I suspect there's more inertia in the production business with all the millions, if not billions of equipment that's been bought and skills and techniques and careers that have been invested.
Though I could be wrong. Maybe it has a bright (or rather slightly dim and headache inducing) future.
That "depending on how you measure it" is important. The government would like you to think it's 2.1% but that's due to hinky accounting. The actual rise in the cost of living is north of 3%.
If you are willing to defer fulfillment on spending your earnings, you should be able to enjoy realistic returns on those savings. That you can't is due to higher-than-it-should-be inflation. That is, the government is stealing your wealth.
Unless you have huge amounts to invest, you will need to keep your first-stage savings in low-yield, high liquidity investments. Inflation damaging the value of these savings makes it harder to get to the next stage where you actually make a return on what you can put away.
Heck, they might even be looking to branch out into being a payment processor for others in the same way that Amazon parlayed their infrastructure work into AWS. There's an opportunity waiting there for an established player (Though I hope the current innovators do well). I wouldn't be surprised if Paypal is being quite active behind the scenes. They already handle foreign currency transactions.
Wow. I have never had any issue with the Amazon website. The only time the buy now button has been missing is when the item is not available for sale (there's valid reasons for keeping a page for out-of-stock items live).
As for AWS? There's a whole lot there but the basic ec2 services are straightforward. I had a test box set up in the day and our lab stack up-and-running within a week. The biggest issue right now is that they keep running out of available instances in certain availability zones.
Also, this bill didn't originate in the house as it should have. The senate Democrats took an entirely different bill that had come up from the house, gutted it and refilled it with Obamacare. It's a travesty of the democratic process.
It's not even "their" culture but the culture impressed on them by the welfare state. The drive to survive gives a fantastic start, especially when it can be passed down through generations. If all you have to do is wait for the government to provide your food and housing and you can just hanging out with your buddies all day playing street fighter, where's the drive to improve going to come from?
I am (I would claim) good at it but I don't like it. Largely that's because coding for hire tends to boil down to the same few patterns over and over again. Put something fresh in front of me and it can be fun again.
I'll complain about it. If my house price goes up, it likely means other house prices are going up. If they are going up roughly in proportion, that means that if I want to upgrade, the gap is bigger. It also has, in recent years, meant that a bubble was happening which is just bad news in general (I'd also suggest that we are still somewhat in the bubble with the housing market).
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I suspect there's more inertia in the production business with all the millions, if not billions of equipment that's been bought and skills and techniques and careers that have been invested.
Though I could be wrong. Maybe it has a bright (or rather slightly dim and headache inducing) future.
Kannel.
Time to put on the sack-cloth and roll around in the dirt.
Will you teach your children to flake flint hand axes?
Thought not.
He'd like his red stapler, please.
Heck, with a copy of the constitution on his desk, his surprising he wasn't charged with possessing terrorist literature.
I'm having trouble setting up the gateway.
Magnet links. Wonderful things.
That "depending on how you measure it" is important. The government would like you to think it's 2.1% but that's due to hinky accounting. The actual rise in the cost of living is north of 3%.
If you are willing to defer fulfillment on spending your earnings, you should be able to enjoy realistic returns on those savings. That you can't is due to higher-than-it-should-be inflation. That is, the government is stealing your wealth.
I know this was a laptop but some desktops have case fans so you might at least be able to know that the case was opened.
The credit card company typically does the conversion. And they'll charge you handsomely for it too.
You need to understand the definitions of "inflation" and "deflation" in economic matters before you comment further.
Unless you have huge amounts to invest, you will need to keep your first-stage savings in low-yield, high liquidity investments. Inflation damaging the value of these savings makes it harder to get to the next stage where you actually make a return on what you can put away.
Heck, they might even be looking to branch out into being a payment processor for others in the same way that Amazon parlayed their infrastructure work into AWS. There's an opportunity waiting there for an established player (Though I hope the current innovators do well). I wouldn't be surprised if Paypal is being quite active behind the scenes. They already handle foreign currency transactions.
Wow. I have never had any issue with the Amazon website. The only time the buy now button has been missing is when the item is not available for sale (there's valid reasons for keeping a page for out-of-stock items live).
As for AWS? There's a whole lot there but the basic ec2 services are straightforward. I had a test box set up in the day and our lab stack up-and-running within a week. The biggest issue right now is that they keep running out of available instances in certain availability zones.
Also, this bill didn't originate in the house as it should have. The senate Democrats took an entirely different bill that had come up from the house, gutted it and refilled it with Obamacare. It's a travesty of the democratic process.
Zersetzung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
It's not even "their" culture but the culture impressed on them by the welfare state. The drive to survive gives a fantastic start, especially when it can be passed down through generations. If all you have to do is wait for the government to provide your food and housing and you can just hanging out with your buddies all day playing street fighter, where's the drive to improve going to come from?
I am (I would claim) good at it but I don't like it. Largely that's because coding for hire tends to boil down to the same few patterns over and over again. Put something fresh in front of me and it can be fun again.
Your statement that it's "Just false" is unscientific in itself and evidence of your own biases and prejudices.
The truth is it's a hard task to separate causes and influences.
Can we say "Imperial Valley"?
I have a speech impediment, you insensitive clod.
Pontius Pilate
It's a republic, not a democracy.
That'll be perfect to be ready when it comes around again in another couple of decades.
I'll complain about it. If my house price goes up, it likely means other house prices are going up. If they are going up roughly in proportion, that means that if I want to upgrade, the gap is bigger. It also has, in recent years, meant that a bubble was happening which is just bad news in general (I'd also suggest that we are still somewhat in the bubble with the housing market).
These things happen in cycles. If it hadn't have been the techies, it would have been/will be somebody else.
Or you can become Detroit.