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by runeks 4y ago
> Why neither this nor tool in OP work with manually entering location is beyond me. The reason is that it would be extra work, and it’s not clear how many people actually want this feature.
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Taiwan is worried about the security of its chip industry(economist.com)
7 points by runeks 4y ago|3 comments
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by runeks 4y ago
> What is so wrong about it? This is the topic of the linked article.
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by runeks 4y ago
What’s the practical difference between this and a debit card?
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by runeks 4y ago
Relevant point. I agree that the current correction is a reflection of the market’s expectations/predictions. But only for the medium term. The market has no idea what the interest rate will look like in 10 years — which is at least ho
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by runeks 4y ago
> 1. We had zero percent interest rates. This causes the value of assets with cash flows out into the future (think speculative tech, Tesla) to accelerate. You’re on to an important point, but your statement is inaccurate. Firstly, it’s
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by runeks 4y ago
> In the early 80s, the G7 economies tightened the money supply, raising interest rates dramatically, in an effort to bring inflation under control. This article points out a similarity between the early 80s and now. So I think it's
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by runeks 4y ago
No. Why is it relevant?
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by runeks 4y ago
I’m curious: how difficult would it be to win a suit against Nvidia with this SEC charge in hand?
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by runeks 4y ago
> I don't think nvidia even did this, they marketed to gamers and reported the correct number of sales. It’s not about that. It’s about: “ NVIDIA had information, however, that this increase in gaming sales was driven in significant
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by runeks 4y ago
I don’t believe labeling requirements are preventing anyone from exporting to the US. Printing a new label and slapping on top of the existing one isn’t something that would hold anyone back from exporting. Labeling requirements are common
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by runeks 4y ago
I disagree. The purpose of a crypto exchange is to exchange crypto for national currency. This requires interaction with national banks because banks are the only entities that can hold national currency in digital form. E.g. to hold USD yo
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Long Covid: the invisible public health crisis fuelling labour shortages(ft.com)
10 points by runeks 4y ago|3 comments
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by runeks 4y ago
> I think it stands on its own merits, and would prefer that people evaluate it in earnest rather than compare bullet points with another language. I’m definitely not looking for bullet point comparisons. Rather, I’m looking for an examp
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by runeks 4y ago
> 2. The government's debt is fixed. Only new deficit is on higher rates. This is not that relevant because the government is completely dependent on borrowing new money to pay of old debt.
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by runeks 4y ago
Nope; I have a TP-Link router.
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by runeks 4y ago
Super useful! However, I get a “504 Gateway Time-out” error for https://betagainst.fun/asset/bz__f_bno/ . HN hug of death?
588.
by runeks 4y ago
What I’m missing are comparisons. A few examples illustrating what makes Hare preferable when compared to C/Rust/Zig.
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by runeks 5y ago
Sure. > Why do you refinance if rates go up? Surely the point is that if rates go up you've locked in a better rate You don't have to, but you can choose to either (a) keep the same rate and owe the same amount, or (b) get the
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by runeks 5y ago
> My question is: why would you fix for 30yr when you know you're paying multiple points to offset market uncertainty? To fix your monthly payment for the next 30 years. Furthermore, with a fixed rate mortgage you can benefit from i
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by runeks 5y ago
Me too. Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9fu3wwtdyjtsmnn/BattleChessOOM.png...
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by runeks 5y ago
> […] they clearly make a lot of money. Clear from what?
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by runeks 5y ago
Tests can almost by definition give stronger guarantees than a type system, since the former is Turing complete while the latter is (almost always) not. This means that, for any type, it’s possible to replicate the check done by the compile
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by runeks 5y ago
True. Nor does 100% code coverage mean it does what you want.
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by runeks 5y ago
> Python is a dynamically typed language. By definition, you don’t know the real types of variables at runtime. I think you mean compile-time and not runtime. There’s not much use in knowing the type at runtime, since it only enables you
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What Is Nix? (2020)(shopify.engineering)
2 points by runeks 5y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 5y ago
> Every company I know of that did a poison pill to prevent a takeover wound up tanking within a year or two and the shareholders wound up with sand. Which companies are these?
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by runeks 5y ago
> The most common power reactor design, the pressurized light water reactor, heats water to around 315 degrees Celsius Can’t it just heat something else than water? E.g. something that’s liquid at 2000C?
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by runeks 5y ago
Sure, but how many meters of wool insulation do you actually need to keep some mass of graphite at 2000C for a month? It’s obviously possible. The question is whether it’s cost effective.
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by runeks 5y ago
I love everything about GitHub Actions except that there’s no official tool to run them locally.

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