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by hedonistbot 7y ago
The "tons of fashion and crap" that you correctly identify as the elephant in the room is also the main source of employment and income for the majority of the population. The reason we are not doing anything about climate change
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by hedonistbot 8y ago
How about betting on Greece winning the Euro?
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by hedonistbot 8y ago
> Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing. > They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
None of this would have come to light if the "right" person had won the elections. The moment Trump won, the campaign against social media began, first with the "Fake news" meme, then "Russian hacking", YouTube
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
This video can be called "Microsoft the Good Parts". Also WPF gets only one mention and the future is Azure? So is WPF heading the way of Silverlight? On a side note, I wasn't aware that the agreement with the US government w
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
> institutions lend .. on many multiples of what they actually have in deposits. That is not true at all. You are probably thinking of the minimum capital requirements (banks leverage) which measures all lending (bank assets) against th
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
I can't recall the hn thread (there have been tons of crypto currency threads recently), but the comment was referencing this reddit discussion where a bitfinex representative made the same conjecture: https://archive.fo&#x2
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
They should already own a ton of bitcoin and someone speculated in a previous thread that their reserves are actually in bitcoin, which would make a lot of sense. The problem here is that every time someone redeems their tether for real dol
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
Bitfinex and some other exchanges list their crypto prices in USDT and most people trading on their platform probably don't realise this is not dollars. So there's your guaranteed demand. As long as those buyers HODL there is no p
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
How about this theory: I can print USDT (by fiat) and buy BTC with it. Now I have a large amount of BTC and propped up price. Then CME starts trading BTC futures against real USD, coincidentally the trading starts at the very top of BTC pri
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
Bulgaria is a NATO member and hosts 4 joint military facilities with NATO forces ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%E2%80%93American_Joi... ). The NATO pact treats a military attack on one of its members as an att
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
Well, I am uninstalling and switching to Iridium right now and it's not JUST because of this Mr Robot thing. I wasn't happy with the direction of Firefox for a while but waited for Quantum to see if things would change. The techno
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
Just came to say that Tom Friedman is a hack and this op-ed reads like a paid commercial. To call a top-down authoritarian power grab "Arab Spring" is mind boggling.
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
> but none of us gets a free pass from morality, not even in business What? That's news to me. What about the entire defence industry? What about all the politicians that take a cushy job in the companies they helped during their ti
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
You don't need a "next", the definition is broad enough to include anything a government would like to prosecute right now.
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
I've tried most of the advices mentioned except (serious) meditation and melatonin. Exercise has the opposite effect for me - it pumps me up and makes falling asleep even more difficult, and since I exercise 3-4 days per week after wor
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
My biggest problem with sleep is the fixed working schedule I have to follow. The 9-to-5 is killing me. It's not that there isn't enough time to sleep, it's that I cannot convince my body to go to sleep if it doesn't fe
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
> the men who tend to advance politically and in their careers are usually the ones with the best social skills. They're the ones who are the best at making advantageous alliances and forming strong relationships with those outside
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
62% more days of sick leave is an acceptable trade off for most employers. If the alternative is a separate office for everyone, the rent expenses will be more than the paid leave loss. And the only thing upper management cares about is the
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
Just noticed the Terry Davis cameo in the comments with one of his random generated god quotes - http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23#terry-a-davis-1274100060 This article got even better.
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
My problem with "getting more productive" is that the gains nowadays are achieved through automation (capital investment in general) which pretty much guarantees that the gains from the increased productivity are captured by the c
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
Then how is it possible for the rest of the developed countries with heavier government role in healthcare to provide better care that costs less?
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
What are you talking about. Health is the definition of inelastic demand. Then add the almost missing negotiating powers of a single consumer vs an insurance giant and you have a very efficient system for those on the supply side of the equ
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
Please stop shifting the blame to outside forces. Losing to the most incompetent candidate ever despite the full support of the traditional media, Hollywood and the political establishment on both sides shows how bad Hillary's campaign
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
That could be against WTO (or some other trade organization) rules and could lead to sanctions. WTO has been one of the main tools to project US interest across the world. Basically saying, "You want access to the world market? You wil
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
That's economics for you. That's why I switched fields some time ago. It is a "science" that consistently gives flawed predictions and it's is often used to provide cover for political ideologies.
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
There was some noise about bringing about a world reserve currency in the years after 2008 but not much came of it. There was a big increase of the SDR allotments to handle the bailouts that were expected immediately after the crisis. And C
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
If you are referring to Bretton-Woods Conference, it is not obscure at all. It is probably the most important monetary event in modern history and probably everyone with economics background knows about it. Also it was during WWII. But you
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by hedonistbot 9y ago
So your point is that indeed everything is subject to market forces and hence we cannot control the minimum wage. Or that market forces are not all encompassing and we should legislate the areas where they lead to unacceptable equilibria? I
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by hedonistbot 10y ago
> from Czech robotnik "forced worker," from robota "forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery,"... I am not sure if this is correct. In Bulgarian we have almost the same word работник (rabotnik) and it just means &qu

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