mohanmcgeek

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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> The Federal Reserve Bank creates money So not the government. > When the Fed "sets interest rates" on bonds It doesn't set the interest rates on treasury bonds. They set a target and engage in the market to get the pr
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Yes. It doesn't. The value of money depends on the underlying asset used to create this money. Money is not created out of thin air.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Calling these tools "knock offs" is not just insulting to the people building these tools but also far detached from reality since several FAANG employees would tell you how much better the OSS rewrite is compared to the original
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
This false notion has caused so much misery in the last couple of centuries.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
So this supply chain crunch would have still happened but people would not have noticed it while dealing with much bigger problems such as unemployment.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Anybody making this claim should also explain how the government goes about "printing" money The government doesn't create money.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> My "personal inflation" regularly beats out CPI I've experienced the opposite several times because I don't consume a few things that are part of the basket.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
That's so much theorizing just to fit in the "money printing caused inflation" theory
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Not sure what GP is talking about. Housing is the biggest component in CPI: something like 40% IIRC
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
You seem to imply that the supply chain issue and the resultant inflation would not have happened had your government not borrowed so much? What's more likely: - Prices went up because there was a short supply of tangible things that a
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
The way in which the effects are specified/applied Photoshop/GIMP would be "layer-based"
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> Most of the benefits of those so called no-code or low-code platform is not in the coding abstraction but in the platforming aspect that makes it easy to deploy Exactly! This is what the "serverless" model was supposed to sol
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
This has nothing to do with the car being an EV. Isn't it? It's perfectly possible for ICE car manufacturers also to start adopting this "expansion pack for cars" model
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Have you had to pay a bribe or fine recently?
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> Snowflake is probably 10-50x as performant as Spark for data manipulation Wow is this for a fact? I haven't used either in a while but I saw the blog post from databricks and Spark was more performant than snowflake. I assumed tha
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
I share your opinion overall especially the rails part but let's not assume the intentions of the OP here. It's perfectly okay for someone to try and implement collections API using generics in go just to see if they could
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
But I can write SQL in Spark just fine. Can't I?
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> Policeman demands a bribe to avoid having a record on your license for driving The policemen in my city were very specific about getting the fine digitally. They wouldn't handle cash even if it was for the fine. > The answer to
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
This looks nothing like the real tender for one, even from one side. This is from 2010-2012, when large scams mobilized common people against corruption in India.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> They should have made the note look similar to a normal one, but with some kind of tracking enabled. These exist and they're made by the government's anti corruption bodies. This zero rupee is made by an NGO and it's dif
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
If we extrapolate this, these narcissists would be asking for an end to the Universal adult franchise and say that only the "properly informed" people should be allowed to vote. I've heard this argument in my country already
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
People who prefer golang use it _because_ it is verbose. Nothing is implicit and that makes good easy to read.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
I'm not sure how you would know what their reasons were unless you're some kind of mind reader. The other side just engaged in, labelling, name calling and ad hominem attacks which is what added credence to this theory in the firs
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Firstly, I would prefer if you didn't dictate what I should believe in and what I shouldn't. I'm fully capable of analysing the information that I have and form my own opinion and it's alright even if it turns out to be
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
The smarter-than-the-average people aren't the problem The people who are very sure that they're way smarter than the average are often not very smart.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Nobody asked people to take the lab leak theory at face value. If it's on shaky foundations, it could have been easily refuted. But the way in which it was supressed only added credence to the view.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
So argument must be dismissed/accepted not based on its merit but based on who is making it?
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
The current "moderation" is in line with their opinion and they don't want to imagine what will happen when that changes. And YouTube gets no love because they also removed the dislike button (which is a much more robust way
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Perhaps if you dropped your arrogance you would realise that other people in the thread don't share your opinion and don't want to get the same message across more clearly? You and YouTube seem to share the same sentiment that you
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
India is 5.30 from UTC. I don't why someone in India would have difficulty starting at 11am. It's understandable if it's the other way around: Someone in the US starting at 4am

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