blindwatchmaker

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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
> The "Fasci" "workers" became the Fascist government that went on a murderous rampage across Europe I googled this and couldn't find any relations between them. Could you provide a link? Also, why did you put wo
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
Economic shocks, espescially those on the scale of 2008, affect far more people than the ones involved in the bubble.
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
That's a very odd view. The bankers did ruin the economy, because an economy with a bubble + the ensuing shock is far worse by most metrics than one where the bubble never happened in the first place.
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
Whatsapp is also owned by facebook.
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
> In January 2018, a journalist working with The Tribune in India did an exposé about how anyone with WhatsApp and an online wallet could buy unlimited verifications for a paltry 500 Indian rupees ($8). Instead of launching an investigat
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Aadhaar: India's Flawed Biometric Database(thediplomat.com)
2 points by blindwatchmaker 9y ago|1 comments
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
China succeeded because it was in the prime position to take advantage of western manufacturing looking to move production facilities elsewhere for wage arbitrage. Right place, right time to reap massive export surpluses - and they were sma
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
The Soviets were not bent on world conquest, but on securing a ring of buffer states around them as security for their country. Witness Stalin's betrayal of the communists in Greece as horse trading for influence elsewhere. Stalin&#x27
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
Wow. I'd fire anyone who used these people to assess candidates.
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
One of the articles linking from this one ( https://qz.com/964843/less-than-5-of-india-engineers-are-cut... ) made me laugh: > More than two-thirds of the candidates from the top 100 universities in the country were a
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
Tunnel costs aside, I hadn't known that Musk's idea was to dig this for car use. I honestly feel that money would be put to better use just making a subway.
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
> since I realize many conservatives would do the same about issues they care about if they had the power and numbers This, in fact, happens as the move to criminalize speech against Israel on campuses and eslwhere shows.
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
This is ass backwards. Central bank/fed policy in the US, Europe, and Japan has consistently been to keep inflation low on behalf of the investor class for a long, long time now.
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
Picking up new languages is fun. I have to say things like this tickle my funny bone though: > def backlog(board_id) when is_integer(board_id) do What happened to good old fashioned function foo (int bar) :) Is there an equivalent to t
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
I don't think it's axiomatic that individuals should be funding their own pensions. I feel a lot of these problems that keep popping up have the same fundamental root cause: governments (and the non-wealthy) have less resources, a
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
A lot of solutions for budget shortfalls seem to be focused on increasing burdens and reducing services for the lower classes. Maybe some of these shortfalls could be made up for by bringing the tax rates on the wealthy and corporations bac
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
> I would rather communicate with those who don't label people and jump to conclusions. Physician, heal thyself. I love HN and have been reading it for a long time, content to browse. There's very little that jolts me into ac
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by blindwatchmaker 9y ago
> Don't spread fake news like the communists. > mostly anti current government (it spreads fake news most of the times) Do you consider views from sources that disagree with your own as 'fake news' ? A lot of what y