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I was not referring to the amount of time being wasted on television. If this were the case I would have mentioned video games as well as half a dozen other things.

The question is this. Why are people in the US wealthier then they have ever been, yet they act poorer and more depressed than ever? Comparing quality of life access to education and health care and relative wealth, "poor" people today would be considered in the middle (or even upper middle) class during the first third of 19th century. They ARE considered upper class compared to the majority of the people in the world today. Why they are they the laziest and have far more self pity then the fore mentioned groups?

The answer is that they FEEL disadvantaged and lacking opportunity relative to what they perceive as "everybody else". They FEEL helpless and hopeless. But this is really an illusion. This perception is formed mostly by watching visual media (television, movies, news ETC).

See really the stipend is a bailout of sorts. Something causes them to pity themselves (the false reality of media), and the money causes them to feel better about themselves. More aligned with that illusion.

What i am saying is - rather than a bailout, I wonder if just eliminating what caused the problem in the first place would be even better. I know that this is a fantasy because you can't just tell people to stop watching television.

The television thing is really just a symptom of a larger problem though. The main problem is the loss of Christianity and family. Even atheists cannot disagree with the fact that every legitimate study ever done about those with a strong belief in God concludes that they are harder working, far less depressed, commit far less crime, and stick with their spouses more ETC. (the same types of thing that this stipend seemed to help with). Take that away and of course there will be a big difference in crime, employment, divorce rate ETC. and how that affects future generations (the kids).
The official (verified by Twitter) Network Solutions @netsolcares account says it's a real e-mail.
Leaving it open is no big deal either. Or would that be the downfall of SO?
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fun fact: the "geographic center" of the US is in Kansas. Often if something geocodes to only "USA" then it gets placed there.
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We have actually set up a couple of clients with Backblaze. :-) I've been following your guys' progress since early on.
The world of 1984 was based on James Burnham's book The Managerial Revolution. Orwell even wrote a couple reviews of Burnham's work. Here's the first: http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/burnham/english/e_burnh
Submitted because this article is the closest thing I've yet seen to confirmation that Feds were involved in this story.
They don't even buy it. As a registrar, they can put a hold on it for free.
> I liked Namecheap, but have had major issues with their DNS service. you can't switch off of them without downtime.

That doesn't make any sense. As long as you set up the proper records in your new DNS provider prior to switching nameservers, there'll be no interruption.

It sounds like you switched nameservers first, assuming the records would just transfer over?
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I HATE that they require you to call to transfer your domain. Every client I ever come across that still has Network Solutions I immediately transfer them out.
Meh... I don't much care for labels, and leaving it at "libertarian" is probably specific enough. But if you really care, I associate a lot with the "voluntaryist" and/or "anarcho-capitalist" schools of thought. My beliefs about the ownership of land are in a state of flux and I'm not actually convinced there is any truly objective way to settle that issue.
I've got a question for you.

Blacks are incredibly underrepresented in the medical field (13% in the US population, 4% as physicians). Some believe it to be due to the damaging effects of medical experiments conducted on African Americans -- eg. the Tuskegee experiment where many were purposefully left untreated for syphilis despite the existence of a simple treatment (read: penicillin). Other reasons include the lack of African American physicians in the media, peer-pressure to pursue other career paths, and financial constraints. Bottom line: there is a racial disparity in the medical field, and those that are underrepresented have some very legitimate reservations for entering that industry.

So, the question: Would you be against movements targeted towards Blacks/African Americans meant to both encourage them as well as address their many concerns regarding entering a career in medicine?
I'm not sure it's that useful to compare a <10 person startup to the world's largest online retailer, with revenue increasing by leaps and bounds every quarter, a quarter-billion active customers, and approaching $100 billion a year in net annual sales.

Bezos is choosing to reinvest $$$ in business rather than report it as profits. So far it's been a very wise choice.

Back on the topic at hand, I should add that it's sad to see this happen to DrawQuest, and it's very decent of Chris to post this for us to read.
Someone should make a github like site specifically for dead or abandoned projects. People could put stuff up there either for advice, or other people could 'take' ownership of them.
Would really like to find out why they're shutting down. I ran a virtual car dealership for a while and then started a similar site to carwoo, before carwoo. It was absolutely crazy. Six months into it, both my cofounder and I decided it was best to shut it down (amid concerns that his employer might just end up getting all or a significant chunk of our work).

The auto industry is a very weird one. Entrenched in their own way, and I learned that it's a zero sum type game where the one willing to stoop the lowest will win. Going to a few "dealer workshops" I learned psychological tactics to make the customer feel like crap to get them to pay you more money and sign contracts that they would inevitably regret later. Eventually I realized that in the back it's really a financing industry (at least for new cars) and for used cars it's a zero sum, get the most you can scenario or bloodsucking buy here pay here deals.

After a significant amount of time and money, I was humbled at how much of an uphill battle it was to try to innovate in the industry. Have been watching CarWoo & TrueCar with a lot of interest (I'm a fan) since I can feel what they're up against. I'd like to know why CarWoo feels it's time to shut it down. Tesla has, IMHO, disrupted the new car market to some degree and the industry is dire need of change. Here's to hoping the folks at CarWoo go on to bigger and better things!
Great idea, I'm on board but would really like to know which apps/devices you integrate with before downloading. I figured if I scrolled down a bit there would be a list. Maybe I missed it somewhere?
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That's an artful phrasing, but an implication that your point 'is obvious' as the cornerstone of your argument is unconvincing.

I postulate that artful, metaphorical, or misleading uses of language is both neither misuse nor bending it, and I would like a clearer explanation of what a corrupted language looks like, aside from "being corrupt".
> It's so direct that it doesn't really qualify as an argument.

Do you see how that cuts both ways?

The original point was about disagreeing, on ethical grounds, with the idea that contraceptives are essential parts of sustainability initiatives. There really isn't a good counterargument to that objection since both sides really rest on qualitative opinions.
This. All dealerships should be converted to car delivery and ordering centers (with one of each model for test driving). The middle man cost should be wiped out, and the business should move to an order > build > x days to deliver approach. Save buyers $3,500 on a $30,000 car, let them further and easier customize, and they will wait for delivery.

Simply put, replace build car > sell car, with sell car > build car.

As it is, car salesmen are nothing more than order takers that generate a large commission and overhead; the customers come to you. They only still exist because of massive regulatory controls that have created a dealership cartel.

Auto makers would become significantly more profitable in this model as well, no more massive piles of inventory or huge mistakes in guessing which models will sell. This ancient, backwards model currently costs GM and Ford billions each year in lost profit, and costs consumers billions in unnecessary middle-man mark-up.
One of the world's most complex engineering challenges, filled with tens of thousands of highly engineered parts and tens of millions of lines of code, with per unit pricing ranging from $10k to $100k+, is a "commodity"?

The term "commodity" typically refers to products that feature little to no differentiation between each other. It means you could largely "throw a dart" to pick one, and you'd be no better or worse off than someone who does meticulous research.

That you say you won't buy another car until yours falls apart already suggests that perhaps you don't actually consider cars to be a commodity. Sure, you won't upgrade in order to get a faster or more luxurious car. But I'd imaging from your statement that reliability is probably important for you. Although you don't state it, if you frequently have family with you in the car, or even if you don't, there's a good chance safety is important as well. Cars from various manufacturers vary greatly in both these respects.

Not to mention that for other people, sportiness, luxuriousness, ruggedness, storage space, and other factors are important as well, and cars vary on those dimensions as well.

If the vehicle market qualifies as a commodity, so are the majority of markets of any sort, to the degree that the concept of a commodity adopts a useless definition.
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>First of all, I can pay taxes in Bitcoin. There's a company that handles it for me.

That company doesn't pay the US government in bitcoin. They just buy dollars on your behalf. Every dollar owed in taxes must be paid in USD.

>Suddenly if I'm not from US, that "intrinsic value" disappears. So much for that dumb definition.

It doesn't 'disappear'. There are still millions upon millions of people who need USD to pay their taxes. That's where the backing comes from. It doesn't matter if not everyone has to pay taxes in USD. Quite a lot do, and they need to buy dollars from other people in order to do so.

>There are multibillion global transportation industries out there, and they don't care what they transport (as long as it's legal).

I'm sure the people that hire them to transport goods value what's being transported.

>People pay them because they provide ease of transportation at a reasonable price per pound.

What point are you trying to make?

>I'd say ease of transportation is much more valuable to the majority of the world than some "freedom from prosecution" by some government that can't touch them.

Freedom from prosecution is pretty important to the people in the US that owe taxes to the US government. But you're comparing apples to oranges.

Ease of transportation is a feature of bitcoin. But ease of transportation does not itself give anything value. You are easily transporting your words to my computer. That doesn't mean they're valuable. Ease of transportation makes bitcoin a more suitable currency than something that is equal in all other ways but is harder to transport. But something having some features that make it suitable as a currency doesn't mean it is actually a good currency.

On the other hand, freedom from prosecution is something you can buy with USD. It's not a feature of the piece of cloth called the USD that you can pay taxes with it. It just happens to be that way. And I would say that a guarantee that your money will be worth something [because people will always have to buy it in order to escape prosecution from non-payment of taxes] is more important than ease of transportation.
This is a great starting point to mapping

I've always found coordinate systems both extremely challenging and fascinating - like how longitude and latitude isn't the same across the world according due to different models of the earth.

Have you got any plans to add a more extensive introduction to geodesy?
Look at http://www.crazydomains.co.uk/, they only charge £2.67 per domain name, the cheapest I have seen.
Even if it were easy to produce, the problem is where to store it.
GDP is a reasonably good measure of a nation's economic activity and per Capita GDP is a reasonably good measure of overall well being under all but the most extreme circumstances. Using purchasing power adjusted GDP is a bit better. IMO, using median income is even better. But GDP figures tend to be more accurate and less subject to bias and thus more commonly used.

To address your snide side comment... Gates visiting would not change the per Capita GDP. GDP and per capita GDP is not calculated that way.

GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports)

and

Per Capita GDP = GDP / Population

Visiting rich foreigners, or even rich expats who just reside somewhere but have no business activity do not change GDP except through their local spending (private consumption).

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDP for more info.
Ivan, it would be helpful to define what a "long max-age" is, exactly. In order to qualify for Firefox's HSTS preload list, max-age=10886400 or higher is required. Are you using the same boundary, or a different one?
Is it just me, or is there some bias in the before & after photos?

Mexico city "before" is just one dwelling versus a full street in the "after".

Nairobi "before" is taken when most of the city was dark due to clouds, whereas the "after" is a bright, sunny day.

Similarly, Shanghai "before" looks like it was taken with an unfavourable filter on a hazy day.

I'm not doubting that the world is improving, especially in those places. I just find it unusual that they used such obviously biased photos.
See here for an example questions they ask personal customers trying too withdraw above certain limit (not sure what it is exactly or what criteria is used to trigger this)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=356026.msg3835542#ms...

As KYC questionnaire a company has to answer here is alot longer than above, I am not sure if allowed to post it, but it is very thorough
Hello,

Just wanted to tell you that your comments of "if you did actually engage the issue critically..." are obnoxious. Two honest people can read the same literature, learn from the same folks, etc, and come to different conclusions. You're insinuating that if obstacle1 disagrees with you then they are either ignorant or lying about their experience. Not cool.
On the flip side of the other comments, I used the TrueCar service about 4 months ago. For the specific trim that I wanted (standard trim, not crazy options), several dealership websites had prices on them that were several thousand dollars lower than the TrueCar price, and that was before any negotiations happened at all. So I would use the TrueCar service again for doing research, but I am not confident of their ability to deliver a good "no haggle" price.
Or maybe women feel awkward and weird when tits and porn jokes are on slides just because men taught them to feel that way?

> overgrown man-children

That's the spirit!
On a similar note, here's a technique I've heard described (although I haven't actually tried it).

Go in to a dealership, haggle a bit, and if you don't get the price you want, say "OK, I'm going to go out and do some more shopping... here's my card, give me a call if you change your mind". Apparently just the threat of walking away will sometimes prompt some movement, and if you do walk out, you'll sometimes get a call the next day with a better offer.

I think they key is that it's not a bluff; you actually have to be willing to get up, walk away, and go look at something else.
There are valid reasons that the question was closed. Those reasons are known and expected to be enforced.
I remember when my brother proudly showed me his Chinese tattoo. He said "guess what it says". I looked at it for about 15 seconds and said "Tiger?" and he was like "how'd you know that?!".

It said "tig" in a sort of Chinesey looking font.
I appreciated the fractal poetry in including the story of Sadi Seyni's village well (an example of the need for spreading accurate information to our fellow villagers), which is itself wrapped in a letter which calls on the reader to spread accurate information on the myths being presented.
Not only that, there are many great and informative questions/answers that are gone.

One of my favourites was "Most astonishing violation of the principle of least astonishment", and the answers were a catalogue of how-not-to-build-software. Examples of good behaviour are nice, but counter-examples are often just as informative. Alas, it was "not a good fit for a QA"
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned "Brave New World" so far. IMHO, much closer to actual reality than 1984.
This thread made me want to cry..... this thread..... oh my god you guys this thread is so awful!

Does anyone have ideas about what could be done to educate against the constant same old "If it's just for women, it's sexism, same as if we said something was just for men" crap? I mean this is basically internet discussion canon at this point.

As a side note, we COULD have a conference just for men if it was aimed (as this is) to close the gender gap in society, tech, etc. That conference would be about treating women better, how to see your own biases and avoid them, things you think are ok but aren't, etc. Nobody would go, but that would be analogous event, not an event aimed at helping male only founders found companies.

Edit:
I decided to write up a quick blog for public discussion outside of this thread

Blog: http://istommydrunk.svbtle.com/the-maleonly-version-of-the-f...

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7099636

If anyone wants to find it on the front page, it's there. Expecting/getting trolls.
Is anyone else afraid to check their ancient Network Solutions account to see if they have outstanding bills for thousands of dollars worth of crap they never purchased or agreed to purchase?
I am too afraid to realize I have been created in a random generator to use this service.
pity australian companies want to charge 60$ more for a hitachi drive over seagate.
I don't have any tattoos, but I sure have an admiration for a lot that I see in the wild. However, am I alone in cringing over literally every single tattoo in this collection? Not (primarily) because of subject matter, but execution. Particularly the brightly coloured ones, but also the plain black - they look just so amateurish and poorly done.
We use ActiveMQ and it's fine. It speaks STOMP which is nice for interop. It's JVM so it gets a little weird when it's out of memory.

We're also playing with Kafka which takes things in a different direction than the JMS-based systems like ActiveMQ. So far so good.
This is really a shame. I used them to buy my car a year ago and the process was fantastic. I ended up getting about $5k below the sticker price by combining the five or so offers I got from CarWoo with information from TrueCar and playing the best two dealerships against each other. To top it off I got them to give me 0% interest over a three year payment.

Hopefully something like CarWoo will exist the next time I need to buy a car, or the industry changes so drastically that we don't need to worry about haggling anymore.
Namecheap controls both the domain name settings and the dns (if you use theirs). The moment you switch the nameservers for the domain, they immediately purge the records from their DNS.

So, when you point to new nameservers, anyone pointing to namecheap's dns during propagation will get SERVFAIL.

It sounds absurd... but I've gone back and forth with support about it, with no solution.
"Movie theft is something we take very seriously, and our theater managers contact the Motion Picture Association of America anytime it's suspected that someone may be illegally recording content on screen. While we're huge fans of technology and innovation, wearing a device that has the capability to record video is not appropriate at the movie theatre. At AMC Easton 30 last weekend, a guest was questioned for possible movie theft after he was identified wearing a recording device during a film. The presence of this recording device prompted an investigation by the MPAA, which was on site. The MPAA then contacted Homeland Security, which oversees movie theft. The investigation determined the guest was not recording content."
[1](AMC statement - emphasis mine)

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/man-interrogated-by-fbi-for-w...

Assuming this is credible, WHY is the DHS acting as a goon squad for the MPAA? How exactly does copyright theft represent a threat to the security of the homeland?
Depending on your preference for engaging in negotiation and buying and selling, there is a pretty reasonable model to show you should buy a typical 3 year old used car and then sell it around year 5 or so thus buying a car when it is still reliable has past the fastest part of its depreciation curve and selling it when it's about to fall down the reliability curve and still worth close to what you paid for it.
Here's a screen shot from my local trade school. http://cl.ly/image/3b1J3H2a0q0P http://gosiast.com/programs-and-courses/programs/Automotive-...

Here's another (didn't take a screenshot): http://gosiast.com/programs-and-courses/programs/Carpentry.a...

But just in case you're thinking that they just used pictures of women for all of the industrial trades, here's a few more: http://gosiast.com/programs-and-courses/programs/Refrigerati... http://gosiast.com/programs-and-courses/programs/Industrial-...

Here's a screen shot from the industrial apprentice website. http://cl.ly/image/3g093I0I3T3A. That's a rotating carousel of images; the majority of the images in it are men, but there are two women.
I can believe there is a market for this service, but that doesn't say much for the average consumer's savviness

Debit card numbers, designed to take money out of your account, are what fraudsters want and have compliance policies so strict even bank employees usually don't get access to the full string. Account details are less useful to fraudsters and generally printed all over communications from banks, including the checks and remittance advice handed to third parties.

So why would rational people prefer the latter, particularly if it involves paying a premium?

Is it another startup whose usefulness stems in a large part from the lack of ubiquitous free, same-day interbank payments between checking accounts in the US (unlike much of the rest of the developed world)?
Try http://unhaggle.com in Canada. I used them to buy my car and was very satisfied.
Oh wow, I wonder when and why they started using this design? If I saw this without already knowing about TrueCar I would have immediately closed the tab.
It recursively calls both itself and another copy of itself. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/991142/how-does-this-bash...
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> Four of the past seven governors of Illinois have gone to prison for corruption, and to my knowledge no one has demanded that Illinois schools be shut down or its highways closed.

Brilliant.
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