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Everyone should be a home owner because people tend to take care better of the place they both own and live in. But it order to achieve that you need to incentivise people who rent property to sell it. Progressive property tax that makes owning more that two or three homes very risky endavor could do that.

I recently bought a flat with intention to rent. It stands empty for many months so far because I can't find time to finish renovating it. It can stand empty because it's dirt cheap to leave it like that. I'm earning enough too keep it empty for another month in less than a day. As it stands empty somebody has no place to live in and has to pay rent elevated by the fact people like me are perfectly safe to hoard property.
(with a little bit of sarcasm:)

Oh I guess then it's safe to put my data on the American cloud again.

Just kidding, wouldn't do it. And neither should you.

It's sad, but as a foreigner I don't see that, regarding government policies, anything at all has changed since Snowden went public. I have nothing against the USA taking various leadership roles. Biggest democracy, newest technology etc, but since early 2000s it seems they are doing a bad job in many areas.

No thanks.
> # If we just got to the goal node, build and return the path.

if adjacent == goal_node:
return build_path(goal_node)

If you want to ensure the path is optimal, you'll have to wait until you 'expand' the goal node, as there might exist goal states in the open set with lower costs.
Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
Not everyone can easily handle the cultural change from moving, or have strong social ties to friends and family. If a person has kids, it's an order of magnitude more difficult to move. Some people are quite socially adaptable, some are well-prepared by their upbringing to have the skills to be comfortable in changing social situations. Not to say that it's easy for them, but easier - it's still quite a challenge.

And again, doing something like this on an individual level is easy, because the status quo doesn't change overall. But on a demographic level, where are all the unemployed people going to move to? Another country? That other country also has unemployed people.

Similarly, if you don't have skills in demand by employers, you're hard to hire, and hence hard to get more skills valued by employers - moving to a new location simply moves you to a new pool of unskilled labour.
It's a highly regulated device. It's not going to be cheap, even without patents. Just look at hearing aids.

Let's say they didn't have a patent.

You'd need a significant investment, so you couldn't produce it at unit cost.

There's development. A good engineer costs what ... 200k? Including stuff like taxes, overhead, etc. Let's say you need several (because there's the control systems, hardware design, casing, manufacture, etc). You'll need supplies.

Then you'll need testing, legal, etc. You'll need to set up manufacturing (China? A US shop? Let's assume you're not building your own plant).

Complete ass-pull guess - it's $10 million to bring a clone to market, in the US. It's a medical assistive device (is that the right term?) - you can't do it cheaply and legally.

So there's ~600k (~1/500) people in the US with Parkinsons. Maybe 10% want your spoon (because there's other spoons, or some have treatment that makes your spoon useless, or they are too stubborn to use it, or they just don't want it). That's 60k.

So you're looking at maybe $160 overhead per unit. Add $50 sales cost, and $50 to manufacture it (medical device), and you're not looking at a cheap spoon.

Yes, going international could make it cheaper. Presumably, the company selling this spoon will also get cheaper with time.

I'm also sure that even with patents, there will be clones. People will come up with similar ideas, and make them just different enough to squeak past, legally speaking. But given the high costs of developing assistive devices, it's not going to be profitable for every man and his dog to make a clone. So you'll go from a monopoly to a near-monopoly. Just because there's some competition doesn't mean that the price will dramatically drop - you need a lot of competition with identical products for the price to go to unit cost.
I'm French and I have the same experience as you: bank services are virtually free for individuals (although not for companies) and I don't see what Bitcoin conversion would add to the value proposition; it would add risk and uncertainty, but nothing in the way of convenience or cost.
The only way to give people back control, while maintaining the benefits of 'the cloud', is to make it insanely simple for people to run their own infrastructure. I'm working on the building blocks to make this a reality.

http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/
It's visibles that you used to work for an AV company and haven't followed the advances of the industry.
As you don't mention any of the modern day technologies like heuristics and file reputation in cloud.

It's true that the world is full of auto morphing malwares, but you can still detect them new variants through heuristics. Which in turn delivers the results to what is generally known as some sort of Antivirus Cloud Lookup or File Reputation Lookup.

Also the AV industry shares information between them. So in the background you don't have anymore analysts looking at every sample file. Instead there's automation that analyses each incoming sample.

The old scan databases you prefer to are usually last line of defense now days if all the other technologies before haven't been able to show the file to be known good file or bad file.

Full disclosure: I currently work for computer security company.
Holy cow, this picture shows how freaking huge this thing is...

http://www.musclecarszone.com/3400hp-1704-ci-supercharged-24...
uhh, the Stack Stacks have almost nothing to do with RackSpace at this point.
Remember the dot com bust days, when companies with ZERO revenues raised BILLIONS on user (vanity?) numbers ?
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Ten cents on the dollar would be about $470 million cash. Define "good"

edit: $430 million between when the story broke and now.
How does a site like tvtropes need thousands per month? they must be doing something wrong...

Stick it on a few linode or AWS VPSes and add some backend code to bring in new ones as load goes up, maybe with physical servers for database backend. Switch to nginx if it doesn't use it already (can't remember (edit: yep, using Apache; also seems to only be on a single IP, hosted by ServerBeach)), add memcached, perhaps put the whole thing behind cloudflare, and problem solved.
I've worked in two factories, striping down old machines, unloading trucks, overnight shifts at gas stations where you're just as likely to get shot as you are to make it through the night. I've cleaned up blood, shit, vomit. I nearly had my hand torn off in an industrial machine. I worked hard because I thought that was the right thing to do. And all I ever got for it was a barely livable wage (I'm talking eating flour mixed with chicken broth and being damned excited about it because we could pay the power bill). I also learned that working that kind of job offers no security, no mobility, and is only barely worth doing. I'm not and have never been above physical labor. But in today's society, in the US, it's really hard to live a healthy life that way.
When you move yourself, you can essentially fit your stuff in a suitcase and go. On the other hand, if you move a few persons family...
There is also the psychological problem of having been out of work for a long time - returning to full time work is psychologically traumatic, and hard to get used to. Obviously it's doable, but it's not trivial. Those of us who already work full-time are used to it and have our lives built around it and accommodate it, but to make the shift from long-term unemployed to full-time worker is quite the lifestyle change.

A friend of mine works in occupational therapy, and part of what they do is deal with this issue in getting people back to work. It's called "work hardening".
Mozilla just makes their greatest mistake.
This is a non-problem. One person can now do the job of a hundred but we have more people than ever before. Increasing automation is only going to make this trend worse. It is unfortunate that most politicians continue to peddle an outdated idea of social worth and well-being.

I don't have a solution but then again most of these young people are far better off than the generation before them so maybe they should stop being so gloomy. Most of them have pretty much free access to all of life's necessities and they are going to live longer than any generation before them.
CryptoBank of America: making Bitcoin accessible to the masses
"(Some would say behind the times.)"

Joke's on you, we are ahead of the times!

It used to be pretty much just like you described here in the US and then they realized they could fee the shit out of us, "optimize" our deposits and withdrawal timings to maximize the likelihood of overdraft (which they would also then apply a series of meta-fees on), drop our earned interest to essentially 0% and most people would be too lazy to do anything about it.
Plenty of periods in history were relatively happy, especially when we are talking about middle class. It was not hell-only all the time. Plenty of man were happy in their day jobs back then or slacked them through or felt succesful.
I think GNU gets it right: SaaS would be more aptly termed Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS).[1] The Creative Suite used to work fine before they turned it into a cloud "service". There is no good reason to make software that runs as native binaries on two platforms (Mac and Windows) dependent on remote servers.

1. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#SaaS
I use it as a tool to collect and save infographic data... quite a good tool but the valuation is kinda beyond my understanding!
Pixelmator is a much better solution if you're on a Mac. Not free though...
Best of luck! I have been using Sketch for my job for 3 weeks now. It has its bugs, but Adobe already lost me as a customer.
"atrocities experienced by the Germans as the Soviet military rolled in from the east" - don't invade places then. 'Atrocity' is when someone exterminates people just to clear the land. The word you were looking for is 'retribution'.
The part I prefer:

> It appears to be a joke or prank, simply because this particular virus does nothing more than periodically show "YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN STONED" on one out of every eight computer boot-ups, and is over 25 years old.

When viruses were mainly jokes...
A contract "poison pill" or litmus test. Pretty ingenious, is that sort of thing common practice in contracts?
Why to never follow rules
Circle's demo video at https://www.circle.com/2014/05/16/circle-update/ is perhaps the only I've seen best watched with a calculator.

$10.00 + $0.01 that comes out of nowhere + $200.00 - $23.65 = Uhhh... $187.27? Plus or minus 91 cents? What?

Yes the Bitcoin exchange rate fluctuates a lot, but their ledger does not seem to reflect that. That's problem number 1.

Problem number 2 is Bitcoin itself.

Problem number 3 is that the comments are about "insurance" are completely disingenuous. What insurance? Circle is not FDIC or NCUA insured and the company has an obligation to make that clear. Allaire and his investors should know better.
The British people didn't make any kind of bet, the few politicians in power at the time took it, lost hard and still ended up as Lords.
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The original "people uprising" happened in the capital. And it's very obvious who contacted those other, nazi, sleepers:

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+5+billion+ukraine
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So there are some issues
I guarantee you that the average guy trying his hand at the market doesn't care about what people on the Internet might preach about their decisions later. The fact of the matter is most people don't take those opportunities because most people are very bad at speculation.

Among people who have Soros-level financial power and moxie, they generally are current with economic thought, in which fixed currencies in developed countries are considered a very bad thing by just about everyone. The British government was not doing the world any favors by fixing the pound. The sooner its fixed rate was broken, the better.

It is convenient to tell yourself that smart people like you are not rich because you are too good to be rich, but this doesn't align with reality, not in this particular case nor in general.
One can teach a dog how to dance, but we don't say that dogs make good dancers.
Or, more sneakily, by embedding it in your hostmask.
They keyword here being "properly".
>Websockets (with a fallback mechanism)

Not enough frameworks make this as seamless as it should be. So it's refreshing to see it done here.

I've been looking at Phoenix (Elixir not Erlang) but the problem is that I'll have to do logic to detect when WS are available and do the fallback myself which results in more code server side.

I think this is something that should be handled by the framework itself.
Don't link to it then. Flagged.
Certainly, I didn't mean to imply a permanence, only that doing something is usually better than nothing. I've always found employers infinitely more receptive to a person with a demonstrable work ethic, and far less sympathetic to the NEET or apathetic job seeker.
Shmerl, you're just using a kitchen-sink style of argument here, while dancing around the realities of economics. What I've described is intricately intertwined with piracy, and piracy is a major problem which DRM seeks to disincentivize. Just because it can be broken, so what? Banks get robbed in spite of having security, does that mean security is therefore a waste of time and they should just let everyone wander in and out of the vault? What a stupid argument.

Here are some papers examining the issue through surveys: http://www.mtm.uni-koeln.de/team-loebbecke-publications-conf... http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~aarnab/drm/papers/survey.pdf http://www.nclnet.org/images/PDF/ncl_dvdsurvey_report_040620... http://www.mirlabs.org/iasl/volume_1/IASL_Vol_1_Paper_12.pdf http://beta.orionshoulders.com/Resources/articles/26_22273_I... (last one only for statistical masochists)

And if some distributors want exclusivity - they can get it. They can agree that the publisher will sell that content only through their channel. What does it have to do with requiring DRM? Same thing can happen with a DRM free release.

No it can't, what are you smoking? Are you going to put up money to buy territorial rights for content which the publisher is going to give away DRM-free? Of course not, there's a high risk that you'd never recoup your investment. Territorial markets matter a lot, because those block sales represent the production's best hope of breaking even. All those markets are different, which is why distributors exist in the first place; they know their local markets better than any individual studio or producer can, and they have the cash flow to write a check based on the budget and the quality of the cast attached to the project.

This is how most commercial movies get financed: a large chunk of the budget is ponied up in advance by the international distributors. In turn, they have some control over the release window (which varies by country for all but the most giant projects, because every country is different with different holiday weekends etc. which are more important to consumers than all but the very biggest movie releases), and they impose touch contractual requirements on the studios. This is a completely different market from Netflix. When Netflix licenses something, they (in most cases) already know how it performed and can negotiate the cost of the license based on that date. International distributors are taking much larger financial risks at a much earlier stage of the business cycle. They're like VCs, not simple retailers.

I don't mean to be rude, but you're making these breezy and uninformed statements about a ~$35 billion industry that's been running for over a century and is one of the most competitive and meritocratic sectors of the economy. You keep saying how stupid the people at the studios are, and yet you obviously don't know the first thing about how the industry functions.
Some mentions about the list:

* You can use both Erlang DSL and/or DTL templates

* You can use JSON, BERT, RAW BINARY messages. see http://synrc.com/apps/n2o/doc/web/protocol.htm

* You can use N2O both as server-render and in SPA mode
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Just a FYI, some of us feel that eating cheese is immoral.
Non-mining nodes just hold and relay validated blocks, they don't do anything that can be hijacked.
It should be noted that "just spin up a VPS/dedicated server" is not a serious competition for most SaaS companies, nor is it a requirement for most people who buy SaaS. Try explaining that process to Office Manager Milly, whose #1 feature request is being able to fax documents to the SaaS app rather than having to upload them.

Milly may have heard about Heartbleed recently. She doesn't understand public key cryptography, SSL, servers, configuration files, or the command line. She does understand that all of her information being leaked to bad guys is not optimal. How would you go about advising Milly on what the consequences of Heartbleed are for her self-hosted SaaS product?
It is handled by N2O automatically. See how https://github.com/5HT/n2o/blob/master/priv/bullet.js
Except it was the BoE that was selling lemons. Sorros knew they were and exchanged them for oranges while he could.
Some rules exist for really good reasons. Reasons which may not be immediately clear to you if you are just being exposed to them.

I would say you should always question why specific rules exist, and you should feel free to challenge and sometimes break them if they are pointless bureaucracy, but choose your battles and don't rebel just for the sake of rebelling. Leave that for the 16 year olds.
You demonstrated quite eloquently that in this case, offline is superior.
Well that's on my todo list :-)

thank you
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"Pinterest has raised a total of $764 million to date."

That is a lot of money to be able to pin some photos.
Off the top of my head, GMail is the only one. Mostly because Outlook's/Thunderbird's UI and UX are absolute ass.

SAAS is inferior in:

* games

* text editors

* photo editors

* IDEs

Backup storage is okay, but I live in a country with tight bandwidth caps so I can't really use things, plus I don't want Google or Dropbox or MeGa snooping at what I upload.

So I would never pay to use any of the above things, and I would certainly NEVER pay Adobe for anything. I'm fortunate that I don't need to use their products.
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It isn't Mozilla that breaks my heart but "Netflix, Hulu, BBC iPlayer, Amazon Video, and other services". On the other hand, it was something to be expected ... And what would you need a fast lane for if it were not for distributing commercial content over the internet to a well defined group of paying receivers as an alternative to traditional technologies. Unfortunately, the Internet is grown up now and moved out of its parents' house.
You're being downvoted - probably - for blaming "former eastern-bloc countries" for the state of things in UK. Well, it's just not that simple. From purely economical point of view the recent arrival of labor from Eastern Europe was a positive, it added 0.25 percentage points to UK's growth (according to research done by Treasury). That's no surprise, since the immigrants are coming in for jobs (often for the low skilled jobs, since they don't know language enough to start a career in their field), so don't demand rents, education and healthcare right off.
Non-European immigrations affected jobs market negatively, yet only in two years of recent recession, in 2009 and 2010.
There are, of course, other, non-economical aspects, and here it's not so rosy.
This article touches the issue from many points of view:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10822956...

Then, there's Germany. The only country in Europe where young people have relatively no problems with getting a job. Why? Germans keep their job market closed, so that's seems like an easy answer. Yet, France and some others did the same, and it didn't help.
And surely, Germany is significantly stronger economically that the rest. However, they too had a period of high youth unemployment rates. So that isn't it either. However, in exactly that period they introduced Nationaler Pakt für. Ausbildung und Fachkräftenachwuchs (Vocational and Educational Training Pact) - a solution that allows young people to simultaneously work and study. It's not a system with no flaws, but it worked.
Source: http://www.worldcrunch.com/opinion-analysis/how-germany-beat...
Lets all just trust these corporations who went behind our backs since start of the 90s.

EFF reports clearly shows now that the major corporations which backstabbed us are doing all they can now to serve our interests and not other agendas. Herd the sheep, and sheep will not say a thing. Well done EFF, show me the way to herd the sheep.
Dual-carbon batteries will be safer and longer lasting
Children + business is quite doable, but it usually means there is not that much outside of these two activities in life.

Which is totally fine.
I hasn't worked at all in most other cases, particularly in eastern European and ex-soviet countries.

Debt is a big problem, but government handouts are not a good solution to give young people the feeling that they have something to live for.
I don't like DRM, but Mozilla isn't forcing it down your throat either. How is a plugin (the Adobe EME thingy) that isn't installed by default that you can download to decode encrypted video, worse than the current situation where we have to download a plugin to decode encrypted video (Flash, Silverlight)?

Sure, it isn't better, but it isn't worse either. If you use another browser you don't even have the choice, then Google or Microsoft makes that choice for you.
The biggest filer of copyright lawsuits? This erotica website