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Trolls? Sounds like YOU need to understand what QE is. From Wikipedia...

"Quantitative easing (QE) is a monetary policy whereby a central bank buys government bonds or other financial assets in order to inject money into the economy to expand economic activity."

Sounds pretty inflationary to me. Especially when they buy up illiquid mark to fantasy assets that nobody wants and unloads them on the taxpayer to foot the bill while their buddies get a wad of cash to redeploy, into the stock market as it turns out. How is that not inflationary exactly? Oh, the destruction of those bad assets? Yeah I suppose but the socialization of that across America hides that and what's left is pumped up asset prices that cause the average American to have to work even harder to save up to buy and get worse returns because the fed's buddies got in first and drove prices higher.

Have you happened to look at the price of assets since 2008 vs. the actual recovery of the economy? Have you seen that S&P earnings were flat to down for the past 4 years going into this crisis? Yet what's happened to stocks? That's right they've tripled since 2009. Go look at any piece of real estate now almost anywhere vs. 10-20 years go and tell me there's been no inflation.

I realize it's different everywhere but the idea that we've had "low inflation" over the last 10 years is completely laughable because the calculation removes the highest cost items. The fed has effectively destroyed any price discovery on any assets. It's taken increasingly larger amounts of QE to goose the fake economy. And now for its encore it has overreacted to save their buddies and decided to lower rates to zero and tell the world that it will never let assets fall. How in the world is that not inflationary when you're flooding the market with free money and enabling those at the top to buy up assets and run up prices?

Every single person that works to earn USD and saves USD should be livid and rioting in the streets for the theft that's been, and continues to occur.

Also, your example of Japan isn't apples to apples. The US has the world's reserve currency and can print as much of it as it wants, Japan does not. Japan is a nation of savers so getting them to spend is harder than a US citizen.

We may have short term deflation and that's what the fed is scared of but make no mistake about it what they've done is inflationary as they will well overshoot whatever deflationary impact any failures have. Hell, they've made it clear that's what they're gonna do.
Yes, the shutdowns failed miserably if we thought we were going to eradicate infections.

The government failed badly at communicating this.

So now you have half the people saying the shutdowns were useless (cause the virus still exists) and another half saying they have to continue (cause the virus still exists, also)!

If we had realistically wanted to squash this thing, the examples of other countries suggest we would've needed much more aggressive tracing and isolating of people, widespread early mask distribution and wearing, and more tracking.

I fear that the government also may have failed miserably at taking advantage of them to bring more capacity online. Maybe the minimum stuff like masks and clothes and ventilators are taken care of, but we still seem in a very precarious place.

Voluntary changes in behavior persist, though, which will make things very hard to untangle "effect of shutdown" from "effect of people being cautious about high-risk environments."
Kosmo.io has a poker app where your webcam feed sits at your seat at the table.
Most drug arrests are not of dealers.
Since there will always be sociopaths, we will always need at least some police. Seriously considering disbanding the police, if it means more than renaming and adjusting their responsibilities, is madness.
The American police force seems to be a catch-all for the vast amount of social problems caused by unequal access to healthcare, limited social security and a host of puritan laws that ignore peoples needs. Making drug users criminals despite the massive numbers of them drives up prices and decreases access causing large amounts of crime out of social problems caused by missing social systems. The drug war has also caused a lot of organised crime on an impressive scale and packed out prisons that treat its prisoners appalling badly, falling very much into the punishing end of the spectrum and addressing very little rehabilitation which reduces reoffence.

Combine all that lacking social programs and support with the culture around guns, which a lot of the populace owns, and you have by necessity a very militant police force. America has a lot of social issues which much of the populace does not want to address and the police end up arresting it all and putting them in prison. It impacts the middle classes a lot less and they don't want to pay for it so as a populace they suffer the consequences of those choices in their schools and criminal gangs and subsequently military-like police. There are other ways to do this but I highly doubt America will choose any of them in the coming decade.
we should convert 80% of cops with guns to investigators, and civics officers who teach civics and encourage civility in the communities in which they live. we don’t need that many cops with guns on the street, as there’s very little violent crime relatively speaking.
You're worried about "whatever is the popular opinion of the day" but want to leave that job to voters?

You're talking about censorship as if it's something civil institutions have responsibility for, but private institutions shouldn't be doing?

Your comment is concerned about slippery slopes, but doesn't consider the one we're already skiing down where we discourage institutions from taking responsibility for accuracy?
It wasn't a bad game. Definitely.

That said, they over promised and under delivered on the original, and then had a stand alone expansion (Planetary Annihilation: Titans) that finally filled most of the promises.

I recall that at first they did a bad job of supporting players who had pre-ordered, but eventually walked it back and gave kickstarter supporters the expansion for free and early purchasers large discounts.
>Is there any proof that police having a Humvee makes them more violent or is that an emotional reaction?

The former [1].

>1033 receipts are associated with both an increase in the number of observed police killings in a given year as well as the change in the number of police killings from year to year, controlling for a battery of possible confounding variables including county wealth, racial makeup, civilian drug use, and violent crime.

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/militarization-makes-police-more-v...
Could it be simply because since the bug primarily affected AMD CPUs at the time it would make it easier for everyone if the update was called the “AMD update” as opposed to some cryptic name like “network stack delay loop update”?
The obvious fix would be to make it like tax evasion (illegal) vs. avoidance (rational behaviour with a morally questionable extreme) - viz. to a large degree the line is up for interpretation, coming down to the spirit of the law and the motivation behind what was done.
That's pretty much it, but charts are made with Plotly (R) and then hosted on AWS S3. We embed them in Squarespace code through Amazon Cloudfront to speed things up a bit. There area probably better ways to do this, but we don't know a ton about this so just used the tools we did know about.
I don't think they're advocating for disbanding the department completely (from the article):

> I don’t know yet, though several of us on the council are working on finding out, what it would take to disband the MPD and start fresh with a community-oriented, non-violent public safety and outreach capacity.

It takes a lot of investment in the community, but it works: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crim...
How much you need the police depends on how much capital you have. If you don’t have any the police don’t do much for you.

In a world of increasing inequality fewer people need the police.
3 physical hard drives + 1 external hard drive.

The SSD is partitioned to two, where system and program files are in one, and projects are in a separate partition.

A 1TB HDD attached has two partitions, one to contain photos (organized by year/event), music (genre/artist), etc.

The other partition contains temporary files. Browser downloads, torrent downloads, encoded media files, etc go on here. If I don't bother to move a file elsewhere, it's deleted after 30 days automatically.

A third HDD is for backups. I use idrive 5TB plan for cloud backups, but also use Windows backups just in case.

An external hard drive contains movies, all photos (I have a Nikon DSLR and shoot in raw), and a copy of veracrypt drives I manually backup to).

I occasionally mount a veracrypt drive (16GB) for private keys, financial documents, passport scans, bank statements, etc).
I'm a company director (MD) and I do not spend much time fiddling with my gear. I expect it to simply work and it does. I document my builds/configurations in both my corp wiki and the Arch wiki (stuff that is generic.) On a Fri afternoon I run "yay -Syu" and reboot. I deploy Ubuntu minimal for servers. I document those as well.

My personal systems are not exciting. I login with Active Directory creds and I have an Exchange account for email. I just happen to have multiple CAD apps available and lots of other stuff out of the box. When I update my PCs/laptops the whole lot update and off I trot. I get the occasional bit of breakage but because Arch is rolling it is only a small problem at a time and not a massive total meltdown.

I'm 50 next year - I studied Civ Eng at college. I am a fat ass PHB and sysadmin all in one package. I should also point out that my company is running reasonably happily despite SARS-CoV-2, so I think me and my two partners have done a reasonable job of the PHB thing. We still have all of our 20 employees and expect to come out with a (low n) £n00,000 loss on the books due to a virus. Happily we had >£n00,000 in the bank before hand to deal with unforeseen cash flow snags because we are boring and like to sleep at night.

To summarise: Don't diss Arch (or Gentoo) as a silly ricer distro. If you approach a problem with a true engineer's attitude and an open mind then unlikely solutions can arise. Also, keep some cash under the mattress for a rainy day.
Smarter? Eh, probably.

I dunno though. It's a small enterprise that doesn't do a lot of business even in good times. I'm ok helping them out. It can be my good deed for the decade.
It's the GP that introduced the concept:

> Bare minimum, there's always going to be some demographic ostracized by society, even if that demographic is only, like, murderous cannibals.

I said:

> I would qualify murderous cannibals as dangerous criminals, not weirdos

Nobody used the collocation "murderous criminals" - it sounds silly and would be more or less a tautology.
Anyone can get a reader card at the Library of Congress if they have a photo id and are at least 16 years old. I'm not sure how you access computer files there, though. The reader card has to be obtained in person. With the Library of Congress closed to visitors because of COVID-19, I imagine it's not possible right now.
Yet my meat comes from sustainable near-wild farms that enhance the environ, not a factory farm. Should I have to listen to some loud vegan breathlessly proclaim all omnivores to be vile and lacking in ethics? Everything is a damned grey area.
We include all senators who were in office sometime between Jan 1, 2014-present. Senators are removed as they leave office (and no longer included when calculating the "all senate" index).
"censoring elected officials" is exactly the job of voters, no?
What price does that start at?
> These tenants are often not accepted by landlords because they're thought to cause more issues.

You're ignoring the potential effects on property value.
We need one cop for every nigger, to achieve the critical 2:1 nigger-to-knee ratio.
Peer reviewing is mostly orthogonal to journal publishing. Publishing in a journal generally requires a peer review, but there's no reason why you need a journal publication to get a peer review. Journals largely exist to manage prestige and career advancement in academia.

As for what science lay people can rely on? I'm not sure there's a simple answer to that question.
That's terrible. That means when the COVID-19 lockdown is all said and done, and we find out that many jobs won't be coming back, many of these folks will be underwater on a truck. I say "jobs won't be coming back" because I've heard that many companies are using this lockdown to let go of divisions and employees they've always wanted to let go of, but never got around to doing.
As I have discovered direction and attitude make a huge difference in the understanding and comfort of sarcasm to persons with no familiarity of the concept. If the target of the sarcasm is a third party the communication comes out clearly absurd but both the speaker and listener can understand and appreciate the absurdity together, which is less confusing. If the direction of the sarcasm is something about the listener it can come out as a clever rhetorical hostility that takes getting used to. If the sarcasm is approached with an uplifting tone and positive body language it is much more likely to be take as a joke even if the content of the communication doesn’t immediately parse as a joke and even though the content may be completely disparaging.

What also helps, counter intuitively, is providing multiple sarcastic statements in quick succession. People listen to spoken words at set rate but the nonverbal parts of communication are instantly clear. This allows the listener the opportunity to consider the extended thought in a single context allowing for a richer sample of sarcastic communication to think over.
> Political protests are a threat to the order of this system

The quality of journalism for NPR has gone downhill so much.

A real "protest" is inherently violent. Your are encouraging the state to use it's monopoly of force against you. Your goal is to ensure that others see the state using force needlessly against you. When others see others using violence against you they begin to reconsider the conditions that put you into this situation to begin with.

So using the police as a tool against protesters only proves them right. A protest should never be met with violence, unless you want to encourage more action from protestors.

In other words the police are the wrong tool for the job. The police absolutely should not be involved in protests. This is a great job for social workers.

Riots on the other hand should be met with police action. However, if you have a riot then that means you didn't hear the demands of the people to begin with. If you make it to a full blown riot you have MESSED UP.

The whole philosophy behind protests is really easy to understand. Spend a bit of time reading Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, a little Ghandi and then you start with a lot of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X to understand the philosophies behind American protests.
Because Facebook has already made some decisions on this topic and pretty much all nudity and female nipples are banned.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/01/19/facebook-nudi...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailesman/2012/08/06/faceboo...
If they are a low-margin business, the only way they'll be able to pay up, is if inflation makes money worthless.

A high-margin business with low cash on hand, that's temporarily impacted by COVID is another story - they might be able to pay up later.
Again, it's not that easy to blame "the democrats". The people at the top may go away in reelections when a Republican loses their seat, but the "base" structure, think the cops and their management that has been there for decades, will stay the same - and so will the organizational inertia.

To make it worse, a large part of the blame lies on police unions, e.g. in Minneapolis, whose leaders are hard authoritarian/right-wing and use all powers they have including staging expensive and often successful legal battles to keep "bad apple" cops in the service instead of holding them accountable.
At the lower end of income, pay is definitely better in AU than US. (At higher ends of income, it tends to be the other way around.)

Housing affordability is on the whole a lot worse. The majority of the US population lives in areas with relatively affordable housing. In Australia, the majority of the population lives in areas with low housing affordability. There are a number of contributing factors – US had a big real estate crash in 2008, Australian property prices only experienced modest falls. I think one of the factors behind the more modest crash is that in US most residential mortgages are no-recourse, in Australia full-recourse is the norm, so it is much easier for US homeowners to walk away if their asset is underwater. US foreclosure laws tend to be much more borrower-friendly than Australian laws as well. Differences in population distribution (Australia's population is much more centralised than the US's) is another factor. Yet another factor is that Australia has mortgage interest tax deductions for property investors but not for owner-occupiers (unlike the US where owner-occupiers get mortgage interest deductions) – which I think changes the occupier-vs-investor balance in property ownership in a way which disadvantages the asset-poor majority of the population (while benefiting the asset-rich minority) – and also contributes to the heated Australian property market.
Carthago Delenda Est (Carthage must be destroyed)! Possibly the most famous sentence by Cicero, even if this is the abbreviated form. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est
Anarchists versus the Plague – Malatesta and the Cholera Epidemic of 1884
I do wish there was an I'm not interested in donating option for mailers or a list I could get on to say I'm not interested. One good thing about calls is at least you can get off the list, no option for that I've seen with mailer spam.
I wonder if the model here is missing something important - it assumes there is no survival penalty for a false positive attack. In real life this isn’t true. Activating a fight or flight response in humans and animals has an energy (survival) penalty.
Police try to find and arrest rapists, who would probably go on to rape other people if they weren't in prison.
Lol, as if there are no public cameras, cars don't have dash cams, ATMs and stores don't have cameras, or that citizens have no expectation of privacy from one another
Seconding blackhole, in my experience it works as well as Soundflower worked 5 years ago
Please post a screenshot of the graph you're referring to, because I cannot see this upward trend on the page you linked.

Regardless, your second sentence is true.
Police violence doesn’t happen only in the US. There a few mild places where the police are normally hands off, unless they have to get rough. But those are an exception.

Unless people become tame and “just get along” police have to confront violence, like it or not.

Of course, we can improve policing. They can get trained better, they can learn to deescalate first. But they also need coöperation from the people they police... and that can take time.
Thanks for correcting my similar misimpression.

It’s curious to note that the proposed outer limit of the Oort cloud (3.2 ly) is more than half the distance to the closest star system (4.4 ly) [1] though I’m unclear whether the cloud would be roughly spherical or have some sort of directionality.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri
This is yet another reason in the long list of reasons why rent control is a bad policy.
>Those were all local municipalities, responsive to their electorate - if the surfers in a community wanted Google fiber huts, they could elect councils who would allow them

This is an idealistic line of thinking, but as a practical matter, is completely untrue. Essentially 0% of America understand their county commissioners' stance on ISP competition, myself included. No one campaigns on those things.

It's a lot like saying that electorates are responsible for police violence because sheriffs are elected officials after all.
The impact of this is going to be extremely bi-modal.

Working class people are going to be decimated. No income and the cost deferral cliff.

Middle class (office workers are least) and upper class people will do very well. They still have their jobs and their costs have collapsed.

I am no longer paying for gas, childcare, bussing fees, car insurance, and all manner of other things. I can shop at Costco now that I have more time, saving me even more. Nobody is buying lunch out as we now have tons of saved time to make food ourselves. I used the crisis to squeeze by suppliers of internet and cell phone and whatnot. We now save 40% of our take home pay.

Personally the crisis has been great for me.
>The death rate has massively spiked beginning May 24th

So it's all right for deaths to spike if the hospitals don't expend their resources dealing with it? What are the hospitals for, then?
> It’s like the people who think the moon landing was fake

No. No it really isn't. Faking the moon landing would obviously take absurd amounts of effort. And honestly, the narrative on it is fucked anyways. These conspiracy theorists are really just smelling the stink from the overly confident "of course we did" narrative, which should instead be a "holy shit, the odds were against us and we probably shouldn't have made it."

In terms of faking a death, (I DONT BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED) all he'd really need is:

1. pay/threat the guards

2. turn off cameras

3. get a good enough replacement body

4. pay off any of the people who were doing autopsies or getting a really close interaction

5. photoshop

I don't think this is the most plausible answer, but fuck if I'm going to act like I know it didn't happen.
> Plenty of great people around but you have to be very careful who you rent to...

This goes both ways. You have to be careful who you rent from, too.

Of all the investment opportunities available to people, I'm not particular sympathetic to purchasing property to seek rents.
How do you know this? I think their point remains. Someone who gets a hand out, or wins $, as an example, will probably not appreciate it the same as if someone busted their ass for it.

Also, people often have a short memories when it comes to people that help them out financially. They might remember and appreciate it more if you help them move, or help them learn a craft.
That brings it probably closer to a libertarian position
So for you the key is specialization? I came here to say the opposite, that the blog also fails to mention: the salaries are similarly low or high depending on what country you look at... for every profesion, not specifically programmers.

In some countries you can earn more waiting tables than a programmer in others. Much more than a waiter in others. Do you think PISA scores matter for that? Or that a waiter is three times more productive in rich countries?

The explanation (for general blue collar jobs) that I've read and was convincing enough is the lack of solid industrial jobs. If you can work in a factory for 2, you are not going to accept another same-effort job for 1, or a more challeging job for 2.

Of course in programming hot spots there's plain shortage so it's just an auction.