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The European Union (EU) banned lead from petrol in 2000. [1]

Airplanes are still allowed to used leaded petrol!! [1]

And the immigration movement to Europe increased the crime. [2]

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorenbenzin#Verbleites_Benzin

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Europe
So? How much is it minified & compressed?
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I wonder if the result could be less about the lead itself having a direct effect on behaviour, and the action of the removal of lead being identified as "something obvious and beneficial which would be good to do" as being coincident with a greater enlightenment amongst those making the rules?

I.e. to what extent "we should remove lead from petrol as that is obviously bad" is actually a handy indicator of more considered minds running the shop, those minds also being more predisposed to the kind of other "obviously good" decisions which could also have brought about an eventual reduction in crime.
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> If we couldn't scientifically deal with this scenario, we'd hardly do any science.

Feel free to change the topic. Science is very clearly defined, and an absence of falsifiability is fatal.

Either:

1. A theory can potentially be falsified by new evidence, or

2. IT IS NOT SCIENCE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

Quote: "The concern with falsifiability gained attention by way of philosopher of science Karl Popper's scientific epistemology "falsificationism". Popper stresses the problem of demarcation—distinguishing the scientific from the unscientific—and makes falsifiability the demarcation criterion, such that what is unfalsifiable is classified as unscientific, and the practice of declaring an unfalsifiable theory to be scientifically true is pseudoscience."

Which part of the above didn't you understand?

> When it touches the real world, you have to deal with imperfection.

As I said, feel free to change the subject.
The shelf life of most chemical weapons is fairly short -- and tends to be shorter the nastier they are.

We're mainly talking mustard gas. Germany did use nerve gases tabun, sarin, and soman [1]. But nerve gases degrade after a period of a few weeks to a few years. I'm not sure what they degrade into, admittedly, and I doubt it's nice.

Mustard gas lasts longer, but is also much less potent. Military use is about 1 tonne for 2.6 square kilometres [2]. So if it were just leaking into the open sea -- even one as small as the Baltic -- it wouldn't be an issue. The problem is really if something re-concentrates it -- currents, or location, or possibly going up the food chain (does that happen?)

So my initial feeling is it's not quite as catastrophic as it sounds. Would love to hear from somebody better-informed, though.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_and_weapons_of_mass_de...

2 - http://www.iraqwatch.org/perspectives/rangwala-powell-020503...
Don't forget the atomic bombs and H-bombs:

* Dozens of Atomic Warheads Lost In Sea by Superpowers, Study Says: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/07/us/dozens-of-atomic-warhea...

* Missing for 50 years - US nuclear bomb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8107908.stm
> If there is a correlation there, it is negative

Yes that's my main point: this plot does not prove the correlation.

If you look at a bigger picture e.g. (maybe here [1], altough it's not technically the same metric)
there was a peak around 94. The peak and the relative low value before the peak cannot be explained by video games.

And that my second point: no one ever claimed that violence is only caused by video games. Clearly the blue curve is under the influence of (many) other factors, so it's very hard to determine whether there is a correlation without knowing these other factors.

But let me say it once again, it's a possibility that video games reduce violence. I am simply saying that if think this is the case because of this plot, you're probably biased.

[1] http://www.eji.org/files/juv%20murder%20rate%20drop_0.jpg
>Wait, what? Electric kettles aren't in every house there? That's insane! Here in Australia, it's like the one thing EVERYONE has. Hell, even hotel rooms usually contain a microwave and a kettle even if they have absolutely nothing else.

I remember once I watched a friend's cats while he was on extended vacation back home in China.

You try very hard to be accommodating when someone capable of covering your pager shift asks for a favor, because you know the currency in which that favor is to be repaid. Besides, he was senior to me (in terms of skill) and got me the job in the first place, so I kinda owed him at the outset. But it's almost always worth it to put in a lot of effort to have more than one person who can cover your pager feel like they owe you. But still, I'll totally clean out your cat's liter box if I think I can get you to cover my pager.

Anyhow, the weird thing was that he had like six electric kettles scattered throughout his house; and most of them were in 'sleep mode' - they were still on and plugged in and ready to dispense water fairly quickly. I guess the idea was that they were heavily insulated, so it didn't take a lot to keep the water warm?

Being me, I unplugged them all.

I've considered a kettle for myself, but the kettles I've used, mostly in ersatz office situations, all took a pretty long time to warm up from 'cold' - and all of them were nasty, because some asshole decided to put tea (or something) directly in the kettle.

What I find funny is that I bought one of those fancy super-automatic espresso machines of craigslist; You know, one of those brushed-aluminum deals where you pour whole beans in the top and just press a button? It doesn't take that long to warm up, and it's on a 5-15r (15 amps of 120v) - I know the reservoir on this thing is room-temperature, and it's pretty quick to warm up. Much faster than any kettle I've tried.

It makes pretty good espresso, too. Not as good as, say, chromatic coffee, or even B2 in san jose, but it beats the heck out of starbucks, and I don't have to put on pants. It does require periodic work, which I don't mind. I like working on mechanical things. Just don't make me do it in the morning, you know? As for effort expended to get my coffee? it's gotta be even easier than the aeropress. Expensive, though. I think I paid $300 for mine, and it's about 4x that new.
Is there something missing from the article or am I going mad? I don't understand how people came to the rational conclusion that it would be ok to dump thousands of tons of this stuff into the sea. It seems to me that people collectively agreed to create a guaranteed disaster.
Nokia is one of the most valuable brand names in the world. Microsoft would know better than to change that.
(just to be absolutely clear here: I'm not saying everyone should be economically perfectly equal)

By that logic, cleaning carpets and truck driving should be among the highest paying jobs in the US, but I doubt that one would get a straight line if one were to plot "how much people hate their job" vs income.

Also, it's probably a good rule of thumb to ask yourself with any economic theory of the last century that is of Western origin: "how much did the political pressure to prove the Soviets wrong at all costs influence this line of thinking, or the adoption of it?" I think it applies here.

I am not saying carrots and sticks have no influence whatsoever, just that thinking it explains everything is extremely simplistic. Even if they did work universally, there are more types of carrots and sticks than just economical ones, and they are often conflicting. Then there are types of motivation that are different altogether. For example: there is clear evidence that rewards can be counterproductive to motivation in certain situations because they undermine intrinsic motivation (which works differently). Just look up the psychological research cited by critics of gamification, for example.

Anyway, this topic is way to big for a HN comment, but what I'm trying to say is that there's much more to motivation. By and large, the evidence suggests that once a lack of money as an impediment to "personal freedom" (I'm oversimplifying here) is off the table, people are motivated by different reasons. Social reasons, moral reasons, hedonistic reasons, you name it.
Thanks for adding this. It's much, much more informative than the Economist article

In fact, I think it deserves to be posted by itself, so I've submitted it as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620544
They can use Nokia brand only for few years, they don't have rights for it. It was known right from the beginning of this selling story that Nokia brand will disappear from mobile devices industry. Only the remaining parts of Nokia, not sold to Microsoft (part working on localization services etc.), will be able to continue to use this name.
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They have to, they didn't get this brand. They've just got rights to use it for few years together with mobile devices part of Nokia.
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You fill normal kettles at the time you use them, and you only fill them with the water you need.

You can buy fast boil kettles which tend to be noisy.

I am surprised that kettles don't have a think skin of insulation. I sometimes wonder how much energy could be saved by micro-enhancements like that.
Chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic sea (2007) [pdf]
It depends.

If I want to read/watch something later, then it gets sent to Instapaper. If it's an article/site that I think I might want later, then it gets sent to Pinboard. If I want to quote something, then I post it to Tumblr. I've also got some IFTTT rules set up to save links to pinboard if I favourite on Twitter, post to Tumblr, like on Instapaper, etc. The goal for me is to make Pinboard the central repository of everything I want to remember; other services end up there if it's worth remembering.
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Juxtaposition of poverty and wealth, not poverty itself. In most American cities somebody from a poor neighborhood can walk a few blocks and mug a rich person at knifepoint, whereas in the average poor rural area, there aren't really any rich people around to rob.
> but you would thereby eliminate all observational sciences - evolutionary biology, astrophysics, cosmology, etc.

No. Not if an observation leads to a testable, falsifiable theory, if that theory makes new predictions, if the predictions are verified, and if the theory in all its manifestations remains potentially falsifiable by new evidence. Like quantum theory, the best scientific theory we have, a theory that makes many other fields look like stamp collecting, and a theory that relies on observations of real-world phenomena.

As to cosmology, there are a number of cosmological theories based on observation that have led to testable theories, and those theories have survived reality-testing and have made predictions that are later verified in observations, like the recent observations of the CMB that support inflationary theory and led to some recent Nobel Prizes.

> I suspect most people would find that a somewhat extreme position.

Science is not a popularity contest, and it is not politics.

> Also, fraud is an issue in all fields of Science, so that seems somewhat an unfair issue to introduce.

Many people don't understand that some pseudoscientific fields are all fraud, in which case arguing that all fields have some fraud misses the point.
I remember reading somewhere that this practice still exists today. That jets dump their payload in the sea before landing. As I recall it was a landing area in/around Italy during the Iraq conflict. Makes sense if you think about it, takeoff and landing are risky. Anyone care to chime in with some knowledge?
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So is your thesis that inequality will increase in periods of economic stability, where the volatility is low?

Yes. Some data vaguely suggesting this is directoinally correct:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/business/economy/recession...

Recessions tend to hurt the rich the most.

I don't have a ballpark figure - I'd need to dig into Piketty's data and it would take a while to come up with that. I'm kind of hoping someone who actually read the book can tell me it's in there, since I think it's a bit crazy that everyone is talking about Piketty's book without mentioning this.
stay in school. buckle down and put your school and social happyness first.

make games on the side. game programming is very relevant to other tech, development processes, bugfixing, optimizing, security issues, anti-cheat methods, etc are often more straight-forward in game programming than in other places. for example you never have to optimize a php app until it has tons of users... so maybe, less php developers optimize code than game developers, etc. also not as many ppl know how to write networking and 3d code, so it is a great place to start if you want to end up with a great job/skillset.

if you want to drop out my advice would be not drop out until you have a job lined up.

having a 40hr/week job + commute and trying to work on the side feels exactly the same as having class. too much to do and limited time. trust me.
Similarly to the first world vs the third world countries today ?
>You fill normal kettles at the time you use them, and you only fill them with the water you need.

But my espresso machine, it's got a pretty big (room temperature) reservoir, and only heats up the water as-needed. I mean, I probably have to fill it every second day, and that's with two people using it, and using the steamer.

Especially when my performance is impaired due to withdrawal, it seems a reasonable optimization to save the 'fill the damn thing up, but not too much' step.

>I am surprised that kettles don't have a think skin of insulation. I sometimes wonder how much energy could be saved by micro-enhancements like that.

All the electric kettles I've seen did have very thick insulation; it looked like they were intended to be left on or in standby all the time.
Chacun a son gout... but I agree with OP. When I've been asked to discount, I recommend two or three other consultants. I sell hard for them, extolling their work, offering to make an introduction. Someday, a prospect will take me up, I'll lose some business, and win a favor with a colleague. But it hasn't happened yet.
I use Evernote Web Clipper which strips out clutter and just posts the simplified article to my Evernote.

For e-books I tend to use the highlight service on the Kindle/Kindle App (Just recently seen you can follow other peoples highlights which is interesting).
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It was Nokia's branding that managed to keep Windows Phone alive all this time, and the fact that thanks to inertia most people still recalled Nokia as being the #1 phone brand before the iPhone came around, so they kept buying "Nokias" regardless of what OS they had. If it wasn't for that, WP would've never passed the 2 percent mark, and it would've probably started to die off 2 years ago.

It will be interesting to see how Microsoft manages to go from selling "Nokia phones" that everyone immediately recognizes, to "Microsoft phones" - which isn't a strong consumer brand at all. I have to mention everytime that Microsoft is the company that makes that Windows thing on their PC when I tell normal people about it.
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Tom DeMarco, software engineering process expert, recently decided almost all these other reasons are distractions from the one true reason software projects fail: they were started late.
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Only until 2015 I think, so a year more.
"Replacing a horse with a tractor with a horse" is 'g'. Any action that reduces the incentives of the next Henry Ford to create will reduce both 'r' and 'g', and have very little effect on the relationship between r & g. Piketty realizes this. It's the heirs of Henry Ford, who did nothing but get lucky in the genetic lottery, who have the most to worry from broad adoption of Piketty's book. It may be the actions of Bill Gates and everybody else who signs and propagates the giving pledge who do the most to prevent the doom that Piketty prophesies.
Stripe did not crush Square. Their core products are not competing in the exact same market. Stripe core is online processing of payments and Square is physical POS for everyone. There might be some overlap in the processing but that is not Square's core product and main selling point.
There used to be -- and really still is -- this cavalier attitude about dumping stuff into the sea, because it gets diluted so much. Disposing nuclear waste this way has only been banned since 1993[0]. And of course more recently, the ocean was where much of the pollution from the Fukushima incident was directed.

Or take sea-faring ships, who dump both grey and black water (ie. untreated sewage) into the sea; I understand this is slowly being subject to some regulation. Ships also run with heavy oil which has its own set of issues (mostly sulfur content and NOx); in terms of CO2 emissions shipping is super efficient though.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_w...
Microsoft Mobile or Phone may still fare better than "Windows" Mobile/Phone.
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Correct. But IIRC when acquisition was announced, they said that Microsoft would have license for using Nokia name only for Series 30/40 phones, so there would be Microsoft Ashas, Microsoft Lumias and Microsoft Nokias as 3 product lines. Later news media reported rumours about negotiations for additional licenses.
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Well, most of the number crunching code running on the biggest supercomputers today is actually Fortran code - in the meteorology field, for example, virtually all atmospheric models are implemented in Fortran.
"The name iodine was chosen since it starts with IOD (IP Over DNS) and since iodine has atomic number 53, which happens to be the DNS port number."

Cool.
This software has been written without any concern for security, and it listens on the network by default.

This dawned on me when I intended to switch over to FIOS due to problems with my cable internet connection. I moved all of my media and gaming devices first, then abruptly stopped, wondering why I would want to share a network with a bunch of devices I had no reason to trust. I know I can isolate them on my home network, and may eventually get around to it, but in the meantime, I'm using separate connections to different ISPs (which provides other benefits, as well).
Yes, I'm not saying that's where society is actually headed. It's just a hypothetical to illustrate how r can diverge from capital's "growth rate". To rephrase the last sentence, "In the extreme case, you can imagine a hypothetical equilibrium where..."
> Five buttons, all for spaces? That would already be a sign to me that whoever designed that UI wasn't really thinking straight...

It's a sign to me that they're extremely lazy, or their code is so bad that making small exceptions are very difficult/brittle.

http://imgb.mp/jvs.jpg

"Now that we're translating this UI to English, what do we do with all these buttons that aren't needed?" "Too much work trapping into the UI drawing code to hide them, let's just remap them to something else... how about space! That's harmless!"
Make everyone sign up for keybase.io, then you encrypt the data with PGP and send to them.
That is the cost of the staff salary and benefits only. There are many other HR related costs. But I presume the main expense at Square is partially the production and distribution cost of the devices and most likely the biggest chunk is all the loss leading business deals with vendors, credit card companies etc.
Until end of 2015 Nokia can not use Nokia brand for mobile devices. Microsoft can use Nokia brand for 10 years.

Source:

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-09-22/news...
> In general, people who bring themselves to power tend to be extremely competent. Traditional classical Greek "tyrants" had a deserved reputation for solid, effective rule, but things would quickly fall apart after they died.

Millions of famine deaths under Stalin are attributed to some mix of malice and incompetence. I am not saying that he was totally incompetent. He helped usher in a ton of industrialization that helped the Soviet Union win WWII. He was also quite good at ruling through fear. But the utter incompetence of the agricultural collectivization makes me unable to label him competent on average.
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come up: (Of an issue, situation, or problem) occur or present itself, especially unexpectedly [1]

inspiration: A sudden brilliant or timely idea [2]

If an entrepreneur trains via founding companies, then, should an architect train via filling the city up with half-arsed buildings? Nowhere in the pg article does occur something like “build random ideas into companies routinely”. Also, in that write-up is writ:

> If you're not at the leading edge of some rapidly changing field, you can get to one. For example, anyone reasonably smart can probably get to an edge of programming (e.g. building mobile apps) in a year. Since a successful startup will consume at least 3-5 years of your life, a year's preparation would be a reasonable investment. Especially if you're also looking for a cofounder.

[1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/come-up...

[2] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/inspira...
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this is at best an anecdotal point, and seems more like something you just thought up. Is there any substance to this? Is crime in urban areas more prevalent because it is a shorter distance to walk for a potential mugger to get to a rich person he can mug?

This just doesn't seem very likely to me, but if you can back it up by numbers I'll gladly change my view.
Why u feel sorry for them ?
I tried postman and found it rather weird.
What did not suit me:
problems with remembering history - i'd expect the much labored-at settings and vars and options to be stored in the cloud and not vanish if I re-install the extension or use other machine.
no custom cookies - that's a deal breaker.

I prefer the excellent Fiddler tool for manual fiddling, and yet have to find a good test-suit tool. Or write it myself...
I use toread.cc. It's basically a js script that mails you the contents of the page you are currently at. Quite nifty.
My father, who was in the Royal Engineers at the end of WWII and for a few years after, was always worried about the "tons" of mustard gas and explosives that he and his colleagues were ordered to dump into the Irish Sea. He told me that some of the explosives were so unstable that they "sweated" nitroglycerine, and they used to run their finger down the sides of the explosives and flick it at each other to make small bangs. Bear in mind that although they had explosives training they were basically kids.

He also mentioned that the seas were often so rough that they did "dump and run" as soon as they were out of sight of land. It was supposed to go into the deepest sections of the Irish Sea, but he claims a lot of it was closer to Scotland.

It was the mustard gas, and other nasties that he wouldn't talk about, that worried him right up until he passed away in his eighties. They knew it wasn't the right thing to do, but at that time you followed orders and did as little as possible until you got demobbed.