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Comment Re: Hardware will be fine - But not HW companies (Score 1) 53

What if you invested in NASDAQ?

AI says: "Volatility: Sun's stock was significantly more volatile than the general NASDAQ index, with more extreme gains during the bubble and a much steeper, more permanent crash afterward.
Long-Term Trend: While the NASDAQ Composite eventually recovered and reached new all-time highs many years later, Sun Microsystems' stock never fully recovered its peak value and the company was ultimately sold at a fraction of its peak market capitalization. "

Comment Re: Your tax dollars hard at work (Score 1) 22

Remember when techies used to cite the slogan "only the paranoid survive"?

"Intel cofounder and former CEO Andy Grove really did say "Only the paranoid survive." It became his personal slogan and later the title of his 1996 business book "Only the Paranoid Survive"."

Comment Re:iPhone Unavailable - try again in 1 minute (Score 1) 33

If you are a programmer and you are given clear instructions on what is expected, then yes. If you are a programmer and you are not given clear instructions, then no. However if you are technical lead/architect then you really should be responsible for it.

OTOH if you are a programmer and you raise these concerns then you are on your way to become a technical lead/architect.

In my systems I insist we keep a database table of various common passwords (tens of thousands of these) and we do not allow people using them as well.

Comment Re: Duh... (Score 1) 16

What if COLAs became politically popular with people like you? Are you afraid of hurting Volcker's feelings?

Remember how inflation was not a problem for 12 years after 2008, despite mainstream economic predictions?

If inflation is noise, why not use indexation to desl with it? Are you afraid of hurting mainstream economists' feelings?

Comment Re:working (Score 1) 23

It is like saying: someone will do some work for free, because they like it, lets then make sure that we take away the product of their work, they don't need it anyway. How is that a moral stance, how is it good economically? People feel a certain way if someone tries to steal from them. One thing is to work, even if you don't have to, but to understand that the result of your work is yours. It is a completely different proposition to enslave someone just because they can survive without keeping the results of their work. Practically speaking, if someone sees this type of attitude, they choose a different jurisdiction to do their work, where there won't be such blatant abuse.

Comment Re: Six-fingered investments (Score 0) 8

Are you saying AI invented banking?

If AI wasn't bubbling do you seriously think there wouldn't be some other bubble, because humans like bubbly, and other meaner humans love popping dreams with irrational fear and spreading panics?

What if instead we let bubbles run but insured you and me against panics with basic income?

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