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In what area, did we have zero percent interest rates back in 1930?

Interest rates were lower, but with deflation, the real interest rate has been estimated to have been about 7.87% in 1930:

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/dep1929.htm
This article wasn't obvious to me. Not everyone knows what you know.
We agree. My co-founder and I built helloreads.com to address the UI concern above. We never felt like Goodreads got the necessary UI upgrade it needed.

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"For this function named `call`, the first argument must be a function `fn`, and subsequent arguments must be the type of arguments that `fn` expects. The return value of `call` is the same type as the return value of `fn`."

How would you recommend communicating all that in an extended version of ECMAscript?
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Ally is just as much of a “large bank”, isn’t it?

I currently bank with a regional bank, but they were acquired by Arvest. I’m looking for alternatives now.
Your hn demo is super interesting. It would be cool to see designers fix popular websites (cough reddit) and then be able to release those changes to the public.
My point is that lazy semantics memoizes evaluation, so you need an elaborate signature to make sure that it can't(which is how the IO type looks like). The "inner" type of IO is very much relevant to the semantics of the "outer" language.
I wonder that same thing today. To me, it feels like the bubble burst in 2007. But, that we're still here today, seems to indicate it didn't really pop, but instead it's a side-effect of another system.

Recently in Southern California, listening to the local NPR affiliate, they were covering a candidate race where one candidate accused the other of not hearing his constituents: ~"House prices have fallen, and that's bad for our voters. I hear them, and he doesn't."

I feel like housing in California is unsustainable: pricing, development, etc.

What's strange is that the candidate doing the accusation was a Democrat. I assume he benefits from loose borders (more housing demand), but constituents who can't actually vote and get their voices heard (immigrants wanting affordable housing, not what begins to approach slum-lord style ghettos).
I would tend to disagree. Even if the water buffer is 20 feet thick, it will freeze all the way through, at least where I live. I mean you can buffer sub-freezing temperatures for a few days, a couple weeks, but not for 6 months.
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can't and not needing to are two really different things. the 'not needing to' just being shifted to having to use proprietary environments for doing stuff essential to debugging (like looking at log files) is, for most people, not a net win.
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>the kind of changes needed to terraform Mars also normally happen on geological time scales.

Not when humans are involved. All you need to do is raise the average temperature 5C to create a runaway greenhouse effect on Mars. While that's more than we've done on Earth, what we've done here was entirely on accident.

With an actual effort... we could probably do that in a few decades with technology not much more advanced than what we have now. Just doing something like the Russian Znamya project (orbital mirrors), and a little bit of seeding the polar regions with carbon to help absorb sunlight, we could bathe the caps in sunlight 24:37 687 days a year. That combined with creation of 'designer' artificial greenhouse gasses could get you to the runaway process quicker than the natural human lifespan and if you kept generating your own greenhouse gasses/reflecting light to the surface/importing smaller comets (smaller so you're burning the bulk up in the slowly thickening atmosphere instead of impacting and throwing up dust), you could get it there in a few centuries and have the process largely, if not entirely, automated.
Todo lists lack so much basic app functionality. They are only low-hanging fruit for a common article pattern.
If you want to see how putting the entire admissions process on a single entrance exam will play out, look no further than the dystopian cram schools of China and India.

Unless we want to train a generation of rote-memorizers and elite test takers, this is not a direction that should be pursued.
”we provided the most advances to the JavaScript language out of any contributors by far”

How do you figure that? As far as I am aware that honor goes to the CoffeeScript project, whether you hate it or love it, it's been the main inspirator for JavaScripts advances. And second to CoffeeScript would be all the little libraries that inspired JS's standard library expansions like JQuery and Underscore.
the post-2009 recovery is now the longest ever ,exceeding the 90's even, and I think it will last much longer given how low interest rates still are and the absence of any problems. I think this calls into doubt business cycles and other concepts economists take for granted. The steady-state economy (similar to that of Australia) where there are few, if any, recessions may be the applicable model. People get too hung up on 2008 and forget that although it was bad, it was brief, relativity speaking, and the economy has not only recovered but made huge gains too.
Google could shut down an entire account without any communication and kill a business in the process.

I would never pick Google for anything important.
Looks interesting, but I get the feeling I need to have already downed a few gallons of Haskell kool-aid to understand this? Is there a beginner-friendly overview somewhere?

What's nice about Ramda is that while it uses the Haskell-ish vocabulary and type signatures in its docs, someone can also just dive in and start using it as if it were an underscore-like library and not worry about all the more cerebral stuff.
What developer overhead? If you consider the compile-TypeScript phase to be literally no different than your jslint phase, then this build step doesn't really add any overhead. If you're talking about having to write out the types in your code, that's just a healthier alternative to everyone who ever reads or modifies your code having to keep that guess that type information and keep it all in their heads.
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http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/about.html

unit for compilation work relative to a reference package.
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Oh, and since water expands when it freezes - the container will rupture, too.
Cool, thanks! I think I'll give it a shot.
> I don't understand the knee-jerk opposition people have to serverless architectures

because it's purely a marketing concern, it means nothing from an architectural standpoint, it"s a buzzword, like 'cloud', 'nosql', 'web 2.0' or 'the blockchain'.
Sonim XP5, for AT&T or Verizon

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2017/07/sonim-xp5-verizons-...
Electric planes (at the size of boeing/airbus) are a long way away. In terms of energy density, batteries will have to be far better than diesel fuel if they want to succeed in big aviation. It has to be better because, unlike with fuels, a battery-power aircraft does not get lighter as it empties the tanks, which also means the frame has to be stronger to land at the takeoff weight. This becomes more and more an issue as you scale to larger aircraft. Lithium-ion batteries will never get to this point. Short of some new breakthrough technology, I don't see it becoming a thing in our lifetimes.
Is it really worth saving a few cents on Amazon while such stories keep popping up?

I for one stopped using Amazon and its services (including the recent ones such as Audible and WholeFoods) entirely five years ago. I buy books from a local used bookstore or Barnes&Noble. For ebooks and audiobooks, I use Kobo. For everything else I shop locally.
Was he declared abandoned and legally became a ward of the state for a brief moment?
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its not really documentation per se. It's flaws programmers are prone to. Everyone has their own set. Knowing the author in an abstract sense speeds up the process.
> Plans to do so have included dropping thermonuclear weapons at the planet's poles – an idea supported by Elon Musk.

This is misleading at best. Elon hasn't endorsed one way of terraforming Mars. He has said it's a question best left to Mars settlers.
I'd say pros:

- Compiles to native
- Superior REPL experience/interactivity
- Easier C FFI

I'd say cons:

- Smaller ecosystem, not as many libraries.
- Dated tooling.
- Inferior support for multi-threading/multi-core.
- Not as homoiconic. Only lists are by default.
- Standard is abandoned. No new versions since 1994. Some CDRs till 2013.

Neutral:

- Leans towards OOP and imperative mutability over Functional and immutable.
- Doesn't have unified abstractions over datastructures.
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John Oliver once again stating the obvious so well. Let's not forget that Instagram and Whatsapp are now included in the arsenal of the Evil Empire as well.
As technology increases connections between actors in the global economy, speed of change seems to be increasing as well.

While I agree that the change won’t be a “grand event”, I don’t think it’ll take anywhere near half a century to happen. I expect it’ll happen over a decade or less and will largely be invisible to US consumers until the larger effects of our weakened currency become apparent.

I expect the rise of China as the dominant economy will be rapid and will take most people by surprise - barring, of course, a major downturn in either major economy.
Ask HN: What podcast manager do you use for desktop?
iTunes is fine but
- I find it doesn't refresh on it's own. I often have view the podcast in the store view to reveal the latest episode
- Managing more than say 20 podcasts becomes annoying. You have to flick through each individually. I have a lot of low-volume podcasts I like.
- Sometimes podcast that haven't had anything interesting in a while, and therefore I haven't listened in while, stopped getting updated

Really what I want is something similar to an RSS aggregator. I want to see the podcasts as a big stream and pick the ones that sounds interesting to listen to or save for later.

Open to suggestions! Paid is fine
Active traders tend to lose money relative to the “rest of us” passive index investors.
In what way have you found Babel to be a better translator?
Try http://www.spaceuk.org/ba/blackarrowcancellation.htm
david graeber's book is great, although i too take a lot of the anti-money tone with a grain of salt. If you're in a marginalized subcommunity, a concrete ledger of debts is far better than an informal ledger of debts, as a position to stand on to defend your ground.

You may like "the great wave: price revolutions..." by david hackett fisher for the role of economic conditions on local revolts and global revolution.
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I'm an executive coach who works with founders with teams between 5-100 employees.

In particular, I can be helpful on:
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To increase founder mental health, I'm offering a few free 45 min coaching sessions for startup CEOs with team sizes between 5 and 100 people. Format: you bring your biggest problem, and we'll dive right into coaching it. If you're interested, just sign up here: https://calendly.com/prismaticco/solvingproblems/07-26-2018.
That would be cool. Sounds like you could build a community around that.
Impractical? That just depends on what resources you have to tackle the problem with.

Identifying candidate comets and asteroids is the first step, then coming up with some sort of propulsion system is the next step. You won't need a lot of thrust at once, you'll just need continuous thrust for weeks, months or even years. Nudge the body into an intercept with Mars and wait. Could easily take decades (if not longer) to start impacting depending on where in the system you are shopping.

Good news is, comets and asteroids already come reeeeeallllllly close to the rocky planets so it's just a matter of meeting them far enough out and applying just the right amount of thrust.

Bad news is, if your math isn't right... whoops you just put something on a collision course with Earth BUT you'd detect this WAYYYYYY before it would happen and you'd just apply more thrust, unless of course something happened to your propulsion system so you'd absolutely want something out there that could move fast enough to intercept, land, apply thrust.

Impacting won't do much though to raise temperature or atmosphere, the atmosphere is thin enough you won't burn up much right now so you'd still need to thicken the atmosphere up some another way.
Hated Graeber's book on debt, but I thought the idea that debt preceded money was uncontroversial. Homer & Sylla go back at least to the Sumerians in 'A History of Interest Rates'
I use the Sonim XP5 with Verizon(also available for AT&T). It can be used as a wifi hotspot, has a music player, removable battery, expandable storage, bluetooth (connects to my truck just fine for calls, music and listening to messages. can respond to messages with canned responses). uses a stripped-down version of Android for its OS.

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2017/07/sonim-xp5-verizons-...
> TCP sessions can withstand that.

But connection tracking tables for NAT may not. Plus the ISP might assign a new IP to your CPE on ppp auth.
That is because Nature Perspectives are written by real scientists for a wider audience than their niche. Not only are those articles scientifically more accurate, but the writers usually try to engage in a dialogue with the readers, which you don't often see in today's journalism.
It's still useful to understand it a bit deeper to see the similarity between e.g. lists, optionals, and IO.
We called that "PaaS" for years, why does it need a new name suddenly? Especially a new name that can cause confusion with things that actually do not have a dedicated server?
Too much travel. I was at ~300 days per year and it was too much.

The conditions were excellent (international first class, best hotels, fantastic restaurants, not much limits) and so was the pay.

But one day I realized that my baby was growing up without me and I quit on the spot (literally : I was in my way home from the office, turned around and resigned (very amicably)).

I moved to a job she I do not travel more at all.
Most of the animation principles are there to help take actions instead of conveying the actions that are taken (Staging, anticipation, exaggeration etc.)
In germany, the same thing is starting to happen. A week or so ago I had something like this ad in my Facebook feed. "no money, no problem, get your credit now!"
Truly ignorant question here, what is a 'platform' in this context? (Or what could it be?)
Yeah, great point (though also interested to learn about the etymology).

I was thinking about these veg*n meatless variants (not limited to sausages). Often they're called "vegetarian X" or "vegan X" or a nameplay/wordplay on the word such as in Dutch "visvrije tonijn" (fish-free tuna) or gehacktballen (minced meat balls, but then with a 'c' added making the word 'hack').
It has been started with Java 1.5/5, 14 years ago.
How would you distinguish it from "PaaS"?
This could have happened with the bank of crypton too...
the post-2009 recovery is more attributable to monetarism, than Keynesianism

Peter schiff and other like him have been predicting crisis, recession, bear market, and inflation since 2008 to no avail. they were wrong and have no credibility as far as I'm concerned.
I think they just don't understand almost anything.

I have a real problem with the economists. Take four professors of economics into a room and ask a simple question. A question like "is this a good thing for X to implement Y", like "is this good for the Great Britain to exit the EU" or "is this a good thing to increase taxes for the rich".

Just ask - you will get at least 5 different answers to every question. Those answers will usually exclude each other.

So now me: I listen to those professors and who's right? I'm sure some of them are not. Some of them are simply saying the truth, some are lying.

And now take just one professor - ask him/her something - you will get answers. How should I know that they are right? I simply cannot. I simply don't believe them.
It also explains why the UK abandoned their spaceflight program, but the French pushed for a joint European program which could rival the American and Soviet ones instead of piggybacking on them. 60s~70s France was very much against depending on either the US or the USSR, and they kept up Diamant launches until Ariane I started looking like it was happening (though it would still be 4 years until its maiden flight).
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I think PaaS is overly broad.

And yes, marketing is a real thing, and names are also picked because they sound cool. There are worse things.
I wasn't aware of any advances to JS made by Coffescript, what advances has it made? Do you have examples?

You're right about jQuery and underscore, though I think jQuery's are often overstated (it and Sizzle inspired the querySelector API in browsers' DOM implementations, and not much else, underscore has had wide-ranging implications for ES6 in general)
Axiomatic formulations of a problem do not have the same goals as abstractions. They can appear similar on the surface, but one has to do with the laying of a foundation and the other is about problem simplification. One is about allowing great leaps in understanding after a great deal of derivation, the other about the reduction of work via problem equivalence. Criticizing someone for using an axiomatic formulation rather than a proper abstraction in programming language theory is like criticizing an architect for using pencil in laying his foundation on paper rather the much more appropriate cement at the construction site.

You don't get everything is an X because of axiomatic formulation. You get it for the same sort of reason that instead of spending ages describing the configurations of atoms in front of you, you throw all that out and call it a screen. Is everything still atoms? Yes! But we can call it a screen and that makes things massively easier to reason about and so we do it, because we like to reason well. But there are still benefits to thinking the other way, thinking from the very foundations. They are just different benefits, which is why we choose to think of problems from more than one perspective.
This only works if your planetary colonies can survive without Earth, and even the most hysterically optimistic dreamer doesn’t see that on the horizon. We don’t even know how to make a biosphere work in a bubble on Earth never mind on Mars. A colony is not insurance against disaster if it relies on shipments of bacteria, seeds, and probsbly much more from Earth.

Our eggs are in this one basket for generations to come no matter what we do, so let’s try to unfuck this basket.
You can also use the cpulimit program to do that.

https://github.com/opsengine/cpulimit
I was going to mention ASDF but, from its changelog, it looks like its first release was in 2001(!).
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I have personally only used them for debugging one off questions. That was my original intent. We do have teams that are considering using the snapshots for ML problems.
Sure, as long as you don't claim its magically more healthy than other forms of NaCl. Not saying you do; just seen that regularly claimed by people who prefer/swear by certain salts.
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I mean you can run Linux on it ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov6fNeijWTo
It's not at all hard to see how I arrived there if you would only read what I wrote. I thought it was called candelabra

So I went to my goto source wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candelabra

Find the following sentence, the only one that references "menorah":

"In Judaism and the Philippine church Iglesia ni Cristo, the menorah is a special kind of candelabrum. "

this links directly to the menorah temple version... if you think this should be changed go BE BOLD!

I perused the wikipedia page on Menorah (Temple) some more, and learned that the 7-candle one is considered more sacred, and should only be used in the temple (or perhaps synagogues?)

If it was intended anti-semitically I consider it possible to be chosen over the 9-candle version which Judaism allows to be used outside of temples, since depicting a 7-candle version might "violate" this self-imposed rule.

When the personality cult president of turkmenistan quit smoking, he banned it nationwide.

Similarily an ex-alcoholic doesn't like to see people drink in his vicinity.

Similarily some muslims might not appreciate people around them showing off how they are eating during daytime during the ramadan.

While I can empathize with their feeling of annoyance, a self-imposed rule is a self-imposed rule.

That said I now can interpret depicting a 7-candled Menorah outside of their holy places, can sometimes be done to piss off jews...

But I don't believe others should be held to self-imposed rules of one group. Even if it is bad taste of outsiders to shove it in their face.

We are not all required by law to be friendly to each other.
In 1993 I got an account in an indian nationalized bank Bank Of Baroda by depositing just the minimum amount Rs 100, & an introducer's signature on my particulars form (introducer needed to be somebody with a good running account at bank AND the one who knows me well.)
Green tea does have caffeine, so I'm not sure if your side effects are related to L-theanine. I also have trouble sleeping as well when I have afternoon caffeine. I don't feel awake, but I just cannot sleep. It took a while for me to associate this with late caffeine.
Even more than that; I left Google (as a user, never employee) because I was scared of being banned. Seeing stories of users on Amazon / Google getting their account banned due to something related to a business concern, made me realize that if someone flagged a google app I had my whole life could come to a grinding halt. Phone, phone number, email, storage, internet access! All that because maybe I got reports on a phone app I wrote (hypothetical).

I'm doing nothing illegal or unethical, nothing wrong. Nevertheless, I ran from Google asap due to that reason alone. Google represented a massive single point of failure to my digital life.

I now use separate products for just about everything I own. While it's not as convenient as Google, I feel far more secure.
Sure, there are analogies between the two. But they're also different in meaningful ways, and evolution has not optimized us for their differences, which refutes the notion that we shouldn't mess with our biochemistry because we are perfectly evolved for the modern world. We're not.