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I take a diametrically opposed viewpoint to this. Everyone should be required to vote. In Australia, among other nations, if you don't vote you pay a fine. Voting in the U.S. should be as mandatory as jury duty, if not more so.

When you are required to do something, and when all of your peers, family, and friends are required to do the same thing, it generates a much greater discussion around it.

There's this view in the US that voting is a right, not a privilege. When you treat something as non-valuable, then its much easier to take that thing away. Thinking of something as a privilege like borrowing your parents' car when you're young or having the freedom to worship your religion of choice or not makes it much more valuable to you. (Yes, I know that freedom of religion is a right. Don't be pedantic and quibble. People treat the issue like a privilege, whether its a Constitutional right or not.)

In the US, the right to bear arms is considered sacred by many. While its referred to as a 'right', millions of Americans treat it like a privilege. When someone threatens to take that away, people are rather vocal about protecting it.

So you're right, I won't tell you to vote. But I will do everything in my power to force you to vote, and to care about what you're being required to do. This is one time that telling people to have and care about an opinion is better for everyone.
Ok, so please define "informed".

Political opinion seems to suffer from an especially savage form of Dunning–Kruger. Often are the most steadfast and vocal in their opinions and the least objective.

Let's say for example, the economy. Maybe one party suggests lowering taxes on the "middle class" to stimulate spending and the other guy wants to make sure we don't tax the "job creators" so that they don't move overseas.

How am I supposed to know which is best? Do I need a degree in Keynesian economics or can I just listen to a few talking heads on the local news?
Ya, I really did try my best. In my reconsideration request, after removing bad links as good as I could, I even apologized, just in case the Google reviewer reading my request might see that I'm being genuine.
I expected it. These are the rhetoric sentences everyone who claims to know 'more' about them seems to be copying on HN, possibly without understanding the fact that NO ONE is talking about utility patents here. That's why I wrote that I hope you read the patent before commenting. Contrary to what iPhone fans would like to believe, most of us DO know the difference. But what you should know is,
(i)They DO sue over design patents.
(ii). This particular patent specifically says unbroken (dashed) lines are not included in the patent. So the only thing that is the basis of this patent is the rounded rectangular front shape (which is represented by the unbroken lines, in fact, that's the whole point of the article, which fanboys don't seem to understand). It'd have made at least some sense if all the lines were unbroken. Then THAT would be a design they'd have to exactly copy in order to infringe. But not with this patent.
You are a bit naive, eh? Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_translator
Bankruptcy ruins your credit. It disqualifies you from holding certain jobs (such as in a company requiring people handling cash to be bonded), not to mention that credit checks are part of background checks these days. Some debt is difficult to discharge in bankruptcy (student loans). It can hurt chances of getting security clearance.

What the OP is offering seems to be a nice alternative.
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There are many reasons:

* Inspiration - the space program was a huge morale booster and directly responsible for a lot of people going into the science/engineering professions.

* Dual-use technologies - most of the problems you end up solving have other uses, from little things like velcro up to ICBM and other weapons tech. Or, you could think of it as giving an alternative to those who want to work on big explody things, but aren't comfortable with them being used to kill people.

* Economic stimulus - those billions of dollars aren't just disappearing. A large amount of the space industry is US based, and that money goes to them and their employees and creates/maintains both skilled and unskilled jobs.

* Scientific research - There are plenty of things we don't know that would benefit from modern sensing or analysis capabilities that weren't available in '72.

* Human progress - At the rate humanity is expanding, eventually we're probably need to gather resources off-planet, whether it's orbiting solar power satellites or asteroid mining, that tech needs to be developed. The longer term goal of actually colonising some place else is also pretty important if we consider progress & survival on a long enough scale.

All of these are I think good reasons why it should be done (again). That's not to say it should necessarily be done by the government, but it's certainly not money wasted in the way people often claim.
The "big corps vs. the little guy consumers" notion is cute but I think the problem is more along the lines of very few advertisers wanting to be on a site with areas like /r/jailbait and /r/creepshots (or whatever took their place this week).
Unless they don't (Or if you were in fact liable). Depending on the numbers you look at 1 in 7 drivers in uninsured or underinsured[1]. This is why you should have uninsured/underinsured coverage as part of your auto policy (on my policy it's $12 per year for $50,000 of coverage).

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-11/...
Seems like that's a result of jacked-up medical fees, not insufficient insurance.
Oh shoot, I missed the last paragraph. Thanks
He wasn't trying to discredit anyone. The point is that there's something of a media frenzy about Silver right now, but I think he's saying there's something that doesn't feel right about it, and I agree.

Silver does good work, but let's be real - all he does is aggregate existing poll data, and give more weight to pollsters who call cell phones as well as land lines. It's the ground-level pollsters who are geniuses, Silver is just aggregating their work. Smart, but hardly rocket science.

If there's any real genius involved, I'd say it's in the PR campaign that's promoting Silver right now. It's clearly effective and well done.
jwz's thesis, that uninformed people shouldn't vote, is overwhelmingly correct

I rephrase that as "It is not good to have uninformed people voting." There are two ways to fix that: One is to work on the word "voting," the other is to work on the word "uninformed."
This is very similar to a projected supposed to help the Greek public debt situation. http://www.greecedebtfree.org/
Isn't this also bad for your credit? Well, I guess maybe it's just less bad than bankruptcy or not paying anything at all.
Gittip is short for "gift tip". Yes, saving a whole 1 letter.
Gittip, short for “gift tip,”

I think it's git as in... git-scm, correct?

Here's a post from a few days ago with lots of discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4743954
"CBS said the seven worked for two days this spring and summer as paid consultants on the videogame."
There're a slew of new flight booking startups like http://wuhutravel.com and http://sillk.co that I believe are trying to entice younger travellers by apparently launching features like you just mentioned raldi (based on screenshots I've seen on dribbble from their designers)...
Would you be able to elaborate the different characteristics of a good factory in China versus say Indonesia, Vietnam or India?
It is also accumulated by being bled dry and having paid the original debt many times over.
Extreme Isolation EX-29s. I have a bunch of them from my recording studio. 29dB of isolation. Me and my partner never fly without them. She puts earplugs in under the phones but I tend to listen to music or noise.

In my opinion sound isolation headphones blow away noise cancelling headphones for air travel. As long as you're comfortable with the look.

http://www.extremeheadphones.com/products/ex-29-headphones

Some other suggested the etymotics, but I can't stand in ear phones, or ones that rest on your pinna. I find them so uncomfortable. The Ex29s are circumaural so are very comfortable for long sessions.
Thanks Paul! I'm reluctant to try this in conjunction with developing any HN scrapers since I'm not sure what set it off in the first place and your language suggests it will only unban the IP once (I will, however, make sure the CMU IP I was using gets unbanned). It would be helpful to know what, precisely, that hair trigger is so we can make sure to avoid it.
It depends where you are in the world. I believe they're exceptionally popular in some parts of Asia like China and Korea. In places where everyone has a personal computer powerful enough for everything they do with it, and with a tablet/laptop just about every cafe is an internet cafe.

Even still, there are niches to fill in such places. Relatively recently (last year I think) a place here opened with exceptionally high performance PCs/net connection, comfortable chairs, etc, which focuses on gaming. Every time I walk past it's packed, so they're doing something right.
We don't even have a particularly good data model. If you're interested in the water cycle, you'll have to construct that data from dozens of agencies in hundreds of governments.

If the data was collected, linked together and published in an accessible form, more people could experiment with statistics, machine learning and visualization. Right now the data is in labyrinthine web forms, SOAP services, XLS files, GIS systems, etc. The barrier to entry needs to be lower.
If I recall correctly, during the robo signing debacle - some banks ended up losing control/chain of ownership on those mortgages.

So in that subset of cases no one even legally owns the debt, (but the banks still tried to assert control. IIRC the judicial system didn't take too kindly to their assertion)
Josh Putnam is considered in the article, which looks at a finer level of detail than just correctly predicting the states.
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I'm no expert in credit scores, but... If the original creditor already filed with the credit bureaus, that's definitely a negative on your credit. But I think the OWS can report that you "repaid" the debt which would be good. They could also bargain with the creditor to remove the negative report. Also, just reducing your balance of debt is good for credit. Plus, I don't think there's anything worse you can do for your score or future hopes of loans than declaring bankruptcy.
The difference is Google will release another Nexus within one year that will likely have LTE. MSFT makes a new Windows version every 4 years or so.
I would not mind buying and forgiving someone's debt blindly. I've been in situations where $2000 debt destroyed my ability to survive independently. While now I could pay off 2K instantly without even feeling it. How lovely it would be to relieve someone of that burden!
Git, as in git-scm yes. I cringed when I read that.

EDIT: Just read their website. It really does stand for "gift tips". My foot is now firmly in my mouth.
> When you are required to do something, and when all of your peers, family, and friends are required to do the same thing, it generates a much greater discussion around it.

I'm Australian.

Compulsory voting does no such thing. Australians begrudge voting (and that we must fully enumerate our preferences).

The pragmatic reason for having compulsory voting is to provide a better sample of what the population wants. In effect, to dilute the crazies.

Voluntary voting is dominated by the question of motivation and ability. Those who are motivated and easily able to vote set the agenda.

Ever wondered why US politics is dominated by so many basically tangential issues?

Because whether you are pro or contra, abortion / marijuana / the death penalty / public health etc are classic issues to Get Out The vote.

And the consequences continue.

Ever wondered why US politics is about soaring rhetoric and heart-crushing negativity?

Because the basic strategy is: inspire your own voters so they turn out ("Yes we can!", "America is at a crossroads") and make the other guy's voters disillusioned enough so that, while they won't vote for you, they'll just stay at home.

Australian politics is more about transactional than transcendental issues, simply because the great bulk of people are required to vote whether they want to or not.

To summarise: it does not greatly improve the quality of voters. It improves the quality of outcomes.
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sorry, you asked for code and i sent you to the ebook. :P
MoH had some issues earlier with a MoH branded SOG tomahawk:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-14-the-medal-of-ho...

http://soldiersystems.net/2012/08/20/an-american-perspective...

On a side note I think there were a lot of neat ideas in MoH but sadly it seems the game had to be rushed out in order to beat Halo and CoD:BO.
Do these people still get stuck with a crappy credit rating? Doesn't seem fair to everyone else if their score stays good due to OWS picking up the slack
A such mode had been advertised. You can read on http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers... that Chris is a vim user and they'll use CodeMirror to provides such keybindings.

My main concern is that being vim'ish isn't just about the keybindings, it's way more than that. For example, commands, like :map <leader>r :!bundle exec rake spec %<cr> or in Vjj to select two lines then :'<,'>Tabularize/=>/ to align the hashrockets on two selected lines.

Same goes for splitting panes, with C-w s and so on.

I'd kill for a "modern vim" and I'm really eager to see Light Table released. As Chris is a vim user, I have good hopes for LT's usability in a vim way. If it requires some changes in my vim habits and I can still control everything without too much chordings, I'll happily deal with it :)
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I strongly doubt the bonds/underlying is being sold at market value -

I assume its similar to factoring (? I forget if thats the precise term) but these are likely Non Performing loans. The original debt would be sold at fractions of the original price by banks to a collection agency.

From what I remember of economic theory, this is essentially a stimulus directed at those who have the hardest time dealing with debt. So on a simple superficial take - not bad at all, it seems even more targeted than a full stimulus to maintain all aspects of the economy.

Edit: TO be clear - I agree with your final point. Essentially you are saying that if we invest in growth and growth increases, it would be the best way for people to get out of their quagmires.
In that respect, such a debt forgiveness is linked with increasing growth from what I recall.
When you invest in debt via peer to per lenders like Prosper and Lending Club you aren't actually buying the persons debt you are purchasing a registered security from the respective p2p company who is the actual holder of the debt.

The security is structured in such a way that only the p2p company has the right to collect on the debt should the debtor default.
In shock revelation, OWS blames all ills of world on "the 1%". Film at, you guessed it, 11.

One of the reasons OWS isn't more popular is that 99% of the 99% understands that the vast majority of personal debt was and is incurred by regular people living beyond their means, and not by nefarious schemes by nefarious monocle-wearing capitalists. Unsympathetic as it might be, they merely provided the rope.
Thoughtful piece. The insides of markets look very different than what you read in the press. The scope of complexity and considerations, is outlined here.
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So you paint this great picture about the history of an affluent white family with success built upon previous generations' success.

But then you talk about a poor white person and compare him to a poor black person saying they're not in the same boat. What does this poor white person have to do with your successful white family? That whole story is not relevant to this person as an individual.

We can see that on a historic scale the entire group of people that can trace back to slavery was more hard done by than others. But that means nothing to this poor white person. In fact, he may have suffered oppression by government in some other form. He may have just shown up during slavery fleeing a war-torn country, or political or religious imprisonment. Or this government may have falsely imprisoned his grandfather years ago. On a large scale it's nothing like the systemic oppression of slavery, but the point is, he doesn't feel responsible for any of the other guy's issues.

It is well known that the government in the past was in the wrong. But when it comes down to individuals, it's going to be difficult for someone to accept that a guy living next door scraping by on food stamps gets a boon from the government every month, and they don't, simply because they are white. I see your point, that the white person's problems are less attributable to the government than the black person's. But I don't think that this is the way to stamp out racism or even make people feel any better about the past. I think this is the wrong way to go about fixing things.

I think it would be better to make a big deal about government racism and punish it going forward in a very serious way. I think people will appreciate ongoing work to punish current and future offenders much more than a handout for wrongs past.

Also, helping those who are economically challenged based on their economic situation makes more sense than trying to correctly and accurately attribute their economic situation to their race and offenses from decades past. The government is going to end up helping some poor white people in this case along with helping some poor black people. I don't think that's a bad thing.

Unfortunately, in this scenario some black people aren't going to be helped. In fact, even some black people who can directly trace their history back to slaves aren't going to get help because they aren't sufficiently poor today. That's not ideal, but hopefully they would appreciate that going forward, racism is being discouraged and at least some attempts are being made to assist the less fortunate.

Obviously there is no silver bullet here, and there will never be complete agreement on how to deal with this. But I absolutely do not think that continuing to make decisions and policy based on race is the way to show that racism is not okay. It's a completely toxic way of thinking that needs to be eliminated - especially from government.
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Twitter a été monopolisé par la victoire historique de Barack Obama. Le désormais célèbre 4moreyears (4 ans de plus) et la photo du candidat démocrate enlaçant Michelle Obama font sensation.
It was Kyolic 100. I was taking one a day but the bottle says 2.
Well put. Lets not forget the relevant science: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16206336
When the markets dropped and wealth "vanished" the government fixed it by adding back that wealth by printing money and giving it to banks. Same concept with giving it to people. OWS and like-minds oppose corporate welfare when it's not afforded to common people.
Well, one letter, but two characters.
Whether you begrudge it or not, the majority of Australians go to the polls when required, I assume. Generating discussion about something doesn't at all mean its something people take joy or pride in doing. That isn't a requirement in the equation.

Transactional voting is perfectly adequate. Its the minimum requirement you need to have a successful democracy. It still leaves room for the politicians that want to inspire people, or try to make them fear the other candidate, etc. But it also makes people talk about the day to day business of getting by. We sorely are lacking that here in the US.

I don't care about improving the quality of voters implicitly. That is a side effect of mandatory voting. Improving the outcome is the primary target.

Overall, I appreciate your comments and take the view that they illustrate and expand on my points, rather than refute them.
@patio11, you need to understand two important facts:

1. The executive branch has broad discretion about bringing people to the judiciary branch for sanction. For example, district attorneys do not prosecute every case brought to them.

2. Occupy has excellent legal council. At the local, state, and federal level the few (none?) of the cases that have been brought to court have resulted in a conviction. I cite the victory record as proof of their skill and occupy's integrity, not of a lust for litigation.

Don't hate the players, hate the game.
I'm just at a loss. The poll told you how many voters it thought would appear, based on factors including internal modelling and the enthusiasm quesiton. And your argument is that you should throw the aggregate data out based on that one number, that they already included? That's insane; it's quite literally cherry picking.

And, of course, it's just flat wrong. That you would defend this behavior is just beyond me. It was a mistake, it wasn't ever a reasonable interpretation of the data, and plenty of smart people said so at the time.
At the point that OWS is buying the debt it has likely already effected the individuals credit record and score which would make it much more difficult for the person to get additional credit for some number of years.
One military analyst I was listening to on the news said that this would effectively end their careers.
Sure. "And we're just firing you because of bad economic situation". Plausible deniability only works when it's plausible.
Which is why it took a government regulated monopoly to come up with Unix and the transistor...
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Market value of a non-performing loan is a fraction of par, often pennies on the dollar. The lender will likely not sell to OWS for less than what they are being offered by the market.

If these are NPLs the borrower has not been making payments - they go from not making payments on an NPL to not making payments on a forgiven loan. The lender, on the other hand, goes from owning worthless paper to having cash on hand. The stimulus comes only if performing or distressed loans still being serviced are bought, but the price for these will be much higher.
There are some advantages, at least in the case of a programmable mouse like the one in question. Once you've got all seven thousand buttons programmed Just So, you can then upload the profile to the cloud and have it automatically synced with any other machine you might happen to use the mouse with -- say, a PC at a LAN party.

Of course, this is about as small as an advantage can get, since I'm struggling to think of a person who cares that much about their mouse profile who wouldn't also lug their own PC to the party. So it's not all disadvantages, it's just nearly all disadvantages.
We used to have waterfall projects where everything is specified upfront and tried to describe a system we don't know about. My point is not to go back to that but just to think deeper about the high level problem to give more directions about a solution the project manager already know about (or can ask the customer during meetings). That just try to prevent useless iterations which doesn't enhancement the solution through a better understanding of the problem but fix communication issue because people with different background don't know how to communicate.
Instead of operating this as a charity (doesn't scale), why not sell the debt back to the original lendees at face value. (Buy back your $15k loan for $500.)

I guess that wouldn't be legal, though?
Completely vapid at best
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