wintersFright

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by wintersFright 13y ago
Is it deflationary because of the 21 million limit? That limit won't hit until 2140. Or is it deflationary because the projected velocity will go up faster than the mining output?
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by wintersFright 13y ago
This is worth a watch http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_suarez_the_kill_decision_sho...
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Aren't go just publishing the otp and not the message? Or did I miss something?
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Europe has repeatedly stated cyprus is a template for future bailouts.
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Actually, foreign Central Banks don't even need to dump treasuries to require QE Infinity - they can just reduce or stop absorbing the continual outflow of debt emitted by the USG. The USG has a trillion dollar+ yearly budget deficit.
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Buffet is just a shill for the USG in the confidence game of US treasuries. Sure the fed is under no pressure to sell, the pressure is really on the fed to not stop buying. QE infinity is all about hiding the fact foreigners are exiting tre
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by wintersFright 13y ago
I'm surprised he is so open about the weed. Especially since his daughter will read that. I thought the USA was all gung ho on the war on drugs?
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Central Banks sit on bonds because holding USD in their reserve banks does not earn interest.
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Congress doesn't print money. The Fed does. Congress can spend money that it doesn't have by getting the treasury to sell bonds. Foreign CBs are not mopping up all those bonds which is why the Fed is buying them up with QE. What i
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by wintersFright 13y ago
normal people, no. USG yes.
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by wintersFright 13y ago
So your position is, if Bernanke made it rain 100 trillion dollars and 250 million people charged each other $(100 trillion/250 million) for the massage, then money is not devalued? Yes the example is contrived but it illustrates you a
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Why does money printing cause more unemployment? I don't see the link? EDIT: I guess a good debt destroying hyperinflation would root out all the FIRE jobs and cause unemployment there. A high inflation would funnel more wages into deb
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by wintersFright 13y ago
So if bernanke rained money from his helicopter but everyone sold their neighbour a massage that night then the money is not devalued because it was absorbed?
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by wintersFright 13y ago
some snippets I found in the T&C's linked from Windows 8.1 RTM (even the the document still says preview) http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/windows-8-1-pri... Windows Search also sends an ident
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Not big data in a personally identifiable sense - but big data in aggregated advertising market data: At install, all options on this screen were defaulted to on http://imgur.com/RP4UNhG Note the "Let apps use my Adv
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by wintersFright 13y ago
oh i see what you are saying - you create account at the spot where they are asking you to logon. I never clicked that as I have several accounts. Still it is very hostile UI as is pointed out. I'm not making up fud and if you look at
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by wintersFright 13y ago
True. I did it twice on two different installs in the last few days for 8.1 Pro RTM - upgrading from 8.0 which had local account. Both times I looked very hard to create a local account. Here is a blog describing how to get around it for pr
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by wintersFright 13y ago
They really do seem to have jumped the shark and it makes me wonder whether I'll still be using Windows at home and coding in the Windows stack in a few years.
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by wintersFright 13y ago
8.1 also heavily pushes logging on with a Microsoft Account. 8.0 had a small print option to use a local account but that is gone now and you have to submit a bad email/password combo 3 times before it gives in and lets you setup a loc
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Don't tell your wife this :)
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Did you see this recent news? http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-ns... It isn't just one slide pack. Glen greenwald et all were given 50000 documents
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by wintersFright 13y ago
I haven't checked Dropbox t&c's but I wonder whether backups come under its 'suitable for' uses. Ie: do they consider it a highly reliable form of storage. Personally I wouldn't trust any cloud storage with hund
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by wintersFright 13y ago
A good reminder to have offsite backups
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How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data(m.spiegel.de)
2 points by wintersFright 13y ago|0 comments
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by wintersFright 13y ago
DAC=Digital Analog Converter. You are using a DAC in your computer (onboard sound card probably) when you connect from the PC to your speakers but it will be a very cheap DAC and the reproduction of the analogue signal won't be as accu
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by wintersFright 13y ago
surprising to see you read zerohedge AND have faith in the dollar's status as world reserve ;)
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by wintersFright 13y ago
For a scary conclusion to the use of social graphs and drones, see this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_suarez_the_kill_decision_sho...
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by wintersFright 13y ago
in ground gold reserves are reasonably well known and factored in. There is a finite amount of gold in the crust. There is no limit to the amount of digits one can add to the banks balance sheet. dollarizing won't be possible for the
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by wintersFright 13y ago
Here is a crazy theory: Say you have a really big oil field. Really really big. Unimaginally huge wealth flows in every day because the world wants, nay needs this modern lifeblood. How do you store that wealth. Do you stack IOU's f
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by wintersFright 13y ago
A lot of governments intervene in their currency to target an exchange rate (eg: Swiss). I don't see a lot of people flocking to frontrun them. It's volatile and risky. Sure traders do it, but not 'people' as in 'th

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