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How is the Euro different from the Dollar in the US?

I mean, you guys have 51 states, each of them with their own set of specific taxes and laws (just like us), with different commercial strengths and weaknesses (just like us). But we don't hear about Wisconsin being asphyxiated by the dollar value regarding its exportations.

Maybe the fact that we have such a disparity in minimum wages in Europe, where the Northwestern countries (UK, France, Germany etc.) have very high salaries, whereas eastern countries have a sensibly lower wage system.

That's where the BCE and European Parliamentary should start maybe?
i am wondering whether this is a good idea or not. i would like to build a search app on top of this. but worry about support going forward and think just using elastic search would be better in the long term. anyone have any thoughts?
Because the rate of production never stays in line with the rate of spending; you can't force it to stay inline. If you debase a currency, consumers will typically seek to spend it before it loses more purchasing power, which automatically unbalances your economy because you can't control exports or production in a way that you can match the consumption. We saw this disastrous effect during the 2000s, when the dollar lost a large amount of value due to budget deficits, and the middle class lost a lot of ground as wages failed to outpace the currency devaluation.

Why should you care about the US national debt? Because at just ~3.5% interest on that debt, it'll eat up a share of the Federal budget larger than either Social Security or Medicare/Medicaid, at a time in which the US already can't afford its entitlements. Each year that goes by, the US can only afford to pay a lower and lower interest rate on its national debt, and it has to 'print' to cover the deficits today - tomorrow when the red ink on entitlements is greater and the interest costs are greater, the deficit will be greater (projected to explode higher in the near future). That will lead to further devaluation of the dollar, which will further wreck the middle class as it did last decade with the weakened dollar. Exports didn't come even remotely close to making up for the weaker dollar hit last decade, and they won't next time either. The US runs a massive trade deficits, it takes a far worse hit on a weaker currency than it benefits from such.

The only large buyer left for US debt, is the Federal Reserve. The US Government is insolvent without monetizing its own debt via the central bank. Once a nation hits that point, it never recovers.
Legality plays no roll in this argument. Plenty of harmless activities are illegal, and plenty of harmful activities are legal.
Most private investigators make all their money gathering evidence on worker's comp fraudsters for big insurance companies. My dad's been a licensed PI for over 25 years now and domestic cases are few and far between (maybe 1-2 per year) because Mrs Smith pissed off about her cheating husband doesn't have the cash that Bigco Insurance does and PIs charge by the hour. The insurance company has the cost of hiring a PI for 3-4 days so they can win fraud suits with the video evidence built into their cost structure. Unless the payout from a prenup is really big, it's not going to be worth hiring a PI to follow your husband around after work for a week.

(Sidenote: If you're ever dumb enough to try to commit worker's comp fraud, you'd better keep up the act everywhere. Don't limp pathetically to and from your car at the doctor's office, then get home and work on your car or jump on the trampoline you have in your backyard. True story.)
I watched the wolf of wall street recently. I see some of the solutions to these code golf exercises as similar to the bankers who beat their chests and celebrate their masculinity in selling penny stocks to gullible investors.These code golf exercises seem like the software developer equivalent: "look at how brilliant and superior I am that I can obfusicate code into something no-one understands in only 2 lines".

My concern here is that this Code Golf mentality infects the normal day-to-day coding at Google. Just because an implementation can spawn a few lines it doesn't make it a good implementation. What about clean code, maintainability, automated testing, self documenting code...

I pity the codebase I would have to maintain from one of these code golfers.
Your example is somewhat fallacious in that sexual assault is, in fact, criminal, and running a platform that encourages and rewards it is potentially an accessory to that crime. Hacking it may in fact be more ethically (though not necessarily legally) justifiable if its demise in fact contributes to the reduction of violence against the site's users' victims.

Cheating, morally reprehensible as it may be, is not in the same ballpark.

Regarding the "delete your information" fee, I am quite confidant that the lawyers made sure that the service sold was the deletion of your application profile, not the wiping of all traces that you ever did business with the company. To call it fraud is probably premature.
It's now more expensive to buy in Wollongong (Sydney outskirts) then in New York http://www.wsj.com/articles/worry-over-debt-as-australian-ho...
Aren't there negative consequences to having one's own currency when it comes to import? For instance, Greece has a tiny export market and mostly import goods. If they were devaluing their own currency, surely their trade partners would be concerned with dealing with them, unsure what their money would be worth a month from now.

Just look at the ruble in Russia this past winter, it had pretty negative effects for a country that imports a lot of its food.

The article also fails to mention Germany has benefited a lot from the Euro, even through hard times.

Until January this year, the Swiss franc was pegged to the Euro, when it was unpegged, it skyrocketed to become almost the same value as the Euro, effectively halting all export from Switzerland.

I also find the comparison between Finland (pop. 5.4 mil), the Netherlands (pop. 18 mil) and Iceland (pop. 300,000) unfair considering their relative sizes. Surely, it's easier to manage a smaller economy than a larger one.

I must confess, I am no expert, I just believe that criticism of the Euro often tends to be rather simplified. Friedman's commentary (posted by civilian) seems far more "rounded", so to speak. But I will gladly admit that the Euro project is flawed in being a political project rather than an economical project.

Although, Friedman forgets to mention the several nations that use the US Dollar as their official currency as well (e.g. Ecuador, El Salvador and Zimbabwe), surely they have no option at all (unlike Finland and the Netherlands which actually have a say in Euro matters) other than abandoning it.
because that is illegal
You should follow their Twitter and try to give some "insightful" comments. Impress them.
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> "Something Beijing lacks are express lines."

Honestly, if I had to come up with just one innovation that has shaped NYC the most, it has to be the 4-track subway. It not only gets you around faster but makes the system enormously more resilient to outages and anomalies. The fact that the subways are 4-track has shaped Manhattan and the outer boroughs in amazing ways.

All the more disappointing all the new construction will be traditional 2-track :(
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Blackjack, video poker and some bets on craps are the only
times in a casino where the house edge shrinks to below 1%.

Care to cite your source for this or are you a gaming industry insider?
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I would argue not even the macbook is well built, why in 2014 would you make a computer with 4Gb ram? But wait guys it has 4k that barley works! And the final nail in the coffin is these shitty OS releases they have been pushing out, as far as I am aware the firmware portion has been broken since Mavericks.
Another nail in the coffin of the confidence in the IT industry. It starts to look more like a porcupine than a coffin now.
I can´t see anything good in taking the company down. People are cheating, they always did. It's not illegal, they made a personal decision. Why is it a bad thing to run a platform for these people?
It's almost certainly a violation of the school's code of academic integrity, but illegal? Doubtful; nobody goes to jail for cheating on their exams.
Being illegal doesn't necessarily make is more wrong. Those laws are quite peculiar to this time and country. You could say that the laws in a democracy reflect what the people feel is right and wrong, but only on a very coarse level. There are bound to be laws that the majority disagrees with, as well as actions which people agree are wrong but individual cases are so complicated the law wouldn't really be able to handle them, so they're allowed.
I think there's plenty of room for some *NIX laptops below OSX pricepoint - just not sure it's this one
Thank you arianvanp. I will get in touch.
For a domestic flight in China they made me discard a small bottle of children's moltrin. Seems pretty US-imitative to me.
Emberjs with pouchdb and couchdb give me similar functionality (I think) with more proven technologies. Each time i see state/data automatically synchronize across browsers, I'm amazed. And your apps work offline, not entirely sure if meteor provides that.
> Read the source code for yourself

Please tell me why you throwing reams of source code in my face is relevant.

> In a fat arrow function, they would rather replace every instance of 'this' with a generated variable than add a .bind() to the end strictly based on overall performance.

Source? Or could it be, shock, that a library that exists for compatibility is targeting environments without a native .bind()?

> The second problem is surprising for everyone.

It's only surprising for people who have never tried, never read the spec, and don't understand bind(). The spec clearly states that a bound function cannot be overridden. It's really not that difficult. It would be nice if you could provide clear examples of your problems because you're starting to not make sense.
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The ban is not about encryption: http://rys.io/en/149

Of course they can't expect to effectively police the ban if it's put into law. But they don't have to. Everybody will encrypt anyway and that's fine, because once they want somebody put away, they will be able to simply by saying "that person broke the Snooper's Charter by using SSH".

It's not about banning encryption, it's about having a convenient law to put tech-savvy people away.
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You're comparing apples to oranges here. Yes, everything you listed is an Intel x86 part, but the Z3735F is the CPU in my Windows 8 tablet, which has a 4W "SDP" (scenario design power).

The P8400 has a TDP of 25W, or about 6 times the heat dissipation of the Z series atom. So of course the Core 2 can beat an Atom, it's in a completely different category of processor.

If you are going to compare apples to apples, pick the i5 2410M. It's not a new part, but the TDP is comparable to the P8400, and the target market (12.5-15" laptops) is the same.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-2410M+...

Here you can see that the newer laptop-class CPUs out perform the Core 2 by a factor of 2. Couple this with much better integrated graphics, and newer memory (4GB DDR2 SODIMMs exist but compatibility is spotty and they're quite expensive) and it's not really a contest anymore, the newer CPU/chipset provide better performance and will give you longer battery life.

I am not going to claim I am one of those people who needs a powerful processor in my laptop, because 90% of what I do is login to remote servers who do the work much faster than my laptop ever could. But, I do enjoy getting 5-8 hours of battery life thanks to my newer processor sipping electrons when idle, which cannot be said for Core 2 era systems.
Let's say, counterexamples are not unbiased samples.
I stopped drinking coffe 6 months ago and I feel that I raised my average productivity allot as a programmer, my day is more "even" in lack of a better word. I also sleep better, even if I didnt think I had an issue with that while drinking coffe.
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I wish people would stop taking Iceland as an example for pretty much anything. They basically have two industries (Fishing and aluminium) and only 300 000 people, they are a very special case and comparisons rarely make sense.
your morals are universal now? You're comparing legal activity between consenting adults to sexual assault, which in itself I find repulsive and worse than cheating
Sortable's animations were janky for me on an iPad Air. Dragula was nice and smooth.
Because US is fully federalized and is redistributing from the top down (californians and newyorkers pay for the midwest).

The big federally funded programs (military, social security, healthcare, infrastructure) take some pressure off the state's budget.

And because US citizens have less state identity than they identify with US the wealth transfers are easier to bear.

The us citizens that will say "I am American from Colorado(or any of the other 49)" are more common than EU people that will say "I am European from Germany (or any of the other 20+ Eu countries)"
I recently had to implement a drag and drop list, and found Sortable was a super easy to use and extensible library, with configurable callbacks for inserting your own logic in all the right places. It's also a stand alone library, which is nice.

I tried a bunch of others, but Sortable was the clear winner by a fair margin.
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Yes you are right. What you pointed out is a write-skew anomaly which is specific for a Snapshot isolation. The only way to fix this is to upgrade to Serialization level of isolation (SSI for example), which is hopefully will be implemented. Thanks.
I think the Amiga was pretty revolutionary when it launched. Without any accessories, it had stereo sound output and pretty impressive color graphics. And it was affordable (esp. the 500). PCs didn't really get anywhere close in that department until the whole Multimedia PC thing happened in the early 90s.
>The money multiplier effect you're alluding to means that if I have $1000 in the bank, the bank can lend $750 of it out to you, so between the two of us we have $1750 of liquid assets despite the $1000 of hard cash backing it.

Which was my entire point, that when I take out a loan the bank is creating money. I have the $750 I borrowed, the bank has $250 and also a document (my promise to repay) that's worth about $750.

If a bank starts with $1000 in assets, loans me $750 and still retains $1000 in assets, how can it be said the bank can't loan money it doesn't have?

EDIT: In the real world what happens is the banker charges you loan fees (like "points" on a mortgage), and reserve ratios are more like 10% than 25%. Theoretically, if the banker can get you to pay 10% in loan origination fees (and assuming nobody defaults), he can loan as much money as he can find people willing to borrow.

And where does the money for those fees come from? At that point they're still just a promise.
I don't understand one thing. People keep saying that Milton Friedman "predicted" this. However, what exactly approach to macroeconomics did he prescribed to the political union? Specifically, how did he wanted to deal with regions that have different economic growth? As I understand it, he was opposed to strong government and fiscal policies. So how do you resolve these problems on national level, if you can't have monetary policy and you don't want to have fiscal policy? To me it seems that he didn't really have any better solution.
I like the minimal clutter-free feel.

Just fyi, I would look into why the menu looks odd in FF. Some of the product pages also have a floating quote request form that hides some text. I would also shorten the height of the "All Categories" menu to not take up the full screen.
Also not to forget is the partners who were cheated on, many of whom have the same last names and addresses as the exposed users. They are probably not interested in having their lives put on display like that, and would likely have preferred to be told of these affairs in a less public way. This can also cause a great deal of psychological harm to them! The vigilantes behind this could have destroyed the lives of many innocent people who did not deserve this.
The traditional way a state defaults is when their debts are in a currency they have to exchange with their own currency on the open market. Vs their own which they can create via central bank actions. In the former a self-sustaining collapse in exchange rates makes it impossible for the state to buy enough foreign currency to make their debt payments. In the former case, default happens, see Argentina in 2001 or so. In the latter this doesn't happen, see Japan 1989-present.

In the US, all of Federal and state governments debt is denominated in dollars. Varying exchange rates don't effect the ability of the government to pay debt. And the government can borrow money from the Fed, because it can.
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I'd just hope that the duplicate threads are merged together so I can see all comments because comments can't be duplicated.

I appreciate members that are solving the duplicate problem manually by pasting the links to the same post. May be there can be "Report as duplicate" so that admin can merge them together.
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My two favorite go to's on the psychology of founders:

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Illegal, also once you've compiled a data base of PII the laws governing personal information apply to you so you can be screwed from both ways.
Your purview of the "IT industry" is pretty narrow.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9908312
Did you look at Redis or strategies like bit stream and bloom filters as a possible solution ?
"It was a tool for me," Metcalf said. "Like Mom's hot skillet; don't stick your hand on it. Like Dad's power saw; don't stick your finger in it. A gun; don't stand in front of it."

I honestly do not understand how these things are comparable. A skillet is a tool for making food. It does not hurt or kill unless used incorrectly. A power saw is a tool for shaping useful objects. It does not hurt or kill unless used incorrectly.
A gun is a tool for killing. Unless it is used incorrectly, it always destroys or hurts or kills.

Would you argue the same way about being allowed to carry mustard gas? Or smallpox? That the freedom to do so is worth more than the immense hurt it is guaranteed to bring on the world?

The U.S.' obsession with firearms is utterly beyond me (I am from Germany). Just my 2 cents.
I already do. That's one way to get Impostor syndrome.
Even if I am able to get their attention (or a retweet by @pmarca), pitching is still difficult/awkward from there.
It's just at an earlier stage, the eurozone is still very young.

Monetary union has of course always implied ever closer union and the gradual dissolution of nation states - full political and fiscal Union. So the squabbling over who will fund Greece is rather silly in this context, if you want a single currency and market you must accept all the consequences which follow. That will take quite some time though, and as with the formation of the U.S. this is often a messy process.
As snaily said above, your smartphone really doesn't need 2500kcal/day. I think what they were trying to say is that, given 100% perfect energy transfer, you'll be able to power your phone from your daily calories without missing much. As in, "this is so much, you can power a phone without realising something's missing".
In that case, Vladivostok would be a great comparison metric also!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok
Python's always good, thanks, I'll check it out.
I always thought that it would be nice to handle your essential private keys (PGP master key, large bitcoin wallet) on a fully free hardware. Of course free software still can be compromised but at least you could be certain to a degree that your hardware doesn't come compromised out of the box (sure, you have to trust your "fully free hardware supplier" here).
We (Lithuania) joined recently the Euro zone. Only positive things happening here. Someone just wants to make a profit from EUR/USD
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Well, over here at 1:20 000 000 Lithuania has small Klaipeda, but Latvia has no Daugavpils. http://goo.gl/f2ABiy . It has another explanation when relates to 1:20M (ports depicted for small republics). But in my school atlas of the 9th form my home city was absent too on a larger scale map. Also example - Lithiania has Klaipeda, Latvia has Liepaja, Russia has Velikiye Luki (rather small one), Belarus has Vitebsk, but no Daugavpils in Latvia too - http://goo.gl/VoGtvl.
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Human's emotions are connected in constellations.

Overconfidence has its evolutionary story. For example, with a little overconfidence, you can take risk to start up. You have to be a bit delusional to aim high. And it doesn't sound bad to me.
Why shouldn't we blame victims too? Should we not blame victims of shark attacks that swim in shark-infested waters?
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How much do you actually take NY area commuter rail or Bos-NY-Wash corridor trains? It sounds comparable to what you describe.
Regardless of what he's said its nice to read a webpage that for once didn't take 5 seconds to load, didn't clobber my screen with unnessecary junk or have jerky scrolling.
There's no need for a source. It's common knowledge. Many books, websites, and research papers have extensively studied those games.

Edward Thorp is a mathematician who did a lot of analysis about blackjack over 50 years ago.[1] He's a seminal figure in this field.

Here's one site I recall mostly because it has a memorable name: http://wizardofodds.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Dealer#History
I'd say no. The US is one of the few developed nations that has been busy paying down household debt for the last five years. It's in far better shape than its peers. [1]

Most major economies have been taking on increasing amounts of household debt, or are already carrying too much. That includes: Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Ireland, Portugal.

Others like Italy have taken on more debt (30% more in ten years), but started from a relatively low base. Or Japan, which has a bit too much household debt but has been flat for 20 years.

The US, Germany and the UK are among the few that have been actively reducing household debt.

In the US assets are richly valued due to the former QE and low interest rates, but there isn't a bubble (yet anyway). If the US continues to reduce household debt, while boosting employment and wages (the US unemployment rate is half that of the Eurozone), that will only improve the situation. The US will very likely substantially outperform its peers over the next decade; the strong dollar has reclaimed a lot of lost purchasing power for the middle class, effectively giving Americans a 20% pay raise versus the rest of the world (and that's before interest rates climb).

[1] http://i.imgur.com/718Coeb.png