danielsoneg

Not buying that, especially not at the moment - Greece is doing far more damage to the Euro as a reserve currency than anything the US could do to the dollar before August 2nd, and if Greece gets its house in order, there's still Portugal waiting in the wings. What's more, the US has an inflation rate right now that's practically nil, and I suspect China's interest is in the US spending again - their bond holdings exist for the sake of currency control, not as a legitimate investment.

Generally speaking, once all the participants in a particular market sector are offering the same set of services (or at least, the subset consumers care about), the only area they have to compete on is price - eventually, the price drops to the absolute lowest the service can be offered for. It can still be a viable industry to be in, but it's really not "darling of Wall St" territory.

First, the guy could be accused of choking babies to death with child porn and that wouldn't make a damn bit of difference as far as his, and the rest of our, fundamental rights are concerned.

Second, accused (or even indicted) is absolutely different than convicted, which itself bears an indirect relationship to 'true'.

Third, courts typically don't post private proceedings on the internet - you'd be amazed how many things you wouldn't be able to "find anything" about via a google search. If he's being held for contempt in relation to a case that he's not actually a defendant in, I imagine it'd be really bloody difficult to find a whole lot about that online, and in either case I can't imagine any sane lawyer giving him the green light to post on the internet details about a case for which he's already being held in contempt.

But by all means, don't let me stop you from impugning the integrity of a man you admit to knowing nothing at all about.

Not really - everywhere I've gone has asked me for my email to send me my password. Same principle as with passwords: enter your email, we hash it, if it matches a hashed email in the DB, we send a 'reset' email to the address you entered.

Again, though, the question isn't whether they had the right to seize the servers they had warrants for - they did, and you won't get that questioned by any court - but whether they did so properly, and it's not unheard of for a law enforcement agency to get slapped for overstepping their bounds. It's not Common, but it's not unheard of, and it's not a 4th amendment issue either.

You know that's basically the same thing - central entity with overarching authority exerts its will over the market, canceling transactions it's deemed 'fraudulent' between two independent consenting entities. "Free hand of the market" ain't present here, chief - this is regulation.

imogNG «- Someone else used this one.

And Thanks! Looks like an awesome service - taking it for a spin…

That's pretty much the problem in a nutshell - the policy's unclear, and it's always unclear until Apple brings the hammer down. Not a good environment in which to try to build a business.

Chrome's historically performed extremely well in the competition, which is why it's notable they've actually found an exploit.

https://github.com/danielsoneg/spiky-world

It's inspired by Richard Florida's "Spiky World" article from The Atlantic. We're pulling in "For Sale" posts from 10 different categories and comparing them across 10 different cities to show which cities "spike" in which categories compared to the rest of the country.

Note this was done in a couple hours - it's Very rough and requires a browser that does WebGL.

First, you're right - he's fighting the wrong battle with regards to the field of economics. The Chicago School is most definitely Not the Austrian School, and I think much of the field of actual economists would agree that market fundamentalism is wrong.

But I don't think this is a real attempt to rebut the field of economics itself - this is fundamentally a political piece. Soros isn't an economist - he's a smart guy, he's a savvy investor, he's politically and philosophically acute, but he's not an economist. What he's attacking are political philosophies, not economic theories, and at this point, the ghost of Hayek casts a longer shadow in politics than economics.

Maybe it's been happening for a long time, but the horseshit that's being peddled under the brand of economics in political circles is a big problem in the current political environment, and much of it derives from a fairly easy-to-understand set of works that pushed the market doctrine. He's arguing against bullshit economics, not actual modern economics, even if he doesn't know it.

Seriousy, though - awesome hack.

Using the same methodology and the same software - granted, it's "false-positive proof", but there are variables here he didn't account for. Methodology matters.

Samsung supervisor

No, Samsung SUPPORT supervisor. I'm comfortable going out on a limb and hypothesizing that:

A) The Samsung Support Supervisor knew exactly as much about the situation as the author - that is, Nothing. He called telephone support, not the engineering department.

B) It's entirely possible said supervisor bullshitted something that sounded plausible and positive. Again, it's a call center support supervisor, not a press release or any sort of official statement by the company.

The author has an extremely small sample, a very small amount of extremely limited evidence, and nothing that could be called a credible statement from Samsung.

IF Samsung is knowingly doing this it's a terrible policy and a serious problem. IF it's for the reason the supervisor said, it's Incredibly bad policy. IF the article is true, it's possibly criminal. We don't have enough evidence to claim that yet, and until more testing is done and Samsung makes a statement, it's not an Incident, it's a curious event that certainly calls for further investigation.

And, frankly, "Street Smart" + "Murdered" = "Not Street Smart Enough"

Could develop quite a nice Programming Language Pain Index…

A Customer Service fail, in this case, is identical to a technical fail - his data is Gone, Gone, Gone, and all he's got for it is platitudes.