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> What is "massive"? Right now they are talking about $2 trillion, which is about 10% of GDP. Spending 10% of 1 year of income on "maintenance" isn't scary to me.

The Quantitative Easing program from 2008-2014 (6 years duration) injected about $4T into the economy. Today, a similar amount is being injected in just 1 month, albeit by purchasing different assets.

The inflation risk is very real.
settle, that's why people like it
Consider the culinary section...
Wow, I was just about to buy a 3rd generation. I’m really glad they brought back 128gb storage — 64gb is too little and 256gb is overkill for my needs.
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The apples example is bad, because while I can agree that 3 apes and 8 apples exist in a very real sense, I would not agree that Graham's number of apples exists any more than an infinity of apples. Also, I can't have pi apples or i apples.

As for mathematical notions of numbers, there are of course mathematics with all kinds of infinite numbers. You have the transfinite ordinal and cardinal numbers, with the famous 2^Aleph0 = Aleph1 value (2^the number of natural numbers = the number of real numbers). You have infinitesimals as well. These are all just as well defined as the naturals and rationals, and exist just as much.
Thereby devaluing the rest of the money. What that means should be abundantly clear.
It's pretty obvious from any standpoint.

all([True, True] + []) is equivalent to `True and True and ?`. If you replace ? with False then all() will never return True in any case because given any list you can always create an equivalent list by appending [] which would taint the list to always return False on all(). Obviously nobody wants all() to return False on a valid list and the concept of tainting a list is pretty stupid so True is the only option. If you replace ? with True you can add as many empty lists as you like which is the desired behavior.

all([True, True] + [] + [] + []) == True and True and True and True and True
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Apple announces new MacBook Air with improved keyboard, performance, storage
It's more due to the rest of the world having to sell everything to pay their dollar denominated debts, because, during this global economic shutdown, they have no USD coming in.
Been there and learned that lesson! Let's waste future me's time by having them figure out in what way the hardware might be bad.
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Actually I wonder whether Karl Popper is considered very important by philosophers of science. I have had arguments with people who claim that Feyerabend has a better "approach" to science.

On the other hand, practicing scientists consider Popper's falsification one of the great unifying themes guiding scientific research.

Though perhaps not as well-known, Popper's approach towards falsification of probabilistic claims is also a great read.
1. Below is a summary of evidence that UBI reduces employment. The reductions of working hours are substantial, even in studies widely spun as "no change". Below that is also HN debate about it.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2019/basic_income_reduces...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22493537

2. Assuming that the equilibrium point remains at the same price level is difficult. It requires assumptions about the elasticity of demand and the elasticity of supply. Generally, if UBI has disincentivized work, you would expect less work, less supply, and a higher equilibrium price.

3. Under a constant money supply, increased velocity of money does create inflation. This is fairly standard economic theory. Increased hoarding is definitively a decrease in the velocity of money.

4. Fair enough, but it requires you to trust the politicians to pass a tax that impacts only the extremely wealthy. This is not guaranteed or even likely.
> No it won't. What are we gonna do, stop buying from them? We are not their customers to begin with, hospitals' procurement departments are.

You're wrong. We're not living in some capitalist cartoon. Even the greediest CEO doesn't want to be a villain in a lifesaving story like this.
You might find this project more appealing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22573743
That's funny to quote Milton Friedman in 2020 because the monetarist analysis have had zero predictive power since the 80s!
Donation to food banks seems to help the highest critical need people otherwise seeing funds that work with homeless shelters may be a good source to focus on as well.
Exactly, thanks for mentioning this :)
Sure. While technically correct that’s also confusing to anyone who doesn’t know what a terminal was/is, and why it has to be emulated!

The entire terminology is a mess :p
I don't want to call you out personally, but I absolutely hate how servile this attitude is.

Its as if you can't even imagine a world where you get some of these benefits but where your privacy is protected either legally or technically. Both are totally possible, but your lazy attitude about it is part of the problem.

One of these days all this data we've just been casually giving out is going to be used for a pogrom or some other terrible thing and then it will be too late for this facile "the benefits outweigh the costs" bullshit.
You can launch those shells in the old terminal. Or you can launch them in the new Terminal.
Zoom can share an individual window. (Including the PowerPoint one).
I've had a similarly priced full day medical in the UK (with Preventicum) although it included (almost) full body MRI (less annoying than I thought it would be!), ultrasounds of abdominal organs, lung capacity tests, and various such things.

I am very glad I did. While people are often warned away from such things due to the risk of finding things that could cause concern but which are not strictly dangerous, it has hugely put my mind at rest given some health problems I was having. It is also amazing to have full body medical grade MRI scans I can navigate on my computer(!)

I can't think of a huge deal to say about the experience, but I am happy to answer questions if anyone has any.
It’s called the “magic keyboard”, which is the same branding that Apple used on the 16” MacBook Pro to signify that it’s not the butterfly. So I think this should be good
As I recall about The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus concluded that life is fundamentally absurd and meaningless, and "what counts ... is the most living." The absurd man of Camus "enjoys a freedom with regard to common rules." [had to look that up]

So I don't think Camus would necessarily accept family as universally what makes life worth living, if that is what you meant.

To me, the rejection of art, mathematics, fiction, music makes life that much less worth living. Family is one of my essential values, but so are many other things. It is not a competition in any sense.
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"A full-size keyboard designed for iPad Pro brings individual hard keycaps and a scissor mechanism with 1 mm travel for a responsive, comfortable and quiet typing experience."

Seems very similar to the new Pro keyboard!
One such “conflicting report” is CureVac themselves[0]:

> To make it clear again on coronavirus: CureVac has not received from the US government or related entities an offer before, during and since the Task Force meeting in the White House on March 2. CureVac rejects all allegations from press.

Oh sure, the original articles have been updated, but still the myth remains. Funny how that works.

0: https://mobile.twitter.com/CureVacAG/status/1239535638359281...
If you're on a Mac, you can connect an iPad and record its screen (over the lightning cable) from Quicktime
Since most payments are now dematerialized in developed countries, a bank run would cause little issue in practice though.
They're answered this in the past, Windows Terminal has a hard requirement on features only found in the latest versions of windows.

See: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3843#issuecomme...
If no one was printing more of 'em, they'd disintegrate after awhile if heavily used.
First, it's worth remembering that the USD was ostensibly backed by gold up until one generation ago, until the Vietnam War. No kidding. There was some amount of Gold reserve to back dollars, that's why 'Fort Knox' exists. So even the USD was 'just a paper you could trade for gold'! Though really, you couldn't, it was a weird theoretically reality.

Now (and really even then) USD is only as good as the integrity of the US Gov and the Fed. If they crash, USD won't be worth the paper it's printed on. In addition, mechanically, physical currency takes a lot of effort to keep going, and with nobody doing that, well it goes kaput.

Digital currencies rely on various layers of trust: networking, security, legal, financial, regulatory, institutional. If any of those break, we can't use digital currency. Technically, there might be some kind of super cook block-chain that could work without needing the internet, surely, but it's too complicated for regular use as a currency. Maybe for larger transactions between fiefdoms!

But gold and other precious metals would probably be used as s currency until institutional trust could be built back up into institutions so that they could have real fiat currencies.

If knowledge and responsibility were very strongly maintained at the local level, it's entirely possible for regional economies to maintain their own fiats. This requires exceptional knowledge and fiscal/monetary discipline.

If you have a populist, dirtbag leader who can corrupt the integrity of the monetary system, it will destroy everything. This is the source of most hyperinflation scenarios.
> "This is a confusing situation, and no boolean answer we could give would satisfy the principle of least surprise, so we should throw an error."

Common folk tend to disagree about whether zero is an even number. Calculating 0 mod 2 is a confusing situation, and no numeric answer we could give would satisfy the principle of least surprise, so we should throw an error.
Only semi-fixed supplies.

If gold gets too valuable relative to labour, more mountains in South America will be pulled down to extract the gold.

Think of the way hundreds of millions of dollars have been put into bitcoin mining ASICS just because someone saw a return could be pulled out if thin air... Gold mining is pulling a return out of rock when the economic conditions are right.
I've seen up close how medical devices are made. I've also been in a softdrink bottling plant. Based on those experiences I think your chances of acquiring some disease from a softdrink vs acquiring one from a medical device are about equal.
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It's a scissor keyboard, similar to the new MacBook Pro's. Here's a picture of key depth: https://www.apple.com/v/ipad-pro/y/images/overview/ipados_cu...
Google would be better, but I don't think I would accept a solution provided by them. I think it would be prudent to invest in independent systems here.
If you look at the money supply graphs, there is a tremendous amount of money that has been making its way through the world in the last decade. You can probably redefine inflation until you get something that hasn't increased in the last decade but you have to at least say what that is.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MBCURRCIR

(Also saying something 'is going up' is a prediction of the future. You only know that something went up in the past tense).
Any ideas what you could develop with new lidar scanner?
Beware. Silver was $5/ounce for decades.
The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro will be available for purchase in May for $299 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro

Wow. This must be one hell of a keyboard..
This is about the comparison of terrestrial mammal species and marine mammal species, and how many subspecies each one has.

They have to model how the natural and artificial barriers in each environment produce subpopulations that are isolated enough to produce subspecies. And compare the simulations of the models with the data of real mammal species to see if they have similar results. This is not so close to pure math.
While this might be true, in the same decades you could have a handful of skilled machinists teach the robots / AIs. The thing about AI anything is that each individual unit gets better with fleet upgrades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wjhTt9fqYY
If he's trying to protect against inflation in speculative asset prices for some reason then he should invest in some of those assets, not silver, which is uncorrelated.
>Gold is now valuable only as a shared fiction.

While this is true, its important to understand that "all value is subjective" the concept of "inherent value" is a fallacy that distorts ones worldview.

A glass of water has a different value at the oasis vs the dessert.
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I've often wondered about this - I don't know anyone myself in the UK who gets a 'yearly physical'. Even middle class people like this seems to be aimed at. I didn't even do one when I was in the military.

I sort of assumed it was one of those things that people did in the movies as a plot device. Like normal people having a lawyer on retainer so they can say 'call my lawyer'.

Is this something I should be doing? Why's isn't my surgery inviting me to do it if it's beneficial?
And no touchbar! This is a lovely new machine.
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What I don't understand is why the display is not vertically symmetrical. Then the software could eventually be made to allow 180 degree rotation of the interface. This way the device could be used by both left-handed and right-handed people equally.
I think I'd actually rather order delivery than go to a supermarket where everybody touches the same carts and baskets. Do they wash those things down regularly? I sincerely hope so.
You said you thought ray tracing was never used for direct rays and only for indirect days along with asking how the rays have access to the full scene geometry and both questions have been answered thoroughly.
Note that the JSON config files for Windows Terminal and VSCode do accept double-slash comments.

Annoyingly, they don't allow trailing commas, but I suppose it's easier to strip out comments before parsing than it is to customise the JSON parser.
Let them threaten. This is newsworthy when they actually sue. It would also require them to go on the record, with their names and the names of their executives and lawyers on full display. My money would be on that not happening.
For quite some time it was common for workstations to have a bare-bones OS installed on their small hard drives, but for /usr to be mounted via NFS to a large server with a large disk. This also, for a long time, justified the split.
It's a physical limitation of the bag style ventilation, it's not something you could design around by squeezing the bag differently.

For instance, the amount of "back pressure" during exhalation is important when managing ARDS patients. The ambu-bag can only exert pressure when it is being actively squeezed, and you can only squeeze it so far.
The only question I have, and the only question I ask regarding any external keyboard for an iOS device: can I remap caps lock?
I don't think you can "donate" to a for-profit private business without paying taxes...
Hi all!

My name is Tahlia, just wanted to share a little project I recently started (peachypop.co)

PeachyPop is a no code 'ML-driven' daily email that filters the 5 'best' skincare and beauty articles a day (filtered from over 400 blogs).

Trying to drive towards TheHustle kind of vibe, but start with mainly automated content and see where it goes as it grows. Eventually will move to more curated and fresh content.

Does anyone have any tips on how to drive growth? Or even just any general suggestions would be amazing!

Thanks,
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How many of those go all the way through your body?
It's an Apple keyboard, just like the Apple screen stand or the Apple wheels for the Mac Pro
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So why isn‘t BSD (Mac OS not included) as popular as Linux?
Could the wavelength and power of these bulbs be used to sterilize daily objects used in public transport like mobile phones/wallets?

Is there any guidance regarding duration of UVC radiation exposure and sterilization?
I don't think this is correct. Because as you can see the spot price of silver has gone down, the price for silver coins has gone up by more than double the amount the spot price has declined. Meaning, people are buying silver out of fear.

My guess is that this is the product of silver prices being driven by industry much more than gold prices are. We're looking at a supply side decline here which means a decline in demand for the things that go into making other things.

Gold is far less useful industrially than silver.
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Hard to say without knowing the component cost, but I would really like a non backfacing camera (or very cheap back camera) option in the future.

I could see myself having a beefy desktop, this iPad with the keyboard, and my phone. But if you're not into the whole AR-scene, the camera seems redundant as I always have my phone with me.

But I guess there's not enough people like me to justify that model...
I do expect your level of tests/diagnostics for the price mentioned. And the value of finding things to be not concerned about is close to priceless I think. You should try 3d printing one of your own organs just for novelty!
Magic Keyboard = scissor mechanism (what the latest MBP 16" uses).
So why aren't we scrambling to build more hospitals?
That's a meaningless statement. Bigots of the past all felt their personal prejudices were absolutely relevant, and didn't find the discrimination they practiced at all irrelevant or abhorrent.

Society made progress only because people fought against that. They were all accused of fighting against nature, but over time, more people realized those old standards weren't as "natural" as they were once thought to be.

Do you imagine we've reached the pinnacle of human social evolution and tolerance? Perhaps we still have similar lessons to learn, and people of the future will consider our behavior as abhorrent as we consider the 1800s.
Even the current one that's literally just a run-of-the-mill keyboard is £159 (£199 for the bigger iPad!). A plain keyboard should not cost more than the Pencil.
The power density of light is vastly higher than the power density of Wi-Fi almost anywhere. If you can't do it with PV, you definitely can't do it with Wi-Fi.
"Inflation is a quantitative measure of the rate at which the average price level of a basket of selected goods and services in an economy increases over a period of time. It is the constant rise in the general level of prices where a unit of currency buys less than it did in prior periods"

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/inflation.asp

If you think he's using some alternative definition then you'll need to explain how silver protects against it.
> The gold market seems split at the moment: while the price is falling, meaning there are more sellers than buyers, everything I read on Twitter is that physical gold is nearly unobtainable – many banks and refiners have run out of inventory. Apparently there has been a surge in retail demand for gold coins and bars at the same time as the price has been falling.

Remember: if you “own” gold in some portfolio, you don't really own gold, you own an IOU for gold and you have zero guarantee to get your money back if things go bad. And while fiat money is backed by states, there is nobody to back your fiat gold.

(The same reasoning applies if you own bitcoin or any crypto on coinbase or any other exchange).
Loss of taste is caused by loss of smell, is my understanding. That is consistent with the colds that cause significant nasal congestion causing a loss of the ability to smell and therefore taste as well.

I have read that a few of the "common cold" infections are also caused by different species of "corona virus" so this is perhaps not too surprising.
That's mostly true (except as another comment says, the "sell" and "buy" are backwards).

Certainly the central bank can create as much inflation as it wants, by simply printing and distributing more money (which usually takes the form of the central bank buying assets such as bonds with the new money). There's no limit to the ability of the central bank to make the currency valueless.

In the other direction, they can usually increase the value of money (ie, create deflation) by reducing the money supply, but it is possible that at some point the public might simply stop regarding the government's money as being worth anything. The only thing that might stop that is that people would still need government money to pay taxes.
I am thinking masonry/fireplace door installation. Each fireplace needs measured accurately before one can order a Fireplace door. Often times, customers opt to measure themselves. In a previous life, the company I worked for ran into so many issues and so many "rejected" doors that were used for floor/clearance models. Even if the customer did not do the measurement, installers would get it wrong. The measurements necessary for a Fireplace door include up to 12+ distinct measurement. The type of door (zero clearance, etc..) as well as door accessories are heavily dependent on the measurements. Imagine placing an order, waiting 4-8 weeks for it to be built and all to discover that it doesn't fit. Anyone interested in tackling this problem, get a hold of me.
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As of iOS 13.4, yes
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Either I misunderstood the calculations or this is much more expensive than Twilio
Yes! It's a statewide program. There's a specific jughandle at the 78/Turnpike interchange that has a nice patch of flowers every summer. It's funny seeing it amid all the industry and crud of the area.
> I would really like a non backfacing camera

I'm fine with a backfacing camera. I'm not a fan of a camera that protrudes.
The new MacBook Air looks really nice as well. Here's hoping we see a new 13/14" MacBook Pro in the next day or two as well. I want to upgrade from my 15" but I don't want this form factor anymore. 14" in a slightly bigger 13" form factor would be ideal.
Well, it kind of is: "The /bin vs /usr/bin split (and all the others) ...".
Which global crisis you are referring to? It can’t be Climate Change because that isn’t a technology problem it’s a political and economic problem. Is it Covid-19?
You picked an example where the Job includes social interaction, which is a fundamental human need. Let's consider an assembly line worker who fastens the same set of screws over and over again. Do you still come to the same conclusion? Is a dull, repetitive job psychologically harmful over long times?

There are jobs that greatly endanger people's physical health. Mining and construction come to my mind. If automation can make these jobs safer, go for it. For everything else, we will probably end up with a balance between heavy automation and niches where artisans hand craft similar products because they love doing so. It should ideally be a free choice instead if people getting preasured into low skill/low wage/high risk jobs because they need to eat.
It doesn't even have tab support.
And also much easier for someone to create a huge amount of, altering the supply and making the worth less (inflation).

Also curiously enough if that's your criteria cryptocurrencies would be even better.
>Apparently medium scale sheet metal forming operations in the States have all but disappeared - everything is either outsourced to China, or is small scale, high precision work that can't meet demand of more than N hundred pieces a week.

I can personally confirm this. Very unfortunate, and I'm positive it's helping stifle innovation. Having to go to China for your custom sheet metal needs (with the communication difficulties and shipping times involved) can be -really- debilitating.