dualogy

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by dualogy 13y ago
Last I heard, instead of paying taxes, Brunei citizens all get an annual $30k outright. Isn't that real-world, non-sci-fi Basic Income?
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by dualogy 13y ago
That sure was a big crisis but the word collapse for me implies total breakdown == after something collapsed, it no longer exists. The "financial system" still exists seemingly, even if arguably not in its best shape ever si
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by dualogy 13y ago
> It just means that if enough people think the same way, the world is doomed. True in the sense that if "enough people" believe the Internet's favourite scare-story of imminent-financial-collapse (growing in popularity ev
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by dualogy 13y ago
That's because 99% of UK housing comes in a single standard size --- `XS`.
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by dualogy 13y ago
I'm sorry that I'm not able to solve world hunger and world peace. Not sure why that means I cannot take it upon myself to hypothetically build a mobile computer-vision-powered app? Please enlighten.
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by dualogy 13y ago
"All the Googles and Facebooks pride themselves on their laidback, social and party attitude." Ugh. Great, now that such people invaded programming, where do the rest of us go? :D
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by dualogy 13y ago
> It depends what you consider a 'home run'. I consider building a sustainable business that will generate revenue and create products for the next 10/20/30 years a home run. 10/20/30 years? Look those aren&
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by dualogy 13y ago
You "monetize an app like that" by selling it to FB or the stock market.
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Individuals haven't been able to convert notes to hard currency In the US! Well, the rest of the world had other worries back then anyway, and after WW1 + WW2 most of the world's gold was on US soil thanks to trade flows and
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Bank notes that cannot be exchanged for gold at fixed rate are recent invention Keep in mind that the ostensibly "fixed" rates were adjusted time and again --- effectively they were floating rates, just not as real-time as to
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by dualogy 13y ago
> but the lack of discussion I wouldn't say there has been a "lack of discussion" on generics at all..
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by dualogy 13y ago
> They are banning the sale of non-physical items. If that were the case, thousands of ISV, SaaS, indie mp3/ebook vendors etc. would be up in arms already, wouldn't they?
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by dualogy 13y ago
Well Bitcoin et al were supposed to "solve" all that, yet here we are 5 years later..
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by dualogy 13y ago
German citizen here.. we kinda "got lucky" the whole cold war thing started right out of the ashes after 45, otherwise Germany would probably have remained a barren wasteland or become merely a major agricultural Allied asset. Ins
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by dualogy 13y ago
> If you don't fall for their tricks, then you are free. That is how chess works. It is? We should play some time, this could get interesting.
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by dualogy 13y ago
As a German (not a banker), I'm very curious what country you're from..
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by dualogy 13y ago
Beijing, last I checked ;)
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by dualogy 13y ago
By subscription I meant anything feed-like I can subscribe to / "follow" ;) I too am a loser at marketing :P
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by dualogy 13y ago
Love the idea and the site. Now to be notified of new posts? No FB Page.. no Twitter.. doesn't even seem to have good ol' RSS feed (not that I'd really use it, though I probably should switch back to that from that damned soc
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Except your corporate IT department, and maybe gamers Ah, just the two major mass-markets par excellence then..
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash. The more you know!
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by dualogy 13y ago
> They're nowhere near as prophetic as George Orwell Well we'll only know in the future, right?
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by dualogy 13y ago
Just so I never move there... what town was this?
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by dualogy 13y ago
I have for a time put on weight during intermittent fasting (daily 16-19h fast) easily, simply by ingesting excess calories in the "feeding window" for days/weeks on end. If you need 2000 a day and eat 2500-3000 a day or more
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by dualogy 13y ago
What did wheat do to you? Are you a celiac, or are there other reasons one might be interested in avoiding it?
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by dualogy 13y ago
> from 3rd world countries from ex UK colonies -- FTFY ;)
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by dualogy 13y ago
EU countries other than UK and Denmark (who joined much earlier) are both required and allowed to adopt EUR as currency only as soon as they fulfill certain economic/fiscal criteria (don't have the exact figures in my head, ea
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by dualogy 13y ago
> The idea behind this was that the liabilities within the TARGET2 system would cancel each other out. To everybody's utmost surprise, however, this has not happened. So the eurosystem has been in the making for many decades, develo
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by dualogy 13y ago
> The ECB has taken overwhelmingly the latter course Not seeing this. Unlike most national central banks, the ECB is also not concerned with national economic issues such as fiscal balance, tax revenues, employment numbers, national trad
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by dualogy 13y ago
"Basically, this is the direction the Euro group is taking us. This concept was born with little regard for the economic health of Europe. In the future, any countries money or economy can totally fail and the world currency operation

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