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by lyudmil 15y ago
You commit a fallacy here because your comment (as well as the one it's in reply to) assumes that work is rewarded proportionally to its value. It isn't. If you have the bargaining power to get paid more, you get paid more regardless of you
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Getting a raise less than the rate of inflation is losing money. His purchasing power declined.
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Agreed. If I had taken time to edit my comment I would've probably taken it out.
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by lyudmil 15y ago
You shouldn't look to real estate to evaluate demand. The housing bubble is the primary cause of the crisis. By most estimates prices have to dip another 10% in order for the market to return to its historical trend (which is to grow at the
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Your thesis is surprising, so I'll have to look more into your data. For now I will say that (1) because of the tight correlation between employment and demand, you'd need a very solid argument that demand has recovered but employment hasn'
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by lyudmil 15y ago
The first sentence could either be parsed two ways which yield opposite meanings or is grammatically incorrect. I can't decide which, but in any case you have a point. The first sentence was supposed to mean that the Greek economy was in ba
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by lyudmil 15y ago
To your first point - point taken. A better reference would have been the fact that the World Economic Outlook Database reported Greece had entered a recession in 2009. I'm Bulgarian and none of the Bulgarian banks had any problems, but the
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Point taken. I agree that there is a lot of waste of EU funds. I could tell you stories about my native Bulgaria that would surely make you very angry. I still think this is a separate problem. I think right now it would be more efficien
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by lyudmil 15y ago
It's silly to say it had little to do with the global economic crisis. Economic production following the initial global downturn went down 8% [1], construction 73% [2], and retail 9% [3]. What's interesting to me is why you think what you t
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by lyudmil 15y ago
It would take too much work to transform your hypothesis into something analogous to what's happening with Greece, so I'll just point out the major leak in the abstraction. In your example my friend and I are two economically independent en
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by lyudmil 15y ago
You're right about what I'm arguing and you're right in your analysis. I think the political situation is very unfortunate and that the large European economies which effectively control the ECB are screwing up. Partly I think the problem i
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I think I openly admitted that the way the Greek government was spending money was terrible. Yes, I agree with you. The Greek economy was a joke and it definitely needs to change, but let's talk about the situation as of the initial collaps
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Every time I bring this up I get down-voted, but I cannot resist. No one argues that the Greek economy was in good shape. It clearly had severe problems with corruption and inefficiencies, which were brutally exposed when the global finan
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I know this is essentially what us geeks do - we think about minute details, obsess about them, and hope that this ends up mattering. Usually I find this kind of compulsive preoccupation inspiring, but this article was so out of touch with
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by lyudmil 15y ago
The sample seems a bit odd. Reading the comments it seems that a disproportionate percentage of the subjects were into meditation (a number of them report "increasing meditation"). I haven't read the study but it seems to me they'd have a h
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by lyudmil 15y ago
From what I've seen the long meals and afternoon naps are a myth (even in Spain people don't do that anymore). In fact, I'm willing to assert Italians work harder than the French. They have a 40 hour work week (the French have 35) and three
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I've been living in Italy for two years now and I have to say I don't see this resistance to the capitalist world you assert they have. In the North, where I live, the economy is large and lively, people are rich, and they work hard. There
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Unpaginated link: http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/how-i-learned-to-l...
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I think there are three more reasons to do unit tests I wish the author had mentioned: 1. Not only do they prevent you from messing your code up because you forgot how it actually worked, they prevent you from having to think about how an
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Thank you for your reply. It helped me grasp my feelings personally and gave me some great ideas. I'd like to give a quick response to some of your points. To your point on manipulation: I agree and I'm using the word "manipulate" a little
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Ask HN: Manipulating a client into making the right design decision
5 points by lyudmil 15y ago|6 comments
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The Naipaul test: Can you tell an author's gender based on their writing alone?(guardian.co.uk)
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by lyudmil 15y ago
This feels like an argument on the wrong level of abstraction. Even if the methodology is at fault, it seems silly to say "Waterfall is the problem." That's simply too large of a point to make. You could say that you fell behind during deve
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Thanks. I'd love to know how you disagree, though.
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by lyudmil 15y ago
It's clearly a dumb thing to do, I agree. I'm just arguing it's better than austerity.
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Well the construction sector is nothing like half of the economy (16% of GDP, 12% of employment before the crash). Still, if you have 16% of your economy collapse, you will have severe problems. However, the reason why it collapsed is the s
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Since you'll likely be directly involved politically in this issue (by protesting and/or voting), I urge you to read the comment I left as a reply to another comment further down the thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2558318 It'
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Well the weird thing is that in this particular situation, bureaucracy could indeed create some economic value. The current situation is this - we have a financial crisis set off by the collapse of the US housing market (the biggest singl
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by lyudmil 15y ago
"Copy/paste code from answer." Copy/pasting is one of the most obvious code smells. I don't do it, you should never do it, and anyone who does should rightly be considered at best irresponsible and at worst incompetent. The first reason is
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by lyudmil 15y ago
This is probably the most important piece of advice I would give someone getting started. I run OS X and at least for me Eclipse was a constant source of pain. IntelliJ looks better, runs faster, is more stable, and has all of the important

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