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Fair point, you technically can short it, but given there's no mature infrastructure to support and regulate this sort of trade (and Bitcoin is very volatile and illiquid, and a legal grey area), I'm not sure you'd find anyone to do the deal, especially since I think you'd need to short for a very long period to be on the safe side.
Well, if it never bursts (for some definition of "never"), then it's not really a bubble, right? If the claim that something is a bubble isn't testable in some bounded time period, then it's not a meaningful claim.
That sounds like a problem with iOS, not AeroFS.
Others can hopefully chime in with more, but when I first was learning about it, my reaction to the word "hologram" was the same as your (1). My understanding is that when they say "hologram", they're simply meaning an n dimensional object that's encoded in n-1 dimensional space.

If you're not familiar with the basics of the Holographic Principle, start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

It's been a while since I've watched these, but IIRC these are very good videos to start with:

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9tY

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgi6E1ECgo

EDIT:

Key clippings from the wikipedia article-

"But Jacob Bekenstein noted that this leads to a violation of the second law of thermodynamics. If one throws a hot gas with entropy into a black hole, once it crosses the event horizon, the entropy would disappear. The random properties of the gas would no longer be seen once the black hole had absorbed the gas and settled down. The second law can only be salvaged if black holes are in fact random objects, with an enormous entropy whose increase is greater than the entropy carried by the gas.

Bekenstein argued that black holes are maximum entropy objects—that they have more entropy than anything else in the same volume. In a sphere of radius R, the entropy in a relativistic gas increases as the energy increases. The only limit is gravitational; when there is too much energy the gas collapses into a black hole. Bekenstein used this to put an upper bound on the entropy in a region of space, and the bound was proportional to the area of the region. He concluded that the black hole entropy is directly proportional to the __area__ of the event horizon."

(__'s mine)
That's my guess as well.

Fortunately Serviio can transcode on the fly, so it may just be a matter of sorting out the right templates.
> Scala incorporates all the features of JAVA, adds halfway-to-Haskell-FP, OO-FP, XML-DSLs, some other very funky concepts stretching Generics and then...Macros...and probably stuff from JAVA 8. I humbly submit that this mixture is too much for a reasonable brain to handle. Also in the mix goes the backwards compatibility breakages.

Most of the core assumptions here, on which you base your opinion, are not correct.

For instance, Scala removes tons of crazy stuff which plagues Java.

I'm also not sure how one can add Scala's first-class OOP-FP integration as a minus. Have a look at all the other languages which only managed to do that in a lot more terrible way (F#, Java).

Generics as well. Why is the fact that scalac doesn't try and throw obstacles at you when programming with Generics bad? (Have a look at Java or C#, where tons of reasonable code is rejected by the compiler, because those compiler devs were too lazy to implement things properly.)

Same with macros. Have a look at the state of art in Java. It's a terrible mess with various black magic tools and invocations combined with poor IDE and tooling support.

If you can handle Java, I don't see an issue with Scala. Most of the stuff in Java is done in a better, more consistent and better designed way.

> How many concepts can you cram into a semantic that in itself is not sound?

I'm not seeing that at all. Care to explain?

> Scala improved a lot from previous proves that point that it is still "improving" i.e. not a mature platform as yet.

So Java is not mature, too? They are painfully adding mediocre lambda support right now. I'd call a language which was designed with lambdas in mind from the beginning and shipped with them since in 2005 more mature. The language in question is Scala.

> all the language rules that you need to juggle to read a 15 line block of code that can jump between Scala, JAVA, DSL, Generics, operator overloading, etc.

I have never seen that in practice. I often wished code written in other languages would adhere to the standards of code written in Scala. That would make things a lot more readable, maintainable and understandable.

> Is there a standard for the language?

Yes, there is.

> Can I implement core Scala in C?

Yes, why not?

> If I want the power of OO/FP/DSLs/MACROS all in one bundle, I would prefer a reasonable modern Lisp: coherence and maturity being the deciding factor in that choice.

> Maybe Clojure?

Too bad, they are currently trying to add a half-baked static type-system to core. Again, I think a language which shipped with such basic things in mind since 2003 is a lot more mature.
Time is not a fixed cost in both cases. It exists in commuting but not in living closer.
Your cells would age concurrently, depending on the value of GOMAXPROCS.
"It's not even the monetary cost of renting, it's the time cost."

Absolutely. I'd definitely meant for that to be a part of "overhead" but it probably is worth calling out explicitly.
As I wrote, I am open to keep delivery cars. Freight bicycles are also a good possibility for a lot's of stuff, but that's not my main point. My main point would be that cars do suck as a mean of transporting people as soon as you do calculate with external costs to the environment, health and quality of live for people living in the inner city.
The author's premise is not off because it's a continuation of an existing patent. My company does the same thing because its much easier to get a continuation through the patent office than a whole new patent (which will take several years). Shockingly the continuation doesn't even have to be that closely related to the original patent in my experience. So if we have an idea even remotely related we just do a continuation.
Basically, but the numbers are higher than 2 and 3. String theory represents the universe (the projection) as 10-dimensional, for instance.
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You might enjoy "Protocol: how control exists after decentralization" by Galloway.
A lot of it is very similar to this, building on top of Deleuze's "Postscript."
They took two different universe models, neither of which match the one we live in, and mathematically produced the same black holes. The key differentiators being that one universe has gravity and multiple dimensions while the other has no gravity and 1 single dimension.

While the article likes to take a logical leap and assume this supports the theory that our universe is a hologram, what was actually proved by this numerical experiment is eloquently explained in the article's quoting of theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind.

"They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe"

- Leonard Susskind
Will that do anything about preventing "condescending fuckwit" behavior? I'm betting not.
> But here's a testable hypothesis for you: ten years from now a Bitcoin will not be convertible into more than $10, if it's reliably convertible into currency at all.

Indeed that is a testable hypothesis, and one I think will be false.
Curious I went looking and there are a couple of providers that offer this. For instance Bitfinex - https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/features#short

I have zero experience with them so that isn't a recommendation, just someone who does it.
> The fundamental problem of Bitcoin is the massive number that were accumulated when they were cheap. [...] The problem with Bitcoin being a major currency is that the early miners have accumulated large portions of the total share of Bitcoin wealth.

Should (yet another) digital currency be created to address this issue? Imagine if every person on earth was assigned an equal amount of such a digital currency (ignore the infeasibility). Would that be a healthier market?
> It's cool to think that the only requirement for anybody to jump into a Gradle project is to have the JDK installed.

Sounds like a commercial. Many people have good things to say about Gradle's functionality, but too bad about the programming language I have to use with it, i.e. Groovy, at an old 1.x version, with a bloated grammar spec using an old 2.x version of Antlr, i.e. http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk/groovy/groovy-core/src/...

Too bad I can't use a language with a simplified easy-to-remember grammar, like Scala, to program Gradle.

The latest Gradle release notes http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/release-notes always mention both Groovy and Scala when describing how to build projects, but all the build script example code is in that Groovy language. Will Gradle ever expose an API so developers can choose to use the same language for the build scripts as they do for the projects they're building? Perhaps even ship Gradle with different build language options?
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle):

"The holographic principle is a property of quantum gravity and string theories that states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a boundary to the region—preferably a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon. First proposed by Gerard 't Hooft, it was given a precise string-theory interpretation by Leonard Susskind[1] who combined his ideas with previous ones of 't Hooft and Charles Thorn.[1][2] As pointed out by Raphael Bousso,[3] Thorn observed in 1978 that string theory admits a lower-dimensional description in which gravity emerges from it in what would now be called a holographic way.
In a larger sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as a two-dimensional information structure "painted" on the cosmological horizon, such that the three dimensions we observe are only an effective description at macroscopic scales and at low energies."

So the analogy is that the field inside the volume can be completely described by some function over the bounding surface of the volume, similar to how the light field captured by a hologram is projected and recorded on a flat glass or film plane. I can visualize that pretty easily, but I don't know enough to tie that to some concrete relationship to the fundamental physical forces of the universe.
The main answer seems to be `domain squatting'. Obviously this is a definite concern, but couldn't it also be solved by having TLD owners instituting some requirement to the effect of ``if you've owned your domain for over a year but still haven't used it for anything, we're taking it back''?

Of course, that leads to concerns over what qualifies as `using', but I'd imagine something could be worked out.
The garbage collector seemed like a great idea, until now.
> Bubbles are only identifiable after they have popped.

Then it is reasonable for me to call BS when people identify Bitcoin as a bubble.
Gittip is certainly going to help more popular coders at first. But that's true with any platform in its early growth phase.

When Gittip is more well-established, anyone who wants to should be able to put a "Gittip button" on their project page. When Gittip itself has more name recognition, an unknown coder who creates a widely-used project should be able to rapidly pick up meaningful support through Gittip.
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There are some interesting value engineering issues where car parts are designed to fall apart more or less simultaneously at a certain point under normal commuter operating conditions, whereas aircraft are designed to last "forever" more or less.

Its going to be a very strange maintenance challenge. I suspect one will never be totaled by having the heater core rot out after 16 years, like my last car.

You could probably find a car value engineered for long distance taxi/commercial type service. I imagine it would be somewhat different than a normal car, internally, although I don't know enough automotive engineering to tell exactly how.
I think you must have replied to the wrong comment.
I always wanted to have a 3DO back then. Sadly I didn't have the money and they were initially kinda hard to come by in Germany. I loved the concept and idea. Too bad it never amounted to much.
Try the lead essay from Cato Unbound and see what you think. [0] There are a few more good short Shoup pieces linked at the bottom of that page.

I have some personal experience here. I have done training and volunteered as a community organizer and worked with my city council and planning department. I have organized neighborhood groups involved in planning. I have studied urban planning and urban form. Nothing helped me to understand American cities and why they work the way they do more than Dr. Shoup's work in the 1990s that is collected in The High Cost Of Free Parking.

Some of it is gritty and technical econometric research, but a lot of it is creative and insightful. It's not a single narrative, but a fun book to dip into in various places from time to time if you care about how cities work and how urban life can be made better for people.

This short 1997 paper introduced me to Dr. Shoup's work (I read it in 1998) and was like a shining blaze of insight for many readers like me when it first appeared. [1] One key insight is that free parking required by law costs the USA about three times as much as all the money drivers spend on cars and gas plus public subsidies for roads and highways. When you read it, you start to see that parking policy drives urban form much more than zoning or free markets or highway and transit construction or public preferences or anything else at all. A lot of the book is like that.

[0]http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/april-2011/there-aint-no-...

[1 pdf] http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf
Thanks for the tip. I love what the Internet Archive folks are doing, and that's too good of a deal to pass up.
In some areas, rent to medallion holders might end up being the biggest proportion in the final price...
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And here's a nice guide from way back in 2004: http://www.ftpress.com/articles/article.aspx?p=170920

What's interesting is that this chap Ivan Goddard is doing the Mill processor, and that has an interesting company structure; OotB has an agreement to incorporate, and they keep renegotiating it. He explains this in this talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxga49vukQ8
I'm an avid cyclist and motorcyclist. I've gone skydiving and SCUBA diving. Yet some of the most frightening moments in my life have been in the back of San Francisco taxis.

The sooner robots replace taxi drivers, the better. And the taxis will probably still feel gross inside.
> - I'm also not thrilled about the prospect of already-dense cities shrinking streets to one lane. We call them concrete jungles now- can you imagine if all the roads were only 15 feet across? Goodbye, sky.

Streets in downtown Philadelphia are effectively one lane in each direction (one lane is parking) and there is plenty of sky. You just need to manage the setback requirements. This is one of the densest neighborhoods in Philadelphia (~60k people per square mile): https://maps.google.com/maps?q=rittenhouse+square&hl=en&ll=3....
Instead, you could read the 21 page paper with the same title and by the same author.

http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf
Wow, wheres the argument? I guess you are a very rational, thoughtful person compared to naive hippies like me, so why don't you use your skills?
In reality the sheriff saw an opportunity for positive press and went for it. You don't turn down free PR.
Super irrelevant--unless you're trying to say that employees should never strike their options, which is probably not good advice.
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I don't understand this sentiment. You can read as much of any book as you want. I seldom finish books that I start, my finish rate is under 25%. You can get the big picture from about the first 20% of most books, and decide whether you want the in depth followup. If I don't buy the premise, or I'm mostly convinced by the argument and don't care for the details, or just have better things to do with my time, I'll stop reading.

Adopting this approach is very freeing. I don't fear the booklist. I just start stuff, and freely give up on a whim. I can say that at least the first 50 pages of the High Cost of Free Parking is great. Then I got caught up in something else.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313&_...

You probably won't be able to convert them to bitcoins directly though.
Slim chance. No DA is going to take on that cause as it doesn't further their agenda
Oga thanks for Gbedu! I may have just discovered my new source for workout music...I have been using an app I built to make using youtube mega mixes easy to listen to during workout (http://mobile.holoklip.com)

Is there a mobile friendly interface?
If you don't know who owns the company you don't even know who you work for. It might not matter to most people as long as the cheques don't bounce, but if you want to even hallucinate having a meaningful role in the direction of the company it starts to matter. I really don't know what people are willing to disclose to employees but the SEC rule for public companies is a 5% stake or more is disclosed.
I was confused till I read the comment by uncle Al, and that didn't help either. He's talking some science pidgin.
I imagine it would be somewhat different than a normal car

Usually beefier in every regard, more expensive, and less performant. (Power/MPG/etc all directly conflict with durability/longevity) Longer chassis & softer suspension to reduce vibration & impacts. Just think of the Crown Vic. There's a reason it has been the commercial estate car for so long.
If the shares are given after an investment of $1 million, then 0.5% of the company is $5000, just by a conservative evaluation that takes only the investment value into account.

If you think the shares have a guaranteed future value, then the shares are better than the options.

If you think the shares have a guaranteed lack of future value, then the options are free, whereas the shares will cost you.

If you think there is substantial risk that the shares will have no value, then getting options rather than shares mitigates that risk. You only pay for that mitigation if you actually exercise the options, in which case the cost comes off of a big payoff, rather than an upfront payment out of pocket.
With sufficiently good self-driving systems, it is obviously the case that you can safely drive cars more closely together than you can safely do with people. It is not obviously much smaller - you only get to shrink the portion of time it takes the human to react, not everything else involved in stopping or maneuvering the vehicle.
It's On Demand QA as a Service for _WEB APPS_. A pity, us developers of desktop software also need help with QA.
On a day to day basis sure, but over weeks and months, the trend has been positive. As long as you purchase bitcoins well in advance of when you need to spend them, they have historically preformed very well even with all the volatility. Assuming you buy into the idea of network effect creating a positive price feedback loop, it's a reasonable place to stash cash that you may need on short notice or when traveling abroad.

For reference: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg1460ztgSzm1g40...
Fully rational or merely fully informed? That is, a rational voter must first be an informed voter.

But, there is a machine dedicated to disinformation. In the aftermath of Citizens United, we are seeing the rise of dark money to the point where billion dollar campaigns are imminent. Combine that with the consolidation of media, the fall of investigative journalism, and a 24 hour news cycle which has devolved news into infotainment, and it is little wonder that the populace is woefully ignorant. Actually, ignorant is too generous. They are actively misinformed, in that they think they know.

So, I would say no, the current system makes it all but impossible for voters to make rational choices, or even to identify what the real choices are.
Before cars invaded Ahmedabad, India, two wheelers and rickshaws were primary modes of transportation for longer distances. Walking and bicycles were used for shorter distances.. Cars were used on occasions.. Traffic issues were non-existent. People starting using cars as primary mode of transportation because everyone else started doing it.. meaning using two wheelers became less safe, more car traffic, increased pollution effects, etc.

Idea is to go back to using cars as only ocassional mode of transportation and for that one option is govt helps reduce traffic for two wheelers/rickshaws/bicycles.. Dedicated lanes for these would help.
The IRS includes the amortization of the purchase price in their numbers.
If we're all in a Turing machine, Q.E.D.
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I bet you're a real blast at parties, aren't ya?
Who the hell spends 2 hours a day walking?

Healthy people.

My Fitbit defaults to wanting to see 10k steps a day, and 5 miles a day, which is more than 10k steps for my stride. My daily average steps is a bit over 8400 (including jogging for a bit less than 5k twice a week or so), and my average mileage is 3.8. I typically take one walk a day during work, for maybe 1000 steps.
It's a catch-22. In most cities, the bus service sucks, but poor people can't afford anything else, so as a result, busses are full of poor people. In New York and Chicago, busses are clean and well-maintained because they serve higher income people and tourists as well. Manhattan is a place where you're just as likely to sit on a bus next to a guy making $1m+/year as some disheveled homeless dude.
If a cart that can ride only on two metal rods laid on the ground and needs to burn coal to move will become mainstream mode of transportation alongside walking and horse buggy then there's no bubble. If not... you'll have a lots of useless metal rots rusting in the desert.
maybe bump it to two different handouts?
What if you only travel maybe fifty miles by car per month?

If you don't have a car all the time, you don't use it nearly as often. I do not spend anywhere near $20K per year on cab fare, and can't imagine coming even close.
I would be interested to know this as well.
I don't want to argue pointlessly, but while your conclusion may be right, I think your logic makes some leaps. Why is day the natural time scale? No one needs a plane every hour and no one needs a car every hour either. By that time scale, they are the same. Also, everyone needs a plane every year and needs a car every year too. On that time scale they are also the same. Only in a cherry-picked intermediate time scale are they different. :) I think your answer would be improved if you could justify why the daily time scale is most relevant.
I wish there was more information in the article about how it effected conversion rates.

They've created an interesting model here though.. Its basically free or one price, unless you're really big. If you're really big, they ask you to talk with a sales person, but clearly state a starting price (which I've seen few sites with a "contact us" do) to get the ball rolling.
How is that going to solve the blockchain update when you send money or receive money taking forever? People aren't going to want to wait that long for transactions to occur.