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The SL55 AMG is a mid-range Mercedes. It's modest compared to what he could have had. (Rolls-Royce Phantom, Bugati Veyron, etc.)

> That's as much as a lot of us make in two years.

It should be inspiration to hustle, if anything. I hustled for many years, and I was able to buy my first Mercedes last year.
San Francisco comes to mind. You don't blend in unless you drive a low end Mercedes, BMW, or Audi.
Not at all. Setting up trusts like this is what family offices do for wealthy people. The goal is to legally structure everything so that the total tax bill is minimized. High net worth individuals never just have a big fat bank account and a stock portfolio, there is always an array of trusts typically set up as LLC's to minimize tax exposure. It's unfortunate that he's being downvoted into invisibility (presumably due to the irritated tone of his post) but the fact is that he is correct in his assertion.
Relax, the author said "relatively-speaking" - Jobs wasn't making $50k/yr. No need to jump to "out of your fucking mind" over that.
It is impossible to regulate a derivatives market. You and I can start trading derivative on anything tomorrow on the phone if we want.

If you tax transactions, the transactions will just disappear off into another location. A derivatives market with modern communications could be run out of a third world country in Africa using Warlords to protect the office. And the traders could still sit in New York offices.

If people want to do HFT, then let them, except where they might injure the general economy from large failures. If you think HFT is just for the pros, work out a way to bring it to the man in the street via a startup and make a fortune .

The only thing that should be done with derivatives is ensure that large financial institutions are not brought down by bad trading decisions (ie Lehman), and that small firms cannot seize up market liquidity through overleveraging (ie LTCM)

This can be covered off quite ably with capital and margin requirements. That's fair enough, and quite accepted throughout many other fields.
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Spending years and tens of thousands of dollars studying things no one is interested in isn't normal, but in the American middle class it is.

the top 1% of earners pay 38% of all income tax while earning 27% of all income. The top 50% pay 97% of all income tax.

Broken windows fallacy, broken window fallacy and zero-sum thinking everywhere in this whole debate.
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What an unimportant measure of data. I bet a lot of that '1222 pages,' or up to 700mb (based on an average CD), is timestamps and other metadata on where and when he poked, commented, updated, and deleted his friends, photos, and statuses. You know, the sort of petty activity that Facebooking is mostly composed of. It doesn't really add up like that. Most of it never matters a week later.

What would have been more interesting is the KIND of data he got. Like, to what extent have they been tracking him physically? Today I myself updated to the Timeline profile and was surprised at the addition of a Map section beside my photos with 70 markers of where Facebook knows I've been. Looking through them though I remember authorizing the tracking in all of the ones I saw, and it's mostly just at school and at home.

Did the data include the websites he visits, speaking lately of the 3rd-party tracking cookies that the Like buttons got so much attention for? His level of friendship with his various friends? They have algorithms for this, and the extent to which they analyze a user is more interesting than how endowed their database is. Unfortunately the real juicy stuff probably isn't even there because the article says Facebook isn't required legally to provide any 'analytical procedures' that they run.

I bet most of that 1222 pages is just noise.
That's pretty declarative. You seem pretty sure the situation in the States would be comparable to that in Russia --I think that's a very tenuous stretch.

It happens in Russia because they have collusion. Presumably we would have less chance of that happening as other candidates would be free to join in on the political race. There is non-such in Putin's Russia.

In Russia, candidacies are controlled (and those two had an "understanding"), so you end up with that. Anyhow, Russia is an exception. Why do you bother bringing up an exception as in this case it would appear irrelevant?

What we do have is people who, due to name establishment (incumbency) recognition and or party backing, end up stringing together many terms --this alternative, would at least break that pattern up and give other candidates a chance due to stalled momentum (of the what would have been incumbent). It's seems an obvious difference to me.
"First, a note about political firings at Google. They're always made to look like performance-based terminations. This is actually a nice thing to do, because it gives the targets time to find other jobs. In Silicon Valley, a 60-day PIP is more than enough severance to bridge to the next gig."

Not that it excuses that the current anti-discrimination laws are fundamentally flawed. In fact, I am not sure this kind of law are even a good idea. Hiring is an art, not a science. But that is a different topic.
Why not, though? The point is that this kind of app should be allowed, and many people thought about doing stuff like that before, but were told no, so it's a valid question.
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Graph looks a little suspect.

1. Choosing 1979. If you started from 1999 all the graphs would look nearly the same. So, does that mean in the last 12 years the 1% is no better off?

2. Notice that the 1%'s advantage drops down significantly in a recession. They seem to have ignored the last one though, and stopped right at the height of the bubble.

That's what I can read.
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Stamp duty or taxes are a horrible idea. I live in a stamp duty regime, and if I want to sell my house and buy another one, then I have to pay about $30,000 to the government. First home buyers are exempt, but after that, you're in.

The reason it is so high is that it was set a long time ago on a sliding scale, and bracket creep of house prices means that every house traded is on the old 'high' value.

As a result, housing liquidity is low and people sit on unsuitable houses for long periods of time because they can't afford to sell and buy another. This leads to excessive commuting as people drive long distances rather than move closer to jobs, and leads to old people staying in oversized houses, tying up housing stock.

With a median priced home, if you sell it, and buy another of identical value, you will have spent nearly $50,000 on agents fees, stamp duties and other costs.

I would dearly love someone to explain to me how that is a good idea, fair or any other justification.
i'm of different opinion. I'm from india and haven't got any landline connection till now but have 3 mobile phones in my home.
And thats same going to happen to many people who hadn't have access to any desktop computer or laptop. They'll get a tablet straight away. This will surely benefit them.
'Bond' is another word for 'promise' so you should be able to rely on it... they're supposed to be risk-free

Agreed. I'd be livid right about now if I held Greek bonds. Although I suppose anyone looking for shelter in the form of government bonds could have taken the next step and diversified across nations, further reducing their exposure.
I see no reason it wouldn't happen in the US in areas where term limits might otherwise be needed.
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Sovereign Debt is most certainly not "Risk Free." I'm not sure that the Greek Bond Default is particularly meaningful - and is certainly not a very big deal. The market had anticipated (and priced in) this default almost six months ago. It was a big deal _then_ but it's been a foregone conclusion for most of the year. If anything - the deal negotiated here is probably showing some upside to what was expected, so this form of default is actually positive news - akin to a company showing a drop in profits, but less of a drop than what wall street expected.
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> Saying that 'people knew the risks' of investing in bonds misses the point: they're supposed to be risk-free

Given the fact that bonds regularly default, I'm not sure how any sane investor could consider them risk-free. If they were, every bond would trade at identical yields, equal to the risk-free rate of return.
Not all people are the same. Not all people are as equally productive, equally talented or equally motivated. Not all people want the same things.

You seem to subscribe to the aim of total income equality as a goal. To do this you would force the productive to hand over most of the product of their work to those who are less productive. Obviously, to do this, you need to force them using the apparatus of the state to do so.

In other words, they either spend the majority of their time working for others or they go to jail. They are not asked to share the product of their work, they are threatened to do so or be locked up.

Does that sound fair to you? That is a very perverse sense of justice, where you don't have a choice in how the output of your labour is divided.

Honestly I cannot understand after a century of misery from forced wealth redistribution and forced work and millions of deaths people still come up with these ideas.
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What I really like most about Netflix is that it works on nearly all devices. It seemed really strange Hulu was going out of their way to block devices while Netflix was going out of their way to do the opposite.

I've been using Amazon since they had Amazon Unbox (which was a horrendous abomination of a program.) Back then I had to futz with the software, wait for it to download and then only watch it on that computer.

For me now, I watch Netflix on my iPad, multiple laptops, desktop, Apple TV, and Roku. I pause a show on one device and resume it on another. That is the way video should be.

If Amazon can do this, great, then I don't need Netflix anymore. The Amazon Prime library is getting closer and closer to Netflix by the day. Perhaps the larger open question s will Apple attempt to lock Amazon out of their platform.

I have no problem subscribing to multiple services (right now I've got Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, CrunchyRoll.) I pay for video content on Amazon & Apple too. The reason I use Netflix for 90% of my video is because it works on 100% of my devices.
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You've been hellbanned for nearly 5 months.

Also, I don't see how bytecounts could possibly be harder than anything else. You'd see it before you even managed to get the (probably multiple) files open to print to pdf.
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A large number of the holders (especially the foreign holders) bought the Greek bonds precisely because of the higher risk, which resulted in them having higher interest rates than, say, American or German bonds. They made a bet and lost.
I mean, somebody got paid to load my 90 yds of Reach onto an airplane in the middle of the night and fly it from Tennessee to California. With virtually no added cost to me, since I have Prime which I share with 5 other people in my family. New economy or not, there's just no way that makes economic sense.

I know the argument is that Prime alters one's spending patterns, and ten paying customers are subsidizing every yokel like me who's too busy/lazy to walk to the drug store. Still it feels like an unsustainable model.

I often wonder if we'll look back on this period as the apotheosis of consumerism, when cheap and abundant fossil fuels made it possible behave like we all owned matter transporters.
The G1 hardware supported it (though not very well), but Android had no support until 2.1 which was never officially available for the G1. It wasn't just turned off. Even if you enabled multi-touch in the kernel with a custom ROM, the rest of the Android stack had no ability to use it. The story was the same in Europe and the US and I don't see anything in that link that provides evidence to the contrary.

Android had no support for an on-screen keyboard until 1.5. The emulator included with the original SDK has a virtual keyboard, but that's part of the emulator skin, not a feature of the OS and is not displayed on the virtual screen. The addition of a software keyboard while not strictly necessary on the G1, was rather useful as it allowed you to enter text while using the phone in a portrait orientation.
Great, so German's pay for the fiscal and political indiscretion of the Greeks. I guess they had little alternative as Greece was too big to fail -or, had they been allowed to default, The German people, via German bank investments in Greece,would have lost even more --seems they didn't learn much from our Wall Street banks and saddling die Volkes with the bag.

Or do I have this wrong? I've been trying to follow this a bit..
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Sorry, but why not just use phpredis? We heavily use Redis + PHP, and phpredis already seems to be a fairly minimalist interpretation, in the sense that it doesn't attempt to implement commands that Redis doesn't support. It's also written as a C extension, which makes it, to my knowledge, the faster PHP Redis client out there.

Also, using magic methods tends to be about 3x slower than a normal function call, AFAIK.
It's not exactly voluntary if you don't know about it. For example all the sites you visit that callback to facebook results in facebook knowing a portion of your browsing history whether you're logged in to facebook or not and without most people knowing.
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From anothe viewpoint, it was for me an occasion to have a look at the code, and see how it works, and that's just nice.

The samples may not have any practical use, and I could have tried to look at the source of any css heavy page instead, but this was a simple and fun way to have a glimpse into the latest(?) css tricks.
>I hustled for many years, and I was able to buy my first Mercedes last year.

Boy oh boy!

Maybe if I work my little fingers hard enough, someday I can be on that level!

/sorry for the snark, maybe it's the weather, or maybe it's the condescending tone of your post -- I sincerely hope that I never look at hacking as a form of "hustling"
Also, your client doesn't support pipelining, which is a nice feature for any Redis client.
I find even with fairly easy cancellation forms online there is usually to much stuff trying to get me to not cancel and trying to use subtle emotional messages to change my mind.

If I've come to this page generally it is probably too late to try and convince me not to cancel something.
Individuals who directly hold Greek bonds aren't affected, because it's structured as a "voluntary" agreement between several large bond-holders, the European Central Bank, and Greece. Only bondholders in that group agreed to accept a 50% lower repayment, so if you personally own some Greek bonds in your brokerage account, they haven't yet defaulted. However, if you own the bonds via a fund where the bonds themselves are owned by a bank in the group, you would be affected.
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Amazon has got to be more sensitive to the vicissitudes of the global economy though. I could never stop using Google or Apple products in my day-to-day. Whereas my entire life is pretty much an uphill battle to buy less shit off Amazon. If push came to shove, the MP3/book/DVD/gadget/clothing purchases would be the first to go. Also if it suddenly got a lot more expensive to ship physical goods, Amazon's core business would take a beating.
I think a larger factor is gyms is people really liking the idea of working out all the time and while unable to commit to it they don't want to throw in the towel and quit the gym. Even if cancellation is just a phone call away plenty prefer to keep them.
Reminds me of an old Joel Spolsky post about eliminating barriers to exit, not just entry.
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'Now suppose one brave ISP would make the following promise: "Try us. If you don't like us, we'll keep your email address functioning, and we'll forward your email for free to any other ISP. For life. Hop around from ISP to ISP as many times as you want, just let us know, and we'll be your permanent forwarding service."'

(Yes, there was a time when people actually tied their email to their ISP's domain.)
Have you used HBO Go? It works. Its awesome. You can watch almost every HBO show, every episode from every season along with the newest episodes when they air. The catch, you have to have a subscription to a supported cable provider. Thus I no longer have it.

I think HBO has a very realistic shot of hitting it out of the ballpark. They have already proven they are capable of doing it. In a few years I expect most people will just subscribe directly to HBO.

As for Dreamworks, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, and every other movie studio having their own service, the economics won't work. They will make more per subscriber than they would from an aggregater deal, but they will have less subscribers.

A few other providers might be able to do what HBO can do. Niche providers, like Crunchyroll, will likely do very well.

I expect all of the movie & cable players will make moves on their subscription services. A handful will do a really good job and make out well, the rest will get to sell their libraries to Netflix, Amazon, and may be Google, and return back to what they do best.
let those little ones play with the system, some of them will soon realize how much there is in the world outside and some of them will attempt to change the world!

its not about how fast it is or what all things are wrong in that. its about whatever is right in that - which indeed will be amazing for them.
Unfortunately history tells us that the person who promises something for nothing to the people who want more will always get traction. It is very difficult for people to accept the reality of the world and many people spend hours creating fantasies about how, if they were in control, they could 'fix things' which is just code for controlling everyone else and arranging things the way they like it, and phooey to whatever anyone else wants.

You can't herd invididuals, as anyone who has tried to round up a group of cats knows. You either accept that individuals have the right to be individuals or you have to force people submit to your plans and forego their individual choices. Too many people come out of education nowadays thinking they could organise society, if just given a chance. But the truth is that society is a loose collection of individuals, and by nature can only be convinced, not coerced. You either believe in the fundamental human right to choose your own destiny, or you don't - there are no half measures.
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We're a startup that's just launched a new business, and part of that is some useful mobile apps to help take pictures from your phone and upload them to our webapp service. The photos aren't vital to the app, but it's a nice feature, especially since the stuff being captured is household things, i.e. for insurance records etc. so a walk-around phone is handy.

We submitted our iPhone/iPad app and it got (quickly) rejected by Apple for the reason we don't provide in-app billing. We're deciding what to do next so wanted to hear opinions from here.

Options would include:

- Free Plan. We don't currently have a free plan (just a trial) and our model doesn't really fit with that, but is that how other web connected apps get approved, i.e. is Evernote and Dropbox type apps available because they do in-app purchasing or can you argue if you have a free level of service?

- Do In-App billing. We use Recurly and have a great subscription service with lots of options. The work would be then to set up a dual system just for Apple?

- Forget iOS and just run with our Android version we have.

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I'd consider this a bit of political and fiscal indiscretion of both Greeks and Germans, both relying on a similar moral hazard. German banks made stupid, risky loans, expecting that the EU wouldn't let anything go wrong, and would bail them out if it did go wrong; and Greek governments accepted the money, with the same expectations that the EU wouldn't let anything go wrong.
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Could somebody explain this more simply?

As I understand it, the site had no usage quota, it was the end user (ultimately the browser making the map API request). The end user had a limit but as this was in the hundreds or thousands (can't recall) it was not real concern for your average end user.

Is this what's changing? The site is now accountable for request quota?
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