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by wrong_variable 7y ago
SoftBank is playing a game that is way above any hedge fund's pay grade, let alone some blogger. - If SoftBank goes down, every coder loses his/her rice bowl. The pain inflicted on Son, Tim Cook and MBS is minimal, compared to you
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> JP Morgan and Goldman were completely solvent Not really, both JPMC and GS had large insurance contracts with AIG. If AIG fell it would have quickly led to both JPMC and GS collapse too. Its called systematic risk for a reason.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Thanks for that explanation, I have been so confused with the term "shadow banking" - it makes perfect sense now.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Yes, the global poor living in high humid areas have always done that. So have Elephants and Hippos.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Traditional media is extremely salty over their lose of control in "opinion making" and creating consensus. Dont get me wrong, FB is not much better, but at least it's much more open and direct then traditional media. Russia
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Do you really need to buy a Ford car in 2019 ? I mean if nobody has any jobs, why would anybody buy a Ford car ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> Emigrating to California was comparatively a mild culture shock. Turns out I had more in common with muslim Pakistani software engineers than farm boys from half an hour outside my home town. Are you are Muslim ? If I dropped you in th
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Agreed, but having been to America - I think the assumptions made are slowly collapsing. The main assumption being that USA will protect your wealth much more than then the Chinese state, but I think that is changing ( for the better ). If
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Not surprising - the developing world is still thirsty for 3-4 trillion USD in infrastructure spending. Not to mention the developed world could also use a bit of infrastructure spending.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> They have no power. They have the power to vote, arguably much more influential then money. > They are too poor and too desperate to be unemployed for long If they are too poor, they also qualify for food stamp and a bunch of other
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
What they mean is that due to a lack of intermarriage, their genetic makeup looks very different than what it would be it they were intermarried with other local tribes. Presumably all other local tribes have already intermarried over many
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> The West (USA + Canada, EU + UK, Australia) could circle the wagons, form a trading bloc, essentially negotiate with China as a single entity and start a trade war if China did not bend. But even if they wanted to do so, the cost would
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Nice to bundle all Chinese people. Most of this "spies" are trying to escape China ! all the regime did was offer them more money / opportunity than what they went to the West to find. China could have achieved it through &qu
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
China looks at things that US / EU have a monopoly in.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Alright if its so bad then why use it ? Get your own army of coders to create your own 5G electronics. Nobody is forcing the Brits to buy Huawei Gear - they did it because it was cheaper and they wanted to save a buck. Huawei will be profit
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
OPEC is a cartel we can get behind, simply because without them price of oil would be 3 USD / barrel. We would be at 500 ppm if not for the irrational boycott of the West by King Faisal.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
The UK has outsourced it emission .. since it helps prop up property prices in London to not have industrial waste being dumped into the Thames. Also the money from pollution in China/Russia/ME ends up leaking to buy up property i
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
The main driver of C02 reduction is based around geopolitical forces and national interest, and the west is on the wrong side of history on this one. We got lucky that China / East Asia / India do not have access to cheap hydrocar
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
Maybe he gave Xi his first born.
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
Relax, bees were already wiped out in some regions with heavy pollution in China, and what happened was humans were made to do the work of the bees - which it turned out was cheaper than depending on bees ! In case we do lose a large part o
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
Node is awesome for fast and quick projects / cmd tools. - For example I have a project involving smart electrical inverters, I need some guarantees regarding crash handling / low latency. Not a lot of scaling issues. - With scali
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
Erlang's language syntax is kinda awful but that is besides the point. Issues I have raised are 100x harder to address then some syntax.
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
> but the problems you describe are not uniquely solved by Erlang I agree, I do not any Scala / Akka experience so I cannot argue for or against due to ignorance. But as you say at least the platform / language addresses these
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
Sure ! Think about how prinf / console.log / print .... works in traditional settings. - How would you make it so that printf doesn't crash your entire program if the console hangs. - how would you isolate a single codebase&#
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
I have given up on NodeJS and moved solely to Erlang for long term projects. I still love NodeJS ! but once you learn Erlang its hard to go back, it reminds me of PG's having a higher bird eye view. NodeJS, Python, Haskell (!), PHP, C
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
> Are you saying Indians chose to be "customers" of the British? No. India has a large domestic demand but it would be awful to allow non rupee denominated assets to supply that demand. Imagine tomorrow India got rid of its str
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
The Brits used to (and still do) capture indian mindshare and had them as their largest customer base - it didn't turn out well for indian national interest though.
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
There might be deeper trade concerns underlying the change in Delhi's stance, I do not think bureaucrats in the Indian government ever really created about privacy - its a convenient Casus Belli. India mostly allowed free access to US
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
Only applies to foreign investors that are trying to gain a permanent monopoly. You cannot expect to invest 1 dollar to call dibs to control a growing nation.
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
> But “stop paying your debts” is a bad message imo. Not really. - Do you own a debt to your parents with a interest rate of 25% because they gave birth to you ? - Do you own rent to planet earth for living in it ? Debt can be unreasonab

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