JeffL

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by JeffL 15y ago
Well, what's China going to do as we print our way out of our debt to them? If they get bellicose, then our nukes will come in handy. If they sit there and take what will essentially be a default on our debt via printing, then will be be
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by JeffL 15y ago
Sorry for the "me too", but absolutely agree. I feel like the two functionalities (twitter-like asymmetry, and facebook-like keeping track of your friends) are at odds. Either an option for all but "following" in the stream or else making
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by JeffL 15y ago
Congrats. On Chrome, when I click to the right in the screenshots, eventually all screenshots get shifted over to the right by half a screen.
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by JeffL 15y ago
And it's back up for us, at least.
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by JeffL 15y ago
Management console says all my instances are still running. But can't ping or ssh to them and can't ping amazon.com either.
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by JeffL 15y ago
Did anyone else notice that points 1, 2, and 3 in the article sound like really good things? People saving more, employees being employed more efficiently, companies not being over-exuberant (which is what leads to bubbles in the first pla
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by JeffL 15y ago
I am lucky enough to have volunteers from the community who do various support roles. They can't do it all, but do about 90% of it, which makes my life way easier. I can take my laptop and do the tickets I need to do in about an hour ever
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by JeffL 15y ago
I forgot who said it recently, but I thought it was a really interesting point that printing money to pay the debt is like partially defaulting.
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by JeffL 15y ago
Total tax burden includes sales tax that you pay on what you spend, property tax, gas tax, payroll taxes, taxes on utility bills, dog license fees, etc. I don't think 40% is completely far fetched. Not sure how exactly one would calculate
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by JeffL 15y ago
Maybe I misunderstood, but I got the feeling from the OP I was responding to that he was suggesting we fill more potholes in order to stimulate the economy. I'm kind of working off the assumption that we are already filling the important p
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by JeffL 15y ago
I think you have a good point about filling potholes being cheaper than repairing cars, but that wasn't really the point I was making. (I'm not necessarily against filling potholes, just filling potholes excessively as make-work.) I was ju
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by JeffL 15y ago
What does reducing wealth inequality have to do with stimulating the economy? (I haven't heard that argument before.)
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by JeffL 15y ago
Don't fall for the broken window fallacy. If the government wasn't taking money from people via taxation to pay for pothole fillers, then the taxpayers would have their money to spend on what they really want, which would also maintain the
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by JeffL 15y ago
It's not an either/or kind of thing, though. Isn't it worth paying for the press release just to hope to get the story picked up various places? Aren't there lots of web sites that will basically just reprint press releases as their sourc
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by JeffL 15y ago
But you have to pay a company to "post it", don't you?
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Ask HN: Recommendations for issuing a press release?
1 points by JeffL 15y ago|5 comments
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by JeffL 15y ago
I've seen and heard about this a lot in US gaming companies too. The culture is something like "we're so passionate about games that we have to do super-crunch time to get things finished by the deadline." But I think the reality is that
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by JeffL 15y ago
I don't think there's any evidence that 99% will starve. Certainly not in this country. Our problem is obesity. This chart on Wikipedia is showing that though in income inequality is increasing, all quintiles are also increasing (inflati
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by JeffL 15y ago
Could we be trending towards a future where 99% of people are unemployed, but the 1% that is employed are so productive that there is plenty for everyone? I guess that's basically the same as saying that robots will do everything.
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by JeffL 15y ago
"All the problems really started when the dollar was no longer convertible into gold. That happened in August 1971 and eliminated all currency restraints because money became only paper and not backed by anything real." Interesting to find
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by JeffL 15y ago
I've been using http://checkvist.com for a little while now, and the UI for it is absolutely perfect. You can do everything with the keyboard really easily, and use the mouse to drag around stuff if you want.
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Ask HN: Suggestions for people to "follow" on Google+?
4 points by JeffL 15y ago|0 comments
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by JeffL 15y ago
Please tell me I didn't just accidentally give my email to a Spam list.
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by JeffL 15y ago
Not 10^100 + 0.0000000000000001
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by JeffL 15y ago
I would say it's a combination of caring a little bit and having those events be so rare with only 30 friends that the signal to noise ratio is still really high.
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by JeffL 15y ago
I suspect the streams are optimized for people whose "friends" are actually their friends. My friends list contains 30 of my real friends that I care about, so these notifications you mention aren't actually Spam to me. The problem is that
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by JeffL 15y ago
I have roughly 1200 people paying $10/mo. I also allow people to play for free, but capped at level 20 (out of about 1000 meaningful levels). There are maybe 1000 active free players, but not nearly as active as the paying players. At an
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by JeffL 15y ago
I have an IRC channel open all day with the 6-8 people also working on the same project, so if anything I feel like there are too many people around. If you're the only one on your project, maybe consider a small IRC channel that you're in
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by JeffL 15y ago
I've thought about this a lot, since I have a subscription based game with about 1200 active subs, yet nearly all newer games coming out seem to be in the item-mall / freemium category. When I ask my players what they think, the most common
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by JeffL 15y ago
Price discrimination is an excellent point. I guess the trick is to enable price discrimination without lowering the value of your brand, so the coupons or whatever would have to be sufficiently annoying to use so not everyone would use th

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