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by skylan_q 13y ago
None. This provides profit opportunities to those who will "heal" the price. Also, exchanges will revert back trades that happen over these flash crashes.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Only the government can take care of poor people?
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by skylan_q 13y ago
If there isn't copyright protection on this work, no one will want to write another book again!
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Been waiting to see this for a while...
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by skylan_q 13y ago
You can see the same thing happening now in Shenzhen. Workers know that they can get a job easily if they have some experience, so many don't return to work after a holiday. Wages have also gone up rapidly there. I just returned from a mon
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I'd hope that most people could see through this. My issue is that the Ford myth is often postulated this way. People fear going through the simple arithmetic demonstrating the impossibility of the proposition. It's easier to spread a rumor
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by skylan_q 13y ago
If a company has a major breakthrough drug that produces high profits then its competitors have a substantial incentive to try to duplicate this drug in a way that circumvents the patent. In a regime where patents provide a monopoly, the a
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Historically speaking, the free market will gravitate to a currency that has a stable price and appreciates at least a little bit over time. No one wants to hold a depreciating currency. We use that fact to drive people to spend by driving
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by skylan_q 13y ago
That all sounds very silly. There is nothing complex about interest or how controlling it can effect an economy. The interest rate is just a knob you can turn to adjust inflation and employment. It's science!
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by skylan_q 13y ago
An economy is a closed system - if some are saving, others have to spend to keep the music going. If we all stop spending, we get into a depression, where people lose their jobs, and the economy isn't working to its potential - all because
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by skylan_q 13y ago
The original Henry Ford, committed to raising productivity and lowering prices remorselessly, appreciated this profoundly—and insisted on paying his workers twice the going rate, so they could afford to buy his cars. When will this myth d
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by skylan_q 13y ago
The point is that she spent $50k because she spent too much time not focusing on starting a family and instead was doing something else which was probably a self-centered lifestyle. She would have nothing to say to the man who bought the ca
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I agree that it's not typical. And given that it's not typical, people aren't really serious about starting families and having children. If someone was serious about this sort of thing and actually wanted this, they'd start asking very soo
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I've been using azure a bunch at work. I don't know where the sales numbers come from. I have reasons for being skeptical after being in on conversations with their sales reps. I hate how they hide important details about their systems. The
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by skylan_q 14y ago
It's easy to rise 46% in terms of subscriptions when they offer tens of thousands of dollars worth of their service for free.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
In the short-term it doesn't help the employment situation. Like in (software) engineering, there is no free lunch. Here's another example in Canada of austerity working: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-06-07/markets/29978... The
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by skylan_q 14y ago
What the is the precedent for austerity? To have enough money left behind to pay the bills. What countries have used it successfully to get out of recession and improve unemployment? This worked in the (now seemingly ancient) past. Gove
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by skylan_q 14y ago
FWIW, I'd chip in my time for this.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
If I was in charge, I'd have fired the customer by now. Some people don't know what bad business is. I find myself worrying less and less about the experience level of developers I have to work with and worrying more about the experience
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I tell my bosses that before I can give a solid estimate I need to have two things done first: 1) I've eliminated most (or all) of the unknowns 2) I know how I am going to do the thing I am supposed to do. Sometimes I know the system and I
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I'm going to guess it's because people in India are allowed to practice medicine and produce equipment. If I were to start practicing medicine and producing equipment up here in Canada I'd be arrested in a heartbeat. (Unless I went through
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by skylan_q 14y ago
Necessity is the mother of innovation. This sort of thing might invite competition in that price range. Spending millions of dollars at a hospital that's in no danger of going out of business is a lot less likely to lead to innovation than
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by skylan_q 14y ago
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/beware... It only really takes a few years. We went through "painful" austerity in Canada. Both at the federal level and provincial level. This left everyone hating the federal finance
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by skylan_q 14y ago
But it hasn't. Almost every country that has faced an economic crisis continued to increase their budget expenditures. The new austerity is in reducing the increases by a fraction, which isn't what's suggested at all.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
Why doesn't he just veto it instead of threatening to veto it?
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by skylan_q 14y ago
Probably relevant for those interested: In 1969, Zuse suggested the concept of a computation-based universe in his book Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
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by skylan_q 14y ago
The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back do
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by skylan_q 14y ago
The problem I have is that he advocated the boom that nearly destroyed the #1 economy in the world in order to avoid a potential slump.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
Haven't seen him say anything about helping fund the education bubble. But then again, he believes all sorts of silly things. Like if you print money and pay people to dig and bury holes over and over again, you can revive an economy.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
Just curious... who do you include in that list of people who properly diagnosed the crisis? Personally, I would say Nouriel Roubini and Peter Schiff were spot-on with this since they started talking about it in 2003-2004.

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