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Comment · 1 day ago
> That would be insane.

The phrase is "that would be good for the economy".

It’s still the notion of trickle down economics at play.

But they did get a 3.5% return on their investment (but not comparable to the equivalent return in the market or even in bonds for the same duration).

That return was in turn used to justify the bailout, but the global macro effects weren’t accounted for: the banks’ fuckup caused misery all over the world for the best part of a decade.

Comment · 1 day ago
Wild guess: I suppose in Iceland the banks weren’t buying the politicians.
Comment · 2 days ago
OpenBSD also has an Emacs-y non-extensible editor, mg(1):

https://man.openbsd.org/mg

Just noting for completeness, as I didn’t catch any mention of it.

Comment · 2 days ago
I see you’re using Latin characters...
Comment · 2 days ago
Yep, whenever you find yourself being the smartest person in the room, you need to find yourself a smarter room.
Comment · 2 days ago
> Ask the least smart LLM

> Heck a smart CS junior would come up with it.

That’s somewhat worrisome.

Comment · 2 days ago
I stand corrected then, I’ll return to it!
Comment · 2 days ago
Same; either put in the work to think it through and show us your thought process and conclusions, or just post your prompts and call it a day and everyone gets to move on.
Comment · 2 days ago
> we call(ed) Twitter posts 'tweets'

Following the rename we can now call them Xits, the x being pronounced as in Chinese ('sh').

There’s a lot of xit-posting on X, after all.

Comment · 2 days ago
That one’s down to gravity, glass flows down very slowly over long periods.
Comment · 3 days ago
> but they will be counted against you in performance evaluations.

That was my initial thought: he may get his exemption from use, but TFA doesn’t indicate that he will be evaluated differently during performance review.

To go one step further, would such allowances have to be accompanied by different performance standards, like oral exams for students with dyslexia also have increased time limits?

Or would the allowances be granted for the duration of employment, the latter being shortened due to performance problems?

Comment · 11 days ago
And it’s good that they do.

No cash means no freedom.

Comment · 14 days ago
Typo in title, its proposed for 2027 instead of 2017.
Comment · 20 days ago
Yeah “I” is doing a lot of work there.

E.g.: I painted the Mona Lisa.

“I” meaning “I with the help of a JPEG on a computer and a color printer”.

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