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by myrmidon 7mo ago
Euro area is slightly under 90%, doing a bit worse than EU average (80%ish). Japan is much higher-- I did not have that in my dataset, appears to be at 230% debt but decreasing pretty rapidly (down from almost 260% in 2020).
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
You are absolutely right. I did not realize that my dataset was missing most of Asia/Africa. Japan ist at ~230%, but interestingly decreasing pretty quickly (decreased their debth from almost 260% GDP in 2020). I have sadly no idea how
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
> Government debt gets resolved through inflation. This is misleading. US debt as GDP percentage is higher than for any other nation except Italy and Greece, and was much lower historically, too (<50%ish for basically the last centu
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
As GDP percentage, only two countries are higher: Italy and Greece (edit: and Japan). Public debt is a significant political talking point in both cases (and even in Germany, with a much lower debt percentage). The current US administration
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
Pcpartpicker has no plot for the 16GB DDR5 category (2x8GB?), which is the one value that makes absolutely no sense in the ramtrack plots. But if you look at individual DDR-2x8GB items on pcpartpicker, it becomes obvious that ramtrack is ju
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
This fails a basic smell test: For DDR5, there is only a ~6% price difference between 16 and 32GB. Reality is that 2x16GB goes for about 400 (so that checks out), but 16GB of DDR5 can be had for a bit more than half that (250ish)-- obviousl
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
To state the obvious: 1) It is not clear that the people of Iran actually want to blow up refineries in general right now, but living in an autocracy they don't have much of a choice. 2) Because there is a pretty big ocean between th
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
> You’re willing to sacrifice the lives of at least some poor people who exist now, or are likely to exist in the near future, for a theory that is unfalsifiable. What exactly do you mean with "unfalsifiable"? We actually measu
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
> Countries that can be oil independent definitely should do that. This does not necessarily follow. Doubling down on becoming oil independent might have a massive price because the required investments into extraction and refining indus
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
This appears to directly contradict you, with exploration activity increasing in 2025 (compared to 2024) to 49 wells: https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/exploration/exploration-act...
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
I think it's not helpful to talk of "government failure" as long as democratic principles are upheld. You could call it "voter failure" instead. But I'd argue that many of those voters are just acting in their
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
I'd argue that government intervenes in agriculture for supply-chain safety first and foremost. Governments are concerned with this because no meat (or rice) on supermarket shelves during a supply-shock of any kind leads to rapid unpla
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
This fails to mention that she was teaching in the US at some liberal arts college for women (Bryn Mawr) from 1933 (edit: nevermind i just missed the mention in the article). Can you imagine going to some random college, and then finding ou
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
I disagree. It is completely irrelevant if you can "afford" raising a child. Your children are not gonna die because you "can't afford" them in ANY western democracy once you have them. Actual affordability of chi
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
I think the label is completely useless. There are tons of (valid) reasons for and against boosting birthrates, but you have to break it down to the actual reasons that people are "natalists" or not. Throwing all (anti-)"na
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
Pretty amusing. Those are more strongly worded than I would've expected (having only seen some select snippets so far), and I found it interesting how very personal most of them are, unlike typical "internet comment" snark.
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
Looking at this somewhat critically, did the predictions not turn out to be completely incorrect? Specifically the industrial output and food per person, as well as the "available ressources" curve. In my view, this should have be
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
I'd say that is nowadays almost completely just a direct consequence of general population decline, and not some more specific effect; this just hits rural communities harder because attracting new people is already difficult there (=&
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
I'd argue that the "purpose" of the stock market is matching investors with companies that want liquidity. Allowing insider trading hurts the purpose by driving away non-insider trading participants, and it does not really he
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by myrmidon 7mo ago
It would be really nice to have a few relevant numbers in the article for context. If this is just from foreign sellers operating on amazon.it, then 1.4B of evaded taxes sounds like a lot to me, because the total revenue should be well unde
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
How is this "context"? There is no information here, just a snarky opinion about the person posting the blog, with zero relevance to the posted content.
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Downvoted you, because: 1) You are not engaging with the content of the post at all . I would not mind if you actually articulated why you found this particular take so asinine/cringeworthy. But you don't. 2) You're unnece
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
You might have just had a bad makefile. The "canonical" way to just build what was changed with make is to let the compiler generate header dependencies during the build and to include those (=> if you change only 1 header, jus
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Maybe, but I'd argue that this is a matter of taste, and what does it actually do for you? In practice: Is it worth wrapping all your vendor-provided hardware abstraction in classes that you write yourself? Designing something like t
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
All of them? You see sub-replacement birthrates in basically every halfway wealthy nation, there's almost no exceptions. I'd argue that the primary cause is that children no longer provide direct value to the family they're
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
My point is trivially true as far as computability goes, but that is not what I ment. All those abstraction capabilities can be a big detriment to any project, because they always come with a cost, and runtime is far from the only concern.
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
I do. But talking about low-level embedded stuff here. Generally, the more you deviate from your vendors "happy path", the more busy work/unexpected difficulties you will run into, and a solid grasp of how exactly architectur
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
> There are multiple articles of how C++ is superior to C, that everything you can do in C you can do in C++ with a lot of extras, and that it should be used even with bare metal development An interesting perspective. Could turn it arou
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
On the origin of OXCO (for oven controlled crystal oscillator): The base abbreviation is "Xtal" (for crystal) and predates modern electronics by quite a bit (was already used before 1900 in geology etc). The author linking this to
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Presumably he means countries with somewhat higher levels of nepotism in the military than the US. MENA countries (excepting Israel here) are known to suffer from this significantly, and it is a big factor in their militaries historically u

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