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by irixusr 11y ago
That's a good question, and one that I'm not in a position to answer. However the greek economy is not just olive oil and tourism, but those sectors are huge [1]. The Greeks also export finished petrochemical goods, have (had?) th
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As an Italian, I am embarrassed by the lack of sympathy and support my government has shown for you. As German allies we must accept our responsibility for the destruction and famine left in our wake. But let me congratulate you on a second
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Yes I remember it. But the PQ hardly did itself any favors.
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Are you sure the chances are zero? Greece has made a lot of sacrifices over the past five years and could have a surplus, if not for the interest rate of the debt. So restructure it like the German one was: long payment plan, low interest a
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Historically, Germany has always been a militaristic country who have repeatedly tried to take over the world (however childish that sounds). Last time around they killed several dozens of millions of people. Today German industry still mak
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Noted and updated.
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The nazis stayed in power but wore the clothes of democrats: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-dictatorshi... And, for all syriza's faults (they're socialists :p), they're not respons
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"Cars, and only cars, are what matters in road safety." If you believe that, you don't have a toddler. I don't either (yet), but I do remember running around the streets of BsAs like an idiot with my freaked out mother s
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Why? Are they more frequent? Anyway, how frequent it is, is irrelevant. Cyclists can and do cause fatalities ( sometimes their own). To mitigate this they should follow the rules. There are rules of the road for everyone's safety. I
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How about if they hit a pedestrian? Here's a fun example from a cycling magazine: http://road.cc/content/news/89218-us-cyclist-who-killed-pede... (full disclosure, I walk or bike to work.) No one pretends tha
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And when the cyclists don't obey the rules? Can we have a database for that too? Wait they don't have tags Legally bikes have to stop at red lights, but in my experience the opposite is the norm: quick glance to make sure no one i
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Sadly, upgraded.
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There was a recent article on HN on how government is now actively harassing tor exit nodes.
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Arrogant? I've been called worse things by better people. If I may, we've degenerated into a boring match of hair splitting, projecting what we wish the other had said and now we're about to fall into ad-hominems. I'm no
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Sure you can, all reading is interpretation. :D Or perhaps reject the principle of charity? But with a handle like "cops are bastards" I'd be for charitable interpretations. SOME cops are bastards, which anyone can agree to.
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1) A Bloomberg terminal can tell me prices, volumes, who's buying ect. They can't tell me about my marginal utility had I bought an extra unit because I didn't buy it. Furthermore, a BT works with dollars, euros and Yen. Not
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I don't think he meant that they can steer the economy towards validating their model. Rather that the conclusion (right or wrong that they maybe) leads to certain actions by our leaders.
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Oh, and it's not terrible to ignore people a priori? /sarcasm I'm not arguing for uninformed debate, but rather that economics as a field has huge social and moral implications. Some of these are more important than maximizin
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I didn't mean to be rude to economists. I actually like them and their field quite a lot. I compared it to the eugenics program because - Most (not enough) people today have become aghast at it. - Its biological underpinnings are actu
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That's like saying 'anyone who's opposed to eugenics should pass the "Turing test for mainstream eugenics and racial hygiene" otherwise they're ill-informed'. Which is largely the argument used against opp
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When cash is abolished the bankers will own everything. We're asked to trust bankers to keep track of bits when they'd foreclose on homes that were current with their loan payments! Bankers who consistently make risky bets because
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It's an old argument. A statist (a polite word for fascist) regime can quickly correct obvious inefficiencies leading to a quick and easy boost in productivity. Hayek argues that the jolt is temporary and, in so far that nothing creati
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the best part is that you can search for a particular string.
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I saw your profile, interesting! As I want to go back and live in Italy, I also signed up for news for the book.
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Umbria is beautiful. We went there for vacation once, just before the earthquake. What part of Italy are you from?
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Olivetti ran his company more or less the same way - as a philosopher
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If it acts as a (relatively good) antenna to emf, then won't emf cause a mechanical stress on the strand?
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"Which would be very funny if it were not true." Sounds like a great story to share. What's happening in the UK with garbage and surveillance?
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An earlier HN post (Dr. Sussman's reading list) spoke about how to use chaos to improve the measurement of G (and therefore win a noble prize)
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Sure, we're more proud of a victory. But Gallipoli (the topic) was a loss where the Brits used colonists as cannon fodder. Ypres, then, fits rather nicely. Including the couple of pages in grade 10 history class about how nobly we bled

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