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The article is fine as far as it goes, but there is nothing in the article to explain why we are having a crisis in the "subprime" housing market right now (as opposed to some other market or at some other time). And why did it start here and not elsewhere? Nowhere does it mention the Community Reinvestment Act of 1995, which required banks to "reinvest" into the "community" -- or face reprisals. "reinvest" they did, with "subprime", i.e., junk, loans -- $2.2 trillion worth, that are now bringing world markets to their knees.
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I agree with you, I noticed the No more than two queries per page.

Even better tip - just make a static page and your site will be so much faster...
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Funny to see the Netherlands appear on a worldmap for a change :)
ahaha yeah! and a French blog at that!! silly tossers
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It's definitely clever, but he seems generally confused about his thesis. As I recall, he defines intelligence as the ability to step outside the system. So, if intelligence is a system, then if it steps outside of itself to formalize itself into AI, then it has not formalized itself.
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China Employes 30,000 "Internet Policemen" to Monitor Traffic
when I benchmarked rails on jruby on my machine I managed to get half the number of concurrent requests that I could get with mod_rails + apache, and the .war file took several minutes too boot sometimes, and sometimes it didn't boot at all. (java 1.5 + tomcat 6, and a rails app that we previously been running on mod_rails). I don't call that production ready. When MRI is slow, why go with something even slower? Is performance better with java 1.6 and glassfish? probably, but I haven't tried that yet so I don't know.
I'm not sure if this is a startup opportunity or a political post. If nothing else, from a technical standpoint, China's monitoring of its citizens must be either a) hugely resource-intensive or b) having a lot of holes.

Maybe a little of each.
Any way to read more about this or the transcripts of those letters? Sounds very interesting to me. Is the Hebrew Univ planning to put these online?

These letters will help know more about this great man and relate to him as a human than just merely knowing him as a scientific genius.

If these details are out as a book it would surely break all records and would become everyone's favourite.

Here's how he explained a radio:

A telegraph is like a long cat. You pull its tail in New York and it meows in Los Angeles. It's the same with a radio. You send the signals from on place and receive them at another, just that there is no long cat here.
It depresses me they'll probably make some quick cash before being forgotten.
> they should just have a reverse Christmas: build a giant Christmas tree and have each of the lawmakers come up and write down what they would like to see under it.

Welcome to the omnibus spending bill! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_spending_bill
Mainly it comes down to setting aside some time to read (see: every morning) and at least one or two days a week to just sit down at my computer and hack away. Wether it be a long-term project or just some random script trying to achieve something it feels good to learn something new.

I also try to blog and write down my findings which helps me further understand everything especially when I get feedback.

This week I spent time getting dual monitors working on my Ubuntu partition. It was rough because my ATI card does not handle well on Linux so it took a lot of reading, trial and error, and understanding of how it all works. Now, I am writing this from Ubuntu and have my monitors working great.

It was essentially an assignment. I set a goal, worked on it, studied for it, and "finished" the assignment by getting it working and now I have all this new knowledge about xorg and ATI cards on Linux that I thought I would never care about
What do Warren Buffet, Paul Graham and Hugh Hefner have in common? Each buys an undervalued asset at its undervalued price, sprinkles it with some fairy dust and then sells it at a premium once the potential has been realized. One does it with stocks and securities, the next with startup founders and their ideas, and the last with women.
from what I've heard performance is much better in 1.6e
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This, from the repairman:

"Maybe people will get so disgusted with the breakdowns and failures they'll go back to IBM typewriters."
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I don't doubt the CRA is part of it, but I think the fed lowering and lowering and lowering the prime rate after 9/11 in order the stimulate the economy figured prominently as well.

With interest rates low, banks have to be more aggressive in pursuing borrowers to maintain their same level of profitability (i.e. they'll start considering loaning to folks they'd normally not loan to). Also, with interest rates low, there was a housing market boom which convinced a lot of people they could make money buying houses on credit and flipping them.

It makes you wonder if we'd have been better off if we'd have just let the economy recover on its own after 9/11.
The fed lowering the prime rate did hasten the onset of economic recovery 7 years ago, but look where we are now.
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But who in his right mind would recommend people to use Windows versions prior to 2000?
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We know now, that the reason AIG was bailed out, is because European banks had $300 Billion or more in credit protection, and that the Euro banks are even more highly leveraged than US, Canadian, and British banks.

It was French finance minister Christine Lagarde who personally begged Paulson to keep AIG going.

See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_prit...

My personal view is not that bankruptcy is the answer; just that it will be the inevitable result.

The only question is whether a few large Wall St. firms will go bankrupt, causing pain to many other financial institutions and governments, or whether America itself will go near-bankrupt as a result of taking the losses on themselves.

And no, I don't have a lot of respect for Buffett, ever since he fought the inheritance (death) tax being repealed, which is after all double taxation, and from which his company personally benefits.

His insurance companies make billions on pricy insurance sold to small and medium sized business owners who are nearing the end of their life (you buy the insurance so that when you die, the company does not have to be liquidated in order to pay the IRS).
In the case of Hefner, I think you are confusing silicone for fairy dust ...
That does not make it better.
Hef just uses photoshop and his bed. Graham gives everyone a good lunch and some networking support. Buffet just gets the most alert people to brighten up and prod the execs in despair.
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The secret to high-scalability: Make a no complexity site which does near no more than a static page, denormalize your DB because even at 2 queries max per request MySQL dries up because it can't do hash-joins, but damnit if you are going to switch to a real DB and implement caching on top of that blah blah blah.

This was almost, but not quite, entirely different from trash advice.
Outstanding writeup. Thank's a lot; this actually cleared quite a few things up for me.
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I don't buy it. I can go to a store like Trader Joe's, where they deal almost entirely in packaged foods, and there are no industrial-era preservatives to be found. Pasteurization and sterile containers go a long way.
Remember though, Microsoft does not even support these many of those products anymore: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselectwin

Even .NET is not available on Windows 98/Me: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262...
Interesting phrasing by CNN:
"The measure was passed by a vote of 74 to 25 after more than three hours of floor debate in the Senate."

I wonder if they considered "after less than four hours of floor debate..."
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Wish he could include some diagrams or pics!
I have been a regular Mac user since 2001, and had always tinkered with them before. One of the most annoying things I find about the platform is its user base. I mean they types of people who would rail against Windows and Microsoft, and then freely admit that they had never used Windows a day in their life. Now there are hordes of users who are just flocking to the platform because it is so hot right now. A whole new generation of smug Mac users is born.

I don't even bother going to the Apple Store unless I know I can get something fixed or exchanged right away, since it is invariably filled with giggling teenage girls that just want to ogle the shiny hardware.

Maybe it's the inner hipster in me, but I almost feel like I have to ditch this scene now that it's so popular :)
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We are truly doomed. If this is part of the current problem we are so f'ed. I mean what happened to all the weapons of mass destructions. And now this - you can't trust Wikipedia how the f am i supposed to do home work much less invest my retirement savings?
> made a career out of being more right than anyone else

He's made a career out of being good friends with Hank Greenberg and securing capital at lower rates than anyone else at tight times. He also usually takes stakes large enough to force things his way. He is not some sort of successful stock picker; he has a few tricks not available to anyone else.

He's also never operated in a deflationary environment. We shall see how that works out.
What is this crap?

* Heard of $.extend?

* jQuery also feels like JavaScript.

* Modular...that's a good one. Very modular when it clobbers the most basic prototypes and wrecks your namespace. Everything in jQuery exists in the jQuery object.

* MooTools documentation is pretty bad. I abandoned the library because figuring out how to do anything was a chore. And there are no books on it.

I like the last argument the most: MooTools is better because it's less popular.

I wouldn't write a post arguing jQuery over MooTools, but I sure wouldn't include MooTools in all but the most animation-intensive projects because of the severe compatibility issues it causes when including non-MooTools scripts.
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omfg not only are they wrong - but 'French' too!

You might want to note that BNP Paribas, Societe Generale and Credit Agricole banks are all in rude health at the moment ... indeed BNP just acquired part of Bank of America.

Also note France didn't just blow all the family silver on flattening Iraq ... so will likely continue to have some of the best health care, schools and infrastructure in the world whilst less careful countries struggle to provide the most basic of services to their populations.

(I'm not French btw)
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> The US government can borrow money very cheaply, and buy mortgages at fear driven low prices, which should allow it to make a profit from the rescue, if it buys at the market price:

Is anyone reminded of the concept of doubling down on your bet when they see this? I guess it is strictly correct although I don't like the chances of the goverment buying at market prices though.
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And what happens if our country can't pay back those debts and the entire country files Chapter 11? Does God step in?
But, but, but, that $700bil is at the end of a blackhole. You can't see it getting sucked in.
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FUD has won again.

Follow the breadcrumbs to redmond.
Keep these kinds of things coming. I love reading these censorship articles. Hopefully one day, China will open up...
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I tend to agree, but the Pearl analogy doesn't quite hold. Suppose, for whatever reason, in WWII the US and Japanese were originally allies, and there were high level Japanese military officials working in the Pentagon. Then it becomes clearer that proceeding incorrectly could cause far more damage than proceeding slowly but cautiously.

Unfortunately, the perceived "character" issues that the White House has is working against the US in this time of crisis. The WH is suspected by some of using "emergency" situations to gain power, and some folks are suspicious that they may try to do it again.

There are a lot of people for whom the phrase "George Bush has a plan to fix this" doesn't inspire confidence.
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I suspect MooTools (due to it's classical OOP behavior) might win out.

Does the sight of Java programmers trying to force every other language to conform to Java's type system remind anyone else of Harrison Bergeron? Or is it just me?

(Just in case you didn't take my high school English classes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron )

Hasn't Javascript already suffered enough? It even has to wear Java's name. Leave Javascript alooooone!
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I agree, but it's also probably one of the most owned but never finished books in the cosmos. Brief History of Time (by Hawking) too.
My biggest problem with jQuery plugins is people using $() instead of jQuery(). This breaks functionality for people like me who insist on using jQuery().
"... 20 per cent of retail notebook sales during July and August."

These numbers may not have been influenced by the credit crisis if awareness of the situation was not widespread. Or those analysts could be wrong in their predictions.
Proof right there that small boats can make huge waves.
What double taxation, if you buy stock at 10$ and it's worth 100$ when you die that gain is never taxed.
On the contrary, I think he's banking on the fact that many people are scared but trust his judgment because of his track record. Sure he might profit from the bailout, but he has also put up $8B and counting when everyone is worried about liquidity. He's putting his money where his mouth is.
"To his surprise, the coded messages were being stored on Tom Online computers. When he examined the machines over the Internet, he discovered that they had been misconfigured and that the computer directories were readable with a simple Web browser."

How dumb can that company be?
" Perhaps it's time to investigate Berkshire Hathaway stock."

We had a stock picking game when I was in elementary school. I won by picking BerkHa because its price was higher and it moved a lot more. I only had 2 shares but I outperformed everyone who had hundreds or thousands of shares of other stock. I thought it was fun and told my mom we should buy some BerkHa but she said the stock market was gambling.

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If you can afford the buy in. One share or two?
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Regulation isn't inherently good or evil. There are good and bad regulations. Hopefully we could get less BAD regulation and more GOOD regulation. Not holding my breath.

Also, what is good for one group may be bad for another, and vice versa. Good luck figuring that one out.
It must have been hard for him and his family to have their private lives scrutinised by the world - it's not like he chose a profession likely to bring him world fame!
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We're just moving from a single-node to a cluster setup. i'm curious to know how u implement session mgmt .

Do you ...

* layer4 load balance to a named node A ( eg: nodeA.app.com ), following which all links/calls will be made only relative to this nodeA )

* layer4 load balance to top level domain ,but internally could be any one of the nodes , then figure out a way to point user to the same node ( basically another form of persistent load-balance)

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~B
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I encourage you to actually know what you are talking about before posting.

If I have $1 million in cash when I die, my heirs have to pay taxes on that, even though I paid taxes on it when I originally earned it. You cannot net out the capital gains and just pay tax on that, everything is taxed.
Now, if someone could teach me how to roll my Spanish R's - I've heard that if you don't learn by age 3 you can't but I want to disagree.
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Surely paying your users isn't the answer - for starters it's almost an admission it doens't stack up to the competition on it's own! It's also only going to insentivise a small group of users that are very likely to dump the product as soon as the payments stop. They've got to stop looking for gimicks and compete on product.
Windows 2000 still has extended support for another 21 months, so I would definitely be disappointed if it wasn't supported in Python 2.6.

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-ca&x=24...
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This is not HN, but it is a must-read for anyone who thinks China's economic modernization has brought about free speech and other basic elements of a democratic society.
Cool idea. I wonder how sensitive it is to the location, and how well it deals when it doesn't know its location?

Also, the iPhone bashing is getting rather tedious and the Android phones aren't even out yet!
I would, especially for people who use their computers mostly for business. Except for USB and PNP support, Windows 2000 is inferior to NT4SP2.

However the Python guys are probably doing the right thing here because the right approach to making windows based business systems reliable is to disable everything possible on them, isolate them as much as you can, get things working and NOT upgrade them unless you absolutely have to.
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"That buys time to do something more sophisticated."

to me it's more like doing something to help completely kill our democratic republic and replace it with oligarchy... the sad part is based on the voting, it may have already happened
SO do all these economy guys not believe in not intervening in economies any more?
This part was well-put:

"Recessions/depressions are like forest fires; they destroy a lot of the accumulated undergrowth and excess, providing an opportunity for new growth. We are now going through such a forest fire. It is likely that it is only just beginning. But it is worth thinking about what are the new flora and fauna which will grow and flourish in the environment which comes afterwards."

He goes on to make some good points about what sorts of things might come out of all of this.
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Why not create a spambot that spews "democracy now" or something to everyone? It will make the haystack much larger.
I gave up on Mootools when it became obvious that the community surrounding it was much busier condescending new users than helping them. Combine that with documentation that is severely lacking and the aggravation saved by simply dealing with the more community friendly jQuery saved my sanity and time.

I made the switch about a year ago and haven't looked back since.
He was a very smart guy - but not much smarter a lot of people are today.

He was also a great marketer, mostly because he could explain his research to the press in terms people could understand.
Your heirs didn't earn that money, so they're only paying taxes once. You pay once for earning it, they pay once for "earning" it via your departure from this earth. But presumably if you have lots of money, you've already set up trusts, paid for college, given lifetime gifts, etc. so your heirs are already pretty far ahead of the average person.

Seems like a perfectly good way to encourage at least a tiny amount of wealth redistribution in a society where wealth is not very well distributed at all.
Are the full versions of the letters available online?