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sapling-ginger··on GDP is the wrong tool for measuring what matters (2020)
If I save 100% of my income, such that I get kicked out of my home, I can't go to work, can't buy food, and I starve to death, am I doing good financially?
sapling-ginger··on A chiral aperiodic monotile
Game graphics. Aperiodic tiling allows us to render a natural-looking surface using a minimal texture graphic file.
sapling-ginger··on One Day You'll Find Yourself
For people in the age group that commonly does this, they know which part of the sentence the interjection is likely to appear in, and their brain can automatically filter it out, so it doesn't bother them and they don't even see it as a problem.

This applies to all verbal interjection. You use some form of verbal interjection too, but of course you don't even notice that you are doing it, and you would also get angry if some other people told you that your speech pattern is stupid and that you should change how you naturally speak.

sapling-ginger··on Proposal: Less error-prone loop variable scoping
> Eh, loop variable scoping has bitten me a single digit number of times in the eleven years I’ve been using it.

Go ahead and ask them to remove this from the Frequently Asked Question section then.

https://go.dev/doc/faq#closures_and_goroutines

sapling-ginger··on Are There Price Asymmetries in the U.S. Beef Market? [pdf]
Sure, but those interviews cannot be included into a research paper. Because the moment you ask if what they say can be on-record, or if they can be named as the source of this statement. they would shut up.
sapling-ginger··on List of Citogenesis Incidents
>According to the maxim of relation (or relevance), a cooperative speaker should not convey any information that is not relevant in the context of the utterance

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-97...

sapling-ginger··on Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer
> When there are 5 elements, they follow 5 different guidelines:

Pixel-perfect alignment is not a hard rule. It's only for a list of homogenous items would they need to be aligned perfectly.

But when the elements are heterogenous, as the screenshot in your link refers to, the human brain does weird thing to what we see, and alignment has to be adjusted for it to "look right".

This is particularly well-known in font design, with things like variable ascender height, cap height, and kerning.

https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/cap_height

>Note that due to optical illusion, round and pointed capitals (for instance the O and A) will extend a little above the cap height to make them appear as tall as the flat-topped capitals.

sapling-ginger··on How to start a React Project in 2023
> there's almost no overhead

The runtime has to maintain a graph of those signals tree in memory at all time, no? Compared to React that can throw away the vdom after it finished the render.

sapling-ginger··on How to start a React Project in 2023
Svelte was released in 2016, it's 7 years old now. Year-to-year, it should match 2020 React.
sapling-ginger··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
Most of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet is Treasury securities. If the Treasury stops issuing those securities, then the Federal Reserve don't have anything to buy.

Saying that the Fed can arbitrarily create and destroy money misses the point, that they then have to buy SOMETHING with those money, and there are strict rules about what they can buy, and it just happens that the Treasury controls the supply of the primary asset class that the Fed is allowed to buy. Once you clear out all the dance and ceremony, you arrive at the conclusion that the Treasury issues new money by issuing new securities.

sapling-ginger··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
The private banking system can only multiply off of the monetary base up to a certain multiplier, it cannot expand that base. Only the government treasury can expand that monetary base.

If the private banks have conjured up 100x the monetary base in 1970, then when the population doubles by 2020, the banks cannot multiply further up to 200x. The treasury has to expand the base while the banks keep their multiplier fairly constant.

sapling-ginger··on Roku filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9B of cash, $487M is stuck at SVB
Switzerland has neither and China has both. Which one would you bank with?
sapling-ginger··on Growing crops under solar panels
Wool has a protective layer of grease, the same thing that makes your hair feels "greasy" if you don't wash your hair for a month. This grease is washed away during wool processing and sold as lanolin.

And also, the degradation that you see on sun-damaged clothing is mostly on the dye, not the underlying fabric itself.

sapling-ginger··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
> This maintains the invariant that money cannot be created or destroyed.

And if you wonder, if money cannot be created or destroyed, how does a monetary system handle the population tripling over the past 50 years?

The answer is national debt. The US national debt is just an artifact of this double entry bookkeeping. In order for there to be +money in the economy for the ever-growing number of citizens to do commerce with, the treasury incurs on itself -money. That's national debt.

The corollary then, if the US ever pays back all of its national debt, the economy will crash because there just aren't cash available for people to do commerce with. A +90trillion on the government balance sheet equals a -90trillion on the private sector balance sheet.

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