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A nice way of saying the Greek govt was mostly Idiocracy (2006) incarnate. Sounds like there might be a leadership vacuum and hard, effective work ethic may not be appreciated (or it was a personality conflict).

One positive note: most organizations are culturally self-selecting. So if it didn't work out, that means he's freed up to land a better gig even if he could have made an larger impact if allowed, it's clear the leadership either blames him, feels they have irreconcilable differences or doesn't want him to succeed. It appears he gave it a good go, but perhaps insiders think otherwise. Reiterating the maxim of never burn bridges and always take the high road when leaving employment (and never gossiping/speak ill of anyone in an exit interview.)
1. deliver organic and healthy food at airports and hotels. When a user checks in for boarding pass, the delivery is ready. One delivery per flight..

2. building your own store curated from your favorite brands only. Every user gets discount on their fav brand and there is a limit to number of brands

3. Hire a local "expert" to build your itinerary when you are visiting that local's town/city.

4. An new email platform built with UI in mind for non-personal emails like newsletters, marketing offers, etc.

happy to work with or share more.
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Those are great! Which model did you use for the Mona Lisa picture? Thanks.
SICP explores real, interesting programs: a digital circuit simulator, an automatic differentiator, etc., in a sense it explores mathematics and electrical engineering in parallel to computer science and shows a certain unity between all three disciplines, at the cost of requiring more background to understand everything.

CTM explores a lot more programming language concepts than SICP, but the examples and exercises seem to be focused on illustrating those individual concepts in the simplest way possible. I think CTM is ultimately a more down-to-the earth book - you are likely to have more immediate direct use for the things you learn compared to SICP, but it doesn't give you this very high level perspective that SICP does.
Aren't Python programmers already sloppy enough?
This seems the usual answer of making sure rationing only effects those who can't pay to avoid it.
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He didn't call them terrorists, that was a translation error that inflammatory media outlets didn't bother to correct.
Please stop... You were out-argued...

I disagree. If you'd like to explain how you believe that, I'm happy to listen, but my guess is that since you're using 'SJW' as a snarl-word you've read this entire thread through the filter of confirmation bias.

Your SJW politics is off topic...

Explain how. The topic is the page linked to (with a nudge towards what might be of interest to hackers), not just one aspect of the page, but the entire page... author, design, and content including the list of who to follow.

It's your choice whether you want to narrow your conversation to just the programming language aspects of that page, but I don't see how you justifiably claim I'm off-topic.
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His post evokes FDR's speech some days before the 1936 election, in which Roosevelt says: "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. [...] Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred."

Varoufakis, and Greece in general, are in a somewhat different position right now than America was immediately after the First New Deal. On the other hand, if Varoufakis is right, the differences may not be as great as I imagine...
It took me a while to understand this correct response because I couldn't understand the documentation for promises. For the benefit of any other person who was likewise confused...

then() returns a new promise resolved to the return value of the function. However, if that value is itself a promise, then it follows the promise chain and passes the eventual state to the next then()/catch() call.
I have been contacted about embedding ads which I consider almost as bad on my user's privacy.
States are able to compete economically.

Depending on the economic climate and regulatory environment, this kind of "competition" tends to be a race to the bottom. Those who have even a slight advantage anyway (i.e., the rich) are given concessions such as tax cuts or eroded worker's rights that increase their advantages over time.

The great human project of using technology to lift everyone up equally requires some force against this race to the bottom.
I would strongly advise against backing OAPI. The CEO & founder is Randi Harper. Her online persona is quite hostile, and she is often the instigator of online harassment. One of my acquaintances was the target of her ire. Her e-mails and call-outs eventually caused him to seek psychiatric help, including medication.

So while I support the goal of OAPI, I think the founding members have attitudes that hurt the cause more than help it. I wish there was an organization I could recommend instead, but so far I haven't found anything. If anyone knows of alternatives, I'm all ears.
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We actually seem to agree :)

After all, you write: "EU was created, among other things, to contain that country", while my post was in reply to somebody who claimed that peace-keeping was totally irrelevant to why the EU (and its predecessors) were formed.
Incompetent or mad genius? I'm not smart enough to figure it out.
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Hmm, it seems to me that "advanced financial instruments" that helped mask persistent corruption and tax evasion are a big reason why Greece is currently in a no-win financial deadlock.

And it's a bit rich to talk about the "competent" Greek economist vs. his "incompetent" EU counterparts when they're the ones with the money and he isn't.

When it comes to the Greek debt fiasco, Shakespeare said it best 400 years ago: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
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You could have a shared blacklist.
yup, I'm sure Bezos will get right to reading that.
It is A, as the responses above, and hundreds of blog posts and similar discussions have made clear. There are big disparities in the gender balance, specifity, longevity, and personal nature of the attacks. And it happens to women who are not prominent in any sense of the word.

I think you want it to be B, because you don't want to believe it's A. But it is definitely A.
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Gah! You beat me to it :)
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It's really tail chasing all the way down. Because according to the IMF, the reforms that they have demanded have done more harm then good, and have further hurt the chances of creditors seeing their money ever again.
1)Highscalability http://highscalability.com

2)BraveNewGeek - http://bravenewgeek.com

3)Antirez(redis) - http://antirez.com/latest/0

4)Aphyr - https://aphyr.com

5)GitHub's Engineering Blog - both old and new

https://github.com/blog/category/engineering

http://githubengineering.com

6)Facebook Engineering https://code.facebook.com/posts/

7)Twitter Engineering https://blog.twitter.com/engineering

8)Code as Craft - Etsy's Engineering Blog https://codeascraft.com

and loads more... will update tomorrow.
If you have a reason to be suspicious of some content, don't downloaded it. If you discover some content is illegal and you have already downloaded it, delete it and don't send it to anyone else. This is probably best handled with a flagging system. Such a system would not be perfect, but could be improved with time.
The contract that Greece signed with the EU didn't change after they signed it. If they agreed to it then, they have to agree to it now. If you disagree then does that mean I don't have to pay off my college loans, house mortgage and car loan either?
Surprised no one mentioned the new Fragmented podcast which covers android development. I learnt a ton listening to them.

Then there is the security now podcast by Steve Gibson (and leisure Laporte).

Finally, I've found the Radiolab and Startalk podcasts to always keep me entertained and feeling smarter.
> Yep. Probably the best way to do this is to found a company that hosts servers that host a lot of the content. Anybody could do this, of course, and the company's servers are not privileged in any way. However, by being the first and best service provider on a new decentralized platform, they would profit (I call this business plan the "Satoshi model"). Note how in the article I explain that the users actually pay to download content - a possibility that was not available when reddit was founded.

At some point to run a business you have to participate in the economy. The way you do that is be getting things you can use to trade for other things. Usually we use money as a way to simplify this.

How do you extract value from the bitcoin ecosystem, until there are enough people willing to exchange good for bitcoin, like food, clothing, and shelter?

> Think of the hosters as being more like bitcoin miners or bitcoin full nodes. Anyone can do it, technically, but almost no one bothers to. The people that do make a business out of it.

I think that's just proving my point. There would only be a few people participating as full nodes because it's complicated, putting the entire network at risk of a bad actor.

> Don't host content you don't agree with.

That's great but how do I find the content I don't agree with?

> There could even be a flagging system for stuff like this so that you never download it in the first place where possible.

Who would flag it? Can I trust them?
There already are federated social networks. Wikipedia has a long list.[1] You never heard of any of them. Buddycloud, Diaspora and Friendica got far enough to have a number of servers in two digits. Buddycloud seems to have pivoted into a system for in-house use. Diaspora seems to be dying. Frendica is running, with a very modest number of users, and trying to replace itself with a new system called Red.

It's quite possible to do this, but so far, nobody has been able to get anything like enough users to make it useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_pro...
tl;dr: The problem didn't actually state that the labels mean anything!
I will concede that. However, I doubt he was speaking about the creditors in a nice manner. And regardless, it certainly wasn't his first diplomatic gaffe in his tenure as finance minister.

However, if his words are commonly misrepresented, then he should be more careful when speaking publicly. Part of being a politician, and particularly a minister, means your every word will be scrutinised in every way.

While he definitely had the ability as an economist, he did not when it came to being a politician nor a diplomat. But his resignation seems to confirm that he himself realises this.
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Less tech, more astronomy:

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[terrorism]'s original meaning, given in the Oxford English Dictionary as "government by intimidation".[1]

On Thursday, Schulz told German daily Handelsblatt that the elected Syriza government should be replaced by “technocrat” government until stability is restored.

“We should appoint governments of technocrats,” Martin Schulz told Handelsblatt. [2]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/07/terrorism

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11718296/EU-war...
The idea that any of those leaders would have been intimidated by or felt insecure around Varoufakis is laughable. He was a mildly amusing technocrat given a specific mission by his delusional government, a mission he failed miserably at while mostly working to maintain his own brand. National leaders keep trained monkeys of their own in the room to explain or even negotiate the details, the key issues are in making sure that major points are accepted by both sides. I would not say that is is leaving "while on top", he is just leaving.

This is no longer a negotiation regarding greek debt, it is a determination of the process for greek exit from the Euro.
It's unfortunate, because his understanding of economics eclipses that of his European peers. I'm sure he'll still be advising Tsipras in some capacity though. And his resignation will take away one more of the troika's excuses...
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>I have never understood why any sane economist is in favor of austerity measures

That can be attributed to the influence of wealthy business lobbies. Austerity puts downward pressure on wages, which in turn creates upward pressure on profits.

Economists, like everybody else, respond to incentives.
Why do nations borrow?
Actually he has been insulted for five months by German politicians but stayed polite despite this. The real problem was the perception as being arrogant, which was also fueled by the media.
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Every debt has a lender and a borrower and the borrower does not force the lender to lend.

At this point it is pretty clear that Greece can never pay off the debt which is just another way of saying that they should never have been lent the money in the first place. Write off the debt and vow to never lend the Greek state any money ever again. Both sides are at fault here.
Predatory lenders would have a ball then.
With the introduction of arrow function you won't need to use .bind(this) as arrow functions capture in their lexical scope the variables/keywords: this, arguments, super.

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I hate to be pedantic in discussions like this one, and please know that I certainly don't mean any offense beyond correcting a technical error that perhaps nobody really cares about.

"Just like the debate over automatic weapons is a canard, since they're very rarely used in murders"

There is no debate surrounding automatic weapons, or, at least there isn't one on the national stage. Automatic firearms are dramatically different from semi-automatic firearms, and it's been a (specifically expressed) political maneuver to confuse/conflate the two.

The number of deaths attributable to automatic firearms is effectively nil, as they've been highly controlled since the days of Al Capone and his ilk.

When people are referring to "automatic firearms" in today's political arena, they almost always mean to say "semi-automatic firearms", which most closely maps to the sorts of weapon used in the Newtown and Aurora shootings.

It's a subtle, but important distinction, but as those who are trying to conflate the terms generally intend to do so to confer additional scariness to semi-automatic firearms that are simply not there.
To be fair, Fred just ripped off somebody else and provided a little of his own analysis:

https://medium.com/@ryanxcharles/fix-reddit-with-bitcoin-7da...
They're profiteers off deaths, abuse and repression of people, plain and simple. The whole lot of these folks should be in jail.
Sure, they're the ones with money and he isn't, but that's hardly his fault, and it's a bit rich to suggest that this implies competence, when part of the reason Greece doesn't have any money is thanks to the policies of these EU counterparts (and their predecessors).
I have only questions.

Was this the plan all along?

Is this the highest stake of good cop, bad cop ever played?

Whatever the outcome, I have full respect for Yanis and would be taking full note of everything he has to say.
> He's content with leaving his position, that Greece now had some leverage to negotiate better terms.

Leverage better terms? I don't think you have any idea how much Tsipras has alienated France and Germany's public opinions. Now that supporting Greece has become synonym of political suicide, I believe that Greece has effectively very little leverage.

After Tsipras' call to vote No, I would be surprised to see any negotiation happen in the near future.
The article seems to contain a fair amount of hearsay, but you're right; it was enlightening. Thank you.
Ignoring everything else, watching this whole saga unfold has been absolutely incredible. In a global environment mainly involving conservative powers, seeing a left-wing party take left-wing views to the negotiation table is utterly fascinating.

The next few days are going to be incredible. I really do hope Yanis stays on with the Greek government - his knowledge is clearly beneficial even if his ability to negotiate is lacking (for reasons I'm partially sympathetic to given the qualifications of his counterparts). He definitely has a position to play in the Greek government adivsing their plays in the coming future.

e: I'd absolutely love to see him and Wayne Swan (AU centre-left-wing treasurer during the GFC) sit down and discuss both the AU and Greek history between GFC and now. Swan and co. implemented a massive stimulation package that's widely credited as saving AU from feeling the bulk of the pain of the GFC and was relatively unique in its existance amongst the approaches of various nations. I think both of them could have quite the discussion about how both AU and Greece approached this and the resultant effects then to now.
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None of the federated social networks integrated p2p payments because that wasn't possible until bitcoin. The entire existing internet economy was built around the assumption that p2p payments were impossible. That assumption no longer holds.
Noooooo, that's the whole point! The question that is being asked is not "how to make gun owners less likely to shoot people" but rather "how to make it less likely that people get shot". Per capita is absolutely the right measure to use for the latter question.
All lending to a sovereign is inherently unsecured. When you lend money to someone you demand to be paid interest because there is a risk you won't get repaid. Based on the risk of not being repaid, you charge an appropriate interest rate. What you propose only ends in war.
I think he did me a favor.
Most of the good ones are already listed.
http://joelonsoftware.com is the one I miss here.

He had stopped writing but, the contents there never fail to leave me with an enhanced perspective of things even today.
Also, if anyone wants to read the full page that that graphic was made for (which includes sources):

https://paragonie.com/white-paper/2015-why-invest-applicatio...
Land is private property in most countries, so IMHO your suggestion doesn't really make sense. Or are you trying to say the voters should personally take financial responsibility for the country?

I find it really interesting how people immediately start making moral judgements (it would only be fair if they repay it, they stole someone's money and ran off with it etc.) of the side that borrowed the money when it's on country level.

But when it's a company borrowing money and not being able to repay it - hey, that's just business for ya. The lender should have known better.
OK, fair point. So you don't like taking blame for other people's bad actions, even if those others are part of your community. I get that. We're also having that discussion around Islam too.

But to my mind, this is what makes a community a community. If good things happen we all share credit, so when bad things happen we all share blame. We, collectively, respond to events together. And we police ourselves, which is a form of taking responsibility as a community for the actions of a minority of our members.

So yes, if one of us behaves like an asshole then we as a community take responsibility for that, deal with the asshole, and apologise to the victim.

However, if one of us behaves like an asshole, and we as a community shrug our shoulders and say "not our problem, some people are just assholes" then other communities do have a right to say that we condone it, that we are at fault, that we as a community are behaving badly.

That's how I see it anyway, and why I think we need to accept responsibility.
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I'll bet that's a URL-decoding bug -- space gets encoded as plus, so if they decoded an extra time your plus would turn into a space. I've made that mistake a few times myself.
It's not like Greece just had to get this one deal and then they would have lived happily ever after. For Greece it's not enough to get _a_ deal. They have been getting those deals for 5 years, and a new one is negotiated every few months. The issue is to get a deal that actually works.
Normally I'm not one for ad hominems but he comes off as a huge poser dbag. The only things missing were the duck grimace and Donald Trump pluging his 2016 campaign.
No one's saying Greece will become Germany.

Just that it will be doing better than if don't forgive its debt.
It's a shame that by self publishing this, the work has not had any kind of peer review. As a relative layman, I have no idea how much I can trust the method or conclusions presented.
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I'm not sure that's fair. But since that article is currently on the front page [1] and we shouldn't have two threads about this, we'll downweight this one.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836677
There's something to be said for not pussy-footing around imbeciles.
This sounds quite different from all the things I have heard about South Korea and the general impression I have of the society and the people. Do you have some sources to back these claims up?
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Unfortunately those are the traits many people look for in a politician, although to be charitable they're usually confusing them with more noble traits like honesty or integrity. :( Flippancy, tribalism, and reductivism all too often look like bravery and insight from a great distance, at least among people who see politics as a war rather than as an unfortunate side effect of democracy.
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Sex gangs and jihadists are utterly off topic. Please stop.
From that post:

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>This is no longer a negotiation regarding greek debt, it is a determination of the process for greek exit from the Euro.

Which was the only possible solution for Greece (outside of 50% debt relief which would have been optimal, but politically impossible due to conservative culture). So in a way he delivered.
Yes. Normally, problems give you information so that you can do something with it. Otherwise, even if the author says later on:

Notice that the problem condition gives the suitor a certification about the truth of the labels

the problem author can always cop out and say "yes, but the certification itself was meaningless!".

If I take the labels to their face value, the treasure cannot be in the green box because the red label doesn't have a truth value. (If it's true, then there are two true labels, therefore it must be false. But if it's false, there is only one true label, so the red one is true.)
I trust replications more than peer reviews.

With replication, somebody has to actually try and duplicate experiments.