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by gizmo686 5y ago
They didn't achieve precisely nothing; when the treasury initially sold the bond to the fed, the achieved printing money for the treasury department to distribute to the rest of the government. [0]. The slightly convoluted mechanism th
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by gizmo686 5y ago
He is measuring "quantity of money per unit of output". Those units and ratio are doing a lot of work, to the point where I have no idea what the graph actually represents. I don't mean this in a "how should I interperat
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Which is not relevant to most consumer debt, where the interest rate is set at the start and locked in for the life of the loan.
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Or, the economy is a very complicated system, and you can get emergent behavior that is counter-intuitive given the micro behaviour. In particular, most recessions in the modern economy are caused by a demand disruption. It is not that we l
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by gizmo686 5y ago
I haven't tried it for replacing TLS certificates, but you do not need a rooted phone to mess with 3rd party apps on android. You can unpack an APK and re-sign it using your own key, allowing you to make whatever modifications to the A
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Debugging things that happen over TLS.
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At a minimum it is a jobs program, and so can be viewed as part of the welfare state (a lot of government spending falls, at least partially, into this category). Perhaps more importantly, it provides a national strategic interest that is n
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by gizmo686 5y ago
We sequenced covid 19 on January 11, 2020. Within 2 days, we have a vaccine. It took 2 months (March 2020) to get that vaccine into humans, and almost an entire year (December 2020) to get an emergency use authorization to use it outside o
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Alternatively, they recognize that the threat of sanctions leaves them vulnerable. Even if they expect this round to end reasonably soon, they may be looking to remove the ability to do this again in the future.
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> There's no difference between "FedWallet has declined your transaction" and "Citigroup has declined your transaction (in compliance with US law)." There is a big difference. If FedWallet declines your transacti
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What do you need an explanation about? Electrical heating is a solved problem at this point.
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Interest rates are a policy decision by the federal reserve. Maintain a debt instead of printing money is a policy decision by Congress. In practice the government going into debt denominated in its own currency, and printing more of its ow
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by gizmo686 5y ago
They are probably referring to then Senetor Joe Biden and his support for the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which substantially broadened the set of student loans that could not be discharged in bankruptcy.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
As I read that post, the circumvention applies only to a throttling control, not an overall access control. Since it should have been just as easy (if no easier) to simply block unofficial clients instead of throttling them, it seems like a
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At 4 digits, with a 10 character alphabet, you are looking at a 1% reduction in pin space. Contrast this with the 90% reduction in pin-space you get by not using a 5th digit.
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> Memory addressing - As the article suggests, addressing large amount of address space. Not just RAM, but disk control on the bit/byte level (something solid state drives may enable and new filesystems may take advantage of). There
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That is why they rarely list is as a prerequisite; and instead list specific classes that likely fostered it. Any good definition of mathematical maturity would likely be so technical that you need mathematical maturity to understand it.
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Mathematical maturity is a soft skill. You can't point to a particular technical skill that provides it. Most colleges have classes designed to foster mathatical maturity, but that is done by how the class is taught, not what is taught
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Does Android even need to be rooted? The settings app on my stock Samsung has a clear data button for every app.
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I don't think people would do this at scale, even today. Suppose I have $30,000 that I want to keep cash (either physical, or a bank account). If I were to keep this at home, I would want to insure it. I can't find what this insur
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When you apply for a mortgage, they absolutely need you to justify recent large deposits. This caused me a slight headache when I applied for a mortgage, as I had moved all the money I would need into 1 account before the underwriter approv
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It seems like most of this story is just general poor financial decisions, with a hint of cryptocurrency aftertaste. 1) Person took out a $300k margin loan with a margin ratio of 50%. Under current regulations, 50% is the most aggressive yo
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That is part of it, but as the orbit shrinks, relativistic effects start to become the dominant source of orbit decay. The most striking demonstration of this effect is what happens around the photon sphere (3/2 the radius of the event
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These people didn't buy a house, they bought a portion of a larger building. That entire premise is utterly unworkable without some organization managing the larger structure. Most of the rules in the above document relate to usage of
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You mean devices like https://www.medicalalert.com/fall-detection/ Or these https://www.consumeraffairs.com/medical-alert-systems/fall-d... Wearable fall detection devices are already a relativly
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The seller doesn't care about how much you put down. Cash offers will beat a comparable offer with a mortgage contingency. At the margin, sellers may compare equivelent offers based on how likely they think the mortgage is to be approv
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> The wealthiest generation in U.S. history (boomers) are exiting the workforce, where will they park their retirement nest egg? This seems like a demographic argument for a downturn. Standard financial advice is to transition more into
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Most of the time, the objects you are actually interested on are not NxM grids of numbers, but linear functions. For simplicity, I will assume we are working with real numbers. Suppose you have two linear functions: f :: R3 -> R3 h
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The short answer is that it leads to a more consistent notation. The longer answer is that matrix multiplication is essentially 2 different operations. Consider the linear funtions: f :: R3 -> R3 h :: R3 -> R3 As well as the
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I think this can be done in a straight-forward brute force manner. Consider the first 7 primes [2,3,5,7,11,13,17]. Each of these primes defines a "sieves", that can be used to filter out multiples of it. For instance, 2 defines th

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