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by s_q_b 11y ago
That was my thought as well. High denomination notes used in the underground economy essentially represent a zero interest loan to the currency issuer. The United States actually considered reissuing the $1000 bill since the $100 greenbacks
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Farouk al-Kasim, if memory serves. And yes, he did design the reserve fund financial structure.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I wrote a paper on the resource curse once, examining Norway as the example of how to escape it. The funny thing is that Norway's system was designed by an Iraqi immigrant engineer.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I'm in the same boat. I know the risks, but I've essentially entrusted my entire online presence to third-party services. Why? Simply because they are better. Ugh, this isn't acceptable.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I'm seeing about 80% less power on a mid-2012 Macbook Air with a 2GHz Core i7 for Evernote vs. Turtl. I'm guessing more parallelization is even more beneficial on lower speed multi-core processors.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Thanks for the info, very much appreciated. My job is basically to import best practices from good tech companies into an ancient silo'ed giant dev shop. Any idea where I should start for finding best practices with microservices? I&#x
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Evernote is so good that I just can't see myself transitioning. I wish the best services would offer strong encryption as a default.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Sooo... Can somebody explain to me the difference between microservices and Service Oriented Architecture?
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Assets are a great point. Much like lifting the cap on earnings tax, assets should factor into the payout equation, much like they affect student grants.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Oh, I know. Ironically enough, Bill Gates actually did take LSD as well and obtained a TS. But the story of Jobs' clearance is especially funny. Remember, this is the same Steve Jobs that only ate fruit for years, didn't often wea
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Thank you, that is very kind of you to say. Personally, psychedelics are just too high risk with my default internal attitude, even if they could help. I have some odd form of somatic anxiety. It's basically chronic pain that varies wi
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I've never done psychedelics, although I was a trip sitter a few times back in college. It was generally nice. We went out to outrageously gorgeous outdoor parks, and I kept people from wandering off cliffs. One time, somebody was havi
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Steve Jobs famously commented on Gates, "I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger." Psych
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I'm coming to appreciate the plight of the middle class at this point. How the hell am I supposed to put away enough savings for a house, retirement for two, and college savings for 2.5 kids? Between myself and my girlfriend, "hou
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I should clarify. My COLA statement includes increased medical costs/consumption, longer life, lack of keeping up with GDP, etc. Total lifetime costs might be better phrasing.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
My grandfather has two guaranteed benefit pensions: one FBI and one as chief of local police. But you're right, they're vanishingly rare for anyone in the private sector under 80. Bankruptcy by medical disaster should be averted b
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Basic stats: http://www.cbpp.org/archives/4-8-99socsec.htm You can go a lot deeper on this. Even today, about 50% of seniors would be below the poverty level without Social Security. That's mostly okay, because th
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Social Security worked well, before cost of living overtook the benefits provided.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Before Social Security, over 70% of seniors died in poverty. Today, that number is less than 10%. The amount of transfer payments to the elderly is so much larger than to any other age group, but unless you're willing to let those belo
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by s_q_b 11y ago
There are too many unknown unknowns when refurbishing the craft that quickly. The failure rate could be 50%. Who knows?
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This is a classic failure of aggregate demand, and it cannot be fixed with monetary policy alone. I'm struck by the continued relevance of the lessons of the Great Depression. For example, see these lines from FDR's First Inaugura
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by s_q_b 11y ago
That's not a coincidence. American haute architecture for much of the twentieth century was heavily influenced by Soviet architecture, and Brutalism is an offshoot of that school.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
What should have saved the space shuttle Columbia was establishing protocols to deal with foam debris. It was known well in advance of the Columbia disaster that the foam pieces dislodged during launch. It was known that they caused damage
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Most police officers are not just older workers forced to adapt. According to the NYPD, the median age of their academy graduates is 26. Younger beat officers are overwhelmingly utilized for patrol duties. They knew or should have known d
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by s_q_b 11y ago
If you're not intelligent enough to know that law enforcement interactions with the public are recorded on dashcams, maybe you shouldn't go into police work...
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I'm not convinced a foil hat is necessary. The rise and fall of both nations and civilizations isn't the exception. It's the rule. Whether from pressures from within or without, states inevitably degrade or even collapse. O
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From my vantage point, Palantir appears to be an amusing house of cards. The gossip on this coast, where most of their government and corporate overlords live, is much less rosy. Basically, any civilian agency that gets told it needs a &quo
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by s_q_b 11y ago
That's what I fear. As a nation, we have had it very good for a very long time. Economic growth is considered a given, there is a social safety net, and major conventional war is widely thought to be an impossibility. We would not fare
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I'm not interested in engaging in a legalistic argument without considering the societal implications. The enabling part of this on the officer's side is not a "massive domestic surveillance dragnet". How else would yo
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by s_q_b 11y ago
There is blowback from these actions. Much like the blowback from intelligence operations it often manifests in unusual ways. For example, deposing the elected leader of Iran through Operation Ajax led to the coup by religious extremists, a

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