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China: 1.58 / woman, Netherlands: 1.76, Switzerland: 1.52, Germany: 1.36, Canada: 1.63. So yes all of them below replacement rate, but then again, they all have vastly different demographic and economic profiles from China - most notably in savings per person and reserved money for pensions, of which there is basically none in China.

Well unless you count 'current market valuations' for all that empty real estate, that is smirks

A country can afford, or at least isn't hurt that badly by, low birth rates when those who are born don't have to support (or at least not fully) the elderly - I don't think it's reasonable to put China on one line with the other countries you mention.
Rental rates indicate the real economic value of a property, as against it's notional or book value as an investment. If rents are pitifully low even during an economic boom, that doesn't bode well for property prices when there's a bust.
> Only technology changes the world.

Democracy is not "technology", nor does it necessarily require technology. Your claim implies that democracy didn't change the world. Are you serious about this?
On the contrary - quite a few poorer countries have remarkably well-funded militaries. There's a saying in Africa - "The poorer the country, the bigger the Mercedes."
A great example of the cost discrepancy in the context of drones: You see a "drone" flying towards you. Is it a) a dressed up $20 RC toy plane, or b) a flying bomb that can take lives or take out hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars of hardware?

Presumably, you wouldn't want to risk b), which means for every instance of a) you'd presumably end up committing resources to counter it, if the odds of b) are "high enough", where "high enough" could easily be 1% chance of a bomb or less if the 1% case is sufficiently lethal.

You could see a hidden defending force "swarming" an invader with toys with the odd highly lethal weapon in the mix very cheaply to slow an advance...
I like the LGPL/GPL/AGPL licenses. They are, indeed, a best-of-all-worlds approach for most projects.
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While I have in general sworn off java, and is rather enamoured by clojure's lein build tool -- I enjoyed the recent post (that was on hn as well):

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01/modern-java/

It does appear grails manage to expose many of the good parts of Ivy/Maven while keeping build-files reasonably sane -- and crucially it appears to offer a pretty solid story in terms of "predictable future deployment" (can I restore a service in two years and deploy it on a contemporary system?).
> The kind of software that everyone uses, but that is not a differentiator ("the secret sauce") that makes something stand out.

Doesn't OpenSSL fit this definition perfectly?
There's still plugins for it though.
When I try to comment I am trying to contribute though. When I've thought I can add value is when I'm blocked by my rep.
"Actually providing a service is a cost, and therefore they want to reduce it as much as possible without driving away customers."

Brilliantly summarized. I recently had intermittent issues with my crappy Comcast (only viable option, where I live now) Internet connection. The technician who came over, after viewing my ping logs and things, immediately decided I was onto something, and was awesome. Like really awesome. He was representing the very best a very bad company. Felt bad for him. I directly told him "If you can, get another job, somewhere else [equivalent pay, benefits of course]."
Not only did they not deliver, but they intentionally sabotaged US efforts to stay up to par with other countries. US infrastructure is woefully behind compared to other nations (we're only recently starting to see fiber optics as a serious competitor to DSL). Even still, as old and outdated as US infrastructure is, the idea of a bandwidth limit or speed restrictions are imposed by the ISP, not actually a physical constraint. Sure, there are limits to the loads a node can handle in an area; But with each node typically serving 200 customers, at a conservative $30/mo... That's a $72,000 annual budget upgrade and/or expand THAT SINGLE NODE. A typical ISP will handle hundreds, if not thousands, of nodes depending upon a location.

We don't need fast lanes or bandwidth caps on the internet. We need an ISP that isn't ran by greedy tyrants.
While theoretically you can do double-entry bookkeeping in Excel, it's frustrating and error-prone.

Then again for somebody who doesn't see the value of double entry bookkeeping, it's unnecessary anyway, and Excel will do fine.
Thanks for your statistics.
I'd rather people didn't smirk when they are predicting other people's misfortune. Not everyone has the benefit of your foresight or hindsight.
Moodle may be ok or it may suck. The problem is many of us in the UK stopped getting updates. Any software without updates is going the completely suck.

Lots of schools have been left with 1.9
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I find "what's your profession?" or "what is your daily job?" questions to be much more conscious than "what you do for living". When people ask me what I do for living, I tend to answer "I breathe". Because having a job isn't really required to live.
That's why you have the AGPL. I'm not being snarky here at all. The most recent example of someone taking their product from MIT(or similar OSS) license to AGPL is ServiceStack, .NET library. The author felt that he did not want to continue support this fairly popular library at the expense of his livelihood.
This is good as well: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2012/07/minimal-version-contr...
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"Changed the world" could have a variety of meanings. Taken literally, it could mean "altered or affected the world in any amount." Going with such a strict definition, nearly everything changes the world.

The other extreme, the one people frequently have in mind, is "to change or alter many parts of the world very directly", such as the invention of flight.

However, a better phrase for the feeling in developer circles I think would be "touched the world." Doing so, with the internet, is easy. Like building a public bench in a city park, many people may gain small enjoyment from it, and as the one who built it, all that small joy brings you lots of excitement.
Then I missed the intent of my post a bit - I'm not calling out the coping style, I'm trying to address the lack of empathy in the response to the Op. The guy is clearly grieving and depressed over what has happened, it's not a hard thing to interpret, so why address him as if he's failing to understand the logic in the situation? This isn't a technical topic, I'd like to think there's a capacity to switch gears and actually deal with people in a more complex way than "death happens, this is sensible, get used to it"

I don't consider your response a flame - I've just worked with people who are in grief and shock before and would never consider responding with my own beliefs on the topic if I thought it would injure them during the initial stages of grieving. Yes, in the mainstream we don't acknowledge it, and in the west we get people out of sight so they can die without us dealing with it, but it doesn't mean people just pretend it away when it happens to them. Some people just choose to deal with the topic indirectly when talking in public forums or with people outside of the family but I've certainly known the majority of people I've worked with to be very direct about the topic when they feel like they are in the right situation to do so.

Again, it's perfectly fine to have your own coping style but when you're engaging with someone else on a subject like death there has to be some measure of empathy towards their situation. They are not you, they have different processes and philosophies towards these events, it's not just a case of standing there and shouting your ideas at them until they "understand".
Which EU government?

There is an EU parliament and there is the EU commission.

Since the EU is comprised of 28 sovereign countries there is no such thing as an EU government.
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"jammeren" in Dutch, too.
True, but it only did Pascal, so I'll stand by my "pretty much" ;-)
Sure, but that doesn't mean it works all the time, everywhere. Like I said: not a solved problem. It seems no one really stood up and took the lead to fix things.
Looks really good, very nice design.
> I think we disagree on the definition of elephant in the room

Yes, I was basically saying your definition was wrong: that's not what the phrase "elephant in the room" actually means. It means something that isn't discussed.
Wordpress + your choice of page cache plugin. It's effectively the same thing.
Depression doesn't feel like grief or anger. Depression is the emptiness, the numbness of not feeling anything.

You don't "recover" from the loss of a loved one. You don't get back to where you were before. You don't "get over" it, nor should you want to. Your life has changed and there is a big hole in it. But you do adjust to it. You do learn to cope with it and find a new way to live with it.

Sorry if that's not uplifting, but it's what I found.
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This entire problem comes down to the fact that internet isn't priced the way other utilities are.

You don't pay your water company a fixed rate based on the size of the pipe to your house. You pay based on water actually delivered. You don't pay your electricity company based on the maximum number of amps that can flow down the wire, you pay for the electricity consumed.

Internet should be paid in bytes delivered. Then all the incentives will be aligned for all parties.

High usage end users pay for more of the network than low usage end users, which they should because they are the ones putting strain on it.

The ISPs would then prefer to transport the larger content that users demand because they will be paid more for it. Thus they are also incentivised to create more and better infrastructure to deliver it.
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I'm sorry for your loss. My father passed away in December of 2012 (after a 9 year battle with cancer). In fact, I posted on here mere hours afterward in regards to a goodbye blog post someone wrote to their father that was submitted here.
While things have been difficult, life will continue as it always has. Try to remember the good parts and celebrate their life rather than mourn their loss.
Something like http://blog.laptopmag.com/usb-stick-contains-dual-core-compu... would be more realistic. With USB3, you could even avoid hdmi port and turn your computer into a dumb "keyboard, screen, storage, network". Is it possible to have full access to a USB peripheral without administrator rights ?
Marc Andreessen at SS '11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9phm2ae0Ss&feature=youtu.be...

"The engineer who can become an entrepreneur, who can then become a CEO... there's something magic about that formula"
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Due process does apply to contract disputes.

There is very scarce evidence that politicians in the US have used this technique against "businesses they don't like"...
I do double entry. Accounts as columns, transactions as the first two columns (desc/id and amount) and one transaction per row. Transactions are added to the ledger with a macro and the ledger columns are locked so there is no possibility of human error. One sheet per financial year, balance carried over for all accounts between sheets.

So yes you can do it and no it's not frustrating if you do a little automation...

Compare this to Sage which requires piles of money, time, expertise, maintenance, installation, backup and restore.
The blog banner "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." means absolutely nothing beyond saying what we all trivially accept (though the latter half is true), that anyone can say what they like within the law's limits.

Entitlement implies a right and a right demands an obligation on the part of others. There is no obligation at all in respect of someone's opinion so what can the statement possibly mean? We should stop talking about entitlement in this loose way.
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YNAB should fit your needs well - I know it does for me. Using YNAB after trying(and failing, mainly because it doesn't support my currency/location)Mint.

https://www.youneedabudget.com/
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But there is one giant difference between how electricity and internet is sold . Electricity is a metered service.

It would probably be much better if internet service was metered but it would not go over well after we all have been used to the unlimited pipe.
At 54:51 in response to the generics question, "I said we are going to leave the language, we are done".
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Vendoring is a practice stuck in C and C++ archaic tooling support ideas.

I am on the side for proper dependency management.

> It's one of Go's greatest strengths, actually.

Which will keep it outside the boring closed source enterprise commercial library tooling.
But it looks like until recently there was not sufficient funding to retain said developers, so you're restricted to the subset of developers who have a particular interest in openssl.
Anyone who is interested in some really fantastic Horween products (belts, wallets, bags, etc.) check out Mitchell Leather goods, another family owned multi-generational business:

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Not unless email has file-sharing and public chatrooms that I missed?
The ISP's never got "$200 billion" in the 1990's. That's a total made up number, based on taking what ISP profits would have been had they been regulated as a utility, and calling everything over that "money given to ISPs."

The premise of deregulation was that it would lead to increased infrastructure spending. And it has: the late 1990's and the 2000's saw massive investment into cable and wireless. People assumed at the time the money would go into fiber, but demand exploded in wireless so investment went there instead.
Nice.

It might be better for the upper map to select a colour scale that has a zero point on it - this would represent countries that have the same price as the dollar.

A diverging colour scale would make it easier to distinguish which countries are cheaper and which are more expensive. For example:

http://colorbrewer2.org/?type=diverging&scheme=BrBG&n=7
I am based in the UK and it is exactly how it is charged for on the consumer side, I can choose how fast I want my delivery to be (1mb/s -> 80mb/s) and also the monthly total consumption (10GB -> 20GB -> 40GB -> "unlimited").

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/pac...
so has anyone managed to sign up to Spotify Philippines?
I agree but unlike electricity or water where quality of service is regulated (water quality etc) internet service is not.

We would need some sort of regulation to force ISPs to provide a pipe that doesn't suffer random packet loss or connection problems. In addition you would need some way to make ISP upgrade to better pipes or you will be stuck with 56k for ever.

I believe all new homes in the US are now equipped with a minimum if a 200A circuit by law which would equate to your internet speed minimum being regulated.
Do different areas have the same music library available though?
It's hard to avoid copying when implementing a basic notepad type of app with some syntax high-lighting and a trendy colour scheme.
I can understand the desire to version control your secrets.

The bad idea was not to maintain the source in a separate repo that could easily be released.

If you want to keep the checkout process simple for your developers, maybe use git subtree for the overall project.
Nope, the author explains that in a blog post here: http://mts.io/2014/05/07/spotify-pricing-index/
Amazon AWS support have (at least on here) a reputation for refunding fraudulent usage that stemmed from compromised keys. If that is in fact a policy they follow, it's in their best interests to cut down on leaked AWS credentials.
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I can't understand why I'm not getting 2% from my point of view.
A person is identified positive in two distinct cases: if it is ill (p1=0.001) AND the test shows positive (q1=0.95), or when it is clean (p2=0.999) but the test wrongly shows positive (q2=0.05). The probability of this event is P=p1 * q1+p2 * q2=0.001 * 0.95+0.999 * 0.05=0.0509
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>I'm sure there's a license that allows the code to be open however if used for commercial purposes requires companies to contribute back either financially or with code. O wait isn't that GPL?

No.

The GPL says nothing about people contributing back financially, even if they use the code for commercial purposes. It also only requires people to contribute back code if a) they make changes and b) they distribute the changed version of the library outside their organisation. It's trivial for people to base multi-million dollar business on GPL code and contribute nothing back. It happens all the time. If you think the GPL protects you from that you need to read it more closely.

>The most devastating thing the community can do now is fund a organization that can sue companies for breaking the terms of free software they are using

Only the copyright holders have standing to sue.
Great idea!

I actually had no clue how to do the color scale, and I ended up doing it with 5 different colors based on quantile.
Did a small write up with my thoughts about it: http://mts.io/2014/05/07/spotify-pricing-index/

Will revisit the map with these color changes.
I signed up for Spotify Malaysia when I lived there and continue to pay the lower subscription fee now that I am living in Singapore. The only differences are a minor difference in selection and the fact that, for some reason, all my iPhone push notifications from the Spotify app are in Bahasa Malay (Malaysia's primary language)
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I suppose.

Certainly not 'and have it just work', but I'm really skeptical that many web apps have such complex api dependencies that you couldn't just fudge a new one in.

Even app-engine apps have been successfully run using an isolated stack.

...and certainly most 3rd party APIs really wouldn't care; just another end user. Nothing special.
Why do internet services always seem to be more expensive in the UK? Surely they should be able to be provided at approximately the same cost as the US.

For example, Steam games are consistently well above the US price + 20% for VAT.

Netflix is £5.99 a month, which is over ten USD.

I'm sure there are many more examples.
Where I am (typical US place) no one at any school, elementary, middle, or high school (including the IT people), has the technical sophistication to responsibly administer local servers, or is remotely interested in gaining it.
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Oh, does it print a board and die when you hit a key? Or does it not even start up? Keys are hjkl, not arrow keys (which, it seems, lead to loss). That might be worth documenting...
Another interesting thing which is only now starting to go away for these unlimited plans is cell phone service in the US.

In most countries you only pay for outgoing calls (unless you are roaming).

In the US you pay for incoming calls as well (your minutes are deducted) and in addition the person calling you is also paying for that call.

So there is double dipping going on there as well. At some point I was even paying for incoming SMS.
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When the car is driving itself, it won't be put through the same abuse.

When a plane fails, it falls out of the sky and people die. When a car fails, it stays on the ground. Some people might die, but nowhere near as many as a single fatal plane crash, and more often than not there will only be severe injuries.
So, an engineer can perform managerial work with limited formal training... You seem to be implying that a business degree has little value.
He's not saying it's wrong. He's saying it's likely that China would do it rather than USA.
Why are non-monetary donations ignored? The Heartbleed bug was discovered by a person working for Google, and the patch was written by other two employees - is that not an important contribution?
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I don't like this idea because I'm a power user and would stand to lose in this transition but I realise that's not a good argument.

Here are some thoughts:

Other utilities usually come with a base fee, ie. even if I were to consume no electricity I'd still pay some amount of money per month. The total cost is (base fee + usage fee). So it's not purely based on consumed resource amount.

If we were to transition to a consumption based fee model to realign incentives, it would stand to reason that the amount of revenues the telcos should get should not change significantly. I expect that the telcos would not be able to resist gouging their customers if consumption based fees were to comeback (competition might drive down prices... eventually).

Water and electricity are quite cheap (in first world terms). There's an incentive not to be grossly wasteful with either, but that's it, really. It'd be nice if internet consumption fees could work in a similar way.
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The US is huge and diverse. Many of our states are larger than many European countries. California's population is about the same as Poland's, New York's is a bit bigger than the Netherlands/about the same as Romania.

But for more than two centuries, the US has, by Constitutional mandate, had one integrated market. Changing banking in the US means changing more than 300 million people, millions of businesses, and thousands of financial institutions with enormous inertia.

There is no way to do that quickly without Congressional intervention. Which brings us to gerrymandered congressional districts and half the country cleaning guns and stockpiling ammunition every time a new law is proposed that isn't to force the religious right's (im)morality on the country, especially when the law might cost anyone other than their political opponents money in the short term, no matter what the long-term benefits are.

There's a reason every minuscule step the US makes toward real health care reform is a big deal, decades after the rest of the western world had already figured it out.
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Docpad apparently has a wysiwyg interface.

Almost very moderately popular ssg has some sort of cms interface plugin.
We are developing an app called pagebox.es with a different focus but which could be used as an alternative.

We have links, files and notes as well, but we'd like to get better at structuring and sharing other kinds of contents, and turn the collections into simple sharable databases with a friendly front.

Although I got to say that it isn't as elegant as Kippt and Sendtoinc, maybe someday ;)