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I think Greenspan called it hedonics.

Isn't that when the Fed stepped into the reverse repo market in order to allow the banks to extend and pretend?

Using Euro's apparently.

After typing in the program, I found that single stepping the program in a debugger greatly helped with understanding.

I'm sensing a pattern here. Weren't foreign made grid tied inverters just banned?

I remember something similar happening where software was going to be outlawed from export: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann After a report from RSA Security, who were…

We could only book our business travel through American Express. It must have made economic sense at the c suite level, I wasn't seeing it at my level, the flights were consistentl…

I remember going to a university as a high schooler in the 80's and being amazed to see the GUI of an Apple computer, and the mouse pointer would change to an hour glass while wait…

Windows 3.11 was pretty unstable, because it wasn't using protected mode. I remember how unstable the Macs were back then too before the introduction of OSX. Applications also had …

We used Proakis in grad school. For undergrad we used: Communication Systems by Simon Haykin

I've watched youtube videos where the farmer is complaining that his million dollar combine has to do a regen cycle. Each hour that machine is running is costing the farm hundreds …

I know that I trust products from Costco being good quality, I'm less likely to regret my purchase decision. I've been burned with stuff I got on Amazon being crappy.

Just got a window air conditioner on the Costco web site, delivered to the home. That was 25% cheaper than in the store.

I used mine in Iceland too. It was one of the cheaper places to eat there. Still expensive though compared to the USA. I heard that the Costco hot dog and a soda is still $1.50 in …

For top if you use the > character it will sort by memory usage. I use that sometimes to figure out why my host is becoming laggy. Also you'll see swapd is taking up CPU.

That would require an energy market with spot prices that incentivize the buildout.

Maybe mix it with cat nip. My Mom used to have to mix medicine in with the pig's feed. They were very good at eating around the medicine. To get around that she would prepare a con…

One thing I've learned with concrete recently is that the drum mixer is less efficient than the mud mixer. For the drum mixer you prepare batches, the consistency between batches m…

I think the Athenians named our current system an oligarchy. Selection by lot would take a lot of the corrupting influence of money out of the system too. There would need to be sa…

Giving birth to future tax payers should confer sizable tax deductions for the parents. I'm not sure that's enough to reverse the demographic slide though, it's been tried. For our…

Price should send a signal to manufacturers to build more capacity. I wonder if they will though, it takes quite a bit of time, and it's not certain that the demand will continue t…

I wonder if this creates opportunity for spinning up competitors to these PE owned companies. If they are underinvesting in their products in order to extract value eventually thei…

I'm not sure it's quite as clean cut as you say. FPGA's have a 10x penalty in area due to the extra routing wires they need. Also, it seems like the node that Xilinx has been using…

The issue with Venus and Mars is that there is no magnetosphere. Over geological time periods the hydrogen is slowly lost into space. All that CO2 in the atmosphere could become H2…