corentin

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by corentin 18y ago
And what's the connotation with "taxpayer money"?
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by corentin 18y ago
> austrian economics has probably become too dogmatic for some Milton Friedman once said "there is no Austrian economics - only good economics, and bad economics". The question is not whether the theories of the austrian school are too
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by corentin 18y ago
> So if people decide to spend less on investment goods, doesn't that mean that they must be deciding to spend more on consumption goods—implying that an investment slump should always be accompanied by a corresponding consumption boom?
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by corentin 18y ago
Yeah, that's the good thing about stable APIs and ABIs. But why bother?
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by corentin 18y ago
Except he hasn't. Under the gold standard, there is a feedback loop allowing the market to control inflation (that is, people can invest more or less in mining technologies/companies). To some extent, this feedback loop also exists in a cen
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by corentin 18y ago
Nearly all the professional applications (engineering, finance, accounting, etc.) only run on Windows (or Mac OS X for the design stuff).
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by corentin 18y ago
Like most of us, I discovered programming using proprietary software (namely MS-DOS and QBASIC), and if an intolerant idiot tried to prevent me from using those tools, he would have been hit by a (then) heavy keyboard. (by the way, the case
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by corentin 18y ago
That's not what I'm talking about. Stallman declared he'd rather see computer clubs closed than using Windows. He wants to convert (I'm quoting the article) the "important resource" (read: people 'unspoiled' by Windows) to free software (
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by corentin 18y ago
He certainly is serious. But as long as his ridiculous totalitarian/communist ideas only apply to software, he's mostly harmless.
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by corentin 18y ago
I assume such a hypothetical company would become a huge Fortune 500 company selling their database technology at a very high price!
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by corentin 18y ago
Usually it's the size of a business card.
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by corentin 18y ago
There's no such thing as "public" money; it always comes from private pockets and ends up in (different) private pockets. I can't see what's pejorative about taxpayer money. That's whom it comes from.
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by corentin 18y ago
So, if (let's say) you raise a group of boys isolated from the rest of the world until they are 15 and then, all of a sudden, tell them: "oh, by the way, there's this thing called 'girls', have a look, you'll probably like it", you've creat
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by corentin 18y ago
Don't worry, they won't eat more than what is produced.
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by corentin 18y ago
Malinvestment also applies to labor. Workers need to retrain before they can start new productive jobs, and they need capital as well (not easy, since the US are borrowing instead of saving).
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by corentin 18y ago
Companies doing risky stuff shouldn't be too surprised when they suddenly run out of good luck. On the other hand, if I were running a company and I knew that my buddies in Washington would end up bailing me out with other people's money be
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by corentin 18y ago
The system doesn't self-correct everywhere at the same time (unless there is a central bank point of failure, if you see where I'm going...), so if your company is bankrupt you can find a job elsewhere. Mind you, people who were careful wit
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by corentin 18y ago
Well, then just how much did regulation helped prevent this whole fiasco?
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by corentin 18y ago
Do you know what your neighbours want? What they like and dislike, what they want for their children, and so on? Now, do you think a genius would know? And if he knew, would he know better than them? You can "run the economy" (that is, rule
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by corentin 18y ago
MP3?
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by corentin 18y ago
In essence, they're telling their employees they're too stubborn or stupid to follow guidelines and use their judgment when it comes to responding to email.
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by corentin 18y ago
I think you may be confusing two things here. The federal debt indeed is backed by the taxing power of the US government. That is, if you lend it 100 dollars today, you can have some confidence that you will get them back plus interests in
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by corentin 18y ago
What I love is living in a very comfortable house in front of the sea, with nobody else around me for miles. What I love is sitting in a hot bath and reading a book. What I love is travelling and being entertained. So far, nobody has offere
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by corentin 18y ago
Well, the successful person is the one who reaches the goals he sets for himself. If your goal is to become rich no matter what, you can become very successful as a drug baron. It looks like you're confusing successful and respectable.
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by corentin 18y ago
To start with, in France, you'd have to remove price control on books...
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by corentin 18y ago
French politicians are as self-serving and corrupt as everywhere else, except they really believe they're helping the people with their braindead policies, so they actually do even more damage. Most french people still want to believe in co
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by corentin 18y ago
> "Because French schools are good across the country" There is a huge protest of the teacher's trade unions right now in France (as usual...) because the government wants to test the abilities of children when they leave primary school
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by corentin 18y ago
You're right about the magazine but you're dead, dead wrong about the pastry. Come on... edit: I don't know if you're talking about the real french pastry you can buy in any village in France or what passes for french pastry anywhere else i
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by corentin 18y ago
Well, I think it's more than necessary to explain what "Alternatives Economiques" is, because most people here probably have never heard about it. Indeed, it's a very well respected journal in France, written by scholars in a very scholarly
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by corentin 18y ago
> Unless you happen to live in les banlieues. Actually, the banlieues (suburbs) are the most subsidized areas of the country. The infrastructure there (schools, libraries, sport clubs, etc.) has a mysterious tendency to spontaneously co

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