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Unpopular opinion -- in the US, inflation is necessary.

My feeling is that we have been in an immensely inflationary regimen in many ways for a long time. We see that in the money supply, and we see it in the credit market and the capital markets in general -- too much cheap capital. This manifests in many unhealthy ways.

The core problem is that we have been playing games to hide inflation. Outsourcing has allowed us to hide the general inflation of almost all sectors with deflation in electronics and consumer goods. Lax antitrust and "consumer rights" has pushed heavy discounting and loss-leading into the forefront, which means that plentiful capital can cause prices to appear low by shifting them to other sectors.

If we enact important policy changes to antitrust, trade, labor, and climate, there will be inevitable increases in prices, because there's a reason that we're buying all of our consumer goods from China. Hedge funds and private equity and investment banks have huge amounts of capital from loose monetary policy, and they use that to create situations that drive down prices and drive up equity prices, which they unload on huge index funds with consumer funds driven by vast government incentives, and once they manipulate the price up high enough the mark-to-market of their holdings unlocks the ability to access even more capital for this cycle.

Teams of economists work constantly to ensure that our macroeconomic metrics balance out so that we get increasingly useless measures of "productivity" or "GDP" or frankly even "inflation". All we are seeing now is that we are running out of ways to hide inflation.
One bit that might surprise people is how fragmented it was (probably still is?). I'll see if I can find more sources, but e.g. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.67... illustrates some of the issues. Gauges vary. Voltages vary. Safety systems vary. Edit: here's a nice diagram from (of course) wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification_system...

Europe doesn't have a rail system, it has dozens of systems; and they're not all compatible - which given this all originated in pre-EU times, is hardly surprising.

And that also means that it can take quite a long time to travel by rail, despite high-speed rail. If you need to cross rail-system borders - some of which are even intra-national like in France, you may need to change trains and/or take illogical routes. If, however, you're lucky and your route is on the happy path - then it can be quite competitive with short-haul flights both in hassle (if not quite speed) and cost.

Then there's the fact that operators are fragmented too, so booking a ticket or finding the optimal route can be surprisingly tricky once you need to cross several borders. I'm not sure this is worse than navigating airline booking systems, mind you, but it sure isn't efficient either.
Honestly it doesn't sound too difficult and like a challenge to script something fun. To me. If you ever find yourself in that situation, email is in my profile and we'll work something out :)
I use an Eames lounge an adjustable keyboard arm and a cantilevered UHD monitor. I've got a foam roller that I use some times to sit on a little higher or behind my back if I want to push the chair back and not be in a reclined position. It has helped my repetitive strain immensely. I don't know that I'd recommend it to other people though. I have specific arm problems and I'm also an idiot.
I returned it a long time ago and have no reason to replace my work thinkpad t490
Since you already have cursors, make it into a game of catch by showing small explosions when cursors collide :D
The US isn't really exposed to Russian gas prices. Nat gas prices are pretty low in the US, although converging with global prices as the US exports grow, because of fracking. Food prices are up, but not to a huge extent.

The noticeable thing in the US, relative to the rest of the world, is the level of fiscal and monetary stimulus. This wasn't only Biden, it was thrown into the economy at a time of significant supply shortages and when people were suddenly accumulating large cash balances. It is a crazy situation. Obviously, prices will rise and soak up all that excess demand but: inflation near 10%, interest rates 1%...wow, it is impossible to look at that and conclude anything other than politics has totally debauched monetary policy.

It is also entertaining to go back and read the views of some people (the usual candidates) who were loudly insisting that inflation wasn't going to rise, then that is would be temporary, then that is was due to Putin...this should impress upon the public that economists don't know better, they have no credibility (extraordinary given that the economic logic has dictated policy for close to three decades, they were regarded as omnipotent by politicians).
I don't know ... this guy seems to have no knowledge of how complicated transferring employee benefits between organizations is. Its not so simple as just hitting a switch. The whole system conspires to fuck over individuals and small companies. Its nearly impossible to smoothly transition benefits during an acquisitions unless you get things exactly right ... or the acquirer is someone like Google that has an endless pool of money and just throws money at the problem to avoid a PR issue.

As for this guy complaining about his acquisition bonus. Why didn't he negotiate for stock when he was hired? I have always negotiated for a lower salary and more stock, as I wish for the lottery ticket and potential upside. If he wanted to trade off cash for stock, he could have done that. And it that was not on offer at Mailchimp then why didn't he go work somewhere else? Seems like they had some inducement, right? Or did he not understand the terms of his employment.

People are so TERRORIZED by the fact that they are only paid the amount they negotiated in their employment contract. YES, capitalism sucks if you just naively enter into employment without understanding what the compensation entails.

What would you like instead? Employment at a Public Sector Unit? I can assure you PSUs suck BAD for engineers. My father and uncles worked at PSUs before immigrating to the US and improving their fortunes 20X to 50X (no exaggeration).
Claiming (in whatever "official" existence this website is for the sellers)
anything made in China, or any other non-western country, is "sweatshop-produced junk" is definitely not the way to fix this

Manufacturing has moved to these places in some cases because many customers just can't tell the difference or couldn't care less about the difference

Are the people organized under that website all wearing leather shoes hand sewn in Maine cottages? Or are they wearing more sweatshop produced junk
I'm tired of hearing this. Alcohol is a CNS depressant. It slows down your nervous system. It is not a depressant by your definition.
Am not surprised that zero G severely disorients them, already knowing how a much a simple piece of tape disorients them. :-)

https://youtu.be/mdBegLNE6OU
If you trust that Windows will support legacy versions of apps (true so far), and you are ok with a free but proprietary license (use freely in perpetuity as long as you can get a copy of the portable installer)...and you want to save plain text data via version control... maybe try my app: http://notes.paperbirch.app.

It's not for marking up documents or drawing, let's say that data-storage and recollection is the main use, it might help you.

BTW, the use of tags allows you to quickly "view the world" from a particular set of words, "work,project,todo" is a pretty specific domain and my app is designed to let you work within that domain or simply change tags to view the world from a new domain.
I’m shocked there’s no blame being put on the trillion dollar spending bills that have been passed the last two years. But of course that would make politicians responsible. Our government spending is out of control and mostly to blame for all of this. Putin is not the root cause, and if you believe that then you are a victim of propaganda.
> a fairer distribution of wealth

This is such a stupid assertion that keeps getting repeated.

The sum of free choices is a fair distribution. People aren't getting robbed at gunpoint; they're _giving_ their wealth to the rich. Bezos is a zillionaire because people literally gave him all his money_.
[crying in Cantillon Effect]
"the same as everything" is an observation that often times verification/correctness/accuracy efforts are tossed aside in favor of new development and this is a truism across many fields. in science you see this as funding being committed to shiny new nature and science cover stories, with replication being left as an afterthought. in software you see this as heavy commitments to new features that drive revenue, with security/compliance/architecture and qa remaining underfunded and less respected. (until, of course, the problems that result from underfunding them make themselves apparent).
Spectacle is a must have IMO.

I set mine up to be Shift+Ctrl+(QWE/ASD/ZXC).. where Q/E/Z/C are for the corners, A/D left and right halves, W/X for top and bottom halves, then S in the middle for full screen. The mnemonic of the "box" formed by those keys on the keyboard is easier for me to remember.
They're doing pretty well at this point as they're paying 7.12%. Likely at the rate reset in May they'll pay that much or more for the next 6 months. Only downside is you can only put in $10k/year. If you have a spouse then you can put in $20K/year. Another nice thing about them is that the interest is state-tax free so if you live in a state with income tax it's an added bonus.
Yes, part of the cleverness of that false claim was that Civilization 1 was already so old when the claim was made, that most people hadn't played it, or at least hadn't played in the last decade, and therefore couldn't refute it from memory or by booting it up.
> some reasons it should continue, but they are not really good reasons.

Many of those reasons are legislature that allows insurance companies to do/demand things that they really shouldn't be able to. Even if the goal isn't public healthcare, America still needs a major healthcare insurance restructuring.
Like most developed countries, Europe has mostly electric trains for passenger transport.
A lot of computational neuroscience guys are in DL now, myself included. Hard to do basic research when you're not funded, and there is this new shiny thing with million dollar compute.
This is an expensive lesson I think everyone gets to learn at some point. There's no such thing as a file worth excluding from a backup, it always fucks you, some (like me) more than others. Have to buy twice as much disk? Fine, at least you know you actually have a backup
This was a very interesting read, but I think there are some base assumptions left unanalyzed.

In my opinion, the reason why "cancel culture", or heresy as the author calls it, is so dangerous is because it legitimizes A) dehumanization, B) the idea that any evolutionary strategy is off the table, and C) the idea that you are not obligated to explain yourself if you want people to listen and take you seriously.

A) Society is regressing to the point where the mere utterance of a word or phrase can be deemed so offensive that it justifies murder, permanent injury and/or sexual violation being perpetrated against the speaker. This is a level of barbarism most would associate some distant dark age or the fauna of an unexplored jungle, yet here it is.

B) By evolutionary strategy, I am referring to the knowledge, experience and skill we apply individually and collectively for the purpose of survival, and the decision making processes we engage in along the way. People do not have to believe what you believe. They don't have to pray to what you pray to, or eat what you eat, or wear what you wear, or speak your language. And that's perfectly okay as long they aren't stepping your toes, and vice versa. There are many paths that can be taken to attain fitness and fulfillment. Monocultures suck, and stifled speech breeds them like there's no tomorrow.

C) A lack of transparency deprives us of the chains of logic used to reach a given conclusion, whether it's true or not. Tying this back into point B, in nature there is generally more than one right way to do something, yet the ugly monoculture that has come out of American social media and acadamia would seem to disagree. There is an all-pervasive "my way or the highway" attitude. When everyone is fearful and secretive it creates a chilling effect in every strata of society. It doesn't matter if you're a burger flipper or an electrical engineer. In all environments poisoned by this culture of hosility it becomes impossible to build enough trust to get the work done, let alone innovate or do it efficiently.

Human beings are smart enough to choose our own whetstones and sharpen ourselves in a controlled manner that leads to a lot less pain, suffering and death. But apparently not smart enough to overcome misplaced pride and petty tribalism. In my opinion this is the great filter. Not aliens, not an energy crisis, not space travel. Just learning to work well with others is going to be the hardest thing in the universe.
> When you run a business [...] you hire as many as you can within your budget.

It sounds like you’re saying that employers are always trying to hire as many people as possible.

Which would be nonsense, of course.
Carbon offsets are just a reinvention of barter, which is a most inefficient way to trade. Cap & trade is yet another barter scheme.

Use a scheme that works - money. Tax the carbon content of the fuels. It's economically efficient, and it works.
If they did do that then the EU could introduce a tariff on the fuel they import when they fly back in.

There would be rules around a fuel flight vs a legit passenger/cargo service, assuming they don't want to tax the extra fuel left in a plane at the end of a flight.

But that seem like a pretty straightforward problem to solve.
Nothing is perfect, but also remember that people always find things to complain about, particularly if they don't have personal experience of less well functioning systems.
It provides more information. It's shallow and non-descript because it's an ad is the argument. I don't know if I believe that here. It's a blurry line with sponsored content.
I hang out a lot on /r/Unity3D, but you're right, it's mostly novices (actually, one of my reasons for hanging out there is to help newcomers). I think it would be great if someone created a subreddit specifically for experienced / advanced game developers. Moderating for quality would be a challenge, so there would need to be clear rules and a handful of people willing to moderate.
I wonder if those Modern Monetary Theory people will start pushing to increase taxes to combat inflation.
Yes/No.

You can get a California zephyer ticket from Chicago->Seattle for 160 in coach one way. That's a really good deal for 2k+ miles, generous baggage allowance, etc (if you can tolerate that).

Sleepers can go 1k+ for the 2.5d. In the winter (what I did) was 600$. I'm also not paying for the efficency. I'm paying for the experience of the hotel, meals, convenence of travel, and the ability to watch out the window.
> Why is health insurance tied to employer, again?

Because Democrats’ plans for universal healthcare rely on forcing employers to pay for it.
Is there a similar example for C?
And even when it doesn't require it, we always want it. :-)
Medicare is very wasteful, but it doesn't matter why.

The US government spends about as much per capita on healthcare as say France, but doesn't cover everybody and without part B is pretty incomplete.
No, just no. You obviously don't have experience with European infrastructure. Rush hour traffic on any German Autobahn will quickly tell you that adding more busses and cars is the worst idea here.

European roads are also impossible to build and maintain without subsidies but somehow nobody or at least very few people talk about that.
It's a confidence and trust thing thing. If NATO doesn't protect any of its members in case of attack , even Bulgaria, even against Turkey, NATO is dead - nobody would ever trust it and the alliance will fall apart. ( Of course for Bulgaria that would be of limited impact because there's the EU mutual defence clause).
Yes, a Trump like character in the White House might refuse to help, but the US isn't the only NATO member.

> Also, should I mention that Article 5 has never been tested yet

It has, the US invoked it after 9/11

As for you presumptions about NATO and Russia, you're just guessing, same as anybody. However seeing Russian atrocities across the world, I'm very happy there's an alliance containing them. They can't use NATO's existence as an excuse for their war crimes in Ukraine and you shouldn't be using that excuse for them. Their narrative has been that Ukraine isn't a real country. Without NATO, do you think they wouldn't have said the Baltics, Poland, and who knows who else also aren't real countries?
The only reason to go to Etsy is to (try to) find unique stuff. If that stuff is diluted 100-1 by Chinese knockoffs, there's no reason to go there anymore. I might as well go to eBay or Amazon, which probably have even lower prices.
What was the zero-g cat dropkick at the end about? Seems pretty unethical. https://youtu.be/O9XtK6R1QAk?t=29
You keep thinking that. At the end of the day, if you understand an OS, you can figure out mobile OS in a weekend. Try to setup a web server and write a React application using CI/CD pipeline. While it can be done, it takes hours on mobile and minutes in a Desktop OS. If anything, the tablet will be cannibalized by the Desktop OS as we're already seeing so arguing that I'm doing harm is a moot point.
If there's no rushing wind tingling your hairs, then it's not the same.
You >quoted with no commentary.. so your point is :: TROLL?
I shop at many physical world boutiques who also have a successful online presence. Etsy is actually the worst place for these kinds of things, as the people there are running under margins where they could never afford physical world rent. A physical world store showing up on Etsy, where people with some free time make things at home, would cheapen their brand as a physical presence in a community

The place where these physical world "etsys" live is usually Shopify
Wish I knew too. Do you put it in savings, where the inflation erodes away its purchasing power? Do you put it in the stock market, where raising interest rates could precipitate a crash that wipes out much of your portfolio? Do you put it in real estate, but possibly end up buying at the top of an asset bubble there? There seems to be no safe answer. If you have six or seven figures in assets, the $10K/year limit on inflation-protected bonds doesn't help you.

I'm about 33/33/33 cash, stocks and real estate right now. Stuff that feels like it should be an inflation hedge, like commodity ETFs, aren't actually performing well. I haven't found any good advice from family, friends, or the internet in the past few years. It makes me think nobody else knows how to safeguard their savings these days either.
See: the price of gas at the pump. The one exception that lead to a mild reduction was shutting down the entire world, everything else is explained by this perfect linkage between crude increasing a few penny on the barrel leading to an increase at the station.
Wait, am I understanding this correctly: Graeber stole that one from Böll?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_Arb...
My linux workflow is almost entirely keyboard-driven, there's no need for a touchpad than maybe doing things in the browser.
I think at this point Apple does not see macOS (from the user perspective) like a traditional GUI OS.

It used to be that OSes provided window management, file management, some basic file handling, and APIs and framework to build and connect apps.

Apple, instead, sees the OS as an app launcher that provides a framework to build isolated apps.

IOW, it's reduced macOS to the Dock.
Prices, including labor prices, are not determined by costs.

That’s very much not the case for 99.9% of goods and services.

Prices for labor, i.e. wages, are set by the demand for labor, and workers’ opportunity costs.
You’re in for a bumpy ride. Normally the advice is to buy bonds if you’re risk averse, but the government got those into a nice bubble as well with QE.
Hackers Target Bridges Between Blockchains for Crypto Heists
> This risk is significantly mitigated by the presence of an expert (which may be a therapist, and may be a seasoned psychonaut) who can talk through issues as they arise for the tripper.

> Shamans, curanderos and experienced users of ayahuasca advise against consuming ayahuasca when not in the presence of one or several well-trained shamans

I think a seasoned psychonaut friend who actually cares about you and isn't trying to get paid might be nice.

What the hell does a therapist have to do with it? You can just tell this is going to be another bs licensed profession in the future. Welcome to Spores'R-Us may I take your order.
The Fed rate probably needs to be around 7% right now. We need to take the Paul Volcker medicine. Yes, there are side effects to this prescription and things will suck for a couple of years, but it's the proven way to quell inflation.
I’m one of those people and I would be happy to see the Trump tax cuts rolled back. Further, I’m a huge fan of a windfall profits tax.
Never underestimate the evil of HR. It’s a way to offload headcount without a layoff.

They probably agreed to not layoff Mailchimp employees in the sale, so they make them quit. Purging the sick, tbe pregnant, etc from the company is a way to cut costs, and doing so through some elaborate bureaucratic fuckup avoids government intervention.
I doubt it could ever be as keyboard driven as linux with a tiling WM
Everyone's favorite media player abused to launch malware attacks
Yeah, Meta will likely stick because Zuckerberg and crew are actively trying to run away from the dumpster fire they lit with Facebook.

But Google is still Google, and probably always will be. Just like Youtube is still Google, and Waymo is still Google.
Many large companies also self-insure to pay claims, and only pay the insurance company to administrate the plan. That makes the effective cost much lower (well, in relative terms anyway...health insurance in the US is broken.)
On this specific example

> Amsterdam to London

Eurostar runs a direct route, with passport control in Amsterdam. But looking at any link from Europe to London that isn’t directly served by Eurostar (i.e. any city except Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels) is going to suck.