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zerstroyeron Microsoft Surface Studio

Would be cool if you could connect a real machine to the display and touchscreen, would that be possible with the DisplayPort?

zerstroyeron In Sweden, a Cash-Free Future Nears

Kinda sad that the only way we will ever solve this problem seems to be by pure accident.

zerstroyeron The Fed’s imminent interest-rate decision – Is America ready for lift-off?

Well negative interest rates could be appropriate for negative economic growth. So if we never allow for negative interest rates we never allow for negative economic growth. But if we ever want to achieve singularity, we have to allow our economy to shrink to (zero).

zerstroyeron Dozens of oil tankers cluster off the coast of Texas due to oil price fall

So i looked at this map http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/11323.shtml and the water depth seems to be about 60 feet if i'm doing it right, i don't know if this is considered safe in such cases or how long they would take to reach a safe depth. Guess it just makes me uncomfortable to have them idle there fully loaded to make a better buck.

zerstroyeron Dozens of oil tankers cluster off the coast of Texas due to oil price fall

So is the risk of an tsunami so low there that it is considered safe to have fully loaded oiltankers idle off the coast, or would this be not a problem for those tankers?

zerstroyeron Django 1.9 alpha 1 released

This is interesting. I have written a django backend written for an organization already having a wordpress site. Having never written a piece of php code i must ask: Are you aware of any resources that could be particularly helpful for the php/wordpress part? Or is it more like embedding a lot of javascript into your wordrpess site?

zerstroyeron Fed Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged

Well maybe it's time for them to acknowledge that money as form of credit should have an interest rate which is variable.

zerstroyeron Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist

Those discussions always seem to miss the point. I think it is really obvious that our economic system struggles with stagnation, but really seems to break if an econmy (god forbid) shrinks for whatever reason.

If not for that constraint i guess economies in western countries would have already shrunken quite a bit due to automatisation. For me the cause seems to be to a fundamental bug in our intertemporal trade system.

zerstroyeron Build your own operating system

I've started building a webversion of Lions' Commentary, maybe this is helpful for someone. https://github.com/warsus/lions- http://warsus.github.com/lions-