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by va_coder 17y ago
Yes but that 900M is deposited into another bank, who then loans out 90% and eventually the system loans out 9B. And the system is dominated by a few banks.
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by va_coder 17y ago
This article does an excellent job of describing the moral hazard that Robert Rubin helped create and profit from. 1)Robert Rubin as Treasury Secretary was a key player in repealing Glass-Steagal, a damn good law that prevented a single ban
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by va_coder 17y ago
Your criticism is weak. The article says Geithner was an Under Secretary of The Treasury under Rubin, which he was.
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by va_coder 17y ago
IBM and Oracle make a lot of money providing services around products that are <i>mostly</i> open source.
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by va_coder 17y ago
I try to use other search engines out of fear that Google will get too powerful. Unfortunately, when I need a deep dig search Google is often best.
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by va_coder 17y ago
Thank you for the link!
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by va_coder 17y ago
We need a privacy contract similar to Richard Stallman's GNU General Public License. Something standard that both parties can quickly understand and agree to. Idea: A new competing search engine could release a General Privacy Agreement al
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by va_coder 17y ago
The user refractedthought at reddit had the best explanation IMO: Ok, I think the real losers in this discussion are the ones who fail to see both sides of the issue. We can cherry pick "refrence" definitions if we want, but really the nuts
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NoSQL No Niche(blog.basho.com)
3 points by va_coder 17y ago|0 comments
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by va_coder 17y ago
The average index fund will be the average actively manged fund.
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JRuby and Clojure STM(spin.atomicobject.com)
2 points by va_coder 17y ago|0 comments
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by va_coder 17y ago
I recommend Fusion charts free (and opensource) (it's flash though)
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by va_coder 17y ago
Do I think the guy on that podium who gave the speech may not know about robots.txt? Yes
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by va_coder 17y ago
Message to pointy-haired executive: Google robots.txt Ironically, not only does the foxnews.com/robots.txt not block search engines, it has sitemaps for helping them.
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by va_coder 17y ago
You have a single payer system in Taiwan. The other day, in the US, I had a physical therapist run a routine check of my daughter. I had to sign 4 times and there was a total of 28 pages of documents. (Georgetown Hospital). And I had to
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by va_coder 17y ago
I have a friend who is a hospital administrator. She recently complained about an awful Oracle system that tries to do everything and fails. As I think about my friend with the Oracle system I wonder if the problem is technology or the com
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Mutual Exclusion with Locks - an Introduction(thinkingparallel.com)
1 points by va_coder 17y ago|0 comments
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Rooftop Solar Generation: Ready for Prime Time? (seekingalpha.com)
1 points by va_coder 17y ago|0 comments
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Distributed concurrent applications in Clojure(groups.google.com)
19 points by va_coder 17y ago|0 comments
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US Senators Give Ellison a Hand(java.dzone.com)
1 points by va_coder 17y ago|0 comments
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by va_coder 17y ago
The problem with the editor is that it gave people the impression that Heroku was a toy, which is what I thought when I tried it. I retried it 2 months ago and saw it is definitely not a toy. I think it rocks. I love that recent article w
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by va_coder 17y ago
FYI The GemStone Virtual Machine and associated binary files and libraries written by GemStone Systems, Inc. are governed by: GemStone-Web-License.txt
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by va_coder 17y ago
Where's the source code? Is Maglev open source? I can't recall the last time I downloaded something in alpha or beta that wasn't open source.
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by va_coder 17y ago
A killer tool/jar/utility developed in Clojure would help me better understand it's power.
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by va_coder 17y ago
I hope they all get more stable and prosper
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by va_coder 17y ago
I think Rackspace is hitting a sweet spot with hosted email and calendaring and 24x7 service. I think there are many niches, yet untapped in hosted services, where the cost may be a little more than google, but the service may be a lot bett
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by va_coder 17y ago
Cash4Gold? Many of them seem to have focus.
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Simple CouchDB multi-master clustering via Nginx(ephemera.karmi.cz)
39 points by va_coder 17y ago|8 comments
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by va_coder 17y ago
It's not so black and white. The world needs investors. IMO the real problem is with the the Federal Reserve and how it uses taxpayer money to support Wall Street when problems arise. I say let failed companies fail and end the fed.
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by va_coder 17y ago
Is CouchDB really that slow?

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