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> 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…

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 mism…

> 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 fund…

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.y…

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.…

> * 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 l…

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 o…

"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 fr…

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-mone…

... 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 …

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 t…

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 eco…

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 no…

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 h…

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://spect…

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 tha…

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 Safar…

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 …

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 microcont…

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 …

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-l…

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…

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…

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.

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 th…