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Today in Philippine History, March 18, 1968, the Jabidah commando was massacred
Gold can be inflated the same way as any other currency. Since people don't typically trade in physical gold, but in certificates used to represent the gold, it is possible to print more certificates than you have gold. While this is a fraud, it is an increase in the money supply.
He really only gave two arguments. One, that it is easier to implement, and two, that it spread the burden to foreigners.

I don't actually think this is easier to implement. Perhaps faster. In the long run, however, this is the hard way to go.

As to spreading the burden to foreigners, that's only a good thing if you're not a foreigner and you don't plan on doing business with foreigners in Cyprus.

If you are a wealthy man who has his fortune elsewhere, this is still not a good plan, because there is potential for personal repercussions.
I agree with this answer. The expectation in a bank account is that whilst the interest may or may not cover inflation, at least you don't have confiscation to worry about in addition to that.
To paraphrase Silvio Gesell, an economist in favor of symbolic currency almost a century ago, "All the physical assets of the world are at the disposal of those who wish to save, so why should they make their savings in the form of money? Money was not made to be saved!"
I've been seriously considering it. However, I've never used CasperJS myself, so I'll have to get a better handle on what it is offer first.
No, they use real C++ features. I noticed it when trying to compile a plugin and it suddenly failed to build.
Yes, if your money is in Cyprus. You will be granted shares in your bank of equivalent value to your losses. Does it help? LOL
Yes, feels like reinventing the wheel. A way to set breakpoints on editor would suffice, really.
This is actually the specific solution to which I'm referring. I get major choppiness.
This whole article is somewhere between spam and plagiarism. Probably both. Mashable didn't even bother linking to the product or kickstarter or official update they reworded!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...
Getting an introduction to a VC requires a relatively small amount of networking. You show up at any one of the tech networking events that are constantly being hosted and cultivate a relationship with someone who can connect you. Once you meet with one, most VCs will be happy to make more introductions.

It is the same kind of networking you'll probably need to find a good team, get early customers and generally be successful in most startups.

I'm sorry you think it is stupid. The rest of us who are not natural networkers (even those of us who grew up here) just buckled down and learned how to do it.
I have heard that we are everywhere. I'm having kind of a personal crisis after having brought this project to this stage, and I feel like my personal VW has overheated and is broken down by the side of the road on the way to the show, and I could use a little bit of that famous Deadhead community helping hand to keep myself from losing it.

Thanks my friend.
You should consider this. This could be useful for automated testing, but that will all be on an internal network.
I've submitted this first but it didn't take off...

Anyway: this is just the beginning and it's not going to stop anytime soon. The Eurozone is in big trouble: it simply cannot work when you have people who only want to work 32 hours / week and stop working at 60 years old (France) while on the other side you have hard-working germans.

The crisis we're witnessing since a few years in the eurozone is really simple: the GDP growth number in most of the eurozone are fake in that they do not correspond to wealth created but to wealth created + state debt. Nearly every single country in the eurozone is running at deficit.

The crisis is due to one and only one thing: states that are so indebted that they cannot borrow anymore.

Economists warned about precisely that scenario before the first euro even circulated: Greece, Spain, France, Cyprus... 15 years ago people warned that it would happen just like that. It was just a matter of time.

I can tell you what's coming next: Greece is going to default a second time.

In 2014 France shall have its deficit skyrocketing and shall have issue re-financing itself on the market.

France is the 2nd biggest economy of the eurozone and the eurozone is f^cked. It's game over. France has taxed the private sector so much that it cannot tax it anymore and, anyway, it's too late: investors did flee the country and now individuals are engaging in a bank run (or leaving the country).

The obvious solution would be a massive devaluation of the euro but this cannot happen because if it happens Japan goes down (and probably the U.S.).

We're near the endgame: the house of cards may fall soon.

And I can tell you thing: I want less state. This entire euro-crisis is a debt of sovereign states having way too much public debt because they've constantly been running at deficit, for decades. And now they're running out of money.

It didn't help that they borrowed money to save banksters but don't be mistaken: nobody forced these states to run with crazy-high deficit for decades.

F^ck socialism. Really f^ck it.

Btw I don't care if Cyprus was supposed to be very liberal: Cyprus is 0.2% of the GDP of the eurozone and doesn't matter.

What matter is that socialist Spain, Greece, Portugal and France are close to state default.

They'll be watching closely how announcing money confiscation just before a long week-end plays out (monday is a legal day off in Cyprus) and they'll probably be desperately trying to do the same in these countries.

And it's not going to work.

People should really start realizing that Keynes was all wrong all along and that the Friedman school is the only correct one: they did predict all this. Keynesians didn't.

Btw if the eurozone goes down dont' think the U.S. is going to be fine: some economists are predicting a worldwide drop of the world GDP by as much as 30%.

It's just a matter of years, maybe less.
I get it, and we can all have a bit of a laugh/cry here.

But somewhere on Twin Earth, slate.com is publishing an article complaining about the confusing glut of Google services and how they need to trim their product line to more relevant pieces.

Not commenting on the loss of Reader itself, but I can't fault a company for discontinuing (or absorbing/streamlining) products that began as flights of fancy. If anything, I'm impressed by how many runaway successes Google has had.
I had no idea it was a cake - it's just a silly name I thought up 2024 days ago when making an account for some strange newfangled startup site I'd found through reddit. :-)
Qthreads: An API for programming with millions of lightweight threads
Anyone want to put odds on this starting bank runs across Europe?
IMO their brand isn't worth anything and they can't really charge any more than Supermicro, so they don't have much room to add margin.
>> In case that you have not realized it, you are not paying any money.

O yes I am. I'm paying taxes here to keep your economy afloat. I don't mind that, but I'm not going to respond all of the rest you posted.
Show HN: DeuterIDE - Android Compiler and Editor for over 40 languages.
Except for the fact that the majority of the physical assets of the world are perishable.
You can always do it the wrong way and just research what you want. Surprisingly, I haven't starved to death yet.
Acts of war by governments ordered by corporations would be more accurate.

Sad but true.
It's the cost of living in a group. Your receive all the benefits of living in the group, and when the group as a whole is in trouble, you need to do your part.

If you want to be libertarian, go be a hermit in the mountains. You'll be the master of your domain there, and won't have to pay taxes or pay a penalty when other people screw up.
Of course Apple only has it's trademarked "Retina" display. They sued the shit out of everyone who tried to use that name.
Philosophy and literature are artifacts of human culture--that is, they can only be understood in the context of human culture and society. In contrast, scientific facts like the mass of the proton are exactly the same everywhere in the universe (or so we presume).

That doesn't mean that philosophy and literature--and art, and music, and film, and all the other "humanities"--aren't part of human knowledge. They are, and they can have profound impacts on human society, which in turn, has significant impacts on the physical world on the Earth's surface.

When humans interact with the physical environment, we use heuristics to model the physical realities of nature in a usable way. Think of catching a baseball; we have an internal model of the Earth's gravitational field that allows us to predict the path of the ball, and place our hand in just the right spot to catch it.

When we interact with other humans we use heuristics too. These are affected by the cultural experiences we have, which include art, stories, movies, etc. When we evaluate a politician, for example, we are applying the heuristics developed by hearing, seeing, and telling stories. We think one guy looks creepy, and another trustworthy...why? Because of what we've learned about humans so far, and a lot of that comes from literature, art, philosophy, etc.
The 3-year old "Implement RSS natively in Chrome" bug just changed to "WontFix"
>Just because the money is from foreigners doesn't make it right.

Well, the locals got screwed, too. Here's some good analysis: http://bit.ly/110JLpm He speculates that they could have taxed the foreigners (Russians) @ 30%, but that would have finished off Cyprus as a destination for foreign money. Instead, they taxed everyone at 10%. The Russians might see 10% as the cost of doing business.
It is shortsighted: it is a temporary to prevent the sky from falling in a few days. But it's just kicking the can a bit further down the road: economically it makes no sense. You'll destroy trust and discourage people so much that you're giving a blow to the private sector so big that in a matter of years the state shall have less income than if they didn't do this.

The problem is that the state is broke. It's that or they're out of the eurozone.
OK. I agree with you. And I am paying money to keep your economy afloat.

Can you see how stupid this is?

Little guys fight each other. And the winner gets eaten by the big guy (= bank).
It comes down to the MacLeod hierarchy. For a lot more on this, go here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/gervais-macle...

Losers (bottom/workers): trade away expectancy and long-term growth for stability and risk reduction. Rationally checked-out. Strategically minimize discomfort.

Clueless (middle/managers): non-strategic, eager people who clean up the mess made by Losers below and Sociopaths above them. Give a lot to the company, get mediocre returns. Losers are actually less "losing", because they know the trade they are making. Clueless expect to be rich, respected, or secure one day but hit a glass ceiling (Effort Thermocline, the highest one can go by working hard rather than smart) and never get it.

Sociopaths (top/executives): strategic and hard-working, but insubordinate and risk seeking. Take the other side of Loser risk-selling and turn it into personal gain. Good at engineering situations so that upside risk goes to them and downside goes to others (often Clueless).

MacLeod Losers are most of the workforce, and it's relatively easy to turn a reliable profit on one. You pay him a pittance X, and he gives you labor worth 1.25X, and at scale you can make a lot of money this way. However, if you're trying to build a brand or reputation quickly and impress people (press/investors) your average* productivity per person matters, not your sum profit. MacLeod Losers, who reliably return a small-but-positive profit for the company, bring that economically unimportant but socially relevant average down.

VC-istan is a world without MacLeod Losers. MacLeod Sociopaths are the investors and tech press and executives who are brought in by VCs after the company's de-risked. But VC-istan startups (founders and employees) are all-Clueless. That's why "you should want to work 55 hours a week because you really want to" in VC-istan. That's why being a "true believer" in the company matters more than being able to do the job. That's why there's such an age discrimination problem. They're looking for Clueless.

What keeps a company or system stable is the Effort Thermocline. It's the interface between Clueless and Sociopaths and it's the point where jobs become easier with increasing rank instead of harder. (Clueless are often oblivious to its existence.) It's the glass ceiling that you can't cross unless you work smart and "get it". The unconditional work ethic of, e.g., the macho brogrammer only gets you to upper-tier Clueless. VC-istan's Effort Thermocline is especially stable because it exists between companies.
Definitely cool, but must the page be so ugly?
While it's not illegal, it's hard to argue that this move is just or moral. Yes a country can levy taxes however they like, but a surprise 10% wealth tax is unprecedented. The analogy with VAT/income/property is a bit difficult because in almost any case where a government has instituted those taxes the populous would have fair warning before they went into effect. At least in America, these things weren't enacted overnight with no legislative oversight/debate, and I doubt in any other Developed nation such a thing has occurred.

That said, I can understand why they went this route. It's basically a free down payment on an emergency loan mostly provided by wealthy Russians. Again, not illegal, but it isn't exactly just to have foreigners pay for your countries debts. I don't feel terribly sorry, since most of that Russian money likely came from less than reputable means. But as the saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right.

But the repercussions will be far reaching. First off, Cyrpus can expect a run on their banks from foreigners. Don't know if they have plans on stopping that, but I don't see why any foreigner would keep money there. Secondly, Smaller countries (and possibly large ones as well) in financially precarious situations will probably start seeing a run on their banks. This can set off contagion in a region without a strong central economic force to stave it off.

Though I expect some off-shore type country to pass a law soon stating they will never perform such a tax, and a lot of money will start flowing into their banks.
We're helping them and meeting our obligations. In what way are we punishing them? Yeah, it's not nice to lose 6.75% of what you have in savings (the 9.9% is only for those who have more than 100.000 euro in their bank account), but the alternative would be much worse for the Cyprians.

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And yeah, this is a very crude way to raise the money. Given more time, a better way is probably possible. But I think time is at a premium now.
Not to take away from the package, but I'm somewhat surprised that someone who invested significant work into this is running an unregistered version of ST.
Google Glass: The Opposition Grows
I found it strange to receive this as an email newsletter from apple today. Can't remember the last time Apple was promoting an existing product this way. Or maybe it's just weird because I am already an iPhone user and after reading this page/email I literally went: Umm, Duh.
why are you surprised by this?
we don't all have $70 lying around
All of us have different equations with which we evaluate opportunities. An exciting work environment and a chance to build something you believe in may be a perfectly rational reason to work for below-market rates, especially if you take equity, in essence making an investment in the company.
Why I Wrote a URL Shortener
The new AVR enhancements are interesting. They added Embedded C fixed-point arithmetic. I wonder how often Arduino folks will use this.
And what good did that 100% up to 100k EUR do people with bank accounts in Cyprus? That's the whole point. They broke the deposit guarantee. Now you really do have an unsecured bank debt.
I just wish Google would have been straight-up about this, had a big blog post saying "Here is why we think RSS needs to be replaced, and we've got some big plans to replace it, which involve a, b, c, and existing standard d. It's a bit abrupt but we're coming out with X on timeline Y."

Not this cryptic bullshit. It's like breaking up with someone by just never returning their calls.
Yes you exactly have it. And the structure of the ANTS software is intended to bring the "non-disruptible mesh" concept of the revolutionary organization of the novel into the organization of plan 9 grids, which usually have a much less fail-proof chain of linear single-point of failure dependencies.

Manuel said it was poorly engineered and used #3 arm to improve the boot namespace.
CYPRUS. That is the name of the country. What you typed is a completely different thing. I thought the semiconductor company was getting bailed out.
I think it's a useful program. Keeping it in mind.
For anything really, sides rally amongst themselves. We have differing opinions on issues all the time. I have a side concern about how we consider technology, and science in general. I really think it should be elevated to something more like free speech. That the dangers of not producing and experimenting with technology far outweigh fears of it harming ourselves. Well maybe not a belief but a hope. Something to strive for.
Which one do you like the best?
The old Google would champion RSS as an open alternative to proprietary social networks. Now they're trying to kill it.
Currying Favor with Partial Application to get JavaScript SQL
Which benefits? Education level going down the drain in France? Police force unable to stop rising crime? Army fighting wars in Africa and Middle East just to put dictators in place? Crazy high taxing of the private sector, so high that it's nearly killing the private sector and then taxing 21% on everything I consume? And then yet taking another 10% on what I managed to save?

The problem with "doing your part" is that once you reach a certain level of taxation you have diminishing returns: that's the Laffer curve and, sadly, socialists don't seem to be able to understand that.

And I can tell you that in many countries of the eurozone the private sector is "doing its part" since decades, only to pay for the lifestyle and entitlements of the ever growing number of public servants.

F^ck socialism. We're witnessing the failure of socialism and I can tell you that I love it. What I don't love is all the states running at deficit since decades trying to wag the dog and pretend the problem is not that states are indebted at crazy high levels.

The public sector is way too important in Europe. That's the Laffer curve and you can't do anything about it besides lowering taxation on the private sector and citizen if you want an efficient economy.

Socialists always end up with state default. There's no other way. Because socialist economies do not work. Even Sweden lowered it's public sector from 67% of the GDP to 49% in 20 years, realizing they were otherwise going into a wall.

Some countries, like Switzerland, have a constitution forbidding the state to run with a deficit too important.

This is what the eurozone should do. We should beat the socialists who are ruining our economy and destroy the entrepreneurship spirit...
I don't buy in to this "excellence requires discomfort" mythology, at least as used to justify bad work conditions and low compensation in startups. Truly excellent people have intrinsic ambition that wouldn't go away just because they had stable, high salaries. In fact, they're going to have more freedom and do better stuff.

What causes wealth to ruin many people isn't comfort, but the social pressures that are often required if one wants to stay wealthy and in access to high-status people, most of whom turn out to be a defective or, at best, a mediocre crowd. Giving people enough money that they have the autonomy to run their lives and some comfort isn't going to have that effect.
I think that "blog post" was called Google+.
I have an iPhone and these are my main complains:

- I want to send text/photo/video from an app to other app.
- I want to set default applications for browser, camera, voice commands and mapping
- I want other apps have lock screen access. (Google maps in mind)
- I want to slide notifications to dismiss them!
- I want widgets in home screen.
- I want other apps hava access to create notification widgets.

If Apple can fix these issues I will remain an iPhone user, otherwise I'll switch.
Definitely too much copy before the sell, though long form can work in some cases. Probably too many price points with meaningless (to me) names. Maybe 3 with a lower priced entry? But a/b a/b a/b if you have the traffic. Cross browser issues is probably a topic ripe for blog posts. Charge for the testing service, give advice on identifying and mitigating problems for free.
You miss the larger picture too markdown. I pointed straight at it and you're still squinting.

This won't work. When the government undermines the trust of the people so that they will no longer use the financial system they are trying to protect, that's called "shooting yourself in the foot".

A bank is only in business if people trust it. Money only works if people trust it. Governments only work if the people trust it.
Here is a more detailed article and a nice drawing to help you imagine how the rollers were arranged.

http://aha.miraclegreat.com/2/post/2012/05/invisible-electro...

Can someone post this in the Mythbusters forums and try to get them to attempt to replicate this?
Primove wireless charged buses
The 1600+ people watching that bug, and the millions using reader are the minority. RSS is for hackers, and Google doesn't want to invest in those people. (Us)
German bankers sending a message to people to move their money to Germany because it isn't safe elsewhere
Turning off any further comments on that bug is cute.
I guess this makes it clear where Google stands on RSS.

I think it's sad. RSS is a lot more open than the alternative: Twitter.

Google seems to think that the result of an end to RSS will be good for them. Unless they are planning on buying twitter, I doubt it will be.
Yes but the difference is that Cyprus lost its sovereignity regarding money creation by entering the eurozone.

The U.S. has its own way to confiscate citizen's money and that is called quantitative easing, which creates inflation. That's why they abandoned the gold standard: to be able to confiscate as much as they want using inflation.
I'm starring the issue because I'm a slacktivist.

I'm also going to become less reliant on Google services because when they decide other open standards are less profitable than getting more eyeballs Google+ I don't want to be stuck like I am now.
It looks like a great start. I don't think it will yet pull me away from a dual monitor with ST2 + Chrome Inspector + Live Reload, but if it is further polished I think it could.
I'm sorry you think it is stupid.

That's not what I was trying to say. I think that for people like us, it's not a major barrier. We can "buckle down" and meet people.

I'm just irked by the implicit assumption that others who don't have the resources or knowledge are somehow inferior. It's the "everyone should be exactly like me" attitude of the unknowing privileged that makes VC-istan so irritating.
Coworking across Asia
I'm not sure. I need probably about a year to think, and about a dozen people to think with. And then maybe something might be possible.
Thanks, came here looking for this.

I know some people are camera shy on the web, but it would be nice if the video was zoomed to the mouse or cursor just so we could actually make out what was going on.
This has nothing to do with thinking RSS is dead or needs to be replaced, or whatever. It's just closing a feature request that was never going to be implemented. It never really made sense for the web browser itself to also be an RSS reader anyways.