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I recommend reading http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/... for a clear explanation of why this actually makes peak oil worse.
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If we take that Silicon Valley is the undisputed Mecca of technology, then your argument falls through. Like you said, Silicon Valley is also expensive, and yet they still manage to attract more and more people every year. New York, another city who is one of the most expensive in the US, is managing to pass Boston as the tech center of the East Cost.

We need to take a look at things where Boston is substantially different from the Valley. We can't change the weather and make Boston sunny year round, but we can provide an atmosphere that is more friendly to recent-grads.
Sadly Gimp is no alternative for people who want to buy Photoshop and Creative Cloud.

While I agree that most private users and to some point professionals can also accomplish the same results in Gimp as in Photoshop stuff like Bridge, the Creative Cloud and all those tools around the core applications makes the suites so valuable for designers that just do not want to roll their own sync / management / foo solution with even more software.
Nightlife/bars in Boston are absolutely not the issue here. Compared to Boston, everything in San Francisco closes much earlier and public transport is inferior to boot. Yet people still flock there.
I'm sure I have the text lying around somewhere. I can't remember the title and author, but in any case the text was just a compilation of relevant excerpts from primary sources to be used as reference. It didn't provide any analysis. All the analysis was provided by the professor, Karen Parshall, whose courses I can enthusiastically recommend for anyone at U.Va. interested in the history of math or science (bonus: they satisfy your 2nd writing requirement). Her website is here: http://www.math.virginia.edu/~khp3k/

I credit her for pointing out the fact that I note in my original comment, that an equation can be equivalent to a large tract of text. She made the point in the context of why more "advanced" mathematics couldn't have developed before symbolic notation had matured sufficiently to support it. Here, I'm generalizing her point to explain why reading a mathematical text dense in equations might take longer than the page count alone might suggest.
It's a bit silly that this piece is dated June 4, 2012.
I read somewhere that when Gibson wrote Neuromancer he had never owned a computer and so still had some lofty ideals of what they were capable of. When he finally got a Macintosh, the mechanical spinning and whirring of the floppy during boot disappointed him.
I think The New Yorker is a weekly magazine, so its advance dated.
HP announced 27k last week. Ericsson proposing 1.7k. Unsurprising those no longer at the top have to reduce their workforce. RIM has dropped the ball recently (two significant public blunders) and their tablet offering is terrible. Firms are considering using iPhone's instead of the popular Blackberry. Times are changing.
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Same reason puppies and natural disasters are in the news.

It sells papers and ads - it's link baiting in real life.

You need to look at the incentives of parties before you take their word. My incentive is obviously for people to buy dollars and treasuries, but guess what, everyone does that every day of the week (business/buying/stocks/retirement accounts). So I don't really care what gold huggers think.

But gold huggers work on a small market, and it is their incentive for others to buy into this farce. Take from that what you will (reminds me of pump and dump and the tulip mania).

Don't believe what I say, go figure stuff out for yourself. Everyone is biased.

Don't buy t-bonds, don't buy gold. Look at incentives. Look for production of useful goods. Make your own decisions.
As production from a new method ramps up the cost typically goes down, due to amortization of initial fixed costs and efficiencies developed through experience.
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Google "urban planning." The "dumb rules" may not be convenient for you or me in the short run, but they exist for a reason: water, sewage, traffic, pollution, supporting a sustainable quality of living for the long term.

I don't have the answer - and I notice that you don't really offer one - but I know that the answer is not to throw out all our laws in a short-sighted imitation of some polluted Chinese metropolis.
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I'm Canadian and have lived here (Spain) for 10 years.

I think it is partly a generational thing. If you find a mid-30's developer with kids, my experience is they will take what they can get. The trouble is, as you said, many have left (I know a few now in Germany) and others have simply created their own little space/niche of work.

The younger gen seems exactly as you say: back to home, parents footing the cost (I know one guy whose parent's are paying the loan on his BMW!).

At some point the pain is going to become too much and the "ni-ni"s, as they call them, are going to have to do something. Their country has already been sold, what next?
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Yeah, except there will be another (more expensive) source of oil after this one, and another after that. Gradually solar will become cheaper than the cheapest oil available, and the world will move to solar, and that will be it. Nobody's saying solar isn't the future, we're just saying there won't be any sudden end to oil. There will be no global catastrophe.
To quote: The biggest problem Microsoft has, I think, is that there is nothing they’re working on these days that makes a person like me look at them and think “damn, I wish I was working in their ecosystem.”

This. This is it. You can't qualify it or put in more concrete words what it is that's missing, but there's something missing. Much like Nokia has been kind of missing out for a decade, and definitely ever since iPhone came.

The common pattern with companies that are missing out is that they're lured into it by their heydays. They used to be really successful and many still are, despite this, but there's that something missing, everyone can sense it, and it's only a matter of time when the void bursts in and the stakes of reinventing themselves go all-or-nothing.

With Nokia that is happening pretty much as I'm writing. Microsoft's ship is bigger and their product line is more versatile, so it'll be many parts going under at different pace while some parts might still be raising up.
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Well, the USA hasn't been a beacon for great decision making in recent years. I feel as though oil-wars were fueled by other agendas outside of the simple need for crude. Also, look at alternative energy markets and how they've barely gained any traction outside of grass-roots until recently. There were even cables released on wikileaks showing that USA was supporting the International Renewable Energy Agency being hosted by the UAE (4th largest producer of oil). Counter-intuitive isn't even the word.
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Just like before, isn't that just as true of C and ASM? I take Resig's point, but it really does seem to apply about as well to ASM — knowing it can be really handy when the going gets tough.
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I'm sorry I am not sure what you are saying here. It seems to be "this is far more likely to be a test engineers backdoor that was not on the spec" then a Chinese backdoor added at the fab"

with no evidence either way, I am guessing that US intelligence (and others?) are loudly saying this is happening not because they can prove it in silicon but convincing human intelligence has told them

I happen to think that the techniques developed to analysis silicon are going to be useful all round, and that a backdoor in a chip does not make a successful cyber attack in the wild, but if these are real in-the-fab additions
then the implications are so large we should be prepared to not label this "it's just a test component" and look at ideas like validating silicon (noted somewherre else below)
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Is that a "no, I cannot provide any reason to take this seriously besides my (arrogant) word and this vague, exaggerated, ugly, poorly coded web page"?

This security lab's tendency to exaggerate the seriousness of the security problem they've identified is exactly what is in question here.
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Solar still has a number of big draw-backs that need to be overcome (namely storage and time-to-recharge), but I suppose we have more time to work it out now. It's kind of a same, though.. I'm not sure the environment can tolerate much more burned fossil fuels.
> equations can be as information-dense as entire paragraphs

And generally the equation is easier to understand than the same thing written in prose.

But did you notice this from the original article:

“When you add consecutive numbers starting with 1, and the number of numbers you add is odd, the result is equal to the product of the middle number among them times the last number.” (Levi’s theorem)

It's one of those rare cases where the English is much easier to understand than the equation.
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It's really not a question of Microsoft's specific branding strategy but an indication of how opposed Microsoft's big, bloated bureaucratic culture to the modern, fast, lean technological era we are proceeding in.

One thing that really upsets me and frustrates me more and more is how intensely complicated and centralized the environment is for Microsoft. You have this version, that version this technology, that technology clients and communication softwares that support this and that. I get it Microsoft, you're huge.

But because it's so huge it makes it so much more difficult to penetrate. Thus, when other companies make swift decisions to penetrate specific parts of their market and chip away at their usage or establish new markets which undercut Microsoft's existing market prowess (disruption), Microsoft goes crazy with these rebranding techniques.

When Microsoft does pursue a new brand (or rebrands an existing service), they, as per their culture, bloat their initiatives into these big, massive sweeps. However, these massive sweeps are generally empty, confusing and deliberately ambiguous because I don't think that Microsoft weighs the consumer input versus their own internal goals. I don't think they even bothered with really empirically (via iteration, for example) discovering what the service was for because, as Microsoft does, they spend months-years working on these big projects and release them, hoping that people just eat them like they do Windows.

I think the market context for the way Windows is sold to consumers (big, sweeping changes) is very different to the rest of their products. Phones, web products, runtime environments are very substitutable and the resources to product companies that make these products are becoming more and more democratized. As such, a company like Microsoft really doesn't have the kind of stranglehold that it does. That's why things like Live suck and don't make sense. Microsoft is trying to push this top-down because they think we don't know what we want.

Bottom line: I think Steve Ballmer can take a really good cue from Eric Ries on why lean startups work well and disrupt the way they do.
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He needs to provide more specific information and evidence.

Heed your own advice.
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Yes, I did. For an out-of-print math manuscript from Cornell. It was quick, easy, and it's sitting on my bookshelf as we speak.

To be honest, it didn't seem that popular, but I heard about it from a friend (hence how I found it, though he'd never used it), so it wasn't unknown either.

P.S. I miss you, boy.
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Pro-tip: If you don't understand or want more clarification, just ask. If you disagree, say why. It's not hard, and usually effective. Skip all the other BS.

If tptacek or anyone else wants to speak in Zen koans and leave it up to motivated readers to figure out what he meant, so be it. No one owes anyone anything here, and you should think of it as a chance to sharpen your research and investigative skills.

But seriously, omit the entitlement and drama. It's the last thing HN needs.
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It might be true about the mid-30s for developers, but as anecdote: I read in a local newspaper about a small taxi company almost going bankrupt and we needed a taxi for quite a bit of a ride. So I called them, asked if they had time for a half day ride; they guy sounded happy and said they had. Then I told him where we live. No that was too far away (it isn't; it's a little more than half an hour drive from him); I told him we would pay for it. But it was a definite no; too far he wouldn't do it.

I see that mentality everywhere; builders (who are all out of a job now), pool cleaners, car repair etc. If something is slightly out of the comfort zone it's usually a no. How bad does it need to become before people see it doesn't work that way (anymore; obviously before 2008, if you were lucky and not too greedy, money was rather 'free' for a lot of people; for instance the local bar owner didn't have to work at all; his bar was packed every day before 2008 so he hired people, put the profit into building; unfortunately he got out too late and there you go; hard working which he 'doesn't do'. Rather live in poverty.).
> Whatever your thoughts on SciFi, you'll fall in love with Ender and take a very deep interest in his story.

I don't understand the affection for Ender's Game. I read it in grade school and I reread it last summer; the plot is elementary (Ender's a textbook Mary Sue) and the takeaways are either empty or grim -- there's so much wanton violence (think back to the incident with the bully) and either Card is excusing it 'for the greater good', or condemning basically every character in the novel for engaging and condoning it.

The sequel, Speaker for the Dead, was much more interesting, but I think my perceptions of that book are a bit too tainted by my knowledge of the author's personal opinions.
Yes, why use simple cheap solar panels that can easily be replaced if we can over engineer everything to the nth degree?
Thank you for illuminating the core difficulty of too much centralisation: mounting problems and mounting costs.

Looking at Fukushima, it is not the terrorists and the meteors that frighten me the most. It is the simple combination of the everyday events like earthquakes, with corruption, inefficiency, cost-cutting and the culture of secrecy that fosters and supports it all. These are the real but invisible dangers that you cannot shoot down from your robotic space platforms.
I don't know if it's of any help, but I offer my own experience:

I read Neuromancer as a teenager, and it had a profoundly transformative effect on my life (probably more than any other book). It first introduced me to the idea that a person like a hacker existed. That it was a viable thing to become. I may have discovered this at a later time on my own, but I'll never know.

I was so enraptured by the ideas contained in it, that I was able to look past what was mechanically, a style of writing that I really didn't like (the prose felt very disjointed).

When I moved on to Count Zero, I found that the story wasn't sufficiently enthralling to make up for the issues I had with the style, so I could never get through it.

About ten years later, somehow or another I came to find myself in possession of Gibson's Pattern Recognition (I don't remember if I bought it because of a good review, or just wanted to give him another shot).

For whatever reason, I found that I didn't have any of the issues with his style getting in the way for me. I don't know if his writing actually changed (a possibility, as it was his 7th novel), of if I was just a different person by that point, and now more able to appreciate the way he writes.

I ended up liking Pattern Recognition immensely (and both of the other novels in that trilogy), even though people have made valid complaints about the actual plot of the novels.

I then went back and re-read the rest of the Sprawl trilogy, and found it easier to digest this time.

So you might also find that his later work is less confusing.

I don't really have an opinion as to how it relates to SciFi as a whole, as I really don't like SciFi as a genre in and of itself (as a contrast, I actually hated Enders Game when I read it as a kid).
> Keep The T open until three or four, so busy entrepreneurs can get home for a few hours of sleep.

Not gonna happen for the rail transit modes, the down time is necessary so maintenance and track inspection can happen (the T isn't like NYC transit where local service can be shunted to express tracks during shutdowns). I suppose the T could substitute buses during those hours, but that will require a lot of money the T doesn't have to move very few people.
You read Gibson too late in your life I think.

I think even Gibson wouldn't disagree with what you wrote.

His later books reflect what he later found out. That reality has in many ways caught up with his books.

But to me those books still stand above many else cause I read them at a time where they were seen as a possible scenario. They where the promise of a darker but more exciting future.
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A possible example given in the lecture is figuring out if two sets of numeric data were sampled i.i.d from the same distribution (being hand-wavy about what this precisely means).

I don't see how you can sensibly approach this kind of problem in a Bayesian way. From a frequentist perspective you're sort of spoiled for choice about how to approach this problem.
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