micah94

Remember the T-Bills are the very very short-term side. A lot of things can affect the short term side. I mean when Powell opens his mouth he moves those interest rates. It's the only side of this quadrillion dollar market that they can control and manipulate. And they brag about it (the fed does) I think Buffett is a reluctant holder. I take him at his word on this. He's not some closeted "bond king" or anything... He sees the equities market as too expensive. He's been pretty consistent with that view.

Surely this is sarcasm. You'd prefer a drunk person getting into a Tesla with FSD vs. an attentive and alert person driving (anything else)? I'm sorry but being drunk and getting behind the wheel, that's an automatic fail. I don't care what you're driving. You shouldn't be behind that wheel in a position of responsibility when you are under the influence. I include 'thinking the Tesla will just handle it' as under the influence.

This is a profound statement.

These are the games bankers play. The answer is both.

I thought this little gem was going to be in the comments section of the article. Surely not in the article itself. Nope.

I remember years ago Penn Jillette talking about his book "Thinking Fast and Slow". And I was like why is a magician talking about a book written by an economist?? Well, read it and you'll understand why it fits so well with their brand of magic. Dr. Kahneman expresses in words what's going on in your brain while watching someone like them perform.

Why don't we get more round-a-bouts in America first before we start talking about a fourth light.

I'll concede I may have conflated the idea of money printing with reallocating existing funds. It's not clear where this money is going to come from. But I get suspicious whenever the govt just wants to hand out money. There are so many other programs handing out money. Why is this one going to be better?

It only addresses the demand side and not the supply side.

Putting more money into system doesn't add any additional goods. You only get the benefit if you are among the first to get the money because you will be able to bid up the price putting the person without the extra money at a price disadvantage --or-- you get the product(s) first leaving others to go without.

The fear is in extreme cases, this can lead to inflation and/or empty shelves.

Maybe with something like donuts, the baker has plenty of dough and will hire more and create more to meet the demand. Or maybe you have no control over your raw materials (like the price of OIL or some complex refining process) and can't make any more gasoline no matter how much money your customers have.

THIS. You have to see it ALL as nothing more than entertainment. They have to fill 24 hours of non-stop talk. They are going to talk about trading. Then say "No one can time the market". This is like a comedian with a step-up and punch line. You should do this and you should do that. But "Don't fight the Fed". It's one joke after another. And you should see it as such. It's fun to learn the lingo. But any real investments you have should not be determined by what these people say.

I think the point is this new product is coming out that requires dev support, but they are at the same time pushing devs away with the new EU app store rules. So this is going to work against the Vision Pro being successful.

what about just because it looks nice? people like nice things.

Looks like Amazon has flagged whatever this link used to point to. Trying to decipher from the comments, but my HN-fu is failing me!

Silly article. Lots of talk about big numbers. Keep in mind a billion doesn't necessarily buy you the same as it did when Microsoft started. So large part of these numbers is just due to inflation. Also taxes will take a huge chunk. And what would happen to MS stock if he actually started to dump a bunch of it? It would tank and he'd never realize all those gains.

Yes, I'm jealous.

Man, these articles come out every once in a while. I'm in this camp. My own email server going on 25 years. I'm also responsible for the email of other businesses as well. And maybe that's the difference? I'm getting paid to understand the nuances in mail delivery? But it's a chore no doubt. I never plan on stopping. EMail is TOO IMPORTANT. I don't have any secret formula other than be reachable. Read your email to postmaster@domain, sign up for all the Postmaster Feedback loops. I have two major issues (which have lessened over time) 1) you have to slow-deliver mail to gmail/comcast/yahoo/hotmail or you will get deferred very quickly. 2) users getting their passwords hacked leading to spam delivery. But I catch that automatically these days with a script that checks the IP of the connection. Too many successful connections from Pakistan within a minute gets the account disabled. It's kept me off blacklists for years.

They keep rehashing stuff. I've heard Mr. Pope say this many times over many years, but it's never been the subject of an ENTIRE news article. It seems to suggest that if we could just get our leaders to stop believing in this silly "God" thing and start believing they are little green men from Mars instead, we could finally make real progress!

These files had to be named terrapin-mitigation.conf to work for me.

I think you just wrote the prompt right there. Step 2. ???? Step 3. PROFIT!

I never thought about it like that... And to think, I learned this by...reading.

I prefer to think of everything being alive rather than life not existing.

I'm in this boat. Was finally forced to use it to get Facebook login working.

See Adam Neumann (WeWork) as an example of how to pull this off.

Also keep in mind many documentaries film in what are essentially zoos (large animal sanctuaries). Sometimes this is revealed in the show, but other times you have no idea. They get shots out in the serangheti but then cut back to a close-up of a cheetah inside a sanctuary.

Same. Buying a car is a significant purchase for me and I only do it when I'm able to get a deal and mainly buy used. 2020 was ridiculous. I basically named my price.

cool silence?

You can also raise/lower domains in kagi. So if you're a python developer, you can boost docs.python.org to personalize your results.

Looking at the cost spent back then vs. what this startup is getting, it doesn't seem like the JetZero guys have even a remote shot at making this happen.

Is there enough lithium in the ground to make enough batteries for all these cars?

Snowden only released data on projects that were no longer active. He did that deliberately. I personally believe it's the reason he's still alive. A bit inconvenienced but still above-ground.

My issue has always been with the large megaton granite slabs inside the pyramids that you can't even see. They placed these things high up above chambers and rooms like lego pieces.