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Yes, just purge them. Why not?

I sometimes use my brother's computer and simply close all of his open tabs, and he always thanks me.

You say you're not anxious... But I'd think more about that angle. What you describe sounds like a form of anxiety. You can be anxious and still be able to sleep.

Information doesn't have to be painful or exhausting. Why do you feel like this information is a burden? Why do you hesitate to declare a jubilee and just clear your Instapaper?

How do you relax? What are your habits like?

Maybe you're focusing your problem-solving energy on fixing this info overload problem, when what's actually bothering you is something missing in the other parts of your life?

I know what you're talking about, but I also quite clearly see how I've previously rushed to blame info overload. Actually, my ability to let info just be what it is—without it causing anxiety or unhappiness—seems to depend crucially on other factors.
Pure democracy is nonsense. It relies on a foundation: a constitution or charter, that entices shareholders to buy in in the first place.
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The concept of maximizing shareholder value being the only true purpose of a company, taken at its literal sense, is an idea that's rotten to the core. This type of thinking is a natural consequence of the selfish individuals that to some degree all of us are. Taking human natural flaws into account, it is simply irresponsible to adopt such a philosophy. It will be exploited. This type of company suffers from an inherent vulnerability. At some point, true motives, such as provision of quality services and goods, could be distorted and even replaced by fallacious motives. As is seen in the world today.
Yes, the past 10 years have shown that Google's management has been disastrous for the company's long term profits and goals.
> It's not a good plane to fight the hypothetical wars against adversaries that the US might never engage on the battlefield.

More to the point, it is taking away resources to field the planes that would be needed for that hypothetical fight against an adversary with a modern military. Worse, the inability of the U.S. military to fight and win against states with modern militaries makes war more likely, not less likely.

While the A-10 is certainly a good CAS platform against armed forces unable to oppose it with even 20-year old anti-air defenses, the U.S. does have other aircraft that can perform that role (even if not to the standard as the A-10). Between the AC-130, Army helicopter aviation, F-15, -16, -22 and -35, there's no lack of capability to put ordnance on target in support of ground troops.

The big thing those airframes are missing (except for the helos and AC-130) is loiter time and cannons that go "brrrpt", but neither of those are so critical to CAS as is popularly implied.

In other words, the USAF is arguing against maintaining a weapon system that doesn't deter conflict against states one iota, doesn't deter conflict against extremists (who are not deterrable by the same military calculus in any event), and whose most prominent capability isn't that much of a leap ahead of other platforms the USAF (and US Army) already have to maintain and field anyways.

Although it can certainly kill people, the A-10 was designed to hunt and destroy Soviet tanks, and yet you don't see too many tanks being fielded by ISIS (even with the Iraqi tanks they've captured, they don't have the logistical or maintenance capabilities needed to properly employ them).
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This is what I do, spurts of alternating heavy technical reading and heavy work, but it absolutely wipes me out (at the minute, I'd say 7-10 days a month I feel zombie-like), and i know it really pisses off my SO. It works; i absorb large amounts of information very rapidly, and i can apply that information usefully, but I feel similar to how the original questioner described their situation - the sheer amount of information often feels like a flood that's impossible to filter, especially when I'm weary.
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Shareholders are cost centers, nothing more.

Put that into your quarterly corporate pipe and smoke it.
Can someone as experienced write "Becoming profitable."
True, but our ground troops (some relatives and friends) love this thing because it can hang around for an extended period of time. The F-35 and helicopters cannot. That is what matters and until we get something that has the performance of the A-10 (the F-35 does not), we need to keep this one active.

The other truth is that the Air Force doesn't like it and never has. I seriously believe that they have lost sight of their origin and am starting to think as a cost saving measure the Air Force should be put back under the Army. They want fighters not something that gets dirty.

"Its survivability and effectiveness are predicated on being used against Cold War level adversaries."

It does pretty well against the Taliban.
there are only so many waking hours in the day. If you want to read articles and books that time has to come from somewhere else, or be doing while you do something already (like use the bathroom).

Also you need a system, that's NOT your brain, that you can trust to hold all this stuff. All the todos and things to watch and priorities and life goals. That way you're free to think about other things. I ended up building a web platform to help me manage it all, but I do not recommend the same path. Still, you may find there is software out there that works for you that can help you offload all this stuff into. GTD is a popular methodology and it has plenty of good tips (like capturing everything) that are hugely beneficial even of themselves.
First of all, purge all the articles. They might be a little outdated and redundant now anyways.

But, I can understand and relate exactly to what you're going through. The only difference (imo) is that my over-active mind has actually led to some pretty bad anxiety that I'm just recently being able to cope with and manage. I was at a point about a year ago where there was so much stuff happening around me and so many things I was constantly trying to process (work, school, private projects, potential startup ideas, relationships, family, etc.) that I would end up in the hospital from panic attacks, seemingly from information overload.

What i did to cope was seek therapy - and I actually only did that for about five sessions until something clicked. I've since been able to simply prioritize things in my mind and ignore things I deemed irrelevant. This has helped immensely. Also, I've taken up meditation to really train my brain into not getting so distracted so I can focus on only one thing at a time when I need to.

You're definitely not alone here. We've spent our entire lives consuming information at a level that we're not actually designed for, it'll take some time to train yourself to slow down and focus on one thing at a time.
Thanks for this, made my day !
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Meditation is wonderful. I've been meditating for 13 years at the remarkable multi-day retreats managed and run by dhamma.org.

I would caution that the instruction is given by video recording by S.N. Goenka, who is a man with great faith in Buddhist scripture, and that faith pops out pretty strongly in places (e.g. karmic rebirth). If you can forgive that, he is careful to stress that the practical aspects of the technique and that they are by far more important than theory. I know of no other teacher, organization or venue that offers 10-days of intensive meditation instruction on a donation-only basis, and putting up with a small and frankly harmless amount of magical thinking has actually been good practice for me over the years.
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There are certain words (particularly Führer on its own) and phrases that modern Germans avoid due to Nazi associations, but Anschluss is absolutely not one of them. It's a common, general term.
ReST syntax is more sophisticated than even the Pandoc flavor of MD. The ReST parser in Pandoc is very limited and its Docbook output is very restricted as well. It's a nice tool but not there yet for complex documents.
Without saying anything about the broader thrust of an argument, I'll highlight a pet peeve: the drawing of wildly overconfident conclusions from social science research.

The economics experiment on how rural Indian farmers respond to financial incentives is interesting, but... is it really applicable here? How solid is the unstated assumption that elite CEOs have similar ability to perform under pressure as random subsistence farmers? Doesn't sound that solid to me...
No no - it's the means, and the ends. When your driver is share value, it clouds everything. When your driver is delivering amazing products, services, doing great research, and so on, success in those areas is more likely, and that rising tide lifts all boats, especially shareholder value.

At its extremes, it's altruism vs. Dr. Evil. But focusing on delivering to the customer vs. delivering to the shareholder as the first order of business is the differentiator. Do the first, and the second will come naturally. Do the second, and the results of both are questionable.
But they aren't universally accepted; e.g. Singletons and static members of objects (private or not!) are "global variables".
Sure, but one advantage of a credit card is free Net 45 terms. Sucks to lose that.
"Shit start-ups do."
BPG supports CMYK, and to re-render CMYK correctly (on a display, or an inkjet printer) means ICC support is mandatory. Otherwise, there's no point supporting CMYK at all.

sRGB is designed for an 8 bit per channel encoding, so while it makes sense to support 10bpc to mitigate quantization effects of higher compression, it makes little sense to support more than 10bpc unless wider gamut spaces are supported. If the intent is for BPG to replace JPEG in-camera renderings, rather than converting existing JPEG and PNG to BPG, then it needs to support spaces other than sRGB. This doesn't require explicitly embedding ICC profiles but the spec needs to, well, specify at least one way of preserving this metadata. Otherwise there's no guidance for encoding or decoding the information, and then it's lost. And at that point it's a huge regression from what we have now, and thus no point in implementing it.
"For the CAS mission an Apache would be just as good."

No, the Apache cannot loiter on station as long as an A-10.
If you look around the links (especially the MINERVA funded material), although also Cuba is a great example, there is plenty there in direct disruption, rather than "counter-radical" (which would mean what, exactly, when radical means democratic grass-roots self-determined ideas from a people - NOT from a regime?).

There was a radical shift in American dialog around the turn of the 20th century (the first revolution of Cuba and the Spanish War) when America's principles of self-determination and representation were directly challenged and contradicted by its interests in expanding and obtaining control over certain areas of the world (Cuba, Philippines).

The language of inalienable rights and of governments of people, by people for people - of rights to govern coming from the people who are governed - were morphed into republican imperalist language 'we are bringing those who do not have democracy/technology/western life what they need, even if it doesn't come with self determination.' (Neither the people of the Philippines nor Cuba wanted American rule).

It was ruled by American courts that America could control these regions but did not need to give the people governed there the full porfolio of rights garunteed by the Constitution, nor the right to vote.

You see this play out today where the US government will side with authoritarian regimes against democratic uprisings of their people when the regimes in question align with Western strategic and diplomatic goals and the democratic uprisings do not.

It's really hard to actually point and say "yes, this is a place where America is liberating people and allowing democracy to shine." America is a soft-power imperalist and has been for around 100 years. This is justified by the narrative you mention - that America brings with it democracy, etc - but in the details America pursues its interests first and its ideals later.
With buybacks your profit is taxed once. With dividends, you first pay tax on your dividends. When you reinvest your dividends, you then pay tax again on the return of those reinvested dividends, and so on.

Let's see what happens to two companies, one of which pays 10% dividend each year, and the other which increases in price 10% each year. Use a tax rate of 15%.

The first company: Every year we get 10% dividend, pay 15% tax on that, have 8.5% post tax dividend. Reinvest in company.

value = initial * (1.085)^nyears

The second company: Every year it increases in value by 10%. If we ever were to sell we would have to pay 15% tax on appreciation.

value = initial + initial * (1.1^nyears-1) * 0.85
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You think so?

I speak German and travel around the world quite a bit, German is probably the language I use the least, by far.

I use Spanish and English a lot, in Africa with English and French you can get by. In Asia you find written Chinese a lot(common to China, Japan, and Korea), English in India(so many languages there).
anytime, good luck and have fun.
Just so everyone is clear here, while Derrida had an "uncertain" reception in some parts of the academy (those crusty old anglo-American philosophers), he was deeply influential, and by some peoples' accounts, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. So, dismissing him out of hand (especially rejections based on his ostensible obscurantism) is akin to saying that Donald Knuth is no good. If you got the chops to critique Knuth, be my guest, but until then, I'll just revel in genius and struggle and struggle.
His point is about BATNA, and ceterus paribus it is true. If you are profitable or even cash neutral, even if you are growing slowly, you are in a better negotiating position than if you are burning cash with an end in sight. VCs can sense your desperation, and have tons of experience calling bluffs.
Follow on article: http://www.waterworld.com/articles/2013/09/singapore-s-secon...
The 25-year WPA will see Hyflux deliver desalinated water – through a Design, Build, Own and Operate (DBOO) model - at a fixed low price of S$0.45 (USD $.36) per cubic metre for the first year

Singapore has been leading the way with desalination research, with projects hoping to reduce current energy requirements for membrane desalination from 3.5 kWh to 0.8 kWh/m3, including work on biomimetic membranes

If they do get it to .8 kWh/m^3, I expect we'll see wide(r) spread deployment in arid coastal regions like California for residential use.
Since the onslaught of ignorant anti-continental quips has already begun, I'd like to suggest two texts by Richard Rorty—an American pragmatist with an extremely lucid writing style—that show how it is indeed possible to find Derrida interesting without being a charlatan or stupid:

Here, a short review that gives a very brief introduction/defense (in a sort of backhanded way, though): http://www.lrb.co.uk/v06/n03/richard-rorty/signposts-along-t...

"Derrida’s principal theme in these essays is the attempt of the tradition to make language look less sprawling by trimming off unwanted growth. This is done by making invidious distinctions between true (e.g. ‘literal’ or ‘cognitively meaningful’) language and false (e.g. ‘metaphorical’ or ‘meaningless’) language. He is arguing that this attempt cannot succeed, because it is just the latest version of the onto-theological attempt to contrast the Great Good Resting-Place with the sprawling world of time and chance. He wants to convince us that there is no natural hierarchy of discourses or jargons, no structure topped off by the super-language which gives us a grip on all the others, the words which classify all the other words. There is no privileged language in which to state invidious distinctions between true and false language. There is no linguistic material out of which we can forge clippers with which to snip off unfruitful linguistic suckers. He thinks Heidegger betrayed his own project by trying to separate ‘real’ language (the Call of Being, the kind of language which ‘is what it says’) from ‘inauthentic’ language (words used as means to technocratic ends, chatter, the jargon of this or that disciplinary matrix)."

And here, a full essay on Derrida titled "Philosophy as a Kind of Writing": http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Rorty-Philosoph...

I don't have time to write more in depth about this. It's at least heartening that the most cynical and flippant comments have been downvoted.
I got to a similar point about 2-3 years ago. Whenever I have a task that I need to focus on I go into what I call "5 minute mode". From :00-:05 of the hour I am free to check email/twitter, call someone back, find articles to mark for reading later, etc (Dopamine hits). Then :06-:59 = "in the zone" time.

This gets harder in an office environment, but usually some headphones, a don't bother sign, and shutting down all communication channels get's it into other people's heads.
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I always say if maximizing shareholder value is the goal, most companies should liquidate all their assets and become hedge funds investing in industries with higher returns. Yeah, it's tongue in cheek, but it make the point. Companies need to do what they do best, and if investors think that's a good idea they can invest. Then we can get away from the short term thinking, which is even better for the shareholders.
its not the be all end all. its a cool effect achieved through some clever technical tricks.
Since the company name themselves uber without umlauts, there is not really a reason to spell it with ü, it's not a german word anymore. Still, I pronounce uber as über when speaking in german because it does sound idiotic otherwise.

Similarly, as I'm currently living in Latin America, I got used to pronounce english words and names in a spanish way. At first it feels very stupid, but locals will understand you better and you don't have to suddenly switch language flow and phonology in the middle of a sentence.
Some examples:

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=bPSElw8qEsI

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=lv5BtJMKamM

Getting competitive: http://fixyt.com/watch?v=tvT5LMhvogw

And a non-Alaskan entry:

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=0zDo7hkmCNY
I have been trying to find an efficient way to deal with this, and the trick is to decide what the most important thing is at any given moment for you. When you are fairly sure what that is, let's say it's an article or a book, you have to finish what you set out to do initially before another interesting thing gets your attention. The cost of context switching is very high, and you have to really pick out what matters to you. If you can take the time to think about it, there will be things that you want to dive into more depth than others. Once you are able to reach a certain level of expertise on a topic, I find it becomes easier to concentrate on few things (signal) and ignore the rest (noise).
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Can somebody explain me why GAE does not use virtualization as a security layer? Xen is a powerful, free, mature product that utilizes clever techniques along with hardware support to provide the best isolation layer yet available. AWS EC2 runs just fine on Xen, GAE seems to have lots and lots of hiccups.
Maybe you're getting downvoted because you misused the term "negative feedback loop."

As any beginning engineering student knows, a negative feedback loop is a system that tends to return to an equilibrium state when perturbed. A positive feedback loop is a system that magnifies any disturbance until the conditions change, because it's inherently unstable. When you engineer a dynamic system, you typically want it to have a negative feedback loop, so it doesn't blow up or something.

In other words, the term "negative feedback" does not have anything to do with the social consequences. Using it this way is painfully stupid.
I think that we have a case of 'silent majority' at work (of which I'm a part of).

Chattering classes may yap all day about how Uber is bad - while millions of customers are extremely happy with the service they receive.

However our level of motivation is starkly different. I am happy using the service - and don't really care enough to write letters / articles defending them. Journalists / taxi lobbyists are vastly more motivated to push a different narrative.
It's a simple data format and needs no new feature.

XSLT was developed entirely independently of XML. XML Schemas were developed entirely independently of XML.

XML itself is absurd simple. It is the epitome of simple. But you build an ecosystem of tools and standards around it. And that is of course already happening in JSON -- JSON Schemas, for instance, are now a thing.
Cut off Chinese exports and the Chinese would hurt also. They still have nothing near to a consumer Economy. The inflation would really suck for all the money they have stored in U.S. bonds.

Integration cuts both ways.
How do they compare to Vibrams? I tried to get a pair of KSO or Bikila last time I was in the USA, but all the shops have stopped stocking them since the company settled a lawsuit.
This takes me way back to playing Zork on my Commodore 64. Nifty little website.
I don't understand why this is an opinion piece. What exactly is the point? That companies somehow have a moral obligation to provide phone support (you'll find many people who disagree)?

If the author personally wants to phone support, he can stick to companies which provide it. Let the market decide (hint: phone support won't win).
It's funny that the article mentions that the Amazon phone number "isn't hard to find"; I remember that they used to be the poster child (poster company?) for obscurantism in that respect. See, for example, http://amazoncustomerservice.blogspot.com/2007/12/8.html. (Actually, although I agree that it's not hard to Google, a few idle clicks on the Amazon page—including to Help > Contact Us—didn't immediately turn it up there.)
John Searle on Derrida:

With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, “He says so and so,” he always says, “You misunderstood me.” But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that’s not so easy. I once said this to Michel Foucault, who was more hostile to Derrida even than I am, and Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, “What the hell do you mean by that?” And he said, “He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, ‘You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.’ That’s the terrorism part.” And I like that. So I wrote an article about Derrida. I asked Michel if it was OK if I quoted that passage, and he said yes.

http://reason.com/archives/2000/02/01/reality-principles-an-...
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Amazing that with so many words, none were devoted to a major objection towards suburbs - the increased costs of servicing lower-density living is usually not bourne by its inhabitants.

I may object to a car-centric lifestyle based on my aesthetics but that's not enough to make me actually do something. OTOH, demanding a subsidy and lowering my quality of life so you can enjoy your lifestyle, that's something which will make me vote/support a politician etc.

The extent of this subsidy varies greatly from place to place, but that is the primary cause of urban-suburban tension.