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by izend 4y ago
I'm betting the rates will be back to 2% by 2026 as global growth collapses due to a combination of high interest rates, deleveraging of over-leveraged organizations and geopolitical strife causing further de-globalization.
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by izend 4y ago
Europe has the resources to produce cheap energy they just decided to not exploit it and import their energy from Russia and others.
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by izend 4y ago
For a 2.5 kW solar system would cost somewhere around $2-5K USD and the 5kWH battery would also cost $2-5K USD. I don’t think the average Rwanda citizen has $5-10K available to install just enough power to run their fridge.
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by izend 4y ago
Makes you wonder if it is some sort of collusion to make it more difficult for current employees to jump ship if they know it will be painful ordeal.
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by izend 4y ago
We are heading to a world where every major country will be deploying a Great Firewall like censorship, especially as the cost of implementing and maintaining such a system drops.
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by izend 4y ago
I doubt this will be the case in 6-12 months.
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by izend 4y ago
Much fewer users though... If Dwarf Fortress magically had the UX they are working on now back in 2012 it would be worth at least $50million+ Now, the fact they skipped working on the UX until now allowed Tarn to implement very difficult
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by izend 4y ago
I wonder if it is the other way around, biological life is actually post-machine/robotics.
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by izend 4y ago
I spent quite a few hours working on an example of Bevy 0.5 and Tokio for multiplayer backend server. https://github.com/peterholko/bevy_tokio_tungstenite/blob/ma...
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by izend 5y ago
Supposedly the nuclear weapons development and maintenance was well funded in Russia.
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by izend 5y ago
Ballistic Missile Defense is irrelevant when the enemy has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_...
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by izend 5y ago
Compare the US M3 growth vs the Japanese M3 growth from 1990: --------------------------- US JAN 1990 M3: $3.166T US JAN 2022 M3: $21.8T --------------------------- JPN JAN 1990 M3: ¥708T JPN JAN 2022 M3: ¥1536T ------------------------
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by izend 5y ago
The talented API developer Brandur Leach has his technical blog here: https://brandur.org/articles Lots of articles on Go, Postgres and databases in general.
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by izend 5y ago
Indian is definitely not used in Canada nor is Native American as it turned into a very derogatory term. The preferred term is First Nations and Inuit.
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by izend 5y ago
This strategy only works because vacancy rates are low and interest rates are low.
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by izend 5y ago
The Fed / SEC is accepting it because it attracts liquidity and prevents it from pouring into public stock markets.
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by izend 5y ago
i.e. Europe does not care if 24 million Democratic Chinese are suddenly forced into an authoritative society against their will as long as they receive their cheap goods?
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by izend 5y ago
I was actually successfully in reversing a $500 AWS bill. I had needed an Active Directory domain controller so I found one in the AWS marketplace and deployed it to an EC2 instance. Well guess what, the DC must have had some malicious st
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by izend 5y ago
Timely article today in CBC News: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/young-albertans-leavi...
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by izend 5y ago
I live in Vancouver and there are two families in my daughter’s class that built one very large house with two kitchens (which is common here in Vancouver for a basement suite or wok kitchen) and in the final stage they built a dividing wal
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by izend 5y ago
You are discounting the potential military contracts that SpaceX will be awarded.
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by izend 5y ago
That's not even the most complex algorithm Tarn has implemented, I believe the ones he created for fluid dynamics are much more complex.
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by izend 5y ago
The CCP has had access to iCloud in China for multiple years... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...
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by izend 5y ago
Very true, I believe this is why our Federal gov is aiming for 400k new immigrants per year, they know there is a large brain drain south.
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Generating JSON Directly from Postgres(blog.crunchydata.com)
269 points by izend 5y ago|153 comments
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by izend 5y ago
Note you are off by a magnitude: "as it raised the rate on its overnight Reverse Repo facility from 0% to 0.05%"
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by izend 5y ago
Doesn't always work, video games are probably the cheapest addicting entertainment out there. Doesn't take much income to just survive and play video games all day long.
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by izend 5y ago
What will happen once their parents are gone?
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by izend 5y ago
Brandur's deep dives into tough topics are always great!
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by izend 5y ago
The military system is orbiting at 32,000km, the latency is much higher than Starlink.

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