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This is the part in the article that I can relate to the most when people try to correlate richness with intelligence:

“Intelligence is not a factor for explaining wealth,” he said. “Those with low intelligence should not believe they are handicapped, and those with high intelligence should not believe they have an advantage.”
Less with hardware-specific expertise, more with crowdfunding, pre-sales, and bringing a product to market. Many highly-successful new hardware project launches have been powered by Tilt over the past year, to name a few: Navdy, Lytro Illum, Whistle GPS, and Eero (yesterday).

(These were all on the Tilt/Open platform: https://open.tilt.com/)
Hi, author of the post here -- I actually skipped a few steps in this code, because it was getting quite long. As it turns out, ActiveRecord is amazingly complicated, even for the simplest of queries.

It's trying to build an AST for every query, and that AST uses Arel, which is its own, complex layer of abstraction. There are a lot of layers of turtles before you get to anything that looks like SQL.
"and despite the fact that mainstream economists, politicians, bankers, etc. still thought of it as a "barbarous relic" (Keynes), gold-bugs saw it as the key to a prosperous economy."

You mean the same bankers, economist and politicians of the bail out to big banking institutions?

You mean the same bankers, economist and politicians of the too big to fail?

the same bankers, economist and politicians that have brutally increased their wealth in the crisis while the people income has gone deep down?

You need to insult people that disagree with you, calling them "bugs".
What a strange opinion you hold!

| All currencies are backed by our willingness to accept them...

This is true!

| ... that is the only backing that any currency ever needs

This is clearly false- just consider any currency that has experienced hyperinflation. Currencies backed by commodities are not subject to such troubles. Or consider the hidden tax of even nominal inflation caused by monetizing debt (ie, printing "mind backed" currency to pay debts). Such systems are essentially a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since poor people don't have access to financing/loans.

| So why would they take a fiction over a real shirt that that gives them real value?

Of course both the shirt and paper money have value, subject to supply and demand. But, the paper money tends to hold on to its value better when its backed by something more than the restraint of central banks.
We are actually not so far away from hitting the ceiling with batteries. There are fundamental physical reasons for why you can't put much more than 1eV per atom in a battery. That equates roughly to 850 Wh/kg, if memory serves, and we are currently pushing Li-ion towards 300 Wh/kg. So we can only keep growing at 5% for another couple of decades or so. Regardless of battery chemistry.

What people often do to hide this fact is talk about energy density, Wh/L, where growth can continue for longer, at the expense of making batteries heavier.
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I think the explanation over complicates it.

On a natural log scale a 0.01 change in a coefficient (X) is approximately a 1% in response (Y). Where as a 0.01 change on a log10 scale is a 2.3% change in response.

Therefore Using the example if you see a 0.06 difference in coefficients on a natural log scale you know that the difference response is approximately 6%, whereas you'll need a calculator if it's on a log10 scale.
> But that would then imply that the five-hundred-dollar bill has value, because it can be exchanged reliably and easily for value.

No this is IMHO no valid implication. Say, goldbugs don't believe that money is something other than fiction. But they do believe that at least for the next few days this fiction will not break down in the society: This is enough time to buy gold. But they are not sure how much longer the "illusion" will hold up (say, for a month?).

So the right question to ask (for the goldbug) is "only" what will happen earlier:

a) The money illusion breaks down?
or
b) I've converted the earned money into gold?
If I was a government, I wouldn't even want to take it back. Storing gold seems like a hassle compared to storing the equivalent value in regular currency.
>Now, everything is computerized and requires a degree in electrical engineering to figure out.

Let's be clear here. It requires no such thing. What's required is a technician and a CAN bus reader with the appropriate (proprietary) message decoders. A EE with too much time on his hands is a reasonable substitute for that. This crap is hard to fix because the manufacturers made it that way. They made it that way so they can soak you for more money when things break.
So the salary is constant but you're projecting health insurance costs rising 15% annually for the foreseeable future ... I may not understand the US, but is this actually something that is expected to happen?
Thank you all of answers.
Area12 thanks for advices.
mogest i've followed you on twitter. I definitely have more questions.
Yeah that's really awesome hope we see more things like this, but this situation is hopefully not common and just something that "slipped through the cracks". The work that has been done deserves more attention and resources than it has ever received.
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A basic income would almost certainly improve the quality of life of many disabled persons.

Remember, disability is not a binary state, government mandate nothwithstanding. Many disabled persons could in fact do a limited amount of certain kinds work each week, say 10 hours. Also, many people get on disability at some time and find that over time, they get better, or adapt to their disability.

But under SSI regulations, all of these people would lose 100% of their disability if the government finds out they're working. What this does is condemn a lot of people to lives of poverty when they could be living a lifestyle closer to middle class with just 10-20 hours of employment each week.

Also, getting on disability is a long, drawn-out, humiliating process. Some people have philosophical objections to being on disability. And so many people who probably should be on at least partial disability forgo the whole process. A basic income would allow these people some relief.
That should be "should NOT work in a semi-distracted state"
In some areas if I recall there are companies doing such.
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So, over 10383.30 USD if he manages to cash it out.
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You are extremely talented. Great write up.
The authors are really onto something with programming as a means to learn other subjects.

I think this is because of the precision that programming demands. You have to really nail down every edge case, and think about things down to their essence.

This is one reason why programmers can succeed in jumping the fence to work in their customer's jobs, even when it's an unrelated field. (I've seen many programmers make swaps from fields as diverse as brand management, telecom customer support and bond trading)
Serious question: what exactly is the value of gold? I mean, with other rare metals as palladium or titanium their value can be inferred from industrial consumption, but what is the actual usage of gold and silver other than for filling teeth, making jewelry (we have had artificial "prices" with the diamond cartels) and trace amounts used in electronics?
I like how he mentions Facebook of all things as a model of how the IoT should work.

So, after we could all witness the massive conflicts of interest (with regards to their users) and privacy problems that emerge when there is a single entity that collects, stores and distributes your data, we should do the same thing with the IoT, except, this time we'll give this entity physical access to our house.

I agree with his sentiment that this will be the likely future. I just disagree that this is a developent to look forward to.

As for the argument that finding a common interface to turn on a lightbulb is impossible, because <i>our</i> lightbulb is so special, I dont buy this. Standards like DLNA show that it is possible to develop interfaces for much more sophisticated problems and actually make them work in the real world.
I tend to lean toward everything being fine, but motive seems obvious. It's an extremely valuable pile of stuff being held by a custodian for many decades with no external audits. I can't think of many cases of people being okay with that situation.
Target exceeded, and I don't think this even includes the EUR 100k from Stripe & Facebook.
For computer-related technology, there are two key trends I've noticed since at least circa 2000 with respect to corporate research. One is touched on by the article, the other is missed.

In my own experience, a large part of this is explained by the increasing use of trade secret protections rather than patents for the products of corporate research. This is particularly noticeable around computer science, where the academic literature in many areas is years behind the state-of-the-art in corporate research labs that is never published. The research is still being done, it is just intentionally kept invisible. The declining ability to enforce IP rights globally as a practical matter and the rise of virtualized infrastructures and services, which makes reverse-engineering more difficult, has made this an attractive research monetization strategy.

The other major trend is letting startups drive research activity and taking an equity position in the interesting ones, often as cheaper money than more traditional VCs. It is less expensive for large companies to make a venture capital investment in startups solving a problem they need solved than to do the research themselves. 40% of all venture capital is now corporate VC, which reflects this trend. It reduces R&D risk while also putting those companies much closer to potential acquisition targets.

Basically, this new structure is more efficient and of the corporate research that is being done, much less is being publicly disclosed due to the practical limits on IP protection.
It's interesting to hear about the different impacts of essential oils, though when you consider manuka honey also has healing properties as well, it stands to reason that other natural plant extracts could have similar properties.
Gold actually has intrinsic value. Fiat currency does not.
There's a history of state-sponsored and not so state-sponsored cybercrime from both these countries against the United States and US businesses, so it's not an assumption that's too far off the mark. Assumptions don't equal guilt, but even the headline says "suspected".

This is SSN data that was stolen, it's a whole different beast that the FBI's kerfuffle (to put it lightly) with the Sony Pictures hack.
1. $5B is super way off. First of all you are lumping one-time construction costs in with the incremental costs of running the data centers. The article clearly states the bucket in which data center operational costs are included is $2.82B.

2. Even that bucket is a grab bag of other costs as well such as amortization of acquired assets (not necessarily for data centers). Additionally while web search is major it is certainly not the only thing that Google data centers do; for example they run Gmail and an AWS competitor on it. So it's very hard to determine just what the operational cost of web search is, but it's certainly well under $2.82B.

3. The Bing article clearly states its major cost increases are "costs associated with the Yahoo! search agreement and increased traffic acquisition costs", i.e. promotional not operational costs. This is not applicable to Apple, who already gets paid for traffic.

4. As for maps it's not just GPS data, it's road and signage and building data including visual imagery. That's many orders of magnitude more expensive to gather than loading a web page (even loading it 1000 times). You have to roll trucks and fly planes. In fact there was just a story yesterday about Apple rolling trucks to start gathering competing "streetview" data.. all from scratch.
>This is clearly false- just consider any currency that has experienced hyperinflation. Currencies backed by commodities are not subject to such troubles.

This is completely false. When silver was discovered in Nevada the price was massively affected. Hell, Spain's economy was wrecked by the importation of gold from the Americas.

If we ever figure out how to bring asteroid resources to earth reliably, or if someone discovers a large deposit of gold you will see just how "stable" the value really is.
How do you handle bursts? That's my biggest problem with iPhoto - I need an easy elegant tool to handle my 6-shot DSLR bursts before they get synced into the cloud.
Really ? Why do governments keep tons of bar Gold then in the first place ? Have you ever seen the actual inflation of paper money over like, 50 years ? 1 Million USD used to be a lot of money back in the 60s-70s, nowadays it's a commodity and 1 billion is rather the new standard of "large sum".
I don't know the breakdown of farms in the US but in Canada "family farms" supppsedly make up 98% of all farms. This includes mega farms that are owned by families

Source: industry published reading material at a farming AGM
If it was really detected at egress then that would make it a sloppy operation. The Chinese should object to the FBI insulting their espionage teams - or say it was just a training exercise.
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> So why would they take a fiction over a real shirt that that gives them real value?

Ok, relax, I'm a fan of fiat currency as much as anyone, but your argument is a bit off.

Most people who argue for a gold standard aren't debating some innate worth of money. They're generally arguing that a backed currency restricts the government's ability to simply print money and create out of control inflation, which has actually happened many times.

My response to that would be that our democratic system has created a sufficient dis-incentive to do that and the fact that we haven't yet is sufficient proof that it works.

That said, I try not to keep my assets too liquid. Oh well =)
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Did the front fall off?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgrX7uOZqHI
Let's just touch that point. You wrote:

"[W]hy we're bombing Afghanistan when Saudi Arabia had significantly stronger links to the events than Afghanistan did."

Again, this confuses individual citizens and the official stance of the government.

I'm not up on all the particulars of what support Saudi Arabia (and since this thread seems to be swarming with pedants, yes, I'm referring to the government) provided in terms of turning over suspects to the U.S., but my understanding is that it generally cooperated.

As I noted, bin Laden was opposed to the Saudi government, hence his supporters within Saudi Arabia would also have been enemies of the regime.

"Bombing Saudi Arabia" wasn't done because it made no sense whatsoever to do so.

(Though sadly I can't say the same for Iraq.)

I'll note that the US did and is conducting targeted specific attacks within countries it's otherwise allied, notably Pakistan and Yemen. Those are not aimed at the regime or its infrastructure, but at specific insurgents identified by U.S. intelligence (modulo collateral damage). Those strikes are happening with the overt or tacit support of the regimes in question.
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Very nice. I plan to use this the next time we search for a movie to watch on Family Movie & Pizza Night. It can some times take like 30 minutes just to search the various subscription sites we use (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc) to find a movie. We try to find a free one first but when we can't, we then check around for which service has it cheapest. Seems this is going to make searching a whole lot easier. Thanks!

Would be great if I could also filter by rating. And exclude those that are "Buy" only.
Like many statistics, that number can mean what you want it to mean. I would venture to guess that the percentage of food grown on family farms, vs mega farms, is under 10%.
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It's a lot easier to find diametrically opposed economists. Not quite as easy as lawyers, but close.
I think it is misleading to say it was due to reduce power demands. Rather it was due to needing to cool the damned things. If you were to have a 500W TDP chip, you would either need a crazy huge cooling system or a much bigger surface area. Consumers want light and thin, so Bob's your uncle.
Recent history has already proved you right in many of the things you are saying. If you look at investments into healthcare, education, and urbanization, they tend to have a large and easy to quantify payoff. You can see this in the 1900-1950s in the US and the same thing in many countries. Running clean water and sanitary plumbing, electricity, affordable cars, and telecommunications have made significant impacts on economies (and don't forget adding women to the workforce, which implies training/education).
Never tell people / managers that you love your Job. That's one foolproof way for people to expect you to do it for free or close to it.

Your payment comes in the form of praise.

I think that was the mistake made here. A mistake made by many artists.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892913
From what I've seen of him, everything Curtis does is excellent.

"The Century of the Self" is also on my list.
It's still illegal to enter an unlocked door unless you're authorized.

Two things can be true: you should have locks on your door AND you shouldn't enter someone else's unlocked door.

(Ironically, not locking your doors could also increase your insurance rate...)
Why not? I've used milled PCBs for commercial prototypes as they're an order of magnitude cheaper than a fab given the turnaround time. You can get down to 0.5mm pitch easily.

You don't get soldermasks and vias are normally riveted (good enough). For most people, two layers is enough and if you can design the board well you shouldn't need much routing on the second layer.
It's been got. youtube-dl FTFW.
Thanks for posting, this is well done. I really liked the fun you put into the "processing photos" animation.

A few thoughts:

* The double "connect to Facebook" is jarring.

* My photos didn't fill up the collage--why not make the sections bigger instead of making me add more photos?
OK, fair. You're effectively defining "value" as "can be exchanged reliably and quickly for other things with/requiring value indefinitely". So the goldbug assumption is that there's a constant and nontrivial risk of people no longer accepting fiat money in the near term, but there is little to no risk of people not accepting gold. I think we can dispute the data informing this worldview, but that's a self-consistent worldview. Thanks.
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I was going to guess Hegel. Either one would work though
Since those who say "domestic" usually mean USA, I'm guessing you live there.

Bad news: your government is one of the attackers. (So is mine, unfortunately.) I take it you've seen the NSA interdiction guys taking discreet hacksaws to Cisco parcels en route to 'implant' (backdoor) them by now?

Did you think that was something that only happens abroad?
It's terrible is what is it. I have started keeping away from the site because of it unfortunately.
On a smaller screen laptop I find that I have to scroll more to catch roughly the same number of headline I use to previously
Ehhh... I mean its all malarky till enough experiments have been done to move it into the realm of likelihood.
there are certainly cheaper options if you're willing to wait just a bit longer for example OSH Park, $5 Sq/in for 3 copies 12 Day turn around.
This adds to the already exciting hardware situation.

I'm interested in the personal media/storage/app server space!

If you are hardware startup founder material and are interested, please get in touch.
This is a pretty sad day, but it's been a year since I set foot in a RadioShack. Then it was to buy a relay so I could solder up a 'hack' to allow me to watch DVD's on my Pioneer car DVD player without have to jiggle the E-brake.

At least a little bit of RadioShack will continue to live on in my car.
Is anyone else scared by the prospect of self driving cars considering how prominent 'truck driver' is on that map?
For a company I organised a $5k AUD purchase. The owner didn't counter offer and took the initial offer. I had $20k initial limit, and could have likely taken an increased premium back to the company successfully. If you get an offer treat that as an opening, not what someone is willing to pay.
At present it does not do diarization, all text is output in one stream.
I think it's the other way? That is, market stopped focusing on CPU speed because they hit the wall and clock speed could no longer be used as a differentiating factor.
I'm not a gold bug either, but I think there is a flaw in your example. The owner of the shirt might be worried about the eventual devaluation of the dollar, but trust its short term stability enough to believe the risk would be worth it to trade their shirt for lots of fiat currency, and immediately use the fiat currency to buy 30 shirts.

They took a small short-term risk to increase their tangible goods by 300%.
Haha, yes you can't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_th...
I created a very simple Firefox OS App. You can look up the departure times of trains in the Netherlands:

https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/ns-times?src=search

https://github.com/gitaarik/nsapp

As it's just a webapp and it doesn't use any phone specific API's you can also run it in any browser. Here I just hosted is as a website so you can try it out if you don't have a Firefox OS phone:

http://nsapp.televisionsmostpopularartinstructors.com/

Of course it's meant for phones so the design doesn't really work out for desktop browsers, but you get the idea.
Because in the US, a tractor is considered an tool, and thus the farmers/farms get a 100% write off of the entire purchase price.
Yes, and I wish they popped out earlier... I kept having to scroll back to read them after I'd passed the gap.
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Or they bought the domain back then and planned to use it for this explicit purpose. It's not a question of "will" a big company get hacked, it's a question of "when".

Also I'm sure a major healthcare company that handles tens of millions of sensitive personal records has enough foresight to see a data breach coming. HIPAA and ACA probably mandate healthcare companies having this exact kind of plan ready to deploy in the event of a hack.
Transporter does that as well: http://www.filetransporter.com/
But you need to declare the sale as capital gains.

I also don't understand this argument. I use computers for my business. It makes it cheaper to get one for business than for personal use, but I'd still like the things to last as long as possible.
Interestingly, the second edition of the book will be published next Friday.
Hi DKnoll,

To clarify, disabling the cell radio on a device would mean you can't place a phone call.
More generally, any time two unrelated commodities' values are pegged to each other, there will inevitably be a correction, usually wrenching.

Bimetalism, the attempt to peg the value of silver in relation to gold, has quite an illuminating history of failure.
Serious answer: go read wikipedia's entry on 'gold'.