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I do live here. I know of exactly one substantial empty lot in Manhattan - just south of the UN building. I still wonder what the plan is there.

Hell, the biggest development project going on right now involves building on top of a train yard. This does not suggest an availability of actual empty land.

> "and there are tons of under-developed areas"

And yes, that's precisely what I referring to when I mentioned that any new development would have to involve demolition and replacement. Replacing a 15-story apartment complex with a 45-story apartment complex may be a good idea, but first you'd have to buy out all the owners in the building.

That sort of thing is neither simple nor fast.

The infrastructure problem exists still also. Spanish Harlem can be argued to be underdeveloped - and we can surely replace those buildings with tall apartment complexes... except the 4/5/6 subway is already massively oversubscribed. You can build apartments there, but said residents won't be able to get to work. The 2nd Ave Subway is supposed to alleviate a lot of this pressure, but we all know how fast that is going.

Same goes for basically all of Upper Manhattan - there are plenty of opportunities to replace buildings, but not enough infrastructure to move people around. Transportation (like most cities) is the biggest developmental bottleneck.

> " it's certainly not 'construction-friendly' enough so that there are numerous affordable housing options."

You've missed the entire point of my post. "Construction friendliness" is not Manhattan's bottleneck. Lack of infrastructure, and systemic slowness inherent in building replacement (read: buying out existing stakeholders) are. For all intents and purposes, Manhattan is "friendly enough".

There is a building that's finally going up near me in the Lower East Side - a replacement of an old walkup. The owners in the old building resisted sale for a long time, as it would involve displacing them, plus they (rightly) speculated that their property value would continue to increase. The solution at the end of the day is to offer existing owners a brand new (albeit small) apartment in the new building. Not only did it cost the builders money to demolish and erect the new building, but also to buy out the old owners and give them part of the new property for free. Things like this are why Manhattan is replacing buildings so slowly, not because Manhattan is somehow opposed to development.
Interesting book. Not sure how it might apply to what I am trying to do though. While I haven't used Forth for quite some time I did use it extensively for a number of years. This included bootstrapping in a couple of small processors. The process is surprisingly simple. From memory, a significant portion of the work was having to write drivers for the various I/O devices needing support.

I have a number of ideas for the minimum I/O set to support initially. Of course, this could easily be enhanced through expansion ports.

I am trying hard to limit the scope of the project. It's far too easy to complicate the heck out of it.
The flowchart for removing a CA from the browser CA roots has a decision node that asks "does this CA sign important or widely-used certificates, such that removing that CA would cause chaos and alarm from large numbers of normal users?"

Unfortunately, if the answer to that question is "yes", and the offense triggering removal is "improperly delegated a CA certificate for internal network use", precedent dictates that the CA will not be removed. See: Trustwave.

I don't like it any more than you do, but it's helpful to know what reality looks like.
Capitalism isn't bad. Statism is.

There is no single argument against capitalism that doesn't involve government intervention fucking up everything and everybody.
I think that if you are a poor brown/black person in this country it might actually feel like Russia.
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Considering that the article was a transcription of a speech given in Sydney, I would think "we all" is humanity in general.
You misread the parent comment as comparing the crimes, when in fact it was comparing the excuses for continuing to commit them, using a quote from a movie.
The GPL refers to the use of software, the licensing, the linking thereof.

This is nothing that would ever be covered or considered to be covered by the license. It's a screen shot of source code.

I don't think - well I know he's not - entitled to acknowledgement either, any more than the producers of a movie would be required to acknowledge the NYT because one of the characters is reading it in a coffee store.
The NSA did what the President asked them to do. Now the President is distancing himself from them for his own political reasons. Americans loathe to blame the leaders they elect, for then they would have to blame themselves. It is easier to blame a rouge Agency. But the only rouge actions of the NSA is the PR you are talking about.
>Masons still tend to be well connected in traditional professions if they admit it or not and they do leverage their connection regularly. The appearance I get is that they are downplaying themselves as a "happy little drinking club" rather than a formal organisation.

Huh. I totally bought the "happy little drinking club" story - maybe I was too distracted trying to come up with a proper William Morgan joke.
I suggest a book "A Short History of Nearly Everything": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Every...
It's both.

It's literally the transition phase from 3 dimensional models (vector-based curves, points, and polygons) to final pixel-based raster images.

Rendering transforms the wireframe models into images.

3D graphics always involve a renderer of some kind. There are different classes of rendering. The kind that video games use are optimized for speed and interactivity, they are still rasterizing the 3D models into images, but the images are dumped to the video buffer and disposed of, with each new frame, at 30 frames per second.

This article discusses renderers that are not concerned with speed or interactivity. The finished frames are retained and polished with compositing and photo editing software, including photoshop. In this case, the renderer is permitted to crunch numbers on a frame for minutes, hours or days, rather than 30 disposable frames per second.
Edward Snowden to give evidence to EU parliament, says MEP
Personally looking forward to the creation of an Un-British Activities Committee.
>>The Constitution speaks of a small federal government, whose purpose it is to defend the rights of individuals from potentially abusive state governments.

The Constitution was written at a time when this country was a much smaller and simpler place. As such, its suggestion regarding the size of the government cannot be taken as prescriptive for the country we live in today.
I started working on a similar project several weeks ago in ASP.NET and C#. Implementing proper nested comments is a big challenge for a beginner like me, so I dropped development until school projects slow down a little. I'm thinking of opensourcing it but I don't know if there is any interest for that. The project is located at a weird domain (yes, I need a better name, feel free to recommend one) which is www.forbidme.com
That is indeed exactly what I meant. That said, I think the difficulty found in the amendment process is an indicator that the founders intended the government to move far more slowly than it does, which leads one to believe they wanted less laws than more.

Just an opinion there, but it is (I think) a fairly well supported one.
Many carriers are starting to give discounts. T-Mobile does already. Also, I can use an MVNO for quite a bit cheaper than a subscription plan, but I need a phone to do that. Most of the MVNOs will sell you a phone, but it will be a either a full-price model, or a terrible piece of crap.
I might be kind of strange in this regard but: I hate getting physical presents!

At the moment there are only a few very specific things which I really want or need so buying me something random will just result in wasted money on the presenters side and wasted storage space in my side. Right now I have about 15 unread books next to my bed, I have all the tools (software, mechanical/electrical tools) I will ever need, I have about 5 bicycles which I don't use and the only hobby I have right now is fitness and writing my PhD thesis.

If you want to present me something then either present me an Amazon coupon for the unlikely case that I want to order something specific in the net half year or invite me to a nice restaurant.
Check out successful crowdsourcing campaigns, like Pebble, Keysmart, and Keybit.
It's a simple question. Make a suggestion and move on. Of course different people like different things. Platitudes don't help anyone here.
Also - having great support and contributions from the community - like an open source project
Government is positive-sum.

Killing all those brown people with drones sure is positive sum!
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That is a remarkable interpretation of what, in reality, is a situation where the US demands tribute in the form of onerous intelligence tie-ups that lost their purpose when the Soviet Union dissolved and treaties that spread bad US IP laws to places that have no desire to be screwed up that way.

We now pimp the "Global War on Terror" as a substitute, but some guys in caves with a few kilos of explosives just isn't as compelling as an industrial superpower with h-bombs.
This already happens today in the form of PSA and the Ad Council. See http://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Work/Current-Work for a sampling.
I got the clear impression from Paul that he only revealed what he wanted to, not what Howard manipulated him into revealing. This is unlike what happens with his other guests.
He isn't describing capitalism. Capitalism may exist loosely at a local level, but on the national level it doesn't exist anymore.
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It's about time. With scummy, law-breaking, deceitful, cynical, practices that hold the most cherished rights and freedoms of people everywhere in contempt, and bald-faced lying to congress, no less, on the part of top management, what's to feel good about?
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I'd like to think a lot of Nazi death camp workers are regular Germans who are also concerned about the mass executions. I mean, most aren't decision makers, and wouldn't have a full picture of the entire system.
I'm torn here. If you insist everyone make every moral choice for themselves, then we will be unable to maximize the "right" choices. For example: If I want to buy ethical foods, I'd rather shop at a place where all these criteria are enforced. It would be mind-numbingly draining to have to make all these choices myself. Frankly, I would tune out. In a libertarian society, every person would need to be educated on food systems, why some are ethical and why some aren't, etc. And only then could we have an equitable system that is supported by choice. But people don't want to invest that much into understanding the thing that keeps them nourished.

This is the problem I see with libertarianism. Without some form of, hopefully mild coercion, people just tune out based on gut feeling. If they don't want to participate and contribute to something after the quick-and-dirty explanation, then they're out -- nevermind the 3 year study and expert panel that analyzed the issue and recommended process/measure/regulation X.

I agree that our legislation and regulations need to be more responsive and aligned with reality, but gunning for everything to be "opt-out" does not seem sustainable.

Sorry, I go back and forth. I'm not libertarian by any means, but being so highly involved in open source community, I see the value of properly structured voluntary communities. Basically, I'm really torn about everything I've said above :)
What do we need the market for then?
In the end it is just personal preference. Try it on your own and then decide. A friend of my spent a decade typing on an old mechanical IBM keyboard and then switched to a standard Apple keyboard. I am the other way around. I started with a 'soft' keyboard and now switched to a mechanical one. Both of us just prefer how the respective keyboard feels.
When I got on the intertubes, oh-so-many years ago - the rules were simple: the ONLY piece of information you could freely give on public forums, or IRC, was your nick. Now, the only piece of information you are supposed to withhold is your credit card number.

I'll say this about the new ways: I'm extremely glad that I didn't have my teenage years documented and archived. Dodged that bullet!
>> The paradox of tolerance has been a major problem in liberal philosophy for a long, long time. The simplistic notion of "Don't force them" just refuses to engage with any kind of depth, and in doing so, perverts and defeats itself.

Nope, the idea of not forcing anyone to do anything is rooted in the Non-Aggression Principle, which stipulates that any initiation of force (violence/coercion) is forbidden. The flipside of this is that everything should be voluntary.

It makes sense if you allow yourself to think about it for a moment. Never mind "but self-defense is violence too!!" - that is clearly seen for the distraction it is, when you draw the line at initiating violence. The aggressor is always in the wrong.

This fits together perfectly with The Golden Rule too: don't do anything to others that you wouldn't want done to yourself.

In reality, there are no "victimless crimes". Whenever someone gets thrown into jail for being in possession of a certain plant, there is no victim, and no crime. Laws represent coercion one way or another. It's either: 1) don't do this or you will be punished, or 2) do this or you will be punished.

Now, when people get punished for attempting to keep their property, something is very wrong. Who's the victim of you trying to keep your property? -No one. OK then, who's the victim in taxation.. ? -Why it's you, of course.
Hmm, I am sorry you have had a bad experience. I hail from over there too and am actually glad that the social state has not been completely dismantled.
Sure. Don't fool yourself into thinking you'll be as productive as the 20-something MIT student who has been doing this since they were a kid and their brain was still in child-sponge mode, but yes, you can. You actually have an advantage, I think, in doing a .NET / Java route is actually very doable.
> Because it's based on the idea of exponential growth.

Except it isn't. It's based on the expectation that the market will allocate resources based on factors like supply/demand.

We focus on growth because it's a human tendency to always want more. Has nothing to do with capitalism.
Here is one based on django/mezzanine

https://github.com/stephenmcd/drum
Yes it does. For example, look at Clarinex. This drug is in no way advantageous over Claritin, and in fact is metabolized into Claritin in vivo. The only reason that it exists is because Schering-Plough's patent ran out on Claritin.

Or look at Vyvanse, a prodrug of Adderall. Shire Plc has been intentionally manipulating the market (using government amphetamine quotas) for years in order to push patients away from cheaper generic Adderall (despite the fact that many people find Vyvanse to be substantially inferior).

Or take the case of adrafinil, which metabolizes into modafinil (provigil). Adrafinil is just fine (not quite as effective, but nearly so), but its patent ran out. At that point, Cephalon pulled strings to get its approval revoked (this was in France; adrafinil is unapproved and unregulated in the US), so that people would have to move to their newer, patented drug. (And yes, adrafinil does tax the liver some, but no more so than plenty of other drugs).
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So you changed your nick to become mrspeaker?
No you're not. It's another arbitrage play. He's creating the LLCs to cap his legal liability for each rental unit while at the same time trying to get the benefit of pass-through taxation benefits (meaning, no corporate level income tax but also meaning that all of his income is subject to gross taxation).

In practice, it probably wouldn't work. LLCs are subject to a lower veil-piercing threshold in New York than corporations are (though the requirements are otherwise generally the same), so the LLC will do little to protect him legally, especially since he's violating Delaware's laws regarding the formation of the LLC.

He's also most likely using this structure avoid attracting unwanted attention, since one of NYC's avenues for tracking down AirBnB offenders has been to compare corporate filings with rentals offered on the site.
correction: Not if he wanted to do it honestly. He would've become a millionaire only if he had taken bribes.
That's not what Dunbar's Number means.

Dunbar's Number is "a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships."

Having a social relationship with someone != caring about their fate.
> Every single person on airbnb wants to open a hotel, but they frankly disengage from the formal process, likely for valid reasons.

I wouldn't say they guy in the article wants to run a hotel. Running a hotel is hard work with ordinary margins. HFT (in all likihood exaggerated day trading), illigaly importing iPads to France and running an illigal airbnb business all strike me as someone looking to get rich quick. Drug dealing would fit in better than running a legit hotel.
This pseudo-libertarian confusion is largely due to the neoliberalist movement >1970s, where the government touted laissez-faire markets as the ultimate goal - with the caveat it needs a little bit of state intervention to protect all of us from the downsides of capitalism.

This was implemented quite effectively and was largely based on legitimate economics. But it has a giant flaw in implementation: the state intervention part over time becomes a tool for those with power and not for the entire representative population, from where it draws power to intervene.

For example, take economic stimulation during recessions, which are often the only time direct economic corrections happens for the average person. The goal is to increase "consumer spending" during downward market trends. Meaning the continued purchase of things they don't really need (new cars, houses, and bank loans). Revenue keeps flowing to the large organizations who would often be hit the hardest during recessions. Plus a few special organizations get direct bailouts from a central bank.

We're told in the long run this is better than a complete recession/depression and we'll recover faster. If we just hold on and keep spending, things will get back to normal and everyone in the economy benefits. But if you look at it from a higher-level, the top-end of the market is easily the biggest beneficiary of this policy, while consumers are largely still left with very little ability for upward mobility.

The same trend exists in almost all state interventions. Those who come out on top as the result of the policy are almost always those already at the top. It is neither the invisible-hand of free markets nor equal-distribution of state power at work.
Yes, but those generics will be cheap, whereas the new drug will be expensive. Since the doctors are reimbursed based on a percentage of the cost of the drug, they will choose the more expensive one, just like they do now. A cheap competitor already exists. Adding another cheap competitor won't help when doctors are incentivized to use the most expensive option.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm currently dealing with a 2 m/o baby but will get right on with fixing these as soon as I can...
You are neglecting to examine the counter-factual. The current system is abound with perverse incentives and flaws. As to the difficulty of designing a new system; we have thrown money at a poorly designed system for many years with little success, perhaps a redesign would be worth it.
But not all games ask for "full blow realistic 3D models and environments". You have plenty of indie titles (Stealth Bastard, Super Meat Boy, Hotline Miami) for which "stylized graphics" in 2D are essential. Another example is Apotheon [1]: even if I'm not that fond of the gameplay, I wouldn't trade their stunning 2D graphics for any kind of 3D.

1: http://www.apotheongame.com/
You may be guilty of making a false equivalency between YouTube and AirBnB. Both are online, both are operating in legal grey zones. That does not mean antipathy toward one must necessarily be the same as antipathy toward another. Copyright might have been overdue for a significant rethinking. That doesn't mean that property rights are equivalently overdue.

AirBnB threatens a vastly wider swath of people than YouTube ever did. If you don't understand why people do not want to share a neighborhood or a residential tower with transients, perhaps you've never had to deal with the fallout and quality of life issues. Ever had to deal with bedbugs? I think I'd rather be stabbed and spend a day in the ER than have to deal with them again.
22.6% of the US economy under state control is responsible for ~100% of the inequity.

Inflation has a compounding effect of screwing the poor and transferring that wealth to the rich. It shouldn't be surprising that in 1970 Nixon unpegged the dollar and let inflation float and since 1973 the income inequality in this country has gradually become unhinged.

we keep giving more power to fewer people under the rubric of "better government", and, lo and behold, our society has ever more power and wealth concentrating in fewer and fewer hands. Why, oh why ever could it be.

Rich and wealthy liberal economists keep prescribing more government(which they may or may not realize contributed to their cupidity) to 'help out the poor' with 'stimulus' (which gets subcontracted to politically connected, wealthy people - did we not just throw 650 millon dollars at already-rich people to build a broken healthcare website?), while stabbing them in the back with inflation
There is no undo button when using your real name on the Internet.

With a nickname, you always have the option of associating it with your real identity at a later date if you so choose.
Prescribing doctors don't get 6% of the cost unless they're also supplying it. Lucentis is injected with a needle into your eyeball, so you probably want your ophthalmologist to do it in their office.
Where exactly does he say that?
In-fact, It is the very same philosophy that AAP stands for, that 'voting in elections != democracy',
In Finland this is handled in pharmacies. Pharmacist will always inform you if there is a cheaper alternative to the drug you've been prescribed.
This is no different than something like "gifts for photographers".
Of course. You can do anything at 40 - become a programmer, go back to school and get a doctorate in physics, become a physician, etc.
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In this case, the doctors actually do buy the drug. Out-patient use of physician administered drugs is done through "buy and bill".

The physician purchases the drug and keeps an inventory. When a patient is treated, the doctors bills the insurance company and receives the cost of the drug (usually average selling cost) plus a mark-up.

Drug companies are allowed to offer rebates to physicians (it falls under the "safe harbor") as long as it doesn't create perverse incentives for use (as determined by the DOJ). The other thing to keep in mind is that any rebates gets subtracted from the average selling price, so in essence any rebate is clawed back with a few quarters.
Well since 1990s we at least got EV, which is something.
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