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by beefield 7y ago
Central banks do not guarantee purchasing power of gold or bitcoin. (A note, The questions I made above are not meant to be snarky. Those are the kind of questions I struggled literally for months when I tried to get my head around negativ
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by beefield 7y ago
Okay, I try. TL;DR: When even at zero rates, aggregate demand is less than aggregate supply. Then a small disclaimer. I am not an economist by trade, so whatever I write below is my thinking, not learned from a book. Thus no sources availab
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by beefield 7y ago
Well, not "forcing"[1] people buying crap today makes the people creating the crap jobless and yes, that has a real cost for society. first because the jobless do not create value and second because someone needs to pay their unem
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by beefield 7y ago
Maybe I am naive[1], but I have difficulties seeing that happening in the EU. I mean, that we would have significant amount of merchants accepting only payment systems that are not available to everyone. Of course, if someone has evidence o
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by beefield 7y ago
> I really hope this trend dies off, a cash-less society is a terrible idea. I fully understand that my opinion is both unintuitive and deeply disliked by many if not most people, so I can only ask you to spend some time thinking if you
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by beefield 7y ago
> It's all very convenient until the crap hits the fan I have difficulties imagining the crap hitting fan that simultaneously breaks down electronic payment systems but rather miraculously keeps the purchasing power of paper money
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by beefield 7y ago
Decision fatigue is one of those things I am inclined to agree with my confirmation bias and just disregard studies that claim it does not exist. It just makes a bit too much sense.
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by beefield 7y ago
Assuming one hates notifications, is there _any_ reason why anyone would want to use app over m(basic[1]).facebook.com? [1] to access messenger because fb stubbornly thinks I want to install their crap/spyware on my phone
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by beefield 7y ago
You have to be a bit careful here, though. If you think that "policy and regulatory reform" means international agreements limiting greenhouse gases are the way to go, unfortunately I am afraid you are in for a really long wait.
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by beefield 7y ago
TL;DR: We need dirt cheap energy. It would have a couple of benefits: First CCS would be feasible. Second if (non-fossil) energy is dirt cheap, nobody bothers digging fossil energy sources from ground. Third, there are always more fun thing
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by beefield 7y ago
> You can also splurge an even extra 10% to get next-business-day onsite service. It is worth to note that it does not actually mean that Lenovo will come next business day to fix. It means that they "try" (whatever that mean
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by beefield 7y ago
I think there should be a clear distinction between your tools and... let's call them "utilities" what comes to UI. It is perfectly okay to make electricity plug, water faucet, toaster and the power button on your computer no
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by beefield 7y ago
As someone somewhere said, writing software to a spec is like walking on the water - Easy when it is frozen.
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by beefield 7y ago
> Kudos to the swedes for working methodically to try to find a way for the central bank to issue digital money. Can you elaborate what you mean by digital money? My understanding is that vast majority of money issued by central banks is
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by beefield 7y ago
My small complaint is that there seems to be no backwards compatibility whatsoever between fastai versions. I get it that it is supposed to be working on the very bleeding edge of deep learning technologies, but at the same time it is sold
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by beefield 7y ago
I think the issue has been the slowly rising ideology that individuals know better individually than collectively what they want to achieve. Collectively we decided to go to the moon and the smartest people were given the recources to achie
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by beefield 7y ago
News is actually worse for me than social media. That's what I feel addicted to. I'd like to get into a state where I read my news from a quality weekly newspaper (like The Economist for global news and maybe another for domestic
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by beefield 7y ago
> We do have a philosophico-legal discussion to have there. There is not that much to discuss. If you leave vested interests out, that is. Future generations will see copyright in same way we look at feudalism or slavery today. Assuming
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by beefield 7y ago
> A recipe can not be protected by copyright. Could some pro-IP person help me reconcile following statements: 1. If there was no copyright, "nobody" would write books/create art, thus we absolutely need to have copyright
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by beefield 7y ago
Now, the next obvious question is, how do you pick one of these non-existing persons and generate images of him/her doing different things in different places? (Or, of course, real persons. Is there a service where I can upload my phot
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by beefield 7y ago
> I'd like to find a good resource that will help me use a non-relational database without creating a mess My plan for the day when someone requires me to use NoSQL is to say that postgres supports JSON/JSONB perfectly so I can
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by beefield 7y ago
Maybe it is worthwhile to note that there is no money [1] that would not be someones loan from someone. Your moeny at the bank account? It literally only is "money" that you have lent to your bank. Cash? A bearer note from the ce
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by beefield 7y ago
Sorry, I do not quite understand your question. Anyway, it is ultimately (when you get your head around it, that is...) relatively simple. These institutional investors have cash (well, not exactly cash, but "cash" as in overnight
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by beefield 7y ago
In Denmark you can take a mortgage and "pay" negative interest rate [1]. That is, you pay less back than what you borrowed. I fully agree that most people would expect the interest rate to be positive, but their expectation is n
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by beefield 7y ago
I think there is something wrong with your premises. There is no rule of law nor nature that interest must be paid. Negative or zero interest are completely possible.
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by beefield 7y ago
You are not the only one. I get that there are some exotic and theoretical corner cases where nulls actually are problematic, but for the vast, vast majority of practical cases, nulls and three state logic are very useful. In my humble opin
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by beefield 7y ago
I thought NAT was widespread with mobile providers making that difficult?
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by beefield 7y ago
This may be a bit naive question, but how does Google know that the virtual phone is not a real phone and the signal is not true? In a way that is not spoofable?
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by beefield 7y ago
I guess you do not need a data plan. Or even phones. Just spin up n android emulators and spoof them with the gps data you want? (Disclaimer: I fully expect that to break multiple TOS clauses so I take no responsibility whatsoever if anyone
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by beefield 7y ago
So, when my aggregate queries/views are too slow even after indexing and tuning, then I should start to google what OLAP is? My go-to tool for this has been materialized views (or in some cases simply a new table that is refreshed ever

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