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Simplified postmodernism says that something can be "true for you" but also "not true for me"; it's the subjectivity of truth. "Abortion is an absolute human right" can be "true for you" but not "true for me".

This is the contradiction I refer to. You can't have truth-entirely-relative-to-a-person and even one person claiming that he believes his truth applies to all. There are options, but they all involve some other sort of absolute axiom that force you to judge some people's beliefs as false as a consequence. Postmodernists try to have it both ways, deflecting all moral criticism with "it's all relative" while still fairly freely wielding absolutes with abandon.

(Incidentally, even if you can't find an academic who actually wrote this down somewhere in some pithy form that could be cited, I have dealt with plenty of people in person at university who did this repeatedly and, to my mind, blatantly. I know I'm glossing over the belief system a bit since this is a comment on the web and not a dissertation, but I know people with this belief system exist. I've personally encountered them.)

You reference a "problem"; were you actually referring to astine's "This is a problem to say the least."? I can't answer to that, those aren't my words.
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Poor font choice. Try something less bold with less anti-aliasing.

But honest ads are always great.
I am talking about endless legal challenges filed before the plant even begins construction. I can't go over all possible nuclear laws, but if there are any laws protecting against that sort of liability they sure aren't working very well. (From what I can see, Price Anderson only affects "nuclear incidents" after a plant is running; if you can show me that's not true, I'm listening.)
It was rather tongue-in-cheek:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=As+far+as+we're+concerned%2...

And I will report back about my startup on demo day in August -- I'd rather it be a "you can succeed if you weren't accepted" story rather than a "told you so" one, because frankly I think pg et al. are perfectly confident with the startups they have chosen. Unfortunately I have two very challenging startups at the same time, but fortunately both are well under way!

Edit: None of the websites in my profile are my startup unless it explicitly is prefaced with startup:.
Here is the summary:

* This is a report from a third person who have talked with the lawers representing StockArt.

* The two lawyers of StockArt claim they did not sue anyone, and that they were trying to contact Jon since the thing blew up.

* Lawers claim they did not "harass" Jon's client, but contacted two of them to check if they also "had legitimate licensing rights" from Jon's work.

* The dispute started when Jon uploaded 65 logos on a second site "LogoPond". Laywers claim that Logopond, the site, was launched in 2006 while a few of the logos in question are in StockArts pocesson for a decade. (I don't know if that says anything)

* And that they previously had once claimed right on Jon's work and Jon actually paid the bill.

Update: as davidmathers have pointed out here is the site page with comparison:

http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/stock.html

For quick summary seekers: Scroll bellow. The browser window at the bottom is Jon's work. The popup is from StockArt's artists. Note that every art from StockArt belongs to a different artist whos name is linked in the center of the popup window. This evidence strongly goes against Jon. Either these 20 artiest with reputation copied from Jon (unlikely) or Jon copied from them.
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for those of you who don't know, this markus guy makes $10 million a year of his little site by working 1 hour a day.
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Interesting that the checklist only deals with optimizing and performance in a very cursory manner. Doubly interesting that no one here ranted about that considering the obsession with performance among the HN crowd.
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A location under a mountain in Kinakuta would be an ideal safeguard against both.
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you mean at the footer?
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I'm calling bullshit on both ends, and to be honest I don't really care at this point who is in the right.
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Taleb's point is not to reduce the probability of having a black swan, which he essentially assumes to be fixed

But the probability isn't fixed, given black swan events are dependent on taking bigger risks. If you minimise risk, you can essentially completely avoid black swan events.

To explain it using the core idea, the black swan was discovered in these regions of Australia. If explorers never took the risk to explore these parts, then they would have never been discovered.

So no, the probability isn't fixed. The probability of a "black swan event" occurring is more or less proportional to the complexity of the system that it relates too and the risk that an organisation is willing to take.

Using the horrible september 11 attacks as an example, Al Qaeda more than likely wouldn't have attacked if they didn't see their way of life as being threatened in some way. This was, for all intensive purposes, an intensely complex political matter which was created as a result of risks taken by previous governments.

Do I think what happened is right? Hell no, lives were lost on both sides as a result of people taking risks that they perhaps shouldn't have. Human error at it's worst.
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I don't understand how you claim that your sense of objective morality is on the same footing as utility of the senses and the fundamental correctness of human reason in terms of accepting them as a foundation for reasonable argument.

humans from different cultures will sense many things the same way. a small black dot will be a small black dot and so forth. likewise, i can believe that ancient japan would have invented a computer if given sufficient time in some alternate reality. once the appropriate questions had been asked and answered of course.

I don't see the same thing for morality though. Or at least not to anywhere near the same degree.
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Sorry, I just dont see it that way.

Interviews are also notoriously bad for hiring. They may make you feel better about a person, but they arent actually better at predicting future outcomes most of the time.

History and Examples are much, much more valid for everyone. For example. who needs references when I could just SHOW you something I did. What would you trust more -- some stranger, or your own eyes and ears?
Kind of odd. I randomly clicked on http://renegadescooters.flyingcart.com/ and it took me to "heel hunters." Not sure if that's a bug or the store owner changed their business.
I've been following the story on logopond and earlier today someone posted this link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011128050555/stockart.com/image...

It's a clipart piece from stockart.com from 2001. And it was used AS IS, no alterations in one of Jon's logos posted in Logopond in 2008. That is very interesting and basically tanks Jon's credibility.

Shortly after this comment was made, Jon purged his entire showcase, closed down his website and checked out:

http://logopond.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=17903#p17903

But the strange thing is that deleting the logo on Logopond never deletes the comments, they linger and can be read even after the logo is gone. In this case however the comments are gone too, which implies there's more to the story than meets the eye.
I'm not sure what your idea is exactly, but I had a similar one after reading Cuban's rants on the television industry.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=551693

Looks damned suspicious to me, but the law firm still shouldn't have contacted the guys clients, IMHO.
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Windows 7 does ship with one, and it'll be a looooong time before <video> goes mainstream and gets supported in IE. Now that MS is dipping their toe into the h264 waters, it's plausible that they'd bundle h264+VC-1 support with the IE$X upgrade for older Windows.

The licensing regime is bound very tightly to the enforceability of software patents. It turns out that distributing source code doesn't constitute patent infringement -- it's a description of the invention, something that should be contained in the freely-distributable patent filing. Even then, you can always distribute binaries from countries where such patents are invalid.
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That wasn't my point. If you're suspected of enough that they are specifically targeting everywhere you're at and/or seizing your off-site DR assets you've most likely done something bad enough to warrant that closer look.
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I am going out on a limb here to point out sp3000 was kind enough to toot Markus's horn by creating an account just to let us know.

I realize I created an account just to point this out and I know it may seem strange but trust me on this one.
The MPEGLA has always been extraordinarily unsuccessful at collecting the license fees they think they're owed. The companies that pay in are generally ones that have patents in the portfolio, and thus get a payout right back again.
Nice! This supports the usual war file formats... which most likely means it can support running JRuby/Rails & Clojure/Compojure.

The one thing that does is slightly annoying: you can't create threads, no executor pools, etc. You can do scheduled jobs, but no background ones.
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I hate to break it to you, but with your product line, it looks like your main competitor isn't become.com, but Amazon's www.endless.com ... let me say that again: you're competing at online retailing with an Amazon.com subsidiary. Good luck.
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"Nothing too convincing for any side."

You seriously believe that a Gang of Plagiarists might possibly have copied Jon's work? Um... I don't know how to respond to that.

The side by side comparisons: http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/stock.html
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I keep hoping that following a certain level of technological sophistication, and in absence of further sophistication as to make your corporeal body wholly unnecessary that having no possessions and no permanent residence will be seen as normal. What could you need but the clothes on your back, the shoes on your feet, and the terminal implanted in your head?

Maybe I've been reading too many Culture novels.
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It is completely unrealistic to expect any of these principles to be upheld. Capitalism is like evolution: a force of nature. It weeds out the less profitable and that is the only thing it does.

Only the first principle may be upheld by governments: by imposing their own risk calculations, they may be able to ensure that no financial institution gets too big to fail. Not by making sure they do not get big, but by making sure they can always bear the risks.
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I'd much rather have native PHP support than have to run PHP through an unnecessary layer of Java. Thanks but no thanks.
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If you've ever been to PlentyOfFish, you'd obviously realize that the font choice was intentional.
No, we get 15% when someone buys anything on endless.com ;-)
Or if google is the referrer. And since I have HN as a feed in iGoogle I didn't even realise until I came to read the comments.
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They can barely get a handle on their current service, and haven't added any _real_ features since search (which they bought), so I highly doubt we'll be seeing any sort of username conflict resolution system from them anytime.
Ah gotcha, well then I shall retract my previous statement.

I wasn't aware of the quote :)

But still the offer stands, I love talking to people about their startups (as well as my own) and discussing various perspectives. I think lines of communication are important!
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no guarantee that they did...for all we know he made that tidbit up as well or simply exaggerated
I agree that Jon appears to be in the wrong here.

But that would imply that he intentionally ripped off a bunch of artists, then decided to go to court over it (and almost definitely lose) and to start a witch hunt by pushing a blatantly false account of the whole thing in what I'm sure will amount to libel.

That's almost as crazy as the possibility that his work was independently ripped off by multiple artists.

I haven't thought that much about this -- is there a scenario I'm missing? The situation really makes no sense at all.
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Totally agree. I am assuming that there is competition, I just don't know of any yet...
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Missing the point, dude. Its not about what you have access to group-wise, but rather what's posted on the groups. In this case, he's asking for intelligent discussion instead of warez.
Sounds near the point where landlords are incentivized to have a high turnover rate. At a 1 year average turnover & the higher key money estimate, that's >50% extra revenue (then indefinite tenants) with <10% extra cost (assuming finders fee & insurance goes to finders & insurers).

Here (Melbourne) You usually need approximately 3X1 month to rent (more if you include average contact breaking costs). Deposits get held by bureaucrats so no one is incentivized in any way.
In my experience, it won't. As you pointed out, they are in a typical Nash equilibrium - everyone is maximizing their utility, and will be punishes severely for acting otherwise. Find another company.
Are you sure he decided to go to court? I thought he just made a blog post claiming persecution and asking for help.
Well actually I'm glad you pointed it out. I'm sure several people had thought/would have thought it was an arrogant quote.

Yes, there should be a way of communicating more easily. Why isn't chatterous embedded in HN? I've been tempted to create a portal that keeps track of startups (techcrunch and wikipedia are no good for this). It would probably be a waste of time... or would it?
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2. It does not perform the same operations on content as Readability.

3. It has different options to Readability.

4. And it wasn't even inspired by Readability.
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Good choice. It is most definitely an underrated school. I miss the burrow.
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Every company has an associated URL
there's always #startups on IRC (irc.freenode.net)
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Would like to add that paying $2/day is not mistreatment. Mistreatment is promissing someone $200/day and then paying him $150.

We very frequenty mix up slavery with low salary job. An artist being contracted by a label company for $5 million is a slave of some form. The person who works for $5 / day but has the freedom to choose to work or not is a free man with all his wills.

If there is a demand for $2/day workers and there is a supply for $2 workers, not allowing it because the goverment is not happy with it seems mistreatment to me.

Everyone should have a free will and everyone should have the right to work at any rate.

My view.
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If you listen to Loveline, Dr Drew and Skyler talk about twitter pretty often.
Lets put it this way. The 20% lead, the 80% is a "no-brainer"
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So which of those would be a good starting point for someone who has no idea about IR?
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Well there are some solutions to those problems, #1 is simple, they do it with dog food. You just need a junior, adult, senior and light varieties (which may help in regards to #3 by being able to eat larger portion sizes if you're hungry).

#2 might be a little trickier, although if it's sold how it's shown in the show (literally as human dog food in giant bags) you could easily include a dozen flavor packets. If the food on its own was fairly flavorless, preferably with a meat-like quality to mix well with different flavor packs.

#3 is probably the trickiest. The solution is probably just like any food, moderation. However, when people receive adequate nutrition this behavior does tend to decrease, but evolution is a harsh mistress and like most animals we've evolved to build up fat reserves to try and survive.

Honestly #1 and #2 can easily be solved by standard market practices in both dog food and human pre-made meals. #3 is the stickler and aside from moderation I don't know what could help, except maybe a big sticker saying 'THREE MEALS IS ALL YOU NEED' might subconsciously stop a few of the gullible people who respond easily to suggestion (read: the people who keep telemarketers rich).
Crap article, intended to put down Russia. It plays on stereotypes and parrots "popular opinion" of Russia.

It is opinion article. It does not cite any sources for its data, for example birthrate grows since 2005 (according to CIA factbook). And please stop the vodka/drunken nation thing, the rest of the world does not write articles that British have problem with gin anymore.
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This article is complete and utter bullshit.

"history offers no examples of a society that has demonstrated sustained material advance in the face of long-term population decline"

Of course it does: Russia, from 1999-2007. For most of the last decade, Russia was the fastest growing economy in the G8. And it may have been growing even longer than that if you discount the contribution of the sudden drop in weapons production after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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I believe I only ever had one Dilberito when on a vacation to the US, now I'm living in Canada I might be able to help turn Scott Adams into a major food mogul.

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It's certification in general that people are skeptical of. We've all met Microsoft Certified Professionals and Sun Certified Java Enterprise Solutions Architects (or whatever they're called) who couldn't code or admin their way out of a wet paper bag - and we've all met people without a single cert who are near godlike in their technical skill. If I see a cert on a CV when I'm interviewing, I always think, why did this person think they needed that? What're they hiding?
start with LSA: laten semantic indexing, if you want information gisting/summarization.

i'm not worried about IR because I use a good search-engine library: Montezuma, and it's in Common Lisp. It's Java clone is called Lucene :-)
JRuby is in good shape, you can deploy Rails on it.

And besides, there are many people with investments in Java already. I think this is a pretty good choice.

Now, if they also added Mono (.NET) that would be great.
I used to think that green on black was the way to go because of that whole "ow, bright light, pain, my eyes!" thing, but it turns out that you can avoid the pain of bright screens and extend your battery life by just turning down the screen brightnesss. I keep mine as low as it goes while still having the backlight on. Though, in a well-lit room, it is possible to read black text on white with the backlight off as well, thus hyper-extending battery life.
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- a book on learning to trust your intuition, with good and bad programming and architecture examples

- a functional language cookbook... like erlang or haskell cookbook

- a book comparing cultural differences between countries in the work and education worlds
How so? Isn't it just a matter of having enough "reasoning power" and information? What do "everything" and "understandable" mean in this sentence?
> for example birthrate grows since 2005 (according to CIA factbook)

Since 1999, in fact, as the article acknowledges: "Russia’s post-Communist TFR hit its low—perhaps we should say its low to date—in 1999, when it was 1.17. By 2005, the total fertility rate in the Russian Federation was up to about 1.3".

Some of its conclusions require more evidence (the contention that Russian standard of living will decline, the attribution of increased accidental mortality to alcohol problems instead of more people driving, etc.) But I'm not sure why you doubt the actual statistics.
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I didn't say you can't do any checks, rather, the db does mostly simple checks. The complex checks often depend heavily upon the object model and use of features like polymorphism which relational databases suck at modeling.
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Snopes also has a good explanation of card skimmers:

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/atm/atmcamera.asp
It seems clojure works as well.
You need some sort of eye safety warning next to that shoolerydesign link. ouch!
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So your Snaptalent profile says it's 1-10 employees, and there's 4 positions for interns. That seems like a pretty high intern/fulltime ratio. Are you planning on filling all 4 of those?
Much of this growth came from spiking commodity prices, particularly oil and natural gas. That's not long-term sustainable. High energy prices masked the structural problems Russia faces. Now that's over.
Try writing a high throughput webapp in ruby or php, then come back.

Java is orders of magnitude easier to scale.
London is one of those sorts of places where you could probably find anything, but it's an outlier.
Auctopart, Octomatic, who can keep these things straight?

;-)
Who's gonna be the first to create a tool that does that all for you? :)
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