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Free movement across borders is fundamentally incompatible with the other civic guarantees like anonymity and social welfare insurance. It's like the CAP theorem for humanity.

If you want to hop in a boat and motor away, no one will stop you. But if you leave this country, you probably want to go into another country (the world is about out of wilderness), and what are you going to do when you get there, without a passport?

1. it's an infographic, not intended as meaningful discourse.

2. It talks about tuition, which is a nonsense metric, since private (and to a lesser extent public) colleges offer steep discounts (aid). A meaningful analysis would report on actual payments.

If there were ever a thread that was useless without pics, this is it.

I don't get it:

http://www.jgraph.com/mxlicense.html is a non-free license, but https://github.com/jgraph/mxgraph/blob/master/license.txt is non-commercial Creative Commons

Can I get a perpetual commercial license for mxGraph today?

https://www.draw.io/about.html says

"As Pro Plus® ++

Unlimited Users Unlimited Drawings Full Source Code

$0 / diagram / cpu / user / hour"

And how did you get permission to display all those customer logos on your page? -- Fortune 500 usually negotiate compensation for using their logos like that, which a vendor of a free product wouldn't have time/incentive to deal with.

Who upgrades a CPU without upgrading their motherboard too?

The benefits are neglible, as next-gen RAM, next-gen peripheral bus, etc, all require a next-gen motherboard.

More of a concern is custom-built shopping, where it is harder for a small vendor to stock a batch of mobos and a variety of chips, and some chips go obsolete before sale (and so their mobos would be lost too...)

But hardware is really, really good these days (as the article notes). Runs cooler, less stress, less failure, far overpowered for most use-cases, less need to upgrade.

Enjoy our modern bounty and pay a bit extra for a new mobo every few years.

Shifting? Apple has sold appliances for over 28 years.

It's $200 per marginal 8GB, actually. Per 1 GB, that's only a $20 markup over fair market value of the RAM. It's not so much when you say it that way, just like a text message is only 10c each, for each of the thousands Twitter/AIM generates.

SMART car is $12-$25K now, so that problem is solved.

I am responding to your post on a 5+ year-old Mac with upgraded RAM and a replaced battery. The upgrade/refreshability is a key factor in this machine being worth the premium price it cost.

Right, and Macs are optimized for performance and physical aesthetics, not practical servicability. Sound familiar?

> So anywho I love getting on my soapbox but it's insane how many huge companies benefit from these scams, and how simple it is for them to have deniability due to the ecosystem of using these small timers on the front end.

The same structure drives multi-level marketing, off-shoring/outsourcing manufacturing/recycling/garbage-hauling to sweatshops/polluters/mafia, and the junk mortgage bubble / global financial crisis.

That "one application" was software+hardware tasked with managing millions of hand-written paper forms. The electronic version of tax filing was far cheaper, and launched successfully.

Huh?

How do any of your analogies work?

Useless? The software running the computer you are typing on is full of void*.

Even if you don't give it a name, you are still doing it.

Ugh, for 111kclub I'd expect a much more specific, exclusive error. I can get a general error anywhere.

Maybe members-only get to see the exciting details of the error?

Quality users move on, status chasers move in.

Maintained, not wrote. John Wiegley wrote both.

http://www.emacswiki.org/PlannerMode

It is cool that Sacha maintained it, volunteering is awesome.

I am pointing this correction out because Sacha's primary career is as a self-promotion specialist (http://sachachua.com/blog/), so I have to be skeptical of how her name gets attached to technical work, more so than someone who doesn't pursue celebrity for profit.

People shouldn't think that it's so easy to be famous and a technical contributor. The larger contributors (like John Wiegley in this case) tend to be less famous.

Example: Sure, Linus Torvalds is a celebrity and massive contrbutor, but there are dozens (hundreds?) of other massive Linux kernel contributors who are less famous than, say, Jeff Atwood.

Wow, she is such an happy-happy-joy-joy blogger^evangelist^blogger that I never though she had time to write any code.

It's the reverse. I can't carry a bottle of chemicals without spilling it on myself, or take apart an machine without dropping a few pieces in the sewer, so I stick to the virtual world where my poor hand-eye coordination won't get me killed.

Natural-language likeness, with all its weirdness and power, was an explicit design goal of Larry Wall's perl, a language which was instrumental in creating the WWW as we know it.

Point of information for this thread: Erlang's iolist are similar (in data structure and complexity) to Haskell's bizarrely named Difference List, which is explained a bit more here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/dlist/0.4.1/doc/...

It's basically a tree, which is efficient (amortized O(1) per element) for many list appends followed by one iteration.

Braintree's engineering blog has been featured on HN many times, but no one ever talks about actually using Braintree.

It's a pun. Zappos is a clothing store.

Spacebar works fine for me in G+ Stream page.

You customers will not be mollified if you tell them that the service you sold is down due to a subcontractor failure.

Which is better? Having a day of downtime each year, or not launching at all?

Northwest DC has plenty of the whitest richest Democratic voters you'll find.

I can't imagine wanting to be in the company of someone who who (a) you don't want on your facebook, and (b) would bitch at you for it.