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by misja111 5y ago
The general consensus is still that the current 8% inflation is mostly due to temporary factors. In particular the war in Ukraine and the uptick of the economy after Corona: they have pushed the energy prices up a lot, which in turn drive o
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by misja111 5y ago
Tl;Dr; Fed will continue with Quantitative Tightening -> market interest rates will go up
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by misja111 5y ago
Stocks as a general protection against high inflation is an extremely bad advice, unless you specifically pick those stocks that will go up together with inflation. But most stocks will do exactly the opposite! The reason is that stock pri
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by misja111 5y ago
The idea that there would be something like a 'pure Belgian', or Dutch or French or whatever, is an illusion. How many of those 50% new Belgians had all Belgian ancestors? And not some French, Dutch, German, Italian .. person some
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by misja111 5y ago
Exactly. IMO it is the task of the developer to provide some means to show correctness of her/his code changes. Most of the the time that would be unit- or integration tests. When I receive a PR where tests could have been added but th
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by misja111 5y ago
I would have liked 'CRust' better
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by misja111 5y ago
Huh, Data.Text has been around forever. And the datatype that you will find in almost any Haskell tutorial is still 'String'. It is really a pain that any beginner in the Haskell language is learning what seems the obvious datatyp
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by misja111 5y ago
> There can be no NATO intervention without triggering WW3. Any sanctions left would be oil which the economy of most western countries likely cant stomach. I wonder how you picture NATO intervention without WW3, could you explain? IMO N
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by misja111 5y ago
Exactly. I don't buy the current narrative in the media that Putin had 'expected to take over Kiev in a matter of days'. Urban warfare is a nightmare, unless the defender surrenders voluntarily there is no other way to win th
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by misja111 5y ago
> 1. He incorrectly assumed that he'd only be facing minor sanctions for starting a war of aggression Russia's biggest source of income is their export of gas and oil. These are not sanctioned, the West is buying as much as eve
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by misja111 5y ago
Exactly. In Chechnya the Russians continued to bomb Grozny until the whole city was a ruin and people surrendered. The UN called Grozny 'the most destroyed city on earth'. But there were almost no consequences for Russia, the worl
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by misja111 5y ago
You mean something like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalkeeper_CIWS or the Iron Dome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome An Iron Dome was actually ordered by Ukraine but Israel bloc
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by misja111 5y ago
The point is that in empirical science, we take our observations of the universe as the starting point. And not any ideas or theories of how we think the universe should function. There was a time before empirical science took off, that the
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by misja111 5y ago
No this is not a 'normal' blocking of trading in securities due to turbulance in the market. It is still allowed to buy Russian securities. It is also allowed to Russians to sell Russian securities. The Russian exchange has specif
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by misja111 5y ago
Securities are company shares. The goal of blocking foreigners from selling them is more or less to confiscate the money that they paid to own those shares.
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by misja111 5y ago
Bitcoin not, but CHF went up a lot this morning. But I suspect that this is more related to the exclusion of some Russian banks from Swift.
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by misja111 5y ago
Me too. Does this make it impossible for BP to step out of the shareholding with Rosneft?
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by misja111 5y ago
If a croupier really was influencing the outcome of the spin, consciously or not, it would involve the exact moment when he dropped the ball. E.g. every time he would drop it in the area of the 10, it would end up in the area of the 3. But
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by misja111 5y ago
Yep, this is BS. There's no way that the next roulette result could depend on the previous. After the ball has landed, the croupier will give the wheel a new spin and after a little while drop the ball again. So the next result does no
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by misja111 5y ago
It's not so much Haskell that is to blame, but how it's used in practice. To be fair, I have seen similar over-complicated projects in Scala and even in Java: but there it seems to be more rare. The problem is, you have this langu
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by misja111 5y ago
Meanwhile, the Netherlands are moving away from gas and are planning to build new nuclear reactors. Belgium has postponed the planned closure of their nuclear plants. France has decided to build new nuclear reactors. It doesn't seem to
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by misja111 5y ago
I like to code in Haskell because it's beautiful. I have tried coding Haskell in larger projects but that was a bad experience, they were a complicated mess of obscure Haskell extensions and methods with >20 types in their signature
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by misja111 5y ago
This is nonsense, they also have reported stories that didn't fit the CIA/US' favorite narratives, e.g. https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2021/11/17/the-data-and... or https:/&#x2
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by misja111 5y ago
> And when those American soldiers are killed by Russian missiles, do you then declare full on war on Russia You are assuming here that Russia would be willing to cause a World War by attacking those American soldiers. > as a Pole the
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by misja111 5y ago
If you read the article, you will find: > The other proposed change would let individuals file legal complaints against people pre-emptively, if they fear that they may be about to say something hateful.
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by misja111 5y ago
> Nobody can actually justify charging people with precrime, right? This is not unique, in most countries you can be charged for planning a terrorist attack as well.
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by misja111 5y ago
This is nonsense. The crazy gas prices had two main causes: insufficient gas buffers during the uptick of the economy after Corona, and Russia closing part of its huge gas supply to Europe.
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by misja111 5y ago
> Your savings compound. That's the only requirement of the Kelly criterion, regardless of everything else. The use case of the Kelly criterion is to determine the optimal size of your capital to put at risk, where the profit you&#x
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by misja111 5y ago
It is not the same. The Kelly criterion is for when your capital is required to make you money; without capital you can't make bets so you'll be ruined forever. Without insurance you risk losing all your money, but if you have a d
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by misja111 5y ago
Very interesting link! There seem to be huge CH4 emissions coming from China in particular. I wonder why?

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