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Maybe pensions are a bad idea after all, but the bigger implication of this is that it will be yet another thing that dissuades people from public service. Some may say that's a good thing, but if you keep removing benefits of public service, it is only going to reduce the quality of people working for our government.

People talk about how bad government incompetence is now, but it can get far worse in the future. Not saying that pensions need to stay, or that they should never be cut. Just saying that if the good reasons to go into public service keep getting removed government is only going to get worse.
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Quite some bits were implemented in Lisp. Both simple and hard. Some of the bits are lost.

For example the TI Explorer Lisp Machine came with an X11 server written in Lisp. On my Symbolics Lisp Machine I used the usual MIT X11 server written in C - this was possible because the Symbolics Lisp machine had a C compiler.
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>Terrorism doesn't have an accepted definition,

Then it's going to be very difficult to make an argument that Mandela was not a terrorist.

>In the Anglo-Boer war a similar tactic was employed by the Boers to great effect, but I have never heard of anyone referring to their actions during this war as acts of terrorism.

The first hit I get for "Boer terrorism" is: http://www.angloboerwar.com/books/78-stevens-the-complete-hi...

( https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=Boer+terrorism )

Edit:

Sorry about going on about this, but I think that saying people are not terrorists because we agree with them is closely related to saying that people are terrorists because we don't agree with them. If "terrorism" has a meaning, the question of whether Mandela was a terrorist should be answered based on that meaning. If what we really mean to say is that we think Mandela was a great man who improved the lives of millions, we can just say that instead of arguing or insulting each other over semantics.
I believe the prevailing hypothesis is that there was a tiny mutation in a human brain ~50,000 years ago that causes spoken language to be possible, but there are other ideas. It's a fascinating area of research:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity
By the time your "non-technical folks" are editing templates, you have a problem regardless of your language/framework. If you only have enough knowledge to "add an image" stay out of my HTML!
Selling smaller units is not a split. That's like saying a split happened because PertPlus is now available in a convenient travel size.

Or Outback released a 2oz Steak.
Sure. The main thing is not what Rockefeller did, but what prompted his actions and the people that he was up against.

First, while describing them as simple, honest businessmen, she somehow forgot that her father and his compatriots firebombed Rockefeller's pipelines and production facilities, prompting a large part of his response. They would attempt to destroy his ability to do business, and he responded by driving them out of it.

Second, she did extensive research on the Rockefellers, it's true, though she never actually interviewed them. Rockefeller Sr., in fact, refused to go to the press and refute most of her statements, and didn't let anyone else do it for him. So, you only get one side.

I don't think it's good journalism to portray a large corporation as evil and its competition as good simply by virtue of size. She didn't actually show that the independent producers were innocent in this, merely that they lost. She then would wax poetic about the noble nature of their business ownership, and how Rockefeller was attempting to destroy and pervert that nobility.

It's kind of like how Native Americans were portrayed up till the 1970's; they were savage, and we were noble. Not really true, though much of what they were accused of doing was accurate.

Now, we know that Rockefeller would offer stock or cash for the ownership of these refineries or fields, and we also know that the stock or cash offering would almost always be far more than it was worth. Further, the railroad companies accused of colluding with Rockefeller would routinely gouge him; it's why he built pipelines in the first place.

He built a monopoly. That's true. It's also true that it drove down costs to 5% of the initial cost of Kerosene when he started. He ruthlessly crushed his competition and he definitely engaged in what are currently illegal business practices. It's just her portrayal of him as the villain and her father's compatriots as noble american heroes I take issue with.
Isn't the problem not so much with the pension, but the amount being paid into the pension fund vs what is scheduled to payout? Underfunding the plan and unreasonable expectations of the amount the fund will earn are commonly sited problems.
I'd engage in some schadenfreude, but a good bit of that stuff will be lurking over LA none too soon.
You are confusing things. Mandela was not a terrorist because he won, proper term is freedom fighter. History is always written by victorious.
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Facebook runs compiled/JITted PHP code.
I laughed so hard when I noticed "Fun & Games" in the menu.
Nope, I'm using standard free disqus and I rarely see any spam.
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Why bother with bitcoin? You can do the same with GOOG stock too.
I use mynt. https://github.com/Anomareh/mynt
It is much simpler compared to hyde. The reason I chose mynt above other similar options is that, it allows for custom urls that made migrating my previous wordpress blog posts easier without having to resort to .htaccess magic.
And that's why "sales" skills are important. If you can sell people on the idea, you'd be surprised what risks places can take. Do I wish I didn't have to? You bet! But for now, it works.
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Are you sure you understand how double-spends in Bitcoin work? If you did, the right response would not be to double-down and engage in false dichotomies where a single double-spend of any transaction ever is a 100% disaster, and instead, adopt the more nuanced perspective that a few double-spends will not kill the currency, will save vast amounts of computational resources, and users can opt into however much security they require by waiting an appropriate number of confirmations.
It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction.

You can put lipstick on a pig...
A split would likely only happen if it were agreed that BTC was no longer viable because of a flaw in the protocol. And more likely as a reverse split.

A currency that didn't have the flaw would have to be developed, mined, and when it got to a certain size and date BTC would be traded for the other currency. Basically doing a migration. Since the new currency would have been around for less time you would trade something like 10BTC for every one of the new coin.

There is no reason for BTC to go the other way. The smallest unit of BTC can be reduced to a smaller size so that the price handles any size transaction. This might be necessary if the whole world moved to BTC, as we'd have a few quadrillion dollars held in a few million BTC so each coin would be worth over a million dollars. But that is unlikely.
For a while I was heavily using Adium, with many extensions, theme packs, and Whatsapp. I'm now just using Messages on mac/iphone and much prefer it. Bells and whistles are only interesting for so long. Text and emails, on computer and phone beats any long feature list.

Same for music, I had customised Winamp and another one I can't remember the name of, but now I'm back to iTunes. I do need a new podcast client now that iTunes makes it difficult to know which episodes are downloaded. Any suggestions?
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Not that I disagree with much of what you say, (Mandela was no terrorist) but your first paragraph starts out by pointing out someone citing anecdotal evidence, and then ends with you citing your own anecdotal evidence of racial violence in the UK vs. SA. As if your experience walking around in London vs. whatever part of SA (as you know a huge country) you live in is solid data.

I have white friends from college who were from South Africa, and returned there (Cape Town). They are glad Apartheid is gone, but are unhappy that they have had to watch senior politicians in the ANC sing "Kill the Boers" at rallies in 2013. They also complain of the effects of the BEE. As with other affirmative action programs, it has the effect of fueling racism and resentment while simultaneously (on the positive side) correcting past inequities. Also tying in with other affirmative action weaknesses, it disproportionately benefits the most advantaged members of the favored group(s) while leaving behind the least advantaged from both the favored group and being punishingly unfair to the poor members of the non-favored group. (an Afrikaner boy from a poor home will hurt a company's BEE scorecard, while a black boy whose father is a lawyer will help it)
The effects of a "hacker collective" on chances of receiving outside investment?
I recently had the thought that instead of trying to look for a technical cofounder, I could instead just make something of a "collective" of people who are skilled in one area of another, and can pitch in on the project at different times.

[Edit 3:14PM 12/6/13:] This would ideally enable a startup to several people working on it, without needing to give them arbitrary amounts of equity in advance. Also, the startup would not need to hold out for that one "can do everything" tech cofounder, and can instead have many people slowly chipping away at the problem (even if they don't have tech skills, but say, are learning and care about the problem the startup solves.)

They could get a similar amount of the company, but this would be measured dynamically, with GitHub (it's a tech startup) and basic Excel for ideas (spreadsheet approved weekly or so among FT. PT people not involved in idea aspects, or recompensed up-front.)

As for everyone's shares, they would all (PT or FT, even the example girl who helped with graphic design) would understand up-front that there work is going into a single entity. That is, if and when outside investors acquire equity of the company (say 7%), the "collective's" 100% falls to 93%.

My main concern is what effect you guys think this would have on ability to attract outside investment. Or even enter something like an accelerator. Assuming, any problems you see with the model can be overcome (I'd like to hear those too, in the context of the main question.)

As I understand this model is similar to a "grunt fund", but I was only referred to said term yesterday, so am looking into it.

(PS - not sure, but are ?'s automatically inserted into the "ask" section of HackerNews? Wasn't sure how to do that.)
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It's easy for me to say, since I'm from a country with an excellent pension system (the Netherlands), but completely managing your own pension would be foolish at best. You cannot predict how long you will live compared to others. To spread the risk, you should always be part of a bigger pension scheme.
my life got so much easier when i stopped pretending that non-programmers should be able to work on the templating layer.
Actually for this generations the squeeze are two way. One is higher pensions the other is higher housing costs. A growth in house equity value is a transfer between generations as the older generations came into the property value at the bottom. Norway right now is an extreme example of this as the high prices of property squeeze out the young from the market and transfers money to the older generations.
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I'd being willing to go out on a limb and say that eating cuts a little closer to instinct than anything on your list. Napping is pretty damn great, however.
This is the really interesting part of the article:

> On Tuesday, a federal judge said Detroit could legally cut the pensions it has already promised to workers as part of its bankruptcy plan. Many state constitutions, including that of Michigan, hold that the government can’t go back on pension promises, and, because of this, cities have generally assumed that they could not touch existing pensions even in cases of bankruptcy. (Instead, many have been cutting pensions for newly hired workers.) But federal law supersedes state law, and, according to Judge Steve W. Rhodes, pension cuts are just fine under federal law. “Pension benefits are a contractual right and are not entitled to any heightened protection in a municipal bankruptcy,” he said.

Takeaway: Bankruptcy courts > state constitutions. It's a straightforward result of the Supremacy Clause, but is practically very significant.
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You were asking within the context of the relevant time period.

That's when the seeds were planted, and they continue to grow today. Charlotte Iserbyt provides a fairly decent timeline and compendium of relevant documents related to the shaping of the compulsory schooling system in the USA, entitled the deliberate dumbing down of america. Despite a few conservative biases in her writing style, the documents outlined are self-explanatory.
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It should have been written using lazy evaluation. That way, it could use itself recursively as its own X server. /sarcasm
i'm personally learning to love static html again. the longer i can get away without a users database the better.
I'm amazed when people can do a basic percentage calculation, never mind knowing what a prime number is...
This is a great summary and outline of the evolution and differences of different investment structures.

One of the concerns I've heard from many founders and funders is that convertible notes or securities can place the founders at odds with the early investors when it comes to company valuation. In this case, the concern still remains whether the conversion is a note or a security.

The founders would want the company to have as large a valuation as possible at the conversion event so that the equity ownership for the amount raised is at a maximum for the founders. But the early investors (holders of the convertible note or security) would want the company to be valued lower so that their investment is converted to give themselves and not the founders greater equity, or at least up to the cap amount, if one exists.

And with regards to the cap, there's the issue that the investors are converted at a potentially much higher total equity stake than they would get if the cap didn't exist. This is because every dollar of valuation above the cap goes to increase the early investor's stake in the company at the expense of the founder who must convert them at the cap level. So the founders are thus disincented to increase the value of the company to any amount greater than the cap so as to have a conversion at a favorable level.

As such, this means that in practice the cap becomes a defacto valuation for the company at its next funding round, which is at odds with the concept that a convertible note / security allows the founders to defer the determination of the value of the company. The reason for this is that if a cap exists, the founders would not want a valuation greater than the cap as they would be rewarding the early investors at their own loss. It would not be less than the cap because then they are negotiating for a lower valuation, which is against their interests. And so, it would be precisely at the cap amount, which thus becomes the valuation.

To me, this still represents an issue with convertible notes or securities -- the placement of founders at odds with early investors with regards to valuation of the company at the conversion event.
I'm not talking about social security, I'm talking about pensions. To which a 401k or IRA is infinitely preferable. But SS has the same problem as pensions: there's nothing to stop future politicians from eliminating it at any time to free up some headroom in the budget.

Perhaps a mandatory 401k everyone must have, contribute to and refrain from using until age 65 would be the best of both worlds?
>It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction.

and a painting is just some oil with some impurities on a cotton backing.

The fact that words sometimes convey practical meaning does not preclude them from also being art.
>I see the same arguments about America's use of the atomic bomb in WW2.

Only that use was totally unjustified, as Japan was surrendering anyway, a military defeat was already 100% feasible, and the bomb was used needlessy to send a message to the USSR.
If I understand these correctly, I can come up with this mapping between Hg <--> Git

rebase <--> rebase
histedit <--> rebase -i
shelve <--> stash
unbundle <--> ???
purge <--> clean -x -d -f
alias <--> [alias] section in gitconfig
color <--> [color.*] section in gitconfig
progress <--> ???
pager <--> core.pager in gitconfig
So... you'll have miners who have sunk huge investments into powerful computers who are unhappy to see their investments become worthless, and who have the computer power to force high transaction fees onto Bitcoin users. That'll certainly be interesting to watch.

Somebody is going to lose big time. The question is whether Bitcoin as a currency will survive in the fallout.
> I had the impression that LCS players were only disallowed from streaming those games if their stream advertised League of Legends content.

They're not allowed to stream those games if they have any affiliation with Riot.

> This ban seems to target other games that could be competitive e-sports, specifically the new Blizzard game Hearthstone.

It does lean that way, though I'm not sure there's much of a danger of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans becoming a competitive e-sport.
Astroturfer or troll?
Love the idea, might try it at home. But speaking as someone who has run both hydroponic and aeroponic systems successfully (as a hobby) - I'm envisioning a lot of dead plants in 6-12 months time and a maintenance nightmare.

Various issues:

Cleaning - Algae and diseases can quickly kill every connected plant in a hydroponic system. You also need to know how to heal a plant in this situation. Probably the easiest option is just to ditch every plant in the desk, clean, then start again.

Nutrient level maintenance - you now need an employee whose job it is to ensure correct nutrient balance, it's trickier than just adding water!

General part maintenance - more tricky with aeroponics than hydroponics, but various parts of the system quickly get clogged and caulked up (pumps, nozzles, etc). I was replacing a nozzle every 4 weeks on a relatively small 12 nozzle spraying system.
Sure, under normal circumstances, but e.g. in bankruptcy employees can be left with unpaid wages. That's the context here.
she somehow forgot that her father and his compatriots firebombed Rockefeller's pipelines and production facilities, prompting a large part of his response

Citation needed.
Well... at least if you're trying to detect/remove HTML tags, the only one that works is the first in the list, as far as I know, thank goodness.

All the others actually render the character, someone please correct me if I'm wrong?
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>But seriously, guys, don't offer your employees a pension, and if a potential employer offers you one, laugh in their face. Let us manage our own retirements.

Yes, let's see how that turns out, when 80% of the population over 65 is destitute or working at Walmart/McDonalds well into its seventies...
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I don't equate C++ with C.

At least with C++ the language offers the mechanisms without external tooling, for doing safe coding, if one so wishes.

You can use arrays that don't decay into pointers, bounded checked arrays, proper strings, references for output parameters, automatic reference counting.
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I don't know why so many Americans think Ronald Reagan was so great. The more I learn about his policies, the more I think he was the lackwit actor playing politician that his critics say he was. His trickle-down economics BS is, as far as I'm concerned, nothing but a golden shower.
Why does Unicode have such powerful control characters that can be used to construct misleading strings? Is there a non-malicious use case for them?
>But SS has the same problem as pensions: there's nothing to stop future politicians from eliminating it at any time to free up some headroom in the budget.

The same goes for salaries. There's nothing to stop them from offering them and enforcing slavery.

Except, you know, the people that would be affected.
Exactly. I use EC2 by running my instances 24/7. That article is useless.

Plus, Amazon has servers here in Brazil, so that a plus to me.
I was responding to the previous poster saying

>>Predictably the now-pensioners claim that they paid for pensions and are thus 'owed' them.

I read the quotes as implying that the poster thought that the pensioners were acting entitled because they thought they were owed their wages.

Of course, if someone that owes you money declares bankruptcy, sometimes those debts are reduced or expunged. But that doesn't make the original debt any less legitimate.
As for the military: That may well be true, but who is willing to spend that kind of money in a sustained fashion just to have a system that is safe from government takeover? Libertarian ideology only gets you so far. Will libertarians put their money where their mouth is?

As for the bloated global financial industry, there are two points. First, it does more than just a simple ledger (think the overhead of dealing with fraud in a way that people are willing to accept). Second, it's plausible that Bitcoin will help de-bloat the financial industry, at least the payment services part, and that would certainly be welcome. That doesn't mean that Bitcoin will survive in the long run, though.
Well on a mass scale you're right, but if you're targeting a particular person X, you may create a throwaway gmail account impersonating X's friend Y, and send an innocuously looking pdf/doc/xls/lolcat gif as an attachment. IMO lots of people may fall prey to this kind of attack if the email looks legit.
RDS recently added cross region snapshot copies, and more importantly, cross region replication for at least MySQL. Those were the last two features I was waiting for to jump to RDS. In fact, I was in the process of setting up cross region backups using just the cross region snapshot copy when they released the new cross region read replicas feature.

I'm very much looking forward to moving our manually managed cross data center MySQL replication/admin to RDS. But I also don't have to scale MySQL to ridiculous levels either, I just need very high availability.
I've actually read it many times.

How does a fictional story becomes an argument about the heat death of the universe being "interesting"?

You expect the same things as in the story to happen then?
Then there's this:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pensio...
>what would be an accurate, but still relatable, reason for a young person to grasp the importance the number 0?

If you have one cookie, and you eat it, how many cookies do you now have?
Apparently this is 3 years old.
I thought it was scraping my Google searches.
Great lecture. I'm curious to know what companies/organizations actually allow this kind of flexibility--outside of the entertainment industry.
What I thought was missing from this article, but insinuated: that Caeser knew: give 'em something so they don't overthrow you.

Well the modern economy is reaching such inequality levels that we're going to have to do something or else it'll be forced, and potentially volatile.

Guaranteed income seems the best plan.