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by meric 10y ago
They do this with mobile phone apps. ~$2 for an app with no ads, or use the free, "lite" version with ads.
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It was as recent as 1960 the government was stealing children from their families. Even now, they are behind on every metric, life expectancy, education, employment, homelessness. Everyday, the only indigenous I see are homeless on the side
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We want inflation in wages, deflation in assets like houses, stocks bonds. i.e. the opposite of what's occurring, and what's occurring is the suppression in interest rates. Raising interest rates will cause the inflation you'
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The gold standard. The decoupling of currency to gold corresponded with increasing income inequality. Decoupling currency from gold put control of interest rates in the hands of central bankers, who lowered those rates as times passed. The
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Descendants of Vikings and Mongolians do not current hold title over the land they have historically conquered. The allies gave West Germany back to Germans in 1949. The Soviets lost East Germany back to the Germans in 1990. Whites being gi
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...Unless the said person's inheritance includes land confiscated from Indigenous Australians...
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I think the cause of with out of control home prices is low interest rates. Often, people buy the biggest house they can afford, the lower the interest rate, the more they are willing to pay. As the interest rate fell from 14% in 1981, to r
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It is what it is. I would not have wanted my original comment to be interpreted as claiming to understand the original beliefs of people from thousand of years ago. If that was the case a text substitution exercise would not be appropriate.
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>> On what basis did you conclude that I reject any of that history? The way you replied to my comments, I thought you were offended at the idea that I even tried to make sense of the Bible. You've made this clear now, that this
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Yes I did. I'm not a Christian, but it doesn't mean I can't find the Bible interesting in telling me how a group of people thousands of years ago thought of the world. As I'm not Christian because I can't bring myse
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If we replaced all pictures of females on candy boxes with males I would hazard a guess that someone would still have something to say about it.
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By grain I meant a grain in an entire granary. They are quite tall tales. It doesn't mean those tales weren't borne of actual human experience. To fear is to fear the universe, obviously. When you are angry, the universe is angry,
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There's probably a grain of truth in Noah's Flood. There's similar flood myths in several religions, that place the flood in around the same period (for a very wide definition of around). I suspect there was a major flood eve
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I agree going without prototypes or PSD can be a fast way to grow - that's how our company built it's initial MVPs and became profitable in the first place. The PSD's and pixel perfect prototypes come in handy when the non-en
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>> I dump them on the market, I'm sorry, that's an invalid assumption. Especially in a world with only passive investors. GM has been losing $1 billion a quarter for 10 quarters. GM's stock price is $30 as it has been s
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How do you look at that chart, say "it's flat the last 3 years" and ignore the three boom bust cycles before it?
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No, it isn't. If everyone in the room were passive investors, and a company like GM starts losing money quarter after quarter, the passive investors will not sell GM. The company will continue to maintain the same stock price. They wil
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We've been moving to high-fidelity prototypes from PSD-design, it's good. The days before we moved to PSD-driven development, it was "We need a page with a list of X's, so the user can Y each. It should look sort of like
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by meric 10y ago
Yes, I think for a conversational UI to work, it needs to be aware of the human world - like JARVIS from Iron Man.
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Our economical model could be wrong. We could end up in equilibrium in terms economic size and technology, and be stuck there for centuries - like China was until 1800 and like North Korea today. (And like fish in the ocean - they are not m
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>> You can build your own version of fb/twt etc. You couldn't build your own version of fb that can view posts from your friends. You can setup your own email service to view emails from your friends who are using @gmail. T
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For $1000 and $30 a month, anybody in the world could hire someone to setup and maintain a personal email server. Of course being user owned, by definition users should be allowed to outsource their email service to large companies, and the
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Email.
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Winning before making. This is survival. Making before beauty. This is perpetuation. Beauty before virtue. This is leadership. Virtue before truth. This is realism. Here's someone who went through life, learn that
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Elop, Nokia?
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How does a single core i5 2.0 ghz compare to a P4 2.0 ghz?
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by meric 10y ago
And I said that raising nominal rates causes inflation to fall, so I think we're agreeing there. Sorry, fixed it. Ugh.
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This argument really needs more economics to back it up Japan has been engaging in this kind of monetary policy for over two decades. Bloomberg: "Japan Must Let Zombie Companies Die"[1] A big fall in employment is something tha
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Hmm, yeah, I'm contradicting myself there. The papers are produced by individuals within the Federal Reserve, so I know there are individuals in the organisation who is aware, but the way the Federal Reserve acts and the public stateme
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The Federal Reserve is very well aware[2], cyclical movements in the economy promotes the creative destruction required to grow the economy in the long run. At the same time, it's mandate given by the Congress is to minimise cyclical m

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