zeahfj

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by zeahfj 10y ago
Why do you recommend against gigster specifically? Just curious given that Andreessen funded them.
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by zeahfj 10y ago
I'm sure Nasim is talking about perception and not 'reality.' As the saying goes "perception is reality," I think you'll find that objective reality is not very important in the domain of culture.
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by zeahfj 10y ago
I think the history is important for expectation management alone. It took a world of very smart people many hundreds of years to get to where we are today and there are still many open questions. It's probably ok that you as a student
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by zeahfj 10y ago
How would it be less of a Monad than the IO Monad? That's the part I'm not getting. It would make sense to me if neither were considered monads.
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by zeahfj 10y ago
Would it be fair to say that the IO Monad get passed along implicitly with the other Monads in an eager evaluating system? Would this make it a stack? Just one that's not represented or enforced by the type system.
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by zeahfj 10y ago
The quote is one I agree with and I thought I should give its origin. I do not agree with everything Winston Churchill has said or done, and I probably disagree with him more than most (even of those on the left). But perhaps some context i
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by zeahfj 10y ago
> By the very nature of the monad laws, they cannot have side-effects, so they cannot be eager. I'm pretty sure monads can have side effects and be eager. It's just that not everything will be captured by the type signature. AF
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by zeahfj 10y ago
As long as the methods used to uphold political correctness does not use state or taxpayers subsidised institutions then it's ok. That's just normal society organization with freedom of association. If you need to use the state to
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by zeahfj 10y ago
No need for a global system in taxes to reduce wealth disparity. Just need to stop subsidising speculation. Due to agency costs (information asymmetry etc.) it's harder to make large returns on large amounts so the wealth levels off. T
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by zeahfj 10y ago
That is it's intent but ironically it increased the amount of savings required to retire so ordinary people couldn't participate in the speculation but still have to pay tax to subsidise it. It's huge wealth transfer from ord
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by zeahfj 10y ago
In order to maintain an ever increasing wealth disparity society will have to become more fascist and taxes more confiscatory. To prevent this you simply need to fight fascism in all its forms (including socialism and political correctness)
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by zeahfj 10y ago
Not market forces, see reserve bank interventions. Deflation is not disastrous for economic productivity but it is a side effect of economic productivity. Taxes on earned income vs capital is a regressive tax system on the working class and
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by zeahfj 10y ago
Firstly, savings are not currency although they are used interchangeably with the assumption that currency is safe. This is not guaranteed to hold. Secondly, with rehypothecation the same currency is counted at least 9 times (M2 money suppl
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by zeahfj 10y ago
It only destroys imagined wealth and not actual wealth (more useful stuff is created). In the current system the new wealth creation is skewed to the already wealthy, hence why the majority will see a decline in living standard and the feel
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by zeahfj 10y ago
This article is all kinds of wrong. It does not make an appreciable difference between savings, investing, and speculation. There is not a glut in savings but there is a glut in speculation. This is due to a global war on savers. Savers are
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by zeahfj 10y ago
Next thing they'll be blaming AI and robots on destroying the world economy and not the bankers.
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by zeahfj 10y ago
That sounds like the opposite of useless. You now know how long you have left based on your activity and can adjust accordingly with this new information
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by zeahfj 10y ago
Meg was before my time. I got to see the aftermath and I heard many of the stories. eBay's success was in spite of Meg Whitman. It was a money printing machine. The first employee was hired to be the full time check casher. In the earl
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by zeahfj 10y ago
Interestingly this comment was voted up a bunch and then voted down a bunch. 'fake news' can be easily detected, not by the content but by those who share it. I've built similar stuff before but obviously can't talk abou
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by zeahfj 10y ago
Typical corporate politics.
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by zeahfj 10y ago
The fake news was done badly on purpose so people would beg them for manual curation ;)
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by zeahfj 10y ago
By emphasising local and by using the other details that they know about people to filter out fraudsters. Plus the long tail is filled with interest groups. Facebook already manages many of these groups and getting kicked out of such commun
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by zeahfj 10y ago
I used to work at eBay Trust and Safety. The place is a nightmare and will not improve. The culture was destroyed by Meg Whitman and never recovered. This kind of fraud sticks out like a sore thumb in click stream. I had no trouble finding