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Memorization is definitely useful for programmers. It means you will spend less time browsing API documentation looking up existing functions applicable to your particular problem. If you program a lot in a particular language or API, a little bit of rote memorization saves a lot of time in the long run.
This is going to take a looong time because greece is heavily de-industrialized, (e.g. imports ~80% of meat). But i agree it's inevitable.
Somebody forgot to tell that to the government of Greece:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/05/us-eurozone-greece...
"Android developer talks more trash about iOS.. Film at 11."

yawn
The chart in that article is grossly deceptive. It shows only the last six months of the Shanghai index. Here are the past ten years.[1] That tells you a lot more. For one thing, that index hasn't come back to its 2008 high. That's more significant than the current correction.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=000001.SS+Interactive#{"r...
Greece effectively lied its way into the EU. It doesn't exactly leave much place for any moral appeals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Financial_Audit,_2004
Your information, wherever you are getting it from, is faulty or at best years out of date:

The Troika indeed has made private creditors take much more than a "say 50%" haircut, in their second bailout package from the 21st of February 2012, the "Second Economic Adjustment Programme for Greece". The private creditors took a 53% cut in principal payments, a massive extension of the term and a reduction in interest rate - they lost maybe 70-75% of their money in present value terms.

And of course, if the Greeks would have been forced into default in 2010 as you demand, none of the subsequent €200bn+ Troika bailouts would have happened - the starvation would have set in 5 years earlier as the country would have had no chance to cover their primary deficits - even without debt repayments.
They didn't cheat though, which in the end however means that they hurt (mostly) themselves (and their clients) and not others.

So I think it doesn't really apply here.
It's a basic principle of fire safety engineering – paper requires a concentration of more than 14.1% oxygen to allow combustion to occur.

Considering that paper composes the majority of the mass in that installation, a sustained hypoxic environment at 14% or below is exactly how this system should be designed.

If the papers were separated into separate warehouses, they would still all have the same environmental requirements. Additionally, you require N times more budget, where N is the number of warehouses you've constructed (not to mention the difficulty in querying physically distributed warehouses for information).

> I don't understand why this is a problem. Scan them to pdf files, and put them on web pages. Let google index them.

Before making such broad, sweeping statements, perhaps read up a bit on the principles of information science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_science

Edit: You are editing your comment every few minutes, so I don't know what to reply to anymore.
I think its a good idea. You may not make billions, but will make living out of it.
That's a result of the political process. The voters of some states feel that the federal government should take a certain amount of money from taxpayers and give it to the states. The voters of other states feel the amount should be substantially less. The legislators of the former must "bribe" the legislators of the latter, in order to get any legislative work done.
Ah, okay, you were referring to identity in the technical sense rather than the social sense. I agree that increased adoption of OpenID or Persona would be great. Persona holds the most promise in my opinion, since it's similar enough to existing sign-in systems as to not confuse the average user... but it does require providers to actually use it.

IndieAuth is interesting too: https://indieauth.com/
What is actually being proposed here? Is this a charity effort? A vulture capital fund that wants equity? Something in between?
There's no way any country in the world could keep up with troika's bailout terms given the damage these terms did to the economy.

The IMF already noted that the "plan" was wrong. Every single forecast was out by a huge margin, what exactly more do we need to die? Stop breathing?

WHat Varoufakis says is that we don't want money under terms the country can't honor, and the troika asks repeadetly for him to be removed. Maybe someone like Stournaras who signs any paper without asking questions would be more fit.
No, but then my country is not part of a decades-long effort to unify the continent it resides on under a single financial and regulatory regime; we finished doing that roughly 150 years ago.

As a result, we don't have to "bail out" Mississippi so much as continually pay for its mismanagement.

And so, again, isn't "paying for mismanagement" part of what you sign up for when you try to unify Europe?
Fiscal union - where there's central political control that can prevent countries from borrowing excessively - is one option.

Another proposal is 'eurobonds' [1] where there were two types of government debt. Blue debts would be backed by all the eurozone countries, but could only be issued up to a certain debt-to-gdp ratio. Beyond that, governments could issue red debts which aren't backed by any other country, and which come with an orderly default procedure.

That way, the Greek government would only enjoy the great interest rates the Germans get if they were following the same strict fiscal discipline - and red debt interest rates would reflect the fact they didn't have the German government standing behind them, so there wouldn't be a bunch of the cheap debt that Greek politicians seemingly can't resist.

Unfortunately this isn't a very popular proposal at the moment; if it had come out 15 years ago, when everyone had a clean slate and Greece didn't have all this debt, it might have prevented things getting to where they are now. But the proposals to institute this now basically amount to "give Greece a bunch more low-interest loans they can't pay back, but make Germany liable for them, and a while later when greece has spent all their eurobond money make their interest rates shoot up putting us back to where we are today" which Germany, quite reasonably, wasn't interested in going for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobonds
Yes, this. It reminds me of goalies in hockey, and how people are in awe when a goalie makes some ridiculous save when in fact the goalie would have never had to have made such a save if they hadn't been out of position in the first place. The best goalies are pretty boring to watch.
The title of that article you have linked to is "Greece Still Has A Vast Problem; It Doesn't Have A Primary Budget Surplus"
That is one outcome, assuming China tries to repay their debts. And as you are aware that hasn't worked out very well for Japan. If I was China and shit hits the fan, I would declare bankruptcy. It would hurt everyone but a shock like that probably has less chance of triggering a revolution than 20 years of decline.
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From what I've read, that appears to be a lie agreed upon: private banks in Europe had a major profit interest in securing speculative Greek debt.
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>Yeah, I’m actually surprised Apple hasn’t made a play for this from day 1 since developing iOS/OS X often leads to writing/maintaining a bunch of home-made or 3rd-party scripts (usually in Ruby), making app development require not only knowing Objective-C & Cocoa but also some scripting language.

Define "often".

Besides, Swift wasn't even that ready for application develoment from day 1.
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I agree with you in that Greece's debt does need to be substantially restructured because it's unsustainable. I just think the whole "setting of precedence" is what's keeping us fixed in the same place.

I don't believe that it sets any sort of precedence where everyone in the union can just not pay their debts. In society, we allow people to negotiate debt repayments in a way that isn't harmful to them and their families. People who can pay their debts and don't need this facility do so. That is the only precedent we should look at: if debt is unsustainable for individuals they are given the opportunity to restructure repayments in a way that is affordable to them without detriment to their life.

In Greece, this isn't what's happening. We see relentless spending cuts, stupidly high unemployment and a group of people who know what to do but are being told they can't do it.

That and I don't downvote based on something I don't agree with, I just wanted you to know I didn't downvote even though I don't agree with that approach, as much as I really want to. I use downvoting on comments without substance, especially ones that are overtly negative without substance.
The Economist predicted this crash in May, and has a series of good articles about it: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/05/chinas-s...

China's stockmarket is sufficiently weird to defy most normal analysis though: there are heavy restrictions on who can list and who can invest, plus China in general has lots of money sloshing around looking for a decent place to invest, because the usual mainstays like bank deposits have zero to negative returns. So the bubbles and pops there (and this is far from the first) don't have a lot of correlation to the health of the overall economy.
all those useless emotions.

simple facts can't be avoided.

nobody is willing to lend greece money besides the ECB. tsipras tried putin and china, both turned him down.

the greek-style of socialism (coalition with the extreme right notwithstanding) relies on foreign capital. once that runs out, it is over.

greece has never built up any robust, modern facets of statehood. there is no central database of landownership. parties act like clans, hand out positions based on loyalty, not merit.

it's a second world country that thinks of itself as the leader of the first world, as witnessed in endless, tiresome discussions with various greek representatives. they're all so smart, yet their economy doesn't produce shit.

spain, portugal, the eastern europeans all got their act together and worked out plans to move along. greece decided to call the people they're borrowing money from nazis and terrorists.

greece never qualified as a member to the EU, it was a historic mistake to accept them. grexit, now. let the rest of europe govern and prosper in peace.
I’m from the US and say hell yes, we should pay Greek debt. We supported their authoritarian governments post-WWII. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_military_junta_of_1967%E...)

As for Germany... as Piketty told Die Zeit, Germany never repaid its debts and has "no standing to lecture other nations." They're hilariously wagging their fingers at far more responsible people. (https://medium.com/@gavinschalliol/thomas-piketty-germany-ha...)
I am noting with interest and a small amount of alarm the abruptness with which you've ejected yourself from this thread after my suggestion that all of anesthesia is a huge scam. :)
You forget that their are two Greeces, just like there are two Europes and increasingly, two Americas.

Your comments are entirely reasonable when it comes to the rent-seeking corrupt upper classes in Greece who have run the country aground over 3 decades, costing both the European taxpayer and the honest working class Greek (who have voted NO).

Your comments are unreasonable when taking into account the fact that the bailouts so far have overwhelmingly supported the existing wealthy (Greek and German) at the expense of the middle and lower classes (again, Greek and German (taxpayers)), who cannot be blamed for Greece's existing travails.

The underlying issue here is that all European (and most American) banks are bankrupt, and that in order to support them we cannot let any of their assets go bad. Thus we must bailout their debtors (transfer of bad assets at inflated prices from the rich to the taxpayer). Watch this space. There is much more of this to come, and not only in Greece. It's what QE is all about.

We're witnessing the weakest domino fall but there are many in the chain, and in all cases, pretending that people should "just pay their debts" is simplistic and ignorant of the unfair transfer of wealth happening before our eyes.

Back to Mesopotamia: http://www.axel-troost.de/serveDocument.php?id=1967&file=5/5...
When did I say anything about my own political views?
Wow. Just looking at the site gives me a 2003 headache. There's no clear indication of what you can do or where to go. It's just aching for a redesign at the very least.
The failure and shame should be shared by the lenders. If you really want a risk-free investment, you should be willing to accept a risk-free return. You receive a return on a loan commensurate with the risk of default. Sovereign debt should not be special.
When I started reading this, I assumed this was going to be a typical "I've emailed them a dozen times over the course of two months, and nothing has changed!" story...

In this case, you've sent them one email, and it sounds like they rolled out a partial fix in less than a week.

Why don't you wait and see how they respond to your second email?
Mainly centers around inheritance, or applying the same styles to multiple controls... it's much easier in CSS using classes, or hierarchies than it is directly in the controls... you'll usually wind up with some common js style files, and have to import/use them for reuse... and it just gets a bit weird, even compared to say bootstraps variables file.
You can't drop the mic on "Germany never paid the debts the Nazis racked up", because Germany is not insolvent, and Greece is. Greece has not only a large national debt, but also an ongoing primary deficit. It literally cannot pay for the public sector it commits itself to running.

What that implies to external financing negotiations is that even if Greece's debt is forgiven (economists from across the spectrum seem to agree this should happen), unless Greece adjusts its fiscal policy --- inconveniently, to something more akin to what Germany is demanding --- the bailout just delays the inevitable.
I wonder what the EU expected.

The EU didn't think it through.

The Euro was primarily a (french) political project to weaken Germany following reunification. This is strongly reflected on the ECB's board, where Germany has the same number of votes as Malta! In order to sell the Euro to conservative Germans who feared a "Transfer Union" (where they would perpetually have to bail out certain states that shall remain anonymous with a reputation for fiscal improbity) some vague promises were added about debt levels. But the promises were not accompanied by any enforcement mechanisms and soon fell by the way-side.

I used to ridicule Eurosceptics, seeing them as dinosaurs who are on the wrong side of history. But to my consternation, I have to accept now that most of their worst fears have come to pass.

As a historical aside, it is noteworthy that about a century ago a similar scenario played out: Greece (and others) crashed the Latin Monetary Union [1], a 19th-century attempt to unify several European currencies into a single currency that could be used in all the member states, at a time when most national currencies were still made out of gold and silver. It was established in 1865 and disbanded in 1927.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Monetary_Union
This has literally no additional content beyond the original except for a little bit of "Wow I didn't expect the big response!" and a lame "It wasn't link bait!" claim. (He had to know it was sensationalist.)

The original article's claim was ludicrous and this doesn't do anything to walk it back at all.
I've always been afraid of intravenous sedation (="twilight anesthetic" in other English speaking countries) for the same reason.

The only time I experienced it was for an endoscopy. Because I was a heavy drinker at the time (probably the reason for the symptoms that lead the the endoscopy, ironically) the intravenous sedation had little effect, so I was awake through the whole thing. I didn't find it traumatic, merely unpleasant, but I think other people might have. The local anesthetic at the back of my throat wore off after some time, so I was dry retching every few minutes. At one point they pumped air into my stomach so they could take a sample with a needle (which was in itself painless), and that sensation was also unpleasant.

So while I doubt people undergoing intravenous sedation during routine surgery are in extreme pain, they may be in very uncomfortable situations that most people would rather forget. Also if it had been effective, it would alter your state of mind as well, so that the immediate experience was less bad.
I don't think anybody sees Greece as innocent of creating the debt. But.

1. The ones bailed out have been private bankers, by public funds.

2. Austerity, demanded as the cure for deficit spending, has dragged Greece into a recession and achieved exactly none of its aims - spending is still high as a proportion of GDP, because GDP has crashed.

3. The creditors have stopped demanding austerity as a policy aimed at creating a viable economy, and switched to demanding it to punish the greeks for populist leftism, and to contain the anti-austerity parties in Europe, and because they have unprofessional snits against Tsipras.

4. The only sane answer is to write off a huge swathe of the debt, as patently irrecoverable, inject capital, give a decade long holiday from repayments, and let the Greek economy recover.

5. Only a NO vote could lead to this being on the table.
Wow the amount of ignorance in this comment is staggering. Many countries have deficits for decades. Greece’s debt ballooned once we entered the Eurozone. From the hundreds of billions given as loans less than 20% went to our economy. Most were used to bailout EU banks, namely French and German ones. Greece never lived up to the agreement? Then how on earth did our GDP fall by 30% in five years? How come unemployment in young people reached 50% if we did nothing of what was agreed?

The reason we rejected the last bailout was because it didn’t include any terms of debt relief which is the only way for the economy to recover. That and Tsipra’s incompetence paired by an equal amount of incompetence and lies from EU officials. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.

I’m not surprised that you are from Germany (I guess you read Bild a lot). Well I’m Greek and I have news for you. In 1954 we wrote off 50% of your debt to us. And we did it despite the fact that ten years ago you’ve invaded our country and wrecked havoc doing monstrosities like murdering whole villages including kids. We did out of solidarity to help your economy grow. It’s time now you do the same. It’s either that or we default and you can kiss your 70 bn loans goodbye. And then you can return to your miserable Mark because Euro will collapse sooner or later.
> Your money went mainly to your Banks, via Greece.

Suppose you have a €500 credit card bill. That bill represents euros you have spent (plus interest). If I pay that bill for you it frees €500, which would have previously serviced debt, for other things. It would be disingenuous to say "I gave the money to the bank, so it only helped them and not you."

French and German banks did get bailed out of their bad credit decisions. But Greece gained substantially from its borrowings in the short-run.

> blow the Euro

The financial markets are not convinced that a Grexit would harm Europe significantly [1]. In the long-run, the union may actually be strengthened.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/deutsche-bank-greece-contagio...
It's a long serie of mistakes that led us there. Maybe european leader should have stop postponing the crash and let greece default on all its debt to private creditor and let the impacted banks to go bankrupt like Credit Agricole for instance. But because in every major banks in europe, commercial banking and investment banking are not seperate activities, along with the banks bankruptcy a lot of people would have lost a lot of money.

So French and German politicians did not want this to happen. Greece was not alone to have financial problems, Ireland, Spain and Portugal had some as well but after a long austerity cure they are now stable. But austerity just didn't work as expected in Greece.
How much research did you do into all the fiscal decisions of the country you live in ? Are you even qualified enough to interpret the result at all ?It seems to me you are asking from the average Joe Greek more than professional actually did.

Also "Greece" is not a single entity. Making Greece pay does not mean making the people that created the debt pay - it means taking the available money and you should know that "available money" is generally not rich people money.

So yes, you are right that you do not want to reward such behaviour. Letting the actual responsible get away with it and punish somebody else is not the way to do it though.
Man, there are so many choices for things like this these days. Meteor is kinda my go-to, but this does look pretty nifty. That said, I think I'm better of sticking with what I know while it's still in it's infancy than jumping from stack to stack.
It looks like they stuck a line about Greek capital controls on top of a site for something else entirely. "Will it blend? Refine your idea, get feedback from users and iterate." "You need hosting/domains/ads? Click here." That last is the only clickable thing on that page other than "social" links, and it leads to a Google sign-in page.

WTF?
Ignored is the fact that market was up 150% in the preceeding 12 months of its top. It's an extremely volatile market and a large selloff would be expected, probably inevitable. It's still up for 2015. Not exactly a crisis.
Unless they are loosing customers because they don't have this clause, why would they do it?