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Disclaimer: I'm from Argentina.

One batch of politicians and lobbyists sells the country for short-term gain. Later politicians inherit the problem, and maybe compound it with their own batch of mistakes. The "problem" in this particular case is a tiny group of foreign speculative capital creditors holding the whole country hostage. It has little to do with the country's potential.

Note these so-called "vulture funds" are doing what they do: acquire debt at low prices while a country's economy is down, then attempt to recoup it at disproportionate interest rates when the country's economy recovers. That they are attempting this now, if anything, is a sign Argentina's economy isn't in such a bad shape. The vulture funds aren't run by fools; they wouldn't attempt to extract money where there is none.
the one in the article doesn't!
An intern's story of working on OpenStack for Google Summer of Code
Android replacement – Benedict Evans
From someone who has been blessed with having close relatives that live in a very rural environment, I've found that most of the benefits of suburban living are mere imitations of the benefits of rural living. The only one you really lose is proximity to things like work and brick-and-mortar stores. Everything else is like the suburbs but way better: near-zero crime, an intimate community (if there are even other people), a sense of autonomy, breathtaking nature, star-filled skies, insanely low cost of living. No need for playgrounds and pools, the kids can go explore in the woods and swim in the nearby pond/creek. Nobody will abduct or harm them because there are no other people for miles. If you want local produce, you can get some from a nearby farmer or just grow it in a giant garden in your front yard. The main downsides are distance from everything, and lack of any kind of culture. You have to make your own culture inside your home.
I meant that Hack is statically-typed, not PHP. PHP is obviously dynamically-typed.
One word: Discretion

"Confronting Automated Law Enforcement"
http://robots.law.miami.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Shay-...
So there's currently an interesting case going on with Caesar's bonds because someone accidentally put "and" in a contract where they meant "or".[1] If you have to spend lots of time having a group of expert lawyers and grammaticians going through your contracts before you sign them and checking for every possible edge case, that's a significant inefficiency and cost in the system as well.

The 2001 restructuring was reasonable; most of the bondholders agreed with it, and got a fair price for their bonds. The holdouts knew this when they bought the same bonds.

Imagine a court system that applies common sense and equitable principles and tries to interpret contracts in a way that's as fair as possible to everyone involved, rather than going by the strict letter of every contract document. This removes the ability to rip someone off when you spot a hole in their contract, which makes some things less efficient, but I can see it working better overall.

[1] So it's something like: there's a provision in the contract that says that certain guarantees are invalidated if this subsidiary is reabsorbed into its parent corporation and it's sold to a different company, and some other conditions. Which is obviously nonsense because there's no way those things would both happen. But it's also what the contract says.
Six Clicks: Gadgets of yesteryear that defined mobile
Our thinking was that the market for the app would be primarily couples.
>You may argue whether these agencies are doing a good job at this, but most proposals to get to a better system involve some way of increasing the power of governments or individual fund managers.

Ratings agencies are unaccountable private entities. Every time they are challenged they invoke the 1st amendment - i.e. their right to lie. Yet the law enshrines their privilege through regulation of investments (which are forced to rely upon their opinions).

There's absolutely no way the government would be any worse. They are at least accountable to their citizens via voting. Ratings agencies are accountable to nobody.

They've also used their weight to bully, too. S&P downgraded the US even though it made absolutely no sense because there were moves made to prosecute them for mis-rating CDOs before the credit crisis.
> To do this with a sum type you'd have to have a common super type of string and nil and no other types.

I'm not sure you understand sum types. Sum types subsume normal unions; sum types and unions are essentially the same thing and capturing this kind of return type in Haskell or ML is extremely easy. "Supertypes" are completely unrelated and subtyping is not actually needed in languages with sum types (for example Haskell has sum types but doesn't have any real form of subtyping).

For example in Haskell you'd use the `Maybe` type constructor. If your type returns a `Maybe String` that means it either returns a string or nothing.
Go with something you've never tried before. Not only for the intellectual challenge, but because it will pay off in the long run: make you more versatile, better understanding of different programming paradigms, open new doors to positions at companies that aren't .net/PHP shops.

Python with Django and Angular is a solid option, particularly with the widespread adoption of the language. Ruby on Rails is a popular choice too, but less use in the traditional corporate world (which I guess is your space, given .net).

Some may say functional programming, but less commercial value. Go is a great language too, but haven't played with any mvc framework yet.
That's exactly what I did in the end. I was hoping to use some of ionic's general optimisations without using its UI components, but I wasn't clever enough to work out if this was a good idea in the short time I had.
The perils of the Streisand effect
Fair enough. Did you miss mentioning the latter part (about the programmers complaining about missed opportunities)? Because with that in mind, the article reads a whole lot better. I might have missed it as well. If that's the case, I apologize!
I think in the near term you take someone's job. But soon, even for that person, their work will be re-allocated to something that's not automated. Human desire is not just increased consumption; it's exploration, invention, entertainment, etc. People will never stop wanting to do new things and start companies that require manual work.

However, I do think a basic annual income will eventually be introduced as the owners of the automation technology amass endless wealth.
I don't usually upvote sarcasm, and I'm not even sure if that is sarcasm, but regardless, I don't understand this statement.

> But why exactly is Brazil an impressive “BRIC” while Argentina is always disparaged? Actually, we know why — but it doesn’t speak well for the state of economics reporting.

What is it that we know? Why is, in Krugman's mind, Argentina always being disparaged?
Would have been nice if the scientists didn't know which device they were testing - blind.
There _is_ reason to issue your bonds in the US (e.g. governed by New York law). Investors trust that the bond contract will be honoured because, if not, it's likely to be enforced by the courts.
Why would one prefer a Deleware LLC over one in their home state?
It's scientific fact that intelligence as measured by any manner of g-factor psychometry has heritability correlates of between 0.4 and 0.5. Furthermore, studies such as the Minnesota transracial adoption study show clearly that these correlates apply within racial groups, having fully negated socioeconomic and parenting factors. We have willfully ignored reality per the ideological dictates of progressivism for the last fifty years.

Feelings and ideology trumping reality may work for a while, but it can't last forever when faced with competition from groups and nations that harbor no such illusions, such as the Chinese, who are investing in their genetic research labs to investigate the genetic origins of intelligence so as to benefit their own population generations hence. We, on the other hand, are too frightened to even talk about such investigations. Much to the detriment of our own future.
You can implement a (open) sum type with supertypes, though, can't you?
It would be far better if there were a table of contents on this page.
Oh... you said "PV" in both sentences, which is specifically converting light to electricity; that's what threw me.

For heating a house with solar (not PV) -- it would depend on insulation level, I'd imagine. I do know people who use it for "most of the time" water heating, with good results.
I feel like everyone who contributed to projects such as the Linux foundation are really making a difference. Being able to get affordable / free operating systems into 3rd world countries is huge. Even if you just contributed to some device driver or kernel code, that is something I'd be very proud of.

also: it might be time for some Tumblr users to brighten their font color as well.
It's not even half science, it's just a big slide deck of FUD padded with a healthy amount of entitlement.
You don't seem to understand that everyone probably needs those 15 hours of wind down time and doing something mindless [e.g. TV, video games] is how they do that.

It isn't self deception. Just like I know that I'm less productive at complex problems at 3am, I'm less productive if I'm doing it for 11 hours a day instead of 8.

You can become mentally exhausted to the point your work output is worthless because you make stupid mistakes that take longer to QA.

The cost of me making a mistake for 8 minutes? ~$10,000. The cost of me being properly rested, properly QAing things, etc. is not as expensive as the damage of a single mistake a year.
This comment is naive. Our "sabre-rattling" over the Malvinas Islands was done during our vicious, murderous military dictatorship in the 70s/early 80s. We now have a democracy. Any dispute about the islands is done via diplomatic means (regardless of whether you believe the claim has merit, diplomacy is the only legitimate way to resolve it).

No sabre-rattling is possible. Don't confuse democratic Argentina with past dictatorship-ruled Argentina.
Well no, if we estabilish what you say, then we've only found out that US jurisdiction is friendly to creditors and less friendly to debtors, and nothing else.

It doesn't mean that there's no reason to issue your bonds in the US, on the contrary - it means that if you have a debt-reputation problem but feel safe in your ability to repay, then you'll want to issue your bonds in US to 'put your money where your mouth is' and get a better price. Or, in cases like Argentina, the potential investors will say 'either US jurisdiction or no deal'.
Argentina did give money (or rather, replacement bonds) to the original lender. Not 100%, but an amount they agreed to (which could equally well describe the holdouts' purchases). And Argentina has kept up the interest payments to the original lenders, right up until the holdouts got this court injunction to stop them.
So far the Palestinian propaganda has been quite lame. Wonder why they can't manage to be more sophisticated and less obvious. I'm sure the talent is there. Somewhere? So far the Israeli left is much more thorough and fact-checked in criticizing their own government then anything I've seen so far. It's as if there no pro-Palestinian that are capable of doing this on their own.
Soldier’s Instagram Account Prove Russia Is Covertly Operating In Ukraine?
Bingo. And how generous is a "generous equity package"? Is this the founder / management team's first rodeo? Because things could _look_ rosy but still be crappy compared to that "safe job". What if you join this hot new startup and things look great only to have them screw you in some manner? It happens.

"The only job security is the security you create for yourself." Sure. For some that might be to work for a startup. For some it might be to found a startup. For some it might be to work for a "safe" company doing something innovative (it happens).

Risk ultimately is weighing the probability of some amount of loss versus some amount of gain. It is subjective and historically informed. The OP stated "Think about it: when is the hardest in your life that you’ve worked? For me, it was when everything was on the line. Not just my job, but my income, my children’s schooling, and our groceries. I wasn’t working hard to impress my boss, get a promotion, or avoid a negative performance review. I was working hard to make ends meet." That's fine for him. I would rather not be in a position where my children's education is on the line. Does that mean I don't potentially hit the high gains the OP has? Maybe. Or perhaps others are making more informed decisions or slightly different risk-based decisions (maybe that key hire ended up going to a company who already has their series A or B, has better revenue / pipeline, and is going for a slightly lower equity package..that's still risky it's just not as risky what OP seems to be suggesting)
How about a month? How about making sure that users can log in and download their own data whenever they want, even if the rest of the site doesn't work? How about uploading public posts to the Internet Archive?
and before austral it was peso
Speed radars are good for speed traps, but not so great to prevent speed related incidents. They share the same fatal flaw with all other single-point speed meters: You can just slow down for a minute, while you pass by the speed trap, and then speed up for the rest of your trip. Instead, a 2-point speed meter (i.e. license plate readers every few miles, measuring time between matching reads) system is superior because a) their margin of error is negligible and b) they measure sustained speed over a long distance rather than at a single hot spot, thus making roads safer. I can't believe it's not implanted at least in all interstate freeways.
> I just think talking yourself out of working extra hours when you waste a lot of those extra hours is just self deception.

Why does "wasting time" matter when there's a 100% guarantee that we're all going to die and that the universe is going to come to an end?

Fuck it. I say: Do whatever is necessary for you to lead the life you're happy leading and then... well... lead that life.

If someone is happy doing the bare minimum necessary to spend the rest of his/her time stuffing his/her face with junk food and pigging-out on reality TV, then who are you to call that time "wasted"?

The universe is going down the toilet and, when it does, there will be nobody around to think "Hmmm... Calhan Whatshisface should have spent his time learning the @$$32 JS framework instead of watching Real Fartfaces of Silver Spring".

If working gets you off, then that's fine, but please step off your high horse and stop expecting everyone else to want to spend their life slobbing the proverbial knob of ProductiveWork™.
“Agile” methodologies blamed for healthcare.gov failure
Article seemed OK as far as I read it, but then my eyes started hurting so I gave up. Perhaps worth reading in full if you tweak the CSS.
Ну, как цивилизованный человек, я бы всегда использовать доступные инструменты, прежде чем просить занятой человек
Life is full of decisions. Often times you make them blind eg you have no way of knowing how its going to turn out.

Sometimes you can predict, but as you look further into the future the less reliable those predictions are. If you went to college, you choose a major and a school, you have no idea how it will turn out. You will meet people who change your life, but you had no way to predict that when you met them. If you meet and becomes friends and work with Zuckerberg or Gates, you're life is going to be different. You had no way of knowing that "this MicroSoft company is going to be huge" when it was just starting out.

I went to work at a startup in College that failed. After that large corp with long term contracts, 10 years later layoffs started. I went back to a startup again. I have no regrets about any of it though.

Some of life is just luck. Don't not prepare though. That would be folly. Just be aware you can't control everything.

My general rule is that if you are pretty happy with the way things are stay the course, if your not happy, look for something you love and want to do and go in that direction. That goes for personal life and work life.
This is fantastic, but you broke my back button!
Speeding would require the police to record/archive video, vs. just a single photo which contains both your car being behind the white line and the red light.

Also, the red light ticketing programs are often administered by private companies, without officers being involved. Speeding ticket video would need to recorded by the police.

All that said, I think its a great idea and the obstacles can surely be worked out.

Finally, a tip: if you are ever pulled over and you plan to dispute the arrest, request the officer's dashboard video ASAP. This will ensure it is preserved and available for you at trial; if you don't request it quickly enough it might not be available when you do. Don't count on it being around even a week - request it the very next day.
>Ignoring improved efficiency and excluding other factors,

But these factors are absolutely enormous, particularly for the comparison you set up, as electric vehicles are about 3x as efficient. EVs on the mass market get about 3m/kWh, whereas most gas vehicles get about 1m/kWh, if you use your 33kWh/gal.

So instead of doubling US electricity consumption, 100% EV vehicle fleet just raises consumption by 33%, an amount that could nearly be made up for with simple efficiency gains in electricity use.
'Hey, if I peek under the abstraction, it all makes sense'. Obviously. The code does what it's written to do. That doesn't make such leaky abstractions okay. `vector?` is, AFAIK, the way to check if something is a vector, and if empty doesn't work on some `vector?`s, then i can't trust it.

empty mapentry returning nil is meh. If it returned an empty vector it'd be what you want 99% of the time.
The original study was about practice and not just the 10,000 hours claim
How it's different than https://www.thread.com/ ?
No, Argentina didn't give money, nor replacement bonds to the original lender - they're the holdout's we're talking about.

They didn't agree to the restructuring amount, and kept the original bonds until selling them to the current bondholder; and as far as I understand, Argentina has not kept up the payments to those who refused the restructuring, that's the whole start of those court proceedings.
We recently (2 months) launched a text based dispatch service in Nairobi

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I appreciate the passionate voice in the article, but he seems to imply that the only way to gain from taking risks is via starting your own business or joining a startup. That's certainly an appropriate theme on HN, but it's not the only way to feel fulfilled, especially if the work you do for money isn't your life.

For example, I am fulfilled by aesthetic pursuits like painting, writing music, and performance literature. I don't fool myself into thinking I am good enough at any of these things to make money off of them. But it's no less fulfilling than the kinds of risks one would take in business. In fact, I'd argue it's more fulfilling to artistically express something about your core self and then put it on display. This is with my impression (from stories on HN) that the startup world can be very superficial.

The point is fulfillment and risk come in many shapes and sizes. You don't have to risk your family's welfare and work 55 hour weeks to get valuable life experiences. Maybe you need it to develop flawless business acumen, but the OP is pretty clearly talking about life experience here.
These restructured bonds (on which the judge is preventing payment) weren't 'pre-existing agreements' as claimed by the statement you quoted. They were agreements made _after_ the original bonds had been issued and after the government had defaulted on those bonds.

The equal treatment thing being enforced by the court is something Argentina specifically put into the bond contracts, no? Why should we expect the court not to enforce this condition? (I haven't read the contracts, so am only going from memory of what I've read elsewhere.)
I don't see what's so touchy about what the author's main (valid) point is. Getting out of your comfort zone is a great thing to do. Be brave, but also be smart about the decisions you make and inject some variety into your life.
Because video cameras are arguably illegal. You can't face your accuser in court, therefore it should be thrown out.

Got a speeding ticket from one of these lovely cameras in the state of Iowa, then I was sent a bill from some company in Phoenix with bold threats that if I didn't pay the fine, it'd be submitted to a collection agency and negatively impact my credit score (because otherwise I'd just have not paid it. I'd happily live the rest of my life without ever entering Iowa where they could arrest me with a bench warrant)

It's corrupt, illegal and immoral. However, since I (like most people, I'd wager) don't have the time nor energy to fight, I paid my $200 fine and moved on.
How am I supposed to spend time with my family if I'm expected to be at work from 9am until 7pm (that would be a 50 hour work week)? Also, I assume that most startups either offer unlimited vacation (which from what I've heard means you don't get to take a lot of vacation), or they offer 2 weeks of vacation to start out. So, I have a couple hours at home with my family and only a couple weeks out of the year to take time off to spend with them. That doesn't add up.

Maybe I'm incorrect about the average startup, but at least from what I've seen and been offered, I would have to give up too much of my family time to work for one.
The funds did not lend Argentina any money because they are not the original creditors. They picked debt at an extremely low value, and now want to collect extremely high interests.

Vulture funds give nothing to society. They are definitely not a force of good. The comparison to patent trolls is apt.
I think the situation today is that many of us do waste time with unproductive distractions in the workplace. It's my observation that if you monitored people in offices much of the time what they're doing is not actually "working" in any meaningful sense, and when they are working the kinds of output which they're producing are not useful to many people. That kind of situation was of course famously satirised in the TV series "the office".

So I don't think it's a clear cut situation that wage labour automatically means a good and productive society and that BIG means a bad and unproductive one.
+this.

Another way of putting it: A well-designed structure should minimize random, unintentional air exchange, but provide sufficient deliberately-engineered ventilation to keep the air and people happy. For efficiency, that ventilation should go through a heat recovery ventilator (HRV) or energy recovery ventilator (ERV) as appropriate to the climate and budget. (An energy recovery ventilator also exchanges moisture).

Beyond Chlupp, Lstiburek is a great engineer and writer on these topics.
It's good they added this - their customer support rep told me this was coming soon. That's after I told them I wasn't recommending them anymore because you can no longer get an account without a $50/mo/service fee as of a few weeks ago.

Might try this out, but pretty happy with AWS.
Nice try, but no.

The word has a defined meaning/usage.

Taking marketing claims for technical superiorit with regards to readability as gospel without any scientific evidence of their validity (and even evidence to them being nothing much) qualifies.