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by lend000 5y ago
This isn't relevant in the case of broad increases in the macroeconomic supply of dollars, since they affect the supply/demand curves of everything in the economy simultaneously (albeit more at the source of injection as described
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by lend000 5y ago
Are the neural engines actually used for anything, to anyone's knowledge? Edit: Apparently in iPhones, they are used for FaceID.
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by lend000 5y ago
The sightings like yours (saw a distant light or dot moving in the distance) are typically not the interesting ones, for the reasons you describe. There are just so many unfalsifiable prosaic explanations, and just a dozen or so will accoun
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by lend000 5y ago
If I were king of the US for a day, I think the lowest hanging fruit would be cutting virtually all IP durations in half and eliminating submarine patents. I might even go further for copyrights, and eliminating many types of software paten
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by lend000 5y ago
This seems like the norm in the US, whereas it was quite easy to get a job with a company in a more lax jurisdiction. I wonder to what degree it correlates with employee protections (if there is a strong correlation, one would expect French
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by lend000 5y ago
No one said it was legitimate insofar as that means ethical. I am simply curious about the huge wave of groupthink sentiment that makes no attempt to fill everyone in on the context of the situation, and whether this was actually a logical
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by lend000 5y ago
It's hard to view the events unfolding with an objective gaze. Virtually all of western journalism condemns Russia's attacks unilaterally, which seems reasonable, considering people are dying to grow a dictator's empire. But
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by lend000 5y ago
As I frequently try to point out, wealth inequality seems to only meaningfully decrease during market corrections, which the Fed is determined to prevent at all costs, despite the side effect of increasing wealth inequality (which could b
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by lend000 5y ago
Note that the only times in the last few decades (and possibly throughout modern history) that wealth inequality decreased were during economic recessions [0]. Sometimes, you just need to let the market reallocate capital. Short term vers
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by lend000 5y ago
Curious where the estimate of 10^100 stars came from. I've seen the estimate of 10^80 particles in the observable universe thrown around several times. No idea how either is calculated or what assumptions are made.
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by lend000 5y ago
I think this is kind of the least important part of the original diatribe to be focusing on. But if this is the most important takeaway for you and you really want to preserve your adulation of certain pro-wealth-tax politicians, I'll
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by lend000 5y ago
> Is that true? Much of wealth is inherited, for example. And once people like Bezos have hundreds of billions, income isn't going to address the issue. Finally, who should pay more tax, a billionaire who makes zero this year, or so
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by lend000 5y ago
In the US, there is a very thorough system for measuring the movement of money, and the tracking of potential income sources. Why not use the system we have, when much of modern wealth inequality can be explained by income tax brackets, ins
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by lend000 5y ago
While I appreciate the amount of work that went into this article, there are at least 50-100 potential current "news" stories in the crypto space at any given time. It's easy to find one that correlates with price movements a
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by lend000 5y ago
Re: numbers 3) and 4). It's a hard trade-off. I believe in equality of opportunity in education, which infinite guaranteed government loans do provide to someone willing to take on that burden (which often ends up being a bad decision
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Universal Love, Said the Cactus Person(slatestarcodex.com)
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Ask HN: Legal Recommendations for Entity Formation
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by lend000 5y ago
This. Higher property taxes might encourage more density and productive use of land, too.
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by lend000 5y ago
From your comment history, it appears you have a problem with making HN-quality comments [0]. Reddit's always an option if you don't want to change. Otherwise, please work on entertaining new ideas and contributing with your own i
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by lend000 5y ago
Then you clearly misunderstood and your response adds no value. Nobody said sit tight. I said change some major things with powerful gatekeepers. Don't let your ideology get in the way of entertaining new ideas.
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by lend000 5y ago
Did you forget to read the last part, describing the major things that need to change?
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by lend000 5y ago
Everything is a market. Someone has to produce a finite supply for some cost. There is some demand for the medicine. Suppliers can be incentivized to produce by demand through price. Look up the percentage of all drugs that were invented in
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by lend000 5y ago
I believe most caches are designed such that something in a lower level cache obtains information about whether that memory is valid or has been changed from the cache level above it, so typically everything in L1 is also in L2 and L3. If y
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by lend000 5y ago
I've always wondered how much this affects shared cloud instances (for example, a single c5.small instance). Can your neighbor, who shares your L3 cache, be using memory so much more aggressively than you that it causes you to evict yo
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by lend000 5y ago
How does it get the DNA to go through the hole?
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by lend000 5y ago
It's a single guy working on it as far as I know, and he has a good devlog on that same Youtube channel. He apparently had to rewrite most graphics libraries to shade things according to hyperbolic geometry. Looks like it should be com
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by lend000 5y ago
Replacing Bohr's model with Schrodinger's equation is one example. Or Newtonian physics with relativistic physics. These were proven to be better models, of course, but if great physicists applied Occam's razor to everything
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by lend000 5y ago
A new game called Hyperbolica is being developed to explore new geometries [0]. It will be interesting to see how people playing the game compare the experience to their previous trips. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM
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by lend000 5y ago
The article wasn't presented as any sort of proof of mechanism or even authoritative description of what's happening. An aside: I'll venture a guess that the majority of discoveries in human history started by throwing out Oc
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by lend000 5y ago
This impacted just about every API I regularly request for ~20 minutes, but it seems to be fixed now. Hopefully permanently.

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