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by jamieb 15y ago
Paying off debt is not spending. In an older time, the bank would then be able to lend out that money to someone else, but at this time, they aren't. They are just sticking it in the Fed where its safe. Fixing things doesn't help with defla
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by jamieb 15y ago
You can't control price inflation/deflation, you can only control monetary inflation. I disagree. Gas prices go up when the dollar drops (not the only reason, but a guaranteed one). Make the yuan and the yen vastly more expensive, or just
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by jamieb 15y ago
I'm not the one modding you down, and I should clarify: by "inflation" I mean "increase in prices", as opposed "greater monetary availability". The fed is, with QEx attempting to provide greater liquidity, thinking that this will cause pric
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by jamieb 15y ago
The phrase is "Pushing on a string". Give anyone some money and they'll save it, not spend it. They'll save it because next week milk and eggs will be more expensive, while houses and electronics will be less expensive. on craigslist. nobod
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by jamieb 15y ago
The advice i got from some barcamp peeps was "do not bring anything to DEFCON that you cant afford to get hacked". One fellow is a security consultant and the other manages networks for a financial institution. They could have been being dr
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by jamieb 15y ago
There's plenty of areas where "writing code" is engineering, and there's plenty others where its rocket science. Then there's some where its Apollo 13. The trick is to know which is which.
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by jamieb 15y ago
Error establishing a database connection English Lit Majors: Learn to scale. Or, "you know what your problem is, Mr Writer? you aren't like me". Shit, maybe, instead of everyone learning everybody else's skills, we could work together .
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by jamieb 15y ago
I am having a negative emotional response to this post and I don't know why. Is it because the author is a writer, and saying I should learn to write? "You know what your problem is? You aren't like me."
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by jamieb 15y ago
I can't win+d to the desktop. Four finger swipe upwards if you are on a macbook or have a magic trackpad. Cmd-F3 otherwise. Bottom line, if you're used to driving a car, getting around on a motorcycle is going to take some investment of e
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by jamieb 15y ago
I wrote a really scathing review. So scathing that even I couldn't post it. But in essence: Brown background. Presents!!! Brown sky. Brown favicon. Spot the odd one out.
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by jamieb 15y ago
I have a hard time believing anyone could think that killing off half a billion people would be the way to go ... It just sounds too James Bond villanesque. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer
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by jamieb 15y ago
Different people learn differently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles#Fleming.27s_VAK...
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by jamieb 15y ago
FTA: 25,000: Number of requests reported by Verizon alone 300: Number of those that were from federal agencies 17: Number reported by federal agencies to federal watchdog
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Knowledge vs Experience(jamiebriant.tumblr.com)
2 points by jamieb 15y ago|0 comments
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by jamieb 15y ago
Is it everyone's belief who reads hacker news that the number of successful terrorism attacks would not go up if we eliminated all airport security? Yes! You are very astute! Everyone here believes that we should eliminate all airport s
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by jamieb 15y ago
You seem like a reasonable person, so I think you just missed the key point of the article: the security theater does not increase security.
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by jamieb 15y ago
The man has a job. The job states that he will be rewarded based upon customer feedback. If you have a problem with universities who measure their professors by popularity, then take it up with them.
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by jamieb 15y ago
Jefferson wasn't against industrialisation, nor was he against a strong army. He just didn't want it to be a "standing army". He imagined that you might end up with an organization that is run by an elite, using canon fodder made up of the
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by jamieb 15y ago
Are you saying that the first barbary war was funded by debt, or that Jefferson was a pacifist, or what exactly?
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by jamieb 15y ago
* Would Watt and his investor have built steam engines without the patent? * Did the patent enable Watt to create a market which otherwise did not exists? To argue that patents were overall beneficial, one has to argue that withou
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Why OAuth works on IOS(blog.binaryfinery.com)
3 points by jamieb 15y ago|0 comments
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by jamieb 15y ago
If you mean my domain name, thats just what pays the bills and where you can contact me. Thanks for checking it out though.
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by jamieb 15y ago
I've been designing such a system in my mind for 20 years and not telling anyone in case they steal the idea. What a waste of time! I've finally decided to make this happen and I need interested parties to be involved at any level: conversa
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by jamieb 15y ago
I have been thinking of such a system for 20 years and I've finally decided to build it. I need brains bigger than mine, for conversation, collaboration, whatever works for you. My email is jamie via binaryfinery.com if you would be interes
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by jamieb 15y ago
The PS3 got hacked. So Sony turned off an otherwise useful and legitimate feature that some people paid for. Then that got hacked. So Sony can turn the OtherOS feature back on now: it is no longer required to hack the PS3, which was their a
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by jamieb 15y ago
GeoHot hacked the PS3 to re-enable the linux option. Sony used the linux option to market the PS3 to hackers. They then turned it off. GeoHot turned it back on. Sony sued him.
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by jamieb 16y ago
The guy has his backups. His problem is not the data. His problem is the human-networking side of things: lots of places linked to his photos (including the flickr blog) and those links now point to dead space. That will reflect badly on hi