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I think these are engineering-wise fantastic. Though, I do worry that they look a little too non-local. When you take care of someone, sure you start at the base of Maslow's law of hierarchy, but it is important to take cultural, personal, etc. issues into consideration as well. This hold especially true when dealing with prolonged displacement where identity and self-worth can be challenged.

I'm bothered by the out-sized number of negative attacks on this comment. Not because they are negative, but because they are personal. I wholeheartedly believe in constructive criticism, but discounting someones viewpoint based on another subjective viewpoint is not constructive criticism.

Some companies minimize advertising budget but manage do do very well. Patagonia spends less than 1% of sales on advertising. (http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/brand-strategy-tha...)

i wasn't taking issue with exchangel.co, per se. i was taking issue with the responses to it on HN. "Best idea ever!" "You should be able to short!" "How about an 'Index Fund' version!" "I wan't to make money and pretend I know investing!"

so, this is my point. your assumption is wrong. very, very, obviously wrong. that isn't at all the meaning of the word "banker" in finance. and it's not "my" use of the word. it's the broadly used / accepted / understood meaning. and they aren't small percentages. the percentage they receive for making deals is published, look it up. banker != trader != portfolio manager, etc.

also, i didn't say they weren't likable. generally they are very likable. and i didn't say they don't know what they are doing. they know very well what they're doing.

I was considering the same. The best advise I got was: Never pay for a Masters. Get into a doctoral program, get the MS for free. If you stay for the PhD, awesome. If not, at least your not out the cost of a down-payment for a nice home.

please note, i said "left the world of finance". i wasn't a banker.

what's the weissman score?

dear god. run for the exits. the day is finally here.

i left the world of finance and headed toward software engineering. side benefit, no fantasy football. nobody pretending that they understood "the market". those who commented regarding "shorts" etc. why not options? or swaptions? or futures? or future options? you should totally start a risk-neutral team. wait, weren't we talking about software engineering.

here is the thing. by and large, you all have zero clue what you're talking about. tell me that's not true all day long, but, whatever. you've read a book. you've worked on some algorithm. but chances are you've never been wined and dined by a bulge bracket investment bank attempting to win the brokerage business of the hedge fund you work at. you've likely never spoken with bankers about upcoming offerings. you've likely never been given a tour of the manufacturing plant floor by management, because you're thinking of investing a hundred or so million.

and here is the thing that makes me really sad. at least bankers, a horrible bunch of humans, by and large studied the humanities and admit that they are generally selling crap. this new breed of programmers sorta study computer science and then walk around like they have "the answer" for every human problem. and now i have to deal with "Fantasy Angel Investing".

run for the exits

no doubt. amazon <heart> government.[0]

[0]http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/07/how-cia-partner...

I believe you don't know what you're talking about. Forbe's thought it was an open source issue. I don't think many would say Forbe's has a radical open source "agenda". http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/25/a-cautionary... EDIT: just to clarify, i'm not saying Forbe's said FDB is open source. i'm pointing to the fact that someone that writes for a national business magazine about open source issues thought it was an open source "issue". if persons working in open source can hope to make a living, counting business as a stakeholder is a good idea.

yet more downvotes, with no reasoning, on a relevant comment. hacker news is like that significant other that abuses you and you keep going back to. i can't keep making excuses for you hacker news.

yet another argument for rethinking the open source model.

no doubt. much respect for the police, except when it comes to the "drug war" (i.e. war on poverty / race / ...). in the case of the drug war, eff the police.

-4 pts... wtf just happened

anyone else not clicking on the link since it's playboy.com?

so, what i hear you saying is, you're proposing we double down on desalinization?

"I'd say free to anyone below some income level since the middle class can afford it anyway."

I totally understand you're coming from a good place here, but this is exactly the type of thing that can go all sorts of wrong when implemented by people coming from not such a good place. Also, this could come across any number of ways if you're coming from a different place (socioeconomic wise). For instance. Well off families tend to have less children and are in a position to provide for them. So, if I'm poor and can't afford to take care of my kids properly, you're proposing I just don't have them?

I use that example only to emphasize what I think is already implicit in your comment, that this is a super complex issue. My reaction to the article was similar to yours, just from a different angle. I kept reading "more efficient use of" and thinking, at what point do we realize we need to use less and not just get more out of what we use?

ah, that clears it up.

soooooo, the way i see it, imho, is that any government which derives its authority from the governed is inseparable from the governed. i.e. government = proper subset of governed. either cyberspace is lawless (and might makes right) or there is some form of law, thus some form of governance, and thus a government. again inmho, a government of and by the people is better than, say, fascism. until we've evolved to the state of Zee Prime, cyberspace will continue to exist in that most primitive of mediums, atomic matter, and so must share the domain of nation states and such. look at me now, blathering on as much as this article. all i was trying to say is, given that cyberspace is pervasive throughout the political structures of our earth, maybe we should productively engage rather than hostilely withdrawal. that, and Jefferson was able to eloquently express his deep understanding of governance through his pen while still clearly shouting, "leave us the f-ck alone or expect a fight you english b-stards." you just new he meant it.