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"A bubble is the overvaluation of an asset class, or merely...inflation." Merely inflation? It's much more than that. It's dis-coordination within an economy.
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"What if austerity measures work? Is that going to burst someone's bubble?" Yes. The managerial class. Banksters need reckless spending in order to put more people and nations into debt servitude. If austerity works, people might ( gasp ) s
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by skylan_q 15y ago
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -F.A. Hayek The author isn't claiming they know how to manage it better. He's just suggesting that their managemen
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"Nobody thinks the artificial equalization provided by things like affirmative action actually is equality" Do you really think that if women dominated tech, people would be clamoring for more men in it? The few nurses I know have no troubl
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Great post. The focus should be on the work and getting things done. Gender/race/(other group qualifier) ratios are a matter of fact, not value. Focus shouldn't be on political correctness for the sake of protecting feelings. It doesn't tak
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For those who read the 2nd page, you'll see that there is no decline, just changes. The headline is agitprop. The Yen has increased in value against the US dollar greatly in the past decade, yet Japan still manages to manufacture and export
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This boggles my mind. Why would someone use a convention that brings in ambiguity, when they could just type a semicolon and avoid all the problems of ambiguity in language parsing?
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I wouldn't worry about this getting anywhere. And if it does, I'm pretty sure the current gov't will smack Canada Post silly as retaliation.
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I can't make it out to London (if it's happening there) but I'm excited to see how it all turns out!
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"As more startups are created and salaries rise, more people will choose programming as a career and balance out the wage inflation." I beg to differ. Have you met a high school student or college student recently? ;)
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I wouldn't dismiss it that easily. Legislation like this helped to fuel speculation on real estate. The average person became an investor in a specific asset class. The JOBS act could do the same thing with start-ups. The potential benefits
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Can't speak for 2,3 and 4, as I'm doing OS X dev and it's been some time since I've done iOS. I agree with 1,2 and 6 wholeheartedly. I'm working with AppKit. I would give a limb to have it be half as nice as the first release of UIKit. Appk
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by skylan_q 15y ago
My points were purely economic. The OP was just asking a simple economic question, and I gave a simple answer. It doesn't need to be explained in the mechanisms employed by the design of bitcoin. "Not a problem. This is solved because bitco
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"If the rewards go down over time, eventually it won't be profitable to mine bitcoin." Yes. The idea is the following: If the amount that can be mined per unit of computation is decreased, then fewer will be created. And if there are less o
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"If you don't want your search results shared with other Google sites -- if you don't want some kind of superprofile being created for you based on everything you search, every site you surf, and every video you watch on YouTube -- you will
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Great post. Vectorization is one of the easiest ways to increase per-thread performance. This gives me an excuse to post one of my favorite articles at Intel. It shows the best performance increases for this person's problem come from optim
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From what I've heard, they're getting rid of tax credits and moving more to an RFP or grant-based system.
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Not many have mentioned policy here, just automation. How are we to create sustainable jobs if we keep taxing, regulating, etc... such that we increase the requirement for marginal productivity of labor in order to turn a profit? Basically,
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"And it doesn't even run well! The framework itself takes on the order of a gigabyte of RAM, making it a poor choice for many of the simple applications they target. Early rails applications needed to be restarted tens of times a day." Mixi
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"The meltdown also revealed dangerous links in the financial system few had previously realized—that losses in the U.S. housing market could trigger losses in huge stock portfolios that had nothing to do with housing. It was utter chaos dri
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"To an approximation, asking when a non-trivial program will be done is just like asking when a theorem will be proven." Thank you for this. ;)
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Really, I'm wondering what other angle it would be. It's as insane as blocking pictures of feet because someone has a foot fetish.
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- It's a beautiful thing, and I don't see the "porn"... If some people are using this as the case against these pictures, that's just plain stupid. Porn has more to do with sex and lust. Breastfeeding isn't pedophilia.
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Right. The last "majority" was 50.04% of the vote back in 1984: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1984 What's with this new attitude of hating parliament if it's not your party with a majority?
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"What really frustrates me is that the Conservatives were voted in thanks the rural farmers and retirees who actually got out to vote in my province." A big part of it was that they won the immigrant/new Canadian vote in Ontario. The values
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I agree with this fully. I know many people who wouldn't buy a pair of boots for $100, but would buy the same boots if labeled "Uusually $400, but on sale for $200!" People don't understand the shopping experience. It's about going there, t
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by skylan_q 15y ago
How about "because it's full of Finns"?
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I've looked at reverse-engineering xib files in order to be able to produce my own, thinking it would make a pretty neat tool to use. It's a nightmare. Monotouch seems to have pulled this off somehow. For some reason, the boss insists we do
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I like everything up to and including this part: "I believe that the recent financial and economic crisis was of great importance and in its ultimate essence it was actually a very edifying signal to the contemporary world." I'm glad he pre
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! Now functional programming and lambda calculus makes sense. This is un- cking-real. Thank you.

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