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by mdnahas 4d ago
Yes, that’s very true. I recognized that in 2014. It was hard, but I stopped doing research on formal proof. I got an economics degree and found that the City of Austin to pay off its $3 billion dollar pension debt … and encountered the s
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by mdnahas 4d ago
As a consumer of mathematics, I want to attack the author’s idea of “what that work was meant to achieve in the first place”. I do a lot of programming that uses mathematics. I designed the error recovery file format “par2”. I worked
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by mdnahas 11d ago
A businessman I talked to said that United is investing in smaller airplane manufacturers in hopes of breaking the Boeing-AirBus duopoly. Thus, giving commitments here and to Boom Supersonic.
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by mdnahas 15d ago
I just looked at Strawberry. Spotify is done via a GStreamer plug-in. It looks like you have to compile it yourself.
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by mdnahas 17d ago
I know someone who calls it “Scamerica”. One cause is Congress not doing its job for 30 years. The other is the advertising funding model - website users are not the customers. Therefore, websites - especially news sites - aren’t delive
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by mdnahas 18d ago
During Trump 1.0, retaliatory tariffs were targeted at swing states. E.g., on Harley-Davidsons manufactured in Wisconsin. The goal was to make it politically painful to the president and undermine his reelection chances. I imagine Carney
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by mdnahas 18d ago
Economist here. Yes! Politicians choose to promote certain economists. I’m tired of answering questions about Modern Monetary Theory, which Bernie Sanders chose to promote. The creator is from an economics department ranked 259th. It’s
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by mdnahas 20d ago
AI helps with computation. The closest historical analogies are gears and vacuum-tubes/transistors. Technologies seem to be adopted wider and faster now. See smartphone adoption rates. I agree the transition will happen quickly. Wa
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by mdnahas 20d ago
It’s a great insight and fun to think about. Perfect for HN. If I put on my academic-paper-reviewer hat, I’d probably ask: what does that insight get us? What knowledge can we pull from databases into compilers? If we convert compiler&#x
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by mdnahas 1mo ago
I host a parallel translation of the original book on Peano’s Axioms. If you have comments on either the Latin or English translation, they’d be very welcome! (My 2 years of high school Latin from a Latin-Mass priest is helpful, but insuff
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by mdnahas 1mo ago
As someone with an Italian grandmother and both a CS and Econ degree, I got a great laugh out of this joke! Bravo!
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by mdnahas 1mo ago
Not in dr_scully’s reply is that his thesis says haemoglobin is not static. Blood flow to the skin can vary over time.
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by mdnahas 1mo ago
A German woman told me about her trip to Ireland: She tried to buy a bus ticket from the driver, like she did at home. But, in Ireland, you have to buy it at the station. The driver pulled up next to the station and said, “Run in there a
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by mdnahas 2mo ago
My worry is learning and innovation. When companies sold physical devices, other companies could learn from them and improve them. We invented patents to provide economic support for innovation. But, with services, nothing is exposed.
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by mdnahas 2mo ago
Economist here. There are 3 parties and I’d focus on the investor’s perspective. The investor gives money to the intermediary company that signs a contract with the using company. If the contract fails, the intermediary still has the
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by mdnahas 2mo ago
Economist and former trader here. I did a quick skim and this market is badly structured. According to Claude, the method use to compute the prices for large sales is based on experts who use the activity on a small spot market, the detai
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by mdnahas 3mo ago
My definition of a cult is a group where members don’t trust people outside the group. We have a lot of news sources saying that we should not trust other news sources. Especially statements like “that other news source lied once, so you
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by mdnahas 3mo ago
I read “Enlightenment Now” and it is full of beautiful graphs of quality of life over time improving. More GDP, less hunger, longer life spans. There was one odd graph. It showed that rising GDP lead to more happiness in every country exc
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by mdnahas 3mo ago
My father designed processors. He says all electronics are analog. Some just pretends to act digital.
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by mdnahas 3mo ago
Another suggestion: update an estimate of words known after every word. E.g. start out with a range of 0 to 170,000. Then after the first word, show 100 to 170,000. Etc. Users get drops of information and can stop whenever they feel.
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by mdnahas 3mo ago
My father worked at Bell Labs. He said the rules of the monopoly signed with the US govt drove innovation. AT&T, which operated Bell Labs, could charge cost plus a fixed percentage, but it was based on costs from N years earlier.
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by mdnahas 3mo ago
I live in Austin and, in 2018, I could go west and pass through 4 districts in a few miles. My own one you would exit and re-enter and exit again! I actually made jigsaw puzzles to advocate against gerrymandering. They were difficult to
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by mdnahas 3mo ago
I have warm memories of splitting wood at my uncle’s with a sledge hammer and wedge. It is that right mix of physical activity (but not too much) and a little brain work. Great to do early while my aunt is making breakfast. Advice: WEAR S
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by mdnahas 3mo ago
I am interested in your opinion of Southwest Airlines. It had a very specific culture and acted differently than most USA-based airlines. But it was recently bought and changed to behave like all the other airlines. Was that a good thin
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by mdnahas 4mo ago
To be pedantic, the S&P 500 is a large portion of the stock market, not the economy. Its value is about 75% of the value in stocks. But stocks are only 25% of all stores value. Real estate is twice the size of the stock market.
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by mdnahas 4mo ago
Vanguard’s VTI uses an index designed by CRSP. I read the rules and, best I can tell, CRSP indices will add the stocks at the next rebalancing in September. (FWIW, CRSP was run by U of Chicago, but they recently sold it to Morningstar.)
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by mdnahas 4mo ago
Vanguard doesn’t use S&P, because they wanted low fees and the license was expensive. They use CRSP’s index rules. I checked and it looks like new stocks get added to the CRSP index at the next rebalancing, which is September. So, ev
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by mdnahas 4mo ago
I tried to send an SD card loaded with free data (Wikipedia, dictionaries, books, etc.) to a refugee camp in Bangladesh that had no good internet connection. Tried twice with USPS. Neither letter was received.
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Trump's IRS "settlement" is not limited to $1.776B [video](youtube.com)
6 points by mdnahas 4mo ago|1 comments
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by mdnahas 4mo ago
Legal Eagle does legal analysis on YouTube. They looked at the recent “settlement” between Trump and the IRS. They determined that it is not legal, is not limited to $1.776 (as a press release stated), and does not require disclosure of

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