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I'm not sure that the ECBs action is the cause so much as the effect.

My understanding of this was that the greek banks are (without ECB help) insolvent and have been for some time. They are unable to raise capital on the open market, as the open market has decided that they are not confident enough in those banks to lend them money.

As a result the Emergency Liquidity Assitance from the ECB has been used, but that was only provided on the basis that the greek banks were solvent but had temporary liquidity problems.

As far as I understand it, as soon as Greece is no longer in a bailout Program (Tuesday by current reckoning) those banks will not be solvent any more (they hold large amounts of Greek government debt), and ELA can't (without some form of change of rules for the ECB) continue.

The ECB is just following it's rules and it's been known that this approach is where they would likely need to go for some time, absent a political intervention from the Europgroup or the IMF.
I agree, I found the greek taxi drivers quite diligent in ripping me off when I was there last time.
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Varoufakis apparently told BBC that the banks might stay closed tomorrow and that capital controls could be imposed.

http://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/615112479828348928

edit: scratch that. http://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/615127339102531584
Under two seconds? Wow. What kind of latency and bandwidth do you have to NYC? Transfer time should be well under half a second, and processing time should be negligible. If that's what you consider a good loading time, you've done a great job proving the author's point.
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> It's about time. Greece has been behaving like a gambling addict, asking for money to repay the old debts only to waste them in expensive restaurants, buying iPhones, and gambling even more.

You have a limited understanding of the situation. And you don't need to be that insulting toward Greece.

I know here it is apparently ok to make fun of people in a dare situation and talk about them like they are fool and idiots yet in that case the responsibility is shared across many parties and the EU itself has a huge responsibility in that fiasco.

What the point saying what you just said? does it make you feel smarter or like you belong to a superior class? Would you want others to talk about you or your country that way when things turn south? no, so have a little respect. We are talking about people here who are mostly victims. Or do you think people here will laught at your speech because that's what they do in real life when you say horrible things?
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Reminds me of Yes, Minister:

- Can I attribute it? "Minister speaks out"?
- No, no, no.
- Then, where did I get the story? I can't say, "Officially announced."
- "Government spokesman"?
- How about, "Sources close to Minister"?
- Hold on, I don't want everybody to know I told you! Couldn't you do,
"Speculation is growing in Westminster"?
- A bit weak.
- "Unofficial spokesman"?
- Used that twice this week already!
- The Cabinet's leaking like a sieve, isn't it?
Use Chrome and/or Chromium all time and find the speed is almost the same.

Chrome advantages for me:
- install pages as apps (Mozilla prism isn't supported anymore)

Chrome disadvantages for me:
-Missing all the most useful plugins
The paragraph you quoted begins with:

> Under new guidelines proposed by MarkMonitor and other organizations who represent the same industries that backed SOPA, domain holders with sites associated to "commercial activity" will no longer be able to protect their private information with WHOIS protection services.

Maybe it's just me, but this gives the impression that the remainder of the paragraph only applies to sites associated with commercial activity. This impression is reinforced by the last sentence, which again focuses only on commercial activity.

The email does mention "without due process", but that's pretty vague. The landing page of their petition site is slightly more informative, as it says:

> Let ICANN know that you object to any release of personal information without a court order.

But even this is misleading. The issue is NOT that ICANN will release your information without a court order. The issue is that ICANN wants to force third parties to have weak privacy policies. Now that sounds ridiculous, which it should, because it is indeed a ridiculous demand.
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Guido: I gave up on it in 1995, so yes. And please don't try to compile Python to JavaScript. The semantics are so different that you end up writing most of a Python runtime in JavaScript, which slows things down too much. (CoffeScript's strength is that it is designed to map cleanly to JavaScript, and the two are now co-evolving to make the mapping even cleaner.)
I think it is unfair and lazy to characterise a people that way.

There is, however, deep structural or cultural issues that causes Greece to have such a massive tax gap: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2013/cr13155.pdf.

People may well be working hard, but a significant enough number of people are not contributing enough to the state, yet are demanding (by voting) ever more from it, and leaders seemed to have always been relaxed about it (I can't find the source again, but I remember reading that there is even a significant tax cap in the civil service itself).
My source is former Irish financial minister talking at parliamentary commission, which investigated crisis, a few months ago. Dont really remember details.
> "unnamed sources"

This doesn't mean it was a friend's uncle's brother told them, it means someone in a position to know intentionally leaked it.
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Quietest office? More quite than a proper office, with a door, with just you and you computer? Not being snarky, just trying to understand if I understood that correctly?
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Unfortunately this is extremely common in many countries where politicians and civil servants want something out without having it tied to them.

If you've been following the greece coverage, there's been lots of documents leaking from various sources on both sides of the negotiations. Last week when the initial greek proposal and the IMF "red-lined" version were in discussion, both were leaked on the day...
> Contracts, by their nature, require consent. If there isn't consent, then there literally isn't a contract.

'Marriages, by their nature, require a man and woman. If there aren't a man and woman, then there literally isn't a contract.'

You're not arguing: you're just asserting. One surely could have a piece of paper legally called a 'contract' which states that I owe you money, but to which I have no consented. The fact that it's not what you & I and the law today would call a contract would be irrelevant if the law changed tomorrow.

Heck, we have a constitutional amendment forbidding involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime, and yet we have a draft and people can be forced to work for others. Words have lost their meaning.

> Marriage, by its nature, as seen by the government (that is an important qualification), requires nothing more than two consenting individuals.

As of today, in this country, that's true. A few days ago, it wasn't. Anything can mean anything once words stop meaning anything.

> I would actually be perfectly fine with renaming the legal institution of "marriage". It would actually be better if no one could get "legally" "married". Just call it a civil union.

That's what I've advocated for. And it shouldn't be limited to two people having sex with one another, either. If a fraternity wish to form a temporary civil union in order to secure health insurance or ownership of their home, let them. Why does the government care who's having sex with whom, if that sex cannot create children?
They retired at 61, whilst in Northern Europe we've just had to raise the age to 67. They - like the Italians - don't like paying their taxes.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2010/02/greeces_g...

We should bail them out, but they should also retire at 67, the (existing) final salary pensions should be cut back and they should start paying their taxes.
It saddens me to see someone here picturing the greece situation with such a simplistic and idiotic analogy.

It frigthens me to think such a line of reasonning could pop up on security or war matters.
As a mostly self-taught programmer, I honestly didn't grok the maths until I started doing my Master's, which is why I highly recommend going back to school. Take a machine learning course at the best university you can afford.

Speaking of which, while programming is a nice skill to have, most of the toughest bits of modern AI approaches, including neural networks, is in the maths. For neural nets, you need to have a solid understanding of multivariate calculus, statistical methods, and probability theory. You should have at least an intuition of what the error function is, and how error backpropagation works.

In my course, we used the Bishop book (Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Pattern_Recognition_...). It's dense, and very math-heavy, but it's definitely worth slogging through.
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I haven't seen the NameCheap email, but I noticed that the savedomainprivacy.org petition contains:

That privacy providers should not be forced to reveal my private information without verifiable evidence of wrongdoing

Which sounds goods when you first read it. However, I think that wording might be interpreted by ICANN as an endorsement of privacy providers being the ones to decide what is "wrongdoing" and when registrant details get published or disclosed to requesters. Many people don't want information being published or disclosed unless there is a court order, subpoena, etc.

Perhaps the common point would be: pay close attention to what the different parties are proposing and make sure it is exactly what you want before you follow their lead.
Have you looked at Elm[1]? Is that "too much web" and too far from Haskell for you?

https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform#elm-platform
When I was an academic, such questions did not take half a day to answer. That's because my papers were detailed and answered the questions - I would simply say "go read section 4.3".

Further, I also put source code on my webpage (this was in the pre-github era). "To replicate and check methodology, `darcs clone ...`".

If replying to technical emails takes too much time, it is because your publications are incomplete. Full stop.
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The effects, if present, are likely to be nuanced.

It seams likely that these sorts of effects are likely to arise from certain bacteria, and their interaction with other bacteria (as well as presumably a multitude of other factors, such as the integrity of your intestinal mucosa).

Antibiotics (particularly broad spectrum antibiotics) kill entire classes of bacteria (eg. gram positive bacteria - which would include several hundred or thousands of bacteria) and are not good at targeting a specific bacterium.

One consequence of this is the overgrowth of the remaining bacteria (eg. C. difficile which causes pseudomembranous colitis).

So the "massive natural experiment" you describe is not a very reliable one. It may be that when you take a certain antibiotic you kill off all the positive psychobiotic bacteria and the compounds they produce (or maybe just some of them) along with detrimental bacteria (or just one or the other).

You also have to factor in that there are innumerable classes and types of antibiotic, innumerable bacteria (each with their own resistance profile) and variable effects on individuals.
It's not fair to equate its location with income levels or quality life in a place like Sg. It's not organized the way big cities in the US or western Europe are.

My point about it being relatively impoverished was that the majority of the Indian immigrant laborers live there. Relative to the average Sg citizen, they are living in poverty.
> While I am certainly sympathetic to the Greeks for the hardships they have faced and will undoubtedly face in the years to come, it is incredibly unfair to deny the Greeks' own responsibility in all this.

Nobody is denying that fact. But it seems you are forgetting that Greece made a lot of tough decisions for its people when asked by its creditors to "reform" yet it is just not sustainable, it's like asking the greeks to commit suicide.

> and essentially lying about this for years to the rest of the Eurogroup

And who do you think helped cook the books? Goldman Sachs

If a country gets out of the Euro, it will set a precedent and other countries might do that in the future. The euro is an insane experiment anyway. It cannot work. Too many structural and economical differences between euro countries. UK was smart enough not to get into that mess. It seems that the only country really profiting from this is Germany. While they are obviously not responsible for that mess , there is a lot of resentment against Germany in southern European countries and France. For these countries the Euro is just the Deutsche Mark 2.0.
> Throwing out food feels bad.

I always thought it was a strategy to train your progeny for the next famine / war.

Instead of the abstract advice "By the way, if your grandchildren are even in a middle of a famine, they should remember to eat all the food they can find."

You give a concrete actionable threat "Eat the last nugget, but now!" and wish it get passed down until it's useful.
I don't have the statistics [0][1], but I would be very, very surprised, if the amount of money Slovakia is putting into the EU and Euro zone comes even close to the transfers they receive. Slovakia does not fund anything at all, they just receive a little bit less.

[0] Actually, here is some data for the EU (German): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Nettozah...

[1] And here is more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#N...
Same for my country. If it's a commercial site, valid contact information is required.
So explain why you still to this day refuse to explain you reasons for voting for Proposition 8, Brendan?

Better yet, will you please FINALLY explain you reasons for voting for Proposition 8? Or just refer to the parts of Scalia's arguments that you agree with? Thank you!
That's just bad mental arithmetic on my part. Fixed!
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>But I've also seen the other kind of "failure". The kind where the controls came out perfectly, but the effect or the association or the expression profile that the researcher was hoping for didn't show up. When these sorts of failures are ignored or discarded, then we do science a huge disservice.

Why does this happen? Clearly this is what the article insinuates. Is publish or perish that strong? Every honest experiment with honest results benefits society. Not every prediction and result combination results in a prize in your lifetime, but that in no way should influence someone's value as a scientist. That science may be used later for something we had not intended (could i offer you the hope of posthumus recognition?). Finding a way it does not work may save someone else some time. This benefits the scientific community.

Not everyone gets to walk on another planet, some people have to build the ship.
A couple of notes, in addition to, as others pointed out, you've got to call law enforcement in the first place to get the ball rolling, and as noted elsewhere you shouldn't do that unless you're willing to accept any result including you and yours getting killed by the police:

We don't do "permanent loss of your right to own firearms" without someone being committed or the like, or being convicted of any felony (a bit silly given how many things have been felonized now) or a domestic violence misdemeanor.

My home state of Missouri is like California in having both serious urban and rural areas, and per the law (http://www.moga.mo.gov/mostatutes/stathtml/57100000301.HTML) this sounds like a "Class D" felony, modulo case law I haven't checked that might not count the initial accident as "Discharges or shoots a firearm into a dwelling house...." vs. doing it deliberately at closer range.

But if it did, it would be about as serious as you desire, although I note "immediate arrest" for the first incident doesn't sound like it would necessarily be in the cards, given the potential difficulty of proving the crime. I.e. you can't allow the hammer to come down so precipitously for an action the complainant might himself have caused, i.e. make the hole in whatever fashion and then claim a particular neighbor did it at long range without your witnessing it.
Yeah, me too. Some places seem to think that they're doing you a favor by heaping mountains of food on a plate. I'm not a big eater (and yet still eat too much...), and I don't like having to send back a half full plate. Just give me a normal portion already; although I've stopped asking for it, because 90% of restaurants have no clue on how to approximate the size of a 'normal' portion, or the concept of 'balance' (half the amount of pasta with the same amount of sauce - thanks but no thanks).
It works at all scales:

"I'd love to give you a raise, but corporate is making big cuts everywhere... I'll do what I can for you, but I can't make promises."
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>after five years of lender-imposed austerity that has increased Greek unemployment

That's a very easy target. Probably easier to ignore the high cost of hiring, bureacracy, corruption,...
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If there is disutility in throwing away 10 nuggets, then it is optimal to order only 10, because there is only utility from 10 either way. The article seems to suggest that people's utility is measured in kcal/dollar - which is silly even to the most socially inept economist.
What is unfair about it? Greek public sector has the same size as France. Pension system is even more generous than Italy. Retirement at 50 with full salary is not uncommon.

No, instead of cutting that, they should squeeze even more money on taxes. Even EC is criticizing Greek government for collecting too much money on income tax and VAT.

Just for illustration VAT tax on heating oil is 60%, most houses I know just do not order it. Last winter had a few weeks bellow freezing.
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if your statements were true, why is it that the country was in such a terrible position come 1960s? the port is much older then that.
it is incredibly unfair to deny the Greeks' own responsibility in all this.

To what extent is any one person responsible for the actions of their government?
The 'calorie count' website score is about the healthiness of the meal, not the quality of meat. McNuggets are the same chicken, just with way more breading, and therefore more fat/salt/etc., so 'less healthy'.
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That line of reasoning proves too much - If you want to use this argument then you also have to argue that the IMF is more interested in reforms that won't help Greece than a chance to get some its money back - that is that greedy international capitalistic bankers hate Greece more than they love money.
This claim has been debunked here: http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/2015/06/18/die-griechische-r...

EU data: Greece 64.4 years, Germany: 65.1.

OECD data: Greece 61.9 years vs. Germany 62.1

So it is actually the same.
Don't accuse people of doing things that are impossible for them to do. It weakens your statements that "Finally, ad hominem arguments are fallacious on their face, and tiresome" and "Calling me anti-gay based on a circular argument is an ad-hominem."

You're being downvoted by people other than the one you're accusing, simply because of the weakness of your arguments, and your historic and ongoing failure to justify your actions.

But you could turn over a new leaf now, and finally explain yourself: Which of Scalia's arguments do you agree with? And do you have any better arguments that he forgot?

You're not the victim here, Brendan. Don't make yourself the issue, if you're not the issue.
> web scale for a a large userbase

Yes, it might take some effort to scale things across a 1.4 billion users. Now, in what language wouldn't that be a challenge?

I suppose if you're one of the "many" other companies that are approaching 2 billion active users/month, you might need to put some thought into your systems too...
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Your narrative is mostly incorrect.

- The EU was aware that Greece's finances were not as portrayed. This was an open secret. However, Germany and France were breaking max deficit rules at the time, and they would look like huge hypocrites if they complained about Greece's numbers. So they didn't. Rose colored glasses and political expedience played a huge role here.

- A country can't go bankrupt. They can simply refuse to pay their debts, and because they're a sovereign nation they're in their right to do so.

- When banks lend money to a country it isn't charity. They get interest payments and in exchange risk not getting paid back at all if things go sour. It was astoundingly unwise for banks to lend money to Greece at practically zero interest (as they did during the boom period). Had the banks been responsible, or had the oversight institutions not been asleep at the wheel, this crisis would not have happened.

- The banks who lent to Greece got 90% of the bailout package. Not the people of Greece. So it's not true Greece received "several hundred billion in aid".

- "Some would say it is doubtful whether they are actually effective at all.". It's certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that the austerity policies enforced by the troika were actively harmful. It's delusional to pretend otherwise, given that the GDP shrank so much the debt burden INCREASED as a result.
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You truly have no idea what you're saying. If EUR falls relative to SEK, Swedes will pay less for goods purchased in Europe. Falling prices are not a consequence of inflation, rising prices are.
After reading the article, the talmudic joke about two men falling down the chimney sprung to mind.
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