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by ipnon 3y ago
Perry Mehrling wrote “The New Lombard Street” covering all the new mechanics of international financial markets. It’s just as fascinating. He taught a course on the material called “Economics of Money and Banking.” I never felt I grokked th
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by ipnon 3y ago
China seems to have some serious structural problems that are impeding its rise. For instance it has been reported that negative outlooks by economists are now to be censored, and "deflation" is a bad word.[0] It would be better f
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by ipnon 3y ago
Ad hominem is at least nominally against the rules here. Most egregious instances will get flagged and deleted. It’s not perfect but there is some effective immune response moving things back in the right direction.
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by ipnon 3y ago
An LLM presents an exciting vision for integrating spam into cherished hacker forums.
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by ipnon 3y ago
Yes any amount. It is a simple chemical property of carbon dioxide that it absorbs more sunlight than air does on average. That heat becomes a part of our climate.
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by ipnon 3y ago
There is a very simple experiment to show that human industry is affecting the climate. Take two glass boxes. Fill one with air. Fill the next with air and add carbon dioxide in any amount. Put them outside next to each other in the sun. Th
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by ipnon 3y ago
In the spirit of friendly discussion, would you be able to acknowledge that the leaders of company being unproductive and exploitative is not a mainstream theory of the economy? Would you be able to acknowledge that you are equating riding
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by ipnon 3y ago
If these people are tech execs, then presumably they are extremely productive members of the economy. What does it matter what they do in private? If you’re an avid unicyclist it should have no bearing on your appearance of respectability u
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by ipnon 3y ago
If you’re interested in Vyvanse then check out this interview of its creator Dr. Robert Oberlander: https://youtu.be/x9WmEVRxebE
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by ipnon 3y ago
A nuclear war wouldn’t eliminate all governments involved, so in some sense they are “winnable.” The best way to frame MAD is not that all nations involved are destroyed, but rather that a Malthusian trap is simultaneously triggered for all
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by ipnon 3y ago
There is an algorithm for everything in aviation. If you suspect your landing gear is not functional, you typically fly by a tower and have them make visual confirmation. Then you have another algorithm (they call them procedures) for how t
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by ipnon 3y ago
Marginal Revolution runs on Rails.
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What should I ask Paul Graham?(marginalrevolution.com)
10 points by ipnon 3y ago|6 comments
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by ipnon 3y ago
Posner and Weyl show in Radical Markets that land cannot be put to optimal use without perpetual auctions where buyers compete to pay the most tax. It’s essentially Georgism. Exploitation of the commercial real estate arises from strong pri
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by ipnon 3y ago
Personally if this was asked during an interview that didn’t allow looking up references, it would be a signal that the company is not a good place to work. It indicates the company places value on memorizing lots of programming trivia inst
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by ipnon 3y ago
My next commit is for him.
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by ipnon 3y ago
I just learned about these through “pair” programming with ChatGPT. It is the quintessential ML-enhanced programming trick: Using some old, robust language feature I’m skilled enough to grok but never had the time to learn about through end
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by ipnon 3y ago
Transformers don’t predict next tokens, right? They predict sequences based on their self-attention to some preceding token sequence?
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by ipnon 3y ago
Mr. Beast has to be one of if not the most charitable YouTubers. He’s an effective altruist fever dream, curing disease and easing poverty through free entertainment. There are many worded YouTubers for the world. Perhaps it’s just his oste
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by ipnon 3y ago
Japan has a reasonable standard for reviews. 3 stars means the place met 100% of expectations, it was totally average. Nothing bad but nothing extraordinary, a reasonable place to spend your money that you will enjoy. 2 or 4 stars is like 9
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by ipnon 3y ago
If he’s already in China there is no risk of extradition for him.
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by ipnon 3y ago
You nerd snipe them and move on with your day. Don’t take it personally if someone has their whole identity wrapped up in how they are the smartest. Don’t feel responsible for fixing them.
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by ipnon 3y ago
For what it’s worth America is one of the easiest if not the easiest place to be an immigrant, all things considered. You’ll find a community of your fellow countrymen already thriving, you have well established rights that are maintained b
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by ipnon 3y ago
Jetbrains was hiring mathematicians working on homotopy type theory to do something similar if I recall correctly. The idea is that HTT can be used to generate equivalent programs to that which is in your buffer and do something like supero
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by ipnon 3y ago
Base your studies on Teach Yourself CS. If you finish one item from each of their courses you will be more knowledgeable than even many CS graduates. If you could finish every book and video series they recommend for each course you would b
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The Canons Archives(a16z.com)
1 points by ipnon 3y ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 3y ago
Hey I appreciate the comment! I meant “if you could simply resolve debts mandated by the government by declaring bankruptcy, then people would declare bankruptcy just to absolve themselves of owed alimony or child support. Since this is not
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by ipnon 3y ago
If it was as easy as declaring bankruptcy I don’t think anyone would ever receive alimony or child support.
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It has been said the opposite of communism is not capitalism but math.
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by ipnon 3y ago
A good way to think about Elixir: instead of optimizing for bare metal performance and assembly code with a clunky process and thread API, you optimize for an elegant process and thread API then let the battle-hardened BEAM handle the bare

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