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All your points are based on limitations particular to human understanding of physics and technology.

Just as a microwave oven is practically magic to a caveman, it is reasonable to assume that our tech is caveman-tech to an advanced alien race.

Why travel at the speed of light, for example? Maybe wormholes or teleportation is possible?
Or how Idaho is an algmation of LDS teetotalers, survivalist libertarians, and extremely liberal hippies! But even the different between Seattle and Spokane (Washington's first and second largest urban areas) is pretty extreme.

My dad worked in nuclear, so I moved around a lot when I was a kid: Tricities Washington (sagebrush country), Toledo Ohio, Somewhere (Pennsville) New Jersey on the tristate border, Vicksburg Mississippi, and finally back to the PNW (Seattle). Actually, many Americans are fairly mobile, much more so than their European counterparts. Its not unusual to meet others like me who moved around a lot as kids (and are still moving, just not in the states anymore).

General American ignorance is quite a myth, though I'm sure their are many stationary Americans, there are just as many Americans who've lived everywhere.
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> Citation please.

I can't make a proper citation from home but if you're really interested those guys http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Crime-Correlates-Lee-Ellis/dp... have over a 100 studies on religious people being less criminal, and a handful on religious regions seeing less crime.

Also, "varied and contested" can describe all evidence ever gathered in social sciences.
I meant the quality of the universities. It might have been important decades ago but it isn't the reason Silicon Valley is the centre of IT today.

It's because of (a) money and (b) willingness of VCs to take chances and invest in companies with 23 year old CEOs and vague business plans. That sort of thing just doesn't happen anywhere else.
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For crime see my comment below (or above, remains to be seen).
they have a "romantic, quintessentially old/new world in juxtaposition western european destination" mystique that has been built up over decades.
I think you're asking the wrong question: The right question to ask is if you have the resources to build a prototype of your idea? Even if that prototype is a bunch of sketched wireframes you can then take those and see if you can get some seed funding to build something bigger. I'd also dare say that even if you did this and failed, you still might open some doors. Part of future is going to be meeting people, so a prototype is the best sort of business card.
This bears a striking resemblance to Google censoring all weapons products!

http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-shopping-censors-all-gun-...
I agree. For this to be widely adopted the discoverable piece is most important. Open source web apps are a great start, especially products like Wordpress because they are accessible to anyone.
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Here we go again. Another HN submission about a patent, pretending that the title of the patent means anything at all about what it covers. Gotta read the claims, people.
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I'm mixed about this.

People are fairly comfortable in most developed countries, they are in some way too stable: oppurtunities are provided, for sure, but the urge for mobility is not as strong as in the states. The states is very different, however: oppurtunities are not as numerous (economically segrated educational system), but the drive is much stronger to take them when presented because it sucks at the bottom.
I see people like Huffington and Nick Denton as the media titans of our age -- in general the tech bloggers ignore them, but I'd kill to read a definitive article or even book on how these folks really got started. I know both Huffington and Denton had some cash to get started, but I sense that there is a larger story there (and they were at the right place at the right time).
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I love the detail he goes into about different possible approaches that didn't work out. He gives a real sense of some of the process that leads into these big, beautiful, polished models.
It's still valid like XP is still valid. Legacy is called legacy for a reason.
> But would he [Elon Musk] have been able to afford to study in the US?

Yes, because he did study in the US, at the University of Pennsylvania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Early_life). Granted he had a scholarship, but people like Elon Musk tend to get scholarships. For regular Americans state schools are affordable w/ government loans.

> The science says that social mobility is much higher in other countries like Denmark than in the US

No offence to Denmark but I can't imagine that many immigrants chose to immigrate there instead of the US because of social mobility scores.

By definition most immigrants are ambitious, or at least willing to risk leaving their country of birth for the possibility of greater opportunities elsewhere.
Unless you are one of the 1% or so of the world who uses Opera, your browser is produced by an American organization.

As is the most important and expensive chip inside your China-produced computer.

And CERN had very little to do with the WWW; more on that at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4172572
TBH, I haven't used other workout apps. From first glance, I like the configurability, but it's a bit tedious to enter workout templates. For example, needing to hit "return" after each entry is a pain. Otherwise, I'll be using it and rating it soon! :)
As an atheist in Texas(one of those places where the churches are as big as the shopping malls), as long as you don't act like those assholes on r/atheism it isn't a big deal. The people on r/atheism aren't atheist because they are atheist, they are atheist because it is the cool, rebel against your parents thing to do.
No. More real-time, more efficient than polling. You're not going to build twitter on RSS alone.

This might qualify: https://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/
Ideally, you would want something to work on and learn the language best suited to that, or pick a goal such as "Build iPhone Apps" for example.

If I had to give my opinion between Ruby or Python; I would say Python, as it is multi-disciplinary. Python can be used for everything from website to high performance computing and have great communities backing them up allowing you to be a more fluid and interesting engineer; Whereas Ruby (and its defacto framework, Rails) tends to be geared towards just web development. Just my 2 cents.
You make a valid point. Vps is spessentially a service industry vs a product. That said, wih a social network you are 99% likely to fail. Proving me wrong is worth a billion dollars, the question is what kind of goals are you setting for yourself.
What are you talking about ? They didn't patent any of those things.
The Netherlands, while a nice place to live, is a small country and not a world power (it was maybe during the time of the VOC, but not before or since). It's also a very difficult place to start a successful high-growth technology business, for a variety of reasons -- a culture of consensus and the "dutch disease" (natural resources curse) being primary.
In Runkeeper, you have to select one of the provided activity types or select Other. You probably cannot create a new activity type. Anyway, sincre thanks for your wishes.
"pop version of Herman Hesse" sums him up well. It's intro to spirituality. Paulo Coelho bangs you over the head with his ideas instead of letting them flow naturally from the text.
Isn't this already what a SIMD processor does? Or is it supposed to be like a SIMD hiding in a SISD processor?
> Now that I've just about exhausted the $1000, it's time for me to start seeking seed funding.

No. It's time to get your hands dirty, and get as much traction has possible on a shoestring. This could be -

* building a landing page, start blogging and building a list of interested people

* creating interface mockups

* building a demo

* networking to seek out a cofounder

* preparing to apply to an accelerator or microseed program

Idea-only concepts from first timers aren't ready for full seed funding, in general. You can push it to the next level without that.
This is SHAMEFUL!

I'm a web developer and I want to solve this distribution problem. I've been trying to think of a business model to sustain it but have come up with nothing.

Ideas ?
It's been well-documented that many orders went unfulfilled for hours on the IPO day. That's the whole point of this article. Other than pointing to Google, what's your substantiation for this claim that the massive drop reflected the market's lack of confidence in FB's valuation?
I'm curious: what country do you think would be better than the US for starting a bitcoin startup?
People really need to calm down about whether or not the patent was granted. The fact is that the patent office is basically rubber stamping most patents and relying on patent invalidation processes within the legal system to resolve issues.

Not every patent clerk is going to be Albert Einstein. Nor should we expect them to be.
Their agenda is economic advancement, your point is indicative of that.

The party would serve no (meaningful) purpose if it lost it's ability to govern, so stability of government is equally important.
There are a few things to optimize for -- length of lines, predictability of outcome (especially if you're a non-citizen), and politeness.

I think Puerto Rico is one of the "softest" to come through if you have a questionable visa -- the worst by far are land border crossings, especially smaller ones with Canada, since there's little cost to turning you away, and not as much on-site appeal or supervision -- an angry or racist ICE guy could ruin your day. The staff in SEA/PDX/SFO are all incredibly polite (at least in my experience).
Indian has a space program, a nuclear weapons program and now owns British Steel and LandRover - and we send them aid to feed themselves !
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While the patent is not literally for "executing code", it still completely ridiculous and should not have been granted. Does anyone at USPTO actually reads the content of these applications, I wonder?
Magical concepts from science fiction, sorry theoretical concepts from educated guesses based on current (incomplete, unproven, un-seen) understandings of the universe. If such things existed intelligent life would have used them to reach us.
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To be fair, requiring you to leave the country to renew your visa is not unique to the US. China does this as well and I've heard that are many other countries that do too. Honestly, I've never understood why this happens and I can't come up with any explanation that makes sense.
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Also has enough food to feed themselves. But are tripping over time and again =/
Absolutely. Point taken Rick. It is certainly something I am lookung to change in a future update.
But really what I am trying to highlight is the simplicity, configurability and how you can have default values for work outs in a template. That way your typing would be minimal.
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For the first time? Have these people heard of Disney World and Universal Studios?
They also manage to have more than one kind of bread, many cheeses which don't come in an aerosol can and food which takes more time to cook than it does to eat

And, outside Paris, some very pleasant people.
Here's an idea that's been kicking around in my mind for a while: what if it's not that it takes such a tremendous amount of time to travel anywhere interesting in the universe, but that our perception of time is just too fast? Perhaps to an alien race a thousand (or million) years seems like a second. Wikipedia suggests that our perception of time does get (slightly) slower as we age [1], so maybe living significantly longer could do this to us as well. Finally, it seems that our perception of time is largely shaped by the Circadian rhythm; if life evolved somewhere with a much slower "cosmic clock" could that also cause a much slower time perception?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception#Long-term
That's also what I understood. I think it is meant to be a software patent though. It reads very similar or equal to what OpenACC, CUDA and OpenCL do.
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Say you have a corporation C, owned by an investor I. When C makes $100 of income, it's not I's money. It's C's money. When C pays $35 of taxes on that $100, I isn't paying it. If C pays out a dividend to I, and I pays $10 on it, he's not being taxed ($35 + $10 = $45). He's paying $10.

C and I are separate legal persons. Everything is accounted that way. E.g. when the U.S.'s GDP is calculated, C's income ($100) and I's income ($65) are added up and contribute $165 to the U.S. GDP.

Yes, the taxes on C reduce the amount available for C to pay I as dividends. But that's true in any transaction between two people. The taxes on my income reduce the amount available for me to pay my nanny, but you don't add together the taxes I pay and the taxes she pays when computing her tax rate.
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"Tehran will not be falling over itself to buy because of concern that Indian grain may be tainted by fungal disease"

That's what I was wondering. There is something making the rounds called Ug99, a form of wheat rust capable of destroying 80 percent of all known wheat varieties (PBS). The protocols may be inept but to what extent could the government just be trying to contain a botanical pandemic?
Thats just it though. There are many who WONT go back and re-read what he has said. Some people think that by virtue of him having something to say that he's presenting something new.

You have to remember that in knowing and being familiar with the content being presented that you're in the minority of people who will EVER grasp this knowledge, even on a basic level.

Its important for more people to learn about the frontier in as many ways as possible, as often as they can.
Well, everything from any of the previous empires, for starters.

I dont mean to suggest Europe has little culture, but unlike the states, it also has a lot of dead culture. Culture that may still inform our identity, and of which relics and remainders are embedded in the fabric of everything. Yet it is dead culture: most of us not even capable of imaging how life would be in such a culture.
Exactly. Near as I can tell, internet cost-to-bandwidth is pretty much a function of affluence and population density. The US, while affluent, has a low population density. High speed internet isn't that expensive. Getting people connected to that high speed internet is.
I'm curious if this has anything to do as a result of India banning Monsanto for bio-piracy.
Thanks for the input, and I value the suggestions as they are things that interest me (I'd love to get into Scala when I have the time).

I guess I should have been clearer, I am specifically looking into Rails/Django because what I do primarily is build web apps. I feel like I am reaching a plateau of productivity with PHP because of it's nature and my ruby/python toting peers are far ahead while only using this tech for 1-2 years max.

I am getting the feeling that Rails is going to be the best match for what I am looking for, mainly because of the huge library of gems.

Again, thanks for the input though.
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Europeans (and Chinese, etc.) have a lot more historical culture. Entire large and well-documented civilizations which have passed. US culture is basically independent of pre-Colombian American culture, and most pre-Colombian cultures are badly documented and understood compared to the Greeks, Romans, various Chinese dynasties, etc.

You might also consider various fine arts to be "dead", in that their peak point has passed. Not sure if I'd argue that, but it's clearer to argue that specific schools of art meet that definition. e.g. I don't think anyone will surpass Bach in organ music.

Modern European culture isn't the part that's dead, it's that there are also "dead" cultural artifacts in Europe, while the US was basically a clean slate. That's a plus for Europe in some ways, but in some ways actually helps the US -- having to create everything from scratch, taking the best (well, maybe) of other cultures, is itself interesting. Look at Singapore for another example.
Can you clarify or provide a source?

It's not clear what you're saying, or why it's bad. If you're saying that traders need to have sold shares to get compensation, well, should NASDAQ just compensate everyone who says they didn't sell shares but were planning to, cross their heart and hope to die?
I entirely disagree there. Seattle is culturally different from LA and LA is culturally different from San Francisco, and none of them are really culturally the same as Portland, Oregon, and that's just the West Coast.

Heck, if you go to Texas, Austin is culturally different from, say, Houston.

I've lived in the Southwest, the Northeast, and the Northwest. I can say these areas are culturally different and if you don't see it, you haven't lived in enough places.

I think the big problem is that culture is largely invisible to those who grow up in it. All the little things you do, how you greet people, the little micro-dialects of the language, etc. are so second-nature that they are hard to see.
20 light years is still 20,000 years of traveling in space even after taking into account that technology and speed will improve over time by about 90%-100%.

Who and what government would go on a suicidal safari to another planet which "MIGHT" support life which will take trillions and trillions of dollars, and 20,000 years to reach? First it may not be possible to have children in space even with artificial gravity. Second, the radiation would kill the child before he can even speak his first word.

Even if through a magical genie we solved these problems and avoided cancer... Would you feel comfortable living on a space ship for the rest of your life? Bringing children into this world knowing they'll never have a normal life like back on earth. Sacrificing not only your life but the lives of thousands of your 1,000+ generation grandchildren so you can go explore a planet that you think "might" have life.
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> The fact is that the patent office is basically rubber stamping most patents and relying on patent invalidation processes within the legal system to resolve issues.

Which is expensive. It should work other way around. Those who file such patents need to spend money to prove that this stuff is really innovative and for some real experts. Current patents system is pure farce.
Thanks for the suggestions. The landing page, mockups, and demo are already a work-in-progress, although I'll begin taking the others into consideration and building a more productive plan for the next few months.
I really hope so! This is how I've dreamt of my computer working for a long time. I get a similar effect with Spotlight and Alfred when launching and switching apps (I never use the dock or Cmd+Tab) but I don't think they go right down to being contextual to the current app (for menus, etc). Typing just a few letters of what I know I want is, I think, the way forward for me, so I hope it catches on.
Terrible connection in one location could just be a fluke, but in more than three locations? We've been thinking about upgrading our link, but many of our problems at home are that entire sites don't work, especially at night when internet use is very popular.

China is still not as wired as the states, South Korea is much better and could be considered to excede the states, even countries like Thailand and Indonesia provide much better bandwidth when I visit (and no GFW to boot!).
A company forced to file these reports essentially has all the costs of being a public company. There's absolutely no reason not to go public at this point, to benefit existing shareholders. The average op-ed writer is ignorant about finance but this is what is meant when informed people talk about companies being forced to go public--they're forced to take on all the costs of being public, so might as well just IPO.
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