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by scatters 6y ago
Yes, exporters can choose to raise their prices in the local currency. However, this comes with some administrative overhead and is visible to the buyer, hence prices tend to be sticky. Alternatively, they can price in dollars in which case
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by scatters 6y ago
That doesn't make any sense. It's not like he could offload all his shares at the market price.
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by scatters 6y ago
Yes, I read about it in Matt Levine's newsletter (on Bloomberg), and then read the judgement itself - it's a surprisingly enjoyable read and the judge goes into some length to explain both the (crazy) situation and how they were c
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by scatters 6y ago
Oh, it's worse than that. They wanted to roll the portion of the loan with one specific creditor into a new loan, in a sweetheart deal that was going to screw over the other creditors. To do that they needed to make an interim interes
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by scatters 6y ago
Many things are still scarce, sometimes artificially so. Case in point: housing, and also healthcare. Without fixing those you're just bidding up the cost of living.
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by scatters 6y ago
Not much; people live with it. Revolutions happen when people see an improvement in their living standards halt or go into reverse. Invoking a past golden age is reactionary in effect if not in intent.
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by scatters 6y ago
This affects visible icons as well; the icons being invisible in the original report is just the icing on the cake.
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by scatters 6y ago
And the inverse; if you buy at $200 and the stock is at $400 two days later there's a risk that the person you were buying it from has disappeared (maybe they were a short seller and went bust; maybe they got seller's remorse). So
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by scatters 6y ago
Because browser vendors decided to toggle it to on by default, which made it meaningless.
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by scatters 6y ago
> Cash just don't magically appear today either. Cash doesn't, but money does. The principal function of central banks is controlling the rate of money creation to ensure that the money supply supports economic activity.
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by scatters 6y ago
And packaging!
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by scatters 6y ago
That'll be gone soon: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/modules
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by scatters 6y ago
Here's the first example in C++: #include <concepts> #include <iostream> #include <numbers> template<class shape> concept Shape = requires( shape s, shape (&&ci
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by scatters 6y ago
My 3840x2160 external monitor has a pixel density of approx. 275 ppi. IIRC it cost approx. $300, not exactly prohibitive.
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by scatters 6y ago
> they've artificially turned the marketplace for these stocks into sell-only in order to stop a further price rise What's your basis for attributing this intent to the discount brokers? It may have that effect, but as explaine
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by scatters 6y ago
> Plus, some articles are claiming[1] that even stock you do own, whose purchase long ago settled, is being lent out without your direct knowledge by the broker for a profit, which is like ... what? That's how your "free"
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by scatters 6y ago
Because there are many, many more of us than there were 1000 years ago. Per capita, sustaining the lifestyle of a 21st century Westerner requires less land than that of an 11th century peasant.
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by scatters 6y ago
Oh, dear. Money isn't created by governments; it's created by banks (and, given demand, shadow banks). Raising interest rates reduces the stock of viable projects thereby reducing lending and money creation, which halts inflation.
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by scatters 6y ago
We do learn from our mistakes, which allows us to make new mistakes. We learned how to free our currencies from their chains of gold and allowed the money supply to respond to the demands of the economy. We learned how inflation is a mone
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by scatters 6y ago
The fact that the West's economic crises - which, viewed in the long term, are bumps in a continual upward trend - can threaten the economy of the world as a whole is testament to the strength of its economic model. And the gap between
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by scatters 6y ago
Ah, because countries with Islamic finance are renowned for the strength of their economies. The Catholic Church prohibited usury across Europe until the invention of the contractum trinius, allowing the economic revolution that powered the
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by scatters 6y ago
Short selling incentivizes fraud investigation. Case in point: Muddy Waters.
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by scatters 6y ago
It's called AddressSanitizer. You enable it with the compiler flag -fsanitize=address. It's supported by clang, gcc and lately MSVC.
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by scatters 6y ago
> I just realized both the previous and the new name of his blog is an anagram of his name. Well, you have to call it something . What would you think of a composer writing the initials of their name into their works, I wonder?
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by scatters 6y ago
That's apparent from your ticket (which is marked as a duplicate) but on the one you linked to, all the offending compiler lines contain asan. Is there a chance this is impacting prioritization?
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by scatters 6y ago
It's the equivalent to audience reaction in a debate. If you don't want it, take your conversation private.
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by scatters 6y ago
You really went for "thug"? Instead of, say, the equivalent far-left blood-soaked ideology of communism? I think it's clear how you feel about BLM.
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by scatters 6y ago
Orion's Belt? It's one of the most recognizable constellations (or parts thereof).
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by scatters 6y ago
In theory, that's how it works in practice. In practice, though, the shareholders have a lot less power than that: they only get to vote at the AGM, and that's very much a managed democracy - the managers being the C-suite, and th
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by scatters 6y ago
C has VLAs, so sizeof is a runtime operation. That's already more complex than C++, where sizeof is fixed at compile time.

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