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Comment on Gold is Money by erich

erich — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:37:53 +0000

Casey's Daily Dispatch has a nice breakdown of what I said above. Gold Speaks Up

Comment on The Good IR: Multiple Returns by Todd Jackson

Todd Jackson — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:49:44 +0000

The statement “Introducing a ReturnStatement into a program can cause the code following it to no longer execute at runtime” is only true of lazy grammars which don’t force a ReturnStatement to be the last in a BasicBlock.

Comment on Gold is Money by erich

erich — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:58:16 +0000

http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1093.html

Gary North: As far as I know the first cartoonist ever to do a booklet based on the Austrian theory of the business cycle. He revised the booklet in 1974. It is now back online. Tho official Counterfeiter, by Vic Lockman.

It is a nice account of how the Federal Reserve Bank and Fractional Reserve banking operate.

Comment on Don’t Fear the Mistakes by erich

erich — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:58:00 +0000

How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State by Karen De Coster, has a few interesting links about how public schools act like prisons for both mind and body.

Comment on Don’t Fear the Mistakes by erich

erich — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:42:40 +0000

Stop being so scared of being wrong

Comment on Promotion of silver as a form of money by erich

erich — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:19:49 +0000

Got back a standard form letter. “Thank you for your suggestion.”

Comment on Financial Cascade Failure by erich

erich — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:42:16 +0000

I really don’t think that getting entirely rid of the fractional reserve system is the appropriate fix. I mean, you don’t expect for a bank (which has employee and service expenses, as well as the large capital expenses of a physical vault) would store your monies without some fee, do you? Much better for them (and for you) if they pay you interest on the money they ‘hold’ for the permission of lending it out. Perhaps we can compromise on 90% reserves instead?

It used to be that this blog was auto-imported to my Facebook account as FB notes, but FB stopped providing that service last month.

Comment on Financial Cascade Failure by Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:04:43 +0000

Damn you need facebook or some other social integration on this shiz.

Anyway, so, another solution to the problems created by the fractional reserve and central banking system is by eliminating them, especially fractional reserve banking. The purpose of fractional reserve banking is primarily the profit of the bankers, not the good of the society the bankers are serving.

Comment on Type-dispatch with Exceptions by erich

erich — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:17:46 +0000

Well, yes you could use ordinary polymorphism. And in fact, I would in the real world. It is both faster and clearer. However, part of this exercise was in using the exception mechanism to achieve a different-than-normal result.

I originally, wanted to use exceptions as a mailbox (for a green thread), but when I typed out the above example, I realized that it still doesn’t allow processing the received messages out-of-order. An explicit queue is still required. However, it does get you a type-dispatch (poor man’s equivalent of pattern matching).

Turns out, exceptions can be used for many different tasks. Developers (including myself) are actually uncreative, in the sense that we tend to think exceptions are for error handling. When actually, the underlying mechanisms can be useful in other ways. The above post contains only one example (of many).

Comment on Type-dispatch with Exceptions by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:41:28 +0000

or you can just use polymorphism…
Two classes instantiate base class over ride virtual (or whatever java equivalent of C++ virtual is). One prints a message another returns an enum. Do a switch on enum invoke a print of base class. Should be faster then relying on exception mechanism.