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Morgan Stanley and their ilk wasn't the cause of the financial crisis, it was those who trusted the stock market with our mutual funds. The largest monetary reserve in the world is the combined sum of all pension funds. It's not strange: you work 40 years and save so that you can live when you're to old to work.

Over the last 30 years all that money was gradually put in stocks. Which caused the stock markets to grow tenfold or something like that. It's a natural consequence of the law of supply and demand. The higher the demand for stocks the higher the price.

That money is the energy that keeps Morgan Stanley going. They can charge a hefty fee to manage your money because as long as more money is entering the market, the investments are profitable. Except sooner or later the pension funds will run out. When there is no more money to invest the stock market doesn't grow anymore with a predictable implosion as a result.
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Precision can be fixed by just adding a decimal point. And a "UNIX time stamp" doesn't need a time zone because it's always UTC.

However, you're overall point there remains valid, because people will try to pass off something as a "UNIX time stamp" that is actually in a different time zone. There is value to self-describing data.
If your kids happen get chickenpox naturally in their childhood, they'll likely be safe. However, if they get when they grow up, it could easily be fatal.

I don't know why there is an increase of autism in your area, or even if there really is an increase. But vaccines are a red herring.
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The problem is the very real human suffering caused by these economic dislocations. It is totally unnecessary and a failure of politics and morals. Our social "safety net" is anemic at best. We could use some of the profits from increased automation and efficiency to improve the social safety net, but instead we have allowed the vast majority of it to flow to the already wealthy owners of capital.
I like what Amazon is doing in that regard. When entering an address they try to verify it and offer you a looked-up address, asking you whether that's probably better.
> In a normal year you're in no danger from the flu unless your pulmonary or immune systems are compromised.

As the parent of twins born three months early, that sort of attitude is distressing. Vaccination protects more than just the person vaccinated.
This over a map layer? The quality, breadth and accessibility of the data Google maps provides is the reason I keep using it. What else is there? Apple Maps?
Speaking as a foreigner, I now have very little trust for basically any major US tech corporation. The NSA claims it deals responsibly with data relating to US citizens: I'm not a US citizen.

I plan on spending the next few months moving most of my accounts back to self-hosted, or at least hosted nationally.
1) we'll take another example, let's say you have your own religious views and those get collected in a database, seemingly no harm done here. Then comes a newly elected government with different religious views who decides people holding the same religious views as yours should wear a distinctive sign to warn the public, then to gather those people in camps, then starts mass killing those people on an industrial scale. This happened before, if it were to happen again in the future you would have no way of hiding facts about you as everything has been collected about you for years.
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The answer to a complex system like the economy is never so simple. Technology, the shift from a productive to a finance, insurance and real estate economy, artificial interest rates, stock bubble, housing bubble, credit crises....

There are a lot of factors that contribute to fewer jobs. When it comes to technology, yes, technology destroys jobs. But never on a net bases. 100 years ago 40% of our economy worked in agriculture. Today it's less than 2%. Yet people aren't longing for the days of farming. Technology alone is not the culprit.
I don't have insight into this, but since your startup seems to lean heavily on twitter, I'd like you to check out this link/video - it perfectly encapsulates my views on the matter.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/fred-wilson-be-your-own-bit...

Specifically, 20 minutes into the video.
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Stupendously hard. I mean, it wouldn't be too hard to write a test case for this one bug after you already wrote the bug and knew what you were looking for. Write a test case that runs this code multiple times and checks for duplicate outputs. If I recall the nature of this bug correctly, two runs in the same process would be enough. If not, some tens of thousands of runs would do. However, problems: A) you wouldn't know to write a test case like this until the bug happened, and B) this test won't catch similar serious bugs, such as a bug that causes the random number generator to be limited to, say, 32 bits of entropy.
That technology destroys more jobs than it creates can only be news to economists. Any one of us has put far more than one other person out of work by automating their data entry or analysis jobs.

This essay on four possible futures along the axes of scarcity and equality is highly relevant.

http://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/

Does a post-scarcity economy, the sort implied by democratizing production via 3D printers and cheap energy, necessarily imply a more equal society or can the rentier class find a way to extract profits via patents and intellectual property?

Conversely, if we end up constrained by natural resources — energy, feedstocks, labor, etc. — is it even possible to move to a more equal society?
Looking at the facts lead me to a moderate position.

I let you feel confortable following the cdc, i prefer to keep a critical mind, though i agree it is hard for non experts like us to get good and objective information.
terrible use of percentages.
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> Everyone can choose the path of self-improvement and self-education.

You are aware you've just posited free will? I think that's such a significant claim that it needs some sort of support. Because things like family education level and income seem highly determining for lifetime outcomes - in a way that would seem to support the idea that free will doesn't exist.
Don't forget that once you get into it, VS is an awesome IDE.
That's the part that's always amused me. They claim they only spy on foreigners, which is well, me. Reassuring stuff.
If date formatting is a bottleneck for me (it is surprisingly often, because it's very slow in some languages) I typically just run it through the command-line program 'convdate' [1] from crush-tools, which is more or less just a wrapper around strptime+strftime.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/crush-tools/wiki/ConvdateUserDocs
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I bet that's what he said before the last crises too.
I used both KeePass and 1Password is not just about the pretty interface as you make it to be. Entire UX is much better.

Also, even if some 3rd party looked at the code, it doesn't really matter because they are really transparent about the file storage format, there are even some open source cli tools to extract data. Also it is a fact that no data leaves your control. No server side storage or something like that.

I believe 1Password has a great model for a closed source password manager here.

KeePass had been really unreliable and I could not just trust it to store anything. Maybe I should give it another shot. LastPass and other "server side" storage services are not even an option for me though.
I'm sorry but I really don't understand what the issue is. I can understand if the problem is that they are using the content from http://head-phones.findthebest.com/ under http://headphones.techcrunch.com/ , not sure if this is ok or not. But about the actual content, is there a problem with a summary of the most important stats of a given list of products?
Looks like an attempt at pivoting, jumping of the privacy bandwagon. Doesn't really make a good case that this browser is based on belief of privacy as stated in their faq.
Solaris introduced some concepts in its IPS packaging to avoid packages changing the system. IMHO, it is very good but adds some pain to developers and sysadmins alike.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/t...

That coupled with system wide snapshots is a great tool to audit a system after a patch is applied.
This is crazy. Just subscribed to his mailing list. Thanks!
To write fast code, you have to use the right data structures (impossible if everything is a hash map), manage memory (possible even with garbage collection), and be able to inline everything in the inner loops (introspection,eval,etc make this hard).
The age gaps are large, but I remember my grandmother being debilitated by polio. She wore leg braces most of her life and had trouble moving around the few years I knew her (she passed in the 1980s).

There is no need to have witnessed polio directly to have a sense of the awful potential it carries. The whole idea of people living attached to ventilators should be enough for any quasi rational individual.
How well do you trust secret services in you own country?

This is overblown out of proportions, anyone that ever had any contact with secret services knows, the only rules they follow is their own, regardless of the country.
Pretty much all the data points I've ever seen used by such people have been false, and little more than excuses for their irrational choices.
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> Outside of the religious 'god will protect us' line, which I can't really argue with as it's a matter of faith

"God hasn't protected people of your faith historically, why do you think he's going to start now?"
Does anyone know how to disable WebRTC in the browser ? (Apart from downgrading of course)
The only issue with that, speaking as a US citizen living abroad, is that at some point you will likely interact with a person or service based in the US, at which point you can consider your communication intercepted, as it were.

We're all dealing with 'unknown unknowns', that which we don't know we don't know because it's so secretive. If it were a 'known unknown' (such as "What is water made of?"), we could at least know where to go to find out such information (and actually find it out).
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>current research indicating which vaccines pass the cost/benefit test.

Citation needed, and also important to share if you really believe that unicorns like this exist.

>As in most things, vaccination is not an all or nothing proposition and it's a fallacy to suggest it is.

No, it's a fallacy to expect that the right answer must always be in the middle of two sides of an argument. The Law of Averages isn't really a law, it's a mistake.
Is to meet in person in a secure place.

Whatever channel you use might be compromised, if you cannot control both ends.
> the Americans might actually have been actively lobbying for the law in the first place.

Very likely. That's how the pirate bay got raided. Sadly, the swedish government has been very opaque in their dealings with the us.
"...The state then is the most flagrant negation, the most cynical and complete negation of humanity. It rends apart the universal solidarity of all men upon earth, and it unites some of them only in order to destroy, conquer, and enslave all the rest. It takes under its protection only its own citizens, and it recognizes human right, humanity, and civilization only within the confines of its own boundaries."

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I debunked that claim: http://blog.jgc.org/2006/01/wmf-setabortproc-problem-is-not....

Of course, it was still exploitable.
Beware: If you do, it is going to be even more easier to crack.
So we're upvoting this spam content on the front page of HN?
Haven't tested them yet, but they seem to be among the bigger (independent) ones: http://www.green.ch/en-us/home.aspx
> Snooping on "anything and everything" traversing the Internet without a warrant is perfectly constitutional according to SCOTUS, POTUS, most of Congress, and the 3 letter agencies doing the snooping.

Please provide citations regarding SCOTUS. In fact, given that Katz v. United States was never overruled, that sounds very suspicious. The closest I think you can get is Amnesty International v. Clapper but that was a standing issue and never reached the merits.
I'm thinking there are questions about even open source projects. Who is to say they've not been covertly influencing them, or even running them altogether?

I'd certainly agree that open source offers the potential for independent verification of its nature, how many of these applications and libraries have been examined in detail by those who have the deep expertise to spot a subtle flaw and how many are just taken at face value?

The whole thing is frankly a cluster frak.
Hooray, pg expands his snake-oiled gaze from the merely avaristic to cover the entirety of the narcissistic! What could possibly go wrong?

Yes, I know I am hell-banned; yes, it's exactly these kind of comments.
Strange policy to build an organization that could destroy the only industry that is keeping your economy going.
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It's not really about US vs. non-US. They can see everything.
> Google really did a great job with the gmail UI. Truly it's awesome.

It was great in the beginning indeed, but recent changes are also very disappointing. Well, they didn't touch the mail much yet, but the changes to built-in Google Chat were just bad.

I have got several thousand chat threads over the last six years, with many threads in excess of a thousand lines long - so I've used it quite a lot.

I really didn't like the changes they made as they went from the old GChat to Hangouts:

- probably the worst is that they stopped breaking down the conversation in separate chat sessions: now you get a neverending scroll, so there's no easy way to tell when the yesterday's discussion ends and today's begins;

- what's even worse, this scroll loads in small pieces. Before I could open a 800-lines long conversation and Ctrl+F the words I needed - not anymore, now I'd have to scroll through it all;

- the conversations are still separate in the history, but if I click on one, I get to its end, and actually look at the beginning of the next one. If I want to re-read the conversation from the very beginning, I have to either scroll up or actually select previous conversation. No biggie, but still annoying;

- less text fits in the new chat window;

- there's no timestamp by default now (they only show up on mouseover only).

Okay, now, what DID they add? Hundreds of cartoonish emoticons and user avatars instead of names.

Guys, I'm not a 7-year old, could you please take away that bright plastic rocking horse and give me back the tool that wasn't so shiny, but worked really well?

I'm sure there are better chat clients; but what was really awesome is that GChats were integrated with GMail, so I could search them both at once. That's a great help if you hold half the conversations in emails and another half in a chat - I won't have that with a separate chat client.

But enough ranting. Any pointers for a website/app/service that'd handle chats and email at once, like GMail used to? Preferably online or with a sync option, because having access to your whole history from anywhere is really great.
The problem is that his claim just isn't very plausible. It takes a great deal of optimism to believe that everything that happened in (in particular) the origination, packaging and rating of US subprime mortgages (including the stated-income mortgages which industry types were referring to as "liar's loans", at the same time they were making and processing them) was a product of simple ignorance and incompetence.
That RFS was put up in a time when access to twitter's data was for the most part unregulated and when developers felt encouraged to develop on twitter's platform. No one was really sure what the long term implications were of building on their platform, but there were companies that got acquired and raised capital (eg summize, tweetdeck), so money was flowing. It was basically a bet for twitter becoming The Next Social Platform, sort of like what Facebook became.
We use libphonenumber from Google to do just that. Have to stay on top of the latest library version, though, to avoid pissing off customers when their country's phone format changes, which happens surprisingly often. I subscribed to the ITU-T newsletter for a while, and there are phone number format changes somewhere in the world every month. Kind of amazing.
This distraction has been done to death, how about discusing what the article was actually about
Good points. I would just add two things. First, as you say, the percentage you need to reach herd immunity depends on a lot of factors. Broadly speaking, the vaccination coverage you need is 1 - 1/R0, where R0 is the basic reproductive number of the disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number). For diseases like measles, where the estimated R0 is above 10, you need at least 90% vaccinated, perhaps even more; for other diseases it may be lower.

Second, even if you reach herd immunity, it is a concept that completely relies on a random vaccination distribution. Say your R0 is 10, and you have attained a vaccination coverage of 90%, you may still get lots of outbreaks, because the 10% that are unvaccinated may not be randomly distributed. Indeed, it's becoming quite clear that in almost all cases unvaccinated people are clustered. This is why you get these sporadic outbreaks in under-vaccinated communities.

We (some of my colleagues at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and I) are doing a MOOC this fall on exactly these topics: https://www.coursera.org/course/epidemics
Just to be sure we agree: it is 1% of deaths, not of children. Maybe the efforts should focus on bigger death causes of children. My opinion of course.

Your example talks about mexico, which is not a high income country, and the US, which has amongst the worst life expectancy amongst developed countries....
There's no unknown unknowns in the NSA surveillance - that's for things where you don't know what the risks are.

This is a case of known unknowns - you don't know if any given piece of digital information about you has been collected and investigated, but an easy way is to simply assume that it all has. Same with encryption backdoors - we know they're possible, we just don't know where they exist. What's more, we even have examples of these kind of things existing from things like the Great Firewall.

Unknown unknowns would be (for example) a sufficiently general P = NP proof rendering crypto as it exists today obsolete, efficient large qubit quantum computing clusters running Shor's algorithm, or mind-reading at a distance apparatus, or genuine telepathy, or anything that's completely off the charts.

Assume all the certificate authorities based in the US are compromised, all the cryptography implementations from the US are backdoored, and all the communications transiting in the US in any form are available to search by whomever you least want to see them.
I cringe when I read their claim to be "the first-ever privacy-focused browser built on chromium". Iron[1] was first released in 2008 to circumvent privacy issues with chrome.

I wonder if they did a really poor job at researching what already exists and are truly clueless about iron, or if they outright lied for marketing purposes.
Hopefully they're not clueless about privacy and are not lying about features, though I would not bet my privacy on "hopefully" specially when epic browser website lacks an https version and epic browser bears a unique fingerprint on panopticlick.

[1] https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
A string timestamp needs more documentation, because there are many subtly different string formats. Does it refer to a specific instant, or a political time notion? What separator is in use? Are leap seconds a possibility?

The ISO date format's notion of timezones is a compromise that gives you the worst of all worlds. They complicate referring to a physical instant, because you can refer to it in several timezones, rather than the unique representation of a unix timestamp. But they're inadequate for political time, because what time comes 6 months after 13:00 (+00:00)? (It could be 13:00 (+01:00) or 13:00 (+00:00) or likely others - you need a symbolic timezone like "Europe/Lisbon").

For physical or "system" times unix time is great (unless you need the greater precision, but how common is that?). For user-facing times ISO is inadequate. The use case for ISO string datetime formats is very narrow.
Unix timestamps are always UTC (GMT)

Quote:

> Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing instants in time, defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970
At least in the US, my impression is that vaccination refusal is more common among left-wing anti-corporate types than among fundamentalist Christians. It thrives any time there are non-rational beliefs, but it doesn't seem to be too picky about which kind.
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I assume there is a chrome Flag for it, and a config option for firefox?
Your retort is baseless since I didn't say anything of the nonsense you are trying to make me say.

There is an economic aspect to health care. I am accusing those who want to make recommendations on (extremely weak) economic grounds without any medical and scientific reasoning.

Baseless anticapitalist conspiracy theories should not play a role in healthcare.
I think he's assuming that since it's actually rewritten flash-memory bits that degrade, if you don't delete data, then you don't rewrite. So without deletes, all writes simply fill more of the drive and you shouldn't see degradation.

Modern flash drives do indeed try to level the writes across all bits, but he's talking about work-loads that don't rewrite at all.
It's funny you should mention this. I was chatting to a mate about this thread and he suggested using an ESI approach.

I think it would work well if the Recent Comments widget was modified to spit a HTML fragment to predictably-named files that varnish could pick up and include with ESI.
I had a friend in college who used to talk about how she almost died as a kid due to complications of chicken pox. She was very vocally thrilled when the vaccine was announced.
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As demonstrated by the fact that many data driven sites use Taboola/Outbrain (including one I used to work for), users either don't care about them or care about them so little that it is offset by the increased revenue. In fact, as demonstrated by the fact that Taboola/Outbrain get paid when users click, users appear to actually like some of their content.

If users don't mind and actually click through, is it really fair to describe it as "bullshit"?