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Nice tool, but the calculator executes division before exponentiation. E.g. 2^4/2 is evaluated to 4, not 8. However, it executes exponentiation first before multiplication (e.g. 2^…

Indonesia's government also implemented this exact policy in 1950. The policy was called "Gunting Sjafruddin" or "Sjafruddin Cut" after the minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara. Not s…

Oops I messed the formatting for the example. Here we go: 24feb 12.5 cash food eating out at xx 6.5 bank1 phonebill 25feb ...

I've been using hledger for two years now, and I don't use any exported data from my banks. Here's my workflow: Everytime I make a transaction, I put a note on my phone. The note i…

I also just use Vim to write markdowns, but without any markdown plugins (beside the built-in markdown syntax highlighting in Vim) and I compile the document to pdf manually using …

I haven't checked the podcast, but the YouTube channel has uploaded some videos featuring him pretty recently, which I found to be very amusing.

Also IIRC much of the "trade" created by free trade agreements are not trade at all, but movements of goods internal to a company (e.g. US companies produce goods in a factory in M…

What if we require that every $1 spent by someone on a political ad must also be balanced by a $1 subsidy for the opponents' ads? Seems fair to me and would reduce the impact of mo…

In addition, the market makers gain profit from this activity by buying at a slightly lower price than the selling price.

The first settlers of Madagascar are also Austronesians, came from Borneo between 350 BC and 550 AD [1]. If you look at a world map you can see just how far those two islands are. …