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Totally understandable! hah I did like three loops through the different definitions to straighten myself out before I got the confidence to reply back. Tricky and inconsistent def…

Looks like the bitcoin comment got killed, but I want to revive an interesting point at the heart of it: Big monetary swings like this do bolster the case for it as an inflation-re…

Great question! It does indeed. If you want to see, can click the gear in the upper right on the site. Then format. Then check the log box. No URL scheme, unfortunately, or I'd lin…

Three reasons often given: (1) Gives an incentive to deploy money. "Use it or lose it." This stimulates investment and consumption. (2) Some prices are "sticky down," like wages; p…

Absolutely! Countering the deflationary pressures to keep price levels stable (and fixed contracts reasonable), would be another way of looking at it, I think. They're doing their …

Doesn't M1 exclude bank reserves? Edit: Indeed. M1's definition: "M1 includes funds that are readily accessible for spending. M1 consists of: (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury…

Indeed! Definitely a good factor to know about, but there's also been a huge surge in things like Monetary Base (currency in circulation+reserves) [0]. Looks to me like there's a l…

Would Read the Docs suit your needs? https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Hey HN Friends, I'm posting this because I was shocked when I saw this graph. I hadn't previously appreciated just how much of an unprecedented explosion in the money supply there'…

My friend and I hacked on something like this for a while, and eventually got something pretty accurate for measuring heart rate. Shipped on iOS as [0]. It did indeed require a lot…

Fluffy, could I ask you to give a few more details about how you set this up? Sounds interesting!

Just wanted to say: This is the best, most thoughtfully worded mod guidance I’ve read anywhere on the web. Thank you!

We've tested across quite a few--and it should control for constant, weird lighting. But there are definitely edge cases that are hard to control for--a faint, pulsing red light wo…

Stanford requires such a course!

Counteracting some of the comments below: My experience using buckaroo in a large project over the past year has been extremely positive, and I'd say addresses most of the problems…

NVIDIA has mac drivers for their whole consumer line. For example https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/387/WebDriver-387.10.10.10...

My best experience with a build tool has been FB's Buck (buckbuild.com), half for it not limiting you to just C/C++, and half for buckaroo (buckaroo.pm) making installs of common p…

Any word on why the Stanford class is marked as closed to signups?