carefree-bob

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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Oh nice! I follow automotive youtube, and Tavarish recently worked on one of those: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
In fact, I do. Maybe you are in a bubble, but go ahead and try to get people to vote for public funding of "safe spaces" and then have them vote for public funding of "convenient access to media for taxpayers", and see w
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
That works for real estate, and indeed property taxes are a long running staple of government taxes precisely because land is fixed. Economically, land value taxes are considered the most efficient form of taxation as they have no dead-weig
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
The dollar is not "backed" by a military. China has a huge military and no one uses the Yuan for third party trade. Why not? Because China does not run trade deficits that allow third parties to acquire the Yuan in the first place
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "ethos of libraries", but this was not the original intent of libraries, or the "ethos" that most voters would use when deciding whether to fund a library or not. The problem with reima
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
US has some of the world's largest natural gas deposits, and is a major producer of helium, so it makes less sense to have a strategic helium reserve. Even the SPR was created in the aftermath of the last middle east oil crisis, back w
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Russian natgas is laundered through third parties, whereas India is laundering Russian oil. Not saying I support any of these sanctions or tariffs, but India is making bank selling Russian oil to Europe right now, so there is going to be so
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
GDP is not "imaginary" or "not tangible" anymore than an accounting statement of profit and loss is imaginary. It is a very real thing but you have some subtle approaches about how you measure things like depreciation or
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
That's a good point, the US might just be sucking all the culturally relevant output out of the country.
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
By that logic, interest rate hikes should be inflationary. It is highly unusual to argue that taxation is inflationary since the whole point of inflation is to reduce demand.
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Apart from the "Crocodile Dundee" and "Men at Work" phenomena in the late 80s, there is no real cultural pollination between Australia and the US, as far as I can tell. It's too far away and there are no real reason
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Nice, thank you. There is an old python project I've been thinking about converting to Mojo.
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
You have to fight to keep work fun. It requires skill and some cunning. People are not going to hand you a "fun job", that part falls on you.
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Under Bill Clinton, in 2000 we ran a (small) surplus, but even then, the shock of running a surplus hid the fact that the debt increased during his term overall. That was the last president in which there was even one year of the debt decre
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
95% of mortgages are fixed rate in the US. And even that number is too low, most of the ARMs are taken out by businesses, not households.
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Layoffs are abnormally low right now, well below the rate a decade before 2020. Here is data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSLDR Inflation is a bit higher, but not shockingly so, here is the data: https:/&
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
I've had positive experiences with wsdls, they offer a lot of advantages over REST/JSON, together with some up front onboarding costs. It really depends on the service, does it make it easy to obtain the wsdl and more importantly
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
I began to lose interest after the acquisition. Have you been following along, are they still going to open source it?
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
I'm concerned about publicly accessible devices containing secrets also. These are not physically secure places to store keys, they are mounted on street lights where anyone with a ladder can get the key material out of the device. It&
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
This is SOP for IOT devices. I am beginning to think we need to regulate this stuff, because it is ubiquitous. The device manufacturers do not have a culture of security.
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
This is not exactly a nuanced view of the conflict, and in either case, the fact that you don't like that someone on the other side of the world is chanting death to America doesn't give you a bonus card for a free attack. Serious
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Central banks didn't use to do this, in the post-war period up until about 1980, they tried targeting the monetary aggregates like M2. Unfortunately they discovered that the size of monetary aggregates was outside the control of centra
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Yes, I think 5% will eventually happen, but I don't think we'll get there before the mid-terms, the Fed moves slowly. Basically you have an inflation shock and you want the reaction function to be higher, so if inflation is 1% too
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Did you ever think that the reason why US debt is so high is because rates are so low and borrowing is so cheap? Higher rates are needed, and are really the only mechanism to reduce borrowing. We are seeing asset bubbles across the board in
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
A 0.25% rate hike is going to cause a recession? How, exactly, would that happen? Honestly it seems your post is heavy on politics but I am not seeing an actual argument anywhere in there. My canned response to people being upset at various
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
This is the flipside of data residency requirements that countries are now starting to require. If the EU wants to keep data in the EU, then great, but when the war comes and energy and infrastructure are hit, people would have wished for b
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
It doesn't matter whether it is a supply shock or a demand shock, the correct response to inflation is to raise rates, which reduces economic activity and in this situation the reduced activity reduces demand for oil, which is what is
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
It's the scaling nature of enterprise software. If you have a mature B2C app, you have millions of users. What each user wants isn't so important, so it's more of a take it or leave it experience. If you have an enterprise ap
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
"with parity in delivery time, product quality, returns experience, etc." How would the user know that? Many sites, including Amazon, make their bones providing decent quality at a lower cost, and then once they build up their mar
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
We should update our laws to broaden fair use in order to support this type of copying. If you 1. do not charge anything 2. the original publisher did not charge anything 3. Your presentation is less user-hostile in the sense of reduced TOS

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