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According to the article, only 30% of deals had any specific downside protection.

That means that for the most part, the investors are betting that the company is actually worth at least what they are investing in it at.
Would you prefer a less-truthful one?
People like this guy are exactly what brought Greece down to its knees. Corporations and rich individuals being able to "buy" themselves into special deals excluding the general population led to the mind-blowing amount of corruption that is the main culprit of the current crisis. Sure, why not fix it with a few more Fakelaki? Seriously, people regarding (only!) 35% of taxes as an "issue" needing to be resolved instead of just the fair share of responsibility for an education and infrastructure companies take and use for free every day make me wanna puke.
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I've met him a few times and I've seen him speak. He definitely seems to be the kind of change we need.
MSN Messenger had voice calling 2 years before Skype existed.

I'm not sure where you're going here other than to blindly hate. MSN Messenger's DAU and simultaneous login count was pretty impressive for the size of the Internet back then.
There's a constructive dismissal lawsuit if I've ever seen one.
a civil war on Earth, it would negate a lot of firmly held beliefs by some communities. Even secular groups might consider it imperative to stop any further contact.
As much as I would like to be enthralled by such technology, it seems we have hardly progressed at all in the last 10 years wrt 3D web technology. For example, look at this demo of VRML shader technology which is 9 years old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFz7-RbGV8s

Now, where are the game changers?
Part of the long to-do list of features includes:

- Trending page: To show the pics that other users are "liking" the most

- Collections: To organize your favorited pics into folders like "Landscapes", "Fashion", ect.

- Mobile website/app

It would be great to receive advice on UI/UX!
(for example, does not having a log-in feel awkward?)
what exactly does "best" mean here?

I've been using Dropbox since, well... a while, and I really appreciate the cross-platform compatibility (Linux/OS X)
Head directly to 9'58'' for the jaw dropping moment:

https://youtu.be/k7eeV9VEtsA?t=9m58s
I think it is extremely likely that hailing and renting a self driving will be much, much cheaper than owning, maintaining and insuring your own vehicle.
The wildcard is lawsuits. In theory, being one of the (say) .1% drivers on the road that is human ought to be safer than driving today, but if you do hit anybody or anything and cause any sort of significant distress you're going to be looking at a negligence lawsuit that could be wildly larger than anything we'd see today "because they shouldn't have been driving"/"because they should have been in a self-driving car".

But other wildcards could cancel that out. A law could be passed shielding humans from excessive payouts, in which case insurance could stay low. If you were demonstrated to be a safe driver by the automotive panopticon, you might still be able to get cheap insurance, although that one raises its own questions. And of course the ultimate wildcard is that they get sued out of existence entirely somehow, despite being provably safer at some point.
Can your analogy really scale to hundreds of billions of dollars?
Now, why would mere asylum-seekers be snatched from the street by a mixed team of American and Egyptian staff?

Anyway, what about my other charge, where you were implying that all extraditions from the UK to the US were political in nature? It's a bit rich to accuse others of not fact-checking when you're playing fast and loose with the truth yourself.
Run, don't walk, and read Clifford Simak's _Construction Shack_.

There's a pretty crappy but readable copy here: http://lingualeo.com/pt/jungle/construction-shack-by-cliffor...
Agreed, depending on how paranoid you are. The server serving the .asc file over SSL could still be compromised (among other things). Similarly you are unable ascertain that recipient's private key isn't compromised either, or recipient is forced to decrypt, et cetera.
It's a fun thought experiment. I've had a similar one, imagining an alternate cold war with the divergent point being the mid 60's Mariner probe visit to Mars revealed canals, cities, vegetation, and a shallow ocean.

A city on Ceres would make NASA's budgetary woes go away instantly. Either there would be a new space race, or the various spacefaring nations would quickly make an arrangement for a multinational crew to visit, with each nation (or group like the EU) reserving the right to make claims later. I'm not sure how the public would react. I think they'd be glued to the news, but there wouldn't be any sort of panic, since both science and science fiction has led many people to expect finding this sort of thing one day.
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Not sure what you mean, seniority is downside protection. To quote the article:

"Acquisition Protection Terms

Liquidation protection over common stock – 100%

Senior liquidation protection over other series of preferred stock - 19%"
I could take this way more seriously without the intense marketing style.
I believe so. They have (if I recall) viewed them with both visible and infrared spectrums.

(found some photos)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_%28dwarf_planet%29#/medi...
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I apologise in advance that this may not be most appropriate place to ask this question.

I am looking for a Rust tutorial. It looks like there was one, but it was deprecated in favour of 'the book'. But 'the book' doesn't seem to have a tutorial yet.

Are there any tutorial's running through how to build some small piece of working software.

I found the Golang tutorial, where you build a very basic blog extremely enjoyable. Does Rust have anything similar?

https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/

Thanks
It's really not. At the very least, by allowing an unfamiliar person into the car I've made the trip less safe for both of us, because now my attention is split between them and the road.
Did anyone else read this and think about the ending of The Stand? It's the same problem; as society scales, policing scales and problems start to arise.
I am starting to sound like a broken record, but here it goes. If you want a more complete tutorial on writing stack based virtual machines, check "The Elements of Computing Systems" and its accompanying course, http://www.nand2tetris.org/.

The book teaches you to build:

1) A CPU from basic electronics elements

2) An assembler to generate machine code

3) A bytecode VM that can be simulated and an assembler generator from the bytecode

4) A basic programming language that generates bytecode

5) An operating system using that language.

I'm midway through building the Assembler and VM myself :-).
I followed and covered Ed's career over the years at Ars, and he's a great technologist and one of the Good Guys. EFF board member, anti-DRM activist, one of those sounding the alarm on e-voting and mass surveillance. In other words, he's opposed to just about everything that Obama seems to stand for in practice (disregarding the president's rhetoric on these issues). So I have to wonder, is this one of those "keep your enemies closer" things?

Anyway, congrats(?) to Prof. Felten. Here's to hoping he can make a difference.
"[Go] is a great [ecosystem], lacking only a decent [programming language."
> Wouldn't it be wild if this led to the realization that the universe is just a big blob of computronium and that we just happen to be some emergent behavior in it?

That's essentially what Max Tegmark keeps talking about. Of course, this is all very speculative at the moment, but folks at Tegmark's level are starting to say that our current understanding seems to point in that direction.

It's still quite possible that someone will come along and show that reality is quite different after all. Things feel (and are) quite unfinished at the moment; this is very different from 19th century physics, when we thought we had reached the end of science.
Yes, interesting. Looks like for 20 bucks one can get franchise tax assessment, current filing history, etc. for any company.
And oddly enough, even if it worked as expected, in the end it's not Apple that would bail them out, it's the American taxpayer who would never have recourse to collect on taxes owed because all of these rich companies would just set up in these now-legal tax havens.
No worries. I could have guessed, if I'd paid attention to how large of an N you looked at. :)

Also, I should explicitly say thanks for sharing! It is fun reading solutions to this puzzle. Also fun to read Erlang.
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> Because you aren't that important. The cure will almost happen (or not) with or without you. The best you can likely hope for is to accelerate it. Everyone is replaceable in a job. Everyone. Parents aren't.

By this standard I'd say that children are also replaceable, and therefore so are the parents. From the society's point of view, children are a commodity.

> That actually comes off very egotistical.

I strongly disagree. I find the opposite belief, that you should prioritize yourself and a small circle around you above all other people, to be much more self-centered. And it's part of the reason the world needs fixing in the first place - because most of the people tend to focus on themselves and their families at the expense of everyone else.
The book basically has two sets of tutorials: the "Syntax and Semantics" section is a bottom-up tutorial, and the "Learn Rust" section is a project-based, more top-down one. It's true that only one chapter of Learn Rust has landed at the moment. It's basically what I'm doing right now. Should have two or three more chapters over the next few days.
The Windows 10 UI framework is resolution-independent and built-in controls are responsive. App devs have everything they need to provide a good UI for every device type. Or you can use HTML/JS.

disclaimer: I work on Windows 10
Or: Killing WindowsDesktop..WE HOPE YOU DO NOT NOTICE
That has nothing to do with Turing-completeness. There are Turing-complete languages which don't even have pointers.
Well, full translation would be "hardware support for loops, including pipelining". How exactly is pipelining implemented is not clear.
Probably flagged by 1 or 2 users. Flagging can affect the position in an exponential fashion.
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Do you know if there is any trend towards Delaware-incorporated startups including the "blank check preferred" provisions in their charter (DGCL Section 151). This would allow the Board to create new preferred shares by resolution, as opposed to placing the terms directly in the publicly-filed charter.

I am not too familiar with the industry, but if the trend is indeed to include such blank check preferred provisions, access to these terms would not be publicly available, and Fenwick may simply be drawing on its first-hand experience.
RE your edit - that's probably part of the reason it took only 12 years after Sputnik to get a man on the moon - because for people working on it this wasn't a job, this was their life. They did it for the goal itself, and not for money.
> Thought experiment: what happens next?

Oddly enough, not that much. You'll have a lot of emotion, and lots of ink spilled, but little will change for the day to day life of most people: They have their lives to worry about, aliens are cool, but don't put bread on the table.

Governments will race to get a mission with humans to visit.

What happens next depends on if there are living aliens there, or just an old city.
I haaaaate that. Arlington, Va has some, but only some, crossing that do that. Sometimes I'm waiting around for 2 cycles before I realize.
My high school algebra teacher was a really great guy, a former boxer who felt it was his Christian duty (I think he was a Jehovah's Witness) to pick up hitchhikers. His family always tried to talk him out of it, but he persisted under the theory that God would protect him. One day, we showed up in class to find a substitute teacher telling us that he had been killed by one of the hitchhikers he picked up. True story. That's a data set of size one, but still, I'd never pick up a hitchhiker.

Edit: Heh, Google... here's a doc for the murder trial: http://www.leagle.com/decision/19951341658So2d683_11297.xml/...
Interesting approach. Do you know of other marketplace models applying similar algorithmic matching frameworks?
I've never had that experience, I hitch-hiked after college in a few countries (outside the US), and I found that often people on long hauls are happy to have someone to talk to and stay engaged during the trip.

Am I saying dangerous crack-addicts don't exist? Sure they do, but the idea that you are more likely to be hurt picking up a hitch-hiker than in a convenience store, or by another driver is completely without evidence.
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The article does actually talk about this.

> Unless Apple starts building cars -- or perhaps spaceships -- it will keep accumulating cash.

Their point is that Apple has so much cash (coupled with an MO of not casting a wide net in new product efforts) that they will never spend it all on R&D.
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Not tied up enough that it isn't apparently reported as cash. It's an interesting question, though, and maybe an accountant might chime in: when is corporate cash NOT cash? Where is the line drawn?
Another way to value these Unicorns is to look at common stock sold on the secondary markets which has no preference attached. Based on the deal flow I see, I am guessing Pinterest could sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of common at 8 or 9 billion in valuation. I think a new preferred round would be in the low teens billions for them. So some discount but not a huge one.
There are ways to fix that, but I could never get Martin interested in my exclusive inheritance proposals. In particular, only one trait should be allowed to "implement" an abstract method in an object, although typical overriding is still unrestricted. It does require a new keyword (implement vs. override). As for overriding, traits could be ordered globally based on extension relationships and other fixed markers (e.g. Names).
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Yes, they are in Java 8, though you can't implement an interface for an existing class in Java, so it's not quite a trait.
There are several problems with this concept, the first of which has been mentioned several times - that rich entities not paying tax is one of the root problems in Greece in the first place.

Other problems include that laws can always be amended. A law is only as hardy as your next election, and once Greece gets the money, you have no further leverage. We saw that happen at the last election, with the current government throwing out the previous government's solution to the problem.

Another issue is that without significant reform of government and some changes in society, Greece will end up in exactly the same place if it goes back to 'business as usual' - something which would be very easy to do if bailed out by an entity that has no future leverage.

Similarly, first-world countries with decent economies are doing their utmost to reverse the trend of tax havens, and if Greece did this, they would suffer politically in other ways as a result.

Edit: And then, of course, there is the question: Why would Apple spend $100B to secure a tax haven for themselves? Not only are there already quite a few tax havens to choose from, including in Europe, but if they turned around and decided to pay their fair share of domestic taxes, it'd take quite a while before their tax load would match their $100B in cash. Who knows what the world would look like then?
I agree, that would be more useful and I too would rather it was the other way 'round but unfortunately, that's not how things work.

The people who have the political cloud and the numbers to drive policy aren't necessarily the ones with the best understanding of the issues.
Is the wisdom of not leaving your things alone in a cafe unattended also a ridiculous culture of fear & distrust?

I hitch & pick up some hitchhikers (except the ones who haven't showered in years), but it seems a simple matter of fact that hitchhiking makes you more vulnerable on both sides of the deal. I don't think it's wrong to consider the risks.

Also if we are to compare statistics, the article puts forward 0.04 murders per day related to hitchhiking in California. Ok, well there's 7.7 traffic fatalities per day in California. But how many people drive on the road each day, vs. how many people hitchhike?

If there were 1 million cars on the road in California each day, there would have to be 5,200 hitchhikers each day for "risk parity" for the two activities. That is, choosing to drive your car or choosing to hitchhike would be equally risky. If there are less hitchhikers per day than that, it is more dangerous than driving- if there are more, it is less dangerous than driving.

The point being that while hitchhiking is not the nation's biggest source of violence, the risk is not as small as the article tries to paint.
> It happens. That is, in fact, the explicit point of controlled inflation.

Apple's cash is subject to the same effect
I guess my ultimate point is that _everything_ is a colliding term in some way, with some language. Rust isn't C, so you can't assume that things map 1:1 to C.

Names are hard.
You will need type inference if you want any sort of non local communication...e.g. variables that hold different values or functions. But ya, if your language is just pure trees with no names or symbol tabkes, you don't need it; not very useful, however.
Your can downvote me for days but that won't make your statements correct. In the 2000 Bay Area Travel Survey, driving was a minority share of trips for people in the bottom income quintile. Walking, biking, transit, riding as passengers in cars, and "other" are 50% more popular than driving.
> If you can't prioritize (what should be) the most important of your personal relationships above what you want to do, it's unlikely that the real reason you working is because you have a surplus of love for the world.

Is having a surplus of love for the world a bad thing? I believe a lot of problems would solve themselves if we have more. Also, relationships are also something you want to do, you aren't forced into them at gunpoint.

Also the answer as it seems (without the context we don't know for sure) was dickish, but I wouldn't call it selfish. Just incredibly rude.
X.509 is de facto controlled by every major intelligence agency in the world, which is obviously worse than just one.

And the "X.509 cleanup effort" you refer to (really several entirely separate initiatives) has basically no chance of disentangling CAs from governments. Certificate pinning is the only piece that can gain traction without explicit support of governments (except cheap/free CAs, which solve a different problem). That's great for things you use all the time from a single device, but otherwise useless.
Hold on...are they talking about extending Greece a loan or simply paying of it debts in return for said benefits?

The problem with a loan is that loans need to be repaid, and Greece seems unwilling to take the kind of internal reforms needed to generate enough revenue to pay back loans.

The issue has never been the willingness of others to extend Greece a bailout - it has been the unwillingness of Greece to accept the kinds of conditions attached to such bailouts. If Greece was willing and able to commit to the right kinds of internal reforms, then I am sure that Germany and other countries would be quite happy to extend another bailout. No-one (in the EU at least) wants to see Greece collapse.

On the other hand, simply giving away $200B for the kind of sweetheart tax deal that is usually achieved simply by gracing a country with the presence of a multinational headquarters (bestowing employment, secondary industries and prestige), seems to be insanely bad business. I mean, even if they wanted to bribe their way in, would it not be far more effective to bribe politicians a few tens of $M rather than an entire country $200B?
The article has numbers.

> Non-financial American firms hold $1.73 trillion in cash (...), and $1.1 trillion of that belongs to the 50 biggest companies

Yes, American companies hold a lot of cash, but almost all of it is concentrated in the relatively few huge companies.
I hitchhiked down the east coast of Australia. I had about 6 rides. In at least 4 of them the driver was drinking. I had beers in each so they wouldn't have them. In one car the guy in the passenger seat wasn't driving because he was banned (for drink driving) yet both he and the driver were drinking cans of rum and coke. They'd drink a can, scrunch it and then lop it out the open window before cracking open another. In another truck the guy was having beers whilst driving pulling another car.

In one car the guy said he was stopping for a pee. We pulled off the road, down another road, down another, into a wood. He then stopped the car. I was worried. He got out, too a pee and then off we went again.

Everyone was very nice and we all had fun.
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If we can require all self-driving cars to take orders from a central authority, we can do some pretty amazing things:

- Most traffic problems are a result of human (over)caution and poor merging technique. A centrally coordinated system of self-driving cars are perfectly aware of each other's intentions and could run much smaller safety margins, as well as make lane/exit access perfectly equitable. The effective carrying capacity of highways would increase immensely, and traffic jams would be a thing of the past.

- 100% of cars on the same coordination system would also allow us to do away with most stoplights, as it could simply modulate speed so that intersections are always running in both directions, but cars never collide. (This could be overridden for pedestrian crossings, and wouldn't be much of a benefit in the city, but in places that are already pedestrian-hostile - i.e. most of Real America - it wouldn't make things much worse and pedestrians would be pretty rare.)
Of course, it's worth considering that if there was an inhabited alien city on Ceres, the chances of them not knowing we were here would be nil.

So, alternative (a): they know we're here and for some reason don't want us to know about them.

Alternative (b): they know we're here but either don't care / are too alien to want to communicate.

Alternative (c): the city is uninhabited.

I would say that the most immediate reaction on earth would be shouting, initially at each other, but very quickly people would be shouting at Ceres --- everyone who can do some basic electronics and get hold of a satellite dish will be making transmissions. For alternatives (b) and (c) above, we wouldn't get a reply. For (a), well...
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