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The problem with this argument is that job creation most definitely should not be the goal of any policy.

To illustrate how silly it is to make job creation the goal, let me share with you a very simple policy that would eliminate unemployment: Outlaw grain combines.

Without grain combines, hundreds of thousands of workers would be needed to pick things like wheat, corn, etc.

If you look at economic issues with the idea that employment is a goal, then you are bound to arrive at policies that move in the direction of this absurd idea.

Job creation != economic growth.
This is the entitlement I was talking about. This isn't for you to say. If you don't like their music, don't buy it (or download it). If the artist wants to give it out for free, they can.

First: nice non-sequitur. Nowhere in my phrase does it say otherwise.

But no, I don't agree. The music isn't theirs alone, it belongs to everyone who bought a copy. They -we, since I'm a software developer, which is in a similar situation- shouldn't have any right to maintain that level of control over someone else's copy, no more than Toyota should be able to prevent me from reselling my (hypothetical) car.

The same people that hate the record industry because they think it's somehow propping up a dying business model..love the unions..when they are doing the exact same thing.

Well, I can't talk about this, because I have no idea how your unions are. Ours are certainly unable to prevent the business from dying.

We could have automated many of the assembly line jobs in the US auto industry (like Japan), but the Unions are preventing it and forcing companies to pay ridiculous wages (which is why they pretty much went bankrupt). If you want me to feel sorry for the jobs lost, I don't.

Again, I can't comment on that. But I find it bizarre how you shove an anti-union rant on a discussion about music sales.

Nobody feels sorry for the jobs lost when software, music, and or movies are pirated.

Yes, software is certainly lacking for jobs.

And movies, man, I can tell you that the industry must really be hurting, that with their five years of consecutive record profits.
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Pff there is that passive income crap again. Passive income is not passive income. You have to work hard to GET to 'passive' income and when you have it, you have to grow it to make it realistic to live on. Earn so much that you can pay taxes, healthcare, mortgage, kids, pension and future (you know, when your very passive income suddenly ends). So during your first passive income you'll be working your ass off to add more streams. And, unless you hit it big with at least one of your streams, it is very likely you'll be in this loop the rest of your life; hence actually working hard. And usually harder than an actual job with more risk.
Have you tried targeted ads on reddit? Maybe for something like /r/snackexchange? I just spent $30 on a test ad, if you're interested I can share the traffic stats with you.
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I agree that forcing would be wrong and counterproductive. I'll merely encourage and support if it is something my son would like.

My wife is a doctor who often gets mistaken for a high-schooler. Has your friend tried different marketing and service packages as a way to obtain and retain patients? Medicine is a business like any other.
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Two things from someone with 12 years in professional web design: Switch to Adobe Fireworks now before you get too used to Photoshop. And ignore all of the engineering advice here about jumping straight to CSS/HTML.

Good web design begins much earlier than Photoshop/Fireworks, and doesn't even move to the graphics/proof stage until you've made dozens of decisions beforehand that will influence your design (think business goals, marketing messaging, platform, audience etc.) HTML/CSS is almost one of the last steps in a complete web project.
He pointed out how falling taxes on the rich correlated with a decline of the middle class. But that could just be coincidence.

I could point out that the largest expansion of the US middle class on record happened during the 1950s when the top personal income tax rate was over 90%. But that could just be coincidence as well.

I can point out that economic theory says that the economic impact of giving a person a dollar is directly connected to their likelihood of spending it. Since the rich are less likely to spend than the middle class and the poor, taxing them hurts the economy less than taxing anyone else. But once you descend into economic theory, everyone has a theory and an argument and you get a morass that normal people can't make heads or tails of.

I could point out that the Republican ideology that less taxes on the rich is always good has exactly no evidence supporting it. That's a very thin amount of evidence for the huge social experiment that we're currently running in this country. But once you descend into politics everyone already has their minds made up, so that's a lost cause.

All of which begs the real question; if the proposition is true, what evidence would suffice to actually convince people of it who are not already convinced?
Sass has an implementation of "watch mode": sass --watch + livereload (either the guard-livereload gem or the app). This allows you to save you file and have the browser immediately refresh. If you use middleman to build out your templates this functionality is built in with "middleman server --livereload"
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> I don't think it's an acceptable option to retroactively say that some of the Soc. Sec. taxes won't be paid back to Soc. Sec.,

I didn't suggest that. I'm just pointing out that the "drag" has already started.

> and just kept for the general fund. If that happened, then it's basically been a regressive income tax all along

It's not a regressive tax because of the payout is capped too.

In fact, it's actually a progressive tax because of the way that payout works. The ROI for folks who pay the minimum is pretty good. The ROI for folks who hit the cap is horrible.

That said, some subgroups do worse/better than others. The worst is probably black men. They don't live long enough to get the payouts. I think that white women are the big winners.

> If that is likely to happen, then at least the regressiveness should be fixed ASAP by removing the $110k cap, because the only justification for the cap is that the money is earmarked for Social Security.

Actually, the designers of SS put in the cap because they thought that it was the best way to protect SS from political fights.

Are you planning to remove the benefits cap as well? If not, it's just another tax and rich people are going to care. SS's designers wanted rich people to ignore SS.

If you do remove the benefits cap, then you get to explain why Ross Perot gets $400k/year in benefits.

I think that SS's designers got that part correct. The payout formula needs some tweaking.
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If less taxes for rich should create more jobs, then, why is there more unemployment than ever, while we have lesser tax for rich than ever?

I can't understand what is wrong with this question? Its based of real world data, right?
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Instead of redirecting users to PayPal and requiring them to have PayPal accounts with credit cards linked to them, I can directly ask for their credit card information. This is how it should look after the Recurly integration is complete: http://imgur.com/SHC0a

I am now paying PayPal $339 / month.

Recurly charges 1.25% + $0.10 / transaction + $69 / month. WireCard charges 2.75% + $0.19 / transaction + $24 / month. My total cost from these would then be about $473 / month. If I can get ~20 new customers because of this more convenient payment method, then it was worthwhile.

I'm also expecting some increased life happiness from having to deal less with PayPal (the interface is sloooow).
... That's just from Shopify stores though. Most things people buy (and Pin) aren't sold on Shopify stores. All that data is good for is showing that it's increasing rapidly.
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The reason it went number one is because it was a new album from Radiohead. Also people wouldn't have given it a real shot after the official release date?
> I used to live in an Alaskan Native tribal village, and my friends there would be some of the first ones to tell you that some Indians are wild while some are not. (Note, in my comment, I am not saying all Indians are wild, I am only specifically referencing the wild ones.) And, by wild, I mean those who stereotypically disregard personal and communal property rights and engage in harmful activities like thievery and poaching for the fun of it.

So, you're not racist, because of course you weren't talking about all Native Americans. But if not all 'feather indians' are wild, and not all of those that are wild are 'feather indians' then what was the point of comparing certain kids to them? The only purpose I see is in reinforcing a stereotype that does not apply.
Yes. Training (skills) is not the same as fundamental [low level] understanding of the "Science" of computers and computing. Let's be honest though, most of the programmer openings don't require a Computer Science[ist] education. The programmers may need a Lead Developer with such knowledge and understanding who is capable of mentoring and transferring that knowledge of low level details when necessary to explain why we do something a particular way. Many employer's are requiring a degree that really truly is unnecessary and resulting in paying higher salaries. There are many many high school grads who didn't go on to college that could be taught programming, they may just need a little oversight and mentor in the real [business] world.
Agreed. If they show me something awesome, that might give me a reason to send out a tweet. As it stands, I just closed the window.
Amusing dialogue but the phrase "passive income" always strikes me as disingenuous.
I know a few people who technically have "passive income" in the way that this article suggests, but in reality they work harder than most other people that I know.

If you really have got yourself into a situation where you could literally take as much time as you wanted off without worrying about your income level because all your work has been delegated then congratulations; you're a parasite.
I don't think the point is to offer this literally as a likely outcome.

If I interpret the parent correctly, the point is more to argue that there has to exist some level of inequality which even the most hardened libertarian would agree is sufficiently bad for the economy to justify an intervention. Hence reducing it to a question of degrees, a trade-off rather than a pure matter of principle.
I'm interested in this as well. I love C# (.NET is fine, but could be better) but don't see a lot of demand for it outside of the MS stack.
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I'd highly recommend any Scalzi book. The Old Man's War trilogy is great, but if you're after something more light-hearted then The Android's Dream or Agent to the Stars are also great.
Having come from that environment, and having been a regular here for some time, I can guess that you have probably made the right decision, and that very few here will probably agree.

Also, for what it's worth, I was able to deploy full "Java" applications to the federal government that were completely Jython, and they've worked fairly well. The only concern I ever had was the one of how the customer might maintain such a codebase after our contract ended, but thankfully, that isn't a significant concern as a federal IT consultant, and super-tight deadlines often precluded Java as a viable language, only to see Java as a requirement later in the same RFP - This is where Jython (and its ilk) shine beautifully.

Edit: and just so it's said, I agree with your assessment on .Net. People are happy to pay for it, as well as the Microsoft tax, but I almost never saw it as the best option in a heterogeneous environment. It is also appreciably rare to run into an entirely Microsoft infrastructure.
As a VIM User, I feel right at home :)
Thanks for the notice, it's fixed now.. :)
If Fred's boss comes and offers him a raise, you would tell Fred not to take it? No, of course you wouldn't. If Fred were working up the nerve to ask for a raise or apply for a better paying (or second) job, you would shut him down? No, of course you wouldn't, because any of those would help him in his efforts to re-balance his books. And I assume you would know that due to you not being an idiot. Well, I guess I also need to assume you have Fred's best interests at heart too.

So your analogy doesn't just do work for your position; it clearly cuts both ways.
> That seems like a problem for the regular budget to sort out

I agree. My point is that the problem exists now.

> I don't think it's an acceptable option to retroactively say that some of the Soc. Sec. taxes won't be paid back to Soc. Sec.,

I didn't suggest default. I'm just pointing out that the "drag" has already started.

> and just kept for the general fund. If that happened, then it's basically been a regressive income tax all along

It's not a regressive tax because of the payout is capped too.

In fact, it's actually a progressive tax because of the way that payout works. The ROI for folks who pay the minimum is pretty good. The ROI for folks who hit the cap is horrible.

That said, some subgroups do worse/better than others. The worst is probably black men. They don't live long enough to get the payouts. I think that white women are the big winners.

> If that is likely to happen, then at least the regressiveness should be fixed ASAP by removing the $110k cap, because the only justification for the cap is that the money is earmarked for Social Security.

Actually, the designers of SS put in the cap because they thought that it was the best way to protect SS from political fights.

Are you planning to remove the benefits cap as well? If not, it's just another tax and rich people are going to care. SS's designers wanted rich people to ignore SS.

If you do remove the benefits cap, then you get to explain why Ross Perot gets $400k/year in benefits.

I think that SS's designers got that part correct. The payout formula needs some tweaking.
but they were probably more diligent in the writing they did do. now writing is trash.

writing is another form of informal speech.

What others haven't said is that, writing is both the formulation of logical thoughts and the communication of those thoughts so they can be understood by another person. Writing and logic go hand and wrench.
This requires knowing others' intentions. And that means you have to ask & trust what they say & not make assumptions about what their intentions are.
I would love to see your process for building this. I'm about to start a commute again after working from home for a while, and that damn garage door is one of my weak points :)
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From Chris Anderson's justification for not publishing it:

> But even if the talk was rated a home run, we couldn't release it, because it would be unquestionably regarded as out and out political. We're in the middle of an election year in the US. Your argument comes down firmly on the side of one party.

So now it's unfairly partisan to point out that the evidence supports one party's position but not the other's? Really?

What on earth is the point of taking an evidence-based approach to public policy issues, if not to draw conclusions about which public policies we should support?
I think the analogy was being made between employees of your company, and the teachers at a school, not between employees and students.
they just raised a round on 1.5B valuation. Just exactly how much money you think Amazon or Google would be willing to spend on this deal? I would assume that if they just raised that round, the would not talk about anything less than 10X.
I don't think neither Amazon nor Google would pay 15B for a company, regardless how much traffic they are getting. For that amount, and knowing Google, they would rather build their own product.
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The navigation was obviously written by someone who prefers vim.
Yep - kudos to Adobe for doing this; we discovered this while working on CSS Hat.
We are in Photoshop, and from CS4 up, though :)
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For reference, according tot his article, he may end up paying WAY more than the 67 million.
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It is axiomatic. Maybe I could prove it directly, but as an axiom, it is more productive than "some people are smart, some people are stupid".

For example, when you look at children, or look at history, or look at other cultures, you see patterns that make more sense when you start with this axiom. It's not perfect, but if you have a concept of "smart", it is better to assume all people are smart, to take it off the table entirely, than to assume some are smart and some are stupid. The latter will shortcut your reasoning: "Oh well they must just be stupid."
Yes, people need to realize passive income doesn't mean boatloads of income, or a better rate of dollars to hours put in. It just means, income isn't tied directly to trading time for money. So you can make income while sleeping or not actively "working" trading time directly for money.

You're absolutely correct, most people that have some passive income have invested lots of time into their endeavors and the ratio of time/$$$ is a large number (IOW, if they broke down their hourly wage it's really crappy, sometimes and often less than minimum wage). Few achieve the opposite and the end goals relies on a long tail return.

Passive income might be $2.54 per month revenue due to affiliate links (i.e. Amazon)... which might not redeemable until you accumulate a minimum dollar amount to withdraw the money...
> Whether you want to say someone is acting stupid all the time, or someone is being stupid is just semantics.

Actually I think there is a crucial distinction here that is not just semantics. When you say someone is stupid, it implies that this is an in-born and unchangeable condition. When someone is acting stupid, you can look at the information they have, the way society frames certain issues, and many other mutable factors which we can work on to solve the problem.
Some people are talking about how the point of this essay was to convince those who don't understand "the desirability of passive income." But is there really anybody in the whole world who doesn't understand the desirability of setting things up so you can get money while you are doing nothing? It's not that people think that's not desirable; it's that they think that's not possible. And that is almost always true, from widget factories to startups. Anybody who says otherwise is trying to sell you something by deceiving you.
And how are you going to handle SSL encryption for your checkout/cc page? Going to use a separate hosting service for that part?

I see that you're running on App Engine, hence the question...
Thanks. I appreciate the fairness.

I agree that I could have merely said something like, "...wild and slovenly behavior, such as x,y,and z...." At the time, I was trying to create a vivid verbal picture that conveyed additional concepts such as the Barbarian's penchant for tattoos and piercings. Maybe next time I should just spell it all out instead of refactoring it for the sake of brevity.
well that was a misleading title.
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I think for clarity it's useful to differentiate two forms: (i) the "cool", hacker mode of knitting and the (ii) the grandma mode. Knitting and sewing have become popular in hacker circles (e.g. http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/03/22/the-cool-new-thing-w...). The main differences between the two, I think, are that in (i) the practitioners formalize and think about the system for improvement whereas in (ii) knowledge is learned by informal apprenticeship (my grandmother did great needlework and knitter, never saw her read any patterns like the ones given in the OP) innovations are rare, maybe 2-3 new patters per decade.

Similar differentiation apply to cooking and other disciplines which require discrete, well-defined steps to arrive at a precise result, the number of dishes in any given cousine are tiny compared to the menus of recent innovative chefs.

This I think is a great analogy for programming, there are programmers who learn their trade from copying code, reading guides, etc. and these guys can churn out useful code. However, unless you think about what you are doing, formalize it, reify it, and search for ways to improve it you won't invent anything new.
No, sorry. That's why I was asking.
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If you want to access the blocked sites, the surest way is to get a free mini instance with amazon(or use an existing one), and use ssh dynamic port forwarding for you browsing.

ssh -D 8080 -i your_amazon_key.pem username@ec2-instance
# Followed by changing your browser/system settings to use localhost:8080 as socks v5 proxy

If you are concerned about some ass-hats censoring the web because of some upcoming movie I don't give two fucks about, or Airtel/Reliance bending over backwards to enforce the ban, I don't know what to do.

"Some movie is coming out, we are afraid we will lose revenue if people pirate it. I know what to do. Let's get a court order asking ISPs to ban sites which are infringing upon the movie(the good old ISP, takes the safer route and blocks whole sites since it doesn't know or doesn't want to stop just the movie). Hey look, people are still able to get through to the movie. Let's get another court order asking the ISPs to stop service altogether for 6 months."

"Rape cases on a rise and most rapes happen at night. Let's stop people from going out at night. Still not working. Let's stop people from going out altogether."

I can understand the concerns about loss of revenue over piracy, but these dystopian measures aren't worth whatever hypothetical losses you might be suffering.