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My country - Poland - has completely free education, on every level - primary, middle,high school and every university are free. There are private ones which are paid but they are not very good and a degree from any of them is not worth much.

And yet despite free education(and free healthcare for everyone) we managed to be the ONLY country in the entire European Union to not enter into recession - while every other country was going into negative numbers,we managed to maintain positive growth.

So, if free education in the US would collapse your finances, then there is something seriously wrong with either the cost of the education(which is seriously inflated and disproportionate for what it's offering) or your government has wrong spending priorities.
I've witnessed this first hand - we recently started rolling out measured goals in our warehouses. This involved staff getting set daily goal counts for certain tasks (products shipped, products put on shelves etc.). As soon as we rolled out metrics everything that wasn't measured became a low priority. For example, we were not measuring cycle counts (stock take) so immediately the number of cycle counts plummeted, which increased our out-of-stock errors. We had instances of staff hoarding incoming shipments from suppliers at their workstations in order to get higher rankings.

Overall the warehouses went from being generally efficient to extreme performers on measured metrics. I think metrics can be clearly powerful, but you have to be very careful about what metrics you choose to implement.
Welcome to the age of thousand dollar a pill medicine. Every communication, location, every purchase, every mouse click or swipe duly tracked, recorded, and data mined.

You are exactly describing the world today, as provided by our big government.
I regret the tone and the resulting loss of an opportunity to persuade bystanders who aren't mostly of the same opinion as me already. In future I shall aim to be more Scott Alexander and less Charles Clymer/Arthur Chu.
Exactly. Too little in politics is based on evidence.

(I think) I would vote for the first politician to admit that they are not sure what the outcome will be. Unfortunately in politics, and honest attitude is not well received.
Agreed on all points, and I'd like to add some numbers that worked for me - keep about 5-10 long-term objectives. Make one of them taking care of your health (exercise, nutrition), one taking care of your mental health (mostly work/rest/socialize balance), and invest in your knowledge/skills. Currently, I have 5 more (finish project #1, #2, #3, make company profitable, move out of country).

Additional point I'd like to make is - know thyself. You simply cannot set goals on some wishful thinking and other randomnesses. While glass of wine per day is ok, you might better be off without any, or you might need a bottle of wine a day to manage your cholesterol level (stretching the metaphore).

Also, props for planning out the next day in evening - makes sleep and the start of next day so much more pleasurable experience.
It would appear so. This is essentially a browser that streams off torrent files.

They will take plenty of heat none the less.
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> The whole renewable energy push is an expensive mess.

So what ? ALL energy production is. But I would rather take a clean, renewable source of energy over the polluting coal/gas or the unsafe nuclear kinds.

And a country like Australia would be amazing for renewables provided we could have a country wide power grid. It is windy almost every day in say Fremantle and likewise sunny almost every day in many northern/central areas.
Why do you think it's illegal?
I find it quite amusing how people talk about communism failing, AFTER we bailed out the banks.
8kWh is around 28 MJ which places it several orders of magnitude above the currently available battery technology according to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
This looks nice but i wonder why it is not open sourced if free.
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It seems that the Al smelter generates lots of CO2, so greenhouse effects might just be moved closer to hydropower plants... :-)

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

Edit: It would be interesting to see how much Al (not total weight of the system) is used/km. According to wikipedia there should be about 1.5 mol CO2/CO per mol Al created (depends on how the process is tuned). Car ads declare how much CO2/km they release, right? Anyone know their car engines? (I live in a city center and only drive on vacation.)

Edit 2: This Al energy source is cool, but what everyone here really want is some hard data comparing it to a normal hybrid energy in costs, how easy it is to use and (maybe also) greenhouse effects. That the articles doesn't discuss that is probably a good answer.
That is unfortunate that this technology needs to overcome that stigmatism. There is no reason this shouldn't be used for legitimate purposes. This would be incredible for educational purposes.
>>For the air-battery operator it will mean swapping out the old battery for a new one every few months

I don't know how much the author of this article drives, but 1800km range would mean that I would have to swap the battery every month. And I imagine that the range depends heavily on how you drive, so I would like to see real-world usage test.
If you allow little configuration options, you could as well allow to easily reset the server to default.

I mean a zero configuration server cannot be compared to a server that has > 100 users. The latter usually has a lot of custom settings which would

a) easily get damaged during updated
b) be lost when resetting the whole thing

There is definitely a need for easily manageable servers that should be low on customization and maintenance.
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The carotene butter sounds good, I'll try that. The recipe for the carrot soup seems to available on their web site (no centrifuge necessary!), so maybe that's next: http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/caramelized-carrot-soup-...
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>He is in the mining corporations pocket.

He is also in the pocket of Rupert Murdoch who he met (along with many mining executives) whilst in the US. It is a real tragedy to see such worldwide talents like the CSIRO go unappreciated.
No, but padding with superfluous words and sentences does.
Being an employee is no nightmare.

That said, having been close to a bug payout sucks, but it's basically the same as standing at the roulette table "if I had only bet 28 black" when you missed your number by one.

Agonizing over "close, but not quite, good luck" is human, but it leads nowhere.
It's way easier to sell stuff to people who already like it. You just need to convince them to buy more often and larger volume. (2L coke bottles, 2+1 deals). You can do this by creating occasions for people to consume your product and combining products.
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@collyw The original communism (the one "by the working class for the working class") is blue, cold and not coming back soon..
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How would "small" government change it?

Being a European living in a country with a "bigger" relative government (as I understand the way Americans use the term) but with free healthcare and a big data mining debate ongoing, I'm a bit at a loss...
ClojureScript is not executed on the JVM.
Does it work on emulators? If so, any suggestions? (I haven't kept up with development of the TI calc scene at all, I assume there's new kids on the block by now)
Glad to have company :)
Drop us a line, we'd love to talk shop.
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Apparently it's gone forever:

http://gethiphop.net/
Runs best on wabbitemu, but you'll need wine to use it on Linux. We're working on a new emulator, maybe you'd like to help? https://github.com/KnightOS/z80e
Sort of - yes.
http://i.imgur.com/B4Tzj7w.gif
Other than tinkering, what's the point of that project?

AFAIK you buy those things because you want TI's math software, not because you need some hardware to run your software on it. After all, these are a bit pricey if just look at the hardware, right?
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There are some similar projects, but this one definitely looks and feels great!
Hospitals by their very nature are anti-competitive. There is no way that you as a patient can shop around. You do not have the necessary knowledge to compare the treatments, evaluate the options and decide on what represents the best value.
Please even the HN/Technology crowds don't have a fear of spam, data mining etc.

Gmail, Google Search, Twitter, Facebook etc are all widely used.
I was speaking specifically of monopoly power, i.e., the power to raise or lower prices in the market. And no, neither government nor private firms should have this power. Monopoly power is an example of market failure. In a competitive market, all participants are price takers, i.e., passive agents incapable of changing the market price. In perfect competition, in every transaction, at least one party is better off, and nobody is worse off. That all changes when somebody gets the power to set prices; then transactions leave some people worse off.

There are kinds of power besides monopoly power, such as coercive power. WRT coercive power, that's best monopolized by a democratic government accountable to its people. And government can and should use it's monopoly on coercive power to promote competitive markets. Instead, its been empowering monopolies.

But people today aren't well informed enough to make demands on government to promote competition or hold politicians accountable. They're given bogus ideologies (neoclassicism, Keynesianism, etc.). And they're given the false choice between Left and Right.

The terms "Left" and "Right" are not merely overly simplistic. They're total falsehoods, fabricated by self-interested parties to delude people into thinking they either need to give government more monopoly power or else give private firms more monopoly power. There is a third choice that's left unmentioned: Government can promote competition.
Note that these batteries wouod have to be replaced every time they are empty not 'once a year .
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Thinking aloud: could one build a combination fossil fuel and solar steam-powered turbine? When the sun is out, you use (supercritical) steam as they describe being able to generate. If the sun goes away, you feed the same turbine with steam generated with fossil fuels. You could use same turbine, condenser, etc but just switch the heat source (or use both) as the environmental conditions change.
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Did you edit a typo or was I just blind? I searched for mudrock, not muckrock. Thanks. :D
Does anyone understand how it tracks the subject, i.e. the person being filmed? They mention the MAVLink protocol (http://qgroundcontrol.org/mavlink/start) but that doesn't seem like an answer.

Not sure if they have enough on-board computing power to do real-time image analysis and track that way.
It seems you're confusing the range of the vehicle at full charge with
eventual need to replace the battery. The article is not particularly
clear on that, but the ComputerWorld article I linked to gives a few
more details.
Looks a little like the XFCE Window Manager (the underlying distro could, quite literally, be anything) but I feel the video is too poor to identify anything properly.
The software itself: yes, probably.

They way many will use it: probably not.

Torrent software doesn't break media licensing agreements, people break media licensing agreements.
Snowden didn't get the juiciest documents
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248966/Electric_car_...
My experience has been the opposite. In fact there were couple of articles with evidence of android apps being more stable than their iOS versions [0]. The difference wasn't large however.

Its the same case with battery life. It seems pretty comparable to the iPhone 5 and 5S [1]

[0] http://bgr.com/2014/03/28/apple-android-app-stability/

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3
It's ironic how in the failed communist centralized economies, the economic policy was dictated by "elected" nomenklatura and it was BAD

It wasn't judged as bad because of nomenklatura, or rigged elections. Few people care about these. It was bad because you couldn't get basic goods. There were shortages of sugar and toiler paper. Not war-time shortages, decades after the war.

Which is why the current system will continue as long as it can carry out its basic obligations. American banks are a little behind the times but mostly because of all the backwards compatibility they carry, not scale-related dysfunction. Regular consumers don't feel that. They can still can get their credit cards, chargebacks work, fraud is policed, Amazon gets paid, etc, etc.
The best lesson I ever got about goals I got from learning to play (6-max, limit, texas hold'em) poker. Poker has stupidly high variance to profit ratio, and an endless amount of metrics you could measure to track progress.

Obviously, the goal of playing is to make money, and almost equally obviously, focusing on how much money you made is actively harmful if done for sample sizes lower than 100k hands or so.

The solution to improvement through quantitative analysis in that environment is to find key drivers that you believe impact your overall goal, analyse trends you see in those drivers, and based on those find a few areas that you want to qualitatively drill into to figure out changes you can make. I.e. - "I open 20% of the time from early position and 25% from late position - if I compare to other successful players that is too low a difference, so lets see if I can find some situations where I may be making bad decisions and plug those holes".

That is what we want to do with goal setting in business as well. Yes we have some high level KPIs that we want to improve, but actively working "to improve your revenue" is harmful and will no doubt lead to selling cars that explode etc. To be successful you set your overall KPI(s), then you forget about it and focus on smaller things that will over time incrementally add to your overall goal.

If you have managers and employees who cant make that separation or want to take short cuts to directly affect the overall goal without focusing on the smaller bits, or comparing to some kind of "best known" practise, then you end up with exploding cars, tools that has all features and no usability etc.
I think the general idea is that you have a lithium battery for the typically shorter day to day journeys (say 60 miles?), and the air battery is there for occasional long-range journeys. This amounts to a different solution for the problem that the Volt solves - with substantially lower weight/cost/maintenance overhead.
The thing about a capitalist economy is that people need to create opportunities. If more people optimized their career better we'd have better ratio of matching opportunities with workers which will mean less unemployed people which means economic growth which would could lead to more growth.

Looking to the government to enact keysnian economics didn't work so well for Japan. And anyway policy matters and is important, but people at the same time need to take their lives in their own hands and make changes. Hard changes.

Just like we're always trying to get everyone to give up their gas guzzling carbon emitters, we should also be trying to get everyone to adopt a little bit more of a responsibility of managing their own lives. For the social good. The more people earn, the more wealth we have to lift all boats.
There is actually a whole sequence of such limits: the visibility limit (where light emitted in the distant past reaches us now) is furthest out, then comes the reachability limit (where light emitted by us now can still be observed), then the round trip limit where we can send a message now and recieve an answer (before we are beyond their reachability limit), then the limit where we can send a message, recieve an answer and then send a final goodbye, then the limit for two full exchanges, and so on...

But at least one could do the respective trips to slightly closer galaxies within a lifetime: http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0509268.pdf (published in Phys.Rev. D, http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.107... )
A TI-73 or TI-83 is $20 or less on eBay.
this, they are on a "prisoner spiral".

Some time ago there were a few posts now and then from a few pages. Now there are dozens of posts per day from basically everything. And people have more likes because more pages exists.

So more content -> facebook trims it -> page owners see a decrease in page view and push more content of lower quality -> interactions decrease -> push even more lower quality content...
Right, I wasn't tying it to undergraduate education. There's nothing wrong at all with vocational training, in fact, I'm pro on that. You can pick up 19th century Russian literature later in life (and you should as it's pretty great).
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A smaller government wouldn't have a $52.6 billion budget for the NSA & CIA to data mine.

A drug company can only charge a $1000 for a pill because the government is blocking competition by granting patents. Effectively creating a micro monopoly. Small government with extremely limited or no patents would allow competition to fix the $1000 pill.

It is industries like healthcare and telecom, where the US has both very large companies and very big government that we have the worst outcomes.
The Pirate Bay was ruled to be illegal.
Like the idea but I wouldn't touch this until I knew the price of the gadget I wanted. Signing up to find the Rift or 3D printer were actually $200/month would really annoy me.
That glasses looks better than Google Glass.
Now if only they could fit in the battery pack and transmitter/receiver in the glasses itself.
I would be surprised if Apple did not BSD license the source code for Swift by the end of the year, given that they have been almost single-handedly sponsoring the framework (and employing the main developers) it's built on, LLVM, for years now - keeping it open source when there's no license requirement for them to do so.
Yup. I had to get some surgery done a few years back, and I went surgeon shopping. The surgeons did not like that one little bit. They got quite upset with me when they realised I was talking to several different surgeons and checking out my options.

Of course, as you point out, it is very difficult to evaluate medical professionals from a layman's perspective. I ended up talking to surgical nurses in the hospitals the surgeons worked out of. It was not easy finding the nurses, it took persistence and physically going to the hospitals in question and asking real nurses which nurses I need to talk to. Then I had to track those nurses down, and convince them to talk openly. It helped that I have a cousin that is a nurse, and she gave me some contacts / introductions.

I was glad I did it though. One of the surgeons on my shortlist had a very poor reputation amongst nurses as to his skills in the operating theatre, so I managed to avoid him.

As an aside, considering just how critical the nursing staff where about this guy's skills, it is incredible to me that he is still allowed to practice...
From what I understand,the battery is non-rechargeable, so you can only drive 1800km until you have to replace it completely,no?
that's generally not true. For most procedures done in hospitals there is nearly no reason why patients can't shop around. With basically the only exception being the ER, for true emergencies.

Moreover, even if NOT ALL patients shop around, say, even just 10%, there would be enough momentum going to put pressure on doctors to improve quality of care and decrease costs.
This seems like a really cool product if you're above the treeline or on the ocean. Otherwise, I'd worry about not having enough tree and lightpost -disposable go-pros.
The system in the US is different. You can get credits in various topics despite being enrolled in, say, Physics. In Germany, you're enrolled in one subject and have mostly predefined classes for that subject until you have something like a pre-diploma. This doesn't tell you anything about the depth of a class.

I studied for a year at ASU (computer science) and found there's not much difference between low-level courses and pre-diploma courses in Germany. A master's dregree in the US is more or less comparable to a diploma.

Also: Do you compare the former 13 years of school in Germany or the new 12-year period of school with the American education system?
Theres no conundrum for me. I won't go there. 1. They make rubbish coffee. 2. They pay no tax in my country.

When they pay no tax, they have an unfair anticompetitive advantage against businesses that do. Other taxpayers have to make up the balance.

The fact they are now gifting a fraction back and looking of kudos just vexes me more.
Ah, I didn't know about that. When I came to Japan it seemed every price was always tax included. I have noticed recently that some places have tax being extra. Now I see why.
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>While I agree with you, I would point out that planned economy plans are rarely "for the good of everyone".

This is exactly how it works under our system too. Instead of economic planning being set in motion by the nomenklatura, it's done by the heads of major banks.
I wouldn't include JavaScript on the list of PL that are popular because of a huge corporation behind it but more on "this is what we've got, suck it or die".
That's a pretty cool idea! Perhaps I should try that out myself with my classes.

Maybe someone could make an IF game specifically around learning the CLI?
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One wrong decision prevents all future decisions?

This is a stress and you need to build your self confidence to get out of the self doubt loop. You aren't living when you are thinking of the past.

Create, create, create!

good luck!
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There are currently shortages of another basic good: housing.

It's a mistake to think that our economies are any the less planned. Fraud may be policed at the low end, but at the high end (servicer fraud; pension rip offs) it is rife and largely unpoliced.
> Here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/japan-s-government-.... And the consumption tax hike.

Haha. That's not austerianism. Austerity is when you cut down to the levels of spending you can afford. What Japan (and many other countries around the world) are calling "austerity" is just digging the hole a little less fast. But they are still actively digging the hole, year after year, producing more and more debt.

Austerity is just an over-abused media buzzword to say you are cutting a small piece in your obese amount of spendings. Nothing to do with the actual meaning of the word.

The tax hike will have nil effects on the fact that there are deep changes in Japan's structure to stop overspending, without mentioning the fact that increasing tax will bring diminishing revenues (and lower consumption) after a certain limit.
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