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"Social responsibility" is imaginary, because society is imaginary. It can't be hurt, it doesn't have opinions, and we certainly don't have any responsibilities to it.

It's an abstraction.
Sure, but it's not like the entire Internet is up at once. If rubygems.org goes off-line, it shouldn't mean you can't deploy your Rails app.
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It's definitely easier, but it's not a no-brainer. The new problem is filtering the signal from the noise. Go try and choose an op-amp, or a microcontroller, or a DAC. There is so much to choose from. Fortunately the internet can help with that too, but it is still a problem.
Heard many similar stories about extreme home makeover where property taxes would climb by 3-5x after the renovation, forcing people to foreclose.

I'm under the impression that there was eventually a successful reform effort to have renovations made in the name of accessibility tax-free.
Didn't they say that it was a technical impossibility for SimCity to be able to be run offline?
Type-safe Pimpl implementation without overhead
Deriving the timezone of any given latitude/longitude can be tricky
"Diversification" in this era means multiple ETFs or mutual funds of different investment vehicles (Large Cap, Small Cap, Real Estate, Bonds, etc.), not "10 stocks".

A relatively simple implementation of this has given me a 13.46% return over the past three years.
Or blatant tax avoidance and disregard for building code and hotel regulations is a matter of importance for the state of New York. It may seem all outdated to us global internet citizens, but a lot of those old-fashioned real-world rules evolved because there was a problem. That's not to say that all rules in their current incarnation are sensible and well applicable to the current state of affairs, but participation in the law system is not voluntary - you don't get to opt out just because you think it's unjust.
But then AirBnB couldn't keep riding the ridiculous gravy train it is on. They are just front loading their bank account while claiming "this a new emerging market that we are all trying to figure out." at the expense of all users in the system.
Talkative robot
Is it normal for nydailynews to have editorializing right in the subheadline?

Yes. Very normal. It's a tabloid.
I know what I'm doing tonight. Great idea including sample data to play with in the library! Is that the MNIST data set?
C++ User Group Meetings in October 2013
I surf with JavaScript turned off and I see just a blank page. If it's "crawlable" I certainly expect it to be visible to me without turning JavaScript on.
Just a little background on the author, hes a NYU prof and he's considered one of the formost experts in valuation, having written many book and articles on that subject
> Even if the FBI is not able to transfer the money, merely having possession of the wallet file itself is enough to prevent the coins being spent.

Yes ... if no backups exist.
Property is a right granted by society to use a resource just for yourself. If society is an abstraction, property is as well.
Where legislative oversight of the defence sector fails
For taking that kind of risk, I'd hope you have a decent chunk of equity in said startup. That money is effectively the capital you have invested in the venture working out. It may even be more than the founders themselves have invested.
Silk Road was criminal because the drug warriors decided that it was. I don't think the only alternative to the punitive system of fines & jails should be a bureaucracy of regulation. The latter is the likely outcome, of course, since legislators have a tough time making changes that don't keep them firmly in charge (or...pretending to be, in the case of the drug war).
I get the impression you've only used it once or twice.

It generally works really well, and in many cities all over the planet.

I trust you provided feedback against your bad host?
That is until the ad money starts generating that much neede revenue. For now, valuations can be done on multiples of assets, sales or market value of similar companoes
I love it when someone using a complicated network of computers acts as if something being an abstraction means that it doesn't have real effects.
In Italy tax authorities have grown more and more powerful during the last years. At some point, they were suggesting checking all personal bank accounts and expenditures.

At least I've seen in a documentary where Italians tell they choose not to pay taxes. If there is a law to pay taxes and people can choose not to pay taxes, then some sort of enforcement has to be done. Especially because Italy's finances are in ruins and as an EU citizen I think it is Italians' responsibility to step up first, not EUs.
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how did they know it was the product of two primes in the 1st place?
Hear hear. Italy is a textbook example of the reason we need some form of tax office with powers to check people's finances (as much as I hate to admit it): because otherwise nobody will pay taxes yet demand ever-increasing benefits from the government that somebody else has to pay for.
I have a fastmail test account. The only reason I have not completely switched to FM is because your servers are in the US. I am in Europe.
Less dependencies, a reduced risk vector. Just the HTML page containing the content needs to load.
my smaller clients use keepass or https://lastpass.com/
Neither of those stop someone who saved a copy of the keepass db outside of dropbox. You'd also have to change every password contained in keypass.
Right after the DPR bust there was a lot of discussion about how it was a death knell for bitcoin, but this is exactly why it's such a revolutionary type of technology: if DPR had any currency in a paper wallet, he could simply print it out, put it in a safe deposit box, and pick it up once he is out of prison.

For a currency to be so secure that a state cannot seize it from a citizen is unprecedented.

It will be fascinating to see how this plays out.
His claim is basically true that (pure, uninfected) raw milk is better for you than regular milk. Good luck being able to buy pure uninfected raw milk. I suppose its the hand of Darwin striking down the gullible, and/or the children of the gullible. His lie is more by omission in that its a fairly idiotic way to obtain nutrition. If you must drink something unhealthy try corn syrup soda, or fruit juice, might make you unhealthy in the long run but at least probably not infected.

The best comparison is by analogy in that a raw bratwurst will provide you with a tiny delta better nutrition than a cooked bratwurst. There seems to be no way to successfully argue it isn't better. Although you'd have to be some kind of idiot to eat a raw bratwurst other than some kind of MTV "jackass" tv show stunt to see just how badly you can food poison yourself and still survive.
registering RISKR.com as we speak..
We're already in Iceland - from http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/07/03/a-story-of-leaping-second...

"We have a complete live-spare datacentre in Iceland. Eventually it will be a fully operational centre in its own right, but for now it’s running almost 100% in replica mode."

I'm not so sure about the safe-haveness of Switzerland these days. They already caved to the US, giving them access to banking info (what they're famous for... which leaves me wondering what Switzerland got in return):

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/uk-switzerland-usa-tax-idUKBRE97R0CY20130828
"but withdrawing from stocks and investing in bonds strikes me as having been a panic move - not wise at all."

Stocks now are totally over priced, and investing in bonds is not wise when the central Banks are printing money.

So the best thing you can do is use your money on yourself in a productive way.
You don't get the exact address until you've paid - just the street.
Death March Project? Good Luck, we are counting on you.
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Huh, So you would have to choose that OR CloudFlare (Which does some CDNish stuff as well) I guess. Looks interesting though, I wonder how they figure out what information needs to be loaded first. Concatenating JS might actually be a bad thing with instartlogic, since it would then have to load em all no matter what they affect (although I doubt it is smart enough to identify which script files need to be loaded when...)
Laws that appear to be in contradiction with each other, never tested in court -- so, yeah, quite like the US legal situation, right?
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You don't NEED a macbook pro to write programs. where as you NEED those resistors to make the thing work. and it truly is INVENTING. You can pretty much do anything with the need of "funding" like the other fields
"At current exchange rates, that represents slightly more than 5% of all bitcoins in circulation"

Why would exchange rate affect what percentage of bitcoins 600k are! This is terribly confused thought from the journalist:

600k bitcoins, that's "almost $80m".

$80m! But at current exchange rates that's "just over 5%!".

When sitting there are the actual numbers of bitcoins in his wallet and bitcoins in circulation...
They have a great work environment and a good culture, if the nature of the projects is a fit for your personal style. If you thrive in more team-oriented environments it may be rough for you - Mozilla runs more like a big open source project with salaries.
Indeed. Compound interest doesn't help if inflation is compounding faster!
The issue isn't the tax burden, it's high rate of tax evasion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/world/europe/italy-tries-t...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/world/europe/italys-new-to...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230375390457745...
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>I know that a lot of people on this site think that if you add the words 'on the internet' you should be exempt from all regulation and taxation, but that's just not how the world works.

>I hope that the people who've been profiting from the lack of enforcement are forced to play on a level playing field.

If only there were a level playing field. I think the rebellion from the regulatory structure is a reaction to the unfairness of it. Hotel reg's, Taxi reg's, these systems unfairly favor established players and established business models.
Facebook plans $120M 'company town'
We use Meldium[1] with Google Apps login to manage our passwords.

[1]: https://meldium.com/
How the F.A.A., Finally, Caught Up to an Always-On Society
They could just as easily have rewritten the headline to say:

"Greedy State is concerned about hotel occupancy taxes and possible evictions by building owners."

The headline is indeed making a value judgement that the State is noble in going after money, but that building owners are not when they want money.
It is important to note that is it a big deal to NYC to ensure that residential spaces do not become de facto hotel rooms that avoid the taxes and regulation associated with running a hotel. NYC has been experiencing tremendous rent cost increases over the last decade and housing costs are becoming more unaffordable. Any residential space that gets turned into a pseudo hotel that generates income at the expense of being a livable space for an NYC resident only makes this situation worse.
It's a completely different committee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_M...
It's only not taxed if you agree, in advance of receiving the prize, to donate the proceeds to a charity. Any form of keeping it for your own use is taxable under those rules (you must meet "all of the following" requirements for the award to not be taxable).
They're "exploring the possibility" and I'm sitting here at my PC, playing SimCity in offline mode thanks to the cracker that made it possible.
Does anyone know if an out of state ecommerce site like Amazon is required to give user data in this manner. Focusing on the state tax issue, it would appear that these two systems are similar in that taxpayer is required to declare and remit taxes (but often doesn't).

(obviously the other issues about whether it's even legal to rent out in the first place is another matter)
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I may be mistaking your tone (and if so, sorry for impugning your intent), but as your post reads to me I'd hate to read an article like that. To encourage people to make things, we surely ought to be lowering the barriers of entry, and that includes not raising social barriers of ridicule to new makers, almost all of whom will start these things out as a hobby. And indeed, a hobby is a good thing, because it's teaching people to create, think, solve problems etc. I'd be sad at any article that focused on "maker" being morally superior to "hobbyist". They are much the same thing.
Gold doesn't need to move, only the name under which it is stored needs to change.
Bitcoin - a four year old currency invented by a pseudonym - is not going to be used to clear trades at a sovereign level.
Arabs are not going to ship oil in the ground for bitcoin.
Whoa! I didn't even know about this campaign. How is it not fully funded :(
Ahh, you ran into one of my "favorite" types of people to show up to makerspaces: the self-important art-nerd who thinks s/he knows everything and is really only looking for a place to show off and find validation.

We had a couple of people like that show up to my old space in Philadelphia (garsh, I miss it). My favorite was the writer who thought he was liberal enough to drop the "N"-word ironically.

It's this sort of artist's attitude that was one of the reasons I got out of fine art in the first place. I never fit in with the other artists because, for me, the construction of the thing and the experience was reason enough to do it, not because I had any thing to "say" by the creation of it or the style I chose.

I suppose it would have been nice to have known where the cultural meme of flat-pack plywood furniture had come from to influence you to think it was a cool idea to try it. Or hell, maybe you did come up with the idea in a near-vacuum: I don't think it's impossible that you could have found yourself in the same conditions as the Eames' to then come to the same conclusions.

But that's kind of the whole F/OSS point on copyleft and anti-patents. Ideas, on their own, are almost worthless. The value of a thing is largely in the execution of it. If the execution of the thing does not lend itself to a lot of value, then the idea wasn't very valuable to begin with.

These people, who want to nitpick what you do and find any way they can criticize you (you don't have the right tools, you don't have the right process, you don't have the right reason), they're doing it out of jealousy. They have found themselves, for one reason or another, incapable of performing the way you do. Maybe they can't manage their procrastination and ever get anything done, or they don't have the patience for detail work and their stuff comes out crooked, or maybe they are capable, but only after extreme effort.

Never, ever let those people discourage you. Their criticism is their own insecurity. They see your work and feel it reflects on them and shows them as a failure. Just ignore them and keep working. Keep making.
It's not very PC to call them that.
It's still an illegal non-taxed market-place. The fact that we don't agree with a set laws, doesn't make ethical overnight to overstep, break or elude them.

Of course his applies to the financial market also, regulating Wall Street would be a far better good (morally and financially) for the US than any SR clone out there.

The right way to go, is to fight for your policies and vote for them when time comes. Not evading the law or hoping that illegality will reach a scale where the government will be forced to accept it.

On a positive note though, in countries like Netherlands iirc where many drugs are legal, people don't die on the street and drug (as in heroin) addicts have proper med-care if they chose to do so.
I hope I'm making a significant contribution to society with my job. Where's my tax break?
I reckon risk.ie might be more fitting.
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With my last client we used to have a spreadsheet on Google Docs. Not at all secure but people weren't putting bank passwords in that either. More like test logins to various WP sites we had and stuff.
Sure, but why isn't, e.g., being a teacher not a significant contribution? Or, for the sake of this argument, being the founder of a wildly successful company that employs thousands of people? Look, I'm against taxes as much (and probably even more) than the next guy, but making exemptions for prizes is plain irrational.
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I've had a good 6 months of minimal personal electronics a few years back. Aside from work, I didn't connect at all. I had a new apartment in a complex which was being rewired for FIOS at a snails pace, my cell phone coverage was shitty and I didn't move in with a TV. Plus my PowerMac had a blown power supply which I declined to replace.

I spent more time at the gym, hiking, meeting people in person, exploring and reading books than ever. It refreshing, but compared to my coworkers, I felt like an alien species.
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Those numbers are hard to follow but I do not understand why if we produce so much why we don't consume our own content?

For example if the keystone pipeline was approved the majority of it would be for export, not domestic use.
And as soon as someone spends any amount of bitcoins from one of these backups the copy held by FBI becomes invalid.
What advantages would you say this has over the UK Police-approved Immobilise site, which is free?

https://www.immobilise.com/view.php

It looks like LoseProof relies on the goodwill of the person finding your stuff, in which case surely it's down to whether they'd rather fill in your form or hand it in to the Police.
I can't imagine they would let a password get in the way of this. Even with an encrypted wallet, the balances of the content addresses are available for viewing for convenience sake.

The reference client (I's not mentioned which wallet software) uses hundreds of thousands of rounds of key stretching, enough that on a GPU you're only getting a few attempts at the key. Might irritate them enough to crack out a good sized farm.
This self-efficacy problem has grown in times of mass media. This is a great point from experience, thank you, and it rings true with me for certain! It's a well-researched sociological understanding, that the "perfect" in our mass media aggregation does often ddispirit the local, craft and beginner in any field ( for example, think music: it used to be really hard to make anything that sounded as good as what you had on a record, because there were not the tools at home).
It's only now that I have found friends and a meta-community who are into making things that I feel enabled again, after years (decades!) of feeling alone and with way-too-high a mountain to climb.
The german tax authorities actually crawl ebay to find commercial sellers posing as private citizens.
Why? You're not a web crawler.
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Looks like the new arms race is about digging your own environmental grave.
As a reminder, milk isn't paleo.
In English: http://www.snb.ch/en/iabout/cash/id/cash_circulation

Saving cash in the mattress¹ (or buried in the back yard) is not a hedge against inflation. Could it be for tax avoidance reasons? Is Switzerland one of the countries that taxes savings balances?

¹ the joke here is that that's the "First Savings Bank of Sealy Posturpedic", a large mattress maker.
I don't agree that there is never anything to analyze, but I do agree that it is not necessary to always analyze things. The "art school yuppy" analyzes everything because that is the only thing they know how to do. You don't critique a critique, so being on the analyzing side of art is safe.
If he uses a brain wallet, it would be even more secure. The ONLY possible way to seize the bitcoins would require him to comply. Another interesting bit is the fact that this might make him a billionaire by the time he's released from prison- just from the appreciation of bitcoin's value.

I have another curiosity about the FBI's intent to seize his bitcoins- is it fair to seize all of them? If half of these bitcoins were earned while bitcoins were only worth 1/10 of current value, should only 10% of that half be seized? This might be arguable in court.
This article tell us why government fiscal policy is irrelevant to economies - and why the left/right dichotomy is such utter nonsense.

A crash in confidence in households can pull out trillions of dollars of funds from stocks, and put them into low yield bonds - governments can't come close to this kind of economic effect. The change in consumer behaviour - also ultimately derived from confidence - also has a massive effect.

Similarly, confidence has an effect on businesses - but this appears to have been short term compared to the change in household behaviour in this downturn (according to the article.)

Governments cuts or spending pale in comparison - the economic levers of central bankers and treasury ministers are hardly connected to anything.

PEDANTIC NOTE: I'm not saying governments can't influence economies at all - they can, through laws and regulation of transactions that influence micro behaviour - just that people make such a big deal out of fiscal policy when actually this is nearly irrelevant to how well the economy actually does. Also, obviously, governments that get into too much debt will cause all sorts of problems, but these are mostly the knock-on effects of a crisis of confidence (they may need to use big one-off taxes and the like,) not because spending fast and loose itself damages an economy.
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This is fine for things your organization controls. It isn't possible when dealing with lots of outsourced services. Too few services provide a way to hook into your LDAP or Active Directory.
Apologies for being vague. Regarding the SSL certificate, I was referring to modern browsers refusing to load "unsafe" assets.

When the JS can't load, JS-heavy apps tend to either be raw templates (i.e. full of {{ statements }}) or completely blank (if the templates were going to be loaded in a separate request). As Isofarro said, non-JS pages don't suffer from this because the content is there in plain HTML.
Pretending taxes are someone else's problem is a grand dotcom tradition.
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Breaking/disregarding bad laws has sometimes been a very good way to see said laws changed or abandoned. It is probably a safe bet that millions in North America are disregarding drug laws, possibly every day. The black market in controlled substances is a thriving one, showing that many will accept the risks imposed by the State, and participate in that economy regardless. Since those in power are still to some extent at the mercy of needing the consent of those they rule, the people can make a powerful statement by refusing to comply.