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Yes, probably true. Those (cars, housing, renovations, education) are things financed by debt and can continue rising. But I suspect they are conveniently down-weighted from the CP…

Consumer price inflation won't rise unless a relevant proportion of consumers get more money to spend. There should be enough slack behind all goods in the cpi basket that disrupti…

> They get extra visibility + traffic clicks from Google -- but also want to be paid for it?!? Visibility is not a meaningful "reward" for established European newspapers (they are…

It's not intended to be read as instructions on how to be promoted. It is directed as much to managers and higher levels so they understand the boundaries and expectations. One bas…

The reason this simulation is so inaccurate relative to reality, is that it's assuming the only basis for individuals' decisions are government policies. In the beginning everyone …

It can depend on what the agent "sees" and how many time-steps away the "consequences" are. If the ghosts are so far away that any action will take t time-steps before consequences…

An app with it's own icon and login is a much more "sticky" presence than a web page that the user must navigate to. It can add notices and alerts to the phone.

The total IFR is essentially an exponential function of the age and health distribution in the population. Without specifying the population further, many numbers can be correct. W…

Images from an inspection show rusty water leaking out of the parking garage roof. They mention "standing water". So the reinforcement steel was in various stages of decay.

This exemplifies how housing is a depreciating consumer good, not an "investment" like owning land. But the time-scale of depreciation is on the order of human lifetimes, and since…

Tink started as a clone of Mint through data-sharing with Swedish banks. This was probably enabled by shared ownership somehow.

It seems the easiest and coolest way to make a watertight case would be to plug the usb-port with hot-glue and then pot the assembled board in resin (epoxy/polyurethane). Either pi…

> You are responsible for the success and the growth of the people who report to you. You must deeply understand and know your people. Not sure about this at all. I'm more attracte…

It would have to be in steps: Add Xn+1: create new views without column. When no Xn clients remain: drop column from tables and drop schema Xn. The point as I see it is to not brea…

Views are equivalent to "query templates" unless for example they do operations on subquery aggregate columns (for example group by sum().) So views don't add complexity relative t…

The point here is to do migrations live while clients randomly connect and stay connected for random time. When all old clients have disconnected, the old schema can be removed. Th…

I think the European equivalents of faangs were killed in the dotcom bubble. These business models were probably considered "toxic" by investors in the 2000s because of dotcom trau…

One real world use-case of ~HE is blind auctions, where no one can see the bids. Electronic voting is tangential. Encrypted storage for random cloud services should be at least dec…

If a game has strong positions and weak positions, then these positions may have different tactics. "Offensive" or "defensive" etc. This reads to me as "tactics for those in winnin…

The reason this happens is not because "large organizations move slowly" or "interoperating with old systems is difficult". Rather, it's because the people who are directly respons…

Could the process not delete the row, and not commit until it has finished processing? Otherwise, the transaction is rolled back when the db connection ends. This would not require…

I'd be curious to see services designed to run as PID 1 inside containers, and contain or run nothing else other than the required binaries. Maybe someone is doing this.

From the chart: Moderna evaluated in adults 18-55 (N=15) AZ evaluated in adults 18-55 (N=41) and 56+ (N=62). So yeah. Ok.

I suspect the background is the app is showing html-views rendered on the server, and they are sharing as much infrastructure as possible. To make it easier on the app team. If the…

"The reward system on the corporate ladder has become inextricably attached to a kind of professional abuse - that the only way to rise within a company is to be able to 'take cont…