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by gregwebs 6y ago
It's really important for everyone to understand the point of the middle of this article which can be summarized as: "dopamine is not a reward, it is the expectation of a reward". However, this doesn't mean that one cann
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by gregwebs 6y ago
> A debt purchase is either money that was given to you, that you're now returning (Treasury securities) or money that you're giving to others which will be returned (corporate bonds). It's not a giveaway at all - the net
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by gregwebs 6y ago
I preferred InkDrop on my laptop, but I had to switch back to SimpleNote because SimpleNote does both sync and mobile extremely well. Doing mobile well just requires it to never take time to load. InkDrop would usually have to refresh its c
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by gregwebs 6y ago
That's 1.9 trillion in MBS on the balance sheet now. It seems like you have counted those eggs before they have hatched! If we could really make money on these we would get them off the balance sheet, but that is proving to be impossib
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Some of the bailout loans might break even, but this is only some of what is going on. The paycheck protection loans get forgiven and are essentially just handing out money (with the caveat that it goes to labor costs). We also handed out $
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by gregwebs 6y ago
QE is much more than loans that get paid back. The fed's balance sheet actually went up by 4 trillion dollars during the 2008 recovery [1], even though the loan program was less than 1 trillion. Much of QE finances government debt. But
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by gregwebs 6y ago
This is a good point. It's interesting to note, though, that the fed's balance sheet never really goes down and that today mortgage backed securities are still a huge part of the balance sheet and that the fed is still active in t
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Sorry, it is hard for me to untangle all this. Some of this money is authorized by CARES, and some is independent action. We are already at a trillion dollars to the largest companies now when you combine CARES and the fed's commitment
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by gregwebs 6y ago
That breakdown is missing the trillion dollars of corporate debt that the fed is now engaging in purchasing. Correction: in terms of direct corporate debt purchase, they have currently committed to less than half a trillion dollars of purch
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Saudi Arabia can get cheap oil, but the US hit peak cheap oil along time ago. Shale needs oil prices above $60/barrel. Energy input is an interesting way of looking at oil. In 1930 we used 1 barrel of oil to obtain 100 more. With shale
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by gregwebs 6y ago
There are other open source companies using the Red Hat licensing model now such as Chef. Some are coming to the realization this license style is the only one where the goal of both being open source and having some kind of moat are easy t
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Is this still a glossy-only screen option? I would happily by the XPS 15 with a non-glossy screen. I have been forced to use the Precision models with Ubuntu pre-installed and suffered both mediocre performance, battery life, build quality,
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by gregwebs 6y ago
The moat with the Red Hat model is the trademark. Someone else can build an alternative (such as CentOS), but they cannot call it Red Hat and they have to do their own brand development.
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by gregwebs 6y ago
This seems very similar to Victoria Metrics. Victoria Metrics is very much based on the design of Clickhouse and currently shows best of class performance numbers for time series data: it would be a lot more interesting to see a comparison
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by gregwebs 6y ago
There are a lot of comments here essentially saying this is not a problem an we are properly reaching herd immunity. I am wondering if these commenters are discounting the possibility of a vaccine? There is a strong possibility that we will
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by gregwebs 6y ago
A lot of commenters here are stating that this is because of increased testing. Which is true compared to April. But I want to point out that at least in southern Callifornia the positive test percentage is actually going up now. https:&#x
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Yes, and the reason why is unfortunately articles like these which only compare US states to each other or the US to Europe. If you look in these places, there is no good solution. But all we have to do is look across the Pacific Ocean. The
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Contact tracing is exactly the kind of tool that would help track outbreaks from protests. Unfortunately in the US we have almost no contact tracing going on. It is unclear how bad the spread from protests will be since protesters are outsi
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by gregwebs 6y ago
First month free has definitely been around at times, but I think less so in the most recent pre-COVID years. This article mentioned we might start seeing 2 months though, which I think is much rarer. My complex charges existing tenants gre
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Its nice to see someone not get upset about the criticism! Things that work well for one person can be dangerous for others. It's fine to share your positive experiences, but it's another step to be recommending the same to others
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by gregwebs 6y ago
It is pretty easy to cherry pick a paper advocating whatever you want to advocate for vitamin D. The paper you cite is entirely founded on another paper about fixing the daily estimate. That paper states about its improved estimate: "A
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by gregwebs 6y ago
The NIH states that 4000 IU is the tolerable upper intake: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona... If you are rounding down your vitamin D status then it is currently at what the NIH say should
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by gregwebs 6y ago
This is really dangerous advice to be peddling on internet forums. Statements 1 & 2 are both misleading. It is certainly true that a few high dosages of vitamin D are not harmful. The issue is the negative effects of having too high of
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by gregwebs 6y ago
There was a recent discussion on HN about using a Tesla as a store of energy that could be tapped to help with emergency power scenarios: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23178733 Apparently the capability is already th
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by gregwebs 6y ago
This study can lead one to conclude that at least some people can function well for short-term periods of sleep deficit, at least when performing stimulating activities. However, we also have studies showing that people are very poor at rec
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by gregwebs 6y ago
This is still a very us centric view. California isn't low compared to Asian countries. But all California shows is that you can achieve low transmission rates with lockdowns done early enough. But of course lockdowns are not sustainab
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This is a tragic US centric point of view. From an international point of view there are 2 camps: aggressive and complacent. Aggressive means contact tracing every single case. This is only possible with using all the gold standard tools to
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There are a lot of shared raft libraries now. It is much easier to share library code than a piece of a distributed system.
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Make was designed for building dependencies. I think it is always problematic to use it as a command runner (for example there is no standard way to list out the available commands). [just]( https://github.com/casey/just
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by gregwebs 6y ago
I think a big factor to Silicon Valley is VCs wanting in person meetings with founders and to have in person board meetings. If VCs realize they can take pitches and do board meetings over Zoom they can start investing outside Silicon Valle

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