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by chalst 5y ago
China is doing much better than Britain did, from several points of view. Britain had a safety-netless trickle-down economic model that gave rise to huge economic inequality and combined it with a nearly uninterrupted hard gold standard and
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by chalst 5y ago
It's not just the Mittelstand. It's also that Germany doesn't have financial markets as sophisticated as those in New York, London or Tokyo, so the DAX doesn't have companies whose centre of gravity is outside Germany in
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by chalst 5y ago
Agreed. 'Fshasm' would make the connection to F# clearer and avoid this confusion.
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by chalst 5y ago
I think the point is that if you want to name the office in four words without being misleading, you should go with something like "Minneapolis Federal Reserve President", not just "Federal Reserve Bank President". I&#x2
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by chalst 5y ago
Not familiar with this idea, I searched and found this https://www.gearhartlaw.com/2016-9-8-a-way-to-defeat-a-troll... IIUC, inter partes review is a relatively recent (9 y.o.?) patent law practice that allows 3rd parties t
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by chalst 5y ago
The easiest way to make mistakes cheap is to have your working directory on a filesystem with automatic snapshots, such as nilfs.
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by chalst 5y ago
These links are useful even if they don't have a discussion: 1. It's interesting to see that a story has been submitted many times, for instance. This can be seen by clicking on the domain name in brackets after the story E.g., a
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by chalst 5y ago
This is a feature that Powershell gained and it is very useful.
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by chalst 5y ago
Not to mention excellent support for algebraic datatypes and pattern matching.
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by chalst 5y ago
Apparently torrenting from S3 did not work very well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524963 > The tracker Amazon ran was really trigger happy to ban peers (I'm sure it saw tons of bad actors, but still, it
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by chalst 5y ago
Companies do differ. Not a high proportion of people are fortunate enough to work for a successful worker's co-op, but there the forces you describe take a quite different shape. Even in a capitalist-owned firm, enlightened self-intere
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by chalst 5y ago
I don't think the two are so analogous. A problem with placing a high value on finding exact closed forms for integrations is that it encourages behaviour like the drunk looking across the street from where he lost his key because that
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by chalst 5y ago
With Enron, it's not even that the financials were obviously bad. It takes skill to see danger signs in audited accounts. Recall the fraud finished off their accounting firm, then one of the Big Five.
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It can be dishonest to try to persuade someone of something without revealing that you have a nonobvious interest in them being so persuaded. It's not dishonest to talk down a stock you are shorting provided you are open about your int
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by chalst 5y ago
Is this distinction really about whether the customisation language is declarative? It seems to me that Dhall has the advantages Brian Grant attributes to "Infrastructure as Data", although it is an executable specification.
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by chalst 5y ago
> Many researchers in academia are still monetary driven. "Money driven" suggests that is the primary motivation, although I'm not sure that is what you meant: I think that's fairly rare in academia. Money is a consid
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Raft does not Guarantee Liveness in the face of Network Faults(decentralizedthoughts.github.io)
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by chalst 5y ago
> Delaying a tax is not avoiding a tax. Delaying tax is part of normal tax avoidance strategy. A tax that is endlessly deferred, or deferred until there is a tax amnesty, is one that is avoided (or evaded). Deferring the payment of tax i
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by chalst 5y ago
> I don’t think it’s right, if the person has not done something illegal Public interest is the right threshold. Just because somebody has done something illegal, does not mean that their privacy is worthless. Likewise, hypocrisy is not
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by chalst 5y ago
Since Piketty's 'Capital' was published, there's been a lot of interest in the relationship between 'r', the return on wealth and 'g', the growth rate of the economy, and how this relationship is infl
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by chalst 5y ago
> Should I pay taxes on that unrealized gain? Did you read the whole of my comment? Yes, there is a real issue here. Nobody should be put in the position of having a tax obligation they can't afford. Equally, nothing good is achieve
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by chalst 5y ago
No, it's wealth. There's a real issue here: asset prices can be volatile; someone can own a valuable house and not have enough to pay their groceries. But asset prices are not fictional. Typically, corporations report the value of
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by chalst 5y ago
The clipboard itself is part of the attack surface.
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Bruce Schneier has argued that where the advantage lies in offense vs defense depends on the nature of the attack surface: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/04/attack_vs_def... Friedman and Hol
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by chalst 5y ago
Lousy headline. The study the story is based on does not dismiss Graeber's work as bullshit: > Although the data doesn’t always support David Graeber’s claims, his insightful and imaginative work played an important role in raising
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by chalst 5y ago
Zfs allows remote replication, which would prevent this.
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Scientific image sleuth faces legal action for criticizing research papers(nature.com)
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> It’s noteworthy that money donated to the endowment is not included in the WMF’s reported net assets That'd be because the WMF doesn't own the endowment. https://wikimediaendowment.org/wmf-endowment-hero1&#x2F
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by chalst 5y ago
From Deutsche Welle - https://www.dw.com/en/danish-secret-service-helped-us-spy-on... > The FE also cooperated with the NSA on spying operations against the US government itself.
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Only experts can make this judgement in the short term. As time goes by, the reception of the work accumulates and it becomes increasingly possible for non-experts to judge. It took over 20 years after the Standard Model reached broad accep

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