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> the seemingly prevailing economic theory that the US can issue an unlimited amount of debt just because it's denominated in USD

MMT was never the prevailing theory. It has elements of truth to it, e.g. the limiter on American deficit spending is inflation. But deficits not mattering was always a fringe view.
Yup it requires an unwavering belief, not just a 'spark of curiosity' x opportunistic, which was our case.
It’s only $67M for a Falcon 9 launch. NASA’s 2022 budget is $24B. Boost while you’ve got the political will, don’t pinch pennies and possibly miss the window to do so. Future expected ongoing science value is likely higher than the F9-Starship cost delta.
You were doing fine until "global elites". There's no organized cabal driving this outcome, just greedy humans solving for local optima that are globally suboptimal
See: Stigler's Law, and Boyer's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
What would it take to convince you that speaking and communicating are skills?
I wonder what kind of contracting that is. Me, and others in my team, proactively improve things if we run out of tasks. I work all the hours that I bill, anything else seems like fraud.
Thanks for the endorsement and the links.
I remember in the first dot-com bust, CPMs/CPCs fell like a rock, so everyone was cramming more ads onto pages to make up for it, which added a lot more inventory, which caused them to fall further. The market is much, much bigger these days, but I wonder if something similar (if smaller) will happen as everyone scrambles to monetize and increase revenue.
As a millennial I appreciate the "cause of doom" distraction some
I agree...I've wondered who is sponsoring all these articles?
One of the few things both sides can agree on.
> I'd like to see some compelling evidence that supports the seemingly prevailing economic theory that the US can issue an unlimited amount of debt just because it's denominated in USD and interest rates are historically low.

100% of the time when a country has issued 31T in debt, it has not failed to issue more.
> a peanut butter squirrel feeder cage

XD peak capitalism I guess
Alternatively, if you use linux-lts then you never got this in the first place (which is an excellent example of why https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Install_... suggests it).
Curious, how do you feel about admin frameworks vs admin generators/scaffolding? I wonder how much of the let down of most admin frameworks (with DSLs) is just because of how damn hard it is to build something that can meet all those use cases, versus just having boiler-plate killing scaffolding tools that you can then modify the code of however you want.
Fun fact: the US has never (except for a short period during the Clinton admin) repaid any of its debt, it just made it insignificant through inflation and economic growth.

Edit for the pedantic: I obviously mean total debt.
My experience as an advertiser on Meta's platforms is abysmal. Here was my morning:

I'm a photographer and just posted a few images from an engagement session. I wanted to tag them for the added engagement. On my personal Facebook page they both pop up on the search right away as they're local to me and in this case we have some mutual friends. On my business page I was only able to tag one of them as he had a unique name - the girl has a common name and Facebook oh-so-helpfully just gives me 5 or so random people from the entire world with her name with super tiny thumbnails to boot.

I decide to try and tag while on my personal account and realize I can't. I know I (and others) were able to in the past. I look for the setting that allows people to tag the images on my page. I can't find it. I look at their support and it mentions a button that clearly isn't there for me. I find a Youtube video from just a few months ago and their interface matches mine but the settings page for my page is completely different and is lacking many options, including the "Tagging ability" one that I need to turn on. I spent an hour on this to no avail, and like many of you I have a degree in computer science and I'm no stranger this.

Another thing I previously spent at least an hour on is the fact that my business Facebook page at the very top shows the amount of people I'm following - 9, and a competitor of mine doesn't. It's a stupid little thing but it's the first thing people see. Alas, I can't figure out how to change it.

On Instagram, when creating an "audience" for ads or boosted posts the option to center who the ad is shown to around a location/town with a specified radius in miles is just straight up broken for me. Doesn't work. I've tried reinstalling the app. The best "workaround" is to either list every single town I want to target in an area or physically drive to where I want it centered on and do it from there. The address input doesn't work but my current location does.

On PC, I can switch between my two business Instagram accounts once before it doesn't work and I need to log out and log back in.

Pushing reels instead of photos may or may not be a good business decision but it absolutely sucks for us photographers and when I tried to make one using their built in tool it demolished the quality of the photos I was using.

Also, ideally I'd be able to target people that are recently engaged to be married instead of people that have been for a while. People usually get a photographer (and venue) quickly, but my only option is to advertise to everyone that's engaged.

Meta - you want more money? Fix your shit. I'd love to give you more money but you make it so incredibly hard.
There isn't a finance out.
Doesn't that also mean that carrying cost of debt now and while rates are up issued will carry these high rates for long time? Even if rates go back down.
Something interesting I learned recently is that the debt load carried by the US is not anything special (when considered as a percentage of GDP) compared with other countries. (e.g. most of Europe is actually worse off, China isn’t far behind.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_externa...
With language like that it's not entirely surprising. For scientific searches you'll want to use scientific language like "species" or "genus" or "experiment" or "lab".
And as we all know they always deliver on time with top quality.
Yes, changing the workload would be the normal approach. Same for if people are going to be on training courses, or the team decides they need to spend more time on training in general, so they're going to lower their workload permanently by 5%. I can imagine it becoming really hard for the team to track their velocity if the sprint length varies.
I just last night watched a mini-documentary on the origins of calculus in the work of Newton and Leibnitz, focusing specifically on how they came to be interested in the idea and their very earliest thoughts on it, often quoting directly from their notebooks.

The doc is on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/ObPg3ki9GOI

It was very clear that Newton in particular was building incrementally on work that other mathematicians had done before him. Leibniz was also making incremental improvements, but was apparently somewhat more visionary in his work. The Youtube comments are also interesting, including anecdotes of ancient Egyptian land surveyors using the same "sum of lines" technique (what Leibniz generalized into our modern antiderivative) in order estimate the areas of unevenly-shaped land plots along waterways for taxation.

Leibniz in particular was fascinating because it shows the incrementality of science continuing after him as well. Apparently Leibniz had built several computing machines, 150 years before Babbage, and was deliberately trying to work towards general and abstract paradigms for solving mathematical problems, 300 years before Hilbert, Church, Gödel, and Turing!
Sure, though my point is that I read Blood Meridian first and didn't find it all that hard to get into. It's just so good you'll give it your full attention and effort. Had I started with Suttree or The Road I may have just given up and not gotten to Blood Meridian at all. I put both of those books down for significant periods of time. I'm trying to finish The Road right now.

I actually found "All the Pretty Horses" to be the harder read, since he'll just write full dialogues in Spanish, and it's not just a couple of times, it happens often (my Spanish is just ok, enough to survive traveling in latin america).
That is correct. Inflation reduces existing debt.

The problem is we continue to issue new and more debt at higher rates so the total amount still only goes up.
Twitter is about to become a private company. They won't be "forced" to do anything their new owner doesn't want them to. They won't even have to be profitable at all if that isn't what Musk wants.
Cloudflare is not the one breaking the internet, Bots are, they are just providing a solution to deal with the bot problem.

This is also controlled by the Cloudflare customer. If I'm having issues with my server due to fake/hostile traffic coming to my website, you're dang right I will do what it takes to stop it.
I expect NASA to do the calculations, but I would expect boosting the orbit of an existing working telescope would be much cheaper than building a new one AND ALSO putting it in orbit. There are relatively few telescopes outside Earth's atmosphere; keeping Hubble running seems like a good idea.
Yeah I mean I think all comes down to scalability not necessarily raw materials.
フォーシーズンズ コオリナは安いです。
It is fine, until it isn't... And we have been pushing that long time. Then again Japan has been doing it for very long time now.
Yeah: driving with a 2-car gap in stop-and-go traffic is NOT normal.
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How did you decide to pivot to a billing solution?
It seems that you are evolving in this space right now, when looking at https://getlago.com.

Also, did you pitch the new idea and all investors were in? I think a lot of companies are living this tough pivot situation, and finding a new idea is hard…
I don't understand why a VC who initially supported one idea would or necessarily should support a pivot to a completely different one that they already aren't a fan of. Yes there are some companies that pivoted and succeeded but that doesn't mean there is something special about the pivot itself. It makes sense that your investor, who doesn't like neobanks, would not want to invest in a neobank startup.
I agree. The problem is that it's rather annoying, and there are many such behaviors on MacOS (many of which you can't disable). Stuff like this is another good example of esoteric, almost curious behavior taking place without any input or prompt from the user. It's really absurd stuff.
You’d probably feel differently if some developer at the IRS compromised your identity because he used some compromised library to avoid internal processes.

Security, public trust, etc requires controls and audit to deliver. You don’t want a startup “fake it till you make it” mentality in government or banking.
100%. My first realization was when Wave was cancelled. Then I slowly came around and they proved me wrong with Google+. With Stadia it's so obvious that Google has contempt for its users; it's the equivalent of the bully tactic 'why are you hitting yourself?'.
Day 0 is presumably agreeing the API contract, day 2 is mocking that, day 3 is implementing tests, day 4 is coding? Hopefully they know that? :D
To the contrary, while the US can issue debt and people are willing to buy it it is living within its means.
> The worldwide publicity the event received helped spur widespread diphtheria inoculations, which greatly reduced [yearly deaths].

Seems we messed up by not getting dogs involved in covid vaccine delivery.
TrueTime is an efficient primitive to ensure external consistency across multiple consensus groups, not within one group. The current DO infrastructure does not give the TrueTime guarantees for free: you cannot do transactions across two or more durable objects, and the max throughput within a transaction domain is limited to what a single V8 isolate can handle sequentially.
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just being with my family
Isn't this like WhatsApp, Teams, Skype and others giving you instant previews of URLs when sending them around?
I really hate this feature. Impossible to share 'single hit' URLs as they'll be called already when you want to open them.
Ship it to L2, so you can service both telescopes with one mission.
He had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
egg spiral stagflation
Scrums are a bunch of lads violently fighting over a rugby football.

Baffling.
Drivers seem to be a sweet spot for Rust's focus on safety. Is there a reason why greenfield drivers shouldn't be written in Rust?
And how likely do you think it is that people will continue loaning money to a country whose currency is constantly being devalued? Eventually the dumb money will run out.
Adam Curry seems to have coined it. He pushed out a bunch of RSS extensions in recent years and called it "Podcasting 2.0" but they are very "we had a podcasting wishlist and wrote a spec" and not very "we wanted to make something with a high chance of adoption". 99% or more of podcast listens are made through an app which supports zero "Podcasting 2.0" features, and listeners are not clamoring for the ability to use them.
Ugh, I hate stats like this.

WHAT'S THE BASELINE?!

It could well be that 50% of CEOs are always "considering" cutting jobs in the next 6 months. I mean, I suspect that this number is higher than usual because, well, it does look like we're heading into a recession. But if I'm interpreting this number based on my perception of the recession, then this number is useless at the main point of this article: informing me on whether we're heading into a recession or not.
I've always thought this would be an ideal solution to CC fees for store-owners. Also, I think if we bag our own groceries/goods we should get a small discount.
In the government (and punditry / public discourse) it sure seems to be. Academic and financial circles only matter as much as they can sway the former to make policy.
I've got a 2012 or so Pi in a drawer...! Maybe I can play around with it.
Sounds like something its lenders should consider.
Is there a Wikipedia List of Charlatan article? I would have zero idea about Paul Krugman. Though, it’s not like I’m going to research the author of every article. What I really need is a browser extension that will do a background search for the author of any article I open and throw up an alert if there are concerns. Hmmm, sounds like we need a charlatan API the extension can hit up.
I think this is one of the least understood elements of technological advancement. We tend to think of it as linear, but often, the major visible breakthroughs are dependent on a whole bunch of less glamorous advancements being brought together.

The game Civilization was really great at representing this. Tech advancement is a DAG, rather than a chain or a tree. Reality is like this, but much, much more granular.

For instance, I'm acquainted with the inventor of the electret microphone. I'm sure that mic brought together a whole bunch of advancements, and once I was aware that miniaturizing microphones was nontrivial, it became clear that, for example, pocketable cell phones would not exist if not for tiny microphones.

I see this disconnect all the time in how we think about technology, and which innovations actually lead to major cultural changes. We get wowed by impressive inventions, like blockchain, but to date, it is largely not penetrating society outside of its own expanding hype bubbles. It's pretty clear to me that blockchain is not, of itself, transformative. Nor is it the final link in enabling a society-changing breakthrough. The question I'd ask is whether that's because other boring adjacent developments are missing? Or is it a relative dead end? I'm picking on blockchain, but a lot of other innovations could be chosen here.

In trying to predict the socio-technological future, it is important to become attuned to the boring, enabling technologies. And if I were an investor, I would also have to understand whether the economics of a potential enabling technology are attractive for achieving returns. I think of all the fiber that was laid in the 90s. Investors were right that it would eventually become really important, but they wrong that it would be lucrative for them to invest in.
I'm sorry, but; no.

Developers aren't the only part of a product team.

You can't just drop sprints without failing to meet other objectives.
None, but it's really cool to see it working.
I did not take this course but I took the predecessor CMSC 330, which was about interpreters, and it's fitting that the successor is about compilers. What I liked about 330 was the fact that we learned all three major paradigms of programming, imperative (Ruby), functional (OCaml) and declarative (Prolog). They've since changed the last one to Rust which I feel removes the declarative paradigm from being learned, but Rust is nice too, very similar to OCaml of course given its history.

Anecdotally, I think UMD has one of the strongest and most interesting CS academic curricula I've seen. One of our projects in a class, CMSC 420: Advanced Data Structures, required us to implement Google Maps' turn by turn navigation using octrees, which was unlike anything I've seen in other school's curricula. UMD also has student-led courses that cover things that the CS program doesn't cover, such as full stack apps with React and NodeJS I believe.
Put enough voltage through the line and you'll destroy the switch, ethernet cables, and possibly other network devices that are connected.
Thanks, I wasn't alone in this project started internally at Meta a few years ago ;)
> We have pretend rule of law. We pretend the law matters, and we pretend to follow it.

There's no pretense. We mostly do follow the law, and the law very much matters. The Iraq War is the exception that proves the rule.

> IMO, this whole ordeal could have been avoided, but Western backed Ukraine decided it was better to fight than capitulate to Russia's demands.

"WWII could have been avoided, but Allied Europe decided it was better to fight than capitulate to Nazi demands." Obviously nations are going to fight for their sovereignty.

> In any case, Putin argues that the war (or in his parlance, SMO) is legal under UN precedent in Yugoslavia, that a breakaway republic may be recognized even if the former nation dissents.

Anyone can argue that anything is legal, that doesn't make them right. Notably, the UN collectively disagrees with him.
And what is the normal history of this statistic? If it's normally 75% of bosses who are considering cutting, maybe 50% is good. If it's normally 10%, maybe it's bad.
I'm wondering the same thing. Last servicing was in 2009; poor thing is long overdue for some TLC.
I see the opposite. Even if interest rates don’t rise more, we’re talking about a tripling of the service cost relative to GDP. That is going to put pressure on budgets for sure.
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> backlogs are by far just a list of the things you wont do

Scrum even has a ceremony for fixing this: backlog refinement.
I don't know if I'd call the person selling blood emeralds as a teenager "reasonable", but I'm sure handing over the public discourse to this random billionaire is a better alternative to creating a proper digital commons that exists for purposes beyond rentable virtual ad space
Ramp is focused on corporate finance management than a regular neobank.

They don't take individual customers or startups without funding. They are focused on high ticket corporate customers.

For Indian market, razor pay and open money would be sort of equivalent focused on corporate banking.
I find writing things down in a notepad (that I barely ever look at again) helps with retention and reduces it looping in my brain as much (relieving it to think about and process new things). Anything more complex than that (e.g. notion) is probably overkill/productivity reducing.
The devices you list are not used/charged in a moving vehicle, but rather at its destination. A phone is considerably different in this very relevant regard.
It's not just orbital boosting.

It's also doing things like swapping out reaction wheels and dying hardware of various kinds.

And as soon as you're doing that, you're probably using humans. And then because the cost is already so big, you might as well replace some instruments, too...
Thank you Jose. Are these videos available for non-students?

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfZ7HFoaeSA7zPoGelA3aiw
Sorry, I didn't phrase it well. It's also log(n) for CRCs via the same algorithm.
Most neobanks don't start with a banking license.

So they're the equivalent of Paypal (Money transmitting license?)

They can hold/transfer money but they're not protected by regular banking deposit garantees.

So yes, they can have reduced costs/regulatory overhead when starting up.

Also they avoid legacy infra (physical and digital)

- No 1000s of branches/employees across the country

- No legacy digital systems (Mainframes/COBOL)

- No M&A spaguetti from acquiring 10x banks over time
It sounds like you have a good working base of knowledge to start from and might benefit from some high level concepts. Once you understand the basics you can likely cover what you're looking for with a small open source home router or some other similar hardware.

If you prefer books check out

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networking-Top-Down-Approach...

Or for video lectures:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCMsyE1cvdWKsLVyf6cP...
Then can you please explain to me what is so scary of him owning twitter during 2024 elections?
The first rule here absent all others is to understand that the national debt does not function like household debt and so you can't draw comparisons directly. Some of the comparisons are truthy but not necessarily correct.

Another rule to use is that not all spending is treated equally. The country going in to debt to fund projects that boost economic activity (typically measured as GDP) is not the same as the country going in to debt for a different class of projects, for example. Often times we look at national debt but we don't have a great mechanism for evaluating return on that debt.
Some large fraction of funds distributed through the Paycheck Protection Program never made it into the pockets of the people it was intended to protect.
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"provide tests where the curve peaked about 49%"

Fucking smart Alec, he'd have deserved it if students had let his tires down.

The only possible saving grace would have been if he'd demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that multivariate calculus would provide the means to get such precision, ipso facto the class results (complete with workings out). Even then, it's a ratshit idea of the worst order.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this combined with high borrowing rates and a looming recession, basically mean that we are going to again destroy the economies of countries who depend on low borrowing rates, the way we did with Greece and others in 2007? That could mean a second global financial recession. Which would prompt the world to more seriously begin moving their business to China. The promises of stability from the US dollar are obviously a sham if it means destroying their economies every 15-20 years.
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Debt is a misnomer when the debt is serviced exclusively with printed money.

Seems to me they use the term because it works better politically
OPEC+ agrees to cut output by 2M barrels a day
This logic seems to suggest that ‘a’ is my PII, because you can get ‘aasasd’ from it if you throw the dice enough times.