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I read the article thinking it was about the following idea, the principle is almost the same, just it's about govt debt not personal debt.

It would of course be too outrageous for most polticians but here's a thing:

When the UK govt bailed out the banks they spent 500billion. The outstanding mortgage debt of everyone in the country at the time was 368billion.

Whilst I know there are many people without mortgages (because they rent) the knock on effect of paying off all the oustanding mortgages instead of recapitalising banks would have done some amazing things: it would have given the whole economy an enormous payrise which would have had an immediate positive effect on high-street retail.

Also because people would not immediately spend all of their new found money it would have gone into savings: recapitalised the banks indirectly. They were always using everyone's savings anyway.

It would have resolved the thing that caused the crisis: that being risky mortgage debt on the banks books. No more mortgage debt, no more unstable banks.

Lastly and probably most importantly, it would have allowed govts to raise taxes to refill their coffers because absolutely nobody would notice, and probably nobody would even care.
I am a researcher and I publish papers...for the record. I am not proud of every paper that I publish. For those uninitiated with the research industry, take conferences (in general, not referring to this particular one), etc. with a pinch of salt. In some ways, conferences are the main mechanism for the organizing body to make money/achieve sustenance, committee members to embellish their resumes, researchers to add to their publication list while milking taxing-payers/profits (depending on her affiliation) to go on 'vacation' to present.
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I would be very strongly opposed to this idea. Advertising is a distraction, and one of the great things about HN is the lack of distraction. The site layout is simple, the stories are relevant.

The last thing I want from HN is noise. The signal/noise ratio is fantastic here. Let's keep it that way.

It's often the case that people want to get the public (in this case the HN public) to accept some ill in the name of charity. I truly believe that members here should make private donations to charities if they wish to, there's no need for us to become another site covered in ads for charities no matter how closely 'related' they are to the content.
I believe the largest thing that Steve did in Apple was maintain an exceptionally high standard for himself and I think they should keep doing that.
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There's a very real danger to people (employees) seeing Apple as Steve Jobs' legacy. What they need to realize is that, even if Apple crashes and burns in the next 6 months, Steve's legacy is what he did during his time there.
This is what has always confused me about Bitcoin.

How is it not a great scam?

The way I see it, the creators of Bitcoin have the lion's share of the coins. Since they're hard to mine, it's not like supply is increasing at a rate where it can offset that big initial pooling.

As a matter of fact, some of the big crashes I've seen are from mass cash-ins from people with exactly these large pools.

So, if Bitcoin actually becomes ubiquitous, as are the creator's goals, do the creators come out millionaires?
Best example is: "What Would Jesus Do?"

I'm sure there are wildly differing opinions on that.
The same way people don't need any figures to accept that a law prohibiting murder is a good idea. You demonstrate a sufficiently compelling argument and often only words are needed.
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> > In some sense you wouldn’t even be human anymore. People like Jeff are better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs.

> I think Yegge's just defined the best characterization of the 1%

"she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human" - William Gibson, "Count Zero", 1986
> No, Django doesn't talk HTTP -- Django talks WSGI or CGI. That hides many of the details of the protocol in use -- I imagine that you could run Django with a server that sends/receives web requests over FTP.

I don't know how you would make e.g that[1] work on FTP. Basically you would end up encapsulating HTTP inside FTP, not using one in place of the other.

A CGI script takes raw (yet conveniently split by the web server) HTTP data from ENV vars and stdin, and outputs HTTP data directly to stdout. Django HttpRequest and HttpResponse object merely provides a convenient helper for that and does not actually abstract anything. The web server pipes the response as is straight to the client via TCP (unless there is SSL, where it will just obliviously encrypt the stream).

To comply with that, as SPDY is a replacement to HTTP, mod_spdy transcodes stuff live [2].

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#...
[2] http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/wiki/Design
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Quality is the measure of how closely a finished product meets its design spec. McDonald's products are insanely high quality, despite not being very good - a Big Mac was never designed to be healthy and satisfying in the first place!

A relevant example of this is organizations who are CMM Level 5 certified.
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While browsing a few blogs today, I clicked on an outbound link. To no surprise, it opened a new window. I understand that everybody wants to keep people on their site for the longest amount of time possible, but I have a hunch. I tend to manually middle click when I'd prefer to open a window in a new tab. Perhaps it's just us techies (or me), but I see usage of target="_blank" slowly becoming unnecessary as the general population learns the key combinations to make their own decisions.

What are everyone elses thoughts on this common-place technique? Does a window popup irk you as much as it does me nowadays? It really may just be applicable to tech sites.

I'm guilty of using target="_blank" on my blogs as well. I'm rethinking this one...
It is possible to base the currency in commodity. Not the gold standard, but, say, 1 coin is worth the average of a predetermined amount of the top 20 or 30 traded commodities in the market. Banks guarantee to exchange your coins for commodities at any time - bank chooses the exact commodity, but the amount is determined by the value of your coins. It would cost you more money than now to hold an account with the bank, as the bank needs to be able to guarantee to exchange coins for commodities at any time, and thus must store or otherwise arrange access to those commodities. This means you will be paid less interest. On the flip side, the value of your coins is always guaranteed and not based on reputation. That latter property may make it suitable for decentralisation in a way that a fiat currency is not.
So, how do make that simple for the ordinary consumer?
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I actually purchased a domain in ode to this car. Wow, I'm a huge nerd.

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(domain forwarding to the same page in the ops post)
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Keep up the good work Zach! I appreciate the time and energy you put into making these Meetups come together. I'll see you in November...
What Apple has done has brought technology into the realm of mainstream consumption, not conspicuous consumption. People have said the same thing about Macs since forever. "People buy Apple products to be noticed." When you're selling hundreds of thousands of phones each day, you no longer become conspicuous.

Jobs has said himself (I'm referencing his 1997 WWDC keynote) that it's not necessarily better to "think different". He said he didn't care about being different, he wanted to be better. And if being better was being different, then so be it.
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Yep, I noticed that too. Seems suggestive of retirement.
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Wait, doesn't PDF support all of the above? Why require HTML rendering? All sorts of issues arise since HTML is markup based and not layout based like PDF or ePub...
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The problem is that anger often sounds more authentic but anyone who has ever been angry will testify that what you say when you're angry (or even just irritated) doesn't necessarily reflect your actual view, just one facet of it.

Yegge's original piece was making a specific point and he came out with examples that supported that but that doesn't mean that those examples represent Yegge's overall view of Bezos and it's reasonable that he might want to throw out the other side of it.

In terms of whether it's honest - from both pieces I think it's fairly clear that Yegge doesn't believe that Bezos gives a shit what Yegge thinks so I see no reason why Yegge wouldn't be being truthful.

But even if Yegge was toning himself down, I don't have an issue with that.

I think that among some in the tech community there is a feeling that "honesty" and "truth" tend to trump everything. While that's great in theory the baggage (usually personal offence) that comes with it has to be considered.

Ultimately life is about getting stuff done and for most of us who aren't Jobs or Bezos level genius where brutal honesty will be forgiven, a "polished" truth will often get us better responses from others than it's more brutal counterpart.

If that's the case we all have to ask ourselves do you want to be right, or do you want to get things done?

Note: I'm not talking about lying here, I'm just talking about how you present the truth.
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> Seems suggestive of retirement

Why does that seems suggestive of retirement? They're obviously optimizing this bar for my mom and not people who know what, and how to use Reader. "Calendar", "Documents", "Photos", "Web" (which takes you to google.com and changes the top bar)--those are smart choices for that bar, as they appeal to everyone.
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I haven't seen this either, then again I have a fairly clean desktop and a highly structured folders. Perhaps a scale issue, I didn't notice where the author made any comments with the number of items Finder was rendering.
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You can use an iphone and a roll up rubber keyboard, or a laser keyboard...
I don't spend the whole time on my phone. I don't do social networks and also usually turn off the sound for email notifications as well. But when I do actually need the abilities of the phone, it's there. There's nothing quite like wondering about that bright star on the horizon and then just waving your phone at it and getting the full details. Or getting to know when the next tram/bus home is, before you leave the coffee shop/club. Or grabbing a picture of that rare double rainbow.

I also don't like planning or sticking to plans when going out (how much fun is that anyway?). But I do like to get information on the go, for whatever I decide to do.
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Wait a second, you wrote:

> The attacker has physical access to your device ... you have bigger problems to worry about.

I don't have bigger problems to worry about (or maybe I do - what are they?)

Perhaps 1% of thieves can get at my encrypted data, but probably all of them will be able to perform the few steps necessary to bypass the lock screen.
this move has been driving me crazy ever since.
I'll leave it up to Steve to answer that, but this may help you get the idea:

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho...

This is a Steve's post on how he conducts and what he expects from phone interviews.

It's over seven years old so proceed with care -- it's possible that his views changed since then.

Also, this is probably more of a bare minimum rather than the whole picture.
I remember when hard drives finally broke the $10/MB barrier. :)
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I agree. If they were retiring it, wouldn't they have just removed it from the list all together?
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> How is it not a great scam?

How is it a great scam? Who is scammed here? No false information is provided, the protocol and program source code is all open source for you to examine.

Of course some bitcoin users can tell you that "I believe bitcoin value will rise tenfold in the next year", but that is not scamming. It is the same as I would say that "I believe nokia share will rise tenfold in the next month". If you believe me and buy Nokia shares, you are just stupid, not scammed :)
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Wait a second, you wrote:

Uh, no I didn't ;)

Look, the thing is, if you're worried about a casual thief, they probably don't care about your data anyway, they're going to wipe the device clean and resell it. If it is someone that actually stole the device to get the data, then I would expect your '1%' (plucked out of the air, or is there a reference for this kind of statistic - honest question, I'm not snarking) is actually going to be a much higher number, in which case the encryption isn't going to save you. It's pretty much game over once the attacker has their hands on the physical device, afterwards it's just a question of time.
> And __I feel__ that's what Rich is talking about here.
(emphasis mine)

I guess it's just that isn't it. There's a lot of talk here about what Rich might have/probably implied. I suppose it would have been infinitely more helpful if he would have just been explicit about it as opposed to projecting a slightly philosophical [sic] point of view.
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A mixing console. The Lua is considered part of the software. It will not be exposed to the end user. It will however make it trivial for us to do quite complex modifications of the software without recompiling.

For example, displaying feet instead of meters is a trivial matter if all you have to change is some text/Lua files.
What do you mean? It is very viable to use Lua on a Blackfin.
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This perspective is the greatest pile of steaming horse shit I've read in a long time. The idea that becoming debt-free would be a bad thing is obscene. The only people it wouldn't benefit are in the financial industry. Meanwhile unthinkable amounts of taxpayer cash go into a black hole to service the debt (ie into the pockets of the scum who run the finance industry). This is the same old stuff lads... another example of scaremongering bullshit propaganda for the finance industry.
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The session identifier IS sensitive enough. If you get this, you have access to the system with the victim's user profile. Do you really believe that developers implement additional session security if they fail to provide proper input validation? Most of the time - I don't think so.

Furthermore, "other" authentication is almost always more or less broken. The only way "other" authentication could work is to check the user's IP address (which by itself adds only a bit of security - think of a public WiFi, e. g. Starbucks) or browser features (which is not a reliable security factor as this can easily be spoofed).

So, authentication usually works by transmitting session identification cookies.

httpOnly and secure flags come to mind when trying to secure session ids, but XSS can also be used to modify the DOM on the fly and to inject a nice little fake login form that lets you steal the sensitive information in plaintext (with a bit of user interaction though).

What else can you do with XSS? Drive-by downloads exploiting browser plugins, exploitation frameworks such as BeEF, keyloggers etc.

Edit: Non-persistent XSS is surely less dangerous than persistent XSS, but nevertheless, it is a threat and most of the time, an indicator for a generally flawed Web application that should not be downplayed.
Kind of like China bought the US? Has this had any noticable effect for you guys?
I have both an eInk Sony reader and a B&N NookColor, and both are pretty good for reading. I prefer the eInk for casual reading, but the Nook is great for PDFs and papers, and reading in bed without light :)
As far as I know, PDFs don't reflow text. They're only suitable for a fixed screen size.
So how do you suggest you convey true emotions through words while being diplomatic? As we both agree 'considered' posts can eliminate the true feeling.

I do not think only anger can be conveyed.

I am not being specific about this very situation. And I agree that being diplomatic can be more effective most times.

Edited: To provide contest for question.
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BadAstronomy doesn't seem to think so:

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If that posting date is accurate, that's eerily prescient.

Also, a link that works:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nigh...
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