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by camgunz 2y ago
Everyone agrees inflation is bad; what we don't yet really know is if it's worse than unemployment. The way the existing system works is if inflation starts to rise, the Fed raises the interest rate, hiring slows and people get fi
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by camgunz 2y ago
> This means now that the USD is completely and absolutely free floating with no backing, indirect or direct. All fiat currencies are backed by the strength of their economies. The US denominates its considerable goods and services in US
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by camgunz 2y ago
This comes up on HN all the time [0] and it's complete garbage. Japan has a fiat currency; how have they dodged inflation? Where are the successful non-fiat economies? If there's some kind of moral hazard with printing money, why
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by camgunz 2y ago
I guess this is a "oh Twitter got bought and TikTok got shutdown for a day, so we need a free Twitter/TikTok that wouldn't have any of these problems" response? It's a pretty inane article that provides no solutions
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by camgunz 2y ago
> That has to be constructed client side by downloading all updates for all subscribed feeds. Either the Twitter frontend or app has to do this, because Twitter is a web API. So either Twitter isn't a new protocol or every blog, for
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by camgunz 2y ago
I think there's no sense of the word where Twitter is a new protocol. Nevermind the technical HTTP stuff (Twitter is no analog to TCP/IP, SMTP, or HTTP), it's just a microblogging website? > The reason is that it's a
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by camgunz 2y ago
Do you have something against making money on FOSS? A weird thing has happened while I've been reading this thread where I've noticed some outsized cynical or negative comments and realized they're both your user, then I reme
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by camgunz 2y ago
Do you have examples?
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by camgunz 2y ago
You've done a lot of thinking here, but if you did 80% of the thinking and 20% of the reading you'd reach better conclusions. There are systems that spend more per student than the US does, more % of GDP than the US does, they hav
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by camgunz 2y ago
>> 30 student classes obviates any benefit you'd get from anything else. There are no systems with those class sizes that are achieving the outcomes we want. > I disagree? Universities have larger lectures, and students can mo
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by camgunz 2y ago
> Thanks for the very thoughtful response! I admit I also get salty, particularly when it comes to education. It feels so obvious things should be a specific way, but of course that may just be my STEM person arrogance :P. Thank you (als
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by camgunz 2y ago
I wanna start off by saying you're clearly a smart person and I'm not trying to run you out or anything. I'm--both deliberately and subconsciously--saltier post Trump v2 and I'm trying to work through it. A big part of m
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by camgunz 2y ago
Life isn't fair.
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by camgunz 2y ago
Expecting children to be responsible for their own actions to this degree is unrealistic, any policy built on that expectation will be ineffective at best and likely harmful, and thus anyone advocating for it is at best asking us to waste r
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by camgunz 2y ago
Absolutely yeah, it's like the "ZIP code is destiny" is also some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by camgunz 2y ago
A couple things are true here: - The kid's behavior isn't their fault. They might have a medical condition or a home situation causing them to act this way. It's tempting to write kids like this off, but we shouldn't pun
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by camgunz 2y ago
Fully responding to this takes more space than HN--very reasonably--allows. But here we go anyway. > [A lot of takes on universities and journalism] Universities and journalists became left-leaning because conservatives are wrong about a
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by camgunz 2y ago
This is pretty thought provoking. I think the issue is "80% of the use of this complicated tool is for very simple ends". From there you get a lot of "I can't be bothered to learn git/make/sed/helm/je
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by camgunz 2y ago
Disclaimer: I wrote and maintain a MessagePack implementation. Reading through this, it looks like they toss out indefinite length values, "canonicalization", and tags, making it essentially MP (MP does have extension types, I sho
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by camgunz 2y ago
Disclaimer: I wrote and maintain a MessagePack implementation. CBOR is MessagePack. The story is that Carsten Bormann wanted to create an IETF standardized MP version, the creators asked him not to (after he acted in pretty bad faith), he f
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by camgunz 2y ago
OK, I think I know what happened here. I was trying to say, "hey, earthquakes aren't great, but it's not like they happen every year (multiple times a year even!), unlike wildfires." Then it seemed like I was cherry pick
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by camgunz 2y ago
> because it goes directly against most people's first-hand observed reality Most places in the US are relatively untouched by immigration, or put another way, southern border issues are irrelevant to Americans unless they live in a
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by camgunz 2y ago
(Sorry on phone) California famously also has earthquakes. You can't look at the USGS risk map and seriously say the risk between living in Missouri/Oklahoma and California is equivalent. Also I didn't include PNW states in t
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by camgunz 2y ago
Costs since 2003 seem comparable (~62 billion for both). Tornadoes do outpace wildfires in immediate deaths 752 to 270, but the smoke from the wildfires kills 10000s more after the fact. I've done a pretty bad comparison here though; t
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by camgunz 2y ago
In the last ~7 years only Oklahoma has had a >= 5.0 earthquake (three of them). But even if you move it, you're still under Ohio. https://earthquakelist.org/usa/#latest-earthquakes-mag-5-dis...
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by camgunz 2y ago
Well, in good faith, if everyone in "dangerous" areas of the US moved to less dangerous areas, the resulting population density would still be less than Ohio's (~242/mi2, also LA's population density is ~8,000/
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by camgunz 2y ago
If you were right about this; countries never would've fallen apart when the human population was much smaller than it is today, but it happened a lot, so you're not. Another thing that disproves this is long lived empires. Japan&
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by camgunz 2y ago
> If you don’t have a common culture, you need real federalism so people can self-segregate into more homogenous cultural groups and efficiently govern themselves. This whole thing is disproved by the whole Emo Philips "Die Heretic&
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by camgunz 2y ago
One of the--admittedly many--things that puts me off AI is the pitch starts off as "you will have abilities you never had before and probably never would have had, be excited", then when critics are like, "woof it's a li
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by camgunz 2y ago
I have friends who work(ed) at various FAANG companies, and maybe even more shamefully at "silly" places like d2c mattress companies and whatever (I worked on the civil side of a defense contractor, I'm not... ugh, innocent e

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