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Spending $300 - $400 dollars a month with the idea that you wont have surprises in terms of your 'brand new' transportation is a fallacy. I've seen new cars back in the dealership often times more frequently than used cars with 100k on the clock. Although you may not have to 'pay' for the repairs it is still the inconvenience that you'll have associated with a rental car and the time lost.

As another commenter pointed out, these guys posses a skill, it's not just about free time. And the skill can be acquired or bought just like most other skills. Some basic education on how to buy a used car and what to look for can save you big $$$, I wrote about how I pick up sub $5000 cars and why financially it almost never makes sense to buy a new car here: http://www.tropicalmba.com/entrepreneurmobile/

Most cars have a sweet spot in terms of maintenance cost and depreciation. You don't have to go down to the $5000 if you aren't comfortable there. Problem is however that comfort for most uneducated used car buyers is relative and mostly not related to the actual condition of the vehicle. Most people think newer is more reliable. While in many instances that can be the case, IMO it certainly doesn't justify the price that comes with it.

For many buyers a good window to consider is 2-6 years old. The vehicle will still be going through it's depreciation cycle (so you will be paying for that) but will generally have somewhere between 20-100k miles on it. In most modern vehicles you probably won't have to repair anything major during a 2-4 year ownership period depending on where your car is in the cycle.

It's a good idea to have an ownership timeline for your purchase. I personally like to drive something different every year or two. I know most people like to set it and forget it. Either way, having a plan for ownership length is an important part of the equation and can help you to factor depreciation and mitigating risk.

Finally. The Japanese and Germans still build the best vehicles unless you want a truck. It's very unpatriotic but save yourself the headache and don't buy an american car. It's really easy to try and argue this one until you try and remember the last time you saw a mid- nineties Ford Taurus on the road. Same can't be said for a Civic.. The resale prices will corroborate here as well, you may be tempted to jump into a $6000 2008 Chevy Malibu... it's a trap! Poor build quality and low resale potential make these very bad choices.
It's well known that ISPs work in conjunction with labels / publishers / whatever to send these kinds of letters. Example: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1181838&sta...

It's automated, and in the case of my ISP, they even call your house.

They're still magnet links. You're not even getting content on TPB.

EDIT: Use a blocklist, require encryption. That should help.
Hi Animats - thanks for noticing. We know we still have a bug with stealth mode but decided to launch anyway. Will be fixed by tomorrow.
I think that load balancing is a perfectly legitimate reason to use javascript, particularly if you're on a shared server with limited resources.
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Silly question, but where's the "plain net/http" benchmark? I haven't found a case where I've missed having an http framework.

Would be interesting to see what the baseline is.
Well, I guess my argument is completely blown out of the water because they peaked at 17% (I guess 17 is not near 20...) instead of 18-19%, and averaged around a couple of percentage points lower. Hardly a "pretty big exaggeration".

It doesn't change the fact that mortgages, regardless of the percentage rate, were still not 'easy' back then. The smaller mortgages were not being paid off with today's rates and today's pay packets. They also had fewer flexibility features (things like redraw or offset accounts).
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This looks great, congratulations.

That said, the one takeaway I got from exploring your site is that almost all the interesting movies that I picked were only available to rent for $5 or buy for over $15. I'm not even in the US, but those prices seem a little far-fetched for watching a movie at home. Netflix has been a step in the right direction but as the studios wake up to this model, it seems the catalogues are becoming fragmented making it cost-prohibitive for consumers to buy multiple subscriptions.
Depending on how you calculate purchasing power, it did go up by that (and more) in the last 300 years.
As any effort banks make to shift their zero risk assets to cash won't go unnoticed by the ECB, there's also the implied risk that any bank going to the effort of acquiring unusually large piles of cash to avoid negative interest on reserves, will be subject to other direct or indirect financial penalties.

I'd still expect banks' cash holdings to rise substantially at the margin, where that risk is pretty low, but its existence means it probably wouldn't economically rational for any bank to try to evade the interest on reserves even if their cost of holding cash was zero.
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You're getting downvoted because you miss the point. You want the web to cater to you, and big companies with infinite resources will, but smaller companies just won't. The cost to support users such as you is just not worth it, you're too small of a segment. People are going to focus their design + resources on the 99% of users who have decided they want the web to work properly.

I mean, shit, lots of startups completely eschew IE support, and they're a way more significant portion of the market than the neckbeards who disable javascript.
Most companies only focus on perimeter defense and are soft bellies once opened up or to an internal job #sonylearning

And as long as it is not practice to sue companies and Cxx for negligence when they do not internally protect the data (no unencrypted data at rest) this will not change.
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That article is very negative on the whole idea and is short on facts of the experiment and long on conclusions.

One point it made that had me thinking was that it would be impossible to cover enough of the population because the poverty line is so close to median income.

Well, what if we didn't cover everyone? What if we picked areas that are having a particularly rough time and used a negative income tax to prime the pump?
Everywhere I look, I see possibilities for massive efficiency improvements, but there just aren't enough resources to do anything but a half assed job.

Most of it is just design. A big portion is software.

Let's take an example.

Say, if the public transportation could be improved not with brute force, but with more elegance, comfort and intelligence, then massive savings could be realized.

My country doesn't manufacture appreciable amounts of automobiles. It also doesn't produce oil. Few developed countries produce oil.

So using cars for transportation leaks out large amounts of capital.

We have trams in my city, but the network of tracks is so old and unsophisticated that the trams must drive extremely slowly in many places, to avoid slamming intersections or curves. Some foreign tram models break constantly.

This doesn't only have the effect of making you sit in the tram longer from A to B, it also means that for a fixed amount of trams and drivers, they will pass the stops less frequently, meaning you have to wait longer before you can even get on board, and the throughput capacity of the lines is less too.

And the ride is quite noisy, bumpy and can feel stressful. But the views are beautiful, and it doesn't generate exhaust. It feels like a natural part of the city. If a tram rolls by, it doesn't make an aggressive sound like a thundering bus, it rolls with a gentle rumble, sometimes ringing bells.

So you could improve the functionality of the city by fixing a lot of these problems.

Some other parts of infrastructure have even regressed. Siemens was supposed to automate the subway system. They managed to just make the arrival time displays at the stations unreliable (that had been working just fine, probably since the metro started around 1982) and waste millions before the city board finally mustered enough courage to fire them.

So we have a huge amount of medium and even very low level technological advancement ahead of us, with large payoffs.
Rankine documented spiral curves for tracks in 1862.

And don't get me started on healthcare IT.
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Looks great! How does it load so fast!! I am more amazed with the page load. Can you share any secret sauce ?
Most traders would pick the optimal instrument to express their view which could end up being bond futures or ETFs but not always.
> To me, the fact that it could only do that by sharing was a downside… I don't want to freeride, I want to pay.

FTFY
When I click through to iTunes from (e.g.) 2001: A Space Odyssey the pricing is different than listed on the site ($9.99 vs. $14.99).

EDIT: Also, the title on the detail page is "How the Solar System Was Won (1968)" which, IMDB lists as a "working title." To be fair, this looks like the first entry in the "Also Known As" section of the IMDB release info page[1] that has a country of "USA".

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/releaseinfo
I agree with all of that. I think this site has a lot of value as an aggregator. It doesn't solve the Popcorn Time problem though because it doesn't make legally streaming movies easy. It just makes them easier to find them. That's not the same. It feels too much like they're trying to ride the wave of Popcorn time's success despite having very little in common.

My main point in writing the critique is just that if you invite a comparison between your product and another you should make sure that they're actually comparable and that yours will come out on top. Otherwise you'll turn what could have been a warm reception into a cold one.
Simple: use put.io.
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I'd just do pointer-chasing through the file, xored with the initial hash each time.

I.e. out = hash xor data[hash] xor data[hash xor data[hash]] ...

Alternative phrasing: out_n = data[hash xor out_(n-1)] xor out_(n-1), where out_1 = data[hash] xor hash

"Random" accesses throughout the file - not the easiest to run in parallel.

(That being said, I haven't checked to see if this is breakable)
Maybe 5-6 years ago I bought tgood.com for $300, negotiated down from $3,000. In 2014 I sold it to TGOOD Electric Co. out of China – their market cap at the time was ~$7B and a co-founder messaged me via Facebook. I was set on never selling it; that TGOOD was to become my VIRGIN brands. Over the years I tested different blog concepts on it. However, their offer was one I couldn't refuse and has provided a nice personal runway. My cousins law firm handled the dialog and it took 3-4 months from start to finish… since this nickname was originated by my birth name, I gave my parents about a third of the proceeds.
This looks awesome, and I immediately started to try to build one as a gift for my girlfriend, but I don't have a facebook account.
If you are ever unfortunate enough to be unemployed in California, and claim unemployment benefits, they print your social security number right at the top of every correspondence. Idiotic.
If you got less than $20k for your "internship" you got ripped off and they got their money's worth and then some.
Unity Health Insurance which is localized to Wisconsin -- run by the UW Hospitals. It's far better.

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

https://unityhealth.com/

edit: I had group insurance with Unity for like 8 years. Never once had a scrap of paper to review or a bill to squabble over; everything always covered. Now I'm on a group plan for Anthem and I almost choked when I received the summary of benefits which was greatly reduced in scope.

I guess I had it good.
Nice job! Where do you get the posters printed?
Some of the insights/recommendations from Peopleware

* Programmers work better in quiet

* Companies should not let facilities management design office spaces for programmers (with guidelines on a recommended office layout)

* Make a promotion path to a "Free Electron" -- a programmer trusted to find important work in the company and do it (unattached to a team)

* Programmers should now work in a semi-distracted state (open social media/IM)

* Get rid of telephones on programmer desks

I reread it last year and I was mostly thinking that it must be frustrating to work somewhere where management isn't influenced by Peopleware.
Or just pay your mechanic to change that freaking belt so you don't have to guess if it's worn out or not.
> I find it interesting that that article highlights exactly why the historical systems described as polycentric legal systems (which are not, in any meaningful sense, a "free market of laws") tend toward natural monopoly and solidification into state law, apparently without realizing it, stating that defectors from such a system "would then have to either accept the jurisdiction of its courts or suffer ostracism from the community of law-abiding folk."

Huh? Law is enforced whether polycentric or monopolistic. I don't see what that has to do with the evolution of monopolistic statutory law.
This sounds good, but if it's still going to lock all of my files behind a proprietary and obscure file structure -- and metadata library -- that totally get borked whenever I try to have some other app access them, then it's no better off than iPhoto.

If they managed to keep whatever file structure I have them in intact, and still keep the metadata/library abstracted from the file structure, then I might have more hope for it.
I know a number of friends who hear the sticker price and think my decision to acquire a Nissan LEAF electric car is an expensive and ridiculous luxury. They're both wrong and right for the same reasons the OP's friend is wrong and right.

At the time I bought my car, one study had shown the LEAF as the second cheapest total cost of ownership of all US-sold automobiles after the Toyota Yaris. My own research showed their electric cost assumptions didn't factor in off-peak rates at one-third of normal costs. Even with today's low gas prices, some new electric cars' TCOs can compare favorably against their gas competitors.

On the other hand, privilege has to factor in. Range anxiety doesn't matter if you have money. I've never run out of electricity and I can afford to be late to appointments if needed. I can afford the uncertainty of being an early adopter in a cold weather state with fewer chargers because I have alternatives available if needed.

Electric cars will become a no-brainer for cost sensitive people in future as ranges increase and used ones become more available. However, my decision only makes sense with some level of privilege.
You can use a VPN from the UK and it works well - there are others around, but I use hola on Chrome and Firefox and it works pretty well, for free - http://hola.org/
Thanks Solomon! Great to be working with you and lots of other nice folks in the ecosystem. :)
nah, still need to use opengl when using SDL, to make a projection matrix, VBO, all those fun things.
One feature which I believe is distinctly available only in Perl 6 is it's grammar feature. ( think class/method based regular expressions that look similar to BNF )

As an example look at this Perl 6 grammar for JSON: https://github.com/moritz/json/blob/master/lib/JSON/Tiny/Gra...

Perl 6's best feature is that it combines many features from many languages in a way that allows combining them cleanly, and without any of them feeling like they were glommed on. (unlike Perl 5's object system which was inspired by Python's object system)

If you can get past the syntax differences from other languages, and program in it for a while, you may never want to go back to any other language.

If you can't get past the syntax, please say that you "don't like the syntax" instead of "it's unreadable" or "it's a write-only language" or "it's difficult to learn". ( I for one found it quite easy to learn, and can read it quickly. )

---

Really can you make all of the following examples clearer in any other single language?

constant powers-of-two = 2,4,8 ... *; # an infinite deductive list

# perhaps that would be more clear as:
constant powers-of-two = 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ... *;

# list of pairs using the zip meta-operator (Z)
# combined with the pair constructor operator (=>)
my @a = 'a'..'z' Z=> 0..*; # ( a => 0, b => 1, etc )
my $new-password = ('a'..'z','A'..'Z',0..9).roll(12).join; # 'ygHIHbi4XgUV'

# the zero in the following is to prevent an off-by-one error
# when accessing by index
# * + * creates a code ref that takes two inputs and numerically adds them together
constant fibonacci-list = 0, 1, 1, * + * ... *;

# takes about a second the first time it's accessed currently
say fibonacci-list[10000].chars == 2090;

# if you wanted it to look more like haskell you could write it like this:
constant fibonacci-list = 0, 1, 1, &[+] ... *;

my @dice-rolls := ('⚀'..'⚅').roll(*); # infinite list of dice rolls

# deck of cards using the cross meta-operator (X)
# and the string concatenation operator (~)

my @deck = 2..10,<J Q K A> X~ <♡ ♢ ♣ ♠>;

my @shuffled = @deck.pick(*);

# ( .say ) is short for ( $_.say )
# prints the first 6 numbers (0..5) each on it's own line
for ^6 { .say }

# prints the numbers 0..5 each on it's own line,
# possibly randomized,
# possibly each in it's own thread ( texas version )

(0..^6)>>.say;
(^6)».say; # ditto ( french version )

# ( those were purposefully misusing an auto-threading list operator >> )

# says a random number (1..5), 5 times out of 6
if (0..5).pick -> $number { say $number }
if (0..5).pick { say $^number } # ditto

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That was just a sampling of the bread-and-butter constructs (some of which were used in a way that most people wouldn't use them). There are also operators for dealing with Sets for example. ( ⋃ and (elem) being two of them )

see: http://doc.perl6.org/

You can even create new operators the same way you define a subroutine ( That's all they are in the Rakudo implementation, for most of them. )

# common factorial example
sub postfix:<!> ( Int \n where * >= 0 ) is tighter(&infix:<*>) { [*] 1..n }
say 5!; # 120
I'm just wondering, how well is the influence of frame stiffness on racing performance studied and understood?

I have no personal experience in this matter, but recently I was reading some random stuff on the 'net and I found these guys swearing by flexible steel tubing:

https://janheine.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/science-and-bicycl...

https://janheine.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/what-is-planing/

I don't know what to think about this.
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Infinite scroll is broken, fyi. It starts back at the very beginning when the first batch comes in.
I've never heard one way or the other whether it is or not; I'd be curious to see some data.
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Nice product, though
Well done leaking our German site... okay, wasn't hidden too hard :)

As for the aggregation, it's much deeper and more interesting than the simple surface will make you think. We've handbuilt a massive, distributed crawler framework in Golang just for this purpose. Will surely share more on our engineering blog as time passes!
It's easier still for a business to pay for a support contract, contributing to Canonical's revenue. Perhaps they could send a small fraction of that money to projects like GPG.
Quantum tunneling can only happen over a very short range, on the order of the de Broglie wavelength for the particle, which will be a subatomic distance for interesting neutron energies. They are measuring neutrons that pass through/around metres of material, so tunneling is unimportant.
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As a related aside, it's often possible that the software you want exists. It's extremely tiresome and boring and frankly awful to weed through and try them all out.

As an example, I tried to find some good RC helicopter simulator software recently. Horrendous. Top scoring links are talking about software from the 90s. Stuff like that.

Solve that issue and you'll probably do really well.
Aren't these generally dumped on the person paying?
Do you mind sharing the process behind printing and shipping the posters? I've been wondering how that process works. Do you just send orders to a printing company and let them take care of the shipping too?
> AFAIK Ubuntu is profitable for Canonical, so I wouldn't call that a donation.

Unfortunately, that is very far from true.

Ubuntu was negative $21 million USD in 2013[1]. Canonical would literally make money by just not doing Ubuntu anymore.[2]

(Every time Canonical is on the verge of bankruptcy, Shuttleworth re-seeds back into the company from his personal checkbook)

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/199373896/Canonical-Group-Limited-...

(the numbers are represented in thousands, so 21,343 is 21,343,000)

[2] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/13/mark-shuttlew...

The significant losses due to Ubuntu development and related expenses are why Canonical as-of-late has been turning focus away from Ubuntu towards other markets such as Mobile and especially Enterprise (a la Red Hat's turf).
You not only have HA cluster, you can also do some load-balancing - this way you have two cars with 30k miles on each instead of just one car with 60k :)
Just basic math - which one setup will depreciate faster?
This article claims that $222k was the budget for 2012 for Debian, down at the bottom. It also claims the budget should be $19B, if paid at market rates.

http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/what-is-the-development-costs-o...
"Pay it forward" means to grant a favor or gift on a random person, in remembrance of one who did a favor for you before. The idea is to initiate a chain of favors and gifts to brighten the world in general.

It's a play on words though, by analogy with "Pay it back" which is returning a favor to one who did a favor for you first (like paying back a debt). In the case of large distros being heavily reliant on GPG and other upstream projects, I think the applicable term here is "pay it back".

Upstream developers helped out Debian, et al, and now Debian needs to pay those developers back. Arguably, by gifting their distros to the world at large, they're already "paying it forward".
Why buy a car that hasn't been maintained? The difference in cost between and inspection and replacement is not chump change.
Dear Grandma,

It is very simple to setup a RAID 1 NAS and an offsite backup. Now that you are retired you have time to read the manuals and setup a cron job from terminal. You will be glad you expended the time and can relax in knowing the pictures of your cat are safe. You will also need to use encryption if you wish to communicate with me further.

Love Jimmy
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Imagine if you went to buy a used car from Craigslist:

Q: Who drove this car?

A: Oh, whatever random people wanted to pay me money.

Q: What kind of maintenance did you do?

A: The bare minimum to get it to last a year.

Q: What options did you get?

A: The lowest ones the manufacturer would sell us.

Does that appeal?
Extremely few. 99%+ of your bottleneck will be in template rendering or DB access. Routing is so fast as to not matter for even "large" web applications.
What are you talking about? I never said this was "doxing"; I know there was no reveal. I was referring to the definition of "doxing" which I felt didn't fit.

Did you read the comments completely? If Randi, Anita, and Brianna weren't anonymous but they were "doxed" it seems to me that "doxing" doesn't have to refer to revealing info of an anonymous person.