damptowel

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   by damptowel 10y ago

   Laws don't apply to you if you're wealthy enough. It gets especially fun geopolitically. You can force countries to take out new loans to repay older ones, even when they cannot meet their interest payments, paint them in the medi
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   by damptowel 10y ago

   I fell out of my chair when I heard what US students pay. It's pure predatory ponzi finance really. Worst, people spin morality plays out of it, without ever doing the math or looking at systemic flows and going... 'hmmm maybe all
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   by damptowel 10y ago

   Absolutely, a lot of people in tech haven't got the faintest clue about the world outside their bubble.
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   by damptowel 10y ago

   Student debt should be abolished, its a huge brake on the economy, only serving finance, which at this point in the debt supercycle is draining real productivity.
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   by damptowel 10y ago

   also check out: beeple, gmunk, andy gilmore
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   by damptowel 10y ago

   Hear. I want to give go a try but the lack of a decent gui solution is keeping me from investing too much time.
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   by damptowel 10y ago

   I used to think faster computers meant faster programs...
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   by damptowel 10y ago

   And css...
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   by damptowel 10y ago

   Most of my 'succesful' peers seem to take the path of least resistance. I never feel fulfilled unless I'm doing things the hard way, to the point of self-sabotage.
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    by damptowel 10y ago

    I was hoping they would have dumped him mid flight. Would've served him right... two timing basterds.
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    by damptowel 10y ago

    At my frst job I once had to fix a wordpress site that was 'too slow' which loaded a 12MB 4k by 4k favicon. I kid you not. It also loaded jquery 4 times, had about 20 unminified stylesheets linked in the header. When I told this t
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    by damptowel 11y ago

    As someone who did a couple of front end jobs both building and fixing css built in this way I can give you one advice: don't. This might seem like an obvious thing to generate cleaner and more 'semantic' markup but you will
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    by damptowel 11y ago

    Personally, I worry about overal state productivity and its geopolitical ramifications. Productivity per capita would seem a big determinant in the power a nation has, though this is purely speculation on my part. :)
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    by damptowel 11y ago

    Basic Econ 101 is wrong. See http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521914...