kaonashi

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by kaonashi 12y ago
Money is a loosely-defined word that ends up being a huge sticking point in economic conversations because people end up using different definitions. One thing Bitcoin is not is a unit of account; it is nobodies liability the way that dolla
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Where do you put the Star Wars references?
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Probably that the girl's parents are spearheading the prosecution; I wouldn't be surprised if this also had a racial element.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
I don't know, do Asian males typically have difficulty engaging in CS content?
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> Someone I know or care about will run a red-light running biker over Also very doubtful. It's much more likely that your or someone you care about will run over a law-abiding cyclist.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> I don't wanna have to wash his innards off my car, but I'm probably going to have to do something like this, sooner or later Sounds like selection bias. The amount of bike fatalities is nowhere near large enough that you sho
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Just walk. The cyclist most likely sees you and is waiting for you to move past. The worst thing you can do is react to the cyclist, stopping and starting.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> From what friends in the USA tell me, trying to do that is a very quick trip to a hospital. It's still safer, but you might get someone who is less-informed yelling/honking at you. Then again, I don't bike in the '
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> "We unequivocally condemn these messages," the spokesman said, "but believe that Ms. Wolfe’s allegations with respect to Tinder and its management are unfounded.” Uh-huh.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> He-said-she-said, bleh. It sounds like there is documentary evidence, so I'm wondering why you would characterize it like that.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Transaction volume and consumer growth aren't even close to the same thing.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
A large component of 70's stagflation was just supply shocks for oil. Why this never gets brought up, or is just brushed aside casually is beyond me. > do modern industrial economies actually tend to oscillate between demand constr
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by kaonashi 12y ago
The first sentence prophesies 'collapse', but then reading on you see a recipe for a continuing mild recession. Where does the collapse come in? (if it's nebulously caused spike in treasury rates, I'm not going to be con
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> As in There where US treasury bonds issued at 17% That has much more to do with large-scale experimentation than exogenous factors. > At current interst rates our debt is sustainable but bump that to 10+% for to long and it would di
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by kaonashi 12y ago
I can't believe X ate the whole thing.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> Shouldn't it be taken off their hands? Alternatively, since the entire money system is based in the legal system, you could simply restrict what one person can accomplish with large sums of money.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> (That was a silent tax on anyone holding cash.) Not really, because... > To inject this money into the economy, they bought a bunch of securities. Trading one financial asset for another is not the same thing as handing out cash for
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by kaonashi 12y ago
I have; it usually is characterized by a collapse in real output (or loss of a war), accompanied by madly buying foreign currency at increasingly poor rates to pay off foreign debt.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
In nominal terms, yes. The point is that it never becomes unsustainable because the interest rates paid are determined by the issuer, and inflation is a product of net spending (deficit). (not really Piketty, more Fullweiler)
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Awesome talk, but I think he got the language wrong (and not for bad reasons).
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by kaonashi 12y ago
_Deficit_ levels can reduce the exchange rate; but that's not something the U.S. is having problems with at the moment.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> Unsustainable Debt Levels There's no such thing as unsustainable debt levels in the thing you are the monopoly issuer of.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
The Fed doesn't control money quantity, it controls price.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Neo4j wants everything in memory, so the bottlenecks would come after your data-set size outstrips the memory available.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
The base price is the same; some just aren't eligible for a scholarship. How is this different than any other scholarship?
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Are you suggesting that this puts white males at a disadvantage in the software industry?
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by kaonashi 12y ago
If I don't pay my taxes, then it's not the army I'm going to be fearing.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Unless you issue it.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Any sufficiently sized human institution has those problems.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Interesting that you characterize basic human decency as an overreaction.

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