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mholyland··on YouTube's NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’ pricing: $72.99 per month and $349 per season
NFL Plus offers local and primetime streams for $5/season[0].

0. https://id.nfl.com/subscriptions/select/nflplus

mholyland··on U.S. bank lending slumps by most on record in final weeks of March
I've always thought that the Fed gets too much blame for the economy going badly, when all they can control is the interest rate and QE/QT. It's like an inverted pendulum PID problem[0] but with an unfathomable number of variables and stakes.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5GvwWKkBmg

mholyland··on U.S. bank lending slumps by most on record in final weeks of March
I was listening to Jim Cramer discuss it this morning, and he said the banks are nervous about lending out money/investing, in what is usually considered safe. Things like US treasuries or real estate. They are fearing a liquidity crunch.

I'm looking for a more concrete source.

edit: Found a source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h8/current/

mholyland··on Ask HN: Is it possible to compile TypeScript to Golang?
There are many languages with libraries that can use CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes)[0], but some popular languages that have it in the core libs are: Golang, Crystal and Clojure.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_pro...

mholyland··on The Federal Reserve is expected to increase interest rates by a quarter point
> It's never been clear to me why it's a good idea to continually adjust the rate, as opposed to picking an ideal target rate and trying to keep it relatively stable permanently.

That target rate depends on many things in the economy that the FED has no control over, so they adjust the knob as best they can predict, to stear the economy to their dual mandate.

They need to keep inflation low (around 2%) and employment high, but they don't control what the government does in terms of raising/cutting taxes, what world events do to supply, and production.

But you're right, it's a blunt knob to adjust when there are so many variables at play.

mholyland··on Internet Archive [archive.org] is down
Has anyone tried:

https://web.archive.org/web/https://archive.org/

mholyland··on Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside
Have you considered Crystal?

https://crystal-lang.org/

mholyland··on Functional programming is finally going mainstream
True. My use of the word "speed" is incorrect, or at least imprecise.

The parent comment claimed that immutable data structures are slow, because you would have to copy them around, an O(N) operation.

I wanted to know if they considered that operations on immutable structures can be done without copying, and have the same algorithmic complexity as the mutable data structures, if they used persistent data structures.

mholyland··on Functional programming is finally going mainstream
Are you considering the speed of persistent data structures, that have the same big-O as their mutable counterparts? [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure