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Comment on 2011 in 365 pictures by Ghusse

Ghusse — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:46:58 +0000

And, btw, congrats for this amazing year, and for the photos!

Comment on 2011 in 365 pictures by Ghusse

Ghusse — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:46:24 +0000

Okay,

Now I guess I have no other choice than to launch a PADC soon…

Thanks Tim :p

Comment on {365} The wheel keeps turning by Ghusse

Ghusse — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:16:30 +0000

:p
soon

Comment on {365} The wheel keeps turning by Tim

Tim — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:53:46 +0000

Thanks buddy, that was a damn long lasting project… but worth a lot of XP
Bytheway, when do we start our PADC 2012?

Comment on {365} The wheel keeps turning by Ghusse

Ghusse — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:50:37 +0000

Congrats ! You did it !

Comment on [Book] 20 ideas to reform capitalism by Tim

Tim — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:57:54 +0000

@Franck: corrected, sorry about that.

The authors sure do not claim having found anything new, but merely gathering up and reformulating propositions that could solve this or that issue they identified. Of course, Keynes & Stiglitz’s ideas are in there, as well as J.C Trichet, A. Greenspan and a whole other bunch of economists.

About crashes, they imagine that we will start seeing bubbles bursting every two years now. Of course they will not always be as big as the subprime’s one, but they see the risk increasing faster and faster.

Comment on [Book] 20 ideas to reform capitalism by Franck Mée

Franck Mée — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:48:06 +0000

Hey, maybe you’d want to put a ‘c’ somewhere in my first name…

The idea of a stable market doesn’t seem new to me, I think Keynes spoke about things like that — or maybe just “new-keynesianists” like Bernard Maris or Joseph Stiglitz, I don’t remember exactly. It seems to make simple sense, really: I don’t understand how anybody would consider normal to have two-digits growth in every speculative market when global market growth is no more than 3-5 %; it seems obvious that this would be at the cost of heavy losses somewhere else.
Investors will, anyway, never want to hear about that, since they all think they are smarter than anyone and are confident they can do better choices and always be in the winner ones.

To me, it looks like the kind of things players do : they take a blackjack game, knowing this game gives a .5 % advantage to the house, but also knowing playing smart can give a player a 1 % advantage and thinking they actually will win in the end, other players paying for their benefits.

The difference, of course, is that investors have really good odds in everyday life, and big crashes only seldom happen — once in a decade or so. So they would be even more difficult to convince than hardcore players…

And I should read this book too, I guess. If I can find time…

Comment on {337} “Glüh” + “Wein” by Rolyat

Rolyat — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:42:43 +0000

Hips!

Comment on [Book] Rework by Ghusse's » Rework

Ghusse's » Rework — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:46:21 +0000

[...] Jason Fried, David Heinemeier HanssonJ’ai découvert le livre Rework par l’intermédiaire de Tim. Je dois dire que depuis que je l’ai lu, je repense souvent à certaines idées qu’il [...]

Comment on 1/2 marathon milestone by Tim

Tim — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:47:01 +0000

Of course, I did not put my old running shoes on since march when I received my five fingers. I bought a pair of Luna Sandals this summer (but it won’t do for the winter here) and recently a new pair of VFF (in order to alternate the pairs when I run two days in a row).