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by chalst 4y ago
Increasing prices in a market means increased turnover for those who sell into that market. You can easily find examples where increasing prices are worse for sellers than price stability, e.g., if increased costs eat up more than the new i
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by chalst 4y ago
Few sellers into a market like the price going down, and labour prices are famously downwards inelastic, but price wars are a thing and many markets have an expectation that prices will go down, e.g., cloud computing costs in recent years.
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by chalst 4y ago
During the Bretton Woods era, the quasi-gold-standard that reigned until Nixon floated the dollar, hourly wage rates and productivity in the US were pretty closely correlated. In the years after, which saw a huge realignment in finance, th
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by chalst 4y ago
Inflation is a tricky concept and attempts to grasp it using purely monetary intuitions are liable to confuse. Inflation is a summary statistic that tries to compress the behaviour of many markets, in an economy where markets come into bein
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by chalst 4y ago
F# has some nice things in it: I especially like how it handles multiple return values. But compared to the language it is most clearly decended from, OCaml, it ties you to .NET Core and it lacks an ML-like module system and macros. If you
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by chalst 4y ago
> Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Conventional banking combines a moderate level of privacy with effective measures against money laundering. Why shouldn't we ask that crypto be judged against this baseline?
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by chalst 4y ago
> For instance, they initially approached the antisemitism debacle by treating it as a valid issue - they played whackamole with the press on it, and it kept the story (“Labour are antisemites”) prime in the public mind. The antisemitism
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by chalst 4y ago
It's true that USDT is not an algorithmic stablecoin, so it's different. Market sentiment, though, tends to change quite quickly: I would not expect a collapse, if and when it happens, to take weeks. It's not that different.
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by chalst 4y ago
The immediate post-independence history stands out. From Wikipedia: > Haiti's first century of independence was characterized by political instability, ostracism by the international community and the payment of a crippling debt to
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by chalst 4y ago
Given Oracle's track record, I advise extreme caution on behalf of the mainline kernel with respect to code that Oracle could claim to have developed. I'm less sympathetic to sour grapes about ZFS. Kernel developers including Torv
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by chalst 4y ago
I had three years of high school with a substantial amount of calculus; by contrast while I was introduced to matrices and Gaussian elimination at high school, the treatment of the algebraic side was almost completely superficial and focuss
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by chalst 4y ago
> The abortion debate is, and has always been, a question of whether fetuses are alive enough for the term "murder" to apply to them. In many countries, if a mother kills her baby in the first few months after birth, this is il
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by chalst 4y ago
Traditonally this was so; today I'd say linear algebra gives more over a larger range of subjects.
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by chalst 4y ago
Julia has a very nice type system, the nicest of any dynamically typed language I am familiar with. This is something to do with multiple dispatch, but it's more to do with trying to have a type system that allows all the JIT to unbox
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by chalst 4y ago
I guess the Cantrill talk you are referring to must be 'Software as a reflection of values' from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZ1pCpJUIM&t=128s
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by chalst 4y ago
Eich has been heavily criticised by the cryptcoin ultras for taking KYC regulations seriously. Cf. e.g., from 2018, https://thenextweb.com/news/brave-blockchain-cryptocurrency-...
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by chalst 4y ago
They're not good and I want the waste to end and the cryptohucksters to get burned. But the story is called "why all cryptocurrency should die in a fire" and the badness of btc & eth doesn't lead to that broader conc
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by chalst 4y ago
It could be done via a centralised database. However, Brendan Eich is a cryptocoin enthusiast. He thinks that BAT is more valuable because it can leverage DeFi infrastructure. It also drastically reduces worries about that database's
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by chalst 4y ago
I don't see any cryptocoins that I regard as a success, but I am watching three that might be a success: 1. Filecoin: It was well-motivated from the start, to provide a cheap way to get counterparties (by default, a multiple of six) to
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by chalst 4y ago
To save dang the effort, we had this story when it came out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23774521 Of its 160 comments, this stands out: > I'm in this same boat, but 8... EIGHT YEARS LATER! that competitor w
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by chalst 4y ago
Debts held by a company that has refused to be subject to a traditional audit. Only the credulous would have confidence that a high proportion of this debt is good.
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by chalst 4y ago
The initial claim was that Tether was 100% backed. When it was revealed beyond reasonable doubt that these claims were false, Tether's proponents pivoted to claiming that the peg was defensible. Because the peg was defended for some ti
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by chalst 4y ago
> Science should be immune to "overtones." This sounds nice, but given that science is done by humans, it seems entirely unrealistic to me. If you had said: we should try to minimise the influence of this kind of politics on sc
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by chalst 4y ago
I've vouched for this comment, since it is actually relevant to what it is responding to, but a glance suggests all your other comments are spam. Spamming forums is not generally an effective way of being heard if those forums take spa
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by chalst 4y ago
The company has a fiduciary duty to treat minority shareholders to the owning block and the major stock exchanges have rules protecting their interests. This is one area of the the law that works well.
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by chalst 4y ago
The racist overtones to Noah Carl's work certainly did his case no favours, but he was doing scholarship whose poor quality is easy to see. Before you get tenure (or the watered-down approximation that the UK has), academia offers esse
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by chalst 4y ago
Since you cite N N Taleb, you might be interested in his assessment of Bitcoin: > its current version, in spite of the hype, bitcoin failed to satisfy the notion of "currency without govern- ment" (it proved to not even be a cu
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On anti-crypto toxicity(blog.mollywhite.net)
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by chalst 4y ago
I kind of think NetBSD doesn't so much 'strive' to support many platforms as try to pursue simplicity of implementation and so be easy to port. Linux supports a lot of platforms, but porting Linux is a much more heroic effort
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by chalst 4y ago
How do these others explain the bump in stock price that occurred when news of Musk's stake was published?

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