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I wonder what highly esteemed economics expert Paul Krugman thinks about this.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/down-argentina-w...
I'm very sorry for Argentinians - I've been there last year, visiting relatives (I'm from Italy, and my grand aunt moved to Argentina in the 50s - she was a bit over 20 - to escape an arranged marriage in Italy, and came back only in the 80s).

Argentina is a beautiful country, with problems that are very similar to the ones that we have in Italy - but different scenarios, and different economies.

I see this as an opportunity to consider adopting Bitcoin as a national currency, and stop being hostage of 1) banks, and 2) corrupt government officials. I don't know if it would work... But I hope so.
Nice! How do you market Improvely? Or which channels do you use to attract new users?
Thanks for the links, btw - interesting to see the complexity involved here.
The reason that they can demand money is that those bonds have a requirement that Argentina will pay all bondholders equally - even if they pay x% of it, then they have to pay every bondholder x%, instead of paying some bondholders more and some less or nothing.

Now Argentina is paying money to some of those old bondholders according to the restructured debt that Argentina itself agreed to. However, all other bondholders - including some that Argentina dislikes and doesn't want to pay - have a valid claim on that money, according to that initial rule. That's it.

Argentina can pay noone (as per a default). Argentina can pay all the bondholders equally. But it's not allowed to choose which bonds to pay and which not to pay.
I don't think type theorists reject that at all. They just don't call them "types". Which I don't know why anyone would care in the context of a technical argument.

If an "average programmer" here and a type theorist spent 1 minute at the beginning of the conversation normalizing terms then nobody would have any argument here. I don't think anyone tries to claim that "types" and "static types" (or, in the type theorist's parlance, "tags" and "types") are the same... they just try to argue whether or not it's "right" to call one or the other by the name "type".
Let's hope this doesn't precipitate that favoured bread and circuses smokescreen of Argentine politics, viz idiotic sabre-rattling over the Falklands.
This is incorrect. They added background listening months ago.
I would probably die first.
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So, essentially a Specific Serial Buss? We'd be going back to pre-USB times, except without the advantage of differently shaped connectors.
jnoller, do you work for Rackspace? Don't worry too much about typos, they happen.
So you did, I must have misread your comment before.
> You've changed your position fundamentally, from saying
> you have nothing to lose...

I specifically used the words "if I understand you correctly" as an invitation to the author to share more information, and to signal to the reader that I was making an assumption about his financial position, i.e. I assume he has very little capital. My exact words:

> If I understand you correctly, you currently have very
> little capital to protect.

Which you've now twisted into:

> ...you have nothing to lose...

Notice the change in meaning?
I just edited my comment to double down due to downvotes, but this ruling will ultimately damage the US more than Argentina. If we establish that it will be impossible to restructure debt if you issue your bonds in the US, we've established that there's no reason to issue your bonds in the US.

edit: it's important to keep in mind that 93% of bondholders have agreed to the restructuring. The courts look like they're saying that the decision must be unanimous. That's completely unworkable.
My first job was at a record store. The owners were an old man and his wife.

The old man was essentially Shazam personified. It was amazing. He could name any song, composer and artist after listening to a few beats. Except he would do it with old jazz artists and big band music.

Coincidentally the old man had huge ears. Enormous.

And when you'd ask him how he could remember all those songs, the wife would chime in, "It's cause of his ears. The songs all stay in his ears. Bouncing around."

The record store is long gone and the space is now occupied by a Cold Stone Creamery.
I think you're vastly underestimating the devices that have a modifiable firmware on them that connect to busses other than USB.

However, the one thing that is unique to USB is the nature in which USB storage devices are shared between multiple devices.
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Maybe they don't like his fax number.

Registrant Fax: +1.5555555555

Because faxes are so important these days.
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Argentina is able to pay the current bondholders, it's simply choosing not to pay them because part of that money will go also to those bondholders Argentina dislikes.
Umm, that's the entire reason the financial and insurance systems exist. Credits are assigned an interest rate depending on the probability of the receiving party's risk. Credit default swaps protect lenders from defaults.

Elliot Capital's position is basically that of a broker buying junk bonds and then chasing after money through the courts when the company inevitably goes under. Sure, it could go your way, but they were well aware of the risks, and honestly the strategy of buying junk bonds on a defaulting country and expecting compensation through courts is not something that seems to be in "good faith".
And now none of the bondholders can be paid because a hedge fund shopped it around to the right judge. That is so much better.
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> the top of the programmer food chain

I'm not sure what that means :) can you explain or give examples?
I think Autowale predates Uber (or runs close), guess someone edited the title appropriately
Morning!

I am a programmer in Lexington. For more local gigs, I'd recommend checking out Tech After 5 if you're in one of the three major cities, or close enough. It is a casual bar meetup sponsored by larger businesses. It makes a great way to get local contacts in the IT industry. IT-ology is also a great resource in SC. They are a non-profit I volunteer with that focuses on pulling new talent into IT.

Remote work is hard to find even if you're pretty experienced. For a side project, I ended up starting up my own little business, but I started out looking for remote work. You could explore business backed open source projects, especially the smaller businesses and startups. Becoming a quality contributor for a program that you're passionate about tends to lead to recruitment offers.
LOL his plan is to find buyers of land for $348,000/acre ... That is, the first half of his buyers will make that investment knowing that the neighboring parcels will be mostly undeveloped until a critical mass of them are sold.

There is no way to get that off the ground. It is like if nitcoin started at $1000
what risk? You were going to join a funded startup with revenues out of the gate. You were being offered enough salary to live comfortably and enough equity to build a wonderful outcome for yourself and your family if your hard works pays off. Where is the risk in that?

Were they profitable, or at least did they have a clear path to profitability? Monthly revenues of $20k is great, unless they are spending $50k per month to get it. If that is the case, $500k won't last long. That would be a risky place to join, if it weren't clear how to get to profitability.
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That is the main road to Bristol Airport from where I used to live in south Somerset :)
You're both partly right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Centre_for_Settle...

The World Bank itself gives loans, advice, and research. But there are a large number of semi-associated agencies, under their own treaties, that do other things, such as settling investment disputes. But it's important to note, as rayiner said elsewhere, that contracts are private law, and you get to choose how to settle disputes unless some public policy decides otherwise.
Author claims "average 3 foot-per-second walking speed" - It's almost impossible to walk that slow unless you're injured.
While true for commercially pressed optical media, this is not true for writable media. Although in that case the fix is straightforward, only use a read-only drive.
For all those saying this is impossible because of X, I think the great Richard Feynman put it best:

"If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL6-x0modwY
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We've got Mill team members in this thread, but anyway here's the short, short version:

It's about using as much of the die area on the CPU chip for actual computation, rather than supporting an instruction set with outdated design.

The programmer's model of computation today has little correspondence to the realities of current semiconductor process technology in terms of what's fast, and what's easy to implement in hardware. The Mill is a bottom-up redesign that takes into account many of the design constraints with current technology, and attempts to design a good architecture that can maximize actual computational throughput.
Pedantic, but NASA is an acronym. Am I unaware of a British English composition rule that permits writing it "Nasa"?
I don't think anyone who has ever truly excelled at something would attribute all the success solely to practice, but I don't think anyone who truly excelled did so by not practicing either.

Sports are a great example of this. A great athlete is often...

One part genetic gifts - if you are tall basketball might work well for you, if you're short maybe a horse jockey would be a more sensible sport.

One part intuitive skill or affinity - some people naturally are good at throwing a baseball fast or really love to kick a soccer ball. Some people just aren't.

One part opportunity - I've never had an opportunity to do curling, but I've played football and basketball. If my parents were world class martial artists, I'd probably be pretty good at martial arts.

One part practice and experience - a good amount of skill acquisition can only come from doing and refining that skill. You can read about how to run long distances, but at some point you just have to put in the miles. The more you do, the more you learn.

One part obsession - to be the best in the world, you have to have a ridiculous amount of determination. Most people don't have that for most of what they do. The ones who reach the highest levels tend to go beyond determination to obsession. Read about how Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan practiced and prepared and you realize that they weren't just doing "deliberate practice", they were obsessed with greatness and that obsession drove them beyond what anyone else was willing to do.

One part luck - even if everything else aligns you can get hurt, something else could sideline your career, you might fight a drug addiction or have family problems or an illness. Also, being lucky enough to get certain opportunities come your way at the right time often plays a big factor.

When you have all of those things come together you have something special. We can all recognize it simply because it's rare.

When we try and reduce everything down to a simple idea like "deliberate practice" that might sell a lot of books, or make for interesting papers, it really doesn't tell the whole story.

I think the human mind wants to reduce complexity to simple things because it makes the story we tell ourselves about the world easier to understand, but it's the complexity that makes it all so fascinating in the first place.
Well, we've got the new green line extension going in, right? So that'll help out quite a bit.
When it goes to these things, I love Germany. I wish more countries were so respectful of human rights.
So, it seems from reading the paper's abstract that they did measure thrust both from the real propulsion test device and from the dummy test device. That's not very promising:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140006052

> Thrust was observed on both test articles, even though one of the test articles was designed with the expectation that it would not produce thrust. Specifically, one test article contained internal physical modifications that were designed to produce thrust, while the other did not (with the latter being referred to as the "null" test article).
I'm not a physicist and I can't debunk this theory point by point, but actually, you don't need to know much physics to see how this must be wrong. Special Relativity requires conservation of momentum, in every observer's frame of reference. If someone claims to explain supposed non-conservation of momentum by invoking "Special Relativity", they are just attempting to trick you.

(As far as crackpot theories go, I'm actually surprised they didn't throw in a "quantum" or two for good measure.)

(Edit: I'm not saying that the experiment itself is invalid. It might be, I don't know. What I'm saying is the supposed theory[1] is necessarily wrong, because you can't get non-conservation of momentum out of Special Relativity without suggesting new laws of physics, which is not at all discussed in the "paper" I linked below.)

[1] http://www.emdrive.com/theorypaper9-4.pdf
That would be awesome, if accomplished. It will not be easy, though. My experience with TI DSPs and the POWER6 (the most recent major in-order processor) taught me that we are currently a long way from that with existing compilers. Even x86-64<->POWER required some platform-specific code for performance-sensitive blocks.
Absolutely true. In a place where the going home price is $1m. This is a no brainer. In places where the going home price is $450k, it's just not going to happen.
Yes, except I'm saying to do it by software. Make sense? The port could take in anything. But there is no reason for it to expect anything. It should really only expect things I have indicated for it to expect.
You're right, it doesn't make sense to compare a smaller city surrounded by farmland with one of the biggest urban sprawls in the USA. I posted this under the strong influence of nostalgia :)
I actually downvoted you because the world `holdup` made it sound a bit inflammatory. Having read the links, I see where you're coming from, and changed to an upvote. This is certainly one of those topics that sensationalists will try to reduce to easy answers, when it's clear there aren't any.
I remember this from Sagan's Cosmos - it's definitely in the book, presumably in the chapter "Who Speaks for Earth?".
So it produced 720 mN of thrust the first try, but under more careful conditions it produced 30 uN? This smells like a spurious result, but I suppose more investigation is in order.
There was also a concerted effort to increase the use of gas powered vehicles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
This is why I changed it for the link title on here
This is pretty cool. Out of curiosity, what are most of your users' use cases?
A small European one :)
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And many people accept this as if it's the only way to live- it doesn't really get challenged, since a lot of people don't know anything else. After living in Japan I find it crazy. At least I live in an area that has some decent bike paths so I can do stuff that most Americans would consider impossible, like walk 7 miles to the airport...
email sent. looking forward to a reply telling me the obvious solution to my problem which I overlooked at the time :)

EDIT: apparently a new version allowing more complex, composed UIs is on the way.

I should add that we have used it successfully to make iOS-looking apps at work, the problems I had were largely due to my need to do weird, not-very-native-looking stuff on a personal project.

Also I'd like to give ionic props for not reimplementing their own lame package management ecosystem, unlike some other client side frameworks I could mention...
Not sure this counts as a replication, yet. This is an un-refereed conference paper, I'd really want to see a proper publication.

The other strange thing in the paper, but not mentioned in the article, is that the 'null device' produced thrust:

Thrust was observed on both test articles, even though one of the test articles was designed with the expectation that it would not produce thrust. Specifically, one test article contained internal physical modifications that were designed to produce thrust, while the other did not (with the latter being referred to as the "null" test article).
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/the-americas-blog/argent...

Here's another link.

edit: and another - http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/12/19/the-real-fac...
Like I said, the best test would be to put one in space. If you fire the thing up an the satellite's orbit changes, that's kind of a hard measurement to screw up. (Let it orbit with the drive off for a while as a control.)
A portion of the bondholders who had renegotiated their debts are from the US too, and are now wondering what's going to happen.
Well, Argentina could've paid their debt to that investor yesterday, and it wouldn't be defaulting now. It was their intentional choice, they had an ability to pay but didn't want to pay to them.
You really should take the time to learn how to build your own server cluster. The savings is exponential. The control is complete. The knowledge is priceless.
What prevents the firmware replaying a transaction with a valid signature? You're relying on the device to give you a true copy of the firmware it's running, but that means trusting something that's not trustworthy.
Both. A lot of large institutional investors (like pension funds) have statutory limits on the percentage of the portfolio that can be allocated to riskier investments. Risk is sometimes defined by the S&P rating.
In 1998 she had a server in her basement? That is a little bit of a shock.
> However, all other bondholders - including some that Argentina dislikes and doesn't want to pay - have a valid claim on that money, according to that initial rule. That's it.

That isn't it. Those "bondholders Argetina dislikes" are asking for more money than the rest and are demanding the full value for bonds that all the other bondholders agreed to take a haircut on in 2001.

You don't get to go back and demand full value on debt that was restructured for everyone else. That is like if I declared bankruptcy and one of my credit card companies held out for full payment on the debt when all the others had already signed off on X% of the debt.

That credit card company wouldn't be able to do it but these bondholders can because they found the right judge.
Not necessarily. It just means that whatever court does hear the case will apply New York law to it, because those are the rules the contracting parties have agreed to use, whether that court be in New York, California, or Scotland.

Having the case actually heard in NY simplifies the application of NY law, but it's probably more for convenience: the parties know that if they have to litigate, they don't need to find new attorney's at some random location.
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Meh. If that's true then Wired shamelessly went for click bait. :P
Well engineered scatter shields are hopefully required.
There's a reason why you have to add printer drivers to shared printers... Windows will install those automatically. The same mechanism can work for a USB device but I forget the details (it's been a long time). I remember reading about it when that signed driver from HP had a serious privilege escalation vulnerability back in the day (it let you gain "Trusted" level access which was higher than "Administrator" which basically meant re-imaging was the only option to correct such a compromise).

Also, if you configure your USB device to emulate certain other devices those drivers will also be installed automatically via Windows Update. Such drivers may have vulnerabilities or just flat out provide all sorts of privileged access to the system. It's not that complicated, actually... Just change the USB device manufacturer/ID and let Windows compromise itself.
I was going to raise the same point. And, considering that the average new car sold in the US gets 25MPG, we should be just about breaking even.
Even the vatican is taking to the BuzzFeed model. Now I'm expecting him to come out with the top 11 things you didn't expect Jesus to say, or their 27 favourite Lazarus moments
How would that work though? Would the government hand out smart phones to everyone, and offer classes on how to prevent accidentally deleting your life savings?
ICANN has historically acted remarkably independent from the rest of the US Government. And legally: Icann and the US Department of Commerce announced that they had signed a new agreement that states the internet body is "independent and not controlled by any one entity". It also commits Icann to remaining a private, not-for-profit organisation. http://www.zdnet.com/icann-gains-independence-from-the-us-30...
I'm wondering along with them. Is there any question that this will nullify their agreements and force Argentina to pay them in full also, or were the restructuring agreements written well enough to prevent that?

I have no idea - I wish I knew more about the details.

edit: it's conceivable that Argentina could blink and pay the vultures off, but if they're then liable for all of the debt (which they can't pay) that means that this is going to be a full default, and nobody's getting a dime, right?
I deleted because the other people explained far better before I could explain. xD
I have always wondered why more people don't point out the great reputation that perl has had with backward compatibility.
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Volvo is on a similar path: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/154405-volvo-hybrid-drive...
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I feel like its callable system is simple, easy to use, and frankly awesome.

I can do
$func = ['object', 'staticMethodName'];

$func = [$instance, 'publicMethodName'];

$func = 'functionName';

$func = '\namespaced\functionName';

$func = function(){ ... };

$func = $callableObject;
// ( http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#objec... )

I can execute any of the above by calling `$func('doIt');`

Moreover all of those will all pass a `callable` typehint on a method call as well as the is_callable if they exist and are callable. Its quite powerful.
No, but I've seen the BBC do this extensively. They turn CERN in Cern all the time. Perhaps Wired UK are just copying this style.

I've never seen the BBC call the BBC the Bbc though...
I'm having trouble conceptualizing the idea of being unable to remember anything before the age of 24. Can you expand on that?

For example, I can recall my time in high school and college -- both generally and specific events -- rather well (I think). When you think back to those times in your life, whether you were in school or doing something else, do you just draw a blank?
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Can you (or someone) explain how black market transactions in USD act as a free loan to the US government? This isn't intuitive to me.
Well, I'd love to be wrong really.

Pretty please, somebody confirm my reading comprehension skills are complete garbage? :)
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Guys, don't fight here.

Also, everybody knows the best thing from Argentina is Uruguay (or "how to piss off argentinians and uruguayans in one sentence").

:)