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by jyounker 5y ago
In the sources that I've seen, the difference in interest rates between the US and other developed countries seem to be off by a more-or-less constant difference. This difference seems to hold historically. This suggests that the diffe
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What's the point? Other countries have widely diverging monetary policies from the US, but they're undergoing the same inflation spikes in the same areas of the economy. If the money supply was the cause then we'd expect to s
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> So you don't need to SSH to debug, you'd just re-deploy another container or something. I've still never seen a place where this was true. At some point you always run into a situation where you need to see what's h
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> I still believe it is due to the large money printing by the Fed, a total of around 10 trillion disbursed for various programs. W If the Fed's policy was responsible, then we'd see a divergence between inflation rates in Euro
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Inflation in our circumstances isn't due to an increase in the money supply. Here's why: * Aggregate demands isn't too much different from before the pandemic. * Demand for services has fallen into the toilet. * Demand for go
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It would be wise not to confuse C++ at Google with C++. Google has extremely strong internal coding standards. Those standards restrict which C++ features can be used, and how and where those C++ features can be used. Without compliance bas
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There is a really simple reason for this: Discussing basically anything with the outside world is violation a of your employment agreement.
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The simple solution is minting larger value coins.
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This is a good long-term argument for nationalizing money production.
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There is very little in the world that is more recyclable than metal.
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I can highly recommend Eero. They Just Work, and they work much better than Apple's networking ever equipment did. I just replaced the previous generation of equipment in my partner's house (1920's plaster and lath construc
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Sadly there is much truth to this.
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You are assuming that people using the sidewalk are doing so in a reckless manner.
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The only time I ever biked to Cleveland, Texas (about 60 miles North of Houston) I spent much of the trip dodging drivers who thought it was entertaining to throw things at me. Thinks like bricks. The hatred heaped on cyclists escalates tow
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The blackouts are because of fire-risk from transmission lines, and this is largely because PGE paid out bonuses instead of paying for needed repairs to the transmission system. This group of corrupt execs are the same people entrusted to m
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And this is probably why facebook won't win.
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Engineering watching QA test their product(youtube.com)
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I can attest to what @lacker has written. In twenty years I've been visiting Jewel lake, I have never seen it completely dry. The stream running in has gone dry. The marsh under the boardwalk is bone dry. The ferns are now kindling. T
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It was called "The Office of Technology Assessment." It was one of the shining starts of the US government, and governments around the world used it as a model. Destroying the OTA was one of the center pieces of the Republican&#x2
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And before they broke up ma bell you weren't allowed to plug your own electronics into the phone jacks. [That's why we had acoustic coupled modems existed.] You also had to wait a month to get a phone line hooked up too. Long dist
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This isn't drug culture. It is general human stupidity, ignorance, and curiosity in action.
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And said billionaire, who ran on a anti-corruption platform, concealed assets that are were required by law to be disclosed. That's a crime.
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I've never seen anything to suggest that a "free-market" is a stable environment. Historically it seems that the natural end-point for a "free-market" is control by a few large coordinating monopolies and monopsonie
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Everything old is new again. In the 90's Kendall Square Research built modular supercomputers based around using nothing but cache. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_Square_Research
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As I recall, there have been something six attempts to move the airline scheduling systems off of mainframes, but the efforts keep failing to compete with the existing mainframes.
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Zimbabwe's debts were not held in its own currency.
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> Maybe that is wrong, and the idea is just to try new things. That's what basic research does. It discovers new things, and new ways of doing things.
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The unvaccinated are volunteering themselves as breeders for the next stronger and nastier version of covid, and they pose an active danger to those who cannot be vaccinated.
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Yes. The odds of dying from covid: 1% The odds of dying from covid after current vaccine: <0.015%
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The RDB portion of the spike protein is the part that allows the virus to latch onto your cells. We therefore expect strong limitations on how much this portion of the virus can change while still remaining infectious.

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