kaonashi

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811.
by kaonashi 13y ago
You have it completely backwards. We were net exporting post-war, now we're net importing. Imports are benefits; net importing is a good thing if the rest of the world is letting you get away with it.
812.
by kaonashi 13y ago
Much better to be quietly disappeared?
813.
by kaonashi 13y ago
Depending on the application, hstore can see real performance increases. http://blog.artlogic.com/2012/10/29/performance-of-custom-fi...
814.
by kaonashi 13y ago
I guess the U.S. is better than North Korea then. Aim high.
815.
by kaonashi 13y ago
How does the presence of personal gain impugn anything?
816.
by kaonashi 13y ago
That poor horse.
817.
by kaonashi 13y ago
I need something that my brain isn't going to try to follow along with, like late 60's/early 70's jazz.
818.
by kaonashi 13y ago
Stopped watching when he started complaining about taxes while showing pictures of executions.
819.
by kaonashi 13y ago
No, it certainly is not. Loans create deposits when creditworthy borrowers show up and ask for them, and required reserves are obtained afterwards from the cheapest source available.
820.
by kaonashi 13y ago
Right, but it's an anecdote. The title of the piece suggests some sort of comprehensive study, but fails to deliver anything beyond a single story of friction between two people (one of whom clearly has women issues).
821.
by kaonashi 13y ago
>But dropping the bombs on Japan saved millions of both Japanese and allied lives. This assumes an invasion of the island of Japan would somehow have been a necessary goal.
822.
by kaonashi 13y ago
Right, but if you're printing and putting people to work with it, inflation is much less of an issue (more money chasing after more goods & services). It's only when you're at your production capacity and still keep printing that you st
823.
by kaonashi 13y ago
Why would the entity that has the Yen printing press need to look overseas for Yen?
824.
by kaonashi 13y ago
Because it's rare that white middle/upper class people are subjected to it.
825.
by kaonashi 13y ago
It has more in common structurally with metal-backed currencies in that there are strict limits imposed on how much currency can be in circulation at any given time.
826.
by kaonashi 14y ago
> Except that C-style macro functions aren't "simple transformations on some tree data structure". They are textual transformations. Hygienic macros (à la Racket) I agree are useful and easy to reason about. Elixir uses the latter; am I
827.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Sensational in what way? Martial law is the very definition of police state; that part is not sensational. Is it sensational because you agree with the deployment of martial law and the author does not?
828.
by kaonashi 14y ago
The decline would be due people having fewer children…
829.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Which will be promptly ignored.
830.
by kaonashi 14y ago
I was referring mostly to the calls to hold him as an 'enemy combatant'.
831.
by kaonashi 14y ago
I would call the 4th amendment fairly essential.
832.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Russia had foreign denominated debts and a collapse of real output. Try again. http://pragcap.com/the-russian-default-what-happened
833.
by kaonashi 14y ago
> That says nothing about how much you fuck up the economy by doing so. It says a great deal about the possible effects of deficit spending. If you owe a foreign currency and have a catastrophic decrease in output, you're going to have
834.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Saying you have to 'keep printing money' to cover debts is meaningless. All money is printed (or keystroked) into existence. Governments impose a tax burden payable only in the state's currency (so that people are forced to offer their ou
835.
by kaonashi 14y ago
There's always the risk of voluntary default; either the Republicans are bluffing on not raising debt-ceiling, or they aren't.
836.
by kaonashi 14y ago
>but we don't need empirical evidence to know that at some point interest payments will require highter tax revenues When interest rates on bonds remain at or below the rate of GDP growth, this is not an issue. For the U.S. (and other
837.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Lost in the conversation about government debt is the determining factor of whether or not government debt can ever be a problem at all. It's not how much you owe, it's not who you owe it to; it's what you owe. If your government owes
838.
by kaonashi 14y ago
(for advertising purposes)
839.
by kaonashi 14y ago
This article ignores a key difference between England and the rest of europe: the euro. The euro countries are revenue constrained in the same way as U.S. states. They owe Euros, but cannot issue Euros, so they must go begging to the mark
840.
by kaonashi 14y ago
The Federal Reserve Act did not take the U.S. off the gold standard, Roosevelt did it in 1933. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

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