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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Banks don't make money from mortgages and loans, but from deposits. Our financial system uses fractional reserve. When you deposit $1 in a bank account, they are allowed to have ~10x that, or $10. They can literally create virtual mone
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
No wonder why these people are having a hard time convincing others to pay for their writing.
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Un-pay-walled: https://archive.is/lthwZ
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Just kidding! :D
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Maybe the Postal service is where the copyright owners had enough friends to go after z-lib.
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Maybe another variable at play here is: Evolution: modifications_size / time / codebase_size Mature systems tend to have lower Evolution. Thus, there are more bugs being fixed than created. Over time, this leads to stability. On t
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
I think it's cynicism, indeed. What reality indicates - to me - is he wants to integrate financial services on Twitter.
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
He didn't become the richest (declared) person on Earth by having an agreeable personality...
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
I think he did want to buy since the beginning. He's got bigger plans for it beyond short messages. The free speech thing is just marketing.
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
If you look closely, it isn't hard to see that sports became major industries, collectivelly moving trillions of Dollars worldwide every year. If you are interested in economics, you can learn a lot from it. In an intersection with beh
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Agree that reading books is a great habit to take. It's sad that an injury from a physical exercise can cause a lot of trauma indeed, but I don't think practicing it is inherently bad because of that. An accident can happen relate
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
> Studies don’t investigate something as complex as the total impact of video games or anything else in all contexts. Why not? What's the purpose of saying it's good for cognitive performance if cognitive performance isn't
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
I'm happy you got all of that from video-games and in no way I'm advocating against video games for everyone. But, in my life, I credit sports for everything you said. With the added benefit of a healthy neurology and biology in g
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
$240/mo for a starter plan is a bit salty for such a tool, isn't it?
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
I also like htmx and this kind of comparison is fruitless. The executive summary talks about LOC, build time, # of JS dependencies, etc. Nobody started using React because of these things, so it misses the point. It doesn't compare htm
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
That's why I found useful to mention here the type of experience the author had in his career. Prospective readers can judge the likelihood for the book to be useful for them based on this additional data point.
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
I did not say it's a requirement, just highlighting what type of experience the author has.
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
From his LinkedIn profile, the author doesn't seem to have experience in the likes of Amazon. "Senior" will vary depending on the size of company and the scale of problems it deals with.
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
I've heard of a LOT of people in the West who lived during the 1940's and wouldn't agree so much with your perspective.
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Thinking that external developers can't work on those layers if publicized is a bit juvenile, IMO. :) We have open source projects with layers upon layers of abstraction tackling problems equally if not more sophisticated than Google s
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Google could also provide free access to their algorithm for people to tweak and improve, as well as their raw index for others to provide better search on top of it. But they like free distribution with other people's intelectual prod
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Is the ECJ kind of a Supreme Court that can overturn member state laws and rulings? I had the impression member states were 100% sovereign within the EU...
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Weren't most of these ruined software bred by the prospects of acquisition in the first place?
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
I didn't see any study demonstrating that Toxoplasmosis alters the brain of humans. Do you know any to share? The "entrepreneurial tendency" is just a correlation. We need to be careful in drawing such conclusions, especially
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
We have to be careful in differentiating correlation and causation. The study seems to show a correlation only, not establish causation. It seems to me you might have read it as causation (?). Perhaps what is at play is that people who alre
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
> 3rd world tier corruption and fraud Yeah, 1st world tier corruption doesn't take just one life, it fakes Weapons of Mass Destruction photos in the 3rd world to falsely justify the killing of hundreds of thousands and the disruptio
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
I'm also not very familiar, but I understood it differently: The government did not let it for private sector to regulate when it explicitly guaranteed the right in the constitution...
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Are foreigners kept there against their will? I bet they're happy to live there, despite the housing costs. Why is this exploitation? The country is offering a lot of positive things to foreigners. I'd love to have a Singaporean p
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
I'm not talking about how real estate works there, but how they became a sophisticated and highly competitive economy in a few decades.
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by rmbyrro 4y ago
Look at Singapore, for example. Its situation was orders of magnitude worse than Portugal decades ago. Now they are probably twice as better. The key is: stop complaining about "the rich is this, the rich is that" and start thinki

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