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The fundamental problem is that the monetary systems of the modern world are all designed on the Wile E. Coyote principle. As long as you never look down, the system works.

In the U.S. there is ~$14 trillion in government debt. There exists tens of trillion more in private debt. But only $2 trillion exists in bonafide, actual, real honest-to-goodness dollars (I'm including in that count accounts at the federal reserve, not just paper money).

How is this system sustainable? How can any of this debt ever be repaid? Well, since everyone knows the government can print money, most people do not worry about the government being insolvent. A dollar T-Bill is as good as a dollar green bill, both are backed by the full faith and credit of the USG. If the government needs to, it can always print money to redeem mature treasury debt. Since no one worries about insolvency, most people would rather have treasury bills (or a deposit account or CD backed by TBills) because they pay interest. So the $14 trillion rolls over in perpetuity. In reality, $14 trillion is not really debt, since it is nonsensical to speak of debt that one owes oneself and can negate by printing paper. The $14 trillion is the money supply - T-Bills are just a dividend paying form of money.

However, the situation in Europe is much more sticky. Europe runs the same type of monetary system. There are tens of trillions in Euro denominated debt, but only $1.3 trillion in actual bonafide Euros. However - unlike with the dollar - the countries that created this debt do not have the power to create Euros. So as suddenly as markets lose confidence in the debt, it becomes impossible to roll over the debt and pay it off. There simply are not enough Euros in the world to pay off even a small amount of debt. Every single country in Europe would be insolvent if investors look down and lose confidence. Even Germany could not pay its debt if investors demanded redemption at maturity The European Union government could order the european central bank to print money to buy out the debt, but this creates all sorts of political conflict as it results in transferring real wealth from country A to country B.

So that's why Europe is stuck. It adopted a monetary system that works when the government controls the currency, and adopted it in a situation where governments cannot print money. No one in Europe has the brains or authority to actually refactor and re-architect the system, so they are just muddling around, following the path of least resistance and putting in stop-gap measures.

My own pet solution is on my blog:
http://intellectual-detox.com/europes-crisis/
If anybody from the ECB reads Hacker News, I am available for hire as a consultant at the low, low fee of 1 ounce of gold an hour :-)
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>You confused UI with Usability.

I certainly don't confuse the two.

I couldn't care less what Craigslist LOOKS like, but its usability is profoundly broken in some areas (Denver Metro, for example).

The problem is that there's a Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins Craigslist. For those of you in the Bay Area, that would be roughly like having a distinct San Francisco, San Rafael, San Jose, and Santa Cruz Craigslist. If you're in between those places, which one do you look at? You have to look at more than one. Even if you're IN one of those places, which one do you look at? Sometimes three or four, if it's something you're willing to drive an hour to buy.

And if you're POSTING, where do you post? If you post a popular item to Boulder (because, say, you live in Boulder), then people in the next town over who only know about Denver won't see it, so you also have to post to Denver if you want everyone in a reasonable radius to see your item. Which means you have to violate Craigslist policies AND mess with your listing enough to get past its spam filter.

The sad thing is they've fixed it to the 80% level in the Bay Area, where the whole (extended!) Bay Area (even Santa Cruz, which isn't really Bay Area) is on a single Craigslist site with sub-area filters, but they just leave it broken here.

THIS is a usability problem.

And honestly so is the lack of "map these results," for times when you want to see which ones are closest, or which ones you could stop by on your way to work, or whatever.

It's not because it's not shiny or doesn't have gradients or drop shadows. It's because key features that I want from a classified site are sorely lacking.
Interesting read. Thanks a lot!
I don't think the underlying cause is the same, but I've developed the inability to write certain letters and numbers, or at least not without a lot of effort. Particularly M, N, S, W and 8. My brain knows how to form the letter, but my fingers won't make the motions. Usually I have to move the pencil back and forth in a line 6 or 7 times before the rest of the letter forms. It's kind of embarrassing when someone is watching my sign my name since it starts with an M. I have no idea where this came from, but it hasn't always been the case.
Could it not mean that they are coming up with some padmapper like functionality? Padmapper of course is the only usable rental search site after craigslist. The rest of them like rent.com and apartments.com are absolute crap. I hope they work something out.
Coming across as irate and unbalanced, which the author's swearing did in this instance, does nothing but detract from his / her point.

You can be assertive and "professional" without sounding like a shriek.
> Tech people I know generally agree that patents and copyright stifle innovation.

How do copyrights stifle innovation?
Watch Zeitgeist Moving Forward and you'd understand.
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I actually wonder why they need a "director" of something that probably should have been managed more like an RFC system. It's not like there has been much proven benefit from ICANN's oversight so far.

Imagine if it had been community-driven. For instance, someone proposes ".foobar" as a domain root. Various contributors then submit comments on the proposal, including suggestions on established groups that ought to manage that domain and what the limitations are on sites in the domain. Refinements are made (perhaps someone observes that ".foo" would be a term that is recognizable in more countries and something that avoids offending anyone). Finally a reasonable consensus is reached that having ".foo" is actually more valuable than not having it, and its guidelines are made public under "DNS RFC #613" or whatever. If that process can work for widespread things like protocols it can definitely work for deciding which domain roots are sensible. We don't need an ICANN.
I'm a tech person and I don't agree that "patents and copyright stifle innovation".

I believe that patents, as presently construed, do. It's not the concept, but the process that's the issue. Terms are too long, they have no requirement of actually bringing a patented idea to market, and they are transferable. It's the last one that is a huge problem to me.

We've turned patents into a tradable commodity that often have a lot more value as weapons than as mechanisms to defend an idea in the marketplace. The insane length of the protection only serves to make them more dangerous.

I support patent reform that addresses these issues, not the abolition of patents entirely.
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This is, by far, the most intelligent and useful post I've seen in my attempt to get some answers and understand. I am as hard-headed and as anyone else. I am also as understanding as anyone else. Change only happens out of necessity and curiosity. I am curious to learn, otherwise I wouldn't spend all this time and take the abuse of some who choose to be total aholes and not take the kind of approach you have taken to at least help someone --not just me, but anyone who may have touched vi and failed-- understand where the strengths may be.

Based on your story it is clear that vi is not a weekend project. I am interested in learning so that I can have an opinion that is based on more than the "fuck this" reaction I have had over the last twenty years every time I've touched it on many platforms.

I am also impressed by your process and dedication to exploring the space. One can only respect that approach and the conclusion you reached. I too have used a ton of editors. For some reason I've never had the patience to really get into vi. But now I will. Because I owe it to myself to know what everyone is so impressed with. What happens from there is a different matter.

Also, thanks for not resorting to insults or calling me a troll as others who never seem to contribute anything of value have done.

Thanks again.

BTW, if you have more screencast links feel free to share them. I'd appreciate it and I am sure that others who are reading this and might have had the same level of rejection of vi would too.
When you learn how money really works, you begin to understand just how diabolical our entire socio-economic system is. Inflation, recessions, boom-bust, the stock market, fractional reserve banking, interest rates... it's all rigged, a giant shell game, and it boils down to an invisible whip that the rich use to keep people working for things they don't really need and to pay taxes for the sole purpose of perpetuating a perverted economic system.
Clearly the author is to old in body or mind or both. Yes I agree us old folk get stuck in our ways. But it's my kids that are going to love it, they already try and touch the monitor and TV like it was a smartphone, my 6 year old operates an iPhone perfectly.

Yes an article about old people worried about new ways isn't surprising at all heard the same tired tunes with regards unity which after a few release is starting to humm and now feels intuitive.

You can wait for windows9 all you like it will just be a more refined 8.
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I'm sad to hear this. I used padmapper to find my place in NYC among an incredibly scam-filled and otherwise difficult to navigate sea of lies and frauds. PM helped me utilize CL in a way their filters could not.
I saw something very similar last year. But I don't a clue neither on the website nor the product name. The only thing I remember is that it was a German guy (I guess!). Could you (Trulia) please let us know what/who motivated this work?
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Indeed, and because of that I was rather confused. Was there a point to the article other than to give an account to her experience? Maybe I'm just too used to reading articles with obvious bias.
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Indeed. It seems reasonable to hold partially accountable for customers' choices any business that employs psychologists for the purpose of creating new or cementing existing customers.
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Of course it makes sense, every such rule has some rational intent. The intent here is market segmentation: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...

But my response to that kind of bullshit is as always: if you can make profit at price X in Mexico City and the importer can still make their profit after undercutting you in US, then you're just scalping your US customers. There should be no laws that help you do that.
I agree. The original post was a trite little comment that a) didn't match the tone of the book excerpt (which seemed pretty evenhanded) and b) was illustrative of the exact attitudes that can make women in tech feel marginalized.

The only acceptable response is to forcefully smack it down. I thought pnmahoney's reply was exactly the right tone.
The government can not print money, every dollar printed has to be borrowed into existence via debt. If the government could print, then there'd be no need for tax. Watch the Moving forward movie for more revelations.
Here's an idea-- why doesn't Craigslist just buy padmapper? They certainly have enough cash to do so.
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Huh?

I've learned a bit about money, and this comment strikes me as conspiracy theory having nothing to do with "how money really works".
Well, of course they must be addressing security changes! It's PHP, remember? ;)
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Corral everyone into centralized monetary dictatorships, and this is what happens. What did you expect?

It doesn't matter how you design the monetary system, what matters is that it's centralized -- a mandated system backed by SWAT teams. Create that, and you've just created a system that will inevitably result in sweeping financial destruction throughout the economy.

What we need is the diversification a free market money system would provide.
I get that CL has a fast UI that is very easy to understand for non-technical users. But why can't they somehow work with others who want to improve the experience?

There have been several sites that I have personally used to aggregate searches, eliminate duplicates, filter on different attributes, etc. that all were better for me than CL. (Craiglook, padmapper, etc.)

Every, time, CL flips them off and threatens suit.

FFS, guys, just strike a deal with some of these devs and make a 'tech-friendly' portal for people who want actual search capability from your site.
When I made http://emacsformacosx.com/ I decided to use SVG since I was targeting only Macs and all the popular Mac browsers supported SVG (also I wanted something snazzy looking). In the end I had to do some XHTML+SVG dual namespacey magic so that non-SVG browsers (most importantly, Google) had something to fall back on.

I checked out the retina display MacBook Pro at an Apple store the other day and I was happy to see that the SVG on the site rendered at full resolution (at least with Safari).

I think the choice to use SVG for this particular site was a net-win.
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They do two passes, in each pass they stain mouse brain cells in a particular region, then they kill the mouse, slice its brain, and image the slices. While this method certainly works well on mice (I've seen surgical work done of mice first hand, neat stuff), sadly it doesn't quite scale up to imaging the human brain. But having all those (petabytes) of data has gotta be worth something.

[1] http://brainarchitecture.org/mouse/documentation/project-whi...
Not to mention "leptons"
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There used to be a comment bot/person who put all the reddit AMA questions into a tabular format - I recently discovered it has a pretty useful subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled

I actually prefer that format over this one.
How is SimplyListed (also with YC) doing? Seems like they tried tackling similar problem earlier.
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I thought US debt was backed by the military? The debt represents faith in the United States and the world-system as a whole.

I think the only way this could collapse Wile E. Coyote style was if the trade routes in the Atlantic and the Pacific developed a huge problem with highwaymen and the US military couldn't lock it down.
Can someone explain to me what the author is trying to say? I see two things in the article:

1. In the author's eyes, the majority of early Facebook employees acted in a juvenile masculine manner[1].

2. Some of those early Facebook employees weren't nice people.

Am I missing something more subtle?

[1] I.e., the manner young males are stereotyped[2].
[2] I'm not accusing the author of stereotyping.
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I'm surprised how many people here are defending Craigslist. They've got a history of both providing a terrible experience for apartment seekers and shutting down any attempts to use their data to provide a better experience. That would be okay in a competitive market, but they've got a strong monopoly in a market with a high barrier to entry. They're playing the textbook role of an evil monopolist.
Question: why can't Padmapper simply run as a browser plugin on the user's PC? From Craigslist's point of view, it would just look like a user who reads all the ads.
They probably only care about the presentation aspect of it, and not doing any calculations with uninitialized variables. The users are probably worried about showing NULLs instead of zeroes on empty fields.
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So are they going to sell t-shirts and create a pinterest board for articles?
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>>He thinks that we need to understand existing science (quantum mechanics and perhaps gravity) better to comprehend consciousness

> What, not phlogiston?

To be fair, more research really is needed. We don't have an underlying theory to explain the facts we know about consciousness. Yet.

We don't even know if a simulation using the known laws of physics would include the effects of consciousness, let alone be conscious.
Fair enough, I apologize for the snark, but then everything you've said hinges on your interpretation of the word "obscure".
fwiw, the terminology comes from Immanual Wallerstein.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_theory#Periphery_...
It might be worth doing "rush hour" and "non-rush hour". It takes me 48 minutes door to door from downtown Oakland to Mountain View, going 80 on I-880 and 70-75 on 84 and 101 (i.e. flow of traffic, and at the speed where you won't get a speeding ticket even for going past a cop, especially if you slow down slightly on seeing one..).

It takes 1.5-2h during rush hour on the same route if anything goes wrong (50-75% of the time there is at least one accident or construction).

Both numbers are meaningful, but distinct.

Transit is the same way, in the other direction -- during peak commute hours, trains are frequent and/or synced. During off-hours, you can be waiting 30-59 minutes for a connection, 1-2 times.
Yeah, they still have quite a lot of content, and to be honest craigslist listings were some of the worst on there. Still, it was handy to just have one go to place for car shopping.
"chat to other Galaxy Tab users, mail via walled garden servers, share photos with other Samsung owners, and so on" so this is all incorrect? (I genuinely don't know.)

Consider the way iOS Messages works — it bypasses SMS when possible to save you money, but transparently supports SMS. The point stands even if the particulars are slightly incorrect.
You ask how any of this debt can ever be repaid. But is this really what we want to achieve? Repay the debt? If money is, like in the reddit post, an IOU (or a certain unit of debt), then the idea is to balance out the amount of money (debt) with the growth of the economy. Too much and we got inflation. Too little and we cripple the economy.

I'm very curious why debt should be repaid at all, care to explain?

(Note: I think one's own debt is different than the debt in an economic scale)
It surprises me that more experiments run on game data don't seem to hit the mainstream. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong places, but I've seen only a few research reports based on ingame data and those are hard to scrounge up themselves.

Video games are one of the great crucibles where everyone is born equal by default - and yet we have massive variance in wealth distribution by the end of it. You always have a select few who end up with enough power and own all the wealth.
"Posner complained that Apple's attempt to get an injunction restricting the sale of Motorola phones would have "catastrophic effects" on the mobile device market and consumers."

- the moral of the story is steal and get the stolen goods into as many 3rd party hands as possible, so that by taking it away from would cause chaos and outrage.
"Don't be evil"? That's criminal and evil at perfection.
Here's the solution I came up with:

http://sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/turing/
As long as you never look down, the system works.

Perhaps to nitpick - as long as enough people don't believe their neighbors believe that their neighbors are looking down, things are fine. If I personally look down, it is doesn't matter.
Wait - so by creating the currency item as something that gets used, as opposed to stones of jordans, are you trying to do an end run around inflation?

Also - loved the beta weekend.

(niggle - mage power charges were hard to understand and a terrible ability to rush. Which I did. When it worked it was fun)

Edit: Will you now have treasure goblins? Also, how has your take on the RMAH changed now that its starting to open up and feel its way around?
As someone who has dealt with customer service from the companies Google is competing with in this arena, Google is either going to have to come in at about 25% of the price or seriously up its game in the customer service department.
The difference here is that CL still has the content. We always end up in the same fruitless discussion with different subjects: software patents, content, digital media. Should you be able to own something if copying it is practically free? The only right answer is "no", but nobody likes it.
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At this stage of the economist and gaming intersection, economists are still generally being pulled from the outside of the gaming industry. Finding exploits is not something that they've really had to think about in the way a gamer has.

I wouldn't blame him for it. Besides, all systems can (and will) be bent, broken, or subverted. Perfect identification of bugs is pretty much impossible. You can get a lot of obvious ones, and assume that the rest are above the ability/will threshold of the playerbase.
Craigslist is a company whose terms of service were violated by PadMapper. Whether or not PadMapper provides a better experience is irrelevant: Craigslist has a right to defend its content and lists by whatever means it sees fit. Any businessperson on this site would expect to have the same rights.

Craigslist is not in the business of helping anyone but Craigslist be successful. It's not monopoly; it's business.
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You would think that they'd be able to measure these things. How hard can your flavor of a/b testing (or bandit testing for the bros) be to implement for a company like Craig's list.

It's just pure laziness and I'm sure the right talented team could make a product that beats Craig's list