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What you are missing is fairly straightforward. Inflating away debt is a form of default. People don't want to lend you money when that is how you plan to pay it back -- same outco…

This is completely incorrect. Even if you believe the premise, you cannot expect others to lend money to you when you obviously refuse to pay back previous creditors and then the p…

Agree. Maybe people are thinking of asfoetida. A very different thing.

But in fact anyone who reads the article will see that your assumption is incorrect.

This is definitely not proven beyond a doubt. In fact it's fairly well documented that he was not the cause.

Sounds related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness

As Charlie Munger says, envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that has no upside (isn't even fun).

The uniformity of thought here is somewhat concerning to me. Here is a detailed review of the Piketty by an academic who disagrees: http://www.deirdremccloskey.org/docs/pdf/Piketty…

When can we hope to see some form that will allow the public to play against this even if it is pay to play for each game or a weaker PC version? I hope the system does not end up …

This is not correct. In the professional ranks 1p is often no weaker than 9p because often the young players start out at 1p and are very strong because selection pressure is much …

Buffett is on record supporting the pipeline.

It's not sneaky. This is the way returns are calculated in the industry. 1.09 * 1.09 * 1.09 would be 3 years of 9% returns compounded. In the same way if the total return over 3 ye…

In what scenarios would this be useful? Just to experiment?

This quote changes the meaning. It says that to secure inalienable rights, governments are instituted among men and to do that those governments derive their just powers from the c…

Seems to be the same John Tromp of the Computer Go bet. http://dcook.org/gobet/

sorry, by 'read' I meant calculate. Calculation is the chess term, reading is the Go equivalent.

I don't think it's that strange. Ultimately you have to play in order to read ahead in the game. People who think they can sit down and learn to read ahead will struggle. But if yo…

Seems the anti-glare/glare issue has been turned into some kind of compromise. I don't think I'll be able to get this.

This can't be correct when it comes to the larger screens. I found the text on the iPhone 3G to be fuzzy but not on the iPhone 4. I don't like Apple's antialiasing but on the iPhon…

I would submit that the biggest reason for this view and the reason many people hold it is that 37signals as well as most of the programming jobs are CRUD jobs where non-algorithmi…

Why are the students afraid of lower grades? If you don't go to a PhD program, does it matter all that much? I think this emphasis on grades is something we should work to undo. Yo…

I think this is a valuable alternate perspective. Students will become discouraged from time to time and this will vary by field. Frankly, most professors don't care about undergra…

It's useful for weeding out this place as an employer. As a male programmer who intends to remain a programmer, I'm disheartened by this future where I may have to work for juvenil…