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by starbugs 6y ago
On the other hand, gold has historically kept up with inflation. So it's also going up when interest rates are high. Just look at its performance in the 2000s before 2008. Also there have been periods where it has been going down even
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by starbugs 6y ago
Interest rates cannot rise significantly anymore or the debt will become uncontrollable. On the other hand, I'd say it's very likely that a continued low interest rate environment will drive the societal divide even further and wo
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by starbugs 6y ago
True, but I am looking at it in a simplified way by only talking about one individual here instead of looking at the whole economy's money supply. Makes reasoning about consumer price inflation easier for me, as an employer would usual
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by starbugs 6y ago
The US couldn't consume goods from other countries based on cheap debt anymore, but would have to increase their own exports to match up their deficit. That's because if other countries aren't forced to purchase USD, there&#x
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by starbugs 6y ago
Consumer price inflation depends on four main factors: The velocity of money (how much it moves around), the amount of money available, supply, and demand. With the latter two being a potential result of the former two (amongst other extern
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by starbugs 6y ago
That's because it's really hard to predict right now what will happen, even for most experts. Both inflation and deflation are equally probable outcomes, if you look at it from a broad perspective and with limited data. If demand
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by starbugs 6y ago
I can only recommend listening to or watching some of Peter Schiff's talks. That's exactly the scenario he has been talking about for years. If that scenario would play out (I think it's very unlikely right now, but probably
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by starbugs 6y ago
Did I miss something or are low adoption rates and bluetooth issues the only indicators that decentralized tracking has failed, as pointed out in the article? The lack of statistics about success/failure otherwise seems to imply more o
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by starbugs 6y ago
Yeah. Higher quality is nice. But being sold on open source software availability and then “losing” it in this way feels like a ripoff. This is really not a good move.
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Drawing lines is hard (2015)(mattdesl.svbtle.com)
1 points by starbugs 6y ago|0 comments
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by starbugs 6y ago
Try making your app appear in search results via organic store searches. Good luck. In my experience, you will likely either pay for search results or do marketing on your own using other channels. Both are paid and Apple doesn't do an
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by starbugs 6y ago
One difference that comes to mind relatively quickly is that you didn't need a gaming console to live in practice. Try being part of today's society without a smartphone running either Apple or Google software. Apple's goal t
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by starbugs 6y ago
What serious business, be it B2C or B2B, in today's software world, doesn't require a mobile app on either iOS and Android or a desktop app on Chrome/Windows/macOS?
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by starbugs 6y ago
Take a break. If necessary, a long break. What you write sounds alarmingly familiar to me. It's probably not as simple as just calling it "burnout", but that may be one component of what you're going through. I also lear
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by starbugs 6y ago
Next press release may read as follows: "The new magic keyboard, not only with the new inverted T arrangement of arrow keys, but also with absolutely brand new physical function keys featuring all new haptic feedback experience."
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by starbugs 6y ago
Sitting in front of my beloved 2013 MBP 15". Reading "the new inverted T-arrangement for arrow keys". Looking down at my keyboard. Seeing said inverted T-arrangement on my seven year old MBP. Deception and lies.
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by starbugs 7y ago
Yes, but after the pandemic, wouldn't it be nice to be sure something like this is in place before we learn about a new virus? Wouldn't it be great if we kept this thing on forever, so it could be used retroactively after an outbr
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by starbugs 7y ago
Agreed. Price discovery feels broken to me. Maybe it is because of the FED interventions. Infinite is infinite, right? Perhaps the market is pricing in inflation instead of real growth? Perhaps it's because there's literally no ot
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by starbugs 7y ago
Hint: they are a for profit company and want you to pay 30% of your app revenue. Don't expect any open web standard that can actually compete with native apps unless something in the market changes.
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by starbugs 7y ago
There is no guarantee that the data will be persisted permanently. Users can erase it by mistake easily using privacy settings. There's also quite ambivalent size restrictions. And last but not least, Incognito mode, which also is impl
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by starbugs 7y ago
You disagree with the status quo implemented in browsers or you disagree with the decisions that were made years ago (by browser vendors), because you basically cannot guarantee for that (disk full, privacy settings, private browsing, etc.)
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by starbugs 7y ago
I bet there's tickets in both Google's and Apple's bug trackers from 2012 asking for that.
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by starbugs 7y ago
I am not saying that it is OK to delete all your files. I am saying it has always been like that in the case of a browser's local storage. As I said, that use case was out of the window long before. From the start, as far as I know. No
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by starbugs 7y ago
Is this really that big of a problem? You had to be expecting that local storage is deleted without any notice anyway, in every web app.
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Meditation will make you a better programmer (2017)(freecodecamp.org)
1 points by starbugs 7y ago|0 comments
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by starbugs 7y ago
The problem is it doesn't end with relevant ads. It doesn't even end with Cambridge Analytica. The business model of Facebook is absolutely clear. You are the product and the currency is you. If they can convert that to real $ the
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Ask HN: Would a web technology only Linux Desktop UI be feasible?
11 points by starbugs 7y ago|13 comments
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by starbugs 7y ago
Just cancelled my subscription. Looking for alternatives now. Is NordVPN any good?
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by starbugs 7y ago
I don’t think it’s a good idea to introduce complexity to the definition of simplicity and I think this is what the author is trying to do. It’s completely backwards. The whole point of calling for simplicity is to make you think about whet
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Stadia Is Walking a Thin Line Between Revolutionary Success and Epic Failure(forbes.com)
2 points by starbugs 7y ago|0 comments

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