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> even though your bank makes loans, the money in your deposit is still there and available whenever you want

This is definitely not true. If everyone asks for their money at once, the money won't be there because most of it has been loaned out. That's a bank run.

> How does a wildly varying money multiplier fit in with your story?

Over three decades, it looks pretty stable to me. The multiplier also varies based on the amount people want to hold in cash (I'm getting this from Krugman's book), because that's how money leaks out of the deposit->loan cycle. That could easily vary a non-trivial amount over 30 years. The most recent period where the multiplier is less than one I will grant is weird. The Fed has started paying interest on reserves, and banks are more wary post-recession, so they've started accumulating a huge amount of excess reserves: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCSRESNS.

> there a countries where the reserve requirement is zero

Obviously, the ratio that matters is not the legal minimum reserve requirement, but the actual effective reserve ratio. A bank has to keep a certain amount of reserves to keep their business running. The legal requirement is just to make sure that the amount they keep on hand is prudent. There's also the aforementioned leakage of money out of the deposit->loan cycle via currency held by the public, which can reduce the money multiplier further.

The rest of your post gives some good reasons that the real world doesn't work quite like the mainstream theory. It sounds like you're explaining an endogenous money theory; do you have any suggested references for further reading?
It must be clear, at least to those who understand, that no democracy can exist with two laws to govern the same act. One for the people and one for those in power. It comes as a sad conclusion that the UK is in actuality truly an oligarchy. It is not only time to see how long it takes the population to realize how horrible that is.
Velocity only works if your project is large enough to have stable measures of velocity, but, really, it takes multiple project executions in a stable environment to get it right. That's not to say it can't be done, just that, under the conditions where it does work, you probably have smooth-running projects anyway.
I've had the exact opposite experience (i.e. getting downvotes for saying something in defense of the government). I think political threads tend to lean in one direction pretty quickly. I usually check HN after getting home from work, at which point most threads have already been going on for several hours. At that point, if a thread doesn't already have discussion from multiple sides by then, I don't bother commenting. I feel like at that point you're only going to get downvotes for disagreeing.
I sincerely doubt any diet rich in (reasonably fatty, reasonably "unprocessed") meat would show a Vitamin A deficiency, unless too much of such plant matter as hampers bioavailability and absorption is consumed concurrently.

Of course, a diet sufficient in (decent) meat is precisely what the world's poorest can't quite afford. But just to pick nits.
Secret today is no longer hidden. It is simply undisclosed. And with our countless tweets and posts on fb, do we really look for these things? How many other laws were passed in such ways.
Still, the quote from David Cameron almost suggest an extra-legal approach, and definitely insinuates increased spying on it's own citizens. The whole "terrorists propaganda" issue could be dealt with by introducing new laws, as things should go in a rule-of-law, perhaps one which classifies certain groups as hate-groups and bans the promotion of their ideals, I believe similar laws exist in many places in Europe.
It totally depends on what you're doing with your software; different tasks map better or worse to the respective paradigms, depending on what you're trying to do.

Static typing certainly makes it easier to maintain large systems, but it's certainly not a requirement.

You can certainly write entire systems in Lisp; people have made entire computers in order to run Lisp in hardware; there have been operating systems etc.

Moreover, you don't really need to use it for whole systems; use it where it works. There need not be One True Language.

At the moment, Clojure is used in production at Netflix, Twitter, Amazon, Akamai, etc etc etc.
> The big winners are the big corporations world-wide, because they know how to play the game or at least how to pay the people who know.

It even goes beyond that. The corporations use policies that benefit them to enrich themselves. Some of that enrichment can then be paid out to the politician. What do ordinary citizens do with policies that benefit them? For the most part, they just live their lives in peace. Even when those policies make the people wealthier, it is much harder for the politician to get paid because the new wealth is so disbursed.

Really, it's just the market interacting with the politics. I have come to believe that, far from being natural allies (as is commonly held), democracy and market economics are actually quite incompatible for this reason.
It would have done this had it been posted recently. Instead, you are allowed to repost articles every few months.
Yep, that's also my observation.
Unfortunately that solves nothing. Banning something has never done anything but push it underground. It's the equivalent of taking pain killers to cure cancer.

The biggest problem we face in Western society is the proliferation of extremist conservative agendas in the halls of power. The only way to solve all the issues we face with extremism whether it be in the guise of Western conservatism, Islamism, Neo-Liberalism or anything other toxic ideology is to focus on tolerance and education. Western foreign policy (colonialism) over the past centuries has created the situation we find ourselves in. When you create the conditions for cancer to prosper then you have to deal with the consequences. Instead of altering our policies we double up on them and then wonder why people hate us. We create conditions where people have nothing to lose (for example Iraq/Syria) and their only options are to fall back into impulsive/conformist organizational structures because that gives them some sort of security and purpose. Too many people have been ostracized by the contemporary world and we do nothing to help them, instead our political policy is to kick them while they are down.

In my mind what David Cameron represents is as toxic as what ISIS represent however since it affects me much more in my daily life I would say it is a far greater danger to my way of life than ISIS will ever be.
Since Lisp in many variants (Common Lisp, for example) does have static type checking [1], that argument is not very strong.

For some examples of systems built on Lisp: Emacs, Hacker News, Paul Graham's startup Viaweb, the original Reddit.

[1]: http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Type-Errors-at-Compile-Time
These are good points. I believe that if you have a few critical apps with a reasonable load and need to scale beanstalk is the way to go. Otherwise you're just getting into managing your own PaaS infrastructure for what? For nothing.

If you've got a bunch of small one-off services you deploy all the time and want a bit better density and an nicer deploy story, then sure do up a small CoreOS or ECS cluster. Or maybe you're very large and your resource requirements so high that having tons of spare capacity around to run up containers in makes sense.
I assumed he meant he wrote Java that looked like (i.e. was idiomatically similar to) C or Lisp.
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The original link is at: http://samy.pl/combobreaker/
My idea: charge karma for a downvote: 1 down vote = lose one karma point UNLESS they reply to the person they downvoted.
Yes, I am aware. I didn't say that GCC wasn't necessary. Performance does matter. However, if he had a better Lisp then as Moore's Law advanced over the past 3 decades, Lisp could have become more common. Emacs Lisp is slow and it's also not a standard like Common Lisp or Scheme.

We'd all agree C isn't as necessary today. Lots of great stuff is done in Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Clojure, etc. Developers are building editors in browsers (atom.io) and Microsoft used atom with 200k of Typescript in their new cross-platform tools.
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That's pretty standard for phones of this size, unfortunately.
Obviously I don't know if he's right or wrong, but that Q&A he did with Isaac Chotiner was hilarious

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
This is a band-aid solution to a widely acknowledged problem.

But the entire concept of startup culture actively embraces the hive-mentality/cool-kids-know-best mindset so I doubt the actual problem will ever be fixed.

But sure, keep posting the same stockholm-esque defensive comments.
Who decides what misuse is?
Ok, so you're talking about a hypothetical non-fiat currency, rather than the one that's actually used. If you'd made that clear at the start, there wouldn't have been so much misunderstanding.

I should note that money didn't "just emerge". The reason money from the Roman Empire, for example, became so popular, even outside the empire, was because it was government backed. Outside the empire, people traded goods and would just use bits of gold or silver to trade, which suffered from massive fraud (mixing with base metals).

> Is that supposed to be an argument against something I said? You'll have to explain how.

Yes, it's an argument against the bit I quoted. That people would stop working because they saw others living on BI. I'm not going to stop working because I can do a lot better than BI, even working part time. Especially if it's started low, at $30 a week.
So he thinks emails can't be spied on. He doesn't mention which computer runs the email wget-like program, but if it's traceable to him, then it's trackable, or if the email isn't encrypted at any step. He doesn't mention using PGP for that, and without that it's likely that the emails are in plain-text.

About DRM: he seems to say that if you can break it, it's ok to use it, even if it's unfree. Also, is Netflix breakable? I don't use it myself, but I was once told you can rip the movies with some programs.
Sorry i don't see this exactly as an insult, yes there is quite a bit of abnormality in there probably with a slight touch of insanity, if you fail to see that well that's your problem, not every thing is criticism, some are just observations.
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>As an alternative, I wouldn't be disappointed if the threshold for greying out was reduced to -3 or so. And full death at -10?

I think this would go a long way toward resolving people's negative attitudes toward downvotes. The fact that one errant idiot could grey out your post and make it harder for others to read is a bit too far IMO.
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It says that he had been telling people about these security holes for years and without effect, so he probably felt that actually doing it on a real plane would.

If his statements are true, then it would be far better him doing it and potentially endangering people, causing manufacturers to fix their planes very quickly, than a terrorist doing it and actually causing some serious damage.
My gut feeling is that if you really want security in C, you have fewer constructs to misuse and so you get less unexpected behaviour. At the same time, you get more protection mechanisms; guard pages etc. I.e. harder to be secure, but if you really want to harden, you can get harder than in higher level languages.

I'm not putting any kind of weight behind that, though; I just feel that it's a bit odd for people (not specifically meaning you, just the whole thread) to criticise this purely on language choice and not put any substance behind their criticisms that actually relate to the software in question.
"Criticism" might be too lofty a word for your accusations of "abnormality" and "insanity" in this level-headed personal page. Please reconsider the value of sharing your subjective and uncharitable "observations."
People were having this conversation before you joined HN under this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683#up_658691
I'll try and keep an eye out for the blog post - I'm working with building a CD pipeline w/ jenkins, docker, and node to Beanstalk, and I'm sure we're doing things inefficiently.
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> The C++/CX compiler....use a weird little hat

> What does the hat do? Well nothing.

Actually the hat is drastically different than a normal pointer. It's managed/garbage collected pointer[1]. Which is actually pretty smart to introduce garbage collection functionality without breaking legacy code.

I watched the first code and he doesn't show him actually compiling the sample he typed up. Instead it kind of cuts to a fullscreen version of some app. My vote is that this library doesn't actually exist.

[1] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yk97tc08.aspx
The British Monarch cannot in practice, delay laws or call judges.

Presidents are not necessarily the ideal solution as to what to do about having a symbolic head of state. Moreover they don't come for free or without controversy (and that, every X number of years - whatever the term of the presidency).
There is also this for tunneling arbitrary data [original website is down]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/httptunn...
After my solar flare inducing laser, there will be no grid.
>find another community without high standards for replies

I think you're generally right about post quality on HN, but don't confuse capricious voting culture with high standards. HN might have high standards, but you see it more in well thought-out replies which generate further discussion, than in the occasional greyed-out post which, in my experience, is usually a very poor indicator of the actual quality of the post. It's mostly a good indicator of what sort of person happened to read it first, and little else.
Comments that are factually correct and non-offensive are often down voted.

Comment negatively about Google? Down vote.
Comment negatively about the risks of building your business on the shifting sands of startup SaaS? Down vote.

Ive never seen anyone manage to explain how it is logical to use the same action without any distinction, for any of the following, especially given the result for multiple down-votes is to effectively hide the comment from view:

- "i disagree with this opinion"
- "this is offtopic/unrelated"
- "this is factually wrong"

The "if more people upvoted, it wouldn't be a problem" excuse is not new, and as I've said elsewhere, it's a ridiculous bandaid solution to a widely acknowledged problem.

If you need a pop culture reference, it's the Walter White solution: "our health care system is completely fucked, but this guy can make and sell illegal drugs to pay for treatment"
I'd thought about that, but there could be two effects. There are people working for low wages, who live in high cost areas, because that's where the jobs are. If we're talking about a liveable BI, then they would have the option of moving to a cheaper area to live. Once there were many more people living there, at least some of them would start their own businesses, and there would be more economic activity in that area.

Now, this would raise rents in that area slightly, but would have a downward pressure on rents in the more expensive area. In short, it might have the effect of equalising rents.

It's difficult to be sure, of course, which is why I think it would be a good idea to start BI low enough that we can keep an eye on what's actually happening (say $30 a week), as there could well be multiple effects all at once if you started at, say, $150 a week.
Possibly, but this still isn't "secret law" going by the definition in the book. It's a public statute you can easily read yourself, it's not hidden from you, the text isn't secret. But the problem is that, yes, you may not know it exists.
A case for not drinking any milk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk#Criticism
The article identifies: "The need to tackle radicalism in Britain has been underlined by the flow of hundreds of Britons to join Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria - most notably Kuwaiti-born Londoner Mohammed Emwazi, who has appeared in videos showing the beheading of Western hostages." [reuters article linked above]

So... What Cameron is saying is that... too long have we been passively tolerant of people who are actively seeking to kidnap, shoot, and bomb us, just because they haven't broken the law. We need to reject that approach, be more careful and watch out. He is not advocating for an overbearing state as a social model in and of itself.

Myself, I think that quotes like this are the empty calories of politics, like Hilary's "what difference does it make" (which was about prioritizing embassy safety over discovering the perpetrators of the incident in the ultra short term) or Bush's "is our children learning" (which, if you haven't watched the video for that, was an awkward rendition of "that question is: are children learning?")

DISCLAIMER. (UN)DESIRABILITY OF AND ACTUAL IMPLICATIONS OF ANY POLICIES ARE LEFT AS AN EXERCISE TO THE READER.
>So he thinks emails can't be spied on.

That seems very unlikely. Since the stuff in the emails is publicly available on the net there would be no point in encrypting them. You might be able to determine what RMS is interested in, but everyone already knows what RMS is interested in ... in some detail.
in contrast to the usual extreme left social anarchists or marxists also very accomplished

I can't find any evidence for him being either of these things. He has described himself as a Liberal [1], and praised Dennis Kucinich, whose political positions are quite progressive, but hardly "extreme left anarchist/Marxist" by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, these kinds of views are pretty mainstream in Western Europe and other places.

[1] https://stallman.org/archives/2009-sep-dec.html#10%20Decembe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Dennis_...
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From looking at the source for some of the benchmarks for SBCL, it appears that almost all of them set speed to 3, debug to 0, and safety to 0.
Relatively speaking, Netflix is like a chorus of angels when all you've known is Comcast.

Can anyone outline the argument against Netflix, Spotify, etc.? I don't follow. Is he suggesting the content should be free?
Was playing around with Go, please, let me know if you liked it.
I always enjoy Richard's writing. I would like to take more of his advice but some practicalities interfere, mostly about social media. I tend to not post much personal stuff on social media but posting links to my recent blog articles, new books I have written, and when I release open source software is very valuable to me because it increases the number of people I get connected with. He is absolutely correct about the dangers of losing privacy on social media.

I have considered the all free laptop route and technically this would not hurt my writing and work efforts, but I like to experiment with new stuff, and I really enjoy having a Windows 8.1 and a Mac laptop to experiment with, in addition to my Linux laptop. I have the bizarre work habit of rotating between Linux, Windows, and OS X every four or five hours. My work flow is the same, and I enjoy the variety so much that the slight change-over effort is worthwhile. This is a stupid habit that I should probably change.

Stallman is really important for our tech community and I personally like his political stands. +1000 for Richard Stallman.
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"Genuino" is the actual Italian word for "genuine".

To Italians it sounds very good, and evokes images of a "handcrafted" brand.
I agree.

Have you noticed a change in the air since the referendum? It seems to me that people are pretty sour about the outcome, it's the second time in a row that Scotland has voted almost unanimously against the Tories and still ended up with a Tory government.

I'm seeing even staunch anti-independence voters start to reconsider their positions.
> And L3 is from the absolute value of the largest value

You mean L-infinity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007027

> Strictly speaking a vote does affect someone's karma. But it doesn't cause their karma to be net decreased as a result of posting a comment unless you downvote the comment below 1, which most people don't do lightly. I think of the up and downvoting as a collaboration to determine how much additional karma someone should get for posting a new comment.

> This is a band-aid solution to a widely acknowledged problem.

It's an easy solution, and the only solution currently available. The fact it doesn't work just proves me right: the problem isn't just with people downvoting comments for disagreement; the problem involves other people not upvoting unfairly downvoted comments.
Give yourself an insulin injection and see how much your body composition fluctuates. That's just one factor of many.
There is also an option that you can think long and hard about the tools you use and come to conclusion, that Stallman is wrong.
And there is nothing wrong with that.
I don't wanted to make a point for the German model. I just wanted to say, how it is and not defend it. There is also sometimes discussion in Germany, if we really need a "President" -- our "chancellor", it seems, better compares to the US president in role.
No, it doesn't mean that at all. The authors in the paper you quote write about the possibility of iron sequestration due to arsenic and manganese contamination in the water during the second half of the study. They call for additional research.
Thanks, I'll be posting it to HN!

You've probably seen it but for Elastic Beanstalk there is now a multi container version which uses ECS under the hood. Previously there was a limitation of 1 container per VM.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create...
They're following the VC model - spreading their cash around, just needing one hit reason for people to use Yo.
I am careful in how I use the Internet.

I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (but I make sure I have no net connection, so that it won't fetch anything else).

- now that is really weird and probably a result of some minor to moderate brain damage.
It doesn't matter what was before 3 decades. You have the environment that exists now. You can use better Lisp, if it's good enough now, for what you need to do. For the resource limited and performance critical stuff I still use C and a lot of actual environments still need C-level performance and the resource use patterns.

And all this is not because of what RMS did or didn't do. He did great things, and I don't agree that anybody can claim that he could have done something differently given the real constrains he had.
Or just thin hacker.
This summer I'm going to be working on an implementation of software based fault isolation for my masters degree. We are looking to sandbox a web server without the need to partition via processes and incur expensive interprocess communication and context switching. I don't see why it couldn't work for Firefox either.

Here is the original paper: https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs155/papers/sfi.pdf