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by dereg 4y ago
It has really gotten out of hand. I'm no fan of Ben Bernanke there's a way to have a constructive discussion about his work and waving a wand of preconceived notions is not one of them.
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by dereg 4y ago
Bernanke has his fingerprints on every large central banks' response in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. He flooded the system with liquidity to prevent what he observed in the Great Depression. Was he successful? Yes. We
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by dereg 4y ago
You can feel however you feel about Bernanke during his tenure as Fed Chair. He was certainly hard to like at times, perhaps sometimes too smug. But his work laying out the pernicious effects of deflationary feedback loops as as an academic
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by dereg 4y ago
This is burying the lede here, which is that you can correlate the transactions to on-chain data to dox customer addresses and transactions.
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by dereg 4y ago
I did not miss that in my comment.
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by dereg 4y ago
Yes, this is what I was talking about. It was an avoidable tragedy.
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by dereg 4y ago
My point is that the political imperative leads politicians on both ends to take on many unfunded liabilities without planning for continuity or completion. I'm hoping that the extended storage for this is well accounted for and immuni
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by dereg 4y ago
If COVID taught us anything, the government is going to let these drugs expire useless, incinerate them, refuse to replenish them, and import loads of fakes when an actual crisis hits. Snark aside, this may not be the case this time around.
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by dereg 4y ago
Forgive me for not RTFA first but I'd like to collect some impressions here. What platforms are people seeing the most suspicious behavior on? I've found that an overwhelming majority of my Reddit engagements are garbage. Most cli
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by dereg 4y ago
I agree with your criticism. I want to add one more: GDP is a measure of activity. Measuring lights on satellite images is a state. So somehow this study is correlating stock (# of lights) to a flow (economic activity). Seems like a pretty
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by dereg 4y ago
https://archive.ph/GVCgW
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by dereg 4y ago
You'll get it when you have kids.
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by dereg 4y ago
There’s no complex modeling required here on an interest rate swap. The payout on swaps is easily calculable and the range of outcomes knowable. There’s not much overlap in the context of what Buffett talked about and what happened here bes
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by dereg 4y ago
That's a good question. Many companies want to get to as close to fully funded as possible so that they can offload the pension from their balance sheet and transfer the risk to an insurance company.
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by dereg 4y ago
Agree, I edited it out. I was so annoyed that I went too far with that statement. While they wouldn’t necessarily have been wiped out, they would have needed to make a LOT of calls.
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by dereg 4y ago
It’s a completely incorrect explanation. There’s no moral hazard here, they weren’t risking pension or funds through the swap agreement. The reason why the answer isn’t clear is because pension math is boring. The thing is, you can’t fully
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by dereg 4y ago
This is demonstrably untrue and yet you proffer it as fact. The pensions benefit from rates rising, because higher rates decrease their liabilities more than it decrements the value of their bonds. The pensions have, as a result, entered
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At least 23% of Ethereum blocks are complying with US sanctions(theblock.co)
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by dereg 4y ago
This is great. I really love all my Matisse generations. On the other hand, I find DALL-E to be uniformly bad at recreating Edward Hopper. Almost none of the generations capture the spirit of his work. It's especially obvious when you
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by dereg 4y ago
I don’t think you (nor parent) read the actual post. 1. The problem presented is not that parking apps exfiltrate data from your phone, it’s that anyone can throw your plate number into it and get notified of when you pass through specific
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by dereg 4y ago
Does the character work or not work? For me, the character works. Why do we need to be talking about his race again?
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by dereg 4y ago
> I'm almost certain they cast these shows specifically so they can find someone on twitter to say something racist [..] I cannot imagine being this cynical about something that is, at the end of the day, an Amazon Prime show. edi
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by dereg 4y ago
I feel the same. I've been entirely tuned out of LoTR/internet culture and so I went into the show with zero expectations. I was surprised by how much I liked the show. When I read this review, the author's complaints are all
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by dereg 4y ago
If you liked his review of Spirited Away, you will also like his review of Metropolis. I liked that he enjoyed movies from all genres as long as they accomplished what they set out to do. > The movie is so visually rich I want to see it
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by dereg 4y ago
This is great and would have saved me so much anxiety in the past.
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by dereg 4y ago
> We would only see this on a massive sell off when Tether can't prop up the price fast enough with their reserves (by buying USDT with USD). This almost happened on May 11 of 2022. This did not almost happen. Do you enjoy writin
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by dereg 4y ago
It basically means that the Federal Reserve stopped purchasing US Treasuries and agency mortgage backed securities. These assets are now rolling off their balance sheet as they reach maturity.
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by dereg 4y ago
A few things off the top of my head: - Mac touchpads have near-perfect wrist detection so you almost never get an errant input. - There is virtually no input lag. It’s especially crucial when scrolling long pages. On a Mac, you can flick th
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by dereg 4y ago
For all intents and purposes, a M-Series MacBook running Parallels is the best Windows laptop you can buy. I say this as a Windows productivity maximalist. It’s 2022 and Windows touchpads and touchpad drivers don’t hold a candle to my 2011
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by dereg 4y ago
It’s simple to replicate a lag. Just take a series of photos or a 4K video. It takes a non trivial amount of time for the phone to process it.

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