First of all, it's not true to say that it costs Facebook nothing to give shares to employees redeeming stock options. Those same shares could have been sold on the open market for a lot of money and Facebook is giving that up. Also, every time an employee exercises an option and Facebook gets a tax deduction, the employee pays the government in the form of capital gains tax. Finally, it's silly to say that capital gains should be taxed the same as ordinary income because capital gains have a huge hidden tax which is capital losses -- you have to put money at risk to have a capital gain and often people end up with a capital loss instead, especially with a new business. It takes a long time to deduct a big capital loss (only $3,000 per year) unless you also have big capital gains to offset. Earned income doesn't have this risk. You get paid as you go and even if the company goes bankrupt you still get to keep the salary you were already paid. A lower capital gains tax incents people to invest, especially in new business which are more likely than not to fail.
Incorrect handling of human waste can indeed spread disease. But with proper composting, you can kill 100% of the pathogens and have no risk of spreading disease at all: http://weblife.org/humanure/
I use Superfocus glasses and like them better than any other option. They change the whole lens, not just one spot like Pixel Optics does. Also, being manual, they don't require any batteries. Without these glasses, I used to have to carry a second pair just for reading. Superfocus is better.
The Slashdot headline is misleading. No one's warning them not to read the cables. The warning says: "DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter."
My favorite editor for both computer source code and word processing documents is the free, open-source, Python-powered Leo programmer's outliner and editor: http://leo.sourceforge.net/
Leo lets you work with outlines and it can associate any portion of the outline with a flat file for processing by compilers or typesetters like LaTeX. So for word processing in particular, I like to write inside a Leo outline using LaTeX formatting codes and then export and process the final result using LaTeX to create a PDF.
Re:rdiff-backup is easier and more efficient
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Yes, but rdiff-backup uses librsync to do its work. It benefits from exactly the same algorithm that rsync does. I agree it's very efficient. I'm just saying you don't avoid any of the work of computing diffs by using rsync as opposed to rdiff-backup so that should not be a reason to choose one method over the other.
But you're using rsync which has to do all the same diffs that rdiff-backup does. The whole point of rsync is to figure out which parts of a file have changed so it can send only the differences. I believe you when you say your method barely touches the CPU, but I think it's still doing the diffs thanks to rsync. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
rdiff-backup is easier and more efficient
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The backup scheme described here uses hard links to avoid storing multiple copies of identical files, but when a large file changes even in a small way it stores a whole fresh copy of that file. rdiff-backup is more efficient because it stores one complete copy of your current tree with reverse diffs that allow you to step back to previous versions if you need to. If a large file changes in a small way, only the reverse diff is stored to encode that. This is very handy for cases where, for example, a multiple megabyte e-mail inbox has had just a few kilobytes of new messages appended to the end (although the rsync/rdiff-backup algorithm is also efficient with changes in the middle of a file). Being more efficient in this way translates directly to an increase in the number of past versions you can fit in the same space which can make all the difference if it takes you a while to realize that a given file has been accidentally deleted or damaged.
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First of all, it's not true to say that it costs Facebook nothing to give shares to employees redeeming stock options. Those same shares could have been sold on the open market for a lot of money and Facebook is giving that up. Also, every time an employee exercises an option and Facebook gets a tax deduction, the employee pays the government in the form of capital gains tax. Finally, it's silly to say that capital gains should be taxed the same as ordinary income because capital gains have a huge hidden tax which is capital losses -- you have to put money at risk to have a capital gain and often people end up with a capital loss instead, especially with a new business. It takes a long time to deduct a big capital loss (only $3,000 per year) unless you also have big capital gains to offset. Earned income doesn't have this risk. You get paid as you go and even if the company goes bankrupt you still get to keep the salary you were already paid. A lower capital gains tax incents people to invest, especially in new business which are more likely than not to fail.
I like the ritual of burning a candle for 24 hours every year on the anniversary of the person's death.
Incorrect handling of human waste can indeed spread disease. But with proper composting, you can kill 100% of the pathogens and have no risk of spreading disease at all: http://weblife.org/humanure/
http://humanurehandbook.com/store/LOVEABLE-LOO-Eco-Toilet.html
You mean that's all it takes to get out of school? Some kids will do it on purpose!
I use Superfocus glasses and like them better than any other option. They change the whole lens, not just one spot like Pixel Optics does. Also, being manual, they don't require any batteries. Without these glasses, I used to have to carry a second pair just for reading. Superfocus is better.
The Slashdot headline is misleading. No one's warning them not to read the cables. The warning says: "DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter."
Agreed. I use Leo for everything too.
My favorite editor for both computer source code and word processing documents is the free, open-source, Python-powered Leo programmer's outliner and editor: http://leo.sourceforge.net/
Leo lets you work with outlines and it can associate any portion of the outline with a flat file for processing by compilers or typesetters like LaTeX. So for word processing in particular, I like to write inside a Leo outline using LaTeX formatting codes and then export and process the final result using LaTeX to create a PDF.
Yes, but rdiff-backup uses librsync to do its work. It benefits from exactly the same algorithm that rsync does. I agree it's very efficient. I'm just saying you don't avoid any of the work of computing diffs by using rsync as opposed to rdiff-backup so that should not be a reason to choose one method over the other.
But you're using rsync which has to do all the same diffs that rdiff-backup does. The whole point of rsync is to figure out which parts of a file have changed so it can send only the differences. I believe you when you say your method barely touches the CPU, but I think it's still doing the diffs thanks to rsync. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The backup scheme described here uses hard links to avoid storing multiple copies of identical files, but when a large file changes even in a small way it stores a whole fresh copy of that file. rdiff-backup is more efficient because it stores one complete copy of your current tree with reverse diffs that allow you to step back to previous versions if you need to. If a large file changes in a small way, only the reverse diff is stored to encode that. This is very handy for cases where, for example, a multiple megabyte e-mail inbox has had just a few kilobytes of new messages appended to the end (although the rsync/rdiff-backup algorithm is also efficient with changes in the middle of a file). Being more efficient in this way translates directly to an increase in the number of past versions you can fit in the same space which can make all the difference if it takes you a while to realize that a given file has been accidentally deleted or damaged.
http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/