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by chalst 5y ago
RPG has an amusing summary article in which he recounts his failure to figure out whether he was right about this https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
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by chalst 5y ago
This is the idea of introducing a complex bureaucratic layer in order to introduce elements of competition into the system. In principle it can work, but such a system was tried with British rail privatisation and resulted in lots of situat
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Gelman's suggestion is how to handle articles with unlikely conclusions: don't publish the submitted article, though that presumably would be circulated as a preprint, but just the data. Then the journal is bringing attention to i
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by chalst 5y ago
Slackware still does, but I think it's the last distribution to do so that still deserves to be called major. http://www.slackware.com/install/sysreq.php
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by chalst 5y ago
Andrew Gelman had an interesting 9-years-too-late idea for what to do in cases like Bem's article: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/27/jpsp-done-... Rather than publish all of the dubious s
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by chalst 5y ago
It's pretty cool to get an up-to-date Linux working on such old hardware but I get the impression this kind of thing is going to get harder to do with the major distributions dropping support for 32 bit x86. I've been using NetBSD
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by chalst 5y ago
A new tool from Tor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29634636
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by chalst 5y ago
The requirement to pursue moderate long-term interest rates is usually seen as part of price stability, since the level of long-term interest rates is determined by inflation expectations. Cf. https://www.federalreserve.gov/
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by chalst 5y ago
The Fed has a dual mandate: price stability and maximal sustainable employment. Nothing about supporting the value of investments. https://www.chicagofed.org/research/dual-mandate/dual-mandat...
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by chalst 5y ago
Not all pages are, and quite a few IP ranges are blocked, but there is plenty of content being added by non-logged-in editors.
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by chalst 5y ago
> Furthermore, it definitely just feels like a recategorization/relabelling on Brave's part to get some brownie points. Not that it's not interesting, but I feel it's just a new name but old concept. More generously,
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by chalst 5y ago
F-Droid does this already with its listing of 'anti-features' for each app.
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by chalst 5y ago
The response by jan makes a point that I think should be more widely appreciated: >> Learning any language in enough depth will take time away from learning something else. So you need to figure out your priorities first. > I doubt
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Emacs Auth-Source(gnu.org)
1 points by chalst 5y ago|0 comments
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The open source part of Darwin/XNU doesn't deserve to be called a "base OS" since version 6, when Apple closed the sources of a lot of drivers. There's no hardware that will boot these systems if you restrict to wha
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by chalst 5y ago
It's worth noting that the main beneficiaries of QE are the fixed-income desks at commercial banks, unlike the actual helicopter money proposal, which would benefit the people most hurt by recessions, holders of debt outside the financ
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by chalst 5y ago
By application, I meant the theory can find application in another problem domain. Vickers doesn't discuss it, but this idea of modelling properties as open sets was used in Edalat's implementation of exact real arithmetic.
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That page mentions Steve Vickers' book Topology via Logic, which motivates the study of topology in computer science via this application.
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Are you giving the book value of their assets? That tends to collapse when the asset holder is forced to sell in a hurry.
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by chalst 5y ago
> PROTIP: Anyone like Lyn Alden that is offering premium stock tips is by definition a fraud, if you can beat the markets you just beat the markets and Scrooge McDuck-it, you don't run a damn newsletter. For all I know you are right
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by chalst 5y ago
It used to be the case that the CCP was decentralised: the regions had their own parties that were not ideologically answerable to the central party. Then, popular unrest could lead to the leader losing support of the regions, which could l
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by chalst 5y ago
Chu spaces generalise the idea of concept-attribute table in formal concept analysis [1], by allowing the possession of an attribute by a concept to not simply be yes or no. Topological spaces are already a generalisation, where concepts ar
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by chalst 5y ago
Let me amend that: anarchies cannot deal with external threats when hierarchies have the military edge. I don't think the bit about angels has much to do with it. Cf. Orwell, "The Atom Bomb and You" https://www.orw
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by chalst 5y ago
Are you aware that both Facebook and Amazon have used their market dominance and ability to buy smaller firms to prevent serious threats from emerging?
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If you don't make every payment in whole when it is due, and you haven't managed to renegotiate with your creditors, then you've defaulted. It doesn't mean that the debts are worthless, but it does mean that their value
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by chalst 5y ago
It's Lehman-like in that I don't think China will be bailing anyone out. It's not Lehman-like in that the company isn't a tangled octopus in the middle of the financial system. Lots of investors exposed to developing mar
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by chalst 5y ago
> a lot of these journalists have been purchased by the elites Care to name one? I'd be very surprised if you can find something on Michael Hudson: https://www.icij.org/journalists/michael-hudson/ > not
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by chalst 5y ago
My impression is that the optimisation of social media for engagement amplifies the impact of bullying and increases social pressure.
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Uncovering the secret offshore accounts of the global elite(newyorker.com)
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The README for xxhash has benchmarks covering fast hashes including Meow: https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/wiki/Performance-comparis...

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