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Berkshire Hathaway holds liquid assets though. It makes perfect sense that a holding company with $1B in liquid assets should have a market cap of $1B, and from there any growth in their holdings translates to a growth in market cap. There's a clear equity/stake relationship. There's even a clear speculative-equity/stake relationship.

Amazon is completely different from that, no? A tremendous amount of their value is in intangibles that produce revenue, rather than have intrinsic value. This is fine when you say "I want to own a piece of that revenue stream for the future profits", but if Amazon by choice will never produce net profits from that stream... do you see what I'm getting at? A goose that lays golden eggs has no value if the eggs are never sold and simply hatched.
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I think the confusion is that I'm assuming that a 30Hz display might also be able to refresh at 24Hz. I am familiar with consumer televisions, but not with this particular TV. But I see no inherent reason why a 30Hz display cannot also refresh at 24Hz, especially when the 30Hz limitation seems to be due to the display connector's bandwidth.
You could "rent" space by setting up by-the-hour cloud services, but you'd probably just trade a compute problem for a bandwidth problem. You might want to make sure you know where the bottleneck is before trying to add resources - if it's your LAN you can save time by moving closer to the files and adding a faster connection. But most likely it is CPU or memory.

Can you borrow some servers from a local computer store for a few weeks? It's not outside the realm of possibility. Call them all, they can only say "no". Or maybe some businesses in the area might have some spare resources. I'd say leverage your status as a pro bono organization for some goodwill help.
No one says your env vars need be unversioned. For instance, at SeatGeek we version all env vars in our chef cookbook repository as databags and reference them in the application infrastructure.

It does require more fancy footwork when deploying new features that need environment variables, but it also lets us share our codebase with non-technical users and the occasional freelancer/potential FT hire without needing to scrub confidential information.
Rails will have custom configuration built-in from 4.2, but you can also just use the gem today: https://github.com/dhh/custom_configuration

Then you can centralize all your configuration in config/environments/* and config/initializers/. The best practice being that you set the configuration in config/environments/ and you read that configuration point and do something with it in config/initializers/*.

IMO, much nicer than messing with ENVs.
If you do them one at a time it is 5 seconds. And the majority of that 5 seconds is likely IO wait times. You should invest in an SSD, and should also look at running multiple conversions concurrently so that the IO on the SSD is near capped.

Did you see this also:
http://www.graphicsmagick.org/index.html

They claim to be faster than ImageMagic.
Despite using ENV all the time, this article made me actually question what the hell it actually is, i.e. how it is implemented. It quacks very muck like a Hash, so after reading this I thought all these solutions a bit ceremonious. Why not just set ENV's default proc to raise a KeyError to behave like Hash#fetch:

ENV.default_proc = ->(_,key) { raise KeyError.new "Key not found: #{key.inspect}" }

Alas, ENV is not a Hash and doesn't have default_proc. It's an instance of Object, i.e. literally Object.new, decorated with extra methods, see https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/d738e3e15533e0f500789faaed.... Wow, TIL.

Anyway, a real simple way to have ENV[] behave like ENV.fetch is to define a method on ENV's metaclass:

def ENV.[](key)
fetch key
end

This worked fine in irb but use fetch, intent is clearer.
I think security, and maybe more so stability are very valid reasons for banks to move slowly on these systems.

It may appear archaic from the outside, but these systems are pushing $39 trillion dollars a year (22 billion transactions) [1]. I can see why the big banks are hesitant to change things drastically.

[1] https://www.nacha.org/ach-network/timeline
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Amazon is making substantial profit, but not taxable profit: it takes the profit in warehouses rather than cash.
Here you go: http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/big-history-the-big-b...
But in the meantime, there is money to be made in holding on to it. Look at AMZN speculation like Bitcoin speculation: there's really no intrinsic value of a Bitcoin or AMZN share, except that others want them and there's a finite supply of them, and also there is some underlying (quickly growing) market that they represent, which means that the shares should also grow in value.

Couple that with a nice PR machine ( can't understate the value of people like PMarca writing about how amazing they are ) and you've got a way to reliably grow your portfolio.
Browsers don't have good controls for entering rich text.

So you're left with trampling over the input experience with a lot of javascript. It breaks things like the "it's all text" extension, and generally will only work for the subset of configurations that is tested for.

If browsers had decent html-editing widgets, it might work better. I've yet to see any form of rich text editing that doesn't lead to frustration (never mind works on mobile touch etc).

Google has an interesting solution for G+ -- they've broken plain text entry (and plain text paste of long texts) without giving any benefits of rich text entry. But I'm sure it's great if you live in a bubble where no-one's used an actual text editor, and gwt is the best set of widget anyone's heard of. Facebook on mobile (in a mobile web browser) is pretty awful too, if you try to use the completion-options for tagging friends.

Come to think of it, I'd only be half as upset with g+ if one could simply upload a utf-8 text file into all of the comment/edit boxes.
Tangentially related: there's a good recent Japanese film, available with English subtitles, called The Great Passage. It includes two intertwined love stories, one between a man and a woman and one between two men and their magnum opus, a new comprehensive Japanese dictionary, which takes decades to complete.

Highly recommended if, for nothing else, a window into why at least some salarymen feel like their sacrifices are worth it.

The film also explicitly asks and answers the question of why a publisher would fund a decades-long quest to produce a work with very limited commercial appeal (which this article might set you to wondering about): they're willing to subsidize certain prestige projects with rent from being in the elite fraternity of Japanese publishing houses, and capability of publishing new dictionaries is a status marker for that. There are limits to this largesse and they come a key subplot to the movie.
No, it's your duty. Society suffers, in general, when people are not educated. We really should insist on requiring more of people.
I don't think Ponzi scheme applies at all. In this case, the value and price of a share is based on the actual revenue growth of amazon from non-investor provided income. If amazon was taking on new investors to pay out money to old ones, it might apply.

It's certainly possible amazon could end failing and the stock would end be worthing much less than expected. It seems unlikely the name brand, market capture, datacenter and distribution facilities, etc would not end up with amazon being acquired by a walmart or something ala AOL/TW.
To some extent. History can be more focused on knowing concepts than factoids and dates. "Explain the role the industrial revolution played in the rise of the British Empire" is a way better exam question than "When was the British Empire founded?".
Frankly, even using your own workstations could help. Especially if you run it overnight.
The idea is right but if by "release" you mean "sell to consumers" I think you're a little over-optimistic about the timeline.

Google's driverless car project is a direct descendant of the tech developed for the DARPA Grand/Urban Challenges. Those took place in 2005-2007 [1]. It's been ~9 years since the first Grand Challenge, and while there has been great progress in this area no one will sell me an autonomous car just yet.

The first DARPA robotics challenge was held in December of 2013 [2]. If you check out some of the videos from that competition [3] [4] (or some of the PR2 videos another user posted), you'll see that we can make general-purpose humanoids that can do some pretty neat stuff, but there's still a lot of work to be done before I can buy one that will reliably do many different household tasks.

The Atlas platform that many of the competitors used in the DRC was developed by Boston Dynamics, who were subsequently bought by Google. So yes, they are definitely in this space. Maybe progress in humanoids will go faster just by virtue of the fact that we've got an extra decade of research to build on, but the journey from "works in a lab/demo, barely/slowly" to a viable commercial product is a long one.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Robotics_Challenge
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzmMVHGNXvI (sped-up highlights)
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwWm3HaDbnQ (full 10-hour recording of competition live-stream)
This is a familiar argument, but you have to admit there's a lot of wishful thinking involved because Amazon is so opaque about its operations and finances. Bezos is basically saying "Trust me." I don't blame people who do, he's an amazing guy. Still, it's interesting to see how widely views about the company can differ, based on apparently rational analysis of exactly the same financial reports.

http://seekingalpha.com/author/paulo-santos/articles/symbol/...

While this guy seems to have lost his shirt betting against AMZN over the past couple of years, his bearish analyses of its valuation are quite precisely articulated and make interesting reading.

Alibaba may eat the 3P revenue: http://seekingalpha.com/article/2263623-this-is-amazon-coms-...

Amazon.com's profitability decline is structural and tied to its sales mix: http://seekingalpha.com/article/2169003-the-latest-developme...

I wouldn't short this monster, though, at least not until QE ends.
>Why isn't remote working catching on more?

Right now 100% of my startup team is remote. There are definite advantages, but as far as we are all concerned we think the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Why?

Because the communications mediums available still do not give the resolution we need to communicate optimally. Even with Skype/join.me/freedcamp etc... the turn around time for decision making is orders of magnitude slower with remote teams than it is with co-located teams - especially when you are on different time zones and in different continents.

A perfect example is when we wanted to implement a design and UX change on our beta website. The change came at my request after visiting a customer and went to the CTO and the design lead. The CTO started working on the back-end about an hour after I sent the message, but it was almost a day later that the design lead got the message because he was 8 hours behind. We needed some of the design pieces before the front end could be finished and tied together with the back end. About a day later the design lead finished the design and committed the change. At which point it was midnight US time so another 8 hours till the commit could be integrated. We realized we needed a slight change so we had to repeat this process. The whole thing ended up being a couple days for something that would have taken maybe two hours total had we all been in house.

These lags add up very quickly and have pushed something that would take a day of turn around to nearly a week.
SV is an anomaly. You have a super high concentration of VCs ploughing tens of millions in to hundreds (probably thousands) of companies. It's easy to compete for talent when you have millions of someone else's money to spend on payroll.

In other areas there just isn't that kind of money floating about to compete with (nor is there as strong a need to compete in the first place as non-SV companies aren't fighting against a hundred other tech companies for access to the same talent). So, companies pay what they pay and a dev either sucks it up or moves to SV if he/she wants to earn more.
I don't know about how other colleges do it. But I have run into a lot of "formula plugger" engineers who, as far as I could tell, did not understand where those formulas came from nor when the formulas were inapplicable.

I also majored in ME. Caltech requires 2 years of Physics for everyone.
I can tell with certainty that my kids do not have all that much choice when it comes to education. By the time they will be old enough to get that choice, their education will be mostly done thing.
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Dunno, how's high school treating you?
Are cloud providers an option? You could use AWS of Google Compute Engine, setup 150 instances and do it in ~1 day.
I remember a similar thing when I lived in a building with it's own laundry card system. You could only put on money in increments of $5, and every wash or dry cost $1.70. The math there meant that you had to do an exact multiple of 50 loads over the lifetime of the card, or else you would wind up orphaning money.
That's your experience. genkernel has always worked for me and I use Gentoo because I think the rest of distros are worse. (Last one to fall was Arch Linux after systemd)
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Memorizing things certainly helps in every discipline.

Why having to look things up makes a bad historian, but not a bad physicist?
Wine development release 1.7.26 is now available
What's new in this release:
- Still more DirectWrite functions.
- Improvements to the common File Dialog.
- A number of C runtime improvements.
- Various bug fixes.
Searched the entire page and saw no mention of LTE, so I assume it doesn't have it. The price is actually high for a non-LTE smartphone in my opinion.
I've tried to use Markdown for very simple formatting (to have two consecutive paragraph have a wrapper style, e.g. to have a note style) - and failed. I've tried various parsers, wrote my code hacks (also called: extensions), regex replacers whatnot, just to conclude, that even if I am able to do that, the live preview will suck.

Fast-forward today: I've started to use Asciidoc with the Atom editor and its Asciidoc live preview. I'm using asciidoctor to generate docbook, and xslt to get it formatted in the way I want. I feel productive to write the content, and I can control every aspect of the output, in the very specific way I see fit.

A simple blog post with a bunch of paragraphs and bold styles may not be worth it, but anything more complex will favor asciidoc.
So why not just move the confidential stuff to ENV, and use the traditional Rails methods? What does ENV vs config get you?
is the 3-d strike zone incorporated into these calculations? i know the strike zone has width, in addition to length,height. so when you say the strike zone is more of a circle, i would contend it's a horizontal cylinder.
I too am curios about the down voting, but this site is sometimes so polarized, or stifling with political correctness it's nauseating.

Jeff Bezos can do no wrong in this market place; that is
where we have a somewhat growing marketplace for certain
professions. Professions that provide a livable wage, with a few dollars left over after rent in order to spend on Amazon.

Besides Jeff's vanity projects(newspaper, drones, I don't
fell like doing a bunch of research)--his business model
has one glaring flaw. He needs cheap gas. There is good reason why have huge trucks that move a large amount of goods from one location to a more convenient location. Don't get me wrong I like Amazon. I am surprised he hasen't
bought up some of the dirt cheap commercial Realestate and
put in Amazon retail outlets. Outlets that just provide a
place where customers could pick up their packages. Hell--he could automate them, and they could be open 27/7?
Fake cellphone towers hiding in plain sight, intercepting your phone calls
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So how will this work with my google voice phone number?
"The market" prioritizes short-term gains, and stratifies the wealthy and the impoverished. Allowing the market to work on products that amplify that stratification is inherently unstable.
Vote with your dollars. Every dollar you spend is a vote for how you want the world to work. Are you an educated voter?
I'd assume that the bottle neck would be I/O if these images are ~30mb as the OP stated in the thread. I don't think you'd see 4x speedups from parallelizing.
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Do you really not care about people running around with your identity?

Also, I call shenanigans!
How about android OS updates and unlockable bootloaders?
Fascinating read, and as amazing as email is, the OP manages to still make me realize how much I take it for granted:

> So I think we need totally new approaches. The first idea people have is to make sending email cost money, but that sucks for several reasons; most obviously - free global communication is IMHO one of humanities greatest achievements, right up there with putting a man on the moon. Someone from rural China can send me a message within seconds, for free, and I can reply, for free! Think about that for a second.
> Add this to your specs: Rails.stub(:env).and_return('staging') ?

allow(Rails).to receive(:env).and_return 'staging'.inquiry

This preserves the Rails.env.staging? behaviour. Rails.env is an ActiveSupport::StringInquirer
This is what I've learned from this article:

* Dave Christian has Bill Gates' email address

* Dave Christian lectured at San Diego State University

After a minute of Google searching, I discovered that http://advancement.sdsu.edu/marcomm/experts/department/al_hi... lists d-------@mail.sdsu.edu as his email address.

This means that the sysadmins of mail.sdsu.edu have Bill Gates' personal email address. So if any of their IIS machines go down, they have the rare opportunity to complain directly to the man who started it. ;D
Exactly. So many go along to get along types that progress will never be made.
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This is incorrect. The interesting thing about history is not what/when, but why. Asking exam questions like "Why did Caesar's conquest of England fail, and what could he have done differently?" and "Why did the American Revolution not result in a reign of terror?" are much better.
You said "Education isn't a right. It is a choice." By the pragmatics of English, this is reasonably interpreted as "Education isn't a right [because] it is a choice". Pointing out that other rights are choices refutes that. If it wasn't what you were trying to say, you should clarify.
Yea seriously, just get everyone to bring in their old laptops/computers and whatever else they can find to do this.

Parallelization is the way to go for a task like this.
As jenkstom pointed out, there might be bandwidth issues. I guess it'll require uploading few dozen TB data.
Good point. All the more reason to actually measure and find the bottleneck.
You don't want all these taxes and charges mixed into the price because them people are oblivious to the fact that they are being skimmed by the government and credit card company: that there is a portion of the income that isn't for the actual product or service. ("Hidden charges are bad" principle).

The issue in credit cards is that merchants are in fact required to hide the cost: they are not allowed to charge extra for credit card transactions. Likewise, they are not allowed to give a discount for cash transactions. ("Hidden charges are bad: so banks like them!")

The apartment building may in fact be breaking the merchant agreement by applying this charge. This is a good thing; vendors should fight against that hiding.

See, if rent is $1400 and you can pay exactly $1400 by any method: credit card, check or cash, then you're being ripped off if you don't use a credit card! They are pocketing the merchant fee that they would have had to pay on the credit transaction. Why would you care, it's $1400 to you either way, right? Wrong: if you use credit, you "earn" points. If you have a credit card that earns 2% of purchase prices in points, you get 28 points, and if these points can be be converted 1:1 for dollars in some way (like buying an airline ticket), that's 28 bucks! So it's like you're really paying $1372 for your rent, and getting a $28 kickback. The building coughs up a merchant fee, and some of that is kicked back to you in the form of points. Doesn't that person paying by check look like a complete sucker now, if the amount is the same for all methods of payment?

The card user is effectively getting a discounted rent, and supporting the leeching credit card company too, which gets a cut of the discount. Why should the building support that? If rent is $1400, it is not fair that someone pays only $1372, after getting a $28 kickback in points, which comes out of a $50 fee that the building has to pay. The building is robbed of operating income, which means that the rents are higher than what they should be.

Now vendors of goods like credit cards and pay the fees, and comply with the rules of hiding the fees, and not offering cash discounts. Why? Because credit cards encourage rampant consumerism. They bring in business.

The apartment building doesn't need this argument: you owe rent and that's it.

Interestingly, the IRS in the US evidently allows taxes to be paid by credit card. But there is a charge:

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Three-Ways-to-Pay-Your-Federal-Income...

The same arguments apply: without a charge, you'd be getting a tax break, analogous to the rent break. The government is not a store; it does not need to attract "customers" to pay taxes.
And both of those "why" questions require memorization.
Could you post at least one such image here with the thumbnail size you want? Then we can compete on ideas using actual numbers.
I'm not familiar with this particular app (I guess, set of apps), but I have used Tcl (with and without the Tk GUI) for a very long time. I've always been impressed with the productivity the language allows, as well as the care its developers take to ensure old programs will still run as Tcl is improved.

A client-server database application I wrote in 1998 (Tcl + Postgresql) is in constant use and continues to run flawlessly, though I haven't touched the Tcl code in >10 years. "It just works" is not just a slogan in this case.

The newest versions of Tcl incorporate a lot of functional programming capability and OOP as well. It's truly a "multi-paradigm" language. If your "problem space" fits into the testing domain then I'd recommend checking out whether Caius would work for you.
Both of those questions require memorization.
If you work with things a lot, you wind up memorizing them without any particular effort to do so.
Would faster disks / SSD's help in this case?
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>Your time horizon is also wrong and assumes that there needs to be a singular point where the top level goal becomes making profit

The top level goal is to provide an adequate return to shareholders. Shareholders (of which I am one) allow massive re-investment with the expectation that net earnings in the future will increase.

If you purchase ownership in Amazon (or any other company) for any reason other than to earn a share of their income, that's your prerogative. But you are in a very small minority.
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