abfar

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by abfar 1y ago
Nice tool, but the calculator executes division before exponentiation. E.g. 2^4/2 is evaluated to 4, not 8. However, it executes exponentiation first before multiplication (e.g. 2^2*3 is evaluated to 12). Is this intentional?
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by abfar 2y ago
Indonesia's government also implemented this exact policy in 1950. The policy was called "Gunting Sjafruddin" or "Sjafruddin Cut" after the minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara. Not sure about the impact though. This a
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by abfar 3y ago
Oops I messed the formatting for the example. Here we go: 24feb 12.5 cash food eating out at xx 6.5 bank1 phonebill 25feb ...
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by abfar 3y ago
I've been using hledger for two years now, and I don't use any exported data from my banks. Here's my workflow: Everytime I make a transaction, I put a note on my phone. The note is a simplified version of hledger file format
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by abfar 7y ago
I also just use Vim to write markdowns, but without any markdown plugins (beside the built-in markdown syntax highlighting in Vim) and I compile the document to pdf manually using Pandoc. I rarely need to write markdowns though, and my usag
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by abfar 7y ago
I haven't checked the podcast, but the YouTube channel has uploaded some videos featuring him pretty recently, which I found to be very amusing.
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by abfar 7y ago
Also IIRC much of the "trade" created by free trade agreements are not trade at all, but movements of goods internal to a company (e.g. US companies produce goods in a factory in Mexico and later move those goods back to US to be
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by abfar 7y ago
What if we require that every $1 spent by someone on a political ad must also be balanced by a $1 subsidy for the opponents' ads? Seems fair to me and would reduce the impact of money. (I'm sorry but I forgot who proposed this ide
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by abfar 7y ago
In addition, the market makers gain profit from this activity by buying at a slightly lower price than the selling price.
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by abfar 8y ago
The first settlers of Madagascar are also Austronesians, came from Borneo between 350 BC and 550 AD [1]. If you look at a world map you can see just how far those two islands are. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad