You mean the conspiracy theory that somehow the World Bank isn’t there to do it’s real job, provide loans to poor countries to aid their development, but instead part of some grand scheme to rob poor countries of their resources?

Because what you claim to be well documented isn’t actually objective fact. It’s more construing mistakes these institutions definitely did make to be something they very much aren’t.

I’ve been using both for a good while by now, Linux is good but damn I know that’s a sacrilege but I still like Windows.

Granted, I heavily customized my Windows install, made all the adjustments I wanted and threw out most of the nagging garbage and my locked down work computer is definitely worse.

Windows just… works most of the time, and it’s fluent and does what I want.

At the end of the day, most of the direct user interaction with an OS “directly” is task bar, start menu and file manager. And for all of these things, there’s a lot that annoys me on Linux. In Windows, I’m very happy.

Just to give one example. I like the individual entries in the taskbar to fill the entire width dynamically. If there’s one entry, it fills the entire taskbar, you get what I mean. On Windows, that’s a registry tweak. On KDE, that’s basically impossible. Like, I’m sure somewhere in the source code for the panel there’s a way to rewrite that, but frankly, that’s close enough to “basically impossible” for me.

The meltdowns are something else.

On one smaller sub that participated in the blackout people were seriously accusing mods of rigging the votes to stay closed for longer. Of course nothing actually indicated that, and neither did they present any evidence, they just couldn’t stand not getting their content.

#lebenshack

Interessante Links, aber ich bin nicht überzeugt, dass man dem r* Wert ins Negative folgen sollte, anstatt das als Signal zu werten, dass keine Kredite vergeben werden sollten.

Zinsen sind genau das Werkzeug mit dem man die Kreditvergabe steuert.

Um ehrlich zu sein irritiert es mich auch etwas, dass keine Präzise Definition von r* zu finden ist. Bisher habe ich “kein Bremsen/Ankurbeln der Wirtschaft” und “full employment and stable inflation” gesehen. Für das erste sehe ich keine offensichtliche Definition für Bremsen oder Ankurbeln, beim zweiten ist nicht klar, dass so ein Wert überhaupt existiert. Vielleicht sind meine Maßstäbe vom Mathestudium verzerrt, aber das kommt mir schwammig vor.

Das ist nicht schwammig, wieso?

Wenn dir was formaleres lieber ist ist das eher in den Papern zu finden, hier z.B.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/rstar

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/working-papers/2016/11/?amp=1

It’s just a suggestion, if you’ve already started DS9 I would just stick with that tbh.

Basically two reasons.

First, DS9 is straight up better. Peak Star Trek in my opinion, so it’s nice to end on a high note. Again, not that VOY is bad or anything, but if DS9 is 10/10 Star Trek VOY is more like 8.5/10.

Second reason is world building. Really there isn’t that much overlap as far as specific parts of the story is concerned, it’s more that DS9 is so great because it turns some things that are taken for granted on their heads. VOY is useful because it kind of goes into that direction a little bit, with the conflicts that necessarily arise on a small ship far from home, and because you literally just learn more about the world/universe, whatever you want to call it, and the more context you have the better DS9 gets.

Very minor spoiler, both shows feature conflicts with the Marquis and the contrast, as well as the lack of contrast on how these conflicts are handled is very interesting.

Wenn der neutrale Zinssatz, der Zins der die Wirtschaft weder bremst noch ankurbelt, fällt, bedeutet das auch das die Zentralbank entsprechend den Zins anpassen muss der die Wirtschaft verlangsamt/ankurbelt.

Und genau das ist auch der Fall.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-hutchins-center-explains-the-neutral-rate-of-interest/

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2017/february/three-questions-on-r-star-natural-rate-of-interest/?amp=1

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-close-relationship-between-the-natural-rate-of-interest-and-optimal-inflation-target/

I would at least touch on VOY, it needs a bit to get going, just like TNG I suppose, but it’s solid. And the big, big payoff is watching DS9 after that. DS9 is fantastic, but it only gets better with the context from VOY and TNG.

Oh no it’s true, not all republicans are Nazis.

Some are just sympathisers.

I know what you pretend you mean, nobody is falling for that.

Fuck off to your sad shithole, nobody has any obligation to be nice to Nazis. To the contrary, every decent person should feel obligated to strongly tell them to fuck off. You don’t have a space here, we don’t want you here, you are not welcome.

It’s funny that this “slightly different viewpoint” when pressed for details basically always ends up being hardcore racism, homophobia or other great things.

Most DAPs are just so, so garbage.

Slow, crashy, dim screen, only support for outdated standards, no latest Bluetooth, no support for big SD cards, low output power, mediocre battery life, high noise floor, the list goes on.

Even the ones that cost hundreds are super slow and come with like Android 7. Maybe Android 10. I whish I was joking. And many don’t have all the features any basic $150 phone would have. And they feel worse to use than a $150 phone.

A lot don’t really have the power to drive beefier headphones. And a lot have a high noise floor. So basically, they only work with high impedance high sensitivity headphones. Just pure trash.

A DAP should be a useful replacement for my phone and not require a dongle. Sadly, that seems to be a very high bar to meet.

It tends to be difficult to get good prices on quantities suitable for DIY projects locally, so AliExpress is your friend.

All cables are snake oil in the sense that the “quality” doesn’t matter. Resistance can still change the sound, but cable length and thickness play by far the biggest role here, the difference usually isn’t big, and not every headphone is impacted. The guy over at diyaudioheaven actually measures frequency response changes with different source impedances and for most headphones it’s either nothing or an extremely minor change in bass response.

And yeah, the independent ground is the important element that makes balanced cables different.

We’ve seen this spiel a few times, companies want to move to the cloud and then don’t because it’s ridiculous and plenty of things are just fine on local machines.

I don’t lend this any more credence than all the “we’ll all be gaming in the cloud in 10 years” crap when stuff like GeForce Now was popping up.

Well usually the people who get mad about it are the exact same people who want to participate in these communities. “Free speech” to them just means being a racist shithead on the internet without consequences and there is no reason that should be tolerated. Quite the opposite, we should strive to make these people feel as unwelcome as possible.

That depends on what you want. Most KZ IEMs are rather v shaped. What do you want to improve? There’s nothing wrong with being fine with what you have and the best IEM in the world isn’t necessarily of much use if it doesn’t suit your taste.

Why wait until it becomes a problem? The_Donald literally started as a joke brought over from 4chan. It grew and over time it basically went from “too small to do something about it” to “too big to do something about it” (to Reddit admins at least). Why even give these people a platform? We don’t have any reason to give them space to grow.

If you step in shit everywhere you go, look under your own shoe.