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I used to work for BigCorp which had a PAC. Each year they had a campaign to drum up contributions to the PAC. Officers of the company would send emails and make calls, letting everyone know how important it was to contribute to the PAC. The tactics were both carrot and stick. On one phone call I was told that it was important to donate because electing candidates favorable to the company "helped support all of our jobs". On the other hand, the company also would donate money to a charity of our choice for every dollar we gave to the PAC. So not only did they get the PAC funded, they also took a charitable contribution deduction.

The PAC donated certain sums of money to various candidates at the state and federal level each election cycle. Curious, I called the person who ran the PAC and asked how they chose the candidates. He replied simply, "We'll support anyone who will vote consistent with the interests of BigCorp."

And effectively, that's how corporations donate money to political candidates.
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The US is indeed a superpower. The only superpower left after the Soviets collapsed. It's not a big leap to predict how it's going to turn out in the long term without checks and balanced imposed. This is the first step:

the Bush Doctrine that the United States has the right to launch preemptive wars

Unless the American citizenry, along with the western allies, oppose this militant attitude, it's not going to end well - whatever new term you call it.
Firefox actually lets you select a URL and right click to see the normal link options. I assume the addon makes even malformed URLs work though.
Love the sound of his keyboard.
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Understandable given the keming and awkward spacing:

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OK I did that and the result was the above output.

And then still in same truecrypt session I saw my recently used file - while the bookmarking file still was empty.

So closing truecrypt reopening the recently used files list was empty.
So that seems to work. thx

Question for me is, how the hell can a normal process trigger root-owned read only filed to becom overwritten and chowned to normal user? What is GTK magic doing there?? I dont understand the above session! maybe someone can explai that to me?
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Wow, this honestly seems like a terrible idea. Not only do I really not want to get glue everywhere (and also have them loose stickiness over time) but also they look very breakable? I don't understand why I would need that many flash drives either? Generally even now I only use one USB stick for my general stuff. I don't think I could write everything that was on my usb stick on a label like that.

They complain that usb ports are hard to get and instead we should add a sticky surface the transfers data to the bottom of our monitors? Why not just buy a monitor with a few usb ports on it if you really want that? It already exists and is far more useful as it can be used with the wide range of usb products that already exist (phone charger, mouse etc). I can see no advantages that this has over buying a usb stick (unless I'm missing something big?).

Here's my equally pointless take on modern data transfer. We all have phone that store our data. They connect via bluetooth when near to a computer (Much like wifi the first time it pairs with a computer you must enter a pin). It then acts like a usb data storage. And huzzah, never again will you have to reach down and plug something into a usb port! Huzzah, never again will you have all those issues with usb ports wearing out or your usb stick getting knocked out while you were in the middle of a presentation! Never again will you struggle with not knowing which way around a usb stick should go! (This is actually kind of useful I guess?). If they don't have bluetooth then you can just connect your phone with a usb wire (as you will be doing 99% of the time). I'm not sure if it's clear here but my point is that they seem to be solving a problem (and using magic to do so) but no one actually has that problem.
This bit from when I scrolled down, should really be one of the first things on your page:

Clipboard in the Cloud

Belt.io is a central place for storing and sharing simple stuff like text or links. it gives you the convenience of quickly accessing your data from anywhere. It is sorta like a clipboard.. but more universal.. with more control.
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I think that getting a good junior engineer experience is rare and hard unless you start and land in the exact right place. If you attend Stanford or Harvard and your CS professor is a friend of someone VP-level in your company, then you'll still be "junior"-- at market-fair entry-level rates-- but you're going to be groomed to grow quickly and have a lot of freedom to travel the organization as you look for a fit that matches your talents and will enable you to rise quickly. If you're anyone else, your junior programmer years are every-person-for-him/herself and unless you fight hard (and job hop) you will get stuck doing the dreck that no one wants to do, that you don't learn from, and that shits all over your career.

At Google, if you attended Stanford and landed in the Mt. View office (the office being more important than the school) there was, even when I was there, a decent chance of getting a legit SWE-2/SWE-3 experience that would train you to make more of yourself, and make promotions (up to Staff) basically ensured so you could focus your energy on actually learning and becoming a great engineer.
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Watched it for about a minute and got a great quote: "everything sucks about this language".

So yeah,

Everything sucks about Dart.

-notch
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> I don't think democracy rests on voters being "secure" (in the welfare state sense) when they make their decision.

This is a really interesting question/assertion. I lean toward security being necessary for good decision making. For example, people whose time is spent primarily on "getting by" will have far less time and psychological wherewithal to propose new ideas that meet their needs and the group; creative problem solving is less likely[1]. They may be able to voice their opinion on a multiple-choice proposal, however, which could pass as democracy I suppose.

A smaller number of people may have a creative ability that is inversely related to stress--necessity is the mother of invention and all that. But I don't think that is a majority, and perhaps unfortunately, democracy depends on the psychological traits of the majority.

[1] http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/strsbeta.htm
You have to enable javascript to even hear the pitch.

> "sharing simple stuff like text or links"

Not large files (which Dropbox, Mega, and others tackle, but can admittedly still kind of be a pain, no).

We're just talking moving text between devices, kind of like emailing, but with fewer clicks.

I'm not sure which users need this.
i don't see anything other than poker
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If it leaves or doesn't leave Google servers we can't really know but the facts are:
-Google has this information
-They are marketing company with incentives to monetize it

Imo it's enough to be a bad thing. We can't rely on good will of companies to fight incentives and money in the name of privacy of their users.
Are you gonna learn about dating by reading romantic novels or real life stories?

I contend that you'd learn an awful lot more about love and relationships from a novel like Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina, than you ever will from 'non-fiction' like The Game (which you've mentioned up-thread).

Drawing a clear distinction between fiction and non-fiction is in my opinion pointless - you can tell any story you like by using selected facts, you can tell multiple stories with the same facts, and people often do twist the truth when reminiscing and celebrating the past, or present the truth from a very limited, insular point of view in so-called non-fiction books. So in this sense I see non-fiction as very similar to fiction; it's used to tell stories, to present the world as the author sees it, and to educate and entertain. All of these functions are performed by both fiction and non-fiction, and in both cases we're trusting the author to tell us something about the world from their perspective.

The best stories (be they memories of a real-world event, or imagined events based on life experience) transcend the particular and become lessons about human behaviour and life.
What does Java have to do with what I said? His current web project wasn't going to be written in Java. Why bring it up?
The Soviets put a rover on the moon 40 years ago. What exactly is front page material about China doing it now?

However, it is being reported in the US. CNN has it, ABCNews has it, it's the big headline on Drudge, The Washington Post has it as one of their top world headlines. Every major media source will have it under their 'latest' section in the coming hours.
There are plenty of interesting things to be said about the United States and its similarities (and differences) to totalitarian regimes of the past. I don't think we should point to Wikipedia as the authority on this matter, but it is perfectly okay to go to the primary sources for insight in this. These are recent historical developments, and the questions are covered in so much controversy that it is difficult to find unbiased commentary.

As I have said before, there are plenty of really worrying developments in the theory and execution of power in the United States. When I say worrying, I mean worrying in the sense that they remind closely of things that totalitarian regimes have done in the past. We shouldn't be distracted too much by history when analyzing contemporary events - "History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

The list, which you can compile by simply reading the news, is quite long: Warrantless dragnet surveillance, world record incarceration rate, selective enforcement and prosecution of unclear and conflicting criminal law, lifetime incarceration for non-violent crimes, utilization of paramilitary forces (SWAT teams) against non-violent offenders, plea bargains as a tool for simplifying prosecution under the threat of lifetime sentencing, indefinite detainment and incarceration with no judicial oversight (Guantanamo), extrajudicial execution of citizens (drone strikes), limitations on free speech during peaceful protests, systematic prosecution of whistleblowers.

These are just some issues which are interesting to discuss. I am an outsider, and I believe the things I have quoted are facts which have very small political bias in the interpretation. The United States' deadlocked political system and prosecutors' role in the execution of power is also worthy of discussion, although it is harder to discuss this without taking a particular political view.
NASA Completion of the COTS program here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjpIv4B1W-g , worth a watch if you're interested in this
Well that escalated quickly!

Note: previous post was later radically altered.

It's a lot less effort than the all the time and energy Scott Adams puts into his sock puppetry, so why not?

Just because something takes a lot less time to do than something else, doesn't mean it's not ridiculous or awful.

Why aren't you also criticizing his sock puppets for being so devoted to the cause of praising him and calling everyone who doesn't agree an idiot?

a. He never called anyone an idiot.

b. He's not emotionally invested in the issue like you are.

Obviously a lot of people here don't know what a douchebag he is.

Thank you for providing evidence in an attempt to back up your beliefs. What a pity you have to use such aggressive and insulting terms for someone who holds different views to your own.

Do you agree he's a douchebag, or do you beg to differ, agree with him, and do you care to justify and explain his well documented behavior and opinions?

It's possible to answer "no" to every one of these questions. Let's break this down:

Do you agree he's a douchebag?

No. He has different opinions.

[D]o you... agree with him?

No.

[D]o you care to justify and explain his well documented behavior and opinions?

No.
It is really a great way of starting a business online. But,amazon is the only source for income or do you have any other sites from where you are getting more referrals (less than amazon.com)
It's coming but robotics has a major obstacle: transferring power to locomotion. Ideally, we'd have something like a synthetic muscle that converts electricity to work. Instead we have all sorts of servo/hydraulics based actuators. Because of this robotics have a problem with elegant design (anything that doesn't run on wheels) and power/autonomy.

There are advances out there, but as long as one can't buy a strand of synthetic muscle for a few dollars it's not going to progress that much.
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Being wrong on uninformed about a particular subject is not a personal failing. Being wrong publicly is the first step to becoming right, and as a byproduct helps those who are wrong in the same way (often many) but not brave enough to speak. Criticizing and silencing people is only going to result in less informed people.
I'd be more excited about getting people to Mars, and so would presumably many other - and it'd provide much more advances and gains than building a pyramid.
The comment you originally replied to was pointing out that Notch usually writes in Java.
The 5% and higher rewards programs you mentioned may not even disappear. The CC companies are already losing money on them because the interchange fees are closer to 2% for Visa/MC and maybe 3% for Amex. The expectation, of course, is that a significant percentage of consumers will end up paying interest which will make up the lost profit. Considering how long such programs have been operating, I assume this is true and it's profitable.

I'm a bit torn on the interchange rate argument altogether. Here's how I see it:

- From a merchant's PoV, the service credit cards offer to them is "customers can purchase something now for up to $XXXX (or higher), the merchant will get paid and won't have to worry about credit risk."

- On one hand, you have your "essentials" merchants, such as grocery stores. Such merchants sell products that consumers would be purchasing no matter what, whether they pay via CC, check or cash. They aren't getting much value for that interchange fee.

- On the other hand, you have more luxury merchants. Think along the lines of Apple. How many $2000 computers does Apple sell simply because of the pay-over-time ability? I'm willing to bet it's a decent amount. Obviously, merchants like that are receiving a lot more value from the credit card system.

I think the fairest way of doing this would be to classify merchants into those two categories. Even doing that can be difficult, though, because what is "luxury"? For example, is McDonald's "luxury"? IMO, the best answer would be "does the merchant actually benefit from customers being able to pay over time?" Going by that definition, McDonald's doesn't - nobody buys a burger and expects to pay for it over time, even though McDonald's may be considered by some to be a luxury for a less-than-middle-class person.

Finally, you have the issue of coming up with a fair rate. It's not fair to directly compare with cash and checks because those have their own expenses too. Counterfeit cash, bounced checks, and the expense of processing both, not to mention having cash on hand is a robbery risk. Also, cash does have "processing" costs - someone has to deposit that in a bank usually every day, and for larger stores that would normally be an armored car service which costs money.

Here's my take on fair rates: Capital One has a Visa CC that offers 1.5% cashback on all purchases with no limits. (That's the highest rate I'm aware of for Visa/MC besides the "loss leader" category rewards or promos.) Obviously the rates are currently high enough for that. Going by the current rates being in the 1.6%-2% area, it would seem 0.3-0.5% should be a fair enough rate to adequately cover the CC companies operating costs, make a fair (not exorbitant) profit, etc.

Now, should there be a premium over that for "luxury" merchants? Debatable. And so is the issue of what it should be.
Dutch too, here. And we can elect local representatives. Multiple layers of "local" even. We elect the city council, we elect a province council and we elect a national parliaments. All three have actual power and make actual, practical differences.

What we cannot elect, is the mayor, or the head of the province. Both are placed by the King.

The problem in the Netherlands is not that we cannot elect local representatives, as that is simply false: we can.

The problem is that we are not a pure democracy like a republic would be, but that the head of the state, with actual political power, is Elected By God. Not the people.
The point is you're not starting the company to actually succeed. You're just starting it to list something besides unemployment on your resume and hence get a real job.

> Priceless Career Advice.
The vast majority of Americans even pre-ACA had either government-provided insurance or employer group insurance, neither of which would lead to "unexpected hospital bills". Even the existing private insurance market was pretty reliable here ("rescission" was vanishingly rare).

So I'm curious how you came up with "most Americans".
> But I assume that if that is important to someone, I don't see a reason for that person not to be candid about it.

Being candid about something usually isn't the best way to accomplish your goal. If your goal is to make a sale, and you communicate with them in a way that is too different than what they're used to, you simply won't hear back. Forget ever getting a sale if they won't even talk to you. Understanding how people perceive your communications, and using that to your advantage is an important life skill.
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In most cases I would be horrified that my job is being portrayed in a movie, as in almost all cases it will be highly unrealistic.
"The director of" is misleading, it is a director (there are at least two higher positions: VP and SVP).
This looks awesome.

Does this come with the bedhead & frame, by any chance, or is it just the mattress?

If it is just the mattress, where can we get the bedhead & stand shown in the images on your website?

I love that you are taking on a stuffy old industry.
How should this political theory be presented, in your mind?
Thanks Kevin (just followed you on twitter btw). The negative signal is what I'm worried about.

In your experience, do you think I have a chance of successfully counter balancing that with the fact that I've already committed a large amount of my own money, built a fully functioning MVP and have a team ready to go? i.e. this is well beyond the pipe dream and fancy power point presentation stage.
Hmmm. I guess the question is why he chose Dart over JavaScript for the web? He must have had another reason for going with the web other than to try something different than Java.
It's not all roses pre-1940. I live in a house built in 1880. Some of the brick used in the foundation is of pretty low quality. So much so that their cores seem to be nothing more than compacted brick dust.
Funnily enough he was referring to the fact that doubles are proper nullable objects, the inverse of a common reason for people saying that Java sucks.
The George W. Bush administration was hardly the first to act according to that point of view. Just about every country that has held significant power has at some point fought wars of aggression.
phones have seriously limited space. 16 or 32 gigabytes won't even hold one uncompressed movie that you need for work. With everything moving to remote servers, streaming etc, I don't see that changing sadly.
Working on this new project SWEAT ME.
PROBLEM: a group of people want to find the best fitness classes to take and share the class / time / type of class with friends. I am working on an MVP to make this using FB login / bootstrap 3 / backbone js. It is for a group of 100 people and all these people work for a company. Hopefully i want to show the company and at some point have them endorse the app and use the user data to make better products. I am pursuing 3/4 luxury health clubs for their class schedules.
Well, it adds another opportunity for a chatty API to add latency.
Covers are great (I have and use one) because they keep sweat and dirt out (which kill mattresses the fastest) but they do not prevent the mattress itself from deteriorating due to constant weight.
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"The question that needs answered though is who is liable for non working software?"

Valve are. As a matter of law, any seller is responsible for selling a working product. If Valve claim otherwise, they're lying, and probably breaking the law in doing so.
Thanks for the Revel/Express comparison, do you have any links to support that claim?
Congratulations, pikachu_is_cool, you are now a blip on the NSA radar.
As a C# dev without a real project for the iPhone, I couldn't get past how cluttered the same code looked.

It would be nice to hear how the class library compared to VCL.
It sounds like we have the same background - I'd recommend getting into microcontroller programming with a platform like Arduino, and maybe look into some computer vision libraries (OpenCV is great).
So things are much more sinister than I had originally believed, and this does explain why the US is not genuinely worried about the national debt!
I was not aware of all the controversy. I just happen to watch PBS. But I've come to realize that I shouldn't lead with the potential worst aspects of people. Or qualify everyone I like with "but I don't agree with X". It's burdensome.
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