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"is a society that sends so many of its brightest college graduates into a capital markets monkey pit maximizing welfare?" It's not "Society" that is sending people into jobs in ba…

As with most of the west, the quoted opinions misunderstand the core strengths of western style of government. The issue of giving people a greater say in their society is of littl…

> "Banking industry" is an insult to those who actually > produce goods. What do you think should be a use of industry? Is it OK to say "transport industry" despite the fact that w…

I suspect Gates doesn't really understand what capitalism is. All of his fortune has been built on the back of legislative protection. And - specific to charity - I have several ti…

I'm a coder non-economist also, but have been look at this for a few months and will take a shot at explaining it. The way the fed aim to control interest rates is via the amount o…

Should they need to? They should be free to scrape and represent, and ycom should be free to block them if they choose. When you pursue anti-rights relating to the ownership of inf…

It's always exciting to hear someone eager starting out. The only secret is to keep being interested and not give up on yourself. If you're looking for a fun problem to solve, try …

Looks cool but sample code doesn't work as marked on the page: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:/temp/chart.py", line 6, in chart.download('hello.png') AttributeError: 'S…

I've written a long response, http://cowoh.org/~craig/perfect_project_management_app.txt .

> Women studies are not among the "real" humanities It can be, it just depends whether you base conclusions on a respectable level of evidence or non-falsifiable mumbo-jumbo. There…

I have a macbook. It's solid but I'd avoid it for linux (which I've decided I prefer to osx) - the single-button trackpad alone makes it a bad choice for linux. If I were getting a…

I got x=25. I didn't draw any new lines.. I just worked out all the angles I could within the diagram, and then played x and y (other unknown angle within small triangle containing…

> Never had ANY issues with it so far. It requires far more HDD space than not using it because it doesn't seem to clean up after itself for a while. And if you get low on hard dis…

Is there some sort of free software filesystem where you basically automatically sync it with a silo somewhere remote? I've got a new clean hosted instance, and was thinking it wou…

1. Get lots of users 2. ??? 3. Profit! I'm wondering how dangerous the police state aspects of it are. The fact that I've willingly told somebody "who all my friends are".

The Michelle Bach situation is interesting. Assuming the facts are true, she in fact arranged an interesting although slightly unreliable option for herself here. Had the price gon…

Wohoo! Someone who gets the idea of a state machine framework. Check out my effort at building one of these - datamagi.org. This is quite interesting actually - if you look through…

My startup is focussed on this industry. I have a profit model, and the system is compatible with copyright law but does not leverage copyright. I've taken much longer to get it of…

Hey - if you are looking for FX trading API or STP people at any point, please get in touch :) (My contract is likely to be up at end of the year) I'm working on an online music st…

I think the attractions of object databases are: - It's easier to restructure than a relational schema in isolation - ORMs can be painful if you want to work like that. But I think…

Lions too.

> designing software and working for hedge funds liquidity. > So, if anyone here has any ideas to save lives > or make a massive improvement in the world, give > me a shout. Find a…

Allegro-cache looks interesting although I haven't tried it: http://franz.com/products/allegrocache/index.lhtml I like the idea of having a powerful datastore within the same proce…