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In the most basic sense, land value tax would mean that the tax would be the same whether your land was just sitting there empty or you had a hundred-story skyscraper on it.

I don't know what that effects it would have. I assume the first and most direct effect would be budget shortfalls in local governments which would probably try to create more fines[0] and sin taxes (assuming they are still legal).

[0] LA has an almost $200 fine for jaywalking. I'd argue that fines and confiscated money from drugs should never go into general treasury much less directly used to fund the department collecting such fines and confiscations. Our government should run on taxes alone and not on fines and fees. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/us/in-a-car-culture-clash-...
Could you please explain why the money going to wealthy people is a problem?

I think it's fine for $100 million to go wealthy people if the wealthy people lose $100 million of treasuries at the same time. It only becomes a problem if the Fed overpays for the assets. Which is why it's so important to pick giant liquid asset markets like US treasuries. Giant liquid markets are the least likely to be distorted by Fed action.
After the patents expired, I noticed that Kroger released their own "Simple Truth" coffee pods that are the smaller, paper-lined ones that you can recycle. Oh, they also taste better than the Keurig K-Cups.
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On the one hand, it is sad that good, forward-looking academics are being denied funding.

On the other hand, during my time as a PhD student doing research for a top tier university, I saw quite a few projects where I was disturbed by the fact that we were contributing any taxpayer dollars to the project at all.

I think the existing academic model is unfair to both professors and especially to undergraduate student. Allowing the very top professors to focus on research, while making the rest take teaching seriously could remedy the situation.
Right now it is pretty much a binary choice - trust and install. Don't trust and don't install. I trust the developer to have implemented the SSH protocol correctly -- I have to trust them that much. But I don't see why I should have trust them enough to give them full permissions to my machine. Sandboxing (with permissions) would allow the application to run and access a port, nothing else.
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You are confusing search results and paid search ads. Google will happily put whoever bids the highest in the ads, but they don't force weather.com to rank above weather.gov in the organic results. That's a totally baseless conspiracy theory.
Hi lukasm, an online investment / advising service that bridged the international wealth divide would add immense value. We did not attempt it at Zidisha due to the difficulties in monitoring and policing such a system at scale.

Most of our borrowers seem to feel a strong obligation to repay their lenders despite the disparity in wealth and culture. Maybe this is because they see the lenders as individuals like them.

Our members, borrowers and lenders, communicate with each other regularly through the website, and sometimes meet in person as well - for example, Zidisha members in Nakuru, Kenya, held a conference last week. It would be interesting to try to develop that into a network more focused on sharing advice and help, like YC.
> [Hears X is from country Y] "Oh do you know bob?"

Which is an entirely reasonable question, because if X from country Y is at the same party as you, then there's a good chance he might know your friend Bob. It's a small world, they say.
I think we may be seeing the end of demand-side economics, or at least it's dying gasps.

If there's a gap between production and demand, you can look at it two ways: either people don't have enough money to meet the demand, or we're making the wrong things.

Supply side economics said we should always stimulate supply -- demand would follow. Give breaks and incentives to keep making things, dammit! Of course, the problem here is that simply "making things" doesn't take the economy anywhere. It doesn't trickle down.

Demand siders are similarly stuck in one spot, claiming that if only people had enough money, the economy would be fine. Give the people money and the rest will work itself out. It'll trickle up.

I think that both supply and demand are moving targets, and by focusing on them we're missing the larger point: is the money doing anything new? Because economies exist to grow and adapt, not stagnate. If you're dumping money on factories to produce things nobody wants, it's not growing. Likewise, if you're giving money to people to do the same thing they've always done with it, it's also not growing.

We're going to need a more sophisticated way at looking at this. I welcome the idea of giving money away. Anything that will move the conversation forward from these two simplistic and entrenched positions is most welcome.

Let's test it.
Actually, they do share the same OTR [0], ie one can expect the same level of security. The real difference is the transport, as you stated.

[0] https://github.com/agl/pond/commit/338395668fbb8a7819c0fccf5...
It's obviously not creating more wealth, rather it's redistributing that wealth into an arguably more efficient distribution.
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How does it benefit the rich?

Suppose I'm rich. The Fed creates a dollar. The Fed offers me a dollar for my treasury bill worth $1. I accept. As a result, I am now a dollar richer but a $1 treasury bill poorer. Have I gained? I have $1 more in money, but $1 less in assets. So I'd say no, I haven't gained. The only way I gain is if the Fed pays me more than the treasury bill is worth. And since the Fed pays market price, this is difficult to do.
Only because that's traditionally where the users have been. If everybody switched to desktop linux, the malware would target linux instead.
They have equal opportunity. (Actually, no, women have greater opportunity than men do these days.)

That's not a guarantee of equal outcome, though.
Small numbers (cells containing values less than 6) are supposed to be removed from the data or obscured, to prevent breaches of confidentiality.

Word document: http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/1879/NHSIC-small-numbers-terms...
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"You would need a massive number of people to suddenly start caring about network/PC security"

"You can get a ticket" seems to get people to care, up to a point.

"you would need them to have the ability to actually do something about it"

Certainly the case. I lean toward "change the incentives and the market will provide", but this could be better fleshed out.

"it does nothing for anyone not under US law."

It does plenty for people not under US law - they won't be DDoSed from as many bots in the US.

It doesn't do as much about people under jurisdictions not covered, but:

1) A lot of the software that is developed is developed with the US in mind as a market, especially those things that are sufficiently common to really let malware spread by targeting a couple exploits. Making that software more secure might decrease the rate of infections abroad.

2) Other jurisdictions might very well follow suit - particularly with international pressure.
>declare the population as shareholders and start paying dividends //

Who gets the prefernce shares!?

Also, they may be issuing a profit warning rather than any dividends ...
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I used fsn on the SGIs in 1994/5, but I think this initially free (as in beer) program was later bundled with some for-pay package and vanished from the downloads area.

The funny part is I probably still have a working copy of it on the SGI Onyx in my garage.
Thank you! That was causing my issue.

Thanks for adding that ObjC option.
And amazingly (/s) nobody wants to talk about that, nor the disparity in male vs female high school graduation rates and literacy rates.
Indeed, I left academia for a startup. Securing funding for ZappyLab is by no means easy (http://anothersb.blogspot.com/2014/03/hello-startup-sequel-t...) But as hard as it is, there are many VCs, angels, and there is crowd funding (we are running a Kickstarter campaign now). Certainly not easy, but there are more options. You run a genetics lab and lose your NIH grant - where do you go?
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Ask 10 people this question and you'll get 11 different answers, but IMO the practical impact will be the lawyers will make less money and there will be less multi-billion dollar lawsuits, but the industry will keep trucking on as always.

The idea of software being patentable is actually a very new concept. Though there are some rare examples of software systems being patented back in the 1980s, it wasn't until the late 1990s that software patentablity was a widely accepted concept, prior to then software was seen as a mathematical construct and thus explicitly excluded from patents. The industry got along fine back then on copyright laws alone and will get along fine with or without patents in the future.
OMG! It's like "XCode on Rails"!

At last!
This is almost exactly my story as well.

One point he doesn't mention is that there are many interesting problems in the "real world". Lots of academics just point to industry in general and say, "no freedom, no thanks." I've held a few jobs and all of them presented with unique, interesting, and challenging problems. I've had the freedom to choose my own approach to solving problems and met up with other academic-minded people to have good lab-meeting style discussions about how to tackle a project. Industry positions can be pretty attractive.
Unfortunately the audience is different. Uncertainty becomes more of a negative the further away the audience is from the practitioner.
I'd be interested in seeing if you stripped the gender data off this & gave everyone a negotiation-skill score & saw how salary discrepancies followed that distribution.
That's entirely possible, but it's not really what we're talking about. The women that don't get the job because of discrimination don't play into the wage gap because position is controlled for.

Discrimination is an important discussion in general, but most of the time it's extremely hard to prove that someone didn't get a job because the hiring officer was prejudiced. This wage gap stuff is easier to quantify and is a visible problem to solve.
When milk is $800 a gallon we might see the flaw of this approach.
At least with a start-up your fate is much much, much, more in your own hands. It's really pretty astounding nowadays how many grants get rejected over the the tiniest things. I just had an application rejected (with high marks) due to it (1) focusing too heavily on what the call for applications primarily asked for, and (2) not numbering the pages.
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Its not the role of the CEO to solve those issues, its his role to make sure he has people who DO know how to solve it working on it, and to make sure they have the resources they need to do it.

He seems better suited for a role as CTO, though even that may be a stretch...
"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

Indeed, even while giving complete satisfaction, they have no forward vision about the possibility of pursuing a career at CERN.

This lack of an element of social responsibility in the contract policy is unacceptable. Rather than serve as a cushion of laziness for supervisors, who often have only a limited and utilitarian view when defining the opening of an IC post, the contract policy must ensure the inclusion of an element of social justice, which is cruelly absent today.

http://staff-association.web.cern.ch/content/unsatisfactory-...

In my three years of operation, I have unfortunately witnessed cases where CERN duties and educational training became contradictory and even conflicting. This has particularly been the case when the requirements of the CERN supervisor conflict with the expected time dedicated to a doctoral student’s thesis.

http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2013/27/News%20Artic...
Now, add a price field, and sir, you got yourself a sustainable business!
Arq has been part of my backup systems since version 2. This upgrade looks very good. Especially the expansion beyond relying solely on Amazon S3 and use number of other services including SSH.

Having used the past Glacier support, the new S3 Glacier Lifecycle will be much better.

I am wondering about when (if?) the open source arq_restore and format documentation will be updated.
Great job, and hopefully we'll get to see the rest of it.
Hey! I do this! It tends to drive people insane!
As a backer and project creator who's running a Kickstarter funded startup, I couldn't agree more.

I love your example but I want to point out that the same obstacle you mention with games is applicable to most of the other industries that are funded on Kickstarter. The root problem in all cases lay in a startup's:

1) need for an audience

2) need for capital

What kickstarter has successfully done is build a loyal audience that's massive in size. I came to really appreciate this after seeing more than 80% of my funding come from people visiting kickstarter.com who didn't know about my project beforehand. This was huge. And not only does it give you the visibility and the capital required to execute, it validates your idea to a large extent.
Well, it's the original title and here the original title is encouraged. (I prefer an improved version of the titles, but without editorializing.) I was complaining about the newspaper's title.
>Zidisha is purely an online service, without local loan officers, and our understanding is that applications of profit-sharing models to microfinance rely on extensive personal monitoring of the funded businesses.

Based on this, I would think that giving entrepreneurs money isn't the only way to help them become successful. Most successful startups in the US(especially SV) rely on much more than just money to be successful. Those "old boy" networks, mentors, etc. all play a big role in building successful companies. So why not give stranded African entrepreneurs the same opportunity?

I'd be more than happy to make out a profit-sharing loan and nurture an entrepreneur who hasn't had the luxury to get an advanced education in some field.

Perhaps money isn't all they need...
25% is still pretty usurious.
If you're doing such a comparison, then it points towards a salary system that's working as it should, but a disbalance in gender roles in childcare - which can be fixed not by changes to salaries, but by changes in childcare policies such as those successfully implemented by Sweden and others, where male nurses in similar situation as your wife would take time off comparable to female nurses. They'd still be behind childless workers, though.

That's how it works, if your family is more valuable to you than your career, then you'd be happy with getting more family at the tradeoff of less career - and that explains why the positions at the very top get a disproportionally large number of divorces/etc - if someone is consistently neglecting family because of their career, then they do get to the top easier than someone who'd sometimes actually prefer going home to their kids.
My pet peeve with Sync is they disable navigation input via touch screen when car is moving. Even when a passenger tries to enter it. Instead they force the driver to use their clunky voice-recognition to do this. Which is much more distracting.

But this is a minor quip compared to how MS implemented Sync Services. It's 2014 and they use a voice(!) line from a pre-registered cell phone to connect to their services.
As one of those people who rarely says "I don't know", let me offer a different view: saying "I don't know" is negative and gets you nowhere. Instead of saying "I don't know", say what you do know. Then you're a step closer to understanding than anyone who said "I don't know"; and you're likely to be several steps ahead by the time they get over that hesitation.

Now, guesses should never be presented as absolute facts, but having a guess puts you much closer to the truth than having nothing. If you really, truly have nothing, no relevant knowledge---which should rarely happen if you're well-educated and/or experienced, in which case you're a novice to the subject, where somewhat different rules apply---then say so; otherwise, go with what you know and learn the rest on the way. Will mistakes sometimes happen? Will you sometimes head down dead-ends? Absolutely, but that's part of the learning process and we shouldn't be afraid of mistakes, as long as we're in a process which is tolerant of them. (If you're pushing code to production, for example, then that's a time either to know or not to know, not to guess. But that's the end of the process, not when you're asking questions.)

So if you said to me, "I don't know", I might look at you funny because it's probably not true: you probably do know, at least partially; it just seems like you're not willing to acknowledge that.
Earthware's statement claims that they used mock data

HES Data Map Statement 3 March 2014 18:55 GMT. Earthware was contacted this morning by the HSCIC regarding a demo online map we had created to demonstrate how HES data might be displayed in a mapping environment.Earthware immediately withdrew this map from our website upon request from the HSCIC. Earthware would like to clarify the following: The map displayed mock data held by a third party who provided this data to Earthware via a web API. We do not hold nor have we ever held HES data on our servers. No patient identifiable data was ever displayed on the map. Earthware are confident that we have not breached any legal or regulatory rules regarding the licencing or publication of HES data. We will continue to co-operate fully with the HSCIC if required. http://www.earthware.co.uk/
It isn't just that research funds are drying up. There's also a growing number of Ph.D.s fighting over the shrinking pot of money [0]. I usually advise students not to pursue a Ph.D. because the life of the median academic is pretty awful. But at the same time the general job market for new grads (in most fields) isn't all that great either, meaning that in relative terms the Ph.D. route hasn't fallen too far in the rankings of post-graduate plans.

[0] http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/sed/2012/data_table.cfm
Thanks for writing this. While I often look for ways to take external-interaction-responsibility away from Rails objects, the OP didn't really make sense to me, at least in terms of saving time and making things more logical.

However, there's a distinction that has to be made in your example and the OP's. In the OP, the failure of the Interactor, including the delivery of emails, would cause the controller to enter the "failure" branch:

if interactor.success?
redirect_to home_path
else
flash[:error] = interactor.message
render :new
end

Whereas your example, the controller would take the successful branch if the data model was saved, regardless of whether email delivery failed:

if @grouper.save
ConfirmedGrouperEmails.new(@grouper).deliver
AssignBarForGrouper.enqueue(@grouper.id)

redirect_to home_path
else
render :new
end

So we're not comparing apples to apples here. However, as a layperson, I'd have to agree with you: Why should the error be raised to the grouper-creating user, when it should be going to the part of the system that handles mailing? But maybe the actual details are more complicated than that...
Is about time required to iterate and the -related- abundance of VCs on the field.
The decrease in manufacturing jobs and union power was a part of it. The failure to raise a minimum wage another part.
It is an important paragraph, but in reality things don't necessarily play out that way. For example, about half the workers hired via the stimulus bill were poached rather than hired from unemployment.

http://mercatus.org/publication/did-stimulus-dollars-hire-un...

A significant chunk of stimulus money was also devoted to raising wages for govt workers during the recession, which is also an anti-Keynesian policy.

http://www.research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ECIGVTWAG

Economically there is a free lunch. But politically, we don't seem very good at eating it.

It's also strange to see this topic brought up in the article, and then the effects of BI (increasing slack in the economy) completely ignored. In the pilot projects, BI reduced people's willingness to work by about 10%. That's the opposite of a free lunch.

https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...
Not to sound like some crazy person with the word SOCIALIST written on the inside of my forehead in neon colors, but:

It should be possible for WhatsApp to get "only" $18 billion and scientific research gets the remaining $1 billion. About a 5% tax.

That way, venture capitalists could claim to fund innovation and would actually be truth-tellers.
Could you please elaborate?

Just because the poor spend the money in 2 seconds does not mean that the wealth evaporates after 2 seconds. They now have whatever goods they purchased with the money. And even if those goods are consumables, it's offset the spending/debt they would have otherwise needed.

I find it rather offensive to accuse the poor of wasting all the money they receive (which is how I interpret your comment). If that's not what you meant, could you please re-explain? Thank you.
The title is missing a word: it should be "Downloading Windows Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible". Similar remarks would apply to OS X for any software not supplied by Apple. Fortunately, Linux distros have package managers.
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Consumer first to finetune product, then SMB.

SaaS.
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I don't think it's a problem per se, but it's not neutral. When the Fed purchases $100 million of treasuries with new money, it makes wealthy people as a class $100 million richer.
I suggest the Harlem Shake be added.
There was a comment about Hilary in those Clinton papers that just got released along the lines of "Stop just answering the question asked. It's good manners but bad politics."
Which goes back to my original statement. If more people used it and knew about it, maybe more people could get involved.

This stuff is hard. And presumably we're doing this programming stuff because we're not afraid of hard problems.

One problem at a time - end users can't find the right links to download, so this solves that.

Now open some issues about the security stuff and let's get that patched up.

Telling people to not use Windows, or that "X is flawed so rather than fix it I'll avoid it" isn't moving anything anywhere. I'd rather get involved.
One thing about BlueGiga, all of their software requires windows.
There has been no global warming since 1998.
I cannot ELY5 because I don't find that simple nor obvious and it would also require explaining the distinction of "unimproved" land value, but: "Ground-rents are a still more proper subject of taxation than the rent of houses. A tax upon ground-rents would not raise the rents of houses. It would fall altogether upon the owner of the ground-rent, who acts always as a monopolist, and exacts the greatest rent which can be got for the use of his ground." - Adam Smith
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When I got the email that they were shutting down the API at the end of April, the first thing I rushed to check up on was the status of Leaflet.js (which I think had been sponsored by Cloudmade?). Fortunately, it seems it's now sponsored by Mapbox: http://leafletjs.com/2013/11/18/leaflet-0-7-released-plans-f...