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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
They would probably have to spend at least a good chunk their dollar reserves in order to manage a truly catastrophic currency decline.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
Replied above, but the secondary bond market is liquid enough to absorb this event over the time period required.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
The research that I did on this for my grad school project with the GAO suggested that there was generally enough liquidity in the secondary bond market to absorb even a mass sale from China over the time period required to do so.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
One factor not discussed in this article is the demographic headwinds that China is heading into. Their one child policy is only now resulting in greatly distorted working age ratios, which means that their non-working elderly population is
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
getting a 500, which tracks with my experience of atom
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
I think that it's useful to distinguish between arguments that are, and are not, put forth in good faith.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
Oh _sure_ they're not.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
Expressing scorn towards people who didn't major in your field of choice: also pretty 'hipster,' I guess.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
Sounds like this author sold his Google stock early.
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Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning PostgreSQL?
4 points by foxhedgehog 11y ago|2 comments
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
"Is nobler" turns out to modify "in the mind."
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
Shakespeare loves to do this: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer..."
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
I don't think that this is true. The worst terrorist attacks look to be about an order of magnitude worse than the worst riots.
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Reactiflux Slack community shuttering(github.com)
3 points by foxhedgehog 11y ago|1 comments
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
As somebody who studied Shakespeare, it's worth noting that the language would have been foreign to his audience at the time as well. The obscurity of the language amplifies its purpose in many places, and it is kind of a fool's e
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
I wonder how access controls will work in GraphQL/Relay.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
I thought that the reason for immutability wasn't so much for performance as much as for getting predictable state to enable time-travel, etc.
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Ask HN: Traffic-shaping on MonkeyBrains?
3 points by foxhedgehog 11y ago|0 comments
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
Yeah, this is my go-to as well.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
Exciting. So does this do away with implementations of Flux (like the excellent Redux), or is there room for them to work in concert?
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
Exactly. "Animal spirits."
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
AFAIK, QE did not include forcing share buybacks for employees of SOEs, for instance.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
I wonder how something like this might process ambiguous phrases or metaphors, for instance, this passage in Macbeth : There's husbandry in heaven;. Their candles are all out. Because the word "out" can take on two
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
This is demonstrably untrue.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
You are correct about the Crusades. And the below commentators act as though you have to somehow choose between the post-WW2 context and that time period for explanatory power, when of course Middle East history is lengthy and rich and has
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
No, the OP is correct about the Crusades, particularly if you care about the POV of the political actors in the Middle East itself.
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What's Really Going on in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr(medium.com)
6 points by foxhedgehog 11y ago|0 comments
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
This is a great idea.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
As a general rule, I feel that technologists routinely underestimate the ability of people to acclimate to new technology. This is an insightful post.
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by foxhedgehog 11y ago
It certainly is never Russia or its allies that is leaked by WikiLeaks

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