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>I'm also not attempting to "remedy" any injustice of birth, I'm merely opposed to using violence to make it worse.

As such, you're conducting a long, wasteful discussion on the basis of an absolutist, deontological rule you cannot convince the rest of us to adopt.

You are not saying to minimize violence, since you are quite comfortable with both the inherent systemic violence of private property and the resultant levels of systemic and symptomatic violence involved in petty crime, organized crime, and crime by capitalists (ie: corporate crime, in both its white-collar and Pinkerton-esque forms). You're not weighing consequences against each-other in terms of how much violence different policies generate. So it's not that you're even talking about a local minimum of violence while we're talking about other minima: it's that you simply do not care how much violence you create by enforcing minarcho-capitalism, so long as minarcho-capitalism is enforced.

So why are you wasting everyone else's time for the sake of an incoherent, unreasonable ideology?
What I'm saying is that corruption is everywhere, just in very different quantities. Truth be told, I think Oregon is generally a bit less corrupt and a bit more egalitarian than California is, but that's just my impression.

> If you have money to spend it's probably better to move everyone to California. Don't you think?

Not really - it's cheaper to hire someone in Italy, so with a given amount of money, you have more runway, or can hire more people. Also, the US immigration stuff sucks pretty badly and is not easy.

> And again, do you think that Portland is like Italy

I lived there a year. It's a nice place in a lot of ways, but not where I want to be. The weather ( http://forecast.io/#/f/45.5118,-122.6756 ) is very, very tiring for someone who likes the sun. You think it's bad in northern Italy... hah! It's a little bit bigger than I happen to care for (I like the size of Padova a lot), but without all things a really big, important city has. De gustibus... though, as they say. It's worth checking out in January to see if you can handle the weather, because it's a lot cheaper than the bay area. Oregon is a beautiful place to visit in August.

Feel free to send me email if you'd like to know more about Oregon!
It's the rate on bank-to-bank borrowing (basically, the rate banks pay to borrow money from the central bank). But also the franc is like gold - people move their money to the franc for stability and so there's always external demand.
We have 100s of thousands to millions of pageviews per day in 10s of languages on the various pages of our site. The site grows from A/B testing and I have to say that many of these small things do add up over time (they add up to measurable conversion in the funnel). There is the odd one that surprisingly does nothing or does worse but generally, paying attention to language details did prove effective for us. I work on this stuff everyday in a small team where we know more than 30 languages between us and sometimes just two or three of these small changes more than pay for our annual wages in just a month.
Everyone commenting on the exchange rate, but nobody commenting on the negative interest rate? If you want to keep your money in CHF the Swiss banks are going to charge you 0.75% for the privilege.

This is the "safe asset premium". Given the uncertain world, people and organisations with vast wealth are looking for ways to maintain it. In a globally shrinking economy this is not as easy as it sounds. And it's a lot - for example, UBS have $2trn assets under management.

Edit from my other comment: this is the interbank target rate only, normal deposit rates are just above zero: http://www.ubs.com/ch/en/swissbank/private/interests.html

The corollary of this is that any investment proposal with a plausibly positive expected return looks good. Swiss banks have issued a lot of CHF mortgages on property in and out of the country. Property in the core stable parts of the western world has shot up in value (e.g. London), while the periphery remains depressed.
Good read. We all have our own take on social media and other internet ploys, marketing gimmicks now. It's just funny how people know they are being exploited and yet we still allow them to exploit us some more... Like we never really get enough.
This is incorrect. Nothing changed as they are paid in CHF and spend money in CHF. If they buy products from abroad, their spending power just increased by 15%.

It's not good news for Google, etc. as their Swiss employees just got 15% more expensive.
Our lazy ass I guess is the primary reason to all this. We all want something or someone doing things for us. If only someone else can eat our food for us and yet we still get the nutrients, we'd probably sign up for that.
The captain is the one who is not supposed to leave the boat, not everyone else...
I had not heard of Little Sparta. It looks fantastic. Thank you! I will be visiting this summer for sure.
The author repeatedly refers to the NSA operating within the bounds of the law and set policy. Do not be fooled by that decoy. Yes, they may be operating legally;but there in lies the fundamental problem: the law and policy is lax, to put it gently.
Poor Chuck... Still he is entitled to his own opinion.
Only the interest rates on money borrowed from the swiss national bank (which only other banks can use) are affected. This will keep the interest rate you get for your private account close or equal to zero, but they will not get below that margin for exactly the reason that people will withdraw their money.
They started making them negative a month ago. It mostly just affects the rate that the banks pay to the central bank. It doesn't really affect individuals, not until you get into 10M CHF, and honestly, who would keep that much money in cash?

http://www.thelocal.ch/20141218/swiss-central-bank-imposes-n...
ngettext can't handle two plural words well.
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Could someone please explain why they do this, and with this means in layman terms ?
The average depositor is not paying negative rates: http://www.ubs.com/ch/en/swissbank/private/interests.html

There is obviously a limit as to how negative the SNB can push the interbank rate, but if you see it as the "convenience fee" for keeping and moving large amounts of money in the central bank versus trying to hold it and transport it as cash it makes more sense.
Should engineers who invent new rifle shells, or atomic bombs, or armed drones, or work at the NSA, or Tinder, or Uber, or Groupon, or Zynga be shunned? All of their employers are perceived by some as some as scumbags.

If your job that you liked came to you with a challenge like "I want you to invent a brand new way to track our users that nobody has thought of before", would you turn it down?

edit: or Facebook, or Google, etc? These companies are in the business of tracking their users' behavior to be sold to advertisers. I'm not really sure how that's different at the macro level than what Verizon/Turn is doing, and we're shunning an awful lot of engineers at this point.
It's the rate banks have to pay to deposit Swiss Francs with the Swiss National Bank. Many Swiss Banks however do invest their assets differently (higher risk) and therefore the people in Switzerland with private accounts are not affected directly. This is mostly to avoid foreign banks to invest in Swiss Francs.
I've read a few chapters of the e-book version and I think it's very compelling. I'd like to see the movie adaptation and hopefully, they'd be able to give justice to the book and its characters.
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Not everyone has the luxury to be able to refuse or quit a paying job. It'd be harsh to judge like this. It would of course do to shun the firms which do this - ultimately we want to eliminate the behaviour - not the people.
Yeah, it works for most of the cases where you'd want to use something like Word Lens. I was more just wondering how deep the new integration goes.
Is this yet another security breach? I wonder when we'll be truly safe from all these threats.
They're also relying on legal opinions provided by interested and involved parties, so the claim of "legality" is dubious at best.
United States (America) as a whole trust companies (I don't get it) more than their government. So most think of the US Government as fundamentally flawed.
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I think they try their best to remain true to these... but let's face it, the times have changed. And some I think may no longer really hold true in my opinion.
>A Chinese or Indian citizen is an individual, like any other, just like you even. Through no fault of their own they've been born in a country that doesn't provide the same quality of life for them and their family that an American/EU resident enjoys. Don't they have the right to the pursuit of happiness just like you?

"Just an individual" sweeps an immense bunch of important facts under the rug. Countries do not acquire their standard of living merely by luck: their economies grow through systematic planning and coordination.

At the margins, moving one individual between countries does not appear to have a large systemic impact. However, moving entire classes of individuals between countries usually results in one country dumping its externalities on another, thus misaligning the entire economic mechanism and resulting in deadweight losses as various ways to grow and improve get ignored.

A simple example: why should taxpayers in Germany, say, subsidize the training and education costs necessary to produce labor for American companies? The American firms are capturing a positive public-good externality from the Germans while dumping a negative externality (deskilling) on their fellow Americans. Since the externality producers in both countries are failing to capture the costs and benefits of their own productive activities, this is systematically unfair by definition (in the sense that "capitalist unfairness" consists of paying the costs and reaping the benefits of one's own activities).
According to Thomas Jordan (SNB president), the previous policy was "not sustainable". Furthermore, the peg was presented as a temporary measure from the beginning. Their preferred scenario would have been a rising euro, which would have allowed a painless abondining of the peg.
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> Hours crunched before launch: Around 20 hours total

They didn't crunch much. that's pretty good! I didn't expect this.
And don't even get me started at the case where you don't know the noun beforehand and need to synthesize the entire numeral phrase at runtime ("You have %d %s.")

Because, in Polish, numerals inflect in gender and case, come in two main variants ("normal" and "collective", and that's not including ordinals), and can (but not necessarily have to) for some genders undergo case changes that affect the verb part of the sentence under certain circumstances. Add to this the fact that there's even no definitive consensus on how many grammatical genders there are in Polish (opinions range from 3 to 9, with some of the theories based on numeral connectivity), and you're all set.

The Polish word "dwa" (two) has at least seventeen distinct grammatical forms, each of which has arcane rules that govern its usage.
"If we are right and it takes 5-6 years for search to mature globally (instead of 2 or 3 years)"

Hard for me to believe that search will 'mature' in even 6 years. Seems to me like there are at least 10 years of work and market expansion to do to address interaction (e.g. voices, gestures), personalization, socialization, and access points (e.g. cars).
Aren't you then making the correction twice?

It appears it would have been between 1 and 3 weeks wages for someone in a job where they would carry a gun:

http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/01/wh...

A somewhat decent low skill job these days pays $30,000-35,000, which puts the comparison in the ballpark of $500, not $5,000.
ctrl-F "coffee" --> 0 results.

Come on, no mention of the superior quality of coffee we enjoy here? And you call yourselves hackers?

Picture me disappointed.
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They do this because to peg the currency to the Euro meant they had to buy an unlimited amount of foreign currency to make up for it, which gets very expensive in the long run.

What this means in layman's terms (I'll do my best):

- If you are paid in Swiss Francs, your purchasing power in the Euro zone is stronger (since the prices you see will in effect be smaller to you).

- If you are paid in Swiss Francs and shop in Switzerland, the foreign products you buy will slowly become cheaper (although companies will try to keep the label price of goods "the same" in Switzerland, and pocket the difference). It will not have a direct impact on 100% Swiss products, however.

- If you are paid in Euros, visiting Switzerland and buying Swiss products just became more expensive.

- The Swiss firms exporting products might get hit, since their products are now more expensive to foreigners (that was the original point of pegging the CHF to the EUR in the first place - so they could export more).

- As others pointed out: the Swiss firms importing goods will have cheaper raw materials, too, so the price of some Swiss products should decrease as well (modulo some companies trying to pocket the difference by keeping the same face cost, again).

I'm sure I miss a few obvious points, but these changes of value affect such a wide range of things it's hard to think of everything :)

EDIT: Formatting and one omission :)

EDIT2: Added import of raw materials on the list. Thanks guys!
>I'm pretty sure we can sidestep degree requirements and the associated mess with a better candidate screening technique. Why not?

Because feature-learning problems in the setting of nearly-unlimited sets of possible features are very hard.
Expat here.

I always thought that the perception of a country in foreign eyes is due to the contact with people of said country.

I try to remember every day that the perception that my friends and collegues abroad have of Italy is due in some small part to my own actions as a representative of that country.

So please, let's try to avoid generalizing. Not all Italians abroad are mercenaries or quitters that shit on they country they were born in.

I would say that most of us aren't.
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>One thing this article leaves out is a deeper analysis of why the conventional wisdom is to replace a founder with a professional when there are so many famous counterexamples. It could be that at a certain stage in a company's growth investors prefer to be more risk-averse and will give up a potential grand slam in order to get a two-run double, or something. (And by extension the OP is willing to take larger risks than the average VC.) Or that there are hidden social dynamics at play.

I think one of the reasons that this conventional wisdom is becoming less common is that 'technology startup' is more likely to mean a company with a product and customers now than in the past when it frequently meant a company that had brought a new technology to the commercialisation stage.

In companies of the latter type, it can make sense to move the founding CEO to a CTO role because that has been their actual role in the development phase anyway. Their skillset may not match well with running a company with marketing and sales departments and getting the product sold.

Companies of the former type, like Facebook, are different because by the time they get real traction, they are already dealing with customers and are out there in the market. They have those skillsets by definition because they're already doing that.
No, it was BBSs and IRC. And that's probably not right either, I just don't know what was before that. I think "social networking" is an emergent phenomenon once you have some trivial, really trivial technology, and groups of people of some critical mass.
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I think I'm gonna appreciate Fox's fresh new approach in presenting virtual reality to its audience unlike the typical virtual realities that we see on movies adopted from games.
With reordering syntax.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/c_002d...
I understand your rationale for the "wait and watch" option, and agree fully with it.

> "well maybe they do, but it is out of carelessness rather than a problem with there software."

I think this statement precisely illustrates the point that the parent commentator has with much of the medical community. Think about what the "carelessness" of a radiologist that you're talking so flippantly about means for a family – the anguish, sleepless nights, and feeling of morbidity and helplessness.

I may be overreacting here, but I would be extremely worried if a radiologist can be careless and ruin a year or more of someone's life, possibly forcing them into opting for a highly risky surgery. If you think there is a chance that your radiologists are not measuring things properly, wouldn't it be beneficial to start a double-checking procedure of some kind whereby each MRI is checked by 2 radiologists and a doctor (or something of the kind)?
Have we not done enough imbalance to our environment? I dont think these people really understand the long term effects of fracking. And I thought the goal was to build smart cities... What is so smart about this?
I think the poor understanding of English was part of the problem. We didn't understand, we just knew that you found what you need when you click "Insert" or whatever. To us "insert" didn't mean insert, it meant "That menu where you find an Image to put in your document".

In our mind the English word and its native translation have semantically different meanings. I discover this problem a lot now that I'm older. I understand the words and their translations, but they still mean semantically different things to me in different languages.

The funniest part is how when I'm in the US I know all the English words for pots and pans and stuff, but when I'm home in Slovenia and my girlfriend is here, it becomes almost impossible to translate. Because in Slovenia the pots and pans have Slovenian names, in the US they have English names. And to me those are completely different.
Of course they sum up. My point is that there's a much bigger problem in the cost of doing business than the protection tax. About 22 times bigger.
I won't engage in work that I conclude is immoral, nor will I help others to pursue ends that I consider problematic. I think it's important that you always be free to come to your own conclusions on such matters as well.
I once found a $200+ pair of sunglasses (Oakley Juliets) under a tree in the Yosemite backcountry. They were moss-encrusted and half-buried in the humus but still perfectly serviceable once I gave them a quick wash/polish.
I'm not Italian. My opinion of Italy is not great, but not because of ordinary Italians speaking badly of it, rather because of the likes of Berlusconi. People voted for him!? It matches my experiences there, such as being unable to buy a train ticket without the guy in the booth trying to rip me off. I eventually got fed up and when I went to a major sporting event which should have cost me €300+, I just bought an official some beers.
Not really. Not yet, at least.
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I'm in my mid 30s too.
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To you. To me it very much is not because as a kid I learned that directory is that thing on the computer where the other files are.

Things like that are difficult to shake off no matter how well you know a language.
This is interesting... Is this why they have the most expensive sex dolls? But i do agree with greggyb about having workers relocate. Or better yet, encourage migration?
Japanese; you put it on the end of a statement to make it a question instead, e.g. "the server is up to date, ne?" to mean "is the server up to date?"
We version (localize) projects all the time, so I thought reasonable logic for seeing whether a string is empty is to check whether its trimmed length was greater than two, allowing for two stray characters that show up all the time in content. For example, someone who's not sure how to translate something would type "??" in a field. So, {if $slide.title|length>2} ... This worked for 4-5 languages.

Then our Chinese (Mandarin) division called and asked me to look into buggy behavior with their translations. Turns out a whole sentence got translated to ... two characters, and wasn't showing up.
That is correct, as far as I understand.

It that also means Swiss companies have an incentive to borrow money and invest it, though.

EDIT: Ah, it seems it only applies to inter-bank interest rates, not sure how it trickles down to end clients.
How likely is it that the UK (for instance) will try to ban Tor after the election later this year?
The article is outdated. Gettext does have reordering syntax.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/c_002d...
As one of the authors of bsd-cloudinit, it's super cool to see the project being used by other people.

http://pellaeon.github.io/bsd-cloudinit/
Nice. The pricing model (per key, per month) looks innovative in that space.
I finally moved to Germany. I tried, but could not bear it anymore. I miss my family and friends oh so badly, but staying? It would have been even worse.

Those who stay are the ones with the real courage, people say. No, I'm really sorry, but those who stay are those who have their shoulders covered (by family, maybe) and may have some long-standing interests that give them enough stability to try what they want.

But, they won't change anything. The system is rigged, you cannot take the power away from those who hold it and who are in charge of the big, important decisions. That is, unless you are ok to play their conservative and self-preserving game, actually becoming part of the skewed systems. Look at what the Movimento 5 Stelle has already become.

Recently we even tried with oligarchy - officially called the government of the professors, it was a government made of the Italian "best minds" and it was appointed directly by the President of the Republic. It may have saved us, but it didn't really kickstarted the economy back. We're now in a triple-dip recession, ask any economist and he would gladly lecture you about our very interesting case.

We're a country where a lot of people saved and still manage to save, and that has naturally turned us into a very conservative country, where every little change is seen as a menace for the status quo.

Long story short, if you want to do something with your life and you have no settled financial interested (or you can manage them from abroad) you flee and put your studies and experience to good use. Otherwise you stay and either get involved in the mess or try to stay out of it and see yourself beaten to the punch by incompetents and people that are just ok with marching aligned with the old and distorted system.

Anyway, I'm not one of those self-deprecating Italian whiners. I don't hate my country. I just think the problem lies with the biggest part of our fellow Italians. It's a problem so hard to entangle and define that giving up is really the only viable solution.