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> Gold is a commodity that has a useful value. It can be used by my dentist to fill my teeth, it can be used to conduct electricity, as well as do other things. Then - it is also scarce, easily transferable, fungible, verifiable. Thus it makes a good currency. But underneath all of that there is value. Bitcoin has no value. It's why the price can halve in five months. If gold's price halved in five months (of course that would not happen) electronic manufacturers would buy gold like crazy and the price would go up.

But gold actually does suffer very similar huge declines in value[1], in similar time frames: 50% in less than 1 year in the early 1980s, 30% in 9 months last year. (The actual 'loss' was much larger, because the total 'market cap' of all gold is currently about 1000x that of bitcoin).

Gold is prone to these huge swings in value precisely because its 'useful value' is a small fraction of the market price. The intrinsic value is generally estimated at below 15% of the price[2].

Therefore, the main factors influencing gold's price are not industrial and commercial use, but speculation, as well as transferability, fungibility, and verifiability -- in this it is quite similar to... guess what? Bitcoin.

[1]http://www.macrotrends.net/1333/gold-and-silver-prices-100-y...

[2]http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2011/05/11/what-is...
fwiw, in traditional GP/LP relationships, the LPs know what's going on with the companies (annual meeting, etc.)
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Exactly. A classic "We were promised gold streets, but we got suburbia" kind of story. A few points are definitely exaggerated, but as the author admits, he had fallen for their story, and wanted them to succeed.
Perhaps the us should consider unlimited terms for presidents. That way you don't have situations where incumbents have nothing to lose in their second term and no incentive to fulfill their promises. Or maybe not, I'm just throwing that out there.
"I don't know where I am."

"You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground."

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I do agree it would have been logical and probably straightforward to integrate RSS into Google+, but to say it would have radically affected the success of the service is going too far.

If anything, it would make RSS more compelling to those of us who never really liked the experience of any readers (Google Reader included). Personally, I see RSS as little more than food for web-robots to consume, metabolize, and excrete.
"They planned to ask for $3 billion in damages at trial, according to court filings. That could have tripled to $9 billion under antitrust law."

$0.03-0.10/dollar seems pretty cheap. were the odds really that low in court?
Why in the world would those 64k employees take this offer? It was clear that they were going to pay for this and that a jury would be sympathetic. Was there really any chance that the amount gained could have be lower for the plaintiffs had this case gone to a jury trial? If not, then why didn't they go to trial?
Man, as someone who loves Windows Phone, I am sad to see this merger go through. I wished if Nokia remained separate from Microsoft. Nokia as a company and culture gave Windows Phone a standing chance where most had already declared the market a duopoly. They had great products, amazing ads, exceptional customer service and most of all, a good sense of future. Heck even when MS failed to deliver decent apps, Nokia stepped in to fill the gap: Nokia Music/Radio, Nokia Maps, City Lens, Transit... all with offline support! If it wasn't for them, I would have never switched to a Windows Phone.

I wonder how its going to play out from here. Given the MS culture, are things going to get slow and bureaucratic?

Whatever happens Nokia is always going to hold a special place in my heart especially the 3310 [1], my first phone. :)

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Nokia_331...
You must not think any news organization has good journalists in it anymore. The bias of all conventional news orgs is blaringly obvious to any observer who tries even a little bit to consider the other side of the story, and it's a rare when the journalist even goes this far and qualifies the innuendo. They usually just make a sensationalist intimation and allow the audience to draw the intended conclusion.
I live in SF and pay myself about $25K a year. I'm self funded on about $150K cash (since 2010) and live very comfortably. I haven't taken VC money and I have no plans to.

My question is: why do people insist on playing this game the same broken way? Raise money, try to grow as quickly as possible to raise more money, getting massively diluted along the way, and hope that you sell or IPO at $1B+ or $19B or whatever valuation? It's a mug's game given that only a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of people get there.

What's wrong with growing organically, crafting your product as you grow more slowly and taking less VC money and keeping more equity for yourself? You might make less money overall but you have more chance of actually making it if you have a real idea.

And why do you need that money again? Wouldn't you rather make a great product? Lots of morons have heaps of money, but how many have made great products? If you want big money and don't care about your product and are smart and hardworking, go work in finance, it's much a more reliable way to get rich.

It seems to me most people are taking long, long shot ideas and hoping for the very unlikely best and being some sort of hero.
More respect to her she sounds like a cool person.
About the Google+ vs. reddit, this is the best that I could find: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=google%2B%2C%20reddi...

I'm not a Google+ user (at least not by choice), but as a redditor for 7 years that chart seems to show the correct trends (as far as reddit's growth is concerned, at least).
Google doesn't support how you are doing things. You say you are using Google products but haven't created a Google identity so therefore you get emailed when the services that you use, are interacted with. Well, create a Google identity problem solved forever.

I don't get why you guys fight it so hard. It asked me to enter a name one time. It was clear that it was asking me because it was part of my profile and I had never entered my name on a Google product before. So I entered my name and you know what happened? Nothing. Nothing forever.

Apparently everyone else has been "hassled" endlessly for years to give their name to Google. They already know who you are. You should be appreciative of the transparency. Type in the name. It immediately sorts everything out for you. Google needs to keep moving forward as a company and with their products. They cannot support legacy use cases forever. You need a Google account to use their services. The Google account requires your name, well ok so big deal that isn't a big ask most companies ask for that.
You're correct. I was thinking of Lassa when I wrote Hantavirus. Of course, Hantavirus was responsible for the "Four Corners" virus in N. America, and more commonly in S. America, if I recall correctly.

It's been over a decade since I worked in infectious disease epi, and even then not in tropical diseases, so I'm lucky to remember anything at all.

But my point stands: Africa is full of hemorrhagic fevers, which makes symptomatic diagnosis of Ebola difficult.
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Nokia as phone manufacturer is gone.

Nokia the company still exists. It owns the Nokia brand and has massive mobile patent portfolio (only licensed to Microsoft). Nokia is made of NSN (Nokia Solutions and Networks), maps and The Nokia Research Center.

Nokia is prohibited from using the brand to sell mobile phones for few years (ending 2018). It's completely possible that they come up with new gadgets or even phones with Nokia name.
It actually addresses this. The report explains that there's a chance the whole thing would have been invalidated by an appellate judge.

Still, personally as a class member I would've pressed for more, and I bet it's because the firm has different incentives. They probably stand to get something on the order of $100M of that settlement. They're thinking, $100M in the hand is worth $1B in the bush. Especially since going to trial explodes their costs.

But at the ~$3K level most class members stand to gain (on average), I bet most would bet that for a chance at $30K. I would. Sucks that the class members don't have a say.
Perhaps AWS? 37Signals? Databoard and measuring services? There was this startup from YC for generating leads...
Just out of curiosity, why did you choose to call out Apple particularly?
No, it's probably not enough to discourage such practices. They almost certainly pocketed more than that as a result of their collusion - from a straight green-eyeshades perspective they ought to get together over a beer this weekend and hammer out a similar agreement.
No, that's the total amount from all companies.
> Figures vary, but somewhere from 20% to 29% of currently working programmers are female.

> Less than 12% of Computer Science bachelor's degrees were awarded to women at US PhD-granting institutions in 2010

So men who study computer science are actually less likely than their female classmates to end up working as programmers?
In response to the lawsuit Apple and Google have joined forces in an effort to reduce payments to tech workers. How did I not see that coming?
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No, we're from a Protestant culture. We work hard or we feel guilty.
Nokia is like one of the Japanese/Korean conglomerate where it touches everything[1]. Looking back at its stories, it got involve in power generation, TV manufacture, even forestry. I am sure that this is only part of its evolution.

[1] - http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/about-us/the-nokia-s...
From my experience (in North West England) having worked many contracts in both the private and public sector, I'd say there are far fewer than one in five computer programmers is female; I'd guess it was closer to 1/15.

Of course, and this is all completely anecdotal, but at my first job after university (at a medical data company), there was only one woman in the 'software' section, and about 70 men.

It's a pity.
I don't have anything against G+, or people using it! Where did you get that impression?

What really bothers me is Google trying to force it on people through other Google products.

I read Linus and other personalities on G+, I'm also not implying it's a ghost town.

It just didn't gather enough momentum to attract the mass of "regular" casual users.
Twitter took off once it got a critical mass of celebrities using it, and this fact was published in mainstream media. Stephen Fry brought in a lot of people; now it's Justin Bieber.
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I don't understand this post. The first part seems to be justifying why there are more men in the computer field with some pseudo-science. But then he goes on to amend himself and proposes solutions to the problem. All this is very ambiguous to me.
let me guess, you got this from playing Plague Inc. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miniclip.p...) on your phone, right? ...the game is so unrealistic that it almost annoyed me to the point of motivating me to write a competing more realistic game ...but then I realized that "more realistic" would be too detrimental to the gameplay for it to be enjoyable :)
The settlement will give 3-5K per employee. Hardly anything. I wonder why they settled, instead of going ahead with the trial. I'm totally unsympathetic with these companies, and now they are just getting away literally free.
Basically, with rule (1, hacker school rules) they are asking to lower the standards. That's not how things work. Would it be OK if this was about Medicine, not programming? Would it be OK that your colleague does not know where the bladder is? Have a surgery without anesthesia? Sometimes you can't change the culture without substantially changing the standards, and it is NOT OK to hold women to lower standards of rigorousness.
But what the ISP cannot do is artificially inflate their advantage, as doing so would be in violation of a free market on the Internet.

Can we please stop using this term, please? It's pretty clear that we can't agree on a definition of "free market"(¹), so we might as well stop using it.

(¹) For many people, the idea that one must restrict the ISP and subscriber's freedom of contract to preserve the free market is a logical contradiction.
And this is why the US won't be a super power for much longer however they will resort to insanely crazy laws in a desperate attempt to exploit and suppress their own population before they die.
Not the product per se, but the strategy.
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That's the reason for the lawyers to settle, A $100 million in fees will feed a family of four. There's no reason to be greedy about it.
Even faster and perhaps more instructive is looking up Bethany Mota:

"Her YouTube channel has more subscribers than Lady Gaga (4.8 million), she has more Instagram followers than Elle, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Claire combined (2.2 million)."

(First read about her yesterday, accidentally. Yeah.)
Or, women who don't study computer science are more likely to end up programming.

I have no idea where those statistics came from, but it's worth remembering that a lot of people who write software in their day job didn't study computer science. People with science and engineering backgrounds often end up software developers through necessity.
What really struck me, was that for the first time, even though I've read it a thousand times before, was the fact that Nokia had one of those impossible goals.

Connecting people, is somewhat like the Microsoft vision of giving everyone a personal computer. And while there are people in certain parts of the 3rd world that doesn't have mobile phones, I would say Nokia did an amazing job to get a mobile phone into everyone's hands.

My dad worked for Ericsson, so I've never owned a Nokia phone, you were the "evil rivals" after all, but I bow my head to Nokia for what they did, for how many people they connected with mobile phones.

Nokia might not have been the company that profited from SmartPhones, but they were the company that created the market for SmartPhones.
They are the antithesis of what I believe a technology company should be. Everything is closed source, locked down and designed to make maximum profit at the expense of the customer/developer/artist.
Dis everybody really enjoy Plague Inc. that much? Don't tell me you also paid for on iphone or spent some on they in-app-purchases on android :))
That just changes the question from "why should we regulate ISPs" to "why should we regulate common carriers".
I through about this the other day. Not really who sells the tool, but who profits from all those failed startups. Maybe part of the answer are all tech/founders conferences, workshops, meetups etc. They are not tools in strict sense, but they are business around whole thing.
Historically there were more women doing computer science, so the employment figures aren't so far out compared to the population with CS degrees.
This is way too little. Disgusting.
He specifically mentions "no subtle sexism via public debate" but then he goes on to do just that near the end of the article.

> women usually get the rough end of this deal [office breakups], too, because men aren't good at handling the inevitable rejection.

Not sure I agree that males are likely to act negatively; anecdotally I'd say it's about equal.

> Men, plus women, plus alcohol is a great recipe for college. [...] But as a safe work environment for women? Not so much.

Both sexes are taken advantage of and subject to unsafe environments while drinking.

I think that the actual recommendations he's made (no dating/drinking at work) have merit, but they could have been supported better.
This is just specualtion. There is no hard evidence that they are shifting a thousand talent to other things at once. In fact, in a previous discussion it was said that people were moving to a new building on the campus. Did the author just ASSUME that it was a sign of the changing.

I do think Google is thinking about a new strategy, but when he says "Google is getting away from Google+" is just pure speculation.

The real deal is that we have gap. There is a distance in using so many tools. I post it on Twitter but i want that to appear on FB but not G+. Or whatever. I have RSS feed. I have photos I want to share but not indexed or shared on Google Plus. This is sure something a startup can take on. But this is where social network companies are failing to do well BECAUSE they all want everyone to join their platform and ONLY their platform.
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virtually no content but a lot of pictures

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I don't live in America and haven't seen a Tesla charging station, so maybe some of these obvious ideas are already happening, but:

* You'll have at least 20 minutes of waiting for your car to charge, during which time Tesla could be selling you snacks and/or fast food. Filling stations in most countries already follow that proven business model.

* These charging stations have solar panels on the roof, so they presumably already have the necessary inverters and whatever other infrastructure to pump electricity back to the grid. Tesla could make some deals to put panels up on nearby buildings who could save on capital costs by just piggybacking off Tesla. They could become a power utility company over time.

* Teslas are quite expensive, so Tesla owners (and therefore drivers) are generally affluent, which are the kind of customers local businesses would want to attract. So having a charging station nearby could be something malls might even pay for or want to subsidise. Similarly the land around a supercharger station in what is otherwise "the middle of nowhere" could become significantly more valuable, so if Tesla purchases extra cheap land around stations placed along interstate highways they could stand to make quite a bit of money selling that to property developers afterwards.

I guess what I'm saying is if Tesla plays their cards right, then Tesla cars could be like giving away razor handles for cheap.
Didn't the FCC lack the authority to enforce net neutrality laws ? Why would it be different now.

http://mediafreedom.org/2013/08/net-neutrality-governing-via...
Add on top of that various crooked laws bought by big ISPs which make it even worse (i.e. practically forbidding competition)

But removing those laws is removing regulation, not adding it. Regulation is not just the "good" laws.
It's almost like situations involving humans might be complicated, or something.
> Don't attempt romantic relationships at work. (...)The women usually get the rough end of this deal, too, because men aren't good at handling the inevitable rejection. Just don't do it. Have all the romantic relationships you want outside work, but do not bring it to work.

I find this incredibly childish - the idea that men (not some men, just men) are childish and cannot behave like grown ups, up to the point in which the company has to step in and tell them how to behave.

I'm not sold up either on the idea that I'm not allowed to date anyone in the one place where I spend most of my day, where I'm surrounded by people who share my interests and where I met most of my friends.

I'm all in for bringing in more women, but this points sounds too much like "let's protect this delicate, defenseless flower" to me.
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If they had to check the server logs wouldn't they be referring to something more related to generating the html? This would remain the lowest response even on the fastest possible connection.
Swisscom in Switzerland was selling their infinity cell service like this: http://xavierstuder.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Swisscom_...

However, even on the slowest plan you can still watch youtube. The only difference between the plans is the speed.
So there are a lot of (1)'s in the artlcle. Are you talking about "Diversity leads to better results" or "Abide by the Hacker School Rules" or "No feigning surprise" ?

I'd like to address your Medicine analogy, but it'd be more appropriate if I knew what you were referring to :)
The problem is Facebook right now is like all technology that's "good enough". People don't stop using good enough technology just because something slightly better comes along. That ship has sailed.
As Steve Jobs said (possibly ironically, depending on which companies are on your hit-list):

Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

And, as was often the case, Steve Jobs was right.
New version, new domain name, new github repo. I've already lost count on how many there were.

Perhaps PirateBay can host it and then it won't have to move so much.

On plus side, TV Shows are surely to attract a wider user base.
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"Woman with bangs." I cringe any time I see a writeup of a female engineer or executive where attention is drawn to her hairstyle, clothes, or shoes. It's unnecessary and undignified.
This title sounds like those who write "keep your government hands off my Medicare!"

Net Neutrality regulations may be good, and they may even "save" the Internet, but it's not their inaction that will break it. If anything, it's the ISPs' actions.
We all agree that building a better internet is important, but do the suggested policies actually lead to better products? Will the diversity gained from a "no well-actually" policy outweigh the quality lost from people being unwilling to suggest improvements? Are the gains from a team drinking together bigger or smaller than those from having people who wouldn't join such a team?
I don't think that the Hacker School rules have a goal of lowering standards, but rather of preventing the one-upmanship which is so common among (usually male) programmers. To someone who may be feeling overwhelmed by the learning curve inherent with transitioning from small academic or recreational coding projects to real-world environments such dynamics could be very demoralizing. Anecdotally, men who stay in tech tend to have a high tolerance for it, but it's secondary to the actual practice of coding and people who are feeling less confident don't need to worry about competing in these games. Of course if someone is working on a real-world codebase they have to know what they're doing, but learning from peers does not need to alienate anyone, at least in principle.