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by spangry 11y ago
Fine. You want to know why it always seems to be the same 'clueless economists' churning out the same crap policy, resulting in crisis after crisis? Because politicians don't know jack about economics. They're a bunch of
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by spangry 11y ago
Yes that is exactly what I'm doing; you've cleverly seen through my subterfuge. I concede the argument to your superior reasoning and reading comprehension. EDIT: Well this is embarrassing. I apologise to the guy above and below m
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by spangry 11y ago
And the relevance of this is...?
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by spangry 11y ago
I'm sorry, when did I claim I was some kind of share market mastermind? I wouldn't have a clue on how to work the stock market. I think you and I have very different definitions of the word 'economist'. I'm guessing
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by spangry 11y ago
Sorry if it's bad form to re-post, but it seems relevant. Here's the counter-argument: My very controversial view is that Twitter will never achieve profitability (of the level that justifies their market cap). Like Facebook, Twit
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by spangry 11y ago
Do you have anything to back that statement up, other than 20/20 hindsight? I'll admit that few economists get timing right on big macro events, but please don't tar us all with the same brush: https://news.ycombin
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by spangry 11y ago
Here you go. Latest UN Human Development Index rankings: http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/HDI Switzerland: 3 Germany: 6 US: 8 UK: 14
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by spangry 11y ago
Twitter's an interesting case. My very controversial view is that Twitter will never achieve profitability (of the level that justifies their market cap). Like Facebook, Twitter is in a two-sided market. Unlike Facebook, it's uncl
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by spangry 11y ago
Yes the 'sexual-harassment stuff' is unfortunate, as both accusations made by Julie Horvath appear to be baseless. Here's the second accusation she made: Horvath had what she referred to as an awkward, almost aggressive enco
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by spangry 11y ago
Yes, it must be all part of the patriarchal conspiracy. It couldn't have anything to do with the casual dismissal of basic due process and presumption of innocence, particularly in the context of career-destroying accusations of crimin
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by spangry 11y ago
What logic? He's making a factual assertion, not an argument. Unless you're suggesting accusations of criminal conduct don't require supporting evidence... EDIT: Here's a link to the results of GitHub's independent
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by spangry 11y ago
Oh sorry, I probably should have been a little clearer. I'm thinking of a different attack scenario where the attacker wants to MITM your app to inspect traffic and utilise your server-side API for unintended purposes. So it looks like
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by spangry 11y ago
Pretty slick! I like the fact that it's open-source and client-side js. Can definitely see how this could integrate with online IDEs like Ace. A few bits of feedback (although perhaps you just haven't got around to implementing th
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by spangry 11y ago
I'm not sure if this had been mitigated in the standard, but the pinning implementations I've seen used in Android apps rely on client-side (i.e. app) verification. It's an inconvenience, for sure, for someone trying to emula
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by spangry 11y ago
That product page is gold: * Even has a serious business mode, for the most serious businesses. * Written in PHP so literally anyone can contribute, even if they have no idea how to program. * Even babies and dogs can contribute. * You, too
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by spangry 11y ago
I'm guessing the number would be a fair bit lower when you subtract the savings from abolishing the existing unemployment welfare system (and the cost of administering it). And, in theory, those previously on 'tapering welfare&#x2
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by spangry 11y ago
I'm sorry but that's simply false. From the OECD's latest 'Revenue Statistics Publication' ( http://www.oecd.org/ctp/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-method... ): This annual Report presents d
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by spangry 11y ago
Good find. It's worth noting though that the author is discussing the 'Jersey Experiment', which implemented an 'impure' form of the NIT: Thus, a treatment might offer a guarantee equal to half the poverty line, wh
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by spangry 11y ago
Discretionary spending doesn't even make up half of US Federal Government outlays. The CBO estimates that total budget outlays in 2014 were 3.5 trillion dollars ( https://www.cbo.gov/about/products/budget_econo
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by spangry 11y ago
I'm not sure how you can draw any conclusions from that data. The fact that tax to GDP ratios in OECD countries vary anywhere from around 17% to 48% suggests that different tax policies can alter a country's tax take: http:&#x
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by spangry 11y ago
Some of what you say is true, but highly misleading (and the 'appropriate channels' issue is still an open question in my opinion). Although Snowden accepted political asylum in Russia, he had little choice at the time. The US gov
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by spangry 11y ago
Ah, thanks for that!
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by spangry 11y ago
Huh, that last part sounds kinda interesting. Pardon my scientific ignorance, but is that 'self-containing plasma' phenomena the reason why our Sun hasn't exploded yet?
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by spangry 11y ago
Thanks for helping me understand this. Please bear with me here, as I'm not as technically skilled as the average HN user. On your first sentence, is the issue that some fundamental aspect of the SGX security model requires copying dat
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by spangry 11y ago
I have to admit, the technical aspects of this are way beyond me. Would this technology allow (in theory) secure distributed computation via RDMA? I've long suspected that Intel understands the implications of mass adoption of cheap, R
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by spangry 11y ago
Although I basically agree with PG's essay, the one plausible critique I can think of is this: 1) We don't care about wealth distribution per se . What we actually care about is utility maximisation (in other words, maximising th
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by spangry 11y ago
I'm an economist (sort of), with some IT domain expertise. I've been thinking about the below issues for some time now: 1) As productive capital becomes increasingly digital, it becomes cheaper to acquire or create. If capital is
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by spangry 11y ago
Just to inject some data into the conversation, see the third graph on this page http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics/ . It indicates that the turnout rate for the 18-29 age group is at
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by spangry 11y ago
I'm not 100% sure. I think so, possibly in the same way that exposure therapy can be helpful. On rare occasions when I've forgotten to take my propranolol dose, I think I experienced less severe panic reactions to provoking stimul
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by spangry 11y ago
This article seems a little inaccurate to me, or at least incomplete. On phobias, it's not quite as simple as a 'fear memory', although certainly a part of it when we're discussing 'conditioned fear' (e.g. PTSD

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