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by gahahaha 16y ago
"""But you pay someone to indoctrinate you with exactly the same methods and formulae that all of your competitors are using. Then you expect to come to not just a different conclusion, but a market-beating conclusion? That just sounds dumb
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by gahahaha 16y ago
Please note: Romer writes about "dealing with the LONG-RUN budget deficit". The short-run deficit MUST be high right now. In the current policy debate, debt is often invoked as a reason to dismiss calls for expansionary fiscal policy as a r
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by gahahaha 16y ago
They might not look sexy, but they work, so his time is better spent making new stuff rather than redoing the low res videos.
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by gahahaha 16y ago
I don't have a box to test this on right now, but you might have to set HISTCONTROL=ignorespace for that to work.
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Dilbert on intentionally confusing pricing(dilbert.com)
99 points by gahahaha 16y ago|55 comments
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by gahahaha 16y ago
The unfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the unfunded Bush tax cuts put us in a much worse fiscal situation leading into this crisis, but the US has unlimited credit lines now. It should use them. Ireland and Greece is fucked. Germany
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by gahahaha 16y ago
That is probably correct. The thing is, no amount of experience meeting a payroll helps you understand issues that are critically affected by the way things add up at a macro level. Businesses are open systems; the world economy is a closed
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by gahahaha 16y ago
Implicit in this "puzzle" is that the US budget should be balanced right now. It should not! Interest rates are EXTREMELY low right now, and due to high unemployment, investments by the government will give more bang for the buck than in a
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by gahahaha 16y ago
It could be argued that he is the exception that proves the rule. He did something great, but he did not start Linux, the company, and make billions. Also - Linux would be useless without the GNU project - which is arguably very American.
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by gahahaha 16y ago
He didn't give it up, but changed Emacs/Gnus to automatically add uppercase letters as he sent it. (Trivial, because he ended sentences with a period and two spaces)
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by gahahaha 16y ago
> anything works if you just have to deal with Scandanavians (or Mormons). Not true. The school systems in Sweden and Norway are far behind Finland in terms of results.
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by gahahaha 16y ago
My point was that beautiful surroundings matter. I assumed that comparing the US to the USSR was so ludicrous that my real point would be obvious. But the Internet is not a place for subtleties.
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by gahahaha 16y ago
"No wonder why the LA poverty rate is so high." Cause and effect. It is more likely that the high drop out rate is caused by poverty and an uneducated environment. We have the same thing here in the north of Norway. Poor region (relatively)
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by gahahaha 16y ago
So... Soviet Russia had it right? Big, ugly and cheap buildings are the way to go? American conservatives never cease to surprise me.
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by gahahaha 16y ago
He is just trying to save /more/ children in Africa. http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704... Larry Ellison is a saint! ... and an asshole.
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by gahahaha 16y ago
The article lists countries by total tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product. If it was just federal taxes it would be worthless. They actually specify "all levels" for the US on the list so it should not be possible to believ
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by gahahaha 16y ago
One of the good things about HN is that it can generally be assumed that people are not insane. Nobody in their right mind would NOT believe that "there was an optimum point between 0-100%"
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by gahahaha 16y ago
"arguably less civilized" Not sure I agree that it was all that inflammatory. It mas a bit tongue in cheek, but actually has a little bit truth to it. Anyway. You can take the boy out of Reddit, but not ...
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by gahahaha 16y ago
"US tax revenue per-person is pretty much in the middle of western Europe." Not really. The OECD average is 36%, Americans pay 28% and no western European states pay less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu... I
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by gahahaha 16y ago
Insane. Really? American taxes are VERY low by almost any measure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu... You could argue that you don't get much for them, but that wouldn't be true either. Most government program
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by gahahaha 16y ago
I would be very surprised if his kids go to a state school with the plebs.
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by gahahaha 16y ago
No. (See: Laffer, Arthur)
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by gahahaha 16y ago
What total utter crap. Taxes is the price you pay for a civilized society, and the US has far less taxes that most western countries, and as a result is arguably less civilized. Millionaires whining to other millionaires in the WSJ. Spare
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by gahahaha 16y ago
"""I think that the budgetary constraints forced the Russian engineers to look for the simpler, and often more reliable solutions whereas their Western counterparts often took a more development oriented approach.""" I am reminded of the in
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by gahahaha 16y ago
There is actually deflation in Zimbabwe now. From Wikipedia: """In an effort to combat inflation and foster economic growth the Zimbabwean Dollar was suspended indefinitely on 12 April 2009. Zimbabwe now allows trade in the United States D
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by gahahaha 16y ago
Have a look at "The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" by Jared Diamond http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/m... Agriculture was (is?) a disaster for our health. Edit: I noticed that you spoke about inc
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by gahahaha 16y ago
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better It charts a connection between the income gap and everything from crime to illness and under-education. Got it two weeks ago. Blew me away. Easy to read too.
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by gahahaha 16y ago
Somehow I feel that the Google doctor would have a pretty good grasp on different forms of RSI. Good that he got help relatively quickly and seems better. But he should really IMNSHO stop playing guitar - typing all day is enough damage to
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by gahahaha 16y ago
He is wrong about the accuracy of speech recognition. I know he is wrong because I have actually used Speech Recognition to get real work done. AND to make it worse I have a crap Norwegian accent. MAYBE it is as bad as he describes when you
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by gahahaha 16y ago
"""The Higgs boson's nickname comes from its importance to the Standard Model; it is the sub-atomic particle which explains why all other particles have mass.""" That's not the story I heard: Leon Lederman named the hypothesized Higgs boson

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