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> But – and here is the great sleight of hand – the Bank has seen fit not to include house prices in its measures of inflation. So, throughout the 90s and 00s, they could then “prove” inflation was low or moderate and interest rates meandered lower.

Aren't rents included in the CPI? I would be surprised if they weren't since it's a pretty huge part of most people's monthly expenses.

Then it would either mean that the rents rose along with the house prices (in which case this effect is included in the inflation figures) or that the actual housing costs didn't increase -- it's just less profitable to buy and more to rent.

> IPv6 has massively increased the number of available IPs, allowing every sensor and relay within a system to be addressable from the public internet

That's a really scary idea from the security point of view and something that bothers me about the IoT craze. Every consumer device visible on the Internet should quickly and reliably self-update its software if a security issue is found and remote updates are still a bit tricky to implement in embedded devices (little storage, diverse hardware).

You're right but I wouldn't like that even as an employee (which I am). Imagine your that your team triples in size and everyone is in some kind of part-time arrangement that makes it difficult to synchronize any kind of real-time communication. Horror.

I think that there might be huge value in neurobiofeedback but it's a mistake to brand these devices as an aid to what essentially is a religious practice for many people. Just studying the comments in this thread shows that the sole idea of such a device seems blasphemous for some.

Perhaps it would be better to call it a concentration exercise or a brain fitness trainer, especially since it's not even clear that these devices help you with mindfulness (whatever it might be). I tried to find some reviews of Muse done by experienced meditators (I haven't collected the links, sorry) and the results seem mixed. Some claim perfect score on the first sitting, some say they get the same bad results as everyone else starting out with the app. That would suggest that either the device doesn't really do what it claims or that meditation means so many different things to different people that it's not a useful term to use in a scientific context.

It's not just the US doing it. I always read newspapers from both sides of the pond and it was especially entertaining during the big financial crisis. Many European publications acted as if the US is collapsing but Europe will be largely unaffected and American ones anticipated swift recovery for the US and deep EU crisis. Even newspapers that you wouldn't normally associate with nationalistic sentiments (like the New York Times) engaged in some serious fear-mongering.

People also respond to these kinds of messages. I visited the US this August, when the euro crisis was often making the news. Several people were seriously and non-sarcastically concerned with my capacity for paying for my own lunch or hotel. They were very surprised when I told them that the euro is worth more or less the same as always in relation to the dollar.

It responds "No" to (10000000000000000, 10000000000000001, 10000000000000002) so the rule is not so simple after all :)

Take no offense, I sympathize with the general idea, but aren't you overselling this a little bit?

I've had no contact with Adderal but I highly doubt a dietary supplement essentially equivalent to ~10 cups of black tea could be an alternative for amphetamines. I sometimes drink a big mug of tea a couple of times a day and, according to a rough estimate, possibly get around that amount of caffeine+L-theanine.

I see that you're trying to attract Adderal-using college students but aren't you afraid they're going to try your product and quickly conclude that Adderal is better?

It's really good to show some sense of humor but the number of easter eggs in Wolfram Alpha is starting to surpass the number of potential helpful use scenarios. It's still more like an advanced calculator than a "computational knowledge engine".

> country of origin is NOT a reason why some people remain poor. Carlos Slim Helu is SOLID PROOF.

This is probably obvious to everyone here but I'd like to point out that one case out of a 100-million population is statistically completely insignificant. He is not a solid proof of anything.