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by tjic 18y ago
> gold can't simply be mined fast enough to reduce its values No, but people's DESIRE for gold can change quite quickly. Gold can lose value very very fast if people decide that a given national currency is going to be inflation-free -
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by tjic 18y ago
> governance has probably heavily suffered We managed to settle a continent back when government spending was about 1% of GDP (as compared to 30% today), so government mostly breaking down wouldn't strike me as a big problem. Heck, Som
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by tjic 18y ago
> execution does matter but that's often beside the point because in many cases the execution is pretty simple anyway. This doesn't square with my experience of the world. Execution is hard, hard, hard. If it were trivial, everyone wou
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by tjic 18y ago
Related: High status human males have offspring that are disproportionately male. Low status human males have offspring that are disproportionately female.
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by tjic 18y ago
Zed writes: > Now, I know that when I drop the f-bombs and do crazy shit like disagree with people they get their panties in a bunch and call it trolling Actually, no, folks DON'T tend to take simple disagreement as trolling. However, i
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by tjic 18y ago
It's a voltage divider. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_divider Caution: I'm a CS major, not an EE, so your probably want to verify my assertion before trusting it...
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by tjic 18y ago
I've read a bunch of marketing books, and one thing I've learned is that you can do the equivalent of "push polling" with questions. When you ask "is thing X adjective Y?" you're basically saying "I think that X is Y". Personally, I find it
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by tjic 18y ago
Duplicate. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=521691
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by tjic 18y ago
How to blog like Zed Shaw: 1) say outrageous thing 2) wait 3) retract outrageous thing; criticize people / society / the world for getting all atwitter over outrageous things 4) repeat
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by tjic 18y ago
You don't need to go to a comic book store - my startup HeavyInk will sell you a graphic novel, or give you a subscription. 20% off list, 99 cent shipping. Feel free to read the reviews first. http://heavyink.com/title/355-Walking-Dead
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by tjic 18y ago
An example of "regime uncertainty" is the AIG bonus situation that's in the news today. AIG has multiple divisions. Many folks in many of these divisions (a) have contracts specifying that they get 90% of their annual compensation in a lum
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by tjic 18y ago
> The East Germans were incredibly well educated. A deep education according to Marxist principles that explain all economic growth as being the result of central planning, and all problems as being the result of competition is worse th
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by tjic 18y ago
Speaking as the owner of a small business, I wish he'd help me by cutting spending, stop talking down the economy, allowing insolvent firms to fold, etc. Micromanaging billions of "knobs" on the economy is a losing proposition and it create
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by tjic 18y ago
> In a perfect world, the stock market would decline another 70 or 80 percent "The economy" is a measure of the value being created and enjoyed. Anyone who says that they want "the economy" to decline 80% is saying that they want EVERYO
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by tjic 18y ago
> She describes a world where there's no difference between men and women. Reminding us that if you want an escape from reality, fiction is your ticket.
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by tjic 18y ago
> The Romans never explored significantly outside their Empire. I can put this another way: EVERY place that the Romans explored, they conquered.
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by tjic 18y ago
I actually do organize my plugins as raganwald suggests...and, as we've rolled out more products, and I'm seeing increasing commonality in pieces between then, am thinking more and more than 90+% of every one of our projects should be all p
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How to Get Rid Of Orbiting Space Junk for the price of one shuttle launch(online.wsj.com)
2 points by tjic 18y ago|0 comments
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by tjic 18y ago
> During Depression 1.0 everyone seemed so nice. Read about the Bonus Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_army There are a thousand other reasons that the Depression was not, remotely, "nice". > Does anyone have some MacGyver
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by tjic 18y ago
It's fascinating science, but the one thing that it proves to me is that MIT has absolutely solved the science of the press release. They do a far better job than most other engineering schools that I know of at hammering the message (for
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by tjic 18y ago
This entire story smells fishy. And by that, I mostly mean that the poster sounds very immature and conflicted about what it is he wants, and unclear on how the world works.
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by tjic 18y ago
If a pawn shop in my neighborhood carried 80% legally sold items, and 20% stolen items, there'd be zero doubt that the owner was intentionally acting as a fence, and was helping create the demand that was causing local burglaries. 20% stole
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by tjic 18y ago
Moore's law was ALWAYS about the number of transistors. Speed was a side effect. The original formulation was that the transistor count on an IC doubles every year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#History
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by tjic 18y ago
This is important, but more shocking is the fact that we've lost almost 20% of the DJIA since the first of the year. Without getting too partisan, I think that the theory that "we spent too much money on crap and got into this mess; let's r
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by tjic 18y ago
You're basically asking "What's the net present value of the user?". Let's say that the average user clicks 1 ad per day, and you get 5 cents per click, then each user is worth 5 cents per day. 5 cents * 365 = $18.25 in revenue per custom
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NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered passenger ship, built in the late 1950s(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by tjic 18y ago|0 comments
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by tjic 18y ago
No. If there was some way that was EASY to earn $30k, everyone would be doing it. Just like if there was some way that was EASY to lose 30 lbs, everyone would be doing it. In fact, there are drop-dead simple ways to earn $30k and to lose 30
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by tjic 18y ago
Economics blogger Megan McArdle over at the Atlantic made the point a while back that politicians love recessions - their power grows, while that of the folks in the free market (their rivals) shrink. Of course things in the metro DC area
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by tjic 18y ago
These stunts by immature children are not making me any more sympathetic to the Pirate Bay folks.
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by tjic 18y ago
If you're looking at $2k/month for a mortgage vs. $2k/month for an apartment, then the tax savings (at a hypothetical 33% tax rate) are MAYBE $8k per year. This is one half of a percent of his net worth. ...which is to say, absolutely triv

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