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This only really works if the hirer has used latex themselves. If you know you know.

I’ll often ask “what are the problems with doing X?”.

It doesn’t imply that there should be a solution but you still want to learn why it might not work. Often you can continue the conversation enough to either exclude it or think some more about the problems that are described.

Anyone who is capable of getting a second mortgage will consider holding it and renting it out if they can. The yield is very likely to be higher than the payments these days.

Sure, but they could have sold off a lot of their long term assets earlier instead. To me, the problem was not an outright lack of hedges, rather it was continuing to take too much risk all of the way down. Hedges only make sense to me if they were a cheaper way to achieve the same thing as selling the assets.

Why would they hedge? They would lose pretty much all of the return that they were getting by going long duration.

The problem is that their portfolio was too long duration, not a lack of hedging.

Tarmak is what finally allowed me to switch away from QWERTY. Prior to tarmak I couldn’t deal with the massive productivity loss that I would initially encounter with Dvorak and I would eventually switch back.

The fact that initially steps are the highest impact really helps too.

These cultural differences may even depend on where you are in the US. Nearly every apartment building around me in Seattle has a name. Much of this is for marketing I’m sure, but this includes many of the buildings built in the 60s and 70s.

This is the idea behind www.betfair.com (not the cryptocurrency/smart contract bit tho).

I agree. Amazon also absolutely wants to encourage behaviour where you don’t even think before buying, so scammy listings like this are hurt their strategy. The fact that they later delisted the seller shows that they recognised the abuse.

I’m pretty surprised by Amazon’s reaction to them. This is clearly a rip-off transaction, and Amazon has always been pretty customer friendly with me.

You would still want to leave on read caching.

You can still turn off write caching on your disks with hdparm.

Well, taxing something means you’ll usually get less of it, so I guess it’ll reduce demand on housing (probably not what they want since it hurts the economy in other ways). If the money goes to building for those in need it could help a bit.

The only thing that will really help over the long term is building even more apartments.

They will, of course, make their seinorage whether they are physical notes/coins, or added to the money supply via some bits on a disk.