability[3] which will be enabled by default in 2.0 (due out this month - rc2 released today). Optional automatic fail-back[4], for when your preferred primary (if any) comes back online, is also coming in 2.0.

[1] http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Why+Replica+Sets

[2] http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Verifying+Propagation+of...

[3] http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Journaling

[4] http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets+-+Priority
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Is Yahoo in danger of going under, it looks like they bring in about $1billion a year, do they need more than that? or are the profitable?
Well, I think tripple X is probably the way most people will "say" it, if it's ever actually "said" - if you know what I mean.

When's the last time someone told you to go to a porn site in plain English, out loud, anywhere?
I wondered about this as well. If I were professionally stealing laptops, my first instinct would be to disconnect power/battery, then boot from CD and image the HDD for later identity theft. From there a reinstall would be in order. All the theives seem to just open it up and start using it.

I also password protect my laptop. I wonder if I shouldn't to encourage immediate use for information gathering.
As an entirely personal note, I like the tone of this particular account. The author avoids the moral and legal morass of identifying someone who has not (yet) been convicted of a crime, and the article appears to focus on describing what happened and how he recovered the laptop rather than attempting to punish or shame the alleged thieves, vigilante style.

Refreshing.
I have no good answer to turn the world into a harmless place, but at least part of the cause of Great Depression was measures to pull the economy out of the recession that preceded it.

Nobody is happy when economy stagnates, but keeping the economy going by inflating prices of goods has never worked out in the long term. At some point it will crash, and it will hurt more the higher you go.
Ah, our backend supports that but our UI does not.
Ah yes, .xxx -- a solution to a problem that absolutely nobody had other than wannabe-censors.
And it's worth running a vm for development even if you're hosting it on a linux machine; presumably your workspace has a bunch of things that don't need to be installed in production.
Just curious; how often have you heard dub-dub-dub for www?
What's next for daily deals?
A major nitpick as a middle American a disproportionate percentage of MY salary is used to support the poor relative to rich people. The vast majority of wealth redistribution in this country is though SS which the wealthy get to opt out from. When you consider that I pay more in SS as a percentage of my income than Warren Buffet's entire tax bill there is something wrong with this picture. (In theory I might see some of that money back but even I nothing changes and I live to see 120 I would still be far worse off with SS than without.)

PS: Some people think of corporate taxes as double taxation on the wealthy but nothing in the US tax code says you need to invest in US companies and if you actually look at taxes paid by large companies it's vary low relative to the stated tax rate.
Two words: git submodules.
Since deflation is an obvious tax on investment and purchasing, arguments that increases in the value of a currency are "obviously" a good thing serve as a sort of litmus test for why people are interested in things like Bitcoin.

The subtextual motivation for Bitcoin advocacy has always been "it's a speculative asset and I hold a position in it". Everything else is just rhetorical cover.

The unfortunate reality is that even by reasoning through Bitcoin's programmed-in deflation, we're dignifying Bitcoin. Bitcoin itself is a sham. The original paper may have been a good-faith contribution to the state of the art in cryptocurrencies, but the "economy" is a trap; a realistic-looking distributed transaction clearing system built on a deliberately volatile wholly synthetic "asset" that exists for the purpose of creating pump-and-dump scams.
A negative interest rate actually makes sense in the presence of deflation, and if bitcoins turn into a serious currency, deflation is pretty much guaranteed.
On the other hand, the length + repetition also makes it more memorable than most TLDs.
Except teachers unions negotiate their benefits and labor contracts, and they tend to be tilted towards the interests of those with more tenure, which is not really how private enterprise operates. Also, outsourcing allowed many companies to not face 15% increases overall in health care costs as they scaled back US jobs to counter.

Also, in many states teachers receive retiree health benefits, which were not funded by setting aside money during these teachers' working years- very few private industries still have these (extremely expensive, especially if you retire pre-65/Medicare) benefits, but education does and this stuff is going to be a budgetary minefield for the foreseeable future.
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Back in the day, we used to say "triple-dub" for www-- but that never caught on with the mainstream users, and died out around 1995 or 6, I suppose.
It depends on what you mean by "take off", and what type of STM you're talking about. I use Clojure's STM regularly, and to great benefit.
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Data Analysis on Daily Deals Space between April and June
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I'm using it just for the push notifications, already have a back-end and its dead simple to use.
You fell down when he started talking about ownership split and you continued the conversation. At that point, I would decline politely to continue the line of discussion.
I was going to mention that article too. It's a great explanation.

Money and monetary systems are human creations, not laws of nature.
Ah, I didn't know that. Good to know. Although, I didn't see an increase each year. Just the few times I listed.

In any case, I highly recommend NameCheap as well.
Ah ha, yes, you are correct - but packfiles combine multiple blobs together to benefit from additional compression that you couldn't achieve by compressing each individually.
That, IMO, is the reason for .xxx -- to make life easier for those who want to censor the internet.
Yes, but isn't the problem related to the domains not the hosting?
Typical outside-the-bubble-looking-in thinking TechCrunch is some kind of kingmaker in the valley. In reality, the only thing TC truly helps with is fundraising, and that's far from an exclusive.
Hi Max,

Have you tried killerstartups.com? For about a hundred bucks you can get a few thousand pageviews. I used their service and was pretty happy. There are also other similar sites. They are not as effective but each would bring a few new subscribers.
I think this is an irrational fear.
I don't think that leeching lies in human nature.
People naturally want to take part in society as long as they are healthy.
Just think about what you would do if you wouldn't have to work. Would you stay in bed all day? I would most certainly write programs to help other people, just as I do now.
So if I have branched from master, onto experimental, and made several experimental changes that I want to actually use, then I can simply type:

git merge master
git branch master

from the tip of my experimental branch, and master will be moved up to the tip of the tree?
if they were smarter, they certainly would not end as thiefs ;-)
> In a normal economy, the population is constantly expanding.

That may be, but the western world is then abnormal. US population is projected to peak at 2030, and a number of countries already have negative population growth. Exponential growth assumptions should not be made for long periods ahead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population...
Your education and intellect are not typical of the thieving crowd.
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I'm sure the document has a clause which invalidates the donation if they murder him for the money.
"triple X" has the same number of syllables as "x x x"
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They host my website (but don't hold the domain - it's .nl). I've never had any problem. They are also wonderfully cheap for low-traffic sites, especially static ones.[1]

Of course, they assume that you know what you are doing.

[1] In fact, I've lost more money to the continuing fall of the dollars in my account than I've actually paid them. I'm not sure how to feel about that...
Have you ever eaten a cheeseburger? How do you feel after? Well, full, right? What a great feeling! You're well-nourished and ready to take on the world. You're brimming with confidence. Your eye is on the prize and, by gosh, that prize is yours!

Then something rather deflating happens. You wake up the next morning and the cheeseburger is gone. You're still the same old you. And you may even feel worse because, after the previous day's delicious cheeseburger, your hunger is all the more glaring.
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Strikes and gutters, ups and downs.
Yeah, if it's impossible for a thief to use the computer then Prey is useless. It's why I have a guest account on my computer: if someone steals it, I want them to be able to get it online so that I have some chance of recovering it.
NSFN has a good interface for registrations, but it's worth noting that they're just a reseller for register.com (they even say so in their FAQ).
Feel free to explain if/how he's wrong instead of just downvoting?
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Thats a great idea. I think I will do the same thing to avoid that reformatting risk
The surplus labor army is useful for driving down the wages of the employed, to increase the profits of the employers. Why pay 3/4 of the population to work 40 hours a week when you can pay 3/4 of the population to work 40 hours for what they used to be paid for 39 hours, holding the threat of the competing jobless 1/4 against them? This is grossly simplified, of course, but why would any company try to optimize for the benefit of society over their own?
Just because something was widely held to be true in the past doesn't mean it's widely held to be true now. Some examples: "Gold is a good thing to base our money on", "Black people are mentally inferior to white people", "Homosexuality is unhealthy", "The economy requires slavery".
Why wasn't the country in chaos when there weren't public schools at all?

Because education isn't a cure-all and isn't the only variable in the lives of the youth.

Teaching the kids that they are owed something merely because they have less than someone else?

I'm sorry, but where do you get this sentiment from the previous posts?
"...he was even bragging to his friends about buying a 17” laptop for “$2250” and saying that he “bought it”..."

Well, he might have bought it from the original thief. Just saying
Wait, the Fed is formed to finance WW1, goes on a massive inflationary binge through the 20s and causes the Great Depression, and the takeaway is that the gold is the problem?

Genius.
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Inflation and deflation aren't "controlled" by Bitcoin's design. The money supply is. Because the money supply is capped, over the long term, deflation is predictable.

The week-to-week reality of Bitcoin is one of wild swings in the "valuation" of the Bitcoin "asset". Describing these swings as "inflationary" and "deflationary" dignifies Bitcoin. Was the collapse of PETS.COM and resulting devaluation of its stock "inflationary"? Was its run-up "deflationary"?
Actually, is there an efficient way that physical gold or other precious metals can be intentionally destroyed or put beyond use? Has anyone tried to use this technique to corner a market?

In Goldfinger, the eponymous villain tried to irradiate all the gold in Ft. Knox with a dirty bomb, making it worthless.
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Really cool idea, and nice site design except for one glaring thing- the size of everything! What the hell!? Is this designed for the legally blind? There isn't even an option in the settings to make things normal-sized... Fix it!
I wouldn't be so sure that the (original) Bitcoin people are running a pump-and-dump scam - there is very little evidence either way. And there are plenty of people who genuinely seem to believe that Twitter causes and/or wins revolutions: love of technology, libertarianism and something we'll call optimism do occur together, and cypherpunks are not the least vulnerable.
If this doesn't convince you to leave GoDaddy, just remember that the owner and founder takes summer holidays shooting elephants.
Please cite one credible source of mainstream financial planning advice that suggests parking savings in US Dollars.
There's a great comment there, by David Diaz:

tl;dr version: "We hope TechCrunch fails so our tech site gets more pageviews as a result."
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