pocoloco

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by pocoloco 5y ago
> But the problem for El Salvador is not the technology of monetary systems I do believe that the monetary system IS the problem since El Salvador is dollarized and is subject to a foreign central bank antics while having no say in the m
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by pocoloco 5y ago
I'm afraid that if I try to retort to each point we may end up talking past each other. But I will say this, I think that your assumption in point 1 is wrong. I think that the mismanagement of the financial system worldwide has proven
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by pocoloco 5y ago
> El Salvador receives millions of dollars in aid from the US. This has been true for decades. Not anymore. A couple of weeks back the US gov said that it would stop all USAID funding and give it instead to ONGs in El Salvador which are
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by pocoloco 5y ago
Yes, and this is exactly what Jeff Booth explains in this podcast way better that I ever could: How Inflation Is Stealing Your Wealth | Jeff Booth | Pomp Podcast #572 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCqFjU9Wi4
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by pocoloco 5y ago
As a Salvadoran living abroad but keeping an eye on politics there, I feel the need to comment given the amount of skepticism shown here, which is understandable given the history. I believe that what the president, Nayib Bukele, and his te
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by pocoloco 6y ago
> * Order military lockdowns in cities Using the military was normalized be previous governments from the left and the right. Nothing new in using them for security purposes. And lockdowns are being performed worldwide, so from a local p
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by pocoloco 9y ago
Regarding you feeling that this is engineered, the following could be a reason why if valid: The dual economy didn’t happen overnight, says Temin. The story started just a couple of years after the ’67 Summer of Love. Around 1970, the prod
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by pocoloco 9y ago
"The most ominous danger we face does not come from the eradication of free speech through the obliteration of net neutrality or through Google algorithms that steer people away from dissident, left-wing, progressive or anti-war sites
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by pocoloco 9y ago
MarketWatch has an infographic that shows the relative sizes. It's originally from 2015 but it has as been updated for 2017. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-much-money-exi...
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by pocoloco 9y ago
... the survey respondents didn’t necessarily perceive every non-euphoric event as negative. In fact [the study authors] deliberately avoided the word “adverse” in their study for this reason. Instead, they chose “challenging,” which bet
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by pocoloco 9y ago
The view expressed in the article is not surprising when reading two other articles (see below) that appeared not long ago here in HN, one of which was flagged (I tend to suspect that these theses hit a little too close to home for some and
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by pocoloco 12y ago
David Graeber from the Guardian writes that: When banks make loans, they create money. This is because money is really just an IOU. And that the paper: ... co-authored by three economists from the Bank's Monetary Analysis Directorate
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by pocoloco 15y ago
The guys at The Automatic Earth[1] explain that after the multi-decade credit run up enabled by cheap oil would come when peak oil is reached. Once there the financial system is not able to sustain itself without cheap credit it will collap
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by pocoloco 15y ago
Bloomberg's Businessweek had an article (link below) not long ago about Sony that mentions this issue. Here is a quote: In his biography of Jobs, Walter Isaacson writes that Sony had “all of the assets,” including a record company, to crea
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by pocoloco 15y ago
And there are not only environmental effects but social too. IEEE Spectrum has an article this month regarding this. Is a good read. Cracking Down on Conflict Minerals http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/cracking-d...
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by pocoloco 16y ago
The dollar demise seems to be in vogue nowadays thanks in no small part to QE I and II. I guess it makes for good headlines, especially when gold is over $1430. To those of you that may be interested in financial commentaries outside of mai
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by pocoloco 16y ago
An option is to get an account for O’Reilly’s Safari. I personally am an ACM member (USD$99) for historical reasons, and they provide access to a limited subset of books from Safari. I have opted for also getting the premium library (USD$41
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by pocoloco 16y ago
I did suspect that an experienced web developer will feel some heaviness when using a framework such as Grails. I'm simply too new at this to have an idea of all the little issues that arise when using the JVM. Thanks for the link.
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by pocoloco 16y ago
Sorry for taking this long to reply. Lots of errands to do. An embedded programmer is a catch-all adjective I think. One could be working on very low level programming of microcontrollers (e.g., PIC32, MSP430) and FPGAs [11]. On the other e
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by pocoloco 16y ago
I'm glad that you like the info. I see that you're working on very low level stuff. Can you go even lower and deal with sensors, resistors, capacitors, opamps, and the like? These days there is a reference design in white papers somewhere s
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by pocoloco 16y ago
The linux drivers idea is good particularly if you want to learn about communication with embedded system. But there are other approaches too. You'll need to ask yourself how low-level do you want to go. For example: Do you want to work on
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by pocoloco 16y ago
I'm currently working on a set of SOAP web services using tomcat, cxf, mysql, and hibernate among others. I decided to do a switch from embedded to web development about a year and a half ago after being laid off. My paycheck is smaller but
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by pocoloco 16y ago
Yes, the forums' website is down. Here is the google cache [2]. The link [1] entitled "NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M on Lenovo Thinkpad T510: NVIDIA Backlight Control Causes Buzz" is the first result in the search for "t510 backlight" [3]. The is
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by pocoloco 16y ago
When I got mine, I had an option for "Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN". That's what I selected and it works flawlessly. I don't know about the others.
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by pocoloco 16y ago
Same here. I got mine about two months ago. I also installed 10.04. I love the trackpoint (the red pointing stick in the middle of the keyboard) and the mouse buttons just below the space bar (don't have to leave the keyboard to use the mou
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by pocoloco 16y ago
This comment is out of topic but related. When I saw this I thought about a video where the speaker talks about how our future could move/is moving towards a reality where human action is rewarded with points as in a game. I think that he m
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by pocoloco 16y ago
While front running may be illegal it seems that is possible to do front running if you’re properly placed in the stock exchanges. Max Keiser and Hellen Brown discuss this in the video [1] regarding how this can be done by “specialist brok