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by whb07 5y ago
Here’s an interesting calculator from Oxford using Britain’s data from COVID: https://www.qcovid.org/Calculation My wife is a nurse and doesn’t follow up the data and she was in disbelief that her “risk” of serious/dea
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by whb07 5y ago
What ever becomes of the dogs once this trend passes?
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by whb07 5y ago
Check out F#, the bastardized yet legitimate child of MSFT. If you like functional languages or would like to try it, give it a whirl! https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/languages/fsharp-hello-wo... If you use vs
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by whb07 5y ago
Meanwhile Israel is one of the top 5 most vaccinated countries in the world and the US has a travel warning against them. Isn’t Iceland also extremely well vaccinated and they started another lockdown?
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by whb07 5y ago
There is a criminal to catch. There is no free lunch. This isn’t a “grow the pie” idea when it comes to money printing. Imagine you had: 1/10 of all dollars. Next year they printed 20% of money supply, so now you own: 1/12 of all
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by whb07 5y ago
Going from 0-1% to 4-5% is massive I agree on that. But in the absolute, it’s still tiny and even a negative real interest rate. The other stuff about the fed activities not influencing treasury rates is about as true as inflation being 2%
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by whb07 5y ago
Lol. Don’t you think it’s very linear and simple variable thinking with that comment? The car salesman won’t see the higher prices? The guy down the street won’t see the higher prices and ask for higher wages to afford the price increases?
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by whb07 5y ago
So idk how deep you want to go into “basic” common sense economics and not this trashy thing they call it now, but the divide between fiscal/monetary is by name only. Let me explain: There used to be the real divide between both, but n
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by whb07 5y ago
They are… you cannot roll back wage inflation. “Oh hey Jim, I know we hired you at $25/hr.. well now that things are normalizing, well have to pay you the real rate of $12/hr” Even the PepsiCo CEO was commenting on passing higher
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by whb07 5y ago
“Considering climate change”: Ask yourself what type of answer you’d have gotten in 1970s when the climate change fear at the time was that we’d all be freezing.
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Where do you live?
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F#
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Look at the Flynn fiasco, same thing in the name of fighting the evils of orange man. This is just the equivalent of being in fear of the KGB.
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by whb07 5y ago
Well, no. You’re talking about using all the flags and tooling like i just mentioned, which 99.99% of people don’t use every time they run a build. Even then the best and strictest of flags + Werror still falls short. Then you still have to
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by whb07 5y ago
Compile time guarantees that you didn’t access memory you didn’t really “own”. Dangling pointers are not a thing. No double free. Forces you to think up front about what are the possible state something could be in, and so you won’t get run
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by whb07 5y ago
Why did you wait till now? Didn’t the first talks of “wait 2 weeks” trigger this fear?
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Yes because this is exactly what’s been happening for 50 years. I’d understand this argument say in 1975, but in 2021 your argument needs some deeper analysis
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by whb07 5y ago
Yup! They assume today’s bad situation and apply it backwards, when in fact as time progresses, things have gotten worse not better.
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by whb07 5y ago
Well seeing as how the biggest failing schools are in large metros this argument doesn’t hold much does it? One of the biggest school system is in NYC and the average student graduating high school is reading at a 10 year old level or less.
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by whb07 5y ago
Well a couple things to note: 1. An entrepreneurial teacher/teachers could provide a service for these suddenly flush parents at $4600 per child. 2. Most politicians, from either side are either corrupt or incompetent, so these labels
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by whb07 5y ago
No, they “f** you I got mine” attitude is exactly what a person like myself hates to see. It’s the same thing as FB pushing for social media/internet regulations, it makes you wonder why they are pushing for it. When you create a depar
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by whb07 5y ago
Cash is still king and joining something like kaiser is like $230/month for sub 30 yo.
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by whb07 5y ago
By true sense of the word "quarantine", means locked up in some room while you recover/pass infection. Someone has to come to you, feed you, observe you etc. So this isn't happening. What is really happening is: * Keep m
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by whb07 5y ago
Fear and stress harms the individual. It raises your cortisol, lowers the immune system etc. My mother in law was so freaked out and in constant stress that she developed an infection combined with shingles (first time).
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by whb07 5y ago
It is in good faith. But the burden of proof lies on the argument that the vaccine won’t work for this. Not the other way around. In the US, in theory, it’s supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty”. For the past century, it’s been assu
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by whb07 5y ago
Exactly! Where is the nuance here plus he’s not exactly mentioning what he’s comparing it to.
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Compared to Rust/C/C++? Sure! But Haskell vs most others, it’s faster and compiles down to a binary executable. F# runs on .NET and is comparable to Haskell but not AOT.
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There’s massive deflation in consumer electronics and anything related to software and we’re seeing more consumption not less. “Hey Joe, I know you like that $1000 machine, but are you willing to buy a better one for $500?” “Gee, no thanks
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The issue with Greece is that they aren’t very productive and live beyond their means against the savings of the Germans and others. So no, you cannot use that as an example. As for Japan, they have had massive population drop and inefficie
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by whb07 5y ago
All of these “technical” measures are the work of people trying to explain and come up with clever ways to argue for their jobs and continuous involvement in monetary experiments. I want deflation to occur. There are enormous sectors where

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