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If you can't see the "women are victims" aspect, you must be blind. Sorry - just look at the Cecilia Payne pamphlet that started this discussion. No victim painted there? And that is a very mild example. "Rape culture" does not paint women as victims?

As for privileges of women, granted, both genders face different issues in society. Most privileges of women center around having children - that is also the only place where you will find inequality in laws, and they are favoring women (there are in fact no laws that favor men in most western societies). If you don't want to have children or can't have children, as is presumably the case for transgender types, of course you face more issues.

If you don't want children, it sucks a bit - life indeed isn't fair in that regard. However I don't think society can be blamed for the fact that nature produced two sexes (or a bit more) and that people can not choose their sex by themselves. I suppose if you can make a credible case that you will never have children, most of those issues can go away (like employers being wary of hiring you because of the risk of motherhood).

Give some examples of disappearing privileges your transgender friends experience, though?
Nope. Read the document. Subsonic speeds with capsules 2 minutes apart. In the event of a catastrophic depressurization (i.e. bomb on a capsule or a pylon), all capsules stop. Worst case, 28 people in one capsule die. The rest are stuck for awhile until they can be evacuated. Not very spectacular.
I like that the site's design is entirely based on the flag of the Netherlands, famously the country with the highest amount of phone taps per inhabitant.
Hyperloop: Why can't we believe in the big ideas?
Thanks for making me laugh out loud while making a legitimately good point at the same time. Super A+.

EDIT: I reread it twice and laughed each time. This is literally the funniest serious comment I've seen on Hacker News in weeks.

EDIT2: Yes, I thought it was funny enough to make this comment, and no I'm not being sarcastic at all.
This tax scheme also causes a lot of trouble for kids who had the bad fortune of being born in the US, without growing up there or any other real ties to the country. You are still subject to the tax rules, are technically breaking the law every time you entry the US with you real passport (as you must use the US one even if you never got it as you as still technically a citizen).

Getting rid of the citizenship is then best done around the age of eighteen, but chances are no one will tell you how much of a pain in the ass all of this is, and likely you won't even be aware of the tax potential tax burden and paperwork. Alternative is to pretend like nothing and hope you never get caught.

When you finally get around to renouncing the whole thing becomes a never ending process of getting all the IRS papers and possibly back taxes in if you earn enough, getting a SSN as you can't file taxes without it, actually renouncing, and likely getting the SSN after you renounced as the whole thing takes bloody ages, and then finally figuring out exit taxes and if you are actually exempt from paying them. The exit taxes of course have two loop wholes, one of which is you were born a dual citizen _and_ still pay taxes to the other country, which means you are screwed if you are working abroad. While the other test checks net-worth, average income over the last five years and a few other things. Oh, and for the exit tax the states assumes you have sold all you assets and will tax you on the capital gains of those fictive sales...

Whole system is a mess, there is no way in hell expats can fix it as their votes don't in essence don't count and it's "free" money for the state. The level at which taxes kick in for expats of course stopped being adjusted long ago as the state realized that if they stop increasing the min. amount they get more money. Though it is still being moved slightly up, it's long since stopped targeting the truly wealthy and is now hurting more and more regular people (especially if you live in a high cost country with high wages that has crept above the threshold).

Throwing money and/or time out the window is no fun, so I have no problem understanding why people want to get rid of their citizenship if they can without becoming stateless.
A dedicated hypoxia document by the FAA:

http://www.google.be/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=...

You got to think that a decompression will happen. Something traveling that fast inside a tube is probable to develope vibrations and material fatigue if something is not working properly (like the compressor or a air cushion), also there can be small parts released from the front pod impacting on the next one.

It doesn´t need to be a huge crash, just a crack on the hull, it will decompress that small pod in seconds.

Also what will happen when of tens of pods traveling that fast, find that there is a sudden recompression of the tube? How fast are they going to stop due to the front overpressure (the compressor is relatively low powered)?. Is not going to be a gentle stop either.

I still think that it´s a great idea, and that there will be ways of solving those problems, but it´s going to be difficult and require lots of R&D.
Consider a current generation Mac Pro matched spec-for-spec with BYOC prices. Which costs more for YOU (not Apple)?
PlayCanvas [disclaimer: I'm CTO] has a full 3D import pipeline from FBX, COLLADA and OBJ which supports skinned animation and all default materials.

Plus we have a level designer, physics engine, scripting API, hosted publishing, and a halfway decent positional sound library :-)

You can see importing models and animations in action here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_fRcV-3wk, or signup for yourself [http://playcanvas.com]
Of course it's going to be expensive but it will be the last computer you ever need to buy, right? :-)
Nobody's saying they shouldn't be able to renounce. The argument is that the circumstances influencing that decision are wrong-headed. The ability to renounce U.S. citizenship is always available.

For what it's worth, what does it cost the United States if a citizen lives abroad? A citizen still has to have paid into the Social Security system to qualify for benefits and employment abroad doesn't count. Do you object to the U.S. being "obligated" to rescue a citizen in the event of unrest in the country where he or she went? If so, at what point is that right given up? What about a tourist who is overseas for a week or a month?
I am a citizen that works in an international org abroad and I am exempted from taxes due to my annual income being under the threshold.

That aside, I am thinking inevitably I would renounce my citizenship given the opportunity to get a citizenship in Europe. I am no longer interested in associating with the political shithole my nation has become, and it looks like that will not change.

Reality tells me however, and from experience: a) whatever country I would establish in would turn to shit and I cannot shop for citizenship every time some country loses its mind (which happens frequently these days) and b) Americans are treated very well as expats in terms of low restrictions on visa requirements and barrier to entry (unless you are going to Iran and the like). Point A is minor, while Point B, having been married to an Arab national for only over a year, has proven that being anything other than American or one of the European countries of high standing is very uncomfortable for anything requiring travel, and often humiliating. That is why, sigh, she is clamoring for her US citizenship ASAP.
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It's a lifting culture meme, popularized on Reddit.

Source: I hoist and read r/fitnesscirclejerk during when I eat.

Which is often, because I lift.
Population: 313.9 million
Top 0.1%: 314,000 people
Lose 5000: 1.6%
Revenue paid: 16.4%
Revenue loss: 0.26%
Total federal rev: $2.7 trillion
Total loss: $7 billion
One part that's not getting nearly enough press: you can bring your car with you!

This is the key that will drive massive adoption. Wrote about this here:

"Hyperloop = Warp Speed for Your Car"
https://medium.com/hello-hyperloop/82cb2069112f
I'd say its far more likely that if building a hyperloop is ever executed, the USA will be the last place to get the thing. Honestly California can't pull itself together to do anything and I can't picture another state in the union that would unanimously approve funding what most politicians would see as an experimental hippy dippy sci fi solar monorail that isn't backed by oil lobbies or any unions. Elon Musk just gave China the transit system of the future, not us
Where Facebook users are immigrating:

https://twitter.com/Amazing_Maps/status/366328072066187264/p...
Prism: most think that they're as tall as skyscrapers
Why some people are okay with bending the bill of rights
Standing Desk Experiment Day 1: Building a Cheap Standing Desk
Whilst our train service in the UK is a mess (and it really is), I suppose at least we have a mess that we can moan about rather than "buy a car, hippy".
I think $18 is too expensive for what it is. Most web content editors are at least available as a download, even if they are not free.
> Excuse me, but I am not one to simply say "thank you" when some of the suggestions therein don't make sense.

You should. There's no downside, but there's plenty of downside to being brusque. You don't need to act on the suggestions.

> As for the third... he acts like I'm supposed to ask for $10,000 for such a goal. GNUstep is an very large project. Getting it to 10.6 compatibility is going to take time and I can't take the time off of work unless I haver the money I need to make it happen. Asking me to do this for anything less than what I projected is ludicrous beyond belief.

He's saying that unless you recontextualize the project, you're asking for too much. Potential donors will have their expectations anchored by (a) their ideas about Kickstarter projects in general, (b) their ideas about similar Kickstarter projects, and (c) their understanding of the value you'll be providing relative to their needs.

If your goal is high relative to similar Kickstarter projects you have to make it appear worth that premium. If it's unclear what value your project will add to your donors' lives that will make your job that much harder.

That's what he's saying.

By the way, if you're asking for donations to pay for the time you're working on it and not the hard costs of the project then it's absolutely critical you have a video with your face on it and not just text. Folks are really donating for your labor, not to for this abstract project.
What about limiting affiliates with advertising a Kogan related keywords and even some traffic sources? I've seen such limitations for many of brands represented in the affiliate networks.

If managed properly affiliate marketing definitely works and yes, it's worth expanding to.
Most Kickstarter donations come in at the very beginning and very end of a campaign in an "inverted U" shape. If you're expecting the contributions to come in linearly, I'd recalibrate and plan accordingly.
Hyperloop = Warp Speed for Your Car
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It seems reusing his current tech and knowledge though.
No, it's a very visible example of socializing the risk while privatizing the profits. It's pretty small potatoes compared to the normal contract guarantees to even, say, companies doing highway maintenance, and let's not get into the "socialization" of science funding. Where are our guaranteed ROIs on NSF grants?

The government makes these investments all the time. In fact, usually the (barely implicit) goal of government funding is to also encourage job and wealth growth. $12 million isn't much of a return, but even revenue neutral is a win for the average government investment. And, like the tax breaks to encourage people to buy the very cars the government was helping pay to produce, the idea is to help kickstart an industry that might not have the differential to self-start, but has the potential to eventually be self sustaining and bring outsize benefits compared to the investment. Basically the same reason we fund basic science research as well.

And again, this is highly selective outrage. You can disagree with the whole category of government-sponsored industry, but you have a bit of an uphill battle there. Meanwhile, there are far more "classic" examples all around, not to mention the two other major car companies that together received nearly 16x what Tesla received and have so far not exactly put in a great showing for the industry-creating change that money was supposed to help fund.
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I'd agree in some cases, but realistically there isn't much you can do against people using bombs to blow up bridges - or in this case, hyperloop pylons. It's just not something that you can 'design around'. Designing the pylons to survive if one is blown up? If someone can put a bomb on one pylon, he can put 5 bombs on 5 pylons. Or under 5 cars.

Spending your time trying to prevent that kind of thing is futile and an enormous waste of resources. See: TSA
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No, this is not the new Mac Pro's CPU. This is an Ivy Bridge part. The new Mac Pro will be using a Haswell CPU.

Apple have already mentioned that the new Mac Pro will ship with Thunderbolt 2. Intel have stated that the Falcon Ridge controllers that drive Thunderbolt 2 will be part of Haswell.

Additionally, Apple have never used the "E" series for their CPUs and there's no indication to think they'll start with the new Mac Pro.
Thoughts on Hyperloop
The Wow signal
... all of which have totally locked up, closed off baseband firmware. Which can be controlled all the way down to DMA by OTA updates by a provider.

No, none of this is very interesting at all until there is an open, free baseband firmware.
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SDL 2.0.0 is out after many years in development
Crossrail is 118km and is going to cost 16bn GBP or about 135m GBP per km (~$209m/km) (if I've done my maths right.)

Though it's somewhat difficult to separate out the 42km of new tunnels (expensive) and a whole bunch of new stations (expensive) including a whole bunch of revamped ones in the centre of London (very expensive).
> Can you name any new major civil engineering project in the US in the last fifty years?

Most of the interstate highway system, any number of lakes, many major bridges, the completed portion of the superconducting supercollider underground chambers, the brilliant Alaska pipeline pylon system, Florida's long elevated marine highways, the Norfolk (?) tunnel, the NYC aqueduct, most major airport runways.

What man has done he may aspire to do again.

These things move in cycles. Political patronage projects currently are in vogue, but their star is falling. You cannot credibly claim that unions will make any LA-SF project cost $100B, because Mr. Bond Market is about to have a mountain comes to Mohammed moment. At some point the market for rational projects will reopen for a few decades, like it does from time to time.

Elon Musk is just the man to make it happen. He already killed the Space Shuttle program and its standing army of $1B/yr payroll patronage jobs. Extending that to other projects is a matter of will and personality.
I don't follow.

Where did the extra $200K in sales come from and why is he not happy about it? It sounds like there is a pool of customers that will not finish the purchase unless they can google "kogan coupon" and hit few coupon sites beforehand (even if to leave these sites emptyhanded). So the affiliates appear to help convincing on-the-fence visitors and push sales to completion. If anything, it's a clever hack. Not sure why he's so pissed.
I recently bought a PC, rediscovered the joys of being paralysed by the possibility that every bloody program I could download probably contained some sort of malware, nagware, searchware, spyware or crapware, and then sold my PC and paid the goddamn markup like I should have done in the first place.

The two or three occasions on which I played computer games did not cover the time lost to trying to do work on a platform which doesn't have the tools I needed.
If they turn off the compressor there's a giant air cushion in front of them and the capsule no longer has air bearings. It probably lands on wheels and can then engage the breaks. A small capsule has low inertia as well.

Most likely safer than a train.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/nio/ByteBu... is solid enough reading for the interested in encoding/decoding. It compares Direct v.s. non-direct buffers. The doc does remain somewhat circumspect about whether any work is done converting from raw memory to primitive values, for example in the use of getLong or putLong to read or write.
Here's a follow-up Op-Ed piece: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/opinion/puder-york-aol-firing/...
How JavaScript injected into website pages generates malicious iframes
This infected website hosts suspicious JavaScript code injected in 43 files. The website is already blacklisted by Google Safe Browsing. Hidden iframe loads content from the remote site that has hosted malware which infected 31 domains.
Go 1.1.2 has been released
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That does work well. I'm happy to pay for Dragon, but I find the Windows version so superior to the OSX software I refuse to run it on OSX...
The problem is that this is unlikely to give what you want, since, for example, if my inputs are "123", "2315", "12451", ..., then what I'm looking for is probably going to be something along the lines of "\d+", and not the set of words that are within a small edit distance of a subset of integers.
Sounds like he took advantage of an ignorant government. I'd do the same. So did Wall Street, but we got less back from that one.
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Bäh! That much of Ad`s in these postings... and i`m really O/T now...
When you talk about Regular Coffeemachine, Coffeshops, Clubmate Energydrinks or at last Espresso my point is that you did`nt get the "coffee-thing" at all. Yes, prefered flavor and tastings are wide spread, and maybe i try too much of methods making coffee and too many different sorts of coffeebeans, during my life. When i told you that everything in life can be a zelebrated as a ceremony, an when you grind the beans slowly by hands, the whole room`s getting filled withe aroma of the beans, and then brewed the coffee by hand (only 2-3 cups per do) and yo combine the coffee with something from the time when you were a child and lots o work, and then settle back and savour your cup, than its more than paying bucks to commercially "coffee-to-go-energy-drinks" or whatever you suggest.
It's called cookie stuffing. Your company should have done your research before doing affiliate marketing and taken steps to prevent this kind of fraud.
They both benefit the world. Fact is, there is no modernized 3-Liter-Lupo, and I've heard no rumors that there ever will be (?). Until there is, Tesla will be the one who demonstrates what is possible.
The man publish a 40 pages technical document and you dismiss it with a comment. At least provide a single argument
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It sucks, I go through this every year: file a tax return where I crunch a bunch of numbers to eventually figure out I owe...nothing, and of course file my fbars so the gov knows about all my bank accounts. I'm also never sure if I'm doing it right since its so complicated, and I don't trust tax accountants to do it right either. There is also the matter of double taxation if you do business trips to the states but work in a country without a decent US-oriented tax treaty (e.g. China...).

But I wouldn't renounce my citizenship over this, that would just be stupid.
Having access to American universities and jobs on Amercian-citizen terms give those troubled children a helluva worldwide advantage.

As an Australian I have no advantage on the education front over any other foreign student. I at least have a leg up in the E-3 visa.

Dual citizenship can smooth the edges too, depending on the 2nd citizenship. Lots of countries have reciprocal tax treaties with the US that will excuse American citizens earning in the foreign country from paying American income tax, because they are paying local taxes. And vice versa.
I think the new Mac Pro is going to ship in late 2013.
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It depends on the application. For instance, in search engines approximate matching is very useful. E.g. if people want to search for Rotterdam, they make typos like Roterdam or are foreigner and don't know that Rotterdam has a double t.

You can rank candidates afterwards. However, it's a good solution for finding words that are closed to a mistyped word.

I have successfully used such techniques in a spellchecker and various search engines.
While you raise some important points, but I think the key complaint was that the author felt scammed by the 20% commission they were paying the affiliate program vendor for sales they would already have made. While these programs may have potential benefits, a 20% commission probably does not reflect the value provided to Kogan.
Also frankly, nuclear is its whole own category of unviable for its own special reasons. Cars, buses, trains, planes and ships have all killed scores more people then nuclear power ever will.
> I thought black objects absorb all wavelengths, and white objects reflect them all away.

The point about a black piece of plastic is that the energy is absorbed at the surface -- it can't penetrate the plastic to any significant depth. That means the majority of the plastic is protected from the ultraviolet wavelengths that would destroy it.
Nice - one point, it wasn't at all obvious from the initial screen that you can scroll down. There should be a visual hint.
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There is no extra $200k (which should have been the first sign -- "we're making $200k less, but the affiliates are making $200k more!").

And since they don't actually give out a coupon, it's doubtful it helps anyone but the affiliates.
What would stop vendors creating such programs for Mac too?
"One of the coolest things is genetically tailored diet and training. It won’t be perfect because we still don’t know what most genes do. But exercise genetics will potentially produce some of the most widely used and effective medicine. You may be able to tell people how they can train to get a certain health benefit instead of taking a drug, or maybe that they can’t get that benefit with training so they do need a medication. Also, injury predisposition genes are coming online right now. It would be nice to know more than just through straight trial and error what’s the best training for your and how you can avoid injury."

This.
The way the US tax treaties work you get tax credits for your local taxes. So if you live in Scandinavia with high taxes, say 40% you have enough credits to offset all of your ~30% US taxes. But if you are in a low tax country, say 20% you would end up still paying ~10% taxes to the US.

edit: And yes, if the citizenship is a good or bad thing is of course highly dependent on your other citizenship, your plans to study/work/live in the US, the country you intend to live in instead of the US and a number of other factors.