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by nhaehnle 10y ago
the fact of the rich being well off doesn't necessarily hurt the non-rich That's debatable. Human beings have a pretty significant natural tendency to look at the relative well-being rather than their absolute well-being. It mak
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Right. So why not draw the conclusion that we should provide a framework in which people can get paid for that volunteering instead?
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The essay opens on a horrible false dichotomy. No, full employment alone won't solve the problems of inequality that the essay very capably outlines. But full employment may be necessary anyway , because having the sense of being need
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Why do you believe that the difference between the developments in the US and Europe is explained by different central bank behavior, when there is also a huge difference in effective fiscal policy behavior that is consistent with the diffe
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It's true that why the price levels change can make a difference. What I wrote was meant as examples of the type of relations that are there. You're still wrong or at least extremely misleading in your characterization of how th
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Well, there are lots of bad things that are already fact, including the seeds of systemic corruption in the form of Trump's business interests. Some of the personnel decisions also fall into that category. But yes, on a lot of points i
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Look at this graph of weekly M2 data, and zoom into any short time period so that you can actually make out individual weeks: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS Note the seemingly odd monthly pattern that is appa
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Frankly, a better understanding can be obtained from Understanding Modern Money by Randall Wray. That book contains some policy prescriptions that you may or may not like, but regardless of that, it contains (a) a solid history of the dev
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mv = pq is very well tested. MV = PQ is true by definition. There is nothing to test about it because it's tautologically true. Then again, people go astray all the time when they try to fill the equation with causal implications whi
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Ugh, the code in Figure 13 is mis-compiled by the super-optimizer. It seems that their checking procedure is flawed. How was that not caught in peer-review? The problem is that the ranges pointed by x and y could (partially) overlap, in whi
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I like and upvoted your comment for the discussion and thought it encourages. However, realistically speaking it's extremely unlikely that Trump thinks like that. All the evidence points towards him being extremely incompetent, even
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Well, the renaming of things would actually be useful. He understands that framing is important, and tries to give the discussions a frame that is advantageous to his ends. Unfortunately, he just isn't overly successful / good at
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> In fact evolution seemed to put a higher premium on emotions than rationality for most of our species history... and probably for good reason. Sure. Most of our species' history also happened in an environment that is extremely di
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I agree that this is probably what happened at an emotional level, but a vote for Trump is still a vote that is enabling a Republican congress. That matters much more for the economic outcomes of people in the US than what Trump himself wil
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
The linked article was talking about facts, a dissection of various arguments made by Thiel and Trump. Elections aren't about facts (unfortunately?), so they cannot prove anything about whether that article is right or not.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
The sad part of this is that if this election was about economics and not about racism and bigotry, then a lot of people voted rather nonsensically. The Democrats aren't exactly a social/left party (at least by global standards),
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
It's worth pointing out that ROCm is basically AMD's answer to CUDA. Similar programming model and everything. Let's hope it gets picked up by machine learning frameworks etc., because this market badly needs the competition,
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Greece is a bad example because they're not monetarily sovereign. The harsh fact is: As long as there are leaks in the circulation of money, you either have to plug the leaks or increase the in-flow. If you do neither of these things,
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Maybe the answer isn't so much free market as a lack of alternatives. Note that the US did not industrialize equally - notably, consider the part where slavery-based agriculture was profitable, and the resulting civil war. In a similar
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
So this is kind of neat, but from skimming the paper I didn't notice anything that goes information-theoretically beyond a one-time pad (even though it's clearly stated and plausible that the concrete algorithm found by A and B is
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
It's arguably become much better in terms of "native" GUIs that don't try to hide the details. Between gitk and git-gui, what's really missing? (Both of those examples could probably be polished here and there, but
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I think it already exists as a graphical tool for Git, check out `git gui`.
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True that they focus on concepts. The thing is, the overview diagram of git concepts on that page (which is in turn taken from the gitless paper) doesn't even mention commits as a separate concept even though they are one of the most
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Your gif results in a 403, so I can't compare directly, but I get the impression that more people need to learn about `git gui` ;)
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That's not quite true. Money has value because a lot of the demand for it is enforced by law (taxes and repayment of debts). Those act as a real anchor for its value beyond collective agreement.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
> I find TDD helps me tackle bigger code-pieces where I just don't know how to start implementing. This made me think. There are many axes of software development, and aside from TDD/non-TDD axis, there's also the bottom-u
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Honestly, the real problem with the "decentralized web" isn't data storage or bandwidth, it's developers. Getting users to "pay" for storage and bandwidth is fairly simple, as they're already used to ownin
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It is simultaneously amusing and frustrating how completely wrong this is. Coercion and constraint imposed by government (or similar institutions) is absolutely central to libertarianism! The whole point of property rights is to constrain
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One of the biggest caveats of FPGAs that I don't see mentioned often is that they're slow to program . This implies some unusual restrictions about where they can be used. I.e. data centers will benefit, general purpose computing
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> Gitless is an experiment to see what happens if you put a simple veneer on an app that changes the underlying concepts. ... changes them how exactly? A big part of what I like about Git is that its underlying concepts are simple and

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