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So what happens when your currency is no longer a reserve currency? After all, currencies don't exist in a vacuum.

Are you not then highly constrained in your currency creation ability? I would think there might be disastrous implications for foreign trade, upon which the U.S. economy is extremely dependent.

Additionally, does this not imply a significant shift in private property rights (possibly to the degree of being unconstitutional)? MMT seems to imply near complete control of the economy of by a central authority.

Is there not a major problem with the timing and syncing of inflation (money creation) and deflation (via taxation)? The velocity of transactions and thus the velocity of inflation seems to be far, far greater than the velocity of tax transactions. What's more, our ability to measure inflation is very slow, incomplete, and politicized. There is also no consensus on how to do it. For evidence of this, just go look at the different published inflation numbers and dig into what does and does not get included and the measurement methodologies.

> So I recently had a realization that the money the government spends has absolutely no relation to the money the government receives

This might be true in the short run, or even over one lifetime that started in in the 1940s, but it may not true in the long run. Ray Dalio has some interesting thoughts on short and long term debt cycles and their relation to money.
> What "entrepreneurial risk" are they taking there

If there was no entrepreneurial risk, why wouldn't Amazon just use it's AI to predetermine all the successful combinations of product+supplier+customers ? There would be zero reason for Amazon to allow third party sellers, except for very niche areas. This is a very predatory practice and I'm amazed they're allowed to do it.
>Anti-trust laws were slowly defanged for decades until the main metric considered was 'will consumers see lower prices?'

That seems like the correct metric to use, no? The other definition didn't make much sense either.

>GOLDSTEIN: 1966, United States v. Von's Grocery - can two local grocery store chains merge in Los Angeles?

>MALONE: I don't know, merger?

>GOLDSTEIN: OK, but after the merger, they'd only have 7.5 percent of the local market.

>MALONE: Supreme Court was like, no. No, you can't do it. It would be too hard on mom-and-pop shops.

>GOLDSTEIN: OK, 1967, Utah Pie v. Continental Baking - can big national frozen pie companies sell really cheap pies in Utah and make business tough for a local pie company?

>MALONE: No way.

>GOLDSTEIN: OK, but what if the local pie company controls most of the local market and keeps making a profit through most of the price war?

>MALONE: Still no, nope.

>GOLDSTEIN: So in case after case, the court kept ruling for the little guy, kept ruling for team David, and expanding the definition of what was illegal, what was bad for competition.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/696337392

>which is very easy to promise and temporarily deliver for the merging corporations. Then you just start rachetting up prices once you're a year or so out because unwinding a merger is tough.

But amazon didn't get here by a series of mergers?
I admit this is an extreme case but perhaps we should also examine the opposite scenario that is all too common. Let's say Harold is Gavin's colleague. Harold works the full 8 hours he is at the office, he believes strongly in "flow" so he doesn't interrupt his day with pointless activities like getting up to stretch or taking coffee breaks, he just brings a thermos to his desk and stays fully caffeinated that way. He finds it hard to "turn off" after work so he often spends time thinking about the next tasks he has to do and maybe puts in hours after work as well. At this point pretty much any developer can see where this is going, they know what Harold looks like, maybe they even were Harold at some point. Both Gavin and Harold are heading towards a blow up at some point. Neither of them are going to work out well for their employer in the end. I do think that Gavin is closer to the correct answer though, he's built in a lot of room in his estimates where if something does go sideways he has the ability to correct it and stay within the allotted time. If Harold mis-estimates something he will be working overtime or missing deadlines, perhaps both. Gavin should be working closer to 2/3 time than 1/3, depending on the overall accuracy of his and his boss's initial estimates of course.
A vasectomy does not inhibit testosterone production and the hormones in existing birth control have been shown to cause blood clots, migraines and other serious issues for women taking them.

Condoms require proper use every time and are not as effective as other methods.
> So I recently had a realization that the money the US government spends has absolutely no relation to the money the government receives

You're correct.

As a matter of fact, it has gotten to the point where I believe the US could do away with taxes entirely and borrow the entire budget ... it wouldn't make much of a difference.
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Yeah I physically cringed when I heard this, idk if I'd ever be able to make myself do it. Just stick to condoms.
Windows 7 was basically Vista with a few service packs, and Vista wasn't really that bad. Once the rough edges were off and it was renamed "Windows 7" it was liked well enough.
This is mostly wrong. Weimar Germany for example was actually doing well economically before they decided to print huge amounts of money for their foreign policy and that was for foreign policy reasons.

In 2009 inflation actually collapsed for example and that was a supply side collapse far bigger then this year.

> The fed has been "helicoptering" money for years

They have also enacted major counter measures and the pure amount is no longer really a good description of policy. Around 2009 or 2010 they started paying interest on reserves. The CB has a number of tools.
My point is that the argument can't be made more convincing if the argument isn't allowed. Even if the information all points in one direction, and at this point it more or less does, I see it being presented in a way where any questioning or dissent is actively ridiculed or repressed. This naturally causes suspicion.

Instead of presenting the vaccine information as a flood of not to be questioned, yet well meaning, propaganda I'd prefer an open and honest dialogue that meets an individual where they're at.
The spike in energy and commodity costs has way more to do with supply side dynamics. Upstream suppliers have been hesitant to add capacity because they can’t tell if the spike in demand is sustainable or just a snapback post-lockdown. And OPEC in particular is pressing their advantage when no bank wants to fund frackers that have over invested and then wiped out 3 or 4 times now. We are seeing this in many industries. Inflation hawks/ideologues have called 15 out of the past 0 hyperinflationary cycles and this one will be no different.
unless of course they are all equally bad :)
It's the same diagnostic but the cause if different. Raising the interest rate to lower the inflation has a big impact in unemployment and in the whole economy. If the fed thinks the inflation is caused by a temporary supply shortage, then I agree that there's no need to mess with the interest rate. More unemployment now might be worse than a bit of inflation for one or two years.
That movement was so bad, now it is really hard to find any products that doesn't contain vegetable fats. Vegetable fats in fast food cooking often contains trans fats which are much worse for you. Even McDonalds and similar used to have animal fats in their products, but now its just vegetable fats everywhere.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-16-fo-688-st...

https://www.retailwire.com/discussion/mcdonalds-getting-frie...
There are different win for both the approach. I train models on spot VMs which could take more than 24 hours. I set the price to be higher than reserved and there is very slim chance that training could be stopped and I get 80% saving on average. I don't want to spend time writing the complex logic to resume training after spot instance dies.

For services though, GCP pre-emptible instances are perfect combo for kubernetes.
Touche,

however I'm not sure if 8.1 really bucks the trend, Wikipedia says reception was negative/mixed.
How does this compare to other platforms such as Windows or Mac?
There really is not much left to juice in the business of getting detergent from Procter and Gamble to an end user.

Possibly, but P&G is big enough to have all its own in house production. One place this CAN really hit is any smaller market or company that's using contract manufacturing for smaller lots. In that area the information Amazon can get is actually better than any of the brands or sellers get because Amazon gets sales info across multiple brands /sellers.
I think its to gain leverage on internal discussions and meetings. If you generate revenue, you are the defacto master of the product.

S/he who pays the bill will have his will.

The rolling release can not hide that Windows had internal architecture rot driven by those who paid the bills (add-tech & stasi-spy-department).
For Broadcom/LSI raid controllers, we were told 52 week lead time. Broadcom is definitely having issues
I think what's going on is slightly different and adds value to the conversion - as far as I've seen the speaker is acknowledging an objective truth about something that has historically or otherwise been seen more subjectively. The classic example would probably be people feeling depressed or something and being told that's valid, because often people feel that they shouldn't feel that way. Basically someone saying "hey stop acting like that isn't a true/normal thing because it is".

On the flip side I can definitely see how someone would look at that and say "Well I subjectively don't agree with what you think is objective" - I don't really see a way around that. Ultimately we're all subjects and can't access objectivity directly so all communication is going to be subjective to some extent. One person might think it's "valid" to murder someone if it's legal in their situation, while someone else might think that's never a "valid" option, and both could be correct if one is talking about legality and the other is talking about morality
It does say that the baby's and the mother's health could be in danger, but where does it say it's often life threatening?

Never heard about an IUD failing at all so thanks for the link anyhow
As a data point, I'm not personally aware of Cronofy in any way. It's not a name that rings any bells to me.

Though I very much agree with your sentiment about the dumb crap the UK has pulled, and the trajectory its on.
Americans buy a new phone every 24 weeks though, so an annual release schedule makes sense even if they don't buy every year.
Win11 does look rushed. They want TPM2.0 and to move the CPU requirements up about 7 years (which puts more than half of my computers and several family members into EOL with respect to windows). The UI looks like some steps forward and many backwards. I am also thinking this sort of cutting out older harder in this way will make many people re-think if they need a computer or something like an ipad.

I think I might upgrade one VM and see. Then leave most of my computers alone for now. It will take them a bit to shake out the quirks on this. It took them about 2 cycles to get win10 into a usable state. Which is fairly typical of them 'wait until service pack 2'.
And tksh (shell with tk builtins), which made (makes, if you take the trouble to install it now) it trivial to add a simple GUI to an existing shell script.
> Confidence can be ... enforced.

Not at the scale of a planet, especially when the US is neither the economic nor the military powerhouse it once was.
> I forgot to migrate the bounce list from the old domain to the new domain (and, less important numbers-wise but still important: the spam list).

Thank you! Something I would have forgotten as well and probably will not anymore
It's because of two things: OEMs wanted Microsoft to help them sell some new devices (minimum requirements for Windows haven't been raised for the most part for 13 years. If your machine could run Windows 7, Windows 10 worked fine), and because the cancelled Windows 10X project (because every time Microsoft claims they've figured out how to compartmentalize Win32 apps they kill it internally) had a brand new sparkly interface that could be backported without a ton of extra work.
> The general public should think more critically and reflect on why they allowed motivated economic experts to tell them blatant (and not just in hindsight) lies about the consequences of running the money printer.

The reality of not taking action has consequences. The opening of the money floodgates in the 80s blunted the pain of the late 60s and 70s. The war economy of 2002- likewise dulled the lows.
You don't know how fractional reserve banking works? It's quite simple. An exchange, or any institution that takes bitcoin deposits, can take a fraction of the deposited bitcoins and lend them out, so far as the depositors don't withdraw all the bitcoin deposits at the same time. As soon as this happens, the amount of bitcoins in circulation goes up by the loaned amount.
Power and control.

Females have a wide range of birth control options, all highly effective. However, they are all entirely under the woman's control. They can stop birth control without the man even knowing about it.

This isn't some conspiracy theory, either. Women do show up to gynecologists to ask them to remove their IUDs with the explicit intent to have a child regardless of their partner's wishes. This is not considered rape.

Male contraception eliminates this problem. Men are now in direct control of whether their sperm is able to fertilize. Just like women are currently in control of whether they ovulate.
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Depressed People See the World More Realistically
Always loved butter and hated margarine. I often used to gross people out with how much butter I'd put on potatoes or bread to the point where I'd only use the amount I wanted to in private. It's great today to know that I was right to like it.
Because the US Dollar is the predominant world reserve currency, and has continued to be through several significant shocks to the system. In 2008 it looked like the EU had a chance to significantly adjust that balance in favor of the Euro, but the EU went down the austerity path in handling member states problems, which slowed their recovery, and made the US Dollar still the least bad option on the table.

Because of this dynamic, the rules end up being different for countries like the US. I wish more economic research went into this end of things to try to study the boundaries and nuances of this altered reality. But, instead we're still stuck interacting with the world mostly through the lens of neoclassical models. Which, if I'm being frank, are basically to economics what the lobotomy was to neurology.
"Any type with a countable number of inhabitants is isomorphic to the integers" --> I assume you mean "countable" in the sense of "countably infinite." Clearly the finite types can't be put into correspondence with the integers.

I agree that viewing the types just in terms of their cardinality isn't terribly insightful. But I do think it's helpful to realize that arrays aren't some other kind of thing that's separate from ADTs, and that you can bring the same algebraic reasoning tools to bear on arrays (and other pedestrian data types).
USD still dominates foreign exchange reserves:

https://data.imf.org/?sk=E6A5F467-C14B-4AA8-9F6D-5A09EC4E62A...
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18 months is a long time. I’m ok with plans changing to find something that works. But again, I understand that a lot of people crave the single right answer from the start.
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Paul Graham, one of the founders of YCombinator, researched LISP when he was in grad school. He sold a startup to Yahoo that was based on software he wrote in LISP, he thought LISP was a competitive advantage (although Yahoo rewrote the product in another language!)

Graham wrote his own dialect of LISP called "arc", and I understand the Hacker News software is written in arc.

So HN has a direct line to LISP culturally.
Color me shocked. Our public forums, and markets take place on privately owned platforms like Facebook and Amazon. What’s next, Google prioritizing its own properties in search results?

The answer isn’t more legislation, it’s an open source ecosystem that will gradually disrupt the closed gardens the same way the Web disrupted AOL and Compuserve and Prodigy and MSN. It wasn’t much different from Facebook and LinkedIn back in the day. Give people a way to run their own store AND make an app (such as a browser) that can search across all of them and compare, and Amazon go bye bye. More info:

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/
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I also struggle with this. My attention span is terrible. What is the process you used to gradually take it back? Can you recommend and resources regarding this topic?
98% if used correctly, which they aren’t. Now I guess one could say “well then that’s a personal problem - people should just use them correctly”.

But the problem we want to solve is poor control over family planning, not blaming people for making human mistakes. We do that by developing better contraception options, for both men and women.
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What do people think is the origin of the underwater pyramid in the area then?
EU to investigate Nvidia's $54 bln ARM bid after remedies fall short
In addition to inflation control, if you accept the classic story that “we tax so we can spend” is wrong (for the US at least, perhaps also to some degree for other currencies with monetary sovereignty) then I feel we need to consider that taxation and expenditure are tools of not just monetary but social policy.

For instance, how does taxation play a role in keeping the most productive people in society producing, motivated, and feeling like they’re getting fairly rewarded, without them say checking out for “less challenging” work or making enough to retire early?

I suspect at some level, consciously, intuitively, or perhaps just accidentally (and the US seems a bit exceptional here to e.g. Canada, UK, Australia, NZ) that housing policy is similarly supported by an idea that the productive middle class and upper working class are kept as active participants in society by some sort of debt-fuelled hedonic treadmill. From what I understand other sources of debt (student debt, new cars etc.) play a greater role in the US.

This is of course in addition to and balanced against all other monetary sinks / rents, e.g. utility bills, literal house rent, health costs etc.

And being a dynamic system, it’s hard to model outcomes, e.g. would cutting income taxes liberate workers to put a bit extra away and perhaps invest extra hours in overtime or a side gig, or would it just serve to give temporary wage pressure relief to companies who are already refusing to fairly pay workers while allowing easier wealth extraction by rent-seekers?

I find it a bit interesting we aren’t having more discussions about employment vs capital taxation, especially now that we’re seeing both escalating (rich getting richer) and broadening (a wider class of “rich” getting richer) inequality. I suspect historically there was little awareness/interest in your extremely wealthy growing their portfolios, but it becomes a bit more interesting when there’s eg a lottery around “the bank of Mum and Dad” or simply which specific year you were born (relative to eg the GFC) fuelling extremely different outcomes for people with otherwise similar backgrounds, capability, class, and contributions to society.
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2c:

1. yes, inflation has spiked first due to stimulus and now to supply chain disruption, also triggered by the pandemic changing consumption patterns faster than suppliers could adapt. These will hopefully subside if COVID doesn't get worse e.g. vaccines/therapies stay ahead of the inevitable new variants.

2. yes, "transitory" is meaningless if it continues long enough. Specifically, the scary part about inflation is when market participants raise prices expecting future inflation, crushing consumers who can't capture higher wages at the same pace. IMHO we're not quite there yet, and prices are tumbling when supply-demand has returned to equilibrium, e.g. lumber.

3. anybody who pontificates as much as Krugman is bound to make lots of mistakes. IMHO the issue is with the publisher's need to create exciting headlines, i.e. that's on us for listening to newspaper columnists (I've largely stopped). Hit rates go up when you can choose your battles and sit on your hands the rest of the time. Less excusable to me are the guys who can sit on their hands but still put their feet in their mouths, e.g. Dimon, Buffett, etc. One of these days, the masses will wake up and realize that these old emperors aren't wearing clothes. (e.g. look at Buffett's 10 year return...)

kind thoughts welcome.
The measure exists, whether or not there is a "shock to pass".

"inflation is a rather noisy signal to respond to"

The measure exists, whether or not it is "noisy".

Besides, we're past "transient uptick" here anyhow. That was an argument for three months ago.

"Can this COVID-related logistics crunch be long-lasting enough to warrant a response from a central bank?"

Inflation exists and can be measured. Whether a central bank wants to respond to it is always a separate question. COVID has not suddenly made it a separate question.

Don't let people get away with this. You must not let them conflate in your head a measure with its cause. You must keep them separate or you're going to get snowed.

"Well, yes, the web page takes 28 seconds to load, but it's because we do several hundred database queries that are really slow, we do it in a slow language, we pull in dozens of unnecessary third party libraries and also our server is underprovisioned." How much faster does the web page load because you've explained why the web page takes a long time to load?

Moreover, let me explicitly state I'm not trying to ascribe any particular cause to the inflation measure myself. I'm just advocating for, don't let them somehow "explain away" the measure with the very cause of the measure. It's a very cute trick, but don't let them do it. It isn't being done for your benefit.
Had it happen once with a partner (copper IUD, and it has been installed correctly), it was pretty terrible emotionally and physically.
Possibly, can't be a 3xxx Nvidia gpu though afaik, and you'll need some way to get a vgpu license /activation which I can't help you with
If the city does something to reduce the risk of some of the pointed areas, does your oracle reclassify it as lower risk?

If you make an oracle that simply points that some necessary geometries accumulate the risks, don't be surprised when every authority not only ignores you, but also becomes very annoyed if you insist on it.
It's legally dangerous to do that, mainly because (at least in the US) it can "pierce the veil". I know that British and Dutch laws operate very differently, but I'm pretty sure that there still needs to be a clear separation in certain cases (this is a reorganisation which is a legal tightrope).
Is it actually a case of every other version being good, or is it a case of the market settling upon every other version? Nearly every version of Windows had its critics, yet the "bad" versions typically had such a short life those issues couldn't be address or users couldn't be accustomed to the changes, so the bad is what people tended to remember.
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Sounds like a very good motivation to keep breaking changes to an absolute minimum.