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I love this. Having used UK plugs for most of my life I know how cumbersome they can be.

My only concern is that many devices which change voltages such as computer power supplies often have some hefty capacitors in them. Even with the regular plugs I've occasionally got shocked (enough to hurt my fingers) by touching both pins while the device is plugged in.

If people have to rotate the pins in order to use the plug it's possible some devices with capacitors would be less safe to use as there is a risk that the capacitors would empty whenever you tried to rotate the pins.
They're just barely in the black, if at all. Seems like I vaguely remember an AllThingsD report that they were might hit revenue positive briefly this year before they'd quickly blow it all on new hires.

I don't know where you're getting this Facebook has no competition business. Everything on the web has competition, and Facebook is no exception.
Only so much room on the planet? I take it you haven't ever experienced the population densities of either NYC or HK? The fact of the matter is the world can support far more people than there are today. Further, world population will peak and some say it will do so by 2070 though I personally suspect it will be sooner given how economies are able to leapfrog with better technologies (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1108-global-population...). I think you've made a number of assumptions here based on facts that do not exist. And it is based on these assumptions that your prescription is as much unnecessary as it is dehumanizing.

Forced reductions in births is sterilization - partial or otherwise. And what's worse is that you would limit your approach to the developing world where they have the least number of options when their problem isn't social management or culture - but their oppressive governments that attempt to capture wealth for themselves and their cronies and in turn resulting in higher infant mortalities, inability to save making children effectively a form of social security.

While your proposed solution may not technically exist, it is this line of reasoning that has resulted in coerced insertions of depo provera in the developing world and again, the worst part is that it is a solution in search of a problem.
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"You have to understand going in that drugs are an evolutionary process ... The day after we pass a law, they are going to look for ways to circumvent that."

The law of unintended consequences. I was recently reading about cocaine production in South America. The DEA pressured Bolivia into putting restricting the so-called "precursor chemicals" needed to convert cocaine paste into cocaine powder. As a result, Bolivia stopped manufacturing and exporting powder all by itself, and started exporting its paste to the many factories which sprung up in neighbouring Uruguay and Argentina. This turned out to be a much better arrangement - not only did these industrial countries have access to high grade chemicals and lab equipment, they also had far better shipping routes. As a "bonus", a thriving secondary market in the production residues (an impure but highly addictive form of crack, locally known as "Paco") sprang up around the labs, enslaving local populations as badly as any meth town. Creativity loves constraints.
Not directly, but they are absolutely causing the situation, just as they were at fault for the rise of the American mob during prohibition. Using violence against adults engaged in voluntary exchange is evil and has evil consequences.
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Thanks for the library. Useful. However, I found a blog post cut-off.

Here's the post: http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp
There is no purpose in life obviously, so you have to make something up:

I chose enjoying life (hedonistic) and being successful in my field (AI).

Strangely I don't feel like helping others, even though I know I should. May be it's because I'm having enough trouble helping myself..
The solution is multi fold. Solutions include immediately offering trade free of tariffs, to help countries stabilize following the collapse of their governments (there are a few good presentations on TED.com about this), and offer the expertise to create legal structures that enshrine property rights for all. We don't need nor would we want colonialism (or even the mercantilist approach France still practices to a certain degree). We can however provide good examples and support countries that attempt to make the transition. We can help make it as smooth and painfree as possible and ensure that the incentives exist to do so.
I am certainly no expert, but this doesn't seem surprising for three reasons.

- Significant investment means significant external validation for the company's chances of success. It also theoretically raises its chances of success. it isn't some idea that nobody would fund.

- Before investment the company is comprised of some work that has been done & some ideas. After investment, the company is more work and money. It's bigger.

- They can afford to pay salaries.

Can someone explain why this post doesn't just mean penny stocks are better the blue chips?
Thanks, the reason article is something to chew over.

At the very least there's feedback loops at work here.
In the ideal case you find the correct pivot immediately, but in worst case you will have to sort the whole list. Thus O(n) = n log n.
"This is pretty much the opposite of Wall Street’s compensation schemes. To me, as a principle, that means it’s probably a good idea.."

priceless
They're just barely in the black, if at all. Seems like I vaguely remember an AllThingsD report that they were might hit revenue positive briefly this year before they'd quickly blow it all on new hires.

That implies that they're making an impressive revenue. Right now, Facebook has money to burn. If they find that they can't increase revenue, they'll be able to significantly cut back and make a profit, similar to what MySpace did recently. For now, they don't need to worry about that.

I don't know where you're getting this Facebook has no competition business. Everything on the web has competition, and Facebook is no exception.

According to Alexa, Facebook has five times the daily reach of MySpace, which is its next-closest competitor. It's got six times the reach of Twitter, which is called its competitor even though it's not. It's fifteen times larger than the number three network, which is Hi 5.

That's user interaction. Facebook also has more pictures than any other web site in existence, more than Flickr, which is the largest photo storage site in existence.

Barack Obama, who may not be the largest Facebook page, has twice the followers of APlusK on Twitter, and on Facebook he has vastly more functionality than APlusK does on Twitter: he can push nearly anything at users directly from the site, no third-party needed.

It's hard to track Note use and Video use since Facebook's based on privacy. However, I'd make a bet that Facebook's videos are enough to place it in the Top 10 for video sites worldwide. I don't know how I'd compare notes.

Google Search has competition, because it's possible to force search engine use through products. (I've used Bing a few times in the last month because I see it when I search on Facebook.) Yahoo Mail has competition, because its service has certain aspects that are unpleasant. (Email ads, for instance.) Facebook has none. In fact, because Facebook's core service is so incredibly tight, I'd bet that Facebook could upgrade nothing for two-three years, and it would still maintain its lead over competitors, solely for the reason that it can't lose that lead unless users see something elsewhere that's so compelling it makes them switch. I can't think of anything that compelling, save perhaps mobile networking, and Facebook's already the top phone-based social network despite not yet having location-based technologies.
I suspect you're right that you do get better care from hospitals in better neighborhoods and that there are differing expectations, but other factors may have much larger effects that have little or anything to do with social advantage.

From a recent article on infant mortality:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0823ch...
"African-American babies are far more likely to die than white ones, which is often taken as evidence that poverty and lack of health insurance are to blame. That's entirely plausible until you notice another racial/ethnic gap: Hispanics of Mexican or Central or South American ancestry not only do consistently better than blacks on infant mortality, they do better than whites. Social disadvantage doesn't explain very much."
How do you know that the problem was fixed when you don't know what the problem actually was? Maybe they just fixed the symptoms of the problem regarding this indivudual account.

And this is not about human conversation. Someone or some system made the decision to terminate the account. That same decision maker, human or not, knew why the decision was made. To tell the account owner should be a completely automatic procedure, not requiring any human intervention beyond what may have taken place already.

It's not about efficiency. It's not about customer service. This is about secrecy and legal issues. They have decided NOT to tell people why their account is terminated because they don't want to make their rules public. All the talk about the cost of customer service in cases like this is complete BS.
The court can draw inferences from your silence, but generally there would need to be further external evidence (circumstantial, hearsay etc) for those inferences to mean anything.

Unfortunately in this case, the offence is complete when you don't say anything (don't give up the key(s)).

And just for completeness, the caution in the UK is:

"You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."
The government isn't causing the situation, the dumbasses who choose to take a chemically addictive substance are causing the problem. You don't have the right to do whatever you want in this country if it's going to fuck up everything around you.

Using violence against adults engaged in voluntary exchange is evil and has evil consequences.

Not really. There are certain thing that should be allowed in society and certain things that shouldn't. I personally believe that alcohol and non addictive substances should be. Meth and other chemically addictive substances, plastic explosives, and automatic weapons shouldn't be. The key here is impact on others. If whatever you want to exchange is going to have a significant negative impact on those around you, it shouldn't be allowed. Smoking is public places? Nope. Can you smoke in your car by yourself? Sure. Same concept applies to everything we do. It's the price you pay for living in a civilized society. If you want to do meth and hunt deer with a 50 cal, you can always move to an empty island or a large desert.

I personally think the benefits of staying a part of a society outweigh the costs, and that's why I'm still here.
A person is responsible for their own mental condition. Period.

That is what this placebo situation demonstrates, more than anything. YOU are responsible for YOUR condition.
This isn't lack of customer service. It's secrecy. When they shut down someone's service they know why and they could automatically include that information in the notification email.
This kind of BS ruins the site.
I suppose it's inevitable with points based system.
Apple's never going to get rid of the review process. Their corporate culture demands complete control of their system too much for that to ever happen. Thanks, Steve Jobs....

However, what I would like to see (and I'd love some comments on this, since I know I haven't thought it through completely) is Apple allow one to sell their app through the store, but not list it in iTunes or the App Store app. That would leave the marketing solely up to the developer, and Apple could keep their sanitized image to the public. Joe's right about apps being sandboxed, so it would be unlikely that any malware app would make it into there. As it is, if someone found an exploit right now they could simply timebomb it and submit to Apple to wait for it after they've reviewed it. So, safety isn't really a concern here. It's more of a PR issue.

Thoughts?

(P.S. Commenting at 4am is not recommended. Sorry if none of this makes any sense.)
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They could send an automatically generated mail saying:

We had to suspend your account because you violated rule X (link to description). To have your account reinstated please do Y or Z so you are not in violation of X.

Simple, isn't it?
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It is inevitable that any Q&A system managed by the masses versus a knowledgeable few will descend into mediocrity. The harder the question is, the fewer people will vote on it, and even fewer would be qualified to vote on it.

Having said that, I think Stackoverflow does a reasonable job of coping with it, but abuse still goes on. I only first noticed these tactics when they were used against me. Without naming any names, I can tell you that many of the people with 15k+ rep have used these tactics.
To be honest I don't see that as a problem; first, the people answering a question are the people who are more likely to come back, read other answers and possibly downvote the very bad ones. Leaving negative comments is very obvious too, you won't get too far with that. Second, it never happened to me (and I've spent way too much time on SO), never seen it happening so I suppose this can't be too widespread.
It's more like procrastination... why pay today what could be put off to tomorrow?

Regarding your second point, the situation isn't hopeless. The graph with the article shows that it is possible to reduce the national debt, both in real terms and as a percentage of GDP.
No, it IS a bad thing. What you get (and what happens on SO) is that certain people will post something, anything, to new posts so they have the first comment. They then spend the next five minutes gradually expanding their answer either based on their own knowledge or worse of all, by cherry picking info from other peoples answers.

This is certainly not the case with every answer, and it it may be more prevalent under some tags than others. However it happens enough that I've become fed-up of crafting well thought out replies just to see them copy+pasted, with some minor word changes, into answers from first-posters.
Not only is it important that the work be good it's important that people have time to listen, like sometime other than when they're late to work. Geesh.
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Tip No. 1 is a bit similar to Jeopardy strategy of ringing in the buzzer as fast as possible and figuring out the answer afterwards.

Sadly, people will respect someone more with 10k gamed points than someone with 1000 honest points, because we have placed implicit trust in SO ranking system.
You can disallow all you like. Prohibition didn't work then and won't work now. You're just going to ruin more people's lives, and in this case, make the life of nearly every person in the country a little more miserable when they get sick.

Using violence for any reason other than defense against violence is wrong. I don't understand why so many people have so much trouble with such a simple concept.
I don't know about corporate recruiting but I find the cover letter much more informative then the CV.
Sorry if I was a dick to you! I didn't mean to offend you with that first thing I wrote.

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I see where you're coming from re:Facebook's money. I never gave it much thought what Facebook was doing: I just sort of innocently assume businesses will find a way to survive somehow. So when I was thinking of you saying Facebook wouldn't last, I was thinking only in terms of eyeballs and not in terms of making money. What you just mentioned - MySpace's design-rot - was what made Facebook the superior site once they opened up past colleges. I think that that, along with Facebook's feed, are the two core parts of the social network business, and once Facebook had that, they made themselves hard to unroot by some follow-up act.

I wrote on this at some point when I was at Mashable - when we were all theorizing as to what Project Beacon was going to end up being. My theory, which was way off as it turns out, was that they were building an offsite behavioral ad network that webmasters could use in the same way they use AdSense. They're slowly crawling to this now, I hope, but they're a long way from it, and it's the one killer app that could strike a blow at Google's AdSense and capture a SIGNIFICANT share of the worlds web ad market.

Huh! I'd never thought of that, but you're right: Implemented right (that is, actually getting ads that people click on), they could provide a moderately attractive, supremely targeted ad network. I could see myself using that on a site.

All this to say that Facebook may be great and all, and they may have the greatest momentum ever, but if they don't get serious and look at the BASICS of how their monetization model works, they're not going to get anywhere. I've been banging this drum since early 2007, and it's frustrating as hell to see so much squandered opportunity.

That makes sense. I'm very sorry. I thought you were saying something other than what you were actually saying.
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That implies that they're making an impressive revenue.

They are making impressive revenue, but impressive revenue is a relative term. Impressive compared to their pageviews? Not really. Impressive compared to what MySpace is making? It's about the same. Impressive compared to what my blog makes on a monthly basis? Hell yes.

For now, they don't need to worry about that.

If I'm an investor in any tech startup, those are the words I never want to hear from my investment. Being cavalier about squandering my success is the quickest route to being broke. Shrewd investment of time, resources, and expertise is the only way to succeed long-term.

Act like a bootstrapped startup, and you'll never be wanting for cash. Apple and Google both know this - they have money to burn, but they build up large cash reserves. This is smart.

Spending everything in the hopes of netting a couple of smarties is like paying for a superbowl ad to sell your couch.

According to Alexa...

Let me stop you right there. Alexa is as reliable for webstats as Valleywag is reliable for fact verification.

Granted, Facebook has outclassed in terms of attention and traffic every other social network out there. When you're in the number one slot, you're not looking out for number two, you're looking out for numbers two through two million.

In other words, Facebook is competing with the rest of the web.
Hmmm... I dont do this... perhaps thats why I'm still only around 3500 points :(

I rarely downvote an answer preferring to just upvote correct & good answers. So unless answer is a real "stinker" then I just reserve downvotes for trolls & language flamers
Does this guy ever post anything that isn't an Inspiredm spam?
And your point is? This is Occam's Razor. It's much more likely that it's a real truck. Also the stake vs the gain is too big.

I'm talking about a state organized lotterie. Given the huge risks involved in cheating, the fact that the profit margin is assured even without cheating and the fact that there is no one person or entity who really cares about bigger profits (state owned and managed), I'd say the same Occam's Razor would say the draws are very likely independent.
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You seem to be claiming that the laws against meth ruin more lives than meth addiction itself? The data we have say differently. I suggest you read more on meth and its effects and stop using the prohibition of booze as your only data point.

You're essentially just ranting about prohibition and violence with no concrete point in mind. There's no significant movement to legalize meth and there never will be. Any violence employed counteracting meth operations is certainly justified given the tactics used by organizations that deal with meth. This whole freedom to the people, freedom from oppression, start a revolution mentality is bullshit in this case. You can still be a free man without having the right to run a meth lab in your basement.

If you're going to pick a battle about freedom, meth isn't it my friend. And if it's not about freedom, well then it's about the high.
Depends on if you want equity or not. If you are consultant, the absolute best time to join a startup is after they get funding. It means low risk of bounced checks. Several very bad mistakes consulting for prefunded startups leads me to this conclusion.
Since this headline got censored, does anyone know the etymology of "F-Word" and all the other "[Letter]-Word" variatians, (what I believe are sometimes called snowclones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone).
What's missing from this piece is an answer to why I should care about getting Stackoverflow reputation? Besides access to the "special moderation tools", is there any benefit to justify the time I would spend to amass more than 10,000 points? I think that the only reason someone should use a site like Stackoverflow, or HN for that matter, is that he enjoys it. So from that perspective, there is little incentive to "game" the system.
This is a fucking nightmare! Maktoob owns so much of the arab online presence it's not even funny.

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"the number is higher than 100 million and the acquisition does not include souq.com,cashu.com or tahadi.com"

In the article comments.]
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I thought it was the same, but reading the Wikipedia article, it appears that zero-game is something slightly different.

I did mean zero-sum game.
> A "vegetable hedge" isn't natural in most places - it's the result of significant human activity.

And what is the issue with planted vegetables? Out here in Europe, vegetable hedges are considered a very important for the ecosystem.

>New Jersey isn't particularly representative of the world, >let alone of the world in a "natural" state.

Huh? You were asserting I don't know suburbian America, which is wrong. Stop moving the discussion.

>I've no objection to you wanting to live in a forest. My point is that many people don't and that forests are unnatural in most places.

My point is you don't need a forest for such a house.

>Actually, you're just asserting that idea. You've done nothing to support it.

Asserting if you want, I just had the wrong word. I'd like to continue that argument in French ;)
Also I live in a very modern and well-isolated house (that's law requirement in Germany) where I don't need any AC. That's my modest contribution. I just miss some vegetables around here...

>I've already asked twice for some support for the claim that such aesthetics are relevant to survival.

Where? Architecture is not only aesthetics, it's efficiency too. If you don't believe energy prices will soon go high again, then don't - not my problem :)
Ars has a friggin hilarious article on this:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/swedish-cour...
My guess is that now it's on HN they'll do something about it ;)
I agree. Though poverty can kill in at least one more way than not sheltering you from nature, somewhat more directly.

Social status is a positional good. I.e. relative affluence counts more than absolute affluence. High status people have better health etc than low status people. This seems to be at least partly a psychologic effect.