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There is a trickle-down effect, but it's not nearly as strong as some people think.

You can think of progressive taxes as a form of insurance policy on the misallocation of resources by wealthy people. Wealthy people may on average make better resource allocation decisions, but sometimes there are mistakes. Progressive taxes prevent wealthy people from gaining so much that a single mistake will be catastrophic.

The mechanism by which the free market performs better than a command economy is that of distributed decisions. Instead of a central planner, everyone makes resource allocation decisions based on price information. This free market mechanism works to the extent that resources are distributed. Thus progressive taxes ensure the continuing efficiency of the market.
Regarding you last post: it seems curious that there are actually lots of decidedly female tech groups (like geek girls or whatever), whereas male only tech groups would probably be met with outrage. That said, personally I don't need a list of female bloggers.
Usually people just use the surface of the earth for this.

The funny thing is calculating it at high resolution would require classified data (the best measures of the exact shape of the earth are classified; they are used in ICBM flight path calculations, and deviation from an oblate spheroid is significant when you want to put something on a tennis court from the other side of the world. The exact distribution of mass (some concentrations of heavier materials) and magnetism (for MAD detection of submarines) are similar.
From time to time I imagine a language that lets you write constraints on your code in the language yourself — kind of like macros but instead of extending the syntax your compiler understands, they would allow you to extend the set of things you could say about your code that the compiler would then understand.

Auditors in E: http://www.erights.org/elang/kernel/auditors/
that's a very good question. The fertility rate is very high amongst the poor, although they seem to have the worst means to support many children. I guess the main reason is that women were/are not empowered enough to decide how many kids they should have. Another major factor is lack of availability/knowledge of contraceptives. Also, I think children provide the only "entertainment"(using this word very loosely) when you have no TV, no books etc; there may also be a feeling that having many children gurantees that some will survive to carry their "family" ahead (many might die due to lack of access to healthcare).
Lastly, child labour.
Most of these are purely speculative though. Its what I picked up when I asked my parents precisely the same thing
How about an externality tax? Anything that hurts anyone else, even via causing jealousy, gets taxed as appropriate for the size of the externality.
I didn't really think about it at the time, but right about then (I'm in GMT+10) a Minecraft server (OpenJDK 64-bit, Ubuntu 11.10) I had running got rather upset ...

2012-07-01 09:59:59 [WARNING] Time ran backwards! Did the system time change?
2012-07-01 10:01:14 [WARNING] Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded?

... and stuck on 100% CPU until I noticed it and restarted it this morning. Thankfully no other issues that I've noticed.
It would have to pass through a fairly hydrophobic (the pore) layer. The water can barely get through since it's polar but uncharged; most metals in solution are charged ions and wouldn't be able to pass through the barrier.
I've come to the same set of realizations and conclusions, but have never left the country. And I too am from Colorado. So I think it's the thought process that counts, the education, critical thinking, absorbing lots of information, etc. Not whether you've travelled enough or lived outside the US. I do agree that many Americans live inside a kind of bubble, one built out of a mixture of propaganda and intellectual laziness, perhaps, but a perceptual bubble all the same. The Republican party, for example, I think to a large extent helps to feed it and is in turn fed from it. But we don't really live in the world portrayed in that bubble. And it's going to increasingly bite Americans in the ass unless they wake up and make changes.
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Because there's no need to create a space specifically to be occupied primarily by men - it already exists in the form of the entire field.

The reason why groups devoted specifically to women exist is to provide spaces that aren't male-dominated, unlike most other spaces.
>Therefore the government steps in with subsidies to even out how much farmers get, and to guarantee a surplus to avoid ruinous food prices for consumers.

Yeah it's not like there are mechanisms to deal with this sort of volatility (hint - futures).
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No, that's 4. I think six is 99.9999998027%
HN Feature Request: being able to fold comment threads
I mostly browse the actual site and don't use 3rd party apps to read HN. More often then not, when a particularly long thread has run its course and turned into a flame-war or moot debate, I find myself scrolling away (sometimes for a while) to get to the next root comment.

I realize this isn't news to anyone, and I'm probably not the first to bring this up, but it'd certainly be convenient to be able to fold a block of comments and move on to the next with a click (much like, err, Reddit).

Just saying.

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EDIT - I can see this feature has been discussed before:
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=fold+comment
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The amount of savings in the economy is exactly equal to the amount of investment. Changing the capital gains tax rate does not affect how much investment takes place, but instead affects the choice of investment vehicle.
Using Blood Diamonds as an example is offensive. The two are no where close to related nor should be reference when speaking about each other. All companies engage in crooked anti-competitive behavior. Samsung is not excluded from the list and one of the reasons that this thread exist. Our choices should always be about how companies treat people, not just consumers of their products.
I agree with most of your points. But:

>Imagine you are old, need food, clothes, medical care. You need money for it, you see your neighbor get all the help from his son. While you get no help from your daughters.

That's incredibly sexist. As far as I can tell, it is in fact the other way around. Their sons usually try to avoid that responsibility and it is their daughters who actually spend time with them and try to work out their problems
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While ignorance on family planning matters and entertainment stuff(Again using that word loosely) have been factors(Remember the idea mobile phone ad? Where they cite power cuts contributing the other source of 'entertainment' which in turn contributes to population. So use idea 3G and get entertained in the other way).

The actual reasons really are 'reproduce until you get a boy' or 'have as many boys as you can' so that you can have something depend on in old age.
The device in question is almost completely designed by Google , atleast the s/w part. So , saying that samsung copies apple is invalid in this case
Extra work compared to what? Is there any other reasonable way that space-derived technologies (e.g. those on this list[0]) could have been invented?

If the US wants to pay off it debts, maybe the first thing to do is reduce the amount spend on, for example, the military. The US spends $700+ billion dollars (or 4% of GDP) on its military[1], on something that is even less of a net benefit to humanity: killing people.

Surely the $20 billion[2] currently spent on NASA pales in comparison to that, and the benefit to humanity of non-military technological improvement is far larger. (Clearly, DARPA et al. fund technological improvement too, but the purpose, and first use, of these technologies is normally quite saddening.)

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
Those disagreeing that this is socialism aren't really attuned to the previous socialist attempts and engineering outcomes.

If you really wanted to split hairs, you could say this is an example for those people who think that a government can engineer a better outcome for people than the people just left to their own devices.
Imagine an America that was a true Empire, in the Roman fashion. An America with the additional 51st state of Germany, 52nd of South Korea, 53rd of Cuba, 54th of the Philippines and 55th of Japan? Hell, why stop there? An American claim to France would have been just as strong as a Roman claim to Egypt (namely, America claims it, who disagrees?), let's seize Canada, stop paying for oil to the House of Saud, figure out what we're going to do with our territories of Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan. America isn't a true empire, but it has some flavors of one.

The U.S. is a weird sort of quasi-empire with military outposts and large economic interests all over the world, but in territories that aren't their own and with the notion that the countries we inhabit are not part of the U.S. in any way shape or form. Sort of like vassal states, but without all the "pay us your tribute or we'll invade and burn your cities down" that modern America is terribly uncomfortable with.

It's an interesting academic exercise to pick apart where the U.S. is and isn't like an Empire because it's not that simple.
Does it really matter if I start getting busy just to impress other and end up finding things I like and gaining experience for myself?
Same here. Sometimes I come across code that's not easily improved that way, and not just because it's fragile -- this seems less rare than, say, 15 years ago. Does it seem that way to the rest of you? That things are getting better?
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It really depends on what you mean by "educated". I went to one of the best engineering universities; yet I was shocked to see that a large chunk of the students had no qualms with cheating, copying etc. Essentially, the "education" they received was only as a means to land a job
And also "yous" (or "youse") is used as a plural "you" in regions of Australia.
> There really isn't much choice in the smartphone market, despite 20 flavors of Android.

windows phone?

> Very few people I've met buy Andeoid because it's better

Hi, nice to meet you :)
I think some of the comments on that article bear merit towards a contrary position:

'Right now, the book is giving way to the screen and hypertext, and who knows - how can we possibly know, stuck as we are in the heart of the maelstrom? - what this will do to our concept of self. Nick Bilton writes that "When technology gets out of the way, we are liberated from it." But perhaps what is also true is that we ourselves are getting out of the way of technology, adjusting and morphing our selves to adapt to and accommodate it, encouraged all the way by gee-whiz journalism, advertising, and the whole throbbing. hissing, bloated blogosphere itself.

Too bad for Sergey, I say, that he can't enjoy playing with his child more in the moment, without a computer to mediate and record the event (and the smiles) for later viewing in case he misses it when it happens.'
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I don't think its as simple as saying that there is "actual reason" for anything that is so complex. For example: this obsession with males might be widely prevalent in the northern part of India, but its not as strong in the southern part.
It's kind of like an old joke from Penny Arcade, once something gets too expensive to be practical it may as well cost infinity.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/12/1/

Mathematically inaccurate but can be a short and simple way of summarizing costs and complexity.
As consumers , collectively we can influence corporate behavior. If Companies feels that customers can punish them for such acts they may refrain from it in the future. The point is , the scale of the protest should be big enough for them to sit up and notice
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* Validation is not documentation, either it's there or it's not there, with built-in keyword arguments it's there, with a hash-hack it probably isn't.

* Documenting a hash-hack will still require spelling out that one of the positional parameters is a hash, then diving into that hash to spell out the various keys. This adds one worthless level of indirections to first-class keyword parameters, which can just treat all parameters the same way for documentary purposes.
No. What's absurd is that Amber Yust reaped all the benefits of having blue eyes in her profession for most of her life, and then proceeded to author this article about how it's wrong to assume that people in her profession have blue eyes, written with all the fury of someone who had brown eyes for their entire life.

I say this because she has a Y chromosome and only updated her driver's license to read Female one year ago.
>>it is their daughters who actually spend time with them and try to work out their problems

Time?

Alas just 'spending time' doesn't solve all problems. You need somebody who can 'spend money' too. This is not an anti-girl rant. This is the saddest reality of our country. The middle class is overly male chauvinist and doesn't like sending women to work. Once married, the girl contributes literally nothing financially to her parents.

Firstly this is not a problem among the rich and the poor. Because Rich have money and poor don't mind women working.

Its the middle class which is in this problem. If you turn blind eye to this root cause. You can give as many moral lectures as you want on why this is wrong. Nothing will change.

Because people know deep inside them old age is imminent, and they will need money/financial support to survive then. Bitter truth!
A lot of people struggle to see the point in this past being a cool trick. Personally i find that when im cleaning the house or washing up(N.B. wet hands) that this
App is fantastic. The wait for more gestures is killing me though.
This makes me think of the pocket watch vs. wristwatch trend.

Eventually the timepiece moved back to the pocket.
It's not /that/ vacuous. At seven paragraphs, and notwithstanding the flamebait headline, it's worth reading through.
Many people have tried similar things in English[1], but unfortunately none have caught on yet outside relatively small subcultures.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Invented...
Access rights should of course not be tied to identifiers, but to files themselves.
There seems to be a strong tendency to assume that erveyone is like the speaker. It's especially funny when friends of mine mention something like that (everyone is non-religious everyone is super liberal) not yet realizing that I don't fit the bill :-) Stanford actually has very strong religious student groups.
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"Powershell makes it easier to discover commands"

"You're weak and have been crippled by your tools."

o_o You're suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Upgrade your tools and be free from menial labor.
I gave up about halfway - it was too preachy.
> It would almost be easier to have everything take a map

Smalltalk and Self have demonstrated that it is, indeed, rather easy. And at this point you can just remove the separation between "keyword arguments" and "method name", they are one and the same.

> But if you enforce this for everything you get something like:

Well you can still have operators:

4**2

or you can use a message to numbers:

4 raisedTo: 2

even a unary one specifically for this operation:

4 square

or you can have `square` be a message to some sort of math namespaces:

Math square: 4
Yes, but this relation is not symmetric, which is where the OP's question comes in
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Maybe I misunderstand this, but couldn't someone write a driver for Cygwin to have a better fork implementation?
Have you tried the ISE on Win8 yet? It gets some nice upgrades around intellisense.
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Upvoted for your futile human attempts :P. I still disagree with your rebuttal. Yes, I did use an absolution word like "NEVER". But only because we have a limited time on earth before another massive extinction event occurs and realistically solving all the problems with space travel at light speed have such a tiny percentage of being solved that you might as well say its impossible for the sake of being realistic.

Lets look at your rebuttal:

1) Time dilation doesn't solve ANY of the impossibilities of traveling at light speed. Even the Earth, with its massive atmospheric force field and magnetic field only travels at 67,000 mph and still gets pummeled with meteors, natural space debris, and massive amounts of radiation that, despite being filtered out by a magnetic field thousands of miles thick, still delivers radiation. A tiny particle the size of a ballpoint from a ballpoint pen is nothing to fear, but when that particle is hits anything at light speed it is deadly. If there is 1 piece of space debris every 1 mile in space and you're traveling at light speed, the ship, no matter what it's made of is going to disintegrate when it gets hit with 11.1 million pieces of debris every minute. At that speed nothing can be deflected by shields all objects will disintegrate and rip the ship and crew apart.

Back to radiation: With 2 hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter in space, at light speed the radiation exposure increases 100,000% PAST THE LETHAL LIMIT for humans. We would die of radiation exposure immediately. It would also destroy electronics on board. And NO, building an artificial force field is not going to work either. At light speed it will be useless. Also no force field of any kind will work or be able to work at such a high speed.

2) Still doesn't solve the unfilterable radiation problem, space debris problem, emotional toll, and cost. Granted things WILL improve in the future. They usually do. The problem is, we're both assuming that we will still be around long enough to figure this stuff out. Yes, we humans are smart and resilient but we live in an opportunist world where the longer any species stays alive (humans) the more counter-species (viruses/plague/bacteria) evolve to feed off of and kill the former species. We've extended our stay for quiet a while and are just now starting to feel our eventual fate with the rise of super viruses, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and super flus. And it will only get worse. As we evolve our microsized enemies do too. Lets not forget we're also self destructive.

3) Agreed, we could create habitats that don't kill us but this is assuming we actually reach another planet. Which just isn't going to happen.

4) We would go visit a society that was in its early stages of development just to see how they do it. At the cost of trillions of dollars and the lives of thousands, possibly millions of people over the course of thousands or millions of years. I don't think so.
"It" /ɪt/ is a third-person, singular neuter pronoun (nominative (subjective) case and oblique (objective) case) in Modern English. --Wikipedia, "It (pronoun)"

"neuter pronoun" links to "Gender-neutral pronoun".

So, we have the word. We just refuse to use it.
as far as API's being good or bad, it depends on the requirements that APIs will fullfil. but i have to say, a company should not depend on the outside APIs which we cannot extend as per the future requirements.
"A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made."

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In the US it should be obvious to a person of ordinary skill, not just an expert. I don't think its easy to objectively define a person of ordinary skill either.
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Having more features on a consumer device isn't necessarily a good thing: On the Android side Widgets make sense on a desktop, they even might make sense on a tablet but on a phone sized device they're just adding more useless clutter. And on the iOS side the call rejection thing seems like a great deal of work from a casual glance.

I've had my nose deep into Android tablets (Ice Cream Sandwich) due to a project I'm working on, and the one thing i notice is that there's tons of clutter that doesn't need to be there. And on the flip side there are some annoying things like the power button is never in the same place. The biggest thing I've noticed is that Android starts to feel like a PC screen crammed into a small space -- that may get an engineer or gadget geek excited, but it shows a lack of focus on design and usability.

I will say this though: Even though it's forked and is an older version of Android looking at my Kindle Fire you do get the feeling that Amazon understands usability much more than the other vendors and Google itself. If Amazon makes a phone device or something like Apple TV they'll do very well...
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The problem appears to be:

"The ruling party has been the worst manager of the demand-supply of food grains."

the very idea that a political entity can 'manage' supply and demand.
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I agree with #1 - life extension - that I way I can live long enough to benefit the others.
Germany does not have the population (and the pop is getting older, but not as fast as Japan's).

The contenders are: China, India (a unified Europe -but age is a problem). Russia is borderline has tremendous resources, but lacks the population and suffers from a paternalistic state (very tsarist in modern clothes).

Plus, Germany depends on foreign demand. When the world economy tanks, German economy tanks because there isn't enough internal consumption to pick up the slack --just as in Japan.
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> How does France deal with this situation?

Pretty much the same way.
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