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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work

The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era is a non-fiction book by American economist Jeremy Rifkin, published in 1995 by Putnam Publishing Group.[1]

In 1995, Rifkin contended that worldwide unemployment would increase as information technology eliminates tens of millions of jobs in the manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors. He traced the devastating impact of automation on blue-collar, retail and wholesale employees. While a small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers reap the benefits of the high-tech world economy, the American middle class continues to shrink and the workplace becomes ever more stressful.

As the market economy and public sector decline, Rifkin predicted the growth of a third sector—voluntary and community-based service organizations—that will create new jobs with government support to rebuild decaying neighborhoods and provide social services. To finance this enterprise, he advocated scaling down the military budget, enacting a value added tax on nonessential goods and services and redirecting federal and state funds to provide a "social wage" in lieu of welfare payments to third-sector workers.

He was mostly laughed at.
I second this. I used to um and ahh very badly and I started debating in school partly to try and stop myself doing this. I had a teacher use one of the most amazingly effective techniques to help me - she filmed me once as I read my prepared debate 'speech' (filled with ums and ahhs), and then filmed me a second time, this time telling me to consciously be aware of the umming and pause before I did, gather my thoughts and then continue talking.

Watching the first video, I could see how distracting the ums and ahhs were. Watching the second video gave me a stunning insight. What felt like years standing silent as I struggled to suppress the um and continue my speech, actually came across as measured pauses. Not only did the pauses almost always appear 'normal', but they also made it easier to understand the points I was making.

In that one 15 minute session with my teacher, I became comfortable with pausing and that was the starting point for a dramatic decline in my umming.
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Buying a position in a company like Samsung (solid-state memory or screen tech), Foxconn (manufacturing), LG Display (screen tech) makes sense. Apple is a hardware company, so pretty much all their investments are in hardware or software that increases the value of or margins on their hardware (like chips designers and firms that increase the value of OS X or iOS, which in turn increases the value of Mac and iOS based devices)

IMHO Foxconn makes more sense than any other investment because Apple is directly contributing or jointly inventing cutting edge manufacturing technology with Foxconn. An example of such technologies is the precision cut aluminum enclosures of the aluminum Macbooks.

An investment in Foxconn would suggest that Apple has a desire for being the hardware basis for a lot more devices in a person's life than just a computer or smartphone device. Since the future is an internet of things, the best way to get a foothold in the premium end of the internet of things is to have a solid foothold in the largest and most capable manufacturer of electronic things.

On the other hand, Foxconn has a $1.1 trillion market cap, so they could at most purchase a bit less than 10%.

A sizable position in Foxconn could also virtually guarantee that Apple is the only company that will have access to manufacturing technology and quality in volume that is always 1-2 generations ahead of its peers. You can't compete with Apple on quality if you can't get access to the hardware manufacturing capabilities until after Apple abandons it and moves onto newer better technologies. It's the equivalent of a hardware checkmate.
Fair enough and no, I am not such an observer that I would know all those things. But many of those “facts” are loaded with motives and intentions, which are not factual. (“Not factual” doesn’t mean false, it just means non-objective and unproveable.)

I suppose what I am getting at is that critics need to play a better, more empirical game if they are to succeed. This article is emotionally manipulative, by design.
Call it bold or courageous. He's doing something few are willing to do. I'm not saying he's a hero in the same sense as a soldier or anything here, but he's worth 100x more than the drones who just keep piling mess upon mess without even being able to admit what they are doing.
Apple buys Foxconn? Or Apple builds massive factory in CA?
>Sliced and diced these toxic loans (derivatives)

These aren't derivatives, you're referring to CMOs which are structured products.
My apologies. What I meant to say is that jamming a CDMA signal is TRIVIALLY easy. It's been done, it doesn't require a lot of equipment, and it's very very effective.

There have been MULTIPLE attacks against supposedly jam-proof wireless systems that not only showed that they we not only jammable, but that the mechanism designed to make them jam proof only made it easier.

In particular, the control channels that manage access to the air interface are notoriously vulnerable to disruption.

So my beef is that the idea that a spread spectrum system is somehow more resistant to jamming is just plain wrong.
> make capital gains count as regular income

A huge tax increase on savings and investment serves what policy goal again?!??!?
Would US Airspace law be at all relevant? My understanding is that TPB goes out of their way to avoid conducting their business anywhere near the United States.

I imagine airspace classes in Europe would be a more valid topic.
Well I was thinking of the major counterexample that they own essentially none of their manufacturing. They don't produce any of their components -- even the processors they design get built by (I believe) Samsung.

As far as I've been able to tell, design and engineering get hauled in because they want to control it. I guess you can add the stores, too.

But buying something like an LCD panel maker? Or a flash maker? Or Foxconn? I'd be shocked.
The choices

> would be viewed as "evil" companies gaming the system

and

> huge influx of funds back into the U.S. would actually help spur economic growth

are in no way mutually exclusive.
Not enmity. I am intellectually galled by the laziness of many of pg's arguments. I agree with a lot of what he writes about creating things people want, on the other hand, and wish he would stick to writing about things he's good at -- or at least, when writing about something he's bad at, do it in an exploratory instead of declamatory fashion.
Thanks. I was hoping that a service that claims it will be around in 10 years might also come with features that make it easy for people to import and manage bookmarks from 10 years ago. But it seems that your needs are different.
Link to the actual Github repo: https://github.com/michael/github
Silicon Valley Bank and Square1 are two banks that focus on startups/small business.

http://www.svb.com/

http://www.square1financial.com/bank/

(They're on my radar for when I get to that point, but haven't used either yet.)
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Well if the range of the radio transmitters is really 50km then a balloon could be well above commercial airspace.

36 000 feet = 11km.
That's hilarious but not remotely feasible, is it April 1st yet?
That's an interesting perspective; I wasn't thinking about the software side at all.
How do you handle DMA and other I/O in your system?
The total cash and marketable securities (the Apple 96.7B figure) for the S&P 500 is 2.84T. So out of just the S&P 500 Apple is 3.44%. I'm not sure where the 12% figure stated in the article is coming from.
How high does the airspace restriction go? 10km? 100km?
What he did was illegal in the UK, and has been since 1988.
The word you want in that last sentence is "diametrical", or perhaps "antipodal".
Curious as to how you would set up a DMA transaction in any of those languages? If you're doing system programming, you'll need to do DMA.
Airspace law in other countries is likely to be similar or less restrictive.
Why do most of the reports I have seen list apple's cash at 96B?
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>Only C gives you precise control of what the machine is doing all the time.

Maybe in 1979, it did. Modern C compilers alter and modify code quite radically, to the point where it's quite difficult these days to go back from optimized assembly back to the original C code. These days, C gives you a good illusion of control, but all too often, C programmers mistake illusion for reality.
On 13W3 it's certainly interesting to note, that while it was used often as monitor connector, there are different incompatible pinouts and signal definitions (at least Sun and IBM variants are completely incompatible with each other)
This is a scenario that I have expected to hear about since a long time. Places like India and China are easily prone to corruption and data theft. What needs to be investigated is the role of the administration of such call centers in the theft. After all, why is this data not sufficiently protected by encryption? Why is an employee able to leave the premises with a laptop full of live data and who needs to sign off on such devices. The only way to stop this is to have better security in place for customer data in call center databases.
Laughter is social lubricant. There is lots of research on this: people laugh more in groups; inferiors laugh more than superiors; nervous people laugh at themselves, and laughing at yourself is also kind of way to efface yourself and show that you are part of a group.

If only HNers would read basic Intro to Psychology books, there would not be so many chimes of "I noticed this too" and, hopefully, more discussion of what actually goes on in the world and how things actually work.
I still have problems with this idea. The all-funded-research-should-be-free thing is a problematic perspective to hang on to. One could argue, that consequently everyone working in Academia should be obliged to give away the books they write, the documents they provide, the presentations, the exams - for free because over here Universities are funded by taxpayer money. Enforcing this would most likely have an adverse effect, i.e. departments trying to get private funding in order to avoid disclosure.

in regards to the Journals it comes all down to the rankings. So far I did not find a single ranking were Open Access journals were performing well. Might be more of a soft sciences problem, but I can not see a reasonable motive why someone should publish in an open access journal if they research holds up to the standards of well ranked "closed" journal.

The only aspect could see is "to take a stand", and at least on my list of things I am willing to stand up for, the budgeting of the library department is relatively low on priority.
This post is not quite right in its understanding of how these securities are classified.

Securities held by corporations as assets are shown both by type of instrument and by "intent" of the holding. In this case, the types of instruments shown on the latest 10-Q [1] are, as the post describes, cash and cash equivalents, short-term securities and long-term securities. But that only applies to the security itself, not Apple's intent: a 30 year government bond would be classified as "long term," but it could easily be sold tomorrow in one of the most liquid financial markets in the world.

Under GAAP, what is also relevant is a label on the "intent" of the holding: trading, available-for-sale, or held-to-maturity. According to the same 10-Q, all of these securities are classified as available-for-sale. The original post conflates these two ideas and mistakenly assumes that the ~$67B of long term securities will be held until they mature. Were that Apple's intent, they would likely be classified as held-to-maturity, rather than available-for-sale.

(The classification as to intent matters, as it affects how unrealized gains/losses from the securities held flow into the income statement in any given period.)

It's a technical point, to be sure, but the post's conclusion that long term security != ready cash is not quite right.

Regardless, Apple's numbers amaze me every time I look at them.

[1] http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-12-...
That's cash/equivalents + short-term securities + long-term securities. Total assets are $138b.

This all gets pulled from SEC filings. Here's the most recent: http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-12-...
“There is enough food produced to provide everyone in the world with 2,720 kilocalories per person per day”…except that’s not how ecology works. When a species is given a food surplus, its population grows, not the quality of life of its individuals. 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.

“Might the spirit of enterprise we currently associate with ‘career’ be shifted to something entirely more collaborative, purposeful, and even meaningful?” I’d like to think so. We are just as much competitive creatures as collaborative ones, though, 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.
Don't forget Microsoft's chat system, which changes name every year.
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I think part of this will be a major initiative to invest in education. We know Jobs was interested in re-inventing education and we also know he told President Obama he couldn't find enough qualified workers. The for-profit education market is booming right now. Could this be a sort of iSchool focused on engineering, computer science, design, etc? Apple could make a really good argument to their shareholders that they must invest in the next-generation of Apple workers to continue growing.
When Merkel gave a speech at Stanford mentioning Zuse invented the computer, she got laughed at.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/reporters-notebook-merkel-o...
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It would certainly be more lively. But I think the real problem would be that there would be too much foot traffic in a lot of places for it to survive for very long. I think having everyone wear socks or go barefoot would help but i think it'd still have a tough time. Maybe we need to breed some heartier varieties for the office?
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It is more a problem of motivation. Since we have not yet stopped universal entropy to guarantee our unending existance forever, we still have progress to be made.

Too bad we have probably billions of human beings not contributing towards that progress.

We need people motivated to enter the sciences and engineering disciplines to make the future happen. We will probably see our means of survival fully automated in our lifetimes, and besides the imminent highly coupled crisis of global warming / overpopulation / resource depletion this century, we will probably emerge from it in a state where no person born will ever need to toil to survive to the next day.

We might even get to the point where people don't die, or aren't bound to biological form.

But we are too busy complaining about celebrities on TV and our neighbors to have a collective motivation towards progress. The greatest problem to solve in the 21st century is one of motivating people to tackle hard problems to progress the whole of humanity, en masse.
This is correct, but the thread is about changes in dividend policy, not ex-dividend dates.
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That really doesn't have anything to do with what I said. Whether users can or do understand technical details is orthogonal to whether they routinely think about or change operating systems and for that matter, swap other major "components", other than through purchase of a whole new computer. Usually, they do not.
I love Pirate Bay for pushing the envelope with everything they do.

They have a lot of big lofty ideas but they often are unable to execute on them or they flop right after they get out the gate. Remember the time they were going to buy an island? Or when the bought the IFPI domain? The Suprnova relaunch? BOiNK? SlopsBox? ShareReactor? Baywords? ViO? The Video Bay? Also, and I can't find any info on this, but I'm pretty sure awhile back they claimed they were going to develop a new p2p protocol for anonymous filesharing.

I'm guessing this won't ever get off the ground, so to speak. It seems wildly impractical.
Not with their OS release for Andriod.
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Because the market is liquid enough that Apple could probably convert those investments into cash relatively quickly (and without damaging their value).

Assuming trustworthy partners, if you have a cheque to your name for $100, it wouldn't be unreasonable to say that you have $100 cash.
If there was any kind of major merger would this just be a conference call?
Humans are going to mate regardless of religion. The only way to control population growth is to stop increasing food production. We cannot make more people if there is nothing for them to be made of.
The Computer History Museum (Shoreline exit on Hwy 101) has one of his boards. It used electro-mechanical relays instead of vacuum tubes.
netflix as a very likely acquisition target? really?

i can't see why. does netflix have a lot of exclusive content deals that apple can't get? it seems like most things that are on netflix are already on itunes. also, netflix is popular because it's available on all kinds of devices which doesn't seem to be a policy that apple is likely to continue. if apple doesn't need netflix' customer base or content, why would they purchase them?
Nitpick - the world needs all the rich investors it can get, just not any more rich speculators.

(where investor = someone looking to finance innovation and long-term value/wealth creation; and speculator = someone looking to get rich quick on market volatility, pump & dump, etc.)
Nobody would buy it without some government insurance, making it pointless. The best paths now are either letting it orderly fail (if that's possible) or forced nationalization at a symbolic price.

But if I had to bet, my money would be on some travesty against the US taxpayer like Bear Stearns good assets sold for close to nothing and taxpayers taking the junk mortgage assets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns#Fed_bailout_and_sa...

But current BofA management will keep complicating it as long as possible, maximizing their income. Also the legal pandora's box of imminent lawsuits makes thing very bleak.
I'm not sure where you've read that Foxconn has a 1.1 trillion market cap. According to Bloomberg they have a cap of 149.5B [1]. Which makes significantly more sense than Foxconn being worth way more than Apple!

[1] http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/s...
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My local credit union has auto bill pay and it only has around ~5k members total.

They also have CD rates 3x higher than any big bank that I've seen.
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This difference bothers me in the new online courses too: most of them use video lectures. Some of the problems don't carry over (the ones about the audience as a mass), but some do (sentences going by like a stream neither the speaker nor the listener can as easily go back and forth over). I feel we're losing something from when a book was the way to reach an audience, and we could add the interactivity and a lot of the other new advantages without losing the benefits of text.

Funny how that line about "The moving finger, having writ" has it backwards now with text easier to revise than speech. (This remark's an addition to my original comment.)
It's also trivial to place an object into orbit at a speed such that it stays in the same place relative to Earth. So a given satellite in orbit does not necessarily need to pass over the United States. This is why you have to get on your roof and point the dish at some magical place in the sky. You're pointing it at the satellite
That seems like the appropriate compromise, SVG for various optical sizes. The analog example that comes to mind is Dr. Seuss books. The Cat in the Hat is much less detailed when he is far away, and has very detailed pen work close up.
Jaron Lanier, recently pointed out, we no longer need to make stuff in order to make money. We can instead exchange information-based products.

The article doesn't mention Lanier's extensive writing on what he calls Digital Maoism: the notion that collectives always solve problems better than individuals, who should give their digital content away for free. If there were some way of monetizing this digital content that did not benefit only a few well-positioned social networking hubs and that did not require draconian intellectual property legislation (which mainly benefits a few monopolists), then there might be some hope.
I write a lot of code that runs in funny environments like the Compute Node Kernel running on Blue Gene systems, with offset-mapped memory (no TLB) and no over-subscription. It's fantastic for reproducible performance, but it's a specialized environment and people want to do things like run Python (as "glue" for some scientific applications) which needs dynamic loading. Since all IO is exported to separate IO nodes, and due to file system consistency semantics, dynamic loading is a tremendous bottleneck. This has escalated to the point where people burn a quarter million core hours to load Python (plus C extension modules) once on a large machine. To really solve the scalability problem, we needed to make dlopen() avoid touching the file system (by patching ld.so and implementing the POSIX file API with collective semantics served over the fast network).

The point here is that there are good reasons to want to use different systems together and then you end up putting in lot of effort working around the limitations of the specialized environments.
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One nit:
"considering the loss of the convenience of mouse input"

You can get full mouse support in tmux/vim.

I recently read the tmux book by the pragmatic programmers and highly recommend it: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux

It's short, well written and contains lots of essential configuration tips to get not only mouse support but also system copy/paste on a mac. Here's my tmux.conf if you're curious: https://github.com/briandoll/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf
I'm willing to bet porn and piracy go hand in hand.
Peak Labor. Anyone that's ever argued this in the past 200 years has been called a luddite. Yet, in the past 40 years as computers have automated more work, both labor and white collar, it's become clear that the productivity gains are only making it into the pockets of the 20% or so that own investments.
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