helianer

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by helianer 3y ago
This only really works if the hirer has used latex themselves. If you know you know.
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by helianer 3y ago
I’ll often ask “what are the problems with doing X?”. It doesn’t imply that there should be a solution but you still want to learn why it might not work. Often you can continue the conversation enough to either exclude it or think some more
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by helianer 4y ago
Anyone who is capable of getting a second mortgage will consider holding it and renting it out if they can. The yield is very likely to be higher than the payments these days.
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by helianer 4y ago
Sure, but they could have sold off a lot of their long term assets earlier instead. To me, the problem was not an outright lack of hedges, rather it was continuing to take too much risk all of the way down. Hedges only make sense to me if t
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by helianer 4y ago
Why would they hedge? They would lose pretty much all of the return that they were getting by going long duration. The problem is that their portfolio was too long duration, not a lack of hedging.
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by helianer 5y ago
Tarmak is what finally allowed me to switch away from QWERTY. Prior to tarmak I couldn’t deal with the massive productivity loss that I would initially encounter with Dvorak and I would eventually switch back. The fact that initially steps
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by helianer 6y ago
These cultural differences may even depend on where you are in the US. Nearly every apartment building around me in Seattle has a name. Much of this is for marketing I’m sure, but this includes many of the buildings built in the 60s and 70s
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by helianer 8y ago
This is the idea behind www.betfair.com (not the cryptocurrency/smart contract bit tho).
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by helianer 8y ago
I agree. Amazon also absolutely wants to encourage behaviour where you don’t even think before buying, so scammy listings like this are hurt their strategy. The fact that they later delisted the seller shows that they recognised the abuse.
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by helianer 8y ago
I’m pretty surprised by Amazon’s reaction to them. This is clearly a rip-off transaction, and Amazon has always been pretty customer friendly with me.
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by helianer 8y ago
You would still want to leave on read caching. You can still turn off write caching on your disks with hdparm.
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by helianer 8y ago
Well, taxing something means you’ll usually get less of it, so I guess it’ll reduce demand on housing (probably not what they want since it hurts the economy in other ways). If the money goes to building for those in need it could help a bi
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by helianer 8y ago
They will, of course, make their seinorage whether they are physical notes/coins, or added to the money supply via some bits on a disk.