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if anyone is watching I got annoyed at transient downvotes on this and i'm tired of getting annoyed at websites so i'm burning 12395 internet points and locking myself out of my ac…

i would have you explain your sentence because it describes the concept of "reporting" as making an inference and i am no longer clear about how to interpret the words structurally…

In principle, fiscal policy (taxing, spending) can substitute with monetary policy to some extent, and achieve many of the same goals, yes! But you'd be hard-pressed to find an eco…

Eh, there's not necessarily anything illegal about your streaming platform showing video of illegal activities.

Network firewall virtualization certainly could be built on top of a new microkernel in Rust, such as this one, and it may gain some benefits in correctness — but looking at its si…

> By that logic US persons can't use Ethereum at all. Entirely possible. > There's too much American money invested in Ethereum for any government agency to even seriously consider…

No. No it doesn't.

People are great. Each person has intrinsic dignity and worth. Economic studies on safety and medicine spending and the like show us the demonstrated value of the lived experience …

I do like that in this piece they call that out specifically and highlight the magnitude of what it would take to really move the needle on that (spending a double-digit percentage…

Okay, you've convinced me. Now how about the month after that?

We've had many years of 0% rates and 2%ish inflation. A return to that status quo ante isn't exactly crushingly tight monetary policy. But perhaps inflation will fall before we hit…

Yeah, this isn't just a one-time transient price spike that happened months ago. August fuel prices fell a lot (10.6%), a gift! — but core inflation erased all that progress, with …

… do you have the definition of “real” and “nominal” backwards? Real wages are down. Specifically: prices are up 8.26%, and the raise was more like 5.5% ish. People can afford less…

Right now, in the Year of our Lord 2022, the BLS says wages are down 2.8% year over year. Maybe some people can negotiate a raise to meet inflation, but society overall just isn’t …

Not officially . In practice, it might as well have been. Likewise East Germany.

Eh, we’re not at serious risk of hyperinflation here. We are at risk of regular old plain vanilla inflation, which is adequately obnoxious and harms real wages plenty. As a net deb…

You know what? You want to talk down Citizens United the organization, say I’m playing them as too scrappy and they’re really big money? … be my guest. But don’t use your personal …

It’s the same old “personhood” fiction for doing things in groups that’s been around since Dartmouth College vs Woodward, which is over 200 years at this point. Corporations are al…

RAM.

You do understand that the computers they use for cloud-based deep learning have GPUs in them, right?

Clearly.

It puts a computer in my computer? So I can compute while I compute?

Also, if you miss the fog, both Skyline and US-1 in that part of the world are absolutely gorgeous.

They definitely have jpeg-upload capabilities so that your patrons can read the advance copy of the webcomic or the bonus materials or whatever probably video of some sort too

Not belonging in the parks and not being in the parks are two different things, though.