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by jcbrand 6y ago
Quite a cynical take, but makes sense. I think the PR angle mentioned elsewhere also makes sense and is a rational argument for Russia's actions, but this adds another meta-level to the whole thing. Different messages being signalled t
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by jcbrand 6y ago
According to my understanding of MMT, you'd use taxes to shrink the money supply. Also, risk free interest rates are negative in Europe, let alone zero.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
If this was true, "zombie companies" wouldn't be a term bandied around as much lately.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
37% of USA debt is held by foreigners, while it's just about 9% in Japan.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
So the central bank can ride a financial storm by blanket buying paper with fresh money and let the market discover the winners How can the market determine the winners if the central bank is propping up the losers by buying their paper?
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by jcbrand 6y ago
According to the article, if you believe that "CDC, are exaggerating the danger posed by the virus in order to damage Donald Trump’s presidency" then you're believing in a conspiracy theory. As someone living in Europe, I don
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by jcbrand 6y ago
> But fear/panic will always be there, you can learn to live with it, but it's not a "monster you can kill". This is not true. Fear, like all emotions comes and goes. This is one of the first things you learn when you
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by jcbrand 6y ago
In Germany, house prices have doubled the last 10 years. In the US, stocks are 187.8% market cap to GDP. But please, tell us more about how there's no inflation.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
The web didn't pop into existence out of the void. There were various substrate and precursor technologies that existed before the web was invented, and when the web was new, you'd expect engineers to know and understand these tec
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by jcbrand 6y ago
It doesn't have the same ambiguity because people generally don't think of buying speech.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
I found the description of the cryptocurrency-space as a religion well-written and interesting. Of course, comparisons such as that are relatively common and has been made many times for the free software movement as well for example. Howev
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by jcbrand 6y ago
Running an XMPP server is much easier than running a mail server. I know, I've run both for a number of years. Very few people need clustering support.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
Not true. litElement (used by Polymer) uses tagged template literals and no vdom.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
You could use "determined" instead of "desperate" and then suddenly it sounds like a value proposition again.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
There are some relatively famous projects that are sponsored by large companies, but then an extremely long tail of lesser known projects that don't have a corporate benefactor and are developed collaboratively by small dev shops, free
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by jcbrand 6y ago
Great question, I'm often curious how other FOSS authors earn an income. I've been earning money writing open source software since about 2005. It's not always easy and sometimes I've questioned my sanity, but it's
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by jcbrand 6y ago
Nice! I'd use something like this, but it's not very useful to me currently if I can't search by region or country.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
> and your contribution to the code base only has meaning for the company, but is meaningless for yourself An activity can have meaning in and of itself, and it's up to you whether you infuse something with meaning or not. To me thi
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by jcbrand 6y ago
No, some of the banks that get these artificially low interest rate loans from the FED would go bankrupt without them. They're being propped up.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
It's not only via loans. By pushing down interest rates via QE, the Fed has allowed so-called zombie companies to exist longer than they otherwise would have in an unmanipulated interest rate environment.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
In a way the Fed does hand out free money to the rich, because well-connected institutions that can borrow money from the Fed, do so at a lower interest rate than everyone else who can't. They can then turn around and lend that money o
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by jcbrand 7y ago
IMO you should be spending time on refactoring and simplifying code without asking permission for it. Improving the code-base is part of the job and you should be setting aside about 20% of the time you estimate for new features to do so. T
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by jcbrand 7y ago
I live in Germany and routinely use one and two cent coins when paying exact amounts. Still have to experience someone laughing in my face for doing so.
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by jcbrand 7y ago
Someone working in the very bottom rung of a field not having to deal with any of the complexity of that particular field is not a valid negation.
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by jcbrand 7y ago
I would imagine the depth there is in determining what goes where on the shelf. You as shelf-filler probably didn't get to make this decision though.
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by jcbrand 7y ago
1. The next recession triggers a massive financial crisis (due to unsustainable debt and currency creation in 2010s) followed by a loss of confidence in central banks as various fiat currencies are destroyed in response. 2. As a result of #
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by jcbrand 7y ago
JavaScript is heavily influenced by Scheme, this is actually mentioned in the linked to book.
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by jcbrand 7y ago
Even if you can reach a more specific conclusion, that wouldn't necessarily rule out complexity as the cause of failure. It's a question of how far you zoom in or out. In the micro-level you can find the particular bug that causes
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by jcbrand 7y ago
Movim has more social features such as microblogging. AFAIK it aims to be more of a social networking site than a chat app.
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by jcbrand 7y ago
Movim doesn't use Converse. It's an older project than Converse. > Converse is not a full featured client on its own I guess that depends on your definition of "full featured", but it has more features than a lot of o

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