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by jevgeni 10y ago
What bothers me is the conspiracy-theory-like obsession with GS. No mention of JPM, or BofA, or Citi, and so on. It's not about you concretely, just in general what I often hear and see. Your comment was just an example of the focus. I
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by jevgeni 10y ago
I had a game, where I would click some abstract art on FFFFOUND and see how many clicks it would take me to get to NSFW content through recommendations. "Oh, look, a 3D-esque triangle! 4 clicks to boobs, 7 clicks to gratuitous pron&quo
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by jevgeni 10y ago
I am not that familiar with the exact schemes how QE/bailouts were done in the U.S., so thank you. But can one then say that QE programs were more political than TARP?
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Thank you for the insight! I haven't considered "sector targeting". 1.8 trillion USD MBS is a bit unsettling, I must say.
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by jevgeni 10y ago
Wording is important. The current US president is a good example of what happens, when one is careless with one's language. GS doesn't define U.S. economic policy. It might lobby for some specific issues, sure. But it isn't i
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by jevgeni 10y ago
Private enterprises don't have economic policies.
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by jevgeni 10y ago
I feel a lot of commenters here don't differentiate between economics as subject of policy and economics as tool for politics.
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It is more or less similar for G7 countries. Most Western parties converge to similar economic policies. The toxicity in American politics, IMO, comes for the two party system and the structure of representation. Things look very different
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by jevgeni 10y ago
Not handing out, but lending out. Bailing out households would be a far more political decision. The Fed could impose constraints on banks participating in TARP, to make sure the money gets paid back. The same wouldn't be possible to p
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by jevgeni 11y ago
But wasn't the troll article upvoted by the majority of HN users to get to the front page? Isn't that worthy of ridicule? I could, of course, press the "Flag" link and in doing so achieve absolutely nothing: I'm in
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Yes, the "princess"-comment was harsh and I see how it violates the guidelines. I agree with that. But as I understood dang, additionally to the warning he/she made a judgement regarding my general tone. And I don't unde
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Let me get this straight: you call the article I've linked to a troll thread yourself, but me complaining about this troll article reaching front page is "pompously posturing that I'm better than the rest of HN"? Is this
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Why thank you! If you don't like what I discuss here, go to another discussion.
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Yes, because supressing and self-censoring certain subjects works so well to solve them. /s
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Oil price is a symptom of some other underlying problem. During $100+ oil the problem was that supply couldn't satisfy the market (mostly due to Chinese growth and demand for energy). This raked the price up not just for the Chinese, b
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by jevgeni 11y ago
This is not that clear cut. Dollar will appreciate against the yen. This will be advantageous to imports from Japan and disadvantageous to U.S. exports. I can't speculate on the intensity though.
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by jevgeni 11y ago
In Germany police (or any governmental authority in fact) has to use the "mildest effective method" to deal with some contentious situation. For example, it is illegal to water cannon the shit out of say loud pensioners petitioni
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by jevgeni 11y ago
This is the kind of bullshit conspiracy theories are made of. I can't comment on the religion bit, because it's not even false. But the bit about manipulative, successful people and how jaded one has to be to "see the truth&q
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Yes! :D But wouldn't it be awesome, if all conspiracy theories were produced by a conspiracy of the tinfoil industrial complex?
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by jevgeni 11y ago
What's the reason for Microsoft to be doing it on purpose?
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by jevgeni 11y ago
I didn't say it exonerated them. I said it was a bug in Microsoft's view and they are allegedly fixing it. I'm not sure what you mean by the "covering their tracks" bit.
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Sooo... What's the actionable decision here?
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Why exactly?
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by jevgeni 11y ago
This is great. - Brings your content forward? Check. - Clear documentation? Check. - Explains design decisions? Check.
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by jevgeni 11y ago
The article says Microsoft accepts it as a bug and is working to resolve it.
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by jevgeni 11y ago
A friend of my is a zealous adherent of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". So much so, that the first thing he did after saving up enough money on his first real job, was to follow the book's advice: take out two mortgages and get two apa
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Fun fact: in my almost 10 years experience in banking I've never met anyone in the industry, who'd consider the book not a scam. And you know you're in trouble, if even bankers consider you a scam.
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Exactly. I think turning Apple into a yet another conglomerate would effectively destroy it. And I don't really want that.
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by jevgeni 11y ago
U.S. has the 10th biggest GDP per capita in the world. People express their opinion and don't get shot, stabbed, or poisoned for it. There is no war. Your politicians may be corrupt, but not to the point where they shit in gold plated
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by jevgeni 11y ago
Let me rephrase the title: "What Might Apple's Competitive Edge Be In The Future?" Abstract: A guy fuels the brand war using a "harvard.edu" domain, some hand wavy anecdotes, and ugly English.

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