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> a medium of exchange should have stable purchasing power

What's the problem with having a medium of exchange that actually gains value over time ? (which is the case of bitcoin). By the way your USD/Euros and other fiat currencies are actually losing value over time, and not just a little. Look at what you could buy 10 years ago with 100 dollars and today. Is that "constant utility" ? Not really.
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>Even if all corruption stopped instantly today - what would that actually achieve?

So what you are saying is that everything that Mr Kejriwal, Mr Hazare and others are struggling for is ultimately meaningless -- they are not solving any significant issues by tackling corruption.

Here's another way of looking at it: Let's assume some brilliant person (like you, perhaps?) is able to come up with a solution that solves all the problems that you describe -- food production, sanitation, power plants etc "magically" appear to meet the needs of the poor. How long do you think it will last? Corrupt politicians will again begin to meddle and take advantage and in 10 years, we would be back to the "clusterfuck" stage, as you so colorfully describe it.

>I suspect you come from a privileged middle-class background

I come from a lower-caste background, if you need to know. And don’t worry, we are not likely to let anyone bury the past and forget either colonialism or casteism. Or are you forgetting that India's past riches were also obtained through caste-based oppression? I suspect you have nothing better to say than “Everything is broken, it’s all the fault of the British and so I want free immigration”.

You know, your opinions are beginning to convince me that maybe you are right, incompetence is a far bigger problem than corruption ;)
Generally, 10% extra tax.
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No, I'm not being unfair. I don't think "open source" versus "closed source" has much at all to do with how secure a cryptosystem is. I do think having Trevor Perrin and Moxie Marlinspike working on your crypto design has a lot to do with how secure a cryptosystem is.
So we all know that everyone is on LinkedIn & every recruiter in the world is spamming us with invites but who the fuck actually uses it & gets any value out of it?
> If you choose at random an attack on the US outside of a combat zone within our lifetimes, you have a nontrivial probability that it was an admitted false flag operation.

Really? What are the admitted false flag operations against the US, forgetting about how old any of us are? If I look at the list from the article, the ones involving the US are either not false flag operations (my post), operations never put into action, or actual false flag operations but against a foreign country (Iran, Italy).
Governments will eventually implement virtual versions of their currencies!!!
Energy is so volatile that it makes little sense to count it in measures of inflation. When oil prices double in a year, is that really because USD became less valuable?

There are certainly a number of methodologies for calculating inflation, but this idea that inflation is 10+% seems to be something of an Austrian fantasy.

The consensus that moderate inflation is good for the economy is about as uncontroversial as you get in economics, and is generally agreed upon by economists across the political spectrum.
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Such a patent application is not evidence of JPMorgan building anything, only that they feel that the ability to stop someone else from building it could be worth a few bucks.

Thus is the patent.
On Mac: select files, copy, switch to text area, paste. Actually, I'd be surprised if this didn't work on Windows, too...
Note that I said they try to maintain low levels of inflation. It's sure better than nothing. The economy is a chaotic system, and you need to use all means at your disposal to try to counter the boom-and-bust cycle.
I need this on Android. Now. Please :c
You pay ICANN a lot of fucking money
Seems about right vis a vis the need for algorithms to be correct. Good enough is, by definition, good enough.
> I think the industry is fundamentally different and in its most extreme realizations has been shown to cause severe emotional harm to exploited workers.

The "most extreme realizations" of most industries have been shown to cause severe harm -- often both physical and emotional -- to exploited workers.

I mean, really, we see this fairly regularly with the all kinds industries that don't involve sex, and then we blame it on the particular abusive practices, and don't try to claim its fundamental to having an industy that deals in, say, garments, or electronics.
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"For a currency that has been lauded for its frictionless characteristics, Bitcoin sure has been causing a lot a friction over at the legacy banking institutions."

Um, isn't it the other way around? Legacy banking institutions have been causing a lot of friction for Bitcoin by refusing to do business with Bitcoin businesses.
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Not really. I've read the books of Clarke and Tenet, and according to them yes, it was just opportune. Wolfowitz, Cheney, et al had decided to go to war years before and had written about it extensively.

After Afganistan, intelligence services were directed to "find a link" over and over again until such information could be gathered, no matter how flawed. Feith at DOD was (inappropriately) tasked with finding intelligence that supported the administrations conclusions.
( http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/... )
Cheney even went out and made several speeches saying the link was substantial to the bewilderment of CIA.
In truth, no significant link was ever found.
The author's entire premise is off. The recent filing is a continuation of an application filed on Feb 3, 2000 (see patent 6,609,113). So, Chase wasnt taking a "swipe" at Bitcoin because the original application was filed 13 years ago. (Hmmm, is Chase...Satoshi?)
Just another bullshit linkbait headline.

There's nothing being built here and nothing different from a dozen existing electronic peer to peer payment networks. (Venmo, PayPal, Dwolla, Square Cash).
> The economy is a chaotic system

It's certainly been even more chaotic since Central Banks have so much power in the first place. How many crashes were directly linked to the artificially low interest rates decided by the Central Banks ?
So the obligatory joke would be, he's asking you to learn to code so you can fix his healthcare website. (duh, dum, dum)
If adults with free choice are able to buy and sell sex, then economics and the dynamics of capitalism are going to compel disadvantaged people into selling sex, far more than happens today. I'm not going to argue that the vice laws we have today are coherently enforceable or practicable, but there is more to the issue of outlawing prostitution than Puritan moralism.
Is the 4D guns that I worry about.
I don't use LinkedIn or have a résumé because I think both are a waste of time and I don't care. Its great to be a programmer where the job market is in such demand you have the option of not doing the following above.
Okay. But is it possible for some malicious addon/website to get this information?

Also, what happens if google decides to spy on someone? Basically, is it possible that chrome sends some data to google servers even without user signing in for sync?
I'm quite confident I would be unable to do so adequately.
For $185k you get to ask ICANN for a tld. If they accept, I believe it's an additional $185k per year. Not sure if you get your money back if they refuse.
I couldn't find anything of that sort. I'll try to make one though :)
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I doubt keltranis is missing the issue. Instead let's assume reddit's devs know what's what think of a why.

My guess is they want to fast bury spam. Spam in old posts will have been deleted and thus old posts are more trustworthy. Voting brigades are a smaller risk than the constant flood of spam.
I called them errors because that's usually the technical term for them, but the real point, as always, is tradeoffs. The less "finite" a ML setup you want to buy, the less "error".
10% extra than what?

Let's say I don't earn any other income in a year and pull out $5k. What's my tax rate?

Let's say I pull out exactly the tax-free threshold. What's my tax rate?

(I ask for the clarification because here in Canada, they withhold a very large amount of whatever you take out.. because they are assuming you have other income. It all comes back at tax time though, based on whatever other income you do have. So I ask because I'm wondering if they force the 10% on you, or if they just withhold it and you can get it back at tax time)
I've been very interested in this problem. I ran a community for a few months that wound up being quite popular (40k uniques a day before I closed it down). My attempt to address with problem was to have a min + max time, but most interestingly count the number of posts as well. Even if an opinion was popular if it got a response out of people it would stay around longer before dropping of quicker.

I prioritised community engagement over the communities quality of content. This turned out to be slightly more effective way of ranking content.
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I'm happy to let people make these dangerous little handheld explosives; there's no need to ban them. The only people they'll wind up hurting with a crappy 3D-printed gun is themselves.
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Other commenters have pointed out many of this article's fallacies but there's one good thing that's being overlooked: the upper middle class is growing. The author skews this as if it's a bad thing. Quite the opposite. There are two stories here, one about the upper middle class growing and one that the middle class gap is growing.
Yes, one would do better with some less dogmatic assertion.

I asked the original question and I've harassed people with this question enough that I vaguely recall the answer.

In terms of the boxes, the answer is you wind-up breaking open the boxes over time in different ways that wind-up with being incapable with the perspective that "just" a black stone or "just" a white stone is in each box.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox#Mathematical_formul...
Good enough to be plausible to a casual user is not good enough to prevent the algorithm from being damaging. For a lot of people, reddit is their only source of news, if that can be easily gamed, it has serious consequences. Developers have responsibilities beyond increasing traffic.
We're using vagrant and ansible to manage local dev instances with the same ansible scripts responsible for provisioning/deployment to our production boxes. My thought being the less I manage with vagrant, and the more I codify stuff in ansible, the more predictable things are when I go to provision/deploy in production.

I'm thrilled with how vagrant helps the process locally, but at the same time want to do as little as possible in vagrant because it's not applicable/involved when I provision/manage a box @ Linode or Digital Ocean.

Am I under-utilizing vagrant? Or missing a greater benefit by limiting its role?
It is hard to sell that and divorce it from the sexual nature or the insinuation that it has sex in it.

"What does your start-up do?" "We are an escort service, we provide companionship". "Oh so hookers?". "No, no, just talking" "Riiiiight...sure...."

Kind of like. One would have to go to great length to really convince or explain to the others (investors, friends, anyone) that this business does not sex as the underlying service.
That's not true for most people involved in sex work

Citation? I'm taking particular umbrage with "most".
Even in those situations, a typical gun would probably work better, Those can be concealed too. I usually fall quite to the left of a lot of my friends when it comes to gun control issues but in this case I really don't see 3d printed guns making things worse than they already are, given that the right to keep guns around is baked into the constitution as it is.
If that is what you want, then just install docker on your system ;-)
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it is also in the play app store http://bit.ly/18xVoWX

It uses the Jasymca (google it) CAS program.
Or more worryingly patenting any potential improvements upon bitcoin, limiting its expansion.
Or by flooding an occupied country with so many cheap single shot handguns the enemy can't stop them all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator

> It was originally intended as an insurgency weapon to be mass dropped behind enemy lines to resistance fighters in occupied territory. A resistance fighter was to recover the gun, sneak up on an Axis occupier, kill or incapacitate him, and retrieve his weapons.
I really really really wish there was a website that broke down code like this into explained text. I can grok a lot of code regardless of language somewhat intuitively because there is so much crossover - but I still have issues often when it comes to breaking down complex and unique segments.

This would really help the learning process but I appreciate how time intensive it is.
This might be good for a computer screen running full screen images or even HD video running full frame 1.78 content, but what about movies that are at a wider aspect ratio like the common 2.35 that must appear letterboxed? Add this to the fact that an HDMI license seems unreasonable, this doesn't look this will be very viable for non-computer monitor situations.
Indeed. I moved away from Silly Valley about ten years ago, and I'm never going back (to live there).

- The public schools are mostly terrible (we'd have to put our kid in private school unless we got into one of the really good school districts).

- House prices are crazy.

- The environment is just . . . bad. I didn't know how much I missed actual weather until moving away (to Seattle, if you must know -- I don't mind the rain much at all).

About the only things I miss from the Bay Area are my friends, the year-round motorcycling, and the hard-core high tech culture (though there is a lot of that here in the Seattle area).
Neither teaches abstract thought.

However, I do believe at least the basics of both you mentioned should be taught as well. If you can't fix a damaged wooden door frame or change the o-rings in a faucet by 18, you haven't been prepared for life.
This is how I always thought Google would eventually implement an iMessage-like protocol. By taking the last step before sending the SMS out, and checking to see if the recipient is also part of the service, and sending it over the service instead of through the open. Love it, just hope my HTC One S will still work with a nightly. ;P
Yes, you are being unfair. You can't say I don't think "open source" versus "closed source" has much at all to do with how secure a cryptosystem is (somewhat agreed) while simultaneously saying The track record of open source cryptography is bad (utter nonsense and misleading), unless your point is that closed source cryptography has an equally bad record.
Yes? And its an absolute travesty?

I dare you to scroll through http://www.streetsblog.org/ for a few pages. Unless you are DUI or run from the scene, being in a car is a license to kill people, no matter if you have been speeding, your license was suspended or your brakes defect.
>Maybe it’s that a good technical implementation is a distant second to a good product

This is what computer scientists should take away from this.
Arguably, but that doesn't mean you can ignore it, or that the increase in cost of projects due to a higher cost of labor is a sign if mismanagement of those projects.

If you would like to propose an intervention targeted at reducing the cost of living in SF, I'll certainly listen though I won't promise I'll agree.
This got downvoted but I think it is essentially the right answer. I don't see how Reddit's success is based on the amazing efficacy of its algorithm. For example, I don't think fixing this bug and using the fixed code to launch a competing site would beat Reddit.

Its success is based on attracting an engaged audience, who participated heavily, in turn attracting a larger audience, whose participation further attracted even more people... etc.

The algorithm may have mattered very early, in the beginning, when it was first attracting people who were evaluating it for the first time. But even then, I think that the content that Reddit's staff continuously posted was a bigger factor than the algorithm.
I agree that it's probably a bit unusual, and likely owes to the fact that all JS functions are variadic and ignore arity mismatches. Ruby's procs behave the same way, though its methods and lambdas are more traditional.
This is a good point, as for atheletes this option is less open to them. And in something like the NFL the career is much shorted that MLB. Only a very few will make concession revenues or have game royalties. Maybe some will become coaches or TV personalities, but that is likely a small number.
All thats baked into the constitution is the right of the National Guard to bear arms.
This is a good example of where something that is fundamentally flawed becomes accepted and popular and then a huge amount of effort goes into rationalizing it.

Which goes to show you that things are the way they are not because that's the way things should be, but just because that's the way things are. Which is a very stupid way to run things, but that is the way our 'society' works.
You refer to the costs of living on the coasts as just the cost of living. Most of America can't make salaries to get by in the Bay Area, so they live elsewhere. That makes living in the Bay Area a luxury good.

Affluence is about how much you can afford relative to the rest of your society. If you're only comparing yourself to San Franciscans and New Yorkers, doesn't that mean you don't consider the flyover Americans your peers? As if there were some large divide in wealth in this country?
I believe they have other, closed source, anti-spam measures. This might be the reason, but if it is 'tis a silly reason. If I understand correctly, it means that if 75% of people like a post, and 25% dislike it, that means it has a 25% chance of not being successful because the first vote is negative. Overall, this measure is effectively lowering the quality of all content on the site.
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In 1996, Barnes and Nobel was flooded with huge volumes like "Learn C in 21 Days" and "Effective Bash Programming." These books had 6-10 authors and were basically printed on newspaper, and were absolutely horrible. These sat next to Computer Shopper and high quality books like K&R and the red book.
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That pretty much describes all literalist interpretations of the Bible. If you want to be shocked and amazed sometime, research End Times theories. It's incredible how much effort goes into "reading it literally".
As an alternative to SQL it's pretty awful (it's explicitly not ACID, for one).

As an alternative to an in-memory cache or (occasionally) a DB de-normalization, on the other hand, it works amazingly well for me.

I see the persistence is basically just a backup that helps your system get back up to speed quickly after a crash or systems' restart. It's not something that should ever be treated as reliable.

I wonder how many people who use it under this or similar use cases have an issue with it.
In my view, the impact of the President's message will not be on those of us who are already teaching our kids programming, but on the kids who live on the other side of the digital divide, and have nobody around them -- parents and even teachers -- who are fully aware of what programming consists of. Many parents think that programming is dangerous.

I agree with the folks who have suggested that something like a semester of C randomly inserted into the existing curriculum will be a waste. Instead, the "every American should learn code" message should stimulate debate about what "code" would actually consist of if applied intelligently to the K-12 curriculum.

How about music class? So much of contemporary music is programmed. Create music in Scratch.

Replace some obsolete math exercises with explorations using spreadsheets or computer algebra software.

Let kids use Scratch to write their own data acquisition programs for science labs, via S4A.
No, they just vanish from the hot page, and it's not necessarily permanent. They're still visible on /new, which allows for upvotes-of-resurrection.
Awesome example!
This is something that is really starting to bother me:
More and more websites are doing this thing (on tabets such as the nexus 7 I'm on now) where they load most of the way in a second or two, and then some loading screen pops up and I have to wait 15-20 more seconds for some god-awful "mobile" paginated monstrosity that is slower and harder to read than the desktop site.

Can we stop that please? Just...stop.
Anyone selling shovels during the gold rush? That is products or services to the models themselves, like schedule optimisation, gadgets, macro responses, leaderboards, third-party sites with monetisation of secondary products and memorabilia, lighting and furnishings for the rooms, etc?
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