DavidAdams

It's true that grass-fed animals don't have the same environmental impact as grain-fed ones. But the problem is that there's no way to produce enough beef to meet worldwide demand other than concentrated feedlots. And certainly no way to produce it at the low cost that the market demands.

Unless the cost of beef can be adjusted to include all the negative externalities that its production entails (topsoil loss, water and air pollution from fertilizers, pesticides, manure, and diesel fuel, antibiotic resistant super-bugs, public health threats from unsanitary slaughterhouse practices, etc) then meat producers and consumers will benefit from cheaper prices while the environment suffers.

Sardines are also a fantastic source of calcium. They're a super food. And sustainable to boot.

Not only that, you can deduct gambling losses from your income, if you're unlucky.

To be fair to Paul Krugman (whatever his sins may be), his comments about the dangers of inflation in the US, which is what he's talking about in this case don't relate to the very real issue of inflation in Argentina.

I had a Fiero back in 1987 when I was 16. It was really a crummy car, reliability-wise, but so fun.

I'm the publisher of OSNews. We would still like to cover the hobbyist and alternative scene more, but indeed it's not as vibrant as it used to be. And of course, over the past 6-7 years, we're covering mobile a lot more. We always covered mobile OSes, but of late the mobile OS world has been more interesting than the desktop OS world, which is becoming a little ossified.

To be honest, desktop OSes are getting boring because they're all so good now. Even Windows 8, for all its goofy UI is really a respectable OS now. (And of course there are no upstarts challenging Mac, Windows, and Linux).

But back to alternative OSes. We could use a shot in the arm. If there's anyone out there that's interested in lesser-known OSes and would be willing to do a little bit of reporting on it at OSNews, we'd love to have you. Send me an email.

It's because the word evolved during the 20th century into a mild pejorative. Similar to the word "gypsy." Occidental isn't disliked because nobody ever called anyone an Occidental in a sneering way.

Keep in mind that it would be taxable, so most people would pay a portion of it back in taxes.

Actually, this system would pay you the money unconditionally, and any money you make goes on top of that. It's a system that encourages work. However, it's going to encourage people to do work that makes them happy, because it's no longer necessary to work just to survive.

I think this could pose a problem for truly awful jobs like at slaughterhouses, because nobody would be desperate.

This problem solves itself. Poor people move to cities because of limited economic opportunity where they live. You can make more money, but the cost of living rises in proportion. If you make 28K no matter where you live, then it makes sense for a lot of people to optimize by staying in or moving to places with a low cost of living. Maybe a lot of them will watch TV all day, but at least they'll be fixing up an old house so they have a decent place to live, and contributing to their community.

You absolutely don't give people more money who live in more expensive areas. Actually, by allowing people who don't really want to live in the Bay Area to move someplace cheaper and simultaneously increase their standard of living, you'd actually end up reducing price pressure in overheated real estate markets like SF, and propping it up in super-cheap areas like Detroit.

If you have congestion pricing, and the money is paid in cash, people who value the money more than the convenience will use the transit system earlier or later when it's less crowded, and pocket the difference.

The genius of the minimum guaranteed income, and the reason that it could possibly appeal to both liberals and libertarians is because in this case it does precisely the opposite of what you're afraid of: the government doesn't pick anything.

They give it to everybody. If you think that the government does a poor job of allocating the absolutely colossal amounts of money currently spent by social programs, or you recognize that trying to "do a good job" and prevent fraud, and all the other social engineering requires a vast, wasteful bureaucracy, then this is an interesting option.

This is a program that eliminates extreme poverty, but requires almost no infrastructure. You'd only need to verify that recipients are citizens and that they file their taxes. Since you can abolish Social Security, a stripped down social security bureaucracy, which already prevents people who haven't paid into social security from receiving benefits, could take over that task.

It could allow one of the largest and most sweeping reductions in the size of government in our lifetimes.

And if you believe in freedom, but also want to live in a country where people don't have to beg for food, then this is your best bet. You trust people to make their own decisions about what benefits them and their family. You don't discourage work or enterprise.

I think it's a political long shot of epic proportions, but also a great idea.

Very few media outlets make anywhere near $10 CPM these days.

Steve Blank has a good and well-known definition for the term startup: "an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model."

http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...

In this sense, a typical new restaurant or dry cleaner isn't a startup, because they're following an established business model. A startup restaurant would be experimenting with innovative pricing, production, or other techniques, and would probably have to tweak its model on the road to success and would face an outsized risk of failure.

The shenanigans the commenter is outlining is probably an attempt to make sure that the landlord can ensure that there will be enough minor charges at move-out to enable them to keep the entire security deposit. It's shady and probably wouldn't hold up in court, but most renters wouldn't fight it and would just forfeit their deposit.

Shutterstock has a blogger program wherein blogs and news websites get free use of their catalog of stock photography in exchange for attribution.

This was 1996, so I think my nudist predates Po Bronson's.

I shit you not. He was a bona-fide nudist, though he preferred the term "naturist." And yes, he worked from home four days per week. He put some sweats and a t-shirt on when he came into the office, but I'm sure he was going commando.

I think that this article, though terse and generalistic, addresses a valid issue. However, I agree with many posters here in saying that it's not exclusively age that hampers older engineers, but an ossified skillset. Anyone who becomes entrenched in a nichey vocation then strikes out at 50+ to find new employment is going to suffer. The tech world worships youth and forgives hubris and foolishness, so it's especially unfertile ground.

That being said, as a serial startup founder, on a few occasions I've had developers working for me in their late fifties and even sixties. I was, in fact, in my mid to late twenties at the time, and I had great relationships with these guys. They had kept their skills up and their experience enabled them to sometimes do the work of ten people.

In my first company, I had a sixteen year old whiz kid who was possibly the most gifted hacker I've ever worked with, and we later hired a portly, bearded, late-fifties nudist Unix guy who balanced the youngster out quite nicely.

I'm now working in a startup where of the eleven of us, nine of us are in our forties, including three 40-something engineers. I've never worked with a better crew. And our stack is about as cutting-edge as would be responsible in a serious startup. Our VP of engineering literally helped invent Java at Sun, but moved on to new things later on instead of getting stuck.

I can't tell you how excited my 11 year old was this morning to show me his latest world right after he'd installed a new texture pack that worked with the old red-blue 3D glasses. I tried to explore around a really felt like an old geezer when I accidentally busted a hole in his wall when I was trying to climb a ladder. "I don't understand these new-fangled games."

The GPL depends on the body of copyright law for enforcement. An entity that violates the GPL by, for example, making a derivative work and not releasing the source, legally would be held to account by the owner of that particular project's copyright. This works because copyright prohibits copying software except by express permission of the copyright holder. The GPL grants anybody the right to copy the software as long as they abide by the license. Once you violate the license, then your right to copy or distribute the software is revoked.

I think the idea was that the fact that the defendants were active on their Facebook accounts was sufficient to prove that they had in fact seen the Postings including the court service.

I can't speak to "over 50," but I can speak to "over 40." I founded my first software startup in 1995 while I was still an undergraduate. I had the good fortune of timing it so that after a year and a half of toil and obscurity we hit the wave of the dotcom boom, and I was able to establish myself as a proven serial entrepreneur and have been able to found a series of moderately successful tech companies over the years. I'm 42 now, and I'm currently getting a new startup off the ground with three other co-founders who are also in their early forties. We have the good fortune of all having had at least one big success in our careers, but I can attest that our experience has been valuable, and we haven't had a particularly hard time raising money.

I mention this because I think that there are a lot of people between 40 and 50 right now who are the first generation of true digital natives (for example, I have no idea what it was like to work in a pre-email office). Many of us weathered the dotcom boom and bust. From where I'm sitting, this cohort is quite well equipped to found successful tech companies, despite the fact that we tend to have families and children.

There is an underpopulation problem, but it's not a global one. There's no danger to the human race if we enter a prolonged period of population decline. However, the local demographic problems can be severe. Many countries, particularly ones that don't permit a lot of immigration, are seeing their pension programs becoming insolvent because there aren't enough working people to support the retired people. And those who are worried about racial purity are always concerned with population decline, because it's always the immigrants who have higher birthrates.

Nearly all pesticides are made from oil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum

Many synthetic fertilizers are synthesized directly from natural gas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer

Any geek who relies on a domain name that belongs to someone else for their give-out-to-people, permanent email address needs to have his or her membership card revoked. Even if it's a domain that's owned by Google. Get a domain name.

I believe the commenter was referring to your tongue-in-cheek second part of your comment: "just to know who to sue in case of a leak."

We live in the snowy mountain town of Park City, Utah and our kids have a long recess break during school where they play outside no matter how cold and snowy it is. The only time they have to stay inside if if it's warm enough to rain. So there are places in the US where people aren't neurotic about kids being cold. But we're big into winter sports and being outside here.

The notion that getting cold causes illness is basically discredited, and in fact the reason that people get sick more during cold seasons is because they tend to stay indoors in closer contact with other people. That supports the nordic practice of having babies spend more time outside in fresh air even when it's cold.

If you'll read to the last paragraph, you'll find Gibson's very profound conclusion: that the 1996 Web was the early "test pattern" for what he predicts will be a world-changing, but "less fun" medium. How right he was.