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by esja 12y ago
There is an obvious ripple effect here which your comment ignores. Oligarchs buy in Knightsbridge, pushing aristocrats to Notting Hill. That pushes the international managerial types to places like Chiswick, which pushes the mere profession
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by esja 12y ago
And mine.
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by esja 12y ago
That's no longer correct: all banks create money. When a US bank approves you for a loan, it simply credits your account with new money. This money does not come from other accounts, i.e. this "investment" in you is made enti
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by esja 12y ago
The banker actually creates brand new money to give to whoever is approved for a loan - he/she doesn't use your money for that purpose.
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by esja 12y ago
The bank doesn't invest your money. You lend it to them and receive very little interest in return. They separately create brand new money to provide loans to other people, mainly for purchase of existing assets. At no point is your mo
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by esja 12y ago
A huge part of the problem is where modern finance goes, i.e. what it finances, and why. The traditional definition of a bank as a middleman between savers and businesses is very, very wrong. Almost all bank financing is directed at existin
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by esja 13y ago
A decent article, but as usual treats "capital mobility" as a law of nature. If present trends continue, capital controls will be making a comeback.
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by esja 13y ago
As they grow they will need to hire more people. I wonder whether this policy will prevent some otherwise excellent hires from joining them.
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by esja 13y ago
For a "social coding" site it still surprises me that they don't have a more obvious way to browse users.
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by esja 13y ago
That's great, thank you! Just needs a prominent link somewhere and this would be super-useful as a starting point. Especially in the Enterprise product.
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by esja 13y ago
I wish GitHub had a page like this: http://stackoverflow.com/users
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Ask HN: GitHub Enterprise or Atlassian Stash?
2 points by esja 13y ago|1 comments
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by esja 13y ago
Invasion of privacy is what's new, not privacy itself.
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by esja 13y ago
Very carefully worded & not a denial of the allegations.
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by esja 15y ago
... and Linux on the desktop
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by esja 15y ago
Thanks so much for the time you put into your posts. They always teach me something. The overall theme brought this to mind: "If you give me six lines <of code> written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in
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by esja 15y ago
And more recently: "Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain." -- Homer Simpson
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by esja 15y ago
Have you thought about "putting yourself out there" a bit more? You could look at it like an experiment, just sharing your knowledge with the world, humbly and with no expectation of a return... I bet you would find all sorts of positives c
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by esja 15y ago
Cheapest plan: $200/month. That seems a bit high... what competes with this?
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by esja 17y ago
I am Australian and am wary of investing in Australia, despite the many wonderful things about the economy over the last few years. The currency is at all time highs, meaning if you are a foreigner you are paying a historically high price f
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by esja 17y ago
In my experience the "Best Hiring Tip" is actually: ask the person to do the thing that you are hiring them to do (or a representative exercise), and see how well they do it, or how much potential they demonstrate.
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by esja 17y ago
Hmmm... should I trust my backups to generic software vendor X, or to someone who clearly takes nothing for granted... tough choice. Signing up now.
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by esja 18y ago
While I agree with much of what he says (despite working in derivatives), and while I realise the message is what should be addressed, and not the messenger, I think it's worth noting that Will Hutton's wife profited very nicely from the de
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by esja 18y ago
"For every human problem, there is a neat, plain solution — and it is always wrong."
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by esja 18y ago
I'd work for the political party you started in point 4.
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by esja 18y ago
In Search of Excellence (the classic of this genre) had the same problem. Being profiled in a pop-business book should be considered a huge red flag.
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by esja 18y ago
A bad salesman can also get stuff done, but leave a time bomb of bad perceptions or promises, which can be hard for a non-salesman to detect.
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by esja 18y ago
And Western Australia is another.
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by esja 18y ago
I agree. "Thus far" is what I'm worried about. This is a valuable community and at some point will need defending from the hordes. There are lots of ways to do that, hence my question.
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by esja 18y ago
What mechanisms are in place here to punish noise and reward signal?

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