David Bookstaber

Hand-crafted in small batches.

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Gold, the Fed, and the Tax on Inflation. The only solid anti-Fed argument circles back to the tax code, which taxes nominal gains. A gold standard does not fix that. Compiled from posts I first published in 2008 and 2010.

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Rick & Morty gave me "Thank U" #earworm

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Where Do Trading Profits Come From? https://t.co/1fzvg4QBcQ

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Excel has had a native push protocol for live market data since 2002, and almost nobody uses it. Why RTD beats polling an API — and the three-process contraption it replaced for me: https://t.co/PbuqgaKnsA

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Big swings, big misses with Gemini music. Two requests for a 5-part fugue played on a hurdy-gurdy and they both come out like this: No counterpoint, no hurdy-gurdy. https://t.co/kkQNCHhVEI

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Submit and Die: How Asymmetric Protections for Police Create a Nation of Victims https://t.co/5oR9sYwDgH #Police

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A phased-array microwave would cause Havana Syndrome and, with serious engineering, could fit in a backpack. https://t.co/bMHMWXEn6k

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QOTD: Are there any digital cameras that generate HDR images by metering how long it takes each sensor element to reach saturation, instead of using a fixed exposure period and looking at how much light each element received? https://t.co/mgdUwpPKnV

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Mind-blowingly beautiful visualizations of computational fluid dynamics: https://t.co/vyCiz9DcUr

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Coding assistants take so much drudgery out of development and debugging that it’s mostly gratifying and rarely frustrating – basically the inverse of how development was in the before times.

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Why I'm joining #BoycottAdobe https://t.co/goRVDzvNKR

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Should palm trees be circumcised?

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Exotropia: A Disability the Camera Loves? https://t.co/JB2i8zraNJ

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"Cold" tap water in Phoenix: 102°F. https://t.co/1ssGRTHiOX

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Entertaining reading today on how LLMs became chatbots. https://t.co/TwTHsFADjM

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Russian terror continues: This image depicts last night's drone+missile attack on Ukraine by Russia. Note that the Ukrainians don’t know the target, so everyone along the path covered by these lines gets an air raid siren. #RussianWarCrimes

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Importance Hacking - a major (yet rarely-discussed) problem in science https://t.co/zGMZnHf8iq

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Review: The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu series) https://t.co/5P7yjIeSbF

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Chatbots, speech, and accents. And gibberish. https://t.co/w4KFesf4b7

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@HashemGhaili Great, but what was the prompt for this video?