learning the heated rivalry author lives in nova scotia and i do wonder if thats a non negligible part of gdp

this is unbeatable finance posting holy

Before people get up in arms, this is literally Canada's policy

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US economic forecast is that its going to be pretty okay or really bad depending on what happens

Looking up the period from 2002-2003 and realizing they were terrified about deflation because core CPI started falling and i think things are about to get weird

if output and inflation are higher, but unemployment rising thats a weird one right

Not for the first time, you're left wondering why Staley fought in court to distance himself from Epstein www.ft.com/content/cff3...

Good article on China - every developing Asian economy has gone through an economic crisis as they reach the limits of growth via heavy investment and exports. I guess the question is how fast the switch to consumption is and therefore how deep the recession is. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

the lord of the rings is a Christmas trilogy

did we ever find out what happened there? i assume it was an accident, or that someone just let it slip

this is somehow worse than bitcoin in that a worse group of libertarians can cash out

I both colby and pompeo love this exact line. all the far right dudes are like "europe weak. if they cant hold we will" type stuff

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Inshallah this is the year we finally destroy that hyperborean interloper colloquially known as "Santa Claus"

Neither here nor there but if you hear mic mac, its pronounced more like mig maw. I notice a lot of UK history doing this but they teach you about it early on here

so like is life in that galaxy kind of fucked long term? Kind of love hate the idea of being one of the solar systems in the wake thats just flung on its own

this is one of the cool things happening is just taking kind of empty and sad commercial and slapping down like 1000 units and its awesome

This is actually insane and i think will go down like a lead balloon

I think some people think its silly to include canada/greenland here but i really think you need to look at the rhetoric of like claremont freaks, tucker carlson and rufo. They genuinely see our social policy as something to be eliminated and have been advocating using US powers to do so

Would be cool!

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I was listening to bloomberg's credit edge and the credit PM on there said "you can get effective rate of 9% on munis" and it blew my mind

We're going to have the whole "AI is what shady companies do, ML is what researchers do" as a conversation at some point. and i wish people could just say they hate the companies rather than pretend they know things about ML

its not great™️ that the US' stated aim is to control greenland. But also that everyone is slowly working on "takeover greenland" "takeover canada" policy in the background

Also the wikipedia page on the first notable artificial neuron paper is really well done in the context section

Okay lot of AI discourse but theres a guy who has convinced himself LLMs arent neural nets because LLMs "are statistical machines with no context" and its kind of beautiful

is the toronto accent thing real? I swtg the times i visited there pre covid nobody spoke like this

“The US interception of the Centuries highlights that even vessels which do not appear on the US sanctions list are vulnerable to seizure if they carry a cargo of sanctioned oil.”

The alternatives the bluesky being this or mastodon are not great. And im old and find discord confusing

Yeah i dont know how exactly we do it, but AI researchers consistently getting all waves of hate nonstop anytime something exits their orbit is not great

think there as supposed to be patrols with some of these

I kind have a very limited patience for a lot working unions these days that have exceptionally well paid members idk

runner up is plywood and modern concrete. I keep seeing stuff online like "these new houses couldnt last for 100 years". I have a 75 year old house. Its foundation is weak and the floors are unwell

drywall and 2x4s are easily the most under-appreciated modern invention. signed, once again, by someone breaking into rock lathe

This article is being breathlessly shared as evidence of further surrender on climate but the sentiment here is just straightforwardly correct?

Once again bringing up that i was really optimistic about these being able to bring things like code and structured data to the masses, and it turned out that didnt really work at all

So based

Yes. You need an ideology because that is what allows you to make decisions and choose between trade-offs.

Forget WAR we can scientifically show which candidate has higher "have a beer with" colinearity

I wonder if you could like find a person embedding space in modern LLMs

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What is the point of writing this thing

This does not have an immediate effect for common devices. Apple, Microsoft and Google each operate their own NTP servers (synchronized with GPS and other sources, and using their own atomic clocks), and other devices use the ntp.org pool.

Shoutout to the dipshits in kentucky who said we were being mean to them

Once again, hes on it

Also just seeing some discourse, and we should probably teach people eventually that europe had homogeneity post-WW2 for bad reasons, not because it was static and fixed beforehand. Nice bit in KCD2 game is that you know, you meant germans, poles, etc chilling in the same settlements

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This had pretty interesting implications for a lot of geopolitics if it comes true! And presumably also credit markets out there