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It's not about being communicated imo, it's about most people not being numerically literate enough to be able to understand (not saying you aren't, just in general). I'm convinced that more than half of the population simply isn't capable of truly understanding progressive taxation, just like they cannot comprehend time value of money or similar things. When you spell it out on a sheet of paper most people will say 'oh yeah', but they cannot really internalize it, and never will.

Of course this is a problem, because how can you expect people to abide by law they cannot understand? Worse, how can you communicate to people that they're incapable of understanding without being (or even just 'coming across as') condescending? I don't know, I don't have an answer. But when people like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03european-t.html... show being absolutely oblivious to the mechanism (people who are for the rest presumably quite intelligent, and who - professionally - spend quite a bit of time on a piece like this), how can we expect the average citizen to really understand?

I guess it's a recent problem too - just 50 years ago people just listened to their banker about financial things and their doctor on medical things, and believed whatever they said, but we've long passed that point.
That depends what you've been buying.

Off the top of my head the big advantage to Google is the ability to track behaviour patterns before spending (and match them to similar patterns that didn't result in a purchase and look to modify that behaviour).

While I don't think that's a big deal, I also don't see the benefit to me in giving it to Google. Maybe that will change when I see the full service offering but from what I know at the moment this feels like I have a potential loss (privacy) and little or no potential gain.

On that assessment I wouldn't go near it.
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A contrarian commentary on Jeremy Keith's presentation at the BD conference last week.

“Mobile web” is a language thing, but language is important. It enables us to talk about stuff.
I would say that the problem is systemic - you have two political parties which are basically at eachothers throats the whole time, and a historical belief in a very pure form of capitalism - money is the bottom line, and the markets should govern themselves - the result? - all of the manufacturing has moved abroad, effectively killing the working classes ...

Any attempts to change this system gets vigourously branded 'socialism' both by the media (fox news) and by republican opposition which also has historical connotations harking back to McCarthyism and the Cold War ...

I don't think this is going to change anytime soon unless we see some sort of systemic collapse ... I would argue that this is possible ...
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This depends on what I'm trying to buy; if I'm having to spend a lot of money on buying positional goods, I'm not wealthier.

Before anyone assumes that 'positional goods' means "biggest house on the block" or "huge speedboat", I might point out that "a house to rent/buy in a high school district that doesn't completely suck" and "time with a competent doctor" are a couple examples of de facto positional goods.

I'm aware that we could see a big increase in the supply of that latter in theory, of course... but I'd be willing to bet that it'll be quite likely to see big-screen TV halve in price in the next 5 years, or a mid-market car add most of the features of a 2011 luxury car by 2016, etc. I'd also bet that the relative pricing of good educating, lawyering or doctoring goes up in the same time frame, even taking into account innovations in these spaces (Khan academy, do-it-yourself legal stuff, ...)
Joking is fine -- as long as you make a point and contribute to the discussion. Throwing out some one-liner about Apple security is not a valuable contribution, and then yes, your jokes weren't funny either.
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This whole movement was born out of the frustration that there was no democratic way to influence or change IP policy because the established party system effectively shielded it from public access. Elections were won with other topics like taxes, economy, etc, and IP policy was strictly kept quiet about, smuggled under the public radar, then finally arranged with the content industry behind closed doors (remember ACTA being declared a "threat level national security" issue to shield it from public scrutiny). Effectively, IP was handled as something "too important to let the public vote on it".

The problems arose when IP was started to be enforced against the public, to stop the free flow of information because few bits of this information have (undemocratically) been declared someones "property". Now the public was not only excluded from having a say in the prescious IP policy, they have become the primary _target_ of the IP policy, without any democratic way to do something about it. Millions of people have been threatened and sued, and to decide whom to sue, mass surveillance and data retention laws have been introduced. Even child pornography was misused as a vehicle to enable new intrusive surveillance laws with the intent to later apply them primarily to file sharers.

> not just unwedded to the IP establishment, but against it.

And not only being against IP establishment, but literaly created from scratch to fight it. See Rick Falkvinges Google Tech Talk about the creation of the Piratpartiet:

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08gfh_6sbQI
> Am I expected to believe that a technology company cannot figure out how to run two different business arms with a single customer-facing UI/website?

Even worse, the technology company we're talking about already does that and has done it for years.
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Give me a wiki implementation that supports image upload, and I might look at Sharepoint again.
That an attacker has physical access does mean that your computer is compromised, so you're half right.

If you seriously think having an account on a machine is as good as having the root account, then you should call up every shared hosting provider and let them know. They hand out accounts to any asshole with $10.
So basically you are basing your proposition of robbing the people who have made wealth for themselves on your really wanting to believe that most people would want to be productive? Isn't that, how shall I say it, rather strange? Because for your assertion that those who want to be productive outnumber slobs 3:1, I'll posit the exact opposite.
Lesson 1 is that you don't make an A. The girls get an A from you. I know girls want me, and I make them chase me. Combine that with the basics (dress well and go out and talk to girls) and you're halfway there. But don't think "basics" means easy; you'll be surprised at the number of excuses a perfectly normal guy will make not to say hi to that girl.

Man up, walk over to her, and say "Hi. I thought you looked cute and wanted to meet you. I'm Robert." Repeat times 1000. That was your warm-up. Now things should feel much more natural and you will understand a whole lot more about social interaction.
Delivering streaming media content has some infrastructure costs as well. Bandwidth is not free (it will get worse if Net-neutrality dies) and one also needs to have a CDN to effectively deliver content to different geographies.
Works for me on FF3, Chrome, Konqueror (don't ask), and FF1 (don't ask).
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What you're talking about is known generically as the General Learning, which is an aptitude in itself. Some people learn better than others. It also depends on what you learn.

Nurture:
At various ages, the ability to learn changes (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.88....). It might well be true that there is a lot of optimization to be done in the way we teach -- something that Salman Khan illustrates well with his new teaching methodologies. That doesn't necessarily mean however that at all stages, ages, circumstances, people will be equally able to learn something.

Nature: Some people have an innate aptitude; I won't look for papers, as I find this to be truly obvious.
In the context of my most previous reply above -- how would you feel about reccomendation algorithms that pull more visibly from your own social graph -- Friends, yes, but also people you follow on Twitter and Like on facebook.

That seems almost a perfect marriage of my comments on the innate human quality behind a nearest-neighbor algorithm your comments here.
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No exclusively, no. But massively. I'd guess, what 90%, of OSX installs are desktop/laptop/residential market/
Just in case anyone took the above seriously, please keep in mind the author was joking.
I'd believe it more if he wasn't writing the apology off the heels of his company losing 50% over a two month period & 25% within the last two trading days.

I don't think his crocodile tears now are going to win many people back, nor do I think his apology will have any effect on NFLX's course of action. Promising better communication but not having all the facts about how your spun off service is going to work doesn't lend much credit to his original apology. They should be bending over backwards to make sure that customers who are affected will have an easy transition. Though if this is a move to jettison those customers off onto a 3rd party buyer, then this will have been nothing more than Hastings proving he's a hypocrite.
I guess he is frustrated and (possibly) read few productivity blogs. :)

Just joking :)
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No, you misunderstand the 'created equally' argument. It doesn't mean everybody should get the same, it means that no legislation should discriminate between people. More technically, the 'created equally' refers to negative liberties and negative rights, not to somebody else's obligation to do something to create an artificial equality.

(note that this is not a matter of argument - this is quite clearly settled. Of course you could question if it should be like this, and if we shouldn't change the meaning of 'equal' into more positive rights ('affirmative action' etc); I'm not so much interested in debating that. I'm just pointing out that for broadly-accepted definitions of the terms you use, your argument is flawed).
You could get arrested if the mix of stuff you buy accidentally matches a list of ingredients on a watch list.

Sometimes it doesn't even take a mix but just a single ingredient:

http://consumerist.com/2009/09/grandmother-arrested-for-buyi...

You argument is the same as the "I've got nothing to hide, why should I be worried" argument in another dress.

The flip side of that coin is that your imagination should not be the deciding factor in whether or not you care about your privacy. What bad things you can or can not envision today isn't all that important, it is simply that an expectation of privacy is something that should be yours without having to ask for it.
You're right, you're not alone, I've had the same realization. These skills aren't obtained through sprints but through marathons.

I find accountability is my biggest motivator, so if you can gain it (via class or job) or fake it (study partner or collaborator) it will be easier to stay on the wagon.

You might also get some ideas or methods out of this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2983834
Are there startup/entrepreneurship games like FarmVille?
The game should be simulating entrepreneurship in a fun to play way, it should not be a hard core entrepreneurship simulation game. Most of the games like FarmVille can be considered entrepreneurial since you are trying to build something for yourself, but they don't promote entrepreneurship.
SSL would work a lot better if it worked more like SSH, where you could check to see if you have the right fingerprint at the beginning.

And the 95% of the population who don't know what a key fingerprint are, the people who are most likely to click on random things online, those people will just blindly accept that from every site on the web and then they can get MitM'ed easily by people in Starbucks. Right now you can't do that with HTTPS.
"Many saw the idea of blocking such sites as censorship of the internet"

Annoying inaccuracy! Of course pirates are not in favor of child pornography, nor of not blocking such sites. The issue was that under the pretense of fighting child pornography the government wanted/wants to install a system that enables them to block any site, without even being required to give reasons and no possibility of appeal against it.

Naturally even now if illegal content is discovered on a German server, the government/police can make the hoster remove it. No magic switch needs to be given to the police.
You might want to try http://www.spoj.pl/ - there's a repository of algorithmic puzzles and you can submit your solutions in a number of programming languages.
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Keeping quotas and logs leaks information about what you are storing

Who does it leak information to? how? what information anyway? and why is any of this a problem?

For example, if you keep statistics on the largest file a user has, then it dramatically reduces the number of files that the user's "true" file can hide in.

I don't understand what you are saying. Are you claiming that Bitcasa is some kind of steganographic cloud?

and there a variety of subtle situations where the DMCA wouldn't help them

Like what? Are Bitcasa any more vulnerable than every cloud storage provider (other than Apple which, as you say, appears to be a special case)?
Hooker at 10 pm, roll of carpet and shovel at 2am... who knows maybe you went out for some fun and saw a discount at 24 hour importer store... maybe something else...

Silliness aside its the mistakes which are more scary than big brother actually watching, because theres just to many people to watch... but its real easy to make a mistake.

My favourite take on this scenario is the movie Brazil, the long and short of it is a guy gets pinned for a crime he didn't commit thanks to a bureaucracy error. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
Some exaggeration for you...

You buy a Casio watch, a camping knife and a plane ticket to New York on September the 11th 2021 [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detainee...
May as well weigh in. How about:

POST /booking/:id/cancellation

Because you are creating a 'cancellation object' belonging to that booking.

Ninja Edit: Really it is about being consistent, and predictable, so that people using your API can guess how it will act. If you are using an API of yours, and can't guess what the correct url/method is, you should change the API. (I forget who said that)
If you had to pick between DVD and streaming service, and make one of them phenomenally better than what it is now, which one would you pick? DVD, because everyone knows and loves it? Or streaming, because it's growing rapidly? You get to pick one.

With the split, Netflix gets to focus entirely on streaming - make it better for the customer. Which means, more (and better) content, faster and better streaming service, Netflix on more devices, providing Netflix outside US and Canada etc.

And Qwikster gets to focus entirely on DVD service - which means expanding the DVD catalog, getting video game rentals for Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360.

As a customer, you get a much better Netflix and/or Qwikster experience. As a Netflix employee, I get to focus entirely on making streaming better, faster, available on more devices, and in more regions than we have today, without having to worry about compatibility with the DVD service.
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Wow. That sounds a lot more positive than my experience of investigating the market here (UK) - I presume this article is US focused.

Here school IT is generally centrally managed by an IT team who are not generally receptive to ad-hoc software installs. SaaS models fail due to firewalls and network access restrictions. Preferred/accepted bidder lists are rife. Teachers have NO budget for software.

I looked at selling to teachers here and decided that it was more hassle than it was worth - the market barriers to entry and borderline corruption/incompetence just made it a non-starter.
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Importantly, it is utterly futile to expect a shop assistant (let's say a waifish 17-year-old girl) to tell a customer (for our purposes today, a 30-year old champion cage fighter still bruised from his last bout) that their signature doesn't look right and they can't complete the transaction. Chip and PIN means any blame and bad feeling is shifted to the terminal -- for better or for worse, "computer says no".
"A typical American male who works full time is earning almost exactly the same as his counterpart was when Nixon was president"

But that's clearly, obviously and without question BULLSHIT (when you look at what you can actually do with that money, rather than just look at inflation-adjusted dollar numbers). A typical American male in that income bracket today has a house that is larger and much more comfortable than back then, has access to a much broader range of food, can communicate with anybody anywhere in the world instantly, carries in his pocket a device to communicate with people he knows in a much more efficient and convenient form than whatever was available 30 years ago, has a higher life expectancy and better access to information (not to mention that the information that is available is vastly more), etc etc.

What would you prefer, being Louis XIV who lived in a castle with no bathrooms (everybody shat where ever they happened to be standing and there were servants to sweep it up) or in the typical house of somebody in the West in the 20th-40th income percentile today (with running, hot water and functioning plumbing, electricity etc?) Or even being an early 20th century rich businessman/socialite in NYC, where the health circumstances even for the very rich were vastly inferior to what is now available to everybody except those at the very bottom of the socio-economic ladder?
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Freedom of Expression is one thing but lying and denying a horrific fact is another. Are you saying that it is ok to denying the holocaust in Germany only cause every one should freedom of expression?

OK? No, I think it's a terrible thing and the world would be better off without him. BUT, I believe in Freedom of Expression, which forces me to defend his right to say such barbarities.

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

I'm no friend of censorship but this has nothing to do with censoring this is just to protect the truth and the history.
That's what every censor says. "We're just defending the public decency", "We're just protecting the rights of X".

You protect the truth with facts and arguments, not censorship.

Such an horrific event shouldn't be forgotten neither should it be "over simplified to show it as it was ok cause there was no holocaust at all"!

If you don't want it to be forgotten, it's your job to divulge it. To show to people what really happened. Silencing others makes you no better than any totalitarian government.

I would like to see how you want to explain the families who lost members in the holocaust this "freedom of expression" statement!

First, that's a terrible argument. Secondly, I lost family members because the fascist censors didn't like what they had to say.

Lastly, I'd give them the words of one of the sons of an Holocaust survivor:

"(...) If you want to know the Holocaust deniers in your midst, you can find some of them here, out in the open. You can confront them, debate them, call them out as they go about their lives, or ignore them. Suppressing these groups or individuals will not make them disappear.

Personally, I am against making any form of speech a crime, unless it is clearly linked to acts of violence or the planning of acts of violence. The way to fight speech that you think is bad or offensive is with more speech, better speech. (...)"

(http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/facebook-free-speech-and...
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I upvoted you. Not because I think what you said is insightful, but because your post serves as a textbook example of a person who not only doesn't see how stupid and trollish his own post is, but also dismisses all forms of legit criticism as fanboyism.
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If you think something of this scale was put together in a month, you don't understand how large companies work. This has to be in the works for atleast 4-5 months. The press likes to construct these action->reaction narratives (Foo launches Bar in response to company X doing Y yesterday) but in reality, these things take time and are rarely direct responses to events.
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I'm pretty sure Atwood cribbed that wholesale from Jakob Nielsen's ancient advise: http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/

But Atwood is truly inane in his own special way: http://secretgeek.net/jatwood_how_to.asp
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Just like it should be. Of all the "mainstream" publications, the financial (and business-oriented) newspapers are the ones I distrust less, because in my experience they tend to understand it is their interest to work with the facts and real numbers.
Or hosts that you use passwords on that you actually care about. Or hosts that have access to a network you care about. Or...

There's just too much that can go wrong.
The most interesting part of this for me is that the flexibility in how this works has allowed several other system to be built upon it...
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Re-read what you just wrote and you'll see the following:

CEO's hope by brining me in - vs - what i want to get done

I think I'd follow the CEOs lead — my bet is there's something that is making him unhappy with the offshore team and they know it. And frankly it doesn't matter what you or the offshore team team -- what should matter is what the CEO wants. Frankly my bet is that the CEO is seeing something in you that you haven't yet.

Suggestion: Why don't you learn something about managing? Even if you learn to manage your own time it can only help you. I'd suggest reading the "Mythical Man Month" -- it's one of the best software project management books ever written and would help you explain what's needed to management.
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