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by zzleeper 5y ago
I'm VERY curious about what will the Fed do. On the one hand, rate hike seems less likely, but on the other this will drive inflation up.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
If the US does what they should, they should completely blockade Russia from any access to the West, including SWIFT blockade, trade embargo, complete visa revocation, etc. This is not that useful (sp not compared to doing it 10 years ago)
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by zzleeper 5y ago
News like these are huge enough to feature on HN, but at the same time I understand why PG always tried to mitigate this. Here you have a lot of people who are most likely technically smart in their fields, but a substantial fraction of the
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by zzleeper 5y ago
For all practical purposes, posting that code without an actual guide/readme and without the paper is useless. What are they solving, how is it better than xyz alternative, etc.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Same here. I hate ID.me and their piece of crap system. Never managed to get it working after wasting so much time. Luckily, I don't _need it_, so at the end I just gave up and used different methods. Would hate it if I'm actuall
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by zzleeper 5y ago
But what are the options? - Don't do anything AKA appeasement? Then Russia will keep on invading countries (Georgia Ukraine), fostering enclaves in other countries (Moldova) and maybe even annexing Belarus (who is one mistake away from
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by zzleeper 5y ago
You give it the Cuban treatment (not that I think that's right for the case of Cuba..). Basically, the EU and US need to agree to completely blockade the country, limit travel to it, cut its access to global financial system, heck even
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by zzleeper 5y ago
> Maybe a formal standardization In practice, that's what pandoc is (and it includes definition lists as extensions: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#definition-lists ) You also have commonmark (an actual standardizat
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by zzleeper 5y ago
I always thought it was the opposite. That subreddits allowed the community to expand without catering to the lowest common denominator, and reddit would have fallen off the cliff faster without those.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
> I did it grudgingly For me it was the opposite. Back in Sept/October govt was telling people "no need to get a booster; it's fine" and then "get it after 6 months only" while reading about the Israel exper
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by zzleeper 5y ago
I wonder if the same thing will be said about crypto or about current asset prices (e.g. TSLA mkt cap of +$1tn.. in what time horizon are they going to recoup that in actual profits?)
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by zzleeper 5y ago
That's really pathetic, to put it mildly. Three weeks between initial contact and removal of compromised themes. Four months until public disclosure.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
I'm curious, how do they compare against S3? (cheaper, easier to use, ...?)
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by zzleeper 5y ago
That table is extremely useful b/c it tells us it's still too early to tell. Had just a single of the 785 omicron cases died (like maybe they got an unrelated stroke while in the hospital), then that would change the numbers from
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by zzleeper 5y ago
> A dozen times That's what's so weird to me. I own an old 2012 Hyundai Accent, bought used at ~12k, and over the last five years I've only taken it for: - Checkup and oil change - Wheel change - Battery change But then I
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by zzleeper 5y ago
If inflation is supply-side (e.g. oil runs out, a ship gets stuck in Suez, etc) then workers lose. If it's demand-side, then their wages should rise up together with inflation so they don't win or lose (except for whatever savings
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Even if it's transitory, what's the reason to keep injecting cash _today_ via buying agency mbs and other securities?
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by zzleeper 5y ago
What happened in 2019?
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Let me know if there's any way to contact you about this! I'm quite curious from an academic perspective and would love to hear your thoughts (even if it's just a brief phone call or email)!
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Is there a way to find out what was the market cap of those two? Searched coingecko and a few other places and came empty handed (they just list "price" but no historical market cap or outstanding coins)
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Is there a way to know which CBs or CUs use which processors?
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by zzleeper 5y ago
TBH 99% or more of what I hold is index funds. I started playing with Robinhood when trying to understand what was going on in the retail market (May 2021). On the other hand, I do think that from time to time you can get an insight that th
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by zzleeper 5y ago
It is instituted. I work at the Fed in a relatively junior role. I can't buy bank stock, or for any practical purposes any financial firm stock (or bonds). I can't buy funds finance-focused mutual funds or any kind. I can't
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by zzleeper 5y ago
> And they have funny printing patterns: whenever Tether stops printing, USDC starts. I noticed that, specially recently. What's going on?
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by zzleeper 5y ago
"Prudent households worldwide increased savings by $2.7T."
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Is DeFi SO large??? Stablecoins have a mkt cap of ~130bn. And it's not like bitcoin (or the stock market), where you can start with 1000 tokens valued at $1 each, and then when the price increases suddenly the nominal wealth increas
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Completely agree with you. I'm always frustrated when I read papers that use patents as a proxy for innovation/research. In fact, most people doing research in that area know that very well, but then, it seems there are no alterna
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Sorry but that's impossible. FIVE vaccine related deaths/issues in your small social circle? Next you are going to tell me you know of a vaccine-related car crash. Please revisit your priors or who you put trust in, as they might
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Of course. But buyers still need to be able to afford houses they purchase. With higher rates that might not be true.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
I just got a 15yr fixed rate at 2% (!) which made me think a lot about what's behind your comment. In particular, what will happen once rates go back up: 1) Right now we are at zero short term rates, and moreover mortgage rates are pro

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