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In the mid-2000s a phrase kept getting banded around in investment management "The search for yield." As interest rates were so low, as were credit spreads, there was a big demand for anything that gave some kind of yield.

That proceeded to drive down credit spreads further.

And more and more.

Which meant basically free capital for investments which were inherently risky, with credit lenders (banks and non-banks) getting money thrown at them for yield, just some yield.

Then they get really clover and making synthetic yield.

And then we had the recent financial crisis, caused by these low rates themselves as a result of the dot-com bubble.

For reading, Shiller's Irrational Exuberance is always fresh (data-based); and stuff by Michael Lewis is good too (narrative).
Sure, the GC eventually triggers compaction and that by design will produce a lot of contiguous free memory.
> The vast majority.

Where are you getting this from?
Problem with financial sector began when US Treasury dropped gold standard as basis for dollar. Since then FED has unrestricted ability to create "money" from the void. This leads to market bubbles, where the real money, earned on real-life activities such as manufacturing being lost in financial-market-style gambling. It is remarkable that so called "crysises" started to happen more often as financial sector grew.
I have both. If I need maps/browser/camera, I use my android phone, and moan at all the crappy UI issues and endless updates etc.

One of my worst gripes with android is just how often it changes the UI just as I'm about to click on something, so that I click on something else. It's maddening.

If I need a phone, I use my Nokia 3210 (With its ridiculously long battery life and far superior reception).
To zoom on the first picture, i tried pinch zoom --> didnt work --> tried clicking --> took me to twitter --> again had to click on the image --> again didnt work.

Finally read the article by guessing what is happening in the image.
You realize the only reason they've cleaned up their act is because Uber et al. are eating their lunch, right?
By and large we know better than to output javascript with document.write. We have structured templating languages even for use in a web page. Not everyone uses them yet, but the better technologies do exist.
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Performance was fine for me and I am on a dated machine (Lenovo Z560) running Firefox with about 20 tabs open.

I discovered this game some time ago, from the CopperLicht engine home page[1]. I am a web-developer by day and an amateur 3D designer after dark, looking to build something similar. If the creators of End Time are here, can they (or anyone with experience in this domain) share some insight about the development process, especially procedural world generation?

[1] http://www.ambiera.com/copperlicht/
The browser is what it is because it's the camel designed by global committee. It's the place where competing interest groups fight one another to a standstill on a daily basis. Quite a lot of the stranger aspects aren't so much "features" as blast craters of past disasters.

For example, consider the five technologies for interactive, animated things in the browser: Java applets, ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight, and Javascript. Apart from Silverlight, which never really took off, they're all 20 years old. Only Javascript has survived the security wars; Java applets are dead, Flash gets a CVE bullet with its name on every few weeks, and ActiveX was killed long ago.

The near-death of NNTP is a story of spam cancels and cost allocation.

The browser covers all use cases and is available everywhere. That means it's necessarily horribly compromised compared to native solutions, but is an absolutely killer advantage for adoption. Incrementalism nearly always wins.

Furthermore, the unwillingness of people to pay directly for software leaves us with a continual problem of exploitative software. Everything from flashlight apps that steal your contact list to ads that steal your battery to connection-sharing apps that open you to liability for the actions of others. For the moment, we keep other people's software securely nailed shut in the browser.
Firmware these days requires more non-volatile memory in early init than is available outside flash.

So with a write protect switch, RAM init couldn't store the actual memory configuration (~2kb of data), so wakeup from suspend to RAM doesn't work.

In case of UEFI, its variables are also stored in flash, so that also doesn't work. Since everything optimizes for UEFI (as far as firmware matters are concerned), that jumper would be counter-productive.
You can't seriously compare the size of Singapore and the U.S.

Foreigners buy London/NYC/SF because the price was inflated in the first place( its really hard to build stuff in these regulated cities)
Lots of people used Napster, DC++, email, Usenet, Kazaa, IRC, ICQ, MSN, AIM, RSS, SMS, all kinds of stuff. There are lots of possibilities. Facebook's success is interesting but it's totally possible that something similar could have happened with another protocol than HTML over HTTP, no? Either way, Facebook is basically a commercial success involving network effects, vendor lock-in, good marketing, timing, etc; it's not a technical breakthrough at all.
> For example, The Wall Street Journal recently bought 22 items from Jet. Twelve were shipped to the Journal by retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., J.C. Penney Co. and Nordstrom Inc., according to sales receipts.

> Jet’s prices for the same 12 items added up to $275.55, an average discount of about 11% from the prices Jet paid for those items on other retailers’ websites. Jet’s total cost, which also includes estimated shipping and taxes, was $518.46.

> As a result, Jet had an overall loss of $242.91 on the 12 items. Mr. Lore says the loss is unusually large, partly because the items’ cost was low relative to shipping charges.

Wow. They must be playing a long game.

Can anyone explain how they expect to get that money back?
It'd be nice if there's some text/blog post about how it's done etc.
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It says it right on the card on the table that explains the min/max bets (in Aus at least). Also, it's basic stats which can be applied depending the house rules.
as a remedy I have one of my monitors rotated 90° into portrait orientation. I can just drag the offending tab across and have a screen width of 1200px. There are a (very) few sites though that seem to cache the original screen width and need a hard refresh.
There's a difference between knowing history and bearing grudges. Generally folks who bear grudges have a very poor (and one-sided) view of history.

The Great Depression was not solely caused by the gold standard, although getting rid of it certainly seems to have aided recovery (worth noting since some argue for returning to it).

Iraq wasn't going to be like Vietnam either because the people loved us, and our weapons were so much awesomer. Incidentally, Bremer was reading about the occupation of Germany and Japan after WWII on his way to Baghdad. History can be instructive, but you need to use it wisely, not cherry pick the instances that support your existing view. There's plenty of Roman history (for example) that maps beautifully onto modern America, even though we are very different from the Romans.
Intel started embedding a processor in the chipset called the Management Engine. In vPro systems it powers the AMT features (remote control, McAfee virus scanner outside the OS control, various other things), but it's around everywhere.

The X200 contains the last chipset where this processor was optional - if it comes with no firmware, it simply disables itself.

Newer chipsets sometimes feature a recovery/service mode (up to 30 minutes of activity before the device shuts down, with limited capabilities, eg. no power management).

Now, this chip wouldn't be so bad, but unfortunately it only runs on firmware signed by Intel. Lack of signature means that the system doesn't run, or only in that service mode.

Since that project hasn't managed to cracked RSA2048 keys (and who did?), that firmware precludes using newer Intel chipsets.
Wasn't he the one who said that if you cannot explain something to a child you do not really understand it?
For those wanting to explore more, my library, funkierJS (http://www.graememcc.co.uk/funkierJS, introductory blog post http://www.graememcc.co.uk/2015/06/07/onfunkier/) has built-in currying, and provides curried implementations of most ES5 built-in functions.
Oh contraire, fitness is a 'success' because many think they should do more but don't have the willpower and then buy this magic device to overcome their lack of will.

This leads to hardware sales and non-usage.

Which makes it really hard for others to work on such a plattform.
I programmed that. I also wrote that CopperLicht library. So feel free to ask about that on the CopperLicht forums as well if you are using it anyway.

It is nothing really complicated: I created a deterministic randomizer class, and generating the worlds 3D geometry based on each squares coordinates as random seed. Terrain is currently based on a simple sin/cos function, buildings are built from blocks like minecraft does it. See the third Copperlicht tutorial in its documentation on how to create own geometry and stuff.
5 years with that number of drivers is a ton of data.
Lot of the advice in the article would fail in some situations like the one you point out.

Unless the quantity is less than 5, tap to increase doesn't make sense.

Also, the slider wouldn't work in case you are trying to choose from an even average sized list on "min" or "max" side. There are only so many pixels in portrait mode and my big thumb - how can you expect it to be so precise. While in case of the dropdown in almost 2 scrolls i can get to the exact number by varying the speed of scroll, like binary search.

Some of the points are correct though, i don't see many people making those mistakes.
Does non-violent sexual assault cause any harm other than emotional? That's why I'm making the comparison - we think sexual assault is very bad, while cheating isn't. Yet I don't see the reason for that distinction, except perhaps the degree of emotional harm it causes. But even in that case, it's not always worse.

Your argument of "it's repulsive" and "it's worse" doesn't really address the question of why it's worse. What makes it worse? Consent is a bit arbitrary. Eg. price fixing is consentual yet still illegal and most people agree that it's harmful.
so he is only allow to comment on news that are from places that are less sexually repressed and prudent then Algeria? Your snarky comment is really not adding anything to the conversation.
I think you already disarm your own argument when you say:
"things like actually being able to talk to that girl, ask for that raise, close that sale, take down that oppressor...these things benefit tremendously from irrational confidence".
Exactly. You don't need to be overconfident to "talk down (sic!) to a girl" or ask for a raise, but about "just" confidence. Case closed.
> Germany's GDP is where it was in 2008;

GDP in 2014 3,852,556 million $, growth 1.6%, which is not bad, given that the population growth is negative.

GDP in 2008 3,764,675 million $

Balanced budget. Debt reduction. Record employment. Record exports. Record tax income.

Everybody picks the numbers he or she likes.
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If they went with inflation instead of austerity, all you'd see accomplished is the nominal numbers would climb, while the real numbers would not. That's what we're seeing right now with the QE devaluation of the Euro; pretend growth via dropping the value of the Euro (if you have to drop your currency by 20% to get 2% growth, what you have is not growth).

Austerity and inflation accomplish the exact same outcome, the only difference between the two depends on how they're implemented, and the lies that the politicians get to spin to pretend one is better than the other (politicians in weak economies almost universally prefer inflation, because they can lie and show nominal growth, and tell their citizens that their wages and pensions aren't falling, when in fact they are in real terms).

Take Greece for example. They could exit the Euro and meet all of their domestic obligations - in a debased new currency, that wouldn't actually be meeting the obligations in real terms as the currency tumbled. They'd get to pretend everything was fine nominally.

Inflation instead of austerity is used to devalue the amount of debt held, which is a form of defaulting on creditors. It drops the standard of living, as it steals wealth from citizens by devaluing their real incomes and assets.
One detail I appreciate is getting the right cut/fill for road strings.

You do have to have be careful when applying this carte blanche on procedurally generated terrain, as you can end up with all sorts of unrealistic/dangerous/fun? cases.
Is this any good BTW? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2421662
Spoken like a true mercurial enthusiast? :)

I have used git on the command line since day 1. It really isn't that hard.
The Euro makes sense because there is a common EU market without barriers for goods and services.
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There already is a killer app: notifications.

Yes pulling your pocket out is an inconvenience if every time you do so it's to find out that an email or text message is spam or unimportant. Likewise seeing what meeting you have next (and where it is) is a second on the watch. About 30 seconds on the phone.

Who cares if you are going to make an Apple Watch app or not. Most developers aren't. Nor should they. Not every phone app will work on the watch and vice versa. The Watch like the iPad requires a unique experience. I look at apps like IFFT and Workflow as the style of apps that are are the future of Apple Watch.
My father -- German Jew who escaped in 1938 (only mentioning this because this view is often conflated with anti-semitism) -- was of the view that Israel was a new crusade and would have much the same impact and outcomes. Recall that the medieval crusades also resulted in some long term occupations of the holy land, and they did not have support of an unrivaled superpower.
Yeah we've all watched Lawrence of Arabia.
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>if Greeks had easy access to large & stable foreign banks they wouldn't need to worry about the sorry state of Greece's own banks

Trouble is that's not so. If people just stopped using Greece's banks they'd go bust and then either the government would have to bail them out or savers would lose their money.

As to why have a local banking business, the bulk of useful banking is lending to local businesses and people getting houses so there's a benefit to being local so you know the people, businesses and houses. Of course it needs to be regulated so they don't take your savings and punt it on dumb stuff.
I imagine 400mg is for daily intake. I don't now how it applies for the intake in one sitting. I had to look it up and Starbucks' venti Brewed Coffee really contains 415mg [1]. Seriously, this product looks dangerous. How come it's not regulated similarly as energy drinks? Maybe it's protected by "caffe culture", but I seriously doubt that drinking half a liter caffe was ever part of any culture.

[1] http://www.caffeineinformer.com/the-complete-guide-to-starbu...
Lot of the advice would break and you will have to resort to dropdown depending on the use case, so its better to let the use case drive your design than some hard and fast rule against dropdowns.

I refer to this article while designing for mobile - https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
The mobile version of Facebook is crap. At least on android. Locks up and jams the machine running it, the one running inside a browser is much better. This on a performant NVidia Shield tablet, so hardware is not an issue.
This is just... odd! In the UK, the Government pay me (via my energy company) for every kWh I generate. I also get paid for every unit I export.

Once a quarter (or automatically if I have a smart-meter) I take meter readings and email them to the Energy Company. A few days later they transfer the cash to my account.

Why bother with this middleman? What's the use of an inefficient 3rd party? Energy is fungible. Unless you've actually got a direct wire between your panels and your neighbour's property, this is just nonsense.
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That's a rather cynical view, no? Many people actively enjoy working out, and use these devices as a tracking tool rather than a motivational aide. It's a big market. No doubt your comment is true in some cases, but there have been plenty of contrary anecdotes too (people who've bought a fitness wearable and have become a lot healthier as a result).
On iOS at least, the dropdown example would require:

1 tap to select the input field

1 swipe to move the desired item into view (I guess this is a tap)

1 tap to select the desired item

1 tap to move on to the next field using the arrow utilities,
or one tap for "Done"

That's four.
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> If a bank starts with $1000 in assets, loans me $750 and still retains $1000 in assets, how can it be said the bank can't loan money it doesn't have?

Because the bank has to transfer the money.

Let's assume a 2 bank world: Bank A and Bank B

I apply for a loan for a house of $100, ignoring future value and default probabilities.

I get given the loan and need to send the money to the house owner. The Bank A marks in its books that I have a $100 loan and transfers the money from its assets to Bank B. Bank A's assets have not changed, but its capital-asset ratio has (as it now has less assets to back its capital).

OR

Bank A transfers $100 to Bank B but doesn't want to pay out assets, so it goes into the interbank market and borrows $100 from another bank at the same time, increasing its assets by $100 and also increasing its liabilities by $100.

The home owner that receives the money in their bank, Bank B.

Bank B's assets have increased by $100 and liabilities have increased by $100 (as it will, in the future, need to pay out the cash to the home owner). This is where the money multiplies happens.

Finding itself sitting on deposits not doing anything, it is likely Bank B will go into the interbank market and lend out some money to Bank A who seems better at finding customers.
Yes this is one of the possible outcomes :(

The euro project was always a bit of a gamble. It reminds me of the German attack through Belgium during WWI. The german military high command was criticised after the war of gambling too much trying for a knock-out victory. Using the euro to achieve european integration has a similar feeling about it.

Edit. This is not a criticism of Germany in anyway, just an feeling I have based on the Euro project being a high risk, high reward strategy.
What a terrible name. =)
I think oblio means that even if Portugal is not in the Euro zone with its own currency, it's unlikely to get a better price than now.
Not trying to argue either way -- it comes down to defining "over" in this context. If asking a girl/boy out when she/he is going to reject you (but you don't know it) is overconfidence, then we need overconfidence. (We would need to be psychic or we'd never do anything.) If it means assuming every piece of contrary advice you receive is idiotic (eg invasion of Iraq) then no, we don't need it, and this is precisely the kind of definition the article uses.
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The 1.6% positive is actually negative if you account for even very low level inflation over those years. Also, the Euro just lost a ton of value due to QE, which will ultimately drop every Eurozone member's GDP by at least 20% in real terms. In dollar terms, Germany's economy has plunged since 2008 due to this effect.

It's the same effect the US suffered as US budget deficits hammered the dollar from 2001-2009 or so. If you look at any country's GDP priced in dollars, they all universally skyrocket at the exact same time, all courtesy of the devalued dollar (the US lost a lot of ground to the rest of the world over that time due to the dollar devaluation).

Population growth is not a requirement for GDP growth. It also doesn't always help, plenty of countries have historically shown vast population growth with mediocre economic growth.

Germany's population has hardly budged since 1970. Their economy has increased several fold in that time. Productivity / output gains are far more important than population gains.
I don't know about the rest of the eurozone, but as a Spaniard I must say that I do think we would have been better off without the euro.

The euro gave us the gun to shoot ourselves in the foot, and we have done plenty of stupid things with it. A few examples:

- Huge inflation. In a very short timespan (two years maybe?), we went from 1€ = 166pts to 1€ = 100pts in purchasing power value, without an equivalent salary raise.

- Crazy housing bubble, with an ~100% rise in house prices between 2002 and 2008 (!!)

- Over-indebtment to pay for stupid things: airports in the middle of nowhere, high-speed trains to unpopulated areas, etc.

- Destruction of several industries (e.g.: a huge clothing industry)

I could go on but I think this illustrates my point. Again, I'm not saying that this is anyone else's fault. This is what we spaniards deserve because that's what we chose to do with the possibilities the euro gave us. Nevertheless, it doesn't change the fact that we could not have done all these things without it.

Edit: format.
The "fallback option" matters in so much and is something that's, IMHO, extremely underdiscussed in society. I see politicians rail about how poor people don't risk anything without themselves realizing that they come from middle-class/rich backgrounds and could risk more in their lives.

In my case, I've moved from Germany to Australia without many prospects and still managed to land on my feet. Friends with less money always asked me "aren't you scared?", after a while the realization hit me - I wasn't particularly scared because if things wouldn't have worked out, I could've just used my parents' credit card for a $2000 flight back, no need to worry. My "poorer" friends don't have that option so they're naturally scared of something I didn't even consider, an "unknown unknown" for me.
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As someone who browses used cars market on a smartphone very often, I'm OK with dropdown menus. They take up less space and I prefer to see everything at glance instead of seeing some fancy control schemes.