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by sfblah 4y ago
I would like to believe this, but as someone with pretty privileged kids, it's not this. It's the phones.
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by sfblah 4y ago
Agreed on capitalism. But, in a world of massive government subsidies, I’m asking where they should subsidize.
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by sfblah 4y ago
Would the plan be more or less effective if instead of focusing on electric-only vehicles governments had only subsidized plug-in electric vehicles with, say, an electric-only range of the 90th percentile commute in America? I ask because I
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by sfblah 4y ago
Very interesting. The fingering for the Chopin piece is just bizarre to me, but I'm not going to argue with data.
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by sfblah 4y ago
I can play the songs on the list, and the fingering is completely wrong.
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by sfblah 4y ago
Just jumping in to point out that to make the profit from TARP, the government had to distort the economy in ways that won’t be fully understood for maybe 30 more years.
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by sfblah 4y ago
That series is sort of amazing. A ton of effort for so few views. Maybe it's posted somewhere else where it got more views?
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by sfblah 4y ago
They must be losing money on the Quest 2, so there's that...
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by sfblah 4y ago
This makes me wonder whether there's some relatively simple configuration of cameras that can be used to give a basic 3-d type experience. Nothing crazy like the oculus, but maybe something where a computer can use head tracking so tha
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by sfblah 4y ago
It would be funny if, in the simulation, you could cause a guy to start sending people to Mars by putting rates at close to 0% for 10 years.
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by sfblah 4y ago
The money printing far, far, far predates the present administration. It's been going on for at least 15 years, and many argue it started after the 1987 crash. The big question is whether this is finally when the music stops.
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by sfblah 4y ago
Yes. The Fed's low interest rate policy has been a huge tax on those prudent investors who held safer assets like cash and T-bills. At the same time, they maximally rewarded extreme gambling in the markets. That's why we live in w
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by sfblah 4y ago
Presumably this also means they're consuming massive amounts of bandwidth (for audio, anyway), since it's not compressible. Pretty funny!
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by sfblah 4y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Here is a 670-year history of interest rates: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-history-of-interest-rat... There is a separate book you can read that attempts to go back
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by sfblah 4y ago
One wonders what government policies preventing this from happening are doing to the future. I don't have any way to objectively measure this, but my general sense is each day interest rates remain artificially low, the downside become
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by sfblah 4y ago
Same problem with the student loan forgiveness being pushed in the US currently. My cynical take is that they’d just do the forgiveness and refuse to talk about the people in the situation you described.
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by sfblah 4y ago
It's a clever solution. For converting unsigned chars to strings, though, a lookup table is going to be the fastest solution, since there are only 256 possibilities.
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by sfblah 4y ago
I transitioned my family domain name to a small nonprofit that I created to do donations. If you have such an entity, it's an easy way to opt out of this whole problem. I realize this doesn't apply to most people, but I'm jus
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by sfblah 4y ago
That’s not totally true. The value of a Bitcoin does relate to how much effort miners put in. So, $1 might be low enough to allow some sort of attack on the network.
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by sfblah 4y ago
The idea of people investing their retirement seems like a good one, but yes I'm afraid it winds up just being a scam. The worst part appears to be that the monetary authorities now can't allow recessions, because that would destr
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by sfblah 4y ago
I basically agree. On a piano, this notation has the significant negative of making it unclear which notes are played on "white" keys and which are played on "black" keys, in the key of C. It's pretty useful to have
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by sfblah 4y ago
They use email as an example of federation. Actually, it's an example of the reverse. For example, I run a website with a reasonably large subscriber base (100k+ emails). Of those, something like 90% are gmail.com, outlook.com or yahoo
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by sfblah 5y ago
On average that may be true. But actually good software engineers will always command a massive premium.
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by sfblah 5y ago
I purposely leave the period outside the quotes in situations like that, as I think it's more confusing for the reader if it's inside.
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by sfblah 5y ago
I hear you, but when half of that gets taxed away, it makes a difference. In my case, I've found I get a much better WLB at $500k.
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by sfblah 5y ago
Income taxes in California + US Federal are high enough that I don't really think it's worth it to try to get my income above, say, $500k a year. So, for me, income taxes absolutely disincentivize work. I actually had a second job
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by sfblah 5y ago
I guess you've decided not to count the letters in the report from Republican senators specifically saying there was no collusion as part of the report. Also, the word is "its" not "it's".
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by sfblah 5y ago
I agree with this methodology. People should use a different sort function for their outrage. It's like how people fail to compare the number of cancers caused by radioactive release from coal plants vs nuclear plants. The latter seems
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by sfblah 5y ago
It wasn't whataboutism. I was pointing out that much of the media's objective is just to create controversy, not to clarify issues. They do it in both directions. Yes, the article didn't explicitly say he was a Manchurian Can
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by sfblah 5y ago
I don't know about the leanings of CNN+, since I don't pay for it. I do know that Don Lemon and (former host) Chris Cuomo are obviously slanted left. I don't know if there's an objective way to measure this, so I just lo

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