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kinda... Yanis and tsiprias have been consistently clear - any deal must include debt restructuring. No sane person wants more debt looking at Greece's repayments levels, especially after 2020.

The "No" vote, to my understanding, strengthens their demand to have whole debt restructuring included in this deal - not put off till later.

Edit: this is a "strengthened hand", but subtly different to using that hand just to get more cash / debt. The ECB is like my bank manager wanting to give me an overdraft so I can make my mortgage payments so he does not have to foreclose. I want to have all debts up for discussion, he just goes on about overdrafts.

It is forcing the EU to face up to the realities of a single currency and fiscal union. But at least it is a democractic approach...
$ apropros print
bash: apropros: command not found
$ man print | head -n 1
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$ man -k print | wc -l # lp/lpr is in this list... but you have to find them in a list of 200.
196
$ man printer
No manual entry for printer

It's not great discoverability. 'man -k printer' is the best I found so far to find lpr, but it took a few goes to find it.
Before responding, I skimmed the Piketty interview to verify that he was, in fact, talking about Germany's war debt, and not debt generated through insolvency.

I'm not moralizing debt. I am, however, according sovereign states and their constituent organizations the agency to decide whether or not to finance other sovereign states.

However much honor you accord to debt service, the prospect that (expensive) debt forgiveness will simply generate the need for more debt forgiveness in the future is actually material to the question of how to finance Greece.

(I am, in this instance, parroting something Tyler Cowen wrote yesterday; not that I agree with Cowen on everything [I'm not a libertarian].)
You could certainly try. I believe the core contributors moved away from the idea of pluggable backends once they realized the performance limitations. It still works great for some use cases, but I think the folks at GitHub quickly realized it wouldn't work for them.
> the whole point of the EU project was to make us all "Europeans"

Constantly repeating the lie doesn't suddenly make it true.

Also, trying to force people who prefer to remain sovereign and independent (and maybe most of all: democratic) is not a good recipe for a future without "disastrous fighting between states and people".

Quite the opposite.
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Fly to China, give the info to wikileaks.
The standard one in use at Santa Barbara is http://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Transitions-Renormalization-F...

Some others I have sitting beside me at my desk right now are http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Critical-Phenomena-Introduction..., http://www.amazon.com/Renormalization-Introduction-Operator-... and http://www.amazon.com/Renormalization-Methods-Guide-For-Begi...

The most modern treatment is probably http://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Renormalization-Statistical-Ph...

(For God's sake, stay away from anything written by Zinn-Justin, Itzykson, or Zuber unless you know what you're doing)
>there are heavy restrictions
And don't forget the fact that short selling was illegal until earlier this year, and even now only a limited number of stocks are allowed to be shorted.
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Sinn, Hans-Werner, "The Greek Tragedy", CESifo Forum 16 Special Issue 2015 (June), 2015, 5-35, downloadable from

https://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/...
I'm not sure I follow. Our use case required the ability to easily update blobs (in this case formatted written text) without having to rewrite history every time. I don't immutable ref ids addresses that particular requirement...
This is because the EU is setup as more of a confederation (pre-constituttional U.S. or even early constitutional U.S. prior to 1830's)... and EU nations maintain a lot of their independance. Also, many states are feeling a crunch on their federal funding, which I think is an entirely separate issue in the way things are structured myself.

The U.S. also, historically speaking fought a very bloody civil war to keep states in the Union... (first rule of U.S. club, is you can never leave/quit U.S. club). Where as EU's history of unity/separation even in the last two centuries is very different. It's mostly a cultural difference.

That said, I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more assertiveness to state level governments in the U.S. ... even though I don't agree with typical politics in, for example, Texas, I appreciate their assertiveness in recent years.
I have also had a Greek friend tell me, well before this crisis started, that tax avoidance was almost a national sport in Greece, and there was a social stigma to paying all your taxes. He said it with a mixture of pride and sadness.
I very much doubt anyone believes that Greece will repay their debt (even the IMF report was very clear about it). I also very much doubt other EU members would oppose erasure of debt / severe refinancing if Greece would prove that they're able to curb their deficit (after all, that's exactly what happened in Ireland).
I would recommend to stay in contact with entrepreneurs from Argentina. They are very experienced in how to deal with situation like this (no banking, capital controls, etc).
In particular, because the greek situation is still new, there are opportunities to do things well to protect your assets or to think strategically now: open a bank account in another country, just for backup purposes.
Steve Jobs created enormous wealth, using the same group of people that were working just as hard before, but were headed for bankruptcy.

I.e. it's not about how hard or long one works. It's about working effectively.
This reflects my opinion too.

Now as I write this, I realise how totally lost everyone is in this matter. We can only have an opinion, I doubt anyone actually understands what the hell is going on and what to do next.

There's the financial situation, the historical wounds, the pride, the desperation, the fear, the two sides of the coin. And also the freaking heat wave that's scorching us here in Europe.

Many Europeans blame the "lazy" Greeks, Greeks blame the "heartless" Germans, what I've been noticing is a ridiculous amount of million dollar yachts in the ports of Europe.

So maybe that has anything to do with it ?
Paying for wifi: So airlines in America is giving not giving great customer service. What else is new?

Meanwhile in Europe low-cost carriers like Norwegian offers free wifi on most flights.
Or more likely psychogenic, given the recent death of his father.
> I think this article doesn't just blame the victims of those attacks

That's a grossly uncalled for rewriting of the reality involved.

The victims are NOT the company whose servers are compromised. The victims are the customers of the company, whose data has been lost to the wilds.

Edit:

> It is far more probable that all of the companies cited in the article have expended massive efforts to protect themselves

Another misunderstanding of reality. I've worked with and in quite a few companies of tiny and impressively large size, and in all instances so far security has been a non-topic, or at best a bullet point on a slide. In all cases so far has it been utterly trivial for literally anyone inside the company, and mildly trivial for people outside the company to create data loss scenarious of disasterous scale for many many customers.

Maybe he has worked exclusively with companies who have crack security teams and never even thought of using md5 to hash passwords. In my, and many other's, experience, such companies are as rare as unicorns though.
Not surprising coming from the NYT. They've been China bashing for a long time and that only intensified after getting blocked back in 2012.
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We have revolutions regularly, the first Tuesday every November. Be sure to show up. No guns needed.

The reason we don't have armed revolutions is that we have a better mechanism for replacing the government and expressing political desires.
"...encodes block frame data from the spacecraft Command and
Data Handling (C&DH) system into rate 1/6, CCSDS Turbo-coded
blocks."

[pdf] http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~tcase/NH%20RF%20Telecom%20Sys%2...
The reason the U.S. economy can work at all is because people in the union accept large continuous transfers of money from rich to poor states.

For the Euro to work, the rich member countries must be willing to accept massive transfers from countries like France and Germany, to the Mediterranean countries. In addition, the ECB must be a lender of last resort.

Seeing as none of these criteria are currently (formally) met, the Euro can't function. The only way it could work was if the economies of the member states quickly converged. They didn't.
Can't seem to duplicate it. Which Operating System are you using. Windows 7 x32?
This video is interesting, but I find it opinionated, neo-liberal, US-centric and conclusion-driven. It raises more questions than it answers: if Greeks are not paying their taxes, why would raising those same taxes help anyone? Why should Germans and French pay the Greek debt, if not to repay loans to German and French banks? How can a government bribe its whole population with borrowed money, and who is lending that money? Isn't it irresponsible to lend to countries in those terms, and shouldn't the lenders lose that money? Why would these losses cause a default in foreign economies?

Also, most of its facts are messed up: the US subprime mortgage crisis did not cause the crisis via a Spanish real-state market collapse, it just tightened credit and ultimately deflated public banks (cajas de ahorro) which have hidden political spending for several decades, and which have cost billions in the last few years. This is well documented, just as a data point: Bankia was bailed out for $29B http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2115950,00....

The problem with Government spending cuts mandated from the outside is that they all go to health and education, instead of cleaning up the layers of bottom-feeding politicians and friends which have occupied most public companies and which are devouring the economy. The Spanish competition regulator estimates the cost of corruption in about €48b: http://www.elconfidencial.com/empresas/2015-02-10/la-cnmc-ci... (in Spanish, I found no good source in English). I can imagine that in Greece the situation will probably be similar or worse, it would be nice to have credible figures. Meanwhile inequality soars in Spain, and the number of millionaires increases: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/spanish-wealth-... http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/05/21/inenglish/1432203309_060...

Any analysis which doesn't take into account these factors is superficial and will never reach the true causes. A shared fiscal policy would make European policy less transparent and easier to manipulate by the elites, unless it was accompanied by deep reform in all European institutions, which is highly unlikely. Revising the role of the ECB is much more interesting IMHO.
The value debate is old and captured in the Diamond-Water Paradox. The TL;DR is that market value and inherent value are different.

As you said, mods are being paid in intangibles. If you log in to a website several days a week to fulfill the responsibilites that come with your position, in exchange for compensation, for years at a time, that's called a job. you may not be an employee but at some point you are working.

I'm not saying we can assign a dollar value to this work, I'm saying we can ballpark an amount of value and we might as well communicate that in dollars. If you'd like we can measure it in millions of hours donated. The magnitude of these numbers alone should make this interesting.

Because reddit has no close competitors there is no market for mods, reddit has a monopoly. Since there is no market to tell us what the value of moddding is we have to guess. If there were a hundred reddits competing with each other for mods we could trust the level of compensation they receive. Glut of supply and only one buyer means compensation will be far under what it would be in a "fair market".
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A bunch of Americans did decide that, and just let the banks seize their houses rather than pointlessly make payments that they couldn't meet long term on underwater mortgages.

The Greek position is relatively similar. There is blame on both sides of such a loan, and more for the banks if the number or size of these loans threatens their very business when people default.
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> And I'm not sure why you'd want to when you can easily look up things in the documentation or on Stackoverflow.

Why would you memorise foreign vocab when you could just look up what you want to say in a dictionary or phrasebook?

It's a silly analogy, but there's some merit in the comparison. Searching documentation takes time - perhaps not that long, but enough that if you had to do it constantly you'd become frustrated very quickly. If you look at some code you wrote recently, it's almost certain that there's a bunch of standard library function calls in there that you didn't have to think twice about writing. The same goes for basic programming patterns. The more you expand your repertoire of memorised functions and patterns, the easier it becomes to go from design to code.
You guys use the word "seriously" here in an entirely different sense than these statements intend.

These aren't statements made to the board, they're PR statements made to outsiders after huge breaches of customer/employee personal info. No one is reassured in these times by a company being "serious" about security in the sense that they have supposedly calculated its expected impact on their profitability.

> Given that the listed businesses are still operating and in most cases continuing to turn similar profits to what they were doing before, they appear to have done an excellent job weighing the costs in play.

You can't know whether (even in an internal bookkeeping sense) the "tradeoff" was net positive. The incidents still cost the companies money.

BP still exists and is highly profitable despite the spill and the ongoing costs incurred. That doesn't mean, hey they must have given it serious thought and found it costs more to inspect and maintain the rig than the $50B+ spent cleaning it up.
Yeah, it's bad enough when there's latency and my SSH session is delayed several seconds... 3 billion miles is 4h at light speed.

Well hey, at least they're probably not using SSH ;)
Well, it's an interesting point, because apparently if the tape recorder never turns back on, you're just kinda stuck in time as the person you were. So it suggests at the least that the tape recorder aspect of consciousness, perhaps in the way it feeds back one's perception of oneself to oneself, is crucial in the sort of consciousness we humans see as critical to identity.

Clearly though, this guy is still "conscious" - it seems like a situation we don't have quite the correct terminology to describe.
>There's a bunch of stuff you do that you don't need to do that carries more risk than anaesthetic.

I don't have any evidence for this but I suspect that the majority of brain injuries in otherwise healthy people come from trauma due to accidents. If my suspicion is true then wearing a helmet all the time might be the most effective way to avoid brain injury.
Wow, as someone who sells proactive security software and has to constantly explain why we are hampering user experience, I have to say this post is deeply unhelpful. Troy is just pointing out what we all understand - these people simply don't take security seriously and need to WAKE UP. If public ridicule helps, great, all I can really say is nothing else has...even the parade of compromises that has occurred.
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Cooooool. ["CCSDS" "standard"] was the Google search I was looking for.
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Why is this news now at this moment?
I see your point and voted you up, but I think you're wrong.

If I am running a company or even just working there, and someone attacks my servers, even if Customer ABC's and Customer XYZ's data is what they want, as far as I am concerned, it's my system that is under attack.

Customers ABC and XYZ are under attack as well. We all are.
An allergy test can be as simple as a doctor dipping a small plastic spike in some concentrated allergen, then poking you (lightly, not enough to break the skin, just enough to leave a mark that will fade in a few hours) with both that and a "control" spike, then comparing the redness after a short wait. Pain wise, it is no worse than an ant bite in my experience, and I was tested for the 50 most common allergies at once (we were trying to ID the source of some symptoms I was having).

IANAD though, so testing for celiac disease may require more.
He didn't make anything. His wealth, and Apple's wealth, would not have happened without the labor of all those people who actually made the products.

Scenario A: "I want to make iPhones. All you people at Apple, and all you people at FoxConn, get to work."

Result: iPhones and wealth.

Scenario B: "I want to make iPhones. I wish I had some laborers."

Result: Nothing.

Scenario C: "We workers want to make something. Mr Jobs, we hire you as our manager. Get to work, and sell these things."

Result: maybe iPhones, maybe what we have today, maybe something else.

Ideas and management are great and necessary, but not sufficient and not exclusive.
Moreover, for Greece to be a viable destination for export markets, they will need to place significant penalties on importing anything for consumption at all. Of course, rising food cost is more alarming than high import duties but it seems that taxes on import for consumption are very likely.

The rhetoric against austerity seems to be that we don't want to hurt the people (especially the economically disadvantaged) but I don't see a bright future in the near-term whichever way the Greeks vote. (I know, this is such a terrible thing to say. Good thing I am not in politics.)
I kind of wish (kind of really wish) IBTimes was on the autokill list. They're a glorified repost site the overwhelming majority of times they show up here.
> But I found it problematic to maintain that the whole Greece is made of "deadbeat dads", my point being that the Greek elite is not shouldering their part of the recovery effort.

I didn't mean to imply that. The only similarity I was relying upon was non-payment of their legal obligations.
I also highly recommend that book. I wonder whether I'd consider this a hemispheric situation.

It seems to me like the internal, autobiographic self being disabled, and then upon awakening this self immediately says "wait, discontinuity in the recording ... where was I?" and this feeds back into the rest of the brain creating the confusion.

He wasn't confused the moment before, because his autobiographical self wasn't recording.
Meanwhile in Europe low-cost carries like Ryanair charge fees for not checking in online or not printing your boarding pass at home.

I really don't think this is a Europe-vs-America issue.
Firstly, there's one thing all of the victims being ostracized have in common: they disclosed the details of the breach. That is exactly what they should have done; punishing them creates a perverse incentive for victims to hide breaches in the future, a decidedly worse end-user outcome.

Then how do users ask for anything better than the status quo?
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Right, I just meant in a "pay it forward" or "the decent thing to do" sense.
All medical interventions have the risk of adverse outcomes. Treating a patient is a risk-benefits analysis.
So you have no problem with ECB spending at least one trillion to buy national bonds (including yours) but you do have a problem with writing off a portion of the Greek debt. And why exactly is that?
Nobody says Greece is running a surplus today. It has been paying loans for a year without external assistance. Plase read the thread and what I was responding to.
I think that game studios have the right model: Hire full-time tools engineers and task them with making the tool-users more effective.

Stellar games simply can't exist without stellar tools, and since every game is a little different, everyone's tooling needs are a little different. So you have no choice but to build your own tools (to some extent). Unlike armchair architects designing wheel frameworks or factory factories, the guy building the level design tool has real users (in this example: level designers) he has to build for.

This same model can be applied to web or service development. You just need to involve users from the start, especially so if your users are themselves developers who are especially demanding and critical and whose tools are especially difficult to create.
Did that lamp really bring him joy though?
Like with anything, there's a time to practice a craft and a time to perform it. All SRS does is optimize those practice sessions. It's still up to me to go beyond that and work the projects.

Stackoverflow and documentation serve to complement my Anki deck. I learn what I need and apply it to my project. After that, Anki cards get created.

Ultimately, I just see "stuff that you can google" as supplements to memory rather than replacements for it.