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by Pitarou 12y ago
If they can extend their work to forms that can be reproduced with injection-molding, the asymmetric yo-yos will make an attractive novelty.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
In essence, this is quite a simple matter. Here's Theory of the Firm 101 for you: In the real world, pure free market economies are inefficient. (If you think otherwise, you've never tried to co-ordinate a complex project with m
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by Pitarou 12y ago
There's still plenty of time to generate a buzz. I'll wait until I've heard the opinion of a few reputable reviewers before I consider it writing it off as an "also ran".
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I think Amazon are taking the "learn as you go down market" approach exemplified by Tesla. This is the pilot model, which enables Amazon to earn revenue fast and capture early adopter surplus. We'll soon see a cheaper model w
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by Pitarou 12y ago
AFAICT, this entirely runs on the client. The server just serves some static web pages. Presumably, if you save the static HTML / js / css files onto your laptop, you could use the wiki when you're offline.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Thank you for not SHOUTING this time.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
If you're right about that, Abenomics is doomed to fail! And it's an interesting coincidence that inflation has finally started to happen again in Japan.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I'm not actually arguing for much at all. (Note to crdoconner: if you really want to attack me, I'm wide open on that flank.) But I believe that the best way forwards starts with an honest acceptance of our situation now. And ou
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Because the BoJ is going to keep on funding the government's debt forever with freshly printed yen, right? Which is just a complicated way of saying that the government is going to print money to pay for it's spending program. Yo
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Is Kyle Bass standing over your shoulder? ;-) I think it's more like 25% of revenues, not 50%, but otherwise you're spot on. BTW, the bond futures market froze up last week, too. But what you're forgetting is that our frien
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I'm very, very well aware of that fact, kaonashi. And I made explicit reference to it in my original post.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
> Not stupid, but brainwashed perhaps. > ... End of story. End of story indeed. I'm obviously too "brainwashed" to have anything of value to say. But I would like to point out that I never said government debt was the c
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I think the main cause is the stark choice Japanese women face: keep your career and status that you've worked so hard for, or give it all up and raise children for a man you'll hardly get to see. About immigration: go look up &qu
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by Pitarou 12y ago
If I wanted to be upbeat about Abenomics, I think I'd say pretty much the same things you are. I think I just have a gloomier outlook than you. So I hope you're right, but I'm still keeping my savings overseas in case you&#x2
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Less of the "anyone with an ounce of sense" type language, please. Not everyone who disagrees with you is stupid. What you say is correct as far as it goes but ... well ... I could write: > Only a driveling idiot does not under
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by Pitarou 12y ago
That's a nice macroeconomic model you have there. But what happens when G/D < x0 and then you increase D? But you're right about the hyperinflation thing. I was being overly dramatic. I should have said: And that, my frie
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Like I said, it's a complex matter, and opinions differ. But ultimately, it boils down to demographics. The Japanese haven't been having enough babies. One way or another, the people who think they're going to retire comforta
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Abe is certainly making a difference. But a bastion of liberal democracy? Hardly. For instance, look at the man he parachuted in as the head of NHK: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25901572 And there's a large
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by Pitarou 12y ago
The car salesman pushes you to buy the best quality car, and this is generally understood. The financial "adviser" (what a misleading name!) pushes you to buy the worst quality product, and this is not generally understood. They e
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by Pitarou 12y ago
TL;DR Reactive programming is ill-defined and over-hyped, so let's talk about types and math instead (plus some not-very-subtle in-jokes about Microsoft). An enumerator is basically a getter with the ability to fail and / or termi
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I think there's a little more to it than that...
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by Pitarou 12y ago
The writing is optimized for skim reading. The idea is that, whether you choose to read just two words, twenty words, or the whole thing, they'll still get their message across.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Many nuclear observers note that Japan has gathered the tools, technologies and materials necessary to start a substantial nuclear weapons program at fairly short notice. Japan recently returned a large quantity of weapons-grade plutonium t
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by Pitarou 12y ago
In other words, the secret to having a viable sealed terrarium is in the compost. Get the right compost, with the right population of bacteria, and the whole thing will run forever.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I think I finally get why people actually want to live on Soylent. It's the "abstention" cure for food addiction.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
That's awesome. Have a unicode trophy () as a prize: 🏆
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Automatic type casting remains popular because it reduces the syntactic and cognitive overhead. I'm suggesting that a better solution would be to retain explicit casting, but minimise the overheads. So, to take things a step further, l
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Yet another example of the horrible mess unprincipled automatic type conversion causes. What prevents language designers from avoiding all these lurking bugs with a generic type-conversion operator? E.g. here's how it might look in a
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I if only you'd said tea, I could have referred you to the Japanese tea ceremony.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Did you read the article?

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