yasp

4,555 karma · joined December 5, 2016

Nock doesn't have the notion of lambdas. The language xkapastel links does. Why doesn't Nock? No clue.

This is a reply to both you and OP, but I don't see what Urbit has to do with any government, its inventor's political opinions notwithstanding.

yasp··on Attorney General Barr Refuses to Release 9/11 Documents to Victims' Families

What's this?

yasp··on After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife

Michael Bloomberg is no longer a political candidate. This is about journalism.

yasp··on IBM will offer free COBOL training

> The bigger question is why does a COBOL dev accept work for 60k when they could make 120k in Javascript?

Structural unemployment due to ageism?

yasp··on The Global Dollar Short Squeeze

According to the article, it was published on February 26 (although archive.org didn't index it until just the other day). The Fed didn't announce new swap lines until three weeks later [0].

This is my first time learning of the Triffin Dilemma, so I'd be interested for you to comment on what about it is "obviously" incorrect. Wikipedia suggests this isn't a controversial notion.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-fed-sw...

yasp··on What learning tools/ strategies do you use alongside Anki?

The twenty rules of formulating knowledge is a good article about effective Anki strategies https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20ru...

I also like the image occlusion and incremental reading plugins

yasp··on I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH

Catalina also broke `apropos`. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/374025/errors-from...

yasp··on Russia deploying coronavirus disinformation to sow panic in West EU document say

> An EU database has recorded almost 80 cases of disinformation about coronavirus since Jan. 22, it said, noting Russian efforts to amplify Iranian accusations online, cited without evidence, that coronavirus was a U.S. biological weapon.

Why not mention that a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry is saying the same thing? [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823

yasp··on The Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26

(In non-exceptional circumstances, this would be via the discount window, which happens rarely in practice, due to stigma.)

yasp··on Ask HN: What are the best things that could come out of a coronavirus recession?

To the extent companies demand bailouts of the US government, they should come in the form of the US government purchasing equity (diluting existing shareholders) and then gifting it to the citizenry.

yasp··on Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets

Not an expert but I think the argument is that this is just swapping one asset (government securities) for another (central bank reserves). So, the working monetary base is not necessarily increasing.

yasp··on Oregon has first confirmed Covid-19 case

Do they? I didn't realize that.

Edit: This article suggests that ballots get mailed but that there are still physical polling places https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sluggish-mail-ballot...

yasp··on Oregon has first confirmed Covid-19 case

On Tuesday, California will be going to primary elections...

yasp··on Coronavirus and the blindness of authoritarianism

Italy banned direct flights from China, but not indirect flights.

yasp··on LEFFEST'19 Resistances – Virtuality of Resistance, Resistance in Virtuality

A conversation between Jacob Appelbaum and Juan Branco.

yasp··on Experts envision two scenarios if the new coronavirus isn’t contained

It works for me.

yasp··on Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims

My mind went to the same place.

yasp··on The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since October

Question for you, since you seem pretty knowledgeable. How does a HF lever up 10x+ using the repo market anyhow? Is this a typical leverage ratio for borrowing in the repo market? I'm guessing it's extremely rare for a UST to lose >10% of it's value overnight, which I guess would mean that this would be how they're doing it. What is the customary leverage ratio for repo borrowing and is there some repo-market specific name for this metric?

yasp··on The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since October

Ostensibly, GP means that they were not inflationary to consumer prices. Asset prices were definitely inflated. This is the whole point of QE.

yasp··on The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since October

I generally as a rule dislike ZeroHedge, but there is good pertinent information in the following link. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/944-trillion-reasons-why-f...

(Commence the downvotes.)

yasp··on ‘Buffett Indicator’ Warns Stocks Doomed for Worse Crash Than 2008

Interest rates were substantially higher prior to the 2000 and 20008 bear markets though.

yasp··on Testing the validity of mindfulness vs. the Big Five for mental health

Original title:

Testing the incremental validity of dispositional mindfulness over and above the Big Five in accounting for mental health: A facet-level structural-equation modeling and predictor communality and dominance approach

yasp··on The heritability of self-control: A meta-analysis

With the monozygotic twin correlation being twice the dizygotic twin correlation, what other explanations are there?

yasp··on [dead]

Congrats but I'm not sure why someone would consent to being featured in an article like this.

yasp··on Ask HN: What causes 'Sorry, that story was previously submitted.'?

Possibly submitted and subsequently deleted.

yasp··on New York Fed Adds $115.14B in Short-Term Liquidity to Markets

What's the connection between European capital buying US dollar denominated securities and stress in the repo market?

yasp··on Powell says Fed will start expanding its balance sheet soon

https://twitter.com/DiMartinoBooth/status/118164877586722816...

you're not the only one who is confused

yasp··on Nietzsche’s Eternal Return

Why do current scholars consider meaningful a philosopher who left poorly specified one of the core idea about which he wrote?

yasp··on The Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production?

Aramco IPO

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