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The problem with the economy right now is not that there isn't enough money to fund corporations, it's that the average person isn't making enough regular income.

He's ignoring the fact that having Mankiw work less may be a good thing. If Mankiw makes that $1000 for an article, he'll sock it away and it won't get spent for 10+ years. If a starving writer instead takes the job, he'll spend it immediately.

I do not see the downside.

A co-founder would be the one to tell you "What the hell is a picodollar?"

I've seen several, and this one does an alright job, although with too much text:

http://i.imgur.com/HXLOw.jpg

Maybe I'm misinterpreting the movie, but I don't think this is correct at all. If you cut out the first and last 10 minutes of the movie, then maybe you could get the impression that it flows somewhat like this.

I have a feeling it was mostly accidental. Having a bunch of awesome people increases the likelihood of it happening, but I don't think that is a very repeatable lesson.

Ah, I found my answer. Sets are stored in both a skip list and a hash table. So the overhead is indeed high.

If that's true, I wonder why. Maybe is they are trying to get O(1) access? Storing it the 'default' way would be O(log n) which isn't bad, but might still be unacceptable.

It is true that the amount of nutrients in a smoothie is unchanged relative to the whole counterparts. However, I'm willing to bet that the blood glucose response curve of a smoothie is significantly sharper than the whole fruit alternatives due to the ease of digestion.

The peaks in blood glucose are what's really bad for you, and especially bad for me. Therefore, I look out for them and stay the hell away.

Is it possible for both sides of an argument to be wrong? Yes, communication would have been nice. However, it's not like the workings of the Rails Core group is secret. You can look at the commit logs and get a feel for what's going on and how close they actually are.

Expecting open source developers to give accurate estimates is kind of silly. However, responding with "Fuck you" is unnecessarily rude.

I have no science to back this up, but my gut feeling is that smoothies are like candy, and aren't actually very good for you. The act of blending everything takes all the work out of it, and now there's just a bunch of sugars for your body to absorb.

I like to make my body work for its calories, which is mostly a response to hypoglycemia. Anything I can do to make calories (specifically carbohydrates) harder to digest, the better. Brown rice, whole grains, and whole fruits are far better than their alternatives.

I usually go to bed around 1 and wake at 8:30 to get in to work before 10.

Logic?

What the hell is up with this thread? This has to be the worst thread I've ever seen at HN. You'd think this were a comment thread on Fox News or something.

People: Chill the fuck out. The IRS is accepting comments on the issue. The rule doesn't go into effect until, realistically, April of 2013. By then, it is almost guaranteed that the rule will be significantly weakened to the point where it is not much different than what we have in place now.

This isn't a world-ending or economy-destroying fuckup organized by big-governement Democrats. It was a short-sighted clause put in by a politician trying to close a loophole. This is why we have checks and balances- the executive branch, which is actually in charge of implementing these rules, will implement them in a sane way.

So put your conspiracy theories to bed and get on with life. File a comment with the IRS and wait a couple of years. Then maybe you'll see that this was just one big stink over nothing.

As for getting paid for small jobs and paying people for small jobs, if you paid the person more than $600 in a tax year, you should have already been giving/receiving 1099s.

The only difference with the new rule is that you'd have to give 1099s to vendors.

Wow. Jump to conclusions without evidence? Sign me up!

More likely it was an attempt to close a perceived tax loophole without understanding of the cost of compliance. I have no doubt it will get fixed before it actually goes into effect.

I believe they did ship a few dozen units out in Q1. I don't believe they lied in any of those quotes- at worst it looks like they'll miss their July 30 ship date by a week or so. That's not all that bad.

That's like wearing a helmet while walking down the street because you might accidentally fall and hit your head.

Don't be an idiot in the first place and you won't have to do idiotic things to prevent damage from your idiocy.

That sounds very useful, but what's the price? I doubt it will catch on if it is $10 per "battery".

I thought this was a terrible idea at first, because a significant portion of television viewing time is spent at night time.

However, if the cells were on the front of the remote and were good enough that they could power it based upon only the glow from the TV, that would be great. You're already pointing the remote that direction.

Oh, I didn't realize that had a name! My boss does that, and it is incredibly irritating.

If you can't turn off that top toolbar, it's a no-go for me from the start. Using up ~10% of extremely valuable real estate for buttons that you should have memorized the keyboard shortcuts for? No thanks.

In general it appears to be very wasteful of screen real estate, and to be poorly thought out from a UE perspective. Buttons and fonts are bigger than they need to. There's some extremely quizzical usage of padding, as well.

Here's a link to a compilation of Tim and Eric's Old Spice commercials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PD4f5uTOU

Same here. I got a Merkur HD about 6 months ago. The initial investment is a bit high, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has already paid off. The blades I got are ~$0.25 each, and last about 1-2 months if cared for.

More than that, though, the shave is just all around superior. It baffles me that people shave with Mach 3s or electric razors.

Also, re: tuning parameters. You can use them, in some circumstances.

For tokyo in particular, it assumes tch. It'd be a 1-2 line fix to add in support for tcb or tcf. I don't know enough about Tokyo to test it, however.

Also, you can use tcb with Tyrant, which Moneta supports.

It turns out the code used the Redis native expiration, but it wasn't compatible with Redis 2.x. So I fixed both problems. I sent a pull request. We'll see if it makes it into main.

http://github.com/subwindow/moneta

As a side note, the library is pretty simple at this point. The way the tests are set up is pretty excellent as well.

That was my first thought as well. The expire/expireat commands are one of the main reasons why I chose Redis.

I'm honestly not sure why wycats would make that statement. It's not like the interface for expiration is particularly opaque.

That was my first thought as well. From Amazon's point of view, this is very much "Not cool, dude." I'm not sure at what point it becomes a legal issue, but it is definitely a dickish move.

Not knowing much about OS design, is there any inherent reason why operating systems built on microkernels seem to be so unsuccessful? They always seem really elegant, but are never widely adopted (with the possible exception of Mach -> OS X).

#1. It is written in PHP.

(sorry, I couldn't resist)