Posts by BenWilson
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Better make it pencils. Pens can run out, and don't work upside down.
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Get a publisher!
I'd rather perish.
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This isn't one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No sir. Our model is the trapezoid...
A headless pyramid! No one wins. What could be fairer?
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Out of interest, which functions are we talking about.
Can I second that with a small warning? I don't want to know about everything you can do with rosary beads.
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xkcd on the kindle
That's pretty much how I've been using my PDA for the last 8 years. GPRS is totally useless until you find yourself abroad. Then it's really good for basic net functions, like reading e-mail, browsing wikis, , banking, limited web browsing, all sitting in a bar or cafe. At those times it doesn't hurt to also use it as an MP3 player and e-book reader, or for little movies, if I wasn't all e-booked and MP3ed out years ago. So Hitchhiker's Guide...
I have to say, though, Public Address was not particularly PDA friendly. For some weird reason I could not get it to render 'squeezed', and instead I got it
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Surely if you came across an iPod on the beach, you'd assume a wise and benevolent mind must have made it?
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Maybe an analogy for the trading limits idea - slowing the flow of money introduces a potential lag between traded value and true value.
Sometimes lag is good, sometimes not. In a car, it's often good to have a laggy accelerator, which responds maybe half a second after you push it, and pretty much averages out the push, so if you go over a bump and push it, you don't end up doing a burnout by mistake. But you don't want a laggy brake. It should respond instantly, in direct proportion to how hard it's being pushed (to the point where antilock kicks in, and that absolutely needs to have an instant response).
I'm not sure if we want currency controls to tie real value to traded value with the immediacy of a brake or of an accelerator. Having a lot of lag on the currency seems to me like the idea of attaching a trailer to a vehicle with a spring rather than a metal shaft. On the one hand, the acceleration of the vehicle is smoothed out in the trailer. But on the other, it could end up bouncing crazily if the vehicle changes speed quickly. Even more crazily than the vehicle.
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Those who do this commercially for companies would have no problems, but those who simply gamble money (as they do quite openly and obviously now) would find themselves shut out.
I figure you'll agree with that to the extent you disagree with market efficiency theory. The dollar moves around whether you are allowed to trade it or not. But the less trading, the less clear it is what the current perceived value is. Does that lend itself to more or less wild swings? It seems to me that it would mean less swings, but they could potentially be a lot wilder.
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I not sure I want to customise a newspaper website. It's a bit too much like … a commitment.
Does Google News count as a newspaper website? I was forced to customize it because of the mountain of news, and the default categories being so far from my own interests. But having done that, it has committed me to it a whole lot more than before.
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Indeed, subtle insults are not better insults. But curiously, they can sometimes be more insulting. I think it's the 'behind the hand'-ness of them.
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