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> and yes, taxes can fund things of value that can bring wealth to the society at large, etc etc, but all of that adds to the truth, it does not somehow "undo" this fact.

Isn't the net effect what people are interested in? If you impose taxes and then do nothing useful with the money, sure, that's an easy negative. And if you tax only unproductive private-sector assets and use them for public goods, that's an easy positive. The real-world situation is that you typically tax assets or income that are at least partly productive, and use them to produce things that are at least partly valuable. You come out ahead if the things you do with the tax money are better than what would've happened absent taxation, for some value of better.

The contention of people who support high taxation (as most of us in Denmark do) is that the net value is positive, and we are therefore overall better off and more prosperous than we'd be if we did not have taxation, or had much lower taxation. Partly this is because of a view that certain systemic problems can be much more efficiently solved by the public sector: it's difficult to imagine the private sector producing Copenhagen's public transit system, or the Danish healthcare system, especially for the same money. And partly it's because the prosperity we enjoy seems to generally require a backdrop of "things working well" that the state partly provides: good transit, low crime, few homeless people, safe buildings, functioning court system, educated populace, etc.
Is that why there's a whole section in the linked article talking about jQuery and how great it is and how it works really great with Riot.js?

And, sure, you can use something lighter-weight than the full ca. 100Kb jQuery reference implementation, but "1Kb MVP framework", while it sounds awfully nifty, still lacks something in basic honesty by comparison with "1Kb MVP framework, oh, and you have to write a ton of jQuery glue to make anything work with it."

[Edit: Don't believe me? Take a look at the Riot.js TodoMVC example[1]. This isn't a framework; this is jQuery with extra hair.]

[1] https://github.com/moot/riotjs/blob/master/todomvc/
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This is absolutely stupid. If I can't discuss the scope of potential breaches with executives, contractors, legal, or the local authority (with a lawyer of course), how can I prevent them?
He claims that wealth does not come from owning "buy and pray" assets like stocks and homes, yet most individual net worth gains in this country over the last 50 years have been as a result of owning exactly those two things.

I get his point, but by defining wealth as ownership of "net income generating assets" I think he is ignoring history.
When you earn a decent wage, most people assume you're set for life, however you're not. In fact, it can cause problems that most people can't perceive.

Firstly, you tend to live within your salary terms: you get a nice home, you spend a little more on the luxuries of life and you find each month that you don't have quite as much left over as you would expect.

You don't need to be showy for this to happen. I know people on equivalent salaries who don't own cars and live in small flats who don't have a lot of spare cash.

And then you have the freedom aspect of things that ties in with this: because you are never really sitting on a big pile of cash, and because the bills are coming in regularly you feel trapped. You need to keep on making a decent amount of money, and therefore you end up working for somebody else on something you're not too happy with in order to just stay where you are. Meanwhile, the industry moves on and you feel as though you're stuck in the same place and eventually you'll get eclipsed, so you throw yourself into staying ahead and all you're doing is running on a conveyor belt.

There's no easy fix. What I suggest for your friend is to focus on that concept of freedom.

There is a metaphorical story for your friend about a tramp and a greedy millionaire. The tramp proclaimed that he was the richer man because he had all the money he wanted, yet the millionaire was compelled to keep working because he wanted more. Who was the freer?

Live on less. Stockpile the cash. Realise you can buy a home outright with a few year's savings and be free of rent or mortgage. Move and keep stockpiling the cash. Grow food. Do more with less. Realise over time that you're spending virtually nothing and you can live on that stockpile for 5 years. Then 10 years. Then 20 years. Then realise you're free. Stop working for somebody else. Throw yourself into something you love.

I've been in a similar position to your friend - the only way out realistically is to live on less. Chasing more is a fool's errand as a first step. Make do with nothing, spend your time on something you love, and then the opportunity will arise to have the freedom to do something more.

This idea that you can become a millionaire by writing some apps or mining some Bitcoin is one of the most toxic and acidic things in our (development) culture right now.
Yeah, I mean, that's not really "supporting" Rails in any meaningful sense to start with, so its hardly significant that they are ending "support".
Maybe this will help:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/02/what-is-stoicism-a...
One of those terrific articles that comes along, tells you something you already knew, but does it in a way that crystallizes it into an actionable direction. Bravo.

I've been struggling to figure out what to do with the money I've been accumulating in my Bay Area tech job. I thought to put it into a house, but after reading this article, I think I'd really like to give entrepreneurship a serious go (whereas in the past, I might've done it as a side gig). Few people can claim to have that level of influence from their writings.
I'd recommend gfshare as part of that solution - it's used by Debian developers for their core server keys. We interviewed the founder at http://redecentralize.org/interviews/2014/01/02/10-daniel-gf...
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. The ones who understand binary and 9 others I can't remember.
Wealth is also perception based and circumstances based. The value of a product or a stock can be increased with the help of smart marketing. Does it mean the wealth has increased? Many entertainment product would lose the value if suddenly, say a serious war is declared, or a better alternative product appears. Where the wealth disappeared?
I have always found it odd people who are so against wealth (or income) redistribution always talk about the taking of money from the rich to the poor. Where have you been the last 30 years (in the US)? The only redistribution has been from the working poor and middle class to the rich.

Really against wealth redistribution? Talk about a bottom up approach to tweaking our economy instead of trickle down...
Compared to having your phone vibrate ad nauseum for no determinable reason whatsoever?
Many intermediate-senior level dev jobs at AAA-level shops (see: Google, Facebook, etc), as well as many startups. I know people in this range (and above) in both the Bay Area and NYC.
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I think we need to unpack "cohesive" to meaningfully communicate further, here...
You know, I hear what you're saying, but I don't think I've ever heard that.

Usually better players will give newer players a simple heuristic like "don't let your mineral count go over 1000", which seems generous even. Something more hard core would be like 800.

The point is, there aren't many scenarios where "saving" your money would be a good thing. Except for "expensive" purchases, which usually hover around 400 and no higher.

Units and buildings (things you spend money on) in StarCraft also cost time. So if you wait until the actual time you need things to request their construction, it's already too late. So there's some forecasting going on so that you can soak up the construction time.

Also, your economy is a forever investment. If you aren't attacking, you're building/expanding. So there's essentially never an ideal moment, there's always a fall through case. You're always spending your money on something.

The one possible exception to this would be the Zerg, who play in a more reactive style. Which means that their per unit construction time is on average less than the other races (as I'm saying this, I'm actually just guessing that, watch me be wrong). The point is, the Zerg are more reactive than they are forecasting, so maybe in this scenario, some amount of saving would be apropos. But still, you are spending on your economy until the last possible moment and then transitioning into an army. Zerg happen to specialize in "on the field" adaptation and parallel construction, making their throughput higher for shorter amounts of time.

But it could be argued that none of that money was "optional" or idle. I knew that I was saving for an army and as I was scouting I knew I was saving for a specific kind of army. Maybe burn 2/3 on unit construction and save that last 1/3 to use their on the field adapt ability (like baneling morph).
Hopefully not!

Why don't you give React a whirl and try not to force Angular thinking on to the React model. Shouldn't take more than an hour or two of investment to make a small toy app to experiment with.
Great games! Great start!

Here's a talk you might be interested in from one of the guys who made "Ridiculous Fishing" on the Art of Screenshake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U

Basically, it's a bunch of interesting points on how to make action games feel more responsive and fun.
My experience may have differed from yours.

In my experience a few years ago the process of transferring away from GoDaddy took as long and was as complicated as it possibly could be by law. Like absolute limit. If they were able to send me harassing emails before the transfer was completed, they did. Link bating with anti-agreements. I stuck it out for months jumping through every hoop they raised because I wanted to transfer away that badly. Maybe things have improved.

I hate GoDaddy.
I deal with this concern myself, and the answer I've been mulling over recently is related to the Big Fish In A Small Pond analogy. (In fact, I think of it in the same terms as your friend: winning my freedom)

In the Bay Area, things are very expensive and its hard to put money away, and its also hard to feel like "you've won" because other folks are so dramatically more successful than you. However, after visiting home for Christmas I realized that I'm actually quite successful. So the problem is that I'm a small or medium fish in a very large pond. So I don't ever feel like I'm free because I'm not a big fish. Whats unfair is that a lot of the big fish in SF owe their size to luck. Its not that they are necessarily objectively better than the smaller fish, they just got lucky. (Granted, sometimes they are better: Elon Musk).

So, my advice to your friend would be to seek a high paying job which allows telecommuting, for both him and his wife. Then, move to somewhere livable but dirt cheap. Then, sock money away like a madman. Then, once you've got a pile of cash...stop working. Stop working for 3 years or so, enjoy that 3 years of freedom. Build something, maybe it will take off.

Thats where my thoughts are right now, it'd be great to hear an update on what he thinks about it.

EDIT: I wanted to add this follow up. One of the interesting things about this conundrum is, for me, not being as successful/free as I want creates a significant amount of stress. I worry about it far more than I should. I worry about it to the point where it has a negative impact on my ability to think clearly because my mood is so depressed...and its like being stuck in a trap because I worry I'm not successful enough, but the worry depresses me enough that I can't pursue means of being successful. Its now a question of: Can I overcome that stress in my current situation, or, are things going to have to change?
I'm sorry, how is capital gains tax different from "seizing of assets from wealthy people" again? It seems like a distinction without a difference.
This describes money as a store of energy:
http://morphius.blogspot.in/2013/02/money-is-energy.html
Even if they wanted a shared server, I suspect that the number of people who'd want a shared server with primary support for Rails 1 and alternate, "development" support for Rails 2 is vanishingly small.
The set W of women suffer harms because of their membership of that set. This property is mutable.

You could make a number of other sets like this (non-white, old, young), but the largest one (esp. in the UK) is likely to be W, women (50% population).

We should try and create an environment in which sets of people do not have this property anymore.
Sounds like perspective is needed.
Ok. Either you fixed it, or I am stupid. But it seems to work now. Either way thanks!
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An http request walks into a bar and says "get me a beer".
The barman sets down a beer with 200 napkins.
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They have the option to accept it. Technically, if you figure out the merchant's public key, you could "force" them into being a part of the "escrow" [1], but unless they agreed to it (and agreed to the arbitrator being used) they won't consider the product paid until the payment is under their control.

[1] I'm using quotes because the way it works with multi-signature isn't an escrow, but escrow is commonly used when talking about something like this. There's some explanation about how multi-signature transactions works and why its not an escrow in Bitrated's FAQ, under "How does Bitcoin arbitration work?" and "Is this an escrow?" (https://www.bitrated.com/faq.html)
Programmer, for example.
Okay. Thanks for linking to that article. I concede health data isn't "worthless," but I'd like to get people's personal opinion on which scenario is scarier:

Target losing the credit card data of 40 million customers, or a dermatology office losing a USB drive: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/dermatology-practice-fir...

A malicious party getting access to my banking data I feel is more scary than knowing my co-workers are teasing me because of my erectile disfunction.

Disclosing important health data to a person's employer, insurer, law enforcement etc, is a health data stewardship and education problem, not a 256-bit secure socket layer, 1048-bit RSA key-encryption problem, IMHO.
Liquidity is an irrelevant side issue. Gates would have exactly the same problem if he tried to sell all that microsoft stock to buy turnips; he could destroy billions of dollars of wealth just as easily as the people you so despise. (In fact, if you turn it around, Gates doesn't really have 100 billion dollars. He has something that looks like it's worth that much, but only for as long as he doesn't try and use it. If you destroyed 99% of his shares, you wouldn't be destroying any actual wealth - Gates' life wouldn't become any less comfortable, and microsoft would still exist and still be making the same products. So you're not damaging the societal wealth at all).

The interesting question is who will make better use of the dollars, or indeed microsoft shares. And the available evidence is that the poor make much more efficient use of their money than the rich (indeed on some level they have to, because someone 1000x as rich as me certainly isn't getting 1000x the value from their money). They spend money rather than hoarding it, improving the economy, and each marginal dollar improves their lives much more than it would for a rich person.
Like most of these modules, you can use it without installing it globally: Just use an NPM task. My `package.json`:

{
"name": "hi there",
"version": "0.0.1",
"scripts": {
"gulp": "gulp build --require coffee-script",
},
"devDependencies": {
"coffee-script": "~1.6.3",
"gulp": "~3.2.2",
}
}

And then happily run `npm run gulp`. Solves 98% of my problems since I have at most 3 tasks that I want to execute individually.
my bad. not sure how i missed that. must have reached a natural ending point at the bottom of my screen. :)
Just let him know that I'm nearly twice his age, make half as much, fail at startup ideas and feel stuck, as well. That should make him happier.
How does this all work with non-inlined event handlers? I see a lot of on-click, on-change going on in these examples.
It's long past time that we channel our outrage into political action on this issue.
I think these hosting providers are trying to get people into the habit of doing pull requests, which is something base git and git flow doesn't cover. A lot of small teams seem to rely on blind merges with, but as you grow you need better ways to comment/approve/deny changes that random team members might throw into a codebase.
In life you have to find your own rules, values, and rewards. I find letting anyone dictate that for you will make you miserable. Most successful startups aren't done to be the next big millionaire, but b/c they felt compelled to create something awesome.
Debt based currencies deflate when a lot of debts go bad. When somebody declares bankruptcy and debt goes bad, that's money going "poof" and disappearing from the banking system, with knock-on effects. That's what happened in the 30s and nearly happened in 08. Whether or not the gold convertibility window is open doesn't much figure into it. If the US government were to partially default on its debts, or a lot of banking sector debt were to go bad, the value of US dollar cash would sky rocket as people scrambled to deleverage. This happened in 08. This happened in Japan in the 90s.
Honestly, have him read "Walden" by Thoreau. Here are a few of my Kindle highlights.

"I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment."

"This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once."

"Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them."

"I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both North and South."
> Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.

Fortunately? Now that they know it's LISP, they can just attack during GC.

(I know what you're going to say… but the parent joke predates incremental garbage collection.)
Hah. I forgot he wrote one (even though I've quoted him in some of my articles). It does make similar points in his "Money Is Not Wealth" section in there.

It's not very surprising that others have said this - it's a sensible idea that's fairly well understood by some... but thoroughly misunderstood by others (still, and probably forever).
I like how you created real games instead of just demos. The third one is really addictive, I've played one very similar on the iphone. (I think it was called Impossible game or something similar). Maybe as a next game it could be similar to the #3 but with this gameplay "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPgotLzzb-Q", i.e. one key to move higher but gravity then brings you down. You rock keep it up.
Thanks, again :)

Yes, exactly, Cloact tries to stay really close to plain React. But since it allows you to separate data from rendering, undo should be quite trivial to implement (if you keep all your application data in a single cloact/atom)...
I always find it funny how news articles and TV news have to show some kind of physical "coin" for bitcoin news.

The whole point about bitcoin is it is virtual. I guess at most a QR code is just not sexy enough.

BTW this is how news is manipulated about what to cover. If you want a lot of coverage for your product, make a lot of media available, photos, video, etc. If you have bad news, political, judicial, etc. makes no audio, video, or photos available by law or otherwise and boom, little to no coverage. Because of "dog vs squirrel" attention span.

Now let's look at this tidbit they repeat in every bitcoin story:

James Howells lost about £4.6m when he threw away his hard drive, forgetting that he had bitcoins stored on it.

This is bbc news, not fox news. I expect better. Did the BBC confirm how many bitcoins were on his hard drive? Did someone look at the blockchain or some other detail? I think not. So I say he lost nothing until proven otherwise.
Paul,

I think this is where he fits in. When him and his wife were making only 40K combined, they carpooled to work, lived in a 700sqft apartment, barely went out, etc. Now that they got some money, they bought a decent house ($250K), 2 cars, and they started paying off loans etc. He said even though they make $250K, his monthly expenses are over $7-8K. His whole thing is that he wants to be "financially free". I think his business ideas all are focused on MAKING MONEY, hence why he keeps failing.
This seems to form the basis of a central clearing house, which is exactly what Bitcoin is designed to defeat.
What's so horrible about it?

It's a very mature toolchain, and has better modern (C++11) support than the version of G++ on my Linux box.
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Yes.. I hate how clicking on "edit" in the zone file brings up a new window.
Every languages has its strenghts and weaknesses. I worked a lot with C# lately and love it, but i still enjoy modern PHP and Javascript.
I prefer bash. However this gulp code actually looks a little easier to read than grunt, so that's nice. But I think I would prefer something declarative if I wasn't using bash and grunt is a lttile complicated and so I made my own thing that is very simple and uses yaml.

Its called bild. So you can check that out on npm if you want.

Anyway I think using regular node scripts, maybe with a module like shelljs, would also be a decent solution.

Does git-bash run normal bash scripts OK in Windows?
The government ends up with cash, not a pile of Microsoft stock, which is the situation the OP was advocating against. The difference is the government doesn't have to sell off and devalue the stock to extract the value from it.

Yes, technically the government is inserting itself into the transaction and seizing some of the value. But that's what all taxes do.

The government is also the party that is responsible for enforcing the terms of the transaction (via the justice system) if one party where to try to defraud the other. In effect it's more like a transaction fee.
It is interesting. To my ear he's got a pretty standard Southern (West London to Oxford) accent but with, I think, a bit of poor North London creeping in there too ("we also need").

Before I noticed the biog I guessed he was ~70 (it says 69). Would have been great to have more biographical information - often you can hear a few accents in someone's speech and sometimes guess their geographical progression (in the UK at least).
I agree. To quote Alan Watts from his book "The Book":

"Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy."
I'm in. It's long past time that we channel our outrage into political action on this issue
I can't see that word without thinking of Cloaca. Cloaca. If you don't know what it is, you should. Cloaca.
Just wait until the newborn gets a little older. I have two kids under 3 and found a renewed sense of purpose as they've gotten past the newborn stage. My priorities have also shifted away from career and startup success to family. Perhaps it will be the same for him.