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by em500 4y ago
The BLS already publishes per category CPIs, alongside the aggregates[1]. Presumably you'd want the Fed to use different weights than the BLS (overweight "necessities"?) for monetary policy. But they already do, they vastly
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by em500 4y ago
TFA does mention terminfo at the very end: > being compatible only with ANSI-capable terminals is a feature, not a bug, go the fuck away. terminfo is a fucking joke. nobody needs to target obscure dumb terminals (or smart terminals, for
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by em500 4y ago
The puzzle is not that the government should be as productive as the private sector. The first part of the puzzle is, given that historically equities have returned a lot more (5% to 8% annually, compounding in the long term), why is there
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by em500 4y ago
PhD economics/econometrics, ex-research economist, turned machine learning engineer. In my personal experience the mathiness in both fields are comparable, but pay-to-effort ratio was much better in machine learning.
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by em500 4y ago
> To me, it’s pretty obvious. The kids problem solve when gaming, and are obviously engaged. When watching TV, they look like zombies. Are you not just seeing what you want to see? Maybe from your wife's perspective, the kids are c
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by em500 4y ago
I'm not theorizing, I'm relaying experience from visiting relatives in San Francisco and NJ, and from staying with friends or for work in DC, Chicago, and Austin at various points. There is of course variety in all those places, b
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by em500 4y ago
Of course it's relevant. Household sizes have also been trending down in Europe and Asia. But even for small households, if you need to drive >20min to buy milk, bread, eggs and unprocessed veggies, you only do that once per week o
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by em500 4y ago
I can't speak for all of Europe, but here in Amsterdam most people have a decent supermarket within walking (<15min) or cycling (<5min) distance, with plenty of unprocessed / raw ingredients (so not mini-markets that mostly
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by em500 4y ago
> where is some boring neutral news? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events (And to a much lesser extend, https://text.npr.org/ )
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by em500 4y ago
Maybe try FT. Currently the Most Read headlines are: - Bitcoin has no future as a payments network, says FTX chief - Putin signals acceptance of Finland and Sweden joining Nato - China’s economic activity plummets as Covid lockdowns hit gro
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by em500 4y ago
Yes, this is the main argument in Clay Shirky's "The Case Against Micropayments" (2000) [1]. It holds up pretty well 20 years later. Micropayments are not "pay $2 or $3 per month" (either flat-fee or average), there
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by em500 4y ago
Yup. Here's a casual joke on global warming from Hot Shots! (1991), that's more than 30 years ago now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JkBKGttM_U
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by em500 4y ago
The top Alder Lake desktop CPU has 16-cores, 8P+8E, compared to 8P in the 11-th gen. The E cores get around half the performance of the P cores, so the 8P+8E is get roughly the performance of a hypothetical 12P+0E CPU. The very high core pa
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by em500 4y ago
Also the hallmark of dietary recommendation. Since it's close to impossible to do long long term RCT with people's diets, that's probably not going to change in my (or my child's) lifetime.
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by em500 4y ago
What strong link? AFAICT your first reference says basically everything is unknown. As for > We’ve been drinking bovine milk for about 10,000 years and heavily ingesting soy in the west for about 100 years (with a sharp uptick over the 5
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by em500 4y ago
It's pretty widely known at least in Western Europe. I knew it from primary school history class in the Netherlands (long before the first Harry Potter book was published). Similar for German and French colleagues. Not sure why the tit
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by em500 4y ago
> If only there was a way to set this as the default and format pasting as the shift setting. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/copy-paste-text-without-format... (MS Office requires a slightly different procedure: http
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by em500 4y ago
The Harry Potter book cover art change was not nearly as bad as what they did to video game box art. Original (Japan): https://i.pinimg.com/originals/22/5b/d9/225bd9e4fda8aee8ed0c... Americanized: https
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by em500 4y ago
More specific, it's the outstanding debt to disposable (i.e., after tax) yearly income. Even more specific, I it's probably the total outstanding mortgage debt in a country divided by the total disposable household income in the
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by em500 4y ago
Why hypothetical, Gobo Linux[1] has already done it. Or if you want to just hide (rather than replace) the traditional Unix hierarchy from the user, you get macOS (inherited from NeXTSTEP). The problem is that the actual benefits a pretty n
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by em500 4y ago
I think you've confused /usr/bin with /usr/local/bin. I'm pretty sure a default FreeBSD install has plenty if stuff in /usr/bin.
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by em500 4y ago
The north wasn't uninhabited land before the Europeans arrived.
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by em500 4y ago
>> Bloomberg reports that the world’s richest 500 people have lost a total of $1 trillion this year. > I can't view the article, but aren't those "losses" likely to be paper losses, i.e., unrealized losses? Yup,
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by em500 4y ago
I have the creeping feeling that soon the field is going to reinvent all of Fourier analysis from scratch.
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by em500 4y ago
It's completely valid and equivalent to formulate trigonometric functions as a dynamic system (x,y-coordinates as you go around the circle using a rotation matrix).
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by em500 5y ago
Hear, hear. I keep being amazed how little sanity check is done when it comes to numbers. I developed a rule of thumb over the years: if you can't Fermi estimate some metric or quantity within an order of magnitude, you probably don&#x
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by em500 5y ago
I'm similarly skeptical. Both the demand and supply for eggs are probably quite predictable (save for the occasional bird flu outbreak), so why would the industry create big egg buffers/stockpiles?
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by em500 5y ago
The other points are that: - color preference varies by country - in mass production, the yolk color can be tweaked by the producer with food additives (e.g. https://www.dsm.com/anh/en_NA/products/carotenoids&
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by em500 5y ago
The marriage lesson that I learned, not too late, is to hire domestic help pretty much as soon as we could afford it.
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by em500 5y ago
There are a few more reasons that I don't have time to delve into right now. But the main practical reason is that government assistance for daycare is very income dependent, so government paying directly to the daycare would require g

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