chad_oliver

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by chad_oliver 13y ago
No, because you can have different numbers of people supported by a single minimum wage job. A single mother might have to split her income among three people (herself and her kids), but an older woman who takes a job just to get out of th
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
It also failed as a currency in a very bad way. Part of the reason why the Great Depression was so bad is because most countries still used (or used the mindset associated with) the gold standard. Monetary policy is a very good way of stabi
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
The idea that a small amount of inflation is better than deflation is pretty much the least controversial idea in economics. Seriously, no professional economists argue about that. (There are plenty of special cases where deflation is good,
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
To be fair, a large part of why America doesn't declare war is because no-one declares war. After WWII we no longer consider war-making a sovereign right of nations, so a declaration of war is useless.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Fair enough; I can see your point. I think the other side of the coin is that, once you've logged into all your accounts, it's much easier to switch back and forth between accounts.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
I have two accounts: my personal account and a work account. Until a few minutes ago, I had never signed in to my work account from my home computer. I tried to "switch" to my new account, as you described. It took about 10 second
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
I cancelled out your downvote, so your guilty conscience can rest easy. :-) I remember when we visited the Philippines, a friend gave us about 20 jars of a local delicacy to take back home to New Zealand. Which was very kind, except New Zea
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Fair enough. I disagree with your position, but I can see that it is entirely consistent with your starting assumptions.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Yeah, they've got far too much power. We should stop trying to regulate the economy. The market knows best. </sarcasm> I don't think that Central Banks have always made the right decisions. To the contrary: they're
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Note that I said they try to maintain low levels of inflation. It's sure better than nothing. The economy is a chaotic system, and you need to use all means at your disposal to try to counter the boom-and-bust cycle.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
> We are sick of the fed and banks inflating money. Actually, I quite like it. It has advantages like stabilising the economy and encouraging investment. I've never heard a serious economist suggest that moderate inflation is anythi
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Since most pages would be read far more often than they are written, you could probably get good results by 'compiling' the page to a static cache after each edit.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Surely half an hour a day doesn't make a lot of difference? Many people spend more on their commute.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Good point. I come from a low-rise city (Christchurch, New Zealand) so I'd forgotten about that. I suppose you could designate a safe spot, perhaps on the roof of the apartment?
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
No, they're not entirely unsuitable for urban areas. Instead, their (relatively) short range means that they're unsuitable for anything except urban areas. If designed poorly, they would be very unsafe, but there are plenty of way
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
You have a very good point, and I hadn't considered that aspect. However, if people defer their consumption, surely they'll also have less need to spend money, and thus less incentive to perform economically productive activities
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
I agree with the majority of your post, but I'm not convinced that inflation should be included in your list of bad things ("do you want inflation, meddling, and regulation?"). A moderate amount of inflation is a very good th
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
He didn't. Negative numbers have been around for millenia.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
At the moment, the threshold is 500 points.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
To be fair, the subsidies exist (if only theoretically) to ensure that America can feed itself in a large scale war. In WWII, the Allies had a lot of success with cutting off Germany's external trade, which significantly reduces their
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
What about a kinect? They're capable, (relatively) cheap, and their ubiquity means that they have a good community.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
You'd only really need to synchronize the audio and slides at a single point (perhaps this could happen backstage, before the presentation begins). After this, you can just record relative timestamps for each slide transition.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Oops, that was meant to be "thank you for your information ..."
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Be careful about making your generalisations too broad. I live in New Zealand, and would have said that everyone in New Zealand thinks that MSG is ZOMG BAD FOR YOU. I suspect that each of us can only speak for our own social group. That sai
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
The lag's going to be the killer. I think this will mostly be used by large companies which want to manage (and enable) their employee's access to software. Of course, that's exactly the sort of thing that companies would lik
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
I'm not convinced about the ability to block out certain types of sounds (e.g. birds vs traffic), but blocking out certain frequencies should be quite possible. Of course, there's one question the article didn't address: wh
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Another Rant about Academia and Open Source(digifesto.com)
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
None, as far as I can tell. It was probably just selected because it's a pretty picture.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
As an aside: the title image depicts the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
I think it sounds weird to some people because they're used to "Japanese" being a adjective rather than a demonym. When used in an unexpected way, any word sounds weird.

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