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>Deflation is actually a good thing, because in a deflation prices drop and money becomes more valuable, so deflation encourages people to save money.

And saving is always good. (Except when it isn't.)

Do you know what happens to nominal investment returns during a period of deflation? They become negative. The money will be worth more tomorrow than it is today if you "save" it -- not necessarily invest it, just save it. So why go out and invest it in something where you could risk losing your money if you can just stick it in your mattress and have it be worth more tomorrow?

In consequence the people with disposable income don't spend or invest, they "save" by purchasing and storing money, investing in currency itself because it has a better ROI than other alternatives. It's an economic catastrophe. It has been credited with causing the Great Depression.

There are ways to promote investment (as opposed to "saving") over spending if that's what you want to do. Adopt consumption-based taxes rather than income-based taxes so that wealth remains untaxed until spent, incentivizing investment over spending without promoting currency hoarding.

>They want to create as much money as they want, and assuming they always intend to do good things with the money, then they want to be able to do that so they can "fix" things.

Central banks don't really "decide" what to do with the money. The Fed just buys treasury securities with it, which lowers interest rates because it reduces the market supply of those securities by taking them off the open market. This generally does stimulate the economy because it puts the newly created money in the hands of whoever would otherwise have held those treasury securities, who as an investor will now have to invest in something else (because fewer treasury securities are now on the market). In other words, it creates demand for investment securities of all types by reducing the supply of the safest forms, pushing investors toward higher risk securities (like stocks) that may better provide funding for business opportunities that create economic growth.

It also has the effect of lowering interest rates on treasury securities, which makes it cheaper for governments to borrow money (and plausibly thereby increases their propensity for deficit spending). But it also lowers the interest rates they pay on outstanding debt, which leaves more tax dollars to go toward (theoretically) useful programs rather than going to paying higher interest rates on the debt. But creating the money is not the problem in itself (provided the level of inflation remains within reason), the problem is when governments take it as an opportunity to deficit spend on wasteful programs.
Oh for heaven's sake. This is standard UK copyright boilerplate, because the 'first sale' doctrine does not exist in British law. And in any case, it's put there by the record publisher, not the band. I've never listened to them, but singling them out for complaint like this is completely yellow journalism.
A simple Google search for "Unauthorized copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited" returns many hits for other bands with the same terms.

As others say it's standard boiler plate.
There are some projects which legally can't be hosted on third party servers. Sometimes it's not about security but legal bindings. Even though they don't make sense, they do exist. There are also situations where you simply can't explain the benefits of Github to the decision maker.
Unions have very little to do with free markets, and they typically do not actually benefit everyone in labor (they benefit some folks who are already in the union). Because of the way our labor laws work unions, in the instances where they are prevalent, tend to end up being a monopoly on labor for a given industry. This creates distortions in the market just as great as monopolies of capital. Also, unions tend to erode meritocratic systems of compensation and advancement and replace them with systems based on seniority and union membership, which tends to disadvantage the business, customers, and most workers except those few at the top of the seniority ladder.
It was put in the store way after its initial release on most platforms. And I'm pretty sure anyone who got it in the humble bundle got a direct download.

Trying to infer something about the state of Linux gaming from this single statistic is just kinda silly.
It's prix fixe, the dinner consists of 14 courses and lasts over 3 or 4 hours. You don't get to chose food any more than you get to chose music. There's an exception for extra wine (that comes with a bill), but few people take it as what's sever is plentiful and well mar matched.

And there is plenty of interaction with people about food, just none about things that aren't food.
Sure, but my point is that a die hard free market advocate should either disagree with what you just said, or swallow that hard pill and say that the problems with unions are just a necessary evil. Instead, many seem to be vehemently anti-union while still holding to a "the free market will solve everything" point of view.

I'm not saying that unions are perfect. I'm saying that it's inconsistent to admit that they can be problematic while still holding that the free market is the ideal.
Yes, I bought the book earlier, although it contains some valuable things but it needs an editorial review. It shows kind of things wich not simple, just complex (I said simple, not easy).
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This is why we should be using small, focused, interoperable modules instead of large monolithic frameworks and applications that try to do everything.

A plugin architecture format shared by applications would be invaluable and solve this problem.
I have HBO and I still pirated every episode of Game of Thrones last season. It’s just a lot easier for me. I am not interested in my life revolving around TV schedudles so watching it on linear HBO is not something I’m going to do. I won’t make the commitment to be in front of my TV every Sunday night at exactly the same time. Just not interested. If that was my only choice I probably wouldn’t watch it at all. The DVR I get from my cable company should solve the linear TV problem but it really doesn’t because it’s such a low quality product. Sometimes it fails to record things. The UI is really clunky. It’s not uncommon to see digital distortions and other problems with the way it records. It also has very little space available to do much HD recording. It’s also not a multi-room DVR so if I record Game of Thrones on my living room DVR I can’t watch it in my bedroom unless I physically disconnect and move the box. They do offer multi-room DVRs however the cost is just too high. I won’t pay that much for the privilage to rent such low quality equipment.
There are about 30-40 million Americans who watch HBO shows legally, and we agree, a lot of them would be happy to pay us directly. If we went, as you put it, “cable-optional,” we’d be breaking our existing, mega-million-dollar contracts with our current partners, and from what we’ve seen, they wouldn’t be too happy about that

To which my response is, "Welcome to the local maximum, HBO. Make yourself comfortable, as you'll be here a while."
Rails's conventions are great, and that is what makes it rails. Move on...
That makes sense. It sounds like you've got your stuff in order, but just in case I'd recommend running the numbers on that extra $200 to see if there's any place it could do you more good.
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I think what you are in need is nothing to do with model separation. But, you need to be careful about which code belongs to your business logic. For the views you mentioned, I don't know your code but I think you may use something interim, like a presenter code which takes data from the models and helps views to show it.
It's not necessarily "make better content" but rather "make a better product", primarily the distribution system.
Gee, that sounds like their problem, not mine.
dons' explanation will be better/more rigorous than mine, but in a more familiar syntax (Python), let's say you've got some functions:

def get_user(id):
# returns None if no such user exists
return Database.Users.get(id)

def send_message(user):
user.send(message)

def main():
user = get_user(1)
# uhoh -- this could be None and we didn't handle it!
send_message(user)

So, we add a None check:

def main():
user = get_user(1)
if user != None:
send_message(user)

But... what if we want to log the status of that send_message call?

def send_message(user):
try:
user.send(message)
return None
except Exception, e:
return "Failed to send message; {0}".format(e)

(Note that this is a contrived example, please don't critique the general dumbness ;)).

Now...

def main()
user = get_user(1)
if user != None:
response = send_message(user)
if response != None:
log(response)

As you can see, it's getting a bit hairy. But, what if we had a class that dealt with the Nones for us? This is what a monad is: an interface, that many different instances implement, which provides some behavior. The following only deals with single-argument functions, but:

def NoneMonad(Monad):
def __init__(self, arg):
self.arg = arg

def bind(self, func):
if arg != None:
next_arg = func(arg)
return NoneMonad(next_arg)
else:
return NoneMonad(None)

Now, we...

def main(self):
NoneMonad(1).bind(get_user)
.bind(send_message)
.bind(log)

And, boom, the Nones are handled. Real, non-contrived Monads do more (and implement other behaviours -- like in dons' example, the Either response, or the Maybe monad, etc.), but hopefully this demonstrates the strength. Haskell's typically used as the example language, because there's syntax sugar in Haskell for making dealing with Monads prettier :).

Having finally grokked them, it surprised me how simple the concept is. I think for people (like me!) coming from Java, Python, etc. who've not had to deal with the concept, there's this sort of imbued myth that they're a much more difficult concept than they really are. It's as simple as: a Monad is an interface, that can be implemented, that provides a construct for executing code in.

Please forgive any blinding mistakes I've made in my code.
No, that's not quite right.

They initially rejected the game. Once it got popular, Canonical wanted to put it in, but because of the earlier rejection and the SMB stuff, Ed declined.

So their statement was technically correct, but without knowing the full context was misleading.
Interest probably wouldn't fall below zero. Also no incentive to lend money rather than hold so not so much incentive to offer good rates anyway.

Savings rates might well go negative though.

Steve Keen as linked to is well worth a read rather than my first approximation guesses.
Wrong. If it's sold in the US, first sale applies. That's why it's called the 'first sale' doctrine, not the 'first manufacture' doctrine. I already have books that were printed in Mexico and China, and you probably do too.
Books in the UK routinely ban lending in their copyright notice. I assume this means that in the UK, unlike the US, that is a valid thing to do. The text is probably just a holdover from the UK, or printed so that a single package can be sent to both the UK and US. In any case, I'm pretty sure the do-not-lend clause holds no power in the US and can be safely ignored.
Well, there are problems with BoI that occur specifically because it is a Flash game. (Thus the rewrite mentioned elsewhere.)
Zimbabwe and Iran are bad examples, because hyperinflation in these countries was caused by sanctions and significant drop in production capacity.
It is entirely possible to build this kind of API in a SQL server with constraints and stored procedures.
How do you define quality? Cheesiness (or lack thereof)? Intellectual depth? Emotional depth? Ease of consumption (the opposite of intellectual depth)? Visual effects?

There are lots of popular movies that many would say have low quality, but score highly in some of the aforementioned categories. Many people I know really liked The Avengers, and loved the scene where The Hulk was tossing around Loki. They can't understand why I disliked the movie, or why was my least favorite scene in the entire show.
It does mean they are terrible _in my opinion_, though :) My opinion does count for something, just like theirs.
I'm selling my PC museum!
> But you don’t become wealthy by spending and consuming; you become wealthy by producing and saving

You can't be producing and saving without somebody consuming and spending (unless by 'saving' you mean just hoarding the stuff you produced, but even then you have to be spending in order to produce)
s/even/especially/. most mobile versions of sites load just as much cruft as standard browser pages.
One wouldn't doubt that there are well-paying jobs in North Dakota, but with a total of 700K people living in the whole state one immediately ask just how many $120K jobs there are, and how many applicants there are for each such job.
How exactly do I go about paying for, say, Dexter?
I disagree. Understanding how users use your software and what they are trying to accomplish with it is important, and it is not always obvious why a user is asking for a particular feature without asking. Furthermore, when you learn what the user is trying to accomplish with the feature they are asking for you may realize that there is a better way of providing that functionality rather than the specific approach the user requested.
I believe your interpretation is correct.

In the UK, it is illegal to lend copyrighted works, with exceptions for some public transfers (18A of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/18A) or under very specific "fair dealing" clauses.

It is even currently illegal to copy your own CD, though that will specifically be changed shortly by some new legislation (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/about/press/press-release/press-releas...).
It would be nice if newer browsers could start including average speed data in the http header. Then you could have servers that would offer up more or less weighty versions of the website based on projected load times. For browsers not attaching this header info, you could just assume the worst case scenario.

Even if maintaining multiple versions of the site would be a pain, it would at least be nice to do something like this during a site redesign. If a user has a fast enough connection, and load times aren't projected to be terrible, serve up the new heavier site. If not, serve up the older site. Then you could get some metrics about what percentage of your users still need the old design around, and how important it would be to cut weight on a redesign if needed.

I'm a technical lightweight so i might have messed up some of the details, but hopefully the idea is still interesting.
Yeah, and it makes no sense.
Region locks are not desired by copyright holders, but by the distributors in those regions who want exclusivity within their retail territory. Suppose you make a product and discover that someone in, say, Indonesia is faking and selling a counterfeit version. Are you equipped to sue them? Probably not unless you're a large global firm, so it makes more sense for you to sell your product through a distributor in that territory. Likewise, pricing is different because incomes and economies are different. You charge the price the market will bear in each territory.

None of this prevents individuals from buying something for themselves overseas and taking it home to use. But it does prevent bulk importation, which parties to a distribution agreement are contractually required to combat.
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It depends why you're getting it.
What does the word "Amazon" have to do with selling books? Or "Google" with searching?

Having the "best" name doesn't really help you build a brand.
Yes, I paid slightly more than I probably should've for a domain (no-where near this much but in terms of how important it was) and it'll hinder you from making future pivots or product changes which could be bad.

When looking for domain names I found one that was on sale for $100k, simply as a joke I offered $10k and they accepted this. Obviously I don't even have that but it probably means you don't need to pay so much. Most people look at how much domains were worth in 2000 and think they can start the bidding at that price.

If the name is still for sale and they're willing to sell it, it probably isn't worth what they're asking for it. If you can find someone with experience in the space that you trust, this helped me a lot. Traffic is also key in most names, unless they're a short one word .com they aren't worth much without a lot of traffic.
The funny thing is I'm neither American nor in the USA, but I'm sure they've still got some intel on me (since USCIS does legally have my records anyway).
> unions tend to erode meritocratic systems of
> compensation and advancement

If such meritocratic systems exist, the awards are only dependent on the merits of your corporate politicking skills.
> A currency is supposed to be a stable store of value

This is a fundamental misunderstanding. Currency is nothing more and nothing less than a proxy for goods and services. It simply decouples bartering transactions.

Consider the scenario of saving in the present to buy a car 50 years in the future. Forget about money, and think in terms of the underlying bartering transactions. Say in the present someone will trade you a car in return for 1,000 hours of labor as a woodworker. How can you defer this bartering transaction, through a "stable store of value" without money? Nearly anything you might care to buy and save will degrade over 50 years. Meanwhile, improvements in productivity will devalue your productivity over 50 years, and improvements in technology will mean that the car you buy in 50 years will be much more intrinsically valuable than the car you would have bought now.

"Saving" is not a fundamental primitive of the economy. It has no real natural analogue in the bartering economy. It's something that only seems so if you confuse money with the intrinsically valuable goods and services of the economy.
That, raw data access and I'm all for it!
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People would spend for food but save as much money as possible making the economy contract with demand in a depression. Hopefully the government would turn on the printing presses and step in as spender of last resort before the food ran out.
I thought XNU was considered a micro-kernel because of the Mach part.
This is nothing new. They have added more IPs to the VPN blocklist. I have no idea why this is news. This happens several times per year. This cat and mouse game has been going on for years.

Every time this happens it is just a pain in the ass to find a new VPN that isn't blocked.

If you are technical, it is best to just setup your own VPN on linode or amazon. That way you have less problems with blocked IPs.
The courts, that's why we have them. You might also like to recall that at least some of the occupy movements involved violent and wholly unecessary destruction of private property, eg Occupy Oakland. Sure, that was only a few fringe anarchists who had attached themselves to the ideologically pure movement, but that's little different from the 'few bad apples' excuse that is sometimes advanced to forestall criticism of police misbehavior.
It's incredible that people don't realize that a modern economy doesn't really save anything. We're not hoarding away bales of hay and sacks of wheat for future use!
Does the framework create the code & files to form a traditional plugin, or does it recreate the plugin functionality based on the xml on each pageload?
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The 60fps myth should be wearing thin by now, and I'm sad to see it repeated so often on HN.

I don't have the relevant links available to me currently, but suffice to say the eye can pick up on far, far more than 60 fps.

The fast forward look is just an adjustment period, you experience the same watching videos of games at 60fps (even though they're played in 60fps normally, it's a very odd thing).
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What is your tolerance threshold for surveillance? What percentage of the population can they 'monitor' until it makes you feel uncomfortable?
I expect HBO will eventually be bought by or strike a huge deal with Netflix or Amazon.com to get them over the cable companies' deterrents.
My attempts to read this on my phone were futile. Every time I tried to scroll, it just jumped back to the top immediately.
Turds float.
The name isn't worth that much unless its valuable on its own. Does it get typein traffic? Does it generate revenue on its own with a landing page or adsense page?
> There's simply no way around the math other than increasing the retirement age

Sure there is- ease immigration quotas for young people. You could solve the problem in five years. It's politically nightmarish, but the math is great.
>academia's a non-concern by this point.

Could you expand on what you mean by this? I'm just curious what your viewpoint is.
Citation needed.

Here's a few, ranging from the humorous to the heinous.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19450_6-laws-youve-broken-wit...

http://mises.org/daily/5759/Decriminalize-the-Average-Man

http://www.economist.com/node/16636027

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...

The only question is, which laws "count?" And who decides?
Or you'll have to allow some form of fiat currency as an alternative currency. Or you'll have to more-or-less allow the entire real economy to collapse as the exponentially dropping remnants of actual aggregate demand become utterly unable to facilitate, or rather justify, real trade.

One last point: deflation always favors whoever, in a transaction, is the creditor/seller. In a certain sense, this is not only economically harmful but morally unfair. After all, if I pay a contractor $150k to build me a house (assume I own the land and we're only paying for construction), what I'm really doing, underneath the illusion of money, is trading my skills and property (program code, raw building materials) for his skills and property (architecture, construction, use of his materials and tools). In theory, this can and should be modeled as a spot-trade of my stuff for his stuff with no unwanted side-effects.

But once we get money and its time-value (deeply affected by deflation) involved, then one of us has an automatic advantage over the other based on the currency value when the work is done and when the payment is made. If the currency is deflating, even predictably, then whoever gets paid has an automatic advantage over whoever does the paying. An arbitrage opportunity across time has appeared solely because we involved currency.
The Occupy movement may have been nominally non-violent, but in practice many people involved with it also engaged in violent property damage, and not just towards the property of banks or other ideological targets; there was also abundant violent and tinpot revolutionary rhetoric to go around.

I have zero sympathy for such tactics, whether practiced by Occupy or the Tea Party; the people who manipulate populist sentiment for political advantage are irresponsible jerks. And for those who suggest that this represents some sort of new totalitarianism, I invite you to go read the Wikipedia article on the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791.
> There's also the fact that you went through a trial that counts against you

Quite right. Even more concerning: merely being arrested, even if all charges are dropped a few hours later, can count against you.