skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While printing money to the extent MMTs advocate is bad,lack of printing during financial crisis is off the scale bad. It puts a gridlock in the economy as everyone, businesses and and banks aggressively reduce real economic activity in favor of collectively hoarding government paper (money and bonds). As your own link explains:

"Rather than ramping up spending, Bruning increased taxes to reduce the budget deficit. He then implemented wage cuts and spending reductions, an attempt to lower prices. Bruning’s policies were rejected by the Reichstag but the chancellor was backed by President Paul von Hindenburg, who in mid-1930 issued his policies as emergency decrees.

Bruning’s measures failed and only contributed to increased unemployment and public suffering in 1931-32. They also revived government instability and bickering between parties in the Reichstag."

Or from wikipedia:

"From 1930 onwards, President Paul von Hindenburg used emergency powers to back Chancellors Heinrich Brüning, Franz von Papen and General Kurt von Schleicher. The Great Depression, exacerbated by Brüning's policy of deflation, led to a surge in unemployment.[8] In 1933, Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor with the Nazi Party being part of a coalition government."
Not just the consent of representatives, but the very attention of the public.

Housing prices are going up = average citizen is happy, or at least not concerned

Fiscal austerity & inflation = average citizen is alarmed and votes you out of office

So yes, it's essentially a magician's version of the hard choices government has to make.
They don't need to be, because their exist mechanisms to recognize degrees from other countries inside the EU. Remember they are probably getting jobs in Germany or Spain and not "overseas".
You're changing the topic. We're talking about the Friedman and Hayek free market model of the Austrian School.
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I would have thought they would run every part until it died so they know roughly what it's lifespan is. It's good if the parts lifespan is twice as long as you need. However, it's even better if you could make it four times the amount you think you need, as long as it isn't horribly expensive.

I would tend to assume they've thought of that though, and stuck with this part for reasons. Maybe there werent other space-ready alternatives or something.
Legitimately expensing office supplies is scarcely considered "corporate tax avoidance" and not reasonable to call "stealing".

Since the OP was making this direct comparison, and you seem to like fallacies, you can take it that I am calling their argument a slippery slope fallacy.
So you want to buy a farm?
Could you be less vague and specify examples of people and ideas that you are referring to? It's hard to reply to these vague generalizations.

Who are these people that are not arguing for implementing their ideas democraticly?

What undemocratic ideas are they proposing?

What example do you have of something that started democratic but "then before you know it" ended up with oppression and totalitarianism?
Hasn’t the last ~15 years had been an experiment in printing money on the order of trillions (3-7 for wars in the ME, how many more T. for bailouts/QE)?
Look at Bill Gates's house to see how obvious false that thesis is.
I have one without animation but with more colors: http://www.benibela.de/web-apps_en.html?&cmgenerate=true&cmf...
Which ones? So I know to avoid them.
I think if you're using a framework version from 2018, and that framework released a new version in 2019, that framework would add 1 libyear. However, if there hadn't been a new release of that framework, you'd be up-to-date and hence it contributes 0 to your libyear score.

Repeat that calculation for your other dependencies, relative to their latest release date.
Daily reminder that HDCP is a crime against physical layer conventions. It’s an Orwellian theft of data. Those bits on the line are my bits.
I'm sorry, are you trying to claim that the phenomena of overproduction doesn't exist? Do you have any evidence for the claim?

Simply acknowledging an economic phenomena doesn't make someone a soviet communist.
> Unfortunately, like a lot of beautiful macroeconomics, it isn’t a policy prescription.

Nobody who decides the policy will have read the theory anyway, so that doesn't really matter.

It requires a suspension of disbelief to accept that economic policy is decided based on theory. It is the same fig-leaf as copyright supporting artists, then the law clearly being written by groups like Disney based on their own convenience.
> I hope you can find a moment of joy in this ridiculous project

I did enjoy this, not screamed though.
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Has anyone read github's terms of service? Github is the one violating them, not the users.

Yes, github is disabling accounts to people who post youtube-dl. No, this is not in compliance with github's ToS.

github says: “Please note that re-posting the exact same content that was the subject of a takedown notice without following the proper process is a violation of GitHub’s DMCA Policy and Terms of Service." Ref: https://torrentfreak.com/github-warns-users-reposting-youtub...

github's DMCA policy says: "One of the best features of GitHub is the ability for users to "fork" one another's repositories. What does that mean? In essence, it means that users can make a copy of a project on GitHub into their own repositories. As the license or the law allows, users can then make changes to that fork to either push back to the main project or just keep as their own variation of a project. Each of these copies is a "fork" of the original repository, which in turn may also be called the "parent" of the fork.

GitHub will not automatically disable forks when disabling a parent repository. This is because forks belong to different users, may have been altered in significant ways, and may be licensed or used in a different way that is protected by the fair-use doctrine. GitHub does not conduct any independent investigation into forks. We expect copyright owners to conduct that investigation and, if they believe that the forks are also infringing, expressly include forks in their takedown notice." Ref: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

youtube-dl doesn't fall under any of the restrictions in github's ToS either. ref: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

I have very little sympathy for github here. They ought to follow the DMCA process. Per the DMCA process, I can't dispute the takedown of the main Youtube-dl repo, since I'm not a party to the process. If I post youtube-dl to github, it should stay up, pending a DMCA notice from RIAA. If such a notice is sent, I should then have the right to then dispute that.
And the cool thing is that thanks to borrowing and traits like Deref and Display, most of these types have a zero-cost common denominator in `&str` or `&[u8]` which makes them reasonably interoperable.
> GObject keeps working flawlessly, but it is too arcane to newcomers (which are already few because of C itself becoming an arcane art these days)

I keep looking for a good excuse to learn Vala. Maybe this is it.
I believe ones with 'hdcp bypass' are the ones you should stay away from https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...
Where are you finding these $2 n95 masks in stock?

I have been unable to purchase them from Home Depot or Lowes.

The most recent price I have seen is $5 per mask in a twenty pack.

The highest I have seen so far this year, was $18 per mask.
Sales tax is extreme regressive, more than UBI can handle. Unless you are proposing a 50% sales tax and a progressive UBI?
Yes, VAT is tax on revenue of the entire supply chain as a whole (not individual companies), so long as it is within a group of countries using VAT.

But it didn't look to me like that's what the GP comment meant. I assumed they meant tax on revenue taken by each company. No need to account for expenses...

I'd hoped that would be obvious from my comment, but if not I hope I've clarified that now.

ps. It looks like other commenters here are confused about this language, and arguing over the semantics of what "tax on revenue" means.

VAT doesn't solve all tax fairness problems unfortunately, which is a shame because it's a fairly well administered system, and good at catching fraud.

There are good reasons why VAT is not the only tax on businesses. One of those reasons is that immediate revenue and expenses are a poor model of many business accounts. Accountants use more sophisticated models (there are professional standards they have to adhere to), and despite their quirks and loopholes, these are generally better, fairer, more representative models of the state and value of a business and the money flowing through it, and as a result, for most "ordinary" businesses (i.e. not international corps gaming the system heavily), that ends up making taxation fairer.

Someone mentioned using a higher rate for higher revenue. That suggests an example where the better models which incorporate time and stored value results in fairer, more appropriate taxation. If you have a higher sustained revenue, year on year, it makes sense to use the higher rate if that's the policy. But if you make zero in year $X and twice your normal in year $X+1, then back to normal in years $X+2..., all just because you had a big customer pay late for the first year, fairness says you ought to end up paying the appropriate tax rate for your steady normal in the long run, not twice as much tax thanks to your late-paying customer!

The accountants' model handles that just fine, as it says you earned the money fair and square in year $X even though you didn't get paid that year. And that's generally better for limiting tax avoidance too, because it reduces the ways in which co-operating companies can game the system by timing their payments to each other to cheat. (VAT doesn't show this problem because it's a fixed percentage, but it occurs with progressive taxes, meaning variable percentage.)
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That second link is interesting and perhaps needs to be updated given that it says:

> Please be aware to renew your patent before this date is reached, or else your patent will become expired. 14 Sep 2020

(and earlier dates for the other 2 patents). Following the link to the MPEG LA site, though, indicates that they believe the Malaysian patents are still valid as of October 2020.

https://www.mpegla.com/programs/mpeg-2/patent-list/
I owned a LaserJet 4L in about 1994 and, yes, it was amazing. It was also about $550 in 1994 dollars, or something like $900 now. That was the smallest LJ model, targeted at individuals and home offices, and one of the least expensive printers on the market other than dot matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slor0f3LJIU

I don’t think I’ve spent a total of $900 on printers since then.

If one is willing to use a laser instead of an ink jet, quality still exists. I have a Brother MFC-L2750DW now (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1371537-REG/brother_m...). It’s wonderful and works flawlessly, including duplex scanning to macOS. It’s a far better price:quality mix than the LJ 4 was. It was $250, though, not $50, and as an inexpensive laser, it only prints in monochrome. If one is willing to spend $200+ and accept monochrome, good printers still exist. Today’s $900 printer will shine your shoes.
FIFO is much more ethical in this case, than to substantially raise the prices and then wait for those with a lot of money and reject the people who can not afford it...
Steve knew how powerful and essential networking was to the compute paradigm we accept.

Be’s TCP stack was never very good. It never had big money applications like Frame or Illustrator, and lacked the robust dev platform (and paying customers) that Next had.
My CI/CD workers that run a few hundred jobs per hour?
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That’s exactly Taleb’s point, both in this instance and in every book Taleb has written. Those bombshells should have been included in the model. Fat tail risks. If the modeling doesn’t include the potential for dramatic unknowns that can DO happen, then the model is no good. In the Clinton/Trump election, Trump is a showman and a name caller focused on ratings, Clinton a career politician with accusations of dirt, the model should expect “big things can still happen today, tomorrow, next week” and the absence if big events yesterday or last election holds little value relative to the probability of a big event happening in the next 24 hours.

Edit- I’m getting downvoted im guessing because I said Clinton has lots of dirt and called Trump obsessive, I’ve revised the comment to be less politically accusative. I’m not concerned with the politics, just interested in the obsession with these “predictions”
There are limitations to which keyboard shortcuts are available to an application running in a terminal. And those limitations often vary per terminal.

In other word: It ain't that easy.
I though the Weimar Republic's hyperinflation wasn't simply because the country printed her own currency; the more specific problem was that they then used that printed currency to pay back war reparations from other countries. Because the money is only going out of the nation's borders and isn't used to grow its own economy, the currency of the nation is devalued and international exchange rates fall, leading to a catastrophic amount of inflation.

One thing I heard Stephanie Kelton and other MMTers has always emphasized about MMT is that the main question of the theory isn't "Should we print the money?", but "HOW should we use the printed money?" The money-printing is already conceptually independent from yearly budgets; the big question is how we're going to use that money so that uncontrollable inflation does not occur (which the Keynesians failed to answer with stagflation). If the newly printed money improves the strength of the "actually existing" national economy, then its currency will become competitive with others and a hyperinflation moment like Weimar would probably not happen.
Here's an anecdotal experience:

1. I live in the UK, in a town 25 minutes by train from central London. The best broadband I can get is ~45Mb, and the best I've seen in the rest of the town is ~120Mb, provided by Virgin Broadband (which, for one reason or another, can't provide that service at my home).

2. I'm currently visiting my family in Croatia, and they've recently got a fibre connection; I just measured 527Mb [0]

[0] https://www.speedtest.net/result/10356498903
At least in the case of sand you can give examples of numbers of grains that don't constitute a heap, and numbers that do. And numbers smaller than the former will be non-heaps and numbers larger than the latter will be heaps.

For natural numbers, the lawyers seem unable to do even that. Sure, they might want to name some of the "illegal primes" mentioned in this thread as examples, but what will they say about those numbers +1? They're gonna paint themselves into a corner of ridiculousness nomatter what.
> Capitalism can't survive without growth by definition

Capitalism prefers growth. It causes growth, which is good. (Growth does not have to mean resource intensity.)

It does not require growth. Zero-grow and shrinking economies can allocate resources well through markets.
Kraken Suspicious Behaviour
A few days ago I received an email from kraken support: apparently my account had been flagged.
They were asking me to reply to the email with a picture of me holding my government issued id + a handwritten note with a specific sentence.

My first concern was that they were not asking me to upload the documents via their platform but rather using email.

I replied and then they "put in place a workaround" for me to upload the picture. Ok, so far it may seem odd but legit from kraken.com

After doing so I received another message, this time they want me to read this two links:
- https://blog.kraken.com/post/3592/beware-of-the-crypto-confidence-man/
- https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/201396837-Securing-your-Kraken-account-and-digital-life

and reply to their message with the following text:
"I hereby confirm that I have read and understood the advice given in the Beware of the Crypto Confidence Man article. I also confirm that I have secured my Kraken account to my satisfaction."

A few days ago this came to my attention: https://decrypt.co/37063/bitcoin-wallet-ledgers-database-hacked-for-1-million-emails

So, alarms are ringing in my head and I came here looking for advise and/or to see if someone else has experience on the subject.

PS - I created a new account to avoid exposing any information about myself.
New insight into how brain neurons influence choices
Any HDMI splitter. The "Content Protection" encryption on the wire for the digital video doesn't allow the stream to be split; to do so requires stripping off the encryption in a way not licensed by the industry consortium.
Scipio has seen some action on HN before in "C++ vs Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444347
I moved off of Docker Hub because of the number of unfixed bugs and lack of features. Builds sporadically failed for years, they took forever to add any kind of MFA at all.

Docker also has been a business since day 1. They didn’t write open source software because it was a “nice thing”, they saw a market for an open source container solution. I’m thus not worried that using non-Docker-operated registries will impact the future prospects of open source.
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Unlimited & uncapped, yes.

Excellent, doesn't match my experience. I'm not sure if I've been too rural or not rural enough.
> if the government prints money to build infrastructure, where does the value they've added come from?

From the labour of the worker. Notice that does not depend on where the money comes from in the first place. In our economic models, value always come from human labour (or capital, which is crystallized labour).

But of course those models are lacking, crucially they implicitly consider natural ressources as infinite, a fine assumption to make in the 19th century but is now quite ludicrous.
Revolut recently launched in the US
Sweden has the same regulation but we got widespread fiber anyway
> suspension of disbelief to accept that economic policy is decided based on theory

Not decided on. But influenced by. Or at least, who gets to be influential is influenced by it.

MMT’s political bullet point of “deficits don’t matter so spend like crazy” empowers a unique set of policies. So those actors push it so voters will accept the cost of their goodies.

> the same fig-leaf as copyright supporting artists, then the law clearly being written by groups like Disney

Disney helped draft the Constitution?
You may have had your gpu_mem setting too low. As I recall the default values were problematic on the 4. Even I had a problem initially, and I have one of the models with 4GB. These days the image libreelec provides should work fine (at least that's what I'm using without any problems).
They're separable by experimental verification. The laws of physics are multiple orders of magnitude more accurate than the laws of economics, and the physicists are certain that at least one of their models is wrong.

Try getting an admission like that out of an economist!
Out of curiosity, what kind of disability tools?
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That seems like a conveniently contrived example.

Why, in this example, would only 1 instance of the monolith go down but all instances of the crucial microservice go down?
No, the tax system is complex because businesses are synthetic entities that can be arbitrarily complex. This is because corporations are allowed to exist unchecked since the 19th century. Return to the original intention of corporations, that they must be chartered and regulated in order to preserve their exemption from human individual law, and most of the problem goes away.
For those who don’t know about these demos:

- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63 (PC; page has link to source code)

- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1216 (C64)
> Numbers in real life — the domain of the legal system — tend to be either for counting or measuring.

What does "in real life" mean? You and your brain presumably exist in real life. If you brain can construct any natural number, then do they not exist just as much as the ones that happen to appear as counts of rice or the price of beer?
You write the body of the function that takes t, i, x, and y as inputs for each dot. A return value of 1 or "1" or true and it shows a large white dot. A return value of 0 or false, and it shows nothing. A return value of -1 or "-1" and it shows a large red dot. Positive fractions is a smaller white dot, negative fractions is a smaller red dot.

https://tixy.land/?code=i%2F256

https://tixy.land/?code=x%21%3D5+%26%26+y+%21%3D+7

https://tixy.land/?code=x%2F32%2By%2F32

https://tixy.land/?code=Math.sin%28t%29

https://tixy.land/?code=Math.sin%28t%2Bx%29

https://tixy.land/?code=Math.sin%28t%2By%29

https://tixy.land/?code=Math.sin%28t%2Bi%29
I would rather open it in editor, strike a "reformat all" shortcut, and have the file right there.

I don't want to chase separate tools that can format different text files, that's what editors are for.