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> The world used gold/silver for its currency for most of human history until 1970 when we entered this period of worldwide fiat currencies. Our current situation is pretty remarkable

Actually, in 1933 the US ended the use of the gold standard, following the UK (well, British Empire) which abandoned it in 1931.

What came to an end in 1970 was the Bretton-Woods system where global currencies were pegged against the dollar. There was political control over the tax rate between 1946 and 1971, but the US was always able to unilaterally end the system. It did so to print money to fund the Vietnam war (sort of).

The peg against the dollar meant america could have $100 of stuff from the UK or France by printing it, whereas we needed to pony up actual goods and services. It wasn't ideal.

The system was also put under pressure by petrodollars. Western purchases of oil were a leak of the currency outside of the Bretton Woods countries. Since Bretton Woods was ultimately about governments being able to regulate their currencies, petrodollars weakened their grasp and created markets which threatened confidence in the system.

The 1980s are where the real issues began, because most countries moved to fractional reserve banking rather than full reserve. The risks this produced in the system caused the 2008 crisis and led to the epic price inflation in housing etc we have seen in the last forty years. QE is an admission of defeat of the system introduced in the 80s, a hope that eventually we can go back to that time. No interest group has been strong enough to properly challenge this system, so it has yet to die.

TL;DR it ain't about gold, it is about banks

Edit: removed errant hyphens in "Bretton Woods".
Much of my graduate research followed closely to Haber’s work, too. His papers allowed me too finally grasp FVM with the “oh, that’s not so complicated” feeling you get from a great teacher. Really great stuff.
Yup, they even remove your app if you have a trademark on the name but not the backdoor connections with Apple. Harder to do that with an actual documented process:

https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/brand-management/clubho...
> Owning a gun isn't the same thing as having it available and ready to stop a crime, which is why that happens so rarely

Which is why if you're serious about using a gun for self defense, you need to carry it on your person or have it at the ready.

> Anything else is horribly unfair to people who pay taxes but can't reliably use guns to protect themselves (ie the elderly or disabled)

A small subset of the population can't do something so no one should be able to?

> There are very few activities which require a firearm to be owned as opposed to rented. Hunters can hunt and marksman can shoot, as long as the weapons are returned as part of a standard rental.

Self defense.

> Guns won't stop the (American) government from asserting its will.

Tell that to Amon Bundy. Tell it to Mexico. In fact, tell it to most of the countries the US has gone to war with over the last 50 years.

> Merely owning a gun won't stop a determined adversary or provide you with a modicum of additional safety unless you've been trained in how to quickly acquire and shoot it.

Which is why you should get training and practice.

> An assault rifle is of almost 0 value in a non-war urban setting, unless you plan to be firing at many targets at a range of 200m+

This is total nonsense that you just made up.

> Statistically, the overwhelming majority of guns end up harming their owner or their owner's family.

That's data from the entire country and largely results from suicides. The need to own varies wildly by location, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, etc.
Yeah, but just picking one of many requirements in game dev and advocating why lang x can do this better than y ignores all the other checkboxes. Yeah, C++ is nerve-wrecking but Rust can be even more. IIRC there was a thread about Zig vs Rust and why Rust is just the wrong tool (for OPs use case in that case). IDK but there is a reason why C++ dominates game dev and a reason why Rust still struggles with mainstream adoption compared to same agers like Go or TS.
I'm not sure what you think I was saying.

All I said was that it is possible to enforce gun laws if the government is well-functioning, which was probably an overstatement.

All I'm trying to say is that if the government is serious about gun control and has control of it's law enforcement (which was a proxy for 'well-functioning', outlaws will not have them)

There are a number of countries that have laws on the books, but does a terrible job of enforcing those rules.

All of this is irrelevant to the discussion of whether the laws should exist or not.

For my needs, Myanmar isn't a country worth discussing in terms of gun control because it's not like the citizenry has a voice in drafting policy and owning small arms has been a way of life there for decades, and does it seem to have resolved their issues with "representation"?
Guns should be freely available with mandatory insurance because they are a massive risk pool.
Great point to bring up. They can play the main card and call it EqualCard® . Sounds much better isn't it?
> That's madness - I can't imagine why they'd do that.

I think your confusion is in assuming that this is something you do rather than it being the status quo that receives no attention.

Up until recently I had about $80k sitting in a HYSA while interest rates on that account dropped like a rock. I only really noticed that after crunching the numbers and figuring out that was much beyond what I would realistically need. It took a few days to figure out what I could do about that given my income and employment situation.

I'm not sure how much of this applies to someone who is natively middle-class, but I find that part of the luxury of having a good income and a minimal lifestyle is just not thinking about money. If that's where your baseline is then you need some other motivation to scrutinize your finances. It comes more easily to me because I find it interesting but I can see someone without that drive just letting cash sit and being satisfied that the number looks big enough.
> crimes in general go down as more people carry firearms legally

Has this been established through natural experiment?
I mostly eat salmon, but I'd love to switch to smaller fish. Does anyone know a good way to get herring or sardines other than canned? Apart from being more expensive due to preparation, even bpa free can liners worry me a bit. Frozen would be ideal.
Inflation is only an issue for you if you have cash (or equivalent) that will devalue or plan to take mortgage that will be expensive if subsequently the inflation falls.

The way the economy progresses these are going to be less and less problems for normal people.
Actually, all money is backed by the available goods and services in an economy. It is a plate that spins itself.
Even more importantly, it discourages even habitual criminals from accessing and using guns. It is certainly possible to obtain black market handguns in the UK, but criminals know that (i) possessing them risks much more severe penalties, and convictions even if evidence of the other crimes they were involved with is inconclusive (ii) the risk of them being shot if not able to shoot someone disturbing their criminal activity first is usually negligible and (iii) more police resources are devoted to rumours of buying guns than rumours of selling drugs or other black market goods. So the average British burglar doesn't own a gun, the black market isn't a huge one and even many gangs that pride themselves on violence mostly or exclusively use less efficient weapons.

Of course, culture also plays a role: the UK never had many handguns or shootings before stricter regulations came in, and when they did gun owners generally complied.
>In Linux hitting a thrash situation will freeze the computer to the point where Ctrl-Alt-F2 will not switch the vterm even when waiting several minutes, and it has to be rebooted.

You can recover system from this state by manually triggering OOM killer using Magic SysRq keys. (Alt+SysRq+F, provided you have SysRq enabled in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq)
My meeting load increased with wfh, what could normally be accomplished by walking by someones desk and chatting for 5 minutes now takes a dedicated meeting for 30 minutes. As it's a dedicated meeting it requires inviting a bunch of optional folks to ensure they feel like they had a voice in a decision/discussion. Finally this all requires scheduling into everyones swiss cheesed calendars.

In a modern tech company with all the wfh and productivity bells and whistles I now watch as my productive days vanish into 6 hours of meetings.
That's not really true even if he is in a sort of BDFL role. There are maintainers who handle most of the day to day decision-making and there's enough money involved you can be pretty sure that Linux would keep on going with or without any single individual.
“price paid in opportunities of their children”

In the article one parent talks about a rumor that the school has three picks for Duke and if you spoke out that you would risk your shot. My graduating class from a public high school in Kansas (less than 100 people) had more than three people offered scholarships to Duke (only one went there because the other two had even better options). Maybe if those are the opportunities the elite school offers they should just find a school that makes their kids competitive instead of pedigreed.

Additionally, the idea that critical race theory is going to take over instead of just being a talking point to gain votes from minorities is nonsense. White elites won’t actually practice what they preach. This irony is even mentioned in the article about how this exclusive school is preaching inclusion. It’s not sustainable behavior. But more to the point, there are vast swaths of this country where CRT isn’t the prevailing viewpoint and is unlikely to gain a foothold. Who did the Democrats elect to heal the wounds of the country after an old white man hurt our reputation? Another old white man. The elites in the country won’t actually lean in to the idea because it would cost them. The only real risk is that people in LA and NYC overplay their hands, become further out of touch with the rest America, and lose some of their cultural dominance. There may be violence on the horizon for America, but CRT isn’t the wedge being driven.
Right but people are arguing about it because it is unnecessary! I bet if an API you use broke backwards compatibility just so it could `color` to `colour` you'd be arguing against it too!
The article should be renamed to:
"Why measuring inflation using the CPI is misleading"

The CPI is designed by the government in order to give it plenty of slack to keep printing money.
Microsoft aims at Google, supports bill to give news leverage over Big Tech
The only meaningful act of protest is to delete your digital accounts
If you don't eat fish, it will just drive down the price and be fed to your cat.
> The whole argument for printing money being OK is dumb. If it's OK to print money to pay for some things why are you not doing it more? Why not make everyone a millionaire?

This is a variant of the "slippery slope" fallacy.

Money is being printed to maintain liquidity, at the cost of inflation, because a liquidity crisis is considered worse than inflation.

Indeed, if you're in the market for a new home, you are paying a huge premium due to asset price inflation. However, this alternative is preferable to the situation where a liquidity crisis causes massive waves of bankruptcies, leaving you without a job to finance a home in the first place.

Your (proto-Austrian?) view of economics has long been disproven empirically, as well as theoretically (monetarism and subsquent). Its only purpose now is to sell gold/silver to people who need an oversimplified economic theory that fits their world view.
It would've provided C99, but these days an operating system needs among other things a proper C++ compiler to support running modern software. Besides, the switch to NetBSD userland also brought build.sh and easy cross-compiling, which was a huge benefit for programmers.

As for the MINIX2 fork I assume it's Minix-vmd. MINIX didn't switch to ELF before the 3.2.0 release, so you either need a toolchain that can output the traditional a.out file format or add ELF support to MINIX2. Not impossible, but probably more work than maintaining a MINIX2 fork for private pleasure warrants.
> On a different note, how do you justify having 50 guns for personal protection?

The point is exactly that the gun debate shouldn't be just about everyday personal protection. In case of a massive conflict it's great to have enough supplies to last years and to hand out to those who need them. You may not be able to just go to a store and get more.
So, if want to help me make fermented cheese like Camembert or Parmesan out of anything else then cowmilk, please get in touch with me. We should be able to use the same bacteria cultures but need an other substrate. Cashew milk is an option but ideally we want something grown locally. It should not just be green but also make people feel secure about food politics.
Rome had a money system based on silver and it was eventually debased. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denarius
Their goal is not six-figure salaries. It's eight-figure salaries, political careers, etc.
> Are modern supercomputers faster than a cluster of consumer-grade GPU cards?

On the top500 list, #1 does 400,000 TFlop/s, #500 does 1000 TFlop/s. How much would the kind of GPU cluster you're thinking of do?

https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2020/11/
Structural Causal Models: Reasoning with Dags
Not anti-racist but anti-capitalist. In Yugoslavia no one could own a business that employs more than 8 people, so all bigger companies were owned by the government, because anti-capitalist. As a result, management of all but micro business was selected not based on ones success and merit, but based on political connections, and in addition to that, there was no competition. The products mostly sucked and companies were performing badly. The economy was mostly surviving on international loans, and when this stopped, as a result, we had enormous inflation in the mid and late 80s. Food became scarce, I remember one time when you could buy only 1kg of sugar per household. Electricity was also scarce and there were periodic blackouts. Under such economic conditions, all it took is few “charismatic” sociopaths to start two bloody wars (the first one being in Croatia and Bosnia between 1991-1995 and the second one in Kosovo 1998-1999).

Again, anti-racism has nothing to do with it, and I am appaled at how you have tried to mark me as a racist.
Dogecoin was created as a joke, but as money Doge is a lot more sound than any fiat currencies out there.

It's not that Doge is a bubble. The bubble is the US Dollar. (insert Doge meme image here)
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LearnEmacsLisp looks pretty good, too, actually.
I don't get why people keep linking this page. How can you "understand" anything from a page which provides no analysis and presents numbers with no caveats? How can I trust that these charts aren't cherry picked?
I had a similar experience coming out of a literature degree. After a break I ended up reading “trash” novels for a while to get back in to things. It didn’t fully work as now all I can seem to read is non-fiction.
Yes, but with a larger cake, it makes sense to have more slices.

There are other reasons that inflation is good too, having to do with sticky wages and recessions. I'm not sure how to work that into the cake analogy though.
This isn’t a fantasy. It’s simply a fact when you have a huge number of people owning guns, implementing a dictatorship is harder. We also have a culture of loving freedom. In HK, you have a formerly free society that was brutally repressed by the authoritarian state. Saying “it will never happen” belies the fact it literally just happened!

I have family that lost everything to communism and had to restart in America. If you have never had to live under authoritarian rule, as a huge portion of civilization had to in the past and still currently do, it’s easy to think a reversion to the mean will never happen. But it can and does!
Ask HN: How do you plan out the head count for a growing tech company?
Nobody's brought up GNU vs Android userspace. This entire discussion has been about the kernel market share, and Android uses the Linux kernel.
"The consumer is completely to blame" is definitely ridiculous.

"As a consumer I have no responsibility in what products I choose to buy" is equally ridiculous.
I'd posit that the more advanced tech is, the more it's likely to not be immortal.

I wouldn't be surprised that while people are still making parts for Stanley steam-powered cars, no one will be making Tesla parts 100 years from now.
This is just made up statistics. Also, a gun doesn’t have to be shown to someone to act as a deterrent.

I’m not saying that I think guns are effective or not, but when I see arguments like this that cherry pick statistics or make up stories to appeal to emotion it makes me suspicious about the validity of the argument.
Haha sure, read some papers about Bert and its successors. Come back and summarize what you have learned. But your comments shows so clearly that your opinion is set and politely you should check out data science and deep learning before you again write such shallow dismissals (which is against the guidelines btw).
I'm using Brave with uBlock Origin.
One of the things Americans are "guilty of" are maybe taking social theories and taking them to the polarizing extremes.

Yes you can still be a capitalist and think that there are issues with extreme concentrations of wealth, monopolies, cartels, etc. Or think that maybe some problems are better dealt with (on average) by a buying consortium instead of individually.

(Of course capitalism is more criticized, it survived. XX century communism crashed and burned)

Same with some gender/sexuality conceptions and together with the "demonization" of those with different opinions (on both sides) - baring actual hate/bigotry naturally. Dividing and conquer ad infinitum
The data analysis and argumentation in this article is pretty broken.

- The decade by decade plot, which is highly influenced by alignment of periods, actually shows a 50% drop in inflation from the 80s to the 90s. Then says that 90s policy mandates made no difference.

- Fitting a linear trend to 100s of years of economic data with diverse data and economic regimes is meaningless wrt shorter-term policy. I guess we should expect -5% interest rate in 2100, because it dropped that fast between 1450 to 1550?

- Similarly, the arguments that COVID or Brexit should simply be blips seems like an outright denial that economic change happens. Wars, epidemics, and trade agreements shape history by reordering which economies are competitive.

I feel the need to say that I'm extremely in favor of spending on COVID relief etc, and I get the frustration that folks use FUD to complicate policy around social support spending until it fails. But the same thing happens around the spending itself. Late in the article the author discusses the way QE has been regressive, disproportionately impacting the rich. What makes anyone so confident that other forms of injecting money into the economy won't get siphoned the same way?

We're getting to a dumb moment in this debate where people are accepting flimsier and flimsier arguments that we should be able to "Just Do It" regarding spending, without consequences. If we're going to do some economically radical things, let's do so with eyes open that we will be headed to uncharted territory.
Printing money is fine since the Fed does it responsibly and uses it to achieve highly beneficial outcomes that aid the economy.

And I don't know who you think is getting "free money". The Fed creates it and then uses it to buy bonds. It then gives most of the excess earnings from those bonds to the US Treasury.

The big question regarding hysterical claims about printing money, etc is: it's been happening for over a decade in multiple large advanced economies, why hasn't there been a disaster? This time is different, right?
.NET 5 further improves upon an already very capable GC:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

Most notably:

> When running with the “Server GC”, a thread per core is involved in collections, and as threads finish their allotted portions of the marking work, they’re now able to “steal” undone work from other threads in order to help the overall collection complete more quickly.
Fwiw, System Settings -> Display has the per-screen scale settings.

My wife got a 4K desktop screen for her FHD laptop a few months ago and it made us switch her system to Plasma's Wayland session. Mixed DPI works fine, also dynamically (i.e. dock/undock).
Are you hoping this thread will catch a few stray vegan food scientists, or did you post in the wrong one?
False claims. There're as many who do and do you know what it does not matter for this discussion because data science and deep learning is a science independently of what some people do or not. This was the point.
Well, I’m only worried that interests go up because “governments have to fund themselves on the market”. This would mean sabotaging the post-COVID (and post Austerity) stimuli by preventing the middle class from accessing sane mortgage financing.

I understand the QE excess needs to be somehow removed from the market, but the proper way should be through increasing upper-percentile taxation. This way competition dynamics are maintained without making the weakest pay for all the admission price
Is Linux kernel support for i386 really that weak? I know they've dropped 486 a few years ago and Debian dropped 586 (but the Linux kernel hasn't) and 686 is definitely still widely used.

Linux only drops support when nobody uses the architecture anymore. And if Intel is using it for ME then there's a big case to be made for keeping it.
> Why even build all those intermittent electricity producers in the first place then?

Cost a new nuclear power plant in the US: $10,000/kW

Cost a combined cycle gas turbine power plant: $1,000/kW

Cost a simple cycle gas turbine power plant: $400/kW
Bulk fill any PDF formular with your excel data
Our organization. It doesn’t make sense to rely on software which grows to consume all available niches. Systemd is a perfect example of this kind of software. I don’t wish to have to ascertain what new features it’s reimplemented, sometimes in ways which are not POSIX compliant, every time there’s an update.
Israeli Semiconductors and the US-China Tech War (2020)
I have a similar approach: I typically have ~60% of net worth invested across index funds and tech growth stocks. But I’ve been building my cash position in recent months mostly via sale of said index funds and growth stocks (I was able to dodge the downturn in tech stocks in recent weeks), but also by simply banking funds that would otherwise have been put directly into equities. Now I’m reluctant to reinvest as I see significant risk in the market short term. I don’t intend to remain on the sidelines.

I’m beginning to question the maxim that “you can’t time the market”... sure, you’re unlikely to time the exact top or bottom, but an approximation can result in significant risk reduction and/or upside.
Can you show me the evidence that Democrats do not support gun ownership?

There’s plenty of talk about restricting specific types, basically based on appearance, of weapons but haven’t seen much suggesting they’d like to ban them or make them completely unavailable as is often suggested by the right.

Libertarians are not leftists and this might surprise you but sometimes political parties do things different from what many of their voters might want. Consider that very large numbers on the left voted for Bernie Sanders and support his policies, but the party had largely avoided taking them up wholeheartedly or at all.