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seoguruon The crash of 2016?

Certainly there are alternative currencies however their impact on daily lives in the US are small compared to the dollar.

Glad to see you know some of the heterodox. Some other names to add: Bill Mitchell, Frank Newman, James K. Galbraith, Abba Lerner.

My favorite Bill Mitchell video to date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnyDRwSqp2E I've learned a lot from him.

I'm guessing you know that Bernie Sanders hired Stephanie Kelton as his Chief Economist for the Senate Budget Committee.

seoguruon The crash of 2016?

Dollars certainly do have value. They are effectively tax credits.

watch Warren Mosler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1uWVj0YJ3M

seoguruon Edgar D. Mitchell, Sixth Moonwalking Astronaut, Dies at 85

Edgar Mitchell and the Big Picture Effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE-PUTVULFg

seoguruon Bret Victor's Bookshelf

Thanks for the rotated version. Bookstores and Libraries should stack their books like that (except in the chiropractic business section) :-)

seoguruon Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really Is One

what kind of paid work? http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

seoguruon Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era

Yes. Former Chief Economist and Managing Director of PIMCO: The deficit is too low. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdhv2WuoYGM&feature=youtu.be...

seoguruon Luciding – Induce Lucid Dreaming Through Transcranial Stimulation

coincidence: watched this interesting 53 minute interview of Charlie Morley about lucid dreaming last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwpPbZZxFwY

seoguruon When the Unix load average was added to Unix

ps r -A shows processes in the run queue.

seoguruon Sorry to burst your bubble

Yes! If more people understood this, the world would be a better place. Reminds me of this post on "fiscal conservatives": http://itsthepeoplesmoney.blogspot.com/2014/11/confessions-o...

seoguruon Texas Repatriates Gold at Federal Reserve in New York to Texas

Kyle Bass rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmOmt1zJ7Y "5 Reasons Why Kyle Bass is Wrong About Japan"

seoguruon QUIC, a multiplexed stream transport over UDP

reminds me of this comment:

"Of these, quic is my favorite option for the future. It is a truly phenmenal transport, with tons of things done very, very well. However, though the dragon is ready to hatch from its egg, it must still be unearthed from the enormous Code Caverns, of the Chromium Mountains, a quest not to be taken lightly."

https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/57#issuecomment-70162...

seoguruon What is money? (1913)

If you are not familiar with "MMT", I highly recommend reading: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf It's a quick and easy read and may be quite mind expanding.

Also, this 2 hour long video with Mosler and Stephanie Kelton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8XdDqZ-Jg

Randall Wray, Bill Mitchell and Pavlina Tcherneva are a few other economists trying to get the word out.

For the "fiscal conservatives": http://itsthepeoplesmoney.blogspot.com/2014/11/confessions-o...

seoguruon LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

Wow, lots of Ojai people here, I'm one too :-) remember when Lynda.com was across from OYES (http://ojaiyes.org/)

seoguruon Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs

handy trick: install "incognito this tab" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/incognito-this-tab... if adblocker is interfering with page, right mouse click and bring up tab in incognito mode (which doesn't load extensions unless specified).

seoguruon Zfs support for docker (beta)

tweaks needed it you put mysql database files on zfs linux: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/2872 and: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/224

other than that: awesome!

seoguruon The State of ZFS on Linux

I have a laptop running ubuntu with a single SSD. Does it make sense to run it with ZFS to get compression and snapshots? If I add a hard drive, again does it make sense (perhaps using SSD as cache (arc?) )

seoguruon What's the Real U.S. Unemployment Rate? We Have No Idea

nice summary. I believe the billion prices project has become http://www.pricestats.com/us-series Unfortunately It looks like we are going negative again.

seoguruon Holographic universe experiment begins

I found his explanation of the 2 views of the fishtank to explain quantum entanglement quite interesting.

seoguruon Holographic universe experiment begins

reminded me of this Michael Talbot interview, author of "The Holographic Universe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgYz_BU2Ew

Sadly, Mr. Talbot died in 1992, six months after this interview.

seoguruon Job Guarantee vs. Basic Income

I think people could get fired from their job with cause and have a waiting period before being allowed to give it another try.

seoguruon Job Guarantee vs. Basic Income

As Randall Wray said: "There are lots of people who want to work but cannot find paying jobs. And lots of stuff that needs to be done. We’ve got a serendipitous problem here: bring the two together."

He lists a number of ideas for jobs in this article: http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2014/01/07/bop-a-mole-2-j...

seoguruon SocialCoin: A Cryptocurrency for a Global Basic Income

crypto-currency's value is derived from the "greater fool theory" I don't think socialcoin will fly. Happy to be proven wrong.

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/05/need-taxes-mmt-pe...

seoguruon The Economy

I wish everyone (or at least Sam Altman) would read "The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds": http://goo.gl/6a22pX less than 2 hour read. read it with an open mind and your worldview may change.

watch Stephanie Kelton and Warren Mosler talk about gov debt and deficits: (2 hours!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8XdDqZ-Jg

Randall Wray on Job Guarantee vs Basic Income: http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2014/01/27/lets-compare-t...

Mosler's current prescription: 1) A full FICA suspension, which raises take home pay by 7.6%, and, for businesses that are competitive, lowers prices as well, restoring sales/output/employment in short order 2) A $10/hr federally funded transition job for anyone willing and able to work to promote the transition from unemployment to private sector employment ...

seoguruon Why use www?

http://yost.com/misc/nix-on-www.html

"W" is a letter that is not one syllable, for that would be too few, a letter that is not two syllables, for that too would be too few, but a letter, in fact the one letter of all twenty-six that insists upon blathering on and on in its attempt to twist the tongue and overtax the ear, extending to the full three, yes three--three syllables, the legal alphabetical maximum. But wait, my friend. That is only the beginning. We go on to treble the damages by repeating this freak letter, this monstrosity that is one thing, claims to be two other things, but is really three things, not once, not twice, but a full three times, in a nonometric rhapsody fleshed out to the nines, a compound triplicate triumphant cat-o'-nine-tails tongue-lashing, a nonotuple witches' syllabic brew of treble, treble, toil and trouble. It is enough I say! Nine times enough, in fact. :-)

seoguruon How to Create a Bestselling Novel (2000)

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." --W. Somerset Maugham

seoguruon AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion

S. Derek Turner's take: http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2014/05/19/why-the-att-d...

"So for $67 billion, AT&T could pass 71 million new homes with gigabit fiber, and connect 21 million new subscribers (assuming an industry-average 30 percent take-rate)."

seoguruon This girl in SF stole my MacBook Air

I think it is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7i60GuNRg

seoguruon How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

like this woman who's face was shattered by the cops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMWDxwL1Zog

seoguruon HN Search Updated

can we have an option to use the old version as well? I use your search all the time and this new version doesn't work well enough yet.

I like to search by date (newest at top) and then toggle between stories and comments. also would be nice to allow stemming or not, i.e. search for "julia" comes up with stuff about juliaN assange.

seoguruon T-Mobile CEO: “This industry blows,” biggest carriers offer “horseshit”

+1 for ting.com. We have 6 phones on it, including the nexus 5 which rocks. bill is $74 this month. I love the web interface that enables me to turn off voice/sms/data on a per phone basis if they hit thresholds or if my kids don't get their homework done :-)