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No way! If I don't reinvent the wheel I won't learn anything out of the exercise.



The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Mar 14th, 2010 at 12:32:51 PM EST
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True, but not a reason to ignore "prior art" as it were.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun Mar 14th, 2010 at 02:58:48 PM EST
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"Prior art" is only a concern if you're claiming priority or originality :)

The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Mar 14th, 2010 at 03:32:40 PM EST
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But having an independently derived multi-sector, multi- nation dynamic model would be creating something that has never existed. I suspect that some interesting things would fall out of it.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun Mar 14th, 2010 at 03:06:33 PM EST
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