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One of the reasons I refused to get a smartphone a few years back, was because all I saw people do was use them as a distraction. Facebook at the bus stop. Facebook in a seminar.

I now own a smartphone. Refused to put Facebook on it. I also make a point when going on holiday not to use internet, unless I need to. I have been to some stunning places in the Hymalayas, with scenery like nowhere else, and you see the internet cafes full of westerners, updating their facebook status. Did you really need to pay for the flight to do that?
This is cute. Anyways, I've adjusted my phone so it's less of a pest as well. Mostly in two ways:

1) Downloaded Silence for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.epsilonlab...). This let's me adjust triggers for putting the phone in silent mode. For the weekdays, I set it to be silent from 10pm until 6:30am.

2) At work, I silent my phone as well. No need to get Facebook notifications during thinking time.

This leaves my phone with a few hours each day to yell at me. The mornings, and the early evening (but I put my phone away for dinner anyways). It gives me a few moments each day to check notifications from services like Facebook, see Google Now reminders, and that's about it. When friends need to contact me, they text, call, or chat me. If my phone is silent when they do, such is life.
When you can identify a single null point to replicate, then sure. But there are lots of endeavors (what rate of positive feedback maximized reinforcing a behavior?) where there isn't a single null that defines a theory or disproves a reasonable conjecture. I'd guess in physics this might be possible, and math, but maybe nowhere else in science.
My heart bleeds for my continental cousins. Here in the UK it's been common to see the old $/£ sign switcheroo for decades.
That's almost as practical as keeping all your connections alive in a session, on a machine with a reliable network. Except that in my setup I can connect from any computer, while your is tied to only one.

I rarelly do anything like that anyway, because I don't like long standing connections. What are you doing with all those connections open anyway?

Configuring stuff? Why don't you clone your settings, and just push when done? (Or use puppy.)

Accessing local resources? Nope, if that was the case, losing the connection will disrupt your work anyway unless you script everything, in what case screen'll fit much better.

Waiting for a repply? Email and SMS are much better protocols for handling that.

Don't get me wrong. I see some value in automatically reconnecting to sessions (and when I care about a session, my computer does that). Also, handling bad connections (not intermitent) well is a feature. But those come at a cost - you are now tied to one client computer, and you can't script it as well as plain ssh, and some security concerns. I don't think it's worth that cost.
It is not and it probably had consequences (celebrity nude pics leak).
Even for cloud-based services like dropbox, the cost of doing business in all countries is not the same. There are different laws/regulations to deal with, costs for having foreign-language support people, costs for internationalizing parts of the UI/etc.

Personally, I think it's kind of odd to expect that something will cost the exact same amount anywhere in the world.

It might be that the added cost for dropbox to do business in Europe just happens to be very close to the exchange rate, so they just change the currency symbol and call it "close enough".

There are plenty of things that are more expensive in the US than they are in Europe.
What? this is forth in hacker news, that is the most over rated accomplishment i ever heard.

So you bought an iPhone instead of the old ones, to have the additional features that it provides, and then you don't use it, and call it an accomplishment. That is non sense.
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Very true. In this case I imagine it's just a VAT issue, it's usually included in the price by default in the EU.

But whenever someone points out weird pricing and gets excited about a "great deal!", I usually have to check and think - is it really weird? Or is this entirely what is meant to happen?
> A $300 Wii U in north america costs 300€ in Europe.

Which is exactly the problem considering the Euro is 30% stronger than the dollar right now. It's also wrong, the $300 Wii U[0] is 275€[1], which is roughly correct ($300 + 20% french VAT is 274€)

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Wii-Mario-Luigi-Deluxe-U/dp/B...

[1] http://www.amazon.fr/Console-Nintendo-noire-Mario-Kart/dp/B0...

> GOG.com sells all their games in north american prices because it only has offices in north america. You are buying a product from north america in that case.

GOG.com sells in local currency.

> For example if you buy a $500 cell phone from north america and have it shipped to Europe. You will pay less for the phone but when it crosses the border you pay considerable taxes such that the "deal" is no longer worth it.

Mobile phones are duty-free under CCT (the common customs tariff), so you only pay the local VAT which is 15~25%. Given the phone is probably marked up 30~40% compared to the US, the deal is most definitely worth it, even paying the VAT.
Can be flickering between two equilibriums, that happens when we're close to a phase transition:

http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/2009/scheffer...
Bad education systems for poor people has a been a problem since the beginning of time. However, given the times we live in now, one can more easily take matters into their own hands and take corrective action.

e.g. if you have a bum math teacher, just log onto youtube and watch some Khan Academy lectures.

of course, the Internet is not a panacea, but it can narrow the education gap much more effectively than most anything other method. As cited, the internet is much better at helping rectify bad or lax teaching methods than creating a safe learning environment. i.e. It can't do much about bullies stealing your lunch money, or having to dodge stray bullets on the walk to school.
Sometimes I end up completely lost because of Google Maps. Or like the other night, the phone decides to run so frustratingly slow its hardly worth using.

Now there was a time in the distant past where we didn't have smartphones for directions. People used maps. Here in Barcelona, every bus stop has a big map of the whole city on it.
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It's not going to happen, especially in mobile.

ISPs like Verizon Mobile are NATing everything -- even IPv6 IPs, and running through proxy servers to enable rate-limiting and other things.
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I was at Rijsksmuseum a couple of weeks ago and didn't really have any idea what those post-its are all about. I tried to read some of them in the beginning but found their content banal and poorly written (only a couple of days after I read this in Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/25/art-is-t...).

Ironically and to my surprise, as I'm far from being any sort of an art buff and this stuff usually bores me, at Rijskmusem I really enjoyed those typical descriptions put next to the paintings, with short notes about art history and some details about described work of art. There they really are filled with interesting info. To each his own I guess. Or maybe it is unexpected side-effect of the "Art is Therapy" project.
For services like Spotify you do have to account for different delivery costs they may have in Europe. Bandwidth is more expensive over here (partly because it just is, and partly because in many places we are not as well served so it is a more contended resource) which they will have to factor in.

There may be differing costs for payment processing too, and if they have any sort of tech support and documentation there will be larger internationalisation costs in Europe too.

These things are unlikely to explain all the difference (probably not even close to half of it) but we need to consider these thing to make sure we are being fair when shouting "rip off!".
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> I imagine that internally for Barclays it's a big move and a sensitive one. A security breach in the early stages would be catastrophic...

> A rooted phone is not a stable environment for Barclays to run their software - it could have been changed in any number of ways

This means it could be less stable, but I don't see how it would affect the possibility of a "security breach". You are talking about two different kind of issues as if they are related. Could you clarify?
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Yes, kind of, but not really. The problem right now is that €1 is worth $1.3. In Europe VAT is included and is about 20% in most countries (it does vary), in US it's not.

So, a service that costs €1 in Europe, gets the provider €0.8, or $1.05. Import tax is generally the same as VAT as far as I know. Sales tax in the US is usually around 7% -> to a consumer, a $1 service costs $1.07.

This means that if you import a $1 thing from the US to Europe, and don't have to pay shipping, you are saving some 13% of the price as the consumer, and the seller gets 5% less money than the equivalent price in European currency.

That is today. The difference varies, I've seen as high as 1.5 dollar per euro.

This explains why everyone is suddenly asking me to bring them iPads and Macbooks and whatnots because I'm coming back from the US in a month.
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But of course I read in various places that Mageia is regarded as a "beginners distro", as is Ubuntu, Mint etc - so I was wondering if many/any experienced devs used these distros as their preferred environment, or is everyone up to their neckbeards in Arch, Slackware etc?
Barclays surely has a web app; not sure how a rooted phone is any more unstable/unknown than HTML/Javascript running on an unknown browser client.
I take it you don't live in Europe. That's actually how it happens: when something costs $300 in the USA, you can bet it will cost 300€ here in Europe.
No it has nothing to do with it.
It's just a script exploiting the former lack of a brute force containment measure on Find My iPhone's login interface, now patched.
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With mosh, I don't have to SSH to remote after I'm disconnected. That's what I was referring to.
But isn't that non-fossil energy built with fossil energy?

EROI is what's motivating my comments. Fossil energy has a higher EROI than other sources, currently.
No, it doesn't require systemd, and that's the annoying bit.

I now want to take the opportunity to explain a bit where we want to take this with systemd in the longer run

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but tries to solve the issues generically, for all use-cases, as part of the systemd project

If this doesn't require systemd, why should it be part of the systemd project?
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I understood his point to be rather the opposite, that the real price (if you had an absolute global unit) of the product in one place does not necessarily correlate to other places. The fact that the numbers he used were both 300 is irrelevant. The point he is making is that the cost in Europe is higher for reasons beyond the physical cost of the product.
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I find it helpful when visiting art museums to do a lot of triage. I only have a certain number of paintings "in me" before burnout sets in, so I make sure to only stop and look at stuff that I really feel drawn to. This has made visiting museums vastly more pleasurable than it used to be, when I would dutifully look at six rooms of Egyptian antiquities or Byzantine icons and find I had nothing in the tank when I got to the stuff that had attracted me to the museum in the first place.

That said, the art museums in Holland tend to be terrific about limiting what they display. It's not like the Louvre, where you wander for miles through rooms of mind-numbing portraiture. Dutch museums, especially the smaller ones, have a handful of masterpieces and then a big cafe where you can eat apple cake and recharge for a second pass.

If you can manage it, it helps not to read any text, either. It's a non-verbal medium, and words can get in the way.
> What are you doing with all those connections open
> anyway?

Work. (shrug)
If you are in Europe I recommend hubiC instead of Dropbox. They are much cheaper and have servers in Europe (France - they are child company of OVH). Dropbox only has servers in America [1], so its slower.

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Has anyone ever created a virtual walk through of the ISS? Like every real estate web site does for their listings? Google????
No, he's saying what he's saying.

A $1300 Macbook costs £1,000 here in the UK which is roughly 30% more expensive than a direct currency conversion would have you expect. If you take that $1300 Macbook, add 30% and convert that to Euros it just happens to be that it works out at about €1300 which is what they charge in Germany. Someone posted about that here earlier.

Most of that 30% is due to VAT at around 20% for much of Europe, plus another 10%. It's that last 10% that's the real price difference of the goods.

Personally, I think the main cause of that is the generally higher cost of doing business in Europe (UK included). Everything costs more here. Petrol (Gas) and hence transport, wages, property, corporate tax rates, etc. It's hard, if possible at all, to find anything that's cheaper over here and all of that feeds in to the cost of doing business. The first time I visited the US I was shocked at just how much cheaper _everything_ seemed to be. Frankly, I'm surprised it's only another 10%.
The problem isn't just paying more. I'm aware of how tax-heavy europe is, and how much harder it is to support the wide variety of languages and laws. In most cases, I would be fine paying a bit more for a service.

The problem is the way the mark-up happens. They're not calculating the difference and marking that up, they're literally just equating US dollars with euros. $99 and €99 might sound similar, but the difference is over 30%. There is no way the additional support costs run that high, so it comes across as just an attempt to pull a fast one on europeans.

I'm sure if they did a proper calculation and gave a realistic number, nobody would complain about the increased cost.
The difference between incubators and accelerators - an incubator is usually subsidised serviced office space for businesses that are just starting. It's really just an office. There's nothing about an incubator that helps the business grow besides the low cost.

An accelerator is a much more clearly defined programme of events and mentor-ship with the benefits of an incubator being wholly secondary. These days you're probably not going to get on to an accelerator unless you're already some way along with your business (tech largely built, got some traction, maybe revenue), and you need help taking it from something small and growing slowly to being something that has explosive growth (10% a week is optimal).

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Don't we? I thought this was just called "static linking."
> Import tax is generally the same as VAT as far as I know.

There's no import tax on software, on services, on cell phones or on laptops. I could find no such thing on TARIC anyway. It does list consoles with 0% import tax.
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I get what you mean but seeing as Spotify is a European company and launched in the US a long time after Euro launch it's more like a US discount.