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Er, this turned in to a rambling rant. Some of it might be worth reading....

I don't agree with this analysis. Its a one sided argument against the current plan. Which is fine, but its certainly not the whole story. Part 15, the solution, is absurd. It has all the problems outlined in the previous 14 points. It is no solution, because there isn't a reasonable no pain solution. People are literally saying anything that pops in to their heads because the cant cope with the idea proposed already. I get that, but there isn't really an alternative. The country, or to put it another way, a big group of people, have gone way too far in to debt. An individual in the same circumstances would go bankrupt, but that is not an option for a country, as far as I know. In the end, they have to settle the debts. Not only that, borrow more money to survive.

What interests me is the reaction of the people. It all seems a bit civilised. There isn't much worse a government can do to its people, yet the people seems incredibly calm about it. I am still surprised that the people haven't stormed their parliament. This i the real test. How far can you push a population? Looks like you can push them pretty far.

Also, I still cant get my head round peoples who vote in governments then trying to separate themselves from the actions of that government. Or take out loans, then blame the banks for handing those loads out. Or scream hysterically about socialism, when its capitalism and its basic law of supply and demand that has caused the whole mess.

The biggest joke of all, in the UK at least, is that with a disaster caused by banks dishing out toxic loans, the banks are now under pressure to loan out more. Half the problem is people now working to pay off loans, reducing the amount of money that can be spent in general. We want them to borrow more, when their jobs are uncertain?

In the end, the problem is greed and impatience, and us the people demanding that we are loaned the money to satisfy that.

Im sorry, but IMHO, the whole system is a wreck, and no one wants to take responsibility for any of it. Governments are too interested in protecting votes, and that is making them avoid any harsh but effective solutions.

Anyway, point being, I'm not seeing any realistic long term solutions anywhere. The Cypriot idea is interesting to me, and rather than knee jerk against it, I am interested in seeing how it pans out. I mean, what if it works? The UK is said to have triple dipped, so what ever is going on here isn't much cop, we are just scraping along the financial gutter. Could a one off injection of all our money save the day? Its our country, our debt.

I'm stopping now. I'm boring and confusing myself....
I don't really see how the EC is robbing when it's actually lending Eur 10bln. Without the loan, all banks would have collapsed and you'd have lost the first 100K as well.

The initial proposal was to only tax a percentage of the saved amount. That was rejected by the cypriotic people/govt.
Direct Cash Transfer scheme in India has been touted as the biggest 2014 poll based factor by the educated class in India, with a subsidy system bigger than any other country in the world, India, has a lot of shortcomings in terms of how the subsidy reaches the poor. Subsidy is given for kerosene (household cooking needs for the extreme poor), rice/wheat as staple food, education (as weekly incentive to extreme risked kids), vaccines, salt, fertilizers, etc.

This system is way different the way this article makes it look like, that just give money to those who need it. But in fact, the real factor for a subsidy system to work is, that people overtime accept, that they need help, for ex: like they accept over time, that they will spend their own money on other things, while use the medical subsidy on vaccines.

This is fundamentally supported by the fact of efficiency, if they use that subsidy in any other way then it is meant, they would not get maximum efficiency.

Corruption in this system is a given, whether it is India or US, it is a very hard "on the thin thread" system to maintain.
The article mentions people living on less than 65 cents a day.

When given money, the stats seem to indicate that these people invest that money in both short term (food !) commodities and long term (land, livestock, housing) assets.

Basically, giving money directly is allowing these people to go out and buy some fish for right now, and a fishing pole for tomorrow.

An added benefit is that this is a very lean way to organize aid, since there is no need for dozens of committees and meetings and other organisational overhead to determine the most efficient way to spend. You just let the receivers decide for themselves.

Sure there will be some abuse and some people that go even further off the rails due to drug abuse or bad investments, but most of these people are just as capable as you and me to plan their live, they just need that little boost to get back ON the rails in the first place.

A somewhat similar model is used by Kiva, except that they give the money as a loan, and it's expected to be paid back. Maybe that approach is a bit more in line with your opinion.

http://www.kiva.org/
It has been reported that the initial idea to not honour the deposit insurance actually came from Cyprus, not from the EU. But I agree it was stupid move from the EU to go along with this plan.
To use the jumping off a cliff analogy, if you were taking it upon yourself to build two planes on the way down would you build them in parallel?
I wrote down the basic steps to get this running on windows at https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft/wiki
It gets picked up by HN as CloudFlare post it to HN themselves.

That said they're interesting articles if you ignore the hype.
'On average' is a meaningless assertion in a country where the gap between rich and poor is so large. (GINI 0.38 after-tax in 2010).
I think in general this is a fantastic idea. Often, charity is too presumptuous: the giver purports to know what the receiver 'really needs', so rather than giving money they give something else.

I think this is shortsighted as it's very difficult for relatively wealthy people to put themselves in the mindset of somebody who is living in extreme poverty, especially in a different country. This makes it even less plausible that the giver can make a better decision than the receiver as to what to do with additional resources.

Put it this way: if you were really poor, would you rather be given money to help your sort your own life out, or for some charity to use the money for 'what's best for you'. I know what I'd want.

I also think from the point of view of the giver, it might be nice to be less judgemental about how the money is used. Even if a very poor person 'wastes' the additional money on a little luxury for once (say, cosmetics), then I hope at least the giver has brought a little happiness into their lives, if only for a moment. That's enough for me, and is why around a year ago I switched all my charitable donations away from Kiva (which I still think is a good cause) to GiveDirectly.

However, the idea is not without problems (as idenfied by Givedirectly). The biggest problem I think is that if some members of a poor community get help and others don't, it seems unjust and may lead to hostility.
Terrible idea. Charity runs out and therefore does not scale. Want to help people? Invest in them, as then they need to create wealth to provide a positive sum return. China did not become rich through communism or through charity, but through capitalism.
Please...someone put a Udacity course together which backs into the underlying math used to create this (for those of us who didn't have it or don't remember it)...
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This is what I don't understand about DoS mitigation. So i'd null route the target, but then I have to move the service to another IP. I will also announce this IP to the customers, but that would simply redirect the DoS to the new address and take it down too... I mean, there seems to be no way to deal with DoS without throwing a baby (customers) with the water (attackers) or am I missing something?
Good, I'm not the only one that is dumbfounded by the abysmal quality of apartments in SF and the Bay area. If you start checking out reviews for apartments, 99% are complaints about noise. Well, yes, that's because 99% of the apartments are shoddy two-story wood constructions, built decades ago. There's some modern apartment buildings up in the city, and precious few on the peninsula, but the overall level is ridiculous.

And the worst part is that not even if you have lots of money can you easily get a modern apartment, there just isn't any supply. It drives me nuts.
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Yesterday, I wrote some codes in C, just to develop myself. I wrote and pressed Run, I wrote and pressed..

Then I found the memory I can use is less and less. Even I closed Xcode, the memory wasn't back on its feet.

I have 4G memory. So I wander, what's wrong with it? It's my fault or something else? And what should I do?
yes, i am using them as synonyms. most fire sales are talent driven deals.
Huh... that's actually a pretty awesome capitalist solution.

I just really hate how the poor are treated today... the level of desperation you see in a majority of America is incredibly depressing and seems like it could so easily be rectified by such a small tax increase.
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It's definitely PR, also look at who submitted it to HN

That said it's pretty interesting if you ignore the bits that sound like hype.
Yeah I’ve always wondered why for example Facebook has taken much more flak in tech circles.. Some impressive hacker cognitive dissonance has been going on.. Glad to see this shift in the community!
What if the action actually doesn't seem so stupid in the long run, if they manage to force these countries to give up their resources in exchange for a bailout?
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"You never, ever, ever, hit insured depositors."

The current deal only impacts depositors with more than 100K in the banks - more than this wasn't insured anyway.

"You should basically never hit non-insured depositors either."

Why? Since when is there a guarantee that banks are 100% safe? If people deposit large (i.e. over deposit guarantee limits) in a bank to benefit from the high interest rates they are taking a risk with a reward - if this goes wrong then why should other more prudent people have to bail them out?
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I needed to run the last command as sudo:

sudo pip-2.6 install pyglet

After that it worked perfectly. Thanks!
India, or rather its military expansion/presence is in my view as an Indian citizen, is in the right direction. Firstly this is in line with the fact, that we are a founder of Non Alignment Movement (1961), a movement, that in the shadows, kept the rest of the world powers out of the Cold War, as many might not know or think, NAM is one of the actual reason, that a war between the West Bloc and East Bloc never really happened. So yes, today, if we are not positioned as a anti-matter to any country, it is because of our roots. In fact, the whole conflict against Pakistan is passive, if we were US, we might have made permanent bases in Pakistan to keep them in check, like US did in Japan, but we didn't. With China, growing, we do not share the same sense of hostility as some do in the west. Anything India does is just actually a strategic action to balance its interest between this hostility. No offence, meant.

Anyways, the spending over the last few years in India, has rather been of modernizing nature than expansive nature. An example of that is 1.5 billion spent on a SECOND HAND aircraft carrier by India, of which we have near zero.

India as a great power? yes, India is becoming a great power military, politically, economically , socially, etc, but we would rather like the world to see our opinion on handling our military. This is actually a good article about India to make frontpage, since it allows the opportunity for us to showcase, that this is the land of Gandhi, we could have done a lot of things to Pakistan, but we knew, that our differences are deeper than any military discord.

As a muslim, I have also realized, that over the years, the problems of muslims of pakistan is NOT the problems of muslims of India, and they really need to work a lot of things up in Socio-Economic factors. A stable democratic govt, free from military control is one. We never had any coup, but pakistan did quite a few. This I'm saying not to offend anyone, but to highlight, how in India, Military and Civil establishments are parallel close lines, but in Pakistan, they are intersecting lines.

with proper education, the next generation of Indians and Pakistanis, will see and solve our basic problem of discord, that is to say, if other countries (none named) do not intervene for their own interest, which are quite a few, for example, a amalgamation of India-Pakistan would almost instantly increase our cotton production capacities, which are fundamentally supplementary to each other, and today are actually struggling because of our relations. Besides, we have near about same economic standards, and it would be like a catapulting India ahead of China almost instantly. But this is something, a lot of people don't see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_conflic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier#India
Thanks for the reply's. Food for thought. Another side of 'aid' is the EU providing aid while at the same time dumping milk, butter, etc in Africa and forcing locals out of a living because of all the cheap Euopean products. Everyday goods such as bread, milk, sugar and chicken are all more expensive because of the payments made to British and European farmers. At the same time, dumping of subsidised produce in African countries is forcing local producers out of business.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/eu-subsidie...
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Who says they can't invest in themselves with the money they get?
where your question will also be locked...

Not if you choose the right venue. Now that I read the question, you're right that it'd probably be blocked on any SE site because it's a poor fit for their Q&A format, but SE is not the only programming community online.

oh- and in the interim, it will receive attention from but 1% of the qualified posters SO has.

So? Should I start posting the results of the UEFA Champions League here just because there are many interesting posters here?
What's capitalist about it?
Uhh.. India buys so many tanks, aircrafts, etc. because politicians here take a healthy cut on those deals. There's no strategy involved, it's pure business. Also, pointing at Pakistan as the enemy works because of long term cultural issues. The one time that the navy chief mentioned China's a worry - everyone scoffed at him and he was almost fired.

Source: My father was a senior air force pilot and was being coerced into buying obsolete airplanes from a dealer since the home minister's son was involved in making the deal.
"Supplement with nationalization of pensions"

So the alternative is to take money people have saved for pensions rather than hit bank depositors over 100K???
Age isn't the only issue. He is surrounded by other teenagers and probably has no peers to help guide him in real life.

I think he's the kind of young developer that when he moves on to university or the workplace he'll rapidly broaden his skills.
>Now every little eurozone country has to get used to working
>with interest rates that are effectively set to suit Germany.

Euro interest rates have always set to suit Germany and thus been too low for many of the other Euro countries - cheap money is one of the factor behind the crisis across the Euro
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Just out of curiosity, could you provide a link to a simple game written in ~10 (ten!) lines of code? My understanding was that for anything close to interactive game at least 50-100 lines of code are needed: to draw something, make it move and react to user input in a meaningful way.

I am not familiar with frameworks such as Scratch or pygame; still 10 lines of code look like too few for a game.
>Fast forward to 2004 and a referendum is held on whether Cyprus should unify. The Turkish north votes yes, the Greek south votes no and Cyprus enters the Euro leaving Northern Cyprus out in the cold.

This sounds like a mysterious outcome, given what you said above, but one can add that the "unification plan" was to create an old-style colonial protectorate, which, besides giving foreign powers the power to meddle with the new "state" affairs, gave equal political power to the Turkish minority (the majority of which came post-invasion in order to take control of the Turkish side) and to the Greek majority (instead of using legitimate elections). And of course it didn't address any of the violations of lots of UN rulings by the occupying force.

So mainly it was just perpetuating the occupation and the injecting, and saying "ok, now you both have half-half stakes at a new country".
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As in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Financial_Fable

A great macroeconomic work by Barks.
> I'm offering you a communication channel to studio executives right now.

They should drop any kind of DRM - point blank. DRM in unethical, doesn't protect anything against piracy and only hurts legitimate users. If they want to prove that they don't have ulterior motives that are cloaked in DRM schemes (like desire for broad control and attempts to stifle innovation and so on) they should start respecting their legitimate users / customers. By using DRM (unethical preemptive policing) they show that they treat users as criminals by default. Why should they get any respect in return when they act that way? So any model should be built on mutual respect. This excludes any DRM from the equation. And DMCA/1201 should go away with it.

If they'll insist that DRM / DMCA should exist, it will demonstrate that their real motives are not about preventing piracy (since they prevent nothing like that), but really completely different. I.e. they intend to 1. insult their legitimate users by treating them as potential criminals, 2. stifle innovation by controlling any new technology by DRM cages, 3. invade users' privacy with all kind of sick control mechanisms and etc. and etc. I wish someone could clearly communicate this to various studio executives who push for DRM all around. Either they'll continue to hypocritically claim that unethical preemptive policing is "needed to prevent piracy", or they'll start acting honestly and stop forcing DRM on everyone (like pushing it into HTML standard, building it into hardware interfaces like HDMI and so on).
Don't forget that ArchiveTeam is currently busy taking a copy of Formspring before every piece of content is removed on the shutdown date.

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It's voluntary.
yeah but that's not approved yet and from what I can tell ParallelArray is higher level then Workers and doesn't really expose that sort of thing.
How can it be on the front page of HN without any players in it? Or is that a bug as well? I'm flying around in a near-pristine and empty world.

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sorry no offence, but that story sounds like less believable to me for some reasons.
1. airplane deals are not cleared by anyone but the senior most of general rank airforce officials, so can you please mention your father's exact rank level again?

2. Home minister's son you say? which home minister if you can mention?

3. If my father was a such a senior air force pilot, I would rather not be even mentioning this, because this is a accusation, and it really means a great deal to do so without proof. A family member of a senior airforce official, sounds a lot unbelievable to me. Sorry, but I can't believe your 'sources'
Allowing the recipients to allocate the resources in the manner which they believe best benefits them.
I have a similar project that attacks this problem from a different angle: http://deployanything.com

I find direct transfer really convenient and preferable to dropbox for certain things (like large files that you only need to send once and to one person). I could see something like you're doing being helped by being built into a chrome plug-in or something so people can automatically receive. The angle of my project is being in the background and automatic, but giving the receivers full control over what types of things they want to accept.
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That doesn't make any sense. You've mixed up macroeconomics and microeconomics. A single bank cannot lend more than it has in deposits. However, in an economy with many lenders and borrowers, a deposit (or really any kind of expenditure) can be reinvested fractionally many times, enlarging the money supply by more than its nominal value. Also, the multiplier "rule" of taking the reciprocal of the reserve rate is more of a rough estimate, since individual borrowers may not spend all of the money they have borrowed.
> And it isn't fair that if everything goes well you keep the interests, if it goes bad someone else pays for the risk.

If you sincerely think that Cyprus doesn't set a precedent putting everyone in the Eurozone at stake you're wrong. My issue isn't that Cyprus should or shouldn't receive a bailout, it's the undemocratic way the Troika have gone about it and the punitive requirements foisted on them for a bailout when they knew full well that Cyprus didn't have the money.

I'm bookmarking this in the hope that Italy never gets screwed over the same way.
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Because it's hard enough to make a positive return -- to make something people want -- when expectations are set up front and investments are filtered. If they want to do good by these people the investors need to expect (nay, demand) a return to at least break-even levels so that they can roll it over to help more people.

Otherwise these NGOs are just indulging white Western guilt. Without positive sum return there is no scalability. It is like buying a t-shirt to save the whales, just feel good with no results. The people who sold cellphones at a profit to the poor (employing many of them as salesmen along the way) are doing a far better job than NGOs who gave things away, as selling things at a profit meant they could distribute millions of cellphones rather than just a few.
eh this is useless postering getting reported for no reason.

why does importing tech ever matter? especially tanks? they need to have independent defense contractors within india fighting for contracts fairly; until then this is useless reporting because it won't even mention the incentives for politicians for importing this tech.
I don't know if it exists everywhere in the world, but this was basically an organization that would run campaigns for specific charities.

One week you'd try to get people to donate to a child cancer charity and the next to WWF and the sales company would get the first few months to half a year of that person's donations.