BearOfNH

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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Read The Sovereign Individual published 1997. Don't like your current location? Pick up your capital and move. (In the book, ultimately big government loses as the rich people move away and there's nobody left to rob.) A dozen years later
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Finally, why shouldn't the stock market be glacially slow? If Alice wants to buy and Bob wants to sell, and they've agreed on a price, what right do you have to demand they wait? If I want to buy GOOG with a stop-loss under last week's lo
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
no one knows how to fight [deflation] once it's become entrenched . Personally I agree with this, but remember FED Chairman "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke's oft-repeated quip that the FED has (metaphorically) a printing press and can whip up
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
a single entity that can exert that kind of influence In the US such an entity has a legal obligation to act in the best interests of his clients, and can be held liable for failing to act properly. Bernie Madoff is a prime example. Regre
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Expanding the cafeteria seems like a no-brainer. And if they can't do that, they should raise the prices. Any time you have more customers than you can handle, classical economics says to raise the price. Doesn't have to be by much. Has the
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Once again, the projected date is the timing for a TOP in the market, not a LOW. The bubble has been pricked but, as in very slow motion, it still looks like a bubble for a long time before breaking down. The chart in the original article (
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I suppose its useful to categorize and cross-reference fonts but there's no easy way to download or buy them. At least, nothing slapped me upside the head when I examined the first monospaced font listed. Where's the "download" or "Buy Now!
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Hacker News haiku: Should one write about nature or technology?
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Not to be a wet blanket but I don't like the Madrid logo at all. Many see it as a welcoming hand; I see it as a (e.g., policeman) ordering me to stop. It's almost shouting "go away, we don't want you here!". And no, I've nothing to feel gui
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Typical song: 24 Mbit Typical book: 6 Mbit I peruse (listen to) the bits of a song much, much more frequently than I peruse a book. This makes the book outrageously overpriced relative to the song. And I've pretty much stopped buying music,
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
The newfangled innovation brought about by capitalism isn't poor people: its rich people. This is an excellent aphorism. I wish I'd been the first to put it that way!
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
For every complaint about the benefits of seniority, networking, etc., there's an older guy (and usually it IS a guy) who is laid off so a cheaper kid can be hired to replace him. Of course if you've got a liberal arts degree from a diploma
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
As I pointed out in a response elsewhere ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763613 ) I think a YC startup should supply the toolkit, a turnkey newspaper-in-a-box application. Admittedly this is not something that journalists would or cou
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Then you would also be surprised at the number of people who independently "discover" the system, and invariably lose their shirts when playing it. Such stories used to crop up in the old rec.gambling newsgroup many years ago. Any hackers a
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
When government is the problem, as is the case here, more government is rarely the solution.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I click off CNBC when they "interview" corporate executives, who then proceed to flak their own companies with virtually no attention to the questions being asked. Advertising-as-news is worth my time? I get annoyed at CNBC when they report
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Nice comment. The article is long but worth reading. Besides applying to newspapers we may soon see the same logic apply to newsmagazines, and ultimately all magazines. The recommendations at the end of the article almost look like a startu
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
This can be good news for startups. In a deflationary world theoretically VCs won't need as big an ROI, meaning more funding for startups. Well, assuming the startups are doing things in line with the economy. In this case that would be thi
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Casinos really only have Blackjack tables because patrons want them, or else they would probably get rid of them pretty quickly. True, but ... isn't that the case with every game in the casino? Once upon a time, actually, blackjack wasn't
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
There was plenty of election fraud in the days of paper ballots, too. I'm actually a fan of purple dye. It seems effective at stopping one form of election fraud. Preferably accompanied by a bank of cameras to show every ballot went into th
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
With content-free content like this, one wonders what newspapers have to fear from the internet.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Very nice list, but most of the entries are over a year old. Many replies promised future results in what is now the past. Has any progress actually been made? Has YC funded any promising proposals? If not, maybe the problems PG listed are
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Nashua New Hampshire, USA. (To the West thereof).
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I suspect the "support group" is one guy doing it part-time. After a few dozen identical complaints he probably gets mighty jaded, and you see the results. I'm assuming here the "support group" can't change the main page, and whoever CAN do
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
If you upgrade from (32-bit) XP to Win7, do you need to reinstall all your apps? Isn't that an important issue for a lot of folks? Yet no comment either way in the review...
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
FTA (David Lee Roth): I went into full Shakespearean "What is this before me?" . . . you know, with the skull in one hand . . . "What is this before me?" is from Macbeth ("dagger of the mind"). The "skull in one hand" is from Hamlet, in t
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I want a search engine that tries to find me what I want, as opposed to inundating me with thousands of products for sale, that might remotely resemble something I said. Here is an example. I am looking for an outdoor security camera. So
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
a temporary snapshot of the text within you focus area When I read a typo I just can't help it -- I regress and reexamine the text. Dunno how common this is, but it sure limits my WPM reading typical blog posts.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
In Emacs 22 about the largest file I can edit is 27MB. From the lack of hype I take it Emacs 23 won't improve on that. This is on 32-bit WinXP, sadly. It's a heck of a lot easier to pore thru a huge trace file with an intelligent editor. In
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
"What keeps people from starting startups is fear". Fear due to lack of knowledge about how to start a business. Last I checked, this isn't something they teach in school. MIT and Stanford should have (undergrad) courses on founding start

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