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>Nowhere in the article does the author support this claim. In fact, the whole American system is built to prove the opposite. Space at the top is NOT limited. Total wealth is NOT limited. Anybody who works hard (and smart!) can get there.

This is false. The USA has a very low rate of mobility between economic classes when compared to other first-world nations.

>42 percent of American men raised in the bottom fifth of incomes stay there as adults. That shows a level of persistent disadvantage much higher than in Denmark (25 percent) and Britain (30 percent) — a country famous for its class constraints.

>Meanwhile, just 8 percent of American men at the bottom rose to the top fifth. That compares with 12 percent of the British and 14 percent of the Danes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to...
If you memorize IPv6 addresses, you are doing it wrong. Everything is made to make automatic allocation easy...
Some things I have not found mentioned yet:

1) Changing places inside the house (or moving out to the garden if the weather allows it) sometimes really helps me to beat the monotony. I do have a special workplace reserved though where I spend most of my time.

2) Exercise has already been mentioned. Running works best for me, because it is done outdoors and therefore kills two birds with one stone (three if you have a dog).

3) Another thing that has made a big difference for me was starting a regular meditation practice. I have since noticed that it makes it much easier for me to control my focus and handle distracting thoughts. And there seems to be at least some evidence that I am not alone in this:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to...
Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/21/6/829.abstract

4) Include relaxing activities on your daily agenda. Letting go is important for your wellbeing and therefore your work performance. Make room for it and allow yourself to enjoy it without feeling bad about it.
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I agree.

Price per unit is completely irrelevant to users, because everything is priced in dollars. It only matters -- psychologically, at that! -- to speculators, who think that there is more room to "grow" at $50 than $500.

On the other hand, I do think (hope?) that the "cheapest" digital currency will eventually win, but "cheapest" is "lowest transaction costs", not "lowest price per unit". I think there are several ways which matter to consumers wherein a digital currency could compete with Bitcoin:

* Lower transaction costs.
* More stable values.
* True anonymity.
* Faster transaction times.

"Price" isn't one of them.
No. And publications don't earn credibility by publishing no-research conspiracy link-bait.
Wouldn’t it be better if IANA or the regional Internet registries directly rented out the IP addresses to the ISP:s/companies who need them? Why let a middle-man collect the profits?
Enough with the (social media induced) self-doubt
This was before Christmas and sometime in the fall...but I had to explain to my mom (who is actually a programmer, but in the COBOL days) how to start an Apple account.

As you well know, an AppleID consists of your email. But I spent more than 10 minutes explaining to her how her Apple password was NOT her Hotmail password, as she was using her hotmail ID for her AppleID.

Funny enough, a few weeks later, I was teaching a web course and showing students how to start a site from scratch off of Amazon S3. One of the students didn't have an Amazon account and had the exact same problem: trying to use her email account password to log back into Amazon
I think I understand the reaction. Thank you. (I might have seen too many extremist idealists and jumped to conclusions.)

I didn't say that communism is uniquely evil. They seem like traditional dictatorships with idealistic window dressing. As king is an old name for military dictator, it is hardly coincidence that relatives of the Cuban/North Korean "dear leaders" rule the places.

Point is, they are generally among the worst regimes the last century.

It is wrong to mix dictators with the realpolitik of getting support from dictators, when they are needed. I don't approve of everything people do whom I buy lunch from. This has also become a much smaller problem after the Cold War.

Your points about Cuba and North Vietnam checking for support in other places is interesting. Most every rebel group do that, of course.

Still, any time since 1991 Cuba could have started opening up -- with enthusiastic support, at least from West Europe.
As a Indian, I detest each time our government kills/arrests a law abiding citizen of India - for just being a Muslim.

When did that happen? If anything, it is the opposite.
How is that vote similar??
What was proposed in Switzerland was a salary cap, not a tax. There is not such a cap in France, nor anywhere that I heard of.
Looks like there is already an M# language:

http://www.msharp.co.uk/

I wonder what the actual name will be..
Because it drastically limits competition that would otherwise put a downwards pressure on the price of these devices.
Using void* in C/C++ is to explicitly disable type checking for something like byte buffer i/o. Another circumstance is in a broad interface such as a callback method that will pass along an argument. In the latter case a top-level interface like 'object' is essentially the same thing and in both languages you can create APIs that don't have these catch-alls. What's the wisdom behind wanting to be protected from this construct?
I believe the understanding is that Apple is charging the carrier directly for each handset they obtain from Apple. However for market reasons, carriers normally futz with prices at their own will. Apple is preventing this, because it's in their interest to control the market price for iProducts. Not just that, but Apple is also making demands on the price window for the plans as well thus forcefully molding the kind of demographic that could be owning an iPhone.
I sign up for a lot of courses, but I drop maybe half of them a week in. Usually because it's more work than my casual interest in the subject warrants.

On the other hand, since these things started, I've finished 12 courses in a variety of fields.

I'm signed up for 5 classes starting in the next couple months, I'll probably finish maybe 3 of those. We'll see. :-)

Most of it in my case is learning for its own sake, but MOOCs are just about the best part of the internet for me. I took a Neural Networks class from Hinton and there's an upcoming class on Financial Markets from Robert Shiller. It's hard to beat that kind of access to teaching by absolute leaders in their fields.
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I don't think this problem applies though. You're stashing right after a commit, so your stage is empty at this point.
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There is nothing on Netflix.
>> but the API really is terrible
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> Then use a different one, like xcb.

The problem is that it is difficult to use xcb with GLX. I just say glXChooseFBConfig. And I consider using Xlib for these API functions - as suggested on http://xcb.freedesktop.org/opengl/ as an even larger mess.
I initially thought his arguments were more sophisticated and he was describing a scenario where an alternative currency would win because it had better incentives for the holders due to competing deflationary pressures, but it seems that he really just fails to realize that Bitcoin is divisible.

Very surprising to see this coming for Cowen, something about Bitcoin triggers a shutdown in the brain of economists.
I'm curious as to what the perf figures would be for windows. My gut tells me threads are relatively more expensive and async relatively cheaper than on Linux.
But presumably there are some restrictions as to what those terms can be. If Apple said resellers can only sell iphones to white people that would probably not be legal.
> I'll point out that we could have a conversation about diversity in hiring without ever introducing the subject of guilt.

The concept of blame was implied with the comment (paraphrased) startup culture is bad for women. That is blaming language, even though the victim was general and the guilt lies with a vague notion of 'culture'.

If you want to avoid discussions of blame it helps to avoid judgmental language.

"$VAGUE_CULTURE is $NEGATIVE_WORD [for $VICTIMS]"

Where $NEGATIVE_WORD is something like 'bad' or 'problematic' and $VAGUE_CULTURE is some poorly specified concept that everyone is just supposed to get.

It's nice when people don't jump to conclusions and talk about guilt and blame when it hasn't been made 100% explicit, on the other hand it's also nice when ideas are followed through to logical conclusions rather than left hanging for others take personally.
Well, I haven't received any micro usb adapter in the iPhone 5s package (just the standard lightning to usb cable). I think it's just a recommendation, not a law.
I was discussing this very issue with some friends of mine last night. The non-PhDs in the room could not believe what we were saying (core issues seems to be very limited opportunities in academia and research labs, a very strong job market for fresh graduates, and a general disdain for PhDs by startups).
YouTube is deleting the torture videos, if they were violating TOS why would they delete them now after years of being online? A person has the right to ask why Google is doing so and why now? in Egypt there is a crackdown against the opposition of the coupe all the Islamic TV stations were shutdown, those who use Rabea4 sign on social media will face 5 years in prison, those who lead a demonstration will be executed and those who join a demonstration will be sentenced for 5 years in prison.

All the Husni Mubarak era figures were mostly pardoned, no one has been pointed by the corrupt judges for the deaths of the 25th of January revolution. and on top of that the US government supports the coup, Keri said that Muslim Brotherhood hijacked the revolution! so where does google stands? with deleting this videos any person wonder if google is collaborating with the US and the Egyptian government? on facebook, facebook itself deleted many anti coup pages that were very popular.

I hope that google does this by mistake and bring back the videos.
and your link which mentions that Google has refused government pressure the case was for the anti Islam movie, but when Muslims are tortured and are the victims the video is deleted!
One example, in the US: poor people get crappy education. The more our economy shifts to a knowledge-based economy, the more effective this is at keeping poor people poor.

Another example: access to legal services (in the US) is essentially required for fair treatment under the law. Poor people cannot afford legal services, and so will generally not get fair treatment under the law. So a mistake/misunderstanding/relatively minor infraction that would be a mere hassle for a richer person can be life-ruining for a poorer person. In the US, we've gone so far as to apply wildly different penalties to "poor people's drugs" and "rich people's drugs" (obviously stereotypes, but the stereotypes have some basis in fact and are why the laws were written that way).

Poor neighborhoods are more likely to experience elevated crime levels. In the US, this means they are often militarized. This makes everyone that lives in them more at risk for life-ruining run-ins with the law. The people of NYC have decided that it's fair for non-white juveniles to be subject to stopping & frisking anytime, for no cause. This is a tax for which no benefit is derived by the payers.

There are tons of examples like these that have nothing to do with redistribution. If you read the papers, you'll see examples every day.
First, drawing false equivalence is never a compelling mode of argumentation. I don't know of any federal program to build schools that "demonize" Islam or Arab nations. That message certainly exists, but it's not a government-sponsored message.

Second, it's not just schools that teach anti-Western statement. It's a concerted effort by Saudi Arabia to aggrandize its influence over the Islamic world while undermining western influence. Maintaining spheres of influence has, historically, been considered a sufficient justification for engaging in military action.

Third, if you want an ethical argument, how about this one: the world under western influence is fairer and more just than the world under Saudi influence. In my home country of 150 million people, Islam as it was practiced used to be relatively liberal. Our country derived its cultural cues from India and Britain. With increased Saudi influence came the loss of secular democracy and the oppression of women. Increasing Saudi influence and decreasing western influence is robbing hundreds of millions of muslims around the world of the benefits of progress. What's so ethical about allowing that to continue?
>if you're someone who doesn't really know finance that well

Well, you don't have to be a financial expert to understand the generalities of what you can and cannot afford.

The rest of what you describe can be equally attributed to greedy people thinking, "if the price doesn't rise, I'll bail in 3 months. No loss." I know some of those people.

>But if you think it's a precise 50/50 split or anything close to that, I think you are a terrible judge of the situation.

I know you read stories about the strawberry picker who can't speak english "pressured" into buying the million dollar home, but those cases were extremely rare.

The majority were people with $40,000 in income deciding to buy the $750,000 house, rather than the $200,000 house, because, you know, the American Dream says renting is bad and looking wealthy is a necessity. Give me the most money you can for the biggest house possible! This happened across the globe.

Oh, and you're forgetting the other major factor of the American specific bust: people who used their home equity to fund consumption. Mostly boomers. I guess those were also the unfortunate, duped poor, buying vacation homes, jet-skis and third cars?

It seems that your understanding of the situation is drawn from the mainstream, "evil-bankster" meme. But that only works because it's a populist sentiment. There is plenty of blame to go around; give it to the greedy.
"Artists like her" - aka extremely talented (and attractive) ones. Talent and/or good looks will usually make room for you in any field.
That said, why the fuck not do art if that's what you want to do? It would be stupid to go 100k into debt for it, but better the world has happy, talented artists than bad, unhappy programmers.
> I suspect the real reason for this weird resolution is boring memory constraints.

Things were indeed very tight

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacPaint_Evolutio...

At the worst case, there was only
about 100 bytes free in MacPaint's heap
for those wondering, how that compares to AWS. AWS sec policies
http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/AWS_Security_Whitepaper...
Find a bird book that uses drawings, not photos.

Find a reasonably sized drawing of a relatively "simple" bird (not too patterned, e.g.).

Copy the drawing, a little at a time.

I couldn't believe how well that worked first time I tried it.

(Don't use "scientific" drawings, they tend to be too complicated. You want something simple yet recognizably complex, challenging but feasible.)
I see. Curious.
Thank you for this reminder. He's one of those people whose posts I've clearly read a bunch of times but never connected them to a single individual.
In... a library?
I never tried nat64. If github got their shit together and installed ipv6 I would be very happy...
>"Can you explain the mechanism by which the rich keep the poor there?"

The political system. Same as it's been for thousands of years.
I'd really like to have a place where we can report those dubious "SEO companies" who are sending spam e-mails to website owners offering to write "guest posts", so they and their practices can be scrutinized better by the community and perhaps search engines.

For example, slap-up-media.net spammed us today, offering to pay us to publish guest posts written by them. I'd really like to know who their clients are (but would not risk accepting their offer out of curiosity).
In what way ? Way too many people seemed to have rewritten the last 10 years of Apple's history.

They have done a ridiculous amount of dodgy, illegal and anti-user things before, during and after Job's reign. They aren't perfect nor should any sane person expect 100K+ people to be. Just like Google, Microsoft, IBM etc.
> There is thus a new theorem: the value of WitCoin should, in equilibrium, be equal to the marketing costs of its potential competitors.

Apply that to anything else and it easily breaks down. E.g. the value of iPhones should be equal to the marketing costs of its potential competitors? Luxury cars? Brand name clothing?
Here's another compound fuckup for you:

1. DigitalOcean users are unable to install their own kernel updates!

2. DigitalOcean have to bother making a new kernel image available via their admin interface; they haven't done this for over six months of Debian kernel updated in my experience.

3. Even if DigitalOcean did make a new kernel available, there's no notification to inform the customer that they have to log in to the admin interface and pick the new kernel from the list, then reboot their VM.

4. The list of kernels in the admin interface is sorted... bizarrely. I check it every so often and there is no sensible overall naming scheme; you are presented with a popup menu listing every single kernel for every single distribution; the latest kernel for Debian is in the middle of the list.

5. My attempt to resolve these issues with DigitalOcean support covinced me that the person I was corresponding with has no idea what a kernel even is, much less that DigitalOcean's list of available kernels is... lacking.

This situation, plus a couple the longstanding lack of progress towards IPv6 support; lack of ability to control kernel parameters; lack of a way to snapshot the filesystem for backups; makes me an unhappy DigitalOcean user who is going to jump ship for Bytemark at the earliest opportunity.
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You don't understand how health care consumers are captive? Health care is literally something human beings cannot live without. The quality and cost of the care is far less important than its availability, because it's literally a matter of being healthy and surviving, or becoming or continuing to be ill, deteriorating and then dying. Healthcare consumers, in other words, don't have real choices in where and how they obtain care. This isn't the case with tires (or almost any other non-essential good or service).
I'm a bit dubious without seeing some concrete code. What I see is a lot of strong assumptions being made and usually when that happens the result is leaky abstractions. We already have extremely leaky abstractions in every other error model out there, so I'm concerned this model is merely shifting the complexity around.
Hah someone countered this quite elegantly once -- something like "You mean the risk of leaving their computer on overnight a few times 3 years ago?"

No, that should not make you vastly wealthy...
and again, why is this bad? marketing 101, price shapes the perceived value of a product. lots of examples here on HN were elasticity, etc have been discussed. locking down re-sellers should be perfectly fine.
The story of the battery startup that promised GM a 200-mile electric car
No reason not to just audit some classes at your local community college or check to see what classes are offered by your county.

The top-level offered might not be what you want, but they probably offer lots of diversity in choice. Plus it's stupid cheap.

I took a semester of pencil sketching from my county during a particularly stressful time, other than a pencil and some paper, all other materials were provided and it was one of the most relaxing things I ever did (plus I could feel the creative parts of my brain being exercised while I let the analytic parts rest for 3 hours a week). I think it ran under $200 and the class was only 12 people.
In theory that would seem like a problem, but I've never run into that problem in practice. I think this is for two reasons:

1. It actually makes for _cleaner_ commits, because you can group changes in whatever order/grouping you see fit. So, if you need to group part of file A, all of file C, and part of file D into a commit, you can.

2. Committing changes and publishing those changes are two separate actions. So, you are free to group your work in whatever way you think makes sense, and then publish all those changes collectively. So, if you have 16 commits, you can push all 16 of those commits together. This reduces the odds a fellow committer gets a partial changeset.

Of course, git is a powerful tool, and it will happily let you commit and push a partially finished changeset. Great power, great responsibility, yada yada yada. See http://git-scm.com/book/ch6-4.html.
CBS is not a fly-by-night operation either, yet they have screwed up stories before (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy).
> The major reason why we aren't seeing adoption is that
> there is no commercial need - that's the real driver.

Not entirely true. All big networks using private IP addresses and NAT (recent ISPs, and most cellular networks for example) have to implement carrier grade NAT (CGN), and it's getting painful and costly.

Also, a lot of web applications require low latency. The way to do this is often to create a lot of parallel connections to fetch content. For example, a google map can easily span 40+ TCP connection to fetch all the tiles making the MAP. During peak time this can put a very high load on CGN gateways. And when they overload, some sessions lags or time out (missing or delayed tiles => bad user experience).

This is why all big players on the web now support IPv6 and use it when possible. IPv6 avoid CGN and does not have such issues. Even if that still makes a small percentage of all traffic, it's steadily rising now. IPv6 is finally happening, because the alternative (CGN) is too painful to scale.

Now old large ISP with little growth don't care: they have plenty of public IPv4 addresses, with enough in stock to absorb their limited growth for a while. So they don't need CGN and don't care about IPv6. I don't expect this to change.
But with mobile and cellular getting a bigger and bigger share and mostly on NAT with IPv4 there is enough of a pressure to move to IPv6 to make sure it'll be mainstream by the end of the decade.
YouTube is a huge repository of videos, it's impossible to apply all the TOS rules all the time and instantly. They often flag videos for copyright infringement "years" after being submitted, and other stuff like judging if a video might violate other parts of the TOS might require human judgment which would take even longer.

Also why does YouTube even have to "stand" with anyone one here?! they are running a website, that doesn't mean everything they do must have a political agenda. Also why would they have to be collaborating with any government? as with the incident I linked to in my previous comment shows they don't' take orders from governments and won't remove legal materials. Have it even crossed your mind that someone who wanted these videos gone may have abused YouTube's flagging system? it won't be the first time.

All that speaks to your shoddy reporting.