peakok

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by peakok 18y ago
One day I was having a discussion with a cashier in my neighborhoord. A kind woman in her fifties, who started this job before I was born. She used to be always cheerful and serviable, but not on that particular day. The conversation went l
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by peakok 18y ago
well done, hopefully it doesn't spread on conventional websites.
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Stocks fall on fears bailout won't save economy(reuters.com)
3 points by peakok 18y ago|0 comments
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by peakok 18y ago
This plan is a disaster that will be remembered as one of the worst error in History ever. The US shot its last bullet, and it aimed at its feets. Buckle up, folks, cause the future is even more incertain now for the world.
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by peakok 18y ago
This is not comparable because the 14 billions DOLLARS were prolly backed by the FMI wich meant that the United States and Europe were behind the bailout. Even if only the U.S were behind, 14 billions was really not much as we can see today
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by peakok 18y ago
Actually you're right, for some reason I always assumed that it was the Bretton Woods agreements that removed the tie between gold and money. My mistake. Still, my point is the same as you say.
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by peakok 18y ago
Interesting, but there are 2 critical differences : 1/ there was no Federal Reserve in 1873. The 1873 depression was one of the crisis that motivated the creation of the Fed, we thought a centralized bank system would help to stabilize the
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America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role(spiegel.de)
29 points by peakok 18y ago|51 comments
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by peakok 18y ago
Meanwhile : http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/whos-profiting-crisis-...
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by peakok 18y ago
[Hank Paulson's plan] made no demands that any financial executives sacrifice pay or bonuses despite having driven their firms and wider economy to the point of bankruptcy. He does not want the government to provide new bank capital to hel
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by peakok 18y ago
Good post. It is also the end of the anglo-saxon "know it all" diktat over finance. It was unthinkable a couple of months ago that New York and London would suddenly disappear from the map of global finance, bringing down with them the whol
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by peakok 18y ago
Being perfectly honest, her device could be confusing in an airport context, given the fact that you never know who is the person you deal with. I can understand the arrest, but not what has happened next. The press seems to have been calle
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by peakok 18y ago
?
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by peakok 18y ago
Yes, but the original statement is barely "DH1" : "Classic Humanities material = a bunch of fuzzy feel good vignettes without any conclusions". Circle-logic, my friends.
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by peakok 18y ago
I don't know where you live, but if this article qualifies as classic Humanities material for you, and if you think Humanities is a synomym of crap, there must be something wrong with your education system.
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by peakok 18y ago
Have you read the article ? So what do you think of http://www.business.com ? A privileged Google partner wich does the same thing but is tolerated. What's the difference ? Why is this one okay but not sourcetool ? Isn't there something u
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by peakok 18y ago
I would argue that there is indeed some kind of "color affinity", if we don't want to call it color intelligence. My father is a painter, and at some workshops people often asked him how to get some specific color or another. He told me tha
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by peakok 18y ago
I scored 80 on my CRT, but 0 on my LCD. Obviously the monitor is a very determining factor. So either you re a bit weaker in the greens, either it's your monitor that is. I would bet on the second possibility.
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Test your Color IQ(xrite.com)
41 points by peakok 18y ago|38 comments
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by peakok 18y ago
Art & Letters Daily : http://www.aldaily.com/
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Despite the anxiety about a recession, the Great Depression probably couldn’t happen again(city-journal.org)
1 points by peakok 18y ago|0 comments
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by peakok 18y ago
direct link : http://www.popcuts.com/
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by peakok 18y ago
so for all the people who upvoted that "tired of Techcrunch, want direct links instead" story, let's take a new habit : direct link : http://www.ididwork.com/
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by peakok 18y ago
Why does it frustrate you ?
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by peakok 18y ago
I don't click Techcrunch links (never), but this is a matter of personal choice and a subjective ethical code. While I regret the popularity of such kind of content, I also really hate when a minority tries to enforce it's own rules over th
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by peakok 18y ago
Awesome app. This is the best web based IRC client that I've seen so far.
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The brain can get a lot done, and leave you a little smarter, when it sleeps(sciam.com)
34 points by peakok 18y ago|16 comments
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by peakok 18y ago
the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay. Is it narcissism when authors believe their readers are so stupid that they
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10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List(nytimes.com)
2 points by peakok 18y ago|0 comments
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The forgotten Americans who ended in the gulag(nysun.com)
15 points by peakok 18y ago|7 comments

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