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"The problem is you could have actually owned gold for 90 years. Average Joe could have bought gold and held it."

I don't understand why this is a problem.

You seem to be arguing that if you were a person of average wealth, thinking about investment 90 years ago, gold might have been a reasonable choice.

But if I want to invest today, investing in an ETF will almost certainly give me far greater return than gold.
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Like computers becoming cheaper and cheaper while the prices of other goods increase? That's just another form of inflation because the computers would be that much cheaper if it weren't for an increase in the monetary supply.
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With all due respect, most of the arguments that you're proposing here are the result of historians rife with accusations of revisionist history - Alperovitz especially.

Sure, but you can find similar information in many historical works, and most of it refers to actual evidence and sources of the era (correspondence, intelligence reports, etc). It's also only natural to have someone saying something unfavorable for a country's foreign policy actions to be attacked, in academia and elsewhere. Chomsky also gets that a lot, but what he says reflects exactly what third party countries think of us actions.

The Japanese did express a desire for peace before the bombs were dropped, yes, but a desire for peace is not nearly the same as an unconditional surrender

And why would any nation should accept an "unconditional surrender"? A conditional surrender would do just fine, if your goal is to end the war. Especially, when the conditional parts were quite trivial (the emperor and such).

The "unconditional surrender" essentially meant the right to use Japan as an USA base for the next decades. It wasn't even about correcting the Japanese war atrocities, as Japanese were never made to apologize (and pay) for, say, their Manchurian massacres.

Plus, it was exactly the "imbalances" of the armistice that led to World War II. An unconditional surrender, as a even greater imbalance, would have made it even worse.
For some reason we have a real problem hanging on to previous design iterations and we often want to go back and try incorporating things from previous iterations. This is going to be really cool, especially for distributed teams.
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This is the market for a series hybrid.
That nebulous 'consumption only' meme is so stale.

Where something sits on several axes of flexibility is certainly interesting and can be cause for concern, but let's lose the nonsense disproved by real software.
> Do you want the US representative to some trade organization selling the country out, because he doesn't want someone to find out that did something stupid in his 20s?

No, I'd much rather they do it for a fist-full of money.
Don't forget:

The Constitution doesn’t constrain private actors, of course. This language would immunize them from liability under any and all regulation and under state or common law. Private actors would not be subject to suit for breaching contractual promises of confidentiality. They would not be liable for violating the privacy torts. Anything goes so long as one can make a claim to defending “information systems,” a term that refers to anything having to do with computers.

Elsewhere, the bill creates an equally sweeping immunity against law-breaking so long as the law-breaking provides information to a “cybersecurity exchange.”
Not if that currency is gold. Unless, you don't like turning profits of course.
Thanks. I probably should have added: for that kind of stuff, I aggressively unsubscribe. Consider that tip #11 :)
Any opinions/experience on the best language to introduce kids to programming with? My instinct says python simply because I personally found it the easiest to get to grips with, but I guess practically anything will do.
Right, because the price of gold in US$ has tripled in the last five years not because of speculation but because the dollar is one third as valuable as before.

That's why the average US wage and minimum wage has also tripled over the same time period, right? Or have we become less efficient and our hour of labour is "worth" a third less?

The price of labor eclipses the price of commodities in most of the economy, which is the true value of your dollar.
Don't read into it too much, Google's mission of organizing the world's information is noble, but you gotta pay for it somehow.

And Khan Academy will probably eventually have to start selling advertising or user data or something similar too. Nothing is free.

My comment probably should have been downvoted, it was off-the-cuff and a bit snarky. Google is nowhere close to Pepsi.
Many wealthy people in vietnam were reduced to nothing when the currency became useless. The few smart people who had gold were able to move their wealth out. The entire world is going to go to shambles at once, that is a very low probability event compared to a region. Even during WW2 there were regions that were relatively untouched by the world war.
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Thanks, appreciate the point. After all, part of the reason we moved away from gold as currency in the first place was its inability to keep up with economic expansion.
We don't know how things would have played up in that alternative future...
Is it just me or is the server very slow? I guess it's getting hammered to death right now.
Inflation rate doesn't properly reflect the change in the value of the US dollar. A better line would be one adjusted for the growth in money supply.
the screen is gorgeous

Unfortunately not for everyone when using "auto brightness".

http://www.google.se/search?q=galaxy+nexus+grainy+screen
He also has a great blog. If you are an indie game dev, you should read it.
I found Express.js and it's sister-framework Connect to be a complete mess. I had trouble following what was going on, major problems debugging, it uses the factory pattern in the wrong places, and the Rack-style middleware is inefficient and unnecessary for most projects. But NodeJS itself is great, and to learn it best I think it's worth the time to write your own simple framework and utilize libraries where appropriate (like db libraries, formidable, and websocket.io).

Rails is over. It's a bloated meta framework that requires enormous amounts of peripheral knowledge to understand.
What about golden bullets, gold is heavier than lead after all.
Or even if they were particularly averse to friends/family members/church members/etc finding out about their use. I've known people who aggressively hid their (regular) weed smoking from their spouses. (Yeah, not exactly an optimal relationship, but it definitely happens...)
It was 'crippling the economy' in the same sense that Bill Gates and Warren Buffets money not being spent is "crippling the economy". And it what FDR has done to savers is just as fair as "liberating" said money from BillG and WarrenB's bank accounts would be.
This makes me realize how out-of-touch I am. I've never even heard of the 2nd most popular video streaming site (Vevo).
Wow, so relevant.... /s
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I think Andrew might mean the ability to see changes in a non-visual fashion. IE: Layer 2 removed, Layer 3 Blending mode changed.

Someone was working on a .js PSD file parser, which may be of interest down the line but it was in early stages.

Great product, I love the idea. Well done.
How much of it is your friends teaming up to help somebody else win just to make you lose?
No, Amazon Cloud Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive do not have shell integration. You need to upload using a browser.

Hopefully, Google Drive will be similar to Dropbox wherein, you will have a G-Drive directory in your hard disk. Microsoft has a similar product too - it is called Live Mesh.
"If someone raped you ... does that make it not rape"

Stunning circular logic there.

"Someone" =/= "democratically elected government with clearly enumerated power".

We agreed on the Constitution and it says the government can take stuff as long as it pays you. Those are rules we agreed to.

If we all agreed on a Constitution that said the President could have relations with whoever he wanted and then people chose to stay in this country and then the President chose to have relations with them we might question whether that still qualifies as rape.
Very slick (which is important, because designers by nature have high standards). Quite a lot of potential I think.
From what I've heard, Elon Musk has been clear that his vision is to make electric cars mainstream. They just started at luxury brands because the margins are better for small production runs, which finances the technology development.
There's a programming language named Turing that was developed specifically as a teaching language. Many students in Ontario were taught it in high school. I always found the syntax clean and approachable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_%28programming_language%...

You can download a runtime here http://compsci.ca/holtsoft/
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"...most of us understand the risks involved with a startup."

With all due respect, I think that's a dangerously optimistic assumption. If anything, the tech bubble of the '90s showed us that most people clearly do not understand the risks involved. (And that was with publicly disclosed companies!). Even some ostensibly very sophisticated people, like Wall Street traders and bankers, were unable to parse the tech landscape back then -- to say nothing of the legions of retail investors who jumped into the fray.

I think there needs to be a give and take here. If we're going to allow retail investment in private companies, then private companies who open their shares to secondary retail markets should have to have some sort of public disclosure of financials, performance, and trading volume[1]. You really can't have one without the other, or else you're inviting speculative bubbles and other such clusterfucks. I can almost guarantee you that 9 out of every 10 retail investors in America would blindly -- blindly -- leap into startup speculating. The results wouldn't be pretty.

[1]Thereby blurring the line between public and private, but that's a whole different can of worms.
Is this only for Photoshop? What about Fireworks or Illustrator?

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If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.)
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actually if you adjust oil prices for inflation, you'll see that oil prices (in real terms) has gone up.

http://inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/historical...

> It's not paranoia or speculation primarily driving the price increase

the price of oil is driven by supply and demand. the useful of oil has gone up, but the amount of oil we extract has not kept up. that's why the price has moved.
Why is it only 10 days? Is it to fit with most people's 2 week vacation slots? I would think a month would be more productive, or even better a 3 month y-combinator style intense MVP rush.

Also isn't the internet on Ko Samui kind of shitty? Wouldn't a mainland location by a nice beach be better internet wise?
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It took me awhile to find it, because in FF 10 on Windows, the X|Y button is showing up as an FL (it looks like it might be a sprite issue? the buttons on the bottom have the same problem) but once I found it, I liked it a lot.
I believe that its because his games typically don't sell as well as the publishers' other games. Psychonauts, for example, was a critically acclaimed game, but flopped commercially.

People like to chalk this up to the publishers being stupid or conservative, and there may be some elements of that. But I doubt a publisher would leave money on the table if it was as sure of a bet as the internet community makes it out to be.
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Given that the Arab League was asking for NATO help, this was a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation. Clearly one that gives you glee and plays into some nationalistic inferiority complex that you have with respect to American hegemony.

The point though was that the mission was accomplished with minimal civilian casualties (or as minimal as one could expect from an urban guerrilla war) and there were no combat troops on the ground.
That's exactly right, it's because the dollar is collapsing in real value.

I dare you to spec out the price of a basket of 10 to 15 commodities from a decade ago compared to where they're at now.
Government should open its data, sure--but how is that actually accomplished?
Is your horrible, godawful story published anywhere?
I've been thinking about how a GitHub for designers would work. This doesn't quite seem like "it" to me. Don't take that remark the wrong way, I like what's been done here. It's well designed and I could see a use for it.

But that's just it, I have to find a use for it. It isn't immediately obvious to me. I'm not the typical designer as I don't have clients and my job isn't 100% design but I have been designing everything from packaging, to print advertisements, to websites for ten years. I don't know why I would use this. If I need alternate versions of files I just save them with version numbers. The poor man's version control. But I don't need anything more than that - do other designers?

The power of Github I believe is that it allows programmers to share their work with their colleagues, learn from others, and work together with others.

I like Dribbble because it allows designers to do what they want to do with their colleagues. Show off their work and get inspiration from other designers. To me, Dribbble is the closest thing to a Github for designers.

What's missing from Dribbble is the collaborative part. Coders working with coders, designers with designers. But that's the problem. Coders have to work with other coders all the time it's the nature of the beast. Designers do not in the same way. In my experience.

So if it's not designers with designers then it's designers with coders. And a place for those who (like me) both design and code to both showcase our work and to work together with others. If you could turn this into a Dribbble + Github I think that would be interesting.
Technically you'll have 1.33 pounds of metal :-)

(Precious metals are typically measured in Troy ounces; there are 12 Troy ounces to the Troy pound.)
Could this work for a project that ended up free for everyone? What would the rewards be?
Let me put aside your insulting me as a hyperbolic fantasist. Let me also put aside the Iranian government going on record to state that it WILL take out the oil and will close the Straits of Hormuz if attacked. Let's also disregard the warnings of CIA middle east ops people like
Philip Giraldi and Robert Baer (and I can quote others)
and the state of the oil futures market, and go with your idea that America can make an airstrike on Iran without causing all out war.

Because that's what you mean by "nuclear disarmament", isn't it? You mean "Dropping wide-radius bunker busting bombs on Iran's medical reactor in the middle of the city."

And these explosions will bombs, what "regard for civilian life" will their ensuing huge explosions in the middle of the city show? What "regard for civilian life" will the radiation leakage show?

Claiming that I have a "victim complex" is merely an ad-hominem that will not dispel the US military's long
record of treating civilians as expendable, precisely the "attitude" I was alluding to.

Here is example reportage on US drone strikes in Pakistan: They use the first strike to cause first responders to come to the scene, because some them will be Taliban. Now hit them with the second strike, with total disregard for all the non-Taliban rescuers (trying to help the civilians caught in the first blast) caught in the second blast.
Link:

http://antiwar.com/radio/2012/02/07/chris-woods-2/

I can also give you examples from Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq,
Yugoslavia, Vietnam going all the way back to World War 2.
> His biology stuff, for instance, is decidedly worse than the mathematics.

I dunno.

I've been studying cell biology on my spare time. I've been using The Molecular Biology of the Cell (http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Bruce-Alberts/d...) that in my opinion is a great book, and as far as I know, is well-respected in general.

Still, watching Sal's biology videos has been of great help. Although I think e.g. his organic chemistry videos are better executed (~10 minutes per video, a bit less packed, better splits by content), I still think that his biology videos are a super-valuable resource. I've been watching some MIT lectures too, but visualizations, which are necessary for biology, aren't properly visible in them. Of the free biology content in the web, Sal's videos are the best IMO.
We think LayerVault is great and they're doing some stuff that's similar to us. There's a few things we're doing differently.

When we first came up with this idea, we really needed a good way to comment & annotate and keep all that feedback inline instead of it spilling over into email. The second is that we provide an easy way to diff revisions side by side or overlay them to see what has actually changed. Behind the scenes, we actually work quite differently from LayerVault, particularly on large files. I'd love to talk to you more to see how we can help you. Please email me shravan@pixelapse.com.
I used to host my own blog on wordpress. I had some web space over at NearlyFreeSpeech (great host by the way). I never got a whole lot of traffic but what I found most frustrating was the multiple updates I had to perform.

I'm not saying anything bad about Wordpress, it's a great piece of software, but as a student I simply don't have time to check if I need to update my core installation or a plugin. Plus I would do all my updates from source (I had tweaked the source code a bit and the automatic method would have overridden my changes).

After reading this article, I decided to sign up for Posterous and give it a whirl. I like it so far.
Short answer: a fair amount. Anecdotal story: The one time i played, having never even heard of the game before, I learned as I went along and ended up winning. I'd say my final few plays were the only ones based more upon strategy and less upon "Is this a fair play? Yes? Well then here's my play." So a good deal of luck is involved because a novice can't beat pros in a game based entirely upon skill.
I agree. Logging into Google and manually uploading and downloading files is not as seamless or as simple as a Dropbox client side app 'folder'(especially with the synchronization capabilities). That doesn't mean Google couldn't clone that exact functionality and be able to offer cheaper higher tier storage, but I think Google wants to see everything move to the browser, so I don't know if a local client on multiple platforms aligns with that objective.
You make it sound like this is easy. WP (and associated plugins) make extensive use of cookies, and by design, Varnish will not cache pages with cookies.

For me, dealing with problem was pretty painful and took me much longer than I thought it would to get it right. VCL also has a bit of a learning curve, although I did find it rewarding and was glad I did it.
Part of it is a terminology problem. It's now common for any small business in the software industry to claim to be a "startup", even if it's actually a glorified consulting agency or contract software shop.

Part of it is an integrity problem. In addition to describing your small business as a startup for marketing purposes, you might also call yourself a startup in order to make other claims - such as telling employees that their stock options are extraordinarily valuable, or making a rule that everyone must work 80 hours "just like the other startups".

The flip side of the principle that exceptional businesses require exceptional effort is that almost all businesses are not exceptional.
Well maybe this will at least result in someone resurrecting it, especially considering there is finally a second browser supporting it (using Firefox 11+spdy with gmail right now) and new server support is in development.

His website has some useful posts too, thanks for mentioning him:

http://japhr.blogspot.com/2011/04/sniffing-spdy-with-ssldump...
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Are you sure about that? This seems to say exactly the opposite.

In fact, WOA only supports running code that has been distributed through Windows Update along with the full spectrum of Windows Store applications.

WOA PCs will be serviced only through Windows or Microsoft Update, and consumer apps will only come from the Windows Store, so you never have to worry if a program will run because you are not downloading or installing from a DVD outside of the store experience. A WOA PC will feel like a consumer electronics device in terms of how it is used and managed.
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Tim Shafer has had great critical but not commercial success in recent years. Double Fine is a legit company that has shipped games both large and small. In fact they've shipped 5 smallish titles in the past 2 years so you know they can do this one. There is a huge nostalgia factor as many people, such as myself, grew up on Tim Shafer adventure games in the early 90s.

On top of that this is an old school adventure game being made by Tim Shafer and Ron Gilbert - the two people who INVENTED the genre. It's a perfect storm of success.
Very cool. Let's say I wanted to create something like this with 10 of my friends. What would it cost, ballpark-wise?
Nobody said there was something wrong with that. It's obvious they made quite an investment in that app and its marketing. We're just wondering what the motivation is.
I think someone else does a 3 month program overseas. That's cool too.

We just like the shorter format - it's just enough time to feel mentally refreshed and more creative. Without leaving behind all commitments in the "real world" like talking to customers and stuff.

We made the resort upgrade to 12mps Internet, and upgrade all their equipment to handle more than 100 simultaneous devices. I warned them that we're likely all going to have 3 devices on average (Mac Pro, iPad, Kindle, iPhone/Android) that that we get VERY grumpy if the Internet goes down.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with outsourcing your blog. It just didn't seem justified.

In what way? I thought Patrick clearly explained that maintaining it himself had become a time sink. Hence, he hired competent people to do it for him.
Hey dsawler, Pixelapse works with Fireworks and Illustrator as well & we're looking to add new formats. Is there a format in particular you'd like to see?

Re: the app error. We underestimated the load on the site. :) We just scaled up so if you refresh and try again, you should be able to sign up.
Well, no single size fits all, and it's easy to dismiss any app if it doesn't hold a personal appeal. However, it's often more difficult to strike up a conversation with a random stranger than if it were enabled with some sort of context. In other words, the pretty girl in the coffee shop might have no interest in talking to me normally, but if we somehow found out that (1) we were both interested in making new friends, and (2) we were both into Dostoyevsky and Phish, then hey -- serendipity enabled!

Of course, the first thing I'd talk about is what a silly way to meet, cellphones and the Internet and such, but hey---it got the job done.
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Imo, most startups grow organically. Only a few grow at an exceptionally high rate.