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by evancox100 3y ago
All of those things are independent from nominal price/wage increases. If higher pay was such an unalloyed good, why doesn't the government just pass a law saying "Whatever amount you were getting paid on 6/26/23,
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by evancox100 3y ago
So the one exception that I considered putting in would be cases where the government is the employer and is negotiating with their employees. And yes of course, they will use whatever arguments they can to come out ahead in labor negotiati
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by evancox100 3y ago
Can't read the full article but the headline seems to say that the fed is hoping for wage increases to slow, but that would be because they have tightened monetary policy. That's different from the fed chair getting up and saying
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by evancox100 3y ago
What government is arguing that employee wages should be lower/stagnant in order to fight inflation? EDIT: I mean advocating not just that we should avoid a wage/price spiral through other means, but specifically that individual w
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by evancox100 3y ago
No, it does not feel like that to me as far as grocery stores are concerned. (My experience is in large Texas cities.) Do you not just have some store like Tom Thumb, Randall’s, Albertsons, Krogers, Sprouts, or H‑E‑B near you? I know there
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by evancox100 3y ago
Dollar General didn’t move down market, they moved up. Still plenty of regular grocery stores around, at least here. And who abandons the middle part of the market? The providers? The customers? Not really making sense here but I get it if
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by evancox100 3y ago
The crash could still happen one day after you put the last dollar in. If you can’t handle such a crash, you need to invest less in stock all the time, not just for a few weeks/months after receiving a windfall.
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by evancox100 3y ago
The post defines that as “Systematic Investing”, while DCA is defined as taking a larger amount (e.g. a windfall of $10k) and deploying it over time instead of all at once. You can have your own definitions but this is clearly explained in
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by evancox100 3y ago
I could be wrong, but I took that to mean the tweet thread was written not to leak anything that wasn’t already publicly available in the patents. Not that the patents were written to not disclose anything. In which case patent regime is wo
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by evancox100 3y ago
I think embedded programming could really benefit from async/co-routine programming, especially around interrupt routines. I’d like to be able to write an ISR function that looks like straight line code. It would enabled and awaits the
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by evancox100 3y ago
1) Excess savings built up during COVID (part stimulus money, part reduced spending on travel, etc.) 2) "Hot" economy with low unemployment
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by evancox100 3y ago
Why do you assume that setting a high price or raising prices is "abusing customers"? If customers are paying that price, what's the problem? Are the customers idiots who can't be trusted how to allocate their money? Hig
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by evancox100 3y ago
The "inflation allows companies to hike prices" theory is circular reasoning, because inflation IS companies hiking prices in mass and not suffering a sales losses sufficient to dissuade them form doing so. It's absolutely
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by evancox100 3y ago
Maybe this intervention wasn’t seen as “extreme” at the time?
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by evancox100 3y ago
I respect that there are many people doing their best to help their clients, without regards to the short run impact to their pocket book. (Obviously there is a long run benefit to keeping clients happy, etc, etc.) It is not hard to find ex
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by evancox100 3y ago
People focus on this but the far bigger lever is simply time. If it takes 2/3 the effort to get you into the $700k home then the agent comes out ahead on a revenue/hour basis, and can move on to the next customer. (And the much bi
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by evancox100 3y ago
This entire fiasco is stupid. Treasury bonds/bills are just “future dollars”, while physical cash and electronic deposits are just “today dollars”. The idea that a sovereign government can somehow default on obligations denominated in
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by evancox100 3y ago
Good luck with that argument! "Your honor, I wasn't copying that movie. You see, I applied a mathematical formula to the .zip file, and it just happened to produce the movie as output. Coincidence!" (That's not to say
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by evancox100 3y ago
(I vouched for this post because I think it's important to actually address these issue head on with facts and not just shout people down.) Berenson's numbers based on the presentation you shared seem to check out, but the interpr
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by evancox100 3y ago
Ya but the uninsured depositors were still bailed out, so I think it's a little more complicated than that. The FDIC insurance fund is predicated on any one bank (and their customers) being small enough that if you wipe out the uninsur
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by evancox100 3y ago
I mean the more fundamental problem with the power supply is it recommending a "USB-to-Serial converter for powering the device." (See second example image.) I'm overall bullish on AI systems but I'm not sure this space
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by evancox100 3y ago
I think the high end stuff was always expensive. Why do you think furniture was passed down from generation to generation? It’s just that globalization and technology have made the low end so cheap, that by comparison it feels like the high
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by evancox100 3y ago
> The merchant only gets the "6+4" digits of the card, the DPAN is sent over the network to the tokenization service, which translates the DPAN to the CPAN and sends the transaction to the issuing bank for authentication and pa
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by evancox100 3y ago
The current headline, “The Better Your Credit Score the Higher Your Mortgage Rate” is not true. The LLPA (Loan Level Price Adjustment, the amount Fannie Mae charges essentially) decreases monotonically with increasing credit score. So highe
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by evancox100 3y ago
Because the employees are shareholders? If the profits are going to shareholders then employees are directly benefiting
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by evancox100 4y ago
Analog circuits are ones that primarily deal with the processing and manipulation of analog signals, while digital circuits are those that primarily deal with digital signals. Refer to my prior reply for the difference between analog and di
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by evancox100 4y ago
Employment-population ratio is probably the one hardest to game, and it is not slowing down at all. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
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by evancox100 4y ago
By definition, an analog signal encodes an “infinite” amount of information in whatever value it is taking on at the time point in question, while a digital signal encodes information in discrete states. For binary that is typically two sta
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by evancox100 4y ago
There is a real difference between an analog and digital multiplexer regardless of speed. For an analog mux, whatever voltage you put in you get out, including mid-rail voltages. For a digital mux, any input < VDD/2 causes an output
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by evancox100 4y ago
Seems like a way to directly sense the prescence of electromagnetic fields without first confining them to a wire with an antenna. Practically speaking, I guess antennas are shaped to work best in a specific range, so now you don’t need mu

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