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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
> Was Nixon's complete split from the gold standard a factor at all? No, it wasn't.
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
> Wikipedia says per capita GDP using PPP (which I believe is the appropriate conversion for this purpose) is ~$4,300 per year No, you shouldn't use PPP adjustments in this situation. The price for laptop is what it is. And the only
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Let me Google that for you......
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Why not just buy some glasses that blur up your vision? And then go put them on in Central Park?
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
People do stencils frequently, you can google all the opinions and resources about it. Paint will stain & fade just the same as wellpaper will. Most people will say that wallpaper lasts longer than paint. I think the biggest thing is th
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
How does Elm undo a charge to my credit card if I change my mind 2 minutes later? How does Elm un-print a document if I decide I didn't want to print it after all? How does Elm un-send the email telling a person they were fired if I de
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Sounds like the company was dead anyway and you are mistaking causation. Companies that are "alive" don't pivot. Companies that are dying people to avoid death. That the company had to pivot suggests the owners decided the ex
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Most of the other answers you got were wrong. Mortgage rates are, mostly, driven by the market. The Federal Reserve influences the Federal Funds Rate (they don't "set it"; they set a target and then manipulate the market by b
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
There are 22 million companies just in the US. Can you name 1,000 companies in the US that pay in crypto? I'd be willing to call 0.004% "a bunch".
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
They picked the worst possible time in 80 years to start a new bank. It meant they couldn't actually get a banking certificate. This constrained every technical choice & feature they wanted to offer. I mean....I'm not sure the
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
I would add that Americans are (possibly uniquely) politicised and can't seem to stop constant posting about news. My friends from other countries never do that and instead use Facebook to talk about their actual lives. I also have ant
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
My point wasn't really about whether things are cheap or not. My point is that the post I replied to came across as typical developer "every other job in the world except mine is easy" that you constantly see in HackerNews. &
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Hiring a full time staff to do this? Yeah, that happens at big, rich companies. It doesn't happen at actual startups. Instead the founder or the office admin does it on top of everything else they're supposed to be doing. Also, an
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
I disagree. Have you ever done this? I've been on the other side of it. (I own my own company.) Get suggestions from staff & follow through. In the real world staff have lots of wants, nice ideas, and "wouldn't it be good
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
The thing you linked to isn't what the article is talking about. Why did you post it? I'm confused.
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
To add.... Physical science, earth science, planetary science, space science, life science, natural science, formal science, systems science, applied science, fundamental science, ocean science, atmospheric science. And partial credit for n
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Yeah, this struck me as the kind of article that suffers from the rush to press. Then again if they had waited a few months -- for autopsy results to come in, for effects of his death on the community to be clear, etc -- then maybe there wo
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Subscriptions are MASSIVELY more predictable. I say this after working daily for years with FP&A team on building revenue projections for a product that had both subscription and non-subscription sales models. You realise that your post
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
Yes, there is an Apple authorized repair center. I had a sticky key on my laptop. It took them two weeks to fix it. They claimed it was because they don't keep parts in stock and have to order them from overseas.
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
There is no Apple in my country. I can't call them and they certainly won't come pick up my phone.
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
Whatsapp came out in 2009. Encryption was added 7 years later in 2016. Why would anyone who cares about encryption have been using it for the almost decade up till now?
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
It's the Goldilocks syndrome. Population density has to be juuuust right to result in American transit. It couldn't possibly be due to any other factors.........
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
I agree that the political structure is likely a problem but that's not the argument I was responding to.
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
It is exactly the same in other countries. Unless you have some data to prove otherwise?
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
Sweden's population density is less than the US but they have better transit. The US's urbanization rate is 82% which is higher than Canada, Norway, Spain, France, Greece, Taiwan, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Ir
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
Obviously the US has some structural issues, otherwise it wouldn't have these persistent failures. All I'm doing is pushing back against the simplistic "but the US is so big compared to all those tiny countries". If you
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
There are plenty of alternatives in developing countries. (I live in one such country and no one here uses any of the things you listed.) None of them are based on the block chain. They don't require bank accounts or credit cards. They
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
The OP was talking about China. China is bigger than the continental US. I think the persistent myth about the US's size being some unique problem doesn't explain much. What's more, if you think of the EU as a comparison for
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
And some aren't. I don't follow your point, could you elaborate?
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by freddie_mercury 9y ago
Renting is a market. Why would it be such a special market that every seller is guaranteed to at least break even, when that doesn't hold in any other market? The market rent isn't whatever it takes for every owner to make a profi

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