pat flaherty

Software engineer and linguist who's worked in both tech and finance in and outside the US.

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@valigo @Raaka_elgupo It means he's a CEO.

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@CrimPracMan @SethAbramson Orwell sure got "The Lion and the Unicorn" wrong.

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@CynicalPublius Norway is a petrostate.

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@CrimPracMan There's a context for this - but I don't know what it is. Besides, with Trump, there are so many things to pick from.

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@3YearLetterman I thought it was 'stare decided.'

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@3YearLetterman You must be commenting on your neighbors.

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@Putinfails Yes - I'm aware.

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@michaelxpettis The industrial heart of the Manchukuo.

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@3YearLetterman The real world looks rather more complicated than that to me.

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@WeiJieFung1 @michaelxpettis I suppose by deflation, pre-1914, you mean what's called in the US the Long Depression.

https://t.co/hQYyVHhFGI

I'm referring to China's problems with (a lack of) silver 500, or for that matter, 1000 years ago.

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@WKCosmo @skdh Will I guess that's final isn't it. Thanks for the explanation.

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@Gaurab Alcatel (France), SubCom (US), NEC (Japan), HMN Tech (China).

You didn't provide the list so I did.

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@WeiJieFung1 @michaelxpettis There's nowhere near enough gold in the world to accommodate the current level of economic activity. A major historical problem for China was the lack of metallic (in their case silver) specie. Which, at the time, greatly distorted world economic activity.

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@Bencera The truth is no one knows. I'm a mostly retired software developer and our son is a machine-learning engineer in SF.

Predictions are hard - especially about the future.

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@lithos_graphein The memory, uh, bottleneck.

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@DavidSacks The problem David is that I don't trust you.

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@tyillc It's a matter of local vs global (in the mathematical sense) optimization. Or instead of global, national.

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@3YearLetterman Did you mean the birthmark citizenship case?

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@marcosagusstinn China was the first country to ever (and by a very wide margin) produce > 1000 Mt/a but has now slipped just slightly back below that. Current #2 India produces 164.9 Mt/a.

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@GrandpaRoy2 The Russians are maybe the world's great conspiracy theorists. That might work within their own history but is less true of the world at large.