MsMowz

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by MsMowz 9y ago
Modern fiat currency is backed only by debt. The fact that money can be backed by debt implies that there agents have a sufficiently sophisticated ability to judge trust of other agents. It's not extremely relevant that trustworthy beh
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Maybe there should be a centrally agreed upon authority that can change the size of the money supply by fiat. That seems like that would fix most of the problems with Bitcoin.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Fama would say it's priced accurately given the known information about it, but he would also agree that the price should change as more information is discovered about the nature of bitcoin. The efficient market hypothesis isn't
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by MsMowz 9y ago
That's the only reason people invest.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I don't doubt that this is true at times, but what do you think they teach in mid-tier schools? They use the same textbooks and curricula that other schools do. For example, most of the schools within driving distance of Austin use UT&
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I've been able to mitigate pretty much all the issues I've had with remembering details about complex problems by using effective note-taking and diagramming.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
2 things: 1. This is probably not appropriate for HN because of its political nature. 2. Socialism is a broad movement, containing everything from the worker cooperative movement and democratic socialism to anarchism and communism. This art
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I'm aware of the history of Cuba's opposition to the US after the revolution, but the Cold War has been over for 25 years and all signs point to Cuba attempting to rebuild solid relations.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I think it's interesting that this was immediately framed as an "attack," with of course the implication being that the Cuban government attacked American diplomats, since Cuba has so much to lose from attacking diplomats and
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Microsoft just moved an office into Munich and now, over the objections of the municipal IT staff, the city is switching to Windows. Interesting.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Politics is, broadly, anything to do with interacting with other people. It's a recent phenomenon that only electoral politics is considered politics.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
It varies with whatever you're trying to produce, but the biggest problem is that family farmers are being displaced by larger farms mostly because of economies of scale. The only thing left (at least, where I'm from) that family
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Farming is no way to make a living. I'm glad that these people are finding success, but I come from a farming community and family and for decades farming has only been affordable if you also had another full-time job. Although microfa
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Kansas has a tiny government already, I'm not sure there's much left to clean out except the elected positions.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
One thing that jumped out at me is that they cite an increasing number of party members hating the other party. What they don't consider is that party membership for both parties has declined over the same time period, presumably leavi
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Why would spaces be sent over the wire?
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Automation also played a large role. I can't remember where I read it, but about a year ago I saw and article that showed that automation was destroying more jobs than it created for the first time in known history. We're not goin
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I really want this to work out. 18% of the US population is rural, and the rural economy is disintegrating faster and faster. The social costs (not to mention the hardship for those people) will be enormous in a decade or two without a shar
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I was talking about being falsely accused. All signs in his case are that he actually did it.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
>Yet in today’s environment, even if he ultimately proves himself to be innocent through the lawsuit he claims he is going to file against his accuser, a career death sentence has already been carried out by a virtual lynch mob. That is
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by MsMowz 9y ago
It is nice to see comeuppance for those who used their position to hurt others. I'm hopeful that the past few weeks lead to a new culture where victims do not fear retribution for speaking out or going to authorities, but I fear that w
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by MsMowz 9y ago
The problem is I always end up writing a state container that's similar to redux at some point if I don't use it. For simple things, you don't need a state container, but where is the line between simple and complex? It'
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by MsMowz 9y ago
If any state that isn't just police and a military counts as a welfare state, then I don't think that's a useful definition of welfare state.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Do you think the American money is nicer and cleaner than Russian money? It's all the same.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Unbridled speculation and compound interest.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
>Startup firms are defined as small employer firms that were 5 years old or younger in 2016. They're not using "startups" with the same meaning we have when we talk about startups.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I wasn't considering semantic tags to be a feature, since that's kind of trivial, but I guess I should've. I just can't help but feel you're really overcomplicating something that doesn't have to be a problem.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Maybe it's just my experience, but I've never understood introducing the mental overhead of something like styled components. Why don't you just have one component per JS file and a stylesheet with the same name as the compon
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by MsMowz 9y ago
At the risk of getting too political for HN, I think we need fewer of all three. What business does the US government have effectively acting as an imperial power in 2017? I'm with you that we shouldn't be risking lives as often,
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I think it's a little too easy to paint things like this as an outgrowth of culture. While our soldier/police worship is ingrained in culture, it didn't come about naturally; it was deliberately campaigned for after the labor

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