VladRussian2

>We are animals. ... As such, cubicles are pretty much a nightmare.

and open space plan even more so if you don't get your desk placed so that your back is to the wall and you're facing "the space". In low density office this results in people's desks placed along the walls with emptiness in the center, ie. waste of space compare to cubicles, in high density - people in the middle are miserable (speaking from the fact, we have 2 very similar buildings on the campus - both open space, one is low density and another is heavily populated).

people just need to have trust that government would accept the tax payment in that currency and at that rate to the other, paper, currency if it is still around - very low bar of trust for a government to meet and it would provide strong bottom line value for a currency. Especially if some deflatory (or limited inflatory) machinery is algorithmically built-in (bitcoin-style) so the government couldn't "print" the money faster than some limit.

Interesting variant would be a 2-tier system where government would accept only bitcoins "printed" by the government while allowing other bitcoins to be circulated as well.

My main point here is that whatever technology achieves is ultimately made to serve government as well (or sometimes almost exclusively).

>but if bitcoin is really un-hackable

it may be un-hackable, yet not irreplaceable. One can imagine a government initiating a similar crypto-currency, controlling it through humongous server farms built somewhere where real estate and electricity is cheap, and accepting tax payments in that currency and blessing businesses to accept it as well.

>Why do Americans always have to act happy? It's so fake.

we'd like to believe it is fake. Otherwise what conclusion it would lead us to, incl. about ourselves? After more than decade here i started to come to that conclusion and sometimes i think i should have chosen the blue pill :)

or may be Great Firewall does it right :) Btw, can NSA splitters function as such as well? Or [selectively] replace real traffic with artificially generated one? (I mean pure splitter wouldn't, yet why it would be just a pure splitter? why limit themselves to read-only capabilities only? May sound like a new tin foil hat frontier for some ... yet i think we do need one at least as a guide post into the future as the reality has already moved well past the previous one)

typical approach of blaming the victim. You miss completely on the fact of force and information asymmetry.

yes, that's my question as well. Why do i even know about Groupon? It was a lot on HN. And everytime i was wondering why it was here.

>I just wonder, what comes next in the US, two years for littering, perhaps?

well, theoretically you can get up to 1 year in many states, though i suspect usually it is much-much less harsh than that.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/environment-and-natural-resourc...

>someone will have a happy and prosperous life.

the driver of adaptation, survival and progressive development of the species [and its civilization if any] are not necessarily the ones who live happy and prosperous life.

30+ years ago China made a choice between 2 alternatives - "1B population with IQ 135" or "2B population where 1B has IQ 130 and 1B has IQ 120" (the specific values 135/130/120 are just for illustration)

>that child gets showered with attention.

and all the other resources are poured into one child instead of being spread around several children. Thus only child has higher IQ and development level than when there are several of them.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mckibben-one.html

"A twenty-year tracking study of 3,000 high school students demonstrated that only children have higher IQs than their peers with one sibling -- in fact, "there are marked negative effects on IQ of increasing sib size."

--- end of citation --

There are also similar results of first child having higher IQ than second - as all the attention goes to him/her during the critical first years of brain development while second child doesn't have such undivided attention.

>ask questions!

it would be nice. Unfortunately asking questions i feel like i'm interrogating or intruding onto somebody's else private property.

Appetite comes with eating.

interesting, as i can't really name any tool i'd buy. Anything what i think is needed is available for free.

color terminal? You definitely should feel lucky.

NSA saves it anyway :). I mean once your unencrypted bits hit the wire/waves, all these statements about who can(not) read/see/save/etc.. are just fog.

sort of a tragedy of commons. The expenses to be born individually while rewards to be ripped by the society/community. Only incarnation of semantic web profitable individually that has been discovered so far is blossoming SEO.

>The only thing a thumping CPU gives you is the ability to ignore what your bad apps and OEM bloatware are doing to performance longer than otherwise. Disable the boatware and clear out the sketchy apps you don't use and that Tegra 3 is just fine.

didn't work during previous 20+ years of PC era.

as a threat to FB it worth much more. FB is just too slow to recognize it. Wrt. feeling of immediacy/in-the-moment/real-time we have progression from "archaic grand-ma long form" style of FB status update, wall posting, etc.. -> TWTR -> Snapchat. FB is $100/user, TWTR is $100/user and the $3bn is about the same valuation for Snapchat.

i like my missed opportunities in logarithmic:

https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?showDataPoints=f...

btw, isn't the point of bitcoin system is that all transactions are forever traceable, ie. bitcoins can't just disappear, they only can be moved from one known place to another?

> including Amazon's cc2.8xlarge instance with 32 cores

they count AWS "vCores" which is 1 HT ( half-core).

we start as a lump of quickly dividing cell, a tumor of a kind. We progress though fish-stage, reptile, etc... Different people have different decency standards wrt. killing and torture of living organisms. As we know the society-wide the standard is pretty low - everything, except humans in majority of situation, can be killed and everything, except (thanks God for animal rights people) majority of mammals in majority of situations, tortured. My personal standard as of now is that killing of insects/fish ok, reptiles and birds - don't like it, yet still somewhat ok, and no killing for mammals, and no torture for anybody (at least what i can perceive as a torture). Thus i personally think the abortion is ok up to about week 6-7.

that distinction exists only for us, ie. ones who do it. It doesn't exist for subjects of our actions. Refusal to understand it that is so widespread trough the society is a major roadblock in development of emphatic ability which is the key to triggering the next qualitative stage of the human species brain development.

and starting with insects makes it easier for transition to torturing of sentient beings. It isn't about what a cockroach feels (lets hope not much), it is about what doing it to cockroach does to the mentality of the one who does it.

What happens in the labs must stop. And one of the sure way to do it is to not let children to grow into torturers.

the article didn't point to any evidence that some human genetic lines stay at the top for generations due to social context vs. say inherent qualities. The article pointed only to correlation. Such correlation doesn't means causation, especially considering that the social context may be a direct result of inherent qualities (while inherent qualities may be only very indirect result of social context). This is why comparison with baseline where we _think_ inherent qualities play significant role is important.

If, for example, aristocracy like English lords started (or was significantly affected through such a process) as most successful fighters, and didn't have significant gene mix with "lower" classes, when it would be very reasonably to suppose that their inherent qualities is somewhat different.

it would be interesting to see as a baseline the study of for how many generations descendants of an alpha lion/wolf/gorilla get into the alpha position themselves, if any.

i wonder is it normal practice on mobile to include private key (from the Analytics SDK docs for Android):

InsightsCredentials credentials = AmazonInsights.newCredentials(YOUR_APP_KEY, YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY);

Looks strange. I'd expect that either each app installation to have its own permanent key (most probably some derivative of your key generated at install/download) or, by analogy with the well known system, something like the app/device coming to you for temporary ticket and using it to initialize SDK.

lets hope graphene is real :)

the main difference :)

" The leadership was usually executed independently of the one in ten deaths of the rank and file"

it is natural selection similar to Darwin prize - if you're stupid enough to seriously b!tch on internal _anonymous_ board ...

Reminds me about anonymous surveys in some previous BigCo where emailed links to the surveys contained unique ID.

there are no "stand taking" heroes for one. Or at least doing it publicly and conspicuously with big noise seems to be not considered a good style in society here(just my observation for 10+ years here) What i've seen a manager, good person, does when he is forced to pigeonhole somebody into incorrect category, it is to write in plain English in performance review form - "performance is at the grade X, assigning grade Y because of required grade allocation"