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> the notion that social democracy is necessary arose during the great depression

Yes, it did arise then.

> (because capitalism clearly failed /s)

Not so fast. The interesting question until recently was "why did the great depression last so long?". Remember, all previous depressions and panics ended fairly quickly.

The current answer is FDR's policies, specifically industry and production controls. (To be fair, FDRs policies were actually a continuation of Hoover's, but everyone "forgets" that Hoover was a progressive, so let's credit FDR.) The great depression didn't really end until those policies did, which happened when it became obvious that an "arsenal of democracy" had to produce lots of stuff.

Yes, Hoover started huge stimulus spending, aid progorams and the like, borrowing money, doing the whole Keynes thing. FDR actually campaigned (somewhat) against the resulting deficits. (He also campaigned against Prohibition.)

Hoover was a huge fan of aid programs. One of his big pre-presidency accomplishments was an aid program to Russia after WWI.

Also, the vast majority of congressional Republicans voted for Social Security.
https://github.com/maxymax I'm quite intrigued by his profile. Note the '10,000 commits with 255,815 additions and 29,562 deletions'.
Yes, the time has come for an Apple boycott, both by consumers of their products and by any decent engineers that work for Apple.
Because actually both are using the standard 30-pin PDMI connector and just modify the pins.

http://www.bizlinktech.com/pix/PDMI%20CRADLE%20CONNECTOR2_cl...

The comparison images you found are created by uninformed Verge and Engadget forum trolls. It is absolutely normal that all 30-pin PDMI based cables will look identical other than the branding on them. Samsung feared this would happen and made their cable a different color and put a clearly readable SAMSUNG logo there. Apparently, it wasn't enough.

Also note that this is completely irrelevant right now. Samsung's phones (including the phone-tablet hybrid Galaxy Note) use the standard Micro USB port and they ship with Micro USB cables.
They should change the slide to unlock feature before Apple sees this :)
The hardware on thinkpad's lean toward Intel motherboards, chipsets, cpu's and integrated graphics. Thinkpad's also have superb build quality.

I believe IBM conceived the thinkpad and nurtured it trying to engineer a solid product for corporate world. Retaining customers and creating a perception as a safe choice fit with IBM's ideals.

I believe dell put salesmanship slightly ahead of creating a reliable device. Gateway and HP opted to make a shiny chassis, cheap hardware substitutions, difficult to maintain and subsidized with shareware.

At the end of the day, I do believe Lenovo carries on the thinkpad visage of being a safe choice and not cutting corners like some of the competition.
Two reasons:

1. Lua is very easy to embed into C code. Python and Ruby, not even in the same ball park ...
2. This nginx+lua config is often implemented using LuaJIT. Luajit is the fastest dynamic language. it's speed is very close to Java's in many cases. So, very little performance penalty..
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You really see this as a "plus" from a consumer POV? Things like pinch to zoom and auto-hyperlinks have no place in patents. It may make Samsung differentiate further but at the same time they have to create unintuitive gestures to avoid Apple patents. Can you imagine being a "little guy" trying to get into mobile development? The patent process has effectively made it impossible to create a mobile phone without breaking patents. That's not a win.
Armando Iannucci turns satirical eye on Silicon Valley
Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support
1. Lua is designed to be embedded, it is much easier than trying to embed Ruby or Python into a web server.
2. It is a way off an app as it runs in the same process as the web server.
3. Lua is very small and very fast, so it is fine to use it just for doing tiny things like reading cookies, there is no real overhead (most people use LuaJIT so it is compiled anyway). Remember that the point of many of these examples is to offload from Ruby as it is too slow...

Also, Lua is a very nice language, easy to learn (there is not much of it), and most of the functionality exposed is simply the built in functionality of nginx (async http), plus some libraries, so having the libraries that come with other languages is not that useful as you can't use anything blocking (like with Node) inside Nginx.
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He didn't "run away", he was already in Cambodia at the time of the trial & appeal. http://torrentfreak.com/jail-sentence-for-pirate-bay-co-foun... (edited for correctness)
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I remember having heard about dajaz, yes.

Rojadirecta is an interesting case, in that they were infringing on copyright, but they were found legal in Spain (different legislation), so the U.S. government seized the .com and .org anyways.
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Facebook plays it safe
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It becomes Orwellian when the government demands that government controlled sensors be included in every car.

Apr 19, 2012 – A bill passed in the U.S. Senate would require black boxes to be installed in all new cars sold in the U.S. by 2015
and its only a few clocks and calculators...i'm pretty sure you can get anything to look smooth doing that
Perhaps PG can just pin a "Apple vs. Android" discussion to the top of HN so we don't have 20 articles every few hours on the front page regurgitating almost the exact same set of ~20 comment and counterargument types? Am I the only one getting super tired of this?
On the one hand, yes, facing death over and over again, combined with a psychological willingness to accept whatever happens, can probably take a cool headed person and give them nerves of steel. On the other hand, repeated exposure to extreme stress can also destroy a person if they're not inclined to grow stronger from it. I guess my previous point was, I'm not denying that response to stress can be improved, but there's a strong element of talent in being the sort of person willing to strap oneself to a controlled explosive moving at thousands of miles per hour in the first place.
I have been using this--very handy. Is there a version that doesn't cd? It'd be nice for ls, etc.
It sure is. Sometimes this information is in the form of insider knowledge shared within the old boys network, or misinformation spread to the masses to pump and dump a stock (hello facebook), or tell everyone to buy a house with a white picket fence (take on that mortgage, it's the best investment evah), or market "derivatives" that are "too complex even for the sellers to fully understand". We also have the knowledge on how to patent stuff so the hoi polloi don't get their grubby little fingers on it...

It's all about the CONTROL of information, making use of it to enrich oneself at the expense of others.

Let's not kid ourselves, it's not about sharing sh*t. It's about doling it out piecemeal and selectively, or obsessively, to control opinion and/or maximize profit.

Perhaps not zero-sum, but there are lots of bags held by the partially informed and the less-informed.
I wonder how those cars will perform in places like Hanoi or Nanchang. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oetF3UTIwbc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aodbmS_43M
Before you mistake me to be a 'fanboy' of Samsung, please understand, I am not, instead, I just want to tell you the facts.

Samsung Galaxy S2 was released in May 2011, iPhone 4s, was released in October 2011. The Galaxy S2 has had a voice command feature well before Siri came into light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0A-zCis_A0

Also, its funny how I don't see you mention about the slide-down notifications that Apple has 'wholesale ripped off' (in your language).
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I stopped caring much about extra minutes on the road when cruise control became standard equipment - years ago. When I drive a car without cruise I tend to be competitive and aggressive, but with cruise I set it and chill out. People may pass but I no longer care.

Bring on the Google cars and I'll detach completely.
So the idea is interesting, but I think adding something like this onto Nginx could lead to problems in the future.

For what you're trying to do, I feel like implementing your reverse proxy in Go may prove to be less prone to errors. Go has ReverseProxy stuff already built in: http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/httputil/#ReverseProxy

Go already has a pretty strong following doing near exactly what you are doing here with Nginx + Lua. But that would require learning a new language and screwing with infrastructure, which always is a giant pain.
Sorry, but your comparisons are a bit off. Apple might be inspired by Sony, yet innovated on top (like any good innovator does). What Samsung did are cheap copies (as well as HP and Asus for their ultrabooks).
This has nothing to do with industry "inspiration" this is plain copying:
http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4dadf745ccd1d5aa3f1...

Downvote me if you want. I don't agree with what Apple does. However, if something like that would happen to me, I would be really angry. Samsungs S-Voice anybody??

Samsung is a great hardware company, yet they are cheap copy-cats when it comes to UI design /services.

The patents are ridiculous (as any software patents are). This holds for anybody suing, be it Apple, Samsung, Motorola (Google), etc. Keep in mind that Apple did not start this mess.

I actually believe that these lawsuits will let us get more innovation (as people need to come up with fresh designs like Nokia and Microsoft did ... and won't copy like Samsung).
In this case, there's a nonzero chance the author saw the HN discussion and made a quick post. After all, it is TechCrunch ...
I've got the Lenovo ThinkPad T430s (The i7 edition that includes a thunderbolt port).

"stock" Ubuntu 12.04 runs great, bar an issue with suspend/resume.. But - Grabbing the official test packages[1] for the 3.5.0 kernel have sorted everything..

I don't have any Thunderbolt devices to test with, but DisplayPort monitor's certainly work on the Thunderbolt port..

EDIT: I should add.. avoid ANY laptops from ANY brand that include "dual" graphics eg NVidia "Optimus" etc. I've got the Intel HD 4000 card, it runs Unity perfectly..

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There's a huge difference between "able and willing to do them" and "did them."
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Oh God how could possibly do 10,000 commits on a single file?
The likelihood of the Teamster's union allowing (i.e., not obstructing) driverless cargo hauling to succeed in the US would be close to zero.
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He actually did a ton of other stuff, and was constantly annoyed that everyone ignored it and only ever talked about his moon mission.
I've been using a tool called autojump that does a similar thing and I love it.. https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

Tools like Z and autojump are fantastic timesavers.
Yes, the Galaxy S2 had a voice command system, that did not look like Siri. Siri appears and check out how the voice command system looks on the S3 ... like Siri :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_iFDigHo0Q
Steam Greenlight day one: 622 games have been posted
EU funding 'Orwellian' AI plan to monitor public for "abnormal behaviour"
I use fasd, which is just like z, v, autojump, only much more powerful: https://github.com/clvv/fasd
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That's an interesting thought. Driverless cars could also be used for targeted assassinations by provoking deadly accidents. Of course, it can be done with regular cars except that whoever causes the accident has to be willing to put his life on the line.
Are there any examples of hackers successfully inserting exploits into a popular codebase like this?
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No; for $62 of shares, you buy $62 of shares.

The Price-to-Earnings ratio is the ratio of the total outstanding share value to the company's income in the previous year.

Facebook's income in 2011 was $1B. At the IPO share price of $38, the value of the total outstanding shares was around $100B, giving them a P/E ratio of 100 ($100B / $1B = 100). Now that the share price has fallen by half, the P/E ratio is closer to 50.

The P/E ratio is used to give an indication of how highly a company's stock is valued in relation to the profit they make. Companies with a high P/E ratio are typically expected by shareholders to report higher profits in the future. Those with a low ratio are expected to remain flat or contract. For high-growth companies, like triple-digit growth, a P/E ratio between 50-100 is not unheard of, but is relatively high, and an indication of an exceptionally high degree of confidence in the company. A ratio in the 20-40 range is more common for growing companies. 10 and under typically indicates a relative lack of faith in growth prospects by investors.

There are many more factors to consider than relation to last year's profits when determining the value of a stock, but this is a very commonly used metric.
Right. Blame America for Sweeden. Besides the guy's entire MO was distributing stolen files. In the article, the guy's t-shirt says it all. Anyway you slice it, he's no better than the Russian mobsters that steal credit card numbers. If you think everything should be free, then please leave your address so I can help myself to your stuff.
I've found Atheros wifi chips to work well too.
If you like his Z, check out his V (if you use Vim).

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Yes, that's the general idea.

Your $62 today theoretically gives you some right to $1 per year of earnings + every other year after that, taking into account earnings growth (So, the case for high P/E ratios is that earnings growth will be fast enough that that $1 quickly turns into $2 each year) Apple's P/E, for more comparison, is at 16.

But more specifically, since facebook doesn't pay a dividend, you won't see that $1 each year because Facebook will re-invest their earnings into their business. You're essentially saying that facebook will invest that $1 into growing their earnings faster than you could generate a similar return by investing in something else. When a company reaches a point where the market is mature and further investment will likely not result in a earnings growth rate that beats similar alternative investments, it pays a dividend and the stock actually becomes a cash stream, which you can then re-invest or spend freely.
The ASUS zenbook primes with 13" 1920x1080 screens sure look nice, but I've seen mixed reviews of Linux compatibility. Does anybody have any experience here?

They seem like serious MacBook Air killers with similar hardware and much, much better screens. But they'd have to run Linux, of course, because they can't be taken seriously if they're crippled with Windows.
Yes. A P/E rate this high implies that the market believes Facebook will considerably increase its earnings in the future. The lower P/E ratio of Google and Apple implies that the market does not believe in significant earnings growth in the future.

You rarely buy a stock looking only at the company's present situation. For instance, Ford for a long time had a price/assets value smaller than 1, which meant that one dollar of Ford stock gave you more than 1 dollar's worth of Ford's assets. But during this time, Ford was also losing a lot of money.
I'm not saying it's something to rely on, but if the artist is: not American, not singing in English, not from the top hit lists, not from popular genre and published albums years ago... yet they get included in the library, that means the choice goes far beyond what you usually get to hear. And that's just a great thing, whether you like specific artist or not.
Founder of The Pirate Bay arrested in Cambodia. Sentenced for a year in jail
Mark Cuban: "the USA has bifurcated into two employment worlds"
For a while I tried to use the Trackpoint exclusively. I love the position of it and I love the idea of having a very keyboard-centric setup. Ultimately, I stopped using it because I could never control the slight drift that happens when I'm trying to stop over something. I always seem to go past my destination and then have to navigate back. Maybe I'll give it another try.

As mentioned in linked comment, Ubuntu running in Virtualbox presented no problems at all and I'm happy with current setup.
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> Mocking evil hackers is a very stupid idea.

So, every script kiddie is an "evil hacker" now?

> Oh and I believe they tried this because someone was successful in the past if I remember correctly.

Source?
The phrase you're looking for appears to be "logical punctuation."

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2011/05/the...
Nicely done. I presume there is no sound? I have also seen this done in an Excel spreadsheet with very realistic game-play and sound.
This "if not Apple someone else would have done it" argument is the biggest pile of horseshit Apple apologists have been spewing since these lawsuits started. Do we see similar search lawsuits started by Google against Bing? Or against Duckduckgo?