If there’s a deflationary spiral, why isn’t there an inflationary spiral where people expect prices to increase in the future so they consume more now, which increases prices?
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If political will leads to tax cutting and increased spending, how did Clinton balance the budget? Was what he did popular?
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If political will leads to tax cutting and increased spending, how did Clinton balance the budget? Was what he did popular?
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If political will leads to tax cutting and increased spending, how did Clinton balance the budget? Was what he did popular?
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Why would employers increase employee wages during a time of inflation, instead of just pocketing the gains from higher prices?
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If you could choose one and only one policy change to “fix” US healthcare, what would it be?
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If there were more providers practicing medicine in the US (i.e. less restrictions for foreign MDs, more NPs/PAs, more residency spots), would current doctors’ salaries decrease?
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ELI5: What is Georgism, and what do mainstream economists think about it?
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ELI5: Georgism, and the mainstream economic opinion of it
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Fastest inference on Mac: MLX, llama.cpp, vLLM, exLlamav2, sglang?
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Multiple eGPUs — what downsides are there?
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Fastest/best way for local LLMs to answer many questions for many long documents quickly (medical chart review)
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ELI5: Why are eggs expensive but not chicken meat?
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Many believe that the wealthy/megacorps ultimately benefit from a recession, despite losing money themselves, because their competition will die and they’ll live to pick up the pieces, recouping their losses. Does this idea have any merit?
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Why does monopsony apply to minimum wage if (for most people) there are many possible employers?
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Mac AI app for automatic translation + subtitling of videos?
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Do Chinese international student studying in the US overall benefit the US or China?
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How can we fix the incentives in academia?
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[D] Combining a ViT and LLM using multimodal contrastive loss vs finetuning LLaVa?
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Getting great results on Gemma2:27b that I can’t scale and replicate on DeepSeek/ChatGPT/Gemini/etc
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My beans go stale within a week and produce almost no crema, despite being stored in a dark dry cool place
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Ollama (llama3.2:3b) runs extremely slow on my MBP (36GB M3) and also makes my computer extremely hot
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US life expectancy vs health expenditure tracked that of other developed countries until the 80s and 90s. What happened?
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Sour watery shot even with >50s shot time and 1:2.75 ratio [Baratza Encore ESP] [Breville Bambino]
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Sour watery shot even with >50s shot time and 1:2.75 ratio
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