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A key measure of inflation surged to a new 30-year high(lite.cnn.com)
1 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
Easy to say, but not to do: start writing every day. There is a hack. Choose a throwaway HN or Reddit account and commit to writing just one sentence about one article every day. Give yourself permission for the result to suck. All you need
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The Prisoner's dilemma is the reason. There might be a way of doing complex multi-participant tasks that is better than what's being done currently, but the incentives for each participant are not aligned. Even when that lack
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Stellantis has halted production at other plants, including in Europe and Canada, forecasting that it would make 1.4 million fewer vehicles this year due to the chip shortage. For perspective: > Combined sales of FCA and PSA totaled
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by aazaa 5y ago
> It’s a lot of writing to do in any given week, but I don’t care. I want to write it all. I write all day to work, and then I think about writing all night to relax. In the late afternoon and evening, I am constantly, to paraphrase the
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The containership industry is a good illustration of the supply chain mess: as shown in the first chart, more than 70 containerships are stacked up outside Los Angeles/Long Beach ports waiting to unload. Idle containerships are ba
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by aazaa 5y ago
There would be an instant shortage of schools to train and credential the new drivers. Then there would be a backlog at DMVs to issue licenses. And on and on. Kind of like we're seeing now.
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Proto-Indo-European Homeland(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Low cost: Less than 1000 USD for the robot hardware. I'm not sure where this figure comes from. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the Apple ][ cost ~ $6,000. > Previously shown off to a few thousand rabid fans at the West Coast Co
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by aazaa 5y ago
> One strategy includes minting a $1 trillion coin, a move she [Pelosi] said Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York [Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee] has raised. Back in 2013, during another debt-ceiling fight, the Treasury and Fe
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Don’t Delete – Just Don’t (2009)(udidahan.com)
2 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
You are not paying attention. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/search?q=china+ban+bitcoin&...
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The hucksterish utopian rhetoric and blustering ambient scuzz of the broader cryptocurrency thing as it exists in this moment—the clammy slew of posturing experts, the open mendacity and barely concealed rube-running bad faith, the act
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by aazaa 5y ago
> A statement posted on the Central Bank’s website today says that “virtual currency does not have the same legal status as legal currency.” China has "banned Bitcoin" dozens of times over the last decade. I mean, this is an an
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China sends 24 fighter jets toward Taiwan in show of force(apnews.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
> CAF cases make the news when the victim doesn't get their money back in a timely fashion, for the same reason that fires and earthquakes do: because that's not the normal state of things. Got a source for that?
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by aazaa 5y ago
> That system, by design, has conquered the boom/bust cycle, but western observers refuse to believe this because they are so throughly bought into the architecture of the western financial system and the many billions of words writ
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Lyon arrived @RDUAirport & gave his bag to @TSA to be scanned. He says he absolutely knew TSA would see the cash, but said he also knew there is no law limiting the amount of cash one can fly with in the U.S. Here's the real p
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Strike works in all US states except New York and Hawaii, and the country of El Salvador. That's odd, because Strike is the company on which El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment is based. https://www.businessofbusiness
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Trillion-Dollar Coin(en.wikipedia.org)
19 points by aazaa 5y ago|8 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
tldw: They realize that job security is an illusion. Aside from the problem that zero evidence is presented that "employees aren't returning to work in America," the idea that they're freelancing instead is just outlandi
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by aazaa 5y ago
> "We'll post jobs," he said, "and it's very seldom that someone under the age of 40 is coming in the door to apply." Among the workers who remain, arthritis is a common struggle. > "A lot of the peo
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by aazaa 5y ago
Most high school students shouldn't go to college. It's not very contrarian here, but outside of tech circles in the US it's very unpopular. Hated even.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> And finally, I became the exact thing I hated: a toxic asshat throwing his skills around like fists. I don’t do code review for the business, I just like showing the rookies their place. My skills have finally started to pay off. Or he
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by aazaa 5y ago
This is why, for example, decentralized life insurance policies have been compared to hit contracts.
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by aazaa 5y ago
A theory of everything needs to account for everything. This article doesn't even demonstrate that a housing shortage exists, and it completely ignores the unfavorable demographics of the aging boomers and lack of replacement demand.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> While the Department of the Treasury prints actual dollars, “printing money” is also a term that is sometimes used to describe a means of monetary policy, which is conducted by the Federal Reserve. Monetary policy involves controlling
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Chinese Warships Sailing Near Alaska's Aleutian Islands Shadowed by Coast Guard(thedrive.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
Market excesses are always marked by a "hot" sector. Remember the Nifty 50? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty The members of that group were the tech giants of their time. Replace "large-cap&quot
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by aazaa 5y ago
The problem with these indicators is that, although they may indicate over- or undervaluation, they tell you nothing about when a mean reversion will happen. As Keynes famously said: "The market can stay irrational longer than you ca

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