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That's harsh. Molyneux has done incredible work in the past. He played a part in Populous, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper, and Black & White. All of those games were ground breaking.

Peter Molyneux's greatest strength is also his greatest weakness: he's incredibly creative and ambitious. He aims very high, often a little beyond his reach. Frankly, that's what we should all be doing. I don't quite remember the quote, or the person who said it, but it went something like, "If you're not failing the majority of the time, you're not aiming high enough."

I'd rather play a game that was trying to be incredible but fell just short, rather than a game that aimed to be passable and hit the mark. Maybe that's what bugs me about Curiosity and Godus; these aren't the big, ambitious games I've grown accustomed to from Molyneux.
"Going equipped"

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/25

(1) A person shall be guilty of an offence if, when not at his place of abode, he has with him any article for use in the course of or in connection with any burglary or theft.

2) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.

3) Where a person is charged with an offence under this section, proof that he had with him any article made or adapted for use in committing a burglary or theft shall be evidence that he had it with him for such use.
Is it coincidence that this article on china appeared on the same day as Chinese president's visit to America is announced in news media?
Just one caveat: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/02/11/its-official-i...
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It is a much free-er market than the USA market

Umm...no. The UK is a single payer system, that is, the government holds a monopoly over healthcare purchasing (or nearly all healthcare delivered).

If a really skilled doctor wanted to charge a higher rate for their services, tough, he/she would get the same as every other doc.

It's not a "freer" system.
I'm not entirely sure there's any large and complex C/C++ application which would be considered 'clean' by any generally accepted standard.

And in any case, i'm not sure that requiring anyone who wants to put up their own webpage to know how to write an OS level application necessarily leads to a web with freer expression than exists now.
Thank you for the feedback. I need to check my localisation with a proxy. It's a bit tricky with Appengine. It is live and ready to ship, but we have made the touchables mostly for some company trials, but wanted to try out if we can convince some consumers :)
> Honestly, it has never been clear to me why "growth" was the metric that we, as a society, have been optimizing for. Who stands to benefit? You? The middle class? Everyone? Or... wealthy investors and a few lucky founders?

I think the answer to this is pretty obvious when you look around.

"95% of the gains from the [recent economic] recovery have gone to the richest 1% of people, whose share of overall income is once again close to its highest level in a century." [1]

When you optimize for "economic growth" you are optimizing for the well-being of the already well-off.

1: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21586578-americas-inco...
She didn't gain weight because of the calories in the fecal transplant. She gained weight, it's suspected, because of the new gut flora from the overweight donor. Different flora may mean a different metabolism.
Obvious problems in implementation, but I've always liked the idea behind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness
You're unlikely to find someone who would openly help you since you mentioned you work in the electronic trading industry. I speak from experience as a former employee of Virtu (and previously for 4 years when it was EWT / Madison Tyler). Learning is sometimes best through lots of research and experience.
I call real estate the "evil sponge." As a region becomes more affluent, the price of real estate appreciates at least in step with this. Due to the leveraged debt financing of RE, the reality is often that price appreciation is a multiple of wage appreciation.

This takes pretty much all the surplus capital in a region -- among everyone but the rich -- and locks it up in an inert asset.

Think of it this way: a starter home in the Bay Area is about a million dollars. In SoCal -- not cheap by any means -- it's more like $400k. The average AngelList seed round is $400-$600k. So every single house in the Bay Area locks up the capital required to seed fund at least one new venture.

What could all those smart people in the Bay Area be doing if all their capital were not locked up by an inert asset?

What's worse is that there are idiots who cheer this on because it will supposedly exclude people they don't like (the poor, blacks, etc.) from their neighborhoods. I read a great book called Detroit: A Biography. It explained how RE hustlers used racism to fleece people: first they'd sell a neighborhood to white folks. Then they'd pay black people to walk around in it. Then they'd scare the white folks into selling below market, jack the price back up and sell it to blacks, and meanwhile sell a further-out more expensive neighborhood to those same white folks. Rinse and repeat. I suppose if you harbor these kinds of views it's kind of poetic when they're turned around and used to con you, but it harms everyone else too.

I was hoping the housing bubble crash would bring relief, but it's right back up there. Either the entire economy needs to inflate until RE is reasonable again -- which would give us $8 loaves of bread -- or real estate needs to fall over and burn. We need something like the 2008 housing crash with no recovery-- to unshackle the real economy from the rentier asset economy.
I think the arguments that it matters to be #1 are extremely weak. Besides having the USD as the world's reserve currency, is there any other good reason?
Disappointing that the YC staff has not commented on this. It also fell very quickly from page 1...
> but only just this year did the NHS decide to fully fund it in the UK

So that means it is covered by the NHS now?
> This is why so few European films have ever reached the public domain, and why Malaysian and Bruneian film lovers are far more fortunate—for now.

Oh yes, those poor European film lovers, with their local industries that produce so many films that nobody could hope to watch them all. I bet everyone in Europe deeply laments not being able to make derivative works of 50-year old European movies, and envies their counterparts in Malaysia and Brunei.
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Is it possible to automatically (without any additional code) animate the differences between two versions of the DOM? This would make it possible to, e.g., animate the creation of some space between two DIVs before inserting a new DIV in between, and animate the removal of space when a DIV disappears. This is something that is not easy in CSS alone, and could reduce much of the flickering in web-pages which potentially makes users lose their orientation (if the DIVs are large).
Excellent points. I live in a community with a fair few retired state officials, and the China fear/admiration is also entrenched amongst folks who are already very wealthy, and have a passing interest in staying on top of international politics. There is something to your observation of wealthy individuals of medium to high intellect falling in love with autocrats, as though if a few smarter people could just control a little more, things would be better/more optimized/grow faster.

The twist of course being the punchline to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. What is better? Why optimize? Growth for what purpose?
So maybe a more fair comparison would be to compare total costs in the US (insurance premium and drug cost) to the total costs in the UK (higher taxes and small Rx cost)?

Of course the end result would all depend on your salary level.
Not to mention that it's not just the U.S. and China competing in a vacuum. China's real economic threat is on the low-end. As they've boomed and their labor has become more expensive, many foreign companies are re-offshoring elsewhere.

Also let's keep in mind that we have yet to see all the effects of the unprecendented demographic experiment of the one-child policy. They will be dealing with an aging population on a scale never seen before.

Finally, the U.S. has a lot going for it when compared with its developed peers - growing population, attractive to immigrants, and a culture of entrepreneurialism and risk-taking (which Sam seems to think is in decline...not sure I see the same thing).

When China's elites stop wanting to send their children to U.S. universities and find ways to get their capital off the mainland, then I'll worry.
If it is not to contain words, do you really need a blog? It seems as though Facebook and Twitter are quite well suited for sharing photos and videos, among a million other options.
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Godus is really an extended performance art piece. Molyneux is showing us that real gods appear, make big promises, and then leave their followers -- even the most sainted among them -- to wonder their whole lives if the promises are true.
Nope, not on that gem. But they tried later to answer some of the others. For example, a historically relevant case was being discussed, where SCOTUS found a rather significant law passed by Congress as unconstitutional (effective immediately). A student said "isn't the idea to gradually change a major law, to do minimal damage, like bringing a ship into port." He retorted with, "Heaven forbid we actually held Congress accountable for doing their job and passing good laws. There are many bad laws that are constitutional and good laws that are not. They have the ability to revisit and modify existing law, but they never do and choose to leave it to the Court to decide its constitutionality."
Yes, I completely agree.

It is entirely possible that by consuming poor quality food (rotten, junk, infested with parasites/chemicals/etc.) the regulation mechanism is overwhelmed or broken.

It is also possible it's through a genetic defect. An environmental toxin. A virus or bacteria. A bazillion other alternatives that our level science cannot detect or explain.

My point is that when you see an obese person, the response shouldn't be lazy/stupid/eat less/diet/exercise more. It should be sick/needs research/treatment.

Simple over-eating should be 100% regulated by our bodies and the excess material discarded. It should NOT be a problem. But it IS. Something is poisoning us. Rather than blaming the sick, we should find out WHAT that is.
Interesting idea. I'm reminded of Aardvark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_%28search_engine%29). That was a fun service before it was shuttered. What is this built on? Seems pretty lightweight.

Best wishes.
Mentioning China's lack of environmental regulations is just a red herring that distracts people from the real solution. Consider the following:

It's illegal for me to build a cruise missile in the US. Likewise, it's illegal for me to import a cruise missile into the US.

It's illegal for my startup to pollute when I produce a Gizmo in the US. However, it's totally legal for for me to import said Gizmo from China after I paid someone there to pollute for me.

Any sane environmental regulation must be applied at the point of sale as well. The problem here is our environmental regulation. We can't change what China does but we can change our broken laws.
How do you square this self-defeating mindset against the described millennial sensitivity where everybody expects a trophy and considers themselves special? Seems like you might be referring to older works who are already jaded by the system and not the new class of workers who will be taking over their jobs.
Yup, but for 3+ years it wasn't where it was available in the US.
Well, he says he carries it every day, so I'm going to take him at his word.

To answer your question, generally people with huge loadouts like this haven't really thought about it all that carefully.
I know, we should take this person their medicine away, so they can have a wretched and miserable life!

Healthcare should not be something you can or cannot afford, we should all be able to access healthcare. It is just common sense.
Who stands to benefit from growth? Everyone. The population is increasing, so we need economic growth to at least maintain employment.

This reminds me of something a friend mentioned when we were talking about American exceptionalism and the disproportionate number of inventions made relative to the population.

He saw a documentary where they interviewed a couple that owned an ice cream cart in Paris. The couple said that they take the month of August off for vacation. This perplexed the interviewer- but how? Isn't August the best sales month for ice cream?

The family said, essentially- we were born in this class, we'll die in this class, and the government more or less guarantees that. Why work any harder?
It was Galileo that was persecuted for promoting heliocentrism (a.k.a. "Copernicanism"). I was never taught that Copernicus was persecuted...but I can see why some people could get it mixed up. I think you'd have a hard time finding any historians that presented the position that Copernicus himself was persecuted -- it was probably mostly that teachers (etc) remembered incorrectly.
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> Maybe techies are slowly realizing that this whole trendy web industry is 50% schlep, 49% bullshit and 1% of something actually valuable to the world.

Couldn't put it better myself.
The doublespeak here is that you say you would welcome a patch if it was "properly implemented", but then it turns out you mean "if it does ACLs and does not replace the default registry". You claim this is for the good of the users, but actually users are asking for the ability to replace the registry, and the primary beneficiary of this policy is the Docker Registry. You only want to disallow access to the registry if it provides an error message that places the blame on the administrator, so that in practice their users demand they turn it back on.

Anyway, I think it's clear that the patch that users want isn't welcome, so I won't be wasting any further time on it.
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> The other stark contrast is how much harder people in China seem to work than people here, and how working hard is considered a good thing, not a bad thing.

If continued growth is dependent on working harder (more hours), I'm completely fine with being over passed. If you have to give up more of your life to "grow" you have less time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. While America's growth is enviable, our work-life balance is not and many people outside the US think our labor and vacation policies are a joke.

I don't think the solution to growth is working harder or changing our attitude towards hard work, we're already at the top (excluding China) – it's about working smarter and with better legislation to support risk takers.
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I actually watch some of the ads on YouTube Channels that I like (Provided the ads are moderately interesting). It is a small sacrifice to pay to get content that I like for free.
I mean, I suppose there's probably no law against walking around with a glass pipe either but I wouldn't recommend doing it for the hell of it.
If you're fermenting fruits and then distilling them, methanol is the first ingredient to boil out -- the first batch of distilled material will have nearly all of the methanol in the entire run. The background amount of methanol might be very small (<1% in most fruits), but the distilling process necessarily concentrates it and could easily provide a lethal dose if you're working on large volumes.
As a native Chinese, I doubt anyone in Chine knows China good enough.

But as a native Chinese, what you should have known is China is growing faster and better in the recent 10 years.
> You met a person who burned more calories than they consumed, and yet didn't lose weight?

No, as I said, I met an overweight person who consistently ate well and exercised (a college roommate). I have no idea how many calories they burned.

By comparison, I ate much more and exercised much less and had very low body fat. Again, I have no idea how many calories I burned.

And that's exactly point. That is to say, given the tremendous variation in almost every aspect of human physiology, is it plausible that there exist outliers whose bodies burn calories at markedly different rates? I don't know, but without more evidence, I'm hesitant to declare it impossible.
China's growth has long since been an organism that feeds on the back of the gorilla of US growth. If the US economy would hit a major recession, China would come crashing down with it. On the other hand, if the Chinese economy would have a major collapse, the US would suffer, but still be able to re-route core-value manufacturing processes to new countries (or back home).

I agree with your cheating note, many of the Chinese take great pride in stealing innovation and ripping off US intellectual property, to the point where anyone well-informed on the matter knows that they have their fingers in the networks of almost every major US Corporation, siphoning away hard-earned gains by our workers. I have further exposure to this through product manufacturing, where Chinese companies are well-known for ripping off blueprints from the US companies that outsource their manufacturing. Tools like Alibaba have only increased this sort of misbehavior exponentially.

What the US has that China often doesn't demonstrate are the intangibles in regards to honest work-ethic that produce genuine "value", rather than "value" based on a manipulated currency and outright lazy copy-catting. Once they demonstrate their self-sufficiency by doing honest innovation, then I'll credit them for a job well done. There's a lot of value in US-China relations, but they still have yet to prove that they could "hop off the back of the gorilla" and stand alone.
No, they're really not, as evidenced by all the quoting and meta-character nonsense you have to deal with. Sure, it's not too difficult to figure out, most of the time, but I think a solution that puts characters and logic on different quoting levels will almost always be better from an expressiveness standpoint (ignoring ecosystem issues).
Note that Geoff Ralston is a Y Combinator partner, which is context that otherwise makes the article confusing.

EDIT: relevant info was added to the user profile after this comment was made.
I wouldn't want to give my details to the 3rd party. The cable company is likely to just advise that the contract signer has to call in. I know in the past I tried to deal with the elec. company on behalf of my girlfriend. Even though I lived with her and could verify any info, including ss number they wouldn't speak to me on the issue.
So for example you'd be happy if there were a 6"x7.75" and 12"x15.5"?
Its a lottery if you blind folded yourself and pointed at the startup you work at.

You can always mitigate the risk by researching and making an educated decision about where you work. Different startups have different degrees of risk.
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Much of what you say seems reminiscent of The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Movement. Although both projects leave much to be desired in actual execution, their purported aims for moving away from our current societal framework (based on artificial scarcity, money-market economics, etc.) is rather commendable.
It's difficult to explore this question without being accused of racism, but I'd like to better understand why some cultures are so much more economically successful than others. The Chinese are such a great example of this. Wherever they go, they seem to end up being very successful. For example, in the Philippines it's claimed that Chinese are 1% of the population, but control 60% of the economy (http://opinion.inquirer.net/31223/ethnic-chinese-dominate-ph...).
You meant Mailbox, though Google's Inbox followed with that waiting line model.
That's a though question as there are always exceptions to the rule but generally I would be cautious in investing (money) in a company that is growing slower than its sector would allow for. However I would happy to invest time in such companies, but that's because I'm a consultant :-)
And let's not even get started on standard(?) photo sizes! Who came up with that mess?
The European Union is not bargaining as a single buyer.

There are considerable differences between the health insurance systems of EU member countries, and each of them buys their medication differently. In fact, it looks to me that the US is closer to being a one buyer than the European Union, which would first need to do a lot of harmonizing and more or less set up a United States of Europe.

Kaiser, Wellpoint and Aetna each have as many health plan members as a medium-sized European country. That's not the problem.

As far as I understand, the problem is the unavailability of generic replacement medicines in the US, clearly for IPR reasons.
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Since the Theft act of 1968 the UK has had an offence of "Going equipped for stealing" [1]

It can cover any otherwise-legal item (bolt cutters or gloves for example) if it can be shown it was for use in a theft; and with items that are made specifically for burglary or theft (a lock-snapping bar or a foil-lined shoplifting bag for example) possession alone is illegal.

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/25
> These pro-China pieces are mystifying to me. Geeks always seem to worship autocrats and dictators for whatever reason.

It's because we see the world through the lens of our relationship with our computers, and in that relationship, we are dictators. We tell the computer what to do, and it just does it. It never asks for more vacation time or complains when we push it to its physical limits. In those cases where it doesn't do what we told it, 99% of the time the reason is because we phrased the request wrong. Then we look at democracy and start thinking, man, how inefficient all this taking into account other peoples' needs and principles and desires is!

When you start thinking of the world as a computer, it's not a giant leap to think that the solution to all its problems is just to give someone out there root privileges.
> Everyone I have ever known or seen that goes on one of those bootcamp style exercise programs loses dramatic weight. Every single person.

I've seen people lose weight, I've seen people not. Most people I've seen do it for the first time lose weight, but most of those who choose to do it and are doing it for the first time are otherwise-healthy people with high body fat.

> Everyone I have ever known or seen that went to actual bootcamp loses dramatic weight too, whether be army or marines.

Everyone I knew at the time they went to military boot camp gained weight; lost body fat though.
Yeah but in the world of BS multibillion dollar valuations this is probably still considered a fail...