cgp

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by cgp 15y ago
you can't assume that printing money here will incur inflation, as money is being just sucked up by the system right now - a lot of it in the form of housing prices falling (and thus falling off the assets sheets of banks)
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by cgp 15y ago
> But what's the point of trying to catch cheaters if it hurts the class dynamic and if those who get caught don't even get suspended? The students are clearly OK with cheating otherwise the cheaters would be ostracized by the other st
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by cgp 15y ago
I'd offer that the it would have gotten Google zillions of video conferencing clients and a leg up on implementing that into their VOIP style offering. Instead, we're looking at Microsoft struggling to fit into an online platform that has a
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by cgp 16y ago
I think the delusion may stem more from the fact that there have been far more software engineers than say, lawyers, law enforcement agents that have had a huge impact on society. This doesn't mean they are at the absolute top of the heap -
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by cgp 16y ago
Only when comparing to other J2EE frameworks.
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by cgp 16y ago
it would be nice if there were a number (a rank of sorts) along each result
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by cgp 16y ago
This is really about freedom, education/opportunity, justice. Whereas there really was a stratification, that's becoming flattened. As you say, the pessimistic part of me thinks that all of those things I just listed are being reduced for t
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by cgp 16y ago
. the middle class does indeed collapse . the collapse of the middle class will have easy to reduce the size of the professional class, in particular doctors and professors as noone will be able to afford their services . everyone will cont