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by shock-value 4y ago
The idea that an automated shift scheduling system (even if efficacious) could replace middle managers entirely is not credible.
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by shock-value 4y ago
This is a poorly reasoned or at least a poorly articulated essay. AI to this point is built to optimize some objective function. What is that function with respect to middle management? Some sort of mathematical expression would be interest
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by shock-value 4y ago
I'm just arguing against this general idea that "increase in money supply doesn't cause price inflation". Which doesn't even really make sense because prices are measured in units of money. But the further implicati
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by shock-value 4y ago
> Reality is never all else equal. Agreed, but that's not really relevant to the discussion. > My point is strictly that people always claim that X is going to cause inflation and then just wait until inflation occurs to say &quo
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by shock-value 4y ago
The key phrase is of course "all else equal". A lot was going on in that decade that could (and is) argued to have been an opposing deflationary force. Worldwide demographics and productivity improvements, in particular. (On a sep
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by shock-value 4y ago
Are you implying that it's impossible to draw such a conclusions from particular events such as those of 2020? Or that an increase in the size of money supply does not promote price inflation, all else equal? Don't think there is
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by shock-value 4y ago
Yeah it's one man trying to fight the Federal Reserve (and other central banks). We'll see how that works out for him.
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by shock-value 4y ago
Another more optimistic way of looking at it is the idea that as we transition into a higher interest rate environment, there will be short term pain as unprofitable businesses downsize / go under, their workers are let go, but they ev
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by shock-value 5y ago
RTX provides hardware primitives from which one could build portions of a global illumination solution. Lumen is such a full-featured, turn-key solution which I believe can run in "software" (as in not using dedicated ray tracing
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by shock-value 5y ago
I'm not a lawyer. It appears that part of this heist involved hacked keys. That aspect would be straightforwardly illegal I would imagine.
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by shock-value 5y ago
You read it wrong then. > affords me more time to relax, review what I have created, and enjoy it rather than drag myself to the next task This is exactly what the author is promoting. A hypothetical so-called "worker bee" woul
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by shock-value 5y ago
They don't need to result in regime change nor policy change. If the sanctions lead to fewer munitions produced or soldiers fed, then they have a justified benefit, even if the overall arc of the conflict is otherwise the same.
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by shock-value 5y ago
You are wrong. While I agree that these broad-based sanctions result in collateral economic damage to everyday Russian citizens, they have an important role in starving the Russian state of the resources it needs to continue to wage convent
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by shock-value 5y ago
The sanctions regarding exports to Russia have to this point been relatively limited. The financial sanctions are what are doing the work right now. Russia's principle problem is that its own currency is becoming worthless and external
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by shock-value 5y ago
If crypto were ubiquitous as a currency (assuming that's technically possible in terms of scale in a way that the current implementations seem not to be) sanctions in the first place would have been impossible. So depending on your vie
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by shock-value 5y ago
This is a reactive plan, not an aggressive plan as Putin's apparently is. It is not the same. After the events of the last few days, it would seem you are quite mistaken if you think the west as a whole is interested in "developin
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by shock-value 5y ago
> Why are you concerned with long-term reduction of Russian war-faring capability? How is that relevant to this situation? I’m concerned with all time scales in this situation. And I think steep economic sanctions can be relevant to all
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by shock-value 5y ago
If Russia were to be forced into an isolationist command economy as you describe I would surmise that, much like the Soviet Union, its influence and relative threat to the rest of the world would deteriorate over time, maybe leading to a s
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by shock-value 5y ago
If sanctions negatively impact the Russian economy as a whole, resulting in a long-term reduction in its ability to wage conventional war, then that's a benefit regardless of whether regime change occurs.
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by shock-value 5y ago
For my personal perspective, I do have empathy for you (genuinely), but I still wholeheartedly support the forced deterioration of your economy if it either contributes to regime change or reduces your country's ability to wage convent
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by shock-value 5y ago
It's the right thing to do if it contributes to either regime change, or to a deterioration of the nation's economy leading to a reduced ability to wage conventional war.
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by shock-value 5y ago
The threat that North Korea poses to the rest of the world has also been minimized partly as a result of its isolation (whether self-imposed or otherwise). To the extent that the Russian economy deteriorates through isolation, its reduced a
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by shock-value 5y ago
You can have empathy while still taking the punitive steps that need to be taken on the country as a whole.
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by shock-value 5y ago
Totally agree. It's amazing how many in this thread don't understand this principle.
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by shock-value 5y ago
It would have been totally fair, especially in America, because we have a direct way to influence the selection of our leaders. It's obviously harder and more indirect in modern-day Russia, but the principle is the same. Remember: this
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by shock-value 5y ago
We can argue about what constitutes a proper Ponzi scheme, but the idea that the promotion of crypto thus far has existed to allow early adopters to cash out at the apparent expense of later adopters, while bringing essentially no other uti
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by shock-value 5y ago
PayPal and your bank both transact in dollars. In the crypto space, presumably, you’d need to operate with different currencies at varying exchange rates. Or use some kind of “wrapped” currency at significant complexity and risk (see recent
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by shock-value 5y ago
If you are into simulations (driving, flying) then I'd say get a headset ASAP. Also potentially if you see yourself getting into immersive rhythm/fitness games. Otherwise I think it's pretty reasonable to wait for more compel
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by shock-value 5y ago
Strong agree. It baffles me that Meta/Facebook isn’t putting up more of that in the media section of the Quest software. Well, there are a lot of videos but most are 2D and/or very low resolution, and just not interesting content.
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by shock-value 5y ago
Long-time developers of Postgres have spent a long time developing Postgres -- not necessarily running a deployment of it nor writing and running queries on growing datasets. It's almost self-evident that this is the case, because if t

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