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> All public debt is held by private individuals.

No, it's not. Public debt is all debt held by entities other than the issuing government, which includes lots of debt held by things that aren't “private individuals”, including foreign governments.

> Agreeing to cancel debt means seizing assets at a global scale.

No, it just means causing the realization of a risk whose perceived likelihood was already priced into the asset.
> totalitarian policy being the only thing that works to mitigate disaster

Totalitarian policy is a disaster all its own.
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Blackrock is also running a series: "Dealing with the next downturn"

https://www.blackrockblog.com/2019/08/20/how-central-banks-m...

Direct stimulus (through universal basic income) may emerge as the best, if not only, innovation for stabilizing aggregate consumer demand.
A typical german stove uses 11kW for the stove + oven combination. Pretty much every stove/oven combination uses 380V 30A for power nowadays.

e.g. look at pretty much any Miele stove/oven combination.
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> a government that is the source of its own fiat money doesn't need to borrow it.

Sounds like a Magical Money Tree.

I too could be the source of my own currency (as could you, or a bank, or another business), thus would not need to borrow my currency to pay for the goods and services I desire.
I never said the system was flawless, simply that the idea of continuing to present checks instead of explicitly saying "you're blocked" was a clever idea.
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its the same concept as minimizing the amount of code through design and refactoring. Let the tests drive the code, refactor, and refactor / delte your tests when not needed anymore. :)

this is his SO answer where he talks about it... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/153234/how-deep-are-your...
^ This: it's not because something is subsidized by central plan, that doing the same thing physically would not survive in a hypothetical free market: one should not look only at the subsidy in one direction, but also in the other: taxation on the organisation and the employees involved results in a large subsidy towards the central plan. So one should invest towards the goal of expected "(taxes paid and alternative environmental externalities avoided) minus (subsidies received and environmental externalities caused)" instead of neurotically focussing on the subsidies
No scrappy startup is going to take them down at every level of their business at once, but they can still create competition, even if they're just out there to be acquired.

For instance, Facebook is losing engagement to Snapchat, Snapchat is losing engagement to TikTok, and so on. As a result, there is constant pressure to evolve.

IBM may still be around, but it's a totally different company now. Nobody uses "IBM PCs" anymore. Remember, back in the day those were very expensive, relatively speaking. IBM was as big as it ever was, relatively speaking. Yet, cheap clones by smaller companies drove down profits to make IBM give up on the market.

Also, IBM may still be a big company, but you'd be hard pressed to find a segment where they are absolutely dominating, unlike back in the day. I never said small guys will bankrupt and annihilate the giants, I'm saying competitive pressure from below is there at all times, no matter how big you are.
I’d say that it’s only likely conditional on having a Mac.
Especially in Arkansas. It's a really beautiful state. There is a bunch of other natural beauty to see like hot springs and cave tours. Our family has vacation in Arkansas quite a bit.
Life After Reading “The Uninhabitable Earth”
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Actually many homes were built all electric in the US in the era between 1960-1980 because the nation was promised limitless, cheap electricity from Nuclear power, etc.

In the 80s oil and gas prices plummeted in the US, but electrical power prices did not, and it then became cheaper for gas and oil.

The proliferation of gas in the United States is also probably due to less-regulated environment. Gas companies are profitable and expanded their networks and distribution to expand. I would guess fewer environmental regulations and building regulations make it easier to expand a than in other countries.
I mean I quoted the entire 3 paragraphs up there, so of course I'm paraphrasing.

Fowler advocates strongly for OOP. Presumably he'd find an OO entity system clearer (if you're gonna quibble with this, imagine how much more productive this conversation would be if we had an understanding of what "clearer" meant, then recoil in horror as you realize thousands of developers are having this exact same unproductive discussion, all because one guy said he had the answers but didn't really give specifics, like Fermat's final theorem but for devs), but the fact remains that if you built a modern entity system this way you'd have to rewrite it to get even average performance out of it. No amount of refactoring will fix the base design.

So I feel like I have disagreed directly with his point, and I'm happy to discuss further. I do, weirdly, feel a little like you're not applying the principle of charity to me though. So let's both endeavor to be a little more understanding.
So

pull out dictionarybout of shelf, look up word

Vs

Find out which institution I belong to has access to oed (which you’re bound to forget unless you’re in the word smithing business and use oed every day) .

Figure out what contorted method this institution used to log in

Remember your usr / password

Reset usr/ password

Figure out what combination of special characters your institution requires for your password

Look up word

Doesn’t support Firefox/ safari!

Fire up chrome

What are the special characters for the password again?

Reset password, etc

I just went on vacation. As I’m heading out I grab my mirrorless digital camera. Then I remember I’ll need the charger. And the SD card is in the card reader upstairs.

So I said, “f*it”, grabbed a handful film and my OM-1.
Still Not a valid reason to allow this abomination to happen here. You dont think that some Govt Dept wont strong arm this technology to do things to you and everyone who supports you?
Yes you can obviously claim that, and yes they can obviously claim this was not the reason.

Then it's the usual job of the courts to try to uncover the facts.
Negative yields are a pretty strong indicator the people with skin in the game aren't worried about sovereign debt.

What might kick off the recession will be the austerity measures countries impose as an over-reaction to debt worries.
Coming from a similar background (front/back web), I also find Unity3D very enjoyable. My latest project was attempting to create a relatively simple VR horror game on the Oculus Go. I was able to create something pretty neat but ultimately canned the project as I found the low quality graphics and single controller to be too limiting. I am considering picking up the Oculus Quest and maybe starting the project over since it has two controllers (one for movement, one for flashlight/etc). I found the Blender -> Unity3D workflow really positive for those that are interested in trying themselves.
How hypocritical it is to both boast that you are privacy focused, while blatantly invading users privacy at the same time!? I think their days are numbered, but hopefully we get rid of them sooner than later.
Excel is great, it is still Microsoft’s best product, (in contrast to Word which is an abomination).
However I am very disappointed with Microsoft’s lack of investment in Excel, over the past 10 years it has hardly improved. eg the VBA code editor is appalling, like a relic from the 1980’s (constrast VS Code).
I use tables extensively (they are quite nice) problem is they require extensive use of Index/Match which becomes tedious to set up and is very slow, so manual update soon becomes obligatory. MS should incorporate some of the Power BI linking (think Foreign Keys) capability to overcome this big problem. Would be nice if they added SQL,instead of always making up their own query language language (eg M). Sumifs Countifs functions offer powerful and essential capability that could also be better done with SQL syntax. Excel is very error prone so Unique row constraints on tables or sheets would be handy. The formula editor is also archaic and could be easily improved dramatically.
Yes - Excel is Fun - what an awesome YouTube channel, that guy’s enthusiasm for Excel is extraordinary.
Ask HN: How do you speed up new laptop setup?
I'm thinking of getting a new machine in the near future but don't want to spend a year setting it up. I've seen people using a repo for their dotfiles (https://github.com/justin8/dotfiles) but I'm thinking there are probably some good tips that people have for setting up a new machine.

I'm likely to get a Mac but curious about general tips as well.
...but I didn’t argue it was easier or faster.

I said it was a deeper resource available online. And it is!
Edmond Lau, in his book The Effective Engineer. One of the point he said in his book is "Invest in Iteration Speed". One of the way to increase our iteration speed is "Invest in time saving tools". Visual Studio Code, is of the tools that a lot of developer uses every single day to write their code.
So for developer, it makes sense a lot of sense to invest some of their time to learn some Visual Studio Code shortcuts. But, finding a good resources to learn this useful shortcuts, extension, and in video / gif format takes time.

That's why I craeted VSCode.xyz

I'd really really love to hears your feedback here :). Whether you find it useful, not useful, you have some VSCode tips? Or anything. I'd love to hear your feedback.
> Japanese

If you want to learn Japanese casually, especially through pop culture like watching anime, I think you can start by proficient Katakana.

Been an English speaker, you have a lot of advantage getting good at it in short time. Been able to regularly recognize them and been able to say some of them will certain boost your confidence in language progression.
>the publishers are both charging more for digital (despite their costs being lower)

The costs associated with printing and distributing a physical book are a much smaller slice of the pie than a lot of people assume. (Back when I looked into this, it was about $2.50 per copy for a hardback as I recall. The author cost for a PoD trade paperback from Amazon is about $5.)

Also, in general, the end-user price for books is generally significantly lower than it used to be. Go back a couple decades and you mostly paid list price for books and paperbacks usually weren't available for a year or so after a book came out in hardcover.
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> Surely C or C++ optimizers won't do this?

When they can prove it doesn't change the semantics on ways that violate the standard I think you will find that they do. Rust doesn't really have it's own optimizer after all, just a repurposed C/C++ one.
Java has closures and has had since node was released.

Same for C++.

Javas functions aren't first class, but only to the extent that there's some syntactic sugar.
Get ready to grind LeetCode.
> Unit tests are for refactoring

I would say that unit tests impede refactoring. If your refactoring changes classes interfaces or API, you are likely to have to change your unit tests as well.

> Code that is easy to unit test tends to be more modular and have better architecture. If you are struggling to test a function

Same goes with documentation. If you can't explain simply what a function does, you may want to rewrite it.
It's like Woody trying to explain to Buzz that he's not a real space ranger... forever.
"having the appearance of control over an apparent illusion?"

Just before Ninakawa passed away the Zen master Ikkyu visited him. “Shall I lead you on?” Ikkyu asked.

Ninakawa replied: “I came here alone and I go alone. What help could you be to me?”

Ikkyu answered: “If you think you really come and go, that is your delusion. Let me show you the path on which there is no coming and going.”
Seconding that recommendation. The clear explanations allowed me to grasp several concepts that I've been trying to understand for decades, for example the "one-electron universe"
I do not think the issues raised here are so simple that you can answer the question without mentioning entropy, which, at first sight, might appear to show that information loss is routine.
It is worth pointing out this article is from June 19, 2015.
My cynical view is that countries can do whatever they want and "freedom" only exists because it happens to be convenient and mutually beneficial (between government and people) for a particular period of time.
But it is. Not all of us are able to make the 200k a year that is required to have financing on a house.

Either the US finds a way to increase median compensation (not average), or it reforms the housing regulations city-by-city so that supply is increased rather than artificially constrained.

And this is just one example of rigging. We haven't even talked about student loans or "criminal justice".
Just checked e-shop - most ovenless induction stoves with 4 zones were 7 kW (two phase). Only small portable 2-zone induction hotplates have 240V plug. Regular induction stoves with 4 zones and integrated oven were ~11 kW (3x16 A).
> Already the BOJ has begun to run out of eligible bonds to buy - or swap really - for reserves at the central bank. Ben Bernanke noted in late 2016 that “…constraints on the availability of JGBs [Japanese Government Bonds] were seen in many quarters as limiting the BOJ’s ability to maintain its easy policies beyond the next year or two.” Japan is very close to purchasing all of the outstanding JGBs - at which point it will not be able to continue its QE program.

Japan has truly been the pioneer here. Its stock market went supernova first. It experienced deflation first. It implemented QE first. At each stage, Japan showed the rest of the world how this descent from free markets into something else works.

Japan was also the first industrialized country to realize the vast potential of direct stock purchases by the central bank. Today, the BOJ is a major shareholder of Japanese stocks:

> The BOJ held over 28 trillion yen ($250 billion) in exchange-traded funds as of the end of March [2019] -- 4.7% of the total market capitalization of the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

> ...

> The BOJ has likely also become the top shareholder in 23 companies, including Nidec, Fanuc and Omron, through its ETF holdings. It was among the top 10 for 49.7% of all Tokyo-listed enterprises at the end of March.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Bank-of-Japan-to-be...

There's always money in the banana stand.
I just checked. ~20% of the hot plate-only stoves with 4+ cooking fields from 2016 or newer consume 8KW+ according to a popular European price comparison site (these are certainly 3-phase). For induction it's about 10%. Almost all of them consume more than 4KW, so should be 2-phase minimum and obviously won't come with a Schuko plug.
Isn't this already done to a great extent through black balling?

SV recruiters blackball candidates/potential employees (often for no reason than petty vindictiveness);

SV incubators/VCs use blackball lists;

even insurance has internal lists in order to assess and deny claims based on nothing other than the "social credit" of the claimant rather than the merits of the claim itself. They even go a step further and insurance will rate/rank a claimant's attorney, so you may have a good claim that gets denied because you have a low ranking attorney, or you may have a weak claim they approve because your attorney is highly ranked (probably has a number of jury verdicts in similar cases).
This will break on February 29 :)
So this compares a new model 3 to a new Camry. But on the principle that most people buy their cars used, I'd be more interested in a breakdown of the ownership cost of buying 1-5 year old vehicles. The purchase price on ICE vehicles goes way down in the first year. Does the same hold for EVs?
> The Basecamp styling is really clear, and it's nice to see the interface on display

Promising. Anyone who seems to take inspiration from Basecamp is worth at least 30 extra seconds consideration in my book.

Basecamp is the company behind Rails and they were IMO one of the driving forces that made Ajax accessible and web application developement enjoyable.

Their UX was (and probably is) good, and their business philosophy flies right in the face of "unicorn or nothing" which means I wish more people would learn from them. Heh, I realize I'm probably not meant to say that here, but based on previous experience I expect it to be tolerated : )

- Signed: a Java (and other languages) developer that is happy for Rails
Introducing literate dotfiles (2018)
No airflow for cooling.
In case of a change, do you send a confirmation email, or the email is the "password"? I guess in many sites it's easy to guess the email of the owner.

Note: I hate emails with tracking.
That hugely depends on what it “vanishes” into.

I’m not a chemist, but reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalaldehyde#Disinfection makes me concerned a bit, as “disinfectant” often means “kills stuff”.
I think that's the point. Most cores don't ever reach advertised boost clocks by default (let alone exceed the boost clocks as was advertised in AMD's commercial explaining PBO). It seems you need to manually overclock via trial and error each core, and even then, you won't get overclocks on all cores.
Type F and E plugs in Europe have the same safety as the UK plug but they are less bulky.

The reason why F and E have similar safety but don't require fuse as UK plugs have is the use of ring circuits in the UK.
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This is literally what the holographic principle addresses... https://youtu.be/B2ksDczJOAs Leonard Susskind has enough accessible vids and lectures to give a conceptual idea of how it works out.
I would reconsider the "Unlimited Emails" offering for the "Ultimate" $100/mo plan. Assuming you're using SES, a customer sending 1,065,000 emails would cost ~$100. All it takes is one person to abuse it before it's costing you big money.

On the surface, "Unlimited" sounds great, but your target market is developers that know the cost of sending emails. This may result in the opposite effect as it signals your model may not be scalable if there's not enough low usage accounts to subsidize the additional costs of sending emails.
As someone who evaluates CRMs pretty much for a living I'm sad to report there's nothing new here. Great UI - Kudos. But, this is way more expensive than Pipedrive whose UI is arguably as user friendly. I think you've got potential here... but you're priced same as close.io with far fewer features and a similar UI.
When I first picked up Unity3D to play with I was very frustrated as well. The more I used it the better of an understanding I got. I am still far from an expert but I was able to make some interesting projects to play around with at home with the Wife and kids. When I hit a hurdle, I often found a solution on YouTube from one of the many tutorial channels out there. One of my favorite is Brackeys[1] - I believe he is sponsored by Unity however he has some quick but detailed videos on creating almost everything.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/Brackeys
> Intel might be hard pressed to catch up to this

We were constantly saying this about AMD until Zen, and Zen is largely credited to Jim Keller. Where did Jim Keller go after Zen? Intel. I'm lowkey afraid that AMD will run out of steam after one or two gens and Intel+Keller will have just finished developing an insane architecture that brings us right back to the pre-Zen era.
Ok, but I'm still pronouncing DEADF007 as "dead foot".
Yeah. Electric kettles are fine instruments in europe while they're infuriating in the US.

That's not always a pure positive though: as kettles work fine I've never seen a thermo pot in europe.
Not to mention the mass genocide of indigenous populations across the whole of the Americas. Amazing how many people 'mentally step' over that, too.

In the context of what happened to the millions of people who lived here prior to colonization, documents like the Declaration of Independence read like delusional toxic propaganda.

Keeping people aware of that context is absolutely important.
Actually, is there?
Japan is also an island, but you don't see anyone trying to make the claim that it's not part of Asia. I wish people would stop conflating Europe and the EU.
That's really sad.
It works in FireFox!
One aspect the article doesn't cover is that since Japans has been doing this for decades they have effective run out the clock on QE.

BOJ has been buying ETFs for so long they are the majority of shareholders in a large percentage of stocks in Japan. I don't think you can do that with swaps so I am pretty sure they had to "print" money to do that.

Additionally I have heard that ECB buys corp bonds. Apple can go over to Europe whenever it wants and sell a couple Billion in debt and it will be bought immediately.

The question is when does it pop?
I understand your point of view but I have a different opinion.

It is ridiculous to expect people to pay the same price for a digital book as the printed version.

The distribution costs are not only a fraction, the business risk in publishing was originally ending up with an obsolete stock of books.

Publishers are profiting as much as Amazon from these new printing presses.

Sounds like an industry with a business model begging for disruption.

Would be awesome if I was able to actually lend out ebooks to friends with a similar restriction as with a physical book.

That's innovation, adding value to the customers experience and securing business survival.
She must be a teacher at Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
SVirt will usually use a per-VM label that should inhibit direct lateral interaction.
Functions can also be generic over references vs. move/copy semantics, e.g.:

fn foo<T>(frob: T) where T: Borrow<Frob> {
// Do something with frob.borrow()
}

Due to monomorpization, foo is specialized for moves/clones when called as foo(frob) where frob is a value type or for borrows when called as foo(&frob). Similarly, you can use Clone, ToOwned or even Into for going in the opposite direction.

Whether such functions are good taste in general is debatable ;).
Of course it is! I never knew of these.

Such a computing lire, gem. I am going to say these first chance I get.
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Sure, I've most recently been trying to debug and patch a kernel driver, but in order to run kgdb (gdb kernel debugger) I have to have a serial connection between 2 machines of the same architecture. Unfortunately not too many modern PCs have serial ports and I've been running through different motherboard connectors and pci cards with no avail. I've had similar hardware issues doing kernel projects and often by the time I get what I've need, I've lost interest in the project.

As far as "proper development environment" goes, I have a bad habit of wanting a perfectionist environment with everything cleanly structured before I start writing serious core. If course this always bores me to death and prevents me from actually getting anything done, as opposed to just immediately starting to hack away
I don't remember name for this logical fallacy but I can think of a simple way of demonstrating, by rephrasing your comment.

Vaccines don't cause autism by Dr. XYZ
>Written by 'XYZ', a long time 'Vaccines Support' party member that has always been very pro-vaccines. So of course he thinks 'Vaccines don't cause autism', because it goes against his long held belief that the 'Vaccines don't cause autism'.

Just because someone has been in a 'idea camp', it doesn't automatically disqualifies their arguments.

I don't really care about the topic, but this type of comment is my pet peeve.

Attack ideas not people.
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