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by hudibras 13y ago
The next logical step is to increase taxes on capital, starting with an increase in the capital gains tax. Of course the Economist doesn't mention this... EDIT: Oops, maybe they did. Good for them.
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by hudibras 13y ago
The inflation rate in Japan since last year (the "Abenomics" effect) has only moved from -1% to 1%, not exactly a huge effect. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi Yet even this small amount of
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by hudibras 13y ago
Any comment in this thread that doesn't contain the words "liquidity trap" can safely be ignored. I know that a lot of HNers don't believe that economics is a real science and would rather go with gut feelings or whateve
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by hudibras 13y ago
I think some people would say that Paul Krugman might have helped out a bit, too. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/the-economics-of...
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by hudibras 13y ago
Maybe you're right, we'll see in a few years. Currently, there's literally more than 10 times the number of new housing starts in San Francisco than there was 3 years ago, so there must be some profitable opportunities out
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by hudibras 13y ago
Just in case anybody is interested in what de Blasio actually is proposing: http://www.billdeblasio.com/issues/affordable-housing Pretty shocking stuff, I know.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Cities do this already with mixed-income housing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-income_housing It's usually implemented as part of the permitting process rather than as a law, though. Essentially the city sa
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by hudibras 13y ago
This story is almost two years old, how about putting a (2012) in the title?
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by hudibras 13y ago
Don't forget The Pen Addict! http://penaddict.com/top-5-pens/
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Fox News Puts Staffers To Work On Air With Giant iPads(talkingpointsmemo.com)
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Google Accused of Wiretapping in Gmail Scans(nytimes.com)
45 points by hudibras 13y ago|63 comments
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I've already added it to my "Here's the advantages of Dvorak, you should totally join my cult" speech.
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by hudibras 13y ago
I've worn contacts for 25 years, since junior high school. I love them compared to glasses but I'm concerned about the long-term effects of putting something on my eyeball every day for maybe 75 years.
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by hudibras 13y ago
I'm going to unilaterally say that this thread is a one-time exception to the "HN is not Reddit" rule and post this: http://i.imgur.com/3Gpey.jpg
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by hudibras 13y ago
First ship photo My favorite part of the setup was the utterly useless desk safe, easily jimmied open (and then permanently broken) by using two Navy-issue pairs of scissors. Then, invariably, someone would forget to wedge their safe door
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by hudibras 13y ago
I wonder how much having the word "engineer" in the title helped in getting this to the front page...
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Eiji Toyoda, Promoter of the Toyota Way and Engineer of Its Growth, Dies at 100(nytimes.com)
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by hudibras 13y ago
Here's a good primer on hammock camping: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00639GF4C/ref=wms_ohs_prod...
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by hudibras 13y ago
The article really buried the lead on this one. The bottom line is that it's flat-out crazy for anyone to get an MFE these days. They cost as much as an MBA and won't get you a job as a quant.
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by hudibras 13y ago
The title of this submission was pretty clear. If you don't want to discuss this topic, then don't click on the comments link. That's what I do when I see, for example, the word "Haskell" in the submission title...
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How the cult of shareholder value wrecked American business(washingtonpost.com)
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by hudibras 13y ago
This is the key paragraph: The student loan market is now valued at $867 billion, less than 1/25th the size of the housing market at its bubble peak. Furthermore, all of it will not default and the defaults that do occur will be sprea
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by hudibras 13y ago
Don't know about the Code review, but there's a lot of other interesting stuff on this guy's blog. He's obviously passionate about keyboards and his enthusiasm is infectious. I'm glad my wallet is in the other room
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by hudibras 13y ago
And keep in mind that MLK was 34 years old when he gave that speech. I'm trying hard not to think about what I was doing at that age...
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by hudibras 13y ago
But I think you also have to take into account the context of the comment. A glib comment would seem out of place in a more "HN-centric" post about VC or Scala or something, but when a fun story about, say, brewing coffee makes th
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by hudibras 13y ago
He has a website, that's the reason.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Like almost anything, there's a large and vibrant subculture of people who convert buses into mobile homes. My own grandmother actually lived in a school bus back in the 1970s while she built her home in Alaska.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Or even filling out the job application. I always say that the true test of being fluent in Japanese is not being able to read the newspaper or have a conversation. It's being able to read and fill out a government form while people ar
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by hudibras 13y ago
Just to pile on: It's hard to overstate how large the language barrier is in Japan. For all intents and purposes, nobody speaks English and therefore you cannot speak, listen, write, or read anything during your interactions with the p
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by hudibras 13y ago
> A "six figure salary" today is nothing like what it was when that term was coined. Exhibit A is whenever a story about public employees makes the front page of HN (for example, the Detroit bankruptcy or the BART strike) and p

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