cityhomesteader

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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> "A friend of mine once said: You know what the problem is with being an economist? Everyone has an opinion about the economy. That's the problem with all pseudosciences - politics, social sciences, etc. Everyone has an opinio
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> I’m impressed by your post’s combination of cynicism I'm impressed by your naivety. Where's the cynicism? I've worked on wall street/finance and I've read finance publications for decades. It's not cynicis
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
Those are all tiny "money/finance" economies and in the case of macau - a gambling economy. None of them are major manufacturing countries or economic powers. They have 0 imports because they hardly produce anything. Most of
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
But consulting using your work experience of 10, 20 or 30 years is something that can happen and everyone in the economic rung could rise up 1 spot. Also, your work experience in 1960s/70s isn't so relevant to most anything today.
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
Pretty much every finance site - marketwatch, wsj, cnbc, bloomberg, zerohedge, etc along with the peter schiffs/etc clickbait it. For some reason, nytimes paywalled clickbait is constantly spammed here. The inverted yield curve. There
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> Then there is no boxing/unboxing of simple types or literals because they are one-and-the-same, and no there’s no confusion about how to interact with any truly generic type of value. It's simply performance/space. It&#x
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> I have had a hypothesis for awhile that the economy is going to see a lot more post-retirement startups. I think you are overestimating the economic state of most retirees. Also, startups are risky. Old people do not like risk and vent
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
What about debt/liability? I guess you might be referring to Enterprise Value ( EV ). https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/enterprisevalue.asp Ultimately, the value of a company is what someone is willing to
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> These may be highly intelligent people, but what they are highly skilled at is the art of obtaining and keeping political office. Agreed. That's my point. > That does not necessarily say anything about their knowledge of the in
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> What no one is talking about here is how this would be handled, especially for a small online sellers. Strange huh? Seems like the little guy is being attacked by the elites in every manner possible. Whether it is small online sellers,
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
In a similar strain. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Knuth
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> I'm skeptical that some individual blue-collar worker would risk his financial well-being and possibly freedom to make a few thousand dollars from possibly causing financial harm to Tesla Few thousand? With insider information, yo
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> This is what happens when those in control don't understand, know or care about the things they regulate. It's very naive to think that highly intelligent people don't know or care about what they regulate. I think it is
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
Seems like the antithesis of what a "hacker" news site should be. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
I've noticed that as well. Just a guess, but certain news organizations are given "special treatment" lately. Almost everyday, I see a post from select news sources with 1 or 2 upvotes and no comments very high on the frontpa
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
That introduces portability and cpu update issues. One of the reasons for high level languages and the trends in virtual machine/runtimes ( JVM, .Net ) is to decouple the hardware and the software to increase portability and stability
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
Lately, it's been hard to take anything from the media seriously. It's strange how the media has been treating microsoft with kid gloves while wailing on facebook. It's a constant battle with windows 10. You could remove apps
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> You did whataboutism; JohnJamesRambo brought in the term (as did camgunz). No I didn't. If I did, I would be excusing china's behavior. But I'm not. What I am saying is that china isn't rewriting the rules, I'm
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> Offering to host your videos for free For free? No. For your valuable data. You think youtube is worth over $100 billion because it's hosting your videos for free? https://www.thestreet.com/investing/youtube-m
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
I know this has been posted before but youtube-dl is a godsend when it comes to archiving content. Considering how quickly youtube is taking down educational channels, it's prudent to create a backup just in case.
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> I knew the top comment would be whataboutism, it is what the diversion artists have been trained to do. You brought up whataboutism. So are you a diversion artist? How about this. I'm american. I don't really care about what
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
No. Inflation has been near 0 for most of the western world since 2008. The increase is a result of lax monetary policy ( central banks flooding the world with money ) and asset price ( stocks, housing ) increases. In other words, inflation
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> Why are people celebrating the downfall of Apple Because Apple is a tax dodging corporate behemoth that kowtows to the chinese and exploits slave labor? Because Apple sells overpriced garbage to people who don't know better? >
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
Europe has been rewriting the rules of the internet for a while. It's amazing how europe/EU is getting a pass when it comes to censorship. Not to mention what our corporations and our media have been doing. The problems with the i
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> Every reputable travel publication/blog I know of have strict editorial policies against accepting freebies/discounts/gifts in exchange for reviews/coverage. Sure, for the writers in order to maintain an illusion of
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> and that funds Google. ... and the atlantic and most newspapers, media companies and even this site. Welcome to the consumer economy where trying to "influence" consumers to consume is the name of the game. Advertising is at
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
> I just want to know who the heck takes recommendations of 'influencers' seriously? Their fans? > Gullible teens with no money? Probably. But gullible teens with no money have parents who have money and gullible teens with
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by cityhomesteader 8y ago
An even better way is to program, program and program some more. Doing ( creating software ) > teaching/explaining > doing nothing. Nothing beats solving problems yourself.