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While personally I am generally for both free markets and open borders I think most people make these judgements based on their understanding of their own self-interest - as they probably should. Depending on your specific situation you can easily be for both of these seemingly contradictory positions.

Imagine you are an electrician working on a foreign funded construction project. Your pay comes from foreign investment while your wage rate is boosted by reduced competition from foreign workers.

Or imagine you are a politician who is supported by multinational manufacturers and investors but know immigrants don't tend to vote for you. I bet you will be pro-free market and anti-immigration (and your opponents will hold the opposite views).

Or imagine you run a US based tech business with international ambitions. You will likely be for free international investment and more immigration for high tech workers.

I find it much more useful to try to understand people's incentives than their professed philosophy if you want to explain their behavior. While people hold all kinds of views about things that don't directly affect them. Philosophy often gets left behind when it's implications start to actually matter to them.
If delaying the "write once" aspect of a volume (or tree) is OK, several of the above options offer read-only snapshots. Btrfs ro snapshots aren't writable even by root. They can be deleted or a rw snapshot can be made from them.
It has features but I don't think it is worth it.

Inline images are annoying and I don't like that it uses non-standard protocols.

I also understand that Hipchat is not open source completely, and if so I don't like that.

Notifications are part of a client.

Permissions for large teams are nice, that is a useful feature I would like.
There are a lot of people who would say that the biggest problems the US face are because the Federal Government is too strong and more power should be given to the states.
Thank you. We had hard time trying to explain it. "last 30 days" is so simple, thank you one more time!
Well, if you don't mind switching your operating system to Emacs, there's ERC, and if you are willing to run a WeeChat instance on a *nix/Mac/Win+Cygwin machine, you can connect to it with weechat.el. I recently switched from the former to the latter :).
I've been there when a dust storm and rain storm were happening at the same time. It gets pretty alien and unreal.

Ambitious installation. well done!
this is why it should be pretty large surface with very monotone lighting, not very bright, like at the end of day.
Most bitcoin services end up charging more than 1-3% anyway.
Control of borders is practically the definition of a nation in the sense of Westphalian Sovereignty, but arguing against that is Stross' whole point.
How would you advise someone to learn how to negotiate and get better at negotiation?
True, which is part of the reason I've held off on buying any (price volatility still concerns me).

In theory though, it is a superior payment transfer method between individuals, compared with the current system. But it has a lot of drawbacks right now, as well.
Ever is a long time... It's an engineering problem, and it seems prudent to keep working at it until it succeeds, given that the available supply of fissile materials is vastly more limited than that of fusible ones. Uranium mining isn't exactly an activity with negligible environmental impact, either.
I think it's a good opportunity for YC to improve the acceptance process. Why don't you review the applications in a FIFO basis and give an immediate green light to invitations? If they are ready for an interview why not have weekly interviews till the deadline? Clearly the waiting isn't founder-friendly neither..
There are a lot of comments here about how IRC lacks features of HipChat/Slack/whatever. If you want to try going the other way around, here's how to upgrade your IRC to support Jabber (including Facebook chat), Twitter and some other stuff:

http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html
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ACH is slow, so taking out the Bitcoin steps isn't possible today. Bitcoin wasn't required for this flow. PayPal had all the pieces, but they didn't put them together the right way.
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Try http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-07/what-color-is-yo... and http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-09/xen-feature-dete... .
Abstraction is the napkin with which pundits wipe their sloppy chins. I don't know whether Scotland should secede from the UK or not, but I do know that this article doesn't hold enough substance to contribute to the question. There's simply too much handwaving. "Forget all the short term arguments...about whether we'll be economically better or worse off." Uh, no, I'd say that a substantive and long-term issue. "And to the extent that all of us who aren't in the 0.1% are "working class"—if you have to work to earn a living, you're working class, even if you're a brain surgeon or an accountant—the enemy of all of us?" Oh...kay so brain surgeons are now in the working class and that means nationalism is the enemy of everyone?

Westphalia. Beige dictatorship. Cute. But please don't apply your favorite cookie cutters to a deep and complex issue and tell me they slice it just the way it needs to be sliced.
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Why use Bitcoin?

1. As a consumer, it's fast and cheap. My dad in France can send money, instantly, to me who live in the US. No waiting days for wire transfers. No trip to a local Western Union branch necessary. No exhorbitant fee (worldwide remittance fees average 9%!) I don't even have to bother exchanging the coins with dollars to spend them, because more and more merchants begin to accept Bitcoin.

2. For consumers in countries who do not have a stable currency (Argentina with 30%+ year-over-year inflation!) - Bitcoin helps them protect the value of their savings.

3. As a merchant, Bitcoin reduces fraud to zero from my viewpoint. When my site receives a Bitcoin payment from some first-time customer from a foreign country, I can still ship the goods or services to him without worrying it is a fraudulent purchase that will be charged back, because Bitcoin payments are irreversible unlike credit cards.

4. As a merchant, I make more profits. CC payment processing companies typically charge approximately $2 on the purchase of a $100 item. My industry has thin profit margins: the item might have cost me $95 from my distributor, so I make only $3 profit per sale. However typical Bitcoin payment processors like Coinbase or Bitpay only charge 0-1% in fees. So I make $4-5 dollars of profit per sale. This is 33-66% higher profits per sale!
It's simple: if you're being pressured just say 'no'. There is no upside to negotiations under pressure, only downsides. Likely the pressure is there because if you thought about it long enough you'd refuse the deal anyway, so you might as well refuse it right off the bat and tell the counterparty the time-limit is what caused you to refuse.

If you have no other options then likely you already made a series of mistakes. Exceptions exist but don't happen often enough to go and make a series of qualifications here, adding pressure is similar to being blackmailed, the only reasonable course is to refuse to play.
There will be (and is now) the possibility for a merchant to accept Bitcoin with 0 fees. These will be the merchants who are able set up open source payment processing system by themselves (or willing to pay someone to do this).

Others will pay a small fee for the convenient that a full-service solution provides. Right now, bitpay charges 0% and a small monthly fee for payment processing. To be honest, I see them staying with that business model, perhaps permanently.

If they or other incumbents start jacking up the fees, someone else will take their place. Bitcoin community is swarming with entrepreneurs.
When you started a new project and pulled down new packages, all the packages that depended on underscore functionality that changed were broken because of this change. That's because NPM makes assumptions about major/minor versions and those packages pulled down the incompatible version.

You can suggested that every package on npm vender their own dependencies, but in practice nobody does this because npm is known to make these assumptions.
The serious answer is that he would never do that EXCEPT if the advantages offered by BTC would overshadow the disadvantages.

For example if I need to send money to China within an hour without prior notice, BTC would be extremely handy.

However, I don't know or can think of any such because turning BTC into local currency is both hard and expensive.
Upgrade to "M-x erc". Or try "M-x weechat" :).
No. The dark matter problem exists in Newtonian models as well.
> Why do you say it's a weak federal system?

The US can show the problems of a weak federal system without the current US government being a weak federal system: the system under the Articles of Confederation was a very weak federal system; the system under the Constitution prior to the Civil War was a weak federal system. Both the issues that the former produced that resulted in the Constitutional Convention and the latter system's end in the Civil War can be viewed as illustrating problems of a weak federal system.
Debit cards cost half of what credit cards do. Bitcoin will be at least that cheap. Miners will be compensated plenty by mining rewards for the foreseeable future. Bitcoin service providers will charge fees that they don't today, but the competition that now exists will drive those fees as low as possible.
I really wish that Aeson's lookups and fromJSON returned Eithers, and not Maybes. If you try to parse a deeply nested structure represented in JSON, and just get a Nothing back, it really doesn't help you very much. Having an Either is much more helpful.

(If anyone is aware of a canonical library for this, let me know. I wrote my own JSON library which has this functionality but it's not particularly robust or performant).
FDA approval / clearance is a nightmare. I think it took Vioguard 4+ years to get it for their UV-sanitizing keyboard. You need to be connected, funded, and/or patient.

http://www.vioguard.com/
> There's something to be said for the idea that losing a seed funding deal to term explosion is a dodged bullet, too.

Exactly. It sets the tone for how the relationship is going to develop and relationships like that you can miss like a toothache. Better to take your time and see what it is that they're afraid you'll figure out if you think about the offer a bit longer.
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This is a really incredible and moving use of technology. I will be contributing soon!
fissile weapons are very hard to produce - huge enrichment facilities. Where is inertial confinement fusion device is just a matter of focusing enough power into small enough volume during very small period of time - pure engineering task and once technology is mastered we either have an easy way to colonize Solar system or to destroy ourselves as any ISIL would be able to use it. And judging by the current mindset of our species i doubt that Solar system if the first thing on our collective mind.
But you have to put the image online somewhere before the IRC bot can mirror it, so I don't see how that helps. Here's how I see the comparison:

Hipchat:

1) Paste image

Imgur + IRC:

1) New browser tab/window

2) Paste image

3) Click "Start Upload" button

4) Wait for upload + redirect to new page

5) Right click, copy image location

6) Switch back to IRC

7) Paste URL

I use this somewhere from 10-100 times a day, so it adds up. And it doesn't interrupt the flow of whatever I'm working on, just a single action that doesn't require any thought or aiming my cursor to click on things.

Could I write an automated tool that takes my clipboard, uploads it somewhere, and replaces the clipboard with an image URL? Probably. Or I could use a chat platform that supports images.

Edit: Trimmed one step with copy image location instead of actually navigating to the image
I use Google Tag Manager to achieve similar results using a combination of container configurations (featured content, colors, strings, navigation hierarchies, etc.) and macro/tag handlers.

https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/android/v4/#get

Perhaps a dedicated product could make end-to-end scenarios more streamlined.
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Know of several people in this situation, even people making 70k+ out of college and paying taxes still need to leave.
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The same goes for nuclear to be honest.

I think we need innovation in the nuclear energy sector - Thorium and Fusion cry out for investment.
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We already have a pretty elegant self assembling method of building fusion reactors, we just lack sufficient hydrogen.
> If we don't take a US-centric view of it where everything not within their financial system is illegal, what about countries such as Argentina? Bitcoin is global. As a digital ecommerce infrastructure there is a lot of value.

If it were that valuable, we'd know by now. BTC is a failed currency, but a successful asset.

Escaping corrupt and non-existent bank to go after an uncontrolled currency is equally risky and way more stupid.
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I assumed since he was writing on PopeHat. My bad for making that assumption.
Incorrect, once you have a fusion reactor, you have sufficient power to weaponize it. Weaponized fusion is a solved problem.
1) Is not true. If you change jobs you don't have to go through the lottery again. It is just paperwork.
2) Is true and it is a big issue. It is sad to see educated spouses wasting their time here in the US
When my co-founders and I were applying to accelerators in 2008, we had been accepted into a Philadelphia based accelerator called DreamIt shortly before our YC interviews. Not knowing if we would get into YC, we accepted with DreamIt as it was an exploding offer. A few weeks later we found that we got accepted by YC. After deliberating it for sometime, we went back to the DreamIt team and told them that we wished to rescind our acceptance. This started a shitstorm with the DreamIt team as they seemed to take this very personally. It was the first year of doing the accelerator and they went as far as threatening to take legal action. Not knowing what to do, we turned to PG and Jessica for help, a bit hesitantly, as we were afraid of what they would say. PG expressed his extreme disappointment with how DreamIt had reacted to this and was supportive of our situation. He send them an email telling them to back off and that this was not an acceptable way to be treating founders.

Just one anecdote out of many of how YC has gone to many lengths to protect founders.

Since that experience, I've realized that it really doesn't do accelerators any good to introduce these conditions in their funding offers. It creates a bad reputation amongst founders in the increasingly competitive field of accelerators. And founders ultimately need to pick based on what they think will have the most impact to their business. Compete on benefits you can offer to founders, not legalese.
The main problem is, revenue and spending are rarely done by the same people.

The UK can blame the Scottish Parliament on reckless spending, and be forced to raise taxes. A local government can recklessly spend (or neglect infrastructure), and force the Scottish to bail them out. Should a state government fight to create jobs (even if it annoys special interest groups), or just rely on welfare from the federal government?

If there's a government that is in charge of major infrastructure, health, education, social welfare, and taxes, then there's far less buck passing.

States spend the big bucks, so states should be responsible for raising the big bucks.

The other problem is that people only care about the highest level of government. Probably because it's more efficient for news organisations to only report on the Federal level (since the story will be more widely read).

Look at the US. It seems that virtually everything gets blamed on Obama or the House, despite the fact that the real decisions are generally done at the state level, with far less scrutiny, because it's cheaper for the newspapers to just send a single correspondent to Washington, and report on what's going on there.

I don't even know the current Premier (governor, in US terms) of my state. Not since a "memory lapse" in front of a corruption inquiry forced the last one out a few months ago, after the previous party lost a string of premiers also due to corruption - I just can't keep up.

So there's two problems - no-one cares about anything other than the top level of politics (since the papers are all national now, and it's more efficient to just look at what happens at the Federal level), and there's too much buck passing between the level of government that has the money, and the level of government that spends it.
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My company website is one of the only ones I tested that actually passed. At first I thought there was simply a shocking lack of adoption, but based on this thread, seems like there is some level of "wow, this is nowhere near as common as it should be," and some level of the tool being somewhat overly strict on what passes.

Either way, Google has made it pretty clear that they want at least SHA-2 certificates, which, so long as they call it out in address bars, warning interstitials, and make noise about SERP impact, means that this is the way things are going.
Good question. Here's my attempt at a 'free market' answer:

When you import capital, the cost of that capital is borne by a single individual. When you import labour, the cost is spread amongst society.

Consider a US farmer who sells part of his farm for UK pounds. The price is paid by the farmer and no-one else. But now imagine the farmer wants to import a rural Indian laborer to work on his farm. The farmer pays wages but other US citizens must either (a) provide hospitals, schools, and roads for the labourer; or (b) bear the costs of letting the laborer live in abject poverty (eg. slums, higher crime rates, environmental damage). In true 'free market' fashion US citizens may decide that those costs outweigh the benefit of slightly cheaper farm produce, and so the labourer is denied entry into the US. This is not a restriction on free trade but simply the result of supply not matching demand.

Perhaps a purely free market approach would be to charge an 'immigrant fee' which equals the present value of (a) the expected cost of providing social services and infrastructure to the immigrant; less (b) the total expected tax receipts from the immigrant. An Indian labourer might not be able to pay the fee, but a computer programmer from the UK probably could. In fact, if the expected tax receipts were larger than the expected costs to society, the US might pay the programmer to immigrate!
At a guess because that would eliminate the largest advantage the classes system gives: batch acceptance gives YC the opportunity to evaluate all the potentials against the backdrop of every other entry. If they start accepting along the line then they're going to disadvantage themselves because there is only a limited number of slots for interviews. So by sorting them in decreasing order they operate more efficiently.
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New Zealand, Hong Kong (pre 1997), and Singapore, aren't really what I'd call culturally backwards. They may not be on the cutting edge culturally, but they're not backwards.

And on the flip side, there are plenty of large countries that are narrow minded and backwards in every respect. I'd argue most countries in the world today are either slightly or extremely backwards and mostly tend to their own sphere of matters. There are perhaps a mere three dozen countries for which such isn't true.

India and China have 2.4 billion people, I'd argue about 2/3 of those people live culturally backwards (what a cultural snob from NY, Paris, London etc might define as such anyway) and narrowly focused lives. Most of those people have very little real knowledge or awareness of the greater international world. Their problems, knowledge, experiences and lives in general are all extremely local.

I struggle to see that parochialism and cultural backwardness is in any way particular to size.
Restricting freedom of movement and labour is morally unconscionable. I’m certain we will look back to that in a few centuries with horror.

At least the EU was able to reduce that somewhat in some places. Sure, the outer border of the EU is horrific, but inside it’s at least somewhat ok. A world with borders is an evil and oppressive world. We should always work towards removing them all for everyone.

(Yes, I know about Schengen and the differences between Schengen and the EU. However, be assured that Schengen would not exist without the EU. It’s just that achieving consensus is hard, so some want out of some things and some want it. That’s why it’s always so complicated and hard. EU is a convenient shorthand, because I don’t just mean visa free travel, I also mean being able to live and work in other places.)
There could be some highly specific situations where a two day exploding offer could be necessary for the business. That in itself doesn't make the offer unacceptable, and that also doesn't necessarily warrant a 'steer clear' warning for readers without more context. I wouldn't judge this company based on a single known two day exploding offer without further details.
He never really makes a coherent point about how his smaller states will handle borders. Bringing up Westphalia in this particular context is silly because it's an eternal truth. If your people don't control access to the land, you will lose control of the land. This was true ten thousand years ago and it's true of Tibetans now.
Sooner or later, a trusted financial institution will start to issue USD and EUR as colored coins on the Bitcoin network (or another cryptocurrency). From that point on, the volatility risk will be gone, but the benefits of a freely transferrable currency will remain.

With the benefits being: fast (with traditional currencies, settlement takes two days), easy to integrate, and open source. In particular, the latter point can offer a huge strategic advantage. Linux is successful because companies like IBM do not want to depend on Microsoft. Bitcoin can be successfuly for the same reason - namely because big corporations prefer depending on an open standard over depending on a competitor's payment system.
Just out of curiosity (I'm not offended by OMFG myself), I'm wondering: would "ZOMG" be ok?
> Smaller nations sounds nice but in the intermediate term reality Scotland would become a minor province of the EU nation.

If it's admitted at all, which is far from certain.
Totally agree. I wondered the same way about why they chose Option over Maybe in Rust. There're so many things in the world that actually can be called Option (I could imagine <select> children or name of some business object) but pretty much none of them are about being null or not. When Maybe is so intuitive that I'm now using this word for the similar cases even in dynamic languages.