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This only really works if the hirer has used latex themselves. If you know you know.

I’ll often ask “what are the problems with doing X?”. It doesn’t imply that there should be a solution but you still want to learn why it might not work. Often you can continue the…

Anyone who is capable of getting a second mortgage will consider holding it and renting it out if they can. The yield is very likely to be higher than the payments these days.

Sure, but they could have sold off a lot of their long term assets earlier instead. To me, the problem was not an outright lack of hedges, rather it was continuing to take too much…

Why would they hedge? They would lose pretty much all of the return that they were getting by going long duration. The problem is that their portfolio was too long duration, not a …

Tarmak is what finally allowed me to switch away from QWERTY. Prior to tarmak I couldn’t deal with the massive productivity loss that I would initially encounter with Dvorak and I …

These cultural differences may even depend on where you are in the US. Nearly every apartment building around me in Seattle has a name. Much of this is for marketing I’m sure, but …

This is the idea behind www.betfair.com (not the cryptocurrency/smart contract bit tho).

I agree. Amazon also absolutely wants to encourage behaviour where you don’t even think before buying, so scammy listings like this are hurt their strategy. The fact that they late…

I’m pretty surprised by Amazon’s reaction to them. This is clearly a rip-off transaction, and Amazon has always been pretty customer friendly with me.

You would still want to leave on read caching. You can still turn off write caching on your disks with hdparm.

Well, taxing something means you’ll usually get less of it, so I guess it’ll reduce demand on housing (probably not what they want since it hurts the economy in other ways). If the…

They will, of course, make their seinorage whether they are physical notes/coins, or added to the money supply via some bits on a disk.