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New comment by gahahaha in "A Swede who created a $400K Indiegogo-scam"

gahahaha — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:19:41 +0000

Maybe he cheated to get in?

New comment by gahahaha in "Why I love Swedish taxes"

gahahaha — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:30:45 +0000

I don't feel the need to be constructive towards the whole taxes=theft crowd. Engaging them would just encourage them.

New comment by gahahaha in "Why I love Swedish taxes"

gahahaha — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:12:22 +0000

Competent bureaucracy is what they've got in Sweden. You obviously don't believe public goods exists. That's stupid.

New comment by gahahaha in "Why I love Swedish taxes"

gahahaha — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:12:24 +0000

The more underfunded the government is, the less it can invest in schools, mental health care, the environment, infrastructure, a competent bureaucracy and so on. All things that are necessary for economic growth. Americans' allergic reaction to paying taxes is just one more reason why the country is circling the drain.

New comment by gahahaha in "Russia Blocks Porn Site Brazzers for 'Damaging Human Psyche'"

gahahaha — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 19:47:38 +0000

I think we both realize that solving the two job problem is much harder. Hands off government and giving people the freedom to fuck up their life is great for middle class kids in super supportive families, but can be disastrous for less fortunate children.

New comment by gahahaha in "Russia Blocks Porn Site Brazzers for 'Damaging Human Psyche'"

gahahaha — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:16:56 +0000

Not too easy if you're working two jobs to provide for your family. By giving all the responsibility to the family you sacrifice those vulnerable children who weren't as fortunate as yourself growing up.

New comment by gahahaha in "Russia Blocks Porn Site Brazzers for 'Damaging Human Psyche'"

gahahaha — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:12:44 +0000

So what is the implication from the fact that it is impossible to block porn for people who are not "an adult that has a fully formed identity and personality"?

New comment by gahahaha in "Listen Carefully for Hints of the Next Global Recession"

gahahaha — Sun, 01 May 2016 19:28:14 +0000

Turns out the fancy math mania among economists didn't help us leading up to and during the great recession. We should now go back and pick up again the lessons learned after the Great Depression (like Keynes' Animal spirits). Math and models are still important (they are in fact essential, without them we can't think clearly or rigorously enough) but they and their interpretations have to take into account the complexity of human nature to a greater extent, not rely on a simplistic and almost non-existent homo economicus.

New comment by gahahaha in "How to reduce the cognitive load of your code"

gahahaha — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:32:44 +0000

Because productive developers write more code or because productive developers write worse code?

New comment by gahahaha in "All Late Projects Are the Same (2011) [pdf]"

gahahaha — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:29:48 +0000

Yea - I'm not really sure what the take away message here should be (although I found the article interesting).

I'm currently working at a late project right now that started early enough, but took too long to hire enough people to finish the project in time, and didn't use the time at the beginning of the project well enough to gather information about the current and future processes. Maybe that's an example of what the author means, but it certainly gets more complicated than "started too late" quite quickly...

New comment by gahahaha in "Perl 6 Released"

gahahaha — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:28:59 +0000

Pretty sure the vagueness was intentional so as not to identify him.

New comment by gahahaha in "Bread is Broken"

gahahaha — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:07:41 +0000

Agriculture was terrible for our health - even before sugar became a part of our diet.

http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in...

New comment by gahahaha in "Amazon Sues Fake Reviewers on Fiverr"

gahahaha — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:44:17 +0000

Making a great algorithm _combined_ with suing the fake reviewers might be even better.

New comment by gahahaha in "Yale to Be Paid Interest on Dutch Water Authority Bond from 1648"

gahahaha — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:08:45 +0000

No he didn't. He argued that we need inflation to stop hoarding of money and make people spend their money and create activity in the economy. This is important because in the economy as a whole TotalSpending == TotalIncome

New comment by gahahaha in "Yale to Be Paid Interest on Dutch Water Authority Bond from 1648"

gahahaha — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:42:12 +0000

I think you'll observe that there are periods of inflation offset by periods of deflation, meaning that over time the value of money was somewhat more stable than your image implies.

New comment by gahahaha in "Yale to Be Paid Interest on Dutch Water Authority Bond from 1648"

gahahaha — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:29:07 +0000

It didn't use to matter much. Consistent inflation is a rather new phenomenon that basically only appeared after WWII. There was for example almost no inflation in Britain between 1814 and 1914.

For the record, in case there still are Ron Paul fans/goldbugs out there: moderate inflation is generally considered a good thing by economists today and inflation is probably too low at the moment.

New comment by gahahaha in "Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate"

gahahaha — Sun, 31 May 2015 12:59:05 +0000

No - that has probably more to do with guilt after WWII than the low birth rate. A low birth rate (within limits) is obviously a good thing - the world is over populated as it is.

New comment by gahahaha in "Norwegian butter crisis (2011)"

gahahaha — Wed, 20 May 2015 16:19:40 +0000

Only 3% of Norway is farmable land. This makes it MUCH more difficult and hence expensive to make food in than for example Sweden (or the US). IF you want to produce your own food so that you won't have to starve in case of a crisis, you will have to accept higher food prices and farm subsidies.

New comment by gahahaha in "Three Tales of Second System Syndrome"

gahahaha — Mon, 04 May 2015 17:15:52 +0000

> Perl 6 was misnamed

Damian Conway agrees with you - but Larry Wall decides, and he insisted on calling it Perl 6. Maybe Conway has a point, but maybe so many people wouldn't have worked so hard on it for so long if it was called something else.

New comment by gahahaha in "Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative"

gahahaha — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:22:07 +0000

Many people (myself included) don't trust Drobox, so being able to handle my data myself is regarded as a plus.

(having Condoleezza Rice on the board is just _one_ obvious reason not to trust them)