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by fuoqi 3y ago
If an economy is advanced enough to allow it, it would stay 2-day weekend with 4 working days. I think it would be more balanced than the 4-day workweek which slowly gets traction today.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Because you get exactly 5 weeks inside a month. We could use six 5-day weeks instead, but I think that having an even number of days in a week is convenient in many cases (gym routines is one such example). Also, with 6-day weeks, the quasi
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Personally, I like the calendar with twelve 30-day months and 6-day weeks, with an additional "new year" holiday 5-6 day quasi-month. You get equal quarters, sane numbering inside "working" months, and leap days stay ins
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by fuoqi 3y ago
A proper solution for MitM is mandatory independent certificate transparency, not outright denial of national CAs support in browsers. A German National CA should not be able to issue certificates for .ru in the first place and having a cle
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by fuoqi 3y ago
I hope you are simply not familiar with the situation and not FUDing around. The "false premise" was that GlobalSign has refused to issue new certificates for Sberbank and there were several cases of CAs revoking existing certific
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by fuoqi 3y ago
If certificates issued by those CAs will be tied to independent (from EU) certificate transparency (CT) services and to specific national top-level domains, then I am completely fine with this. After a big number of websites in Russia (incl
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Even the government pays above the (current level of) inflation and it has to refinance a big chunk of its debt in the next 1-3 years. Personally, I highly doubt the government spending is efficient enough for this. As for the average Joe,
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Fueled by rising public and private (credit card) debt.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
>it would be spent in other ways Or it would've been placed in the reverse REPO facility at delicious interest rates paid straight from the printing press. A lot of COVID spending was sanitized this way, without it inflation would&#
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Yeap, this spending is clearly unsustainable and sugar rush from it will be relatively short lived. To better demonstrate this point: imagine a country with struggling economy, government then issues a huge amount of debt at crowding out i
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by fuoqi 3y ago
>What history? The one where several trillions of deficit spending were fully financed by the Fed. >Help me understand why a large holder of debt would want it to pay less? Because the Fed is not a commercial organization and it'
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by fuoqi 3y ago
I was talking about high inflation environment. If you bought equities in the begging of 70s, it would take more than a decade to get nominal return. Even the paper you linked explicitly states: >A large literature has documented the p
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by fuoqi 3y ago
It's... difficult and depends on many factors. In an inflation environment equities usually do not feel great, since inflation causes shrinking margins and it takes time to pass rising costs on the consumer. Analysis from the Hussman F
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Yes, the Fed is independent and it should not care about fiscal deficits. On the paper. But the recent history shows that in practice it plays a bit differently... Also, there is a very enticing (for the government) example of Japan where B
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Yes, many analysts have expected this to happen this year, but they underestimated stimulating effect of the COVID stimulus checks and the huge deficit spending by the government (e.g. Inflation Reduction Act, lol). To be fair, the banking
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by fuoqi 3y ago
And a huge amount of public debt matures in the next 1-2 years, e.g. it's $7.6T (31%) just in the next year [1]. Imagine how the interest will balloon after this debt will be re-borrowed with the current interest rate. The recent spike
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by fuoqi 3y ago
>American made While it indeed has American roots and a huge amount of development is done today by American citizens, various people and companies from China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and many European countries have significa
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by fuoqi 3y ago
You can't, in the same way as with x86 and ARMs widely used today. Frankly, most people simply do not care. They gladly accept shit like Intel ME, so it's a lost battle. At least, with RISC-V there is a chance we will get full sta
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by fuoqi 3y ago
What is next? Linux? GitHub? Wikipedia? Sheer f**g hubris.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
"Properly constructed and operated landfills" which prevent leakage of microplastics and toxic decomposition products into air and waterways are far from being cheap, especially on longer time frames and with involved volumes (mor
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by fuoqi 3y ago
It's not a myth, it's a basic chemistry and physics. Increase temperature enough and chemical bonds start breaking, transforming complex molecules into simpler ones. Go far enough and you will get bare ionized atoms, i.e. plasma.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
The problem is with trying to "recycle" garbage plastic. Plastic is mostly carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Properly burning it using high-temperature (900+°C) pyrolysis converts most of plastic into water and carbon dioxide. There a
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by fuoqi 3y ago
It means that the US government pulls more and more of productive output of the economy and puts it into use under its direction. And governments are notoriously bad with effective allocation of resources. The government (in a non-command e
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by fuoqi 3y ago
>It's the Japan scenario Arguably, it's not. As I mentioned in my other comment [1], Japan is a huge creditor nation, while the US is the largest debtor one. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37563335#37
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Both parties love to spend public money. Remember that the COVID-related spending had a very high level of support from both sides. Same goes for the current administration with its "Inflation Reduction Act" (lol, talk about misno
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by fuoqi 3y ago
For all those who think that a high debt-to-GDP ratio is fine (put the meme picture here) and that the US will simply follow the Japan scenario for several decades at least (nothing great, but nothing catastrophic), I highly recommend to re
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by fuoqi 3y ago
With underwater explosion in the direct proximity you do not need that much, especially if you will use a charge with explosively formed penetrator. 16 meters of water pressure will quickly exploit even a small hole. My guess, it's sma
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by fuoqi 3y ago
No doubt it was the Russians, same as with blowing up the Nordstream pipeline and shelling the Zaporozhia nuclear plant. There was absolutely no shelling of the dam from the Ukrainian side and numerous threats to blow it up when the Russian
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Surprise-surprise, but spent fuel rods contain plutonium (~1%) as well. The idea is that you build breeder reactors and do reprocessing in countries which already have nuclear weapons, while other countries get completed fuel rods for the c
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by fuoqi 3y ago
A better alternative would've been to develop breeder reactors and reprocess this "waste" into more fuel and a much smaller amount of true waste, which would be somewhat safe after several thousands years (it still would be a

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