dzdt

32 ms·

361.
by dzdt 5y ago
At the time of the great depression, every important currency was on a gold standard. So in an important sense there was only one currency: gold. The impossibility of increasing currency supply because of the gold standard is recognized as
362.
by dzdt 5y ago
Also the author gives himself the liberty to use one or two spaces following a period, and on occasion even following a comma.
363.
by dzdt 5y ago
No you are reading that wrong. The article says that new research suggests the answer is "no". In the conclusion you quote it is not answering the question "do adults need tetanus booster shots" but rather "what s
364.
by dzdt 5y ago
The Cobol code is mostly handling transactions that result in money going from one account to another. The people who own that money tend to scrutinize this very carefully! So after 40 years, pretty much any bug that occurs in practice ha
365.
by dzdt 5y ago
The Oracle outsourcing connection is interesting! I read about this incident at the time in Matt Levine's column. [1] See HN discussion at [2] [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/c
366.
by dzdt 5y ago
It would be nice to have a better source here, with some credibility. I have no idea who this guy on twitter is; are the basic facts of the story correct? So many things on social media are outright fabrications. How to tell without exte
367.
by dzdt 5y ago
For drug-sniffing dogs, generally all that is needed or expected is the dog will indicate where and when its handler wants an indication. For bomb-sniffing dogs you are hoping for a more precise outcome which is much harder to train for an
368.
by dzdt 5y ago
The third of those links is the most important: in the Florida case the spoiler candidate and the man paying him to run were charged with a crime. This doesn't reverse the election, whose outcome was almost certainly changed by the sc
369.
by dzdt 5y ago
In the long run zero growth is the only possible asymptotic besides decline. Our world is finite; we are close to or over ecological limits already. Economic growth by improved efficiency or technological advancement is still possible, bu
370.
by dzdt 5y ago
And the Dave Kleiman who is second author on this paper is that Dave Kleiman, the one who most likely invented bitcoin. Wright has claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto but has proven himself to be a liar on this topic; by his actions he clearly
371.
by dzdt 5y ago
Who else misses groklaw, BTW? That was my favorite tech law site for many years. [1] http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2003101616...
372.
by dzdt 5y ago
Corona beer wasn't too happy at the beginning either, but people got over it. Lots of things share names; it won't take long before people are used to it.
373.
by dzdt 5y ago
I think self driving can work with AGI to match a horse. It doesn't need to understand with a depth and clarity of a human. That is still a pretty high ask for current software.
374.
by dzdt 5y ago
Fortran did have it much earlier. Per wikipedia atan2 appeared in Fortran IV from IBM in 1961. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atan2
375.
by dzdt 5y ago
It seems analogous to air guns, which use compressed air to expel a projectile. Yes, the ATF says "welp, not a firearm". About half of US states have some kind of explicit regulations though... [1] https://en.wikipedi
376.
by dzdt 5y ago
My favorite analogy is it is like trees were made of plastic. You know how today people say the plastic bottles will sit unchanged in landfills for thousands of years? Back then it was the same for trees. They grew, they fell, they sat t
377.
by dzdt 5y ago
@dang
378.
by dzdt 5y ago
This is precisely because education is used as a filter so strongly. In order to make it into the industry without meeting the education requirement you must be truly impressive in other ways.
379.
by dzdt 5y ago
MS terminal services to remote connect to your pc from another is in Pro but not Home.
380.
by dzdt 5y ago
Twitter also. You can create an account without a phone number but in about 2 weeks it is locked unless you supply and verify one.
381.
by dzdt 5y ago
Exactly. The biggest problem with US schools is poverty. It isn't anything directly to do with the school system, but the school system is tasked with "leaving no child behind" when the thing holding many children back is p
382.
by dzdt 5y ago
There is a mental optimization to be had by using only a subset of the language. If you can get by using fewer constructs (and work on code with like-minded authors) you can better learn to use them correctly and save on thought as to whic
383.
by dzdt 5y ago
It is incorrect to take 27.5 Myr as a prior fixed quantity when there was no prior theoretical reason to expect that period. Correct analysis would ask, given a randomly generated data set, what are the odds as strong a signal as this is g
384.
by dzdt 5y ago
Looks like bogus statistics to me. (Caveat: I only read the sciencealert link not the underlying publication). But with a sample of 89 "events" over a purported 10-cycle period we are in the small sample realm where it is easy t
385.
by dzdt 5y ago
There are at least two different kinds of genealogy task. One is recording conclusions of existing research and another is doing new research. A kind of mixed task is recording both conclusions and evidence from ongoing research. I haven&
386.
by dzdt 5y ago
It is "duh" that google has access to the information as they relay it from your phone to another party. But you could imagine it being like the post office, where in the US it is a federal offense to read someone's mail en
387.
by dzdt 5y ago
I could not distinguish pin/pen as a child but learned to later in life. Another such pair for me was bowl/bull. I still dont distinguish marry/Mary/merry though I have been told others do.
388.
by dzdt 5y ago
The NRA was able to get this as the standard for gun sales records in the US. By law such records are on paper in an unsearchable format. I hadn't heard of any other type of info being treated in this way though. [1] https:/&#x
389.
by dzdt 5y ago
So this sounds like Plaid wanted to learn how to interface with the client-facing web interface of these payroll systems. So it paid people who have their own payroll on the system for access to that individual's login to study the us
390.
by dzdt 5y ago
Berk2^32/K.

More ›