leg100

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   by leg100 13y ago

   The author is arguing innovation has slowed to a crawl. Many of the advances you've listed have their origins in breakthroughs made some time ago. I'd also debate the degree to which many of those are genuine advances. What seem
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   by leg100 13y ago

   At the time of the crisis they were listed on the stock market and then put into 'conservatorship'. They bought mortgages and resold them on as mortgaged-backed securities, presumably to a mix of US and foreign entities.
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   by leg100 13y ago

   Facile indeed, full of loose talk. > and the only effect will be to devalue the yen, if anyone cares, which they don't. So if the yen is devalued to $0.0000001 they won't care? With what will they pay for imported oil? Japan mi
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   by leg100 13y ago

   Chef/Puppet are typically used for managing servers. Using them to configure the SSH client configuration on your laptop is very likely overkill. This falls more within the terrain of orchestration rather than config mgmt. You might want to
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   by leg100 13y ago

   Paramiko [1] parses SSH configs, but Emre's lib is an improvement as it also updates configs. [1] http://www.lag.net/paramiko/docs/paramiko.SSHConfig-class.ht...
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   by leg100 14y ago

   Coming off the gold standard was probably the correct monetary policy at the time. But one cannot correlate the ending of deflation with a 'recovery', especially one that is sustainable and not at the expense of others (i.e. those who left