kyrsey

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   by kyrsey 15y ago

   What happens when this "best resume" becomes "best practice" and people really take it seriously that this is "How to woo a startup"? Do companies really want to sift through video slideshows for, say, engineering jobs?
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   by kyrsey 15y ago

   The value of anything can be propped up by speculation, what varies is the value which can be maintained without speculation (e.g., in cases where the bubble bursts). I think this is the use of discriminating among (A) resources reasonably
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   by kyrsey 15y ago

   Glass also has decorative value. There's no easily imaginable risk of everyone suddenly deciding that it has NO decorative value. So what? That's not the relevant risk. The relevant risk is that whatever you are using as a currency will DEC
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   by kyrsey 15y ago

   What makes gold "real" value and other exchangeable items not "real" value? You had better stick to talking about exchange value, because once you get into nebulous discussion of "real" value it becomes immediately relevant that gold is non
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   by kyrsey 15y ago

   No one proposes to use sheets of paper as a currency, let alone as an investment. Treasury bonds have exchange value, not because they are paper, but because people will accept them, for the right they reliably represent; because the govern
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   by kyrsey 15y ago

   McDonald's won't take my gold flakes, and anyway I don't think a 3-year-old big mac will be edible...