IdontRememberIt

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by IdontRememberIt 4y ago
"John Ganz is a Stalinist, Marxist, Leninist, Trotskyist and Pol Potist. There’s really no better word for what he is. For some reason, people have a lot of trouble grasping this or just coming out and saying it." "Where does
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by IdontRememberIt 4y ago
The day Google will fix its killing product policy, I may invest time and money on them.
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by IdontRememberIt 4y ago
> So, I do think it is good for wages to go up [...] It can be. But too much it auto-fuels the inflation which is the feared scenario: inflation a-la-seventies.
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by IdontRememberIt 4y ago
Have you read the minutes of the FOMC? Because I did and it made me a little pessimistic. "We can't allow a wage price spiral to happen." So if you have counter arguments, it would really brighten my day and allow me to see t
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by IdontRememberIt 4y ago
Jerome Powell announced an important factor for you during the last FOMC meeting: "We can't allow a wage price spiral to happen." This means that the FED will certainly increase the unemployment rate and put pressure on compa
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by IdontRememberIt 4y ago
People are applauding that Western countries send these weapons but will cry when terrorists will buy them on the black market... "God laughs at men who complain of the consequences while cherishing the causes." (Bossuet)
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
Not for everybody... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Business...
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
I can only see a list of suffering people without expected outcome: North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, URSS, Cuba, etc. (Genuine question to History geeks) Do we have an exemple of mass sanctions on a country that worked? Why are we repeating st
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
Why not punishing only the government: cancel all visas to the people working in the gov and especially their family. So no more rich gov kids in Western universities, etc. I find a little unfair to punish people to push them in the streets
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
On the contrary. If you cannot trust the people being informed properly in an efficient political system, it means that you have an issue somewhere. Not trusting the people because we think that most are too dumb means that we praise a cens
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
(Swiss speaking) What is important is that the vote/referendum process must be slow. Very slow. We often see a trendy referendum being launched because of an event. Years later when we finally have to vote about it, we realize that it
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
Soft plastics on my nikon are an issue. I have noticed that they tend to deteriorate quickly on beach holidays. I suspect it is a combination of Sun, residues of solar cream on the hands and the salt in the air.
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
Now it is only politics because they are afraid of the Olympics exposure and to appear weak on TVs worldwide because they are not controlling covid. Let's wait the end of the Beijing Olympic Games. I bet they will change their covid st
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
Actually, it is not the VIP package. Disney replaced the free fastpass by a paying "Lightning Lane" pass: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/genie/lightning-lane/ The prices are adapting dynamically t
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
In France, during the whole year 2020, people were told that the hospital infrastructure was overloaded because of COVID. Actually, the final report shows that COVID patients represented 2% (!!!) of the total hospitalized... And only 5% (!?
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
With mysql 5.7, range searches on indexes (BETWEEN() or equivalent) are notoriously slow with large datasets. We discovered that spacial index (flatten to 1 dimension) can be used to solve a common issue: ip range queries. The query costs d
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
My neighbor is Turkish (very good job). We often speak about inflation (because he recently came here and discovered almost zero inflation). Sometimes he gives me examples of the consequences of high inflation in the little details of daily
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
I live in an area were most of the houses (+2 flats) use pellet (also in summer for hot water production). The air quality drastically dropped. It really "burns" the lungs some days. I suspect that: - combustion is not properly do
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
Adding tags/topics has been a constant requested workaround to allow some filtering since almost the begining of HN. Never understood the rejection. PS: I have always read that it opens mind to other subjects. When I have enough time I
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
For several month we have been facing continuous phishing attacks. The attackers are using cloudflare + Russian registrars + Russian hosting. Can you guess who never cut the service (but other two react very quickly)?
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
20 years ago, my IT friends and I were all enviously looking at California as a model to replicate. TC and Michael Arrington made us understand daily the opportunities we were missing. Today, I honestly feel sad to see the decrepitude of th
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
1) population in USA: 1918 103m vs 2020 331m 2) Spanish flu death distribution by age was totally different (mainly "young" people were dying) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/ S
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
And compare with France which had one the strictest locked down policy, hard restrictions, covid pass, etc. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... They have the same numbers... Fun fact: Norway
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
This is mainly due to internal reasons (Election day is in a few months). Macron wants to appear Jupiterian again. He changed its communication strategy since this summer. Last couple of months he even "replaced" his (Prime) Minis
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
This is actually what Switzerland or Singapore do. Can the downvoters elaborate to enlight me why it is wrong? Thanks.
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
Would NFT make sense in trading of physical goods (wheat, cotton, oil, etc.) when there is a certification company (SGS, Bureau Veritas, etc)? NFTs (PDFs) could validate that the goods match the requirements? Or could NFTs be used in the la
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
The "fathers" of Dubai, Singapore, etc are highly respected and loved by the locals. Of course there are counter-exemples.
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
A better bet, would be to have a strong government building and planning efficient infrastructure (transportation, utilities, ecology, etc) so that private initiatives make economical and competitive sense.
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by IdontRememberIt 5y ago
These are not private initiatives. They were the will of powerful, bright and respected people.

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