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I think you should'nt ask people to downvote that is against the etiquette

I would say that's correct. That doesn't mean I don't feel just the same as the parent, though. It seems about half the posts from transitionality that I've seen on the page so far are shameless attacks. It's blatant enough that I'm actually considering whether it's a performance piece trying to make a point about harassment (but which side the point is supposed to be on is unclear, as it could just be very poorly thought out).

In either case, I don't think it has any place on this site.
While I think this idea is interesting I can't see it happening in our lifetimes.
> I agree that the physical use of gold does not explain its price by itself.

Gold was around production costs ($250) before the "general commodity bull-run 2001-2011" and is now back at around production costs (nowadays roughly around $11xx - $12xx, many opinions about this and different ways to quantify but production costs are in this range these days, no longer in the low hundreds as 12 years ago).
How much of that trust fund was invested into Microsoft, and how much of it did he receive prior to becoming a self-made billionaire?

As though a person should be disqualified of their own accomplishments because of their circumstances at birth; as though a person has a choice where and when they're born. I can think of few notions more evil than that, whether applied to the rich or the poor. By your theory, a poor person is never self-made either, after all it was their impoverished circumstances that made them successful, not their own work ethic. It was the poverty that motivated them, drove them, and lifted them up; after all, the poor person had nothing to lose and everything to gain! It is thus there are supposedly no self-made persons anywhere (welcome to collectivism, where there is no individual achievement, only borg achievement).

Did that trust fund keep him comfy during those hard Albuquerque days, struggling to get Microsoft off the ground, pay the bills, pay the employees, while living out of a roach motel working 20 hour days and living on soda and pizza? My, what a glamorous lifestyle a trust fund delivers.

I guess Paul Allen isn't self-made either, because it was Bill's trust fund that was responsible for Microsoft. Whoops, you just robbed every self-made Microsoft employee of their credit.

Did that trust fund make him work harder? It should have made him work less hard.

Did that trust fund give him ambition? It should have made him slouch around, after all, what worries could he have? Why strain yourself so much if you're already rich from birth.

Did that trust fund make him spend his youth writing software, selling software, evangelizing software? Surely sitting on a beach drinking a nice beverage is more fun than that.

Bill Gates is self-made by the only definition that matters: he earned his wealth of his own ability, effort and self-motivation.

Does everyone with a million dollar trust fund automatically acquire an 12 figure net fortune? There are over nine million millionaires in the United States today. Lucky for them they all get to be automatic, non-self-made billionaires.

The truth is, Gates didn't need that trust fund - which he never used to begin with. It didn't create Microsoft, didn't seed Microsoft, didn't do any of the work, didn't make any of the decisions, didn't negotiate any of the deals, didn't hire any of the employees, and didn't pay any of the bills, and didn't do all of that successfully for three decades without destroying it all.
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Does anyone know on average how much is the financial assistance?
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Well, you need to be prepared for such things when you want to play politics. In some places you can be beaten by police, in 'more democratic' countries you'll be thrown into legal repression machine.
The American flag has changed 26 times since 1777, the most recently in 1960 when Hawaii's star was added. There are many challenges to breaking up California, "changing the American Flag" is one of the less significant changes.
Like the others, I'm really enjoying these posts. She seems to have a healthy curiousity for how things work, and a nice low level focus. This seems so rare these days.

But I have a suggestion.

Instead of writing your own kernel, what about stripping down someone else's? I imagine their would be great value, not to mention great fun, in reducing the size of, say, the Linux kernel, taking out things that are not absolutely necessary.

As Professor McIlroy, the man behind pipes and tr, I believe once said, "The hero is the negative coder." What that means is it's not the coder who adds features that is a hero. It is the one who fixes bugs and removes unneeded code.

I know someone, who is probably one of the best C coders alive today, who has asked for a Linux kernel under 200K. Wanna be a hero? Reduce the size of a large executable, e.g., a kernel. It's a challenge and a worthy goal.
I'll go you one further, Mr. Draper: California should be split up into six countries.

The plain fact is that the notion of "consent of the governed" is preposterous in any culturally diverse environment of more than a few million people.

Reasonable people wish to live differently, with different forms and amounts of government, religion, social norms, etc. So be it.
This isn't true. In the posted numbers, there aren't any major discrepancies between people doing the same job. But imagine if you saw two programmers with roughly the same background and experience with a $20k+ difference in salary. The reason you don't see that is precisely because the salaries are public.

Your error is assuming that the same formula would be used if the salaries weren't public. The employer is forced to use a simple, consistent formula. They would be under no such pressure if all salaries were secret.
Lets hope something like this won't happen again.
I always knew it as your "bus number": how many engineers could get hit by a bus before your project ground to a halt.
Interesting way for a 3rd party observer to get an idea of what was going on. It's nice that it was handled relatively well.
I have been on the fence for a couple months. I am moving to a post only reader.
> We would have to change the American flag.

We've changed the flag dozens of times in our history...there's plenty of reasons California won't be getting split into smaller states but this isn't one of them.
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Now it would be interesting to see the request to compliance ratio as a function of time.... would be kinda cool if it stayed constant.
Python dev here. If I had my way, I would use tabs for indentation and spaces for everything else. However, the general convention now is to use 2-4 spaces for indentation, and that's what I'm using.
You have to design mainly for high-level play; otherwise you get a game that people try, maybe play a few times, but that nobody sticks with long enough to cycle around to evangelizing it and training the next generation in it.

For a flash-in-the-pan iOS game title, that might be okay, but if you're actually trying to reinvent something like chess--something with hundreds of generations of people who have come into a thriving "chess culture" and added their own contributions to it--then you have to aim high.
BofA sort of did that when I was there; important projects at 42nd/6th, most everyone else, downtown at WFC. (They also had an "offshore" office in Chicago, where I worked. Loved that term.)

Downtown is not quite New Jersey, but Midtown certainly seems to be the hotness these days.
The only real reason - money. I'm not going to attempt to debate this because will go off into a hundred different ways, but it's pretty clear the motivation is simply about money and nothing else.

Note - I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with whether or not it's a good idea.
See also: Jefferson (proposed Pacific state) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_st...

edit: oh, Jefferson is actually the name of the proposed northern state.
I did enjoy the thought experiment. It's just funny that it sounds similar to Gov. Rick Perry saying "Texas will secede"
For those interested in this sort of thing, Julia's Gadfly can also use D3 as a backend: https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl (although to be fair gadfly has more in common with ggplot than matplotlib)
Bingo!

I use NoScript (most sites disabled) with Firefox. I also clear everything whenever Firefox closes. I exit Firefox quite often. So the best way to track me would be using IP address. And if they don't use those very often, then ... no problem!

I'm not sure why more people don't do this. On any newer computer and decent broadband connection, Firefox startup is almost instant, even if cache cleared, etc. There's very little penalty for restarts, even between individual websites. Certainly easy to do in the scenario in the article, i.e. between visits to online retailers.

About my only reason to trust Chrome for browsing is for the built-in Flash, which St. Steven wisely eschewed. So I only switch to Chrome when I absolutely want to view some silly video in Flash. Which isn't very often.

Maybe another way to deal with this is to set up some sort of Squid-like proxy on a firewall computer?
The only reason California is so diverse is because of immigration, and so while what you say makes sense, it would change nothing in the long run unless it was accompanied by stricter immigration restrictions.

Otherwise these 6 new countries would soon be just as diverse as California is now.
Seems that there should be a purpose to the specific attributes of the architecture. Pixar has a pretty unique space as well. One design goal was minimizing the distance to any other person or place, while maintaining a central courtyard where chance encounters can lead to serendipitous discussions and keep the exchange of ideas flowing. There may be something to the ring shape for Apple's HQ. Minimize distance to places and people while maintaining the central courtyard.

What are the design goals of Facebook and Google? And LinkedIn for that matter.
> It is about time California was properly represented with Senators in Washington. Now our number of Senators per person will be about average.

On the other hand, California gains an enormous amount of power every four years due to the huge number of electoral college votes it commands. No other single state has anything like California's 55 electoral votes; the next closest is Texas, which has just 38.

In other words, California, all by itself, gets a candidate 20% of the way to the magic 270 votes needed to win the Presidency. This makes it very hard for any serious candidate to ignore or otherwise bypass.

Splitting California up would dilute this power, allowing candidates to write off parts it more easily. It would be interesting to take the 2012 election results and map them to Draper's proposed new states to see how those "states" would have voted, had they existed then.
All of you that want to "disrupt" (I loathe that word) should just buy a boat and carry on without the rules and regulations. Uber could be a venture-funded startup and Transportation Network Company based in San Francisco, California that makes a mobile application that connects passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing services on a boat.
These are living room PCs and consoles.
Heh, they're not exactly _IGNORING_ customers. They're using them as milking cows.
I, for one, am glad California has still has some less liberal areas to keep it in line.
UPDATE 2: Still waiting to receive two missing bitcoins that were purchased on December 11 and promised delivery for December 17. I mentioned the issue to them days ago and it's still hasn't even been acknowledged. Sent them a message this morning and again right now.

Coinbase has been kind enough to resolve the issue with 10 bitcoins being delivered nearly a week late. But I'm not sure why 2 bitcoins disappeared from my account and they have yet to acknowledge the issue.
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I dont get why 5 is a reason. I can currently move freely all over California and the rest of the US. How would splitting California up make movement between these areas any more free?
Each new country, of course, would be able to set their immigration restrictions and loosely or as tightly as they wished. And, hey, this might actually reflect the preferences of their citizens rather than the preferences of some remote elites.

It's crazy talk, I know.
> On the other hand, California gains an enormous amount of power every four years due to the huge number of electoral college votes it commands.

Since it consistently goes blue, national campaigns use California for token speeches, mainly for fundraising purposes in Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
Conversely, has anyone currently working in an IT position had to deal with physicians? What was the context? What skills did you wish the physician had? What made it easy or difficult to collaborate on a project?
> The plain fact is that the notion of "consent of the governed" is preposterous in any culturally diverse environment of more than a few million people.

Why place the arbitrary line around a few million? It never made much sense to me to apply it to anything more than an individual.
Your sentence doesn't even parse. I have no idea what you're saying.
Isn't the point of the Senate not to be proportional to people (like the House is, roughly)? Otherwise why have two distinct legislative bodies?
>The only reason California is so diverse is because of immigration

I hope you're including immigration from the Midwest, the South, the tons of immigration from the East Coast etc. in the immigration you want to restrict.

California used to be part of Mexico, so nothing from that border could be making California any more diverse.
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The article is basically irrelevant. Someone said intelligence agencies select "primarily for loyalty, not critical thinking." Someone else wondered how this can be known. You said because they like to hire Mormons. (Maybe you didn't mean "because", but I can't imagine any other implied connection between the post you replied to and your own.)

See why it's offensive? at least without well-cited statistics demonstrating that many Mormons are more loyal than average and will not think critically if following an authority figure? It's like someone said banks value greed, and you answered "Yeah, because I read an article that they prefer to hire Jews." I don't know, maybe I'm reading too much into your post.

In context, you were taking it as read that Mormons are known "primarily for loyalty, not critical thinking" (not your quote, but from grandparent post) and assuming that is the only conceivable reason a government agency could want to have them. I doubt that a well-written article you read used that kind of presumptuous, circular logic. It probably just said intelligence agencies like to hire Mormons.
Nah, I got a handle on that a while ago. I know my skills and I know myself, it's just sobering to see so many of my motivations and behaviours described accurately. If I was convinced these programmer aspects were entirely negative, I would've succumbed to the debilitating effects of impostor syndrome years ago.
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Top of the boring machine is 60 ft from the surface, but it's 60 ft high so bottom of it is 120 ft. That's 120/33 = 3.6 atmospheres in the ocean, and my reading of the article above is that it may even be higher here due to groundwater pressure. Anyway, you need decompression at anything over 1 atmosphere given enough time as I recall?

Edit: fascinating machine. So yes, it maintains pressure in front of the drill head to resist ground and water pressure.

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A friend had never seen _2001_, so we watched it just last night. As I read I thought I heard Haywood Floyd's saying, "Its origin and purpose are still a total mystery."
Simply because the line has to be drawn somewhere, and a few million looks right when you squint at it. It might be higher for culturally homogenous societies, such as Japan or Norway. It might be lower for smaller groups.

The unfortunate reality is that, as social animals, other peoples behavior has a dramatic effect on us. Since I have met many people of good will who wish to live in dramatically different social configurations, my best solution is lots of small countries with varying social configurations.
That blue-ness is a relatively recent phenomenon, though. California went for Reagan in '80 and '84, and for Bush Sr. in '88. Bush Jr. lost it in 2000 and 2004, but he didn't get his doors blown off either; both Gore and Kerry came in at just around 53% of the vote.

Given the demographic trends I think CA is likely to tilt blue in the immediate future, but it's not an immutable law of nature that it's a safe Democratic pickup.
Would California's perpetual budget problems be better solved by localizing the resources of a state government to be more accessible? Probably. Clearly California is (and has been for a long time) too big for its shoes, as evidenced by its complete idiocy when it comes to passing budgets that do what they're supposed to do. But, six states might be pushing things a bit. Economies of scale that can be had at a state level shouldn't be discounted entirely.

It would be interesting to see what would happen with things like:

- state income tax (WA, for example, has none);
- sales tax (OR, for example, has none);
- minimum wage;
- driver's license expiration periods (AZ only makes you visit the DMV once every 12 years to get a new pic & check vision)
- gambling laws (because Nevada's not quite close enough for some people);
- fruit checkpoints at the state line(s);
- all the case law RE: California Supreme Court rulings -- opening this up for new precedents would be madness
Would you? Is the flag constitutionally required to match the number of states?
> A secret subterranean heart, tinged with mystery and myth, beats beneath the streets in many of the world’s great cities.... Now Seattle, at least for now, has joined that exclusive club.

That lead is funny in light of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
Oh it does not. If you're not a swing state or close to it, you are irrelevant. Really, this analysis could not be further off the mark.
Been thinking about this all day at work. I drive by but I never stop.

I'll be heading to the folks place for Christmas next week. I think I'll drop off some flowers on the way.
Yeah, California only matters for primaries, and for fundraisers.
What federal approval would be needed for this?

It would be interesting if California added some regional government level between state and county, then devolved almost all state power to that level, in advance of any formal breakup.
Bah. There are hundreds of chess variants, to name yours chess 2 is extreme misplaced arrogance. And more than likely it has a dominant strategy and is flawed.
Splitting CA into 2 different states (3 at most) would be more realistic but 6 is just over doing it. It feels like micro-fragmentation (see Europe).

The author is terrible at selling the idea. Where's the data? Where's the maps showing political segregation and population? Why don't they talk about how CA has terrible public schools, a massive jail population, and inefficient public transportation? And how splitting it up into separate states would allow different and unique ideas to compete and be tried instead of one set of rules being forced on an entire state of 38 million people.
Maybe you should look into the Ouya[1] as well.

1: https://www.ouya.tv/develop/
If all Bill Gates had ever accomplished is that he inherited a million dollar trust fund - if that's all his life had amounted to, living off of that fund, growing that fund - then your argument would have merit. As it is, your argument is about as far away from meritorious as one can be. Your argument attempts to rob Gates of his accomplishment due to the conditions of his birth, it's an extremely dark argument that if applied to the human race would mean that nobody ever deserves individual credit for anything.
The trouble with this is the state of the law and the power dynamics in play. It's almost impossible to prove that charges were "absurdly trumped up" because there are so many outrageously broad felonies on the books and prosecutors are clever enough to choose ones that at least vaguely resemble what the defendants were actually doing. Meanwhile you have to protect prosecutors who attempt to prosecute politically powerful defendants from the defendants using their political power to retaliate against the prosecutor. Which means that prosecutors have a lot of discretion and bar associations, while theoretically capable of taking action, generally won't.

At the end of the day it's the "who watches the watchers" problem. Prosecutors are the ones supposed to be prosecuting misconduct. Who are we going to get to prosecute them, and how is it we can trust them to do it when they ought to and not when they ought not to, any more than we can trust the original prosecutors?

The answer has to be in taking away the ability to abuse the law by taking away the broad prohibitions with high penalties that prosecutors are so fond of abusing. There is no call for a non-violent offender to be made a felon in any but the most exceptional and rare of cases, which means that the law should make it nearly impossible for a prosecutor to make that case. It is not necessary to use the penal system to destroy the life of everyone who makes a wrong decision; particularly when structuring things that way also allows it to destroy the lives of everyone who makes a reasoned decision to resist the status quo.
It seems they are under water!

They probably have an airlock behind the machine since I doubt the drill head itself is air tight against the walls.

Any bore holes would have to be water proof, or at least pressurized to keep them from filling up.
Your right to free speech begins and ends with speech. You have a right to call for marijuana legalization, but if marijuana is illegal and you light up a joint in front of a cop, then yes he can arrest you and this is no violation of your free speech rights. Correspondingly, your right to free speech, right here and right now, is naturally pre-empted when you have no legal right to even be in the country. From the perspective of the US government, you are perfectly free to exercise your opinion about immigration reform from outside of the borders of the USA. The fact that this is obviously less desirable from the point of view of the illegal alien is basically irrelevant to what they have a "right" to do.

What you are talking about is civil disobedience, but you don't seem to understand how that works either. Civil disobedience is knowing something is against the law, and doing it anyway as an act of political resistance to motivate change in the system. Even then, you accept that an act is illegal and that you are breaking that law, rather than just blanket argument that anybody who is actively protesting a law should be allowed to break it without legal consequences because they disagree with it. I get it, you're for immigration reform so you think it's a stupid law and you don't care if they break it. But I'm arguing from the standpoint of a general legal principle.
The big difference is that the new console is made and marketed by a multi billion dollar gaming company with the largest games marketplace for desktop operating systems. I kinda hope they succeed in turning Linux into the goto OS for gaming...