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More on The Two Flaws Of Libertarian Economics (Zed's Response to Comments)(zedshaw.com)
3 points by tl 18y ago|1 comments
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by tl 18y ago
Maybe we should add this to the growing list of blog posts on http://angry-economist.russnelson.com/ that show where Paul Krugman has been dead wrong in his area of expertise.
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by tl 18y ago
So, basically this is the same point that 1984 made (make everyone's quality of life suck to protect the inner party's welfare, even if they're not better off than an above average person pre-Ingsoc) applied to at an individual level?
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by tl 18y ago
I don't see any hoodwinking going on here. I do see a vapid piece about the same press that generally fails on fact-checking and not being a PR mouthpiece doing what they normally do.
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by tl 18y ago
Autodesk is also still doing well. The formula for Abode, Autodesk and friends is to write an application that can't easy be duplicated in a browser, that businesses will buy for employees, and then build a barrier thought file formats and
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by tl 18y ago
"Against me, you've won 28 games, lost 14 games, and tied 18 games." Is there an api that we can use to create our own rps decider to play against your site or other people?
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by tl 18y ago
Sure, but we expect doctors (who receive much greater education and compensation than most people) to get it right.
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by tl 18y ago
According to the article, the Fed wants to make trillions of dollars in loans but they won't disclose who gets what or what terms / collateral is being offered. Why haven't we thrown these jokers in federal prison yet?
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by tl 18y ago
It's probably worth pointing out that the article's title is "Data Model != Database" as in not equal to.
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by tl 18y ago
Article title: "...300X faster than naïve Ruby" OCaml comes in at 300x faster than Ruby. Python comes in at 45x times faster than Ruby. However, there's more going on here than language: * The ruby version is single threaded and the test
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by tl 18y ago
Anyone know if this includes the flight sim easter egg?
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by tl 18y ago
Ok, so some researchers made a 20 second clarinet piece fit in less than 1kb. How is this not an overly complex reinvention of MIDI?
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by tl 18y ago
I used to agree with that line of thinking, but now I see that as a self fulfilling prophecy: if you don't make an effort to communicate with others, then others won't communicate with you (unless they have to).
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by tl 18y ago
For those who don't want to read/load N pages: 1. Debian - The grand-daddy of some of the other distros here, and still going strong 2. Fedora - The community distro from Red Hat 3. OpenSUSE - Novell's completely open Linux distro 4. Mandri
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by tl 18y ago
What happens if you rip out Safari on a Mac?
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by tl 18y ago
I disagree with one of the article's points: That Yahoo! outperforms Google in Japan. Reading the (poorly labeled) graph, we have the following numbers: Yahoo! in Japan: 40-45k eyeballs Google in Japan: 20-25k eyeballs If all eyeballs are
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by tl 18y ago
I think the author is referring to programmers who produce "semi-correct" HTML, only test in 1 browser (if they test at all) and expect everything to be acceptable. As a separate example, I know our customers expect the CSV files that they
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by tl 18y ago
Schiff isn't alone in his belief that the federal reserve was a bad idea. The Fed is unpopular enough to make anti-central banking videos like "Money as Debt" popular and well received. Woodrow Wilson (who signed the Federal Reserve Act o
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by tl 19y ago
RIM is threatened by the iPhone. In spite of statistics showing the iPhone keyboard to have a much higher error rate, a significant portion of users don't seem to mind. Besides, the iPhone is the brand new "hey, I'm important" status symb
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by tl 19y ago
You need to see different parts of the country. Where I live, programming jobs are $30-40k or a 2+ hour commute. People with 6+ years of experience are taking these jobs and the entry-level guys are relocating or selling fast food.
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by tl 19y ago
Where I work, lots of our big customers want code written in "ladder logic" instead of "structured text". Yes, I'm serious.
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by tl 19y ago
According to Larry Wall: "use Lingua::Perligata; If you allow a language to mutate its own grammar within a lexical scope, how do you keep track of that cleanly? Perl 5 discovered one really bad way to do it, namely source filters, but even
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by tl 19y ago
Most text editors have some sort of parenthesis matching highlighter. I don't usually find counting () to be that difficult. I see that the greater problem is that lisp (and a lot of languages that empower functional programming ideals),
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by tl 19y ago
On the travel aspect, I wish Apple had made a "MacBook Mini" (something with a form factor closer to the Asus EEE) instead of the MacBook Air.