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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Remember how Trump comes out with some shit about women being punished if they have an abortion and how it was all so ‘out there’, well….
..and Poland is on the verge of passing a law completely banning abortion. Yes, Poland, where in 1989 they danced in the streets after the Wall fell, and Solidarity. Lech Walsea was on the verge of leading the country, where under communism, women had free access to abortion and birth control, and any man in a robe who tried to judge them found themselves at the wrong end of a length of piano wire.
Now their bodies have been handed over to the Catholic bishops, who enjoy their untrammeled power.
Good one Poles. Now the gays will be next.
Such a sad story for the young woman, Bill. Her flatmates reported her to the police. How despicable is that !
The Robots Are Coming for Wall Street
It’s an interesting point about automation but it’s the unskilled and repetitive jobs that tend to go first.
HFT (high frequency trading) has already replaced roomfuls of human traders with a few software developers and mathematicians.
Once I’m finished my current project, I really want to develop a custom FX trading algorithm.
Quite a few of the retail trading platforms have APIs you can use to develop your own systems.
The only down side is that they tend to be Java, ugh, create 8 million classes to get Hello to appear on your screen.
Hmmmm the big players have sub microsecond access to the underlying data stream and can execute massive numbers of orders in that timescale…
Yeah, they’re trying to make money off the static., 2-3 pip movements with very tight stop losses.
Trades that may only last a couple of seconds.
Most people couldn’t do that because the margin wouldn’t make that sort of strategy viable.
Such a bloody horrible language. It’s like a modern COBOL.
Unfortunately, everyone seems to use it still.
I’m doing quite a bit of stuff in javascript at the moment, I used to hate it but I actually quite enjoy coding in it now, the prototype hierarchy has merits, still a bit of a arsehole for debugging though.
chrome developer tools.
True. I was more commenting on how much these unskilled people were paid.
Ugly.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-05/new-zealand-detainee-dies-in-villawood-detention-centre/7299880
The ugly side of Aus, the NSW Police force has a staff of over 25000, they can assemble a group of a 1000 members at any time without impacting on existing police duties.
I don’t know if you saw the article on TV, the man was imprisoned for two years for dangerous driving, which is why he’s being deported, he was 42, and had lived in Aus since he was 17……Fucken Howard and Abbott, probably the two biggest F wits in Aus politics.
The Promise Of The #PanamaPapers – What Happens Next?
When we look at what has happened to our laws over the last few decades and even centuries we see a slow development that enriches the already rich. We need to repeal those laws and take our power back off of them.
We cannot afford the rich.
Not sure if this has been canvassed already in other forums but, astonishingly, even Larry Williams is piling into Key and the government on the Panama Papers.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11617271
1.prisons
2.prisoners
3.profit.
what is not to like
http://thespinoff.co.nz/04-04-2016/corrections-and-clarifications-unpicking-judith-collins-prison-number-explanations/
How about this load of bile from a programme which no doubt rates itself as a Current Affairs show:
http://www.newshub.co.nz/tvshows/story/helen-clark-to-be-top-dog-at-the-un-2016040519#axzz44qgWw9Lw
Unbelievable, Anne. We don’t watch Story – because of this sort of thing that they put up but this really is dragging themselves down to the pits.
I was shocked at the obvious bile. I thought about laying a complaint about madam Du plessis- Allen’s final comments to the effect:
We had her for years and the rest of the world can gladly have her. But they will have to use eco bulbs and won’t be able to smack their children.
But it’s not worth it.
She delivered the barbs with her trade mark wide grin. Bet her husband put those words into her mouth. Never liked Barry Soper. Untrustworthy and full of partisan shit.
Yeah Heather what’s your name… hope you see this. Don’t like what I’ve said about hubby? Well we don’t like what you say about arguably the most talented and competent PM this country has seen. You don’t even make the first step of that ladder.
I guess this is why the top table is so keen on free trade.
Years before more than a hundred media outlets around the world released stories Sunday exposing a massive network of global tax evasion detailed in the so-called Panama Papers, U.S. President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for a Bush administration-negotiated free trade agreement that watchdogs warned would only make the situation worse.
http://www.ibtimes.com/panama-papers-obama-clinton-pushed-trade-deal-amid-warnings-it-would-make-money-2348076
“During a break from that 10-hour Eurogroup meeting, in which I had struggled to reclaim some economic sovereignty on behalf of my battered parliament and our suffering people, another finance minister attempted to soothe me by saying: “Yanis, you must understand that no country can be sovereign today. Especially not a small and bankrupt one like yours.”
This line of argument is probably the most pernicious fallacy to have afflicted public debate in our modern liberal democracies. Indeed, I would go as far as to suggest that it may be the greatest threat to liberal democracy itself. Its true meaning is that sovereignty is passé unless you are the United States, China or, maybe, Putin’s Russia. In which case you might as well append your country to a transnational alliance of states where your parliament is reduced to a rubber stamp, and all authority is vested in the larger states.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/yanis-varoufakis-why-we-must-save-the-eu
for all students of history……yet to written….again.