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People have been saying that since before Clinton got in office.
Catastrophic inflation from government spending has been just around the corner for 40 years now. The 1970s were an odd time for many reasons, and they won't repeat again. But for some reason too many people base their predictions of the future from what happened between 1974 to 1984.
If anything errors in floating point numbers are graceful and give you a lot of leeway before they become catastrophic. Fixed point works until you hit 2(n-1) bits then probably breaks unexpectedly. Where n is the last exponent you have seen in business.
Economics is only allowed a free reign so long as it meets the goals of those currently in power in a given political unit.
Try selling nuclear technology to Iran if you don't think that it applies to the US as much as to China.
Doing it strategically to prevent a nuclear war 30 years down the line is the lesser of two evils.
Exchange value is most often price, but it is in reality the vector of the equivalent amount of goods and services you will receive for a unit of some good or service.
The point of money is that it collapses all exchange values to two vectors, one for selling to money, one for buying with money.
The downside of money is that it hides many very obvious relationships. In a topical case, that the cost of video cards has essentially stayed constant when expressed as etherium units.
tl;dr: money lets you calculate prices as n, exchange values needs n^2.
As simple example: the British supported the German chemicals industry prior to WWI.
At the start of WWI, the money the British spent had been turned into German chemical expertise. This lead to the development of the Haber process, poison gas, and generally making Germany a powerhouse in chemicals in the same way Britain was in mechanical manufacturing.
If a tariff had been put in place on German imports to Britain the German chemical industry would have been much smaller, with much less capability and WWI would have finished in 6 months because Germany would have run out of nitric acid for their explosives.
After all it's only numbers in a bank account.
Sounds like a solid reason why makefiles are great to me then.
Vim is so good it finally is letting emacs-OS have a real editor.
Why is anyone surprised? The only shocking thing about this bubble is that it took 3 years.
Currently it isn't there so we have a while yet.
What worked in the article?
It only says the battery supplied less than 2% of the lost power for about 5 seconds before regular power generators took over.
[[Citation needed.]]
How much was the shortfall?
How long could the battery have sustained the shortfall?
How much damage would there have been at the usual response time?
How what is the ROI without government subsidy to building huge battery storage?
Given that even in good years a large portion of the population was malnourished in whatever time period you want to pick before the middle of the 20th century, the rich were always better off than the poor and rich families were better than poor ones.
An every day analogy: saying a river can never flood because there it has a big dam.
Read no further than the histories of nobles and their feuds and murders to see how bad the best families were.
Abstract: A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
Look at how much constant violence and bullying there is between any siblings when an adult isn't around to stop it.
The code is available. I'm pretty sure the tor project would have noticed it.
Pretty much every site on the internet does that.
Why are we spending 500 replies and all this developer time on an issue that if done by, say google on their home page, would be considered at best a fun little doodle at worst business as usual?
If anything the major distributions are defined by their package managers, of which there is a large and healthy number - aptitude, dnf, pacman, protage, and a heap of weird and wonderful other ones with minuscule usage.
Look at arxiv.org, that papers there are made purely by academics from start to finish and are already publication grade (if not better).
Say you have a mission to Uranus, you will need a mirror with 400 times the area of the solar cells to get as much power as they would in earth orbit.