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Tustain on Debt
http://blog.sofer.com/money/2011/02/19/tustain-on-debt.html
Paul Tustain, founder of BullionVault.com, unsurprisingly thinks that gold prices are going up. Even if it’s only an extended sales pitch, his video still makes some interesting points. First, returns from gold mining are declining, squeezed by the expense of extraction and the increasing effectiveness of governments in extracting ecomomic rent from the miners, so that they are no longer a good leveraged bet on the increase in the value of gold. Second, taking data from the BIS.
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No more HTML
http://blog.sofer.com/tech/2011/02/17/no-more-html.html
According to Avi Bryant (speaking in 2009), web frameworks are. His argument is that, with the creation of the V8 JavaScript virtual. Machine, sophisticated web apps can now be written in JavaScript. Almost entirely on the client side, communicating via JSON. Server. As a result, templates will die. It will make more sense to. With programmatic APIs, written in JavaScript. And if. You don’t like JavaScript, you can use a language that compiles to. Increasingly going to happen on the client side.
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sofer (D Sofer) · GitHub
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X64;@sofer.com. Nov 28, 2008. Super simple starter kit for Node.js. The sanitize params plugin updated to work with the Sanitizer module. Stripped down jqtouch files for inserting into a Rails project. Also known as 20minsdaily.com. 1,123 contributions in the last year. Summary of pull requests, issues opened, and commits. Learn how we count contributions. Pushed 16 commits to foundersandcoders/oursite. Aug 16 Aug 20. Update of Testimonials section. Replacement of Hire us section with Showcase section.
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* Google Yahoo Search Engine Optimization Search Engines Ranking Positioning: 12/01/2004 - 01/01/2005
http://google-yahoo.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_archive.html
Google Yahoo Search Engine Optimization Search Engines Ranking Positioning. Google Yahoo Search Engine Optimization Search Engines Ranking Positioning News Web site Promotion Tips Tools. Sunday, December 26, 2004. Search Engine Optimization Ranking Submission - Website Promotion for Google Yahoo and Msn Positioning. Finding the Ranking of a WebSite - Choosing Appropriate Keywords. Http:/ www.google.com/ie? If you want to search Google regularly for your websites' keyword rankings:. The approximately perc...
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Node.js confusion
http://blog.sofer.com/tech/2011/06/07/nodejs-confusion.html
I have been playing around with Node.js and there are a few things with javascript which keep tripping me up. The first thing I have had trouble with is that when passing a function as an argument, it should not actually be invoked. In other words, the function reference should be bare and not followed by brackets. One upshot of this is that if the function reference is eventually going to be invoked with arguments, then these arguments will need to be passed as separate arguments.
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Krugman on banking
http://blog.sofer.com/money/2012/06/11/krugman-on-banking.html
Paul Krugman reckons that banning fractional reserve banning is a plausible idea that is. 8220;quite wrong”. He thinks that the Diamond-Dybvig paper on Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity. Is a refutation of the idea of full reserve banking and. One of those papers that just opens your mind to a wider reality. Except that Diamond-Dybvig says absolutely nothing about the relative benefits of fractional reserve, as opposed to full-reserve. As Ralph Musgrave has already pointed out,. 8220;it is much...
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Address by Geoffrey Crowther
http://blog.sofer.com/learn/2013/07/25/address-by-geoffrey-crowther.html
Address by Geoffrey Crowther. This is the Open University. We are open, first, as to people. But if this were all, we could hardly call ourselves a university. This is not simply an educational rescue mission – though that is our first task and we do not decry it. But we also aim wider and higher. Wherever there is an unprovided need for higher education, supplementing the existing provision, there is our constituency. There are no limits on persons. There are no boundaries of space.
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London property prices
http://blog.sofer.com/money/2011/11/13/london-property-prices.html
Many, many years ago I read Fred Harrison’s “The Power in the Land”, which in 1983 argued that there is an 18-year property cycle, which had last peaked in 1974. The subsequent peak arrived, not in 1992, but 1990, and the most recent peak was, on Harrison’s schedule, due to arrive in 2010. His argument (straight from the writings of Henry George) is pretty simple: business cycles are driven by property (or more accurately, land) prices. Nor does it explain how trade imbalances, the growth of currency res...
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On gold
http://blog.sofer.com/money/2011/09/07/on-gold.html
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A great graphic from the New York Times
http://blog.sofer.com/money/2011/09/05/a-great-graphic.html
A great graphic from the New York Times. 8220;With debt at unsustainable levels and two income households the norm, these two reactions to stagnant wages have reached their limits.”. Courtesy of the New York Times.
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