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by jeromec 17y ago
I totally disagree; your analysis is flawed. The reason movements like Al Qaeda will lose is because their ideology doesn't have the right support. When you try to sidestep the right to freedom this country was founded upon you are picking
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by jeromec 17y ago
I totally disagree with a moratorium on anything that threatens liberty in the USA, especially when resulting discourse is among intellectual minds.
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by jeromec 17y ago
I'm going to approach this from another side, and ask you what value should I as a user hope to gain from shouldigetthebook.com? I kind of see what you are driving at, but I view your site's potential and possibly its purpose differently. O
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by jeromec 17y ago
So who is in the wrong? Paulson for buying the insurance, or the banks for selling insurance they couldn't pay for?
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by jeromec 17y ago
My problem is not with Twitter per se; as I said I hope they are successful. My concern is that we don't celebrate companies like this where the guy actually makes money enough; instead we focus on things which are more speculative in nat
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by jeromec 17y ago
Yeah, I agree, especially in light of recent events and coming from the WSJ. Whether or not scaremongering was the intention it doesn't exactly help.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Twitter probably won't be the first to 1B users, at 45M plus 1 new user/second currently that will probably be linkedin. Also, pumping huge amounts of cash into things that don't actually have the corresponding cash value is how bubbles for
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by jeromec 17y ago
No need. The browser page can do the fade to a dark page, and you can set your computer monitor to power off after so many minutes in the settings.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Ads may be their obvious route, but I wonder how much of a turn-off that will be for users. I'm totally rooting for Twitter to be successful, I just wanted to highlight the contrast between this small $5M business actually making money vs.
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by jeromec 17y ago
According to a Mashable article in March '09: "The latest numbers from Nielsen Online indicate that Twitter grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month."
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by jeromec 17y ago
"...when they decide to start monetizing it" You say that like it's as simple as making the decision. Why would they hold off on making money? I think it's because they don't know how to monetize it. I'm curious to see what they come up w
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by jeromec 17y ago
In his first business he noticed a profitable demand and filled it. Now he has the advantage of capital to try other ventures, as well as real world business experience. He may do well. I love stories like this.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Wow, he may end up in the dictionary next to the word 'capitalist'. I love that he has positive cash flow. I know websites and Internets are all the rage but he may be actually making more profit than Facebook, and certainly more than Twitt
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by jeromec 17y ago
I love how technology costs always come down over time. Server4You has $39 USD actual dedicated with .75 RAM - not bad. Although, I always shy away from AMD processors, maybe because of the horribly slow experience I had on a friend's Gatew
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by jeromec 17y ago
Did anyone actually view the source on this? Besides deprecated Font tags there are incorrectly nested tags and Div tags with nothing in them. He must have literally asked the neighbor's junior high school kid if he'd put it together for $1
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by jeromec 17y ago
Thanks! :)
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by jeromec 17y ago
Do you know where I might read more about this? Do you remember what they were studying?
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by jeromec 17y ago
> I could easily play the other side, but the sentiment for a dollar "collapse" is a little strong in the short term. That is a huge point. It's unfortunate that the value assigned to non-backed currency like the dollar is largely psych
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by jeromec 17y ago
> We only have vague understandings of the macroeconomics of finance, so that stuff isn't really worthwhile to people not interested in economics. Maybe that is precisely why the Great Depression, this current mild depression/steep re
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by jeromec 17y ago
Huh? Did you read your own words in your post right above? ..the hyperinflation fearmongers, the deflation fearmongers, Austrian economics true believers, Randists, socialists, And most of them are wrong. And in case you haven't noticed f
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by jeromec 17y ago
Warren Buffet himself said he doesn't understand economics.
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by jeromec 17y ago
FWIW, I think this author is hitting around the nail, even if not on target, and his emotional style of writing can further bring his credibility into question. However, I wouldn't say the article is clueless or fictional, far from it. I fo
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by jeromec 17y ago
You know between this and the link posted the other day ( http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_grea... ) about Goldman Sachs I start to wonder if we that strive to create wealth with technology, with odds of failure stack
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by jeromec 17y ago
I'm in California, not far from the canyon above Azusa mentioned in the article. The last time gold shot up I looked into what hobby mining is about since I'm a play-in-nature kind of guy. The thing I took away from the websites I visited i
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by jeromec 17y ago
There is nothing so significant the US exports which allows free reign printing of dollars. The US doesn't sell it buys - in fact it's the highest consuming country in the world. Even if there were exports the US could sell there is nob
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by jeromec 17y ago
> Except that if oil is priced in dollars and you have a dollar printing factory then oil is effectively free to you. That's not exactly how it works (although that edge helps keep our oil cheap). The more money that is in circulation
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by jeromec 17y ago
It's a play on words, but I believe "priced in dollars" means oil payments made in dollars. In other words, the currency you need to have on hand to trade with. See the article linked below: Excerpt: "Brazil has shown interest in collabor
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by jeromec 17y ago
No, not all global banks, and not even all the banks in the U.S. failed. Many smaller banks failed, and some large ones were failing as well, but each case was different and it was all due to system wide chain reactions. Many U.S. banks wer
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by jeromec 17y ago
A similar topic was posted to HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=863435 In that thread my comments match fairly closely with this author's predictions starting near the bottom of the article section "Are the Dollar’s Days as Res
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by jeromec 17y ago
eru is right, banks decide to lend at their own peril. The problem was moving from a model where the mortgage stayed with the bank, to a model of sending mortgages upstream to Wall Street where greedy, er.. I mean clever managers packaged t

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