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by umarmung 15y ago
This is a fantastic talk, thank you for the link! It covers much more than even the Lockdown article and the questions from the audience at the end are both interesting and lead to even more interesting responses.
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by umarmung 15y ago
Ordinary users only care about cost, choice and being limited - in that order. Not only are Android phones cheaper than Apple, including pricing plans, but there are a lot more Android than Windows phones. Finally, even the most casual smar
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by umarmung 15y ago
Fake IP poisoning from the tracker? Unless "YouHaveDownloaded.com" actually connected to this IP as part of that torrent, this seems highly unlikely to be real.
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by umarmung 15y ago
Informative, but strange circular arguments in that article, especially from a scientific process perspective. There are a ton of questions that Higgs cannot answer already and yet if we find Higgs precisely, research comes to a stop? It al
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by umarmung 15y ago
Yes, he's trying to wean China off molten salt reactor development, specifically reactors like the LFTR. China is basically the only market for fission reactors left. They are the only ones purchasing new external nuclear reactor technology
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by umarmung 15y ago
" China gets to be first (and Thorium reactor products cannot be easily weaponized) " You do realise that Bill Gates owns and backs an opposing technology? Hint: it is not thorium based.
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by umarmung 15y ago
The first MMO TLC (Massively Multiplayer Online Translating Language Collaboration)?
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by umarmung 15y ago
That link is worth the giggle. Thanks :) America makes all other rich nation's provincials look like Einsteins!
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by umarmung 15y ago
You are generalising and taking too much at face value. I went to Oxbridge (not going to say which) for my first uni and also interviewed at several colleges, as well as many of my friends also going to Oxford or Cambridge. 1. Neither Oxfor
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by umarmung 15y ago
Based on Leynos's well-written post, I initially thought the exact same thing. Then, I realised that Google runs Youtube, remembered all the recent changes in particular, my face turned green and I puked up a little inside... If they can me
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Effin women not allowed on Facebook (guardian.co.uk)
4 points by umarmung 15y ago|1 comments
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by umarmung 15y ago
The only thing correct in that article is that the guy is a "first-year analyst". It's as if he's only read a book or gone through some terribad training and has no idea the size, time horizons and liquidity preferences over which different
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by umarmung 15y ago
I don't think I've ever seen such a flagrant abuse of fiduciary duty before! I thought bankers were the untrustworthy ones. Now potentially your own dentist/doctor...?
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by umarmung 15y ago
Exactly. Good post. These kind of events can and routinely escalate just due to fear alone. It is also often at the expense of specific colored individuals.
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by umarmung 15y ago
Exactly. Printing is also a fiscal policy that happens to be implemented by central banks. Without a fiscal backing for unlimited asset purchases or printing money, no central bank is able to act. A central bank implements monetary policy t
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by umarmung 15y ago
Wrong. The UK and Ireland have never been part of the Schengen Area and have specific exemptions just for them in the Schengen Agreement. Also, EU Directive 2004/38/EC is not the same as Schengen and unlike Schengen is virtually unimplemen
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by umarmung 15y ago
1. A peg is not a common currency/currency union. Critically, you readily come on and off a peg. 2. Various types of gold standards have failed many times in history, including pegs to gold. The reason is almost always the same: countries w
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by umarmung 15y ago
Excellent post. 1) you can't have a currency union, without a fiscal union; - correct. 2) you can't have a fiscal union, without a true political union; - unknown, but history is on your side. 3) the euro area is a currency union with
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by umarmung 15y ago
The author completely misses the point that programming languages are every bit as much human-to-human interaction as human-to-machine, i.e. programming languages happen to be textual representations because they are "human languages"!
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by umarmung 15y ago
Damned if you and damned if you dont. All the people in this thread, including Google-related users, are trying to do is figure out what changed . That could just as easily have been at Google or HN's! It could also just as easily been a
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by umarmung 15y ago
Epic Groupon poem, especially for those who do not understand why this is price action is happening! http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2011/10/30/groupoem/ Here are the first three verses as a teaser: Gather round, dear investors, and hea
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by umarmung 15y ago
Subversion is a centralised or push model. Git is a distributed or pull model. This is at the heart of the processes one may use, certainly within a project but possibly at cross-project or organisational model.
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by umarmung 15y ago
For a glorified search engine, why does this require Javascript to return a static page set of results?
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by umarmung 15y ago
This is just an editor based on the ideas of TeX. You cannot use TeX or LaTeX directly, other than trivial insertions. It can only export to LaTeX.
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by umarmung 15y ago
Where could I download this as one huge stiched image, please?
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The hedge fund with the unluckiest name(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by umarmung 15y ago|0 comments
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by umarmung 15y ago
I remember very vividly some of my earliest extended reading experiences. One day I found a whole box of old Marvel comics that someone had lovingly collected since the 40s, including first issues of entire heroes and villains! I had no ide
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by umarmung 15y ago
He meant the opposite. But to answer your question: Liechtenstein and Luxembourg? So, for all intents and purposes, no... At least, not for anyone who is not already ridiculously rich already and therefore you could live anywhere anyway.
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by umarmung 15y ago
Key characteristics of Anglo-American capitalism , i.e. capitalism created and mainly employed by American and British companies, is built around an "unholy alliance" of three things: 1. Professional manager class. 2. Principle of "shareho
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by umarmung 15y ago
Yes, I noticed that semi-dichotomy too. It is like this Forbes author "Steve Denning" is trying to piggy-back his own ideas on Clayton Christensen's central thesis.

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