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by mdemare 11y ago
Actually, The Paul Krugman delusion is the illusion that people have that they have much more insight in economics and economic policy than Paul Krugman, despite never having studied economics, or read a textbook or a journal in economics
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> If you reduce the value of your currency by 25% It is the dollar that has appreciated, not the yen that has depreciated. The dollar has appreciated against most currencies in the last year – probably because people expect interest rate
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by mdemare 11y ago
I see a lot of people in this thread claiming that massive QE equals fiscal profligacy, that it means that the Keynesians have gotten exactly what they want. I see QE more as a band-aid, used because fiscal stimulus is politically unattaina
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by mdemare 11y ago
QE is definitely not the opposite of austerity. Fiscal stimulus is. QE means that the central bank buy up bonds. The hope is that this lowers interest rates on bonds, making it less attractive for banks to hoard bonds instead of lending mon
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by mdemare 11y ago
Krugman doesn't claim that the U.S. has experienced (significant) austerity during the last couple of years, especially compared to Europe. See the chart, which shows that austerity peaked in summer 2011. [1] [1] http://krug
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by mdemare 11y ago
Japan's economy is growing, albeit slowly.
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If there's one country where Uber is needed... When I was there last year, we were given a list of 5 taxi phone numbers. When you needed a taxi, you'd cycle through the numbers until you found one that 1) answered the phone 2) was
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by mdemare 12y ago
Some facts about cycling in the Netherlands: - After dark, head- and taillights are mandatory for cyclists, and you will be fined if you don't have them. - Cycling on the sidewalk is prohibited. This too is enforced. - Cyclists in the
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by mdemare 12y ago
Suppose two men are in a lake, and one man is on top, pushing the other man down below the water surface. Is the position of the man on top infinitely preferable to the position of the other? Absolutely! Is that an argument for acting as th
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by mdemare 12y ago
1. Higher wages would lead to more expensive (and therefore lower) exports, and to higher consumption, leading to higher imports. The government can cause wages to rise by raising the minimum wage, raising the salary of its employees, and h
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Luckily, both crocodiles and tigers eat pythons, so this problem should be easily solved.
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And because it worked for you, it'll work for everybody...
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by mdemare 12y ago
Isn't that obvious? Pull Requests! Can you imagine a democracy editing its laws through pull requests and code review?
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Salamanca Spanish. Of course, there are 30 dialects of Spanish, many of which are incomprehensible, just like lisp.
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by mdemare 12y ago
Interesting metaphor. However, the difference is when you expect a large influx of water in the future (e.g. the company is undervalued). Then tipping the container will cause each share to rise much, when the water arrives, than if you wou
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by mdemare 12y ago
Also, people who can't pronounce voiced consonants at the end of syllables (such as german, dutch, french people) can't help but hear it as FuckBugs. "Ve still neet a buck trecker, I vas finking about Jira, or do you haef a b
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by mdemare 12y ago
How is it news when the country's most infamous court awards damages to patent trolls? They always do that, and then the defendant always appeals. Boring. Predictable. Not News.
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Relatively easy, i.e. compared to viruses.
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by mdemare 12y ago
I agree that soldiers and sailors are not particularly productive in a country that's been at peace for quite some time. Nevertheless, if you've got potential candidates who make stuff that the rest of the world is willing to pay
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by mdemare 12y ago
"Jobs for young people" is not something that's supposed to cost money. The value of what employees produce is supposed to exceed their salaries.
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by mdemare 12y ago
Higher tax compliance would help the government pay their bills, but it would in equal measure harm the people's ability to pay their bills. Greece's biggest problems are not high debt payments, they are 25% unemployment, and GD
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How would firing soldiers and sailors help with their unemployment rate?
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In the U.S. average inflation over the last century has been 3.2%, while the average interest rate of 10 year treasuries has been 4.9%, so you'd been able to grow your fortunes 5.4 times in real dollars, at a rate of 1.7% per year. Tha
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by mdemare 12y ago
How about using affiliate links for products that are relevant to your audience? E.g. books about programming, hardware, etc...
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by mdemare 12y ago
no_future (dead) says: I've actually tried both Postgres FTS and Elasticsearch(in conjunction with a Postgres DB) and found Elasticsearch easier for search. It's much more robust - for my specific case I needed a bunch of Japanese
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by mdemare 12y ago
To all those cynics who bitch about the price of this space mission: this mission cost $74M in total. India has a population of 1252M, and a per capita income of $1500. That means that after paying for this mission to Mars, Indians have sti
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by mdemare 12y ago
When I was sixteen, I attended open house classes for computer science for both universities in Amsterdam, the UvA, and the VU. At the UvA, they let us draw Mickey Mouse in Pascal on an ancient Mac. At the VU, Andy Tanenbaum gave a lecture
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I put a few outdated textbooks outside with the trash in Amsterdam, and when I came back after getting groceries, there was this homeless guy sitting on the curb, enthralled in Structure of Computer Organization.
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3 tweets this year is not what I would call active...
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XCom is also available on PC, Mac, and last-gen consoles. I bought it for all three, but I prefer it on the iPad.

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