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by skylan_q 15y ago
Yes, this! :)
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Sorry, are there any English sources for this stuff?
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by skylan_q 15y ago
"I'm closing in on a year myself. One thing that HN has clearly done for me is turn my interest in technology into an interest in businesses driven by technology -- it's moved me up a whole meta-level." Hah! It made me go in the opposite di
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Oh no! Now there will be bone marrow thieves! </sarcasm>
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Sorry to be a bother, but the title of the section should be "Rationale" and not "Rational" ...just a pet peeve of mine. :p
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Good point. Thank you for this.
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Yea... I'm still confused as to the whole point of pure/near-pure functional programming if we're not getting better code density/more productivity against other languages which I (and some others) find easier to work with. I guess all I'm
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by skylan_q 15y ago
This is pretty cool. I know python well enough to hack my way around it. I'm probably missing something, but now I have to ask: what would be the point in me learning clojure?
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by skylan_q 15y ago
As long as we keep printing money, raising taxes and increasing government budgets, stagnation will remain with us. As long as we're price-fixing money, taxing, regulating, over-legislating and having overblown government budgets, we'll nev
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by skylan_q 15y ago
This doesn't cause inflation. It just shifts money from everywhere else to the poorer people who remain employed on the new minimum wage. Inflation is caused by increasing the monetary base and having that new money circulate through the ec
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Economics is a social science, not an empirical one. This is why people who perform those experiments fail; they fail to see the difference between the success of empirical approaches to the natural sciences, and the failure of it to the so
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Just for clarification, this isn't trolling. It's true. In the last few years we've blamed the free market for these problems. I don't consider the federal reserve (a monopolist on money) to be a free-market institution. I don't consider go
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by skylan_q 15y ago
Yes, but are we really worried that government employees will no longer be super-productive? ;) I think there's a bit of a presumption in your post!
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Get jobs that actually help the economy. The government can't add jobs to help the economy by definition, because they don't work in the realm of profit/loss. This is called the economic calculation problem. We've ignored this problem, and
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Also, there is no way to show whether a government project is profitable or not. This means we can't tell whether the project actually helped or hurt the economy.
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If we have reached the point where 2) is true, then there is no more work to do and everything is done! :D
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The point is that this kind of stuff was debunked 70+ years ago. (Actually, you can go back to Bastiat with "The seen and unseen") We keep falling for the same mistakes. It makes me wonder why people hold their convictions for their theorie
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"Structural theories of unemployment are merely theories which claim that you have no idea what job they can profitably perform" It's not that they have no idea which jobs they could profitable perform, but that there are no jobs which they
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It was only about 10 years ago that we understood how to allow the economy to create jobs and operate properly: keeping a steady monetary base, cutting taxes, loosening regulation and ending wasteful gov't programs that crowd out private in
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Ok, but what difference does this make?
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by skylan_q 15y ago
I'm not a crazy and I advocate the abolishment of the fed. People claim we need them as "a lender of last resort" and then they rally against bailouts. People don't realize that practicing the "last resort" lending is a bailout! Also, Canti
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by skylan_q 15y ago
I don't find the assertion that "this would be bad" to be evidence that it would be bad. Some questions: Would it be bad for a person to be debt free? A household? A neighborhood? A small company? A large company? A city? A state? A small c
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GDP rose during the war, but it felt like a depression. What good is an increase in GDP if basic foodstuffs need to be rationed and people are getting killed? The recovery actually came in the post-war boom when government spending was slas
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From what I understand, most of their revenue for the desktop browser comes from the fact that google is the default search engine.
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by skylan_q 15y ago
I always found Opera to be ahead of the curve when it came to changes and new features in web browsers. But I made duckduckgo the default search engine in Opera almost a week ago! C'mon guys, don't let me lead the way! (It's a scary thought
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I don't understand what's free market about mortgage-backed securities, bank bailouts and giving the banking elite a monopoly on money through the federal reserve...
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Maybe you can judge him by the company he keeps and who he speaks with in these matters? Others, who "have done a lot of legitimate scientific research" in the areas of obesity and health look up to him as a well respected researcher. You r
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Saturated fat makes you fat? Tell that to this guy: http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/
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When looking for a reason why the economy crashed, I dug through a lot of rubbish until I found Peter Schiff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YTY5TWtmU
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The author makes the mistake of equivocating rationalizing with rationalism. "For example, suppose that (1) watching a scary movie usually makes a person fearful or anxious, and that (2) being fearful or anxious usually causes the person’s

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