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A financial transaction tax is not that great in the first place, but making it $.10 per share instead of a percentage of the price paid is a bad idea. Let's do some math:

Activision-Blizzard Share Price (ATVI): 13.50
Tax on a $100,000 trade: ~$7407.40
Google share price (GOOG): $586.31
Tax on a $100,000 trade: ~$170.55
Berkshire Hathaway Class A share price (BRK.A): 117,100.000
Tax on a $100,000 trade: ~$.10

Creating this massive disparity in the tax payable based on share price would cause massive market distortions in the short term. It would also lead institutional investors to pressure corporations to do massive reverse splits to drive up the per-unit share price to minimize the tax per transaction, which would lock small-scale retail investors out of the market in addition to being a huge waste of resources.

This idea is clearly half-baked. I think a number of your other ideas are as well. You need to think through what actual benefits you expect from your proposed changes, as well as what the unintended consequences would be. Your post does not explain this very well at all.

To cite another example: forcing a split between retail and investment banking is a common talking point from people who want "more regulation". But most folks advocating for this do not have a coherent explanation for why this would actually be helpful. It's often claimed that deregulation contributed to the crisis, therefore we need to bring back this regulation. But the institutions that precipitated the crisis were all pure investment banks, so this regulation would have done absolutely nothing to prevent the financial crisis. This post does a great job of explaining why this particular policy proposal is poorly thought out, as well as covering the general issue of advocating policies without actually understanding what they would do or why they might be worthwhile: <http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/if-you-f....
> First of all, as gerggerg mentioned in a comment here, it's not voluntary if you don't know about it (i.e. what data Facebook collects and what they do with it).

Well, that's not some secret. They collect every single thing you send them and process it as they like internally. Only third-party access to the data is limitted. Assuming anything less not only from Facebook but any other company is likely to surprise you in a bad way.
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This is a disgusting abuse of the patent system. How else would one unlock a phone these days? They have had the vast majority of their buttons removed - :D. I give it a week before Samsung have a court throw this patent in the dustbin.
It's hard for me to take something like this seriously.

If, after losing weight, these people are driven to consume more calories than their bodies are expending, they need to do something to compensate for that, plain and simple. It could be exercise or it could be gaining muscle mass (and maintaining muscle mass requires more caloric intake than maintaining fat).

It's an absurdity to believe that these people should be able to lose weight, then simply go back to being sedentary and eating what they want to eat and expect to keep it off.
I see this come up in RMS threads again and again. "There are ways to make things change. But you have to adapt." Why should he? He's famous and you're not. Why should he take advice from you that's clearly not working?

Also, he did change the system from the inside. This is why people deal with his quirks.
I do. I have something like 500 DVDs which I've bought.

I pirate some DVDs because for me that's less illegal than buying a DVD from a different region and making my DVD a region free player.

(Pirating a DVD means the content owner can sue me for a loss of a sale; the cost of the DVD plus legal costs. Cracking region-locking on my DVD player is a criminal offence.)
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I don't think Stallman ever said that you don't have the freedom to call Linux Linux. He's simply asking that you don't.

As you can see, it's very easy to ignore his requests. That doesn't mean he should stop making them.
I don't know that it's so unreasonable. The floss at the drug store got there the same way, after all, and it's not as though they scheduled the flight especially for you.
You can't pass on these DNA methylation changes, right? But does this bring Lamarckism back into the realm of conceivable?
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And another, "get me to the useful stuff now": http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html
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Have you seen the same effects on Africans that grew up wealthy in Africa, versus those that grew up in poor living conditions in Europe?
I've said this here before: Kuga (Ford's SUV) in Slovenian means bubonic plague. And it seems that does not stop people buying them here :)
And I, for one, would gladly say "let me check with my hooker if I'm free tomorrow" :)
I was thinking before that something like this needs to come to Android, too. Instead of emulating ARM hardware on x86 chips, you could directly build your app on an ARM machine. I suppose you'd still have to emulate other ARM devices, but I think it will work a lot better than on x86 chips.

Maybe Google can work with Eclipse to port it over to ARM/Android. Developers could get hybrid devices like the Asus Transformer to code on them.
Compressing an all-zeros file is not representative of anything. Why not do it with actual text?
If you read Thom long enough you'll find he has no love for either Microsoft or Apple. I do find his articles on Amiga and GNU/Linux to be well thought out and researched. But if he has an agenda he pushes it.

It's like getting an Apple review from Paul Thurrot, he starts off hating it so you base everything from that.
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It looks that some dictionaries on the internet use Lumia and Lumias as the equivalent in Spanish for prostituta. I can guarantee (being Spaniard born and raised and having spoken in Spanish with people from literally any spanish-speaking country) that people use Lumi or Lumis in very, very rare occasions. Lumia is even weirder (I just learnt it to be honest) and I dont really understand why the dictionary only includes Lumia. (rae.es). Honestly I think that that word will be removed from the dictionary sooner than later.

I am sorry to say this but the entry is wrong :( Lumi = hooker. Lumia doesn't mean anything in Spanish. Actually most of the spanish speakers I met don't even know that Lumi = hooker (I have one cousin called Lumi and no one noticed until she was in her early 20s...)

Anyway it probably means something funny in other languages :p
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Has anyone done an audit for all the websites of the supporters of this act?

I remember some recent HN article about someone (German politician?) who had used a photo without permission on his website.

Lily Allen has spoken out about piracy, but used then distributed music via her blog.
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I hope people notice this cool feature in the documentation: trash talking! Turing would be proud.

> The AI maintains a set of personas it adopts when fighting humans. These are designed to intimidate the person with the AI's ability to type very complicated and computationally intensive sentences in the middle of battles. Currently this feature is not well developed since it does not affect the win-loss ratio much and I've decided not to unleash the AI on hapless Battle.net players, but I may revisit it eventually.
Infringing plattforms will adapt and at some point they need to blacklist the entire Internet.
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This isn't a performance issue. It's a limited storage issue. Of course, all these guys know that, too, but they pretend to not realize it so they can take yet another jab at Android.

But obviously, having only 512 MB of total internal storage at the time was a bad strategic choice, and manufacturers did it to cut corners. And from what I hear iOS5 is running pretty slowly on iPhone 3GS.
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Those goods would still have to be shipped to a traditional store, where traditional staff drove in and stood around and dusted it, so you could drive (or whatever) in and get it.

As opposed to drop-shipping the most economical one on demand, and not wasting all the time and shipping stocking places, hoping you'll come in and buy from them before the junk is obsolete.

Stores, except tailors and the like, are dead.

As for their warehouses, cities expand and real-estate, especially when at rock-bottom, is a pretty safe bet compared to renting.
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There is precedent in the app store for apps which require a subscription to work, and yet do not offer in-app subscriptions. For example, Kindle and Netflix. The way they comply with the guidelines is by removing any link to the website where you can sign up. If there is no way for the user, via tapping in your app, to give you money outside of in-app purchasing, then the app should pass muster.

So you basically have 3 viable choices. The first is to offer in-app subscriptions, and live with the 30% cut that Apple takes. Note that this option is going to be the most convenient for your users, if you care about that sort of thing.

The second is to offer in-app purchasing for 43% more than the regular price. After Apple's 30% cut, this will leave you with the original subscription amount. Note that this is not particularly user-friendly because they're now paying 43% more for the same service.

The third is to remove any and all links to your site from the app. Make it very clear in your app description that this app requires an active subscription, and live with the fact that some users are braindead and will give you 1 star because your app doesn't work for them (because they don't have a subscription).
I don't use Python, Ruby or any other scripting language unless someone pays me to. I was simply responding to inaccurate or tautological statements thrown around in this thread.
Like ghshephard said, in general bonds aren't really risk-free.

"Risk-free" is a theoretical concept. Roughly speaking, it's an assumption used to simplify financial equations, analogous to assuming "no friction" in high-school physics problems when the friction coefficient is small enough.

The usual rationale for assuming that a country will always pay back its debts is that it can print its own currency at will. But this is not the case for the euro, since an individual member country cannot freely print euros. It's also not the case for dollar-denominated bonds issued by emerging countries. Indeed, even bonds issued by the two largest and more stable powers in the world (US and Japan) aren't 100% risk-free. They might be able to keep borrowing money and not defaulting, but likely at the cost of inflating their currencies, i.e, investors still get the nominal dollars and yen back, but they will be worth less in terms of goods. The closest thing to risk-free is an US Treasure bill.
The minuses you list far outweigh the pluses.

- If the work is not challenging, it will not be very useful on your resume anyway.

- The network that is important is your personal connections to coworkers - if you are not directly interacting with the people the startup is connected with (I assume you mean, who are investing in it), you might as well not exist, you are another faceless programmer that is growing their investment.

- Having a standard workweek of 90+ hours is only worth it if it's your own startup, or you are enjoying the work and are gaining other benefits from it (ie, learning fascinating new skills, building strong relationships, or some other benefit other than money). I would highly advise disregarding your stock options altogether - if they ever amount to anything, it will be a nice surprise, but counting as a direct benefit is not sensible when they will, as with most startups, never amount to anything significant compared to the amount of time and energy you invest. If you burn your energy on a product and company you do not believe in, doing work that is not mentally rewarding, you will eventually burn out.

- if you are not sold on the product, and the product is not technically challenging, neither will you produce your best work, nor will you learn much from building it. You can either

A) create your own skunkworks in the company, and find ways to make product more interesting to yourself by designing, prototyping, and proposing new features that _are_ technically challenging and give product what it lacks. This only makes sense if you believe that the company will appreciate your efforts, and that the product can be salvaged.

B) Find something else you can learn while at the company - better project management skills, pair programming so you can learn from other developers how they think and use their tools, learning how to manage people, learning how to talk to investors and network, etc...

C) If you cannot find anything else you can learn while you are at the company, quit. Good developers are hard to find right now, you should have little trouble finding other work.
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Recent studies show there may actually be some limited transmission of epigenetic information:

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/inheritan...

Our understanding is still very limited, though. And yes, it is kind of ironic that Lamarck is getting a jab in after all this time :)
And finally, on being a quitter - you will not be seen as a quitter by people who care about your well being if you communicate the situation clearly. The people who may try to shame you as a quitter, will be people who will benefit from you not quitting. People who actually care about you will understand that you need to do what is best for your evolution as a programmer and human being. You have to watch out for your own best benefit. The company, especially if it is full of smart people as you say it is, will survive without you just fine. Depending on the founders, the board of directors, and the investors, it will also, without a qualm, throw you under the bus if that is beneficial to them, especially if you already do not get along with the founder. This is not to say that all companies/founders/directors are evil, but you have to be aware of the risk/benefit and judge it rationally, rather than sacrificing your own well-being, your irreplaceable time, and your energy on a company that does not appreciate it, nor give you a fair exchange mentally or financially.
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The article doesn't even speak to the obvious rebuttals: 1) the "touch screen" Android interface is mostly driven by buttons, 2) the iPhone was launched 11 months earlier, 3) the blackberry looking phone is the one the guy was carrying around for 6 mo.

Right or wrong, an argument that does not address obvious rebuttals is not an argument, it's wishful thinking in an echo chamber.
I just have this observation ..

Apple makes only one mobile phone model, just one, all other mobile phone makers have several products lines and models of their mobile phones

Apple obviously is leading the way currently

As Designers, which do you think is the better approach, one model or many

My next phone will probably not be an iphone, probably an xperia mini

I personally think, we had a design wave here
mutiple models -> single model -> multiple models

I mean, people went from wanting different things, to wanting the same thing, to back wanting different things

And I think this is how, sony, samsung and motorolla will start to eat into the iphone market share

Of course the other school of thought is, we only need one good model, mobile are more like TVs rather than Cars (all TVs nowadays look the same)

Which direction do you think will lead the way?
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People who are rich often disobey laws, does not equate to People who disobey laws are often rich.
Corporate taxes also incentivize corporations to outsource or relocate operations overseas, and disincentivize them from repatriating profits made overseas.

I would be willing to consider giving up the ability of the government to micromanage corporate behavior in return for recapitalization of the US manufacturing base and repatriation of profits.
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Note that this is not just another AI for Starcraft: it actually plays the game like a human, by "looking at the screen", and issuing keyboard and mouse orders.
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What is an "insanely fast borderline-supercar" good for when all it does is get you to the next red light faster (unless you take it to the track)? I'm genuinely curious. I found that when I drive (relatively relaxed) I tend to be waiting at the next intersection next to the guy who changed lanes multiple times and raced around others. I'd rather spend my money to upgrade to a bigger boat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation seems to be a kind of cell parameterization, amongst other things.
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Yes. You are right on the money with Lamarckism. There was a separate study showing people who lived through a famine passed on its effects lasting several generations.
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As being from Uruguay and having spoke with native spanish speakers from all over this is the first time I heard that word too. Also I like to read quite a lot. I even did a google image search for the word… nothing NSFW popped up.
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Steve got kicked out of Apple due to his behavior. Bill wasn't even in the same league of belligerence.

Very few people are quite as nasty as Jobs and even fewer have the other qualities that allow people look past it.
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Note that for a year the subjects were on a "maintenance diet", which most probably was intended to limit their calorie intake to match their daily energy expenditure, and still gained some of the weight back.
This is the long term problem for content creators. The current generation of sub-30 year olds have grown up/will grow up in a culture of free things. That idea is flourishing and is what really should scare content creators.
Thanks Jason, that's an interesting idea. We've talked about payment models that charge incrementally for actual usage, like Tarsnap does - which would be a good fit for alot of different use cases. I think the issue though is that a flat rate per month is much more easy for people to understand.
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Haha, maybe it should learn from CombatEX. That obviously "works" for him.
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More like: German banks made a dumb loan to Greece, and now they have agreed to let Greece declare bankruptcy on 50% of those loans.
I stand corrected, but you have my curiosity up. Nevertheless, the "decline" of hardware in the face of software advancement in phones strikes me as awfully rapid. Is the Nexus One really so underpowered that ICS couldn't be made to accommodate it?
Apple makes three presently, but I see your point.
Seeing as 4.68 million new PCs for a population of largely previously off-line 1.2b people is a very small drop in the bucket, I expect it will continue to go up rapidly very quickly for many years to come as India gets richer and PCs get cheaper.
>If it was bad, it wouldn't have become the way to communicate with people in every culture on the planet.

We have nothing better, but it is not the only way we communicate. Mathmatics made a whole other language to communicate with because spoken language wasn't effective enough.

Further, natural language is useful among people because we can work out meanings, fill in implicit statements closely enough, have experience on what certain phrases mean and so on. Even with every tool we have, we often still get it wrong. So if it takes so much intelligence to be able to communicate with written language, why would anyone imagine it a good idea to expect computers to be able to do this too? A computer must explicitly be told what to do in every situation. Typically when we need to go into that level of detail with people we don't use natural language either. We generally demonstrate what must be done (e.g. youtube tutorials which often don't even have sound, etc.).

>Many of us who work on computers don't learn these other aspects of natural language very well, and tend to project this limited command of natural language onto computer languages.

Is that a rock thrown at me? I don't think I have a problem here. I'm just realistic about what language is good at. Natural language's value is that it can be very concise when everyone has the same context as you. With a computer this is never the case.
Increase number of attempts? Yes. Practically impossible? Not in the slightest.
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>Registering the vehicle at purchase (or at beginning of lease) is required.

Not if you've properly backdated your stock options.
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It seems more like it is a DirectX wrapper, i.e. it gets all the DirectX calls and can insert any user events there.

Getting the DirectX graphic calls and using them is probably a much easier approach than to just looking at the final screen.
It's not that complicated. The rich get richer because they own. Specifically, they own two things - the means of production of wealth, and the debt of the 99%.

Outsourcing wealth production to low-wage countries increased profit margins and enabled the meteoric rise in CEO and executive compensation relative to labor, whose wages were stagnant at best, or who were being outsourced and laid off at worst (eg, labor wasn't benefitting from the increased profit margins, only executives and shareholders/owners).

Cheap money and debt bubbles enabled labor to continue consuming on credit beyond their means, sustaining the increased profit margins longer than should have been possible, while simultaneously paying interest on their consumption.

Hence, the 99% (or whatever the % is) has been transferring wealth to the 1% from both ends. The solution is, stay out of debt as much as possible, and find ways to incentivize repatriation of production operations to the US (ostensibly by reducing the cost-basis of manufacturing here). Certain legal proposals, like financial transaction taxes and the like, may help as well.
I have often been in situations like this one. I have always found it easiest to just give-up and leave - quit - pack your bags. Yet, after making such a mistake once, I have realized that it is not the right approach. The ideal approach is to give it _one_more_try_.

So my advice to you: If you want to leave the firm because you don't get along with the founder -> try to talk it out with him. Often the best solution is to have an honest discussion and see if you can resolve your differences. If after you have your discussion with the founder you still are unable to "gel" - leave, its not worth your while to waste your life in an environment that you're not happy in.