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> He always kept saying 'the more I sell, the more commission' - the concept of 'time value' was completely foreign to him. Maybe he was just playing dumb, I don't know.

He probably wasn't. That having been said, the inability to understand abstract concepts like the time value of money and being a kickass salesman are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best agents I've met aren't what I'd call bright, but they're quite successful and have incredible sales skills that smarter agents lack.

> Anyway, in my experience, most agents are happy wasting a bunch of time on a sale - having coffee to discuss 'the status' (2 viewings scheduled for next week, the one from last Monday seemed genuine - could have send me a 2 line email.

This isn't remotely irrational -- you just don't understand his purpose. What he's doing by spending 45 minutes chatting with you, in leu of a 2 line email, is building a relationship with you and giving the transaction a more personal touch. These are the kind of soft sales skills that are critical to being a successful agent, since despite the existence of sites like Trulia or Zillow, the majority of your clients will come not from online advertising but from word of mouth. So sure, a 2 line email might have sufficed, but a 45 minute chat where he tells you funny stories is going to leave you feeling a lot better cared for (because, well, you are), and leaves you more inclined to recommend him to your friends in the future.

Plus, you said it's a bad market. It's probably not the case that he has clients banging down his doors, so he needs to make sure that his existing clients are well cared for to ensure future business.
Except for when they are? http://www.tetrapak.com/environment/recycling-and-recovery/r...
To be honest, it would need to be an extremely small set of Scala code. But, more to the point is that you are glossing over decades worth of discussions, fights & costs associated with C code being compatible from machine to machine, compiler to compiler, and year to year. C got to backwards compatibility via longevity. Scala de-emphasizes backwards compatibility on purpose so it isn't surprising that it isn't good.

Tex is built for a very small, constrained, and well known problem space. It isn't surprising that you can get it right faster than a general purpose language. Yet, even Tex has been supplanted even it it's own wheel house.
Flux (stylized "f.lux") refers to the awesome screen dimming/coloring software: https://justgetflux.com/ Completely unrelated, but I highly recommend it for anyone who stares at a screen for a living.
It's about time. I was just using ffmpeg today, wanted libx264 lossless encoding, noticed the deprecation message and lack of libx264 support in the Ubuntu package, recompiled from source.
As an experiment I sent 0.0005 BTC to the address corresponding to the private key in the documentation (L1uyy5qTuGrVXrmrsvHWHgVzW9kKdrp27wBC7Vs6nZDTF2BRUVwy -> 17XBj6iFEsf8kzDMGQk5ghZipxX49VXuaV). Within seconds someone had already transferred it out to 1ENnzep2ivWYqXjAodTueiZscT6kunAyYs.

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[thief?] https://blockchain.info/address/1ENnzep2ivWYqXjAodTueiZscT6k...
What firewall is that? Looks nice.
What do you mean by insanity?
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Exactly. I'm saying pointing out government impotence was the purpose of the protest, the payload message it was meant to transmit. That should be clear from the symbolic choices of removing the flags, etc. So naturally the powers that be are responding with anger due to that message, mostly because the protestors didn't show just tell, they showed that message, through the government's inability to prevent or apprehend them.

This is the nerf-ball version of challenge to government authority, so instead of Tahrir you get a few kids changing a flag, and instead of a repressive government crackdown, you get increased police investigation. But the mechanisms are the same.

States, whether they be national or local governments, don't react well to open challenges to their authority, and they use every tool at their disposal to prosecute anyone that commits a crime that openly challenges the authority of the government.