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by glesica 13y ago
Nope, deflation hurts people who owe money by increasing the value of the debt they owe. Under deflation, nominal wages go down, and since debt (especially the principle) is nominal, that means the debt-income ratio rises, making the debt h
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by glesica 13y ago
> This is despite the greatest financial crash since the great depression. Inflation isn't necessarily a problem when you have a depression or recession (unless inflation is the cause of the pain). During the Great Depressio
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by glesica 13y ago
Linux is GPLv2. But I guess no one uses that... :)
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by glesica 13y ago
Or named tuples, if you want fancy . notation. Although I haven't actually looked at how the interpreter handles them, I assume they are faster than dicts since the fields are pre-defined.
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by glesica 13y ago
> "...rather than their own bottom line." So much for capitalism I guess...
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by glesica 13y ago
http://www.cringely.com/2013/09/30/doubts-bitcoin/ ^ points out some nice parallels between the "Bitcoin rush" and the California gold rush. One of the points he makes is that it wasn't th
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by glesica 13y ago
Yes, I think "streaming data" and "big data" really are different things, and I like your term "Fast Data". From a lower-level perspective they involve very different challenges. If you need to store the data (
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by glesica 13y ago
Does anyone know if the Adobe DRM in the BN readers can be upgraded with a software update? I've never understood whether it was basically just a library loaded on the Android OS or if it was some type of firmware that possibly can&#x2
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by glesica 13y ago
I have definitely experienced this. Moving was a glorious release.
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by glesica 13y ago
They can re-air portions of it without paying any money (fair use), right? They do it all the time. Why not this time? And why not discuss it? They discuss findings in scientific journals without reprinting the entire articles, so why not d
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by glesica 13y ago
That's a pretty damn big exception, not sure how anyone can make that claim you made with a straight face when the "exception" is composed of 20% of the world population...
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by glesica 13y ago
But inefficiencies scale up super-linearly. The USA, for instance, has less cultural cohesion and sense of national identity than Estonia (the Russian minority in Estonia being the exception that perhaps proves the rule). Additionally, larg
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by glesica 13y ago
I agree with everything you said, and you said what you said far better than I said what I said, so my hat comes off to you (then goes back on or my ears will get cold, this is Montana). I would point out that, in a capitalist system, nothi
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by glesica 13y ago
Should we think 90% of the stuff produced by HN readers on a daily basis (I mean the software we write, not our comments, hehe) are good things? Is Facebook a good thing? It just lets people stay in contact with one another, they could alre
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by glesica 13y ago
> No one who has power really wants to change it. That's not entirely true. I worked in academic technology for several years and, in truth, no one hates it more than the faculty and IT people who have to maintain it. The problem is
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by glesica 13y ago
I wasn't arguing about whether "bro" was offensive. I was arguing over whether it is legitimate for a man to be offended by sexism, please read the GP before responding next time.
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by glesica 13y ago
Nope, that wasn't my point at all, and I was very clear about it. If you had read the GP, you'd know that the claim I was objecting to was that it is somehow invalid for men to object to sexism. I used racism as an example because
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by glesica 13y ago
His whole point was that what is on that page IS hostile to many women in the community or thinking about joining it. You don't get to decide what offends or hurts other people. If the authors had wanted this to be a cute in-joke for t
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by glesica 13y ago
So because I find words and actions that might belittle another person offensive, there's something wrong with me? What would you call me if I objected to a racist joke? Would you claim that I was somehow "whipped" by the tar
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by glesica 13y ago
Are you joking? Seriously, I recently confused a sarcastic comment for a serious one on HN, so I'm asking honestly. Because if you're serious, then I just don't know where to start. I'll keep it short. Using a term to fa
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by glesica 13y ago
It is offensive because it has high potential to create a hostile environment for women. This isn't just me and a few people making shit up, read my comment, it's obvious that the authors knew they were on shaky ground. They tri
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by glesica 13y ago
Another offended man checking in. Why is it so hard to accept that sexist language and actions are offensive to men? I suspect that most people would agree that white people can be offended by the use of terms like "nigger", or jo
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by glesica 13y ago
Clearly I need to work on my sarcasm-detector... :)
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by glesica 13y ago
Because better educated children are less likely to stab you and take your cell phone while you're walking your dog. Seriously, though, why are real estate prices higher in areas with better schools? It's not because every person
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by glesica 13y ago
The key fact here, though, is that the business owner provided no evidence that the reviews were false or created by competitors and didn't dispute the claims made in the reviews. Additionally, it appears that the anonymous reviews mad
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by glesica 13y ago
That doesn't help people who get coverage through an employer though. Sure, maybe they can go buy coverage once they leave their employment, but then they have to get rid of it again once they get another job. What would be nice is if
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by glesica 13y ago
I like that attitude, but not everyone can afford to follow through and actually quit, that's part of the big problem, most people have relatively little leverage and can't afford to "take" leverage.
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by glesica 13y ago
I have a friend who recently got a job as a software developer and has two weeks of PTO.
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by glesica 13y ago
I agree 100%. I used to work in an IT job for a school and there was very little for me to do for most of the summer. I asked if my contract could be adjusted so I could have a month or two off during the summer, unpaid and, like you, I was
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by glesica 13y ago
That would be nice, but as long as healthcare is also tied to employment, it won't happen. Those same people who have their time off eaten up by obligations generally can't afford to be without health insurance for two weeks every

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