mempko

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by mempko 1y ago
Inflation only correlates with money supply growth if there are real resource constraints, otherwise you just get new businesses and services. Also people also tend to save more when they can, which takes money out of circulation.
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by mempko 1y ago
People forget that every transaction has two parties. Someone's debt is another's asset. The national debt is mostly owned by Americans. That means the national debt is an asset to the private sector. This is the way all money wor
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by mempko 1y ago
So he's arguing that inequality increases with the welfare state? Doesn't that contradict the claim made earlier? Or am I misunderstanding the quote?
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by mempko 1y ago
Think of any technology you use today, it started as a government grant (either NSF, DARPA, DOE, etc). Looks like the Trump administration is trying to cripple US science and technology research and I don't understand why.
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by mempko 1y ago
Robert Ekelund, one of the authors, wrote pro-smoking articles for the tobacco industry. It's hard to trust someone like that and any data they present. It would take a lot of work to read those chapters and not only confirm the data t
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by mempko 1y ago
Talk about missing the point that Gary Stevenson was making. The point he was making was not that the tax policy of the 50s,60s, and 70s meant the rich paid a bigger share of the income tax in aggregate, or that the income tax brought in wa
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by mempko 1y ago
Yes, despite pulling the numbers out of your butt, having them and then seeing how accurate you are helps you calibrate your butt. That way over time, the numbers you pull out of your but become more accurate (and even possibly more precise
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by mempko 1y ago
Rust does seem to have a lot of nice features. My biggest blocker for me going to Rust from C++ is that C++ has much better support for generic programming. And now that Concepts have landed, I'm not aware of any language that can comp
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by mempko 1y ago
It's strange to map language to probability ranges. The guidance should be to just say the probability range. No ambiguity. Clear. Actionable and also measurable.
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by mempko 1y ago
I call bullshit. How do you know many government employees wouldn't meet the bar. This is just like, your opinion man.
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by mempko 1y ago
There are plenty of examples where government is vastly more efficient than private sector. Medicare is vastly more efficient than private insurance. USPS is more efficient than private carriers. Another example is government pay. Usually m
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by mempko 1y ago
Because the judge appears to have basic morals
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by mempko 1y ago
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Zuckerberg's 2012 email dubbed "smoking gun" at Meta monopoly trial(arstechnica.com)
7 points by mempko 1y ago|1 comments
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by mempko 2y ago
Do you have kids? Have you ever tried locking a door with a little one? Lol Also, yes I've made signs. It's easy to forget to hang them.
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by mempko 2y ago
I work from home and this would be cool to communicate with my kids when I'm on a call before they barge in asking questions. HOWEVER, the price is WAY too high. This is at most a $50 dollar thing.
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by mempko 2y ago
This sounds sensible but that's not what happened. The government debt is not an issue. Trump is more concerned about the stock market, and the market sent him a clear message.
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by mempko 2y ago
Cars suck then. We have destroyed our environments, both natural and human made, because of them.
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Interview with Vibe Coder in 2025 [video](youtube.com)
4 points by mempko 2y ago|0 comments
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by mempko 2y ago
Turns out investing in your own people returns dividends. Unfortunately, the current administration is divesting from the American people. DOGE, and it's cutting of federal grants is a direct example of this divestment. What's hap
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The Cynic Wasps in the Beehive(blog.mempko.com)
1 points by mempko 2y ago|0 comments
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by mempko 2y ago
And potentially organized human life collapses
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The Cynical Genius Illusion: Debunking Lay Beliefs About Cynicism and Competence(journals.sagepub.com)
3 points by mempko 2y ago|1 comments
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by mempko 2y ago
You are wrong, the capital IS there, Africa is rich, it's just the capitsl is leaving for US, Europe, and Asia, instead of staying in Africa because of colonial history.
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by mempko 2y ago
I built my own p2p software back in 2014 ( https://firestr.com ) and briar came out in 2015. Reticulum started in 2018. Timing is the reason.
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by mempko 2y ago
It's kind of interesting to see P2P coming back! I'm happy to see more P2P projects popping up. When the Snowden leaks came out, there was a brief interest in P2P encrypted messaging. I wonder if the political climate now is bring
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by mempko 2y ago
I've been using Tiling Shell extension with gnome. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7065/tiling-shell/ I really love it so far.
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by mempko 2y ago
He's a supporter of the genocide in Gaza, so yes.
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by mempko 2y ago
It's a good community. The part I struggle with is the anti-science trend I've seen here over the last 10 years.
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by mempko 2y ago
This is the common narrative but you have to ask yourself why it makes sense, because it doesn't. Interest rates going up doesn't hurt everyone, some benefit! Interest rates going up benefit savers and hurt debtors. A lot of the l

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