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by csense 5y ago
Thanks for mentioning this. I somehow didn't quite realize MBS purchases had resumed with the Fed's COVID response, for some reason I assumed they were only buying Treasuries. Even though I've been trying to keep up with the
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Why does so much news coverage insist on dividing the Court into "liberal" and "conservative" justices? It's almost as if the media thinks there's not enough partisanship in the legislative and executive branch
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Wow, this site is incredible!
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It only wanted tree fiddy.
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Repost, main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29860849
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If you're thinking about doing this, you should be aware that Hertz is facing multiple lawsuits for falsely accusing customers of auto theft [1]. After finding out about this, I'm personally never going to do business with Hertz e
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Nicky Case's simulation is great and fun, but I think she reaches the wrong conclusion. Her takeaway is this (in my words, not hers): "Diversity is good, therefore we should alter our behavior to increase diversity." My take
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Re: Moxie on Web3. On decentralization, servers and cryptography(blog.plan99.net)
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Contrarian viewpoint: Everyone's eventually gonna catch COVID-19 and it can't be stopped. All the travel restrictions, testing, school closures, quarantines, vaccine mandates, etc. are accomplishing is imposing costs and creating
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> the government’s assertion that these powers are rarely used, and only against the “very worst” To me, this is without exception a gigantic red flag.
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Any facility or employee on Chinese soil is a potential hostage of the Chinese government. "China's hand is forced" == your factories get nationalized and your employees' families get imprisoned or worse.
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I'm a big fan of AlphaPhoenix's content. He deserves to be in the big leagues of science YouTubers with SmarterEveryDay, Veritasium, Mark Rober and 3B1B.
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In another blog post from 2008 he seems to say that FPGA uses way too much on interconnects, some other technology called HRSA realizes the problem, BitGrid takes it to an extreme [1]. So you can build simple circuits like muxes and latches
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And how brick-and-mortar banks operate.
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The media makes money, the drug companies make money, and politicians get political benefits if people are afraid.
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Visual apps, shortcuts, autocomplete, and a JavaScript API for the terminal? Hell no. The terminal system was built as a no-frills, bloat-free, real-time interactive interface over a 1200 baud serial line. I wouldn't touch this with
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by csense 5y ago
Extracting tritium between pulses seems to be the key approach to reducing degradation. One of the company's patents [1] explains: "The D-3He fusion reaction produces no neutrons as well (D+3He→4He (3.6 MeV)+H (14.7 MeV). However
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The website answers this question [1]. "Helion produces helium-3 by fusing deuterium in its plasma accelerator utilizing a patented high-efficiency closed-fuel cycle." Wikipedia provides a bit more detail [2]: "The helium-3
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A few years ago, in the context of justifying automatic license plate readers, the LAPD told a court that all cars in Los Angeles are under investigation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7434448
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I wonder if Elon Musk would be interested in getting into this area. Granted SpaceX is more exciting -- this would be, comparatively, the boring company.
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The author's thesis is that underestimation is a good thing, because it makes more ambitious projects get approved. The unspoken assumption here is that decision-makers are too conservative in what they approve. That is, some projects
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People wildly underestimate how long certain kinds of tasks will take. This is usually regarded as a Bad Thing. Imagine how this plays out if you're a decision maker, deciding whether to do highly ambitious project X. If you knew ahe
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by csense 5y ago
Let's re-purpose abandoned mines into programming bootcamps! As any educator will tell you, a mine is a terrible thing to waste.
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by csense 5y ago
I don't usually apologize for Facebook, but I wonder whether it might actually be a good-faith attempt by Facebook to provide good quality moderation. If having human moderation costs too much to scale to everything, do you throw up ou
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by csense 5y ago
Also, copyright. If you're not paid, they don't fully own the code in any product you've worked on.
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People hate it because it does what MLM's do. It turns a social relationship into an extractive one. Think about how it would work in practice. It's not going to always be a cool professional interaction: "Hey, I was wonde
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Governor could probably play hardball if he wants. Start fining them, seize their Texas real estate if they don't pay up. Alternatively, order them to stop operating in Texas. If an airline breaks ranks, they'll enjoy a monopoly
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The article says: "For P.P.E., that means budget-conscious hospitals will look to buy cheaper, non-American-produced options. The U.S. companies will want continuing subsidies or protection from imports..." The article doesn'
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Prosecuting people for responsible disclosure? This governor is a fricking idiot.
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by csense 5y ago
So what exactly is Parcel? The website says it has "a new JavaScript compiler written in Rust" but I thought JavaScript was an interpreted language? The JavaScript ecosystem is so dang confusing. I'm glad I'm not a fro

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