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Re:Thousands of EVE online players riot over microtransactions on Saturday June 25, 2011 @01:23PM (#2696073)
There are NO prices without scarcity.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your *nix binary package updates? (first ... on Saturday June 25, 2011 @08:12AM (#2695504)
Corporate repository to which official packages migrate upon certification. This usually takes about 24 hours.
Re:Thousands of EVE online players riot over microtransactions on Saturday June 25, 2011 @07:16AM (#2695449)
There are no prices without scarcity.
Re:Starcraft in a bar? TwitchTV promoting social Starcraft in San Fran... on Saturday June 25, 2011 @07:14AM (#2695444)
It doesn't need to be live, but result needs to be unknown.
Re:Why don't rich people do more awesome things? on Saturday June 25, 2011 @06:26AM (#2695401)
No, this is not where the smart money goes, as I understand the term "smart money." Perhaps you meant something else, like "the money of smart people with whom I am familiar."
Re:Life of an Implementer: If you're good at it, don't do it for someo... on Sunday June 12, 2011 @06:02AM (#2646208)
We let them think we know our place. After all they are the implementers... I guess. Which mostly goes to show how malleable that line is.
Re:First Bitcoin "Depression" Hits on Sunday June 12, 2011 @05:20AM (#2646137)
It's worth recognizing that buying USD is also a bet highly correlated to the United States economy.

Regardless, I disagree with the veracity of using either term in that sentence but, apart from people like myself, you'll find much more solidarity in denigrating "finance" over "economics."

Re:First Bitcoin "Depression" Hits on Sunday June 12, 2011 @03:49AM (#2646002)
but there will always be winners and losers in any economic game

I believe you mean to say 'financial' here, in place of economic.

Re:The Way I Work: David Karp of Tumblr on Saturday June 04, 2011 @09:56AM (#2619498)
I'm not the author; but I am the lead quant at a profitable $1B hedge fund.

I don't generally mention this, but it seemed like it might give you pause to think about how you deal with people.

Re:Human Based Translation API on Monday May 30, 2011 @08:26AM (#2599164)
We are using pootle internally to manage our l18n, the corporate belief is that we need to use internal translators on these strings because they understand the context.

How do we reduce or remove this barrier to using external resources?