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by 2devnull 4y ago
The most important macroeconomic policy wrt recessions is monetary and they look at prices, the CPI and things that signal a hot (too strong) economy. If they paid attention to consumer sentiment, whether or not people expected a recession,
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by 2devnull 4y ago
To me it seems like recessions are usually related to macroeconomic conditions, or the debt/business cycle. Often bad public policy, either fiscal or monetary, has a large role. But maybe you can give an example of one that resulted si
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Islamophobic?! It obviously wasn’t islamophobic enough. What an inversion of meaning. They should have just said “offensive and hurtful to Muslims” and left it at that. They can complain, but they don’t get to change the meaning of languag
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by 2devnull 4y ago
No. Cumulative load wrecks you in the long run. Consider how many weightlifters end up with multiple back surgeries. They got stronger for awhile, then they couldn’t walk.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
If he was union or in an area with a strong union he may not be the one going into crawl spaces and doing more physically damaging work. And electrical is probably the best trade in terms of physical wear and tear, maybe hvac too.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
You aren’t poor. Poor people need cars.
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It is an industry. It must therefore be optimized to maximize shareholder value, roi, revenue, etc… Gambling can be fun, and nothing wrong with casinos, but in the long run they are optimized for one thing. A casino that is not optimized fo
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Maybe. I was fat. I believed various things I heard parroted about, “starvation diets don’t work,” and “it’s not healthy to skip meals.” There are too many of these to list. I noticed skinny people tended to eat less and skip meals. I notic
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by 2devnull 4y ago
No cars for poor people. I think that’s the obvious direction we’re heading. Congestion pricing. The private jets will still fly off to Davos every spring.
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“when lifestyle changes aren’t enough.” People don’t want to hear it, but we do nobody any favors by pretending this is more complicated than it is. It’s actually pretty simple. The solution is to adjust calories in vs calories out. Fast a
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by 2devnull 4y ago
On the other hand cost/benefit can change, especially with new technology - machine learning, ai, quantum computing, etc… That may be why the military is so interested in encouraging it, to distribute (thin out) the risk.
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A password manager?
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Documentation > tests > code People do this backward.
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Reddit is trash. Don’t go there. Don’t try and reason with fools. Most people, since the beginning of time, are fools. Accept that. Learn to disguise your real thoughts or phrase them in that special, if convoluted way, that makes them acce
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Coolest thing I’ve read this year, acknowledging it’s from a few years back. A number of interesting lessons, in terms of both machine learning and music. I hope we don’t replace human performers, even if and when we can. Live performance r
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Next thing you know, they’ll establish border controls.
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Systemd.
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Cool. Go long heavily leveraged and repost this thread next year to really show off. :)
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Was rereading “Fortune’s Formula” this morning after dreaming about Shannon last night. A name that should be more widely recognized.
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The importance of play.
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Noah Smith seems to be perpetually wrong about pretty much everything. Some ideas are bad. You have to update your priors at some point. The politicians in charge can also be bad. He isn’t wrong about that. But swapping out Newsom for some
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by 2devnull 4y ago
There is public transit, bikes and skateboards in the suburbs. That is not the case in rural areas. There was a time when more people lived in rural areas, and kids roamed about. I’d say living in the city, where there is more crime, would
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by 2devnull 4y ago
I’m not a “they.” Truly, I have no team and I sort of feel bad that others do. Soros didn’t make his money in a very honorable way, nor did the Koch brothers. They both have decided to use politics to exercise the same avarice that made the
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by 2devnull 4y ago
They call it reputation laundering. His wife left him after the Epstein thing blew up. Former associates describe him as a pretty terrible person. Being evil and then making a show of your charity, which is often just another outlet for you
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I’m amazed anyone could think that. What’s your take on Soros?
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History can be searched.
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Your insta is probably shadowbanned (or whatever nonesensical synonym they’re using nowadays to describe shadowbanning style moderation).
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by 2devnull 4y ago
If more people used waze this would be a cool natural experiment: Does priming people to think a road is dangerous increase the number of crashes? There are self-fulfilling prophecy type effects in psychology. I can see how making people mo
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Isn’t there evidence to suggest it is a new variant? Haven’t been following closely but recall reading about much higher R0 and shorter incubation period. Edit: https://www.science.org/content/article/source-beiji
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A big part of this is that specialist can be fake, often are, and nobody can tell. They just need to know slightly more about kubernetes or whatever specialty it is, than other people around them. I often come across “experts” that aren’t

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