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by wtn 16y ago
You think the government is trying to depress demand and cut spending? The Federal Reserve intervention in the MBS / Treasury bond markets is intended to increase demand, and gov spending is rather high in historical context.
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by wtn 16y ago
If he claims having had the intent to return, the act of disassembling the phone will not have helped them.
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by wtn 16y ago
You can call air travel lots of things, but it's not exorbitantly expensive. NY to LA is $325 by train. It's 175 to 350 flying on Virgin America.
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by wtn 16y ago
Yep just like he defends his investment in Moody's Investors Service.
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by wtn 16y ago
Your legal document has an error. You cannot arbitrarily decide to pay your members (LLC partners) as 1099 contractors. You must follow IRS rules. From reading the rest of the description of your plan, IRS rules will be contrary to your 109
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by wtn 16y ago
They may technically have "balanced budgets" but many large states have huge off-balance-sheet liabilities (as does the US Treasury).
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by wtn 16y ago
Very true. Reminds me of this email I got recently from my brokerage: While the Fed is lending money at almost zero interest rates, why not take advantage of it through <brokerage name>? <Your broker> will lend up to $566,00
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by wtn 16y ago
You may see this as a "normal" transition period but that doesn't mean EMU will survive intact. Sovereign debt crises (plural) and bank solvency are huge problems for several EMU states. If one EMU state defaults on sovereign debt, there wi
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by wtn 16y ago
I don't think that proves maliciousness. There's no reason to believe M. intended to crash the web server.
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by wtn 16y ago
That's how you rack up overtime.
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by wtn 16y ago
Yes, the video wasn't working when I tried to view it earlier.
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by wtn 16y ago
AT&T, Google, and Facebook know 100X more about me than Apple.
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by wtn 17y ago
No, that's not how it works. In Mexico the cartels are more resilient than the state.
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by wtn 17y ago
That's one reason to favor BSD over the ill-advised GNU/Linux info page movement. The BSDs take man pages quite seriously.
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by wtn 17y ago
It won't be beneficial for Mexico. If the US decriminalizes, the cartels will lose revenue streams and will commit more kidnappings to maintain their livelihood. The state will descend further into chaos.
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by wtn 17y ago
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1212051
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by wtn 17y ago
That would be Google.
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by wtn 17y ago
In the investment domain, cash is shorthand for T-bills, money markets accounts, insured bank deposits. I wasn't referring to actual banknotes. If the banking system fails entirely, banknotes will be equally worthless as accounts.
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by wtn 17y ago
In your deflationary scenario, you'd be better off holding the cash, because there are costs for storage. Your cash would appreciate as much as the price of the goods.
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by wtn 17y ago
In my grandparent's youth, you could invest in "simple things" but nowadays, with the 12mo T-bill yielding 0.42% and an inflation rate of 2.3%, your cash strategy won't get you very far.
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by wtn 17y ago
At the time of writing, the market in question--jai alai--was so small that one could not bet it professionally. The action and the number of sites where it was played dried up.
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by wtn 17y ago
I found this book at the local public library back in 2008. Skiena writes about how he became a profitable jai alai bettor with some historical data. It's an interesting book if you don't know much about gambling or modeling.
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by wtn 17y ago
The other problem is that dumping millions of teenagers into the workforce would decrease wages for older people.
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by wtn 17y ago
Same thing could happen with human language legal copy.
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by wtn 17y ago
Customs is part of DHS.
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by wtn 17y ago
He pretty much lost me with his "the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity" and the "to be without carriage to low Earth orbit ... destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature" lines. I
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by wtn 17y ago
I would tell you to read the manual, but they didn't post release notes on the rails blog this time! Anyhow, Ruby 1.9.2 is recommended.
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by wtn 17y ago
Why do you think it's unfortunate? Won't that mean less competition for anyone who can reliably pass Apple's scheme-to-C "Turing test"?
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by wtn 17y ago
Maybe you should join the SF Ruby meetup.com mailing list. Half the email traffic comes from recruiters posting and developers ridiculing them.
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by wtn 17y ago
I made contributions to presidential candidates in the last two races. I could find neither in their database.

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