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The thing he's arguing against is the Chicago/Austrian school of economics, whose response to just about every monetary policy measure is "But inflation!" UBI would cause inflation; raising the minimum wage would cause inflation; worker protections would cause inflation; government borrowing causes inflation.

That kind of economics gained popularity in the 1970s, when inflation caused genuine hardship. It left a kind of economic PTSD -- especially among people who have money, because inflation erodes the value of savings. The response is a trickle-down economics, where the best way to help the poor is to ensure that the rich have lots of money so that they can give poor people jobs.

So the Internet is full of "But inflation!" and often "But hyperinflation!", usually based on an argument from the first two weeks of economics class where you're shown supply and demand curves. But economics classes go past two weeks. There's a lot more to it than that, and the data simply don't support that argument. The fact is that consumer inflation is very low, and has been for a long time, despite intensive intervention from the central banks.

It is more complicated, and there has been inflation -- most notably in the stock market, and to a lesser degree in other assets (including real estate and cryptocurrency). The stock market has inflated to ludicrous levels, not just in tech assets but as a whole. But not at the consumer level, for a variety of reasons -- a lot of things have become cheaper to produce, and despite tax cuts for the wealthy wages haven't gone up. The wealthy don't eat more or live in more houses with that money, so they're not competing all that much for regular consumer goods. They take all that extra money and buy stocks -- trading them to each other rather than actually starting new businesses.

Anyway, that's what he's arguing against. It should shortcut a whole line of knee-jerk "but inflation!" arguments. But it's been true for decades, and this isn't a new observation, so it doesn't really change anything.
> But then old scientist died, and resistance got weaker.

Hum... The old scientists that (very vocally on that case) resisted change were the same that uncovered the problems with the old models and laid out the first theories on how to fix those problems. Those things are way more complex than simple quotes and labels can communicate.

New models got adopted when after a lot of work people created some that worked better. Not a moment before. Those better models didn't get resistance from the established physicists.
I'd imagine Github/Microsoft has extremely strict rules about not taking company resources to, or performing any work at, or accessing any company resources from countries that are embargoed.

This simply wouldn't happen at my company because special permission is needed to take any company assets out of the country. If anyone at my company casually took a company laptop to Iran that would be instant termination. It absolutely astonishes me that a company wouldn't have a policy about taking company resources to foreign countries.
Yep, I have, although funnily enough it turns out that the rage shake feature was the only way to submit a bug report with diagnostics from a client (as of a couple of months ago anyway) and that feature itself was broken for one of my users (who has since churned).

That FAQ is a great start, but it's not sufficient for non-technical users. It's not easily searchable, it doesn't provide screenshots, and it doesn't go into enough detail for each item (e.g. describing what can go wrong + troubleshooting).

Thanks for pointing it out though
An analog would be doordash & restaurants, with the added difficulty being brick and mortar retail often don't have great inventory and cataloging. Most restaurants were already doing take out, so hooking that up to a logistics machine (doordash), was easy. Here you need to go in and get stores to take photos of inventory and track said inventory, THEN hook them up to a logistics machine. doable for sure.

This race-to-the-bottom rhetoric seems like a pessimistic view blocking actual opportunity; as we've seen with any marketplace (e.g., amazon, doordash, walmart, shopify) it's a balance...
Gotta wonder how much aid could have been allocated to Americans if billions upon billions of dollars weren’t sunk into that black hole.
I'm almost certain that Unclack isn't doing any audio-processing magic. It simply knows when you're typing because, you know, keyboard are part of your computer, and mutes when enough keys are pressed in a short enough window of time. It shouldn't use any significant resources at all.
I quite several times over the years, one time as long as 6 months. I go back, ultimately, because I love the flavor.

That said, I would never work as early as 9am if I didn't have to. Caffeine allows me to jumpstart my brain for programming. I need coffee in particular: tea sustains but doesn't jumpstart.

Exercise first thing in the morning can act as a substitute for coffee in getting my brain jumpstarted. While I find it easy to exercise at 6:30-7am in the Summer and Fall, Winter and Spring in southern New England suck. At 6:30am, it's often dark, 10-20F, windy, and damp. It's an area made for depressions. I can't see ever giving up coffee while I live here.

It's important to point out that about every decade you're going to have to adapt your diet and exercise to meet changes in your body. I'm 53 now. When I don't exercise at least 5x/week I start to have sleeping issues. Alcohol affects me more, especially my sleep. Carb bombing happens with a portion of half the amount I could eat 10 years ago. Back to coffee, I have 2 espressos in the morning and, occasionally, one after lunch but never after 2pm. Breaking any of those coffee "rules" causes me hypertension, sleep loss, and/or a sour stomach.

Sorry for the tome. Hopefully some of it is useful.
One time password.

OTPs are big in India. Sent via SMS to your registered phone numbers, it is a popular way to authenticate a transaction or even login to your accounts.
Again, those "selling points" are extremely fringe. Let's not pretend like grandma (and the average phone user) cares about hardware killswitches, DP over USB-C, etc...

Like they say themselves in that very article you posted :

> For people who want these specialized features that no other phone offers, the Librem 5's price is not unreasonable.

Also, specs are obviously not the only thing that matters, but having seen Librem 5 phones run, it's pretty damn obvious they do kind of matter - the thing seems to run quite choppy.
BTW, as of late Tesla isn't at all the big leader over there:

https://eu-evs.com/marketShare
Thanks! So it's a special way to call a function, with the functions arguments being the parts of the given template literal string as split by the template literals and the template literal values themselves?

JS syntactic sugar complexity is getting out of hand.
These logs seem to indicate some level of deep packet inspection. This is way beyond what's required for network management: IP/network level statistics are more than enough for that.

In this case, it's probably used for these "data bundles" the author mentions.
The above is not law. The law is more detailed. This is a FAQ that should be interpreted in a reasonable fashion, not with an extreme use-case.
Ho dear, again? :D
"I would go quite a step further than that. If this was not an unfortunate incident/mistake, then GitHub/Microsoft has become quite the active enforcer of US (legal) foreign policy."

I am not sure if most people realize this, but OFAC compliance is rather rigid with no room for error ('strict liability'). And US treasury enforces it hard. Recently, Amazon got caught in its cross-hairs ( though it managed to get away with a low fine relative to its size ).

I guess what I am saying, according to OFAC, everyone is responsible for enforcing US foreign policy.

edit: Everyone as in US person, person on US soil or someone using US dollar. I really should avoid exaggeration.
When can you expect the second round of $600 stimulus check? Now
Recent podcast on Bio Eats World talks about why it's difficult to build a software company in healthcare

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The sort of thing that multicast was intended to solve, instead of everyone requesting their own stream of the same data. But MC never gained traction even though most ISPs in the UK are now IPv6-enabled.
For many people their smartphone is their only access to internet (and thus bills, emails, and everything else that is more or less essential). The difference between the group of people buying an iphone because they need access to that stuff and the group of people where an iphone is only a distraction machine is a pretty solid proxy for the two groups I'm talking about between those who buy as a luxury vs essential purchase.
I've done this with ffmpeg before. had it "livstreaming" a Playlist of non copyright music. had a small script that would update the image for each song and swap out album art. all running on a cheap Ubuntu server
If that's the case, then the problem isn't Github, but of the organization having Iranian intelligence assets on staff. And the whole idea of the government regulating encryption and it being weaponized is overdone.
There are many problems with mainstream ideas about inflation, but one key problem is that it does not take into account the disastrous decline in the quality of public services that Americans have experienced over the last couple of decades. How do you measure the inflationary impact of the fact that in many cities, the public schools have declined in quality so much that people are faced with the choice of either moving to the suburbs, or paying for private school? What about the impact of the transformation of the built landscape from nice walkable towns to disgusting exurban sprawl?
Last I counted there were 3 or 4 control panels...
Repeating what a few others here have said, but k6 has been a really easy tool to use, with great open source tools, and a managed service with pretty competitive pricing. Creating "real world traffic" is a little more tricky, but you can easily spin up a load test for just about anything in 15min.
Sadly, since January 1st, 2020 Termux team dropped[0] support for Android 5.x/6.x, so actually in F-Droidrepo it now requires minimum Android 7.x:

> Support for Android 5.x.x - 6.x.x is dropped forever. Time to upgrade your devices or learn how to backport git changes.[1]

And this part from Termux devs reply is especially cynical:

> ... Time to upgrade your devices...[1]

It looks like they has a contract with devices manufacturers...

... No, I no need such type of "app improvements in new version" which require me to buy a new device.

FTR, In F-Droid Archive[2] repo there is still Termux v0.75 for Android 5.x/6.x (which I'm using on Ido device), but it is horrible because Termux packages repo for Android 5.x/6.x are now disabled[3] too.

[0] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1516

[1] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1407#issuecommen...

[2] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.termux?repo=arc...

[3] https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/4467
The standard PRBS23 polynomial is X^23 + X^18 + 1. Most of the factors are zero. Only the factors for exp 23,18,1 are 1. This causes poor bit mixing - ie the output sequence will have strong correlation every 23 bits.

Choosing a "fat" primitive polynomial, ie a polynomial not from this list[0] but rather a polynomial with 50% of the taps are 1 (but it still must be primitive[1]), increases the avalanche effect[2] to the optimal 50% probability, ie 50% of the state bits affect the output at each step, instead of just 2 or 3 taps out of 23.

Note: the LFSR sequence length will remain the same, 2^23-1 in either case. It's just that the short-term correlation between bits will be lower.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_polynomial_(field_th...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect
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Also the reason why the government is also slowly phasing out incentives to the electric cars.
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I find myself torn between the sympathy for protecting against patent betrayal with the Apache license, and supporting compatibility with the GNU ecosystem on the other. Difficult to form an opinion regarding what _should_ happen here.
The compute part is the least of your worries, even installing the software is usually not your primary concern - everything is fine as long as you're on the happy path.

Software needs to maintained, patched, backed up, verified etc. It has bugs, security issues, hardware breaks in weird ways. This takes time and skill - ideally you'd need two or three people that are capable of fixing problems with the install. (one ill, one on vacation, one available). This is something that detracts from the actual work you're doing. I'm very much an ops person and I actually like tinkering with a gitlab install - it's just so many moving parts that I prefer not to run this for my company since it would eat a substantial chunk of my time just caring for this.
I'm talking about how, in the transition between housing as a commodity vs housing as a public good there would be loss of value.

And I think people still would want to own houses. There's pride in being a homeowner for many. Knowing you have a place that is yours.

It does scale, because not everyone wants to live here. Some people want to live in nyc or Miami or Houston or Chicago, etc. There's a finite interest in any location.
I suspect you're right. I've got most of the first paragraph covered very well, but definitely could have a more diverse diet, and my physical activity levels vary between something quite decent (walking / cycling to work, alongside other fitness routine) to periods of almost no activity (lockdown + no fitness routine). It could definitely be improved, and I will put a bit of focus on it.
Github shoulders all the responsibility if they get it wrong. They appear to be doing the reasonable thing, up until this could not be resolved through customer support (as the company bears the burden of satisfying github that they are not violating the embargo).
Ignoring the obvious here that your original statement was there are “NO” travel restrictions, your reply is a no true Scotsman fallacy. There are clearly travel restrictions but you, and most other people, are not adhering to them. Just like the majority of lockdown rules. Maybe if people like you had followed the travel restrictions we wouldn’t be in our current position where you’re still arguing that curtailing fundamental freedoms is necessary?

If you don’t get a ticket, does that mean that no speed restrictions exist?
#4 should be #1.
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If one could predict with pinpoint accuracy all the prime numbers approaching infinity with certainty and with trivial resources (without having to test each one for prime-ness), would it have any impact on modern day cryptography?
The part why he fears it is covered in the text below the video.
There are often subsidiaries that offer the same services, except everything is done in the EU, data storage, support, etc. Of course the US still has access because of compromised infra, but at least it's illegal now.
Where in Windows do you have to do that?
The law has a chilling effect on companies, that drives them to do things like this. If a company does something, that they clearly would not have done without a law, it's the fault of the law, even if that law didn't specifically require it, in fact even if that law specifically exempts it.
You’re spot on.

I had 2 ideas to try and overcome the poor inventory system problem::

- at first, SMB would manually input their inventory into the app, kind of like an eBay listing. Eventually, we’d build integrations to common POS.

- alternatively, you could allow consumers to select a category+text box entry of what they’re looking for. When submitted, businesses listed in that category would get pinged. If they have what the customer wants they could click to let them know. Perhaps with 2 way messaging.
So 14 out of the 25 cars sold there? I jest ;-)
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They are also lucky to have cheap electricity from hydro.
I don't understand the idea that a week of headaches is somehow worth it in return for quitting caffeine.

I've cut down my caffeine intake, but frankly I don't see any real benefit in quitting entirely. I take one caffeine pill in the morning and another at noon. It's so much easier and cheaper than drinking coffee (less than $10 for an entire month), and unlike coffee or tea, it doesn't stain my teeth! My sleep seems fine, since I don't take any caffeine later in the day, but the dosage is still sufficient to maintain my "addiction" without withdrawal symptoms.

The only downside is the rare occasion when I forget to take caffeine at noon. This happened once a couple months ago, and it made me feel like complete crap, the equivalent of a bad hangover, until I took caffeine again. The experience reinforced my feeling that quitting "cold turkey" is never worth it. Who has a whole week, or even days to spare to be miserable and unproductive? Should I take a "vacation" for that?

Obviously it would have been preferable to not become addicted to caffeine in the first place. I blame graduate school for that. But given the fact that I am addicted, it seems to be a relatively harmless addiction compared to most others.

I think of caffeine now explicitly as addiction maintenance. I only take it on a schedule and don't use it as an alertness aid. The latter is the dangerous path leading to increased dosages and diminishing returns. I just take a minimum regular dosage to avoid withdrawal symptoms.
I found that data plans that Sri Lanka Telecom offers here[0] with the "zoom package" that he was referring to here[1].
The "zoom package" that he mentioned doesn't seem to be any faster, it just adds additional data to the cap for Microsoft Teams/Zoom/Skype/etc. Their standard plans have also separate data caps for regular and off peak hours. Remember how cell phone plans used to be metered by the minute for talk and you had a different allocation for nights and weekends. Now even cheap prepaid plans in the US offer unlimited talk. When Sri Lankan infrastructure improves and their economy grows plans like this will be a thing of the past.

[0] https://slt.lk/en/broadband/packages

[1] https://slt.lk/en/broadband/data-addons/meet
At a glance I think it would fit although I might be thinking of the bigger ECP5s which are in the same price bracket as some Zynqs
Yet, We are spending more on public schools than virtually any time in American history.
I once read an article that claimed official statistics radically over-estimated how healthy US manufacturing was - because the official statistics considered a factory making CPUs with 16MB cache to have 1000x the output of a factory making CPUs with 16kB cache.
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That sounds reasonable to me. If we're working on decommodification of housing, it makes sense to assist folks during the transition.
Humans are expensive.
That's interesting, although not difficult. The hard part is making it interactive :) Where did you get the non copyright music from?
Having worked on a couple of failed relationships, it’s also ok to be a sole founder. Perhaps the problem is with me, I personally like having 100% control over initial formation of the company.
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I thought this was going to be an app that emits some kind of inverse sound through the laptop speakers to neutralize the keypress sound in real life. I wonder if that's possible.
Yeah I was just using Windows because that's what I was familiar with. I guess on Linux is can vary a lot more on the setup.

So yeah for Octave you need to know what Octave does with the data afterwards. If it's saving a matrix to a PNG say, it could assume the matrix is linear and convert to sRGB which would be a good choice if it also supported say OpenEXR files. However it could also just take the values raw, assuming you'd convert the data to sRGB before saving. Or even allow you to specify the color space in the iCCP chunk, which would give you more power.

Again, what it actually does is something that needs to be looked up.
I agree, it's still got a long way to go. I'm saying it's still a perfectly viable alternative to Slack. Fast, simple, works. (At least this is my perception/impression. I wanted to evaluate Slack alternatives for some time, but haven't got the time for it yet. So I was surprised when I got an invite to one of our client's rocket.chat instance and things worked pretty well.)

I'm in a slack workspace that is constantly notifying me of a thread, but I can't make it read. Maybe it has something to do with the free messages limit. So the message is there, but cannot be accessed. Annoying as hell. I thought about submitting the bug to Slack, but then just let it go, and probably we'll just move to Signal or something.
I've said it before, but googling '$anything reviews' is a tire fire and probably a risky area to be in - I'd think long and hard before even seriously considering launching anything in this space...

Today's hilarity came from a search for "portable hf antenna reviews" - (a pretty niche topic - Ham Radio related) this brought up so much crap even as the first five (or two!) results. It is no surprise that Google is flexing some muscle in this area and people are ending up as collateral damage.
The price elasticity of higher education is 0, and healthcare is also very low. We see my more inflation in things that we're not willing to go without.
Let me simplify it.

The bitcoin ecosystem is a cesspool of ransomware payoffs, international money laundering and speculation. Eliminate 2 of those use cases via financial surveillance and I will be happily surprised if the 3d survives, or if any similarly robust marketplace springs up from the ashes. Because the bitcoin ecosystem is such a mess, it's not worth saving, in my opinion. It's a feature, not a bug, and it gives all alt-moneys a bad reputation.

I don't like dragnet-style financial surveillance, in general. If it bothers you when applied to bitcoin for philosophical reasons, it should bother you more when applied to other alt-moneys with less nefarious uses.
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