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by cwalv 3y ago
Inflation enables debtors to default in real terms while still meeting their contractual obligations. They (er, we) end up paying debts back with money that's worth less, assuming we remain solvent in nominal terms (as the govt, curren
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by cwalv 3y ago
Maybe, if they "see" it coming and hedge accordingly. But in general, inflation works in favor of debtors against savers
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by cwalv 3y ago
> If they try, prices just go up. It depends on the unit prices are measured in. They may go up, or tread sideways in AUD, but that doesn't mean they're actually appreciating
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by cwalv 3y ago
> Prop13 has made the property taxable rate so low that many people would rather have an empty rotting hulk Doesn't prop13 only apply to primary residence?
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by cwalv 3y ago
Is that a difficult thing to do?
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by cwalv 3y ago
> we had sanity checks in place to make sure that the orders being sent were reasonable relative to current market prices. Not so for manual trades, which were by nature discretionary. I guess we have different definitions of "invis
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by cwalv 3y ago
> Encryption cipher in these cases is perfectly transparent to the user It's not the specific cipher that it's making fun of, but the "let's build a $x supercomputer to crack it." Honestly, half of the things you
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by cwalv 3y ago
> why bother wish any password beyond abc123? After all, they can "just" torture you for it right? Why bother with HTTPS? I think you're missing the point of the comic. It isn't arguing against basic defense; it'
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by cwalv 3y ago
Are you rewriting it in the first language you learned? Sometimes less general tools are nice. If they fit the problem space well, they can be very expressive without feeling unwieldy. And in some contexts reducing the power/expressivi
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by cwalv 3y ago
Are underscores/dashes coalesced out too?
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by cwalv 3y ago
I hit the same problem as gp, on mobile, tho I did open in a new tab (hold+open in new tab). The back button is usually a quick swipe from right to get me back to what I was reading.
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by cwalv 3y ago
> but whether someone thinks Martian colonization is plausible or not seems to be a decent litmus test to their reasonability in general Agree! to be pedantic, you should probably add a "within the next X years" qualifier
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by cwalv 3y ago
Up until a couple years ago my car didn't even have a camera. We just looked out the window, which is still an option.
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by cwalv 3y ago
It's not. Not sure what the official boundary is (if there even is one), but Midwest is far east of Western. It would better be called 'Norcentral' these days, but the name is probably left over from times when St Louis was
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by cwalv 3y ago
> Efficiency isn't the goal. Well, it shouldn't be. But in case your research is informing "urgent" policy decisions, it's hard not to get frustrated and just want those who disagree to shut up.
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by cwalv 3y ago
> Science only works if contrarians get a voice. I completely agree, but it's counterintuitive. There's a part of me that thinks "science == reproducible, observable fact". But it really is much more (er, less) than
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by cwalv 3y ago
Maybe just give an option to pay/go ad-free. It may be difficult, but it seems like there has to be a revenue neutral way to do this.
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by cwalv 3y ago
It's true that python is used for "almost everything", but it's only true because it plays nicely with C. I understand the desire/demand for general purpose tools. The thing is, there are always tradeoffs. Acknowled
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by cwalv 3y ago
Maybe they're just working off the baseline/old/stale data?
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by cwalv 3y ago
I remember when Siri was first demoed, a dev I worked with was convinced it was just like having human personal assistant. I hadn't seen the demo, but I was confident he was wrong. Haven't tried this either, but I'm equally c
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by cwalv 3y ago
I had a buddy who was working on a Linux base for Motorola phones back around 2004/2005. I mentioned this to a EE I worked with back then, who had spent a long time working for Motorola, and he said the carriers "would never allow
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by cwalv 3y ago
What about the citizens not running those businesses? This may not exactly be a "great firewall", but it seems like your argument could be applied equally to that, and it's hard for me to believe it's really a "good
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by cwalv 3y ago
I'm optimistic that "what it could have been" is what it will eventually be. Originally there was just Apple, and their lock-in driven business model. Competitors could emulate them and still get away with it for a while, but
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by cwalv 3y ago
I think the real reason is because going into an office to just end up sitting alone and joining meetings remotely is worse than just working remotely. It's a chicken and egg problem; they think that once there's a critical mass,
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by cwalv 3y ago
True. Then again, maybe masking that problem with some relief from daily commutes to work is not really a great solution. Recent layoffs in the industry were a good reminder for me that it's easy to be overly emotionally tied to your
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by cwalv 3y ago
In my experience, the vast majority of the time the best (or only) way to correctly deal with the error is to propagate it up the stack. Making this optional (having to explicitly check return values) doesn't make it more likely to be
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by cwalv 3y ago
I had a friend in college who lived in a trailer; he had a mortgage that was something like $17/month. The majority of the expense was renting the spot. The truth is there already is cheap shelter available .. just not near downtown LA
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by cwalv 3y ago
Intellectually lazy, maybe, but funny and easy to relate to. Of course, a cheapo home won't help that guy . But without the 'data', we also don't know how much of the overall homeless population is like that. And rega
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by cwalv 3y ago
> I'm genuinely unsure if this is a parody of the American Way here They said 2 of the 3 things we "used to" have we still actually have, and the 3rd thing is a waste of money because nobody wants it. It seems inauthentic
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by cwalv 3y ago
> everyone was disappointed we just couldn’t get anything meaningful. Nice .. my cynical side thinks that most of the time this is the expected outcome, in which case it wouldn't lead to disappointment, but just the next step of fin

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