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Do you think it is better to stay in the Eurozone and continue to pay down interest on a $300bn debt over the next decade, or to default on the debt, leave the Eurozone, and try to begin anew?

Would the Greek economy even be strong enough to support the latter?
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Hold on.

So that's the second in a row ISS resupply mission that failed, isn't it? First was with the Progress in late April. How does this affect the ISS plans, does anyone now?
I went a Steiner school - much of what you describe sounds like the positive stuff of Steiners. I'm guessing you already know this?
This looks really cool - like a more generalized map-reduce.
My impression is that is does not _want_ to take Greece out of the euro. He hoped that the 'institutions' would change their mind, but they didn't. So now it is a choice between trying to keep going despite impossible conditions and a huge debt burden that can never be repaid or leaving the eurozone with a small chance that the EU gets scared and actually changes course. In any case, leaving the euro is bad for Greece and possibly fatal for the eurosystem, but for Greece it looks increasingly like the lesser evil.
Don't lentils contain too many carbs for keto? One friend of mine started doing it a few months ago, he has lost a lot of weight. He eats less than 25g of carbs a day, and lentil servings usually surpass that.
If you think that spying on a foreign nations president is legitimate, I have a question for you: Is it also ok and legitimate for you if other foreign nations spy on _your_ president?

Genuinely interested.
I'm a (classical) liberal, but a lot of the current Greek position makes sense.

1. To get future investment, it's more important that Greece starts growing again than that it pays off existing debt. While socialist policies can stifle growth, it seems in the current situation growth is stifled more by a strong Euro than by tax evasion, corruption or overspending.

2. Greece was the fastest growing state in Europe before the Euro. With all its natural advantages, there's no reason why it couldn't return to fast growth w/a devalued currency.

3. Syriza doesn't seem as "far left" as described. I certainly don't think they will go down the totalitarian communist route, vs becoming a democratic welfare state like the Nordic states.

4. As constituted, the Euro favors exporting economies over tourist/shipping economies like Greece. Switzerland is in many ways similar to Greece structurally .. a tourist mecca of about 10 million people and a service oriented economy. It does export a lot, but mainly specialty items (watches, cheese, chocolate etc). Greece would seem to be better off as a Switzerland on the sea, with strong EU relations but independent monetary policies.
Yeah, just about the only reasons to use GTK+ in new projects are the plain C API and slightly better bindings. Qt bindings support deteriorated a little from Qt 4 to Qt 5 (python is there but still no java bindings as far as I can tell), whereas GTK+ isn't expanding in features so it doesn't get to have such problems.
Portugal has 22 statutory leave days; Germany has 20; France (whose productivity is actually very high) 25. Being efficient does not mean being always at work - actually quite the opposite
What about Hungary? I doubt they would consider _strongly aligned_ to either Russia or Turkey...
The EU is also free to tell the people how to vote, and they've already started doing this. But they don't like populism, they'd rather governments impose austerity via diktat.
Costs and catastrophic failures:[1]

* United Launch Alliance (Boeing and Lockheed Martin): 0 "outright failures" and 83 successful launches, ~$110 million/launch

* SpaceX: 1 failure and 18 successful launches, $60 million/launch

If you are looking for someone to launch your assets into orbit, who do you choose?

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-destroyed...
That's an outstanding analysis, the author is really amazing. It's impressive to see this kind of "movie staff" in real life.

off-topic: Every time I see a bond movie I wonder who writes the (extremely silly and unrealistic) scripts. IMHO it's a huge incompetence since there are so many real spy-stories flying around these days. If you add romance to them, you have an awesome action movie based on real events.
Even in bed you're not safe, see "Heavens Lathe" by Ursula LeGuin.
Your last sentence is exactly how you fix it - as parents, you are responsible for each child's education. We have, at times, homeschooled each child, and also sent each of them to school, exactly because of the issues you and the other comment raised.

They went to kindergarten to learn how to listen to people other than their parents and make friends. My social daughter came home for 6 months, then went right back to public school. My introverted and shy son came home for 2 years, and is going back to school this coming year because we're not doing well at teaching him... we see our failures there, and don't want to exaggerate them any more. Plus, he wants more friends, too. We expect they will probably all skip jr. high, as they will be old enough to learn on their own, and the social scene is just painful at the age, and then I'll leave it to them if they want to do the high school experience, or just get a GED and move on to other adventures in their teens.

There also are online teacher-led schools in most states now. Both private and public There are home schooling groups that meet together so each parent can teach a groups of kids in their areas of expertise. There are online curriculum you can purchase, and hard copy curriculum.

On short, there are choices. Many, many choices.

As parents, we need to help our children find the path that is right for each one of them, and it is a more complex decision than a one-time choice to either home school or attend the public schools. As in most things, a middle ground is often a better, if more complex, answer.
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I guess it's all up to the parents.

It would be no panacea if most children's education were up to their parents, but it would be a marked improvement on the current USA public schools model, which is, "We teach one way and if your kid can't learn that's her or his problem." Always vote for more school choice.
This article says they have food and supplies through October. If I'm on ISS, maybe I start skipping lunch now.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-destroyed...
> not really sure if the author really believes in what he's complaining on fully

The author is a lady.
But how does one overcome a society with a deep level of corruption that renders all attempts useless? Is there another solution to this?
n=1 anecdote, but my experience is that I had equally-bad (if not worse) bullying experiences outside of school than inside.

What I suspect is happening is that the school environment mixes people of different "cultures" much more thoroughly than non-school environments, which greatly increases the possible exposure of would-be bullies and would-be bully targets.
Lots of paperwork, I think. Every non-trivial transfer requires approval. Here's how it used to work in the UK until 1979: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Documents/historicpub...

Edit: yes, this makes commerce difficult. A finance correspondent I follow on twitter says to expect petrol rationing.
Yes, increasing tax revenues. That does not mean increasing taxes. A major problem in Greece is that taxes aren't being paid. Raising taxes does not solve that problem.
Note that Demis Hassabis of DeepMind/Google is a coauthor on the linked study, they are actively working on integrating insights from neuroscience into their AI systems.
> If your kid learns the alphabet at 4 or at 8, what's the difference?

It might make a big difference to the individual kid. One of my earliest memories is seeing how adults read words and numbers, I must have been between 4 and 5 years old. I asked my parents to show me how to do that and they replied "no, you'll learn this when you're older, this is not for you." Later in first grade, learning to read and write was no fun at all (I blame the teacher), and guess what: a good number of kids could already do it. Where would the harm have been in taking a few hours to teach me that stuff a couple of years earlier, when I first wanted to?

This anecdote is about learning things early, but overall I agree with you that learning stuff gets massively easier at a later age. I never really understood math and physics until I was in my twenties and had the opportunity to explore the subjects on my own terms.
Being legitimate "for the NSA to do" and legitimate "in the grand scheme of things" are not the same thing.

It [could be argued that it']s legitimate for the NSA to spy on France, just like it[...]'s legitimate for the french NSA to spy on the US.

That's not the same question as whether or not it's legitimate for allies to spy on each other. Oh, sorry, for the US to spy on France and for France to spy on the US.
>If you are looking for someone to launch your assets into orbit, who do you choose?

It heavily depends on the cost of the asset. If a satellite costs close to 1bn, it worth to use $110/launch but more reliable rocket.
Tsipras is telling the public that he does not support the agreement. The public will have to decide if they want to avoid the potential negative consequences of no agreement (exit of Euro, EU, ...) more than they dislike the agreement.
The problem with the extension for the referendum is that it would cost the ECB Billions of Euros in increased ELA support that would need to be provided (without capital controls this week, it's a fair bet that anyone who can get their money out of a greek bank, will get their money out of a greek bank).

when you have the ruling party actively campaigning for a No vote, that could be seen as throwing good money after bad, and at the end of the day the other member states will ahve to pick up the tab for any money that is lost if Greece defaults on their debts.
Surely money isn't the only reason you work?
I did not write that Bulgaria is anti-EU, I said it's majority is pro-Russian.

EU polls: http://www.ecfr.eu/article/public_opinion_poll311520

Bulgarians are pro EU as long as the majority still believes that they will have a better economic future. I dispute that will continue for very long considering the socio-economic collapse Bulgaria has experienced since they joined the EU.

There is no shared culture or historic ties to the West that will keep Bulgarians tied to the West once the EU starts to disintegrate.
Yep, the wire harness in two different cars of mine have caught fire over the years.
Those were 2 very specific cases, I don't think you can usefully extrapolate to a government level ability to track blockchain transactions to real identities, especially when one of the main selling points of bitcoin transaction is that (if done correctly) they cannot be tied to a real identity!
Mercenary and loyal are behaviors, and it is more useful to think about them as mutable based on context [as to some extent Wilson does] rather than persistent properties of individuals as the title implies. Mercenary and loyal behavior are two edged. Mercenary hiring provides speed and simple financial semantics. Loyalty includes betrayal semantics and are encumbered with emotional baggage and ambiguity. Close relationships have their place, but one is playing make-believe if they believe that the can hire for close relationships. These things take time and a demonstration of trustworthiness on the part of the person with the larger share of the asymmetric employee-employer power distribution. Loyalty born from the necessity of a dearth of better opportunities is simply wily mercenary behavior.
> When a new form of cryptography turns up and it lacks an easy name, it's very often called after its inventor. Famous companions to this tradition include RSA for Rivest, Shamir, Adleman; Schnorr for the name of the signature that Bitcoin wants to move to. Rijndael is our most popular secret key algorithm, from the inventors names, although you might know it these days as AES. In the old days of blinded formulas to do untraceable cash, the frontrunners were signatures named after Chaum, Brands and Wagner.

Ok but those are all real people who anyone can look up and go talk to about their invention. "Satoshi Nakamoto" is almost certainly an alias, and maybe even an alias for a group of people.
So his argument is "I can't think of how to build AI, and it looks pretty hard so, yeah." At least he admits it is "special" to him.

How is that an argument against Kurzweil? So far, we have no real ideas on consciousness. So it seems that until we've at least figured out that, no should should be making flat prohibitions on what we can achieve. (Kurzweil could be wildly off on timelines but that's the most obvious and only real criticism there is right?)

Not to mention, as far as we can tell, we are machines. So it takes an extra something to say we can't ever build ourselves. (Let alone figure ourselves out and improve on the design.)
> I'm not a Fastmail fan

Curious: is that just a personal preference? I still use Google Apps for almost everything, but have a couple domains on Fastmail and have been extremely happy with their service. I have often considered moving more of my business there, and would greatly appreciate a substantive warning if it's warranted.
No, and it isn't about Clash either. It's a system they designed for a now defunct hardware startup called 'Tabula'.

Apparently the technology was some sort of space-tech FPGA that could reconfigure at 2Ghz (i.e. close to the general max clock speed), they use Haskell's typesystem and non-sequentiality to build these circuits in a nice parallel way.
My understanding (which is purely derived from reading news sites FWIW) is that IMF view heavy tax increases as likely to reduce economic activity in Greece (i.e. companies will go elsewhere to do business) and that this would have a bad effect on tax receipts, so would be in essence, self-defeating...
This assertion would be more interesting if it included some supporting detail. What is that "definition"? Why should we use it rather than some other definition? How does the situation in TFA not qualify?

Don't worry, I'm not attached to any particular definition of any particular political philosophy. I'm just curious about what you're trying to say.
I wouldn't count Hungary as part of the Balkans or if so, only small parts of it.

But last time I heard of Hungary their government was seeking stronger ties to Russia and McCain called the PM a Nazi and compared his policies to those of Hitler.

I can't imagine that anyone would currently see Hungary as tightly integrated and focused on a future in the EU.

Edit: I believe the future of Hungary will be sovereign and block-free.
True. Also don't forget the opportunity cost of the time lost: 1) building a replacement and waiting for a spare slot in which to launch it, 2) engineering, manufacturing, and other resources which could have been used for (and likely were planned for) something else, but now are used for the replacement, and 3) the project the asset was used for, and its output (revenue, research results, etc.), now put on hold.

Many organizations don't have the spare time and capacity to afford all of that; they or their project may simply be done.
Apparently the brython.js script translates Python into Javascript, on the fly in the browser and because of this the programs tend to run 3 to 5 times slower than normal javascript. (from the Brython faq)
Ask HN: Would you pay to have your ideas validated by your customers early on?
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I never said it didn't have those things; I'm not sure why you're still talking about them.

I said Java has an impoverished model of abstraction, and without external tools (byte-code manipulation, libraries, etc) it still doesn't.

Then you brought up not-Java, which I also didn't talk about. You brought those up because those do have better models of abstraction than Java does, which effectively concedes my point.
Because tax evasion is so rampant in Greece, the IMF reasons (correctly) that tax increases wouldn't raise anywhere remotely as much revenue as Syriza claims they would.
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Work until 75? Where do you see that? What we do see in Greece is hairdressers and policemen retiring at in their 50s and Germans have to work until 67 or 69 to pay for the Greek retirement age differences. What's needed is cross-eurozone retirement ages.
The process of interviewing future colleagues is the same from both sides of the bench.
How does that work with nginx or haproxy, which support zero-downtime restarts?
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You can run a daemon-like process with its stdin/out firmly attached to a TTY: a virtual TTY inside a screen or tmux session that can be detached and reattached.
I just...

People don't say anything about the meat industry (okay, some of the vegetarian/vegan ones /do/), or that our cities are essentially organized to be large scale breeding factories for animals which we then massacre as annoyances, but I have to hear all the time about the poor rats given cancer for science.

One just has to think, the people complaining to me about laboratory animals are just emotional wrecks who should be kept from making real decisions about the world and left to ride out the high of their brain chemicals.

The truth is, I think you're worse than a hypocrite: I think you're a 5 year old screaming out his emotional needs about the rat being his friend and wanting to be a good boy so we shouldn't hurt animals, without a real understanding or opinion about the problem, hassling grownups trying to actually get things done. I think virtually everyone I've talked to about animal testing is.

I'm just left with the sense that people who bother to complain about the topic are either a) crazy idealists willing to trade human lives to save the rats or b) children without real opinions who want to be seen doing the "right thing", and are going about it in a shallow, childlike way.

Either way, go away. Adults have real work to do. Come back when you have an opinion that actually says something about the problem.

Ed:

This post is harsher than it should be, but I will leave it unaltered for documentation reasons.

My frustrations stem from the fact that very often, the people I'm debating against simply are speaking from an emotional need that cherry-picked "facts" from questionable sources, and it ultimately feels like you're explaining to a five year old that Superman comics are not a reliable source of information on how science actually works.

Animal testing is hardly the only topic this happens with, but it's deeply frustrating to have to have those kinds of debates with childish opinions based on fabrications or misinformation over and over when you just want to make progress on what is actually an important topic. At some point, you just start to pull away and work quietly by yourself, and ignore the children stamping their feet and screaming, because no amount of explaining it to them ever seems to be enough.

We see this attitude from experts in many industries, including agriculture, oil, pharmacy, military R&D, sciences in general, etc.

Much like animal testing, how you deal with the problem that most people just don't know what the hell they're talking about, but because of emotional needs, feel entitled to be heard about topics they're passionate about is very complicated -- and hard to talk about.
Marc Andreessen talks about that time Facebook almost lost 80% of its value
I said value proposition, part of which is compensation.

I'd gladly sacrifice some compensation for a better work environment, flexible hours, and competent coworkers. But compensation is a large part of it, and if you're offering the same non-monentary benefits as another company with a drastically lower salary, you'll lose employees.
well, normally people use ml for everything, but cups and bottles from US companies are sold in cl sizes. Coke glass: 50cl. IKEA glass: 200ml. McDonalds cup: 40cl. Glass in a local restaurant (if not coke glass): 200ml.
It's really hard to capitalize on this, because noone really know what's going to happen. The only thing you can bet will happen is an increase in volatility in financial markets, but I'm sure that the counterparty would take that into account and appropriately increase the price of volatility bets. The only thing you can really do is take a one-sided bet (e.g. short/buy Greek bonds), you win if you're right, lose if you're wrong.
Nice! What's your timeline like? We want to get our next game idea reviewed before we build the MVP.
Here is the github handle : github.com/black-perl/tweety
Neat to hear about SwRI still doing space work. My grandfather was the director of engineering for many years, and I learned to program in BASIC on a 286 that he brought home when he retired.

I get the impression looking back that he worked on so many projects he didn't have time to tell us about many.
It might be the law of large numbers. The larger the school, the larger the probability for one or more really mean kids per age group. This is then probably amplified once more by school size since mean kids thrive on a large audiences and have an easier time recruiting allies (who in this context aren't actively mean themselves but are eager to provide social support structures to bullies).

I switched primary schools once at that age because of massive bullying (in my country switching to a different primary school is almost impossible unless you move to another school zone, so it took quite some effort). The second school was smaller and more diverse socially, and I got through the whole thing much easier.
Nice idea. Sounds legit! Wish it existed before i failed on my product idea.
The PDF link isn't to the book.
If they already have a build system set up, it's probably exceedingly trivial to build .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu, if such a thing is even required.

That said, the reason why they support Ubuntu is that it provides static targets. 12.04 will be supported until late 2017, which means that they users two years from now can install a .deb built today. Likewise, supporting 14.04 means .deb packages will work until late 2019. Especially for companies that want to develop on Linux, there's a huge benefit in first-party support from your vendor for the next four years.
ULA's record with its current generation of Atlas 5 and Delta 4 boosters is 83 successful launches and no outright failures.

This is an impressive reliability record, no doubt about it. However, it is fair to note that this is the "current generation" Atlas and Delta. The first Atlas was used during the Mercury program, so they've had more than 50 years of design refinement to get to that point.