neffy

49 ms·

511.
by neffy 10y ago
It doesn't - the currency markets are just adjusting the relative price for supply and demand. The inflation itself is being caused by money printing. Their Government prints cash, M0 (expand out to Max to see it): http://ww
512.
by neffy 10y ago
There's a bunch of reasons, probably starting with the voting there being so much more complicated - there are a lot more positions being elected than in the UK. It's hard to say if the machines are really cheaper, but there seems
513.
by neffy 10y ago
You only think you´re being sarcastic. A small note here on Swedish history. Back in the day (1600´s or so), Sweden was one of the great military powers of Europe, occupied Norway and Finland, and had armies and mercenaries fighting down as
514.
by neffy 10y ago
Well, it's certainly putting the fox in amongst the chickens...
515.
by neffy 10y ago
Had 16th century Astronomers had the power to re-arrange the orbits of the planets according to their theories, the results would certainly not have been the same, so even from that particularly mathematical point of view, they were still i
516.
by neffy 10y ago
This is true. The interesting thing about the epicylical theories (there was more than one possible set), is that they passed the usual scientific tests - were based on observations, could be used for prediction in particular. They just hap
517.
by neffy 10y ago
You had to quote fox news for that didn't you?! You just had to...
518.
by neffy 10y ago
With any economic policy, including those, it depends on who you are. He did get people jobs, albeit many of which were semi-disguised military training. However, he did it by progressively and systematically pushing the jewish population o
519.
by neffy 10y ago
While I'm not disagreeing, the historical record suggests that there's nothing new about an increasingly divided society. Or vociferous exchanges of view for that matter. We are not, and have never been, a tame species.
520.
by neffy 10y ago
The received wisdom (from Wertheimer) seems to be to try and get to the edge of the crowd: 'After you're pushed forward, like in a wave there's a lull. In that lull is your chance to move, and the way you move is on a diagona
521.
by neffy 10y ago
Blatant cancelling issues, one would certainly hope so - but the original structure that got them into trouble was much more problematic. (Similar to some of the shenanigans within the US btw. that got a few counties into trouble.) fwiw - t
522.
by neffy 10y ago
From the article, the client was facing bankruptcy and would probably have signed anything that - I´m guessing Goldman Sachs, since apparently none of the big legal firms was prepared to touch the case - put in front of them. But even if th
523.
by neffy 10y ago
The other problem is that the Economists who try to control it and debug it are terrible at understanding it. Every countries economy is subtly different, but they have a one size fits nobody, and doesn´t even have the right number of sleev
524.
by neffy 10y ago
Mermaid infiltration style? Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybody checked.
525.
by neffy 10y ago
Exactly. Mostly these days the UK imports, adds value, and exports. While I was over in the UK enjoying an extremely cheap vacation, some Brexit friends were complaining about the price of a recent holiday in Greece, which they blamed on th
526.
by neffy 10y ago
I agree - a lot of the issue in the US is that there isn´t any effective competition (or control of) the drug companies and price gouging. A single payer will help tackle that. But the key question is, why is American healthcare so expensiv
527.
by neffy 10y ago
Search for companies whose products you respect, and have quality design, and apply to them. Also, look for areas that require good quality - safety critical, high reliability systems for example. It's not guaranteed, nothing is, but t
528.
by neffy 10y ago
The other factor in pricing is monetary expansion. Every 10 years the US money supply doubles. Factor that in, and essentially what we´re looking at is a world where production is increasing, reducing prices, money and credit supply are inc
529.
by neffy 10y ago
Nothing... In the country of the blind, the one eyed man gets locked up in a lunatic asylum.
530.
by neffy 10y ago
> Does a bridge Engineer find it acceptable to give notice "The bridge will fall in high winds". Not any more. But in the 19th century bridge failure was quite frequent, until things like the Tay Bridge Disaster happened, and
531.
by neffy 10y ago
Agreed - it is a terrible waste of talent. Ironically, it's also not entirely a math problem - the underlying system doesn't exactly follow the expected rules of math.
532.
by neffy 10y ago
Think about a book with information in it on, oh I don't know, basic first aid principles. 1000 Years ago it wasn't available. 200 years ago, it was available only to those who could afford to go to university, and had reached a v
533.
Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years(nature.com)
1 points by neffy 10y ago|0 comments
534.
by neffy 10y ago
Total home ownership in the US dropped from ~67% of the population to approximately 64% - 2009 - 2014 - and you're right 3% is a lot of people. But the 64% who benefited is a whole lot more. Apropos not a lot - this is also the reason
535.
by neffy 10y ago
Not so hard if you assume it's their second house, and they bought the previous one a few years back. Once you're on the housing ladder, you're protected to some extent from the increase in the price of the house you want to
536.
by neffy 10y ago
Yes, it will and it has: In 2008, the banking system imploded. Owing to a number of things, but primarily securitized lending leading to too many bad loans, losses in the banking system exceeded the amount that could be absorbed from loss p
537.
by neffy 10y ago
It's really the operating system - and the network.
538.
by neffy 10y ago
Exactly. I found an analysis I wrote a couple of years ago on it. For something like bananas, which are relatively expensive because they require refrigerated shipping, the total fuel cost for the sea part worked out at about 0.09 cents&#x2
539.
by neffy 10y ago
Oil is much less of a factor in shipping costs than people realise. These container ships are incredible, in terms of what they can carry versus the cost of the fuel.
540.
Flop Houses in San Fransisco (Boot camp programmer describes his experience)(alternet.org)
2 points by neffy 10y ago|0 comments

More ›