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Very entertaining and interesting concept.

BUT.. are people really so pessimistic about technology and the future that the main thing that comes to mind when they think of digital immortality is.. this?

Your virtual body can be anything you want. You can't die as long as your digital code is backed up somewhere.

If you can't see the bright side of that stuff, there is some kind of psychological issue.
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Since when does "administrative support" care about those things? :)
Thanks, I'm not the Atomontage guy though; his name is Branislav Síleš (although I am a supporter of his project :) ). I built an engine called Genesis in 2004-2006, and since then many unpublished projects (latest at gavanw.com).

$50k is actually a good amount for an independent project...if the team could demonstrate that they can make sufficient progress with that type of funding, it could open the doors to more. Although, since Kickstarter takes 5 percent it wants as much funding to come in as possible.
Of course they would never gather a decent library of rarer, older or foreign content. Just torrent that, nobody cares.
> (ie. literally every street and corner in the city is covered by a camera)

Many street corners have CCTV cameras. The vast majority of them are run by businesses rather than the government and are decentralised, as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread. It is possible for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to obtain footage from the CCTV stations with warrants if they physically go to the businesses and ask for it. You are perpetuating a half-truth.

(Context: I am from London. I do not give a shit about CCTV cameras OR the Olympics.)
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Very unfortunate turn of events for Mr. Thompson. I hope for the sake of his health that the media will not hound him too much. No one deserves to get cancer.
That number is (more than) a bit misleading. I don't know where OECD pulls those numbers but it certainly doesn't feel as if Greeks work more than the average european. Shops dont work on sundays, public services are open for only a few hours a day, banks close at 2 etc. Underproductivity is a major issue, most of the work of public services is unnecessary red tape that could be easily automated if the government was willing.

Work hours is not our major problem, it's work ethics that are lacking. Hard work is not compensated, it is in fact frowned upon in the public sector, and this situation has even infiltrated much of the private sector. Absurd regulation and governmental dependencies has stifled competition in all but a few sectors (where it works it works reasonably well, such as telecommunications or banking). Couple that with a hostile investing environment and you have the perfect recipe for disaster.

That said, Greeks in general are industrious and entrepreneurial, but we tend to channel our inventiveness on finding ways to avoid paying taxes. Personally i believed from the start that Greece should have exited the euro in order to revitalize its dormant economy.
you seem to miss:

- digitized people can create value and earn money (programming, ...)

- digitized people can purchase goods (music, ...)
Whilst that was an original estimate several years before the bid formally took place, Parliament agreed to a budget of £5.3B for the games, an extra £2.7B contingency, "security and policing costs of £600 million, VAT of £800 million and elite sport and Paralympic funding of nearly £400 million" [0]. £2B for actually staging the games is covered by sponsorship etc.

As the agreed cost before the bid was finalised, this is really rather close to the $18B figure the cited Parliamentary report comes up with.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics#Financing
Being from the very far north of the UK mainland the changes in time were always welcome. We still went to school when it was cold and rainy but at least it wasn't dark (though it was on the return trip). In the summer being able to play outside until 10.30pm was awesome.

I wonder what the psychological differences would be if daylight saving was abandoned and whether there might be a real economic impact. I spent quite a bit of time up in the Pacific NW of the USA and a sunny day in February lifted everybodies spirits. I hesitate to say that the work that got done was better but certainly the mood at work was a lot more congenial.
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Compared to hand-writing machine code, it might even be a reasonable thing to say. The majority of effort is eliminated.
The Openmoko phones are AFAIK the only mobile phones with open source hardware. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
Time spent in work is not time spent working. All my greek buddies have a easy gong day. They are in work a number of hours, but how productive those hours are who knows.
This is a very old problem. It predates the web.

My personal favourite has always been "Why would you want to do that?"

Sometimes this is a fair question. (But c'mon, if someone buys a computer, then they are to entitled to use it any way they want to.)

Most of the time the person "answering" does not know the answer. So they make a silly comment. It's never polite. They rarely admit they do not have an answer.

The positive aspect of StackOverflow is you always get a reponse. They will almost always respond. The negative aspect is the response is often worthless comments, or claims that the question is not allowed/in the wrong forum/etc.

Remember StackOverlfow are Windows programmers. They are a frustrated bunch. They are tense. They are easily perturbed.

Now, as for this guy's question, what I'd like to know is why he wants a "modern browser"? In other words, specifically what does he need the modern features for? Because there may be workarounds, using simple techniques, for whatever he needs the browser to do.
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He probably moved to guantanamo bay. There are no cameras there. ;)
It was (and mostly still is) so easy to avoid taxes in Greece that it's fair to say the burden is on the government more than the people. I believe it's difficult to make people tax-conscious when they see that it's so easy for everyone around them to steal. The tax authorities here are corrupt, underqualified, and have a very low rate of tax collection. It's so bad that it had better be replaced altogether.
Number plate cloning is a problem, but many of the people who do it aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.

You would have to clone a number plate from an almost identical car (same make, model, colour, etc.) in order not to raise any suspicions.

In many areas of the country there are police forces with ANPR on their patrol cars, and you can bet they'll pull over a car over a mismatch. Most probably quite aggressively, on the presumption that other criminality is involved (e.g. the car is stolen, has been used in bilking of petrol, etc.)
A minor niggle...

I naturally went to click the Flip button looking thing, and nothing happens. I only tried a swipe as it were after reading comments here. I would say, for a non touch screen user, its not intuitive. Works nice once I realised how to use it, but if I had just landed on a site with this setup, I might have clicked a few times, failed and moved on to another site.

Perhaps all thats needed is for |Flip to say Drag, with perhaps an arrow.
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> Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

My main piece of feedback is that explicitly comparing your product to a database engine that people love to hate is probably not a great way to market it. Lots of us have horrible memories of badly-corrupted Berkeley DB databases.
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Exactly. There are things that FORTRAN did right and that deserve to be studied even now:

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Just a day ago I've mentioned that the printf equivalent that existed in FORTRAN as early as 1956 was able to do the type checking of the parameters and the compile-time code generation, versus the run-time interpretation as in C's printf.

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I think you just have a script for a tv show or even a movie. Right there.
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Well, for sake of argument, if it all went on buying Porsches and Mercedes then it's pretty easy to tell where the money went....
How would one go about wrapping this up to make it an Android and iOS "App"? Would something like this offer a low barrier of entry for magazine sites looking to create companion apps for their content?
Half a century later the change isn't from assembly to an actually useful level of abstraction. The bullshit-o-meter is damped further when half the document shows code examples that would be much more difficult in assembly.
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Are you sure? Because I find shops open from early morning till late night: from general goods to restaurants and so on.
Fun thing that this article doesn't mention: in Germany it is very, very common to work extra hours that are not paid and not in the books. This is particularly true for high profile jobs.
Selling shovels to the miners. This is basically TechCrunch's business model, disguised as journalism.
We British are such scum we cant be trusted with freedom. And then we have....... immigrants. OMG, they are taking over, we are over run...

Yeah, I do like to poke at the US, but the UK is equally fecked up. I think the one real thing we in the UK and US have in common is the notion that we the people are now seen as the enemy of the state.

Trouble is, Im yet to find a suitable country, with the same good stuff the UK has, which is not also equally fecked up. I can imagine Americans like me might think the same thing.

Frankly, I do not know of a country where one can live good and not feel like the enemy of that country.

What I want to know is when will the people, yes us privileged westerners, stand up and say we have had enough. Maybe in Greece and France it has already begun.
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many people already are, though the bugs are lexical in nature
Implementing old inefficient technological metaphors using new technology is a MAJOR fail.

It's pretty, but utterly useless.
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yeah because we aggregate data from many different sources like Rightmove, gumtree, oodle, foxton, zoopla, etc, it reasonably has more properties.
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In fact your main problem would not be the copyright protection, rather than that you will have hard time finding subtitles or translation for it.
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The number of Greek electricians driving Porsche is not very high. Also the German exports to Greece are also not that big (from both sides).

In reality Greece imports from all over the place. It also imports a lot of energy sources. It has a huge military with costly imports (parts from that also from Germany). Also the money does not come especially from Germany. If you look at the banks, they are from France, Italy, Germany, US, etc.

Avoiding paying tax is a sport - especially for some of the very rich families in Greece.

There are several other reasons.

There are a lot of people in Greece who work hard and a lot of people who don't work that hard. There is a huge and relatively unproductive government sector for example.

How many hours people work is really not that important. In Germany people may work fewer hours, but the work is much more focused. After the necessary working hours many workers actually go home. In many other countries workers spend more time at to workplace without being productive. Also there are large parts of the industry which have lots of robots. For example in car manufacturing you find 10000+ robots working. You would find that level of automation only in a few places on this planet. Not so much in Greece.
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Yeah, there may actually be an inverse correlation between the length of work and productivity. It seems that way according to the chart at least.
I live in Romania and the picture ain't at all similar.

Surely you can spot luxury cars on our streets. But in general I haven't seen those cars purchased by people that can't afford it. Also, many luxury cars that you see have been purchased from second-hand dealers from other countries for cheap. And let me assure you that most luxury cars you see in Romania (and you can spot many of them) are bought by people that can afford to pay cash ;-)

I do worry about loans for purchasing homes.

In our country it is much better to own your apartment than to rent it, especially in the big cities, where rents are equal to how much you'd pay for the monthly loan payments. Landlords also make it difficult to rent an apartment for a long time. But young people these days do not make enough money to ever have a chance of purchasing their own property, without getting loans from banks. And as long as the system does not collapse, it is better for them.

This is not the same thing as buying luxury cars. And if this system collapses, only the banks should take the blame for passing loans to people that can't pay their debt on the long term.
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Right,

It went to Germany. But you can't hold them responsible for this mess. Germany is a export based country, they are also more productive than the Greeks. They have managed their money well.

The only thing is that the Euro facilitated such things more easily.

But Germany can't be blamed for it. Imagine you go to a supermarket and buy like crazy. You know you don't have a way of paying it back, but you keep buying. Soon you run out of your credit limit of buying more. Soon you are in a situation where you owe the bank a lot of money and have no money of retuning it back.

Who is to be blamed, can you blame the supermarket for selling stuff? Or the bank for lending you money? Or you for not knowing when to stop?
What about everything else? Are gas stations open on sundays? Pharmacies in the afternoon? Are government offices open after 13:00?
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Seriously. You'd think no one has to learn to use equipment that costs several tens of thousands of dollars and whose sale is rigorously controlled by the US government.

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Having taught at a university for many years, I came to realise that I can predict students' final results really well just by setting them a simple exercise in the very first lecture, before they learned anything. In other words, the results are dependent entirely on their ability. The employers should be able to set similar tests themselves.

Furthermore, it might make more sense to both employers and employees to hire bright 16-18 year olds and give them an in-house apprenticeship. Even if they are paid initially less than graduates (do the accounting on that, versus servicing huge loans after four years of no earnings).

What I am trying to say is that a typical recruitment target, a bright graduate, was just as smart at 18 and you could have got him first, cheaper and happier, then. After those four years with you, if you are any good at inspiring and advising, he should also be a lot more use to you than straight out of college.
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> hey'd influence someone to do it for them so

Because now there are hundreds of people to check. We don't known exactly who did what.

With GitLow there will be one direct person responsible.

SCM helps a lot with source code. Imagine 400 people software project without SCM.
If you live up north, adjust the local schedule instead of the clocks. If kids are waiting in the dark, move the start time to later in the day. If it is light out at midnight shift your schedule so you go to sleep after 12:00am. If you are living your life based on the position of the sun, the numbers on the clock are going to mean something a little bit different everyday anyway.

Time is supposed to have a relatively consistent meaning, and we jump through a lot of hoops to give it an inconsistent meaning. Schedules are much more fluid and easy to change with little external side-effects.

People will need to learn to partially decouple their routine from the numbers on the clock, but that seems like a much simpler/cheaper problem to solve than our current time mess.
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It's definitely not a third world country. Despite the crisis, greeks still have good free healthcare and education and crime is still low. Don't know for how long though.

The thing with the Porsches is a hyperbole, but it's also true that Greeks have become avid spenders in the past decade. There is this Nielsen report that showed that in 2008 Greece was number 1(!) in (designer) brand awareness worldwide: http://pl.nielsen.com/site/documents/ConsumersandDesignerBra... . Not a healthy sign for a country that produces almost none of those expensive products.

Most of this money went to vitalize local markets that had no future, such as construction (building very expensive houses in a country that already has one of the highest home-ownership rates in europe), food/entertainment and retail. Very little was spent on investing, mainly because tight regulations make it hard to take business risks.
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> You have children

Doesn't seem like a good idea if you claim that overpopulation is an issue
If you still want to use xargs and ls perhaps avoiding \0's (perhaps so you can easily grep on the data) you can use "ls -Q | xargs rm". The advantage of that is you can still easily use grep on the data as it is still newline delimited but you won't have problems with spaces.

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This is not a very relevant statistic. Note for instance the semi-slave factory workers of Asia who on average would work much harder and longer hours than either of these two groups, but end up with much less money and a worse lifestyle. Now why is that? (and how can I fit it within my pre-existing ideological bias?)
What do you mean by that, exactly? Just out of curiosity.
Let's build a prototype. Kickstarter? I'm not from US but I'll donate. This is so important for all democratic countries.

Then I'll vote for _any party_ which will deploy the git law system.
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That highly depends on what line of business we are talking about. In some "new" jobs like Design or even Programming it may be true. But the meat of the German Economy - the part that is highly influenced by unions - is far away from that. I would assume that, writing this on Hacker News, you are probably in the former line of work and don't see that it's very different for average folks.
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The analogy to the mortgage market is wishful thinking. Remember the massive fraud that led to the easy lending that led to the money drying up when the fraud was discovered? There is no similar pattern of activity in traditional education.

Higher education disruption is unlikely. It is difficult for an uneducated person to accurately assess the value offered by a school.
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Not very (I maintain a nice iPhone app that front-ends the data on legislation.gov.uk): the data on legislation.gov.uk is useful for Joe Public, but when it comes to the actual practice of the law is woefully incomplete. This is purely down to a lack of interest and funding on the Government's part, as well as vested interests by people who publish law and charge for it.

There is no free source of up-to-date UK law: many of the statute on legislation.gov.uk is not guaranteed to be up to date, and if you're looking to practice this is obviously no good at all. This is in itself very sad. The people who run legislation.gov.uk do a fantastic job, and hopefully access will get much better in the future.