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by cx01 18y ago
I'm not sure why your title says "markup language" but then you include CSS, so I assume that you're talking about the combination markup+style. In this case I would say: HTML is quite OK, but CSS is broken. I would add functions and variab
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by cx01 18y ago
I don't think that's possible, but would be happy if proven wrong. I just downloaded the STM implementation and it seems to include some benchmarks. So that could be at least an answer to your question 4.
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by cx01 18y ago
"For me, the main reason to use STM is not because I think locking is complicated, but because of the speed gains." I'm rather confident that STM is a lot slower than locking. Wasn't the main idea of STM to simplify coding while sacrificing
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by cx01 18y ago
I liked "The mystery of banking" by Rothbard, available here: http://mises.org/mysteryofbanking/mysteryofbanking.pdf It's very well written, but it's not unbiased (Rothbard is a libertarian), so I would encourage you to read other books a
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by cx01 18y ago
Now I get your point. So basically we have different understandings of checking accounts. I'm not a lawyer, but in my opinion money in a checking account should always be redeemable. But you're kind of right that by depositing money there,
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by cx01 18y ago
OK, but as I already said, the point of a checking account is to always have access to the money. You wouldn't call this a scam?
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by cx01 18y ago
But then how do you explain bank runs? If banks practice normal lending, then bank runs shouldn't be harmful, because the bank would always have enough money to redeem all deposits.
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by cx01 18y ago
The bank IS lending more money than it has been deposited with. If banks were sane, they wouldn't lend out any money out of checking accounts. They would only lend out money on savings accounts, where I would agree to give up my right on im
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by cx01 18y ago
Banks loan out money on checking accounts, but the basic idea of a checking account is to have access to the money anytime. So if I put $100 in my checking account, and the bank lends out $90 of it, the bank has liabilities of $190, backed
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by cx01 18y ago
Banks don't create money indefinitely. If you deposit a $10 banknote at a bank, then the whole money supply can only increase by $100 (when the reserve is 10%). Your example is wrong, because you mixed up deposits(which exists only on the b
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by cx01 18y ago
You don't have to specify the types of variables. They get inferred automatically. You only have to ensure that each variable has one definite type, i.e. it doesn't change its type throughout the program.
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by cx01 18y ago
I think it's rather probable that speakers of different languages think different. So a unified language might lead to (more) unified thinking. I'm not sure if that would be a good or bad thing.
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by cx01 18y ago
This could be great for beginners; they could start coding without having to install anything. Maybe add some collaboration features to make it usable in school, e.g. students can send their code to the teacher for review by the press of a
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by cx01 18y ago
I'd recommend you to read up on the Austrian School of Economics. A rather easy introduction is this: http://mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf More advanced: http://mises.org/rothbard/mes.asp and http://mises.org/Books/HumanAction
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by cx01 18y ago
German IT news site heise has some interesting information regarding this: http://www.heise.de/mobil/Fehlstart-Android-Handy-Kogan-Agor... Allegedly an unknown HTC executive told an Australian magazine that Kogan actually never had the mo
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by cx01 18y ago
I think that most people don't understand that money spent by the state is directly(taxes) or indirectly(inflation) taken from them. That might seem crazy, but I've often had political debates with people, who had absolutely no clue about b
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by cx01 18y ago
News news is here: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
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by cx01 18y ago
You should make the clickable target area larger, i.e. to select the "<a>"-tag I have to click on the little "a"; it would be much easier to just click on the gray box surrounding the "a". Still, I'm not really happy with menus in w
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by cx01 18y ago
I read that argument several times, but always wonder: Shouldn't VCs factor in the subjective risk of the individual venture, like banks do (by requiring higher premiums for riskier credits)? So for example, if a venture has a (subjective)
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by cx01 18y ago
Me too. Nice to see a fellow here!
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by cx01 18y ago
If war risk is secret then a government won't help and that's what we're debating about.
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by cx01 18y ago
My arguments should be understood in the context of tome's posts, not regarding my current situation. Personally I don't keep reserves because there's no risk of war (at least I think so). If there was war and I had reserves, then libertari
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by cx01 18y ago
There might be food insurance companies. They would have advertisements telling people of a probable military intervention by Xia and recommend people to buy food insurance in order to be safe. Regarding your second point: The realization t
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by cx01 18y ago
People will keep reserves big enough, so that they last long enough to rebuild their national food industry. Or as I said earlier they might continue buying domestic products in order to keep that industry alive. Even if most people neglect
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by cx01 18y ago
If I tell you there would be no food in a month, then you wouldn't stockpile some? I don't believe this.
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by cx01 18y ago
You didn't talk of a military in your first post. Assuming that there exists a military paid for by taxes, than it would probably have its own food reserves. If there is no government military, then private corporations would start offering
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by cx01 18y ago
I wrote in my post that it might lead more people to buy stocks, but that's entirely their fault. I don't see how one rising stock might affect anyone who is not investing in the stock market. The cannonball analogy doesn't hold.
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by cx01 18y ago
Of course it is. If there's a huge uncontrollable risk, people will insure themselves against it. If people know that they might be attacked and don't have enough food, they will hoard some.
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by cx01 18y ago
"Investing in risky stocks that destabilize the economy creating a panic that loses millions of jobs and causes enough chaos in my personal life: that's ok" How can investing in stocks destabilize the economy? If I invest my money in stocks
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by cx01 18y ago
If the residents of Libland sense that they might be attacked, they would obviously keep food reserves or start buying only home-grown food in order to support their own industry.

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