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Haskell has a tendency to require mathematics that is by itself wonky. Usually because they use category theory but neglect to mention that they're actually working in a closed monoidal category (or perhaps cartesian closed, it's not 100% clear), and use currying implicitly everywhere.

This is why you even have an "Applicative" class of functors for instance, they're the ones that work nicely with the closed monoidal category structure. Somehow this detail gets skipped a lot in explanation of it (and you won't find it mentioned in mathematical texts).
Come on, he's not even trying to be subtle.
If you're not buying lattes to compete for the same pool of available houses (and other people are doing that), you are absolutely ruin your economy by starving it for cash, while having price growth destroy any of your latte savings.

Buy lattes and consider moving to where housing supply is not constrained.
Ok, but how can you as a fed say that if you double the money supply the velocity will stay the same forever?

This is the ridiculous issue with this MMT theory. How the hell can you be so stupid to assume that just because money velocity is slow now, and you pump lots of money into the system (actually you give it to financial companies, another red flag), it won’t cause inflation in a few years when things pick up?

Especially after a pandemic?
To what extent do we have saturation of some parts of the system? We expect growth in all areas including how much stuff the can be delivered from manufacturing, but investments in capacity might be missing
They are JPEGs, even. How sacrilegious.
> Curious what you'd consider an objective harm.

To dodge the risk of opening a can-o-worms I don't have time for on a
Monday morning I'll just say watch for the chapter "Harms" in Ethics
for Hackers when it's out, or ping me a PM if you fancy being a
proofreader for that chapter.

> Sadly the only conclusion I can come to is that these problems are social

I just replied to another similar remark. They are simultaneously
psychological, social, technical, legal and political, and must be
addressed on all fronts to reduce long-term harms upon the many to the
temporary advantage of the few.

> Punishing people who abuse others' privacy is the solution.

It's a solution amongst many which is necessary but insufficient to
cover all harms. An example already given in comments; of Nederlands
collection of religious data prior to the Nazi rise, is apropos
anachronous and displaced threats.

> Frankly I'm sick of privacy nut technologists (who no doubt are
genuinely concerned for everyone's safety on principle) continually
pushing everyone towards "tracking evasion"

I hear that. There's a real risk of alienating users and losing the
psychological campaign for better opsec by harping on a "mother knows
best" tune. For example, GDPR cookie popups seem to have had that
negative effect.

> That much, at least, I resonated with in the essay.

Me too. I very much like Rohan's writing. It sparks great discussion.
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I don’t think this kind of offensive action against multiple nation-states is punishable by a simple citation.
Remember summer 2021 when they said, eh, we have some inflation now, but let’s carry on with QE, inflation is transitory anyway?
thanks Gus. At the moment all the questions come in and go to Steve privately to answer at the same time. The Q&As go live on the page once he answers, that's why it's empty. Will publish all the Q&As in about a week. Good suggestion about making questions public from the beginning to encourage more participation.
Of course there is. When I go visit family, I can still go to the supermarkets and find several types of freshly baked bread, not just mass produced white bread. Even among the mass produced stuff, there's plenty of decent options if you ignore the plain white bread.
Every systemic problem that the oligarchs of a capitalist system dont want to fix the sensible way eventually gets framed as a problem of personal responsibility.

* When the first cars started killing people -> make jaywalking a crime.

* When people take on too much credit card debt -> obviously a problem with financial literacy

* When large companies destroy the environment -> if people just recycled more we could save the planet...

* You're broke in 1990 -> why didnt you get a degree?

* you're broke in 2000 with a degree -> why didnt you get a STEM degree?

* you're broke in 2010 with a STEM degree -> why didnt you get a compsci degree?

* You're broke in 2020 with a compsci degree -> tsk you should have done something useful like machine learning.
It's not just the amount of money, it is the amount of money available vs the amount of goods available. I'm not an enconomist, so I don't know exactly why, but somehow all the additionally money (which is in form of credits) doesn't end up in the hand of consumers. I think what is going on is that it is harder and harder to get return on investment, which makes it harder to get money through "organic" investments, so they make money cheaper and lower the interest rates, which makes it even harder to get ROI. So all the money they pump in just goes around and keeps the wheels turning artificially. (Meanwhile all the capital flees into housing, crypto and similar markets and inflates them like crazy.)

Anyway, I think the reason behind the inflation is not that the amount of cash is to high. Wages have not grown accordingly and demand has not gone up. But due to Covid, supply chain issues (related and incidental), international conflict, etc., we have just been producing less stuff.

So I would say the inflation of some goods (housing) is due to the simmering financial crisis, and the inflation of others (like wheat, cooking oil, electronics) is due to political strife and economic instability.
To ease execution of x86₆₄ applications on Apple Silicon the Apple processor team implemented the x86 memory model with a series of additional experiences.
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You say that wrt. https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien — would you mind giving some examples?
How does keto work for you doing exercise? Do you have a routine or adaptation that works for you?

I ask because I’ve tried keto a couple of times and usually gave up within a few weeks because it was incompatible with (energetic) cycling. The difference with huge - I was crawling up hills that usually I’d barely notice.

I assume it’s because I’m very carb-adapted and/or my level of exercise intensity is too high for fat-burning anyway, but I’ve not found much about this online. (And here and there, I’ve found mention, even on the most vehemently anti-carb websites, of athletes needing supplemental carbs to exercise efficiently.)
Actually, from what I read its a little worse-- they've made the payment to a european bank and that bank hasn't distributed the funds. It's not clear why they haven't but its most likely sanction related. While it was not explicitly stated in what I read, it sounded like the bank was some sort of make-shift stand-up to convert rubles to euros and dollars to work around the sanctions issue.

So, it's more like you go to the bank on the 25th to make your payment due on the 30th and then the bank just doesn't pay the bill, forecloses the house and confiscates the property-- all the while putting out press releases about how you defaulted.

EDIT:

I just looked it up, the bank in question is Euroclear and isn't something specifically setup for this. It sounds like Russia always paid in Rubles and they paid that to Euroclear who then distributed the payments in whatever currency the bonds and such were held in, but due to sanctions they're no longer doing that. So Russia is paying the bill, the middle man just isn't distributing it due to the sanctions. My understanding of them always having paid in rubles might be incorrect, but it sounds like managing those nuances is what the purpose of the bank is.
> Inflation is happening now because oil demand is higher than supply, food demand is higher than supply, electronic chip demand is higher than supply.

But none of that is sufficient for inflation to occur. Inflation is a fall in the value of a unit of currency. In your terms, it can only occur when currency supply is higher than currency demand.[1]

But in other terms, while it is true that shortfalls in the supply of food, oil, and circuitry lower the value of a dollar, it is not true that they are able to cause inflation; if the number of dollars is lowered commensurately with the loss in value, that will offset the effect.
> Inflation is happening now because oil demand is higher than supply, food demand is higher than supply, electronic chip demand is higher than supply.

I'm not sure this statement makes that much sense, won't demand always go up when prices drop, and drop off when it goes up? Demand does not exist in abstract, if I could get an iPhone 13 pro for $10 I would take 5, if it costs $2,000 I will take 0. If oil cost $1 a gallon instead of $4, won't the demand increase? And if it is $10 a gallon won't the demand decrease?

Maybe to simplify, cite something that backs your claim that demand is higher than supply.

And then maybe further, can you clarify: will demand not increase when people are given more money? Won't for example trillions of direct and indirect stimulus drive up demand? And if price stays constant won't the increase in demand not have to result in prices going up in order to avoid supply shortages?
In what ways (aside from battery life) is the M1 better than a comparable spec Windows Laptop?

Perhaps you're used to MacOS, but functionally, day-to-day there are not many practical differences with Windows unless there is some specific Mac only app you need.

Otherwise I would say Mac laptops are not especially good value, if you just look at the specs at face value.

I recently built a PC for ~$750 with an i7, 16GB ram, 1TB SSD and 3060 ti GPU. Something similar on Mac would cost maybe 3x more.
I’ll add that conspicuous consumption, risky investments, and high indebtedness could at least partly be explained by government currency devaluations and low interest rates. It is rational to consume sooner rather than later and take on debt if you’re living in a society that penalizes saving your money. I don’t know how sustainable modern advanced economies’ obsession with growth is.
Housing market is one big pyramid scheme, and "financial advisors" need new generation to join. Everyone MUST buy a house to start family. Well we found out that family and house are optional, and you can buy a latte instead!
The compiler can still do type checking even when using duck typing. It's important to note that duck typing and weak typing are entirely orthogonal. You can have either, both, or neither.

E.g. an example in D of a function that doesn't care too much about the type you pass in:

T doublify(T)(T v){
return v*2;
}

These are all fine:

writeln(doublify(3));
writeln(doublify(3.0));
writeln(doublify(3u));

But this still throws a compile error like you'd expect:

writeln(doublify("3"));
Ukraine is a state of law. Paradoxically, Ukraine is also ridden with corruption (far from russian levels though). So no fast-track is possible while bailing actually is. So what happens is that the thieves are getting caught sometime and then they are released on a laughable bail. Of course they disappear and later on their case disappear as well.

BTW one of the requirements that Ukraine has to meet before we can even discuss dreaming of joining the EU is a refactoring of judiciary system. Because it surely looks like this is the main factor supporting corruption.

Lynching though is something that doesn't happen in ukrainian society.

Sources: my networking. Not something you will find in any official news sources because it's mostly a background noise for us. You can scroll through https://t.me/insiderUKR (russian) and https://t.me/kyivoperativ (mostly ukrainian) and see what's up.
>> Organic food itself is a fraud as it doesn't actually mean anything.

> Citations needed.

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food#Health_and_safety

Quote for you:

There is little scientific evidence of benefit or harm to human health from a diet high in organic food, and conducting any sort of rigorous experiment on the subject is very difficult.
Don't forget the:

* Global warming -> Stop using your car and planes

* Plastics everywhere -> Just stop using plastic straws and bags, that will fix it!
> The idea comes from Germany's Nazi past, when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands where religion was a field in the official documents, which lead to an very efficient genocide.

I am very afraid that a similar thing could happen in the modern world.

The Great Surveillance Machine is just a ticking time-bomb, waiting for the right tyrant to use it to enforce their own idea of Good. Whatever characteristic they want to cleanse out of society, they can easily track down people with that characteristic, and neutralize them. And when that happens, there will be nothing we can do to save ourselves, because we have already surrendered our whole lives to The Machine.
The internet itself has changed vastly over the last 25 years, so it is expected that the biggest internet companies have adapted as well.

There is no doubt that Google et al. are better than ever in terms of technology and operational excellence; and ever further from their original mission statements... but isn't that normal?

I don't like Google. I was wary when they entered the blogsphere ~2004 with "Blogger", but for me it was the DoubleClick acquisition that solidified my mistrust of them, and everything else since has only added to that opinion.

None of it matters though, they are in business to make money, not win our hearts. If you don't like them, don't use their products, that is the only way to make a difference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> It's not just the amount of money, it is the amount of money available vs the amount of goods available.

Okay, but ... if you just pumping money into the economy, are you not by definition just pumping money into the economy, as opposed to goods and money? If congress could by decree make goods why would anyone need to work?
And yet, you are only "getting better" at the game. Your in-game skills don't translate to the real world. Games have psychological and social benefits, but I don't think getting better at a game skillwise has really any transferrable value outside of the game itself. In fact, if you put more effort into improving your in-game skill, your real-world life usually suffers. (In my experience.)
That's exactly what I am working on right now! I made an open source project called ambience (currently in public alpha https://ambience.sourcecode.ai ).

The point of that project is that you can create or use an existing repository proxies and attach to it what I called "audit policies" those are basically a list of packages/versions you want to block or allow. The default ones include for example malicious, vulnerable, yanked packages etc... (the blacklist repository) to which you point pip, poetry etc... and it will block installation of the packages listed in the audit policies attached to the repository. You can also create ad-hoc repositories or repository per project to keep it separate and operate in whitelist mode where you allow only whitelisted&audited packages.

On top of that there is also "monitor" mode where you can allow installation of any package or subsset of packages and it will capture all depedencies for purpose of tracking the software supply chain accross the company or project and those packages would be automatically scanned and audit using integration with another project of mine called Aura that is a static analysis scanner designed for the python supply chain.

As mentioned this is currently in open alpha mode so access is limited and user registration is not open (I am currently working on users&permissions for making their own repositories and audit policies) but if someone is interested in testing or this project in general or an early access to features behind the curtain feel free to shoot me an email at admin @ sourcecode.ai . The license is open source so it can be also self-hosted.
`Life is not short if you're lucky?*`
I think that's what Seneca would have said back in the day. Nowadays, at least for the developed countries we could state `Life is not short if you're not unlucky`.

That said, many good things in life require time, work and careful planning (for somebody this could be building a house, finishing uni, perhaps raising a kid, tons of examples apply). Those that really bring fulfilment and satisfaction, where you can look back at this and say "I did that myself". Moment and day-like successes feel often like a serotonin hit, but do not persist long. So, I may say that I disagree with the premise of the article. What is often perceived as wasting time aka "watching Netflix", "playing games", "drinking with friends", turns out to be indispensable for us when we need to chew through mundane chores to reach the long-term goal we really strive for.
But, if we're unlucky, we don't get to see the final result. A middle ground would be to start enjoying the small milestones?
So do a lot of US supermarkets. E.g. this is very similar to the what the Whole Foods near me has[1].

[1] https://i.redd.it/890j54rv6wk71.jpg
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I am an accomplished full stack software engineer with a wide range of experience and a proven track record of delivering products but I regularly bomb coding/technical interviews because of my ADHD/ASD. Why won’t companies just hire me on my track record?
They should have stopped a decade ago, that was the fatal error, and now we're in a spiral of stagflation and the crash will be much worse.

An everlasting asset bubble and money at 0% is not sustainable and never has been.
There is a lot to unpack here. I can’t go into details, maybe read a book on MMT. (I can only recommend German resources…)

Some points:

Deflation is bad for the economy, you want moderate inflation.

Increasing the money supply is a prerequisite for inflation, but not the cause. The euro zone increased it‘s money supply enormously for mor than a decade and - until last year - had problems meeting it‘s 2% a year inflation goal.

Increasing the money supply allows for cheap investments for both the state and private business. If the investments provide a net benefit to the economy (e.g. infrastructure) you should just do them. “Anything we can actually do we can afford.” - Keynes
Yeah I always thought that "make everything immutable!" was partly - maybe even mostly - a workaround for the fact that it's so hard to copy data in most languages.

I agree C++ makes it too easy to accidentally copy data, but at least you can copy data!
Yes, and the ESP32 too. Seems this is going to be the first badge with three processors that all can run Doom. On the MCH2022 badge, the RP2040 has no direct connection with display (except for regulating the back-light), so you would have to implement some bridge on the ESP32 or the FPGA. See block diagram on https://bodge.team/docs/badges/mch2022/
I think it may be possible to make it even more of a compile-time construct if uglier types were an option. Instead of holding a `Vec<PathComponent>` it could have been a list made out of nested types: `Path<First, Path<Second, Path<Third, Last>>>>`.
Ron Cobb is my absolute favorite "hidden influence" on how 70s-80s sci-fi/fantasy turned out. He was a designer on Dark Star, Alien, Star Wars, Conan the Barbarian and even the unproduced Dune helmed by Jodorowsky that has become a shibboleth with some nerds.

Nothing he did felt dogmatic, referential or with ego, it was just the most appropriate thing for those productions.

Even though he didn't work on Blade Runner, I'm sure a lot of the esthetic comes indirectly from him.
The answer all along was to invest in index funds starting from age 5.
By "only one" you mean one usb-c + a second that's also used for power?

So, like e.g. the Dell XPS 13 9300 or the Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio.

(They have 1 other port on top of the M2 MBP, technically, but it's SD card slot - I doubt you had that in mind as what's misisng from the MBP).

Heck, there's also a port-free contender Craob X: https://craob.com/

And don't forget that you can always not buy the machine!
Honest question: Why would you want/need to remove the antireflective coating?
Well they surely are doing a stellar job running shit into the ground, so I guess they clearly know what they are doing.
Yep that's the one even with the crumbs and offcut bread loaves - rather messy.
I still don't mind people calling it light if it is though; maybe it gets removed later, however when it (still) is light, it makes it easy for me to search for so I can prevent overall project bloat.
I have a Eizo 4k but when M1 MBA goes to sleep, at random moments the display switches on and off repeatedly in very quick successions that I felt it could damage the display, I disabled MBA from sleeping but only to let the display turn off after a moment.

And when in use, mouse cursor intermittently juggles until I let MBA sleep for a slight moment and it fixes.

I do wish those get fixed, especially the sleep problem as I have to keep my MBA turned on forever.
The economy is what it is, and you can't really control house prices.

Still, being frugal is not a bad advice and will definitely help you save money.

What's the mental health cost though?

That latte or that luxury item can be what keep you sane in a world that become increasingly worse.

Lattes, pr0n, weed, alcohol. They definitely have their pro and cons, but they may be needed at certain times of your life.
If they start ruining your life, seek help.
This only actually twigged for me when I worked for a large company that was pretty horrible for the environment that kept pushing this canard about everybody doing their bit with recycling.

...i know, i know right... why didnt I just take personal responsibility and not take a job at a horrible company that pollutes? Thats how I could do my bit.

Being an environmentalist 5th column is probably the way to go, actually.
> (IMHO: using WASM for a framework which spends most of its time manipulating the DOM is wasted effort, JS is much better suited for this type of "dynamic workload", this type of application might be better done with a hybrid approach where Javascript and WASM work hand in hand)

Well, I suspect there might be a non-trivial number of us who have absolutely no interest in learning JS, but would like to do DOM manipulation in web apps written 100% in [Personal Favorite Language That Compiles To WASM].
Would it be better to keep S&P high with inflation at highest levels in 40 years? And if so why?
I've not seen the show, but have heard that Burnham is basically the Mary Sue of all Mary Sues.
Well, all this macro economics discussion is nice.

But on a micro level, you can't get around the fact that if you spend $50 on lattes a month, and then you stop doing that, you will have $50 more per month.

And if you spend $50 on buying a luxury brand shirt rather than a $10 shirt, you have $40 less.

If you DON'T spend $50 on lattes, then obviously you can't save that money.

Anything else is self flaggelating excuses about why you need to buy lattes, and why capitalism is bad, and an excuse for your status games or your consumer desires. Fact is, if you buy lattes, you can save that money instead.
Is housing unaffordable, or is it just that everyone wants to live in the same few places? That’s the impression I get in the UK. Of course the houses/neighbourhoods that everyone wants to live in will be unaffordable to most. That will always be true, basically.
^ Post that was flagged by cappies and neoliberals who don't get satire.

Have an upvote, good sir.