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Is the problem the sharing or the tweeting? Or the live part? Or is it all 3?

Because, frankly, this isn't new. It's the gossip train, except now digital, and a bit more anonymous.
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We have an unusual requirement when it comes to developing the BBC website - it carries advertising internationally but not in the UK, and we have to build and design for both these situations simultaneously. The site carries advertising internationally so that UK licence fee payers don't cover international costs. Some content on the site is available in the UK but not internationally - notably certain rights restricted video. Up to now we have had: A UK edition without ads, A UK edition with ads, an international edition with ads and an international edition without ads, all in addition to some content which is visible in the UK but not internationally. Managing all those combinations within our existing design framework had become impractical as well as expensive and, critically, had started to affect our ability to find the best ways of developing the site in the future.

via http://www.bbc.co.uk/faqs/website_changes

There's more info there about how they do it (GeoIP) and some known issues.
If someone's clearly a lunatic in certain areas, I'm going to have a little less faith in their rationality in others.
At the end of the day, it's just bullying, isn't it? "Hey everyone, look at that kid who's just wet themselves - hahaha!"

We've all done it. Doesn't make it right.
Even if the person you're mocking has been a complete tool, you don't know the backstory. Sure, they may just be a horrible person, but imagine their kid had just died and as a result they'd snapped over something completely trivial?
Wait, is the 45 minute thing true?

Is there any way I can volunteer for an attempt?
Uh, thanks for pointing to this. I found an article detailing this a bit more[1]. This is a inaccuracy that is quite telling about the quality of research this author is going to offer.

1 http://www.businessweek.com/finance/occupy-wall-street/archi...
The Police and the Security Services are separate organisations, and the former are supposed to be able to investigate anyone, even themselves.

I'd hoped they'd be more anxious to appear to be doing the right thing here, but it seems Cameron's comments have emboldened them.
The concept of Flow was coined decades ago, and applied to software development more than a decade ago.

Getting in the flow doesn't necessarily mean that you can force it, just that you enable it by removing impediments, such as distractions, since absolute concentration is a precondition for getting in the zone.
Everybody does! Here on east of Ukraine everybody wants freedom of speech, goverment w/o corruption, 3g internet.
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What about driving in the snow?

As a Canadian I can't see a Tesla being of any use in the winter, do people talk about that?
You can delete words up to "Your voting options..." and you will have described the political situation in the USA.
No, of course not. But maybe the heartless persons who think washing your dirty laundry in public is for public entertainment and out of rudeness.
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A very emotional article IMO.

Volatility is not permanent characteristic of bitcoin. It's like saying that a newborn child will never be able to walk, because now it's only crawling.

At a certain point Bitcoin will stabilize. Whether that will be at 0 or 1 million, no one knows. Not the haters nor the fanboys.
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Except the EUR/DEM exchange rate has been fixed since 1999, whereas BTC exchange rates change enormously every week.
What can a bitcoin be used for, other than as a medium of exchange, which also increases demand for the remaining bitcoins?

To (unqualified) me, this seems the crucial question. If your money is not propped up by government fiat, it better have some non-monetary uses to succeed in the long run. (And it should not be possible to satisfy that non-monetary use by an arbitrarily small amount of "money".)
>It will dwarf anything dreamed of by Bernard Madoff.

Madoff's fraud was to the tune of >60 billion.

Bitcoin's cap is at round 10 billion.

So the author expects btc to rise in value by at least 600%
Well, it depends. With the "roof breakup" stuff I have no problem, because there's little editorializing and no involvement, just a running report of those statements of which these two people have decided they absolutely must unburden themselves in public.

But the stuff on the plane is a whole different matter. Granted, the lady in 7-whatever wasn't behaving particularly well, and she should probably have known better. I've seen people behave similarly when I've flown around holidays, and especially when travel is delayed or interrupted by circumstances beyond anyone's control. But "Elan"'s behavior was even worse. "Eat my dick?" Honestly?

This isn't a case of someone answering poor public behavior with class; this is a case of someone behaving childishly within earshot of someone who is far more childish still, who giggles in joy at the opportunity to misbehave in an utterly crass fashion with some confidence that he'll receive kudos for it from his Twitter followers, on whose qualities I shall not here speculate.

I mean, really. I was with him up until the glass of wine; I thought "Good choice! Sending a gift shows consideration, and no doubt the note sent with it will explain that he's sorry she's having a bad time, but that they're all in the same notional boat, and perhaps the accompanying gift will help her relax and roll with the punches." Then I read the note.

By the time I got to the end of the travesty he perpetrated for his adoring Twitter public, I was glad she slapped him; I hope she made it a good one. "Spare the rod and spoil the child," after all, and it's quite plain from his own Twitter feed that this infant escaped preschool far too soon.
That yearofelan thing was one of the lamest things I've seen. There is nothing entertaining about a celebrity harassing a woman on a plane via sexually harassing notes.

You have no idea what's she's been through, where her state of mind is. Maybe the greater internet community hasn't experienced fucking terrible things in their lives that push you to the edge. Maybe they haven't had a family member with mental illness. This Elan guy clearly hasn't.

I don't understand why people are supportive of him being a 5th grade internet troll in real life. If he would have stood up and said eat my dick to her in person instead of sending passive aggressive notes he would have been kicked off the flight, arrested and congrats delaying everyone. Instead he sends creepy threatening notes to her. Great. Good job troll. Way to further ruin someones day.

He's lucky she didn't mention the notes to the flight attendants where it's possible everyone's thanksgiving gets ruined because the flight gets diverted and he gets arrested.

I'm not sure why all the websites picked it up and said it "Won Thanksgiving."

Sure, all those charities where awesome people are working at helping feed the poor don't win Thanksgiving, but some creepy celebrity saying "eat my dick" to some obviously stressed out women wins? Good job internet.

And dammit he trolled me from afar because I got so worked up I wrote this damn post about it.
I think bitcoin will succeed when there are insured bitcoin banks in which to keep your money. Right now the wallet system is really too confusing for non-technical users and it is risky to keep your money in a fly by night wallet service. Keeping your money in a bank is easy.
The problem is that socialism and totalitarianism are separated only by degree. Socialism, by definition, uses government force to take resources/freedom/time/opportunity from some people and redistributes those goods to politically favored groups.
But to insinuate with absolutely zero understanding that the creators of bitcoin did this to get rich is just plain nasty. Maybe they did want to get rich (in dollar terms) but there is nothing obvious on the block chain that proves that they cashed out.

Why is that "nasty"? Why even debate or get so defensive about this point?

For very strong reasons it does absolutely seem that the creator of Bitcoins did an early and heavy accumulation of the currency. The fact that they didn't "cash out" (which is rather irrelevant to whether it is "wealth" or not, as an aside) doesn't justify their mining, but actually makes it significantly more questionable -- they added no liquidity, instead actually restricting liquidity by doing a land grab of the easily mined coins. That is not altruistic.

Having a single, mystery figure holding a substantial quantity of a currency is absolutely worthy of debate.

Personally I think Bitcoin will be a v0.1 to something similar in the future. But I do absolutely believe it is effectively a pyramid scheme right now, and the rise in the currency is a combination of limited liquidity coupled with mainstream news and a gold rush mentality.
I speak from a STEM background, Mech/Aero specifically. 90% of the PhDs in my department (at a large research university) do not go into academia and do not want to, but find very high paying jobs in industry, doing the kind of things that only people with their training can do. It sounds like your PhD or post-PhD experience wasn't that good, but is pretty much anecdote and you really can't extrapolate to everything because you didn't get a PhD in every degree. And btw, most of the research done in my field is not theoretical at all, but very advanced novel applications, I have never seen anyone shying away from any real work because they "hate anything practical".
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That presumes bitcoin is the only crypto currency, it isn't, and they don't all rely on mining like this. Secondly, as miners drop out because they can't profit, those who stay in see profitability return. It's self adjusting, there will always be profitable mining for those with the best mining rigs.
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I look forward to Clinton vs. Rice in 2016.
I visited SYGDC in Tankersley a few years ago. It's even more impressive on the inside. Don't remember seeing any doors marked "TEMPORA" though.
It seems he did but they didn't show interest (according to the comment of zaph0d on this page).
As a citizen of the UK, the government's reaction to the Snowden revelations chills my soul. I imagined they would at least be embarrassed to be shown to be presiding over the construction of a turn-key despotic state.

I don't have massively high expectations of Cameron, but the fact that Clegg's Lib Dems haven't broken up the government over this has completely destroyed my respect for them - and any chance of me voting for them in future.
Interestingly, (to me) this is not an expectation I share, nor is it one I expected others to have. I assume my actions in public are captured by any number of shop cams, police cams, and tourist videos/photos and just straight iPhones being used for whatever.

I'll note, that unlike others I this conversation have speculated, I'm not young, but I do live in a city - Seattle.
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I really think it takes a bit more than conducting oneself poorly on an aircraft to qualify for "horrible person". Kind of an asshole sometimes, at worst -- and that, of course, assumes that her behavior was accurately reported by this "Elan" item, in the course of proving himself scum entire.
> Actually, I believe Facebook would be required to report that transfer to the IRS.

I believe you're right, because there's a cash transaction there, and cash has intrinsic value.

But if I 'bought' LTC with BTC that I mined at a cost of idle CPU cycles, where's the intrinsic value? The market rate for CPU cycles is far less than the value of the equivalent BTC (or, at least was initially).

If I'm holding $1 million dollars in a bank, I would be subject to capital gains taxes on its interest earnings. If I'm holding 1 million BTC on my hard drive, I'm not. If I paid for those BTC, that's a bit different than if I mined them early.

I'm not trying to be difficult, so much as point out that there's still a long way to go before you can actually say that BTC is currency, and that even if we do determine that it is currency, that it's subject to the same rules and regulations as actual currency or commodities. If I paid capital gains taxes on BTC holdings yesterday, vs waiting til today, I'd have 'saved' approximately 15% due to market fluctuation.

As there's no real 'anchor' to the value of BTC at the moment, I think there are just more questions than answers, really.
Well then you're also hoping for your food to triple in price because what do you think the farmers and fishermen here in Canada use for energy to power their vehicles?

Or is that just typical Toronto center of the universe thinking?
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Well, the parent post was talking about bad behavior, and the roll out someone crying as an example. But now you are talking about something different from what the parent was referring to. Just trying to understand the context of your statement. It's important to know when someone ignores a parent comment and goes off on another tangent.

In response to your point, what you are talking about is bad behavior. I mean, if you do something out of rudeness, that pretty much defines it right there.

And no, I don't think publicly shaming someone who is publicly shaming someone is bad, as in the case of "Diane," especially with the outcome.
Interesting, thanks. It's still incredibly annoying. If you can block me based on my IP, just use the same technology and don't serve me the ads.
> "However, flow necessarily requires isolation. Isolation from design discussions. Isolation from customer engagements. Isolation from iteration and feedback."

This is nonsense.

Flow doesn't require you to ignore the specs, or the customers. It means allowing you to work in long enough bursts over the day that you get a couple of really good, substantial things done in those bursts, before you break to check up on emails and other "distractions".
Then inability to reason in one area is a good indicator that a person simply doesn't reason well at all and casts suspicion on everything he says.
Calling a 'Ponzi Scheme' it's just too simple or judgmental IMO, but despite the articles flaws, finally someone started questioning "What's backing all that money?".

Our real money is created out of thin air, backed by nothing for a long time. There is a lot of fantasy and conspiracy theories behind it, but it is a problem in the end of the day. When the money started to be electronic things got even harder to find out what exactly is backing up that money value. Humongous amount simply floats from bank to bank.

While with the existing money is difficult to get to it's primary root of source, with bitcoin this applies pretty much to every penny going around. In theory it's beautiful, but it's an utopia.
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Howdy. Thanks, and I hear you with the synced folders stuff.

In the next version of Vagrant (1.4), synced folder implementations can actually be standalone plugins: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/405442194573516801

This will allow us to much more quickly add in more implementations of this mechanism, some of which may provide excellent performance at the expense of perhaps being more difficult to setup or slower to start up. But the importance is that the framework is now _there_.

I think we'll see this improve greatly. :)
"So what you have is an increasing number of brilliant PhD graduates arriving every year into the market..."

An increasing number of PhD graduates,sure... But not an increasing number of brilliant PhD graduates.

There are market forces (e.g. Government incentives) for universities to admit more students to PhD programs and my experience is not that the additional students are brilliant. They tend to be people who complete the PhD (or just a terminal masters) and exit academia quite definitively
great article. One correction, however: They say one "suspect" was in "nearby" Bloomington, Indiana but Bloomington isn't really near Chicago. It is in Southern Indiana, about 4 hours away from Chicago and to get to Chicago you have to go through Indianapolis, so if someone from Bloomington were to do something like this it seems much more likely they would do it in Indianapolis or even Louisville or Cincinnati which are both closer than Chicago.
F.A. Hayek would adore the concept of competing, globalized, & unregulated currencies (unregulated save for it's own algorithm). And that "Bitcoins, Peercoins, Litecoins and other competing crypto-currencies may be as significant today as the first minted coins of the ancients.

If crypto-currencies are bullshit because, as the author puts it: "...He made this money out of digits. He made it out of nothing...."Then all fiat currencies are bullshits.

What makes crypto-currency worthwhile is that the algorithm keeps it honest and it encourages saving
Money is created as debt out of nothing. The money to pay interest on this debt does not exist. Bitcoin is valuable because it facilitates exchange over the internet. I'm looking forward to the "great winter."
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