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In most countries, the rights to lay those cables are highly restricted by law, and while that reality is perhaps not ideal, it is also unlikely to change.

So I'm not arguing that it's a natural monopoly, just pointing out that with the existing government regulation that limits the number of entities that may run last-mile cable, we won't see effective competition unless those restrictions are balanced by requirements for shared access.

I too would love to somehow have a whole bunch of companies able to lay cable right to my house, but I doubt that will happen. Managing such right-of-way is actually a very hard problem to solve (which is why governments regulate it in virtually (literally?) every country. So I think that's an unlikely outcome.
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SignalR is nice, but it does not use WebSockets out of the box.
I agree on the continuum, and that there is no point pretending reality isn't as it is, but on the other hand is there not a case that actions being taken by organisations such as these may not actually be in the interests of the wider public, and thus they should have a degree of public oversight and/or transparency in their actions?
Under current US law suicide is illegal and so on so forth. Mainly because it is mental illness to want to end ones life in most cases, but mercy killing is also forbidden, so on so forth.

And I do agree, people should have the choice to end their lives whenever they wish it. However, having the potential available for immortality means we don't need to have the upcoming intellectuals spend half their lives catching up to where the last generation died off at. If they don't want to, nobody forces them, but having the option means so much potential knowledge.

And then we overpopulate the planet in a decade and everyone dies of starvation, global warming, or world war 3 nuking everything into oblivion due to the breakdown of society.
Could you tell us about project genesis at Bell Labs? How did projects originate, grow, and get killed or morphed?

Thank you.
I swear it's like hipsters have taken over software development.

I'm very happy with where rails is at right now. I feel incredibly productive with it. I get to play with new fancy stuff because I know it's still there to bail me out and get it done fast when I need to.

I find neither a suit nor skinny jeans comfortable. Instead rails fits like a well worn in pair of jeans and a plain old t-shirt. Sell the hipster crap somewhere else.
Given the issues with "whole" organisms which are genetically modified, and our continuing "tiny keyhole" understanding of nutrition, it seems very unlikely that lab grown meat will be nutritionally comparable as real meat.
Was it easy to imagine printed news coming back before seeing the graph?

(Snark aside, it's a good point-- there must be similar graphs for the ice or telegram industries, to name two. Could make a pretty cool art installation or something.)
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I just meant in the general case about TLDR's, not just in one particular instance. Existentialism happpened.
The Stratfor CEO is YAJ (Yet Another Jew) and behaves like one. What did you expect? Our methods of reasoning about human behavior keep proving reliable, but you reject and even revile us because of your conditioning. The victors write the history (and did after WW2) yet you can't accept that THE BAD GUYS WON!
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Interesting read. I'm glad there's still tech writers out there trying to put together coherent stories.

Can anyone recommend other sites like Ars? I have really been enjoying their articles as of late.
If the point is to write honest and uncensored thoughts, never meant to be published (basically mental stretching), why on earth would you send them to this website?
No, the test results are in megabits per second, not megabytes, so the author got it right.

You were probably misled by the way the speedtest client reports the results though: "134 Mb/s" I have never seen megabits-per-second indicated that way; usually it would be "134 Mbps". But it's still "Mb" and not "MB" if you look closely.
No, for now it doesn't. I may add that later, but since there are other apps (like Anki for example) that already do that I'm not sure if it's needed.
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The really "Holy cow" bit for me is that even if you add the online revenue back in, the graph is virtually identical. If you had asked me this morning about the future of print newspapers, I would have said "Totally toast, of course, but savvy ones will move online."

If you ask me now, I'd say "Totally toast. Your children may recognize the names of a couple of them, if they happen to regularly visit one of a handful of niche websites."

Pick an industry you might think the US has largely abandoned to cheap foreign competition, like say textile manufacturing. Think all of our clothes are made in China? I'll bet you the US' textile manufacturing revenues graph looks substantially more favorable than that.
Well, there's still the issue of "living on the products of the plant kingdom." The only thing I can think of that's similar would maybe be recycled leather. I still think ethical vegans would have a problem with it, and I don't see this changing the opinion of anyone doing it for health reasons.

I think environmental vegans are the most likely to buy into this..if it even becomes an efficient way to produce nutrition/calories. I could certainly see some more pragmatic organizations throwing their weight behind it.."if you must eat beef, at least eat this kind of beef (but consider X, Y and Z as even better alternatives)."
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Pure meat seems a little ambiguous, i would call it post-meat (yeah, with the hyphen included); because it sounds like and advanced version of meat and also to honour Dr. Post, one of the leaders of this invention.
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The solution is to take over as much of your manufacturing process as possible. That way Weber can avoid this type of convoluted scenario.

US companies used to do a lot more of this a hundred years ago. When industry is hitting on all cylinders and there's a lot of diversity of suppliers, owning your whole manufacturing stack is usually not very efficient. However, when key ingredients / suppliers in your manufacturing system are eroding, it becomes a method for keeping your operations in the US and controlling quality.

Web should manufacture their own valves.
Interestingly the top result for Cell Phone Use now is, "NTSB recommends full ban on use of cell phones while driving - CNN" http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-13/us/us_ntsb-cell-phone-ban... And appearing just below the ads for T-mobile, Sprint and AT&T Cell plans. :)
I've added a bit to the blog about why I think Python is more readable.

I lament that more languages aren't trying to be readable. To my mind, it ought to be goal number 0.
> even in NYC, one of the densest population on Earth

NYC is not even close to the densest population on Earth - it's not even in the top 50. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popula... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=new+york+population+den...
I'm not sure that a kid with Asperger's stopping when they encounter a problem leads to the conclusion that "[math] is being slowly poisoned by poor quality materials."
Ahh yeah, I noticed that things are different from platform to platform. Thankfully we mostly work with the web player rather than the mobile platforms, so it's been pretty painless so far. I'm really loving using coroutines with the web stuff, they fit nicely together.

Thanks for the info :)
I thought Saxon badly needed to be broken apart into discrete subjects and accelerated. Other than that, it wasn't bad. Certainly parsecs ahead of the public school texts I saw at the time.
I actually have the completely opposite problem.

If I start my day producing, (which I often do). I get too distracted doing work to eat until well after lunch time.

One of my new years resolutions was to eat breakfast more often. So if I want to do things that aren't work, I basically have to force myself to not open my laptop until I've completed them. I.e. if I start the day doing work, the odds of be going running diminish quite a bit, as does the chances that I'll eat breakfast.

As a caveat, I am not doing that much writing for external audiences, I could imagine some benefits to starting writing first thing in the day before their are as many distractions.
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I was thinking in terms of the hair salon model. Chairs are paid for by the stylists but they can only do hair, not give tattoos or just use thier chair to sit back and drink beer.
Post-meat sounds like it was meat, and now it's something undefined. "But it was meat!"
You can look at the gemstone industry for insight into how to market this. There are definitely positive angles you could push (just like conflict-free stuff). As for names, cultured pearls, created emeralds, cultivated diamonds, ...
Awarded by the Canadian govt, not the U.S. The United States still admits no wrong-doing.

According to the linked article, "The Syrian government now says that Arar is 'completely innocent.'" (And as you say, the Canadian govt apologized and awarded him damages.) And yet he still has not had his day in a U.S. court, which is the jurisdiction that violated his human rights.

The United States govt can decide to have you tortured for a year, based on suspicion alone (no trial, no judge, no lawyer), and then afterwords, you cannot even complain in a U.S. courtroom about your mis-treatment.

EDIT: my bad, it looks like the US Court of Appeals actually heard the case in 2008. And then dismissed it.
I’m kind of hoping cultured human is delicious. I’m going to send a cheek swab to a PO box, and six weeks later a slab of my own pseudo-shoulder will show up packed in dry ice. My first experiment will be:

1 kg own cultured flesh
3 cups orange juice
lime, kiwifruit, or pineapple juice to taste
1 clove of garlic, mashed
pepper and salt to taste

Combine and put in a saucepan on low heat without a lid. Let simmer until the liquids steam off and it begins to fry in the rendered fat (about 2 hours). At this point it should be very tender and break apart into threads. Serve over rice or in tacos.
"I could feed thousands of people, but instead I think I'll eat a common food that was created in a ridiculously expensive way." --the mindset of the first person to try one of those burgers.
And I'd be happy to say "Serves them right," but the real tragedy here is that with them dies the very idea that journalism is a service worth paying money for. At least we're outsourcing manufacturing to professionals...
It makes things a lot easier in a way for both ends. You're not tied long-term to a client that could potentially be a nightmare. You get to evaluate the project and give them a realistic view of what work comes next. You can also (and should occasionally) turn down the job, if the evaluation reveals they're not a good fit for your services.
As a graduating senior, I'm still curious: Is there a course number this book is used with today?
I knew it was bad. I didn't know it was this bad.

And although the rate of decline seems to be decreasing, it looks like they still haven't hit rock bottom yet. There's more pain to come.
Please cite your sources regarding veganism being healthy.
I dunno, the reason bacon is delicious is because it's not meat, it's fat with some meat in it. I expect adjusting the constitution of the meat won't change people's enjoyment of bacon much.
Vegetarians from birth will probably not be inclined to eat this. They've never acquired a taste for meat.
I think this is awesome. Livestock are a haven for pollution and pestilence, most recently implicated in producing antibiotic-resistant superbugs that will probably be the death of us all.
OK. We'll see what we can do. Might take a bit of time, but look for something at http://github.com/foursquare
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If you want to make it sound advanced, you got to do what the masses will understand. I am loath to suggest it, but:

Meat 2.0
Here's what Roy Fielding said on the REST mailing list when asked about what he thinks about Websockets.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/1581...

"It would be a different style of interaction. Generally speaking, REST is designed to avoid tying a server's connection-level resources to a single client using an opaque protocol that is indistinguishable from a denial of service attack. Go figure."

I think Websockets relaxes the client-server constraint (and maybe some others). As long as developers understand the consequences, it should be fine I guess.
I kind of stopped reading after I learned the algorithm requires O(sqrt(n)) blocks each of O(sqrt(n)) size. Since sqrt(n)*sqrt(n) = n, how is this an improvement over the standard technique that simply uses an additional O(n) space?
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Ok, cool. How does that work? The original author sues in civil court? And what do we mean by "quite serious"?
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I actually spiked an idea like this a while back ... basically the idea was an in-browser Scheme REPL with something like SBCL's save-lisp-and-die.

Stumbling blocks were my painful lack of familiarity with Lisp development in general, and BiwaScheme's lack of environment reflection. I tried hacking a macro wrapper for definition that saved the definition somewhere serializable but ... yuck.

Perhaps ClojureScript could be a good basis for this (once it's out of alpha and features reflection and whatnot)? One could build a REPL-based development environment (_not_ an IDE!) that behaved somewhat like SLIME, and integrated with all the new hotness (GitHub, Heroku etc. etc.)

Mightn't need much in the way of new technology, so much as a whole lot of nice glue to hold it all together.
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Not comparable, but that doesn't mean worse. It will be easier and cheaper to provide good nutrition to artificial meat than it is to whole cows. It's easy to imagine that the cost-cutting inhumanity of ranches includes poor nutrition.

Besides that, few people eat beef for its nutrition (beyond the protein), and McDonald's meat is probably more tuned for 1) ease of production and 2) taste than nutritional value.
I think this way of laying out subviews is a functionally incomplete approach and it more often than not makes you write more code than it really abstracts.

To be honest this is in fact one reason most iOS developers dont like Android or Java Swing.Because what really happens is that you think of something really cool and then you realize that its not really linear or grid or rectangular or even box.At that point learning how to layout subviews with co-ordinates is too much work and you just go with a shitty box layout instead.This has happened to me so many times while using java swing that I am now (wrongly) biased against java for life.

For example what if I want to layout my subviews in a circular fashion around the centre of the parent view.Or what if my subviews are cards which are seperated from the previous card with exponentially increasing distances.

On iOS the simple way to layout subviews is by quite simply setting their frames relative to the frame of the parent view in the layoutSubviews method.To take care of different screen sizes and orientations all you have to do is the set the autoresizing mask correctly.Thats it!

That's like seven lines of code for three subviews and it is functionally complete.
nonsense. I can make one for you at twice the price.
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He says "the system as it is running right now doesn’t seem to be working as well as it should at helping U.S. manufacturing employment" after talking about the class action suit which seems to imply that a class action suit is against the interests of the US manufacturing sector.
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It's not that they should be treated specially. The problem is that by being an American company and not hiding behind offshore resources they make themselves more vulnerable to the idiocies of our judicial system.

The proper remedy lies in tort reform, but given how successful we've been with that, I don't hold out much hope.
I just read him/her as saying that people who avoid meat for health reasons would likely avoid this meat as well. Whether they're mistaken to avoid meat for health reasons doesn't seem specifically tied to artificial meat.
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Indeed, that's what we have. That doesn't refute the idea that the minimum wage law is destructive to general welfare (and especially the welfare of those specifically unemployed because of it). It just means it's a popular destructive law, like many other price controls.
In the US music industry, there are separate copyrights for songwriting and recordings. If you create an original recording of a birdsong, then you hold the copyright to that recording. I don't understand how owning a copyright for a melody created and performed by birds is defensible.
What are the odds that three victims would write out notes that combine to encode a message about death gods eating apples? I wouldn't rule out their writing solutions to NP-hard problems. Even halting problem problems. It's just a matter of getting them to write a note that begins with a certain letter, or that includes the word "yes" or "no".
I agree with this. I also think curricula designed with the assumption that a calculator is available can be much more challenging. After all, the student is given a more powerful tool.

The goal is definitely to avoid turning people into calculators. I found that for myself and my peer group, having a calculator was the best panacea to doing that. It meant that we'd use those extra free moments wondering why things worked and what it meant instead of "carrying the ones".
I'm curious what the world will look like when we are smart enough to become actionable with this information. Do we want to live in a world where someone in their garage can come up with a drug idea and send it to a PharmaFoundry to get their drug fabed and then sell it to people?

Correct me if I am wrong, but we have sequenced thousands of genomes but not human. We only have a handful where handful is < 1000) of full human genomes AFAIK. 1000 genomes isn't done yet AFAIK (their page on sequencing progress is down unfortunately). The human reference genome is a mishmash of multiple genomes. It also contains huge sections of chromosomes that are just N's (blank) because assemblers are unable to determine what goes there. On top of that, an actual human genome is not one genome. At they very least there are alleles which can be different from each other and in general there can be many genomes (cancer). Haploid sequencing is coming, hopefully soon, if SMRT really pans out but, in my opinion, to say our knowledge of even the sequence data in a human is adequate is a stretch (I'm not saying that you said that).
When search for something involving the word "best", I don't want old results.
I mean really (Google)...

Sure, I can go to the sidebar and search click a few times to only search within the past year... but honestly, who wants the best of something from 2008? Or even 2011?<p>Especially when most of the things I want are literally becoming better every day... maybe it's just me?
The real benefit of this will be ending overfishing.
Perhaps very few know of it because it's hidden behind a ridiculous pay wall.
Having been to a factory farm that used homogenized grain and had "attendants" in white coats and re-breathers this really isn't far from the present reality. Anything that can make livestock mass production more humane is a very good thing.
Your comment reminded me of an Onion piece on TIME:

"TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults"

http://www.theonion.com/video/time-announces-new-version-of-... (launches video, video was proceeded by an advertisement)
If you render the fat out of bacon, it is still delicious.

Vegetarian "bacon" salt is still delicious, but not fat (and has a rabid fan base.)

Fat is delicious, but bacon is not delicious because it has a high fat content.
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Ideally it would be something like, "we have 100gbit of combined IP transit purchased and peering with google, he.net, and herpderp" and TCP/IP would do it's thing.

Particularly when you hear of countries outside the US, 100+ mbit Internet is a very relative thing and it depends very much on where that traffic is going.

I'm all for building out last-mile distribution with fiber, but what's possible on Cable and DSL is very good and adequate for the current generation of services if the policies would match what the technologies are capable of. The elephant in the room is that good Internet will continue to eat the lunch of Cable TV and phone. Bandwidth caps are more about keeping you in line as a "good consumer" than the economics of IP transit.
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I think the main idea here is wrong. There is nothing wrong with technologies that require significant experience to master; the issue is with technologies that require significant experience but are still inefficient.

Plenty of the best tools are moderately difficult to learn: Emacs, Vi, the command line, Linux, Haskell...etc. However, once you learn them well, you become more efficient than you could be on a tool that's easier to learn. And this is good: sacrificing a bit of extra time to learn a technology that will make you more efficient is usually a good trade because learning takes a constant amount of time while being more efficient is at least linear.

The real issue is with tools that are arbitrarily complex. The DOM is a great example: its poor API, browser inconsistencies, weird layout rules...etc do not help you, but are difficult to learn and use. So the real issue is that the parts that are difficult to learn present no advantages over a simpler, easier to learn version.
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PETA, the world's largest pro-vegan organization, offers a $1 million prize for petri-dish meat. http://www.peta.org/features/in-vitro-meat-contest.aspx