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by Lazare 8y ago
Yeah. Netting it down to the essence, the proposed explanation for the collapse of Bretton Woods seemed to be "USD inflation". Which is sure, plausible enough, I suppose. Unfortunately they then threw up their hands, ignored eve
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by Lazare 8y ago
Brexit has already been disastrous for The City, and it looks to become more so. It's practically the only thing that could unseat London as the premiere european finacial hub. Brexit is everything The City dreaded. > They are by
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by Lazare 8y ago
Indirectly, yes. The developer of the version of 2048 everyone has heard of (Gabriele Cirulli) had apparently never heard of or seen Threes, but the games he was copying/inspired were in turn inspired by/copied from Threes, if yo
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by Lazare 8y ago
It wouldn't be surprising, but since nobody rich seemed to have the slightest trouble converting cash after the crackdown either, it hardly matters. Central bank data shows 99.3% of the demonetized notes were exchanged; there was effec
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by Lazare 8y ago
It didn't even succeed at that. The same data shows that households are keeping more of their savings as cash, rather than less. Much of the impact of demonetization was experienced as an acute cash shortage, with restrictions on ac
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by Lazare 8y ago
This is the second time I've seen an article about this, and I still can't understand why people think this is related to net neutrality. The closest anyone seems to have got is that under some unrelated rules that were changed
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by Lazare 8y ago
> But is it right to just remove people because they made a mistake, even a slightly grave one? [...] this post doesn’t seem to explain what went on behind the scenes The apology omitted the details in an (in my view wise) attempt to tak
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by Lazare 8y ago
> They've been experimenting with new technologies for years now True. > and they finally have a development kit that speaks to the path they plan to follow in the future. ...which is following the same path everyone else is, exc
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by Lazare 8y ago
Biometrics are highly problematic in this context. IF someone steals your private key, you can jump through some hoops and get a new one issued, and regain control over your identity. If someone steals your biometric data (and that is a
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by Lazare 8y ago
I disagree; I think the issue is people using a mechanism for identification as a mechanism for authentication . If all it takes to drain someone's bank accounts is to be able to uniquely identify them, then there's an enormous
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by Lazare 8y ago
My working opinion of Elm is that it's a very promising language hamstrung by poor governance and crippled by a shockingly toxic community. ...and that Reddit threat certainly doesn't give me any reason to change my mind on any
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by Lazare 8y ago
It doesn't. At all. The concepts don't even make sense strung together like that. Basically, the Venezuelan bolívar isn't worth very much, due to a number of reasons, including rampant printing. They tried passing laws to
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by Lazare 8y ago
> I don't understand how they can list NSLs in the transparency report Correct. You can list the ones you don't have, but not the ones you do. So to a first approximation, the transparency report will always say "0&quo
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by Lazare 8y ago
SpiderOak basically said "if we do this, you should stop using us" (well, if you care about warrant canaries). And then they did it. It doesn't mean that they received a warrant, but it does mean SpiderOak is telling you n
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by Lazare 8y ago
I've had some mixed feelings about SpiderOak in the past, but at least they did this right. Props to them for making a canary and then following through on it.
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by Lazare 8y ago
> In our talk at GDC 2018, we explored what gamer motivations would look like if we defined “casual/core/hardcore” gamers using different assumptions—e.g., by self-identification with labels vs. by gaming frequency vs. by speci
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by Lazare 8y ago
That jumped out at me too. Obviously they were under a lot of pressure and it's easy to stand here and criticise, but... ...if my site is slowing down with load or usage, I'm not sure how you make the jump to "I should update
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by Lazare 8y ago
That was covered later in the article: > Amazon is great at inventing new categories, from online bookselling to cloud-computing services to voice-commanded personal assistants. The author is categorising AWS as a new category more-or-le
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Absolutely nothing in Teams is not done better in other products, including Microsoft's own products such as Skype for Business or plain old Skype. I haven't tried Teams yet, but I struggle to imagine how anything could be w
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by Lazare 8y ago
The issue, of course, is that there's no such database, nor does the idea of one even make much sense. There's too many complex ways you can structure a transaction so that you gain an economic benefit when a company does well, b
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by Lazare 8y ago
> The implication of your statements is that a significant portion of bonds are held by individuals No, mostly banks and other large institutions. The ECB only holds about 1/5 (2 trillion out of about 10 trillion).
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by Lazare 8y ago
That's an interesting idea, however note: 1) There's a reason why an Portuguese pension fund might hold Irish debt rather than Portuguese debt; for example, wanting to hedge and diversify, earn higher returns, or have lower risks.
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by Lazare 8y ago
> you have concluded that in fact the author has failed to understand the nuance of the situation rather than yourself. By no means; I'm sure the author is being purposefully misleading; I highly doubt it was mere accident. :) In
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by Lazare 8y ago
> The idea is very simple – if Portugal owes Ireland €0.34bn of short term debt, and Ireland owes Portugal €0.17bn Yes, it's a simple idea. And the reality is even simpler; they don't owe each other those amounts. Rather, a
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by Lazare 8y ago
Irrelevant. We're concerned here about the edge cases. Yes, sure, there's a lot of obviously guilty people that get charged for the obviously illegal and obviously immoral thing they obviously did, and then they get the obvious p
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by Lazare 8y ago
You raise some very valid arguments, but every powerful incumbent seems unstoppable right until they're stopped. The same case for why you shouldn't compete with Github now applied to, eg, MySpace. No product is eternal; someday
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by Lazare 8y ago
Personally, I feel that the SourceForge brand has negative value right now. For me they burnt almost all of their goodwill during their long, long period of neglect and stagnation, then went sharply negative when they started distributin
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by Lazare 8y ago
NZ has done something similar. Seems to work quite well; I recently went to a pharmacy looking for an OTC solution for a mild infection (it didn't seem worth seeing a doctor over, and I didn't have time anyhow) and ended up with
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by Lazare 8y ago
They're safe compared to Tylenol too. It's a huge step to go from "they're not completely safe" to "...and therefore a doctor needs to be constantly checking up on you". Lost of things have potentially se
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by Lazare 8y ago
This comment from an earlier discussion here covers some of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17185335 Basically, dep/glide do a bunch of stuff, including recursively parsing import statements because of How

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