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> When we fail to implement estate taxes, compounding investments ensure that the bloodlines of the well-off and long-lived become the rich elite!

Right, so compound interest isn't magic as long as you have taxes (and, actually, compound interest per se is rarely a problem when you have taxable interest, appreciation of capital assets that works like interest but isn't is the problem -- and it comes about specifically because of the choice to give tax-favored status to long-term capital gains.) Estate taxes are a mechanism that works to mitigate the problems caused by favoring capital income when death is a reliable periodic effect, but you could acheive much the same effect in a progressive income tax system, without sensitivity the frequency of death, by simply not giving long-term capital gains a tax-favored status, and treating income as income, especially if you add more upper-range marginal tax brackets for super-high-end incomes.
I have never owned an iOS device, but this is the one area that competitors have not been able to match, and I don't fully understand why. Google tried with the Handset Alliance but that basically didn't work at all. Microsoft tried to make carriers allow them to release updates directly but they couldn't get that to work either.

It seems like only Apple has enough money-making power for carriers to tell the carrier to go screw themselves.
I did find it here:
http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park
I think you're reading too much into the words "right approach." In this case, "right approach" (I think) means something like "understanding that death is bad and trying to fight it."
I was really excited until I realized (like others here) that MMS only works with US short codes and Canadian phone numbers.

If anyone needs this functionality today then mogreet has an api but it works over a shared shortcode so you have to send a keyword with it.

I am really looking forward to the day that Twilio or someone else supports MMS without the need of a short code.
This is exactly how I see it. I just don't see how there's anything wrong with making fun designs, trying new things, hearing people's comments, etc. I am amazed that anybody felt this article was interesting enough to repost. I'm not a designer, but I do a lot of solo projects where I'm responsible for the back and front ends. I enjoy looking around on dribble for ideas and inspiration.
Many things can corrupt your data ... outside of the filesystem. You seem unswervingly fixated on ZFS for some reason. This is simply wrong. If there's any forest-missing going on for tree fascination, it's with you.
I really fail to see what Yudkowsky's ideas about such things have to do with this particular point.
Tesla is working on self-driving cars
There are many 'beers' in existence which, for all that they taste like, might as well be the product of a human civet.
GitHub throws charity event to teach urban young folks to code
The button concept you describe is very interesting - we have been playing around with NLP for extracting actionable items from email, but we want to make sure it’s accurate before we launch any features that rely on it.
Thanks for the feedback on the website, we’re definitely be changing it up in the coming weeks.
hahaha you're so evil, with 999 persons having thought this, you say it publicly.
i cannot even begin to fathom the thinking behind this:

> Case could have continued to support OmniKeyMaster against Apple’s wishes and accepted the removal of Omni’s apps from the Mac App Store. After all, though he admits that Omni’s apps do very well in the Mac App Store, most of Omni’s customers still buy directly through their own online store. Instead he says he pulled OmniKeyMaster because he and Omni Group have a long history with Apple and he respects their relationship.
Of course "likes" are protected! They're a form of voting and, in this case, expressing political opinions.

Speech about politics, science and the arts generally enjoys stronger protection under the First Amendment.
It is weird how a business phone caught on just because of BBM.
Does anyone not have a "financial relationship with Microsoft"?
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It's no different than Stack Overflow

You're being consciously or subconsciously obtuse.

With Experts Exchange:

1. People answer questions for free

2. People pay for the answers

3. Google and other search engines are gamed

The only thing that is the "just like Stack Overflow" is #1. The other two items are absolutely nothing like Stack Overflow. As I said, Experts Exchange takes from many and gives to nobody. Stack Exchange takes from many and gives to all. You really can't possibly not see the difference.
Thank you! I am curious about the trade-market too
Living longer might naturally force people to take a more long-term outlook on the environment.

Also slowing down growth is much more palatable on a basic level if you have that much more time to enjoy what you have and get what you don't have yet.
Uh, it was the parent comment - do a search if you can't find it on perusal. It's possibly taken out of context but I don't see a reading of the passage in question that doesn't include that sentiment. Could you clarify?
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Maybe I'm missing something, but how can I display pagination of my own choosing if I can't calculate the total number of pages that exist?

More importantly, let's say that I am retrieving the default 10 results per request. Let's say there are 15 results. If I request the second "page", what will the next_url value in the response be?

In other words, how can you provide an accurate next_url in your responses if you're not calculating the total number of results? At some point, aren't you providing a next_url that will return 0 results?
No one at SO gets paid to post. so why should EE pay them to post?

Maybe because EE expects to be paid to share those answers and SO doesn't?
The author is claiming a one independent variable regression explains something. Starting with ommitted-variable bias [1], I don't think this shows much. The author only looks at

high-tech companies which had raised a Seed or Series A round AND which had
exited and where an exit valuation was available

a bad analysis does not create meaningful information. At bare minimum, to gain any real insights, you need to include startups that failed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omitted-variable_bias
It depends on your use case. If someone did not have 10+ years of intensive windows using wants to browse, listen to music and read some e-mails for example and than Linux or rather Ubuntu is the most attractive solution. You don't to check your anti-virus software every few weeks and upgrade for all your tools a coming automatically. The hardware costs far less than a mac and the software is free, which non of the alternatives is.

In fact i do see more and more non-techies with ubuntu net/notebooks (central and southern europe if that matters)
I don't think volunteer work and part-time jobs really factor into the equation with the age group that I am picturing, though with teenagers they are important of course (Particularly I think finding a shitty part-time job that lets you goof off with your peers, then get yelled at by a boss (who honestly doesn't really expect better) is relatively important)

Starting them off in a sport or two seems fine, that's how I grew up anyway, but at least in my case there wasn't an excessively strong drive to excel there. I certainly wasn't going for a sports scholarship, so keeping fit and just being able to write "Sports, k-12" on my college application was good enough. One or two kids had really driving parents and I think the rest of us always felt bad for those kids, but it wasn't the norm.
A total allowance of 9 hours per week is hardly being forbidden to engage with popular culture.
I really wish there was a defined API for "messaging service backend" that iOS/Android understood. (XMPP? IRC?) iMessage can intelligently switch between Apple's own backend and SMS depending on data connection and presence information; why can't I tell it about a contact's Facebook profile, or Twitter username, or BBM address, or WhatsApp username, etc., and have it transport the messages over whichever one looks to be most recently active?
That's a great article. I find it really troubling how the insurance agencies responded. He may or may not be responsible for the criminal charges regarding fraud, but those should be considered separately from the contractual loopholes he legally exploited, since none of those allegations are required to have been true for his idea to work.
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Oh, I didn't know that it's so extreme.. thanks for reporting back, I appreciate it :)
What is "the design world"? Some people made a website (dribbble.com) and some people use it. There is no monolithic "design world".
Understanding posterior predictive p-values
It seems like someone misinterpreted here. This plot specifically excludes startups that went bankrupt or were otherwise terminated, which is what I would consider "failure".

As best I can tell, this plot is "runway vs. degree of success" rather than "runway vs. rate of total failure", which I think would be the more interesting plot.
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> I'd planned to hand in my notice tomorrow. I've been fortunate and careful, and can afford to live off of savings for 2 or 3 months and still have left overs.

Hmmm, Isn't 2-3 months worth of saving too low? For comparison, freelancers I know would feel nervous if they don't have cash that can cover living expense for at least 6 months.

I think you should take long vacation and think it over before quitting.

Or, try to secure some freelancing contracts on your area of interests before quitting your old job.
For me, Facebook Messenger doesn't fit my needs. It's terrible on BB10 since they put 0 effort into making it for that platform. On Android, I agree, it's great. Likely the same for iOS.

Whatsapp is the closest in terms of achieving true cross-platform usability. It's a great client on BB10, and on Android. That said, I rarely use it since most of my messaging is done via BBM or Facebook. The user engagement just seems to be higher on those platform.

@gehr (Gary Klassen, inventor of BBM) really put it best when he said (paraphrasing) that in general, social networks fit various needs:
Twitter - I want to talk to many people at large.
LinkedIn - I want to talk to colleagues and business partners.
Facebook - I want to talk to my extended friends and family network.
BBM - I want to talk to people I really care about.

And that's exactly how it's been for me for the last several years. My BBM contact list is limited to a few key people that I generally talk to or interact with in some capacity. I say and share things on there that I wouldn't anywhere else.

In addition, the new BBM features they've added in BB10, like BBM Voice, BBM Video, and Screen Sharing are pretty freakin fantastic. I use those features daily, and I think it'll be great when it comes to the other platforms. An interesting use case that I've found for Screen Sharing is being able to have users demonstrate issues or bugs they're seeing in my apps.

In any case, there's definitely a place for BBM here. I'll be encouraging a lot of my friends to grab it. Maybe even my parents, though I'm not sure I want to keep getting messages from them, LOL.
It may be worth pointing out that pg could have some interest in what's being said here, though I don't by any means think that's his motive. Since YC takes equity before stage 2, it's much better for YC if investors over-invest in startups, since that'll improve their chances of winning.

I actually think he's more likely to simply care a lot about making life better for founders, though. He may care about investors too, but I warrant it's less.
There's no magic wand solution where everyone just magically gets it.

Universal health care is a thing, outside America.
No other company has reached so far in self driving cars as Google has. Learn to live with it.
Sure, when they figure out how to

1) keep hundreds of miles of tunnels in near vacuum

2) keep said tunnels intact in a seismic area

3) get all the land rights

4) all of the above at a reasonable price
Thanks for reporting this. We are already working on adding a fix to this. It should be handled in the next few days
The article makes it sounds like this somehow counters the criticism of the Hyperloop, but all the criticism I saw was of the cost estimates of the infrastructure, the utility of a route with the proposed termini, and the idea that a paper concept with no demonstrated prototype was a serious near-term alternative to high speed rail, while the issues this addresses is the basic viability of the "pod in a tube" mechanism (which it says is basically sound in outline -- but needs to be done in a different way than actually proposed in Musk's paper.)

So, it's basically a validation that the part was least criticized is probably basically viable in some form, though perhaps not the actual form proposed by Musk.

(And the one part of the pod-in-tube engineering that was seriously criticized -- the proposed mechanism for addressing thermal expansion over long stretches -- is also not addressed by this discussion.)
The Ansys simulation showed very uneven stress markings alongside the body of the pod. “We see a lot of shear stress areas,” Sovani says.

They didn't study it but I wonder what the stress on the curved portions of the tube wall would be? If the vehicle is prone to shear failures, I would imagine the tube would be as well.
If you find a bug, please let me know. My C is probably pretty poor. Thanks! :)
Take a look at this report, which breaks down categories of professors by school, and you'll find that there are many schools for which contingent professors (non-tenure track) and grad students make up 100% of the teaching positions: http://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/AAUPContingent...

Now, sure, they're mostly small community colleges or for-profit universities, but that is a significant chunk of the higher education system in the US.
"Another refreshing feature of OSv is that is written in C++.

It's been 40 years since Unix was (re)written in C, and the time has come for something better."

can't stop laughing
This is why we have Replicant.
It's a gold rush. California is famous for them. Quality of life for most of the tech workers is pretty low, but everyone is focused on the stock option lottery, and there are plenty of winners (next up: Twitter) to keep up faith in the system.

Ironically, most of my friends who have liquidated their options end up moving out of the city.
Juan Ponce de León springs to mind. He had a fairly clear roadmap, it just happened to end in Florida.
Yeah, this seemed like the biggest killer, besides inertia and politics.

My friends and I were wondering aloud if you could put a slight bow in the pipe - so instead of expanding lengthwise, the pipe might raise and lower at certain places. Of course, none of us are engineers in that sense.
To my knowledge, it's part of the broad criticism that Yudkowsky doesn't seem to have any concept of avoiding overpopulation or general overconsumption of resources. It's like when people go around saying God gave us the Earth to exploit, except with an entire 14-billion light-year-wide Hubble Volume.
The AngularJS team had a few Firebase meetups several months ago. At the first event, someone from fbase showed how to create a todo app. When people asked about their backend implementation details, they didn't reveal a thing. I'm already turned off by giving up server-side control, withholding their implementation details is a huge red flag.
Flash works just fine on Linux. Even out of the box, on many distributions.
However, this review has tested it and found a drastic effect on the iPhone 5's battery life running the released version so it's not limited to betas.
> One of the things I thought was amazing is that if you solve cancer, you’d add about three years to people’s average life expectancy ... it’s not as big an advance as you might think.

Thinking about improving total life expectancy in this way is not so useful because the large gains have already been made. For instance if no-one in the UK ever died between birth and age 60 it would only add 2-5 years to life expectancy at birth. 100 years ago the same situation would have added 20-25 years.

Perhaps more interesting would be to look at increasing the maximum life span, reducing the variance about the age of death, increasing the median age of death, or to consider the effect of curing cancer/other diseases on healthy life expectancy which I think could still be meaningfully increased.
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I have always been interested on life-extension with a focus on healthy life. My background is mainly engineering (computer science, mechanical engineering) with focus on machine learning and statistics.

I was thinking on taking some graduate program that would help the transition in this kind of companies; does anybody knows a university/program that would help? I have checked some graduate bioinformatics, but I am not sure what would be more helpful in the long term.

Any idea/suggestion?
It sounds like you've always been a person who likes socialising with a lot of people, and didn't get enough practice at it.

What exactly happened when "desire struck"?
The analysis is only looking at whether there's a strong negative correlation between initial funding and startup success, using exit valuation as a measure, as this was Fred Wilson's assertion.

Of course, this is not meant to be predictive but rather meant to dispel the notion that a strong negative correlation exists between these two variables.
Yes, that's my point. Capitalism is bad, not increased lifespan.

However, given a capitalistic or otherwise zero-sum/proprietarian social system, I cannot support inegalitarian life extension as moral. You need a broadly egalitarian society and broadly egalitarian life-extension.
I'm really intrigued why whatsapp is more annoying than facebook?

There is no system of adverts or selling data to it, since they actually charge for usage. I paid after 1 year free about 6 months ago.

I have pretty much every real life friend I care about on there, individually and numerous private groups. We regularly share photos, text, video, locations, etc. privately (as far as we are aware). To me it perfectly fits the box of exactly what a social network should be.

It just works... This is why i'm so intrigued why you dislike it?
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Windows phone does this with its in built "Me" app. Its quite neat, but consumes tons of data due to the constant syncing.
Take a look at the Ember examples at http://emberjs.com/. They're doing a lot more with a lot less code. Backbone had its day, but the world is moving on, and a new project that only offers Backbone-equivalent functionality won't garner much interest from me or probably anyone.
A couple were true easter eggs, but I'd call putting a pink mustache on your car more of a generic marketing stunt than an "easter egg."
Thanks for your reply!

To be honest, by my calculations I'd have roughly 10 months's worth of cash to live off, but I don't want to use it all. I want some of it eventually to go toward a big investment, and some to keep for when I end up in hot water not by my own choosing :)

As for a long vacation... I could possibly take a sabbatical, but I know that I wouldn't want to come back. I can't take any more days off as I've already used most of them, so it'd have to be a sabbatical.

The freelancing idea though, that's a goodun. I dunno where to start, to be honest, but it would be an interesting new experience.
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Prices? You want medical treatment to have a price?
You would need an antifungal, not antibiotic.

Antifungals exist, but don't work great since, unlike bacteria, fungi (like yeast) have cell structures similar to humans.

The best would be to eat a lot of probiotics, and low carbs.
Omni probably gets quite a bit of 'preferential treatment' from developer relations than the normal, average developer.

In the case of Apple, this probably includes dev relations actually answering their e-mails, getting advance access to new features before they're announced (Apple sometimes likes to get third party devs to showcase their apps at their keynotes), and being able to obtain WWDC tickets without having to go through the usual stampede.

I can understand why they wouldn't want to risk that by pulling all their apps from the App Store, and thus annoying Apple. Not saying it's right, just that I can understand.
Whatever else, I do appreciate Intel's efforts in this area. My home desktop/Mythbox/media server/game machine is running all open source code (there might be a few binary blobs for device firmware though).

Of course, all that available source code hasn't helped me debug a video de-interlacing issue with Intel's hardware accelerated video decoding... the next ingredients I need are time and motivation. :-)
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Depends on how stock your UI is. The app I work on is very heavily customized (e.g., lots of subclasses of UIButton, UITableViewCell, etc etc), and iOS7 broke a lot due to underlying implementation changes. We're also pretty graphically intense, so iOS7 also likewise broke a lot of optimizations.

Quick examples:

- The entire way iOS handles text rendering has changed (makes sense, CoreText), so methods that calculate text rendering now return different results than they did before. More crucially, text measurements can now return non-round numbers, so if you're using the results without rounding them off, you will get pixel alignment problems galore. Previous versions of iOS rounded off results before returning them to you (though this is not guaranteed via documentation, or even addressed).

- Text rendering has also changed, so even if you're not using the system fonts, the exact same font will render with subtly different widths and heights. In densely packed UIs this can be problematic.

- UITableViewCell's underlying implementation has changed. More specifically, backgroundView is now by default a plain white view, where it was nil before. If you have table views that are transparent, surprise, they are now all white. There are also some subtle differences that can cause trouble if you've heavily customized UITableView - I suspect personally that UITableView now has a UICollectionView (or UICollectionView-esque) based implementation (it seemed entirely separate before), since some of the behavior now aligns.
Also, it doesn't look like God got out and helped the poor lady, as it always doesn't do.

You better stay clear from everything claiming to have relations to God, if she aligned with some secular university she might not die in absolute poverty.

I now have something to stick into religious faces for the rest of my life, bookmarking.
Had. By now the Nexus 4 is sold out in most countries and Google has no plans to restock as the N5 is coming out in early October.

The N5 is also far more likely to match the N4's launch price than it's final price.
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Not that it diminishes the point, but many of those parents were likely in university during the 70s to early 80s, when the drinking age was as low as 18 in many (but not all) states. Hypothetically many of these parents drank legally as freshmen in college but do not want their children to drink illegally as freshmen in college.

I'd still call them hypocrites, or at least accuse them of lacking in the critical thinking department, but hypocrites to a much lesser extent.
So, as long as we have social systems you disapprove of, we should abandon medicine, which, in general, is "life extension"?
Unrelated - pretty surreal to see my relatively small hometown used in an example.