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by xapata 4y ago
> There's two causes for inflation I think everybody agrees, too little supply and too much demand. Price increases aren't always inflation. As the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland published, "Strictly speaking, inflatio
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by xapata 4y ago
Yep, always need to pick your risk-free asset for comparison.
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by xapata 4y ago
Yeesh. The concept of marginal change (from Calculus) is valuable in all sorts of situations. It's a basic concept for business and social policy.
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by xapata 4y ago
I don't want to drill through my brick.
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by xapata 4y ago
It's so obviously the future, though. Just produced too early.
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by xapata 4y ago
> We are intervening to make the economy smaller than if we didn't intervene. Depends on what time scale we're thinking about. True in the short-term, but I think the long-term expectation is that growth will be more stable, a
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by xapata 4y ago
Wastewater tracking provides better data. Regardless, you're making the same logical mistake that as those folks claiming there's no evidence that flossing prevents tooth decay. And, I seem to remember seeing a chart of ... maybe
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by xapata 4y ago
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force by Roland G. Fryer might support that. He concludes that oversight of gun use (by police officers) effectively removes the statistically significant racial bias that non-
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by xapata 4y ago
Ah. While objects have their uses, I think the Clojurist might prefer, well, closures. That's not to say one is better than the other, just that the Clojurist probably won't miss the style of the Spring framework.
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by xapata 4y ago
I'd take that bet any day. At the rate the language is improving, there'll probably be a good Python static optimizing compiler before its lack is a problem.
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by xapata 4y ago
Don't conflate the two.
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by xapata 4y ago
Including Spring itself? Jokes aside, can't Clojure simply call whatever you want from the JVM?
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by xapata 4y ago
But it doesn't have reader macros!
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by xapata 4y ago
You could have linked to Yegge's site.
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by xapata 4y ago
> fairly common It is possible that police are both "commonly" held accountable, yet not "often enough" for the good of society. Devil is in the details.
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by xapata 4y ago
Not shrink. Slow the growth of. Decelerate is different from stop. The real problem isn't any particular position, velocity, nor even acceleration. Those can all be planned for. It's the 4th time-derivative, jerk, that messes
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by xapata 4y ago
Has it not been obvious that you need a mask when in enclosed spaces with strangers, since about 2.5 years now?
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by xapata 4y ago
Depending on the airport, I've found Lyft and Uber drivers to be more professional than the taxi drivers. In Boston, the taxi drivers would angrily curse at me for my destination and then drive recklessly, hoping to get back to the ai
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by xapata 4y ago
The T is a hub and spoke system. If you want to go quickly between two spokes, Lyft or Uber can be much faster. And with a group, sometimes even cheaper than paying for individual T rides.
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by xapata 4y ago
Makes sense to me. It's the same with restaurant delivery services.
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by xapata 4y ago
The blue woman in Sam Bosma's style looks strikingly similar to the one in Noah Bradley's style. They even have the same 3 patches of pink on their cheeks. https://static.adityashankar.xyz/gorgeous/hair_flowe
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by xapata 4y ago
Sometimes you just want to store data and worry about validation later. I'm in that situation now, with different tasks requiring different kinds of validation for the same data. Sometimes I want all the postal codes that users have
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by xapata 4y ago
> most people feel they are getting screwed For a moment, I had trouble remembering whether that assertion was in the context of getting screwed by the government or by freeloaders. I think to avoid people feeling screwed, we'd nee
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by xapata 4y ago
> I'd encourage you to make friends with a company owner in the $1-10 million per year range. To be fair to the person you replied to, I think we can assume this kind of company was not the category they were thinking of. Many comp
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by xapata 4y ago
Wipro Infosys Tata C ... ? H ... ?
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by xapata 4y ago
If you're sitting on a gold mine, you can wait 5 years. This does not make sense.
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by xapata 4y ago
There's a difference between using a broadly true generalization as the title and using a bullshit statement as the title.
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by xapata 4y ago
> is moving away I think the citation would be for "is moving away" as that's the most bold claim.
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by xapata 4y ago
I don't think it was meant as an absolutist assertion.
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by xapata 4y ago
I thought you originally meant that your friends were frequent posters.

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