Majromax

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> I thought that taxes were supposed to pay for basic neighborhood services Neighbourhood is the operative word here. In some parts of the rural United States, homes are far away and far between. Public services of the kind expected
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> With today's tech there is no reason that trades can't be immediate, Liquidity is a good, non-technological reason that we may not want trades to be immediate. Consider how the price is found at market-open: buy and sell orde
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> It won’t, just like even in this thread you see the perennial “this is good, actually.” That's not quite what the grandparent poster was talking about. One strain of thought on FTX/SBF has been conspiratorial. Allegedly, SBF
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> not your keys, not your coins as the saying goes. > Furthermore, the current "bad crypto news" is still suppressing the BTC price. This is a contradiction. The high price of cryptocurrency is based in part on intermediat
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I think that's a false economy. Suppose a better infotainment system saves even one minute of time per day. Over a 300 day work-year, that's five hours of driver-work, valued on the order of $100 (at $20/hr). All other thin
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That's just Bayesian reasoning. If you told me that you saw the sun rise in the east this morning, I'd probably believe you. If you told me that you saw the sun rise in the north this morning, I'd probably not believe you. In
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> EBITDA is the total value added of the company. I don't think that's quite the right interpretation. EBIDTA is the value added of the company net its employees (and I'd quibble over depreciation and taxes), whereas GD
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> There should be more discussion about how to store value without counterparty risk. > Most people think it is as easy as ordering a hardware wallet, following the process the wallet software suggests and - hurray! - your keys, your
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> The problem will manifest itself as declining staffing, not a sudden depopulation of the hospital, and it will not go unaddressed. Note that "declining staffing" is exactly the complaint here, and evidently it has gone unad
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Reply to self: I realize I forgot to link the FRED series on manufacturing employment. It's located at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP . I apologize for the omission.
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> If you’re not growing, you’re dying. Isn't this exactly the same Welchian attitude implicitly criticized by the grandparent commenter?
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> The USA lost almost 2 million manufacturing jobs in the 1980s. That's misleading. Via FRED, manufacturing employment in the USA had a long peak lasting from roughly 1970 to about 1990. The largest peak-to-trough drop was in fac
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> But the new connector is still only rated for 600W (if used within spec), I think that's the problem right there: running the connection at its rated limit. It implies that a damaged or slightly out-of-spec connector could fail,
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> People pay for a lottery ticket to dream about what their life could be like if they won (similar to people who never launch that buiness idea). That might describe the median player , but I doubt it describes the median ticket . It
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> for something like VOCs, it's likely using a CO₂ sensor and a lookup table that's static and only really valid for the test room it was created in. It's the other way around, usually. CO₂ is more typically the estimate
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> I share the common emotion that this is awful and shouldn't happen, but I have trouble justifying it intellectually. Incentives. The justification would be that sexual assault is a serious crime that goes underreported. If victim
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For a macro pad, maybe. For a full-sized keyboard, that would be a lot of ADC channels. Looking at Digikey, ADC chips seem to be about $0.50 per input in bulk, and that would add a lot of BOM cost to the keyboard. You might be able to do
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That's also the part that isn't worn out under this hall effect approach; the keys are magnetically levitated.
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> Not that two failed launch attempts are all that big a deal in the grand scheme The question to me is, does SLS have a grand scheme? The entire program is specified and budgeted for about five missions, with extensions uncertain. E
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> Unfortunately NASA doesn't have the ability to even appear to fail explosively while SpaceX can afford to laugh about it. It's the curse of waterfall budgeting. A democratic government with typical constraints wants to minim
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> Because US citizens, such as Brittney Griner, expect the US govt to help them when something goes wrong when they are working overseas. Other countries don't seem to have a problem extending consular assistance to their overseas c
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> I expect one of the main reasons someone could evangelise Emacs for is the fact that defaults don't mean much when it's all configurable. So if you don't like the keys, just bind them to whatever you like. Configurabilit
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> I don't think wages should be excluded from claims about price inflation, especially in non industrial economies heavily reliant on cheap labour. As I read your quote above, it sounds to me like "increased spending on labour&
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> The disdain for "lusers" came from BOFH sysadmin types, well before it was adopted by the non-"tech", business-focused folks. Based on the definitions in the thread, I'd say the BOFH attitude is more the invers
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It seems to me that there's a delicate, probably impossible balance: the difficulty decreases at the critical times, but not fast enough to compensate for the tiebreak. Suppose the difficulty decreased by a lot : at 0:59 it is effecti
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> What advantage would it provide to make it harder to distinguish individual soldiers? Distinguishing individual soldiers is an important step in counting the size of a line. Accepting "red coats blend together" as truth, tha
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> On options losses are capped to the money invested. On long options -- a purchased call, purchased short, or a combination -- then losses are capped to the money invested. On short options, losses are potentially unlimited. Unders
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> It would be extraordinarily expensive to expect YouTube to have humans moderate everything manually. You could flip this around, however? Why is YouTube promoting videos that no responsible human has reviewed? These videos don'
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Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?(featherlessbipeds.substack.com)
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> In general, when a company gets bought out, quality tends to drop. I think you can simplify that to "in general, quality tends to drop." It isn't malicious; it's reversion to the mean. An organization's reputa

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