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by timtas 11y ago
How can we see if this technique works? There are two methods try to know something: deduction and induction. First a little deduction. Let's try to be explicit about the theory behind this technique. It's safe to assume that the
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by timtas 11y ago
Oh, there's no doubt that China's central planners are malivesting on an enormous scale. Good thing for us they still save enough to fund America's borrowing.
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by timtas 11y ago
"Strengthening the health care, retirement and unemployment insurance systems, so that workers feel more secure, might help lower the savings rate somewhat." Translation: We need to get 'em all on the dole but quick, because
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by timtas 11y ago
I don't follow -- which are the apples and oranges? Comparing wires and roads does seem like apples and oranges. You have to ask, why does TWC have a monopoly in NYC? Did the market create it? Does the market protect it? Why do you thi
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by timtas 11y ago
The notion of natural monopoly, while superficially plausible, is an ahistorical ex post rationale for government intervention.[1] Any day now some guy or gal will visit my home to hook up my Google Fiber. How can that be if if Time Warner
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by timtas 11y ago
Such sophistry from The Paper of Record. Honest headlines might be: House Declines to Let The Patriot Act Expire as Planned or House Votes to Extend the Patriot Act...Again or House Votes to Extend the Patriot Act, Attempts to Curtail Worse
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by timtas 11y ago
> One philosophy, called Baconianism after Sir Francis Bacon, neglects theoretical underpinning and says just make observations, collect data, and interrogate them. I earnestly endeavored to hold this silly assessment in abeyance and re
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by timtas 11y ago
Indeed. I was thinking specifically of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
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by timtas 11y ago
You know the problem runs deep when they keep writing bills that basically say, "Remember that whole Constitution thing; yeah, they actually meant it."
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by timtas 11y ago
Orwellian, to be precise.
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$5.3 Trillion of Government Bonds Now Have Negative Yields(davidstockmanscontracorner.com)
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by timtas 12y ago
You misread me, and put words in my mouth. I'm not objecting to getting or giving a hand. Consider two families. One makes $100k/year and has $750k saved. They drive modest cars, live in a modest home, take modest vacations and dr
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by timtas 12y ago
Boy, wanna talk about perverse incentives? How about this "typical assets" business? One more way today's world proves you're a sucker to be frugal and save. Stanford is indeed a luxury, and there's no reason a well
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by timtas 12y ago
We've all seen quite clearly in recent years that governments regularly socialize risk with bailouts of supporters and favorites. The worst part is the way they tip their hand in advance (e.g., The Greenspan Put [1]) incentivizing the
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by timtas 12y ago
Your copy mentions "more operating systems in the future." Does that include OSX? When?
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by timtas 12y ago
> Where did I fail to claim my part when the company was growing? You don't give us a clue to answer this. Your whole story is about things that happened. You haven't told us about what you wanted. You haven't told us anyt
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by timtas 12y ago
Thanks for the reply and original post. To be clear, my real objection is not with your post but with our (my) expectation that it's possible to gain decisive wisdom from post-hoc success stories. I knew better than to fall into this e
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by timtas 12y ago
In five years there've been bugs. Fixed them quickly for the first three years. Held many users hands who asked for support. I tried a little to fight some troll reviews. Apple won't help with that. I never put any effort into see
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by timtas 12y ago
What does that mean, paying attention? I feel that you are holding back on some wisdom you want to share.
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by timtas 12y ago
Congrats to the developer, and I appreciate his taking the time to tell us about his journey. However, I find that the post offers little insight. I have a special reason to seek this insight: I did nearly the same thing, and my app makes T
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by timtas 12y ago
Better yet, "Books to Read to Understand American Progressive Worldview"
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by timtas 12y ago
Maybe just a little more borrowing, stimulating and inflating will do the trick. The effects have contradicted the theory for a decade, but maybe it somehow just wasn't quite enough. Ugh. When Japan looked to Western thinkers for moder
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The Keynesian End Game Crystalizes in Japan’s Monetary Madness(davidstockmanscontracorner.com)
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by timtas 12y ago
I guess it's hard to change, even after it becomes clear the old way doesn't work. http://qz.com/96206/google-admits-those-infamous-brainteaser...
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by timtas 12y ago
I recently interviewed with an SF consulting company (a sort of network/placement firm), which purports to offer only the most senior devs to the hottest companies. The process includes a timed puzzle-solving test. Ironically, fresh CS
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by timtas 12y ago
From a guy who wrote a 768 page book [1] about this: "The 'small profit', along with most of the so-called 'recovery' of Uncle Sam’s $426 billion initial investment, was ground out of the backs of America’s savers a
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by timtas 12y ago
It's worth noting that the author of this humorous post does not really assert anything. He implies that Republican views are objectively wrong without giving any support to that assertion or even naming any specific views. The only ef
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by timtas 12y ago
In less time than it took to write this comment you could have clicked the link and found your answer. But that would have denied you the chance to create and kill a nice straw man. It turns out, what the subjects were supposedly "deny
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by timtas 12y ago
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ - URL encoder/decoder http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ - JSON formatter http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/
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by timtas 12y ago
Shameless plug for my app. http://slotted.co Many people use it for one-on-one meetings like office hours. But you can make any kind of signup sheet you can imagine. Very geek friendly UI.

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