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by aazaa 7y ago
> Now, in 2019, Python 3 versions are dominant and the Python Software Foundation has said that Python 2 reaches its official end-of-life on January 1, 2020 , so that they can focus their limited time fully on the future. Undoubtedly, th
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A national debate over politics, principles and impeachment – in 1868(washingtonpost.com)
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What the Founders Feared About Impeachment(npr.org)
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Sweden ends five years of negative rates with hike to zero(reuters.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
The article links to the original source: https://freedomonthemove.org Scrolling down, one sees an ad from none other than Thomas Jefferson: > In Alberale, a Mulatto slave called Sandy, about 35 years of age, his stature is r
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Dinner for One: the British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years(theguardian.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Economists have been casting around for the answer, a theory to explain their inability to peer accurately in the months ahead, let alone the years. ... No mention of "quantitative easing" anywhere. QE ran in various forms fr
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Frank's Sign(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Conventional investing wisdom tells us that VCs should pass on most deals they see. But our research indicates otherwise: At the seed stage, investors would increase their expected return by broadly indexing into every credible deal. &
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by aazaa 7y ago
Bogus Norton security alert. I'm outta there.
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by aazaa 7y ago
I didn't read the article, but a quick scan showed no mention of "interest rate" or quantitative easing. I'd be wary of any discussion of buybacks that didn't mention that the price of money has been kept artificial
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by aazaa 7y ago
Productivity growth gets the most discussion: > But the most important piece of data against Yang’s thesis is slow productivity growth. If companies are adding robots, AI algorithms or other automation to their production processes, it s
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Even if he [AG Barr] makes that the law – and good luck ... > You’d have to inspect every packet on the internet to make sure it wasn’t using strong encryption keys. You’d have to ban every kind of decentralized network. > You’d
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by aazaa 7y ago
Reminds me of the line from Fredrik Pohl: "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam." The author has focused mostly on predicting the car. But I think it's much more though
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Op-Eds from the Future(nytimes.com)
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UK's post-Brexit trade at risk as WTO's top court shuts down(theguardian.com)
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Trump vs. the WTO(axios.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
I really like the concept of physical electronic cash, but in practice nobody has figured out how to make it work. There are many attacks to consider. The most obvious is to obtain the private key. If you did so, you could give the note to
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by aazaa 7y ago
This appears to be long-form ad copy. It's characterized by extremely short paragraphs (often one sentence), one after another, and a winding story the reader must wade through to get to the payoff promised in the headline. I can'
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Are the brokers broken? (2008) [pdf](repowatch.files.wordpress.com)
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Underpriced Repo Risks May Push Fed Toward QE4, Pozsar Says(bloomberg.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
> My co-founder recently decided to shut the company down, focusing on what he/she does best rather than being reliant on tech/design loops by making our amazing designer create a Shopify site that he/she can manage him&#x
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by aazaa 7y ago
> About 9.1 million bitcoins, representing about 51% of those outstanding, haven’t changed hands in at least six months, according to Flipside. About two million of those bitcoin haven’t moved in more than two years. Transaction volume h
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by aazaa 7y ago
A good account of Volcker's tenure at the Fed can be found in "Secrets of the Temple" by William Greider.
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Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds, BIS Says(bloomberg.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
Cannot fathom why articles like this fail to link to the original source report. Here it is: https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documen... In particular, I wanted to see what new contri
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by aazaa 7y ago
> To summarize, what we call “systems programming” I think should be called “low-level programming.” Computer systems design as a field is too important not to have its own name. Clearly separating these two ideas provides a greater conc
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by aazaa 7y ago
The article unfortunately does not use the more common term for the "blue energy" principle: "osmotic power." The Wikipedia article on osmotic power explains the physical principles better: https://en.wikipedi
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Unwin described four “great patterns of human culture” and degrees of flourishing measured in terms of architecture, art, engineering, literature, agriculture, and so forth. ... The article doesn't define the word "flourish,&
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Why Climate Alarmism Hurts Us All(forbes.com)
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