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1. Of course that over the long term, r will become equal to g (well, it's actually mathematically possible that r > g forever). But the point is that we don't want to live in a world where 90% of the GDP goes to people who own capital.

2. The volatility argument says, that even if r = g over the long-term, the per-year average of r can be bigger than the per-year average of g. What Piketty's claim does it debunk?
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>65,000 tonnes of chemical sounds humongous, but picturing the volume makes it look a lot smaller

Well, the volume of chemical weapons it takes to take down an entire city of millions is much much smaller than this.
Piketty's book is about rentiers and rentier capitalism; the comment you quote is an intellectually weak justification of why riches do exits. In the real word is not like that.
I don't know tluyben, we've been having this conversation now for....24 hours or so. I think 2s is a bit of a low estimate ;)

Seriously though, I don't think the Conversation needs to end there (conversation with a capital C - ours can end whenever we want). I do indeed believe in 'mystery above all'. I actually think that's a lovely way of putting it. Because mysteries are just unknowns, and without unknowns, what happens to scientific exploration? Do we just assume we know everything? And then the exploration stops. I'll be more explicit than that as well - I believe in God, and I am somewhat religious. I don't think that cancels me out of any interesting conversations.

I think you're making an assumption when you say that if you hold scientific definitions true then there is no reason why it won't be reached. Science says nothing about the future certainty. It is composed of models whose intent is to reflect reality, testable hypotheses to build and refine those models, and the results of the tests of those hypotheses to validate or disprove the hypotheses. We have no model (other than some vague calculations of processing power of the brain), no testable hypotheses and no results for these projections. It's not science.

But I would say I've proven you wrong that this isn't a good conversation!
I like the idea. Creating different recipes with different or optional ingredients. I had been thinking if there is such a tool to experiment and document different recipes. I might also want to branch out from an existing step, make changes and merge back to the original step. BUT at the end - when I actually cook something and don't want to experiment or change the ingredients - I would like to see the recipe in a linear format.
From Daniel Jackson's book on Alloy [1], here are a few of the major examples they provide:

* Leader election in a ring

* Hotel room locking (this one is really cool)

* Media asset library management

* Memory abstractions

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=DDv8Ie_jBUQC&lpg=PP1&dq=sof...
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I think Square and Stripe can easily co-exist - the more pressing issue, as far as I can see it, is Square's model won't scale very well at all to EMV ('chip and PIN') cards, which severely limits their market.

Square's current magstripe reader is very simple, and thus cheap to produce to the point where they can give it away. EMV readers are not cheap. They must be certified, and are far more complex. I was in an Apple Store in London a few days ago and they were selling PayPal branded EMV readers for about $150.

Even if we assume a very healthy markup on that price, given the margins Square is on they cannot afford to give away a reader that would cost them ~$50 to produce. It changes their entire business model. Square have offered no indication of how they plan to support EMV cards once they become widespread in the US (which will eventually happen), other than 'you can still swipe the magstripe', which whilst true also usually means the fraud liability remains with the retailer, rather than the bank.
Most rocket engines don't throttle down well. The main reason isn't the turbopumps (although that can also be an issue) but combustion instabilities in the chamber and flow separation in the nozzle.

Nasa overview of liquid engine throttling:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2010003...
It's always interesting when statistics correlate across multiple frames (time, location, etc.); however that still doesn't prove causality. I'm inclined to think that the causes behind an area being slow to remove leaded gasoline could also affect crime rates.
The total number of known tests by country is shown here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_nuclear_testing_count...
I know of two situations when ordnance is ejected prior to landing

1. Hang-ups, where the release command was given over target but the ordnance didn't separate. Usually this requires the entire weapon rack ( such as a BDU ) to be ejected using the emergency explosive charges.

2. Trap-weight limits; the old-gen F/A-18s were crippled by this problem, wherein they couldn't recover to ship carrying the ordnance with which they launched. Particularly if they topped-up from a tanker on the return leg this could necessitate dumping unused ordnance.

I think #2 is much less of a problem now with the Super Hornets.

In general, after several decades of toting 2,000 lb Mk 84 bombs, ordnance is returning to smaller sizes due to the concentration of effect possible with precision guidance. 500 lb bombs are commonplace now, and sometimes even smaller. So this should also reduce the frequency of dumping.
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> are you scared of it? How dangerous is it to get hit with that kind if voltage?

it really depends on what body part touches it, and where the electricity wants to go (ground). the longer the path, the more dangerous it is.

I got hit once, from a broken electric kettle, in fact :) I had accidentally dropped the thing, some plastic bit had broken off and exposed some metal strip that was bent out of shape (in the base part, that the kettle part gets power from). Let's attribute it to not having had my morning coffee yet, when I figured hey let's bend that bit back to where it should be, not realizing the thing was still plugged in.

It hurt. It felt literally as quite a shock. But it was just my arm. A jolt, like when you're holding a stick and someone hits that stick with another stick really hard. Except a bit harder than that. I remember feeling quite shaken afterwards, could be adrenaline, could be my nerves being all agitated, I dunno.

After a few minutes I was fine again.

Guess I was lucky, maybe?

The very same day I got a new electric kettle (the cheapest ones are just €10), because really for me it's in indispensable kitchen tool, like the microwave or a chef's knife.
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Nice implementation, quick to get up and running through the Chrome app store.

One thing I couldn't work how to do was add a new project. Kept showing "No project" for me and I could see now way of adding new projects?
Author here. I dismissed RULEs and TRIGGERs since they don't work correctly under concurrency (and most RULE-based approaches are broken even without concurrency). I felt it wasn't a fair comparison.

However, I guess it would be nice to know how much of a gain would be possible if one was willing to forfeit correct behaviour under concurrency. But that would probably require more work than I'm willing to put in, since the answer doesn't interest me that much personally at this moment.
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r can be positive and g negative at the same time. Total growth consists of labour and capital growth. Piketty's point is that capital is growing faster than labour – if that continues forlong enough, we can end up in a world where 99% of income goes to owners of capital.
Drug development is extremely risky. A privately run prison is pretty much a government money spigot.
Exactly, it's also more accurate, as you know the water will be consistently just below 100C as you pour it on the pasta. I set my timer to 7.5 minutes to get a perfect al dente, just slightly undercooked so it can still absorb some of the sauce you mix it with.

And always remember, no oil in the pasta water!!
The Krupps are perhaps the most famous. They profited handsomely from both WW1 and WW2, managed to escape losing their fortunes during denazification (for unclear reasons), and the family still controls large amounts of wealth today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp
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Windows Phone 7 was released in around November 1, 2010. Dell, HTC, and Samsung all shipped devices at launch. The first Nokia devices shipped in April 2012. By that time Windows phone 7.5, Mango, was available and that's what they ran.
The first link you posted mentions the USS Iowa Gun Turret explosion, another shocking tale of negligence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion
I saw this limitation with EMV a few years ago, it concerned me that they wouldn't be able to move into EMV markets quick enough, and we already have PayPal, iZettle and a few other smaller companies in the UK and Europe supporting EMV cards.

However, I then spoke to an ex-Square employee, one of the very early members of the team, and he told me that they weren't concerned at all about it, they had much bigger plans. I was skeptical, but I think Square Cash might be one of the elements of this bigger plan.
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Does anyone think there could also be a link between lead in fuel and Alzheimer's? If there was, at what point would we start seeing Alzheimer's cause decline?
LibGDX is a lot of fun to work with, and a great way to target both Android and iOS with the same code base.

What you might not have thought of, is that you don't have to limit yourself to games. I created a successful productivity app entirely in LibGDX (shameless plug, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.absoluteat...). Features common in games and LibGDX, such as the very good performance and the rich animation capabilities can add a bit of flair to an otherwise boring app and make it stand out from the crowd.

I see that with the 1.0 release, you can now even embed a LibGDX fragment into your otherwise 'native' Android app. I can see this being very useful for apps where you want to have your animated custom gauges and widgets surrounded by the native OS chrome.
So what do you think about the resulting discussion?
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I'm only through the introduction right now, but assuming that it's representative of what's coming later, Piketty isn't saying 'r > g' as mathematical fact, he's saying 'when r > g, divergence in the distribution of wealth happens' and 'empirically r has frequently been and is again moving towards > g'. And his concern with this is the same as the problem you state, that r > g implies, eventually, r = g, which translated back to English means economic activity devolves into rent paying.

Quoting:

"When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate of the economy (as it did through much of history until the nineteenth century and as is likely to be the case again in the twenty-first century), then it logically follows that inherited wealth grows faster than output and income... Under such conditions, it is almost inevitable that inherited wealth will dominate wealth amassed from a lifetime's labor"

"Forces of convergence also exist, and in certain countries at certain times, these may prevail, but the forces of divergence can at any point regain the upper hand, as seems to be happening now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century"

"My conclusions are less apocalyptic than those implied by Marx's principle of infinite accumulation and perpetual divergence... In the model I propose, divergence is not perpetual and is only one of several possible future directions for the distribution of wealth"
Thanks, there is a button ‘+ Add’ and hotkey Cmd/Ctrl + N for adding new projects or clients. Also you can switch between sections (tracker, analytics, projects, etc) by hotkeys Cmd/Ctrl + 1/2/3/4.
Aside : I love founders who place being a husband or father (or both) front and centre in their online profiles - in short people like yourself and Ryan Carson.

Will def be following the CB Insights blog.
Care to share them? It sounds like a lot of people would like to use them instead of Postman.
A lot of sys admins are there by default. I would consider myself one of these - I would love to be able off load this work onto someone else who knows more than me, but there just isn't anyone.
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Somewhat roguelike, but since it was played on a teletype, you have a separate "look around" command that prints out a section of the map (line 06390). The undocumented command 10 (line 10730) prints the whole map, and another undocumented command 12 (line 11000) invokes a simple map editor.

The dungeon files contain just 25*25 numbers, and looking at line 02370 onwards their meanings are: 0 for empty space, 1 for wall, 2 for trap, 3 for secret door, 4 for door, 5 for monster, 6 for gold, 7 and 8 perhaps mushrooms (they increase your HP or CON by 1, then randomly choose whether to poison you; they are randomly scattered when reading the dungeon file on line 01445 onward).
Yes, that's the exact problem that made me write this. What's particularly amazing is the amount of magical cipher suite strings shared throughout the web, most of which do not take in account PFS, or still prioritize RC4. All of that was acceptable at some point in time. Other cipher lists just don't make any sense at all, e.g. first removing a cipher (-RC4), then killing it (!RC4), all in one string with no benefit at all.
First off you're I believe incorrectly using g rather than r in your "how volatility changes things" section. Secondly you seem to be assuming not only that r will be more volatile than g, but that it will be so much more volatile that medium/long-term r will drop enough to match g.

And lastly you're ignoring the actual history Piketty is describing, in which dynastic families very often tend to accumulate and pass on vast empires of wealth. When your speculative theory doesn't match reality ... perhaps it's time to reconsider the theory.
"No attempt has yet been made to save Mt. Gox."
And they're about to dump some more into the Mediterranean unless we do something about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620714
Ah, yes, it was showing me Montreal - so $25 x 10 hrs x 20 days = $2500/month - better. In fact, my suggestion was going to be to double their rates! If I was them, I would be encouraging/exploring more hours per guest - so charge $30 for one hour and then drop it in blocks of 2 or 4 hours.

I still don't like taking on the inventory risk.

I think they limit it to 10-12 hours per day in their schedule (as they limit the days to during the week). I'm just making an assumption about their occupancy rate - could be higher or lower.
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How is Raindrop compared to kippt and icebergs.com?
>I'm inclined to think that the causes behind an area being slow to remove leaded gasoline could also affect crime rates.

The statistics show a 20-year lag between the banning of leaded gasoline and reduction in crime rates. So even if "unwilling to ban leaded gas" and "high crime 20 years later" could be correlated, it seems less likely that the same things that cause "willing to ban leaded gas" are also the cause of "lower crime 20 years later".
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I have been running OpenVPN on UDP/53 for a few years now. I figure that any network operator sophisticated enough to do deep packet inspection to detect real DNS traffic is also sophisticated enough to block outbound UDP/53 traffic.
This article includes the phrase "with the matter" six times, in case anyone was wondering.
Nice work! I've been working on something very similar. My project still needs a lot of work (and talent, I started working on this site when I first learned html/css/js 2 years ago) but you can check it out at: http://subjectflow.com , or for a full tree: http://www.subjectflow.com/viewer.htm?=mewvzl2i6bt97gnjf9i4 (click on the white dots to expand the tree).

I really hope to see this type of idea take off. I would love to see this sort of thing combined with simplified git related operations to make it easy to improve education content. Additionally I think it would be great to add in a comment system where you can leave a question connected to the exact text that is confusing you.
BTW, why is it called UPSERT (ugly) and not MERGE (less ugly) as in DB2?
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Microsoft bought devices and services and right for Nokia name for few years. I think they need to drop Nokia name from new devices.
Great framework, great developers! Really enjoyed reading the summary of their past 4 years, sounds like it was a really great ride.
Spot on. I'm currently arguing with a retailer over a Toshiba television which can't play mp4 files reliably. It crashed and hangs regularly.

They want to send it for repair because to be honest they are fucking morons and however much explaining I do they don't realise that the manufacturer doesn't support any kind of firmware update. I want my money back so am having to take them to small claims court in the UK to force a refund under the sale of goods act because the item is not fit for purpose.

Between this and a Bravia EX which is buggy as hell I'm tempted to just buy something that will run a Linux based media center with a PC TFT and say fuck it to consumer appliances.
I think Schema.org is a great website for everyone to learn how to classify their content and outgoing links. Most organizations should follow their suggestions to improve their search rankings.

My only problem is that I gave the domain schema.org to Google as part of my OpenDomain project. They originally offered to buy it for $20k, but as we are not for profit and do not sell domains, I gave it to the for free. All I asked was for a press release and a link on the main page of the website, but they still have not done either. Is this how Google shows how they support Open Source? </end rant>
Higher population density seems obvious. Increasing density increases the opportunities for violence.

But, since violence is more often directed at people that are known, rather than strangers, I find the other two suspect.
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Why would Apple destroy their amazing profit margins by buying a company that has razor thin margins at best? There is no chance that Apple will buy Square, they are much more disciplined in terms of watching their financial numbers than that.
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No need to be rude - you have come to an invalid conclusion here, and it would be better to try to understand why than yell at others.

So, what about this research is not falsifiable?

For example, if research finds another location in which lead additives were not banned, but in which crime declined with the same characteristics as the drop being ascribed to the ban on lead in other countries, that's strong evidence that the theory is indeed false.

In other words, your point is entirely incorrect.
Highly recommended book that touches on bio-accumulation: Zodiac by Neal Stephenson (http://www.amazon.com/Zodiac-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0802143156)
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Are you sure about all this? Seems to be a lot of speculation based on nothing.
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Essentially this comes down to pressuring distros and server vendors do their homework finally ship with good examples/defaults. E.g. Microsoft IIS (!) has OCSP stapling enabled by default since ages. Apache? Most people still run 2.2, which isn't capable of OCSP stapling at all. Nginx is in a similar position.

That said, the more sysadmins rely on 
rotten
well-proven "Enterprise Linuxes" and "LTS" versions with old libraries and servers, the more security expertise is required from sysadmins to decide where to deviate from the distros default packages to meet current best practices.

On the other hand, security is a moving target and knowing your (Open)SSL setup is as important as e.g. knowing your RoR setup. It's an inconvenient truth, because it requires learning new stuff. I don't see any alternative though, that's why I compiled this material.

Finally, a remark on the "offloading" part: Security is the single thing where delegation becomes hard because it means delegating trust, as in: your private SSL/TLS keys. And that's quite some trust to delegate.
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I think danohuiginn's question is more whether the bio-accumulation happens faster than whatever degradation.

This abstract suggests that bacteria are utilizing the thiodiglycol that the mustard gas ends up releasing into the water:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19481794

This one suggests that the thiodiglycol is still harmful:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16393936

But that it isn't nearly as harmful as the mustard gas.
Previous HN discussion a year ago with 200 comments:
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They have telemetry until it went into the water --- see tweets quoted immediately below. The last few seconds' worth of that were delayed because the rocket was over the horizon from the launch site, but they got it from chase planes.
First off, this is a news article - not a peer-reviewed study. You can't reasonably expect complete detail to be included - have a look at the linked papers.

Second, there's substantially more detail in here than you have stated. For example, the correlation between the decrease in violent crime and the use of lead is reproduced in areas with differing crime policy, and shows a similar kind of decline in areas which stopped using lead earlier or later than others.

Third, "it just kinda-sort-of fits" is all you will ever get in anything outside of pure mathematics. The real world is pretty noisy, and exact correlation is never going to happen.
>Yes they do. How else do I watch Youtube and Plex on it? Plug another box in, with another remote?

Frankly, that other box should be the one handling the TV tuning too.
I like to use Mustache.js for these cases. You don’t loose the templating, and its damn faster. Looks like its faster than react to me.

http://plnkr.co/edit/Slowpr?p=preview

I also talked about this here.
http://blog.stephenn.com/2014/03/javascript-apps-and-renderi...
My favourite is the sunken ship packed with explosives in the Thames estuary. As it rusts, it could explode at any time, sending a small tidal wave up the river and into London.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
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>How is the brand valuable in a practical sense?

https://www.google.com/search?q=nokia+indestructible&tbm=isc...
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I grew up in the 90s and can affirm that violence was substantially higher than now. It was common to get into 'street fights' just for something to do. But, I'm also curious whether there were higher death rates for the potentially violent, which could have also rapidly reduced crime rates.

Of my friends in the 80s / 90s, I've had around 20 of them die over the course of 20 years. Of those who've died, I can say the great majority were in the 'violence prone' category. They generally seemed to have lower ability to gauge risks and sought out risky behavior, frequently.