Author: Stephen Pickering
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The Biggest Problem the World Faces: No Stable Unit of Account
Here’s the best way to put it: Quantitative Easing (QE) is like saying that simply feeding a guy will make him exercise more. It doesn’t. It just makes him more fat (inflation). On the other hand, someone who is working out and growing muscle (ie, a metaphor for a growing economy) does need to be…
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The Law of Detachment
The Law of Detachment: “If you get attached to the outcome, you won’t be in the process.” – Deepak Chopra “Life is a metaphor for what’s happening in our consciousness.” – Deepak Chopra I guess I should add this to my “Consciouness Quotes” page, or my “Deepak Chopra Quotes” page. I don’t know about you,…
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Considering an Investment in Pandora ($P) in Light of Spotify, Rdio, and Songza
I really fell in love with Pandora a year or two ago. I think the market cap was treading around 2 billion. I told myself that if the Market Cap hit 1.5 billion, I’d make an investment. Well, I haven’t logged it, but it seems like it must have bounced off 1.5 billion about 7…
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The Moments of the Big Bang From the Perspective of Inflation.
In the moments of the Big Bang an amount of space the size of Molecule expanded to the size of the Milky Way Galaxy (100,000 Light Years) in a billionth of a billionth, of a billionth, of a second.
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Rackspace Cloud Sites Advantages: Pages that Load in under 2 Seconds
And as you can see from the photo to the right, you sometimes even get Millisecond loads! And keep in mind that is all the way from Amsterdam to Dallas/Ft. Worth. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention CloudFlare here too. I use CloudFlare connected to my Cloud Sites account. And they are at…
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How to Kill a Task or Force Quit an Application on the Galaxy SIII
Coming from iPhone, everything is taking a learning curve, but less than you might imagine, as each year, Android gets better and better, and this Galaxy SIII, as I write seems to be the phone of the moment. Not that I understand the rationality behind how the pages are ordered or where they put…