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by rvkennedy 15y ago
Yes - high inflation (i.e. too high, not 5%), substantial currency devaluation (not hyperinflation but worse than a mere annoyance), and especially high unemployment - higher than we have now under the market-focused orthodoxy. But it needs
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
I'm sure you know this already, but I think the best ideas and the ones that you will be strongly motivated to work on are those that solve a problem for a lot of people, but principally for you . Something in your business life or elsewhe
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
I'm sure this is very good but I'd much rather have a formula for the main artifacts - the actual radial spikes, instead of the minor horizontal pattern.
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
I'm afraid I just find it a little bizarre that Keynesian economics is considered in some way "left", or partisan. It's really just based on observation, and does not endorse any radical redistribution of wealth - it's designed to encourage
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
This article summarizes my approach to just about every technical challenge I've encountered since school. In grad school in particular, I could never get my head around the approach of uploading code to a Unix server and running it blind o
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
I knew there was a reason I hated that word - it always sounded phony.
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
While we have the OP as a fine example of my point, it might help to provide an example of your own. In developed economies, nationalization has historically occurred when a business that the public relies upon has become literally or effec
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
You should try the hilarious spoof app on Android called "TheTrainline", which introduces such innovations as: - its own, dysfunctional keyboard - because Android's keyboard was just too, er, fast. And didn't have a bright green tick button
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
It's very simple, when you privatize something, it magically becomes cheaper. Because of "efficiencies". The way this works is you can always get a private company to pitch a service for a lower price than you're currently paying. Then it's
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
It's similar to the likes of elance, or oDesk - sites that commoditize IT skills with ill-paid, mal-specified projects to the point where you'd be better off working at KFC. Maybe someday someone will get this right - I suspect that will re
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
This should really be a wiki - tricks, techniques and shortcuts for all kinds of social situations for the autistically spectralized.
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by rvkennedy 16y ago
That doesn't matter. If you want normal people to use Ubuntu, you don't start on at them about Unix conventions.
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by rvkennedy 16y ago
The quote from Newton is particularly apt. Open Source contribution is a lot like the collaborative/competitive model of scientific discourse that we've had since the Enlightenment. While that may make it sound academic, much of pre-20th Ce
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by rvkennedy 16y ago
Yes... for hackers.
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by rvkennedy 16y ago
Here's a thought: instead of dealing with crap like this, what about a service for mailing lists that collects email addresses, and stores them internally. Companies wanting to reach customers can put the signup form as js on their websites
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by rvkennedy 16y ago
That's a really good thread, thank you!
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by rvkennedy 16y ago
The question specifies client communication. Replacing SMTP in the network is also a valid issue, but it is not the question that was asked here.
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by rvkennedy 16y ago
HTTP is used for a lot more than just web pages - as I mentioned above, it's a de facto standard for a great many internet applications that are not web-based. The benefits - well, Gabor Cselle summarizes these quite well ( http://blog.gabo
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Why don't we use HTTP for email?
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by rvkennedy 16y ago
Hmm. I don't recall what I'd call "lambasting" - most viewers came away with a very positive impression of the Tesla - especially as it outperformed the Lotus in some areas. The bit about pushing it into the garage was obviously staged, and
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by rvkennedy 16y ago
It would probably be a mistake for him to actually use twitter to contact these people. But I can imagine for corporate customers this will tell you which companies will be more amenable to a cold call by telephone.