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by guylhem 14y ago
They were thinking on a global basis. Cuba could have ceased cooperating with the USSR, which needed to maintain a "global presence" to look like a good match for the US. Giving away missiles that were already there, unknown to the CIA, and
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by guylhem 14y ago
IMHO, you should start by offering to host the paper native source (whether latex or doc - I'm not a huge fan of PDF, especially when A4 printing issues arise) Then, putting the matching data online would be a worthy 2nd step. I have a "lon
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by guylhem 14y ago
Indeed I had lots of fun on my zone - and many big website do this too :-) Try for ex dig -t aaaa facebook.com
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by guylhem 14y ago
If I knew the precise moment of death that could be an option :-)
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by guylhem 14y ago
Great post - point by point refutation of the "don't get an MBA". One thing I would like to add - finding and filling the gaps in your knowledge. Repost from "the don't get an MBA" thread : There might be an education bubble. There might b
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by guylhem 14y ago
Not from the US but France, where there is a law mandating specific minimum percentage to be left to various family members
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by guylhem 14y ago
That's a very good remark - upvoted! Some people will change their behavior and that's ok- because they'll be able to see with their own eyes, while they are still alive, the damage they'll do on their own family and maybe on society too. T
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by guylhem 14y ago
Push the inheritance tax to 99%, and lower the income and business tax instead, to 1% if possible. When you're dead, you don't need money (unless you want to buy cryogeny contract, but you'll pay for it when you are living). If you pass on
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by guylhem 14y ago
That's a great way of doing it. I found the "actual experience" just made the learning more important, if only because it is revealing the gaps, filling them, and helping me move forward.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Basically, the article says that an MBA will divert you away from entrepreneurship - ok that I can agree with, but not the "don't get an MBA" title. There might be an education bubble. There might be an anti-education bias - especially here
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by guylhem 14y ago
I got the same feeling when I was studying physics and saw those constants! And now I still get it when I see the normal distribution. (e phreak me out more than pi)
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by guylhem 14y ago
Why should we have to make it 100% accurate ? I mean, just like with videogames emulators, it can be good to simplify some things. That's how most supernes emulators were made until very recently IIRC. I'm not a physicist, but for exemple i
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by guylhem 14y ago
Thanks a lot for this story. Elop decisions, especially considering the actuals products and this story, might have been the best at the time. As people say, "to fight the next battle, you must first survive" I remember feeling uneasy when
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by guylhem 14y ago
I'd say that both are generating value. The people who buy building and rent out all the rooms or Airbnb provide a liquidity the market needs - they are doing something "of value" If they do that for profit, odds are they are making money a
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by guylhem 14y ago
Let the ones who never took a bad decision in an area they are not very familiar with (like personal life when you're all about work) cast him the first stones
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by guylhem 14y ago
You can't, unless you are either a) not trusting anything foreign (I don't know how this is linked to happiness, but I'm more and more interested in what's called parochialism- I wonder if on a large scale it usually makes people more happy
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by guylhem 14y ago
True, it may no longer be easy to do that passively - it now requires active action, like refusing to watch TV. (maybe that's why more and more people are complaining about not being happy - it's no longer the default!) Still I believe ther
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by guylhem 14y ago
Balance is like an indifference curve in a time allocation between various things (work, friends, hobbies) one chose or has to do. Each one of us has its own indifference curve. And when we age and add new things, the indifference curve cha
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by guylhem 14y ago
You're projecting your own judgement there!! What if she was indeed very happy? How can you know about her "internal state"? There are no ways to read thoughts yet, so believing what one is saying abouts one own feellings is usually best.
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by guylhem 14y ago
What if they are happy at a local optimum, and what if we human could only feel happiness on a scale between the best we've been and the worst we've been? Sure then they may not be the happy at a maximum, but since they haven't found such a
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by guylhem 14y ago
I don't even gave a 2 digits amount of BTC IIRC, but I do accept donations. And yeah, I'd like to have an alternative when bitcoin suffer the napster fate, because too many computing in the government hands could result in a bitcoin takeove
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by guylhem 14y ago
A "Lord of the flies" scenario has some costs, and the island scenario set a rules : any of these 10 humans can not move to another island. As snikto and enki discussed below (great explain guys!) : "using up resources is not valuable by it
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by guylhem 14y ago
Wow you just laid down in words what I was thinking and couldn't express! Opportunity costs are more important than deflation or inflation. Thanks a lot - it's quite clear!!
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by guylhem 14y ago
There is an obvious inflation/deflation twist, as explained in another post. My mistake - I'm not familiar enough yet with economists vocabulary and perspective. If the economy is not growing as fast as your currency supply is, I'd prefer c
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by guylhem 14y ago
Depending on how you read the message and on the perspective you take, yes I did. When I checked my text just prior to posting I thought it wasn't clear enough, so I added the "price" thing and posted. Oops.) I though about editing and clea
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by guylhem 14y ago
Yes, it can fall at any point whenever demand goes down. But on a longer run, I believe demand won't go down but up, since it has this competitive advantage over other currencies.
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by guylhem 14y ago
"A currency that doesn't grow will be naturally replaced by one that does." seems right, as long as the minimal discrete value of the currency that doesn't grow cause a problem for the economy. But if you can move from discrete to continuou
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by guylhem 14y ago
This is an excellent article explaining very well the Byzantine general's problem and how bitcoin provides a solution. However, even if I agree with the answer, I don't agree with its "jump to the conclusion". Here is my take on that: Wheth
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by guylhem 14y ago
There is already a system for people to tell their own private data. It's called rebate card or a fidelity card, as offered by many commerces when you take time to give at least your address. I'm just surprised that no e-commerce gives reba
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by guylhem 14y ago
Then what if the story was submitted under the title "Is there anything that may stop solar power exponential growth from reaching 100% of our needs in 20 years?" If you think that the answer is still 'no' while it completely reverse the co

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