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by alexmat 14y ago
It's only hard to define what a bubble is if you're an armchair economist. Traditionally a bubble can be defined as: "A single asset class that rises in price sharply and continually for years due to some underlying cause. This cause is usu
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If the interest rate drops.
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Once you create a narrative, it becomes harder to relate to a world that exists outside that narrative. Most of the things which, in retrospect, give me a sense of having lived a fulfilling life, have rarely originated from the narratives I
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It'll just create demand for a stronger web of trust. When the price on reputation goes up, people will find better ways of appearing reputable. Also, vendors that have been around for a long time will be able to raise prices and/or take on
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"Women are also more likely than men to talk through problems." Citation required. Positive stereotypes like this create just as hostile a work environment as negative ones.
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Why bother changing the law when you can just change your medium of exchange. Much simpler to just trade in gold than to try to keep the Fed in check.
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Seven Psychopaths was fun.
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The Master
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This looks like a promising idea: http://bitmessage.org/ Edit: Send me a message if you get it running and I'll reply, BM-2nftGCPpQ9HtjwJgbZfSFhPHqiJbJK7pwvi
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Are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abi... The problem with Marx, for me, is that he relied on the growth of industry to create an abundance of wealth that would satisfy everyone's needs, bu
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How is "fake" pain different from real pain? From my understanding, our neural correlate of consciousness is in fact a transparent self model simulation our brain is running, so in that sense all conscious pain experience is "fake". Or do y
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That's sounds like a very prudent decision to me. I fully agree that this issue should be clarified on the site. I will add it to my community service todo list to email the developer to try and help resolve the issue. The project is still
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by alexmat 14y ago
My ex-gf always used to say Skrillex sounded like videogame music to her.. I was like "whatever, you don't GET it", but I stand corrected. Should send her some "I'm sorry you were kinda right" chocolates.
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This is a pretty unlikely scenario for a typical use case. The attacker would have to own the electrum server that the victim is connecting to, and orchestrate a fake transaction. Even then, if the person double checks the transaction via a
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* Transactions are signed locally: Your private keys are not shared with the server. You do not have to trust the server with your money. * Freedom and Privacy: The server does not store user accounts. You are not tied to a particular serve
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I care, as someone who wanted to buy one.
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Just surround yourself with people who aren't like you? Easier said than done I guess...
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There's a niche market. I'd pay $500+ USD for an open source phone that made phone calls and ran native Linux apps. Imagine putting SELinux on that thing... now I'm getting excited.
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Philosophical precedent: "Descartes should have said: "thinking is occurring." That is, whatever the force of the cogito, Descartes draws too much from it; the existence of a thinking thing, the reference of the "I," is more than the cogito
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by alexmat 15y ago
Producers and merchants trying to hedge their cash flow. It would actually be very useful to have a liquid options market to help producers and merchants overcome the current volatility.
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Wouldn't that wipe out the very same people who invested in Japan? There are a lot of regular Japanese people who hold Japanese debt. Wiping it out via inflation is equivalent to wiping out the wealth of regular Japanese people to save the
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by alexmat 15y ago
"they can easily drive their loan servicing costs below zero at fairly modest inflation rates" Why will Japanese people buy government bonds that return a negative interest? Stuffing cash in a mattress seems like a better option at that poi
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by alexmat 15y ago
All Wi-Fi is powered by science. I'll pay you a million bucks if you can show me a Wi-Fi router powered by Jesus.
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by alexmat 15y ago
I think it matters more if you are cognitively present for the exercise, rather than the intensity of the exercise. It doesn't matter if you go fast or slow, it only matters that you are doing something you're not used to and as a result ac
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The Six Killer Apps of Western Civilization(ted.com)
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You do sound pretty grumpy about the server being down.
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I actually found the article interesting. I've always wondered why fresh squeezed juice tastes so much better, but always assumed it was because it was so fresh. I didn't realize the manufacturers mess around with the flavor. Now I'm curiou
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From anecdotal evidence I've heard from people taking this stuff, it doesn't help much with memory/cognitive ability, but does help control impulsive urges which can act as a hindrance to cognitive and memory tasks. If you are not suffering
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Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2005 Oct;182(2):205-13. Epub 2005 Oct 19. Lack of effects of guanfacine on executive and memory functions in healthy male volunteers. Müller U, Clark L, Lam ML, Moore RM, Murphy CL, Richmond NK, Sandhu RS, Wilkins
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by alexmat 16y ago
Actually #7 works. When I travel to a new timezone and log in to gCal, it asks me if I want to change my timezone to the newly detected one. Pretty nice :D

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