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I'm pretty sure nkoren's point has just flown over your head.

You're talking about the obligations of the US Government. The US Government clearly only has the obligation to secure the rights of its own citizens.

nkoren is talking about the rights of the US Government. Just look at the language of the very first clause. All men are guaranteed these rights. It makes no mention of citizenship. That the US Government has the obligation to protect the rights of only US citizens does not mean that it has the right to violate the rights of non-US citizens. I don't buy the bullshit that the government can only protect my rights by violating the rights of others. That's small-minded thinking.

I agree with 4891 that nations act like criminal gangs. I seem to be one of very few who believe they shouldn't, though.
Looks great, we use Producteev atm but a lot of us don't like it. It became cluttered because we use it with a lot of ppl (user rights etc.).

What UI tools do you use? The page where users fill in their data is cool :)
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Any idea what 'charm' does? I haven't found a use for it yet.
Purchased, looking forward to reading it over the summer months. Thanks to the author for making it available.
> I would argue, that it's the idea that we need some sort of government.

It's not an idea at all. It's what OP referred to as a 'power vacuum'.

An anarchy sits at the top of a local maxima, where a little nudge in any direction is enough to set the whole political situation careening toward violence and the acquisition of power all over again.

An anarchy can only survive until the first person gets enough allies to put their boots on the throats of the rest.

So while it's true that an anarchy is such that you can effectively only cause people nearby you to be killed, it is an inherently unstable political situation. Witness the stateless tribal areas of Pakistan; despite the lack of the state there is assuredly a boss. The power vacuum has been filled by local tribal warlords.

An anarchy surrounded by Western democracies might even be safe (that is, from external conflict), but a world full of anarchies will not remain a set of anarchies for that long.
How long does something stay tremendously productive when it's very highly taxed and disincentivized?
On the contrary - I find ideological political parties rather abhorrent. No ideology is complete and The Truth.

I would much prefer a party that has clear policy positions that doesn't necessarily hew to any particular belief system across said positions, so long as there is rational justification to believe a particular policy will be effective in achieving an end.
> Only after the countries became prosperous, now there has been a political turn moderately to the right

As far as I can tell, the Nordic countries had started to stagnate economically, with a lot of young people emigrating for better opportunities, hence people wanting to change things.
Doesn't 'tar xf' work for practically everything? I just checked and it works for lzma, bz2, and gz.
Your liability coverage has to be able to cover you doing significant damage to basically anything or anyone else out there on the road (potentially something really expensive), and probably includes some coverage for you being sued by the owner of whatever you hit. In contrast, the uninsured motorist protection is not only relatively unlikely to kick in for any given incident, it only has to cover your particular vehicle, and is probably actually subsidized by the rest of your premium.
I've been using it to make games and game effects/animation tools. I really enjoy experimenting with touch interactions.
I addressed your us-versus-them mindset in my reply to Goladus, but I couldn't help but point out how disingenuous this is:

Good can triumph over evil, but as even Jesus said, it needs the "cunning of snakes" to succeed.

The whole quote is:
"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."

You conveniently forgot the "innocent as doves" part, obviously because it doesn't fit in with the rest of your argument that America must act like a cirminal gang to secure peace. I feel unfortunate to live in a world filled with others who feel the same as you.
Giving them a $30/month prescription would be socialism, and we can't have that.

What about Medicare and Medicaid, not to mention Medicare Schedule D? The US has lots of socialized medicine going around. (Whether that's a good or bad thing is not what I'm commenting on...)
I think I used it once: I wanted to talk to a man on a swamp and I needed one charm to talk to him.

Be careful about them, since they seem to be finite in supply. Though I don't losing all of them and not being able to talk to that man would make any discernable difference in the long run.
Shocking. Absolutely shocking.
This isn't all that abstract or theoretical of a problem. There's lots of devices (printers without lcd screens, routers, for example) which use one or two lights, possibly with different color options, to display a bunch of different possible errors. Often this simply means creating a "key" for the interface (i.e. check the manual to look up what two blinking red leds means or what one steady green and one blinking red means) which is admittedly not fun for the user, but it's also damn hard to make things intuitive with so little resolution (literally!) to convey your info in.
A bunch of people who organize on purpose to put forward a given political ideology is hardly representative of how the mass of the population can be expected to handle a similar social concern.

Sure, the kids may clean their room if you tell them they can have cookies afterwards, but what's the plan when the anarchists have already achieved their goal and removed that external motivator?
Yeah, as far as I could tell, you only used them to talk to the old man in the swamp - you'll find them periodically in your traps, though - I had 8 or 10 by the time I finished the game, so don't worry too much about losing them.
>There are no atheists in foxholes, and there are no conservatives when the pork is being passed out.

Well, no conservative politicians. Conservative voters aren't happy about it, but we consider it better than the alternative.

>But regardless, everybody believes spending raises GDP.

Well, sure, spending raises GDP in the short run. Because GDP includes that spending. I can raise my personal GDP this month by running up my credit cards, too, but that's not necessarily a good thing.

The "broad consensus" for Keynesianism is political in nature, not economic. The linked article is correct - you know what an economist is going to find before he starts looking based purely on his politics, and since the academy is far to the left you find lots of support for government solutions to whatever ails the economy.
Okay, I'm not being negative, I'm just confused about something...

I purchased Codea on the first day it was announced. I thought it was a cool sounding app and wanted to see what it was about. The idea was to have fun and play around and learn how to code using an iPad. The whole point was "Hey, you can learn to code on your iPad". But, now the message is "Hey, learn to code on your computer but run it on your iPad"? I'm not sure I'm gettin' it. Why not just have the code execute on the computer too? I'm just curious.

Also, I'm am a bit surprised Apple allowed it (due to the App Store rules). Though, with all the Air Drop support coming to iOS anyway, how can they justify rejecting this stuff. I mean, a browser runs javascript. You can build a browser and cache all the new code you want.

Edit:

I was just thinking and was wondering if Codea was attempting to become an "app platform". Like Squeak or Emacs. Perhaps that is what is happening? If it were branded like that I am pretty sure that it would be pulled from The App Store (I don't like that thought, btw). That could start making things interesting... Hmmm. But, again, that is what the overloads have wanted to avoid.
Thank you for writing this and the original manifesto.

I'm reminded of my first website project (which called with ambition a "Portal"). It was called Ghostnetworks and, at the time as I was running between the school library and my home computer which I didn't have at the time, I managed to fit all of it on a floppy.

I feel "frameworks" by and large are contrary to the spirit of DIY and shoestring-budget construction, but to each is own. Hosted frameworks do substantially lower the cost to NeoCities as well, and subdirectories will certainly add to the flexibility. However you should be cautious of feature creep.

I've used Thingamablog ( http://thingamablog.com ) which enables static site/blog publishing, however it works via FTP. An API could be greatly beneficial to upload a site created with a tool like Thingamablog.

I do NOT believe FTP access is a good idea.

I feel the subdirectory, minfy, sorting problems can be greatly reduced with the introduction of an API. A desktop or mobile application that can upload content quickly will offload the burden of arranging the site away from you.
While I can appreciate style guidelines for code, I can't help but feel like this level of pedantry is excessive and probably a total waste of time in most cases.
Plenty of NLP/recommendation startups use Java.

Practical AI stuff can be done in most (lower level) practical languages.
We are seeing some good traffic at http://talll.com not sure if it is related in any way to google reader shutting down.
I think I have to disagree. Not knowing the specifics of French unemployment benefits, here in Germany, the situation is probably closer to that in France than that in the US. If you are unemployed, you still have health insurance, you get some money, and becoming homeless because of unemployment is basically unheard of.

So far, I have yet to meet a person that is happily unemployed here. There is a huge social stigma attached to it and people get depressed because the self-image suffers from being unemployed for longer times. Going a little bit over the top, the whole incentive argument to me sounds like this: Since being miserable does not provide the right incentives for an unemployed person to search for work, the situation must be improved by making them miserable and hungry/homeless.
When I lived in China I met French people all the time; more than any other foreign nationality. I think they're all over the place.
How have these anarchist societies fared after hierarchically-driven societies came through? I don't seem to recall it working out well in Africa, Asia, North America, or South America.
I'm not particularly well read on quantum computing, but it seems like we have reduced it to an engineering challenge at this point. We have already constructed and tested quantom computers with several quibits and (I am aware) of no theoretical limit to how many quibits we can have, so the problem is simply in engineering a device that can operate on all of them succesfully.

This is in contrast to most of the second type of breakthrough, where you typically have a theoretical revelation that opens previously closed doors.
It's a combination of incentives. Being unemployed is less awful in France, so there is negative pressure on being employed. Additionally, the cost to fund such a program creates negative pressure on increased employment through various means.

By no means am I a hardcore conservative and against these programs (they have their place), but innovation and employment thrives in a less regulated environment. We can argue about the quality of the labor in such systems, but that's entirely different.
> she explicitly told the 3.6 million young unemployed people in the euro zone to be ready to move around to find work as the European Union allowed them to and the whole European project encouraged them to.

That's a great suggestion but which one of the twenty-three official languages of the European Union should I start studying ?
Neocities is perhaps another one of those websites where it would be nice if HN included more than two levels of the domain name in parentheses.

e.g. instead of

> The 10 Megabyte Manifesto (neocities.org)

you would have

> The 10 Megabyte Manifesto (10mbmanifesto.neocities.org)
By looking at the source at Github, some chapters (if not all?) utilize third party tools and libraries written in Java. The community is big.

For example Weka is widely used for data mining (even in academia) and here it's used in the Machine Learning chapter; Drools is an excellent solution from JBoss/Red Hat used in the chapter for Expert Systems, and etc... I even see a Hadoop dependency in the code but I'm not sure (yet) in which chapter it's used.

I bought the book, as a Java developer this is one of the areas I'm less experienced in, so this is a great opportunity to get up to date.
An interesting hypothesis. Evidence against it is that Germany has a similar net and yet unemployment amongst the youth is less than half that of America.
I'm a little shaky on the thermodynamics of peltiers, but it seems (and I swear I read something years ago to back this up) that if it extracts power from the equalization of a heat differential, it must also slow down the conduction of heat. Two arguments for why this should be the case:

1. If it were not the case, then assuming ideal peltiers, you should be able to simply stack one peltier after another and get more energy than just one from the same temperature differential. And that's clearly crazy talk. If peltiers do not impede heat conduction, they must have some other limitation that prevents this from being the case.

2. Peltiers are reversible; a thermoelectric generator also acts as a thermoelectric cooler if you put current through it. So when you heat one side of the peltier and cool the other, generating a current, then that current should cause it to simultaneously act as a TEC (analogously to how counter-EMF causes an electromagnetic generator to resist as you turn it, essentially by turning it into a motor trying to turn in the opposite direction). That is, the very current you are generating will cause the peltier to transfer heat from the cold side to the hot side, with the end result that it would act as an insulator.

Edit: However, if I'm right about this, then assuming you can have efficient and flexible peltiers, it should work quite well for winter clothing.
Interesting. Here's my prediction from my niche in the industry, where single core CPU scaling ground to a halt and we still lack the necessary tools to parallelize our jobs.

I see us at the beginning of this paradigm shift to multi-core. Both the tools and the theory are still in their infancy. But there are many promising advances being explored, such as GPUs, Intel Phi, new FPGA, projects like Parallella, and yes, memristors based neuromorphic computing.

The software side also requires new tools to drive these new technologies. I think traditional threading will be viewed as a stopgap hack and will be replaced by some form of functional, flow-Based, and/or reactive programming models.

10 years from now, I see writing thread safe apps in the same league as writing 6502 ASM code today.
Nobody - I'm not sure where he took that from, seasonal workers get an unemployment indemnity proportional to the amount of time they worked during the year, so in this example, they worked 4 months out of 12, so their indemnity would be about 50% of 33% of their salary.

16.5% really isn't a lot.
It's mind-boggling to fathom the storage capabilities of these systems. Then again, when $10 billion is a conservative estimate of the budget you've been given to do just this [1], it's a lot more realistic.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillanc...
It doesn't meet all your requirements but try http://Readable.cc. You can sign up on the website or host it yourself.

https://github.com/ElbertF/Readable.cc
Indeed, I certainly didn't mean to mislead anyone into thinking this is "official" from the neocities guys, but I think that's pretty obvious once you click the link.
It doesn't quite work that way.

First of all, in order to collect unemployment benefits in France, you must be actively looking for work. If you are being offered a job and don't take it, your benefits will be cut.

Second, you generally don't get 80% of your previous income. You get one of the following:

57.4% of your previous salary.
40.4% of your previous salary + 11.57 Euro per day, to a maximum of 75% of your previous salary, and no less than 28.21 Euro per day.

If you get 75% of your previous salary, then only because your income was pretty low to begin with.

(And I'm pretty sure there are more inaccuracies; the GP looks like it's been taken from some tabloid.)

As to who pays for it: The majority of social expenditures are actually for pensions and health. In 2005, France spent about 7.5% of its total social expenditures on unemployment [1] -- and the unemployment rate wasn't much lower back then -- as opposed to 37.4% on pensions and 29.8% on health (I note that France has one of the more efficient healthcare systems in the world, and a rather good one, too).

What a lot of people both in the US and the EU don't understand is that dealing with unemployment in a reasonable way is not actually all that expensive. Full benefits are generally only being paid for a short time, long-term benefits (subsistence level or slightly above) are not very expensive, and the structural costs of not doing it (such as increased crime rates) are probably more expensive in the long run.

[1] http://imgur.com/42DLRK4
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Cajuns were from Eastern Canada.
To hear Spielberg and Lucas tell it, they'll soon be implanting stories into our heads - imagine that....
http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/spielberg-to-produce-halo-s...
My favorite example of this is how the linux kernel will actually give you morse code through the keyboard lights (num lock, scroll lock, caps lock) during a kernel panic [0].

[0]: http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2002072200326NWKNDV
Although you address a legitimate question--how the safety net affects the unemployment market, your description of U.S. Healthcare is largely inaccurate and worth clearing up.

Since the 1980's every state in the U.S. has offered a Medicaid-funded program. These programs would almost certainly cover you in this hypothetical situation, including covering diabetes or hypertension medicine. Yes, a few politicians dislike the program and many vote against its expansion, but belying your use of the "socialism" epithet, the program is widely accepted in the U.S. and ending it is a fringe opinion.

The scenario you describe (ER's provide acute/crisis care to people who have no routine monitoring) does legitimately describe people who (a) fail to properly enroll in Medicaid, or (b) have too high an income for Medicaid but still consider insurance unaffordable. Productive work is being done to address both of these gaps, but your characterization gives the wrong impression about the current state of the safety net.
France is like most countries with high unemployment in that the primary cause of unemployment is that there aren't enough jobs. Germany has the mittelstand which keeps over 70% of the population employed. The US has its own version of the mittelstand with over 26,000 Subway sandwich franchises, so its unemployement rate is only slightly worse than Germany.
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Quite possible. However, as the German multi-party system has plenty of opposition parties, at least one of them is clean in this and will try to use this to gain votes and raise hell.
Huh? Could you give an example of a country in which communism was established without a violent mass uprising? Here in Western Europe, we have had a few rather stable decades of people voting right and left as they please. Are you aware that there is a world of difference between Socialism and Communism?

Most European countries have a free market economy with some sort of social safety net (that's the socialism right there). Communism has a planned economy, something which is unheard of in Europe at the moment (with the possible exception of Belarus). Also, some countries with strong social safety nets are doing rather well at keeping unemployment at bay. Think of the famous German Kurzarbeitergeld, where the state replaces a part of the pay of workers that work less due to temporary economic circumstances, thus avoiding layoffs.
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If the documents reveal who are behind this, would USA be willing to extradite the suspects to Europe for trial and punishment?
You really need to learn a functional language.
Side note: ran an entire small business on a 10mb hard disk off an IBM compatible in the 80's. Later in the 80's on a multi user Unix system with a 70mb hard drive. (Won't get into before that at the school computer center but the space give was in K).

All text based, no graphics.

Eagle PC (founder drove his Ferrari off a cliff the day the company went public).
linux is very much non-US and is already developed in non-US contries. Facebook alternatives has existed for ages, as well as gmail alternatives. The root-servers has long been distributed all over the world.

software from the us is huge, but there's a lot of alternatives, not always visible to US citizens though, they often aren't in english.
I wasn't defining anarchists as you just have. Anarchism has taken a variety of forms throughout history, and the kind you describe is the most rare.

http://www.eleuthera.it/files/materiali/David_Graeber_Fragme...
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The one you apparently already know.
A bit tangential to the point, but still: get out, wherever you live. If you have the ability (which may be non-trivial), moving country is of a huge benefit. Even if you love the place you live in, you just don't have a comparison if you haven't lived (i.e. had local friends and jobs and dealt with day to day stuff for a couple of years) somewhere else. And just the experience both makes you more interesting and helps you get the experience that makes you better at many higher-paid jobs. Also, having friends around the world can be invaluable if/once you have to get out.
I'd love to, but I read it a long time ago and I don't have the copy with me. If you can read french, I recommend this review, which is where I got word of the book:

http://econo.free.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&...

And ooooh NICE, the review made me realize that the book is available for free as PDF :) : http://www.cepremap.fr/depot/opus/OPUS09.pdf , and I'm editing my original post.
I guess it depends on what you're used to, but if you are a highly qualified young employee your life is pretty miserable. You make marginally more after tax and expenses (from living in the cities where qualified jobs are) over the unemployed/fraudsters living in the countryside. And you are overworked and overstressed.

For these people the best alternative is just leaving. Which paints a gloomy picture for France's future, as newer generations are brain-drained.

Subsisting is not a particularly desirable situation, and it's not sustainable when more people start jumping on the benefit bandwagon. Eventually the credit money from the ECB will run out and then you have an explosive situation in your hands.
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The wikipedia article is crazy, they undid the IPO for Eagle because of this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Computer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826632