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by jldugger 4y ago
Unfortunately we don't have such a thing. Especially in 1922, we didn't even have TIPS, or 100 year bonds. The best case scenario you're looking at something like 10 year treasuries at 4.3 percent[1] in 1922. Shorter duration
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by jldugger 4y ago
With the slight caveat that the FDIC wouldnt exist until a decade after you put your money in and in no case would it protect all 8 million dollars.
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by jldugger 4y ago
10x matters quite a bit in generational wealth terms. If every generation doubles the number of plausible claimants to the wealth, thats about what is needed to balance out. On the other hand: > If I was alive in 1922 and stashed away $8
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by jldugger 4y ago
My pandemic project in 2020 was to finally read through the used copy I bought a decade ago. I agree it was really useful at building foundational intuitions. And that it doesn't use professional jargon which sometimes makes Stats Wiki
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by jldugger 4y ago
I feel like you are arguing against hypotheticals. The actual papers are available[1][2]. The first uses a spatial model, which means there isn't just one "industrial revolution" but dozens, one per city. > We rationalize
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by jldugger 4y ago
> (1) there is NO single cause and (2) nothing can be quantified Fortunately causal analysis supports 1 and contradicts 2. With good data, models and algorithms you can _quantify_ the strengths of various causal factors, and confirm or d
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Strange though that nobody knows their names, must be censored by the Neo-Confederacy. Wikipedia has a small list for your perusal[1]. Several actually[2][3][4][5]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_a
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by jldugger 4y ago
> That seems high Its about on track with the US. In 2021, the US average expenditure for a family of four was 11,908 [1]. Converting USD into CAD yields... 15,938.56. And to add to the anecdote, I spent about 4,000 on food in 2022 just
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by jldugger 4y ago
Books will take you pretty far: - UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook - The Practice of System and Network Administration - The Practice of Cloud System Administration - Tannenbaum's textbooks (operating systems / networ
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by jldugger 4y ago
The crystalologist wept, for they had dropped their lollipop on the floor.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> I realised I didn’t have a good argument for why it was wrong. Every axiom and intermediate proposition were ideas that I agreed with. And it wasn’t so simple as the conclusion being flat out mistaken So... its pretty clear that time i
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by jldugger 4y ago
Seems intentional. It's better than whatever version of `say` ships with macOS but I can still hear a lot of artifacts and giveaways.
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by jldugger 4y ago
IDK about "horrible" but https://www.sentencingproject.org/research/ puts it at 1.5 million peak. Thats not quite 1 percent of the US population but its also not that far off. And we can quibble about US sent
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by jldugger 4y ago
Do you know how that supply is making it to china? Almost all of the pipes go from Russian oil fields west to Europe. Even the pipelines that travel east have to contend with a reality that Nobody lives in the Gobi desert. Instead what is h
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by jldugger 4y ago
This is something a (now former) colleague of mine pointed out: that the kubernetes descheduler can enforce a maximum lifetime[0] that sort of forces continual reboots. So if your system cannot tolerate running for a long time continously,
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by jldugger 4y ago
On call, but this is the best time of the year to be on call: none of my coworkers are around to break anything. A gut estimate of my pager load is that 80 percent of pages are caused by bad changes pushed by humans, and another 10 percent
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by jldugger 4y ago
The cascade rain shadow is helpful but the PNW is far enough north that you're not getting direct sunlight. And unfortunately the Pacific Northwest is also relatively low population. 4 million for the Seattle metro, 2.5 in Portland. Ev
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by jldugger 4y ago
Almost certainly fuckall. I found three of these just by browsing the area but I'm not convinced they're even solar and not just... random arid agriculture I don't understand. More likely these are demonstration installs. The
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by jldugger 4y ago
> evidently they did not 'drop solar panels [in the desert] and tramsmit power to the nearby megatropolis' I mean, I browsed the desert northeast of Beijing and found what looks like a solar installation, right next to some wi
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Solar is extremely popular and viable in Northern Europe popular? yes. viable? not as much. all of the contiguous US is further south than the UK. That means shorter winter days, but also incident angles are bad year round. But dont ta
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by jldugger 4y ago
Bear in mind that China has like, no oil[0] or gas[1] at all. Their investments into renewables is kind of a life of death situation, not just for the world, but the PLA specifically, who would likely monopolize domestic oil production in a
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by jldugger 4y ago
Reminds me a bit of the most depressing episode of Kino's Journey, "Three Men Along the Rails." Kino is traveling by motorcycle along a railroad line, and encounters the first man, who is clearing away the grass and rust. He
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by jldugger 4y ago
> You clearly haven't bought eggs, beans, rice, etc. at the grocery store and been on a budget. Food inflation is real but not experienced the same way by many Americans who consume mostly processed foods, which are less vulnerable
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by jldugger 4y ago
150 bucks per laid off employee. That like, what, 1 month of linkedin pro?
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by jldugger 4y ago
Well, I googled the phrase "microscopy spores" and the first hit was a webpage that first defines the term to mean "observe under a microscope" then warns customers that the cultivation of psychoactive mushrooms is illeg
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by jldugger 4y ago
> If John fucking Carmack cannot move the bureaucracy this way My read is its not so much the bureaucracy of project managers or paperwork as it is junior executives trying to 'leave their mark', defend their turf, etc.
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by jldugger 4y ago
This seems like a prime candidate for a "7 tips for app devs SREs will hate" article, that only works because you're the only one doing it.
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by jldugger 4y ago
Well, the value is mostly in query writing, but at that point you're basically writing a very bad TSDB?
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by jldugger 4y ago
That solves the fingerprint, but you still need to count and score.
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by jldugger 4y ago
Yes, this is pretty much TF-IDF for people too lazy to count the number of unique items in the corpus. Since that number should be the same (or at least close!) in both good and bad datasets, I'm not sure the extra math matters much.

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