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>The secret to this is not genetics or something in our drinking water. We’ve had an environment that encourages investment, welcomes immigrants, rewards risk-taking, hard work [2], and radical thinking, and minimizes impediments to doing new things. Unfortunately we’ve moved somewhat away from this. Our best hope, by far, is to find a way to return to it quickly. Although the changes required to become more competitive will likely be painful, and probably even produce a short-term economic headwind, they are critical to do.

On a high level I agree with this. The question is what's happened to cause growth to slow? The answer to this provides a prescription for what to do, but it's also a highly contentious and political question.

Here's a few suggestions, which will appeal to people of various political views. They're all true and all false to some degree.

1) Regulation has crept in to stifle innovation. It costs billions to test a new drug, so only a few firms can do it, and those firms will try to be really careful before spending any money. There's loads of rules no matter what sector of the economy you look at. Tax is a whole can of worms inside of this rubric. We want to have public services, but we also want people to have incentive to work.

2) Near-monopolies have taken over the economy. (You can tie this to regulation, of course.) You can work for one, or buy services from one, but they're so powerful few people would want to compete. As technology still inches ahead, a new one is up for grabs now and again (Operating System, Search, Social Network...) but this isn't all that great either. What happens to all those entrepreneurs and employees who aren't working for the next big ticket? What if the economy had real competition, with lots of little companies providing similar services?

3) Capital can move to where it makes the highest return. Labor can't. I wouldn't mind moving to the US, where I have lots of family, and there's work in both the fields I'm interested in (finance and startups). But I can't get a visa, apparently (been told not to bother). Plenty of people currently in the US can't really leave, even if their industries are leaving.

4) Perhaps China is just doing a Solow. They're behind, so their growth rate is higher. When they get closer (per capita) perhaps they will hit a wall like Japan. Not long ago everyone was lauding the Japanese model, now we think lifetime employment in large corporations is part of the problem. The danger of this explanation is it doesn't really spur on a lot of introspection.

Anyway, that's a bit disorganised, apologies for that. But those are just some things to think about in the debate.
In other words, the same reductions as a placebo would give.
Yeah, their ability to replace US/developed nation demand with internal demand in order to allow the RMB to float freely will be interesting. As it is now, a lot of their growth is based on government spending and some creative financial engineering with debt (similar to Fed and containment of toxic mortgage assets) and currency manipulation intended to create a huge domestic manufacturing base.

I think, complicating this, is the implicit social contract between the govt and the populace regarding economic growth and jobs. As flawed as the US system is, it is (purely IMO) a more fault tolerant - in a dynamic systems/perturbation sense - than Chinese society.
> how should I be spending my time?

Good question

> It is best to pick a metric you are pretty sure you know how to increase.

Good answer but the game is a bit more complex. It's good to have a KPI driven behavior but it depends also on the stage and thus, KPIs can change quickly. Sometimes you should find best hires, sometimes the best angels and VCs and sometimes customers or reach.

> (b * d) / c

Not really sure about this thing. I like your thought behind it (that before implementing an idea check if it's wanted and build time is in relation to the potential market size) but I don't know if the formula is a good way to communicate this definitely good idea--it's a bit too abstract/cumbersome.
There's so much biased and simplistic thinking here that it's hard to respond without writing a whole essay. But the note about China being more individualistic is just laughable considering the Communist Party's forceful manipulation of their economy. In fact, it is the US's strong individualism religion that will prevent any coordinated response to our decline, such as increased public spending on R&D.
I didn't say knowledgeable.
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No. They aren't empowered to do anything on their own so they can't help me more than comcast can except take more of my money (which comcast is already empowered to do).
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"Geeks always seem to worship autocrats and dictators for whatever reason."

I do not think this is entirely correct. You don't see widespread support for the majority of the world's autocrats. I think geeks want technocrats, not simply autocrats. In that sense, it is important to distinguish between different types of autocrats. There is a reason you see more pro-China pieces than pro-Russia, pro-Syria, pro-Cuba, or pro-Saudi pieces for example.

What people see in China is a society which has faced many challenges - demographic challenges, economic challenges, environmental challenges, stability challenges. They are not a democracy, and yet they perform much better on many issues than the vast majority of autocracies out there - as Syria falls to pieces, Russia's economy falters, and Egypt regresses from revolution, states like China are actually making some progress, however slight, in meeting needs of their populations.

China as a system that is superior to ours? I do not think sama and others are actually arguing this. However, I think that a state like China, while being an autocracy, does not make mistakes only - occasionally it does something right. And when a state occasionally does something right, there is a lesson to be learned.
You are right. It is also possible to view the process as a lazy functional computation, which produces a list of progress-items, with the last element of the list being the result of the computation. Such a view is useful when job A invokes another job B, and job A needs to compute new progress information based on the progress information from job B.

Anyway, I think such a tool would be highly useful. Also, "progress" is an often overlooked feature, but users actually appreciate it a lot, and often even require it. And you simply can't easily add progress-computation to a system as an after-thought. You have to "weave" it through the design as you build it.
I find it amazing how strong the "content provider" lobby is. How did they ever get so powerful?
I'm talking about the UK, that's why I put "nearly all healthcare delivered".

My argument is that calling the UK system more "free" when a very large percentage of all healthcare delivered is purchased by a single payer is inaccurate.
Your use of the phrase "persisting in obesity" and your comparison with smoking demonstrates that you are equating an action (like smoking) with a condition (obesity).
It's not an exact comparison...

For instance - if I bought a house in the 1990s for 200K and it's now worth a million dollars, it isn't stealing $800K from anywhere. That's new wealth that I have that I can also put to work. (Even if I don't take a mortgage out on the house, I can invest more of my other money more aggressively, if I'm paying less mortgage, or know that I have a high value asset in my home)

I think it's more appropriate to look at the monthly rent differential.

Let's say that a 1BR in Palo Alto costs $2,500, and a similar one in Austin costs $1,000. [0] In that case, there is a $1,500 * 12 = $18,000 differential. Let's double it to include how much you have to make to have that much take-home income, and you have a $36,000 per year difference. If an angel-fed startup has 3 employees, then there is a ~100K per year of effective real estate tax. (Approximately 20-25% rather than 100%[1])

The trade-off is, how much more likely are you to succeed and scale based on being in SF vs Austin?

[0] I'm basing both #s on the very accurate "Approximate the first Google result" method.

[1] One can argue that everything is more expensive in the bay area, but total cost of living comparisons are tough to do. Is it % of spending or absolute dollars? Does it depend on public schools? Quality of goods?
Bryan Cantrill is the CTO of Joyent, not the leader of the Node.js project.
> why some cultures are so much more economically successful than others

They're not. You're falling prey to selection bias. The Indians, Chinese, Bengalis, Nigerians who have chosen to go abroad are unique and special. They're the ones who take this courageous initiative to go into a land of unknown, likely other Chinese who are not travelling abroad - if they would, they probably wouldn't do as well.
why would the bmj take such a strong stance when they simply don't have the evidence to back it up? the linked study does not show that moderate consumption is harmful or demonstrate that previous results are exaggerated...
"It was the best medical service I've ever experienced in my life. I would be very happy if U.S. medical care was the same as Mexican medical care."

What you are actually saying is you would be very happy if U.S. medical care was the same as Mexican medical care for tourists carrying US dollars.

The real question is, what is the standard of care for a 50th percentile Mexican national after their own kayaking accident? What percent of their annual discretionary spending does this incident cost them? And is the existing system improving, stable, or on the verge of collapse?
An important difference is that Japan is a considerably smaller country, and to surpass the US they'd have to pull off something really remarkable and raise their per-capita GDP 2-3x above that of the US to surpass it absolutely.

China is more interesting and realistic because all they have to do is achieve a per-capita GDP somewhat similar to the US, and their vastly larger population makes their economy (and power) much bigger too. Japan didn't eat the world, but they did achieve a per-capita GDP about 2/3rds that of the US. If China just gets that far it'll already change the game beyond imagining.
Yes, this is equally true! I think this re-casting of what I said sheds even more light on both history and the present. We're not as enlightened and different as we like to think. Knowledge and technology increases, but people and emotions don't change.
Yes, his focus was on the "separation of powers." He said the Soviet Union had more guarantees than our Constitution, however without separation of powers they were "mere parchment guarantees." He also touched on innovation and industriousness being in our DNA. Which all tied back into individual liberty and the role of government (to protect individual autonomy, as the people don't exist to serve govt).

However, most everything circled back to the separation of powers.
I have a happier experience of winning a Molyneux competition. Back in the day, I entered a Theme Hospital competion on the Bullfrog website, and received a copy of Syndicate and a Bullfrog leather jacket in the post. I was maybe 12, so the XL jacket was far too big for me, but I was still thrilled.
The US economy did hit a major recession, and Chinese growth slowed marginally, but generally did okay.
Any reason you suggest anonymized tracking? I like to pass user-id / segment information to my tracking tools so we can get a picture of WHO is using feature X in addition to general adoption rates
Really?

You have a nagging feeling that a sizable chunk of white Americans feel slavery is OK?

Based on what you interpret as an implicit acceptance of slavery in comments on HN, which I guess you just sort of assume must be made by mostly white Americans?

Hate to break it to you but that makes you a racist and nationalist bigot. If I were to say I had a sneaking suspicion that Indians were for the most part lazy and incompetent, how would that seem? Or that American blacks seem to be disproportionately violent?
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Working too much, to the detriment of your health, sleep, family, and friendships, for any amount of money, even if you are the founder, is dumb. Perhaps Steve Jobs would've caught up with science and stopped his cancer earlier if he took a break.

I run a start-up with 100+ people. Vacations, family time, sleep - these are good and ultimately productive things. The normal person works so they can live, be healthy. They don't live so they can work.
This calls for science!
If you're the real Comex of iOS JB lore then I very much appreciate your work and you have my utmost respect.

So from what I understand about the Evolution Kit, it attaches to TVs 2012 and later and provides them with a boost to put them almost on par with 2013/2014+ TVs? Doesn't this cannibalize sales of new Smart TVs?
Has the banking/finance constituency been stable over the last decade, e.g. was it impacted in any way by the 2008 events in banking?
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Incidentally, has anybody read any more by or about the author, Seth Ferranti? It sounds like he managed to get a job as a writer for this "the fix" site while in prison somehow. There's gotta be an interesting story in that.
This sort of appreciation isn't a universal truth. It's mostly driven by land zoning policies that artificially limit supply.
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> Well, he says he carries it every day, so I'm going to take him at his word.

Fair, I didn't mean to say I doubted him, but more what the kit appeared like to me (travel versus EDC). This is more than I'd take on a trip, but is along those lines. Or if I were leading a more nomadic life (no permanent address or rarely there, lots of couch surfing or staying in hotels for work).

However, I guess this would be EDC if that were a normal thing for me.
That's an interchangeable commodity service and the discussion was about commodity medication. A free market requires a meeting of equals and we have a journalism grad vs the combined minds of PHD chemists and MBAs... sounds fair and free. It also requires participants in the negotiations to not be under duress, like, say, death without medication. Obviously the UK market is free-er than the US market by a considerable amount.
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"Imagine a country with only one citizen, but a trillion dollars"

A real world example (not that extreme) would be the Sultanate of Brunei:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei

It's " the fifth-richest nation out of 182, based on its petroleum and natural gas fields", yet it's hardly ever mentioned.

The Sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah, has an inmense fortune: "Forbes for example estimated the Sultan's total peak net worth at US$20 billion in 2008"
> Contrast this with the American culture of honesty; fraud and cheating are national scandals, not the norm.

Fraud is basically the biggest national industry in the U.S. Just look at:

- The 30% of all medical spending that is wasted.

- The rise of for-profit colleges with super low graduation rates and even worse employment prospects. Same with law schools.

- The fact that the majority of people who graduate high school and college are functionally illiterate.

- The massive pharmaceutical settlements for faking safety/efficacy data, illegal marketing, bribing doctors, etc.

- The complete lack of food safety regulations and/or enforcement. E.g. a third of fish sold aren't even really the species that they are claimed as, 80% of supplements sold don't contain any of the ingredients they are claimed to have, etc.

- The crumbling of the train systems, city water systems, etc.

- The massive subsidies on fossil fuels that are causing climate change and destroying the oceans.

- The financial system

- The fact that the vast majority of science isn't replicable, or isn't accurate even when it is replicable.

Etc. The main reason corruption seems worse in China is because of the billion dollar propaganda campaigns that use schools and the media to systematically blind people to the underlying issues, and the fact that the vast majority of activists get arrested and threatened with life in prison if they ever protest again.
There's a billion people! You can't make any generalizations about "hard work". It's just overly broad stereotyping at that point.

Do Uighurs value hard work? Tibetans? Subsistence farmers? City-dwellers? I don't really know what people mean when they say that the Chinese "value hard work". Which Chinese?
There are many other immigrant populations that are not nearly as successful and usually end up in very low-paid positions wherever they land.

Also, your explanation doesn't do much to explain why Chinese control 60% of the economy in the Philippines.
Surprise of the century, Peter Molyneux doesn't deliver on his promises. Still waiting for that acorn to grow into a mighty oak Molyneux, you silly bastard.
Those numbers aren't meaningless. They're the weight of a ream (500 sheets) of that paper at 17x22.
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At least you're all consistent!
EDIT: strikeout [In my opinion it's fraud.] /strikeout

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1086.aspx?categoryid=68

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1087.aspx?categoryid=68&subcateg...

But the rules are a bit complicated so maybe it's fine.

It's weird that he gets a six month drop of medications each time -- that is very unusual behaviour from the prescribing doctor and the prescription-filling pharmacist.
> Well the fact that drugs are twice as expensive (or more) in the US

You have to compare like for like though - looking at the cost to the end user is not relevant, you'd have to look at the cost to the NHS versus the cost to US health insurance companies.

For the NHS, this is publicly available data[1] and we can see that a course of once-daily apiprazole (the drug described in the article) costs the equivalent of $150-300 per patient per month, depending on formulation. Is such data (of actual cost) available for the US?

Also, regarding biomedical research - the British taxpayer funds this as well. Anyway, apiprazole was developed in Japan. It's not all US-centric.

[1] http://www.hscic.gov.uk/searchcatalogue?productid=14494
Tell that to all those people who funded Godus on kickstarter, based upon the promised feature list and goals. If you read some of the linked articles, Peter Molyneux basically admits to saying anything in order to get the backers' money. That's disreputable and unethical. But I doubt he cares at all, he's too busy over-hyping and over-promising on his next game.
Ask HN: Building a realtime dashboard with Node – React, jQuery, or both?
I'm building a realtime-ish dashboard app to visualize and animate statistics culled from a transaction clearinghouse database.

I've got everything up and running with Node + socket.io piping data to a client visualizing the stats using epoch.js, a charting library built off D3, and updating the actual in-page figures with jQuery.

My plan was just to implement jQuery text animation libraries to give a nice effect to the numbers and pass it off to the designer.

But is this the sort of thing that would make a good case study for react? I've been reading about it and wanting to use it for a project, but it seems more for dynamic interfaces than one-way streams of information. Am I wrong? If it would be a good idea to implement it, why?
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One thing that I do admire from the article is that Americans do worry about the future in a good way even they still have big advantages. This is a key trait most contemporary Chinese are somewhat lack of. And this alone can tell a lot. For this purpose, it does not matter which competitor the op chose to mention in this article.

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Oh please. The US public spending as a percent of GDP is around Canada's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending

And almost double Chinas. Even after you take out the military there is no basis in saying that the US has raced to the bottom.
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Nice work! I don't know if it'll be ideal for all use cases, but it does add some readability.
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Note that it's actually 4x larger population. 322 million versus 1.36 billion at the moment.
Are you volunteering to transition Sun III's physical files cabinets, storage boxes, warehouse shelving? To reconfigure their printers, rewrite their report software etc.?

There's a lot of friction and it all takes place on the ground, unlike translating Python 2 programs to handle Unicode, there's no cloud service model that facilitates the transition.

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China is also the most indebted country in world history, and has acquired that mantle at a faster pace than any other country in history.

http://i.imgur.com/iwarkOm.png

From everything I've seen in the financial press about their rapid accumulation of shadow debt, the situation is even worse than that chart reveals.

So at at a time when robots are set to overtake human labor, China's demographics are rapidly aging, and they lack even a meaningful social safety net - you want me to buy the bogus claim that China is about to become the next dominant economy? Not a chance in hell.

In another five years they'll likely have accumulated another $20 to $30 trillion in new debt, all going toward faking economic growth so they can pretend their economy didn't stop growing six years ago when the global consumer crashed.

Back in reality, accounting for real inflation, and accounting for their need to leverage extreme debt to fake growth, China's economy is not growing at all, and is most likely headed toward decades of Japan style stagnation - in a best case scenario.

Worst case scenario, they get old way before they get rich (guaranteed), their 400-500 million farmers revolt as their future potential goes sideways, robots take half their manual labor jobs, they stack up $80 trillion in debt (on a third rate currency that nobody trusts even today), and collapse into social chaos and revolution, as the party fails to deliver on decades of promises.

Those 400-500 million farmers? China should have maybe 15 to 25 million farmers. So they have 400+ million unemployed persons the Chinese system is intentionally holding in stagnation to avoid upheaval, because there's zero chance China can create half a billion new jobs, much less at a time when the age of robotics is upon us.
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Surely they are under an obligation, since these game features were goals and promises on their kickstarter campaign. Kickstarters are contractually obliged to deliver on their promises.
Nope, I would sooner get rid of the cable company (which I have done).
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I apologize, I misread your comment about mental health as being the only cause of obesity, and that's not what you are saying. I just re-read your original comment and realized that.

Please excuse my lack of reading comprehension today.
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