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by phjohnst 16y ago
- Any time/money trade-off Exactly! It is surprisingly easy to buy something in a store instead of ordering from Amazon and waiting, for +20%, or taking a cab home instead of the subway/bus, or hiring a weekly cleaning service, or buying
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Exactly... I guess this is just another lesson that security of a network (in this case meaning all the different services we use) is only as strong as the weakest link. Certainly not going to be firing up the foursquare app for a while
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Yeah, I have a hard time believing that this is accurate. Definitely scary if true, but I would like to put my faith in Foursquare having checked this box a long time ago. Also: why, after millions of checkins over public networks, is this
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Exactly! I think that there is a rather substantial silver lining to major change, in that it forces people that would otherwise not have to/not have the guts to, go out and do what they want, like start a company or follow a passion (hope
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Indeed, but remember that there as long as the collectors don't come knocking, whether or not you can pay at any one moment is irrelevant. In this case, it would take China calling in its US loans to adversely affect the States' ability to
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Real vs reported means that the real numbers have been adjusted for inflation from some base year (and looking at the CPI from his data, the base year is mid 1983). The problem with looking at such a huge data set (this goes back to the la
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Pretty much, yeah. A bunch of my friends are traders, and it seems that the consensus right now is that as far as the stock market is concerned, nobody knows where this is going (either way), and is scared to take any real position (that's
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I think this is spot on. The problem here isnt that Google did what it did, it's that they shouted about it for the other side for so long, and then switched teams. The same thing with China. If you're going to take a hard stance on some
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I'd definitely say London, purely for that fact that it has many of the same things that make Silicon Valley so appealing: a (relatively) thriving tech community, especially around the Old St area, it's close to VCs, there's lots of networ
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by phjohnst 16y ago
But why? You can develop grit by doing things that really suck, but ultimately get you somewhere you want to go, or that leads to some sort of innovation down the line. But to force people to do things that are completely unrelated to wha
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by phjohnst 16y ago
You get free updates on eBooks, eh