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Looking for "The Money Masters" fact check
Someone handed me this documentary to watch and I finally got around to it. I'm half way through it. The recurring question in my mind is "Has this been fact checked?". I took a look around the 'net and haven't found anything I can sink my teeth into yet.

In general terms I tend to reject views that require hundreds of people --no matter how rich-- to coordinate a control scheme. This is particularly true if the proposal is that this coordinated action was maintained across decades and even centuries.

Having said that, I am open minded. I'd really like to read a fact-based critique of this documentary before I try to reach any conclusions.
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I'm not hard to find, if you are interested:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessamynsmith

I didn't know there was a more elegant way to do the shebang. I've fixed that now. It hadn't occurred to me that there was a particular advantage to being able to reload without restarting, but I am considering that now.

Personally, I prefer using libraries to reinventing the wheel. YMMV.
> I believe the current best guess is around 2 degrees C by 2050,
> In short, the world of 2050 looks like it'll be almost unnoticeable warmer

The 2 degree C by 2050 projection is for if we stabilize CO2 emissions by 2020. Otherwise the projection is up to 5 C.

For reference, during the last ice age the world was 5 C colder, and Chicago was under two miles of ice.
What you describe isn't burnout though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_(psychology)
Re: YC Batch 2008-06, Backtype was actually acquired by Twitter a while back.

Great resource, and interesting to see dead/live/acquired ratios, kudos!
You can get reductionist and say there's no reason to do anything. The fact is, most of the time when people have models that represent things, there are going to be basic validation rules to represent standard constraints ("email has to be valid", "fields x/y/z can't be null", etc). Those constraints are specific to the concept of the model itself, outside of any relations it may have, or uses it may have in the rest of the app. To me, that's reason enough to provide for a validation system in a model in framework.

Hell - why have models? There's no reason to tie a model in to a framework - just be flexible and do it however you want, right?
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What if Jeff Bezos took that funding how much ever that he used to find the rockets and used that on education. There are many in different countries who doesn't even have basic education needs. I am not saying Jeff is the doing the wrong thing, he worked hard, he earned it, he might have or might be doing charity work, but the satisfaction you get just by thinking that you can help some kid get educated is more than finding rockets. Just my thoughts.
Most here have commented 3-4 hours ago, but 2 hours ago Isaac Yonemoto left an excellent comment on the blog. So if you read this message, because you're checking the thread for new discussion, I encourage you to check out his comment as well. :-)
Right. The fallacy of Malthusianism is that all those extra people turn out to have a knack for producing the stuff they need. Of course there's an ultimate limit, of the total insolation energy to Earth or maybe a Dyson sphere, but there are many multiples of headroom compared to Earth's current population and productivity.
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Blackhat internet marketing is all about automation, taking what works with one account and then doing it with hundreds or thousands...If you can make a dollar doing something, then automate it and do it 1000 times...
Please excuse the language, but what the fuck is happening to our world right now?

What the hell has happened to "I want to build something, so I'll build it"? Now you have to [1]pay $100 for the privilege of reading the mailing list for an open source project? And some guy needs $25,000 just to start it?

Guys this is...not good. Can you imagine if apache's kickstarter never got funded? If the linux kernel's didn't? What if MySQL didn't properly manage their prize levels? Now it's "I want to build an alternative social network. Bootstrap me with $200,000" or whatever that was.

Kickstarter is really cool for a lot of things, I see it [and contribute to it] for large-scale art projects (burning man), but now every hacker I know has got a $25,000 wall in front of them called "kickstarter" and they don't want to start working until they scale it.

Stop this. This is really bad.

[1]: From the page: > [$100 gets you] access to the internal list for the project, where I'll be soliciting feedback about how to nail this. Great open source projects rarely come from the ideas of just one person, and your input will guarantee that Rails 4 is as great for beginners as it is for experienced developers.

What the hell is this? I have to buy a ticket to "help steer the project"? What happened to community? We're charging a cover at the door now?
Giles, you're acting like a prima donna over what is really a minor quibble with the way Bundler works. How many people do you honestly think get hung up on a warning from Bundler that gives you clear instructions on what to do next? And I know you like to exaggerate things to make a point, but do you really think that warning was added to heckle and mock people? Because that's ridiculous.

I can tell you one thing: there are many, many people who have benefited from the fact that Bundler fixes a boatload of issues for developers and in general makes my life, and their lives, better, even if we have to type "bundle exec", which I have conveniently aliased to "be" (try it).

I'm also willing to bet that a lot of people would benefit from this project if Yehuda takes it on. I don't know if he knows Objective-C either, and I don't care. Why? Because this is a guy who knows how to produce useful software. No, it doesn't let you produce music in your browser, or program beats in Ruby. But it is useful.

Archaeopteryx was the first time I came across you in the Ruby world and I thought it was really cool when I tried it out. Then again, I didn't find it particularly useful. I find Bundler useful every day, and I'm willing to bet lots of other people would too.

I realize I'm making this personal, and I'm sure that opens up a great opportunity for you to disparage my own accomplishments, or perhaps engage in some deliberate heckling and mockery, as opposed to the mockery you mistakenly perceive in a program's error message. I'll save you some time: I suck at programming compared to Yehuda, and I'm probably not as good as you are at it either. But one thing I'm far better at than you is appreciating people for their contributions instead of behaving like a jerk. So give it a rest, it's tiresome and juvenile.
> extremely hostile when you try to get cable card service "whats that? Oh , we'll need a contract from you and a large deposit."

That depends heavily on the market. Comcast is internally dysfunctional. Although they've achieved significant technological unification, they have roughly a gazillion Battling Business Units serving different regions as a result of mergers and other insanity. Each is run by its own local tyrants, some of whom routinely ignore both law and corporate policy, while others behave quite reasonably. The dysfunction is further amplified because even within a single unit's region, local franchise agreements vary in details.
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Hadn't heard about this yet, thanks! Also good to see fellow 'peggers on here :)
Every time a TWSS joke went by, I noticed, and it bothered me a little. It seemed to me that it was easier for at least some of the guys to ignore it as background noise. What I was hoping for was to make the joke visible, something people noticed and thought about.
- Jessamyn

P.S. And it worked really well, in the sense that we were able to have the conversation I tried to have in the first place but nobody was interested at the time.
Democratic governments are "liable" in the sense that they can loose their jobs for screwing up. Or looking like they screwed up. Or getting accused of screwing up. Or because they just got unlucky.
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Nope , try buying something online with a Nigerian IP address.
My concern with W8 is that the inclusion of the Metro touch interface and paradigm on desktop systems will do nothing but confuse people. I've seen this first hand after installing the consumer preview version on a laptop and having a wide range of people try it. Almost without fail, the reaction I've seen is confusion followed by a severe reduction of productivity.

I understand the idea of having "one OS to rule all platforms" but can't help to think that W8 will cause a lot of friction with those who need a Windows XP/Vista/7 desktop, mouse-and-keyboard experience and have no use whatsoever for a touch interface. This group, I might argue, represents the overwhelming majority of Windows users. By far.

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
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|Still, it'll be hard to argue with the economics of how cheap it is to grow a cow.

There's some interesting work being done on manufacturing food elements using synthetic biology[1]. they think it will cost one tenth of cheapest foods we have today, and will require little water. one of their food elements is a healthy substance with the taste of fat.

[1]http://www.wesolveforx.com/#t=t&n=ee7350c5
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yes I love that the art of dada/surrealism has now just bled into everyday reality--more and more, faster and faster! it's like my dream come true :) :)

Even just the complete mainstream-ization of meme culture is doing such a wonderful service of warping the minds of humanity!

may the lulz continue ad infinitum!!!
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I'd rank working remotely for a third world country underneath moving cities to find work. (aka, the last last resort)

Most non-western countries have a habit of under-quoting software development, blowing out schedules and producing poor quality code. It's simply a culture gap because of pressures to preform. Countries where there's no social welfare, government labour oversight or business ethics tend to resort to these tactics just to stay alive. I can't blame them as I'd do the same thing in their shoes. Private contracts are no different to business contracts, so everyone's in the same boat.
I'll simply say that you have no clue what you're talking about and leave it at that. It's pretty preposterous to assume that because it's not in the US media, it doesn't happen.

If you want a declassified historical account, look back at the US IC programs to furnish sabotaged/backdoored electronics during the later years of the Cold War.
I always thought this bill sounded pretty stupid. Is this really the type of thing we need Congress to get involved with?
I can't sustain anything over 40h for more than a month, in fact I think I would be almost as productive if I worked 30h instead of 40h, maybe I'm just not insane enough.
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There's also http://yclist.com
Great list. (Minor note: you may want to consider changing "manquisition" to the gender-neutral "acquihired".)
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"doesn't the act of launching the first stages of a bunch of Saturn rockets going to mostly squash any savings flat?"

Well, you could save on the catering - maybe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
People using the likes of Unity or UDK to create Flash games would not need the Flash tools. Adobe's Flash division simply does not sell tools to create the kind of content that requires 'advanced 3D' features. It therefore makes sense to expand their business model to include their most successful product (the Flash runtime).

I think it's absolutely fine for them to try that, but going for royalties rather than a fixed fee may just blow up in their face.
Yeah, patriarchy does hurt men. Gender policing, compulsory sexuality, enforced emotional shallowness, the breadwinner/nurturer split and its side effects in family law, even the classic apologia for the the glass ceiling uses the fact that women demand work/life balance - implying men can be overworked. But I can't see the MRM having an easy time admitting that while patriarchy does hurt men, it hurts women worse.

If they admitted that, they'd be feminists.
I created SVGo, a Go package for generating SVG. (http://github.com/ajstarks/svgo) I use it for programming visualizations, and other creative coding tasks. For example, I use the goplay command and a browser, to "sketch with code", showing the code and resulting picture in one view -- I make a change, hit a keystroke and immediately see the result. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/6198774781/in/set-7215...)

SVGo paper from SVG Open 2011:
(https://www.svgopen.org/2011/papers/34-SVGo_a_Go_Library_for...)

Samples: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/sets/72157623441699483...)
As much as I like yehuda, he's tackling a non-issue here and I'm at a loss to understand how he even arrived at the project scope as he describes it.

Installing Rails on a Mac is largely trivial. It's literally 5 shell-commands, depending on the current level of breakage of rubygems (but that's a different story). Write a tutorial in your blog if you really feel this is hard for newbies.

The hard part is installing the exact same Rails on multiple Macs and deploying the exact same Rails to production servers that are not Macs. And when I say "Rails" then I mean the entire dependency chain which reaches far beyond Rails and Mysql. The hard part is having controlled service startup/shutdown scripts that work locally and across any number of servers in your production deployment. The hard part is configuration management and safely toggling dev/production/staging modes across all involved services. There's lots of hard parts; bootstrapping a vanilla rails is not one of them.

In fact: Naive bootstrapping can be harmful, just like the still virulent code-generator brain-rot in rails itself.

I make a living managing these things and have evolved multiple approaches ranging from chef/puppet, over canonical git-repositories that work cross-platform, to VMs. There is no one-size-fits-all once your stack outgrows Rails+MySQL, and it always outgrows that.

If you wanted to solve the real problems surrounding all this then a single-platform bootstrapper is nowhere near cutting anything.

For that you'd have to start writing a better chef/puppet, which are indeed more than ripe to be superseded. But this is far beyond the scope of a kickstarter project and I hope Yehuda will rather keep his focus on Ember...
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I said programming & distribution on the PS/3 are harder than Flash.
My favorite wind potential graph, NPR's "Visualizing the U.S. Electric Grid"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109973...

Makes offshore look pretty good.
It is illegal to publicly declare that you're looking for funding. You should take that down.
Cars are definitely great because they're easy to mass produce, and require far less maintenance than a horse. We're able to drive down cost on maintenance and production with replaceable parts---something that's a lot harder to achieve in a living organism.

That's what makes cars an ubiquity today.

Of-course I'm getting off topic....

Think about it though---a car with the intelligence of a horse but far more tame. Beautiful product.
So... I want this for all of the world, extrapolated over the oceans.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

It gratified my intellectual curiosity.
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If reading that section helped, I would not have needed to ask for clarification.

As near as I can tell, you are trying to say one of two things: either that the tasks laid out in the article are hard, which is true, or that founders typically think that they are doing those things, but are really not.
> We're charging a cover at the door now?

It's like charging a cover at the door to help write the songs for the band you want to hear.
I think you are missing the reason for the project.

In the php world, MAMP on osx is one of the reasons so many newbie jump into php. a simple app, abstracting away apache, php and mysql. you simply create a new vhost and click start.

This is the target audience - not the people who know how to clone a git repo and run a script in terminal.

He is trying to make it easy for new users and programmers. I know high school teachers that would use this to teach ruby web programming without all the error prone manual configuration.
Pretty sure this means the spammers "contacted" you. I had the same thing.
88% Ron Paul.

Some of the choices could be worded better. There are also some tough issues that might not be easy A/B/C/D answers (example: immigration)
What this is is Yehuda Katz, who has built a reputation with contributions to open source products over many years, realizing that his market value is better than "kudos" on some website.

The alternative to stuff like this is Yehuda Katz writing code for some startup that you will never see. Here's Katz finding a way to make a business out of writing open source...

... and this is a bad thing? What's wrong with you?
The article claim that an MMU and minimum bit width of 32-bit is required for Linux. Wasn't µCLinux rolled back into the official kernel, meaning that with the right configuration the Linux kernel will run on CPUs without an MMU and with bit widths less than 32-bit? Eg. the H8 [1].

Perhaps the author meant to write "Ubuntu", rather than "Linux"?

[1] http://kernel.org/doc/readme/arch-h8300-README
re the bonding activities: i've decided they should a) be fun and b) be instead of work. otherwise it's just forced.
This would be even cooler if you could display wind speeds at different elevations above the ground. I am guessing that at a certain elevation you have higher winds that kites might be able to capture energy from.
Indeed the comment is better than the post.
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I agree. The biggest reason why employees (or hell, founders too) quit is because they don't feel appreciated.

If I'm working 60-70 hours a week and have a never-ending stream of people inside the company griping at me about why I wasn't able to get non-essential-to-my-role task X,Y, or Z done for them (this is what being in a big company feels like) - that really starts to mount even for employees who know that they're appreciated by their immediate peers and leadership.

Being appreciated by your managing team or your peers isn't enough - YOU need to feel like you're doing a good job. Even someone with a stalwart self-sureness will crumble if they feel like they're constantly failing to deliver what the business needs.
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As another recovering ex-academic, I would often tell my friends that academic science (biology in my case) keeps 90% of people around because of guilt and a misplaced sense of honor/duty.
No, the amount is a donation. Are you saying that people who donate to apache foundation dont have influence? you are living under a rock if your think that in open source money plays no part.

Sure you can fork an open source project and request a pull, but if the core team disagrees with it then its all the same as the above.

Kickstarter is simply a marketing technique to raise the funds from an eventual corporate sponsor I bet.
Do you have any single evidence that it's exactly from China, not just by some Chinese IP address or Chinese texts?
So for example you'd be less likely to get a raise or promotion than a person who puts in more hours than the required.

If person A does more work than person B who should be promoted and paid more? Some people get more work done than other people because they are smarter. Others get more work done because they simply put in more hours. Is there really much difference between the two?
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Behavioral tricks are used to make users confuse what they "want and need" with what "satisfies" them. In extreme cases, users will descend that downward spiral into abuse and addiction, damaging themselves without even realizing what's happening (the boiling frog analogy).
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Soundtracking is slick and the focus on speed is always welcome. All this. 3 guys. Impressive.
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This is very true. It definitely helps to think at multiple layers of abstraction when writing Pig code so that you can optimize it carefully. Ultimately though, I have been rather unsatisfied with the limits to which I can push Pig. There are performance gains to be had by writing raw java code (I understand the irony of referencing java as if it was c) and there are some optimizations which you can do in Java which are relatively harder to in Pig. I am pretty excited about Scoobi though. If it does allow me to write in a more concise language without sacrificing speed or power of the underlying Hadoop API, that would be awesome.
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> in Python's console, if you hit "q" or escape or ctrl-C or something, you get an error message like the 'source :rubygems' error message, which says "hit ctrl-D to escape."

Ah, I think I know what you're talking about. I wasn't using Python back then, and I know exit() was added after that (the only way to leave the console before that was to Ctrl-D), but when you type "exit" in the console, Python responds:

Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit

This bugs countless Python devs, myself included. It wouldn't be so bad if the console had no idea what "exit" was and responded with a NameError, but the fact that it realizes what you were trying to do but tells you to do something else inconsequentially different is a minor annoyance.
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We've been seeing the same behavior for mp4 with various codecs pretty much all day. Perhaps a new all-time record in YC application submissions? YouTube lets you do private uploads also, by the way.
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