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by dimitar 12y ago
The interesting point is that this is a question of ideology - there are plenty of things the Germans would love to spend on, but the government believes that more spending would make things worse. Bernanke doesn't suggest things that
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by dimitar 12y ago
As Paul Krugman has said before[1] This is a reflection of the following identity: Current account = Savings – Investment Basically, Germany is over-saving and both Germany and its trade partners are worse off because of it. [1]: http:&#x2
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by dimitar 12y ago
The "Nixon shock" was suspending dollar convertibility to gold that lead to the dissolution of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates . The Bretton Woods institutions that were put in place to support the system - the
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by dimitar 12y ago
Inflation is measured by a basket of goods that are weighted by consumer expenditure on them. In short you can make your own index that measures changes in the important for you prices - "yourflation", but that is not what inflati
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by dimitar 12y ago
Computers have decreased their prices in real terms, not nominally. An Apple II was originally priced at $1300. Do computers now cost $13? They would if you had deflation or if they had been cheaper in nominal terms. Computers haven't
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by dimitar 12y ago
One of my favorite economists has argued that whether you have 1% deflation, 0% inflation or 1% inflation isn't that different. Most prices aren't really changing - you don't get much of the effects mentioned in the post or m
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by dimitar 12y ago
A lot of users have been trained by viewing years of essentially meaningless error messages: "Program has encountered a problem and needs to close", "Error!" or something which actually useful, but its by no means unders
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by dimitar 12y ago
Generally there are two reasons for blackouts: * Not enough power is being generated. If the price of electricity is high enough this will not happen. * Unreliable equipment - which means not enough money has been spent repairing it or buyi
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by dimitar 12y ago
And yet they actually recommend better regulation, not getting rid of it.
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by dimitar 12y ago
Nuclear ballistic missile-armed submarines are considered second strike weapons, even though there are first strike scenarios for their use. Their missiles don't have the range to hit launch sites that are far inland in North America o
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A Dynamic Theory of Romantic Choice(medium.com)
5 points by dimitar 12y ago|0 comments
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by dimitar 12y ago
Deflation according to mainstream economists is undesirable because of a bug in labor markets - "downward nominal wage rigidity". Since businesses cannot cut salaries (wrecks productivity, due to the morale hit), they hire less or
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by dimitar 12y ago
Fourth. While Ukraine is a bilingual country, it still much bigger than former Yugoslavia. Most people there consider it their native language and a majority know it. So if you are strongly biased for a small number you'll get 30 milli
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by dimitar 12y ago
Duch himself was initially addicted to painkillers and due to the price and lack of access to them took up heroin. He probably did reach a lot of painkiller addicts that wouldn't have bought heroin without his aid. The economic proof o
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by dimitar 12y ago
They use .gitignore to fill them.
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by dimitar 12y ago
Offline seems to be like HTTrack for Android (Which is a greatly idea, actually).
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by dimitar 12y ago
Continue to use your previous IDE or editor and gradually switch to Emacs as you learn more.
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by dimitar 12y ago
I've noticed the same thing about some car owners, I'm not sure who is doing more servicing, the car or the owner. Makes me wonder if cars are in fact domesticated.
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by dimitar 12y ago
"Expat: This is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL. It is sometimes ambiguously referred to as the MIT License." In case anyone else wondered.
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Ukraine, Trolling, and the Twitter War(medium.com)
1 points by dimitar 12y ago|0 comments
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by dimitar 12y ago
http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=zj3ie12ewi1mrj1t - you can get it from this link. You'll need a z-machine interpreter to run the game, there are ones written in JavaScript if you are interested in that.
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by dimitar 12y ago
I actually expected some holter monitor integration for this app when reading the headline, but it seems it is a logging tool (still useful). I'm going to try the Android web app when I go home. I think I actually need this since I do
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by dimitar 12y ago
I presume this is another way to avoid the infamous Emacs pinky. What I am currently trying out is sticky keys (on Xfce). I find that it slows me down a bit, but I'm extra careful as well. I still hold my fingers on Control and Shift w
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by dimitar 12y ago
Lots of small things; they added up and the regime became more oppressive and nationalistic. People started to feel it even if they stayed away from politics.
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by dimitar 12y ago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3064ALCEAEnJWT.png:large - according to this chart, you are not alone in considering emigration.
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The Nerd vs. Bro Wars(bloombergview.com)
2 points by dimitar 12y ago|0 comments
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by dimitar 12y ago
Bionicles were comparatively inexpensive and allowed enough freedom to build things cool things with just one or two sets (much better than the other contemporary Lego lines in the early 00s).
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Structural Deformity(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by dimitar 12y ago|0 comments
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by dimitar 12y ago
This a really strong statement and is either a misunderstanding or exaggeration. The received wisdom is either that a country issuing debt in its own currency cannot be forced to default or that it is not as vulnerable to sudden stops o
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by dimitar 12y ago
Oh wow, it is certainly a challenge to find a public intellectual to admit something like that, especially considering that not everyone can be neatly placed in one of the two camps. But you can get close to that by reading between the line

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