oldpond

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by oldpond 11y ago
Not the end of growth, but for the financial system, yes. Why does it always have to be a bet? There's no mystery to the financial system.
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by oldpond 11y ago
There is no "now what". That's the problem. There's only so much "good debt" to buy and it's all bought. These systems depend on continuous growth to function, and unless you can figure out how to sell
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by oldpond 11y ago
Banking master plan Step 1. Go global. Check. Step 2. Sell all the debt you can. Check. Now what? One thing to consider is that the baby boomer generations are all hitting 60. This large population group is entering the period in their l
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by oldpond 11y ago
That chart looks like it's leveling off. They don't say anything about that, and I believe that is the most significant attribute of that chart. They are, of course, trying to suggest behind their techno-babble that the market w
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by oldpond 11y ago
That's the same logic as "ratings are down, let's create more channels, cuz people like variety". They ended up diluting their captive audience even more resulting in even worse ratings. Time to turn off the TV, and th
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by oldpond 11y ago
Well, the F-16 is still my favorite. Spent way too many hours in Falcon4 back in the day. :)
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by oldpond 11y ago
The last aircraft shot down by gunfire involving US forces was during Vietnam. I believe the cannon for the F-35 is not operational yet, and will be externally mounted in the navy variants.
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by oldpond 11y ago
Consider the source. Medium.com likes dirt. Like the man said, dogfighting is obsolete.
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by oldpond 11y ago
Sorry, I think of the ecosystem around a language as part of the language. Tooling, frameworks, etc.
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by oldpond 11y ago
I don't know about that, but I was watching their ignition tests succeed one after another, and then they stopped. If they did succeed they would want to run it for awhile before announcing it. <tinfoil hat off>
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by oldpond 11y ago
Can't upvote this enough. My takeaway from this gem is that we need to keep thinking about our craft even as we evolve our technologies, and we need to have the courage to stand up for it. The hardest thing in the world to see is you
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by oldpond 11y ago
I would love to see a green screen interface on a phone, touchable, of course. sings I got a mainframe in my pocket...
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by oldpond 11y ago
Hydrogen goes boom, and ethanol is already straining the corn market to the limits. I can't see us turning every square section of arable land into ethanol production.
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by oldpond 11y ago
>I would rather support a balanced production with nuclear (fusion?) power plants providing the fixed needs of the grid and renewable energies making up the rest. I agree on the fusion part. The NIF has been strangely silent about their
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by oldpond 11y ago
Thanks for that interesting viewpoint. I have also done the same survey, and I agree. I did a ChicagoBoss PoC last year, and Elixir and Phoenix are my goto for the next one. It should also be noted that both are young languages and they a
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by oldpond 11y ago
Brilliant! Just brilliant! I love it!
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by oldpond 11y ago
I agree, diplomacy is a critical skill. Grumpiness is basically anger, and all anger comes from pain. Programming is fun, but getting yelled because we missed a deadline or got some feature slightly wrong is painful. When Suzy asks for a
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by oldpond 11y ago
The lineups at the snack counters at movie theaters and sports events are about to get very long. You walk into the theater and the neural marketing transmitters trigger the craving for sugar or salt. Jury tampering, neurally transmitted p
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by oldpond 11y ago
Corba. LOL.
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by oldpond 11y ago
This is good spin-doctoring. The financial sector always wants to point the finger at taxes. The problem is still the banks. Declare debt amnesty, regulate the banks. Watch the economy soar.
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by oldpond 11y ago
This is a fascinating period of history. Our modern financial system is born during this period. I'm reading up on Cromwell and the English Civil Wars right now. There is a ton of great Dutch history during this period as well, espe
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by oldpond 11y ago
I scrolled. I admit it. :)
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by oldpond 11y ago
This is correct. It's called listening fatigue.
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by oldpond 11y ago
Yes, both Arch and Gentoo are rock solid IMHO, and I enjoyed many years in both those communities. Breakage was very rare, less than one per year even, and I always ran test releases for my desktops.
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by oldpond 11y ago
Right. News is a commodity. I am sure nobody would be surprised to learn that the results on google news are mostly media outlets that use google's doubleclick service. As long as it's easy to donate to sites you find valuable o
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by oldpond 11y ago
Sure, there might be a trickle of user supported programming. I don't know how successful satellite radio is these days. The whole reason TV and radio exist is to bring advertising into our homes and cars. Those "commercial fre
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by oldpond 11y ago
I can imagine a world without advertising quite easily. If you could snap your fingers and make all advertising disappear the world would be a better place. Sure, TV and Radio would disappear, but who needs it? I stopped listening to Rad
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by oldpond 11y ago
Well, if you are on a rolling distro like Gentoo or Arch you are going to run into breakage eventually because you are out on the leading edge. The tools are evolving quite steadily, so it's the price you pay to run the latest and gre
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by oldpond 11y ago
No denying there was lots of breakage back then, and you would have to go back to the late 90's to find the days when Powerbuilder and VB were new. Developers making mobile apps don't assume the browser is the platform. Develope
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by oldpond 11y ago
If microsoft release their own linux distro I might try that. Otherwise this is a non-event for me.

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