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by native_samples 4y ago
Sure. We're well into "Hard to make a man understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding it" territory here. The more interesting question is, if you incentives are strong enough to want to deny the natur
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"government spending causes inflation is a pretty mainstream ideological precept - the opposite opinion is fringe." Hoo boy. "the current Fed chair, Jerome H. Powell, has dismissed claims that the Fed’s money-printing is f
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It's not much different. The primary reason why cryptocurrency aims for a limited supply is to eventually remove the politics around who gets newly created money. Friedman couldn't have imagined cryptocurrency, so had to settle fo
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When banks issue mortgages, they don't decrease a number in their own accounts to balance it. The act of creating the mortgage itself creates new money out of thin air, the act of repaying it destroys the money again. This is fractiona
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It did cause inflation, but governments don't consider every price when calculating it. For instance the headline CPI rate doesn't include financial assets like equities, cryptocurrencies ... because "consumers" don&#x27
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It's worth remembering that the event that, uh, kickstarted their drive for unionization was the site's management banning a project that was raising money to support violence against conservatives (the actual physical kind, not w
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Well, these are measures of the money supply. If the Fed "prints" money, then M1/M2 go up to reflect that. And they went up a lot. M2 went up by 40%, M1 it's harder to say because they adjusted the definition exactly a
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by native_samples 4y ago
It's both. The money supply grew enormously to fund the Corona shutdowns. You can see it clearly on a graph of M2. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS Such a fast increase in such a short amount of time is ex
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Nobody has argued that Twitter cannot ban people from their platform at will because of what they say. The argument has always been that it's a bad idea for them to do so for a whole variety of reasons: 1. The inevitable inconsiste
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The argument you're advancing here, though it may be popular with some kinds of lawyers, is tantamount to arguing that any discussion at all could be considered about working conditions. Once you start trying to classify the personal t
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But we're not talking an Austrian immigrant to Germany. We're talking about the UK. The UK wasn't in the Euro and it wasn't in Schengen. These are two of the most visible aspects of EU membership for ordinary people. The
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By exploiting people with views like yours, and by hiding the truth about it's own nature? Look at the EU for an example of how to do this. The hard core remainers are all convinced anyone who doesn't like the EU is brainwashed, r
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"It's why I felt the Brexit argument about sovereignty and being forced into things was so spurious. The worst example of an EU rule we were 'forced into' I could find was some food labels (which BTW we still use).&quot
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One world government would be so ineffective, totalitarian and corrupt that it would be in a state of either constant uprising or permanent heavy handed suppression. It would definitely not be "peaceful" except in the sense that a
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"One planet" is a slogan without meaning because we're already one planet, so the reader is forced to interpret it in the most likely way it was meant - as one world government. The mention of being super left wing, and the c
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They aren't seeking asylum as evidenced by the number of places they could have stopped beforehand.
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"I am an outsider on the topic, but wouldn't such a stark change of the political landscape as Brexit be a really valid reason to ask the question again?" You could argue that, but, the nationalists never did. Instead they
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I don't quite recall. IIRC it was an hour maybe, so it wasn't like the builds were extremely slow, but it means people didn't want to run the tests locally, so if you're trying to get your work committed and then there&#
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I think it's just that the very largest codebases are the most likely to end up depending on obscure bugs in Ruby or the surrounding ecosystem itself, or maybe features that basically nothing ever uses except that one file buried deep
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Words like "corrupt" have pretty specific meanings. Amazon doesn't rise to that level, not even close. Even "bad" is a very debatable thing - obviously its customers don't think so. Unions that are outright thr
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But actual attempts at socialism always require authoritarianism which is why it's never worth distinguishing them. Sweden isn't actually socialist, that's some US idea that would get you laughed at in Europe itself. Sweden i
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You're assuming giving away money philanthropically is easy! It's not. If you do it wrong you end up giving all your money to grifters and outright fraud. Look at the disaster the lockdown "loans" turned into in most cou
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These days TruffleRuby can run Ruby at incredible speeds. It unfortunately can't run really huge apps at the scale of GitLab though.
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He mentions gitaly in the blog post.
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A lot of teams use tools that can do this sort of thing OK out of the box. I've set up CI to only run affected tests and use incremental builds in the past. My current project has incremental CI. The core problem is actually dev teams.
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It's probably the predictability and bounded costs that help. I've been on both sides of this. I've been on projects with tech debt, but I've also had lots of experiences where new developers join a project and immediat
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"he's admitted mistakes, and has not lost the trust of most Americans" Has he? Which mistakes? I've never seen him admit any of the actual big mistakes like: - Lockdowns didn't work (now the position of the German
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Well, they have "business WhatsApp" and now the infrastructure is built out and the apps are mature, I really wonder how much investment it actually takes. WhatsApp was a famously lean operation. Maybe 50 people at the time it was
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What social costs? I'm a nobody on the internet. Although outside of HN I've posted things about COVID and the failures of public health, they had little impact because I'm not a part of that community. As a consequence: 1. I
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Thank you!

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