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Thanks. I have updated the post with a quotation and link to your comment here.

I think the central point of my article stands because the tax burden associated with bringing Apple's significant foreign investments (about 60% of their cash, reportedly) back into the United States would be prohibitive and restrict any kind of heroic or crazy deals from being announced tomorrow. And Apple's investments are not in cash.

If anyone would like more information about the structure of Apple's investments, see page 7 of the most recent 10-Q: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/1738322915x0x536... The parent commenter is correct that the vast majority of holdings are in things like us treasuries and corporate bonds, which can be liquidated immediately.
So this compared Amazon's cc.4xl server @ 2.10 an hour against, e.g., Rackspace's 16G server at 0.96 an hour, and used its local storage in RAID 0 vs Rackspace's SAN storage? I'm pretty sure you couldn't have compared apples to oranges any better.
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Image a satellite BitTorrent tracker which flies over your head every 90 minutes. You got a 5 minute handshake window to discover the peer network, then the rest is handled on DHT.
and if they did have a exclusives deals/contracts of interest, I am sure that if netflix was purchased those contracts would be up for review.
No, west coast, my reference points are mostly SJC/SFO/PDX/SEA/TPE. An hour between doors closing and taking off is largely unthinkable. I'm not even sure it took an hour when I had to go through ORD in really crappy weather a few years ago.

I've heard the occasional story about long tarmac waits in New York, but didn't realize that 45-60 minutes could be anywhere near typical. Is Newark any better, or basically in the same boat?
If you give your surplus food to an area that supports 5,000
starving people, then you have only ensured that 6,000 of
them will be around in the next generation to starve even
more severely.

Not sure how well that applies to human societies. Poorer countries tend to have a higher population growth because poor people have children so that they can put them into labor. In developed societies, the general quality of life is increasing while population growth is decreasing, something that contradicts your assumption.

so in a world where needs are fulfilled regardless of
whether you do anything, I fear people will have little
incentive or inspiration to create

That's a typical libertarian argument that borders on sadism (is producing great creations more important than living comfortably?). It can also be easily dismissed: Money is not the only incentive for producing art or science. In fact it's far from the most important incentive. Are you saying that important scientists or artists have produced their works merely in order to fulfill material needs?

I wish I didn't have to care about making enough money to survive so that I would have time to pursue my lofty research ideas.
You mean this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Moore

Can you give some more detail? What does he use?
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China would not allow that, at most they would be allowed to buy 49% -- though I think you were joking.
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Yes, it would be infuriating wouldn't it?

That's interesting, because once a phone runs out of juice, is it because we tend to see it as "dead", and no longer fret over it. However - if it still runs, but with some disability, we'd be constantly reminded of our loss every time we made a phone call.
Meanwhile, the ability to choose a color for a bikeshed depends little on having good ideas....
The economy already isn't the limiting factor on establishing a Mars colony; technology is. So it's irrelevant.
"what about the ground receivers?"
exactly. unless they're planning on running a free wireless network from their servers in the sky, they're going to need to plug in to the internet somehow. there's not much point in having an untouchable server if the link is just as vulnerable as a traditional server.
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The evidence flatly contradicts this. Give people contraception and reasonable financial security and the reproduction rate drops like a rock. You can argue about the why, but the what is at this point undeniable. There is no need to go around starving people to "control" the population. This suggestion is no longer a fashionably cynical stance to take in the face of hard reality, it's just evil.

We are not reproducing uncontrollably. This memeset needs to take a good long look around, and then die itself, before it gets enough power to do something truly unfortunate... and entirely unnecessary.
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I don't get whether you have designated servers for that, or just take random amount of disk and bandwidth from everyone involved. Not sure about what guarantees on consistency and availability does it provide.

Also "The technology is 100% software and it is patentable."... yeah... right.
>at the rate of inflation that is likely to occur over the next several years, holding that much cash is a huge mistake

Actually majority of Apple's cash is invested in long-term and short-term securities so they are protected from inflation.

I don't think Apple will pay a dividend.

1. the Massive increase in Apple's stock price is more than enough compensation for shareholders. A dividend will just be drop in the bucket compared to the capital gains investors are going to earn in the next months or years. Paying dividends at this stage is a waste of money.

2. Apple's PE is around 16. AAPL is still VERY cheap. Compared to Google(20) and Amazon(134), both companies not nearly as profitable as Apple.

3. There is still a lot of room for growth (TVs, China, NFC, etc.).

4. Stock buybacks is more tax-efficient compared to paying dividends since the investors will have to pay the 15% tax rate if they get paid dividends.

5. Share repurchase may FURTHER increase stock price since it will increase EPS, ROE (Return on Equity) and ROA (Return on Asset) and decrease PE. Improved financial ratios will make the stock look even more attractive to investors.

CONCLUSION:

Given these 5 factors. I believe Apple WILL NOT pay a dividend.

Apple will instead perform a share repurchase.
The entire content of the submitted article is: "[T]he vast majority of Galaxy S II users are not technically savvy, have no idea what “Ice Cream Sandwich” is, and, most importantly, would totally freak out if they OK’d an over-the-air software update that completely changed the entire UI of their phone."

That's 254 characters. Two Tweets. It's obvious Gruber enjoys special attention and the HN community does not judge submissions on individual merit.
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Consider yourself blessed. NY airports are a nightmare. Same with LAX, ORD, ATL, DEN, and most other major hubs. (DFW seems to be a sole exception to the hubs-are-sucky axiom; I've rarely has anything but pleasant experiences from that airport, and I think I've connected through it over 100 times in the last 12 months).

Of all of these hubs, I hold a special pocket of hatred in my heart for my hometown airport, LAX. It's not the biggest or most crowded airport in the country, but it seems to be the worst run. Security lines take at least 45 minutes a pop, even if there are only about 10 people in line. Pre-takeoff delays on the tarmac routinely run 60 minutes or longer. Etc. It's about as well-managed as a DMV, and every bit as infuriating.

SFO tends to suck, too. I'm actually surprised you haven't had worse experiences there. It's routinely rated as one of the worst airports in the country for delays. (SJC, by comparison, ranges from painless to downright pleasant).
at the rate of inflation that is likely to occur over the next several years, holding that much cash is a huge mistake

Market expectations for inflation are usually factored into interest rates already. While the market could be wrong, Apple probably shouldn't get into the business of speculating on inflation rates.
> at the rate of inflation that is likely to occur over the next several years

Do you have a reliable source on this?

> Typically I would think the beginning of a dividend program to be a signal that the company has hit an innovation wall and doesn't know what to do with its cash. I think this doesn't really apply to Apple because cash is going to continue to flow freely into it a ridiculous rate for the foreseeable future.

Apple's been building up this cash stockpile for so long that it's pretty clear they've long had more than they know what to do with. Having a cash position isn't really necessary either--at this point in time Apple could easily borrow at rates much lower than their expected return on investment anyway.
The real problem is that we keep reproducing
uncontrolably. The religiously crazed keep pushing having
tons of kids with NO WAY TO SUPPORT THEM.

That's only the main issue if you're wearing Reddit atheist goggles. Population growth is steadily decreasing in developed countries. On the other hand, automation is becoming increasingly a problem and is partly responsible for the increasing economic inequality we are facing - people with access to the means of production have a lesser need for human labor, resulting in the disempowerment of the middle class.
So... what if a bird flies into it?
> Sorry, your user name must be 4 chars.

Why?
Yes we could: replace 'work' with 'contribute' and it makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't believe in the mid- and long-term viability of a society that supports its members without requiring them to participate in its existence, development and improvement. Without some form of obligation, it would stagnate into a world of (so to speak) couch potatoes too easily.

If I had a home, food and health care as a basic right, what I would do? Raise my child with undivided attention, care and love. Try to make his environment a happy, safe and stimulating place. The kind of stuff that modern society apparently considers optional, or not valuable at all.
There is something fascinating here. pg's essays seem humble, sober, reasonable, and insightful to me. But several smart people I know have had exactly the opposite reaction.

Is this a Myers Briggs thing? (NP vs SJ?)

You're obviously a bright person, so your strong negative reaction has me fascinated.

1. Which statements in the essay dont hold up to rational inspection? I liked the essay, but maybe intuitive personalities like me are easily hoodwinked by clever writers and if so I'd like to understand it.

2. If I write a similar article, and cite pg's essay, will my essay be more compelling than his because I referenced another writer? It never occurred to me that citations make an idea more correct, although the idea does remind me of something Joseph Goebbels once said.
If you come up with a substantive response to any other part of my comment then I will answer your question.
So am I, but as a style, I find it much better than many conventional writers (excluding research papers, at least the good ones). More important to me, PG's style is consistent - once I get used to it (in the first few paragraphs), all the rest of his essays can be interpreted with the same "filter/transform".
It sounds like you're basically proposing Plan 9--lots of very small, single-purpose components with one standardized way of passing data between them used across the entire system.

Also, you can ask a lot of people to give up binary compatibility and be okay, but asking people to give up source compatibility and change applications is a much, much harder pill to swallow. Specialized environments (like the syscall-shipping CNK on Blue Gene like jedbrown mentions) are usually seen as something to work around because they are impediments to productivity. A more robust system wouldn't be considered useful if everyone has to start from scratch.
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I think he meant it as a quick example and wasn't really an indictment of soccer players - nevertheless your obvious passion and understanding of the game is appreciated :)
English is not my native tongue, so thanks for the suggestion. (Now that you mention it, I found both words in the dictionary.)
What browser are you using that you've got your bookmarks setup in?
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Such a awesome idea, but most of the stuff thepiratebay has attempted has never really materialized into anything

See: Buying a island / Baywords / The Video Bay
This is about as close to a pure speech hack as I'm aware of, by the way. It makes you immediately, perceptibly better, and even if I told you "Here's a video of me talking. Hit a buzzer when I'm buffering" you'd miss most of them because they read as dramatic emphasis to the audience. (The umms, stammers, and verbal disfluencies, on the other hand, are instantly perceptible.)

As long as we're on the subject of hacks: pick three people in the audience: one on the left, one in the right, and one a bit off center in the middle. Always make eye contact with them when you are speaking. Rotate every couple of sentences. BAM, perceived confidence goes way up.
As their first business venture together, he and Jobs sold blue boxes.

So, the irony level that was reached when Jobs ordered the creation of a locked-down cell phone platform wrapped clear around 2^32-1 and back to zero.
> try modeling a school, for example, with the relationships between teachers, students, parents, and classes.

The DAL can be used to model any set of tables and relationships that can be created in an RDBMS, so it's not clear what the problem would be modeling the relationships among these entities. Should be fairly straightforward.
Ok, let's start from the beginning. You believe it's false that having good ideas is most of writing well. Can you give a counterexample? Can you give an example of an essay you consider to be a good piece of writing, and yet whose author you believe didn't know what he/she was talking about? Present company excepted of course.
>Market expectations for inflation are usually factored into interest rates already.

Actually that is not true. Historically Interest rates on currency-based investments have not caught up with inflation and taxes. Majority of Apple's cash is invested in long-term securities though so their investment is protected from inflation.
Nope--running x86 software natively (see: Windows, Linux) is still a competitive necessity. If Apple wanted their laptops to run on embedded-class processors with an x86-incompatible ISA and no other venders than themselves, they would have stayed with PowerPC.
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More likely a major share repurchase. check my other post below for an explanation.
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Breaking the big banks by region sounds like the AT&T/Baby Bells break up, which created powerful regional monopolies.
For me, yes. It either needs to have features existing services don't have, or simply execute better than what's out there now.
It's a potential perpetual motion machine...

Good enough solar cells, good enough membrane, good enough lightweight HHO, and a way to capture moisture from the air itself in the form on condensation or dew. It could be a small thing of water... whoa...

Build IT!!!
So they could easily afford a controlling share, not that they'd have anything interesting to do with it. As far as the Mac goes, Intel is doing more or less exactly what Apple would want them to do, and as far as iOS goes, Intel is already irrelevant.
FWIW, I think something like instapaper, delicious/pinboard, evernote, and clipboard, should really be one service. Combine those four for me and you have my money.
If you restrict writing to only the "sounds" words produce when they are read, good writing should sound like spoken language is still hard to defend. Besides how the brain differently processes words seen from eyes, the varied methods of reading (reading linearly, scanning, searching, etc) gives multiple definitions of "good writing", depending on the context, goal, reader, and many other factors.

If you don't, then many other kind of glyphs and grammars arise. At the extreme, diagrams, mathematical expressions, etc, often lack even a correspondence with spoken language. Similarly, spoken languages have many subtle indicators and markers (often temporal or intonation-based) that isn't easily translatable to the written word.
a swarm of networked load-bearing quadcopters.
I want to get a government grant to fill my offices with Apple products, sealed in original packaging. People can come by for four days to see, and take photographs; afterward, the Apple products will be distributed to startups and entrepreneurs (via eBay)...
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WOT gave me a warning on visiting the link but I couldn't find any reason for it to have a poor rating.
I wonder what's up with that?
https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/cdevroe.com
My weird biometric tick is that I will hit the shift key twice rapidly sometimes. Usually this is a no-op, but does something funny on the nytimes site. It's also super annoying in Windows since hitting shift 5 times brings up an accessiblity dialog.
We are starting to get alternatives, though. Besides Rust and D, there are Clay (http://claylabs.com/clay/), ATS (http://www.ats-lang.org/), and Deca (http://code.google.com/p/decac/). I'm sure there are more. I unfortunately haven't had time to play with them, and they're in various stages of development. But at least people are thinking about improving systems programming.
Yes, switching is not as arduous as it seems, especially if you pay bills online.

I switched from Wells Fargo to a regional credit union last year. I recommend keeping your old bank account open for a few months just in case you forgot to switch some bills or have trouble with your new accounts. Better safe than sorry.
For those unfamiliar with the term "all-cause mortality":

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090813211127AA...
Ummm... no.

I think there are more than enough ways out there to make sure I only read the news I want to read. Some sites I read to make sure I am seeing other things out there I may not know I should read.

Not saying this is bad so much as that I would hope it doesn't catch on...
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I don't have experience with the country, but I hear good things about singapore.
I was sufficiently bilingual with English and Chinese at the age of nine or ten. I've always mostly think in the abstract and images, even before I was bilingual. I have exceptional spatial IQ so I guess it overrides everything else. The article is true in the sense it has probably improved my mental agility.
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"com/net/info have always been US domain names from the beginning" - Citation? And how come there is a ".us" TLD?

It may seem that way from where you sit (USA by any chance?), but I think you'll find the rest of the world sees com/net/org as transcending countries, hence their value.
For one thing, population growth in industrialized countries is already at or below replacement levels. The problem is solving itself. It turns out economic development is the solution.

For another thing, population doesn't matter much anyway because the demand for most occupations probably grows linearly with population regardless of technology. You don't need linearly as many engineers, but you do need linearly as many doctors, policemen, firemen, cleaners, repairmen, prostitutes, soldiers, nurses, dentists, veterinarians, barbers, yoga instructors, and dog groomers.
If you were driven by a disinterested search for the truth, your comments would not have the tone they do.
It looks like this is the 2 year follow up to a previous study.

"Analyses after 2 additional years of follow-up consolidated our previous finding that PSA-based screening significantly reduced mortality from prostate cancer but did not affect all-cause mortality. "

So, if I follow this correctly, your odds of dying from prostate cancer are still definitely lowered by screening, but your odds of dying overall are not. Perhaps this indicates that people who would have gotten prostate cancer are the sort of people (via lifestyle, genetics, diet, etc) who would die of something else anyway.
Ask HN: How to do Project Management for personal projects?
I want to work on an idea and want to build an web application on the same idea

All I am bad at is breaking down the tasks into iterations and tasks and track them down with progress.

I have always seem people on HN doing awesome personal projects with their jobs.

I would like to know how do you divide the tasks, turn them into iterations and if at all you use any project management tools to track them

Please pour in your ideas and educate me

Thank you all in advance
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Firefox. But this also includes bookmarks imported from various versions of other browsers, all the way back to IE6.
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There's extradition, and then there's extradition of own nationals/citizens. The latter happens but is not the norm and many fairly civilized countries, France or Germany† for example, generally don't do it.

† some exceptions related to the European Arrest Warrant apply
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I can second the recommendation for Brian Hogan's tmux book. I have a feeling it will become the tmux book to get for some time. It's short enough that you can get through it without a major investment, and long enough that covers everything (and more) to become productive with tmux.
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"That's because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need."

Really? We found a way to cure cancer and power our economy with clean energy?
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You could release a list of hashes with a known input format corresponding to (name, key) tuples. That way, any individual could check whether their own key had been de-anonymized by your analysis, without creating a public mapping between the two.
Two things that I really like about my IDE is the project file explorer and working on multiple files using tabs. Part of that is not just the quick access, but visually seeing what I have open. Are there equivalents for those things with the tmux/vim setup?
There are over 100 different NoSQL databases - so you have to definately show something on how your software is better.
Most NoSQL are open sourced and are free to use for limited installs, so it will be very hard to make money with licensing. Some offer a base version for free, but offer clustering or other advanced features at a cost. Some charge money for consulting.
Where does your db sit on the CAP spectrum? How is it the best for a specific use case?