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UChicago freezes PhD admissions to most humanities programs(hpherald.com)
5 points by throw0101c 4mo ago|1 comments
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> could be < 3 Or any ccTLD: .ca, .fr, .se, etc . * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> OS2 single mode duplex throughout the house, all converging to a trunk which is available in three locations for equipment. What do you mean by "trunk which is available in three locations"? Usually cabling is home-run to a
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
If your walls are ripped open, then sure run some OS2 everywhere, but Cat 6A gets you 10GbE at 100m, but even 'only' Cat 5e or (plain) 6 gets you that speed up to 55m (per 802.3an): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> I feel like we have moved into the era now where if you were putting cabling in the walls for networking you should be choosing fibre now. How many consumer devices have an ((Q)SFP(+)) optical cage? If you're in their pulling st
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> That's about 35 hours of work for the absolute bare minimum, 70 including my wife. 2000/month is 24k/year in expenses. Doing some rough math, one person working 35/week would be working for about 13/hour to h
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Well, if we taxed the top percentages of income/wealth more, and actually enforced anti-monopoly rules, perhaps we wouldn't be in this situation.
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> In turn they need someone to come in 30 years later. That's exactly how a pyramid scheme works. The entire economy is a pyramid scheme: the expenses of some people (shelter, food, clothing, entertainment, etc ) are the income o
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> […] you can't justify the claim that it's entirely "underlying business activity that drives total returns". The S&P 500 index tracks earnings per share (EPS) fairly closely over the decades: * https:/&#
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> A Keynesian beauty contest is a metaphorical beauty contest in which judges are rewarded for selecting the most popular choices among all judges, rather than those they may personally find the most attractive. This idea is often appli
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> And being higher over 10 years has little to do with it if acts counter cyclical to stocks and other assets. BTC has been called many things at many different times. It was originally a payment system: > A purely peer-to-peer ver
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> Here's a shower thought. BTC essential is worth $70k solely through the power of memes. Can TSLA and SPCX remain overvalued (relative to the revenue of their respective underlying assets) forever through the power of memes? The
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> If you exclude dividend paying stocks, then the entire stock market starts to look like a giant pyramid scheme casino. Stocks can start paying dividends in the future: MSFT did not in the past, and does now. AAPL did, stopped in the
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> But to say one season of bad harvest will kill off everyone is ludicrous... "Everyone", sure. But the 1770-1 Czech example seems to have taken out 10%: that's not nothing.
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Are there specific things that Krugman has been wrong about that you have in mind, because he has made a number of notable good calls: he predicted that the 2009 stimulus would be too small: * https://archive.nytimes.com/kru
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> What a miserable world view. What do you need a yacht to when you have two weeks of holiday every year? If your job involves network connectivity and SSH, satellite Internet would allow you to do your job on your yacht where ever it
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Four (not mutually exclusive) reasons on why the above did not happen: We haven't spread the wealth around enough; People actually love working; There's no limit to human desires; Leisure is expensive.
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
https://archive.is/https://www.vox.com/2014/11/20/7254877/ke... https://archive.is/2hXXl
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Why 3-hour workdays haven't happened yet as Keynes predicted (2014)(vox.com)
3 points by throw0101c 4mo ago|2 comments
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> John Maynard Keynes thought people might eventually work only a few hours per month because the growth in productivity would allow only a few hours of work to cover consumption. He did not imagine that people would want […] This is i
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> I hate this fake idea that everyone in the past was one bad harvest from starvation. Perhaps one was/is sometimes a stretch, but starvation and famine were a thing: > Over two million people died in two famines in France bet
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
As observed from a comment [1] in a previous discussion: in the first animation the time and date shown are actually correct (per your web browser) when it initially renders, though it does not increment as the seconds hand reaches 12. [1]
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> Especially because you can get TVs with Roku built-in. Except in that case don't you have to give the TVs themselves Internet access? Do you trust any TV with such access nowadays given all the tomfoolery with surveillance that
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Why do Canadians say 'soccer' instead of 'football'?(cbc.ca)
3 points by throw0101c 4mo ago|0 comments
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Fox to Acquire Roku in $22B Deal(hollywoodreporter.com)
6 points by throw0101c 4mo ago|1 comments
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> Whenever something gets subsidized by the government it inevitably becomes dominated by exploitive petty politics. When younger I've had job in grocery stores and saw petty politics. There's nothing particular to being subs
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Or it took >15 minutes to generate PGP 2.x private keys due to entropy generation and prime calculations/tests.
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
The most recent Linux kernel releases are: 7.1, 7.0, 6.19, 6.18, …: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history 7.0 is already present in forky (current testing ), and available as a backport for t
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Submitting this apropos of nothing, and for no discernible reason: > A Keynesian beauty contest is a metaphorical beauty contest in which judges are rewarded for selecting the most popular choices among all judges, rather than those the
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Keynesian Beauty Contest(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by throw0101c 4mo ago|1 comments

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