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A president that would do anything in his power to prevent these things from happening would be Heroic, not Horrific.

If we've reached a time for heroes to be politicians and politicians to be heroes, then we're living in interesting times indeed.

What it means, is that the US and possibly the world economic/geopolitical body as a whole is in a systemic crisis. Heroes can either change the course of the world, or they can be a temporary stopgap. Worse, they can be a throwback to old patterns of thought that no longer work.

Don't know what I'm talking about? Have a listen:
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The "You're doing it wrong" + linkbait profanity formula really drives me up the wall. For example: "You're fucking up your source control", "Stop shitting on your 'ideas guy'", "Marketing Is Not A Fucking Joke. Assssss!"
Personally, I believe that Ron Paul will do what he says and that's a problem. I've read the articles, I've looked into things as much as I can and I very firmly disagree with him on his general monetary policies. The Federal Reserve being wound up and the USA returned to a Gold standard would not be A Good Thing for the USA or the world (me not being American); there's a reason why countries don't do that any more and it's not so politicians can lie, cheat and steal. We tried it his way before and it caused more problems than it solved.

Newt Gingritch, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann et al may well be unprincipled and deliberately lying about all sorts of things. But I don't think any are proposing anything quite as reckless as Ron Paul's economic policies. Frankly though, that this lot are the best the Republicans can produce is an abysmal failure.
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At full whir, the MBP is loud. Maybe it's fan design, maybe it's the solid aluminum casing (dense materials transmit sound more readily), but I don't really intend to dispute that.

The author has interpreted other people's troubleshooting questions as user hostile, and then attributed this as some sort of Mac-exclusive cultural phenomenon. An assertion at which I laugh aloud... from the belly.

I think Lenovo laptops are great hardware. They continue to be some of the best engineered machines on the planet. IBM was putting roll cages in ThinkPads when Apple was still building Mac laptops out of plastic and tin. The new unibody Macs are an incredible design amongst many.

As you've observed though, you don't have to fall in to one camp or the other. It's perfectly fine to like both without vilifying the other.
Er, RDS is (a) SQL (b) backed by EBS.
Unless you know people up here then your best bet is look for temporary housing for a few weeks while you drive around and look for places via craigslist/similar. Areas are notorious for having very high housing prices for crappy places that just have a fresh coat of paint on them, so looking on internet only without site visits is not a great option. I spent one month looking for a place in Mountain View and found that renting a condo from an owner turned out to be better all around than trying to find a suitable apartment complex.
Another problem is that decent housing is super competitive here, a reasonable rental purchase will get replies almost immediately, so owners will prefer to deal with local people than those farther away to close the deal.
As far as the legality goes I would assume LinkedIn gets to decide. It's a 3rd party service, I haven't read their TOS but I'm assuming they own everything and merely permit users to use their service. Sure there are terms but legal ownership is LinkedIn's.

Curious to see how LinkedIn handles the account that's actually been taken over and replaced with a new name. I doubt the idea of one person building a network and then selling the packaged contacts to another person fits at all with LinkedIn's plans for the future. The last think LinkedIn needs right now is people to start goldfarming.
I sometimes like "no app."

Email the link to yourself. Works best with an IMAP mail provider, but works regardless.
I don't really see anything flag worthy on that site.
Penny-Arcade's analysis of their traffic from the Ocean Marketing debacle.
For the next time, have your blog at blog.example.com, and point it to another hosting provider different than the one for example.com. That way at least you prevent the blog from going down.
I don't want my children to grow up in a house with no books, so i intend to only read ebook of books i own.

I feel exactly the same, and yet I just bought a Kindle and am very much planning to use it for most of my reading.

How do I resolve this dilemna?

Well, my parents had the same issue, though set up differently. When they fled from Romania after I was born, they had none of the huge library which they had back where they grew up.

So what did they do? They bought books. They bought the kinds of books which they wanted to have sitting on shelves in the house where I grew up, so that I could stumble on them and read them. It worked pretty well.

Most of the best books can be found for cheap in flea-markets. Building a solid library of top quality classics, from Gogol, Dostoievsky, Dumas and Dickens, to Hesse, Mann, Marques and Gary, is not that expensive.
I am extremely annoyed that there is no way to buy and sell used electronic books. It brings me right back to those stupid debates we had in the 90s with RIAA about whether I'm buying a license or an object when I purchase a CD. Then as now, I feel a lot less bad about pirating content when the publishers impose artificial restrictions on what I can and cannot do with things I the stuff I own.
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Uh, "magic" code isn't "magic", it's just code you don't understand. The obvious solution is to stop writing it off as "magic" and learn to understand it.
This is what AQM schemes like RED/ECN do!
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Ah, I see. I get HN through the RSS feed in Reeder. I'm highly discriminant based on the headline.
Don't forget the down payment you'll need for a house (conservatively, 20% - potentially more as a foreign investor) and another 1%-5% of the purchase price in fixing stuff that's inevitably broken or in need of upgrading. Given how mobile you are, buying real estate to live in might not be a good thing for you. I bought at a similar age, and it's definitely a major consideration when considering moves now.

Real estate as an investment provides quite fantastic leverage (no-one's going to lend you 80%+ of your capital to buy stocks) and is a great way to build long term wealth, but make sure you have enough cash around to avoid getting into trouble if something major breaks or to pay the mortgage if your property is vacant for months at a time (especially if you're doing vacation rentals). Take what you estimate you'll need as a cash buffer, and triple it.

Don't underestimate the hassle involved with absentee landlording, even with a property management company. The property management industry, especially at the lower end (single unit residential or vacation rental) is largely unregulated and there are plenty of horror stories about corrupt managers who skim rent, take kickbacks, etc - or just collect rent for several months and disappear.

Highly recommend anything by John T Reed (johntreed.com) or William Nickerson (out of print) to learn about real estate as an investment. The field is full of scammers and smoke-blowers (even moreso than tech...). Those two stand out as offering pragmatic, actionable advice.

I really like the slow-paced, long term wealth building approach of real estate combined with the fast-paced, high cashflow, low equity field of tech consulting. It's early days for me, but the combination seems to work well together.
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You're still totally ignoring the point.

Marriage can be made equitable. It can be done either via abolishing marriage licensing altogether, or via making marriage licenses equitable.

Ron Paul believes it's better to keep marriage licensing discriminatory versus equalizing them.

If this were a world where government entitlements were available only to white people, and Ron Paul took the position "I'm opposed to doing anything to make government benefits race blind, so I'm going to work against people trying to make government entitlements race blind, because I believe all government entitlements are evil," that would be an effectively racist policy position, whatever his personal beliefs on race are.

And Ron Paul goes further: he has gone so far as to sponsor and vote for legislation that prevents the federal government from recognizing state-legislated marriage equality. So in this case, he thinks states rights go too far in allowing them to define marriage, so federal legislation is necessary.

And we're talking about a guy who not only is personally opposed to gay marriage. Do you really believe that plays no role whatsoever in his opposition to marriage equality?
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this is a very simplistic way to look at the rent vs buy, although its more thorough than most. using a mortgage calculator and amoritization table it seems that after 10 years of paying 1200/mo you would have about 45k in equity (+ your downpayment) with the rest going towards interest. this is a far cry from 100k+ in equity that you stated.

if you are working with a vacation property manager or airbnb, expect to give them a hefty cut of the rents you collect and while it may cover your mortgage you still have to rent someplace else to stay.

maintenance costs are also not minimal, and a reasonable estimation is about 2% of your purchase price every year. on an older home, this is going to be more.

those things apply to everybody in the rent vs buy debate, but for hackers specifically we need to think about opportunity cost. with an apt you may have security deposits, etc, but you dont have a massive down payment. that downpayment could be used for giving a startup a longer runway or even just helping give you peace of mind that you would have a cushion if things at your job didnt work out.

buying a house isnt "bad," but it isnt as good as most people like to think (meaning the default play for everybody shouldnt be to buy a house). if you dont know where you will be in a few years, let alone 5-10, then it is almost definitely not the best decision to buy a house unless you have enough money where it just doesnt matter.

in short, most people underestimate the true cost of a house and overestimate their likely returns. buy a house when you can afford to pay for the comfort of home security. dont buy a house as an invesment unless you can prove that it will yield a better return on your money than your other options.
Extended Elon Musk Talk: Why Make Life Multiplanetary? How? (1hr)
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~fleum/csvt.pdf for example.
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From my completely unscientific tinkering with Vegas idea few years ago I remember that there was an easily detectable pattern in RTT change during the congestion. I was testing using UDP between my home and a colo server and I saw RTT climb up to several times its original level in a matter of two round trips.

> It's normal to have variation even without congestion

Certainly, but the question is if congestion-based variation is substantially different from an ambient variation. I am guessing that it is. Reacting to just a RTT increase is pretty dumb. The congestion marker clearly needs to be a bit more advanced than that.
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ServerBeach / Peer1. Find a hosting company that charges enough to have a real rep to talk to. Talk to that rep, explain what you're doing and get acceptance that this complies with their TOS in writing. The rep will get you this because they want commission. When someone asks you for hosting let your rep know, you'll get commission too, and your rep will love you and go to bat for you against stupid AUP violations and you'll have it in writing that your activities are acceptable.
Let's take a look at what modern-day Mississippi residents actually have to say:

http://mississippibelieveit.com/home/

>The “good ole boy” network alive and well in Mississippi? Not hardly. Our new “network” consists of more black elected officials than any other state in the country – a number that grew from a mere 81 in 1970 to 897 in 2000.

Mississippi is as racist today as Russia is Communist. Give me a break.
I'm interested in the rent vs. buy thing too, so here are some of my thoughts:

>What if I hate the place and want to move away from it? Then a high demand for housing would play in my favor.

You'd still have to sell your house, which I've heard is rarely easy. There is time/money cost associated with selling the house (including repairs, real estate agents, etc.).

>What if I move to another city? Then it’d be good if I could rent it out easily, ideally making a profit with it or at least not losing money.

You'd still have to manage the rental property or pay someone to do that. This is another time/money cost.

> What if prices go down dramatically? Then I’d be stuck with the place, since I’d lose money by selling it. So I need to really like the place, or be able to make enough money by renting it to others.

You also have to be able to absorb any catastrophes to your financial situation. If you all-of-a-sudden couldn't afford your mortgage, you're still on the hook for it. If you were renting, you could just move somewhere cheaper (less the costs of the move).

I didn't see maintenance/repairs factored into the cost of buying a home. If the water heater dies, that's going to be a major expense. Same with paint jobs, pipe repairs, acts of god, etc. Might be worth considering what these factors would do to the math.

Finally, there's the opportunity cost. If you put a 60€ (20%) down payment on €300k, that money is now tied up in your house. If you had rented, you could have put that money towards another type of investment that could potentially earn you more money or at least be more liquid.
> I don't understand how you can attribute "sane = I agree with" to that poster. What evidence do you have for that?

His original sentence:

> he is talking about something none of the other candidates are talking about: returning freedoms and sanity to America

It's a cheap rhetorical trick. "Sanity" is defined as what his favored candidate wants to do, no?

> I would posit that "insane" and "broken" are problematic in civil discourse, as these words tend to evoke strong emotions.

Exactly.
The beginning of the "states right" movement in the 60s (1860s or 1960s, take your choice), was primarily motivated by race. Cletus was not an austrian economist.

I think the post you're replying to is going a little too far but there absolutely is a connection between states' rights and racial issues. That's why the stuff in the newsletter is resonating. Those who are in favor of states' rights on other issues (as I am to an extent) would be well-served to recognize this connection.
All absolutely true, but what it tells me is that the same product isn't really working in both markets, with the occasional big exception. There's no question that the overseas markets are the growth engine of the business, though.

But I wonder how long the era of one-size-fits-all product for all territories can last. Eventually, specialized studios for each market could swoop in with better localized product using the same stars. It's tempting to think that the era of globalization will give us a homogenous set of middle-class consumers worldwide, all with roughly the same tastes. In practice, though, local culture and preferences still matter in a big way. The question is whether local culture is on its way out with globalization, and accordingly, whether local tastes are simply artifacts of the pre-global marketplace. Or, frankly, if a new global homogeneity is emerging, how likely that standard is to be set outside of the US. Twenty years from now, which consumers will be deciding what's cool for the rest of the globe? The US middle class seems like a largely spent force in that role.
Link to the original NYTimes article with more text. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24sun4.html...
A long time ago I thought it would be cool to use CSS as a light-weight drawing framework for things like this. But my local web standards expert told me that CSS is only supposed to be presentation, not content. Is this a legitimate concern, and a reason to avoid this approach?
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Are we comparing 8 years of Bush vs 3 years + imaginary budgets for Obama?
The world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional is in critical condition
Bootstrapping a compiler is a good way to test how the language feels when writing a big project like a compiler. It also helps to find errors in the language/implementation.
Wouldn't you then also be in the wrong country? How could every single state oppose you and the federal government agree?
Take a look at the legislative maps.

Creating 99% black districts to consolidate the black vote into the smallest number of seats isn't really support for your position, even if the people doing it are pure post-racial political optimizers (they're not post-racial).

Also, I don't know how old you are, but you do realize that many southern people from 50 short years ago are still alive, right? You're positing that right after the civil rights act was passed, all those people firehosing black people and setting the dogs on them and stuff, they just changed their minds and did a 180? And raised their kids that way?
I think the most informative graph would put these graphs on top of each other, to indicate what is really relevant. Both of the last two presidents have contributed heavily to the deficit. The side by side graph seems to indicate that things are getting better. The rate of getting worse may be declining, but things are still getting worse.
Sigh, there is certainly a point being missed here. Should the federal government give states the right to ban Islam? If someone argued that it should... they'd rightly be acknowledged as anti-Islam, because freedom of religion is a human right, and rights aren't just rights for the federal government, but for all the state governments.

Rights are inviolable. If Ron Paul believes states should be able to violate certain rights, he is opposed to those rights. Which is fine: it's a perfectly coherent position that there is no right to privacy and self-determination. But call it what it is.
A progress bar is more presentation than content though?

I guess for usability there should be text inside or underneath saying the % progress? (In which case it'd still be XHTML for content and CSS for presentation)
Anything that gets more people reading more books is a positive in my opinion, but I'm still disturbed by the idea that ebooks are acceptable alternatives to physical books overall.

If the future is one of ebooks and real books coexisting, I'm all for it.

But if the more likely scenario plays out, where publishers use the higher profit margins and control that come from cutting out the printers and stores, and books die as physical objects, then I can't begin to express the sadness and loss I feel.

The joy that comes from holding a book in my hands that I know was read and held by my grandfather years ago is irreplaceable. So is the beauty of a well-designed book, from the paper choices to the typography to the feel of the spine in my hand. And of course, the conversations that flow from seeing the title of a book someone's reading, or browsing their bookshelves at home.

The very lack of technology in a book preserves their integrity against the strong temptations of adding sounds, animations, interactivity, advertising, even video. It's easy to imagine a world in the not so distant future where the idea of reading just words alone is sneered at as primitive and boring.

Is there anyone that can offer any optimism?
> As far as I know, there's no known physics which "forbids" directly converting matter to antimatter with substantially less energy than going via energy (no conservations violated, etc)

I think you'd have to put in at least as much energy as you get back out through annihilation of the antiparticle, which would be half the energy released (the other half coming from the destruction of the normal matter).

And actually, we already have a working energy source that works by annihilation of matter: nuclear energy. Any future antimatter-based power plant would have to compete for full-cycle efficiency against future nuclear (possibly even fusion) designs.
It is not a lie. Rev. Kayser endorsed Ron Paul's campaign[1][2] he also advocates murdering homosexuals[3].

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JXXloeP...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/28/phillip-kayser-ron-...

[3] http://www.biblicalblueprints.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01...

EDIT: In re to nirvana's misreading of my comments below:

> To claim that Ron Paul endorses murdering homosexuals because some random religious guy who does, endorsed his campaign is a lie.

I never said any such thing. I said that Paul, i.e. the Paul campaign is seemingly directly linked to anti-gay sentiment as evidenced by the endorsement of Rev. Kayser they touted on their website. That's repugnant.

Also, I don't appreciate being called a liar: These aren't my opinions. They are confirmable facts. The campaign was endorsed by a person who wants to murder gays. This endorsement was featured on Paul's website. It's deplorable. I'm only sorry you don't feel the same way.
That's pretty true. The DX is slightly better (mainly due to its size), but for the kind of reading you describe you ideally want something more ipad-esque (which I suspect is why med schools decided to go with ipads instead of kindles)
I second the recommendation of Insync. I use it on three Macs, and so far it has worked flawlessly as far as I can tell. I haven't beat on it mercilessly, but I did use it for all the course material for the two free Stanford classes I took, along with the Octave code I wrote.

Re how they are going to make money: They used to charge $20 a year if you wanted to sync more than the free 1GB that Google Docs gives you. This apparently was very confusing for customers, so now they will sync any amount for free and plan to offer some additional extra-cost features, but they haven't announced these yet. So at the moment, Insync is completely free.

I've lobbied them to support opaque syncing of symbolic links and to have a mechanism specifying files to ignore (a la .gitignore) as an extra-cost feature, so that I can use Insync for syncing code that I am working on between my work computer and my home computer. (I currently use Unison for this purpose, but I find Unison to be something of a chore to use.) Whether they will ultimately support these features, I don't know, but they did show some interest. At the moment, neither Dropbox nor Windows Live Mesh nor Insync are no good for this purpose, as none of them support ignores and both Dropbox and Insync treats symlinks transparently rather than opaquely. Live Mesh is a bit better than Dropbox and Insync with regard to symlinks: it just ignores them completely. This means that I could conceivably sync them out of band, but since it doesn't support ignores, the issue is moot.
To play devil's advocate, should the format matter? It seems like the content is the most important thing.

People say, "don't just a book by its cover." Shouldn't that apply to a book's format as well?
what about disabling access to this archive until "packages" directory is restored, so it won't propagate to mirrors ?
Thanks for the info! I was thinking of doing a 15-30 day Couch-surfing venture to scope out the lay-of-the-land. I just want to get the best sense of what I will be walking into before I actually get there. Any tips or tidbits will be duly noted!
But saying "states have the right to legally segregate!" is tantamount to promoting the segregation, even if he adds to that "states should have the right to segregate without federal intervention, even if I personally would oppose that segregation."