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by cft 6y ago
There's also a possibility of (hyper) inflation. I would buy certain hand picked large stocks, Bitcoin, gold and Fx.
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Pinterest shares rocket 38% on user growth and advertising in Q2(cnbc.com)
2 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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China celebrates completion of rival sat navigation system(msn.com)
3 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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by cft 6y ago
Importantly, it doesn't rank Pinterest highly, which is a major source of Google search spam
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by cft 6y ago
Amazon has become very difficult. I end up using ebay more and more: sellers there are small businesses and they bear more responsibility. It feels more decentralized. Longer shipping, but cheaper and more reliable.
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by cft 6y ago
The first effect maybe that the increasing dollar creation rate needed to sustain the functioning of American economy may exceed the ability of foreign countries to absorb them.
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by cft 6y ago
In Argentinian or Russian style currency defaults the computer networks continued to function. We are talking about the dollar no longer being the world reserve currency here, not a total societal collapse. It will happen when a more attrac
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by cft 6y ago
I took an example of a server straight from the Rust async book, and to my surprise, it performed very well for a long time serving real internet requests till I actually had to modify it: https://rust-lang.github.io/async-b
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by cft 6y ago
I recently took two years off and drove from San Francisco to Panama. I spent a lot of time in El Salvador and in Honduras and made some observations. Police in those countries are invisible (non-existent?). You can pretty much do what you
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by cft 6y ago
It would be highly advantageous for the US to offer the same (assuming they even want to come here still)
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by cft 6y ago
The cost of training is decreasing, but the meaningfully large and non-trivial training sets are almost exclusively in the domain of large companies, economically inaccessible to the individual developers/startups.
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by cft 6y ago
These are rules specifically written for selective enforcement on case by case basis.
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by cft 6y ago
The same recommendation (add -site:pinterest.com) has 77k upvotes in r/LifeProTips https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/hejbl0/lpt_whe...
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Former high-flying VC Michael Rothenberg now faces criminal charges(businessinsider.com)
2 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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by cft 6y ago
A traditional large central bank requires the government, the legal system and the military to back up the fiat, which is more expensive than electricity for the miners.
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by cft 6y ago
I strongly prefer the internet of the early 2000s than it's cable TV version of 2020s in the name of "safety".
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by cft 6y ago
Sure it will be possible to stay open: just double down removing offending content and defend from the lawsuits. Large companies routinely have multiple ongoing lawsuits.
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by cft 6y ago
"US food prices see historic jump and are likely to stay high" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-food-prices-histo...
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by cft 6y ago
In the past QE was injected from the top (thus coastal real estate and asset bubbles). But now it has been injected from the bottom too (PPP)
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by cft 6y ago
Japan's never tried printing the global reserve currency. Yen was a much smaller local experiment. There's no guarantee that Brazil will continue paying USD for Huawei equipment indefinitely.
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by cft 6y ago
In California for example, due to state-wide rent control, it's very dangerous for a landlord to lower rents. I would rather offer 6 months free rent than lock into permanent nonadjustable lower rent situation.
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by cft 6y ago
I wonder who downvotes this and why.
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My Official MIT Degree Verified on the Bitcoin Blockchain(reddit.com)
1 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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by cft 6y ago
Section 230 should stay but the definition of re-publisher vs publisher should be narrowed down. The law should be written such that if you go beyond removing spam and illegal content, and especially if you are editorializing user-submitted
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by cft 6y ago
Please make one for Bing. I gave up on Google search about half a year ago initially for all searches that could yield politically incorrect results, but then for all technical searches as well due to these spammy sites. Bing technical sear
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by cft 6y ago
I switched to Firefox because of Google's draconian extension policy and don't regret it
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by cft 6y ago
An anecdote: I was running my bootstraped company with 5 employees when in 2013 I suddenly started getting Google recruiting emails about once every 4 days. They wanted me for a "role" of a SRE, probably because I asked stack over
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by cft 6y ago
That's a multitrillion dollar question. One difference is that the US is printing the global currency, while Japan was creating local convertible currency. We are also seeing the stock market decoupling from the underlying economic rea
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by cft 6y ago
Ray Dalio thinks we are approaching the end of Bretton Woods monetary system https://youtu.be/yrxYhv2O3wU It's likely that this or subsequent rounds of QE with already 0 interest rates will blow some unexpected fuse, b
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by cft 6y ago
I am wondering why editing the original title was allowed in this case?

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