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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Well, it seems half the people criticising MMT say it's a vacuous re-statement of how things already work, and the other half say it's wrong and discredited :p. What does it actually advocate that has been discredited? I get the i
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
After QE4, seems to me inflation wasn't particularly high.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Well, let's have a scroll... This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33156617 No, the fed having negative equity doesn't stop them controlling the money supply. Unless like, they've literally sold all
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
I would hope they set that rate to what they think is optimal for the economy, regardless of their solvency. I only skimmed the article, but I don't see where it gives reasons why solvency matters, although it hints it might. I was und
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
This thread shows a phenomenon that I've noticed a lot of lately: that many smart people turn absolutely loopy when it comes to the topic of central banking. There's nothing quite like it, and I'm not sure how to explain it.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
This but unironically. By the standards of the wild swings in CPI that we would have if denominated in any non-stablecoin cryptocurrency, the US's current inflation is brief and insignificant.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Good luck actually using a currency that does not have its quantity controlled by a central bank 'printing it out of thin air'. This is a feature, not a bug.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
That's for different Python interpreters altogether, you still can't have multiple numpy packages in any one of them. Arch actually supports multiple Pythons just fine, I currently have a bunch of 3.x Python interpreters I install
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
With regard to GPT3, it doesn't know what bits are. I'm guessing doesn't know what bytes are either, and that it operates on the level of some subset of unicode codepoints, with one input-layer and output-layer neuron for eac
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
vscode example notwithstanding, I do not encounter the 'conflicting packages' problem very often on Arch. In fact, I don't remember the last time I encountered it, other than when it's an explicit choice - like, Python c
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
A particle is less like a coin with only two sides, and more like a little arrow which could be pointing in any direction. Quantum mechanics allows you to measure the projection of the arrow along any one axis, and you'll always get +1
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
One cannot simply add more SSDs to one's laptop, regardless of price.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
When I first got a phone without a headphone jack, I bought one such dongle. It didn't work. My two subsequent phones have had headphone jacks, so I'm not going to worry about this problem again for a while, but at the time at lea
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Those would not be travelling at extra-solar speeds.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
I don't know how they do it but it seems easy in practice. You hash the concatenation of chunks of data submitted by participants. Adding more data to the hash can only make it more random, not less. As long as at least one participant
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
8.5% is the year-on-year figure. The month-on-month figure was 0.0%, so prices neither grew nor fell on average in July.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
The reduction in spending is exactly what the fed wants in order to curtail inflation, it's a feature not a bug.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
The question was > How do you search for *non-unicode* characters in a pdf document
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
In the long run ACs are exactly 100% efficient at heating the environment. The extra heat is only temporarily displaced from the building being cooled, and will leak back in eventually.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Here's a list: https://www.woodturner.org/Woodturner/Resources/Safety-Mater...
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
And they have a whole other post [1] about why science needs to actually check stuff like this, because reality is full of complexity that prevents us from drawing conclusions as rapidly as we'd like. [1] https://slimemoldt
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
It's not assuming it, that's what they're testing for.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
I always assumed it was his real name, but I suppose that was just an unexamined assumption. Gwern Branwen is a prolific [1] netizen who is also completely anonymous. I don't know how people like him [2] do it. Surely the people who k
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
> When the central bank lends money at positive interest rates, the interest profits or “seigniorage” are distributed to everyone like dividends (they would in the real world go to the government which would spend or distribute them). If
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Thank you so much! I've similarly been trying to wrap my head around monetary things recently, and as with learning anything in physics (my field), I believe you don't really understand a model unless you can code up a simulator.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Sorry, you're absolutely correct. Brain fart. The equation I wrote actually is for an exponential, whoops.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
It's the opposite [1]: "taller soldiers are more likely to survive battle and that taller parents are more likely to have sons". This was based on his research of British Army records from the First World War, which showed th
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
It's 5 foot 8.1 inches.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Well, English and most indian languages share a common ancestor, but indic languages have drifted just as far as any other from proto Indo-European that you can't really say one branch inherited anything from the other . Indic language
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Periodic functions like sin(x) are the solutions to differential equations like dy/dx = -y that describe for example, oscillations of springs, to name but one of an extremely large number of dynamical systems that behave this way.

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