kristjansson

Mainstream economics argues that the market tends toward equilibrium, not that it equilibrates instantly, and that the structure of specific markets controls the speed of that process. Modern semicond…

This is an interesting take. I think it's clearly unethical to destroy production as a price support for human essentials. Industry shouldn't incinerate insulin, dump milk[1], trash food, …

> ...and what makes you think AMD and others are not going to try the same thing? Overwhelming competitive pressure? AMD and Intel may be a duopoly on x86 parts, but Apple Silicon has proved, and A…

Intel can make parts to fit a SKU by (a) sorting them based on what elements are working when they come off the proverbial press, (b) physically disabling working elements, or (c) disabling working el…

Of course it derives from Edsel Ford's fortune, but that does not imply that the foundation advances the interests of Ford the company. Per the foundations history[1], it fully divested its stak…

Exactly, the point of the comment being that generous defined benefit pension schemes probably aren’t some paneceal solution that capital is now withholding, but that they were at best a burden and at…

One wonders about the actuarial assumptions made by your uncle’s former employer and how, or if, they expected to meet that obligation.

Not public, but gyms/athletic clubs fit this description in some cities. If you have a private, permanent locker at a gym/club close to your office, you can stash clothes, equipment etc. to…

AFAIK, git-annex doesn't address address sub-file deduplication/compression at all, it just stores a new copy for each new hash it sees? I suppose that content-addressed storage, combined…

This should describe commits for a normal PR workflow too though - each commit is the smallest deployable unit with a meaningful title and description. I guess squashing merges by default allows /…

The benefit side of that equation is the perpetuation of human society, so it’s worth some investment. Humans and economies aren’t cost minimizers, they’re utility maximizers.

Even accepting the tradeoff you posit, the basis of this argument seems to be that given the choice between guaranteed maternity leave and marginally higher expected pay, women should prefer the latte…

> Funding from those programs often can be combined with financial gifts from your family and friends to reduce your out-of-pocket costs to buy a home. I mean, I get the point of saying that (fundi…

Key, unchallenged assumptions: the Apple ad purely cannibalizes what would otherwise be a first party brand click or organic click, and targeted clickers are as (or less) likely to eventually convert …

The worlds first onomatopoeic bug.

Notably, none of the the algorithms tested in the cited study are Apple's NeuralHash, or comparable algorithms. They look at aHash, pHash (plus a variant thereof), dHash, and and PDQ (used at Fa…

The argument is that the monetary policy response to the pandemic caused the demand shock, so seems unlikely that it would have been predicted ex ante.

fzf[0] + per-directory-history[1] fill exactly this niche for me. ^R always shows the all commands run in the current directory, ordered by recency (and filterable). [0]: https://github.co…

We could have bakeries, small groceries, etc. within _walking_ distance right now, if zoning allowed them to be integrated into residential areas, and people didn't expect parking. Would that we…

One of the riskier aspects of e-bikes is the subversion of other road-user expectations. If I see someone on (what appears to be) a bike, feet on pedals, (apparently) coasting, a few decades of bikin…

It's instructive to recall that the original use case for Prophet at FB was 'good enough' forecasts for a large number of time series. Both the modeling choices and interface are optim…

It’s pretty prominently branded on the physical card.

ESS is truly a gateway drug.

And those aren't just ways to switch buffers - they're options on a 'select among choices' dimension that's totally orthogonal to 'things that generate choices to select&…

> except it doesn't address the dependencies It does if you put them all in the zip :) (and build for exactly the platform your customer is going to deploy on)

Only insofar as demand is elastic and sufficient substitutes are available? An exogenous shock like that (a famine/blight, a war) can obliterate the market's ability to clear over the short-…

Fair enough. Like the sibling says, checking the moral equivalent of [ -t 0 ] probably distinguishes enough interactive vs non-interactive use to add an interactive-only default. I'd add that sc…

An apt-style 'hey here's what you going to do, confirm/deny' would be _great_ in homebrew

I never understand these complaints about homebrew. Of course, that's because I set export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 in my zshnev so long ago that I forgot about it, and just enjoyed a gr…

Maybe you want a physical KVM in between the two sources and the monitor? I tried to get a similar setup working locally (2 monitors, a macOS source and a Debian source, supporting all four input…