JamisonM

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by JamisonM 12y ago
Scissors, pencils, knives: All things safer than these magnets. Empirically true. The bad parent argument is garbage. If I visit someone's house or bring one of my little ones with me to my accountants or lawyer's office I don&#x2
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by JamisonM 12y ago
If you leave a gallon of water on a table unattended it is very unlikely any passing child will use that gallon of water to drown themselves. All this pretending that the practical differences between this product and all these other things
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by JamisonM 12y ago
The thing about this is that there is, as far as I can tell, no good solution for the fact that it can take a long, long time to return to the top of a page with a lot of text on a mobile device. If I read 3/4 of a lengthy story on my
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by JamisonM 12y ago
Check out the mean sunshine hours in those tables to figure out why Lisbon is perceived to always be sunny, it is because it is. Literally twice the sunny hours a year. There is a pretty big difference between 12 hours of cloud and drizzle
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I read the first sentence above and was pretty sure this was a sarcastic comment but by the time I got to the end I was saddened to realize it was serious. The perception that a major problem with current American society is "resentful
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Why? As excess capital accumulates it compounds earning potential by creating more excess capital with new earnings. Given a favourable environment one would expect something greater than straight line growth, right?
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I agree with the sentiment but I also recognize that there is a difference between the CIA/NSA spying on citizens and doing the same to congress in a possible effort to directly influence the laws and regulations that govern their beha
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by JamisonM 13y ago
The US economy was badly hurt by household debt because household spending fuels the US economy, this is not the case for the Chinese economy. An 8x increase in corporate debt in China in the last 5 years means something in an economy drive
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by JamisonM 13y ago
This seems to contradict the assertion that this would be true in "rational" markets in the original quote.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Does the elimination of a large irresponsible player actually offer any new information about how irresponsible the other actors in the market are? I don't think there is any particular reason why that would be the case, I am intereste
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by JamisonM 13y ago
The win screen featuring a naked woman was off-putting, they write on their website that they are hiring "Eskimos" and I guess they think that is funny or edgy and cool or something.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I do not necessarily accept the premise that consumerism is necessarily good or bad but I do not find the argument that a currency that discourages economic interaction is a good thing very compelling. I do not think that having someone els
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by JamisonM 13y ago
No, it explains succinctly why almost anything that does not offer the amazing value proposition of a 1990's computer (in the 1990's) would see its sales volumes plummet. That threshold is not met by the vast majority of durable g
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I think the apparent alternative cryptocurrency is one that does NOT have a fixed supply and thus has stable inflation built into it, the puzzle of course is solving the problem of creating the math that can act in that way that can not be
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by JamisonM 13y ago
This is true, but the definition of "really want" changes if everything you can buy is subject to deflation in your currency of choice. If you believe Bitcoin will keep rising you will defer every expense until the last possible s
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Yes, I find it fascinating that a large number of people appear to want to live in a deflationary world when all instances of such that I am aware of have been economic basket-cases.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Off the top of my head: IMO, ITU, UNESCO, UNICEF, Chemical Weapons Ban Org, IAEA. Also there is the no world war 3 thing, which is obviously over-simplifying but the UN probably should get some credit for. The UN is a mess but it does do a
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Is this a parody youtube account? On top of US election conspiracies Pope Francis is a Jew? Seriously?
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by JamisonM 13y ago
It may be many things but a common tactic it is not. There might be famous examples in history but their fame is indicative of just how uncommonly it is used.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
To travel the world.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I wish someone had told me that back when I worked in the public sector, all my colleagues too! We thought we were all trying to execute public services well. Is the work avoidance conscious or unconscious? If it was unconscious have I lost
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by JamisonM 13y ago
> That is .. government-job level human potential Plenty of smart talented people work in government, insulting everyone who works in the civil service like that is not only offensive, it is stupid.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Sweet Jesus... I was looking at the news about your case and posting here is a violation of your bail conditions, if you stopped responding here for any other reason don't start again for that reason, you are endangering your freedom.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
.. because I understand the context of living in Malaysia, religious and race relations within the country, and the prevailing laws. As I said, I do not think it is just. This guy has to live there, deal with the reality of living there, no
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Look, I know this is not what you asked about but I have to say this: For your sake I hope that the prosecution does not stumble across this posting. Given the gravity of your situation your decision to add the gratuitous "my governmen
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I want data and analysis of data to support your assertion that The Rolling Stone does not produce scientifically educated authors!
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I lived in South Korea and I met some folks working at Berlitz there who apparently won the contract to do English language upgrades for Korean Air. It was soon after 9/11 and they said that after the first class they all looked at eac
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Sure, but look at the complexity of just describing this stuff. But I think the issue even with a good system is that even the pros will screw up all the time. Sending every message via throwaway accounts, from a different location, with a
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by JamisonM 13y ago
The article states: Singaporeans are also baffled as to why Indonesia has not yet ratified a regional agreement on trans-boundary haze pollution. Mr Laksono could provide no clear answer. I think Singaporeans are smarter than that. Unless
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Your definition of "good hacker" must narrow down who is a real hacker to a few thousand people in the whole world. Many of the best computer hackers I've known could barely organize a picnic if they had to, let alone run a

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