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by jibiki 18y ago
It's not just my impression: "This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last
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by jibiki 18y ago
This article is presumably going to get flagged, but I would accuse Mr. Hari of dishonesty here. His original piece gave the impression that Dubai was a total hell on earth, totally beyond redemption. From reading his article, I got the i
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by jibiki 18y ago
The next question is, for the sort of search that you can sell ads against, where will people go. And the answer is still google...
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by jibiki 18y ago
> Employees can quit anytime for a better paid offer , effectively nullifying the value of efforts and investments the original employer made on the individual. I don't get your point, are you saying this is a bad thing?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Basically, he contrasts two types of thinking. The narrow sort of thinking, where you're totally focused in on one thing, and the "juxtapositional" sort of thinking, where you can hold multiple ideas in mind at the same time. The first typ
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by jibiki 18y ago
> Greater efficiency than what? Greater efficiency than it has now. I guess my point is that there are many worthy government projects, but increasing the tax base won't help, since the extra money will just end up being captured by th
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by jibiki 18y ago
I certainly didn't say that government is more efficient than business, I can't imagine where you got that from.
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by jibiki 18y ago
> The US government is not corrupt. Fannie Mae? > Governments do not achieve efficiency because they have no feedback mechanism to allow them to. Elections? Defaults? > I like the circularity of your statement though. As soon a
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by jibiki 18y ago
> What matters more to me is that the money raised by taxation of whatever kind is spent on smart things (education, infrastructure, technology R&D), and not dumb things (resource wars, policing of victimless hobbies, "too big to fa
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by jibiki 18y ago
One of the things I've noticed is that HN voters typically vote up screeds rather than evidence. For instance, there have actually been several articles about the results of real life bailouts, both successful and otherwise; these almost n
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by jibiki 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=377672 There was also an article on HN about using osmotic pressure or something to generate electricity, basically an electron transport chain in reverse (I don't think I saved it...) I guess that's n
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by jibiki 18y ago
Surely she's a developer who works on the Innards of Erlang?
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Kelvin's hydroelectric generator(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jibiki 18y ago
In what order should a company consider customers, employees, and shareholders?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Funny, I always thought the expression was "pedal to the metal", guess I've never seen it written... To be fair, low interest rates were meant to encourage investment across the board, not just in houses. Your point, of course, is still to
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by jibiki 18y ago
More or less... http://xkcd.com/463/
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by jibiki 18y ago
But how can we make use of quantum gravity when we want to come up with buzzword loaded and totally irrelevant questions?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Think Iceland circa 2006.
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by jibiki 18y ago
I looked at the Plura website, and it seems they mostly target institutions (Schools and such) that want to make money off of their spare cycles. So it's not like they're directly installing stuff on the machines of unwitting fools; they p
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by jibiki 18y ago
> for example birthrate grows since 2005 (according to CIA factbook) Since 1999, in fact, as the article acknowledges: "Russia’s post-Communist TFR hit its low—perhaps we should say its low to date—in 1999, when it was 1.17. By 2005, th
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by jibiki 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=551693 Looks damned suspicious to me, but the law firm still shouldn't have contacted the guys clients, IMHO.
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by jibiki 18y ago
> Define the sequence k(1)=0, k(2)=2, k(3)=3, k(n)=k(n-2)+k(n-3), and for n>1 ask: Does n divide k(n)? The answer is always "Yes" if n is prime, and almost always "No" if n is composite. I can see why this is true for primes where x
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by jibiki 18y ago
The article does go way overboard, but there are some simple ways in which Americans could (and will) cut back: more people will start commuting via public transportation instead of cars, for instance (or ever just telecommuting.)
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by jibiki 18y ago
That makes more sense. I thought there was some obvious game theory principle I was missing, since somebody commented that they could answer the question without knowing anything about trading.
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by jibiki 18y ago
I don't think you understand the problem. Even if you manage to find 4, 4, 3, 1 and 6, 2, 2, 2, you still have to verify that if the sum is 12, then there is only 1 possible product. You'll note that nobody in the linked thread succeeds a
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by jibiki 18y ago
By this reasoning, equally valid answers would be $0.01 and $90.99.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Just scrolling through the wikipedia page, it looks like there are a number of them. Xobni, for instance.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Wow, I read through the discussion. No way in hell anyone would be able to answer that in an interview, unless they'd seen it before.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Um, can someone explain the answer to the first question? Why wouldn't it go lower than the low eighties? Or higher, for that matter? How would the price change if there were 1000 sellers?
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by jibiki 18y ago
I'm just curious, why is Soros more likely than any other commentator to want banks' shares to decline?

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