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> In the US, a large number of people use the emergency room as a doctor's office because they have no other choice.

How do you mean though? I'm saying that people with flu/colds/UTI/etc just go to the emergency room instead of a doctor's office (or even walk-in clinics at times) in Canada. I've been without healthcare, but I spent most of my life on a good healthcare plan through my parents. I don't have much experience with people that are off of the healthcare system (the only time I've had friends that were 'poor'[1] was in Canada where they were still covered for healthcare and social assistance).

[1] By poor I mean, barely making any money and living off of welfare and/or living in subsidized housing. I don't mean starving/homeless, though I was a couple of 'degrees' away from people that were homeless.

> But if Canada keeps using US logic, it might wind-up in our boat.

How do you mean?

> Good luck to you...

I'm currently living in the US, but I was living in Ontario for a time. It just irks me when people start talking about the 'problems with the Canadian system' when it's not a unified system as I understand it. The same when people start talking about 'socialized medicine,' since every country that has such a system has a different take on it.
> None of the apps skipped a beat.

out of curiosity, how can you tell if the apps skipped a beat? It's hard enough when you have to focus on 2 audio streams, I can't image how you can deal with 2 dozen?

Perhaps there was some code monitoring dropped frames and such
I also think there is a good opportunity to take on the UK equivalent; Kublax. It's a seedcamp company that I tried to use a few times but it was too 'rigid' so I ended up going back to a google spreadsheet.
As an omnivore I don't really have a dog in the race so to speak, but I suspect an activist would argue that an animal that is killed without suffering is still 'murdered'. The lack of pain isn't really the point, is it?
Why didn't/don't they just do WiMax?

Here in Amsterdam there's a WiMax service which (from what I've heard) works pretty well all over:

http://www.aerea.nl/en/products/internet_on_your_laptop/
"Crushing your enemy, seeing them driven before you and hearing the lamentations of their women is victory"

While some management "self help" books use war as a metaphor for business, business isn't really war. The Genghis Khan quote you used might be appropriate for a medieval era barbarian general, not so much a businessman in the 21st century.

"Victory" for a startup is meetings its founders'/investors' goals. No more no less.
Wow, if I had a job, and wasn't relatively firmly tied to the east bay I'd totally go for that place... I'd probably be the least productive hacker there by a long shot, but if being in a house full of productive coders can't motivate me I might as well off myself haha.
Wouldn't animals without a pain response just stand there quietly while farmers poked them with cattle prods trying to get them to move off the railroad tracks, hailstones pelted them bloody, predatory birds pecked them to death, etc.?

Anyway, yeah, like everyone else said, for all these reasons, in vitro meat seems like a massive win over this idea.

(Of course, if in vitro meat does deliver on its promises of lower-cost, more sanitary meat, you're probably just trading less animal suffering for more human suffering: lots of people are going to become unemployed, and the bulk of them will be found in relatively rigid economies, especially in the developing world, who can't easily switch from agriculture to to other economic sectors due to structural reasons)
This is how almost everything works in my country. Road police stopped you? Give money and you're free. Want bureaucrats to process your documents faster? Give money. Want better medical service? Money.

The thing is, people are now _demanding_ bribes, and are not willing to do what they are supposed to do without money.
Wow. Never thought of it like that before...

My biggest gripe with factory farming is the suffering. Animals are cramped together, pumped up with hormones, treated callously, and dragged kicking and screaming to their deaths. And some videos are truly sickening. (I know all meat production is not like this, but a lot of it is)

I'm not opposed to people eating meat, I just abhor the way animals are treated. If the suffering were eliminated, then I would be OK with farming animals for food.

However, this wasn't what I had in mind. Seeing a pig get "mistreated" would still bother me a lot, even if I knew the pig couldn't feel pain. I don't know whether it's the intelligence or appearance of the pig that's influencing me.

It also gives you a new perspective on abortion. I'm still pro-choice, but this article did help me understand the other point of view.

I think generally, there seems to be an inherent respect for Nature's creations that varies among people.

EDIT: I do hope this idea never advances past the "what if" stage. We should end suffering by treating animals humanely and compassionately. And Vegetarianism would be an ideal long-term goal.
Free lectures are great. I think all information should be free and open. Universities think it's a great idea now, but when people start using their online lectures for learning instead of attending classes and paying tuition, that piece of paper they give you will become less and less valuable in the business world, lowering demand for university training.
But we have this nice little abstraction called HTTP! The app servers don't have to know anything about load balancing.

You're persistently parochial in how you're approaching these things.
Seems a little to expensive to squash and there is some competition to take mints place. So IMHO thats not likely.
It might happen by "accident", thought.
My vote would go to Factor[1], a Lisp-like language with Forth syntax. Factor is interesting because its an extremely powerful language with many high-level features, concatenative syntax and powerful (smalltalk inspired) development tools. It supports the usual Forth constructs, as well as higher level ones borrowed from Joy, Lisp-style macros, local variables (significant because the language is stack based), optional infix syntax and much much more. The compiler is included in compiled binaries too, so you can generate code at runtime and have it be automatically compiled. Finally, it has an extensive, clean and unit tested library - not bad for a 6 year old language!

Failing that, I'd choose Erlang, since multi-core programming is so important nowadays; or Oz, which is a powerful multi-paradigm language. If none of those are to you're liking, I'd suggest looking at a dataflow language, just because they're different (and, in theory at least, they deal exceptionally well with multi-core).

Alternatively, you could go for something completely different: Applied Type System[2]. In this language, data types play a front stage role in programming and the language provides a powerful system for defining rich data types. It supports functional, imperative, concurrent and modular programming styles and boasts to be as efficient as or more efficient than C.

[1] http://factorcode.org/

[2] http://www.cs.bu.edu/~hwxi/ATS/ATS.html
http://media.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2008/may/in_v...

Mmmmm, sludge-steak. :)
First law of thermodynamics. The whole point of oil is that it's energy-rich. To make it synthetically, you need to take energy from somewhere - but if you intend to use the oil to produce energy, why not use it directly instead of going through the intermediate oil stage.

Basically, synthetically-made oil only makes sense only if the process involves an efficient way to turn a widely-available but inferior form of energy into oil. Basically, that's bio-ethanol: already being done, but not feasible at the scale it would take to satisfy all current demand for oil-
I doubt rocket science is as much harder than everything else as people make it out to be.
Yep animals are a really inefficient way to convert the Sun's energy into edible calories - why don't we hear more about synthetic meat research?

I'm no veggie but this recent book is making me question a lot about current food production systems: "Waste" by Tristram Stuart http://www.tristramstuart.co.uk/
Depends on the activist. There are people that just think that the livestock industry mistreats the animals (sometimes the animals that are supposed to be knocked out make it down the 'assembly line' and are torn apart for meat while they are still alive; though one could argue they may be in shock and not feeling anything).

In the same way, there are many reasons that people do things like eat 'organic' meat:

* I don't want the animal to suffer

* I don't want the animal to be 'hopped up' on antibiotics (i.e. having all their food 'laced' with antibiotics)

* I don't want the animal to be 'bio-engineered.' (i.e. farms that 'engineer' their cattle to grow to maturity very -- unnaturally -- rapidly in order to increase profits)

* I want the animal to have a 'good life.' (i.e. to spend 99% of their time from birth to death in a cage so small that they can't even turn around)

[ Unfortunately terms like 'organic' don't always mean what people think that they mean. At least in Canada (and I think the US), if an animal on an 'organic' farm gets sick and needs antibiotics, they have to go to a non-organic farm after being treated because all 'organic' livestock can't have any antibiotics in them. In general, I don't think that this is what people mean when they think about 'organic' farming practices, but sometimes it can be beneficial to humans -- e.g. someone that is allergic to any trace of common animal antibiotics in the meat that they eat. ]
This line of thinking is what spawned 100 me too YouTube clones.
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Actually for a lot of people who chose not to eat meat the pain inflicted on animals is a significant part of the problem. I don't think there are too many people who are arguing that an animal life is the direct equivalent to a human life. I would actually argue that for animals, torture is worse than death but for adult humans the reverse is true. This is because the value of a human life is significantly greater but relative ability to feel pain is likely to be a lot more similar. It isn't really fun to logically delve too far into this which is why I guess a lot of people don't do it.
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What I want to know is:

1. Why did they think that pulling data from participants' secure shopping carts was a good idea?

2. Why did they even need to look at participants' webmail information?

3. Why did anyone at Sears/K-Mart think that this was a good idea at all?

Pulling all of that extra customer data increases their business risk. If that information was to leak somehow and damage a customer financially it would be bad legally and publicity-wise for both companies. And let's face it, K-Mart and Sears don't exactly need bad publicity at this point in the game.
This is possible of course. After all, the stuff we extract from the ground came into existence somehow in nature, and we know we are good at speeding up nature to do staff we want.

The two problems I see are scale and unwillingness.

On the one hand, the conventional wisdom say that the natural oil was made over millions and millions of years. Even if we manage to find a way to speed up nature 1000x we are in the thousands and thousands of years to regenerate the whole global reserve. At present consumption rates, know reserves will last less than 50 years. This means we would be better off developing alternate energies, reducing consumption, and reserving oil exclusively for strategic uses only (you cannot fly a plane without fossil fuels, but you can make your chairs of wood instead of plastic).

The other issue I see, and I belive there is no solution at all, is unwillingness from the politicians and the society in general to acknowledge the problem and do what needs to be done. Every child learns in the school that oil is a non renewable resource... and what we do? We consume more and more of the stuff every year. It is depressing to see the huge amount of utter garbage that gets made and sold out of oil, frivolous stuff, junk that nobody really loves or cares about...

Markets are slow to transfer information to economic actors when conditions change drastically. Lack of political organized response, we are in for very interesting times in the decades to come.
Tune out for awhile. I find shutting out everything I normally do (like watching TV, playing games, and especially anything work related) for a day or two, and reading a book helps a lot.

If you need to, step away from your normal environment too. In general I find that breaking away from what I'd do "normally" really works best to reset my brain. Your mileage may vary, but give it a try. Go to a park, bring a book and lunch and just disconnect.
As I wrote, the Wikipedia link refers to a source - which is a report from the US government.

The cheapest and most efficient sources have already been found. They're in the middle east, and many of them have recently reached the point where production is declining despite all technical efforts. And those efforts to sustain a very high production rate from a diminishing source mean that the decline could indeed become quite steep.

As for new discoveries, the problem is that they, too, are declining (and have done so for over 2 decades).
The distinction between meat and non-meat would likely fade if that was the case. Of course you'd probably be able to control both the nutritional and taste characteristics of the food produced which would be a big benefit as well. .
I second the Intel reference manuals - they've been extremely useful on multiple occasions and have been great at helping me understand the x86 processors better.
I'm sure it's a thrill to crush an enemy, but I think I'd rather take a few million and have some women console my "loss." Lamenting women just doesn't do it for me.
You are right all brain processing is parallel, but the author doesn't base anything on serial vs parallel processing and in fact never even mentions these. He obviously uses the left/right brain thing as a metaphor for the emotional vs logical mental processes, not as neuroscientific down-to-the-hardware fact.
> if in vitro meat does deliver on its promises of lower-cost, more sanitary meat, you're probably just trading less animal suffering for more human suffering:

You could argue this for any technological development. So the reduction of animal suffering in this case would be a bonus on top of the usual economic gains.
Talk about not giving up- the Buxfer guy just keeps going.

Anybody know how Buxfer is doing?
The second being where you pass the client socket (over a UNIX message with send_msg) and allow the worker to flush the buffers and close the socket. ... The problem with the second model is you lose the ability to have connections live longer their request (otherwise they are restricted to that workers affinity which will not be evenly balanced).

Remove this problem by having the worker process pass the file descriptor back to the master process as an open (doesn't need to be accept()'ed) socket to be reprocessed or closed as necessary.
"Take some time and reflect on all the things that had to go right to get you where you are today."

Technology seems to be a natural result of evolution. So if you reflect on this statement, you can see that all of humanity is standing on the shoulders of the giant that is mother nature and billions of years of evolution.

Of course our technology does wonderful, even magical things. We've been working up to it for quite some time.
I'm so glad! I've been waiting to get AdBlock Plus and Developer Tools for Chrome forever. Chrome is a pretty quick browser. It's like FF when it first came out but with some Opera mixed in - most notably the page previews that show up in blank tabs. I just hope Google doesn't let Chrome go the way of FF and get fat and useless.
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We already have some pain-free meat in the form of invertebrates: shrimp, crab, mussels, etc. Also, I'm not sure how I feel about devolving the pain reaction out of animals that have it.
He leaves out one of the most important parts -- the slight nod of understanding that follows the eye-contact. You have to acknowledge that something was communicated.

Works even better in Japan! Now that's a society that understands non-verbal acknowledgment -- even from a foreign 16-year-old.
I know Slashdot used to use it, and I don't see why they'd change. Although they did re-template their site not long ago, I can't imagine they'd give up perl after using it for so long.
/secondly, the view that undercutting (for the same objective value) will always be interpreted correctly by the customer is a little naive. In reality you often don't want to undercut your competition by too much for exactly the same reason my initial post was about: perceived value./

The thing is, I've tried setting prices at par with the competition. Sure, it was high margin in terms of computer hardware, but computer hardware is the cheapest part of the equation. Cutting prices dramatically is why this project went from being a net loss to paying for my rent and a new server or two every month. It became much 'higher margin' because it's cheaper to just give everyone 4x as much ram than it is for me to compete on marketing with the other players in this field.

Sure, there are people I'll never appeal to, and that's fine. There are some real reasons why you might want to pay extra to have a 'real company' handle your VPS rather than three guys.

I think that if you want to retain credibility, you can't pretend that you can serve everyone.

Besides, I'd go nuts if I had to teach unix to every middle manager who decided to sign up. Slicehost is great. if you need a bunch of hand holding, use them. Sure, you've gotta pay for it, but you know what? tech support is a soul-sucking job. It's incredibly difficult to maintain a good support organization, and I think it is quite reasonable to charge extra if you are able to do so. (I mean, assuming slicehost's support is as good as people seem to say; I haven't personally used them. But I hear nothing but good things.)

if you know what you are doing, and if you have a system, like mine,[1] that allows you out of band console, rebooter, and rescue media, you don't need very much support. This is good for you and good for me, and my prices just don't work, otherwise. Hardware is cheap, good people willing to do tech support are not.

Objective, testable arguments appeal to my market, and 'Hey, I'm kindof like slicehost, only 25% the cost' is a very strong, testable argument.

But my central point is that you should focus your marketing effort. saying "I am all things to all people" is an obvious lie, which will cause most technical people to write you off as worthless marketing garbage before you get a chance to explain what you are actually good at. Figure out what you are good at, and focus on and talk about that. Be consistent.

Sure, Perceived value is what you get paid for, but unless you are a whole lot better at marketing than I am, increasing objective value is by far the easiest way to manipulate perceived value. Besides, increasing objective value makes me feel good about myself, and increasing perceived value without increasing objective value makes me feel kinda slimy.

[1] in the interests of full disclosure, and, uh, in not getting people signing up then exercising my 30 day money back thing, I will point out that my system sucks badly if you want to provision a new server, or if you want to resize your server. I'm working on it. But I do think my system does a very good job of emulating a remote server in a co-lo with a serial console, a rebooter, and a rescue CD in the drive.
I'm not sure about that particular effect, but lets assume that you are right. It's a great example of how painfully inelastic demand for oil or oil derived goods (getting to work in your car) is. The way that higher prices will reflect in lower consumption is people not getting to work in the morning. That's a big deal.
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Or, maybe they will carpool, or hold their noses and take the bus. where I live, nobody uses the bus, but if you give yourself 2x the time plus an hour, you can get just about everywhere on public transit.
Why not ruby? Pretty interesting, pretty much different from others. Or is it not mainstream anymore?
Go for C. C is here to stay.
There are actually a lot of people arguing that animal life is equivalent to human life.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_liberation_movement

Richard Dawkins recently put up an interview he had with Peter Singer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYYNY2oKVWU in 2008 about it which convinced me they are right but I still eat meat as I can't stand nearly all the vegan food I've tasted.
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when I say 'charge as much as I can' I mean 'set my hourly rate as high as possible' where the hourly rate is set before the work is done (and usually before we meet)
and is there any hope that the EuroDjangoCon videos will ever appear? I was really looking forward to seeing those :-(
Nobody knows how much revenue they were bringing in, but I imagine it was something...they did have partnerships. My point is only that cashing out for $170M isn't necessarily a terrible idea when you're a fledgling startup with an unproven business model.
I certainly won't leave such posts just because they are over a year old! The post was interesting for it's contents and the dates imho should have no effect.