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by nutjob2 7y ago
The problem is when they all do it it becomes systemic risk. The new meta is "if we all do the same stupid shit we'll get bailed out when the crunch comes" The penalty for a bailout should be bankruptcy and nationalization. T
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I think the hard part is that it has to run continuously, reliably and within tight tolerances or someone dies.
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That is a reach. Although people stop spending the delayed demand will return once the danger has gone. People will want holidays and cars that they put off buying. Demand will produce jobs. Even businesses that failed will be replaced by n
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Density only affects the speed of spread. It largely[1] doesn't affect how many people will die. Over time everyone will get infected unless the virus is wiped out. [1] there is speculation that greater exposure to the virus may make s
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Yes manual labor is used when it makes economic sense and automation is the same. Robots did indeed take over many tasks, but people still exist and still want to work so they do stuff too. The idea that automation means people can't o
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by nutjob2 7y ago
No. Hackintosh is a hardware and firmware platform, mostly at a lower level than macOS. Barring custom Apple hardware, anything that runs on Apple hardware will run on Hackintosh. Even custom hardware can be worked around as long as it is n
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You seemed to have missed the option that has been driving economic growth for centuries: improved worker productivity through improved technology and methods. A machine can work cheaper and faster than any Chinese worker. Eliminating work
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Final assembly only would be the last strategy applied in the US due to high labor costs. The competitiveness of US manufacturing is due to high levels of automation.
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South Korea started developing tests for the virus early in the year and had the capability of testing on a wide scale when the virus broke out there. This combined with aggressive tracking and management is what gave SK the edge in control
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> Why are stats like that not shared? That seems like very valuable information. Because it's only 163, and data of an unknown quality.
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5% of the population is still realistic in a scenario where there are no or ineffective controls and the virus infects most people relatively quickly. This would be due to hospitals being overwhelmed and victims dying who would have survive
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by nutjob2 7y ago
These sorts of claims are standard fare for divisive far right parties. Apparently they work quite well given their political rise and the prevalence of that sort of rhetoric even in forums like this.
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macOS 10.15 only? That's going to limit its appeal. Many people are staying away from that version for the foreseeable future.
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Yes, the ECB is there to support and regulate the banks, that is its job. There is a very good reason for this: if you don't have stable and healthy banks you don't have a functioning economy. People of your ideological ilk see th
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by nutjob2 7y ago
The ECB, of course. It can create an unlimited money and use it to support the stability of banks that are the largest holders of sovereign debt. It's done this before and it will do it again.
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> The United States has a net export of around 0 barrels, meaning that it is neither an importer nor an exporter of oil today. So macroeconomically the US should be more or less unaffected on an aggregated level. Not true. Shale oil is v
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by nutjob2 7y ago
Not at all, that's a side effect. If what you say were strictly true, then why would Greece bother? Let the creditors burn. Of course the reason Greece agreed is that the attendant inability to borrow after the default would be much wo
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by nutjob2 7y ago
If you choose to make discussion public, at least in a timely fashion, then you will lower the effectiveness of these discussions and the quality of the decisions. Quite often, especially with difficult issues, people have to take risks or
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The problem was that the Greeks had got themselves deeply, calamitously into debt. That the "solution" was awful or ineffective really is not relevant, since it's entirely a consequence of the former. At any time the Greeks c
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The question is ambiguous and misleading or just simply nonsensical. This sort of thing is sadly common in interviews, where the interviewer some arbitrary answer in mind and expects you to read his mind, which is possible only some of the
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by nutjob2 7y ago
Sorry, you failed the interview! Your algorithm doesn't terminate, it's no better than an empty infinite loop. If a list is sorted, then you'd be able to return the largest value. Since that is impossible the correct answer i
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by nutjob2 7y ago
Exactly. The comparison with Indonesia is interesting, which has a similar climate, but isn't as rich or developed as Singapore. Air conditioning is actually very conducive to colds and the like. When you go from outside to inside you&
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by nutjob2 7y ago
From someone who actually banks with them (as All America Bank), here are the attractions: - decent interest rate on savings, used to be 2.5% not that long ago, but now is 1.75%. I don't blame them, I blame the Fed. - Push/Pull AC
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Yes, if you do it algebraically. This is one of the things that this talk touches upon. BAsically if you use GA you eliminate precision issues (at least until you render or otherwise materialise), various special cases, limitations and unne
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by nutjob2 7y ago
I find that a 39-40" 4K screen is optimal and has about the right size pixels such that you don't need to scale the UI. I use it in portrait mode which I think is the most effective use of screen real estate for code editing. With
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> Perhaps that's their evolutionary trick - burn everything out around them so that their seeds will have less competition to thrive for the next generation. There's likely some truth to this. Much vegetation in Australia has a
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And Gen-Xers sit between the two, utterly blameless. Not that we care.
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Airbus say that they would like to increase production of the A320 series but are constrained by their suppliers's ability to expand their production.
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That's in the pipeline, but Airbus (and probably Boeing at this rate) are waiting for the next step up in engine technology before they make that investment so as to get the maximum step-up in fuel efficiency, and that is due in the 20
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You can install new interiors at any time, it's just not worth it for old planes with a limited future (because they're gas guzzlers). Planes can essentially fly indefinitely if you're willing to put money into ongoing mainte

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