terranstyler

The officials deciding about your status most probably couldn't care less.

This is not an opinion but my experience (I tried exactly that line tough in a different country)

I asked for something like this a few weeks ago in #clojure, nobody had a solution. Thanks!

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I agree with your take on the situation ;)

Thing is that a lawyer might be throwing good money after bad, it's just ~3k and who knows, maybe the fiat claims (~50% of the 3k) are worth something (though I doubt it).

OK, I gotta correct myself: Fiat is not valueless (what I wrote) but it has no intrinsic value (what I meant).

Just like BTC.

And then there is fiat money, the elephant in the room of valueless things.

The lesson is:

If you don't understand anything about something but need to opine, put the words "lesson" and "engineer" in the head to fake your understanding.

You guys have any idea on how to proceed if you (allegedly) have a few BTC and USD there?

Yeah yeah I know, I read HN often but obviously I missed the "Stay away from Gox" posts :(

The kind of people that (unlike mafia or the police) don't need physical proximity to make your life a nightmare...

I loved the series, I remember in X-Wing there was a complete campaign where you start with hit'n'run tactics against some containers (!) and end in an ambush and the first kill of an ISD. This storyline made you feel hopelessly outnumbered and you just stood (flew) there in awe whenever something bigger than a Nebulon B arrived at the battle scene. Your AI wingmen just panicked and ran and so did you, possibly directing all your shield and weapon energy to your engines if you were unfortunate enough to fly a Y-Wing.

Later on you could count on corvettes and cruisers that reinforced your side (though they were always late) and you felt the tide of the war turning.

I never got that feeling again, maybe because I am older. Or maybe because DX 11.1b support is much more important for a game and story is considered overrated.

Doesn't that imply a certain equivalence between the two terms or is this a notation I am not aware of?

And if it is the former, am I contributing to your security for not posting the simplified version? :)

Re the prior comments, I based my view on the instances in Germany. The products are usually good and prices really low. Especially the chocolate clones of some brands are some 30% of the price and 90% of the taste.

Then again, I saw just recently a dirty one in Luxembourg, so my first comment should read "it depends" (which is kind of a non-comment) ;)

Aldi is by no means low quality! However, I agree it isn't premium either...

The BS part was meant w.r.t. the theories because, unlike theirs, your opinion is not forced upon the people, so sorry if I left room for the misunderstanding.

I disagree in particular to the "to serve debt you have to create more" because creating more debt is incompatible with a capitalistic system because someone has to take the other side of the trade (the creditor).

A rational creditor wouldn't loan more debt and this is why the PIIGS don't get money on the bond market anymore. Therefore the CBs have to "print" the money or take it from somewhere else (ESM, OMT, QE ...) but none of these measures is voluntary but instead forced.

Therefore we have no capitalistic system but planned economy which was the original point.

Debt can also reduced via default. And this happens regularly with many companies and is ok. What is not ok is when these defaults get deferred, for instance, because a defaulting entity has the monopoly on creation of legal tender.

> A capitalistic system can not be run without growth

I disagree. You are told we need to grow by X% p.a. and we need an inflation of Y% p.a. and we need to weaken our currencies to boost exports bla bla.

It is possible to show that this is BS if you thought it through.

BTW, I'd call "them" by their name if I knew it. BTW2, "Economics in one Lesson" was my eye opener, it was written in 1946 but it reads at if is was written yesterday.

Post-scarcity economics sounds to me like post-human anthropology or post-matter physics, i.e. economics is by definition science on "managing" scarcity. No scarcity, no trade, no economics.

Honestly, capitalism would be a good system if we had just one example. Closest example is maybe Hongkong or Singapure, see http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

I'd argue that "having a different code" does not at all entail any illegal action. People often have very different opinions (for example tax laws), yet they comply with the given law.

But then again, taken out of context (the "no harm" part), an eager prosecutor could use it (successfully or not) so I suppose you are right.

Just as a side note: This is not how it should be, and ironically and most unfortunately, your statement reinforces my original point :(

That looks fraudulent, no doubt!

I just wanted to criticize that many of the arguments in the original article refer to activities like violating the "state money transmission laws" or "money laundering" and "suspicious transactions" (http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/index.html?id=5618295)

True.

The problem for all of us could be that people often forget that "An idea is not responsible for the people that believe in it" (some "Don Marquis" said that)

Frankly, my moral and ethical code is quite different to what is legal.

"State money transmission laws" belong to a set of legal rules that I don't care about as long as nobody gets harmed (physically or w.r.t. his property).

Also, one person being arrested doesn't imply that he has done something bad (unfortunately). These days there are even people that did something bad and wander freely the earth.

Please base you story on immoral or unethical behavior and not on infringement of arbitrary laws. I have no problem with trusting your judgement but I do know that I don't trust your lawmaker.

I think "Programming" is just a word to decribe the representation of the consequence.

The real value of a programmer is in understanding things fully (in order to formally articulate them in a program).

The suits I work with don't understand things fully, they just understand it to some (I'd say superficial) degree. Then they decide something but they don't know what constraints apply to what element in the process and their estimates / decisions / ... are regularly completely off.

So I am not only a programmer, but I am the "understander" of the domain (and thereby of the production part of our business). This creates a lot of frustration because the suits decide, yet they don't know that they don't know.

Hence also the tendency for good programmers to become independent or depressive.

This would mean that life is an episode in a Monte-Carlo simulation traversing the state space of all possible human lifes.

The story also suggests that the simulation is heavily parallel and complete knowledge of all episodes (rather all paths) makes you god.

Those were times, a gamble every 10 minutes, I didn't shave for weeks. I wonder why today lotteries are held only like once a week or so...

And don't even get me started on the legal immunity of the (not democratically elected) governors of the ESM that have the power to demand more money (for ESM and themselves) no matter what...

A good thing by itself but I doubt it will have a real effect other than showing that "Separation of Powers" in theory works much better than in practice... (read "not")

Besides, for some reason complaints against the state via the state take years, just see the ongoing complaints whether EFSF, ESM and whatnot market stabilization mechanisms violate the no-bailout clause in the EU treaty.

Game theory is a bitch :(

If I understand correctly, you suggest that a parasite would sacrifice "long term survival" or "offspring adulthood probability" to achieve increased reproductive success!?

Hmm, the host could for example go on a "raping spree" but it unsure how this would lead to _significantly_ increased reproduction (I suppose this is an energetically costly enterprise) and why the raping spree wouldn't be already an "integrated" behavior if it were so successful.

I'd say that it is in the host's own interest to maximize sexual activity given all other constraints (long term survival and reproduction).

This is why a parasite won't be able to improve (or optimize) it further since it is fully aligned with the host's incentives.

TLDR: You can't improve what's already optimal

I am "kind of" in the same situation. I also have some savings and I dont want to use them, however, it seems it will be necessary.

You should consider it a bet. If you are convinced that your startup will fly, maybe you should bet everything?

Just ask yourself if you were willing to bet say 20k$ if you'd win 500k$ with a 50% chance and lose everything with a 50% chance.

Unless you already have family or other people to sustain you CAN take that risk. With 25 you still have decades to worry about your retirement...

Try to at least find one client paying something (which is the "market test" seeing whether they just find your product nice or whether they really want (as in $$$)it).

Also, check out http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/startup-failure-post-m... and make sure you're doing none of the mistakes over there...

The Joy of Clojure

It (kind of) enlightened me as to why OO programming is such a mess. I dont know of any similar, language agnostic book though...

Yes, just to elaborate:

The improvements over Java are things addressed in (typed) clojure.

I get the feeling that comparing Ceylon to Java is like comparing a 1990s car against a 1980s car. That's not to say the comparison is invalid but if (and only if) the goal is to have/make/evaluate a good car you should compare it to 2010s cars.