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by frontfor 1y ago
You could argue household debt is just another form of rent, where you “rent” capital from the wealthy in exchange for paying interest on a monthly basis. Just because you don’t pay a rent directly named as such doesn’t change the substance
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by frontfor 1y ago
> Interacting with cops will never make your day better, so it's only sensible to avoid them if you can. This is a very nice way to put it. In investing terms, the benefits are limited but the risks are severe. With enough interacti
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by frontfor 1y ago
I like to think of axioms as "created" while the consequences (i.e. theorems) of said axioms are "discovered". You can't create logic consequences (conclusions) given a set of axioms, but you can certainly create
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by frontfor 1y ago
It’s a reflecting telescope, not a camera with a glass lens.
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by frontfor 1y ago
60% enrichment level is significantly higher than what’s required for peaceful purposes. To say that it’s not weapons grade is just disingenuous.
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by frontfor 1y ago
I don’t believe the war specifically drove the Fed to raise interest rates. Inflation and asset prices have risen sharply a year prior to the war.
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by frontfor 1y ago
When the weakest link between the criminal and the cryptocurrency is a single person (the holder himself in this instance), that person alone would need to withstand all attacks and “rubber hose cryptanalysis”.
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by frontfor 1y ago
Compared to Go where I always have to remember to print the stack trace in every goroutine’s panic handler or use a custom error type that includes the stack trace or I get nothing? And I have to do this very basic thing for every service I
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by frontfor 1y ago
That might be true for other Oracle products like the DB, but has that been true for Java and openjdk?
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by frontfor 1y ago
Bitcoin is a massive failure as a currency.
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by frontfor 1y ago
> Much of US banking operates almost entirely on this premise and has done so forever. I've had the same epiphany when I worked for a fintech startup that interacts with financial institutions. Having a website just isn't neces
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by frontfor 1y ago
As many others as mentioned, "tree shaking" is just a rebranded variation of dead code elimination which is a very old idea. I don't think JS does what OP is suggesting anyway, you certainly don't declare the exact depen
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by frontfor 1y ago
Both of us know this is a non-starter for most people, even technically inclined ones.
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by frontfor 1y ago
OP is making a reference to patio11's article https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra... . "Ideal society" doesn't exist. And how would you "be more selective" and &quo
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by frontfor 1y ago
This is a good point. Society as a whole will do fine, technology will keep improving, and the global stock market will keep trending up in the long term. But at the cost of destroying the livelihoods of some individuals of the species thr
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by frontfor 1y ago
Personally I like to think about this in terms of the reward asymmetry. In most situations if you’re cynical or pessimistic and you turn out to be right, you don’t really gain much. If you’re an optimist, and keep betting or grinding sensib
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by frontfor 1y ago
Agreed. For the same reason I unironically prefer Java, Go, C++, JS/TS to solve real problems.
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by frontfor 1y ago
I don’t want to use a language with unknown ecosystem. If I need a library to do X, I’m confident I can find it for Go, Java, Python etc. But I don’t know about F#. I also don’t want to use a language with questionable hireability.
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by frontfor 1y ago
America is a mixed bag to be sure. But to say America is “pure greed” and “evil” is just plain ridiculous. As in, absolutely nothing good came out of America?
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by frontfor 1y ago
If they have actual engineering improvements this sentence in the Wikipedia article could be easily disproved. > BLP has announced several times that it was about to deliver commercial products based on Mill's theories but has never
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Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy (2019)(arxiv.org)
4 points by frontfor 1y ago|1 comments
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by frontfor 1y ago
This is arguing in bad faith. Just because the kernel does that doesn’t mean it does that in everywhere else.
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by frontfor 1y ago
I’m not sure about “vast majority”. Barring some exceptions (e.g. lean hogs), many of the commodities futures are physically delivered (e.g. gold, silver, copper, corn, wheat, soybean, natural gas, live cattle). Financial futures like S&amp
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by frontfor 1y ago
Correct. Not saying the OP is, but many people conflate morality and law. They are completely separate, except for a few laws that might be inspired by moral concerns.
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by frontfor 1y ago
> I don't think talking about these things in absolute terms is very useful. Everything depends on the problem and the customer's expectations. Agreed. In the real world, approximate solutions to hard problems are often good en
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by frontfor 1y ago
You are speaking from the position of privilege. Not everyone is as lucky as you are in your country, let alone the world.
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John Cleese on Creativity in Management [video](youtube.com)
3 points by frontfor 1y ago|1 comments
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by frontfor 2y ago
Are there benchmarks demonstrating its speed?
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by frontfor 2y ago
What are you trying to convey?
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by frontfor 2y ago
The Fed has two mandates: maximum employment & stable prices. If prices go up, the Fed is mandated to raise interest rate.

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