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by lzw 16y ago
The government never pays back the borrowed money, it just prints money. When it does this it dilutes the total number of dollars out there, which is called inflation. This means that every business then has to spend more to buy the good
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by lzw 16y ago
One thing I wonder about CouchDB is whether writing scales. Assuming you have a cluster of couchdb nodes. They all replicate, so you can spread reads and writes over the cluster. As you add nodes, read performance goes up. Initial write p
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by lzw 16y ago
They said the same thing about the iPod and the iPhone.
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by lzw 16y ago
The problem is very simple: What passes for "Economics" is political propaganda. The government wants to spend without limit and wants to believe the economy is "strong" and that they made it "strong", so they call for forecasts that the e
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by lzw 16y ago
I love how when they're not trumpeting how Macs are "only %1 of the market!" windows fans are claiming that Mac users are unthinking drones who are slaves to rigid conformity. Of course, never both in the same post, though.
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by lzw 16y ago
They must have just pushed this, because I was looking at it yesterday and it was the old tired and broken (by comparison) version of the page. Has the edition changed? I'm a bit confused. I'm reading the O'Reilly eBook and it seems like
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by lzw 16y ago
I see how this site works now. So, ill not be offering my thoughts in the future.
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by lzw 16y ago
The state court has determined that state employeesdidnt break a state law when recording students without their knowledge. Notice how the state, which has a conflict of interest here, let itself off the hook? Imagine if a old guy had done
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by lzw 16y ago
At the time I thought it was wrong, now I understand. It's not like google isn't cheating-- after all before the iPhone, android phones looked like blackberries, then apple released the iPhone and the android os is suddenly designed for to
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by lzw 16y ago
It is easy to beat the market and invest well because most of thevworld is operating from a position of ignorance. You don't need secret or insider knowledge, you just need to know what you know, and know what you don't know. Buffett call
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by lzw 16y ago
The indicator that gold, etc is not overpriced is that in 2008 when everyone panicked, gold went down cause they sold it. When everyone panics, and gold goes up, that will be the beginning of the bull market in gold.
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by lzw 16y ago
Good advice, and while I see people repeating common myths in this thread, I should just be happy that they are there to take the other side of my positions.
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by lzw 16y ago
Of course because the more the dollar is devalued via inflation, the hugger stock prices will go even though they aren't actually appreciating in value.
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by lzw 16y ago
Your using the word deflation wrong here. It trips many people up. Inflation is when the money supply grows, deflation when it shrinks. The person your responding to is correct to point out out money supply is being inflated, and inflatio
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by lzw 16y ago
Zuckerberg isn't a geek in my book. In fact there are almost no geeks left. I don't think people born after 1980 will understand why. But I can't fight it, and I just don't use the word geek anymore. Like hacker and terrorist it is no lo
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by lzw 16y ago
What made the iPad successful is that it works, and rather well. Apple has been making products that work-- specifically, the user understands how to use them and gets the results they intend. This is a single feature that very few companie
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by lzw 16y ago
It sounds to me like you do not like doing work for others that doesn't fit a personal passion. If this is the case then I think you will be able to solve your problem by finding something you are passionate about, thinking of the problems
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by lzw 16y ago
I think maybe you are looking for hadoop or ore map reduce based system? Possibly i misunderstood your question.
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by lzw 16y ago
Any worthy philosophy will have academics debating the meaning, meerits and logic of it. That bothers me not in the least. If any of the critics you see from leftists who attack it used these arguments than I'd respect that. However, they
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by lzw 16y ago
Like I said, opponents turn out ot universally be people who haven't read the book and who only have insults to bring to better. Notice you ares attempting to argue against a philosophy by using cribbed quits of prose and making the claim t
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by lzw 16y ago
Never met a proponent of the book who talked about it who hadntbread it. On the other hand this is the default for opponents. Usually their first sentence is false asstion based on their own prejudice and that is the only time they spend
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by lzw 16y ago
Your description of the book is what you could find in any summary, and combined with what else you've said doesn't indicate that you have read the book. Maybe you read it as a novel and didn't think about the arguments or glen the philoso
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by lzw 16y ago
Love Erlang, very interested in CouchDB, but not too familiar with scoble. I think it is really cool he's covering them, but the camera work is hard to watch....
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by lzw 16y ago
When I first read the book, I started looking for criticism to see if I'd been tricked, or if she'd played on my emotions to make me think something was reasonable or logical that wasn't. I have found some obscure philosophical arguments th
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by lzw 16y ago
If you look at the treasury auctions very closely you'll notice that over the last 9 months the buyers of the bonds have been (unreported and obscured) the federal reserve. Which means that the bond auctions are a direct monetization schem
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by lzw 16y ago
(This was going to be a response to someone else but figured that it might be useful as a stand alone comment on the safety of gold vs the safety of cash or money markets) Inflation is more than %4, so you're not actually earning anything.
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by lzw 16y ago
It is debatable whether that ETF holds as much gold as they are supposed to, as IOUs of gold from other institutions count as "gold" for their accounting (as I understand it.) This is the real problem we've seen in gold bull markets in the
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by lzw 16y ago
Too broad a question for me to give a succinct answer, so this is going to be a bit all over the place. But I've been investing for myself for about 2 decades, have participated in just about every type of investment, ending up preferring
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On the set of Atlas Shrugged: 53 Years in the making(reason.tv)
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by lzw 16y ago
People who are irrational make poor employees. I wouldn't say all people with particular views are irrational, but this is one way of discovering some who are.

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