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by borism 16y ago
It is measuring the sustainability of happiness. No point in being the happiest country in the world by throwing largest feast party ever if next year half of your population dies from obesity complications or something.
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by borism 16y ago
The Real World's Happiest Countries, not the utopian world of Forbes and Heritage Foundation: http://www.happyplanetindex.org
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by borism 16y ago
unless your code flies the plane :)
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by borism 16y ago
what a load of BS
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by borism 16y ago
I haven't yet heard any critic of Singularity religion claim that strong AI is never possible. What we are skeptical of is that we need just a little bit of development and strong AI will take-off just like that without any regard to physic
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by borism 16y ago
Yes, the issues deficit hawks are raising are worth addressing in and out of themselves. But not because of deficits they generate! What majority fails to understand and minority who understands it is too afraid to acknowledge is that for c
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by borism 16y ago
While probably somewhat true, I don't see how your links prove that being associated with Stuxnet development puts ones life at risk. Both are talking about iranian nuclear scientists being killed!
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by borism 16y ago
jeeze alanh , I'm sure you're on to something . I just don't think supporting oppressive regimes is it .
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by borism 16y ago
but then any company making networking equipment sold to oppressive regimes should be equally responsible, why did you single out Cisco? obviously Cisco is the market leader and probably more of their equipment ends up everywhere (I'm not s
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by borism 16y ago
sounds logical, except what tools is Cisco specifically providing for "oppressive regimes’ censorship and e-terror campaigns"?
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by borism 16y ago
Tell me more about it :) I myself have a Long Straddle on CYB since some time last year, betting that it moves in either direction. Let's just say hoping to make guaranteed profit cause chinese promised it isn't such a great strategy :) The
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by borism 16y ago
China, not the Fed, has ultimate control over their monetary policy. sure, but since 1994 they haven't really exercised that ultimate control: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1_RMB_to_US_dollar.svg and despite all promises to the cont
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by borism 16y ago
The above discussion makes little sense. By maintaining USD peg China has no independent monetary policy - it's monetary policy is directly influenced by Federal Reserve.
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by borism 16y ago
what should they be correcting? Everyone who stayed with him since mid 2008 has lost 65% of their net worth they had in Clarium as of 2008. However, considering that Clarium assets under management are down from about $8bn to about $2bn, th
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Clarium Loses 90% From Peak After Thiel Hedge Fund Has Third Losing Year(bloomberg.com)
53 points by borism 16y ago|18 comments
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by borism 16y ago
why not post original interview (including transcript, copy-pasted verbatim by TC): http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11404 what's with this TC/AOL loyalty on HN? I think those two outlets are loathsome.
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by borism 16y ago
dear god, how tired I am of this "no one will be obliged" argument! no one is obliged to have an iphone or credit card too. that doesn't mean that a lot of people can't have them, and the fact that they got them voluntarily (or more likely
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by borism 16y ago
Doesn't Credit Suisse have pretty active HFT desk? Just another way to shaft their own customers, isn't it?
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by borism 16y ago
but outlawing TV would be too much government interference, wouldn't it?
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by borism 16y ago
said on March 28 2002, speech to the TGWU conference, Manufacturing matters. When this might have well been the feeling. For everyone.
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by borism 16y ago
ugh, this guy seems to be nuts! does he have any economic education at all? also, his blog host seems to be unreachable.
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by borism 16y ago
the Austrian school is not scientific, but religious branch of Economics though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School#Criticism_of_th...
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by borism 16y ago
I like Bob Schiller very much also. Really down to Earth guy and not extremely opinionated. Mostly his predictions are a range of possibilities, not 100% certain events like it is the case with Roubini. When asked whether something is (over
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by borism 16y ago
he's wrong almost all the time, consistently producing grinding, negative returns. He's only been right a couple times, but when he's right he's really right, making enough money that he doesn't need to make money anymore AFAIK his hedge
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by borism 16y ago
I see you two have some pretty big plans on your mind! Care to share what is it you're building that 60000 predictions per day just won't cut it?
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by borism 16y ago
the depressing part it highlights is how much energy we waste. I can build you a solar-powered toaster with a piece of foil for few bucks. Yet you'd rather use chinese toaster that uses as much energy as can propel you and a vehicle at 100+
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by borism 16y ago
It didn't say in jail yeah, but being on probation or parole means you're almost in jail, doesn't it?
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by borism 16y ago
so what is a gun? maybe a lot of those were toy guns (definitely not allowed on a plane).
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by borism 16y ago
can someone change the topic to "11 rules of Fiorina (where it all ended)" please?
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by borism 16y ago
I don't want them to fly at 35000ft! Currently they have this wing shaped in such a way as to keep it from flying off the road anyway, and this inevitably creates rolling friction. But why should they waste energy on this?

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