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"[Credit default swaps] are not securities and are not regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. And while they perform the same function as an insurance policy, they are not insurance in the conventional sense, so insurance regulators do not monitor them either."

This whole affair is like looking through hosed legacy code and finding comments like "I have no idea why this dirty, dirty hack works".
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The American freemarket system clearly doesn't work very well.

Source: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php*
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a MacBook isn't an evolutionary trait.

Maybe you mean "heritable trait".

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sexual selection ... Has nothing to do with possessions.

Income is a heritable trait, as is socio-economic status (SES). SES is partly a measure of possessions. Higher income allows one to consume possessions, and it has been posited that it is possible to conspicuously consume, thus allowing sexual selection in regards to income and SES to occur.

http://www.google.com/search?q=veblen+conspicuous+consumptio...

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Mercedes and Lexus seemed pretty comparable for the same class back when I was looking.

Where did you find a $200,000 Lexus?

http://www.motortrend.com/cars/2009/mercedes_benz/s_class

Sum Up: the luxury-car benchmark.

http://www.google.com/search?q=mercedes+lexus+%22better+valu...

http://www.google.com/search?q=lexus+%22not+a+luxury%22+merc...

... faded in 2006 and 2007 as buyers looked at better-value alternatives, notably the Lexus

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring...

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It is good value, looks OK, handles well. But unlike its sexy competitors, it's just not desirable, finds Peter Dron ...

What does Lexus offer against these icons, especially the BMW (frequently cited as Lexus's target), whose length it matches to the millimetre?

Value for money is a good starting point. ...

The BMW may not offer better value, and in most objective measurements it is not a significantly better car. But it is a more desirable car than the Lexus. The same may be said of the Mercedes, Jaguar and Audi.
I'd say he used those words quite effectively.
When you have a $3 trillion entity in an economy, people have the incentive to petition it for favors. Even when the government's budget was a lot smaller, businessmen could still finagle for tax breaks and the like.

Rent seeking is in the DNA of democracy.
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I basically agree with the author, because:

1) as he says, with slightly faster computers, for more and more applications the speed will not be an issue.
2) Internet connection will be more common in the future (my prediction)
3) Even if you don't have Internet connection temporarily, you can work offline (google gears technology) and sync when you connect.

The advantages are:
1) Your data are online, so accessible from any computer without additional work.
2) The software itself is online, no need to install/maintain it.
Read your title - of course Aesthetics send a message! Of course business men want laptops that look like they are designed for business. Of course people have different tastes.

This is not worth a blog post, it's just so frickin obvious.
I'm not going to get into this debate here, I'd suggest checking out some info and then seeing if it fits with your assumptions. Page 200 here ranks worth health systems:

http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf
I would pay good money to watch someone enact that.
This just seems like a thinly disguised "I hate Macs" argument.
I don't know about any serious efforts to embed python into browser, but the point is valid. Due to recent Chrome developments, the bright future is with Javascript.
Buy me a Macbook Air and enough alcohol, and I'm your man.
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Income is not a heritable trait in an evolutionary context because it's not a biological trait, thus it has nothing to do with sexual selection, as a biologist would define it. And even if it did, I don't think a woman looks at a guy with a MacBook and thinks "old money". I'll ask a few to be sure.

And Lexus is similarly priced in any given class (for instance, entry level sedan, in which they're both around $32k) in which they compete. They just don't have anything (currently, one's coming soon) in that high end, though their LS hybrid does cost more than a lower-end S-Class.

11 year old articles might not be the best source of information.

Also, what's with

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this?
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Maybe the guys from Zoho can explain to us why that means they're never going to really care about portable gaming or something.
My guess: because they can.
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This is the odd thing - you seem to be trying to disagree with me yet we agree almost completely on everything, except that "Vista isn't that necessary" seems to be an extremely fashionable thing to say.
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Mark Thoma has quite a bit of coverage from economists and other people who are more knowledgeable about these sorts of things than you get in your average newspaper article:

http://economistsview.typepad.com/
what's with

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this?

It's a spacer, to improve readability.
I don't understand exactly which version of Linux he's been deploying that makes this a time saver. You can install Linux with 95% of what you need (and nothing more) with plenty of distros, and one command gets you the rest of the way.

The rest of the work is custom (user access, software specific requirements, etc). I'm also the lead sys-admin for a dot-com company, and I think I can safely say I've NEVER had a Linux install that wasn't, in his words, something that I "can just deploy, configure and turn off what I don't need?"

That's the reason we use it.
A surprisingly content-free article. Great read if you're just looking for a bunch of anecdotes about people's tastes, but not much of a revelation one way or another. I read through the whole thing hoping for some great insight, but there was no such thing.

Importantly, the stereotyping was very much just that - stereotyping. I recognised myself in almost all the stereotypes mentioned in the article - as good a proof as any that human beings don't fall into these neat classifications, but instead we're all just a blend of all of them. I guess that's quite typical of any psychological classification, though.
Nintendo are nuts. The guys at Nintendo in charge of a project I worked on never seemed to stop working, despite their night time falling into our time zone's work hours. It's pretty sad to hear that for their extended 7-day work week they're getting $90k on average.
Thanks for the complement. Yes the intro video is all Screenflow. Amazing piece of software. You're only limited by your imagination. Working on a few other tutorial videos as well.
I have mine pegged to max more than 30% of the time. Running simulations, stitching images, extracting 3D volumes.
No, it's not. Come to eastern Germany any time to see what scars socialism left - even 20 years after it's gone.
Yes, this article is contrived and the archetypes are a bit skewed, but it closes on an interesting point.

I, myself, am a cocky developer. Additionally, my technical brain is better connected to my mouth and works far faster than my social brain. Often, my comments are misconstrued as attacks and it has significantly weakened my ability to impact decision makers.

I am however, well aware that I have problems. I aggressively seek out feedback and encourage those who provide it to "give it to my straight". Via this process, I have significantly improved my communication skills and developed some political tact.

This brings my to my next point: cocky people like to be right, but are well aware when they are wrong. If they are making statements which appear to be ad hominem attacks, they probably aren't doing it intentionally, or they don't mean any harm. So just mirror their behavior, be honest, be direct, tell them that their personality is hurting team moral, and suggest they try to improve themselves. Then, agree upon personal commitments of GROWTH AND IMPROVEMENT not instantaneous performance, which dictate their performance rewards.

Hell, I had one manager who requested to review all emails I sent to customers. My communication skills are many fold better for it.

Follow that plan, and I guarantee you can turn most any cocky coder into a productive team member. If you're lucky, that team member will even significantly educate the rest of the team and encourage them to do the same.

This is what people managers are supposed to do...
> only 20% of people who bought vista will buy 7

Do you have a source to back that up? It's an interesting figure.
In a recent conference talk by John Shalf in Stockholm (see http://neuroinformatics2008.org/program-new/workshops/future... ), the monster was set on the table: chip companies are simplifying chips by reducing their clock speed (thus removing lots of now superfluous prebuffering and synchronization adjacent electronics) and tiling them to the hundreds and even thousands.

We are not far away from the 10,000 core chip. Say 3 years? Very hard to guess.

An important point of the talk: he explained how the chip industry ignored accademia as long as it could just increase clock speed to achieve better performance. But now, in the parallelization mess, they are comming back for ideas on how to make efficient use of the cores for compilers (which, according to John, are currently failing at exploiting multicores) and for software in general.

[John calls this situation the "manycore", as opposed to the current "multicore"]
I hope they get some international competition.
If the MSRP of $400 is accurate and we don't get screwed over for way more in Europe (yeah, right) this may well end up being my first Smartphone. The iPhone seems nice and all, but €800 is a bit pricey for a phone.

Obviously, this all depends on Android actually working as promised.
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Karl Marx did not tend to write that clearly. Add some dialectic materialism.

Have you ever read the guy? It's awful.
In the speaker's lounge at the recent O'Reilly OSCON, all the laptops I saw were either Apples or Thinkpads. They both have appealing aesthetics for their audiences.
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the Air is slightly cheaper than a Lenovo X301

My understanding is that both the X300 and X301 represent better values than the Air.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38936/145

the X300 weighs 0.1 pounds less, comes with a 64 GB SDD by default and offers more configuration options, such as an internal DVD burner, up to 4 GB of memory, a second battery, cellular broadband internet and a wireless USB card. The X300 and MacBook Air went through several price cuts, but teh Lenovo notebook is currently available for substantially less money. ...

Lenovo says that the new [X301] processor and memory deliver 20% more performance. Also new is the DisplayPort support. The 13.3” LED backlit screen remains unchanged, but it still offers more working resolution (1440 x 900) than the MacBook Air (1280 x 800).
You and Mr. Keynes, maybe. Ray Kurzweil, no.
And you should look at GDP per person. The US population is still growing strong.
I was under the impression that Chile is socialist.
That horseman is a little lonely there all by itself. Can't you add something about organized crime?

The FCC hasn't requested Skype to add a backdoor because that would only drive people away from Skype to secure solutions.
How can short selling wipe out value? If it helps find the right price faster, isn't that a good thing?
I think reinventing the wheel has its place. It has two benefits:

1) You get a better grasp of how the wheel works.

2) You may invent a better wheel.

Of course, that's not to say that I think everyone should start re-writing everything they've ever programmed from scratch, but if we never tried anything new we'd still be using big stone wheels (The Flintstones cartoon comes to mind).
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Has anyone benchmarked Lisp (Common Lisp) over Java in long-running programs? So that the JVM has time to, you know, JIT stuff up?

(Completely serious question, btw, not snarky remark.)
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I don't think it's a big deal, but you'll hit that limit eventually, too. With CLISP's LONG-FLOAT one should be safe for a while.
Income is not a heritable trait in an evolutionary context because it's not a biological trait

If you are meaning to imply that there can be such a thing as a heritable trait that is not biological, perhaps you should define what you mean by the term "biological trait". What do you mean when you say that income is not a biological trait?

FYI, here is a dictionary (M-W Unabridged) definition of heritability:

the proportion of observed variation in a particular trait (as intelligence) that can be attributed to inherited genetic factors in contrast to environmental ones

This search...

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22biological+trait+is+a%22

...returns this interesting hit:

Learning ability, as any biological trait, is a product of natural selection. Consequently, it can only evolve if the benefits outweigh the costs.

Would you class learning ability as a "biological trait"?

Would you class learning ability as a "heritable trait in an evolutionary context"?

This is also interesting:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22income+is+heritable%22

40% of income is heritable.
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I just had either a brilliant or a dumb (take your pick) idea that has sprouted from this thought.

It be cool if there was a site where you could just click the options you wanted and it would create a customised distro for you, without all the added extras?

I'm no linux guru and I dread the thought of having to set up a new system under linux. If there was a site where I could just pay a couple bucks for a customised distro for what I wanted (as its not always the same thing) that just worked, I would absolutely pay it.

I think this kind of approach may also help to increase the adoption rate of linux amongst less technically inclined people too.

EDIT - Sorry about the stream of conciousness, just noticed someone supplied a link for SUSE, is there anything similar for debian based systems? Ubuntu undoubtedly is getting the "lions share" off attention for linux systems, so is there anything like this for it?
I'm really enthusiastic about Android, but the way they've been rushing headlong into this makes me think that waiting for version two might be a good idea.
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I'd argue that, on average, people act unhealthier in the US than they do in Cuba.
I'm all for a 'big pot' and that if you put money in, you can then get money out.

But at the same time, I think that people should HAVE to put into the pot, or you end up with a Tragedy of the Commons. No-one pays, because they don't like to think they'll get sick.

And then when they do, well, it's too late.

(I should note that I am biased towards socialized medicine, being an aforementioned sick person)
Why abusing? They are just using the standard features. Does “they are abusing the client” means “I disagree with their use”?
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Actually, it would explain very well why Nintendo would never get into, say, DVD players, HDTVs and such.

And Nintendo's per-capita profitability also explains why Microsoft is so desperate to break into video games, except that they just haven't been able to replicate the magic so far.
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> If it were socialism, you wouldn't have poor/middle-class people dying from treatable diseases.

No, since nobody would be middle-class or above, it would only be poor people dying from treatable diseases.
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"We're not interested in selling. We wanted to forge our own culture, to create a sustainable company"

Okay the plan is not to sell.

"... The team's hope, he said, was to find an advertising-based solution that delivers revenue without damaging the user experience. ..."

But where is the advertising coming from if google sucks up so much of the advertising dollar. This is the bit I don't get. I've watched http://spock.com try this and they have completely screwed the application. There must be some other value in people information & conversations.
While spending per person in dollars may be higher, there is gross gross inflation in the health care sector, resulting in the hospital charging you $100 for a pack of Kleenex, because it's usually the insurance company that pays it.
and it is also one that treats symptoms and not the underlying conditions.
Key takeaway: "Nintendo is able to make so much money with so few people because it relies on outsourcing."

I met a fellow who once employed over 30 people for his building construction company. Then he became one person, with the rest outsourced. Maybe he is doing better than Nintendo if one measures success as the article does.
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I expect they have, and that modern JVMs would win, it being a fair and balanced contest. In the unfair and unbalanced real world, however, a Java application is likely to spend a lot of time processing XML while its equivalent Lisp application gets to enjoy the efficiency of an s-expression world.
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I think it's important to clarify that there are two layers in this. Paying for health care and providing health care.

IMO, there's a good case to be made for a baseline of mandatory basic healthcare (i.e. no dying in the streets, no choosing food this week over a visit to the doctor), which should be tax-funded for families below a certain income threshold.

The other end of the stick is the hospitals and doctors themselves, and there is absolutely nothing that suggests that they become more efficient or cheaper, if they are made public employees. Quite the contrary, I'd argue.
Heard of it. But I was looking not for different languages to learn, but some kind of analysis on what the effect is on the way programmers think because of using an infix / prefix or postfix language.

For example: I remember I heard somewhere that japanese kids are better in mental arithmetic based on the way the japanese counting system works (no clue if that's true, heard it ages ago). So it is the analysis of the effects I am after.
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At least that's his planning assumption.
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OK, I agree. But what about us, poor folks who use Apple products merely to have decent Rails environment, TextMate and OmniGraffle? who don't want to spend ages dealing with Linux packages or configuring wifi (though, spent few years using Gentoo, Debian and others)? I worry we have no choice.
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Here is what you do:

; You acknowledge that system administration takes time and effort. If you have more than some 10-15 machines, you ought to automate the work of keeping them in sync. You want to minimize effort of administration.

; You install something along the lines of puppet from http://reductivelabs.com and use that to manage your server infrastructure.

; You install a monitoring suite for the infrastructure. Ganglia is popular when the servers are forming a cluster.

With the above, any reasonable operating system will work, be it .deb/.rpm based linux distros, *BSD, or OSX (I honestly don't know how to do this properly in Windows).
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