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> ...as the strong, fiscally-responsible states bail out the weaker ones, they get to dictate policies in those states as conditions of the bailouts. Politically, the bailed-out states will start aligning more with European interests compared to purely self-interested ones.

History has shown us that wealth is transferred, not created. And sometimes it's multiplied (when we switched from gold to debt / fractional reserves), but again, never created.

Due to this, the stronger players tend to import the benefit from and export the pain into the weaker players, as that is the only play there is to make.

And then the cycle repeats itself where the rich players get richer and the poor players get poorer until some major event happens (global war, industrial revolution, energy discovery) and things get shuffled a bit).
Even if this becomes successful it will never be sustainable. What will happen when the Sun runs out of Hydrogen to burn? (in 5 billion years) We may have to find another star. Actually that is even less of a problem to worry about because the Sun will start burning Helium. Once it does the pressure pushing outwards from all the nuclear explosions (helium fusion is more efficient in converting mass to energy) at the core will be greater than the gravity pulling everything in, causing the star to expand into a red giant. The Earth will receive far more energy than it really needs and burn into ashes. So either way we are screwed!.....LOL
We considered the composite key, but we often have to store keys in other systems like Redis, where having a single 64-bit integer makes it more portable and stored compactly (Redis, for example, has an optimization when storing integer values vs string values in its lists). Valeu pelo comentário!
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Yep--definitely something to watch out for. At worst, though, you'd have a duplicate key when trying to insert, and can re-try without the risk of having a duplicate ID floating around your system.
I wish there was an efficiency vs cost of components chart here... Gives a bit more perspective on what technologies are just achieving better rates with just better components.
Do cosmic rays set the earth's thermostat?
In short customers are buying a postcard for a digital wallpaper that sender and receiver can obtain via QR code?

Not sure this would drive up postcard sells for a couple initial reasons:
1. Any postcard company can do this
2. It still has to be mailed. Not sure this would compete against Photogram.

Perhaps if one could record a video of their destination using the iPhone, upload content via an app where the card could be customized. Card would be printed and mailed with my QR code that linked to video. Tis would be a little cooler.

GOod luck.
http://vpri.org/videos/yahiko_mem_video.html (21:40 to 24:15)

Most people won't change their mind about anything, unless everyone else already did. Therefore, (Kay concludes at 24:00), truly new ideas take at least 30 years to become popular.

STEPS is too young. At this pace, wait for at least 20 years.
Because some people know the difference between leaping to a conclusion and learning a little something before they make up their mind. And because many developers would sincerely like to improve the way they work, giving the motivation to seek out new approaches.
Cut it out with your rational arguments. This is a time for fear and panic. To gold! It's shiny, so you know it will protect you!
You should have probably mailed Paul instead. Like this you draw a huge amount of attention to your name which is probably a lot more than it would have gotten otherwise.

If you don't want to see your name used online, don't use it online.
In the great scheme of things, one can't honestly expect Microsoft to not monetize Skype.
The big question is "do they kill the goose"?
The real question is they do they have the common sense?
"Hey Mike, thanks for hanging with us. To kick things off"

NOOOOOOOPE
Huh. This makes fuel cells seem like not a bad idea after all.
> History has shown us that wealth is transferred, not created

I'm not sure that part is true. I do believe there is more wealth today worldwide then say in 1700.
No, I mean, it will slow quickly while doing the nose-first heat shielded re-entry, all the way down to terminal velocity, and then be safe to do its flip to feet-first.
Specifically the AT&T model of the Galaxy S II, the Sprint model correctly implements the security screen.
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I bet it doesn't work today. ;)
Thanks for the additional information. It sounds like really interesting opportunity, particularly for those wanting to learn about a new culture.

And on second thought, the workshops and events are probably a good thing in that you're forced to step outside your intense startup focus to meet new people and maybe find prospective friends/users/employees/investors.

I really liked Santiago when there for study abroad - nice people and very modern city. Only complaint would be the air pollution because of the "containment" effect of the surrounding Andes mountains.
Indeed, great talk. Check out the talk by Chris Wanstrath co-founder of Github > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEYjJoF2RAY
Where did it come from? What is it backed with?

If you can't answer that, then it is a result of multiplication rather than creation.

Wealth is a relative term and has remained about the same through time... There are those that are "rich", there are those that are "somewhat comfortable", and there are those that are "poor"...

The amount each group has is irrelevant.

Wealth is about the purchasing power of relative standards of living (between the different groups).
You just pointed out one of the many reasons that world economies have moved past gold-based currency. Commodity based currency also runs risk to sudden discovery of new quantities of commodity (like South American Silver mines), which lead to economic impacts for no reason at all.
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I've moved an in-progress project from django to flask, and am loving it. IMO, django has too much boilerplate and requires too much code to get things done. I seem to find myself digging through documentation more than writing code. With flask, I'm implementing complete features in hours rather than days.

Django is awesome, don't get me wrong. Maybe I just need more experience with it.
Probably, but considering the amount of bragging (not meant pejoratively) they've done about how cheap their hardware is considering their traffic, it's probably not a huge bank-breaking issue. Also, they could almost certainly be significantly more energy efficient with hardware running near 100% utilization.
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I think it makes sense if you change not created to not created by government or reserve bank fiat.
One thing that would help me out would be if new documentation could point out which parts of a system are needlessly complicated and which parts are needed for the system to function. If a book or document could just say "This part of the tool is waaaay too complicated because the original developers envisioned this evolving differently. These are the good parts that you should spend time learning". I think Douglas Crockford called this "subsetting". A big challenge when approaching a new technology is deciding which parts to invest in.
Woah, I didn't say all that. We are a small newspaper and I really doubt we have informants.

Like I said before our "newsroom" doesn't do much reporting other than sitting in on Town Hall meetings and reporting on press releases, our police department isn't very cooperative with us.

I believe anonymity is important especially when someones life can potential be put in harms way. I believe this is why we have witness protection.

My frustrations are about the commenters who would rather spread hate than ideas or engage in friendly debate.
Effective tomorrow, you can buy new cars in Cuba again
Assuming what you want to do is convert it back into electricity. There are a lot of industrial processes that require hydrogen as an input.
Often SLAs aren't given per full year, though. Think less of 20 days a year, and more of X hours per week if something goes severely wrong.
Because defunct property can be condemned.
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..and you are basing an individuals total tax rate based on income tax alone, which doesn't account for the many other taxes that someone has to pay.

I suppose if you made money, didn't live in a house, and didn't spend your money in any way, your tax rate would be 50% in France. This just isn't the case for the average consumer.
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Also, most side-view mirror blind spots are caused by improper mirror positioning. If you can see the side of your car, or see the same object in both the rear view and side view mirror, you've positioned them wrong.

You should actually have them a lot farther out such that visibility in your side mirror coincides with losing rear-view visibility. That position is a lot farther out than most people think and is tricky to do the first few times.
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OK. There were also 640x400, 640x350 (EGA) and 1280x1024. Under Windows, also "Small fonts" and "Large fonts", which changed size of controls, but not bitmaps.

Each of these options gives you something. Focusing on single resolution (or fixed-number multiples) is short signed, almost like basing your's OS binary API on soon-to-be obsolete and unstable C++ ABI (I'm taking shots at BeOS - they took the easy solution at the beginning and what problems it caused).

Especially when the system has the tools to handle the differences.
Wikipedia: Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions

There are ~750 million automobiles in the world today. In 1700, there were none. Thus there is more wealth in the world today (on that one dimension; others similarly).

The amount each group has is irrelevant.

Umm.
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weird. 8 points, posted 43 minutes ago, with 0 comments... and this story makes it to the front page.

Anyway... This is a slippery slope since anyone with enough clout can demand a video be taken down from YouTube. Who decides who has enough clout? This is just the UK doing it, but what would happen if the Saudi/Iran/Iraq government asked for the same treatment?
GitHub has a better 404 page

https://github.com/404
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I sit in meeting and draw 3-D boxes and traces around them - it's the only way I can keep part of my brain busy so I can focus on what people are saying.
Android being open-source, there's probably an expectation from Google for the community to provide a range of solutions to a 'boring/inconsistent/shit UI' problem, be it through providing boilerplate code or UI component libraries or whatever.

I'm going to say though that if anything is at fault, it's not necessarily the learning curve but the base assumption of expert knowledge applied to every bit of documentation Google produces.

For a purely technical piece of writing they'd win many awards, because they can get down to the nitty gritty for sure. To the guy who's new to it all who wants somewhere to start, he's fucked. It's documentation for people who already understand it (personal experience: the C2DM doc, maps API, their PHP library that makes it harder to use their APIs than rolling your own code, etc.).

So thanks to that those fabled UI solutions turn up in the form of PhoneGap, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, etc. All of which abstract the concept of app development to merely be a case of designing a website for a small screen. With HTML and JS and CSS. (Of course the other reason is platform agnosticism but application homogeneity is another thread entirely.)

And, thanks to the point raised in the article ('Android UI design is easier coz it's XML so you can do it programmatically!'), the people who do know how to create an app are the developers who may or may not be very good at working the UX side of things and may settle for the utilitarian solution.
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I agree with a lot of what you're saying but I think if your focus is to create an italien restaurent on the net, which you entirely own, I think your chances for success are actually better in Canada than the us.
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How much energy is required to compress the O2 or H2 for storage/transport or even use?

Pure O2 or H2 at atmospheric pressure isn't that useful. For example, it is very hard to use atmospheric pressure H2 to run an internal combustion engine.

It's easier to run an external combustion engine with atmospheric pressure H2, but said engine will have to be right on top of the H2 generator and since the engine needs a cooling source and the H2 generator requires sunlight, you may have enough of a temperature differential to run a heat engine directly, without the H2 intermediary.
A gold based currency can still be devalued. Simply change the amount of gold it is backed by. For example:

"Congress passed the Gold Reserve Act on 30 January 1934;...The act also authorized the president to devalue the gold dollar so that it would have no more than 60 percent of its existing weight. Under this authority the president, on 31 January 1934, fixed the value of the gold dollar at 59.06 cents."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard

debasement even happened when actual phisical coins made from precious metals were being used:

"Throughout history, governments have been known to create more coinage than their supply of precious metals would allow. By replacing some fraction of a coin's precious metal content with a base metal (often copper or nickel), the intrinsic value of each individual coin was reduced (thereby "debasing" their money), allowing the coining authority to produce more coins than would otherwise be possible. Debasement sometimes occurs in order to make the coin harder and therefore less likely to be worn down as quickly. Debasement of money almost always leads to price inflation unless price controls are also instituted by the governing authority, in which case a black market will often arise."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin#Coin_debasement
You are wrong. Have a look at Tweetdeck, it has a non-standard UI, looks good, and is successful.

Moreover, the fact that you use non-standard UI does not necessarily imply that the user has to learn a new interaction paradigm.
With Silk, Amazon will be able to see what webpages Kindle Fire readers are reading, and they can mine that data to figure out which web pages are read together. Based on the pages that are read together, Amazon can build interesting web page recommendation system using collaborative filtering techniques.
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Just like the Occupy Wall Street protesters, this comic is unable to make a coherent point or pinpoint a single message or action.

I have no idea what this is saying, or why they are saying it.
The rest of that Zakaria quote (taken from http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/27/jerry-guo-newsweek-groupe...):

...In retrospect, it was a mistake—my mistake—and I
regret it. We should not have been in the business of
covering luxury goods—that world is so different from
the traditional world of news reporting. I was always
uncomfortable with it but was trying to help to help[sic]
the magazine survive through tough economic times.
That link doesn't work for me?
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So Stripe is in fact opening a merchant account fir each user that signs up?

I am curious that a social security number is all that is required...why is it such a pain to get a merchant account with a bank or other acquirer? I am curious how Stripe can make it so simple.
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This would be more interesting if it concentrated on Youtube and the government censorship than on the creative legal theories the person supposedly being censored is pushing.

As it is, the only actual content here is "this video isn't available in your country due to a government removal request". That's the story I'd love to see reported on.
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I'm an SEO, do I need to lawyer up now?
Business Wire has been awarded a patent that covers press release SEO tactics. The patent language is foggy, and either handed Business Wire useless intellectual rights or permission to sue every company who ever optimizes a press release.
Feedly and Wunderlist are also HTML5 apps.

Also: Love Zite, congrats on the sale.
This is false. Wealth ultimately boils down to the most finite resource we all have -- our time -- and we are able to accomplish a whole lot more with our time today than we were in the past. Let me explain:

Imagine the edge case at the very beginning of civilization. There are two families, and for illustrative purposes they both spend 100% of their time farming without tools, and live in caves.

One day, someone invents the hoe. Let's imagine that this saves both families 50% of their farming time. Now they are each able to build a home, instead of living in a cave.

The families use a currency to trade crops, and there is a total of $100 in the world, $50 for each family's output. One of two things happened here, but they're pretty much the same thing:

- If we hold the money supply as fixed (saying wealth is zero-sum), then the price of the crops would go down, since we can now buy houses with our money too.

- If we hold the price of the crops fixed, then there is now more money/wealth that exists in the world.

It doesn't really make sense for the price of crops to go down -- they're the same thing that existed yesterday. It makes much more sense to say that there is more money in the world. Regardless, wealth was created.

It's a lot more complicated in our currently economy because there are a lot more moving parts, but the fundamentals still apply. Take something that used to take a lot of time and make it take less time and you'll have created wealth. People can now use the extra time they have to go be productive elsewhere in a way that benefits people.

Going back to your comparison about rich/comfortable/poor, you're not arguing that wealth is zero-sum, you're arguing that there has always been wealth inequality. But the presence of wealth inequality doesn't imply that wealth is zero-sum: wouldn't you say that even today's poor Americans are wealthier than the richest Sumerians?
What's also needed here is some direct heat applied to the Republican Party, which deliberately politicized this area of policy after 9/11 to force the Patriot Act through and has steadfastly protected it since, labeling all opposition to it as un-American, unpatriotic, and similar bullshit.

Until it is made politically dangerous to do things like this, you can bet that those folks will continue on the same path.
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I guess this syntax will now enter my team code-style guideline, as forbidden.
It will nice along the ?: used as a control structure instead of selection.
I do the exact same thing. And I do 3D versions of the alphabet too.
You've accidentally left one occurrence of your username unredacted, in that welcome blurb :)
The issue is of expectations and education.

Many clients ask for the following without knowing better:

- 100 pct uptime

- Zero defects

- Zero scope changes

- Zero perceptible latency in all cases

It is up to the professional specialist to educate the client in terms they understand. Only after explaining in terms they understand can you call them unreasonable. If the client understands and is still unreasonable, the true professional has the obligation to walk away.
How to do sharding:

1. Define your keyspace in bits.

2. Shard your keyspace in CIDR notation

3. Resharding always splits a keyspace in half

eg. 0.0.0.0/0 becomes 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1

4. Store your shard keyspace in DNS with SRV/TXT records

5. Assign IDs randomly

This gives a couple interesting properties, for replication odds are very high that your corresponding server has a shard of similar size and if not its generally only split over two servers. Servers also only need to speak directly to their one or two replicas in the other data center. The other really nice property if you're using spindle disks is that you can copy the entire HD and just delete the half of the keyspace not used after the split.

It's all written up here if you want to dig into with a full description of all the pieces:
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As far as the Euro bailout goes, my take is that it's roughly the same as what happened in the US - too-big-to-fail banks holding too much bad debt (sovereign debt in Europe, vs mortgage, other collateral-backed, and municipal debt in the US), and maybe still too-highly leveraged using those debt 'assets' as collateral.

If the collateral (Greek, Portugese, Irish, etc bonds) defaults, not only do the banks take a huge haircut on their capital, but they also get margin calls on their leverage that they can't pay. Boom, bankpocalypse.

The German government knows this, just as the US government did, which is why they too will proceed with the bailout despite citizens' vehement opposition and at the risk of losing their next election. The alternative is something that, once it occurs, can't be undone easily, and which most citizens would probably regret once it became real.

I'm sure there are tons of details I'm missing, but haven't been following this as closely the past two years. But that's one American's take on it, fwiw.
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Sold at a $10 loss, which Amazon will recoup off about three eBooks over the lifetime of a device. My immediate thought was 'Why isn't everyone (being doing this?', and then I read of fears of a pricing war at the lower end of the tablet market. But that's not going to happen, and here's why.

Samsung and HP aren't retailers. People don't (almost without exception) buy direct from them. You don't visit Samsung.com and order a Tab. You buy them at other retailers like BestBuy and (lol) Amazon. So Samsung have to add another hefty cost on top of their manufacturing cost - the retailer's margin. Bestbuy don't want to be stocking shelves full of Galaxy Tabs, littered with merchandising, for the lure of 3%. They probably didn't much fancy the HP Touchpad either, and look how that turned out. (They'll stock Apple goodies for wafer-thin margins though, because it brings in affluent customers and looks good in the store.)

Amazon are going to be playing on their own at the $200 price-point - not only are they the only player who can subsidise devices with future content sales, but they can distribute them for virtually nothing. $1 to UPS and your Kindle is on its way.

But there's a big multicoloured elephant in the room waving it's trunk around. Yes, it's Google. And they've got neither manufacturing, nor retailing, nor future content sales. But they're big and rich and a bit mental.

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Also posted at http://www.alexmuir.com/2011/09/why-apple-and-amazon-are-con...