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> Time to go all-in if you haven't already...

If every possible outcome confirms your hypothesis, you are not considering the evidence properly. If China hadn't moved against Bitcoin, would you think that would make Bitcoin a less attractive speculation?
This is cute - although I suspect every single country could list off a range of crazy laws and social norms which evolved over the years.

In the UK you can...
* Drive, pay taxes, join the army, and have children - but can't be trusted with the vote.

* Become an MP even if you lose the popular vote.

* Have sex when you're 16, but you can't look at pictures of people like you doing it.

* Go shopping on a Sunday - although the shop won't sell you anything until an hour after opening.

* Have to apply for university before you know your exam results.

* Cannot copy your CD onto your MP3 player legally.

* Send soldiers off to war, but have a charity pay for their care when they get home.

I'd love to know what bizarre things happen in other countries.
From my previous encounters with China related requirements their main policy seems to be 'our data never leaves the country.'

It's an interestingly prescient decision with the Snowden revelations as a backdrop.

If that was really the original motivation for China's policies then Amazon's US ties could spell trouble in the long run though.
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the big problem here is that apple gets to decide what hardware can and cant be updated. The nice thing about linux and some not locked down android devices is that someone in the community can generally back port to older hardware if the device manufacturer didn't bother to do it themselves.
This consist of generating links to specific content.
Useful for quoting etc.
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Sorry for the overly harsh comment. I was busy and didn't get a chance to look at it in depth, but the reserved keywords hack was the first thing that caught my eye.

Now that I've overviewed the framework, it's actually pretty nice. I'm a big fan of the way you've bolstered privates and constants with runtime checks in there. Pretty sweet :-)
axiom is a horrible word, as is postulate imo. i've always preferred the common man friendly 'assumption' - its honest, straightforward and doesn't obscure anything.

mathematicians have a fantastic talent for complicating language...
There's OpenBSD Foundation, which is non-profit but not tax-deductible apparently: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
Now I can finally launch my online backup service which stores each piece of customer data as a random number in the US, and an XOR of that random number and the actual data in China.
If you want to protect yourself against USD depreciation, buy Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS). Ultra safe, ultra boring.

But why would you want to? Inflation is bad if you have lots of money but no (prospects of) income. Retirees for instance. Most of you are in the opposite situation.
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I'm not OP, but I think it has got to be the white MacBook with the Intel X3100 graphics. Out of interest, I bought my wife the first aluminium MacBook that would have been released on the same day as his laptop, and that does support Mavericks (because it has Nvidia 9400M graphics, which the next year's white MacBook then also got).

It's a shame those old white Macs (including white C2D iMacs) don't support Mavericks, because they are 64-bit capable and generally still reasonable machines. But support has to stop somewhere, I guess, and I wouldn't like to be the person writing the 64-bit firmware and drivers for those machines, 6 years later. Also, most of them have got dodgy GPUs thanks to a combination of poor Nvidia parts and all-in-one/ultra-slim designs that got clogged up with dust.

FWIW, if you're programming for the AppStore (i.e, using these as a professional tool), 5 years of life out of a laptop is actually pretty good (IMVHO). I get at least three years of use out of my Macs (currently on a Nov 2010 MBA) before I start thinking about upgrading/replacing, but that's still going strong.
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I find the odds on this a lot more favorable then a casino in Vegas.
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A quote from Elon Musk: "The amount of information equality that exists in the world is unbelievable, as a result of the Internet. It's really phenomenal because - if you go back, say, 30 years ago, and say well, the President of the United States probably had the most access to information of any person on Earth but today, if you have access to the Internet, you've got access to more information than the President of the United States had 30 years ago. You have access to all the world's information. You can go on Google and search for any book, any scholarly work. Ya know, Wikipedia's actually pretty damn good. It's like 90% accurate. It's just not clear what 90%. But, it's really incredible what you can learn, and how connected you can be to people all around the world."
The article is a rather short piece and doesn't seem to have much in the way of new contributions.

I think it might be more fair to generalize the phenomenon that Engineers generally dislike MBAs in a multitude of situations.
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That goes without saying. If you want it safe keep it in a bank where inflation will most likely slowly devalue it.

There's not a lot of options it's either risk it or watch your money slowly rot away.
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Can't speak to GP, but my car loan interest rate is below the annual return on my mutual funds for the past several years. Depending on the deal you can get on your interest rates it can make sense (1.49% APR, after the 3 years I'll have paid less than 1 extra car payment as interest, or 1/36th the value of the loan as interest; any fund that rode out this recent stock market increase well will easily beat that).
> "Cannot copy your CD onto your MP3 player legally."

Not strictly true anymore[1].

Additionally, I think that having a higher age of consent for appearing in pornography than simply of having sex is entirely reasonable. You may have been referring to legal ability to buy pornography, and maybe that's a fair criticism, but you phrased it such that the person depicted was under 18, which is more morally problematic.

[1] http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a446817/uk-law-change-... << please note, I can't find a better source than this. the Daily Fail and the BBC both ran articles when the intention to make the change was announced, but don't seem to have followed up when it was enacted a year later.
The opinion I have of my own country, I admit, is overly critical, however all I stated here is mostly "objective" facts (as far as objective I can be, which is still biased).

And yes, if you travel in the north-center as a tourist you're probably going to see a more sunny side of Italy. As somebody who lives in the country, however, it's far too easy to see everything in a negative light. Especially in the south where these common infrastructures are often missing, broken or very uncomfortable (speaking about trains of course)
An investment is productive - buying a share in a company allows that company to increase production, which should increase their profit.

Lending money to a company allows that company to invest, and increase their profits.

Buying BTC is nothing like that. It's speculation - hoping that the price will go up, nothing more.
Any clue on when will the final version come out?
> A couple of 20 year olds can’t legally drink a glass of champaign at their wedding

In most states this is not true, I believe. They cannot PURCHASE alcoholic beverages, but only 14 states ban general underage consumption of alcohol. The rest either do not restrict it, or have exceptions for family events and/or non-public consumption.
It's worth noting that this problem can be flipped the other way around: you get to hear a lot of tech guys trying to "disrupt" industries they know nothing about. The only reason why they don't sound like total jerks is because now coding is cool, when coding won't be cool anymore they will be considered jerks too.
> Go shopping on a Sunday - although the shop won't sell you anything until an hour after opening.

Does that apply to any specific shops? I don't shop that early on Sundays, but I don't think I've ever seen this applied.
See also Google SiteBricks
http://sitebricks.org/#home
You just gave me an example of a loop. In what circumstances do you find it convenient, and when do you feel that the advantages of convenience outweigh that of code readability?
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going all in is probably not adviseable in any technology investment, but I get his point, the Chinese Government see bitcoin as a way that its citizens can circumvent currency controls and it also affects the exchange rate of the RMB, which is very closely controlled byt he Chinese Government. This doesnt mean that bitcoin is "going to the moon" this means that as a disruptive technology it is making itself known and coming up against predictable barriers.

The comment you responded to was a bit "buy buy buy" but the sentiment is just another way of saying "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"
I create for the web, because I have never been good enough to create for the desktop. Thankfully, that's been changing lately -- it's a nice change of pace, and I think desktop programming can learn some things from web programming (and, has been, if you look at elementary OS).
Where are you getting 1866MHz DDR3 ECC RAM for less than those prices?

The cheapest 8GB module I could find[1] is £75 ex VAT, 4x is £300 which is approx. $490USD. I think this compares fairly well with the $400 upgrade pricing on that rumour page.

[1]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT8G3...
This is ethical and that is not ethical doesn't exist as discussion:
"ethics does not provide rules like morals but it can be used as a means to determine moral values"

The way it should be stated it's against my moral values. Not everyone's moral values are aligned. Thus rendering this discussion unusable for me as I don't know against what moral value we are judging these actions.
Hilarious. Sorry about that, obviously pasted completely the wrong buffer.
Your video is exactly the one I was going for, though potentially this [1] is a better quality version.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=508-rmdY4jQ
Australian watchdog forces Apple to offer 24-month warranties as standard
Comparison to previous bubbles (with standard disclaimer about past performance not being an indicator of future results): http://m.imgur.com/i5w3yPj

$200 is certainly possible, if not likely.
That sentiment is also often a way to cover for the incoherent belief "P(A|B) > P(A|-B) > P(A|B)".
I did indeed. Can't obviously edit my origional post, either.

Well... that'll teach me I'm not on reddit; attention must be paid!
i love how you are telling him it was a dumb idea, when you have no idea if he sold enough at $1100 to cover his student loan, or that right now he is still in a position where he has doubled his money in a matter of months regardless of this crash.

Too many people offering investment advice in hindsight round here.
Well, at least the US government also believes this and has most of it's bases covered to prevent this kind of event from occurring.

(NSA) The US govt. does have a cyber intelligence agency which is capable of infiltrating hostile nations computer systems and figuring out where exactly missiles are being kept.

(NRO) Also the ability to spy from some very advanced and very expensive satellites.

(CIA) Ground assets to acquire more intelligence and eliminate targets if necessary.

(US Air Force) Capable of infiltrating enemy skies and delivering bunker busting bombs such as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator or nuclear bombs / missiles much larger than any other country. Our nukes have actually been tested for 50+ years and we know they work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Ordnance_Penetrator - Mainly developed for destroying hardened bunkers housing nuclear weapons.

(US Navy) Submarines with Trident missiles which carry between 1 and 8 warheads apiece and their locations are unknown but you can bet that they are strategically placed outside of potentially hostile nations, meaning we can nuke anyone faster than they can nuke us. Also our radar, missile detection, and anti-missile systems are much more advanced than any other nation.

Yes, Iran might nuke Israel, but they know for a fact that the United States will spare not expense invading them and kill everyone responsible for the attack and many more.

North Korea main reason for acquiring nuclear weapons seems to be as a deterrent against invasion. You don't invade a country with nuclear capabilities unless you take out the nukes first, it's just too risky for your ground troops.

This is an image of an old Peacekeeper missile with multiple warheads. This missile has since been retired but still leaves me in awe.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Peacekeep...

It would be a huge mistake for any country to launch a nuclear missile towards a foreign city. The world (mainly the US) would jump on them and whoever ordered that nuke would be dead very quickly.

The big problem with nuclear bombs is ensuring our borders and ensuring customs does a good job. A nuclear bomb has the problem of not leaving any trace or signature. How would you investigate it? There wouldn't be anything to investigate except where that plane or cargo ship came from.

If a plane from North Korea explodes with a nuclear bomb on it, then would we even be able to tell which plane exploded? The entire airport would be vaporized.

I honestly don't know how it hasn't happened already. People want to get rid of the NSA but maybe they're the only agency actually preventing this scenario by tracking most nuclear bombs. I can't imagine that all incoming cargo is screened sufficiently before it arrives in the US, it would truly be devastating for this to happen, all imports would be immediately halted. Maybe cargo ships or ports that export have some sort of device to detect nuclear weapons (I'm not sure how easy the are to detect).
>It has built-in deflation, which makes it a great long-term store of value

Besides, so far, Bitcoin has been highly inflationary. In a bit more than a year, the number of bitcoins in circulation has doubled.

https://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins?timespan=all&s...
Any ideas on cost? As an example, the Tokyo region is much more expensive for EC2.
A lot of people are too young to have ever experienced what it was like to use unix systems with lots of concurrent users "back in the day".

Back then there were a lot of different ways to communicate with other folks on the same system, although many of them have modern analogues.

"talk" was a primitive IM system that could be used to communicate between two people logged into shell (tty) accounts on a unix system. When initiating a talk connection it would pop up a prompt on the other user's terminal, which is why it's mentioned as being an interruption. It would interrupt someone else's workflow quite abruptly.

"write" was even more primitive, it was a way to directly send text to someone else's terminal.

Back then the community of users was small, not truly anonymous, and there were strong external authorities that helped prevent abuses (most net users were students or academics, abusing systems could get you kicked out of school or fired). As the internet became more widespread a lot of these features were locked down and turned off on most systems.
or drinking the water that's released from the sewage plant after treatment, or eating the food grown with the solid waste as fertiliser.
The tutorials are really nice and I like the iOS custom UI series one. Was looking for something like that.
I've been Angry Gal too, but only for about two weeks - then I recognised the poor 'cultural fit' that I was being (my bad, I should have never taken the job in the first place) and I left for greener and more congenial pastures.

The conditions of the market may not allow such radical choices in every single case; but I don't have a problem with acknowledging that despite being right in my anger towards the bullshit I was seeing, I was actually being disruptive and damaging to that particular (horrid) environment. Not everyone is suited to every company - it seems a very basic truth to me.
New Scientist has an article in this weeks number about sunshine and fresh air working as "antibiotics", and how the use of air and light could reduce the risk of infections in hospitals.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029470.700-fresh-air...
Err isn't ivanplenty doing the opposite of offering hindsight investment advice? He's saying it was stupid despite it ending up being a profitable investment.
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The only reason people use Facebook is because other people use Facebook. It's not even because of the technology. This could be done by someone else (it would take time to get to the same scale). If more people remove themselves from it, then it will eventually fail.
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Polar-night jet stream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream#Polar_night_jet
Not sure if you are being ironic. Regardless of the merits or lack thereof, it would be nice to be able to have an intelligent discussion online about Bitcoins, without being clusterbombed by the army of shills and speculators.
Here's another:

* Our government freely collects intelligence on us while it is treasonous for us to collect intelligence on it. Yet we call ourselves a democracy with a government by and for the people.
There are limited sunday trading hours. Some shops choose to get around this by opening an hour earlier but not opening the tills.

It's a loophole really, and it isn't true that all shops must wait, just those that choose to use this loophole.

Also it's based on size of shop, so not all shops have limits on trading hours.
Yup, you got exactly what I was trying to say. Logic is the system of reasoning, the "weighing scale". Emotions are what give the objects weight. So we could both arrive at different conlusions despite having identical logical reasoning, because we value things differently.
If it's a single assignment, then it's merely a preference. I cannot think of a case where it is explicitly better for a single conditional.

However, a compound conditional can actually be more clear if the assignment is there in many cases. For example:

if ( (elt = db.getNextResult) && elt.shouldProcess){
... ...
}

In a compound conditional, the assignment is forced to be wrapped in parenthesis, so the ambiguity doesn't exist.

Anyho, that's that.
You are mistaken. His body language seems more like a guru/teacher appeal.
I always thought of axioms as "starting points" or "bases".
The rules of logic require "starting points". You can't demonstrate anything from nothing. Those are the axioms.

It's worth noting that almost any statement can be used as an axiom. You can build a math on top of "2+2=5". It just won't be a very useful math. Which brings up the point of usefulness.

Some sets of axioms are more useful than others. Usually because they seem to align with how the universe appears to work. But in other cases they are just convenient.

So there are no "really, really true" axioms. But there are "really, really useful" ones.
How is automating driving incremental?

Quantum computing? jAs a sometimes-Bayesian statistician - do you know the torment I will be able to unleash on the scientific world once MCMC inference is practically for free? Just imagine... spending all your time carefully choosing distributions for your data and uncertainty, and the implementation of the inference is an afterthought? I need a moment alone.
> No. Why would you want to? Upstart is inferior to systemd in every way...

This is heavily disputed[1]. Please do not misrepresent your opinion as fact.

[1] Example: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem
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I can be a prick, too. I think it happens when I start getting carried away with communicating to others that I am right about something, rather than actually being sensitive to the context of the conversation.
Unregulated capital flight is really not a feature of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is money with the ledger built into it. It's not for hiding wealth, but for tracking it. This is a market correction that had to take place.

People get confused right now because the ledger is more or less blank. It won't be. (As a slightly dystopian side note, BTC with very little history may become very very valuable.)

In the future, it is going to be preferable to pay for anything large with cryptocurrency. It's overkill to buy a coffee with Bitcoin. But a house, a car, maybe even rent? What better way to prove you own or have paid for something? The currency knows when and how it was used.

We currently live in a world where banks try to foreclose on homes that aren't even mortgaged. Bitcoin and the like will end that. But even more importantly, Bitcoin is about wealth protection. The average Joe will have very little of the deflationary income. But large banking institutions will.
In addition to the itinerary, it also depends on your planing. If you want to be very flexible, it's most likely cheaper than buying a long-distance ticket at the station/in the train.

If you want to plan and book your trips ahead of time, it may well be that, with early booking discounts, it's cheaper to book ahead of time. This would also allow you to reserve seats/a table, which I'd recommend if you travel with kids.

Also note that in Germany, and maybe in other countries as well, kids < 15 years travel for free with their parents if noted on their tickets.

If you travel a lot within one country, you may also want to check their frequent traveler programs. E.g. in Germany, the DB sells cards that give you 25%, 50% or 100% off of the ticket price. The 25% one can be ordered for a duration of only 3 months and costs 19 Euros, so it should pay off quickly! Note, however, that it is an subscription that you need to cancel.

Enjoy Europe :-)
in spite of the added incentive of a reportedly low asking price, Yahoo opted not to make a deal.

So, while PayPal and StackMob declined to share details on the acquisition price, it doesn’t sound like this was a blockbuster deal. Furthermore, while StackMob had a good run, it doesn’t come as a complete surprise that StackMob struggled in its efforts to reach profitability and scale to the degree it had initially hoped.

It sounds like maybe investors will break even and employees get jobs.
> Time to go all-in if you haven't already...

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men
Sir Isaac Newton
can you expand that for us? what are A and B?
Shops over a certain floorspace have restricted opening hours on Sundays. (see: https://www.gov.uk/trading-hours-for-retailers-the-law)

Some shops exploit a loophole in that a shop isn't open unless the tills are open.

If you are doing your big periodic grocery shopping in a large supermarket, then it may take you an hour to get everything into your trolley and round to the tills.

So, a shop that is legally open from 1000 to 1800 can open to shoppers at 0900, because few customers would actually buy anything in the first hour of opening anyway.